Satire Among The Romans, But

The Longest Tyranny That Ever Sway'd Was That Wherein Our Ancestors Betray'd Their Free-born Reason To The Stagirite [aristotle], And Made His Torch Their Universal Light. So Truth, While Only One Suppli'd The State, Grew Scarce, And Dear, And Yet Sophisticate.

All, As They Say, That Glitters Is Not Gold.

When I Consider Life, It Is All A Cheat. Yet Fooled With Hope, People Favor This Deceit.

Virgil Is So Exact In Every Word, That None Can Be Changed But For A Worse; Nor Any One Removed From Its Place, But The Harmony Will Be Altered. He Pretends Sometimes To Trip; But It Is Only To Make You Think Him In Danger Of A Fall, When He Is Most Secure.

Fortune Confounds The Wise, And When They Least Expect It Turns The Dice.