By Swift, by Machiavel, by Rochefoucault,

By Fénélon, by Luther, and by Plato;[HH]By Tillotson, and Wesley, and Rousseau,

Who knew this life was not worth a potato.

'T is not their fault, nor mine, if this be so,—

For my part, I pretend not to be Cato,

Nor even Diogenes.—We live and die,

But which is best, you know no more than I.