Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,

As to be hated needs but to be seen;[317:3]

Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,

We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

Essay on Man. Epistle ii. Line 217.

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Ask where 's the North? At York 't is on the Tweed;

In Scotland at the Orcades; and there,

At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.

Essay on Man. Epistle ii. Line 222.