Is like—a duckling by Dame Partlett reared,
And frights—especially if 'tis a daughter,
Th' old Hen—by running headlong to the water.
V.
There is a common-place book argument,
Which glibly glides from every tongue;
When any dare a new light to present,
"If you are right, then everybody's wrong"!
Suppose the converse of this precedent
So often urged, so loudly and so long;