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Esteem is frequently misplaced	A
Where she may even stand disgraced	A
We must allow to wealth and birth	B
Precedence which is due on earth	B
But our esteem is only due	C
Unto the worth of man and virtue	C
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Around an ancient pedigree	D
There is a halo fair to see	D
With unwrung withers we afford	E
Our salutation to milord	E
As due unto his ancient house	F
Albeit his lordship be a chouse	F
And riches dazzle us we know	G
How much they might or should bestow	G
But power is nothing sans the will	H
Often recalcitrant to ill	H
And yet the mob will stand and gaze	F
On each with similar amaze	F
But worst of all the lot we grant	E
The parasite or sycophant	E
Such as can vilely condescend	E
To dirty jobs and bow and bend	E
With meanest tropes of adulation	I
To have and hold on to their station	I
E'en such a ministry among	J
Are found amidst the waiting throng	K
Where'er are misdeeds there are bevies	F
And wanting never at the levees	F
Men who have trimmed the stocks been rabbled	E
In South Seas and in gold mines dabbled	E
Where sycophants applauded schemes	F
Madder than the maddest madman's dreams	F
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When pagans sacrificed to Moloch	L
They gave the first born of their low stock	M
But here unless all history lies	F
Nations are made the sacrifice	F
For look through courts and you will find	E
The principle that rules mankind	E
Worshipped beneath the sundry shapes	F
Of wolves and lions fox and apes	F
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Where then can we esteem bestow	E
To day in place to morrow low	E
And the winged insects of his power	N
Gone when they see the tempests lower	N
Like to the bubble full and fair	O
With hues prismatic puffed with air	O
Another puff and down it tends	F
Earthward one dingy drop descends	F
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A maiden much misused by Time	P
All aspirations of her prime	P
Like the soap bubble puffed and burst	E
Monkeys and dogs and parrots nurst	E
A whole menagerie employed	E
The passing hours which she enjoyed	E
A monkey big as a gorilla	Q
Who stalked beneath a big umbrella	Q
Was her prime minister his finger	N
Was wont in each man's pie to linger	N
She liked the monster and assigned	E
The poultry yard to him to find	E
The daily rations of the corn	R
Behold him now with brow of scorn	R
Amidst his vassals come for picking	S
Swans turkeys peacocks ducks and chicken	I
The minister appeared the crowd	E
Performed the reverence due and bowed	E
And spoke their compliments and duties	F
Whilst he revolved in mind his new ties	F
And thought What is a place of trust	E
'And first unto thyself be just	E
And then it follows that you can	T
Not be unjust to any man '	-
That moral motto is most true	C
As Shakespeare teaches will I do	C
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There was an applewoman's stall	U
With plums and nuts beneath a wall	U
With her he then proposed to trade	E
In corn full payments to be made	E
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Madam in mind this dogma bear	O
'Buy in the cheap sell in the dear '	-
And since my barley costs me nothing	S
My market is as cheap as stuffing	S
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Away then went the stores of grain	V
The poultry died and mistress fain	V
To know the cause named a commission	I
Which ended in the Pug's dismission	I
And left our hero in a hash	L
With Newgate and refunded cash	L
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A gander met him in disgrace	F
Who knew him well when high in place	F
Two days ago said Pug you bowed	E
The lowest of the cringing crowd	E
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I always bob my head before	W
I pass said Goosey a barn door	W
I always cackle for my grain	I
And so do all my gosling train	I
But if I do not know a monkey	D
Whene'er I see one I'm a donkey	D

John Gay

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