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The Works of John Hookham Frere In Verse and Prose

Now First Collected with a Prefatory Memoir by his Nephews W. E. and Sir Bartle Frere

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XLVIII.

Change for the worse is sooner understood,
And sooner practis'd, than from bad to good.
Do not advise and school me! good, my friend!
I'm past the time to learn. I cannot mend.