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Learn, then, what morals critics ought to show, For 'tis but half a judge's task to know. LEARN THEN WHAT MORAL CRITICS OUGHT TO SHOW BUT TIS BUT HALF A JUDGE'S TASK TO KNOW
arces writ; Nay, wits had pensions, and young lords had wit: The fair sat panting at a courtier's play, And not a mask went unimproved away: [541] The modest fan was lifted up no more, And virgins smiled at what they blushed before. The following license of a foreign reign, [544] Did all the dregs of bold Socinus drain, [545] Then unbelieving priests reformed the nation. And taught more pleasant methods of salvation; Where Heaven's free subjects might their rights dispute, Lest God himself should seem too absolute: Pulpits their sacred satire learned to spare, And vice admired to find a flatterer there! Encouraged thus, wit's Titans braved the skies, [552] And the press groaned with licensed blasphemies. These monsters, critics! with your darts engage, Here point your thunder, and exhaust your rage! Yet shun their fault, who, scandalously nice, Will needs mistake an author into vice; All seems infected that the infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. * * * * * PART III.  PART THREE OF AN A SE ON CRITICISM BY ELECTOR POPE THIS LUBRAX RECORDING IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN
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