Genre:

Poetry

Subjects:

Mental Illness, Human Species, War

    Opens by noting that 'Learned writers' on mental disease claim that 'all mankind are mad', and insists that while 'most men are ruled by reason', the fact that so many men are persuaded to fight and die for their country and then be forgotten, suggests that 'But for madness, scarce a martyr / To his country would be found', and thus how fortunate it is that 'others are insane'.