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4 Began to doat on Johnney Wilkes, and cry up Parſon Horn: Their manly courage I admir'd! approv’d their noble ſeal, Who had, with flaming tongue and pen, maiurain’d the public wea: But e'er a month or two was pait, I found myſelf betray’d, T'was ſelf and party after all, for all the ſtir they made. For when I ſaw the factious knaves inſult the very throne. I curs’d them all and turn'd my pipe to John of Badenyon.

5 What to do next I mus’d a while, ſtill hoping to ſecceed, I pitch’d on books for company, and gravely try’d to read; I bought aud borrow’d every-where, and ſtudied night and day, Ne’er miſt what Dean or Doctor wrote, that happen’d in my way, Philoophy I now eſteem’d the ornament of youth. And carefully, thro’ many a page, I hunted after truth;