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Ten Censure wrong for one who Writes amiss.
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'Tis with our judgements as our watches, noneGo just alike, yet each believes his own.
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Let such teach others who themselves excel,And censure freely who have written well.
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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools,And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
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One science only will one genius fit:So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Wit and judgment often are at strife,Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call,But the joint force and full result of all.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see,Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
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Such labored nothings, in so strange a style,Amaze th' unlearned, and make the learned smile.
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At ev'ry Trifle scorn to take Offence, That always shows Great Pride, or Little Sense.
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Yet not let each gay turn thy rapture move;For fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow;Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so.
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Fondly we think we honour Merit then,When we but praise Our selves in Other Men.
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Be thou the first true Merit to befriend;His praise is lost, who stays till All commend.
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All seems Infected that th' Infected spy,As all looks yellow to the Jaundic'd Eye.
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Learn then what morals critics ought to show,For 'tis but half a judge's task, to know.
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But where's the man who counsel can bestow,Still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know?
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