...Wise man and a Fool. 200 You'l! find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella. Stuck o'er with titles and hung round with strings, 205 That thou...

...order to humour their fubject, they ftoop to a more familiar ftyle than ufual. When Mr. Pope fays ; Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ,, The reft is all but leather or prunello i he means, in compliance with his fubject, to condefcend a good deal below the ftatelinefs...

...obedience, and their ftate of good *, 49. A better wou'd you fix ? Then give Humility a coach and fix f. Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow} The reft is all but leather or prunella J. Not one looks backward, onward {till he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nofe §4...

...the poet are quoted in support of this proposition, summarised in Pope's well known lines, that 135 Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow: The reft is all but leather or prunello. Prunello is a kind of ftutf of which the gowns of clergymen are made. What is the value of...