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Rh His earlie hopes she shews and shews againe: How oft hast Thou, she cries, indignant viewd The titled Cypher and his solemn traine, The busie face, and dull solicitude, That, ever plodding in important mood, Has not a soul to reach one noble aim, Nor soul, nor wish—whose vacant mind endewd With not one talent, yet would lewdly claim For his vile leaden bust the sacred wreath of Fame:

Who to the patrons lawrells would aspire, By labouring in the British clime to rear Those arts that quencht prowd Romes patrician fire, And bowd her prone beneath the Gothick spear; Illustrious cares! befitting patriot peer! Italian sing-song and the eunuchs squall! Such arts as soothd the base unmanly ear Of Greece and Persia bending to their fall; When Freedome bled unwept, and scornd was Glorys call.