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Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford and reputation bleeds in every word.

Charles Churchill

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Charles Churchill
Died: 1764
Died: November 4
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City of Westminster
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Slanders
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Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.
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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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Tis mighty easy o'er a glass of wine On vain refinements vainly to refine, To laugh at poverty in plenty's reign, To boast of apathy when out of pain, And in each sentence, worthy of the schools, Varnish'd with sophistry, to deal out rules Most fit for practice, but for one poor fault That into practice they can ne'er be brought.
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Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
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With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.
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Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.
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Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.
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