Genius Involves Both Envy And Calumny.

Simplicity Is The Mean Between Ostentation And Rusticity.

Grave Authors Say, And Witty Poets Sing, That Honest Wedlock Is A Glorious Thing.

I Begin Where Most People End, With A Full Conviction Of The Emptiness Of All Sorts Of Ambition, And The Unsatisfactory Nature Of All Human Pleasures.

Now Warm In Love, Now With'ring In My Bloom Lost In A Convent's Solitary Gloom!

To Dazzle Let The Vain Design, To Raise The Thought And Touch The Heart, Be Thine!