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AN

EPISTLE

To the Right Honourable

ALLEN Lord BATHURST.

WHO shall decide, when Doctors disagree,
And soundest Casuists doubt, like you and me?
You hold the word from Jove to Momus giv'n,
That Man was made the standing Jest of Heav'n,
And Gold but sent to keep the Fools in play,
For half to heap, and half to throw away.

But