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Poems on Several Occasions

With some Select Essays in Prose. In Two Volumes. By John Hughes; Adorn'd with Sculptures

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A FRAGMENT.

[Promiscuous Crouds to worthless Riches born]

Promiscuous Crouds to worthless Riches born,
Thy Pencil paints, 'tis true, yet paints with Scorn.
Sometimes the Fool, by Nature left half-made,
Mov'd by some happy Instinct asks thy Aid,
To give his Face to Reason some Pretence,
And raise his Looks with Supplemental Sense.