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Then we’d regale oar Ears ivith founding Notes,
Which warble tuneful thro’ the beardlefs Throats ;
Join’d with the vib’rating harmonious Strings,
And breathing Tubes, while the foft Eunoch tings.
Of all thofe Dainties take a hearty Meal;
Eut let your Refolution flill prevail ,•
Return before your Pleafure grow a Toil,
To longing Friends, and your own native Soil :
Preferve your Health, your Virtue hill improve,
Hence you’ll invite Protection from above.
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To Sir William Rennet of Grubber,
fiar.
WHile now in Difcord giddy Changes reel,
And fome are rack’d about on Fortune’s Wheel,
[You with undaunted Stalk, and Brow ferene,
day trace your Groves, and prefs the dewy Green ;
4 No guilty Twangs your manly Joys to wound,
Dr horrid Dreams to make your Sleep unfound.
To fach as you, who can what’s bafe defpife,
1. Nature’s all beautiful ’twixt Earth and Skies.
V 'lot hurried with the Third of unjuft Gain,
fou can deiight your felf on Hill or Plain,
Obferving