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The Poetical Works of Ebenezer Elliott

Edited by his Son Edwin Elliott ... A New and Revised Edition: Two Volumes

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EPIGRAM.

[The scoundrel's virtues Candid takes on trust]

The scoundrel's virtues Candid takes on trust,
But sifts for good men's faults their very dust.