Explore "Characters from Life; Or, Moral Hints. In Verse" by James Parkerson on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Reflect ere death, call you away, / To answer at the awful day; / Your thousands cannot purchase life, / But as you waste it cause you strife.
Many a pang you've felt of late, / I must pronounce you vile ingrate; / By art you gain a Lady's smile, / Soon as acquired would her beguile; / Careless the pangs a husband feel, / To you I make this sad appeal; / Was you a married man what pain, / Was e'er a faithless friend to gain.