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VI. 3.
Who challenge to themselves thy Country's Love:
The true; the constant: who alone can weigh,
What Glory should demand, or Liberty approve!
But let their Works declare them. Thy free Powers,
The generous Powers of thy prevailing Mind,
Not for the Talks of their confederate Hours,
Lewd Brawls and lurking Slander, were design'd.
Be thou thy own Approver. Honest Praise
Oft nobly sways
Ingenuous Youth:
But from the Coward, and the lying Mouth,
Praise is Reproach. Eternal God alone
For Mortals fixes that sublime Award.
He,
