Book ii

. Sat. 6._

So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns.[289-3]

_Poetry, a Rhapsody._

Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

_Poetry, a Rhapsody._

Hobbes clearly proves that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature.

_Poetry, a Rhapsody._

So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite 'em; And so proceed _ad infinitum_.[290-1]

_Poetry, a Rhapsody._

Libertas et natale solum: Fine words! I wonder where you stole 'em.

_Verses occasioned by Whitshed's Motto on his Coach._

A college joke to cure the dumps.

_Cassinus and Peter._

'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

_Cadenus and Vanessa._

Hail fellow, well met.[290-2]

_My Lady's Lamentation._

Big-endians and small-endians.[290-3]

_Gulliver's Travels.