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 One tells the rise of cheese and oatmeal; Another when he got a hot meal; One gives advice in proverbs old, Instructs us how to tame a scold; One shows how bravely Audouin dy'd, And at the gallows all deny'd; How by the almanack 'tis clear, That herrings will be cheap this year. T. Dear Muliinix, I now lament My precious time so long misspent, By nature meant for nobler ends: O, introduce me to your friends! For whom by birth I was design'd, Till politicks debas'd my mind: I give myself entire to you: G—d d—n the whigs and tories too!

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Y meaning will be best unravell'd, When I premise that Tim has travell'd. In Lucas's by chance there lay The Fables writ by Mr. Gay. Tim set the volume on a table, Head over here and there a fable; And found, as he the pages twirl'd, The monkey who had seen the world: (For Tonson had, to help the sale, Prefix'd a cut to every tale.) The monkey was completely drest, The beau in all his airs exprest. Tim,