"Whilst Butler, needy wretch! was yet alive, No gen'rous patron would a dinner give: See him, when starved to death, and turn'd to dust, Presented with a monumental bust! The poet's fate is here in emblem shown,— He ask'd for bread, and he receiv'd a stone."
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[Printed in Miscellaneous Poems, by Several Hands (London: D. Lewis, 1726). The monument here referred to was erected in 1721, about forty years after the death of Butler]
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Samuel Wesley (poet, died 1739)
Samuel Wesley the Younger (10 February 1690 or 1691 – 6 November 1739) was a poet, schoolmaster and an Anglican cleric. He was the eldest of the Wesley brothers—with younger brothers John and Charles—but did not play a notable role in the nascent Methodist movement.
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