O! How Vain And Vile A Passion

God Wisheth None Should Wreck On A Strange Shelf: To Him Man's Dearer Than To Himself.

Tis The Common Disease Of All Your Musicians That They Know No Mean, To Be Entreated, Either To Begin Or End.

He That Is Respectless In His Courses Oft Sells His Reputation At Cheap Market.

Memory, Of All The Powers Of The Mind, Is The Most Delicate And Frail.

And Where She Went, The Flowers Took Thickest Root, As She Had Sow'd Them With Her Odorous Foot.