<p>What though an Apish-Pigmie, in attire,<lb/> His Dwarfish Body Gyant-like, array?<lb/> Turne Brave, and get him Stilts to seem the higher?<lb/> What would so doing, handsome him I pray?<lb/> Now, surely, such a Mimicke sight as that,<lb/> Would with excessive Laughter move your Spleene,<lb/> Till you had made the little Dandiprat,<lb/> To lye within some Auger-hole, unseene.<lb/> I must confesse I cannot chuse but smile,<lb/> When I perceive, how Men that worthlesse are,<lb/> Piece out their Imperfections, to beguile,<lb/> By making showes, of what they never were.<lb/> For, in their borrow'd Shapes, I know those Men,<lb/> And (through their Maskes) such insight of them have;<lb/> That I can oftentimes disclose (ev'n then)<lb/> How much they favour of the Foole or Knave.<lb/> A Pigmey-spirit, and an Earthly-Minde,<lb/> Whose looke is onely fixt on Objects vaine;<lb/> In my esteeme, so meane a place doth finde,<lb/> That ev'ry such a one, I much refraine.<lb/> But, when in honour'd Robes I see it put,<lb/> Betrimm'd, as if some thing of Worth it were,<lb/> Looke big, and on the Stilts of Greatnesse, strut;<lb/> From scorning it, I cannot then forbeare.<lb/> For, when to grosse Vnworthinesse, Men adde<lb/> Those Dues, which to the Truest-worth pertaine;<lb/> Tis like an Ape, in Humane-Vestments clad,<lb/> Which, when most fine, deserveth most disdaine:<lb/> And, more absurd, those Men appeare to me,<lb/> Then this Fantasticke-Monkey seemes to thee.<lb/> </p>

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A dwarf ('pygmie') on stilts is looking at his own reflection in a mirror

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25F3(+5262)

25F38(OSTRICH)(+352)

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25I3

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<p>Though he endeavour all he can,<lb/> An Ape, will never be a Man.</p>

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