Attends; all flesh is nothing in his sight!
     Beeves, at his touch, at once to jelly turn, 
     And the huge Boar is shrunk into an Urn: 
     The board with specious miracles he loads, 
     Turns Hares to Larks, and Pigeons into Toads. 
     Another (for in all what one can shine?) 
     Explains the Seve  and Verdeur  of the Vine. 
     What cannot copious Sacrifice attone?

     Pope deliberately makes the miracles of applied knowledge 
a parody of the Eucharist. It is the same transforming and 
reducing power of applied knowledge which has confounded 
and confused all the arts and sciences, for, says Pope, the new 
translatio studii  or transmission of studies and disciplines by 
the printed book has not been so much a transmission as a 
complete transformation of the disciplines and of the human