Verses Intended for Lock and Montaigne

LOCK, wou'd the Human understanding show ;
In vain he squanders Thought & Time and Ink.
People themselves most certainly must know.
Better than He cou'd tell, how they can think ?
I fancy things may quickly be agreed.
If once for All we state our notions right ;
And I (thank gracious Heav'n) need never read
One line that Thou, Friend Lock, did'st ever write.
Sic argumentum pom: if my head
Had been exactly made, and fill'd like Thine,
I shou'd have known what ever thou had'st said,
Tho in Thy work I had not read a line.
And if again, pray mind, Thy head and Mine
Are form'd and stuff'd quite diff'rent from each other;
I n'er shal understand one single line,
Tho I shou'd read thy Folio ten times over.