Alexander Received More Bravery Of

A Dull Head Thinks Of No Better Way To Show Himself Wise, Than By Suspecting Everything In His Way.

Cupid Makes It His Sport To Pull The Warrior's Plum.

But Words Came Halting Forth, Wanting Invention's Stay; Invention, Nature's Child, Fled Stepdame Study's Blows; And Others' Feet Still Seemed But Strangers In My Way. Thus, Great With Child To Speak, And Helpless In My Throes, Biting My Truant Pen, Beating Myself For Spite: "fool," Said My Muse To Me, "look In Thy Heart, And Write.

...the Poet, He Nothing Affirmeth, And Therefore Never Lieth.

Fortify Courage With The True Rampart Of Patience.