Here you will find thePoemOccasion'd By Seeing The Honourable --- Treat A Person Of Merit With Insolenceof poet Mary Barber
Contented in my humble State, I look with Pity on the Great; Who only Birth, or Wealth, respect, And treat true Merit with neglect. O Pow'r supreme! let me implore Some Little from thy boundless Store! Give me a constant, small Support, Without the Plague of paying Court! Let none but Fools, who pine to rise, Be curs'd to bow, where they despise.
