With doubtfull Notiones they Mankind perplext,
And with unpracticable Precept vext.
In vain they strove wild Passions to reclaim,
Uncertain what they were, or whence they came.
But you, who have found out their certain Source,
May with a happier Hand divert their Course.
Themselves so little did those Sages know,
That to their Failings We their Learning owe.
Their Vanity first caus’d ’em to aspire,
And with feirce Wranglings set all Greece on Fire: