To Observations Which Ourselves We Make, We

Satire Or Sense, Alas! Can Sporus Feel? Who Breaks A Butterfly Upon A Wheel?

Envy Will Merit As Its Shade Pursue, But Like A Shadow, Proves The Substance True.

A Long, Exact, And Serious Comedy; In Every Scene Some Moral Let It Teach, And, If It Can, At Once Both Please And Preach.

What Dire Offence From Am'rous Causes Springs, What Mighty Contests Rise From Trivial Things.

Time Conquers All, And We Must Time Obey.