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On the 29th, _Anno_ 1618, was the famous sir _Walter Rawleigh_
beheaded; to the eternal shame of the attorney-general, who first
prosecuted him, and of the king, who ratify'd the sentence.
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How happy is he, who can satisfy his hunger with any
food, quench his thirst with any drink, please his ear with any
musick, delight his eye with any painting, any sculpture, any
architecture, and divert his mind with any book or any company! How
many mortifications must he suffer, that cannot bear any thing but
beauty, order, elegance & perfection! _Your man of_ taste, _is
nothing but a man of_ distaste.
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Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good.
He is not well-bred, that cannot bear Ill-Breeding in others.
In Christmas feasting pray take care;
Let not your table be a Snare;
but with the Poor God's Bounty share.
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