rejected a commodious idea merely because another had used it: his
known wealth was so great that be might have borrowed without loss
of credit, in his elegy on Sir Henry Wotton, the last lines have
such resemblance to the noble epigram of Grotius on the death of
Scaliger, that I cannot but think them copied from it, though they
are copied by no servile hand.

One passage in his "Mistress" is so apparently borrowed from Donne,
that he probably would not have written it had it not mingled with
his own thoughts, so as that he did not perceive himself taking it
from another:


Although I think thou never found wilt be,
Yet I'm resolved to search for thee;
The search itself rewards the pains.
So, though the chymic his great secret miss
(For neither it in Art or Nature is),
Yet things well worth his toil he gains:
And does his charge and labour pay
With good unsought experiments by the way.--COWLEY.

Some that have deeper digg'd Love's mine than I,
Say, where his centric happiness doth lie:
I have loved, and got, and told;
But should I love, get, tell, till I were old,
I should not find that hidden mystery;
Oh, 'tis imposture all!
And as no chymic yet th' elixir got,
But glorifies his pregnant pot,