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Gold, imp'd with this, may compass hardest things,
May pocket States, or fetch or carry Kings;
A single Leaf may waft an Army o'er,
Or ship off Senates to some distant shore;
A Leaf like Sybil's, scatter to and fro
Our Fates and Fortunes, as the winds shall blow.
May pocket States, or fetch or carry Kings;
A single Leaf may waft an Army o'er,
Or ship off Senates to some distant shore;
A Leaf like Sybil's, scatter to and fro
Our Fates and Fortunes, as the winds shall blow.
Well then, since with the world we stand or fall,
Come take it as we find it, Gold and all.
Come take it as we find it, Gold and all.
What Riches give us, let us first enquire:
Meat, fire, and cloaths; what more? Meat, cloaths, and fire.
Is this too little? wou'd you more than live?
Alas 'tis more than Tu * * r finds they give.
Alas 'tis more than (all his Visions past.)
Unhappy Wh * * n waking found at last!
What can they give? to dying [1]H * p * s, Heirs?
To Chartres, Vigour? Japhet, Nose and Ears?[2]
Meat, fire, and cloaths; what more? Meat, cloaths, and fire.
Is this too little? wou'd you more than live?
Alas 'tis more than Tu * * r finds they give.
Alas 'tis more than (all his Visions past.)
Unhappy Wh * * n waking found at last!
What can they give? to dying [1]H * p * s, Heirs?
To Chartres, Vigour? Japhet, Nose and Ears?[2]
Can
- ↑ A Citizen whose Rapacity obtain'd him the Name of Vultur. He dy’d worth three hundred thousand Pounds, and left it to no Person living, but to the first Son that should be born of the first Daughter of his next Relation. Being told by his Lawyer, that it would probably be thirty Years before his Money could be inherited, and it must all that time lie at Interest, he answer’d, He liked it the better, and so died.
- ↑ Japhet, Nose and Ears.] Japhet Crook alias Sir Peter Stranger, was punish’d with the Loss of those Parts, for
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