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BOOK II.

SATIRE II.

To Mr. BETHEL.

HAT, and how great, the Virtue and the Art
To live on little with a cheerful heart;

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(A doctrine fage, but truly none of mine) Let's talk, my friends, but talk before we dine. • Not when a gilt Buffet's reflected pride Turns you from found Philosophy afide; Not when from plate to plate your eye-balls roll, And the brain dances to the mantling bowl.

Hear Bethel's Sermon, one not vers'd in schools, But ftrong in fenfe, and wife without the rules. Go work, hunt, exercife! (he thus began) Then fcorn a homely dinner, if you can.

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UAE virtus et quanta, boni, fit vivere parvo, (Nec meus hic fermo: fed qua praecepit Ofellus, Rufticus, abnormis Sapiens, craffaque Minerva) Difcite, non inter lances menfafque nitentes; Cum ftupet infanis acies fulgoribus, et cum Acclinis falfis animus meliora recufat:

* Your wine lock'd up, your Butler stroll'd abroad,
Or fish deny'd (the river yet unthaw'd),
If then plain bread and milk will do the feat,
The pleasure lies in you, and not the meat.

* Preach as I please, I doubt our curious men
Will chufe a pheasant still before a hen;
Yet hens of Guinea full as good I hold,
Except you eat the feathers green and gold.

Militia affuetum graecari) feu pila velox,
Molliter aufterum ftudio fallente laborem;
Seu te difcus agit, pete cedentem aëra difco:
Cum labor extulerit faftidia; ficcus, inanis,
Sperne cibum vilem: nifi Hymettia mella Falerno,
Ne biberis, diluta. i foris eft promus, et atrum
Defendens pifces hiemat mare: cum fale panis
Latrantem ftomachum bene leniet. unde putas, aut
Qui partum non in caro nidore voluptas
Summa, fed in teipfo eft. tu pulmentaria quaere
Sudando. pinguem vitiis albumque neque oftrea,
Nec fcarus, aut poterit peregrina juvare lagoïs.

k Vix tamen eripiam, pofito pavone, velis quin
Hoc potius quam gallina tergere palatum?
Corruptus vanis rerum: quia veneat auro
Rara avis, et picta pandat fpectacula cauda:
Tamquam ad rem attineat quidquam. Num vefceris ifta,
Quam laudas, pluma? coctove num adeft honor idem?
Carne tamen quamvis distat nihil hac, magis illa;
Imparibus formis deceptum te patet, cfto.

Unde datum fentis, lupus hic, Tiberinus, an alto

1 Of carps and mullets why prefer the great, (Though cut in pieces ere my Lord can eat) Yet for fmall Turbots fuch esteem profess? Becaufe God made thefe large, the other lefs. ■ Oldfield, with more than Harpy throat endued, 25 Cries, "Send me, Gods! a whole Hog barbecued!" Oh blaft it, a South-winds! till a ftench exhale Rank as the ripeness of a rabbit's tail.

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By what Criterion do you eat, d'ye think,
If this is priz'd for fweetnefs, that for flink?
When the tir'd glutton labours through a treat,
He finds no relish in the sweetest meat,
He calls for fomething bitter, fomething four,
And the rich feaft concludes extremely poor:
Cheap eggs, and herbs, and olives, ftill we fee; 35
Thus much is left of old Simplicity!

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Captus hiet? pontefne inter jactatus, an amnis
Ostia fub Tusci? ́1 laudas, infane, trilibrem
Mullum; in fingula quem minuas pulmenta neceffe eft.
Ducit te fpecies, video. quo pertinet ergo
Proceros odiffe lupos ? quia fcilicet illis

Majorem natura modum dedit, his breve pondus.
Jejunus raro ftomachus vulgaria temnit.

Porrectum magno magnum spectare catino
Vellem, ait Harpyiis gula digna rapacibus. At vos,
Praefentes Auftri, coquite horum opfonia; quamquam
Putet aper rhombufque recens, mala copia quando
Aegrum follicitat ftomachum; cum rapula plenus
Atque acidas mavult inulas. ° necdum omnis abacta

The Robin-red-breaft till of late had reft,
And children facred held a Martin's neft,
Till Beccaficos fold fo dev'lish dear

To one that was, or would have been, a Peer.
Let me extol a Cat, on oyfters fed,
I'll have a Party at the Bedford-head;
Or ev❜n to crack live Crawfish recommend;
I'd never doubt at Court to make a friend.
"Tis yet in vain, I own, to keep a pother
About one vice, and fall into the other:
Between Excefs and Famine lies a mean;
Plain, but not fordid; though not splendid, clean.
• Avidien, or his Wife, (no matter which,
For him you'll call a dog, and her a bitch)
Sell their prefented partridges, and fruits,
And humbly live on rabbits, and on roots:

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Pauperies epulis regum: nam vilibus ovis
Nigrifque eft oleis hodie locus. Haud ita pridem
Galloni praeconis erat accipenfere menfa
Infamis. quid? tum rhombos minus aequora alebant?
? Tutus erat rhombus, tutoque ciconia nido,
Donec vos auctor docuit praetorius. ergo
Si quis nunc mergos fuaves edixerit affos,
Parebit parvi docilis Romana juventus.

Sordidus a tenui victus diftabit, Ofello
Judice: nam fruftra vitium vitaveris iftud,
Si te alio pravus detorferis. Avidienus,
t Cui Canis ex vero ductum cognomen adhaeret,
Quinquennes oleas eft, et fylveftria corna;

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One half-pint bottle ferves them both to dine,
And is at once their vinegar and wine.
But on fome lucky day (as when they found
A loft Bank bill, or heard their fon was drown'd),
At fuch a feast, * old vinegar to spare,

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Is what two fouls fo generous cannot bear:
Oil, though it stink, they drop by drop impart,
But fowse the cabbage with a bounteous heart.

y He knows to live, who keeps the middle state,
And neither leans on this fide, nor on that;
Norftops, for one bad cork, his butler's pay,
Swears, like Albutius, a good cook away;
Nor lets, like a Nævius, every error pafs,
The mufty wine, foul cloth, or greafy glass.

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Now hear what bleffings Temperance can bring: (Thus faid our friend, and what he said I fing)

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▾ Ac, nifi mutatum, parcit defundere vinum; et
Cujus odorem olei nequeas perferre (licebit
Ille repotia, natales, aliofque dierum

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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, Mundus erit, qua non offendat fordibus, atque In neutram partem cultus mifer. z Hic neque fervis Albutî fenis exemplo, dum munia didit, Saevus erit: nec fic ut fimplex Naevius, unctam Convivis praebebit aquam: vitium hoc quoque magnum. Accipe nunc, victus tenuis quae quantaque fecum