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EVERY MAN HATH A FOOL IN HIS SLEEVE.
Thus it ever is with fools;
Cuftom more than Reafon rules :
And where Reafon fhould be law,
Fafliion Cuftoms, flight as ftraw,
Stronger chains on them impofe,
Bonds more binding far than thofe,
Tyrants fince the world began,
Laid upon their fellow man.
He vainly boafts that he is free,
Who fears t' infringe on Fafhion's rule ;
For worfe than flave, already, he
01 Is both at once a flave, and fool.
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TNTER causas malorum nostrorum est, quod vivimus ad exempla, nee ratione com-
ponimur, sed consuetudine abducimur. Quod pauci faciunt, nolumus imitari : quum
plures facere coeperunt, quasi honestius sit, quia frequentius, sequimur, et recti apud
nos locum tenet error ; &c. SEN. Epist. 58.
Qjti veufy il petit.
"XT7"HAT less, than Fool, and greater Fool, than he,
Who knows no Heaven but his mistress' smiles,
And bows his reason to the tyranny
Of her caprice and ever changing wiles 1
< Than he, whose brain-sick fantasy can find
Subject for Love, in each insensate whim,
And in her very faults of heart and mind,
A grace, to none apparent but to him !
Who sees not, when she most affects the Dove,
She but derides the passion he reveals ;
And that most false when most she vows her love,
'Tis but to seem what least she is and feels.
be free :
If true that, he who wills it may
Who hath no Will, must have a lack of brains ;
A straw-tied Fool ! who for his stultity,
In Love, as in aught else, deserves his chains.
A WISE man's heart is at his right hand, but a fool's heart is at his left. Ecclesiastes x. 2.
FOLLY IS THE POVERTY OF THE MIND.