Character of A Sly Life-Parody
Character of A Sly Life-Parody
How useless is he alive or dead,
That lives only to pay another's bill;
Whose flattery is his earning bread,
And simple faux his utmost skill.
Whose ideals not his values are,
Whose soul is still prepared for dearth;
Untied unto the world so fair,
Of genuine love or princely birth.
Who has his life from integrity freed,
Whose falsehood is his strong retreat;
Whose state can neither scholars feed,
Nor kindness make the wits obsolete.
Who envies all whom chance did raise,
And vice, who always understood;
How false sympathies are given with praise,
Neither rules of God, nor rules of good.
Who Money did late and early pray,
More of his Greed than gifts to lend;
Who entertains the harmless day,
With a well-chosen alibi to befriend.
This man is bind in servile bands,
Of forgery and lies, fear to fall;
Servant of his attitude and his lands,
And having everything, he has bugger all.