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sket verse inscribed to the right hon. c. j. fox. how wisdom and folly meet, mix, and unite, how virtue and vice blend their blad their white, how genius, th' illustrious father of fi, founds rule and law, reciles tradi, i sing: if these mortals, the critics, should bustle, i care not, not i—let the critics go whistle! but now for a patron whose name and whose glory, at once may illustrate and honour my story. thou first of our orators, first of our wits; yet whose parts and acquirements seem just lucky hits; with knowledge so vast, and with judgment s, no man with the half of 'em e'er could g; with passions so potent, and fancies sht, no man with the half of 'em e'er could ght; a sorry, poor, misbegot son of the muses, for using thy name, offers fifty excuses. good lord, what is man! for as simple he looks, do but try to develop his hooks and his crooks; with his depths and his shallows, his good and his evil, all in all he's a problem must puzzle the devil. on his one ruling passion sir pope hugely labours, that, like th' old hebrew walking-switch, eats up its neighbours: mankind are his show-box—a friend, would you know him? pull the string, ruling passion the picture will show him, ity, in rearing so beauteo
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