Condemned to live in thy apostate rhymes,

The curse of ours, and scoff of future times.

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Still tacking round with every turn of state, }

Reverse to Shaftesbury, thy cursed fate }

Is always, at a change, to come too late. }

To keep his plots from coxcombs, was his care;

His villainy was masked, and thine is bare.

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Wise men alone could guess at his design, }