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CC-H.771.033
21-28 May 1771:41 (335)
THE ROAD TO HONOUR.
Now he that's inflam'd with the fumes of ambition,
Must heave out his line, and still be a fishing:
His hook he must bait with popular foibles,
Appear in the front, at all party squabbles.
. . . [30 more lines] [signed] Sempronius.
Freedom coeval with man's life began
The test of good, and ill-God's precious gift to man.
The pow'rs of darkness all their force combin'd
To filch the precious blessing from mankind;
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