Ye Gods, Annihilate But Space

Some Old Men, Continually Praise The Time Of Their Youth. In Fact, You Would Almost Think That There Were No Fools In Their Days, But Unluckily They Themselves Are Left As An Example.

All Seems Infected That Th' Infected Spy, As All Looks Yellow To The Jaundiced Eye.

Now Warm In Love, Now With'ring In My Bloom Lost In A Convent's Solitary Gloom!

There Various News I Heard Of Love And Strife,of Peace And War, Health, Sickness, Death, And Life,of Loss And Gain, Of Famine And Of Store,of Storms At Sea, And Travels On The Shore,of Prodigies, And Portents Seen In Air,of Fires And Plagues, And Stars With Blazing Hair,of Turns Of Fortune, Changes In The State,the Fall Of Favourites, Projects Of The Great,of Aid Mismanagements, Taxations New:all Neither Wholly False, Nor Wholly True.

No Writing Is Good That Does Not Tend To Better Mankind In Some Way Or Other.