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ECL. II.] Or on Mouthey, his friend, without taking to flight.

Will right these great men, and this age's severity

Become its reproach.

So I'm not of the party to take the infection.

Have taken already, and still will continue

To take—what they can, from a groat to a guinea,

Of pension or place;—but the subject's a bore.

What say you to this?

Though their system's absurdity keeps it unknown.

Is to see Nature's triumph o'er all that is art.

Wild Nature!—Grand Shakespeare!

And my Lord Seventy-four, who protects our dear Bard,