Regard what such would say? So would not I,
No more than heed a cur.


HONOURABLE SUCCESS.

What merit to be dropp'd on fortune's hill?
The honour is to mount it.
* * * Knowledge, industry,
Frugality, and honesty;--the sinews
The surest help the climber to the top,
And keep him there.


WISE PRECEPT.

Better owe
A yard of land to labour, than to chance
Be debtor for a rood!


THE TOWN.

Nine times in ten the town's a hollow thing,
Where what things are is naught to what they show;
Where merit's name laughs merit's self to scorn!
Where friendship and esteem that ought to be
The tenants of men's hearts, lodge in their looks
And tongues alone. Where little virtue, with
A costly keeper, passes for a heap;