What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
In death a hero, as in life a friend!
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.
The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
Curse on all laws but those which love has made.