A collection of poems on Several Occasions Publish'd in the Craftsman. By Caleb D'Anvers of Gray's Inn, Esq [i.e. Nicholas Amhurst] |
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TO A Certain GENTLEMAN Who always takes the Name of Cardinal WOLSEY To HIMSELF.
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TO A Certain GENTLEMAN Who always takes the Name of Cardinal WOLSEY To HIMSELF.
AN EPIGRAM.
How vain, Sir Knight, is thy affected Rage,That Thou and Wolsey in the self-same Page
Stand charg'd alike?—The Cardinal, 'tis true,
Had many publick Vices; so hast Thou.
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Which, thy Friends own, are wanting all in Thee;
Tho' proud, corrupt, ambitious, and severe,
Still to the Muse He lent a gracious Ear;
Learned Himself to Learning was a Friend;
Himself, adorn'd with Arts, did Arts extend;
Whilst all thy Knowledge is confin'd to Gain,
To Funds, and Stocks, and Bribes, thy Country's Bane;
His publick Spirit lives in Christ-Church Dome;
Thy Charity Begins, and Ends at Home.
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