He seeks as well instruction as delight.

Let all your thoughts to virtue be confined,

Still offering nobler figures to our mind:

I like not those loose writers, who employ

Their guilty muse, good manners to destroy;

Who with false colours still deceive our eyes,

And show us vice dressed in a fair disguise.

Yet do I not their sullen muse approve,

Who from all modest writings banish love;

That stript the playhouse of its chief intrigue,