If you are for a merry jaunt, I will try, for once, who can foot it farthest.

For danger levels man and brute And all are fellows in their need.

To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.

The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.

Accurst ambition, how dearly I have bought you.

Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.

Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned in several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some measure a mathematical head, to be a complete and excellent poet.