110 JOB MILITANT. Mtditat. 1 r. f T H E Moral Poets (nor unaptly ) fain, .. , _, That by lame Vutcanr he!p, the pregnant brain Of fovereigrt Jove, brought forth, and at that birth, ~s born Mmerva, Lady of the Earth. 0 ftrange Divinity ! but fung by rot · Sweet is the tune, but in a·wider note. , The Moral fays; All Wifdom that is given ,. To hood-wink'd m0nals, firft proceed~ from Heaven~ Truth's error, wifdom'sbut wife jnfolence, And light's but darknefs; 'not deriv;d from thence_.; Wifdom' s a ftrain tral)fcends Morality, : No Verrue's abfent, Wifdom being by. Verruc J;>y co~fiant prafiice i'S. :tCC]uir'd; · -This (this by fwearuh.purchas'd) is infFi.r'd: Ti1e ·ma'il:er-piece of knowledg is_to know . But what is good, from what is good in !how, And there it refi:s : Wifdom proceeds, andchulu The feeming evil, th' apparent good refufes ; }(nowledg dcfcries alone; Wifdom applies; That makes fome fools -; this, maketh none but wife 1 The curious hand that doth but pick \ Eare fimples, wifd,om peuneis rhem fer 'the fick : .In my .affiid:ions knowlcdg apprehends . Who is the Author, what rh~ Caufe, ana Ends; lt finds thlt patience is my fad relief, · AnQ that che hand that caus'd, can cure my grief: To rd{ com~mcd here, i~ but to bring · Clouds withou-t rain, and heat with9ut a Sprin~ : What hope arifes hence ?The D'evih do ' The very fame : They know anci tremble roo : But facrcd \\iCdom duth apply that good, Which fimpk knowkdg barely und~rfio~d: . ' I
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