To Copy Beauty Forfeits All Pretense To

Even In A Hero's Heart Discretion Is The Better Part.

The Stage I Chose--a Subject Fair And Free-- 'tis Yours--'tis Mine--'tis Public Property. All Common Exhibitions Open Lie, For Praise Or Censure, To The Common Eye. Hence Are A Thousand Hackney Writers Fed; Hence Monthly Critics Earn Their Daily Bread. This Is A General Tax Which All Must Pay, From Those Who Scribble, Down To Those Who Play.

Genius Is Of No Country; Her Pure Ray Spreads All Abroad, As General As The Day.

Men The Most Infamous Are Fond Of Fame, And Those Who Fear Not Guilt Yet Start At Shame.

Be England What She Will, With All Her Faults She Is My Country Still.