With useful lessons, drawn from classic source,
At once to polish and instruct mankind,
Their times forbade: nor yet alone repress’d
Their opening fancy; but alike confined
The senseless ribaldry, the scurvy jest,
And each low triumph of the vulgar mind.
Their humbler science never soar’d so far,
In studious trifles pleased to waste their time.
Or wage with common sense eternal war,
In never ending clink of monkish rhyme.