Milton, “Lycidas,” 70:⁠—

“Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,

(That last infirmity of noble mind,)

To scorn delights, and live laborious days;

But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,

And think to burst out into sudden blaze,

Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears

And slits the thin-spun life. ‘But not the praise,’