Find Out What's Acted There

Reason, by whose aspiring influence

We take a flight beyond material sense, 

Dive into Mysteries, then soaring pierce 

The flaming limits of the Universe; 

Search Heav'n and Hell, find out what's acted there, 

And give the World true grounds of hope and fear.

 

(John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, 

'A Satire against Reason and Mankind', lines 66-71).