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Love of fame, the universal passion : in seven characteristical satires / [Edward Young]
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Sat. I. she Universal Passion . i j

Those Governments which curb not Evils, cause %And a rich Knaves a libel on our laws.

Belus with solid glory will be crownd;

He buys no Phantome, no vain empty sound,

But builds himself a name; and to be great,]

Sinks in a Quarry an immense estate ;

In cost, and grandeur Ch-d^dos hell out-do,And, B~li2£ton, thy Taste is not so true.

The Pile is finilht, every toil is past,

And full perfection is arrivd at last;

When lo! my Lord to some small Corner runs,And leaves state-rooms to strangers, and to duns .

The man who Builds,and wants wherewith to pay,Provides a Home from which to run away.

In Britain what is many a lordly SeatBut a Discharge in full for an estate?

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