/.V OPPOSITION. 153

We must abide what fortune has decreed, And hope that Heaven will help us at our need. Make your resolve ! At home your means were great ; Abroad you. will retain a poor estate ; Unostentatious, indigent, and scant, Yet live secure, at least from present want." (F.) Such, then, was the issue of all our poet's plotting and club-intrigues, his poetic exhortations, and his hopes of a saviour in Cyrnus. Not only did he fail of the aggrandisement of his party and the recovery of his estate : he had henceforth also to realise the miseries of exile.