Date: 1741

"Ere Vice the spotless Paper foul, / Imprint the Volume of the Soul / With Vertue's noble Mark!"

— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)

Date: 1741

"Vertue's noble mark ... extending by degrees, / Shall grow like Letters carv'd on Trees / That widen with the Bark."

— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)

Date: 1741

"What tho' you damn one Offspring of his Brain? / Prolific Dullness quickly spawns again: / This Monster crush'd, another strait appears, / Head after Head the sprouting Hydra rears"

— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)

Date: 1741

"Nor useless Hints to Him impart, / Who knows so well to cast the Heart / In Virtue's genuine Mould."

— Duck, Stephen (1705-1756)