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Let thole who feek to injure the oppreft, be rather

confufed by fhame, than punimed by revenge.

Laurel water to' the fecret enemies of our glorious

conftitution. Love without licentioufnefs, and pleafure without

excefs.

Liberality to the rich, and riches to the liberal. ,

Love to one, friendfhip to a few, and good-will to all. London for trade, Oxford for wit, and the whole

kingdom for pretty women. Lenity to the faults of others, and Impartiality to our

own.

May might overcome right.

May the miferies of war, never moie exift among en lightened nations. May Britons feel an intereft in all great events that do

honour to human nature. May the civil pou er interpofe between the confcience

of man and his maker.

May private friendfhip never be difunited by diffe rences in religious or political opiiiions. May all civil diftinclions among men, be founded upon public utility May neither precedent nor antiquity be a faction to

errors pernicious to mankind. May bigotry, fuperihtioo, and all manner of religious

tyranny loon come to an end. May the mifer live unfriended, and die lamented. May we never feel miferies before they come. The fate of Ixion to the feducer of female chaflity to

embrace a cloud.

The virtues ot Ariftides to all public minifters. The virtues of Leonidas to our admirals and generals. May a joke never be foreftalled by a laugh. May a monarch only found his greatnefs on his fub- je&s' love.

May

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