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AWM.745.022
9-16 May 1745:11 (1323)
The Use and Abuse of Riches.
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Wise Peter sees the world's respect for gold,
And therefore hopes, this nation may be sold:
Notorious ambition! Peter, swell they store,
And be what Rome's great Didius was before.
. . . [6 more lines of verse, signed] Mr. Pope to Lord
Bathurst.
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The grave Sir Gilbert holds it for a rule,
That 'every man in want is knave or fool:
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I give and I devise (old Euclio said,
And sign'd) my lands and tenements to Ned.
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Who hung with woods yon mountain's sultry brow?
From the dry rocks who bade the waters flow?
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of verse.]
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