Be not a Quixote, ever up in arms
To give the guilty and the great alarms:
If never heeded, thy attack is vain;
And if they heed thee, they’ll attack again;
Then too in striking at that heedless rate,
Thou in an instant may’st decide thy fate.
“Leave admonition - let the vicar give
Rules how the nobles of his flock should live;
Nor take that simple fancy to thy brain,
That thou canst cure the wicked and the vain.