The Age Reviewed A Satire: In two parts: Second edition, revised and corrected [by Robert Montgomery] |
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But why should coward Want dejected fly
The haughty glances of Presumption's eye?
'Tis not in venal coins, or Fortune's clan,
To shape the hero, or sublime the man;
For gold makes many a free-born man a slave,
And rank but adds dishonor to the knave;
What can ennoble W---y or G---?
Not all the millions of lascivious B---.
What prompts the villain to attempt the crime,
The whig to thunder, and the laureate rhyme?
What sucks the venom out from J---'s quill,
Or hauls a turncoat up the statesman's hill?
'Tis money all! that monarch of the land,
Whom rogues adore, and Patriots scarce withstand!
The haughty glances of Presumption's eye?
'Tis not in venal coins, or Fortune's clan,
To shape the hero, or sublime the man;
For gold makes many a free-born man a slave,
And rank but adds dishonor to the knave;
What can ennoble W---y or G---?
Not all the millions of lascivious B---.
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The whig to thunder, and the laureate rhyme?
What sucks the venom out from J---'s quill,
Or hauls a turncoat up the statesman's hill?
'Tis money all! that monarch of the land,
Whom rogues adore, and Patriots scarce withstand!
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