Dr. S----, D.S.P.D.

OCCASIONED
By reading a Maxim in Rochefoulcault.

Dans l'adversité de nos meilleurs amis nous trouvons

quelque chose, qui ne nous deplait pas.
In the Adversity of our best Friends, we find

something that doth not displease us.

Written by Himself, November 1731.

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Verses on the Death

of the Rev. Doctor S----, &C.

Rochefoucault his Maxims drew
F rom Nature, I believe 'em true:

They argue no corrupted Mind
In him'; the Fault is in Mankind."

This Maxim more than all the rest : Is thought too base for human Breast;