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On Friends and Foes（一）
2023-12-06i I am no Homer's hero you all know； I profess not generosity to a foe. My generosity is to my friends， That for their friendship I may make amend...
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On Friends and Foes（二）
2023-12-06ii Anger and wrath my bosom rends： I thought them the errors of friends. But all my limbs with warmth glow： I find them the errors of the foe....
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On Friends and Foes（三）
2023-12-06iii If you play a game of chance， know， before you begin， If you are benevolent you will never win....
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On Friends and Foes（四）
2023-12-06iv Of Hayley's birth Of H——'s birth this was the happy lot： His mother on his father him begot....
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On Friends and Foes（五）
2023-12-06v On Hayley To forgive enemies H—— does pretend， Who never in his life forgave a friend， And when he could not act upon my wife Hired a vi...
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On Friends and Foes（六）
2023-12-06vi To Hayley Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache： Do be my enemy —— for friendship's sake....
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On Friends and Foes（七）
2023-12-06vii On Hayley's Friendship When H——y finds out what you cannot do， That is the very thing he'll set you to； If you break not your ...
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On Friends and Foes（八）
2023-12-06viii On Hayley the Pickthank I write the rascal thanks， till he and I With thanks and compliments are quite drawn dry....
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On Friends and Foes（九）
2023-12-06ix My title as a genius thus is prov'd： Not prais'd by Hayley， nor by Flaxman lov'd....
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On Friends and Foes（十）
2023-12-06x To Flaxman You call me mad， 'tis folly to do so， To seek to turn a madman to a foe. If you think as you speak， you are an ass； If you do not， yo...