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I don't know, says LAW, but methinks for his look "Tis just like the picture in Rochester's book; Then his character, Phyzzy,-his morals-his life

When she died, I can't tell, but he once had a wife. They say he's no Christian, loves drinking and

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And all the town rings of his swearing and roaring! His lying and filching, and Newgate-bird tricks;— Not I--for a coronet, chariot and six.

DIVINITY heard, between waking and dozing, Her sisters denying, and Jemmy proposing: From table she rose, and with bumper in hand, She strok'd up her belly, and strok'd down her band

-g:

What a pother is here about wenching and roaring!
Why, David lov'd catches, and Solomon w
Did not Israel filch from th' Egyptians of old
Their jewels of silver and jewels of gold?
The prophet of Bethel, we read, told a lie;
He drinks-so did Noah ;-he swears-so do I:

To reject him for such peccadillos, were odd; Besides, he repents-for he talks about G**. [To Jemmy]

Never hang down your head, you poor penitent elf, Come buss me I'll be Mrs. Twitcher myself.

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SKETCH

OF

HIS OWN CHARACTER.

[This was written in 1761, and was found in one of his pocket-books.]

Too

poor

tune;

for a bribe, and too proud to impor

He had not the method of making a fortune: Could love, and could hate, so was thought some

what odd;

NO VERY GREAT WIT, HE BELIEV'D IN A GOD. A Post or a Pension he did not desire,

But left Church and State to Charles Townshend and Squire [54].

[54] At that time Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and afterwards Bishop of St. David's.

POEMS:

ADDRESSED TO, AND IN MEMORY OF,

MR. GRAY.

(EXCEPT THE SECOND AND EIGHTH, NONE OF THESE WERE EVER BEFORE COLLECTED.]

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