The World is like to be well Govern’d, when _Pyes_ and _Daws_ shall take
upon them to set up for Philosophers, Doctors of the Chair, and Men of
State and Government. Things are Mightily out of Order in That Quarter,
especially when Vain Fools come to be admitted into Business upon the
Credit of their Own Word.
The Importunity of such a Fop, is Excellently set forth in the
Qualifications of this _Pye_; for he Enforces the Reason of his Pretence,
by the Clearest Arguments in the World against Himself. He would be a
_States-Man_, because he is a _Buffon_; as if there went no more to
the Making of a _Councellor_, then the Faculties of a _Merry-Andrew_,
or a _Tumbler_. Here’s the Confident Ambition of a Foolish Twattling
Pretender, on the One Hand, and a Just Reproof of him, in a most
Reasonable Refusal, on the Other; to Teach us, that the Want of Shame,
Brains, or Good Manners, does not presently Entitle Every little
_Skip-Jack_ to the Boards-End in the _Cabinet_. But Our _Eagle_ here
was not a Prince to Advance the _Ministers_ of his _Pleasures_, to be
_Ministers_ of _State_, and to make his _Sport_ his _Bus’ness_.