To find it out's the cinderwoman's trade,

Who, for the wretched remnants of a fire,

Must toil all day in ashes and in mire.

So lewdly dull his idle works appear,

The wretched text deserves no comments here;

Where one poor thought sometimes, left all alone,

For a whole page of dulness must atone.

How vain a thing is man, and how unwise!

E'en he, who would himself the most despise!

I, who so wise and humble seem to be,