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Let Pride, let Envy,
Wit or Vice condemn
Fruths said in Rhyme, and sometimes said of them;
White Candour hears, and Honesty commends,
if Envy Pride and Vice be Friends ?

Who cares.

THINGS AS THEY ARE.

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