Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes Antiquity and birth are needless here 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.
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Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.
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And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyrannys the worst.
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From this amphibious, ill-born mob began That vain, ill-natured thing, an Englishman.
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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
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