And Bear About The Mockery

I Was Not Born For Courts And Great Affairs, But I Pay My Debts, Believe And Say My Prayers.

On Her White Breast A Sparkling Cross She Wore, Which Jews Might Kiss And Infidels Adore.

The Lights And Shades, Whose Well-accorded Strife Gives All The Strength And Color Of Our Life.

There Various News I Heard Of Love And Strife,of Peace And War, Health, Sickness, Death, And Life,of Loss And Gain, Of Famine And Of Store,of Storms At Sea, And Travels On The Shore,of Prodigies, And Portents Seen In Air,of Fires And Plagues, And Stars With Blazing Hair,of Turns Of Fortune, Changes In The State,the Fall Of Favourites, Projects Of The Great,of Aid Mismanagements, Taxations New:all Neither Wholly False, Nor Wholly True.

Content If Hence Th' Unlearn'd Their Wants May View, The Learn'd Reflect On What Before They Knew.