If not of smoke at least of flaming lies, And florid vaunts of quacks who advertise.

" cost of half the engravings would exceed that of the whole work: all we hope is, that the public patronage may be as lasting as the metal; then it will be no idle vaunt to call this the march, or even race, of genius.

"If you had required with civility what you have proudly commanded me, I should not have esteemed your valour lessened by your courtesy: For with men of wisdom and power there is no need for insolent vaunts.

But, what so ere my fate in loving bee, Yet thou maist vaunt that Phoebus loved thee.

Thou mayest see that I utter no vain vaunt, by this jewel, which I offer to the nobles with the reverence due to their greatness and wisdom.

Cooped, cramped, half hid, the glorious work of WREN Lent grandeur once to huckstering haunts of men, Though on its splendour Shopdom's rule impinged, And plaster, had they power, kind heaven's clear vault With vulgar vaunts of Sausages or Salt.

That fame of yours, say, what avails it ye? That lofty honour, those great deeds ye vaunt, Say, what's their value with the lovely she Shew merecall to memory (for I can't)