Kindly throw in a little figure, And fet the price upon the bigger? Those who could never read their grammar, May be with learned juftice weigh'd.: The coin may mend a tinker's kettle-- Drink fine Champaigne, or muddl'd Port. To view what hurts our naked eye? Sir, if it be your wifdom's aim, To make me merrier than I am ; Come on, friend; broach the pleafing notion: But if you would deprefs my thought; Your Syftem is not worth a groat- For Plato's fancies what care I? To heathens in his native Greek. I do moft heartily defpife Whatever Socrates has faid, Dear Drift, to fet our matters right, F3 Ο βίος γὰρ ὄνομ ̓ ἔχει, πόνος δ' ἔργω πόλει. Eurip. Siquis Deus mihi largiatur, ut ex hac aetate repuerafcam, et in cunis va• giam, valde recufem. Cic. de Senect, The bewailing of man's miferies hath been elegantly and copiously fet forth by many, in the writings as well of philofophers, as divines. And it is both a pleasant and a profitable contemplation. Lord Bacon's Advancement of Learning. F 4 |