A Spirit free, to choose for my own share, What sort of Flesh and Blood I pleas’d to wear, I’d be a Dog, a Monkey or a Bear, Or any thing, but that vain Animal, Who is so proud of being rational.
ATTRIBUTION:
John Wilmot, 2d Earl Of Rochester (1647–1680), British poet. A Satire against Mankind (l. 3–7). . .
Oxford Book of Satirical Verse, The. Geoffrey Grigson, comp. (1980) Oxford University Press.
