(Mæcenas, Sackville, Socrates, and Hyde);
And in their various turns their sons must tread
Those gloomy journeys which their sires have led.
“The ancient sage, who did so long maintain
That bodies die, but souls return again,
With all the births and deaths he had in store
Went out Pythagoras, and came no more.
And modern Asgill,[17] whose capricious thought
Is yet with stores of wilder notions fraught,
Too soon convinced, shall yield that fleeting breath