By love or law compell'd their vows to seal,
Ere I again, or one like me, explore
970
These simple annals of the Village Poor.
FOOTNOTES:
[24] Young's The Complaint, or Night Thoughts, Night I.
[25] See p. 170.
THE BIRTH OF FLATTERY.
The Subject—Poverty and Cunning described—When united, a jarring Couple—Mutual Reproof—The Wife consoled by a Dream—Birth of a Daughter—Description and Prediction of Envy—How to be rendered ineffectual, explained in a Vision—Simulation foretells the future Success and Triumphs of Flattery—Her Power over various Characters and different Minds; over certain Classes of Men; over Envy himself—Her successful Art of softening the Evils of Life; of changing Characters; of meliorating Prospects, and affixing Value to Possessions, Pictures, &c.—Conclusion.
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