THE GRUMBLING HIVE - KNAVES TURNED HONEST
By Bernard Mandeville
The root of all Evil, Avarice,
The damn'd ill-natur'd baneful Vice,
Was slave to Prodigality,
That noble Sin; Whilst Luxury
Employed a Million of the Poor,
And Odious Pride a Million more:
Envy itself, and Vanity,
Were ministers of Industry;
Their darling Folly, Fickleness,
In Diet, Furniture and Dress,
That strange ridic'lous Vice, was made
The very Wheel that turn'd the Trade.
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