102
SATYR.
To turn and manage every Part,
90 Like Puppets, by their Rules of Art;
To shrug discreetly, act, and tread,
And politicly shake the Head,
Until the Ignorant (that guess a
At all Things by th'Appearances)
95 To see how Art and Nature strive,
Believe them really alive,
And that th'are very Men, not Things
That move by Puppet-work and Springs;
When truly all their Feats have been
100 As well perform'd by Motion-men,
And the worst Drols of Punchinellos
Were much th' ingeniouser Fellows;
For, when they're perfect in their Lesson,
Th' Hypothesis grows out of Season,
105 And, all their Labour lost, they're fain
To learn new, and begin again:
To talk eternally and loud,
And altogether in a Crowd,
No matter what, for in the Noise
110 No Man minds what another says:
T'assume a Confidence beyond
Mankind, for solid and profound;
And still the less and less they know,
The greater Dose of that allow:
115 Decry all Things; for to be wise
Is not to know, but to despite,
90 Like Puppets, by their Rules of Art;
To shrug discreetly, act, and tread,
And politicly shake the Head,
Until the Ignorant (that guess a
At all Things by th'Appearances)
95 To see how Art and Nature strive,
Believe them really alive,
And that th'are very Men, not Things
That move by Puppet-work and Springs;
When truly all their Feats have been
100 As well perform'd by Motion-men,
And the worst Drols of Punchinellos
Were much th' ingeniouser Fellows;
For, when they're perfect in their Lesson,
Th' Hypothesis grows out of Season,
105 And, all their Labour lost, they're fain
To learn new, and begin again:
To talk eternally and loud,
And altogether in a Crowd,
No matter what, for in the Noise
110 No Man minds what another says:
T'assume a Confidence beyond
Mankind, for solid and profound;
And still the less and less they know,
The greater Dose of that allow:
115 Decry all Things; for to be wise
Is not to know, but to despite,
