Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
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Would she could make of me a saint,Or I of her a sinner.
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Believe it, Men have ever been the same,And all the Golden Age is but a Dream.
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For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though late, a sure reward succeeds.
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