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Rh  So the ſun ſcorches and revives by turns, Requiting with rich metals where he burns.
 * Taught by this great example to be juſt,

Succeeding kings ſhall well fulfil their truſt; Diſcord, and war, and tyranny, ſhall ceaſe, And jarring nations be compell’d to peace; Princes and ſtates, like ſubjects, ſhall agree To truſt her pow’r, ſafe in her piety.

! offspring of a gen’rous race, Renown’d for arms and arts in war and peace: My kinſman, and my friend! from whence this curſe Entail’d on man, ſtill to grow worſe and worſe?

Each age, induſtrious to invent new crimes, Strives to outdo in guilt preceding times; But now we ’re ſo improv’d in all that ’s bad, We ſhall leave nothing for our ſons to add.

That idol, gold, poſſeſſes ev’ry heart; To cheat, defraud, and undermine, is art: Virtue is folly; conſcience is a jeſt; Religion gain, or prieſtcraft at the beſt.