Learn From The Beasts The

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

A Fly, A Grape-stone, Or A Hair Can Kill.

Trace Science, Then, With Modesty Thy Guide, First Strip Off All Her Equipage Of Pride, Deduct What Is But Vanity Or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury Or Idleness, Or Tricks, To Show The Stretch Of The Human Brain Mere Curious Pleasure Or Ingenious Pain.

How Instinct Varies In The Grov'ling Swine.

With Sharpen'd Sight Pale Antiquaries Pore, Th' Inscription Value, But The Rust Adore. This The Blue Varnish, That The Green Endears; The Sacred Rust Of Twice Ten Hundred Years.