J Q :S M I LIT A ~To ~P9 ~1po.n the facr~d Altar ( one by one J ,. 'An early Sacrtfke for ev:ry Son : 'For who can tell? ( Ca.~d he~ my ~.,s ( percl1ance) 'I-Iave!lipt fame fin, wh•cl.l ne1ther 1g~orance 'Pleaded, nor want of heed, nor youth can cure ; ~ - $in fteals unfeen, when men fleep moll; fecure. ,· . , · ·:. ' l r ·,.' ~: ... VV .· Ant is the badg of poverty: then he i That wameth moft, is tne mooft poor,fay we,; The wretch that hunger drives from door to door, _' Aiming at prefent Alms~ ddires no more. ' . The toyling Swain, ·chat Iuth with ·pl~afing trouble Codkt a fmaH 'fortune, would'thac fortune ~uble,.. ' Which tiearly bod'ght with fiav'ry, then1 ( alas) 1 He would be.dcem1 daman, ·that's well to pafs: Which ·gor, his,mind's 'now tickled with -an itch, ~ B1.1t to deferve that glorious ftik'of rich; · 'That done, h' enjoys the crown of all his labour, ' C(luld he but once ~~nofe his right-hand neighbour: Lives he at C]uiet now ? Now he ·begins · : .'fo w~~J-1 tJlat lts:'ry weret11c Jea{} of fins; 'But great; or fh1all h~ tries, ~nd fweet's the trouble2 And for i.i's fake he wi!heth all things double; · : Thus wifhing ftill, his wifhes t.1cver ceafe, But as his wealth~ his wifhes ·frill encrcafe~ WUJ:es.~rocd:d from w:an't .: the ri~hdt- rhe~, Moft vVlfiung, \vant moft, and are poordl: men ; ,If he be poor,- that wameth much, how poor Is he that hadl teo much, and yet wann more ? Thrice happy hrt; to whom the bounty of heaven, ~u~cie~r,. with a fparing hand, hath giveB : · ~ . . ;· T1s Grace, not qold, makes great~ fever but wlu~I1~ ·) ., t11~e rich iu~p is but roor, the poor manr~ch. ' • ' ~ :0 t ;. • , • 1 I The
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