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OF TEMPER.
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Friendship, sweet smiling, fill'd the second place,
In all the softer charms of virgin grace,
Their meeting arms a mystic tablet raise,
Deck'd with these lines, the moral of my lays:—
"Virtue's an ingot of Peruvian gold,
Sense the bright ore Potosi's mines unfold;
But Temper's image must their use create,
And give these precious metals sterling weight."

London: printed by R. Noble,
in the Old Bailey.