Merit Challenges Envy.

They First Condemn That First Advised The Ill.

Kings Fight For Empires, Madmen For Applause.

He Look'd In Years, Yet In His Years Were Seen A Youthful Vigor, And Autumnal Green.

Love And Time With Reverence Use, Treat Them Like A Parting Friend: Nor The Golden Gifts Refuse Which In Youth Sincere They Send: For Each Year Their Price Is More, And They Less Simple Than Before.

The Longest Tyranny That Ever Sway'd Was That Wherein Our Ancestors Betray'd Their Free-born Reason To The Stagirite [aristotle], And Made His Torch Their Universal Light. So Truth, While Only One Suppli'd The State, Grew Scarce, And Dear, And Yet Sophisticate.