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Unawed by numbers, follow Nature's plan;
Assert the rights, or quit the name of man.
Consider well, weigh strictly right and wrong;
Resolve not quick, but once resolved, be strong.
In spite of Dulness, and in spite of Wit,
If to thyself thou canst thyself acquit, 380
Rather stand up, assured with conscious pride,
Alone, than err with millions on thy side.
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Footnotes:
[92] 'Night:' this poem was written to defend the irregularities
imputed to the poet.
[93] 'Abject wretch:' Thornton, who abandoned Lloyd in his distress.
[94] 'Thankless wretch:' one Sellon, a popular clergyman, aided at
first by Churchill and his set, but who betrayed and blackened them
afterwards. We meet with him again in 'The Ghost' as Plausible.
[95] 'Venal Clan:' alluding to Mr Pitt's employing the Highland clans
in the American war.
[96] 'Pitt:' who retired in 1761, because the cabinet would not go to
war with Spain.


THE PROPHECY OF FAMINE.
A SCOTS PASTORAL INSCRIBED TO JOHN WILKES, ESQ.


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