Of passions, too, I have proved enough to blame,

To the great pleasure of our friends, Mankind,

Who like to mix some slight alloy with fame;

For I was rather famous in my time,

Until I fairly knocked it up with rhyme.

X.

I have brought this world about my ears, and eke

The other; that's to say, the Clergy—who

Upon my head have bid their thunders break

In pious libels by no means a few.