MR. STOTHARD TO MR. CROMEK.
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For fortune's favour you your riches bring;But fortune says she gave you no such thing.Why should you prove ungrateful to your friends,Sneaking, and backbiting, and odds-and-ends?"
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— John Milton
Say, Heavenly Muse, shall not thy sacred vein 15
Afford a present to the Infant God?
Hast thou no verse, no hymn, or solemn strain,
To welcome him to this his new abode,
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