Nature Meant Me A Wife, A Silly,

Fattened In Vice, So Callous And So Gross, He Sins And Sees Not, Senseless Of His Loss.

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.

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.

Men's Virtues I Have Commended As Freely As I Have Taxed Their Crimes.

A Coward Is The Kindest Animal; 'tis The Most Forgiving Creature In A Fight.