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E give the world to understand, Our thriving dean has purchas'd land; A purchase, which will bring him clear Above his rent four pounds a year; Provided, to improve the ground, He will but add two hundred pound; And, from his endless hoarded store, To build a house, five hundred more. Sir Arthur too shall have his will, And call the mansion Drapier's Hill: That, when a nation, long enslav'd, Forgets by whom it once was sav'd; When none the Drapier's praise shall sing, His signs aloft no longer swing, His medals and his prints forgotten, And all his handkerchiefs are rotten, His famous letters made waste paper, This hill may keep the name of Drapier; In spite of envy, flourish still, And Drapier's vie with Cooper's hill. Rh