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The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler (Volume 1); Published from the Original Manuscripts, Formerly in the Possession of W. Longueville, Esq. with Notes by R. Thyer

The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler (Volume 1); Published from the Original Manuscripts, Formerly in the Possession of W. Longueville, Esq. with Notes by R. Thyer


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SATYR. T T J H AT Fool would trouble Fortune V V more. When fhe has been too kind before; Or tempt her to take back again, 3 What fhe had thrown away in vain j 5 By idly vent'ring her good Graces To be difpos'd of by Alms-Aces; Or fettling it in Truft to Ufes, Out of his Pow'r, on Trays and Deufet: To put it to the Chance, and try; o I'th' Ballot of a Box and Dye, Whether his Money be his own, And lofe it, if he be o'erthrown; As if he were betray'd, and fet By his own Stars to evex'y Cheat, 15 Or wretchedly condemn'd by Fate To throw Dice for his own Eftate:1 As Mutineers, by fatal Doom, Do for their Lives upon a Drum ? Vol. I. G For what lefs Influence can produce, 20 So great a Monfter as a Chowfe; Or any two-leg'd Tiling poffefs With fuch a brutifh Sottifhnefs ? Unlefs thofe tutelar Stars, Intrufted by Aftrologers 25 To have the Charge of Man, combin'd To ufe him in the felf-fame Kind; As thofe, that help'd them to the Truft, Are wont to deal with others juft. For to become fo fadly dull 30 And ftupid, as to fine for Gull, (Not, as in Cities, to b' excus'd, But to be judg'd fit to be us'd) That, whofo'ere can draw it in Is fure inevitably t'win; 35 And, with a curs'd half-witted Fate, To grow more dully defperate, The more 'tis made a common Prey, And cheated foppifhly at Play, Is their Condition, Fate betrays 40 To Folly firft, and then deftroys. 28. sfre ivont to dcal with others juft. In the preceding Lioas the Poet feems a little obfcure, but when attended to, we lhall find his Meaning, that nothing could produce fuch a bruesfi SaitiJLue;'t, except the Stars theinfclves had cambin'd by their Influence, to mak.e Men sa great Fools as their Mailors the Allrologcrs had done. For what, but Miracles, can ferve So great a...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781458916860
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 78
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1458916863
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 154 gr


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