[The Compleat Citizen:
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The Man of Fashion.
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I.
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Would you be a Man in Fashion?
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Would you lead a Life Divine?
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Would you be, etc.
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Would you lead, &
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Take a little Draw of Passion,
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In a lusty Dose of Wine.
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If the nymph has no Compassion,
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Vain it is to sigh and groan:
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Love was but] put in for [Fashion,]
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Wine will do the Work alone.
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II.
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Wou'd you have at your Devotion,
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Gown-Fop Whigs that loves to prate?
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Wou'd you have, etc.
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Gown-Fop, etc.
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Take a Dram of Tony's Notion,
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in a Coffee-Dish of State:
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If the Poyson will not warm you,
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take ye Tea, 'twill do the thing;
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There are States-men can inform you
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how to Rule without a King.
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III.
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Wou'd you then be thought most witty,
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wou'd you be a Man of parts?
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Wou'd you be, etc.
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wou'd you, etc.
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Aid the Factious of the City,
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till your Hang'd for your Deserts:
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If your Vertue's not Rewarded,
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for the glorious thing you aim'd;
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And another Saint Recorded,
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Ca------ and Cu------ both be damn'd.
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[IV.
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Would you have a new Religion?
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Founded on a Plot of State?
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Would you, etc
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Founded on, etc
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Whisper but with Prance's Pidgeon,
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In a dungeon through a Grate.
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If your soul find no impression,
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Murder'd Godfrey's will] appear;
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[T]hough there needs no more Confession,
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kiss the Book, and all is clear.
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V.
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Wou'd you have a true Narration,
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how the City first was fir'd;
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Wou'd you, etc.
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how, etc.
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Let the Monuments relation,
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prove the Man, and those they hir'd:
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If the Phoenix was consumed,
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as they say, by Popish Priggs;
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All her pride was re-assumed
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by the Ignoramus-Whigs.
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VI.
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Wou'd you have another Charter,
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you that should be Men of sence?
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Wou'd, etc.
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you that, etc.
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Talk no more of Magna-Charta,
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but relye upon your Prince:
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If you can Repent sincerely,
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Caesar has a God-like mind;
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Purge out Factiousness severely,
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Caesar will be always kind.
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