(Though she 'tis hop'd may condescend

To act as Little Johnny's friend)

This may be said, when first the eye

Does, by a careless glance, descry

The striking range of marshall'd words

Which a gay Title-Page affords.

But what's a name, as Shakespeare says,

It neither gives nor lessens praise;

Adds no fresh odour to the rose,

Nor any other flower that blows: