XVI + 

Oh! where bestow our love? Whom trust? + 

Where is he who doth not deceive? + 

Who words and actions will adjust + 

To standards in which we believe? + 

Oh! who is not calumnious? + 

Who labours hard to humour us? + 

To whom are our misfortunes grief + 

And who is not a tiresome thief? + 

My venerated reader, oh! + 

Cease the pursuit of shadows vain, + 

Spare yourself unavailing pain + 

And all your love on self bestow; + 

A worthy object ’tis, and well + 

I know there’s none more amiable. + 