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• Wine whets the wit, improves its native force…
  • "The Choice"

• We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
  And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
  • Verses to his Friend under Affliction. Compare: " Bless the hand that gave the blow", John Dryden, The Spanish Friar, Act ii. Sc. 1.

• Heaven is not always angry when he strikes,
  But most chastises those whom most he likes.
  • Verses to his Friend under Affliction.