4 Thou might'st have ta'en example From what thou read'st in story; Being as worthy to sit On an ambling tit As thy predecessor Dory. 5 But, oh, the roof of linen, Intended for a shelter! But the rain made an ass Of tilt and canvas, And the snow, which you know is a melter. 6 But with thee to inveigle That tender stripling Astcot, Who was soak'd to the skin, Through drugget so thin, Having neither coat nor waistcoat. 7 He being proudly mounted, Clad in cloak of Plymouth, Defied cart so base, For thief without grace, That goes to make a wry mouth. 8 Nor did he like the omen, For fear it might be his doom One day for to sing, With gullet in string, A hymn of Robert Wisdom. 9 But what was all this business? For sure it was important; For who rides i' th'wet When affairs are not great, The neighbours make but a sport on't. 10 To a goodly fat sow's baby, O John! thou hadst a malice; The old driver of swine That day sure was thine, Or thou hadst not quitted Calais. [1] 'Fill of carting': we three riding in a cart from Dunkirk to Calais, with a fat Dutch woman. NATURA NATURATA. 1 What gives us that fantastic fit, That all our judgment and our wit To vulgar custom we submit? 2 Treason, theft, murder, and all the rest Of that foul legion we so detest, Are in their proper names express'd. 3 Why is it then thought sin or shame Those necessary parts to name, From whence we went, and whence we came? 4 Nature, whate'er she wants, requires; With love inflaming our desires, Finds engines fit to quench those fires. 5 Death she abhors; yet when men die We are present; but no stander by Looks on when we that loss supply. 6 Forbidden wares sell twice as dear; Even sack, prohibited last year, A most abominable rate did bear. 7 'Tis plain our eyes and ears are nice, Only to raise, by that device, Of those commodities the price. 8 Thus reason's shadows us betray, By tropes and figures led astray, From Nature, both her guide and way. SARPEDON'S SPEECH TO GLAUCUS, IN THE TWELFTH BOOK OF HOMER.