Written in the ‘Nouveaux Intérêts des Princes de l’Europe.’
Blest be the princes who have fought
For pompous names, or wide dominion;
Since by their error we are taught,
That happiness is but opinion.
On Snuff.
Jove once resolved, the females to degrade,
To propagate their sex without their aid;
His brain conceived, and soon the pangs and throes
He felt, nor could th’ unnatural birth disclose;