There was something so frank, so open about it, that blame was an impossibility.

For to praise his good fortune is folly, and to blame it is arrogance; but the praise of a man's natural disposition is honourable, and the blame of it is a serious thing.

But she WILL wake, and she will weep for me, And say, no blame was mineand so, poor fool, Will waste her curses on another name.

If thou fearest to be blamed for thy obedience to him, a blame so unmerited never can be thy portion.

That they cannot do so is true, but the blame will not be theirs.

Dryden repaid this favour by an epistle, in which he beautifully apologises for the extravagancies of his friend's poetry, and consoles him for the censure of those cold judges, whose blame became praise when they accused the warmth which they were incapable of feeling.