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Convuls'd with feeling, or with giving pain) Indulge the Mufe in innocence and eale, And tread the flowery path of life in peace ? Avoid all authors. What! th' illuftrious few, Who fhunning Fame have taught her to purfue Fai I '4 ] Fair Virtue's heralds ? yes, I fay again, Avoid all authors, 'till you've read the men. Full many a peeviih, envious, flandering elf, Is, in his works, , Benevolence itfelf. For all mankind unknown, his bofbm heaves, He only injures thofe with whom he lives. Read the...n the Man : Does truth his aftions guide, Exempt from petulance, exempt from pride ? To fbcial duties does his heart attend, As Son, as Father, Hufband, Brother, Friend ? Do thofe who know him love him? if they do, You've my permiffion, yo*\ may love him too. But chief avoid the boift'rous roaring fparks, The fbns of fire ! you'll know them by their marks. Fond to be heard they always court a croud, And, tho' 'tis borrow'd nonfenfe, talk it loud. One epithet fupplies their conftant chime, ^^ i But [ '5 3 But moft in quick fhort repartee they flhine Of local humour ; or from plays purloin Each quaint ftale (crap which every fubjel hits, 'Till fools almoft imagine, they are wits.
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