The Town

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"His bushy beard, and shoe-strings green, His high-crown'd hat, and satin doublet, Mov'd the stout heart of England's queen, Though Pope and Spaniard could not trouble it."—Gray.

"Shall the prosperity of a pardon still Secure thy railing rhymes, infamous Gill?"

Nam genus, et proavos, et quæ non fecimus ipsi, Vix ea nostra voco.—Metamor. lib. 13. v. 140. For birth, and rank, and what our own good powers Have earned us not, I scarcely call them ours.

"—— Apoplexy cramm'd intemperance knocks Down to the ground at once, as butcher felleth ox;"—

"Hic locus est, quem, si verbis audacia detur, Haud timeam magni dixisse Palatia cœli." Lib. i. v. 175.

"This glorious roofe I would not doubt to call, Had I but boldness giv'n me, Heaven's White-Hall"

'We curse not wine—the vile excess we blame.'"

'I'll meet thee there!'

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Note 1 · Ovid, himself a man of birth, puts this sentiment in the mouth of Ulysses, a king. But then he was a king whose talents were above his royal Note 2 · says Thomson, in his Castle of Indolence. It was the death which the good-natured, indolent poet probably expected for himself, and which he Note 3 · Which Sandys, by a felicitous conceit in the taste of his age (and of Ovid too), has transferred to the palace of Charles the First, and ren Note 4 · [To this Franklin might have answered, that the want of stimulus is generally produced by a previous abuse of it, and that the having recour Note 5 · in such a manner as to make it appear absolutely ludicrous. He paused so long before he spoke, that somebody, it was said, called out from t