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While, on the other hand, a Flutt'ring thing,
VVith a full Roll, and three pil'd Crevat string,
Whose Life's a Visit, who alone takes care
To say fine things, write Songs, and count the Fair;
Laughs at the musty Precepts of the School,
Calls the Learn'd Writer an Authentick Fool;
Swears that all Learning is a thing unfit
A well-bread Person, or a Man of Wit;
Names proper only to the Sparks o'th' Town,
And dams his Scholar to his Colledge Gown.
VVith a full Roll, and three pil'd Crevat string,
Whose Life's a Visit, who alone takes care
To say fine things, write Songs, and count the Fair;
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Calls the Learn'd Writer an Authentick Fool;
Swears that all Learning is a thing unfit
A well-bread Person, or a Man of Wit;
Names proper only to the Sparks o'th' Town,
And dams his Scholar to his Colledge Gown.
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