Yet had the ancient world her courts and schools;
Great Kings and Courtiers civil and refin'd;
Great Rabbins, deeply read in Wisdom's rules,
And all the arts that cultivate the mind,
Embellish life, and polish human kind.
Such, Asia, birth-place of proud monarchy,
Such, elder Aegypt, in thy kingdoms shin'd,
Mysterious Aegypt, the rank nursery
Of superstitions fond, and learned vanity.