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HAT wonder therefore, since th' indearing ties Of passion link the universal kind Of man so close, what wonder if to search This common nature thro' the various change Of sex, and age, and fortune, and the frame Of each peculiar, draw the busy mind With unresisted charms? The spacious west, And all the teeming regions of the south Hold not a quarry, to the curious flight Of knowledge, half so tempting or so fair, As man to man. Nor only where the smiles Of love invite; nor only where th' applause Of cordial honour turns th' attentive eye Rh