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Prologues precede the piece in mournful verse, As undertakers walk before the hearse.

Prologues like compliments are loss of time, 'Tis penning bows and making legs in rhyme.

Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.

Cards were at first for benefits designed, Sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.

Heaven sends us good meat, but the devil sends us cooks.

Caused by a dearth of scandal should the vapors Distress our fair ones--let them read the prayers.

Their cause I plead--plead it in heart and mind; A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.

Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.

I've that within for which there are no plasters.

Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run.