Chapter IV

Long did the _Learned Author_ search to find
The Vice and Vanity of Humane-kind:
Long he observ’d, nor did observe in vain;
In every differing Humour found
Even there where _Virtue_ did abound,
Some mortal Frailties reign.
_Philosophers_ he saw were Proud
Of dull-affected Poverty:
Senators cringing to the Crowd
For trifling Popularity:
The Judge reviles the Criminal at _Bar_,
And now because old Ages Ice
Has chill’d the Ardour of his willing Vice,
Snarles at those _Youthful Follies_ which he cannot shun.
From the vain-keeping _’.quire_, and Cully’d _Lord_;
The fawning _Courtier_, _States-man’s_ Broken Word:
Down to the flattering, Jilting _Curtizan_,
And the more faithless couzening _Citizen_,
The Tricks of _Court_ and _State_ to him were known;
And all the Vices veil’d beneath the _Gown_,
From the Sharp _Pulpit_ to the Blunted _Stall_,
He knew, and gently did reproach them all.