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Slander’d in vain, enjoy the spleen of foes; Let these from envy hate—from interest those! Guilt, like the first, your gratitude requires, Since none can envy till he first admires; And nature tells the last his crime is none, Who to your interest but prefers his own.
Slander’d in vain, enjoy the spleen of foes; Let these from envy hate—from interest those! Guilt, like the first, your gratitude requires, Since none can envy till he first admires; And nature tells the last his crime is none, Who to your interest but prefers his own.
Approximate author period: c. 1717 AD · early modern
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- Aaron Hill
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- Approximate author period: c. 1717 AD · early modern
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 199 · printed citation: Aaron Hill · subject: ENVY
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