The wealthy dolt for wit & sense
Though colleged and begrammared
Just as a nail that never stirs
No further than its hammered
& when hes made complete to act
Of wisdoms [face] a farce on
In making nothing else the fact
Is that hell* make a parson
(*he’ll)
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