Give what you please, so that you give but plenty;

They come to see, and you must feed their eyes;

Scene upon scene, each act may have its twenty,

To keep them gaping still in fresh surprise:

This is the royal road to public favour;

You snatch it thus, and it is yours for ever.

A mass of things alone the mass secures;

Each comes at last and culls his own from yours.

Bring much, and every one is sure to find,

In your rich nosegay, something to his mind.