Plots, True Or False, Are Necessary Things,

By Viewing Nature, Nature's Handmaid Art, Makes Mighty Things From Small Beginnings Grow: Thus Fishes First To Shipping Did Impart, Their Tail The Rudder, And Their Head The Prow.

For All The Happiness Mankind Can Gain Is Not In Pleasure, But In Rest From Pain.

A Farce Is That In Poetry Which Grotesque (caricature) Is In Painting. The Persons And Actions Of A Farce Are All Unnatural, And The Manners False, That Is, Inconsistent With The Characters Of Mankind; And Grotesque Painting Is The Just Resemblance Of This.

Plots, True Or False, Are Necessary Things, To Raise Up Commonwealths And Ruin Kings.

A Brave Man Scorns To Quarrel Once A Day; Like Hectors In At Every Petty Fray.