[214:4] This couplet is enlarged on by Swift in his "Tale of a Tub," where he says that the happiness of life consists in being well deceived.

[215:1]

True as the needle to the pole,

Or as the dial to the sun.

Barton Booth: Song.

[215:2]

Let who will boast their courage in the field,

I find but little safety from my shield.

Nature's, not honour's, law we must obey:

This made me cast my useless shield away.