When love could teach a monarch to be wise,
And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes.[387:1]
Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune;
He had not the method of making a fortune.
On his own Character.
Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new romances of Marivaux and Crebillon.
To Mr. West. Letter iv. Third Series.
Footnotes
[382:1] See Davenant, page [217].
He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.—Ecclesiastes i. 18.