Note 1463 — AN ESSAY ON MAN, IN FOUR EPISTLES (continued 3)
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MS.:
Or shall some ruin, as it nods to fall, For Chartres' brains reserve the hanging wall? No,—in a scene far higher heav'n imparts Rewards for spotless hands, and honest hearts.
The last couplet is a direct acknowledgment of a future state, and was probably omitted to avoid contradicting the infidel tenets of Bolingbroke.