“_Asperius nihil est misero quum surget in altum_,”
is from Claudian,
“_Asperius nihil est_ humili _cum surgit in altum_.”
_In Eutrop._ I. 181.
Add to note on the line,
_Whome fortune and fate playnly haue discust_,
vol. ii. 321.
that _discust_ is used in the same sense by Drayton;
“Neuer did death so terrible appeare,
Since first their Armes the English learnt to weeld,
Who would see slaughter, might behold it heere
In the true shape vpon this fatall field;
In vaine was valour, and in vaine was feare,
In vaine to fight, in vaine it was to yeeld,
In vaine to fly; for destiny _discust_,
By their owne hands or others’ dye they must.”
_The Miseries of Queene Margarite_, p. 115. ed. 1627.