Poets that lasting marble seek, Must come in Latin or in Greek.
Gods, that never change their state, vary oft their love and hate.
So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
Virtue's a stronger guard than brass.
Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.
Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.