That jewel wanting, triple crowns are poor:
So tell his Holiness, and be revenged.
Pleasure, we both agree, is man’s chief good;
Our only contest, what deserves the name.
Give Pleasure’s name to nought, but what has pass’d
Th’ authentic seal of Reason (which like Yorke,[49] 1030
Demurs on what it passes), and defies
The tooth of time; when past, a pleasure still;
Dearer on trial, lovelier for its age, 1033
And doubly to be prized, as it promotes