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What is Sauce for a Goose is also Sauce for a Gander - 3

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AN EPITAPH &c.

TO the much esteem’d Memory of
B-----F------Esq; L.L.D.;
The only man of his day
In Pennsylvania,
Or perhaps of any age or in any country,
Whose ingrate Disposition and
Badness of Heart
(These enormous Vices)
Ever introduced to
POPULARITY.
As he was the first Philosopher
Who, contrary to any known System, discovered
How to maltreat his
PATRONS
Without Cause,
And be angry without Reason,
He may be justly styl’d
A stupendously surpizing
And a GREAT MAN.
By assuming the merit
Of other mens discoveries
He obtain’d the name of
A PHILOSOPHER.
By meanly begging and some Times buying
HONORARY DEGREES,
From several Colleges and Universities,
He obtain’d the Character of
A Man of LEARNING.

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  1. What is Sauce for a Goose is also Sauce for a Gander - 3