Forte per anguftam tenuis vulpecula rimam Repferat in cumeram frumenti: pastaque, rurfus Ire foras pleno tendebat corpore fruftra,
Cui muftela procul, Si vis, ait, effugere iftinc;
Macra cavum repetes arctum, quem macra fubisti.
Hac ego fi compellor imagine, cuncta refigno;
Nec fomnum plebis laudo fatur altilium, nec
Otia divitiis Arabum liberrima muto.
Saepe verecundum laudafti: Rexque, Paterque
Audifti coram, nec verbo parcius abfens :
Infpice, fi poffum donota reponere laetus.
And all that voluntary Vein,
As when Belinda rais'd my Strain.
A Weafel once made fhift to flink
In at a Corn-loft thro' a Chink;
But having amply stuff'd his skin,
Could not get out as he got in;
Which one belonging to the House
("Twas not a Man, it was a Mouse)
Obferving, cry'd, "You scape not so,
"Lean as you came, Sir, you must go.”
Sir, you may spare your Application,
I'm no fuch Beast, nor his Relation;
Nor one that Temperance advance,
Cramm'd to the Throat with Ortolans :
Extremely ready to refign
All that may make me none of mine.
South-fea Subfcriptions take who please,
Leave me but Liberty and Eafe.
'Twas what I faid to Craggs and Child,
Who prais'd my Modefty, and fmil'd.
Give me, I cry'd, (enough for me)
My Bread, and Independency!
So bought an Annual Rent or two,
And liv'd
Near fifty, and without a Wife,
I truft that finking Fund, my Life.
Can I retrench? Yes, mighty well,
Shrink back to my Paternal Cell,
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just as you fee I do;
Parvum parva
decent. mihi jam non regia Roma,
Sed vacuum Tibur placet, aut imbelle Tarentum.
Strenuus et fortis, caufifque Philippus agendis
OC erat in votis: modus agri non ita magnus, Hortus ubi, et tecto vicinus jugis aquae Et paulum filvae fuper his foret. auctius, atque Di melius fecere. bene eft. nil amplius oro, Maia nate, nifi ut propria haec mihi munera faxis.
A little Houfe, with Trees a-row,
And, like its Master, very low.
There dy'd my Father, no man's Debtor,
And there I'll die, nor worfe nor better.
To fet this matter full before ye,
Our old Friend Swift will tell his Story.
Harley, the Nation's great Support,"
But you may read it, I stop short.
The First Part imitated in the Year 1714, by Dr. SWIFT; the latter Part added afterwards.
'VE often wifh'd that I had clear
For life, fix hundred pounds a year,
A handfome Houfe to lodge a Friend,
A River at my garden's end,
A Terras-walk, and half a Rood
Of Land, fet out to plant a Wood.
Well, now I have all this and more,
I ask not to encrease my store;
But here a Grievance feems to lie,
All this is mine but till I die ;
I can't but think 'twould found more clever,
To me and to my Heirs for ever.
Si neque majorem feci ratione mala rem,
Nec fum facturus vitio culpave minorem :
Si veneror ftultus nihil horum, O fi angulus ille
Proximus accedat, qui nunc denormat agellum !
O fi urnam argenti fors quæ mihi monftret! ut illi,
Thefauro invento qui mercenarius agrum
Illum ipfum mercatus aravit, dives amico
Hercule, fi, quod adeft, gratum juvat! hac prece te
Pingue pecus domino facias, et caetera praeter
Ingenium; utque foles, cuftos mihi maximus adfis.
Ergo ubi me in montes et in arcem ex Urbe removi,
Quid prius illuftrem Satiris Mufaque pedeftri?
Nec mala me ambitio perdit, nec plumbeus Aufter,
Autumnufque gravis, Libitinae quaeftus acerbae.
Matutine pater, feu Jane libentius audis,
Unde homines operum primos vitaeque labores
Inftituunt, (fic Dis placitum) tu carminis efto
Principium Romae fponforem me rapis: Eia,
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