But ftill the more you strive t' appear, To Judge and Cenfure, and Controll, More than your Dividend comes to You'll find the thing will not be done No, though y' have purchas'd to your Name In History so great a Fame, That now your Talent's fo well knownì, By which the Virtuofi try Caft up to what it does amount, And place the big'ft to your Account. Those fooneft it defigns to raise And all your vain Renown will spoil As Guns o'er-charg'd the more recoil; To all things has a fair Pretence; put among his wants but fhame, That makes your way through all Affairs, For For all Impoftors, when they're known, 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. 151 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- with |