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 Call the Betsies, Kates, and Jennies, All the names that banish care; Lavish of your grandsire's guineas, Show the spirit of an heir.

All that prey on vice and folly Joy to see their quarry fly: There the gamester, light and jolly, There the lender, grave and sly.

Wealth, my lad, was made to wander, Let it wander as it will; Call the jockey, call the pander, Bid them come and take their fill.

When the bonny blade carouses, Pockets full, and spirits high— What are acres? What are houses? Only dirt, or wet or dry.

Should the guardian friend or mother Tell the woes of wilful waste, Scorn their counsel, scorn their pother;— You can hang or drown at last!

451. On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet, a Practiser in Physic

Condemn'd to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts or slow decline Our social comforts drop away.