The force of folly could no higher go
Than that the third should try to be it too.
Dryasdust.
Three statesmen from three different hamlets sent,
Eye, Woodstock, Bridport, fitly represent;
The first excels in universal lore,
The next in impudence, the last a bore.
The force of nature nothing more could do,
’Twould have been merciful to make but two.