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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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[The Gods have granted mighty stores of pelf]

The Gods have granted mighty stores of pelf
To many a sluggard, useless to himself
And his own partizans: but high renown
Awaits the warrior who defends the town.