… But Now, when DULLNESS rears aloft her throne, When LORDLY Vassals her wide Empire own, When Wit, seduc'd by Envy, starts aside, And basely leagues with Ignorance and Pride, What Now should tempt us, by false hopes misled, Learning's … where to go, Nor dar'd to love the Virtue of a foe; When, like a lep'rous plague, from the foul head To the foul heart her sores Corruption spread, Her iron arm when stern Oppression rear'd, And Virtue, from her broad base shaken, … How do I laugh, when Creatures, form'd like these, Whom Reason scorns, and I should blush to please, Rail at all lib'ral arts, deem verse a crime, And hold not Truth, as Truth, if told in rime? … How do I laugh, when Creatures, form'd like …