Princes and lords may flourish or may fade;
_A breath can make them, as a breath has made._
I do not know whether we might not read, for modern copies are sometimes
incorrect,
A breath _unmakes_ them, as a breath has made.
Thomson, in his pastoral story of Palemon and Lavinia, appears to have
copied a passage from Otway. Palemon thus addresses Lavinia:--
Oh, let me now into a richer soil
_Transplant_ thee safe, where vernal _suns_ and showers
Diffuse their warmest, largest influence;
And of my _garden_ be the pride and joy!