What's Honour?
Not to be captious; not unjustly fight;
'Tis to confess what's wrong—and do what's right?
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The Doctor and his Patient.
"Slept you well?" "Very well." "My draught did good."
"It did no harm; for yonder it hath stood."
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To a Young Gentleman.
Nature has done her part:—do thou but thine;
Learning and sense let decency refine.
For vain applause transgress not Virtue's rules:
A witty sinner is the worst of fools.
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Occasioned by the Words "One Prior" in Burnet's History.
One Prior!—and is this, this all the fame
The poet from the historian can claim?
No; Prior's verse posterity shall quote,
When 'tis forgot one Burnet ever wrote.
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A Rhapsody.
As I walked by myself, I said to myself,
And myself said again to me,
Look to thyself, take care of thyself,
For nobody cares for thee;
Then said I to myself, and thus answered myself,
With the self-same repartee,
Look to thyself, or look not to thyself,
'Tis the self-same thing to me.
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Shoes.
Our bodies are like shoes, which off we cast;
Physic their cobbler is, and Death the last.