Is that poor stupid Mortal—a good-natur’d Man.
“But of all the vile Things which torment or molest us
Wit a thousand times worse than the worst of the rest is:
The Poison [that’s] banish’d from every Table, }
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To the Bookworms in Schools, and the Grooms of the Stable. }
A Man who has Wit is more proud than the Devil;
Is never so welcome, is never so civil;
With Absolute Tenets as stern as the Church’s,
He lashes the failings his wealth can not purchase;