On The Promotion Of Edward Thurlow, Esq. To The Lord High Chancellorship Of England.
Round Thurlows head in early youth, And in his sportive days, Fair Science pourd the light of truth, And Genius shed his rays. See! with united wonder cried The experienced and the sage, Ambition in a boy supplied With all the skill of age! Discernment, eloquence, and grace, Proclaim him born to sway The balance in the highest place, And bear the palm away. The praise bestowd was just and wise; He sprang impetuous forth, Secure of conquest, where the prize Attends superior worth. So the best courser on the plain Ere yet he starts is known, And does but at the goal obtain What all had deemd his own.
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