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But as a God he's worshipp'd hereBy all the lovely, young, and fair;
He all their kind Desires controuls,
And plays the Tyrant o'er their Souls.
His chiefest, Attributes, are Pride and Spight,
His Pow'r is robbing Lovers of Delight:
An Enemy to human Kind,
But most to Youth severe;
As Age ill-natur'd, and as Ign'rance blind,
Boasting, but baffled too, as Cowards are;
Fond in Opinion, obstinately wise,
And fills the World with Bus'ness, and with Noise.
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