And eke the Wise, as has been often shown.
Experience is the chief philosopher,
But saddest when his science is well known:
And persecuted Sages teach the Schools
Their folly in forgetting there are fools.
XVIII.
Was it not so, great Locke? and greater Bacon?
Great Socrates? And thou, Diviner still,[739]
Whose lot it is by Man to be mistaken,[NL]
And thy pure creed made sanction of all ill?