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That land full surely hastens to its end / Where public sycophants in homage bend / The populace to flatter, and repeat / The doubled echoes of its loud conceit.
Lowly their attitude but high their aim, / They creep to eminence through paths of shame, / Till fixed securely in the seats of pow'r, / The dupes they flattered they at last devour.