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And what we owe to Countrey, Parents, Friends,
How Judges, and how Senators should act,
And what becomes a General to do;
Those are the likest Copies which are drawn,
By the Original of human life.
Sometimes in rough and undigested Plays
We meet with such a lucky Character,
As being humor'd right and well persu'd,
Succeeds much better, than the shallow Verse,
And chiming Trifles, of more studious Pens;
Greece had a Genious, Greece had Eloquence,
For her ambition and her end was Fame;
Our Roman Youth is bred another way,
And taught no arts but those of Usury;
And the glad Father glories in his Child,
When he can subdivide a Fraction:
Can Souls, who by their Parents from their birth
How Judges, and how Senators should act,
And what becomes a General to do;
Those are the likest Copies which are drawn,
By the Original of human life.
Sometimes in rough and undigested Plays
We meet with such a lucky Character,
As being humor'd right and well persu'd,
Succeeds much better, than the shallow Verse,
And chiming Trifles, of more studious Pens;
Greece had a Genious, Greece had Eloquence,
For her ambition and her end was Fame;
Our Roman Youth is bred another way,
And taught no arts but those of Usury;
And the glad Father glories in his Child,
When he can subdivide a Fraction:
Can Souls, who by their Parents from their birth
Have
