Fame Can Never Make Us Lie Down

Time Conquers All, And We Must Time Obey.

Oft In Dreams Invention We Bestow To Change A Flounce Or Add A Furbelow.

Search Then The Ruling Passion; There Alone, The Wild Are Constant, And The Cunning Known; The Fool Consistent, And The False Sincere; Priests, Princes, Women, No Dissemblers Here.

Offend Her, And She Knows Not To Forgive; Oblige Her, And She'll Hate You While You Live.

At Length Corruption, Like A General Flood (so Long By Watchful Ministers Withstood), Shall Deluge All; And Avarice, Creeping On, Spread Like A Low-born Mist, And Blot The Sun.