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It always has been a thought discreet	A
To know the company you meet	A
And sure there may be secret danger	B
In talking much before a stranger	B
Agreed what then Then drink your ale	C
I'll pledge you and repeat my tale	C
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No matter where the scene is fix'd	D
The persons were but oddly mix'd	D
When sober Damon thus began	E
And Damon is a clever man	E
I now grow old but still from youth	F
Have held for modesty and truth	F
The men who by these sea marks steer	G
In life's great voyage never err	H
	-
Upon this point I dare defy	I
The world I pause for a reply	I
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Sir either is a good assistant	J
Said one who sat a little distant	J
Truth decks our speeches and our books	K
And modesty adorns our looks	K
But farther progress we must take	L
Not only born to look and speak	M
The man must act The Stagirite	J
Says thus and says extremely right	J
Strict justice is the sovereign guide	J
That o'er our actions should preside	J
This queen of virtues is confess'd	J
To regulate and bind the rest	J
Thrice happy if you can but find	J
Her equal balance poise your mind	J
All different graces soon will enter	B
Like lines concurrent to their centre	B
	-
'Twas thus in short these two went on	N
With yea and nay and	J
pro	O
and	J
con	N
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Through many points divinely dark	P
And Waterland assaulting Clarke	P
Till in theology half lost	J
Damon took up the Evening Post	J
Confounded Spain composed the north	Q
And deep in politics held forth	Q
Methinks we're in the like condition	R
As at the Treaty of Partition	R
That stroke for all King William's care	H
Begat another tedious war	S
Matthew who knew the whole intrigue	T
Ne'er much approved that mystic league	T
In the vile Utrecht treaty too	J
Poor man he found enough to do	J
Sometimes to me he did apply	I
But downright Dunstable was I	I
And told him where they were mistaken	R
And counsell'd him to save his bacon	R
But pass his politics and prose	U
I never herded with his foes	U
Nay in his verses as a friend	J
I still found something to commend	J
Sir I excused his Nut brown Maid	J
Whate'er severer critics said	J
Too far I own the girl was try'd	J
The women all were on my side	J
For Alma I return'd him thanks	V
I liked her with her little pranks	V
Indeed poor Solomon in rhyme	W
Was much too grave to be sublime	W
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Pindar and Damon scorn transition	R
So on he ran a new division	R
Till out of breath he turn'd to spit	J
Chance often helps us more than wit	J
Th' other that lucky moment took	X
Just nick'd the time broke in and spoke	Y
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Of all the gifts the gods afford	J
If we may take old Tully's word	J
The greatest is a friend whose love	Z
Knows how to praise and when reprove	Z
From such a treasure never part	J
But hang the jewel on your heart	J
And pray Sir it delights me tell	A2
You know this author mighty well	A2
Know him d'ye question it odds fish	B2
Sir does a beggar know his dish	B2
I loved him as I told you I	I
Advised him here a stander by	I
Twitch'd Damon gently by the cloke	Y
And thus unwilling silence broke	Y
Damon 'tis time we should retire	C2
The man you talk with is Matt Prior	B
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Patron through life and from thy birth my friend	J
Dorset to thee this fable let me send	J
With Damon's lightness weigh thy solid worth	D2
The foil is known to set the diamond forth	Q
Let the feign'd tale this real moral give	Z
How many Damons how few Dorsets live	Z

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