Note 1500 — AN ESSAY ON MAN, IN FOUR EPISTLES (continued 3)
Reading edition
There are two other versions of this couplet in the MS.:
But to make wits of fools, and chiefs of cowards, What can? not all the pride of all the Howards.
And,
But make one wise, or loved, or happy man, Not all the pride of all the Howards can.