Satire Or Sense, Alas! Can Sporus Feel?

True Politeness Consists In Being Easy One's Self, And In Making Every One About One As Easy As One Can.

Some People Are Commended For A Giddy Kind Of Good-humor, Which Is As Much A Virtue As Drunkenness.

But Touch Me, And No Minister So Sore. Whoe'er Offends, At Some Unlucky Time Slides Into Verse, And Hitches In A Rhyme, Sacred To Ridicule His Whole Life Long, And The Sad Burthen Of Some Merry Song.

The Cabinets Of The Sick And The Closets Of The Dead Have Been Ransacked To Publish Private Letters And Divulge To All Mankind The Most Secret Sentiments Of Friendship.

Fix'd Like A Plant On His Peculiar Spot, To Draw Nutrition, Propagate And Rot.