FRIEND.

There needs no magic to divine your scope,

Mark'd, as you are, a flagrant misanthrope:

Sworn foe to good and bad, to great and small,

Thy rankling pen produces nought but gall:

Let virtue struggle, or let glory shine,

Thy verse affords not one approving line. 100

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