British Wonders Or, A Poetical Description of the Several Prodigies and Most Remarkable Accidents That have happen'd in Britain since the Death of Queen Anne [by Edward Ward] |
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These are the Wonders we have seen,
Since Britain has Interr'd her Queen:
But what these Prodigies forebode,
Whether our Evil or our Good,
I'll leave to those that read the Heavens,
And guess by Sixes and by Sevens,
Who, by great Chance, some Truths may give us,
Or with officious Lies deceive us.
For Arts, by which they gain sheir Ends,
And Planets, like unfaithful Friends,
Are most deceitful when we need 'em,
Or else they Blockheads are that read 'em.
Since Britain has Interr'd her Queen:
But what these Prodigies forebode,
Whether our Evil or our Good,
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And guess by Sixes and by Sevens,
Who, by great Chance, some Truths may give us,
Or with officious Lies deceive us.
For Arts, by which they gain sheir Ends,
And Planets, like unfaithful Friends,
Are most deceitful when we need 'em,
Or else they Blockheads are that read 'em.
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