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Are now still charg'd upon your score,
And leffer authors nam'd no more.

Alas! that faculty destroys

Those fooneft it defigns to raise;
And all your vain renown will spoil,
As guns o'ercharg'd the more recoil;
Though he that has but impudence,
To all things has a fair pretence;
And put among his wants but shame,
To all the world may lay his claim:
Tho' you have try'd that nothing 's borne
With greater ease than public fcorn,

That all affronts do still give place

To your impenetrable face ;

That makes your way thro' all affairs,
As pigs thro' hedges creep with theirs :
Yet as 'tis counterfeit and brafs,

You must not think 'twill always pafs;

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For all impoftors, when they're known,
Are past their labour, and undone :
And all the best that can befall
An artificial natural,

Is that which madmen find, as foon

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As once they're broke loose from the moon, And proof against her influence,

Relapse to e'er fo little sense,

To turn stark fools, and fubjects fit

For fport of boys, and rabble-wit.

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PART III.

FIRST CANTO.

The Argument.

The Knight and Squire refolve at once,
The one the other to renounce;

They both approach the Lady's bower,

The Squire t'inform, the Knight to woo her. She treats them with a masquerade,

By furies and hobgoblins made;

From which the Squire conveys the Knight,

And fteals him from himself by night.

Part 3. Canto 1. Line 163.

1. Rofs sculp

HUDI BRAS.

CANTO I.

'Tis true, no lover has that pow'r
T' enforce a defperate amour,
As he that has two ftrings to 's bow,
And burns for love and money too :
For when he's brave and refolute,
Difdains to render in his fuit;

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