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SATYR.
WHAT Fool would trouble Fortune more,
When she has been too kind before;
Or tempt her to take back again,
What she had thrown away in vain;
5 By idly vent'ring her good Graces
To be dispos'd of by Alms-Aces;
Or settling it in Trust to Uses,
Out of his Pow'r, on Trays and Deuses:
To put it to the Chance, and try,
10 I'th' Ballot of a Box and Dye,
Whether his Money be his own,
And lose it, if he be o'erthrown;
As if he were betray'd, and set
By his own Stars to every Cheat,
15 Or wretchedly condemn'd by Fate
To throw Dice for his own Estate;
As Mutineers, by fatal Doom,
Do for their Lives upon a Drum?
When she has been too kind before;
Or tempt her to take back again,
What she had thrown away in vain;
5 By idly vent'ring her good Graces
To be dispos'd of by Alms-Aces;
Or settling it in Trust to Uses,
Out of his Pow'r, on Trays and Deuses:
To put it to the Chance, and try,
10 I'th' Ballot of a Box and Dye,
Whether his Money be his own,
And lose it, if he be o'erthrown;
As if he were betray'd, and set
By his own Stars to every Cheat,
15 Or wretchedly condemn'd by Fate
To throw Dice for his own Estate;
As Mutineers, by fatal Doom,
Do for their Lives upon a Drum?
