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 If, where the Rules not far enough extend, (Since Rules were made but to promote their End) Some Lucky answers to the full Th' Intent propos'd, that Licence is a Rule. Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, May boldly deviate from the common Track. Great Wits sometimes may gloriously offend, And rise to Faults true Criticks dare not mend; From vulgar Bounds with brave Disorder part, And snatch a Grace beyond the Reach of Art, Which, without passing thro' the Judgment, gains The Heart, and all its End at once attains. In Prospects, thus, some Objects please our Eyes, Which out of Nature's common Order rise, The shapeless Rock, or hanging Precipice. But Care in Poetry must still be had, It asks Discretion ev'n in running Mad; Still