ABSTRACT

Ancients in Phrase, meer Moderns in their Sense! 32 5 Such labour'd Nothings, in so strange a Style, Amaze th'unlearn'd, and make the Learned Srnile. Unlucky, as Fungoso in the Play, }.... These Sparks with aukward Vanity display What the Fine Gentleman wore Yesterday! 330 And but so mimick ancient Wits at best, As Apes our Grandsires in their Doublets drest. In Words, as Fashions, the same Rule will hold; Alike Fantastick, if too New, or Old; Be not the first by whom the New are try'd, 335 Nor yet the last to lay the Old aside.