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To see a Leader, whom he got and chose,Firm to his Friends, and fatal to his Foes.But seeing Envy, like the Sun, does beatWith scorching Rays, on all that's high and great:This, ill requited Monmouth, is the BoughThe Muses send to shade thy Conqu'ring Brow.Lampoons, like Squibs, may make a present blaze;But Time and Thunder pay respect to Bays,Achilles Arms dazle our present view,Kept by the Muse as radiant, and as new,As from the Forge of Vulcan first they came;Thousands of years are past, and they the same:Such care she takes, to pay desert with Fame:Then which no Monarch, for his Crowns defenceKnows how to give a Nobler Recompence.

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