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Fortune to Harlequin, in a Pantomime
From Poems, Chiefly Pastoral (1766)
From my favour, sense rejected,
Fools by Fortune are protected:
Fortune, Harlequin hath found you,
Happiness will, hence, surround you.
Should a thousand ills enclose you,
Quick contrivance, this bestows you:
Valour makes the fair adore you;
This shall drive your foes before you.
Gold's the mighty source of pleasure!
Take this purse of magic treasure;
Go—for while my gifts befriend you,
Joy and jollity attend you.
Codex Note
Text from the Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO-TCP transcription (TCP K093533), Poems, Chiefly Pastoral (1766).
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Cunningham, John. “Fortune to Harlequin, in a Pantomime.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cunningham_j/67/.
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Cunningham, John. “Fortune to Harlequin, in a Pantomime.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cunningham_j/67/.
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