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It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.

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Charles Churchill
Died: 1764
Died: November 4
Poet
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City of Westminster
Sense
Nature

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Gipsies, who every ill can cure, Except the ill of being poor Who charms 'gainst love and agues sell, Who can in hen-roost set a spell, Prepar'd by arts, to them best known To catch all feet except their own, Who, as to fortune, can unlock it, As easily as pick a pocket.
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With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.
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Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still.
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With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
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