His Grace will game: to White's a Bull be led,
With fpurning heels, and with a butting head.
To White's be carry'd, as to ancient games,
Fair Courfers, Vafes, and alluring Dames.
Shall, then, Uxorio, if the ftakes he sweep,
Bear home.fix Whores, and make his Lady weep?
Or foft Adonis, fa perfum'd and fine,...
Drive to St. James's a whole herd of fwine?
Oh filthy check on all induftrious skill,,

To spoil the nation's last great trade, Quadrille!
Since, then, my Lord, on such a World we fall,
What fay you? B. Say? Why take it, Gold and all.
P. What Riches give us, let us, then, enquire:
Meat, Fire, and Cloaths. B. What more ? P. Meat,
Cloaths, and Fire.

Is this too little? would you more than live?
Alas! 'tis more than * Turner finds they give.

Alas!

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quality of a gentleman; who, after ruining himfelf at the gaming-table, paffed the reft of his days in fitting there to fee the ruin of others; preferring to fubfift upon borrowing and begging, rather than to enter into any reputable method of life, and refufing a poft in the army which was offered him.

One who, being poffeffed of 300,000l. laid down his coach becaufe intereft was reduced from 5 to 4 per cent. and then put 70,000 1. into the Charitable Corporation, for better intereft: which fum having loft, he took it fo much to heart, that he kept his chamber ever after. It is thought he would not have out-lived it, but that he was heir to an

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Alas! 'tis more than (all his vifions past)
Unhappy Wharton, waking, found at laft!

*

What can they give? to dying Hopkins, Heirs ;
To Chartres, Vigour; Japhet, Nose and Ears?
Can they, in gems, bid pallid Hippia glow;
In Fulvia's buckle ease the throbs below:

other confiderable eftate, which he daily expected; and that, by this course of life, he faved both clothes and all other expences.

† A nobleman of great qualities; but as unFortunate in the application of them, as if they had been vices and follies.

A citizen whofe rapacity obtained him the name of Vulture Hopkins. He lived worthless, but died worth 300,000l. which he would give to no perfon living, but left it fo as not to be inherited till after the fecond generation. His council reprefenting to him how many years it must be before this could take effect, and that his money could only lie at intereft all that time, he expreffed great joy thereat, and faid, 66 They would then be as long in fpending, as he had been in getting it." But the Chancery afterwards set aside the will, and gave it to the

heir at law.

Japhet Crook, alias Sir Peter Stranger, was punished with the lofs of thofe parts, for having forged a conveyance of an eftate to himself, upon which he took up feveral thousand pounds. He was at the fame time fued in Chancery, for having fraudulently obtained a will, by which he poffeffed another confiderable eftate, in wrong of the brother of the deceased. By thefe means he was worth a great fum, which (in reward for the fmall lofs of his ears) he enjoyed in prifon till his death, and quietly left to his executor.

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Or heal, old Narfes, thy obfcener ail,

With all th' imbroid'ry plaifter'd at thy tail?
They might (were Harpax not too wise to spend)
Give Harpax self the blessing of a friend;

Or find fome Doctor that would fave the life
Of wretched Shylock, spite of Shylock's Wife:
But thousands die, without or this or that,
Die, and endow a College, or a Cat *.

To fome, indeed, Heav'n grants the happier fate,
T'enrich a bastard, or a son they hate.

Perhaps you think the poor might have their part. Bond damns the poor †, and hates them from his heart:

grave

The Sir Gilbert holds it for a rule,
That every man in want is knave or fool:

* A famous dutchefs of Richmond, in her last will, left confiderable legacies and annuities to her

cats.

In the year 1730, a corporation was established to lend money to the poor upon pledges, by the name of the Charitable Corporation. It was under the direction of the Right Honourable Sir R. S. Sir Arch. Grant, Mr. Dennis Bond, Mr. Burroughs, &c. But the whole was turned only to an iniquitous method of enriching particular people, to the ruin of fuch numbers, that it became a parliamentary concern to endeavour the relief of those unhappy fufferers; and three of the managers, who were members of the house, were expelled. That "God hates the poor," and, "That every man in want is knave or fool, &c." were the genuine apothegms of fome of the perfons here mentioned..

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"God cannot love (fays Blunt, with tearless eyes)
"The wretch he ftarves"-and piously denies :
But the good Bishop, with a meeker air,
Admits, and leaves them, Providence's care.
Yet, to be just to these poor men of pelf,
Each does but hate his neighbour as himself:
Damn'd to the mines, an equal fate betides
The Slave that digs it, and thé Slave that hides.
B. Who fuffer thus, mere Charity should own,
Must act on motives powerful, tho' unknown.

P. Some War, fome Plague, or Famine they forefee,
Some Revelation hid from you and me.
Why Shylock wants a meal the caufe is found,
He thinks a loaf will rife to fifty pound.

What made Directors cheat in South-fea year?
To live on
*Ven'fon when it fold fo dear.
Afk you why + Phryne the whole Auction buys?
Phryne forefees a general Excife.

Why the and Sappho raise that monftrous fum ?
Alas! they fear a man will coft a plum.
Wife || Peter fees the world's refpect for Gold,
And, therefore, hopes this nation may be fold:

* In the extravagance and luxury of the SouthSea year, the price of a haunch of venifon was from three to five pounds.

† Many people, about the year 1733, had a conceit that fuch a thing was intended; of which, 'tis not improbable, this lady might have fome intimation.

Peter Walter, a perfon not only eminent in the wisdom of his profeflion, as a dextrous attorney,

but

Glorious Ambition! Peter, fwell thy ftore,
And be what Rome's great * Didius was before.
The crown of Poland, venal twice an age,
To just three millions ftinted modest || Gage.
But nobler fcenes Maria's dreams unfold,
Hereditary Realms, and worlds of Gold.
Congenial fouls! whofe life one Av'rice joins,
And one fate buries in th' Afturian Mines.
Much injur'd Blunt! why bears he Britain's hate?
A wizard told him in these words our fate':

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but allowed to be a good, if not a fafe conveyancer; extremely refpected by the nobility of this land, though free from all manner of luxury and oftentation: his wealth was never feen, and his bounty never heard of; except to his own fon, for whom he procured an employment of confiderable profit, of which he gave him as much as was NECESSARY. Therefore, the taxing this gentleman with any Ambition, is, certainly, a great wrong to him.

A Roman lawyer, fo rich as to purchase the empire, when it was fet to fale upon the death of

Pertinax.

The two perfons here mentioned were of quality, each of whom, in the time of the Miffifippi, defpifed to realize above 300,000l. The gentleman, with a view to the purchase of the crown of Poland; the lady, on a vifion of the like royal nature. They fince retired into Spain, where they are still in fearch of gold in the mines of the Afturies.

Sir John Blunt, originally a fcrivener, was one of the first projectors of the South-Sea company, and afterwards one of the directors and chief managers