Note 1330 — AN ESSAY ON MAN, IN FOUR EPISTLES (continued 3)
Reading edition
So Hall, Satires, Book iii. Sat. 1:
Then crept in pride, and peevish covetise, And man grew greedy, discordous, and nice. Now man that erst hail-fellow was with beast, Woxe on to ween himself a god at least.—Wakefield.