' I ~7 -1The 1-Iijlory of SA /~fPS 0 N. By hitn we live and move, from him we have what hleffings h~ can give, or we can crave : Food for our hunger, Dainties for our pleafure; Trades,_ for our bufinef. ; Paftimes, for our leifure ; In grief, he is our ]oy; in want, our wealth; Inbondage, Freedome; and in ficknefs; Health; In pea~e, our Counfel ; and in war, our Leader; At Sea, our Pilot; and in Suits, our Pleader; In pain, our Help; in triumph, our R~nown; In life, our Comfort; and in death, our Crown; Yet man, 0 mo{t ungrateful Man, can ever Enjoy·the gift, but never mind the Giver; And like the Swine, though pamper'd with enough, His eyes are never higher, than the Trough : We fiil receive; our ,hearts we feldom lift To hea-ven ; but drown the Giver in rhe Gift; We tafie the Scollops, and return the Shells : Our fweet Pdmegranates want their filver Belli: We take the Gift : the hand that did prefent i ~ \Ve oft reward; forget the Friend that fent ic . A blefllng gven to rhofe, will not disburfe Some,thanks, \s little better than a cqrfe. Grear Gi ver of all blenlngs; thou that art The Lord of Gifts; give me agrateful-heart: 0 give me that, or keep thy favours from me t I wifh no bkilings, with a Vengean ce to me . THE ARGUMENT. A{frigbted Manoah and bi:r wife both proftrate on the nak!d earth: B1rbrije: 1Jhe man defpairs of Life; The- wom.ut, che.1rs him: Sarnpfons birtb. . ' $e8. \.
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