The Shamrock or, Hibernian Cresses. A Collection of Poems, Songs, Epigrams, &c. Latin as well as English, The Original Production of Ireland. To which are subjoined thoughts on the prevailing system of school education, respecting young ladies as well as gentlemen: with practical proposals for a reformation [by Samuel Whyte] |
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ON Dr. THWAITES's quitting the Practice of PHYSIC, AND Opening a GLASS WAREHOUSE, in Fleet-Street.
Experience, Thwaites, has made thee seeThat Glass itself's less frail than we;
Ne'er bruis'd, and maim'd, to patch, and mend,
It can but break, and there's an End:
But Man, more fading than the Grass,
More brittle than the finest Glass,
Not only breaks, and falls to Dust,
By every Rub, by every Gust,
But suffers in ten thousand Ways;
In Health, in Wealth, in Love, in Praise;
In Things too nice for Tongue to speak—
Better to fall at once, and break.
Wisely, you, therefore, chose to deal
In Wares less liable to fail.
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