FABLE XXVIII. The new Cardinal:
Or, The Clerk forgets he was a Sexton.
A Man of Sense and Manners, gladly heard
His Friend was to a Card'nal's Hat preferr'd;
And that he might his Rise congratulate,
Went to admire, and to encrease his State.
But his new Eminence, with haughty Grace,
Seem'd not to know, and ask'd him who he was.
To whom his Friend made this jocose Return;
My Lord, your high Preferment makes me mourn:
Since you in this exalted Station set,
Your old Acquaintance, and your self, forget.
The MORAL.
‘The Proud, whose Minds do with their Fortunes rise,
‘Their former State, and former Friends, despise:
‘Nor shou'd we wonder they to both are strange;
‘For Men their Manners, as their Stations, change:
‘And, when advanc'd, on others look a-skue,
‘Who, they are sensible, their Meanness knew.
