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( ili ) Sometimes a Vice they blunder on by Chance, But all their Faults are thofe of Ignorance. Befides, a Changeling is no Hypocrere, . For what be és, he fhews you at firft Sight; WhilA others do their Natzve-felves difguife Only by the Pretence of being Wiſe : Of Criticks, they affume the furly State, And cenfure thofe they cannot zmztate. Like puft up Bladders they of Wend are full, `. And hide with Gravity their being dui. Tho’they with Scorzthe World would ridicule, . Yet the Afeted Wife-One is the Fool. -. ° Still my Digreffion Sir returns to you, To give that Charaëter which is your due; : And this impartially I can beftow, The Author by his Work I only know. So that if what I find I muft commend, *Tis done without being biafs’d as his Friend. *Tis not your Przde, your Folly, or your Fate, . That makes you chufe Eraſmus to Tranſlate. If with ſuch Verſions you the World delight, . You can oblige it equally, and Write. ~ Tho’ here you have as. much true Judgment As if it had entirely been your own. [fhown, . This way of Writing once was thought a Vice; But now the Zouches-of it are fo Nice, ~ That who this pleafing Province would adorn, Not Made, but he on purpofe mut be Borz. Some fpoil all Subje&s which they write upon, As Paint will fpoil the beft Complexion : So Highway Beggars others Children hire, With ruddy Looks; and all their Limbs entire; Till they induftrioufly are Cripples made, Thus 10 promote the canting Gypfies Trade. (a3) Things
