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BOOK I. ODE X.
To MERCURY
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Grandson of Atlas, the most chaste
Reformer of the lewd and wicked,
Moulding green senators like paste,
By catches and decorous cricket.
Reformer of the lewd and wicked,
Moulding green senators like paste,
By catches and decorous cricket.
Thee messenger of Jove I'll sing,
Professor of the crooked lyre,
Jocosely stealing to the spring,
Through every crooked dark desire.
Professor of the crooked lyre,
Jocosely stealing to the spring,
Through every crooked dark desire.
Robb'd and betray'd, ungodly John
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Threatning to shoot thee through the liver,
Laugh'd when he found his arrows gone,
And saw thee sporting with his quiver.
Threatning to shoot thee through the liver,
Laugh'd when he found his arrows gone,
And saw thee sporting with his quiver.
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Leaving the Whigs at thy persuasion,
Whilst Pelham's beacons blaz'd in vain,
Dives forgot his flaggellation ,
And turn'd a Cocobite again.
Whilst Pelham's beacons blaz'd in vain,
Dives forgot his flaggellation ,
And turn'd a Cocobite again.
To pious souls, delightful benches,
Blest Lord! thy golden rod assigns,
And works great marvels on light wenches,
Grateful to princes and divines
Blest Lord! thy golden rod assigns,
And works great marvels on light wenches,
Grateful to princes and divines
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