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(5) I bought and borrow'd every-where

and studied night and day,

Nor miss'd what Dean or Doctor wrote,

that happen’d in my way.

Philosophy I now esteem'd

the ornament of youth,

And carefully thro’ many a page

I hunted after truth:

A thousand various schemes I try’d,

and yet was pleas’d with none:

I threw them by, and tun’d my pipe

to John o’ Badenyon.

And now you youngsters, ev'ry one,

that wish to make a show.

Take heed in time, nor fondly hope

for happiness below:

What you may fancy pleasure here,

is but an empty name:

And girls, and friends, and books also,

you’ll find them all the same.

Then be advis'd, and warning take

from such a man as me,

I’m neither Pope, nor Cardinal,

nor one of high degree: