To these we add a miscellaneous kind,
By pleasure, pride, and indolence confined;
Those whom no calls, no warnings could divert,
The unexperienced and the inexpert;
The builder, idler, schemer, gamester, sot—
The follies different, but the same their lot;
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Victims of horses, lasses, drinking, dice,
Of every passion, humour, whim, and vice.
See that sad merchant, who but yesterday