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Can they in Gems bid pallid Hippia glow?
In Fulvia's Buckle ease the Throbs below?
Or heal, old Narses, thy obscener ail,
With all th' Embroid'ry plaister'd at thy Tail?
They might, (were Harpax not too wise to spend)
Give Harpax self the Blessing of a Friend;
Or find some Doctor, that wou'd save the Life
Of wretched Shylock, spite of Shylock's Wife.
But thousands die, without or this, or that,
Die, and endow a College, or a [1]Cat:
To some indeed Heav'n grants the happier Fate
T'enrich a Bastard, or a Son they hate.
In Fulvia's Buckle ease the Throbs below?
Or heal, old Narses, thy obscener ail,
With all th' Embroid'ry plaister'd at thy Tail?
They might, (were Harpax not too wise to spend)
Give Harpax self the Blessing of a Friend;
Or find some Doctor, that wou'd save the Life
Of wretched Shylock, spite of Shylock's Wife.
But thousands die, without or this, or that,
Die, and endow a College, or a [1]Cat:
To some indeed Heav'n grants the happier Fate
T'enrich a Bastard, or a Son they hate.
Perhaps you think the Poor might have their part?
B*nd damns the Poor, and hates them from his heart:
The grave Sir G * * t holds it for a Rule,
That every Man in want is Knave or Fool:
"God cannot love, (says Bl * t, with lifted eyes)
"The Wretch he starves"—and piously denies:
But Rev'rend S * * n with a softer Air,
Admits, and leaves them, Providence's Care.
B*nd damns the Poor, and hates them from his heart:
The grave Sir G * * t holds it for a Rule,
That every Man in want is Knave or Fool:
"God cannot love, (says Bl * t, with lifted eyes)
"The Wretch he starves"—and piously denies:
But Rev'rend S * * n with a softer Air,
Admits, and leaves them, Providence's Care.
- ↑ A famous Dutchess in her last Will left considerable Annuities and Legacies to her Cats.
having forg'd Conveyance of an Estate to himself, upon which he took up several Thousand Pounds. He was at the same time sued in Chancery on suggestion of having fraudulently obtain’d a Will, by which he possest another very considerable Estate, in wrong of the Brother of the Deceas‘d.
Yet,
