Getting is a Chance; but keeping is a Virtue.
Devil-Tavern, 1721.
Whene’er a Man has gain’d his Ends,
He is encompass’d by his Friends;
But when that Man has lost his All,
And wants his Friends, he’as none at all.
In gay Prosperity we see,
That ev’ry one will bend the Knee,
And treat you with their Flattery;
But in a contrary State,