“But hear me, Richard: looking to my ease,

Try if you can find something that will please. 50

Faults if you see, and such as must abide,

Say they are small, or say that I can hide;

But faults that I can change, remove, or mend,

These like a foe detect—or like a friend.

“Mark well the rooms, and their proportions learn;

In each some use, some elegance discern;

Observe the garden, its productive wall,

And find a something to commend in all.