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[4] Their manly courage I admir'd,

approv'd their noble zeal,

Who had with flaming tongue and pen,

maintain'd the public weal.

But e'er a month or two was paſs'd,

I found myſelf betray'd,

'Twas ſelf and party after all,

for all the ſtir they made.

For when I ſaw the factious knaves,

inſult the very throne,

I curs'd them all, and tun'd my pipe,

to John of Badenyon.

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What to do next I muz'd a while,

ſtill hoping to ſucceed,

I pitch'd on books for company,

and gravely try'd to read:

I bought and borrow'd ev'ry where,

and ſtudied night and day,

Ne'er miſt what dean or doctor wrote,

that happ'ned in my way.

Philoſophy I now eſteem'd,

the ornament of youth,

And carefully through 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 of Badenyon.