I.

Ben, do not leave the stage

Cause 'tis a loathsome age;

For pride and impudence will grow too bold,

When they shall hear it told

They frighted thee; Stand high, as is thy cause;

Their hiss is thy applause:

More just were thy disdain,

Had they approved thy vein:

So thou for them, and they for thee were born;

They to incense, and thou as much to scorn.

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