In foul and body, and instill All future good and future ill; In friendships, enmities, and ftrife, 945 950 No fooner does he peep into The world, but he has done his do, That cures or kills a man that is fick; 955 Is cuckolded, and breaks, or thrives. There's but the twinkling of a star Between a man of peace and war; 960 A crafty lawyer and pickpocket, A great philosopher and a blockhead; age, diseases, and ill luck, Wit, folly, honour, virtue, vice, Trade, travel, women, claps, and dice ; Battle, and murder, fudden death. Are not these fine commodities To be imported from the skies, 965 970 975 Quoth Sidrophel, to let you know 980 985 Which fome account our worst erection. With cyphers, astral characters, Then looks 'em o'er to understand 'em, Altho' fet down habnab at random. Quoth he, this scheme of th' heavens set, Discovers how in fight you met, At Kingston, with a may-pole idol, 990 And that y'were bang'd both back and side well; |