A Thing Well Said Will Be Wit

Three Poets, In Three Distant Ages Born, Greece, Italy, And England Did Adorn. The First In Loftiness Of Thought Surpass'd; The Next, In Majesty; In Both The Last. The Force Of Nature Could No Further Go; To Make A Third, She Join'd The Former Two.

[t]he Famous Rules Which The French Call, Des Trois Unitez , Or, The Three Unities, Which Ought To Be Observ'd In Every Regular Play; Namely, Of Time, Place, And Action.

When A Man's Life Is Under Debate, The Judge Can Ne'er Too Long Deliberate.

Rich The Treasure, Sweet The Pleasure,- Sweet Is Pleasure After Pain.

For Art May Err, But Nature Cannot Miss.