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OF

HIS OWN CHARACTER.

[This was written in 1761, and was found in one of his Po Books.]

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to

portune;

He had not the method of making a fortune Could love, and could hate, so was thought s

what odd;

NO VERY GREAT WIT, HE BELIEV'D IN A C
A Post or a Pension he did not desire,
But left Church and State to Charles Towns
and Squire.

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od of making a fortune: I hate, so was thought some

TT, HE BELIEV'D IN A GOD. me did not desire, tate to Charles Townshend

LYRIC STANZ

THYRSIS, when he left me,

In the Spring he would retur Ah! what means the op'ning f And the bud that decks the t 'Twas the nightingale that sung 'Twas the lark that upward spr

Spare the honour of my love.

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for the eccentricities of his character, as for h A Mr. Tyson, of Bene't College, made an et presented it to Mr. Gray, who wrote under it

THUS Tophet look'd; so grin

fiend,

Whilst frighted prelates bow'd,
friend.

Our mother-church, with half-av
Blush'd as she bless'd her grimly
Hosannas rung thro' Hell's treme
And Satan's self had thoughts of

SEAT AND RUINS OF A DECEASED NOBLEM

AT KINGSGATE, KENT.

OLD, and abandon'd by each venal friend

Here Hd took the pious resolution To smuggle a few years, and strive to mend A broken character and constitution.

On this congenial spot he fix'd his choice; Earl Goodwin trembled for his neighb'ring Here sea-gulls scream, and cormorants rejoic And mariners, though shipwreck'd, fear to

Here reigns the blust'ring North and blighting No tree is heard to whisper, bird to sing; Yet Nature could not furnish out the feast, Art he invokes new terrors still to bring.

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