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38 There oft I enter (but with cleaner shoes), For Burlington's belov'd by ev'ry muse.
 * O ye associate walkers! O my friends!

Upon your state what happiness attends! What though no coach to frequent visit rolls, Nor for your shilling chairmen sling their poles; Yet still your nerves rheumatic pains defy, Nor lazy jaundice dulls your saffron eye: No wasting cough discharges sounds of death, Nor wheezing asthma heaves in vain for breath; Nor from your restless couch is heard the groan Of burning gout or sedentary stone. Let others in the jolting coach confide, Or in the leaky boat the Thames divide; Or, box'd within the chair, contemn the street, And trust their safety to another's feet: Still let me walk:—for oft the sudden gale Ruffles the tide, and shifts the dang'rous sail; Then shall the passenger, too late, deplore The whelming billow, and the faithless oar: The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns, The glasses shatter, and his charge o'erturns.