The Good Must Merit God's Peculiar Care;

Some Have At First For Wits, Then Poets Passed, Turned Critics Next, And Proved Plain Fools At Last.

Mark What Unvary'd Laws Preserve Each State, Laws Wise As Nature, And As Fixed As Fate.

Good Sense, Which Only Is The Gift Of Heaven, And Though No Science, Fairly Worth The Seven.

True Politeness Consists In Being Easy One's Self, And In Making Every One About One As Easy As One Can.

Let Such Teach Others Who Themselves Excel, And Censure Freely Who Have Written Well.