Note 1249 — AN ESSAY ON MAN, IN FOUR EPISTLES (continued 3)
Reading edition
The lines, ver. 275-282, first appeared in the edition of 1743. They were evidently suggested by a passage in Garth's Dispensary, Canto v.:
Children at toys as men at titles aim, And in effect both covet but the same, This Philip's son proved in revolving years, And first for rattles, then for worlds shed tears.