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sired. The charitable visits which are made to 

 many sick people, proceed from much the same 

 motive with that which induced the hungry wolves 

 to make their enquiries after the Sick Ass, namely, 

 that they may come in for some share of their 

 remains, and feast themselves upon the reversion 

 of their goods and chattels. The sick man's heir 

 longs for his estate ; one friend waits in anxious 

 expectation of a legacy, and another wants his 

 place; it, however, does not unfrequently happen, 

 that the mask of these selfish visitants, and their 

 counterfeit sorrow, are seen through, and their 

 impertinent officiousness treated with the contempt 

 it so justly deserves. 



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