Verses sent to a Lady, who took Delight in ridiculing a Person of very weak Under-standing, whom she reliev'd from Want.
18th Century Mary Barber EnglishVerses sent to a Lady, who took Delight in ridiculing a Person of very weak Under-standing, whom she reliev'd from Want.
Should you employ your Ridicule, On those who Pity claim? Think, Birtha, is the native Fool For Wit a proper Theme?
On Vice your hum'rous Vein display; 'Tis meritorious there; Or tow'ring Vanity allay; But, O! Misfortune spare.
With Wisdom who endows the Brain, To thy Remembrance call; Nor, while the Wretched you sustain, Tincture their Cup with Gall.