Of this couplet the second line is not what is intended, an illustration
of the former. _Pride_ in the _Great_, is indeed well enough connected
with knaves in state, though _knaves_ is a word rather too ludicrous and
light; but the mention of _sanctified_ pride will not lead the thoughts
to _fops in learning_, but rather to some species of tyranny or
oppression, something more gloomy and more formidable than foppery.