As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.--l. 301, 2. So schismatics the plain believers quit, And are but damned for having too much wit.--l. 428, 9. Oft, leaving what is natural and fit, The current folly proves the ready wit.--l. 448, 9. Jilts ruled the state, and statesmen farces writ: Nay, wits had pensions, and young lords had wit.--l. 538, 9. Received his laws; and stood convinced 'twas fit, Who conquered nature, should preside o'er wit.--l. 651, 2. He, who supreme in judgment, as in wit, Might boldly censure, as he boldly writ.--l. 657, 8. In these twelve instances "wit" rhymes five times to "fit," and three times to "writ." The monotony extends much farther. "Art," in the singular or plural, terminates eight lines, and in every case rhymes to "part," "parts," or "imparts." Imperfect rhymes abound. The examples which follow occur in the order in which they are set down. "None, own--showed, trod--proved, beloved--steer, character--esteem, them--full, rule--take, track--rise, precipice--thoughts, faults--joined, mankind--delight, wit--appear, regular--caprice, nice--light, wit--good, blood--glass, place--sun, upon--still, suitable--ear, repair--join, line--line, join--Jove, love--own, town--fault, thought--worn, turn--safe, laugh--lost, boast--boast, lost (_bis_)--join, divine--prove, love--ease, increase--care, war--join, shine--disapproved, beloved--take, speak--fool, dull--satires, dedicators--read, head--speaks, makes--extreme, phlegm--find, joined--joined, mind--revive, live--chased, passed--good, blood--desert, heart--receive, give." In numerous instances, "the weight of the rhyme," as Johnson expresses it, when speaking of Denham, "is laid upon a word too feeble to sustain it." Some positive, persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always _so_; We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow, Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us _so_. Several lines are not metrical unless pronounced with a wrong emphasis, as False eloquēnce like thē prismatic glass, which only ceases to be prose when "the," and the last syllable of "eloquence," are accentuated, and it is then no longer English. Examples like Atones not fōr that envy which it brings; That in̄ proud dullness joins with quality; That not alone what tō your sense is due; are not much better. Many of the verses, and this last is a specimen, offend the ear by the succession of "low" and "creeping words." Pope belonged to the class of kings he mentions in his poem, who freely dispensed with the laws they had made.