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NHG-P.767.022
20 Mar 1767:21, 22 (546)
TO D---- F----, E AT B-----L.
How strange it is! so many should aspire
After the title and the name of Sq==re!
How many seek that place of high renown!
Of being called the J-st-ce of the town;
How far beyond their native worth some gain,
This post of honor with opinion vain;
Yet after this preferment they have won,
They're still the objects of a wiseman's fun;
But this mad chace of fame by such pursu'd,
Draws down destruction on the multitude.
Juv. Satx.
. . . [82 lines on holding public office]
Things are too serious to be ridicul'd, and that government
where in such misfortunes happens, may be truly thought to
require better regulations.
J----n J-----h. Portsmouth, March 18, 1767.
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