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DIALOGUE.
A Fav'rite's Porter with his Master vie,
Be brib'd as often, and as often lie?
Is it for W———rd or Peter (paltry Things!)
To pay their Debts or keep their Faith like Kings?
If [1]Blount destroy'd himself, he play'd the man,
And so may'st Thou, Illustrious Passeran!
But shall a Printer, weary of his life,
Learn from their Books to hang himself and Wife?
This, this, my friend, I cannot, will not bear;
Vice thus abus'd, demands a Nation's care; 120
This calls the Church to deprecate our Sin,
And hurls the Thunder of the Laws on Gin.
Be brib'd as often, and as often lie?
Is it for W———rd or Peter (paltry Things!)
To pay their Debts or keep their Faith like Kings?
If [1]Blount destroy'd himself, he play'd the man,
And so may'st Thou, Illustrious Passeran!
But shall a Printer, weary of his life,
Learn from their Books to hang himself and Wife?
This, this, my friend, I cannot, will not bear;
Vice thus abus'd, demands a Nation's care; 120
This calls the Church to deprecate our Sin,
And hurls the Thunder of the Laws on Gin.
Let humble Foster, if he will, excell
Ten Metropolitans in preaching well;
A simple Quaker, or a Quaker's Wife, 125
Out-do L—d—ffe, in Doctrine—yea, in Life;
Let low-born Allen, with an aukward Shame,
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it Fame.
Ten Metropolitans in preaching well;
A simple Quaker, or a Quaker's Wife, 125
Out-do L—d—ffe, in Doctrine—yea, in Life;
Let low-born Allen, with an aukward Shame,
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it Fame.
- ↑ Author of a Book intitled, The Oracles of Reason.
Virtue
