But ftill the more you strive t' appear,
Are found to be the wretcheder;
For Fools are known by looking Wife,
As Men find Woodcocks by their Eyes.
Hence 'tis that 'cause y' 'ave gain'd o'th College,
A Quarter-fhare (at moft) of Knowledge,
And brought in none, but spent Repute,
Y' affume a Pow'r as Abfolute

To Judge and Cenfure, and Controll,
As if you were the fole Sir Poll;
And faucily pretend to know

More than your Dividend comes to

You'll find the thing will not be done
With Ignorance, and Face alone:

No, though y' have purchas'd to your Name

In History so great a Fame,

That now your Talent's fo well knownì,
For having all Belief out-grown ;
That ev'ry ftrange Prodigious Tale
Is meafur'd by your German Scale

By which the Virtuofi try
The Magnitude of ev'ry Lye;

Caft up to what it does amount,

And place the big'ft to your Account.
That all thofe Stories that are laid
Too truly to you, and thofe made,
Are now ftill charg'd upon the fcore,
And leffer Authors nam'd no more.
Alas! that Faculty destroys

Those fooneft it defigns to raise

And all

your vain Renown will spoil

As Guns o'er-charg'd the more recoil;
Though he that has but Impudence,

To all things has a fair Pretence;
And

put among his wants but fhame,
To all the World may lay his claim:
Though you have try'd that nothing's born
With greater ease than Publick Scorn;
That all Affronts do ftill give Place
Το your impenetrable Face;

That makes your way through all Affairs,
As Pigs through Hedges creep with theirs.
Yet as 'tis Counterfeit, and Brafs,
You must not think 'twill always pafs;

For

For all Impoftors, when they're known,
Are past their labour, and undone.
And all the beft that can befal

An Artificial Natural,

Is that which Mad-men find, as foon

As once th' are broke loofe from the Moon, And proof against her Influence,

Relapse to e'er fo little Sense,

To turn ftark Fools, and Subjects fit

For Sport of Boys, and Rabble-wit.

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Annotations

TO THE

SECOND PART.

But now t' obferve, &c.

HE beginning of this Second Part may

Tperhaps feem ftrange and abrupt to those

who do not know, that it was written on purpofe in imitation of Virgil, who begins the IV Book of his Eneids in the very fame manner, At Regina gravi, &c. And this is enough to fatisfic the Curiofity of those who believe, that Invention and Fancy ought to be measur'd (like Cafes in Law) by Precedents, or elfe they are in the Power of the Critick.

A Saxon Duke did grow fo fat.

This Hiftory of the Duke of Saxony, is not al-
together fo ftrange as that of a Bishop, his
Country-man, who was quite eaten up
Rats and Mice.

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