That on your works may look with careful eyes,

And of your faults be zealous enemies:

Lay by an author's pride and vanity,

And from a friend a flatterer descry,

Who seems to like, but means not what he says:

Embrace true counsel, but suspect false praise.

A sycophant will every thing admire;

Each verse, each sentence sets his soul on fire:

All is divine! there's not a word amiss!

He shakes with joy, and weeps with tenderness;