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Rh O Lintot! let my labours obvious lie, Rang'd on thy stall, for ev'ry curious eye; So shall the poor these precepts gratis know, And to my verse their future safeties owe.
 * What walker shall his mean ambition fix

On the false lustre of a coach and six? Let the vain virgin, lur'd by glaring show, Sigh for the liv'ries of th' embroider'd beau.
 * See yon bright chariot on its harness swing,

With Flanders mares, and on an arched spring; That wretch, to gain an equipage and place, Betray'd his sister to a lewd embrace. This coach, that with the blazon'd 'scutcheon glows, Vain of his unknown race, the coxcomb shows. Here the brib'd lawyer, sunk in velvet, sleeps; The starving orphan, as he passes, weeps: There flames a fool, begirt by tinsel'd slaves, Who wastes the wealth of a whole race of knaves. That other, with a clustering train behind, Owes his new honours to a sordid mind. This next, in court-fidelity excels, The public rifles, and his country sells Rh