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An Age in which crimes of the deepest dye Are dramatised to please the public eye; Wherein low cunning, fraud, embezzlement And vice are blent with sickly sentiment; Whereby men seek to shine with borrowed rays, Mere plagiarists, alike in plots and plays: An Age, whose legislators are unjust Towards the victims of a loathsome lust;