• Mille talenta rotundentur, totidem altera, porro et Tertia fuccedant, et quae pars quadret acervum. C Scilicet uxorem cum dote, fidemque, et amicos, d Et genus, et formam, regina Pecunia donat ; Ac bene nummatum decorat Saudela, Venufque. C Mancipiis locuples, egit aeris Cappadocum rex. NOTES. VER. 65. Who Virtue and a Church alike difowns.] The Would ye be bleft? defpife low Joys, low Gains; * But art thou one, whom new opinions fway, 61 65 Thinks that but words, and this but brick and ftones? Fly then, on all the wings of wild defire, Admire whate'er the maddeft can admire: Is Wealth thy paffion? Hence! from Pole to Pole, Where winds can carry, or where waves can roll, 170 For Indian spices, for Peruvian Gold, Prevent the greedy, and out-bid the bold: a Advance thy golden Mountain to the skies; On the broad base of fifty thousand rise, Add one round hundred, and (if that's not fair) 75 C Add fifty more, and bring it to a square. NOTES. 80 one appears from his party pamphlets; the other, from his Rights of the Chriftian Church. Ne fueris hic tu. f chlamydes Lucullus, ut aiunt, Si poffet centum scenae praebere rogatus, Qui poffum tot? ait: tamen et quaeram, et quot habebo h Mittam: poft paulo fcribit, fibi millia quinque Effe domi chlamydum: partem, vel tolleret omnes. * Exilis domus eft, ubi non et multa fuperfunt, Et dominum fallunt, et profunt furibus. " ergo, Si res fola poteft facere et fervare beatum, Hoc primus repetas opus, hoc poftremus omittas. iSi fortunatum fpecies et gratia praeftat, * Mercemur fervum, qui dictet nomina, laevum 1 Qui fodicet latus, et cogat trans pondera dextram Porrigere: m Hic multum in Fabia valet, ille Velina: Cui libet, is fafces dabit; eripietque curule, NOTES. VER. 86. Or if three Ladies like a luckless Play,] The common reader, I am fenfible, will be always more folicitous about the names of thefe three Ladies, the unlucky Play, and every other trifling circumftance that attended this piece of gallantry, than for the explanation of our Author's fenfe, or the illuftration of his poetry; even where he is most moral and fublime. But had it been in Mr. Pope's purpofe to indulge fo impertinent a curiofity, he had fought elfewhere for a commentator on his writings. f His Wealth brave Timon gloriously confounds; 85 90 Not for yourself, but for your Fools and Knaves; Something, which for your Honour they may cheat, And which it much becomes you to forget. ▸ If Wealth alone then make and keep us bleft, 95 Still, ftill be getting, never, never reft. i But if to Pow'r and Place your paffion lie, If in the Pomp of Life confift the joy; k Then hire a Slave, or (if you will) a Lord 1 100 Tell at your Levee, as the Crouds approach, To whom to nod, whom take into your Coach, Whom honour with your hand: to make remarks, Whom rules in Cornwall, or who rules in Berks: "This may be troublesome, is near the Chair: 106 "That makes three Members, this can chufe a "May'r." NOTES. VER. 91. A noble fuperfluity, etc.] Thefe four lines are an admirable paraphrase on Exilis domus eft, ubi non et multa fuperfunt, Et dominum fallunt, et profunt furibus. n Cui volet, importunus ebur: " Frater, Pater, adde: Ut cuique eft aetas, ita quemque facetus adopta. Si P bene qui coenat, bene vivit: lucet, eamus Quo ducit gula: pifcemur, venemur, ut 1 olim Gargilius: qui mane plagas, venabula, fervos, Differtum tranfire forum populumque jubebat, Unus ut e multis populo fpectante referret Emtum mulus aprum. crudi, tumidique lavemur, Quid deceat, quid non, obliti; Caerite cera Digni: remigium vitiofum Ithacenfis Ulyffei; t Cui potior 1 patria fuit interdicta voluptas. ▾ Si, Mimnermus uti cenfet, fine amore jocifque Nil eft jucundum; vivas in amore jocisque. W Vive, vale. fi quid novifti rectius iftis, Candidus imperti: fi non, his utere mecum. NOTES. VER. 127. Wilmot] Earl of Rochester. |