Choose A Firm Cloud Before It Fall,

Hope Springs Eternal.

Did Some More Sober Critics Come Abroad? If Wrong, I Smil'd; If Right, I Kiss'd The Rod.

The Difference Is Too Nice - Where Ends The Virtue Or Begins The Vice.

Reason, However Able, Cool At Best, Cares Not For Service, Or But Serves When Prest, Stays Till We Call, And Then Not Often Near.

To Observations Which Ourselves We Make, We Grow More Partial For Th' Observer's Sake.