You think this cruel? take it for a rule,
No creature smarts so little as a fool.
Let peals of laughter, Codrus! round thee break,
Thou unconcerned canst hear the mighty crack.
Pit, box, and gall'ry in convulsions hurled,
Thou stand'st unshook amidst a bursting world.

'An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot' (1735) l. 83