No Guide to lead him, but his own dim Light.
For him more fit, in vulgar Paths to tread,
To shew th' Unlearned what they never read,
Youth to improve, or rising Genius tend,
To Science much, to Virtue more, a Friend.

Footnotes:

[26] Margites.

[27] Aristophanes.

[28] Ennius.

[29] ----clarumq; facem praeferre pudori, _Juv. S._ 1.

[30] _See_ Varro_'s Character in_ Cicero_'s Academics._

[31] _Epode_ 6.

[32] _Alludes to this Couplet in his second Satire_,

Compositum jus fasq; animi, sanctiq; recessus,
Mentis, & incoctum generoso pectus honesto.

[33] _See his first Satire of_ Nero_'s Verses,_ &c.

[34] Juvenal.

[35] _The_ Caesars _of the Emperor_ Julian.

[36] Lucian_'s True History._

[37] Roscommon, _Revers'd._

[38] _Dr_. Garth _took care of Mr._ Dryden_'s Funeral, which
some Noblemen, who undertook it, had neglected._

[39] Three Booksellers.

[40] Coimbria_'s comments._ Colleg. Conimbricense, _a Society in_ Spain,
_which publish'd tedious explanations of_ Aristotle.

[41] Soncinas, _a Schoolman._

[42] Sa (Eman. de) _See_ Paschal_'s Mystery of Jesuitism._

[43]
Pompeius, tenui jugulos aperire susurro. Juv. S. 4.
Flet, si lacrymas aspexit amici, Nec dolet. S. 3.

[44]
------Noverat ille
Luxuriam Imperii veteris, noctesq; Neronis
Jam medias, aliamq; famem. Juv. S. 4.

[45] Et chaque Acte en fa piece & una piece entiere. _Boil._

[46]_'When a poor Genius has labour'd much, he judges well not to expect
the Encomiums of the Publick: for these are not his due. Yet for fear
his drudgery shou'd have no recompense, God (of his goodness) has
given him a personal Satisfaction. To envy him in this wou'd be
injustice beyond barbarity itself: Thus the same Deity (who is equally
just in all points) has given Frogs the comfort of Croaking, &c.'_

Le Pere Gerasse Sommes Theol. L. 2.

[47] Plato _calls this an Ignorance of a dark and dangerous Nature,
under appearance of the greatest Wisdom._

[48] Gregory Nazianz: _a Father at the beginning of the Fourth Century.
He writ two most bitter Satires (or Invectives) against the Emperor_
Julian.

A
DISCOURSE
OF
SATIRES

_Arraigning Persons by Name_.
By Monsieur BOILEAU.

When first I publish'd my Satires, I was thoroughly prepar'd for that
Noise and Tumult which the Impression of my Book has rais'd upon
_Parnassus_. I knew that t