The Kit-Cats (1708) [ Practices ]
… from small Beginnings came. Oh thou! who Chief Art to the Muses dear, Whom Poets Court, and Statesmen love or fear: Who with an uncontroul'd, Despotic Sway, Dost still new Burdens on thy Subjects lay; Who Tax'd by thee with less Reluctance bear The Charge of Caesar 's, than of A N N A 's War. Who reeking in thy own, and Roman Sweat, Dost … Bocai smooth thy spacious Brow, And one kind Smile on my Attempt bestow: For thou, whole fertile Genius does abound With noble Projects, didst this Order found. And still dost cherish, cultivate and guide Thy humble Creature, and with …
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