text:  He writ to the _people_; and writ at first without patronage from the better sort and therefore without aims of pleasing them: without assistance or advice from them: learned as without the advantage of education or acquaintance among them; without that knowledge of the best of models the ancients to inspire him with an emulation of them: in a word without any views of reputation and of what poets are pleased to call immortality: some or all of which have encouraged the vanity or animated the ambition of other writers