Is spurring time, and then he'll spare the most;
While some, demurring, wait, and find at last
The bidding languish, and the market pass'd;
These will affect all bribery to condemn,
And, be it Satan laughs, he laughs at them.
Some too are pious—one desired the Lord
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To teach him where "to drop his little word;
To lend his vote, where it will profit best;
Promotion came not from the east or west;