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WELL DONE OUTLIVES DEATH.
In your manner unpretentious,
Yet, be diligent to fhow,
Without being too fententious,
All the pleafing things you know.
While you ftrive to pleafe and ferve all
To attain the end in view,
Well examine, and obferve all
Without feeming fo to do.
If in them you faults difcover,
Shew not you thofe faults perceive;
But if difficult to fmother,
That they're flight, let them believe.
By this rule abide in all things,
And you'll be efteemed the more,
Nothing in life more fuccefs brings
Than to hide your neighbour's fore.
Or in wooing, or when married,
Bear this maxim ftill in mind :
Seldom Wedded Life mifcarried
Where both fides were fomewhat blind.
Shew your brighter fide to all men,
And mew them that you fee theirs,
Friends more readily you'll find then
To advance your own affairs.
Who moft tafte and judgment ufes
To difplay his wares to view,
Beft the Buyers eye feduces,
And moft quickly fells them too.
quacunque potes dote placere, place. OVID.
OCCULE mendas,
Quaque potes, vitium corporis
abde tui. Idem.
WEEL IS THAT WEEL DOES.
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