So henceforth, Alec, wisdom try—
Don’t on the Public frown;
A failure, e’en when “friends” don’t guy,
Will never draw the town
Carados.
Lines printed under the Engraved Portrait of John Milton.
(In Tonson’s Folio Edition of “Paradise Lost,” 1688.)
Three poets, in three distant ages born,
Greece, Italy, and England did adorn.