Why should I relieve my neighbour

With my goods against my will?

Can’t he live by honest labour

Can’t he borrow, can’t he steal?


A Paraphrase.

[On the Rev. Dr. Watts’s Celebrated Distich, on the Study of Languages.]

Addressed to the young gentlemen of the English Grammar Schools, by one of their School-fellows.

“Let every foreign tongue alone

Till you can spell and read your own”