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INTRODUCTION
Meanwell is turned out of doors, and flew to another pariſh for ſuccour.
Where, then, ah! where ſhall poverty reſide
To 'scape the preſſure of contiguous pride?
To 'scape the preſſure of contiguous pride?
Sir Timothy, however, ſuffers for his injuſtice and wickedneſs, for "great part of the land lay untilled for ſome years, which was deemed a juſt reward for ſuch diabolical proceedings."
Ill fares the land, to haſtening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates and men decay.
Where wealth accumulates and men decay.
Miſs Charlotte Yonge, to whom I ſhall refer again, ſays upon this: "If the conjecture be true which attributes this tale to Oliver Goldſmith, we have ſeen the ſame ſpirit which prompted his poem of 'The Deſerted Village,' namely, indignation and diſmay at the diſcouragement of ſmall holdings in the early part
