SATYR.
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155 Although from Truth and Sense as far,
As all their other Maggots are:
For Things said false, and never meant,
Do oft prove true by accident.
That Wealth, that bounteous Fortune sends
160 As presents to her dearest Friends,
Is oft laid out upon a Purchase
Of two Yards long in Parish Churches;
And those too happy Men that bought it,
Had liv'd, and happier too, without it.
165 For what does vast Wealth bring, but Cheat,
Law, Luxury, Disease, and Debt,
Pain, Pleasure, Discontent, and Sport
An easy-troubled Life, and short?[1]
As all their other Maggots are:
For Things said false, and never meant,
Do oft prove true by accident.
That Wealth, that bounteous Fortune sends
160 As presents to her dearest Friends,
Is oft laid out upon a Purchase
Of two Yards long in Parish Churches;
And those too happy Men that bought it,
Had liv'd, and happier too, without it.
165 For what does vast Wealth bring, but Cheat,
Law, Luxury, Disease, and Debt,
Pain, Pleasure, Discontent, and Sport
An easy-troubled Life, and short?[1]
- ↑ 168. An easy troubled life, and short.] Though this Satyr seems fairly transcribed for the Press; yet on a Vacancy in the Sheet opposite to this Line, I find the following Verses, which probably were intended to be added, but as they are not regularly inserted, I chuse rather to give them by way of Note.For Men n'er digg'd so deep into
The Bowels of the Earth below,
For Mettals that are found to dwell
Near Neighbour to the Pit of Hell,
And have a magic Pow'r to sway
The greedy Souls of Men that Way;
But with their Bodies have been fain
To fill those Trenches up again;
When bloody Battles have been fought
For sharing that, which they took out.
For Wealth is all Things, that conduce
To Man's Destruction, or his Use;
A Standard both to buy and sell
All Things from Heaven down to Hell.
