Long did the _Learned Author_ search to find The Vice and Vanity of Humane-kind: Long he observ’d, nor did observe in vain; In every differing Humour found Even there where _Virtue_ did abound, Some mortal Frailties reign. _Philosophers_ he saw were Proud Of dull-affected Poverty: Senators cringing to the Crowd For trifling Popularity: The Judge reviles the Criminal at _Bar_, And now because old Ages Ice Has chill’d the Ardour of his willing Vice, Snarles at those _Youthful Follies_ which he cannot shun. From the vain-keeping _’.quire_, and Cully’d _Lord_; The fawning _Courtier_, _States-man’s_ Broken Word: Down to the flattering, Jilting _Curtizan_, And the more faithless couzening _Citizen_, The Tricks of _Court_ and _State_ to him were known; And all the Vices veil’d beneath the _Gown_, From the Sharp _Pulpit_ to the Blunted _Stall_, He knew, and gently did reproach them all. V. If _Rome_ that kept the lesser World in awe, Wanted a _Juvenal_ to give them Law, How much more we who stockt with _Knave_ and _Fool_, Have turn’d the Nation into _Ridicule_. The dire Contagion spreads to each degree Of Wild _Debauchery_. The mad Infected Youth make haste To day their _Fortunes_, _Health_, and _Reason_ waste: The _Fop_, a tamer sort of _Tool_ Who dresses, talks, and loves, by Rule; Has long for a _Fine Person_ past. _Blockheads_ will pass for _Wits_, and Write, And some for _Brave_, who ne’r could Fight. Women for _Chaste_, whose knack of _Cant_ Boasts of the _Virtues_ that they want: Cry _Faugh_--at Words and Actions Innocent, And make that naughty that was never meant: That vain-affected _Hypocrite_ shall be In Satyr sham’d to _Honest Sense_ by Thee. ‘Tis Thou, an _English Juvenal_, alone, To whom all _Vice_, and every _Vertue’s_ known: Thou that like _Judah’s_ King through all hast past, And found that all’s but _Vanity_ at last; ‘Tis you alone the _Discipline_ can use, Who dare at once be _bold_, _severe_, and _kind_; Soften rough Satyr with thy gentler _Muse_, And force a _Blush_ at least, where you can’t change the Mind. _A. Behn._ _On the Death of_ E. Waller, _Esq._; _By Mrs._ A. Behn.