The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule
Rather than the Perfections of a Fool

I write the Rascal Thanks till he & I
With Thanks & Compliments are quite drawn dry

If I eer Grow to Mans Estate
O Give to me a Womans fate
May I govern all both great & small
Have the last word & take the wall

Rafael Sublime Majestic Graceful Wise
His Executive Power must I despise
Rubens Low Vulgar Stupid Ignorant
His power of Execution I must grant
Learn the Laborious stumble of a Fool
And from an Idiots Actions form my rule
Go send your Children to the Slobbering School

Some Men created for destruction come
Into the World & make the World their home
[Friend Caiaphas is one do what he can]
Be they as Vile & Base as Eer they can
[Hell] Theyll still be called " The Worlds" honest man

S[tothard] in Childhood on the Nursery floor
Was extreme Old & most extremely poor
He is grown old & rich & what he will
He is extreme old & extreme poor still

Can there be any thing more mean
More Malice in disguise
Than Praise a Man for doing [that] what
[Which he] That Man does most despise
[This] Reynolds Lectures [plainly shew] Exactly so
When he praises Michael Angelo

[Look Flaxman & Stothard do] old acquaintance well renew
Prospero had One Caliban & I have Two

Like the fish of the bright and twittering fin,
Bright fish! diving deep as high soars the lark,
So, far, far, far, doth the maiden swim,
Wild song, wild light, in still ocean's dark.

Torquato Tasso rests within this tomb;
This figure weeping from her inmost heart
Is Poesy; from such impassioned grief
Let everyone conclude what this Man was.