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 'Tis we who wait the Destinies Command To purge the troubled Air, and weed the Land. And dare the College insolently aim To equal our Fraternity in Fame? Then let Crabs Eyes with Pearl for Virtue try, Or Highgate Hill with lofty Pindus vie. So Glow-worms may compare with Titan's Beams, And Hare-Court Pump with Aganippe's Streams.

Our Manufactures now they meanly fell, And their true Value treacherously tell: Nay, They discover too, (their spight is such,) That Health, than Crowns more valu'd, costs not much Whilst we must steer our Conduct by these Rules, To cheat as Tradesmen or to starve as Fools

At this fam'd Horoscope turn'd pale, and straight In Silence tumbled from his Chair of State. The Crowd in great Confusion fought the Door, And left the Magus fainting on the Floor. Whilst in his Breast the Fury breath'd a Storm, Then sought her Cell, and reassum'd her Form. Thus from the Sore altho' the Insect flies, It leaves a Brood of Maggots in Disguise.

Officious Squirt in haste forsook the Shop, To succour the expiring Horoscope. Oft he essay'd the Magus to restore, By Salt of Succinum's prevailing Pow'r; Yet still supine the solid Lumber lay An Image of scarce animated Clay; ’Till