4
Began to doat on Johnney Wilkes,
and cry up Parſon Horn:
Their manly courage I admir'd!
approv’d their noble ſeal,
Who had, with flaming tongue and pen,
maiurain’d the public wea:
But e'er a month or two was pait,
I found myſelf betray’d,
T'was ſelf and party after all,
for all the ſtir they made.
For when I ſaw the factious knaves
inſult the very throne.
I curs’d them all and turn'd my pipe
to John of Badenyon.
5 What to do next I mus’d a while,
ſtill hoping to ſecceed,
I pitch’d on books for company,
and gravely try’d to read;
I bought aud borrow’d every-where,
and ſtudied night and day,
Ne’er miſt what Dean or Doctor wrote,
that happen’d in my way,
Philoſophy I now eſteem’d
the ornament of youth.
And carefully, thro’ many a page,
I hunted after truth;
