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Such Secrets are not easily found out,
But once Discover'd, leave no Room for Doubt.
Truth Stamps Conviction in your Ravisht Breast,
And Peace and Joy attend the glorious Guest.
Yet if one shaddow of a Scruple stay,
Sure the most beaten is the safest way.
Fear is the base Companion of a Slave,
But Prudence the Perfection of the Brave.
Truth still is One; Truth is Divinely bright,
No cloudy Doubts obscure her Native Light.
While in your Thoughts you find the least Debate
You may Confound, but never can Translate.
Your Stile will this through all Disguises show,
For None, explain, more clearly then they Know.
He only proves he Understands a Text,
Whose Exposition leaves it unperplex'd.
They who too formally on Names insist,
Rather Create then Dissipate the Mist.
But once Discover'd, leave no Room for Doubt.
Truth Stamps Conviction in your Ravisht Breast,
And Peace and Joy attend the glorious Guest.
Yet if one shaddow of a Scruple stay,
Sure the most beaten is the safest way.
Fear is the base Companion of a Slave,
But Prudence the Perfection of the Brave.
Truth still is One; Truth is Divinely bright,
No cloudy Doubts obscure her Native Light.
While in your Thoughts you find the least Debate
You may Confound, but never can Translate.
Your Stile will this through all Disguises show,
For None, explain, more clearly then they Know.
He only proves he Understands a Text,
Whose Exposition leaves it unperplex'd.
They who too formally on Names insist,
Rather Create then Dissipate the Mist.
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