In vain our Wares on Theaters are shown,

When each has a Plantation of his own.

His [Cruse] ne’er fails; for whatsoe’er he spends,

There’s still God’s plenty for himself and Friends.

Shou’d Men be rated by Poetick Rules,

Lord, what a [Poll] would there be rais’d from Fools!

Mean time poor Wit prohibited must lie,

As if ’twere made some French Commodity.

Fools you will have, and rais’d at vast expence;

And yet as soon as seen, they give offence.