Alexander Pope

“ Grown all to all, from no one Vice exempt,
And most contemptible to shun Contempt; ”

“ Faithless thro' Piety, and dup'd thro' Wit?
Europe, a Woman, Child, or Dotard rule;
And just her ablest Monarch made a fool?
Know, God and Nature only are the same:
In Man, the judgment shoots at flying Game;
A Bird of passage! lost, as soon as found;
Now in the Moon perhaps, now under ground.
Ask mens Opinions: J * * n now shall tell
How trade increases, and the world goes well;
Strike off his Pension by the setting Sun,
And Britain, if not Europe, is undone.
Manners with Fortunes, Humours change with Climes,
Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times.
Judge we by Nature? ”

“ Printed for Lawton Gilliver, at Homer's Head against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, 1733. [Price one Shilling.]
AN
EPISTLE
To the Right Honourable
RICHARD Lord Visct COBHAM.
ES, you despise the Man to Books confin'd,
Who from his Study rails at human kind;
Tho' what he learns he speaks, and may advance
Some gen'ral Maxims, or be right by Chance.
The coxcomb Bird, so talkative and grave,
That from his Cage cries Cuckold, Whore and Knave,
Tho' many a Passenger he rightly call,
You hold him no Philosopher at all. ”