Why I thank God for that is no great matter,

I have my reasons, you no doubt suppose,

And as, perhaps, they would not highly flatter,

I'll keep them for my life (to come) in prose;

I fear I have a little turn for Satire,

And yet methinks the older that one grows

Inclines us more to laugh than scold, though Laughter

Leaves us so doubly serious shortly after.