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CHAPTER 12th.
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On Sabbaths, oft, were splendid Tables spread,
That Sycophants, and Courtiers, might be fed.
Furnish'd with costly, and with curious, fare,
Where Crispin was oblig'd his lot to bear:
At side-board bound to take accustom'd stand,
As mighty Marshal of inferior Band,
Endeavouring there to dignify the Place,
With looks of Gravity, and airs of Grace;
Lest Pimp, or Parasite, with seeking eye,
Should mark a careless look, or limb awry,
And make some spurious criminal report
Before his Queen's inquisitorial Court.
That Sycophants, and Courtiers, might be fed.
Furnish'd with costly, and with curious, fare,
Where Crispin was oblig'd his lot to bear:
At side-board bound to take accustom'd stand,
As mighty Marshal of inferior Band,
Endeavouring there to dignify the Place,
With looks of Gravity, and airs of Grace;
Lest Pimp, or Parasite, with seeking eye,
Should mark a careless look, or limb awry,
And make some spurious criminal report
Before his Queen's inquisitorial Court.
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CHAPTER 12th.
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