Simplicity Is The Mean Between Ostentation And

And Seem To Walk On Wings, And Tread In Air.

There Various News I Heard Of Love And Strife,of Peace And War, Health, Sickness, Death, And Life,of Loss And Gain, Of Famine And Of Store,of Storms At Sea, And Travels On The Shore,of Prodigies, And Portents Seen In Air,of Fires And Plagues, And Stars With Blazing Hair,of Turns Of Fortune, Changes In The State,the Fall Of Favourites, Projects Of The Great,of Aid Mismanagements, Taxations New:all Neither Wholly False, Nor Wholly True.

The Dull Flat Falsehood Serves For Policy, And In The Cunning, Truth's Itself A Lie.

The Heart Resolves This Matter In A Trice, "men Only Feel The Smart, But Not The Vice.

What Nature Wants, Commodious Gold Bestows; 'tis Thus We Cut The Bread Another Sows.