Genius Involves Both Envy And Calumny.

The Zeal Of Fools Offends At Any Time.

On Her White Breast A Sparkling Cross She Wore, Which Jews Might Kiss And Infidels Adore.

There Various News I Heard Of Love And Strife,of Peace And War, Health, Sickness, Death, And Life,of Loss And Gain, Of Famine And Of Store,of Storms At Sea, And Travels On The Shore,of Prodigies, And Portents Seen In Air,of Fires And Plagues, And Stars With Blazing Hair,of Turns Of Fortune, Changes In The State,the Fall Of Favourites, Projects Of The Great,of Aid Mismanagements, Taxations New:all Neither Wholly False, Nor Wholly True.

Coffee Which Makes The Politician Wise, And See Through All Things With His Half-shut Eyes.

Cursed Be The Verse, How Well So E'er It Flow, That Tends To Make One Worthy Man My Foe.