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XXII.—A PANEGYRIC, 1731.

[With favour and fortune fastidiously blest]

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The attribution of this poem is questionable.

With favour and fortune fastidiously blest,
He's loud in his laugh, and coarse in his jest;
Of favour and fortune unmerited vain,
A sharper in trifles, a dupe in the main;
Achieving of nothing, still promising wonders,
By dint of experience improving in blunders;

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Oppressing true merit, exalting the base,
And selling his country to purchase a place;
A jobber of stocks by retailing false news,
A prater at Court in the style of the mews;
Of virtue and worth by profession a giber,
Of juries and senates the bully and briber!
Though I name not the wretch, you know whom I mean;
'Tis the cur-dog of Britain, and spaniel of Spain!