Roger L'Estrange

“ To say the Truth on't, we are impos'd upon by Botchers, and Men of Forehead, without Common Sense, in all Trades and Professions, even to the Venturing of Soul, Body, Life and Estate upon their Skill, Honesty and Credit. Can any Man look about him in the World now, and cast his Eye and Thought upon Every-days Instances of some of these wonderful Improvements and Conversions, without Saying to Himself, The Mythologist Pointed at all these Men in this Fable? ”

“ No Fable can be Pleasant, Profitable or Instrutive in Emblem, that is not drawn to the very Life of Nature; and we have a Horror for the Monstrous Productions of the Brain, as well as for those of the Body. ”

“ The Resemblance must be Touching, and a Man must have a Feeling of it to be Mov'd with it, 'Tis never right, 'till I can say to my self, How many Instances have I seen in the World of this Cobler turn’d Doctor? ”