A Wit With Dunces, And

Let Such Teach Others Who Themselves Excel, And Censure Freely Who Have Written Well.

Astrologers That Future Fates Foreshow.

Like Cato, Give His Little Senate Laws, And Sit Attentive To His Own Applause.

Offend Her, And She Knows Not To Forgive; Oblige Her, And She'll Hate You While You Live.

What So Pure, Which Envious Tongues Will Spare? Some Wicked Wits Have Libell'd All The Fair, With Matchless Impudence They Style A Wife, The Dear-bought Curse, And Lawful Plague Of Life; A Bosom Serpent, A Domestic Evil, A Night Invasion, And A Mid-day Devil; Let Not The Wise These Sland'rous Words Regard, But Curse The Bones Of Ev'ry Living Bard.