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"I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I!" "Not of the importance you suppose," Replies a Flea upon his nose; "Be humble, learn thyself to scan; Know, pride was never made for man."

The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.

The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess.

Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.

My new straw hat that's trimly lin'd with green, Let Peggy wear.

Nor love, not honour, wealth nor pow'r, Can give the heart a cheerful hour When health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies.

Give me, kind Heaven, a private station, A mind serene for contemplation: Title and profit I resign; The post of honor shall be mine.

Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.

A justice with grave justices shall sit; He praise their wisdom, they admire his wit.

In other men we faults may spy, And blame the mote that dims their eye; Each little speck and blemish find, To our own stronger errors blind.

So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.

Learning by study must be won; 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son.

Lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod.

"Is there no hope?" the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave with signs of sorrow, Despairing of his fee to-morrow.

Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.

Now Cynthia, named fair regent of the night.

Over the hills and far away.

We only part to meet again.

Excuse me, then! you know my heart; But dearest friends, alas! must part.

To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride: Let Nature guide thee; sometimes golden wire The shining belles of the fly require; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail.