Being the master of so loose a spirit.
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hy, what unhallow'd ruffian would have writ. In sucli a scurrilous manner, to a friend ? Why should he think, I tell my apricots? Or play th* Hesperian dragon with mv fruit, To watch it? Well, my son, I ’ad thoughtYou’d had more judgment, i’ have made electionOf your companions, ** than t’ have ta'en on trust“ Such petulant, jeering gamesters, that can spare** No argument or subject from their jest.” But 1 perceive, affection makes a fool Qfany man, too much the father. Bruinworm ! 7
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