THE LOGICIANS REFUTED. IN IMITATION OF DEAN SWIFT*. LOGICIAN OGICIANS have but ill defin'd As rational the human mind: Reason, they fay, belongs to man, But let thein prove it if they can. Have ftrove to prove with great precision, With definition and divifion, Homo eft natione preditum ; But for my foul I cannot credit 'em; That *This Imitation having originally been adopted by Mr. Faulkner as a genuine Poem by Swift, it has been reprinted in every fubfequent edition of the Dean's Poems; and was not difcovered till it was too late to take it out of the prefent edition. That inftinct is a furer guide, Who ever knew an honest brute, They eat their meals, and take their sport, To treat as dearest friend, a foe: Nor draw the quill to write for Bob. And But both in malice and grimaces, At court, the porters, lacquies, waiters, FINIS. |