No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.
It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
Music alone with sudden charms can bind The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.
They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.