~20 J O'B M I L TTANT'~ ()friends ! repeal your worJs; your fpeeches ~ring No lawful ilfue, prove not any thi~g: · Your deeper wifdoms argue ( in ei'fe& ) - T.hat Go~ ~och; or n~~ ~np\1f, ~r clfe neglea; Conclude With mr, orproye my words untrue~ 1 mufl: be foundthe Ly·ar, or elfe you. S'rteditat. r. 3. I . ~eWitefi men that Nature e'r could·boaft For fecret knowledg of her power,. were loft, Confounded, ·and in Jeep amazement flood, In the difco.very ofdie ,hic:feft good : Keenly they hunted, beac inevery brack,, / ' Forwards they went, on either hand, and back Rernrn'd they counter; but their deep m<luth'd arr,' (Though ofren challen~~d Sent, yet) ne'r could fi:art ln all die enclofures ofPhilofophy, · That game, from fquat, they term, felicity : They jangle, ~nd their Max1m~ difagree; 1.\s ma$ly men, fo many minds there be. One digs to Pluto''s Throne, thinks there to find Her Grace, rak'd up in gold: anochers mind M.oul'lt~ to the Courts of Kin~h with plumes ofhonor, , And feather'dhopes, hopes there to feiie upon her,; A third, unlocks the painted gate of pleafure, And ranfacks there, to find this peerle{s treafure ; A fourth, more [age, more wifelymelancholy, Pcrfwades himfclf, her Deity's too holy For comQ.1on hands to touch, he rather chufes To m1ke ·a long days journey' to the Mufes: To .A tben.r ( go,..vn'd ) he goe's, artd from that School · ' Returns unfpcd, a more i'nfiruCted fool. · Where lies £he then ? or lies the any wher.e ? Honours are b<f".tght and f6l.d, fhe rdh not there; · · · · · ' · Muili
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