The zodiac of their learn’d, illustrious lives.

In Christian hearts, O for a Pagan zeal!

A needful, but opprobrious prayer! As much

Our ardour less, as greater is our light.

How monstrous this in morals! Scarce more strange

Would this phenomenon in nature strike,

A sun, that froze her, or a star, that warm’d.

What taught these heroes of the moral world? 998

To these thou givest thy praise, give credit too.

These doctors ne’er were pension’d to deceive thee;