O! learn, what Nature’s genial laws decree—

What Otaheite[[179]] is, let Britain be!

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Of WHIST or CRIBBAGE mark th’ amusing game—

The partners changing, but the SPORT the same.

Else would the gamester’s anxious ardour cool,

Dull every deal, and stagnant every pool.

—Yet must one[[180]] Man, with one unceasing Wife,

Play the LONG RUBBER of connubial life.

Yes! human laws, and laws esteem’d divine,