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SCG-C.745.032
30 Dec 1745:11 (613)
[In essay entitled "The Use and Abuse of Riches."]
Wise Peter sees the world's respect for gold,
And therefore hopes, this nation may be sold:
Glorious ambition! Peter, swell thy store,
And be what Rome's great Didius was before.
. . . [6 more lines, signed] Mr. Pope to Lord Bathurst.
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The grave Sir Gilbert holds it for a rule,
That every many ins want is knave or fool,
'God cannot love (save Biuus with lifted eyes)
The wretch he starves.' --and piously denies.
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I give and I devise (old Euelto said,
And sigh'd) my lands and tenements to Ned.
Your money, sir? My money Sir! what all?
Why if I must (then wept) I give it Paul
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Who hung with woods you mountain's sultry brow?
From the dry rocks who bade the waters flow?
Whose causeway parts the vale with shady rows?
Whose seats the weary traveller repose;
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Who builds a church to God, and not to fame,
Will never mark the marble with his name.
Go search in there where to be born and die,
Of rich and poor makes all the history.
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