154 An fie Bradji reefs Worhs.
This is my beft, but Youth is known, Alas!
To be as wild as is the Ihuffing Afs :
As vain as froth, or vanity can be,
That who would fee vain man, may look on me.
My gifts abusd, my education loft,
My wofuU Parents longing hopes are "^ croft,
My wit evaporates in merriment,
My valour in fome beaftly quarrell's fpent:"
My luft doth hurry me to all that's ill:
I know no law nor reafon but my will.
Sometimes lay wait to take a wealthy purfe,
Or ftab the man in's own defence (that's worfe)
Sometimes I cheat (unkind) a female heir
Of all at once, who not fo wife as fair
Trufteth my loving looks and glozing tongue,
Untill her friends, treafure and honour's gone.
Sometimes I lit carouling others health, [50]
Untill mine own be gone, my wit and wealth.
From pipe to pot, from pot to words and blows,
For he that loveth wine, wanteth no woes.
Whole * nights with Ruftins, Roarers Fidlers fpend,
To all obfcenity mine ears I lend:"
All Counfell hate, which tends to make me wife,
And deareft friends count for mine enemies.
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Martial deeds I love not, 'cauTe they're vertuous, But doing fo. might feem magnanimous.
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