ΖΩΟΤΟΜΙ'Α , OR , OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRESENT MANNERS OF THE ENGLISH : Briefly Anatomizing the Living by the Dead .

WITH AN USEFULL DETECTION OF THE MOUNTE BANKS of both Sexes .

By Richard Whitlock , M. D. Late Fellow of All-Souls Colledge in OXFORD .

LONDON , Printed by Tho. Roycroft , and are to be sold by Humphrey Moseley , at the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Church-yard , 1654.

INstructions ( Courteous Reader ) that render the Designe and Purpose of the Work , may well be stiled an Essay upon the Author , and as it were Contents , of him , no lesse then the Book ; and so may well supply the room of a Dedicatory Epistle to some protecting Eminence , or of courting Apologies , like forlorne hopes first sent out to set upon the Benevolence of Readers . That Acquaintance of Readers with the Contents of the ensuing Chapter might insinuate a Candidness , I am induced to believe , because with well-Meaners even good Meanings and Aymes in Authours attone their Failings . Instead of other kindes of Epistles , take therefore this Anatomy of the Anatomy , ( the Book it self ) by way of a Preface ; and so not tied to the shortness usual of Epistles ; it may serve for an Essay on Mens Publications of Themselves by writing , and more especially on mine . I shall not here trouble thee with the Burden of many Epistles to tell thee this Qualecunque ( whatsoever it shall deserve to be called ) was midwived into the Light by Importunity of Friends , or feare of Antedated Impressions ; ( with such like Apologies for encreasing the Number of Scriblers ) no , it ventured willingly into the world : if it encrease the trifles of the Presse , I dare excuse it from adding to the Guilt : it was rather destined to save its Reputation by crowding in somewhat lesse unprofitable , lesse mischievous , then the Presse daily issueth forth in these Pamphleting Dayes , bringing forth ( to say true ) litle else then Trifles or Invectives . The Things I present are nove dicta , etsi non nova , ( according to Vincentius Lyrinensis ) Observations if not quite new , yet in a new dresse ; and as new things are acceptable , so among them nothing more than new clothes . The Old Saw , Nil dictum quod non dictum prius , proveth all writings to be but various Descant on plainer Rudiments ; or if you will , but the Anagramms , the Alphabet , and Transposition of mens various Collections from Men or Books . Such are the Materials of this ; one End whereof was my rehearsall in the School of the world ▪ the same that stirred up Juvenal , Semper ego Auditor tantum ? — And what is that Rehearsall , but doing of good by Tongue , Life , or Pen , or all . I am not delivered from it by either of those two Arguments , either the Number , or Excellency of Printed Labours .

1. Not from the Number ; that of S. Chrysostome beareth me out ; which take in Latine , ( not its original ) as more easie and fashionable : A Scribendi Munere Nos Scriptorum copia non avocet , vigeat potius , & provocet : bonos libros qui conscribit , Retia Salutis pandit , let not the number ( saith he ) of books discourage , but provoke our Writings ; he that writeth good books spreadeth Nets of Salvation . Cornelius A Lapide counteth them requisite , ad Dei Magnificentiam , & plenam Rerum universitatem , reckoning them among those works that glorifie our Heavenly Father , and fill the world as ornamentally , nay , usefully as many other things .

2. Then for the excellence of books already writ , or that Eximium quid Re , sive modo & Methodo scribendi , somewhat excellent in matter , manner , or method of writing ( which A Lapide requireth in Writers ) even the feare of this is lessen'd by that of Seneca . Qui ante nos ista moverunt non Domini sed Duces sunt ; patet omnibus veritas , nondum est occupata ; multum ex illa etiam futuris relictum est . Former Writers Lord it not over our Endeavours , but lead them ; all Truth is not engrossed , after Ages shall travell her Terra incognita , her undiscovered parts : Never did Momus himselfe require all should write best . To those that write better I shall do the curtesie of a foile ; from those that write worse , receive the curtesie that I do . I know not but that it is commendable enough to make the same the Cannon of our writings , the Apostle doth of Actions , Phil. 4. 8. Finally my brethren whatsoever things are true , whatsoever things are honest , whatsoever things are just , whatsoever things are pure , whatsoever things are lovely , whatsoever things are of good report , if there be any vertue , any praise , think of these things . He that hitteth on either of these writeth excusably , if not commendably , though I think it better may be tearmed a thing more commendable , than to passe over the Stage of the World as a Mute , leaving no Testimony that he lived ( much lesse lived to the end of his Creation ) his Being to be found no where but in the Church-book : where it may be , many of the same name make even that but confusedly known . And if I should own that which many Writers dissemblingly decline ( and one of the best ingenuously owneth ) I mean an Aime at a good Esteem ( little or much ) for my desires of doing Posterity good , it is but ingenuous Natures desire . The confirmation of my assertion I cannot leave out in either Language . An erit qui velle recuset [ Pers. Satyr . ] Os populi meruisse ? & cedro digna locutus Linquere , nec Scombros metuentia carmina , necthus . Non ego cum scribo , si forte quid aptius exit , Laudari metuam ; neque enim mihi cornea fibra est . Which take in English from that inimitable Imitator , and Translator Mr. Holliday . For doth there breath a man that can reject A generall praise ? and his own lines neglect ? Lines worth immortall Cedars recompence , Nere fearing new sold Fish , nor Frankincense . When I my selfe do write , if from my Brain Doth flow by greatest chance som happy strain , ( For t is by chance ) my heart is not so hard , So horny , as to feare the due Reward Of deserv'd Fame . —

How hypocriticall the declination of this Fame is let Cicero tell us , Tuscul . Quaest. 1. Quid nostri Philosophi ? in his ipsis libris quos scribunt de contemnenda Gloria , sua Nomina inscribunt . Our very Philosophers ( saith he ) that write of contemning Fame , set their Names to their Books ; which they would not , if they were such Decliners of a Fame as they pretend . But it is not onely a naturall desire , but Canonical obedience , ( as our Fame may be subordinate to our makers Glory ) to that Apocryphall Text , Ecclesiasticus 41. 12. Have regard to thy good Name , a good Life is but for a few daies , but a good Name endureth for ever . A Charge seconded by that Canonicall Injunction in the above mentioned place ; If there be any vertue , any praise , &c. If Plinies Counsell may be heard , he will tell us , Tanto magis quicquid est temporis futilis & caduci , si non datur Factis ( nam horum Materia in aliena manu ) certè studiis proferamus : & quatenus nobis denegatur diu vivere , relinquamus aiiquid quo nos vixisse testemur . By how much ( saith he ) our short time escapeth Exploits , let us spin it out in Studies ; and since we cannot live long , let us leave some lasting Testimony that we have lived . This why I write at all , now why I write thus : I must use Mountaignes Apology in his Essay of Books ; I make no doubt ( saith he ) but I handle many Themes that are farre better handled in the scattered works of able Writers : But my intent was not to beat my Brains in the Acquisition even of Knowledge it self that was too difficult ; Nor have I what came easily among Authors or Observations to my understanding ; what conduceth to living or dying well , that I communicate . To say true , I finde Mountaignes Pallate ( and not quite without judgment ) pretty generall among Readers of most Ages ; and because his words are very significant , take them in his own language . Je aime en generall les liures , qui usent les sciences , non ceux qui les dressent . I love , saith he , books that make use of Sciences , not compile them into their Geneticall , or Analyticall Parcels . Authors ( to say true ) are more Thumb'd that are variously usefull , than those Embodyers of Arts in Cancellos suae Methodi , into the limits of their proper Method : usefull I confesse they are , but wanting the Dulce , Pleasure of variety , and convenience of more contracted brevity : the paines of reading them is seldome bestowed on them , especially if they swell into Tomes of that bignesse , that he that can have no leisure , dareth not look on them , and he that will have none , careth not . I know not , how but as Montaigne saith of himselfe , Tracts of a continued Thread are tedious to most Fancies , which of it selfe indeed is of that desultory nature , that it is pleased with Writings like Irish Bogs , that it may leap from one variety to another , than tread any beaten Path. Among many kindes of writings I finde Plutarchs most inviting Imitation for the form , ( call them Discourses , Essayes , or what you will ) nor behinde any for matter ; if mixt sometimes with those Mucrones Sermonum , Enlivening Touches of Seneca , full of smart Fancy , solid sense and accurate reason : such like Peeces compiled by able Pen-men out of Plutarchs fulness and Seneca's quickness , would undoubtedly fill the mouth of the most gaping Expectaltee among Readers . Seneca's brevity alone in some things ( as Controversies , &c. ) might make good that slander on him , that he did frangere Pondera Rerum Minutijs erborum , crumble the weight of Points . But for Hints of Descant he hath dealt with us , I must confesse , as he saith of another , Cupiditatem imitandi fecit , spem abstulit . Their fiery liveliness hath enkindled a desire of imitation , and their accurateness hath damped all hopes of performance . And that in this I write not ( as the Age discourseth ) private spirited Opinions , take the confirmation of our english Divine Seneca , Bishop Hall , who saith , never any Heathen writ more Divinely , never any Philosopher more probably . For my using these so frequently , I propounded this end to my selfe , even to shame our Christian dulness , and slow Proficiency under the Brightness of our advantagious Light , by making us hear the Symphony of the outward Court of Nature agreeing with the inner Quire of divine Pen-men ; for what can we be able to say for our selves ? neither knowing , nor following our divine Light , so far as some Heathen seem to have progressed in both Knowledge and Practise morall . Then why for Politicks I make Tacitus my Text , I need give no other reason than this , never any better cast Practise into Precept , or made History Politicks in fuller and closer Observations . To write Controversies , engages their Authors to the censure of Factions and Parties ; All things being so now under dispute , that they will not leave us that Nos nihil scire out of question ( saith Seneca ) not allow us to know that we know nothing : I chose therefore a way most comprehensive , and least distastfull to the quarrel some world , to handle Observables according to their Nature , or my liesure ; some larger , some more contracted : the matter of them , if you will , is somewhat of that nature , my Lord Bacon calls Satyra Seria , a serious Satyre , an endeavour harder to forbeare than undertake , saith the Poet. Difficile est Satyram non scribere ; nam quis iniquae Tam patiens Urbis , tam ferreus , ut teneat se ? Or if you will , they are what he elsewhere calleth Jnteriora Rerum , Endeavours ( in the Observables of life ) to discover and detect the more inward deceits of men or things , and to strip them of their Appearances . That I on this Score tearm it an Anatomy of the Living by the Dead , or of Practicall Errours ( though in the particulars I decline the Nauseating of a continued Allegory ) doth not much mis-represent my purpose ; while in the latitude of my Discourses ( and according to the destin'd Bulk of this Tract ) I deliver my Judgment ( made out of the seriousness of others , or casualties of my own Observations ) of mens mis-apprehendings , or things Mis-apprehensions , whereby the Glitter of things oft passeth for Gold , while some things enduring touch ( but dull to the eye ) arise not to an Esteem equall with counterfeits , as in nothing more appeares than our Opinion of the World and its Desirables in grosse , dreaming of life in a Carkass , and of Perpetuity in a blast ; and having high conceits of our vain Projects , deare ones of our vexations , and doting ones of falsely admired . Contemptibles . But come we to particulars , and it is undeniable but that there are in ( even the most familiar ) Passages between man and man , neglected ( but on enquiry easily discoverable ) false Principles , Erroures and causes of Miscarriage , and in many things inner parts unobserved by the carelesse world , Errores , Vulgi , vulgar Errors reaching to the Morals of men as well as their Philosophy ; the substance of these Discourses the Poet giveth you most fully . Quicquid agunt homines , Votum , Timor , Ira , voluptas , Gaudia , Discursus , Nostri est Farrago libelli . Et quando uberior vitiorum Copia ? Which take englished from Sir Robert Stapyltons ingenuous Translation . What men do , their hopes , feares , distasts , Sports , Fates , the Medly is our Book presents ▪ And when was sin more fruitfull ? They are Collections many of them more from men than books , in which latter we seldome meet with live , and particular presentments of mens Principles and Actions ; indeed Poets do it best , and among them the Dramatick , the form of them I owe as little to Books ; for I must truly acknowledge I did not so much as cast my Eye on Books of the like nature ( without it were my Lord Bacons Interiora Rerum ) till they were compiled , and then chiefly to avoid Actum agere , writing the same things , at least in the same manner ; not out of presumption of my own Abilities to go alone , without their help , but out of an Idiosyncrasis ( or particular Temper ) of my Fancy , ( blameable or commendable , I determine not ) to which Imitation is an unpleasing Confinement , and ( I know not how ) more laborious than Invention . That some of these are mixt with Divinity , the Title assureth you : nor am I ashamed to professe it , since it is without Intrusion into the Office of those Secretaries of Heaven , to whom are committed the more Mysterious Oracles of our Credenda , Creed ; Errors of Faith I leave to those ( sufficient for such things ) to correct , but Errors of life I know not why we should not amend in each other . That some of them are not onely mixt , but are professedly Essayes in Divinity , transgresseth not the Nature or Lawes of this kind of writing in mixt discourses , and I am sure to serious Soules will not be unwelcome ; since all Writings ( as well as Actions ) are but Trifles in comparison of what referreth to Eternity . Nor will it be an Apology onely , but ( with such ) a commendations , to say I propounded that end Seneca giveth us in charge , haec alijs dic , ut dum dicis , audias ; ipse scribe , ut dum scripseris legas , Epist. 89. Give serious advise to others that thou mayest be thine own Auditor , and write profitable for thine own perusall . As for being serious in Discourses with Posterity ( such are Pennings for the publike view ) let it seem as mis-shapen or uncouth as it will to Antick Fancies ; I am sure printed vanity is double unprofitableness ; to be Foole , or Knave in Print doth but double the Blot . Vsefull Scripts , or Writers Seneca giveth ( I am sure ) a higher Character of , than of many other things , or men ; that some ( which would be counted the worlds wise ones ) set so high a price on . Si hoc mecum , si hoc cum Posteris loquor , non videor tibi plus prodesse quam ? cum ad vadimonium Advocatus descenderem , &c. mihi crede , qui nihil agere videntur majora agunt ; humana , divinaque simul tractant . While I discourse ( saith he ) these things with my selfe , and Posterity , do not I profit more than if I voted in the Senate , pleaded before a Judge ? &c. believe it , though usefull Employments of the Pen may seem idle Enterprises , it is far above many Employments , falsely ( if compared ) counted weighty . The youngest of us I am sure may say as Seneca , premit a Tergo Aeternitas ( etsi non Senectus ) & obijcit annos inter vana studia consumptos : tanto magis urgeamus , & Damna Aetatis male exactae labor resarciat . Eternity ( though not old Age ) pulls us by the Sleeve , and upbraideth the mis-spending of our former yeers in vain and fruitlesse Studies , and calls on us to redeem them by some labours for the good of our selves and others . The whole Tenor of this Peece is perswasion of others , nor a lesse obliging my selfe . For Books ( Seneca saith ) are Bills of our Hands to the world ; and indeed I think them more , being little lesse than Vowes to God before men , and to men promises before God of a mindfulness of our Vow made in Baptisme of Renouncing the worlds vanities , that by nothing more have got into our Affections , than by an Erroneous Estimate of the reall Worth of things , or undiscerning the fallacious insides that appeare when things are stript . If any among these Observations seem Paradoxicall to Credulous Ignorance ( that swalloweth Traditions for Truthes ) or distastfull to the Guilty , according to Martiall . Ecce rubet quidam , pallet , stupet , oscitat , odit , Hoc volo ; nunc nobis carmina nostra placent . — At what we say , One blushes , or looks pale , is ill at ease , Amaz'd , takes pet ; why now our Verses please . If either of these I say , I have my End ; one main end of my writing being ( like Diogenes his going into the Theater against the throng of people coming out ) to let the World know I think not as shee thinketh , and yet think never the worse of my selfe ; Erasmus assuring me it is bona pars sapientiae nosse stultas vulgi cupiditates & absurdas Opiniones : A good step in Prudence to know and dislike the foolish desires and absurd Opinions of the Vulgar . In controversies I dissent without Peremptoriness or uncharitableness , and will Salve the deepest Gashes of Detraction , or prejudice against my boldness in dissenting , with that conclusion of Servius his book of the weapon salve : Quae sanctissimi viri & doctissimi firma rataque sanxerunt , ea solum in nostra Dissertatione firma rataque sunto . What the Learned and Religious assent to ( and no other ) in our Writings shall have so much of Obligation over any mans assent , as thereunto to stand in full force and vertue . As for Exactness of writing on any Subject in Poetick heights of Fancy , or Rhetoricall Descants of Application , I leave to the Endeavourers in both those noble Studies , whose profession it is to spend the vigor of their Conceptions on a Theme , to speak as never any before , and if possible to damp the imitation of Posterity . For my own part I may say , as Lipsius in his Epistlse ; Rationem meam scribendi scire vis ? fundo , non scribo , nec id nisi in Calore & interno quodam Impetu , haud aliter quam Poetae . Would you know ( saith he ) my manner of writing ? it is a kind of voluntary Tiding of , not Pumping for ; Notions flowing , not forced ; like Poets unconstrained Heats and Raptures : such is mine , rather a running Discourse than a Grave-paced Exactnes ; having in them this Formality of Essayes ( as Sir W. Cornwallyes saith of his ) that they are Tryals of bringing my hand and Fancy acquainted in this using my Paper , as the Painters Boy a Board he blurs with Tryals . J may say in my defence as another before me , Sicut in magna sylva boni venatoris est Feras quam plurimas indaganter capere , nec cuiquam culpae suit non omnes cepisse : As in Hunting he is the best Huntsman that catcheth most , and not bad because he catcheth not all : To comprehend all , or most can be said on any of these Themes , I professe not ; no , I feare that of Ludovicus Vives , in attempts ad ultimum Naturae straining our Abilities , Ingenia supra vires aspirantia infra Mediocritatem subsidunt : Wits that flye above the Spheare of their Activity , fall beneath ordinary performances ; and were I one of such Labourers in vain , I should never please my selfe , but still be at his fault that could never take Manum de tabula , his Hand off , but was still mending disliking , interlining , & it may be at last corrected all with a Spunge : ( I have much a do to forbeare it now my selfe ) it was the fault of Protogenes ( as Apelles accuseth him ) Qui nimia peccarat diligentiâ , who offended with too peevish diligence ; a fault they blame Paulus Aemilius Veronensis with , of whom it is said , nunquam sibi satisfaciebat , sed quoties sua recognoscebat , diceres opus non correctum , sed aliud . He never was pleased with his own work ; if he went to correct it , you would say it were a new , not reform'd peece : As for my Quotations ( which in the Judgments of some are dasht ( like Pedigrees ) with a vix ea nostra voco — scarce worth being called our own ) I have on purpose confirmed some of my Descants ( as well as at first I had them thence hinted ) from such able Pens as are unquestionable . All Writings are but Hints , Descant , or Confirmation ; if any be our own , it may well enough satisfie Expectation from any Single ( unlesse singular ) Author . He is a usefull Servant to Truth that serveth her by either , though not by all . Besides such is the peevishnesse of present times , Contemporaries speaking even the words of the Ancients , have no Authority , unlesse they disown them by Citation : my Citations are from that Principle of doing as I would be done by , doing my Reader Service by a Reference to some usefull Bock ( or part of it ) that may recompence his perusall of mine . I have my selfe sometimes been more beholding to some Books for anothers Sense , than their own . The like may befall this . As for my declining in many places Grammaticall Translations , it is to bring the Sense neerer my Purpose in our own Idiom ; and where I do not translate , ( or differently ) to my Remembrance I have endeavoured to continue the Sense , that the severall Languages need not trouble the english Reader so much as a Parenthesis . For the Pleasantnes of som of these Tell-troths , let the world excuse me , if I play with my Vexations , and turn my Experienc'd Torture to Delight , as knowing no better Revenge on ( no nor Cure of ) vulgar Stupidity , ( specially in Concernments of Physick , and their own Health ) than — Ridentem dicere verum , to tell them Truths pleasantly , since it is the constant humour of the people to love the Jigg better , than any good or serious part of the Play . Lastly for Detraction and Censure ( the Hydra all Authors must encounter ) it is more my scorn than feare , and ought to be to any Venturer abroad into publike view ; or else he may lye open to such disheartnings , as become not the confidence requisite to these undertakings . The rarest Antidote ( not onely against the Venome , but very Hissings of this Hydra ) that I meet with . I am Debtor to our English Bernard ; for in his Epistle before the third Century of Meditations , Those thoughts which our Experience hath found comfortable and fruitfull to our selves , should with neglect of all censures be communicated to others ; the concealment whereof ( me-thinks ) can proceed from no other ground but Timorousness or Envy . Wherefore Horace his Resolution may become serious Writers . — Valeat res ludicra , si me Palma negata macrum , donata reddit opimum . — I le ne're write Toyes , If I must pine or thrive on th' vulgar Noise .

If Authors Carp ( were not my Principle of Charity otherwise ) I could momize and cavil at Matter or Form ( more or lesse I believe ) of their Labours : at my own I am sure I can and do ( it may be where they do not ) yet think not my selfe ●nstaved so much to any ones Curiosity , as to correct and stil mend , like a totall Alteration . If they be not Authors , I value not their telling Bellarmine , he lies , when possibility of answer is denied him . As for any either Perfunctory Reader , or too severe Censurer ( free of the Company of Pish-mongers ) that Pisheth at any thing not exact , either in it selfe , or in compliance with his Humour ; I answer , the Stationer ( my Porter ) mistook the delivery of the Letter ( my Book ) for it was directed onely to the Candid Interpreter of modest Endeavours , not Exacter of Impossibles , or unseemlies ; viz. Perfection as the one , and to generall Compliance as the other . To all gaping Expectaltees ( that look for more than here they are like to finde ) my Book replyeth with this its motto ; not queint , but useful ; or , not rare but honest , at least in the Authors Iudgment and Intention ; and I will use the words of an Ingenuous Author of our own , being so apt to my purpose : I like much better to do well , than talke well , chusing rather to be beloved than admired , aspiring to no more height than the comfort of a good conscience , and doing good to some , harme to none . If my Essayes speak thus , they speak as I would have them . Thus far he , as fit as if he spoke for me of any thing amongst them . I will likewise add what Walafridus Strabo de rebus Ecclesiasticis said . Si quid in hoc ( Lector ) placet , assignare memento Id Domino : quicquid displicet , hocce mihi . If any thing that 's good i'th'Book you see , Ascribe to God ; but what distasts , to mee .

I know there is not any one Divell compasseth the Earth more than that Erasmus speaketh of : Adeo nunc in omnes & omnia , per universum Orbem grassatur comitata furiis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , ut non sit tutum ullum emittere Librum nisi Satellitio munitum . The Devil Calumny ( saith he ) against all men , and all things , doth so rage in these dayes , that it is not safe setting out any thing unguarded . If the integrity of the End may plead for the Matter or Form of this Book , I may hope absolution ; its chief Designe being to double the guards of the Negligent , that suffer erroneous mis-judgings to surprize their Inadvertency : or to awaken the lazie drousinesse of others that are loth to be rowz'd out of Errors pleasing dream ; and to correct the vanity of most , that spend their time or thoughts on impertinencies , besides , or below the noble end their souls were destined for . For two lengths I must insert these short Apologies : the one of some of these following Discourses , the other of this Preface : the former need deterre no man , if he be of my minde , with whom the flatnesse , or sharpnesse of an Author , is in stead of Rests . Indisposednesse in my self , or a dull period in an Author maketh me turn down the leaf , ( if my businesse do not ) as well as any Division of Sections or Chapters , &c. by much the younger brothers of writing it self , and even in sacred Writ but of ( almost ) modern Authority . Again , the nature of this kinde of writing is like free speeches in the Parliament of Parnassus , or Liberavi Animams , whose length or shortnesse is from the Authors sense , not any stint of Rule , or Order . For the length of the other , ( this Preface ) it's Name were enough , if we follow the Allegory of a Porch and Building , : I have , I am sure , come far short of Solomons proportion of twenty to sixty , as it is observed by that Secretary to Wit , Reverend Dr. Donne : or if , Reader , thou be in the number of such as account Epistles , and Prefaces materiall part of a Book . And now I am excusing the Books Geometry , give me leave to excuse its unexpected bulk , and thicknesse , from meer mistake that my writing had not been so close . But I write not this , nor the Book , to any curious in the shapes & outsides of Books , or that think it necessary to a Books handsomnesse , ( as well as womans ) to be slender in the waste ; but it is now past cure , and must venture abroad with all its faults , materiall , or in printing ; which may be more then should , by reason of my distance from the Presse . Some principall Errata's are mentioned ; the rest , an ordinary English Critique may correct in his reading . I shall therefore conclude with letting thee know , what Reader I slight , and what I honour , in the words of Erasmus , in his Enchiridion Militis Chistiani : Nil moror aut laudes , levis aut convitia vulgi : Pulchrum est vel doctis , vel placuisse Piis : Spe quoque majus erit , mihi si contingat utrumque The flouts or th' praise o' th' vulgar I not weigh , If Learn'd or Pious men content I may : But O! if both , a Joy unhop'd 't would be .