Along the scale of ranks, thro’ all, To him who grasps a golden ball, By blood a king, at heart a clown; The
churl in spirit, howe’er he veil
For
who can always act? but he,
Best
seem’d the thing he was, and join’d
Nor
ever narrowness or spite,
And
thus he bore without abuse
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