Inform the head and rectify the heart.

Lo, all in silence, all in order stand,

And mighty folios first, a lordly band ;

Then quartos their well-order’d ranks maintain,

And light octavos fill a spacious plain:

See yonder, ranged in more frequented rows,

A humbler band of duodecimos;

While undistinguish’d trifles swell the scene,

The last new play and fritter’d magazine.

Thus ‘tis in life, where first the proud, the great,