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Tho' fraught with all learning, kept straining his throat,To persuade Tommy Townsend to lend him a vote;Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining,And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining;Tho' equal to all things, for all things unfit,Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit:For a patriot too cool; for a drudge, disobedient,And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient.In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, Sir,To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.
Here lies honest William, whose heart was a mint,While the owner ne'er knew half the good that was in't;The pupil of impulse, it forc'd him along,His conduct still right, with his argument wrong;

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