Labour in Vain or, What Signifies Little or Nothing. Viz. I. The Poor Man's Petitioning at Court. II. Expectation of Benefit from a Covetous Man in his Life-time. III. The Marriage of an Old Man to a Young Woman. IV. Endeavours to Regulate Mens Manners by Preaching or Writing. V. Being a Jacobite. VI. Confining an Insolvent Debtor. VII. Promise of Secrecy in a Conspiracy. VIII. An Enquiry after a Place [by Edward Ward] |
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Allow Sentiments offer'd, right, or wrong,If Judge and Jury too, joyn with the Throng;
In Contradiction to the present Thought,
My sole Opinion signifieth nought.
'Tis over-rul'd, and I am surely cast,
Which proves the fate of Separists at last;
For to oppose tde Torrent of a Stream,
Resist a greater Power, is like my Dream,
Which fancies mighty Riches, mighty Power,
But Poor and Weak, I meet the waking Hour;
With a Probatim est some sadly tell,
What once they were, to what they now are fell.
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