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Here lies John Trot, the friend of all mankind: He has not left one enemy behind. Friends were quite hard to find, old authors say; But now they stand in everybody’s way.

Cosway, Frazer, and Baldwin of Egypt’s lake Fear to associate with Blake. This life is a warfare against evils; They heal the sick: he casts out devils. Hayley, Flaxman, and Stothard are also in doubt Lest their virtue should be…

Wondrous the gods, more wondrous are the men, More wondrous, wondrous still, the cock and hen, More wondrous still the table, stool and chair; But ah! more wondrous still the charming fair.

You say reserve and modesty he has, Whose heart is iron, his head wood, and his face brass. The fox, the owl, the beetle, and the bat By sweet reserve and modesty get fat.

Some men, created for destruction, come Into the world, and make the world their home. Be they as vile and base as e’er they can, They’ll still be callèd ‘The World’s Honest Man.’

When H——y finds out what you cannot do, That is the very thing he’ll set you to; If you break not your neck, ’tis not his fault; But pecks of poison are not pecks of salt. [And when he could…

You call me mad, ’tis folly to do so, To seek to turn a madman to a foe. If you think as you speak, you are an ass; If you do not, you are but what you was.

To forgive enemies H—— does pretend, Who never in his life forgave a friend, And when he could not act upon my wife Hired a villain to bereave my life.

I found them blind: I taught them how to see; And now they know neither themselves nor me. ’Tis excellent to turn a thorn to a pin, A fool to a bolt, a knave to a glass of gin.

If it is true, what the Prophets write, That the heathen gods are all stocks and stones, Shall we, for the sake of being polite, Feed them with the juice of our marrow-bones? And if Bezaleel and Aholiab drew What…