2. Some positive, persisting[647] fops we know,
Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so:
But you, with pleasure, own your errors past,
And make each day a critic on the last.
’Tis not enough your counsel to be true:
Blunt truths more mischief than slight errors do;
Men must be taught, as if you taught them not,
And things unknown proposed, as things forgot.
3. Without good breeding truth is disapproved;
That only makes superior sense beloved.