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A CHARACTER.
Of Judgment just, and Fancy clear,
Industrious, yet not avaritious;
No Slave to groundless Hope and Fear,
Chearful, yet hating to be vitious.
Industrious, yet not avaritious;
No Slave to groundless Hope and Fear,
Chearful, yet hating to be vitious.
From Envy free, tho' prais'd not vain,
Ne'er acting without Honour's Warrant;
Still equal, generous and humane,
As Husband, Master, Friend and Parent.
Ne'er acting without Honour's Warrant;
Still equal, generous and humane,
As Husband, Master, Friend and Parent.
So modest, as scarce to be known
By glaring, proud conceited Asses,
Whose little Spirits aften frown
On such as their less Worth surpasses.
By glaring, proud conceited Asses,
Whose little Spirits aften frown
On such as their less Worth surpasses.
Ye'll own he's a deserving Man,
That in these Out-lines stand before ye;
And trowth the Picture I have drawn,
Is very like my Friend . . .
That in these Out-lines stand before ye;
And trowth the Picture I have drawn,
Is very like my Friend . . .
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