Than some light men to light affairs confined,
Still ’twas allow’d that he should so behave
As in high seat, and be severely grave.
This book-taught man, to man’s first foe profess’d
Defiance stern, and hate that knew not rest;
He held that Satan, since the world began,
In every act, had strife with every man;
That never evil deed on earth was done,
But of the acting parties he was one;
The flattering guide to make ill prospects clear;