Amusements serious and comical / calculated for the meridian of London. By Mr. Brown.

  • Tom Brown
Date:
1700
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Amusements serious and comical / calculated for the meridian of London. By Mr. Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    my ad s [145 ] - fteod Confounded and Aftonith’d ; Bue {can now forgive his being. Mute up~ on fo Odd an Occafion.. A Man of Wit and Sence could hardly avoid We as | | That Great Lord yondet, was Bred and Born a Lord : His Soul is full as Noble.as his Blood, his Thoughts as high as his Extraction. I Efteem, bur don’t Admire his Lord/bip; but the Man, wlio by his Merits and Vertues _ raifés himfelf above his Bireh and F- ducation, Iboth A/feem and Admire. _ Why then fhould you, whofe Vir- tues equal your Fortune, conceal’ the Meannefs of your Original, which raifes tlie Luftre of your Merit ? And as for you that have no other Merit to boaft of, but that of advancing your Fortune; never be afhamed to ewn the MeannefsS of your former Life: We fhall better efteem the Merit of your Elevation. bs ; _. Look; yonder goes a Man, fays. ofie, that rakes upon him fo much of _ the Lord, that one would think he had never been any thingelfe. Itof- ten happens, that by our Over-acting of Matters, tlie World difcovers we were not always the Men we ap- pear. ee Oh i . While
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