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Ere I begin I must premise	A
Our ministers are good and wise	B
Therefore if tongues malicious fly	C
Or what care they or what care I	C
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If I am free with courts and skittish	D
I ne'er presume to mean the British	D
I meddle with no state affairs	E
But spare my jest and save my ears	F
And our court schemes are too profound	G
For Machiavel himself to sound	G
A captious fool may feel offended	H
They are by me uncomprehended	H
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Your younger brother wants a place	I
That's many a younger brother's case	I
You likewise tell me he intends	J
To try the court and beat up friends	J
I trust he may a patriot find	H
True to his king and to mankind	H
And true to merit to your brother's	K
And then he need not teaze us others	K
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You praise his probity and wit	H
No doubt I doubt them not a whit	H
Ah may our patriot have them too	H
And if both clash why things may do	H
For I have heard oh Heaven defend us	L
For I'll not hold it might not mend us	L
That ministers high as yon steeple	M
Have trodden low law king and people	M
When virtue from preferment barred	H
Gets nothing save its own regard	H
Courtiers a set of knaves attend them	N
And arrogance well recommends them	N
Who flatter them defame their foes	O
To lull the ministerial woes	O
And if projectors fire a brain	P
South Sea or silver mines in Spain	P
The broker's ready in a trice	Q
To satisfy e'en avarice	L
A courtier's conscience must be pliant	H
He must go on nor be defiant	H
Through thick and thin o'er stock and stone	R
Or else bye bye the post is gone	S
Since plagues like these as storms may lower	T
And favourites fall as falls the flower	T
Good principles should not be steady	H
That is at court but ever ready	H
To veer as veers the vane each hour	T
Around the ministry in power	T
For they you know they must have tools	U
And if they can't get knaves get fools	U
Ah let me shun the public hate	H
And flee the guilt of guilty state	H
Give me kind Heaven a private station	V
A mind serene for contemplation	V
And if bright honour may be mine	W
Profit and title I resign	W
Now read my fable and in short	H
Go if you will then go to court	H
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In days of yore for cautious rhymes	X
Should aye eschew the present times	X
A greedy vulture skilled in preying	Y
Approached the throne his wings displaying	Y
And at the royal eagle's ear	Z
Burthens of state proposed to bear	A2
Behold him minister of state	H
Behold his feathered throng await	H
Behold them granting posts and places	B2
Concordant with their worth and races	B2
The nightingales were all turned out	H
And daws put in These birds no doubt	H
The vulture said are the most fit	H
Both for capacity and wit	H
And very docile they will do	H
My business as I wish them to	H
And hawk the hawk is a good fellow	C2
And chanticleer with cockscomb yellow	C2
But all the ravens they must go	C2
Pry in futurities you know	C2
That will not do to baffle all	D2
With truth for the apocryphal	M
No jays and pies will do far better	T
They talk by rote nor know a letter	T
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A sparrow on the housetop heard	H
The sparrow is a knowing bird	H
If rogues unto preferments rise	B
I ask nor place nor seignories	B
To the thatched cottage I to find	H
From courts afar my peace of mind	H

John Gay

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