The English Dance of Death from the designs of Thomas Rowlandson, with metrical illustrations, by the author of "Doctor Syntax" [i.e. William Combe] |
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OF Things to Notions when we see
A regular Conformity,
(Such was the lesson of my youth)
We may suppose we see the Truth.
And when the contrary prevails,
'Tis Falshood, with its lying tales:
But, the refinement of the day,
Has settled it another way.
Some men may now, nor do a wrong,
Tell ready Falshoods all day long:
Nay, 'tis the duty of their place,
To utter practis'd Lies with grace;
And, that their wants may be supplied,
They keep them ready, cut and dried.
A regular Conformity,
(Such was the lesson of my youth)
We may suppose we see the Truth.
And when the contrary prevails,
'Tis Falshood, with its lying tales:
But, the refinement of the day,
Has settled it another way.
Some men may now, nor do a wrong,
Tell ready Falshoods all day long:
Nay, 'tis the duty of their place,
To utter practis'd Lies with grace;
And, that their wants may be supplied,
They keep them ready, cut and dried.
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