----_[quem] si verbo audacia detur, Haud metuam summi dixisse Palatia cœli_. calling the court of Jupiter by the name of Augustus his palace; though in another place he is more bold, where he says, _Et longas visent Capitolia pompas_.[123] But to do this always, and never be able to write a line without it, though it may be admired by some few pedants, will not pass upon those who know that wit is best conveyed to us in the most easy language; and is most to be admired when a great thought comes dressed in words so commonly received, that it is understood by the meanest apprehensions, as the best meat is the most easily digested. But we cannot read a verse of Cleiveland's without making a face at it, as if every word were a pill to swallow: He gives us many times a hard nut to break our teeth, without a kernel for our pains. So that there is this difference betwixt his satires and Doctor Donne's, that the one gives us deep thoughts in common language, though rough cadence; the other gives us common thoughts in abstruse words. It is true, in some places his wit is independent of his words, as in that of the rebel Scot: Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom; Not forced him wander, but confined him home.[124] _Si sic omnia dixisset!_ This is wit in all languages: it is like mercury, never to be lost or killed:--and so that other, For beauty, like white-powder, makes no noise, And yet the silent hypocrite destroys. You see the last line is highly metaphorical, but it is so soft and gentle, that it does not shock us as we read it.