By Education Most Have Been Misled.

Bets At First Were Fool-traps, Where The Wise Like Spiders Lay In Ambush For The Flies.

Errors Like Straws Upon The Surface Flow, Who Would Search For Pearls To Be Grateful For Often Must Dive Below.

The End Of Satire Is The Amendment Of Vices By Correction; And He Who Writes Honestly Is No More An Enemy To The Offender Than The Physician To The Patient When He Prescribes Harsh Remedies.

These Are The Effects Of Doting Age,--vain Doubts And Idle Cares And Over Caution.

For Granting We Have Sinned, And That The Offence Of Man Is Made Against Omnipotence, Some Price That Bears Proportion Must Be Paid, And Infinite With Infinite Be Weighed.