Thomas Tomkins, The beauties of writing, page 6

Tomkins
Script

Friendship.

To counsel in Distress, to lend kind aid,
To share the burden on another laid, --
To ease the lab'ring thought, the anxious fear,
From bursting grief to wipe the dropping tear,
To sooth the virtuous mind by wrongs opprest,
And spring a hope in the desponding breast.

These are Friendship's true Joys.

J. Ellis
Scuplt

Published as the Act directs, 19 May 1777.