Like Cato, give his little senate laws,
And sit attentive to his own applause.
Source: A portrait of essayist Joseph Addison, in Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (1735).
-- Alexander Pope, (May 21 1688-1744), English poet; He is remembered as a major satirist of Augustan age; wrote The Rape of the Lock, 1714 and Moral Essays, 1731-35.