"Heaven gives its favourites—early death."

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Stanza 102. Compare: "The good die first, / And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust / Burn to the socket", William Wordsworth, The Excursion, Book i; "Quem Di diligunt / Adolescens moritur" (translated: "He whom the gods favor dies in youth"), Plautus, Bacchides, act iv, scene 7.