A Logician is "one, that has been broke / To Ride and Pace his Reason by the Booke,  And by their Rules, and Precepts, and Examples, / To put his wits into a kind of Trammells."
[Untitled poem from Miscellaneous Thoughts]
Text from <u>Satires and Miscellaneous Poetry and Prose</u>, ed. René Lamar (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1928).<br>
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See "Miscellaneous Thoughts" in vol. I of <u>The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler</u> (London: J. and R. Tonson, 1759): 266. &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T139233">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3311003193&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Lamar titles the poem "Virtuoso" and refers it to the "Poetical Thesaurus;" the title-term is found in Thyer's <u>Genuine Remains</u> and adopted by Lamar. The verses cited are an untitled poem from "Miscellaneous Thoughts" in Tonson's edition and elsewhere, though the "Virtuoso" version may derive from manuscript sources--sadly--unspecified in Lamar. (See <u>Satires and Miscellaneous Poetry and Prose by Samuel Butler</u>, René Lamar: Review by J. H. Lobban, <u>The Modern Language Review</u>, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Jul., 1929), pp. 352-355.)<br>
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Bibliographical description contributed by James Ascher. 