If then plain bread and milk will do the feat, 15 20 * Preach as I please, I doubt our curious men Will chufe a pheasant ftill before a hen; Yet hens of Guinea full as good I hold, Except you eat the feathers green and gold. 1 Of carps and mullets why prefer the great, (Tho' cut in pieces 'ere my Lord can eat) Yet for fmall Turbots fuch efteem profefs? Because God made these large, the other lefs. Oldfield with more than Harpy throat endu'd, Cries "Send me, Gods! a whole Hog barbecu'd!" NOTES. 25 fortune of fifteen hundred pounds a year in the fimple luxury of good eating. VER. 26. a whole Hog barbecu'd!] The Poet has here given a beauty equivalent to that in the Original, Porrectum magno magnum fpectare catino, which, by the flownels of the Syllables, where four fpondees follow one another, well expresses the enormous bulk of the fifh which the Glutton pray'd for. Ibid. Hog barbecu'd, etc.] A Weft Indian term of gluttony, a hog roasted whole, stuffed with fpice, and baited with Madera wine. P. • Praefentes Auftri, coquite horum opfonia: quam quam Putet aper rhombufque recens, mala copia quando Infamis. quid? tum rhombos minus aequora alebant ? 4 Si quis nunc mergos fuaves edixerit affos, r * Sordidus a tenui victus diftabit, Ofello Judice: nam fruftra vitium vitaveris iftud, Si te alio pravus de torferis. S * Cui Canis ex vero ductum cognomen adhaeret, NOTES. VER. 27. Oh blaft it, South-winds!] This has not the force, nor gives us the pleasant aliufion in the original, coquite. VER. 42. Bedford-head;] A famous Eating-house. P. VER. 43. Or ev'n to crack live Crawfish] There is force and humour in dixerit and parebit, which the imitation does not reach. Oh blaft it," South-winds! till a french exhale о 30 Cheap eggs, and herbs, and olives ftill we fee; 35 Thus much is left of old Simplicity! P The Robin-red-breaft till of late had reft, And children facred held a Martin's neft, Till Becca-ficos fold fo dev'lish dear To one that was, or would have been a Peer. 40 'Tis yet in vain, I own, to keep a pother 45 About one vice, and fall into the other: Plain, but not fordid; tho' not splendid, clean. S Avidien, or his Wife (no matter which, t For him you'll call a dog, and her a bitch) NOTES. 50 VER. 50. For him you'll call a dog, and her a bitch] One cannot but admire the lively turn here given to the Original. Quinquennes oleas eft, et fylveftria corna ; Ac, nifi mutatum, parcit defundere vinum; et W Feftos albatus celebret) cornu ipfe bilibri Caulibus inftillat, * veteris non parcus aceti. Quali igitur victu fapiens utetur, et horum Utrum imitabitur? hac urget lupus, hac canis, aiunt. y Mundus erit, qua non offendat fordibus, atque In neutram partem cultus mifer. Hic neque fervis Albuti fenis exemplo, dum munia didit, Saevus erit; nec fic ut fimplex Naevius, untam Convivis praebebit aquam: vitium hoc quoque ma d Afferat. In primis valeas bene; nam variae res Ut noceant homini, credas, memor illius efcae, с Quae fimplex olim tibi federit. at fimul affis Mifcueris elixa, fimul conchylia turdis ; Dulcia fe in bilem vertent, ftomachoque tumultum Lenta feret pituita. f Vides, ut pallidus omnis Sell their presented partridges, and fruits, A But on fome lucky day (as when they found A loft Bank-bill, or heard their Son was drown'd) Is what two fouls fo gen'rous cannot bear : 55 Oyl, tho' it ftink, they drop by drop impart, 60 y He knows to live, who keeps the middle state, And neither leans on this fide, nor on that ; Nor 2 ftops, for one bad cork, his butler's pay, Swears, like Albutius, a good cook away ; b Nor lets, like Nævius, ev'ry error pafs, The mufty wine, foul cloth, or greasy glass. 65 • Now hear what blefings Temperance can bring: (Thus faid our Friend, and what he faid I fing) First Health: The ftomach (cramm'd from ev'ry dish, A tomb of boil'd and roast, and flesh and fish, Remembers oft the School-boy's fimple fare, 70 75 f How pale, each Worthipful and Rev'rend guest Rife from a Clergy, or a City feaft! VOL. IV. *F |