For the learned, the wise, and the deep-sighted Few,
I’ve an excellent Work which I’d have ye pursue!
Your Genius may mend a dull Devil’s Designs,
May alter my Manner, and polish my Lines.
The Scheme is exalted! is quite in your walk; 150
And I care not in what kind of Language I talk.
’Tis to prove to Mankind, to whom pleasures belong,
Your Moralists, too, as your Pastors, are wrong;
That not to Religion alone is confin’d
Our work, but a full Reformation’s design’d;