Should you employ your Ridicule, <br />On those who Pity claim? <br />Think, Birtha, is the native Fool <br />For Wit a proper Theme? <br /> <br />On Vice your hum'rous Vein display; <br />'Tis meritorious there; <br />Or tow'ring Vanity allay; <br />But, O! Misfortune spare. <br /> <br />With Wisdom who endows the Brain, <br />To thy Remembrance call; <br />Nor, while the Wretched you sustain, <br />Tincture their Cup with Gall.<br /><br />Mary Barber<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/verses-sent-to-a-lady-who-took-delight-in-ridiculing-a-person/
