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But you with speed forbid Distress to grieve:
He gives by halves^[1], who hesitates to give.

Thus when an Angel views Mankind distrest,
He feels Compassion pleading in his Breast;
Instant the heavenly Guardian cleaves the Skies,
And pleas'd to save, on Wings of Lightning flies.

Some the vain Promises of Courts betray,
And gayly straying, they are pleas'd to stray;
The flatt'ring Nothing still deludes their Eyes,
Seems ever near, yet ever distant flies:
As Perspectives present the Object nigh,
Tho' far remov'd from the mistaking Eye;
Against our Reason fondly we believe,
Assist the Fraud, and teach it to deceive;

As

1. The Lord Cornwallis, in a most obliging manner, recommended the Author to the Rectory of Pulham.