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When Luxury has lick'd up all thy pelf,
Curs'd be thy neighbours, thy trustees, thyself,
To friends, to fortune, to mankind a shame,
Think how posterity will treat thy name;
And buy a rope, that future times may tell
Thou hast at least bestow'd one penny well.
366 Right,"
" cries his lordship, "for a rogue in
To have a taste, is insolence indeed: [need
In me 'tis noble, suits my birth and state,
My wealth unwieldy, and my heap too great."
Then, like the Sun, let bounty spread her ray,
And shine that superfluity away.

[mind,

Oh impudence of wealth! with all thy store,
How dar'st thou let one worthy man be poor?
Shall half the 'new-built churches round thee fall?
Make keys, build bridges, or repair Whitehall:
Or to thy country let that heap be lent,
As M**o's was, but not at five per cent.
"Who thinks that Fortune cannot change her
Prepares a dreadful jest for all mankind.
And who stands safest? tell me, is it he
That spreads and swells in puff'd prosperity,
Or blest with little, whose preventing care
In peace provides fit arms against a war? [thought,
Thus Bethel spoke, who always speaks his
And always thinks the very thing he ought:
His equal mind I copy what I can,
And as I love, would imitate the man.

In South-Sea days not happier, when surmis'd
The lord of thousands, than if now excis'd;
In forest planted by a father's hand,
Than in five acres now of rented land.

Coptent with little I can piddle here

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i Iratum patruum, vicinos, te tibi iniquum, Et frustra mortis cupidum, cum deerit egenti As, laquei pretium.

Jure, inquit, Trausius istis Jugatur verbis: ego vectigalia magna, Divitiasque habeo tribus amplas recibus. + Ergo, Quod superat, non est melias qu insumere possis? Cur eget indignus quisquam, te divite? quare Templa ruunt antiqui Deûm? cur improbe, caræ Non aliquid patri e tanto emetiris acervo? Uni nimirum tibi recti semper erunt res?

O magnus posthac inimi is risus! uturne "Ad casus dubios fidet sibi certius? hic, qui Pluribus assuêrit mentem corpusque superbum; An qui contentus parvo metuens que futuri, In pace, ut sapiens, aptarit idonea bello?

Quo magis his credas: puer hunc ego parvus Integris opibus novi non latius usam, [Ofellum Quam nunc accisis. Videas, metato in agello, Cum pecore et gnatis, fortem mercede colonum, Non ego, narrantem, temere edi luce profesta Quidquam, præter 1o olus fumosa cum pede pernæ. Ac mihiseulongum nost tempus venerat hospes, Sive operim vacuo gratus conviva per imbrem Vicinus: bene erat, non 12 piscibus urbe petitis,

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And figs from standard and espalier join;
The devil is in you if you cannot dine: [place)
Then 'chearful healths, (your mistress shall have
And, what's more rare, a poet shall say grace.
Fortune not much of humbling me can boast:
Though double tax'd, how little have I lost!
My life's amusements have been just the same,
Before, and after standing armies came.
My lands are sold, my father's house is gone;
I'll hire another's is not that my own, [gate
And yours, my friends? through whose free opening
None comes too early, none departs too late;
(For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best,
Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.)
Pray Heaven it last!" (cries Swift) "as you go on:
I wish to God this house had been your own:
Pity to build, without a son or wife;
Why, you'll enjoy it only all your life."
Well, if the use be mine, can it concern one,
Whether the name belong to Pope or Vernon?
"What's 'property," dear Swift," you see it alter
From you to me, from me to Peter Walter;
Or, in a mortgage, prove a lawyer's share;
Or, in a jointure, vanish from the heir;
Or in pure equity (the case not clear)
The Chancery takes your rents for twenty year:
At best, it falls to some ungracious son, [own."
Who cries, " My father's damn'd, and all 's my
7 Shades, that to Bacon could retreat afford,
Become the portion of a booby lord;

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And Hemsley, once proud Buckingham's delight, Slides to a scrivener, or a city knight.

Let lands and houses have what lords they will, Let us be fix'd, and our own masters still.

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Public too long, Ah, let me hide my age!
See modest Cibber now has left the stage:
Our generals now, retir'd to their estates,
Hang their old trophies o'er the garden gates,
In life's cool evening satiate of applause,
Nor fond of bleeding, ev'n in Brunswick's cause.
A voice there is, that whispers in my ear,
(Tis Reason's voice, which sometimes one can
hear)

"Friend Pope! be prudent, let your Muse take
And never gallop Pegasus to death; [breath,
Lest stiff, and stately, void of fire or force,
You limp like Blackmore, on a lord mayor's horse."
Farewell then verse, and love, and every toy,
The rhymes and rattles of the man or boy;
What right, what true, what fit we justly call,
Let this be all my care-for this is all:

To lay this harvest up, and hoard with haste,
What every day will want; and most, the last.

But ask not, to what doctors I apply?
Sworn to no master, of no sect am 1:
As drives the storm, at any door I knock,
And house with Montagne now, or now with Locke:
Sometimes a 10 patriot, active in debate,
Mix with the world, and battle for the state,
Free as young Lyttleton, her cause pursue,
Still true to Virtue, " and as warm as true:
Some times with Aristippus, or St. Paul,
Indulge my candour, and grow all to all;
Back to my 12 native moderation slide,
And win my way by yielding to the tide.

13 Long, as to him who works for debt, the day, Long as the night to her whose love's away, Long as the year's dull circle seems to run, When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one ; So slow th' 14 unprofitable moments roll, That lock up all the functions of my soul; That keep me from myself; and still delay Life's instant business to a future day; That task, which as we follow, or despise, The eldest is a fool, the youngest wise: Which done, the poorest can no wants endure; And which not done, the richest must be poor.

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Condo, et compopo, quæ mox depromere possim. Ac ne forte roges, quo me duce, quo Lare tuter: Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri,

10 Quo me cunque rapit tempestas, deferor hospes. Nunc agilis fio, et mersor "civilibus undis, Virtutis veræ custos, rigidusque satelles: Nunc in Aristippi "furtim præcepta relabor, Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor. 14 Ut nox longa, quibus mentitur amica; diesque Lenta videtur opus debentibus: ut piger annus Pupillis, quos dura premit custodia matrum: Sic mihi tarda 15 fluunt ingrataque tempora, quæ spem

Consiliumque morantur agendi gnaviter ' id, quod Aque pauperibus prodest, locupletibus æque, Aque neglectum pueris senibusque nocebit.

'Late as it is, I put myself to school, And feel some comfort, not to be a fool. 3.Weak though I am of limb, and short of sight, Far from a lynx and not a giant quite : I'll do what Mead and Cheselden advise,

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To keep these limbs, and to preserve these eyes.
Not to go back, is somewhat to advance,
And men must walk at least before they dance.
Say, does thy' blood rebel, thy bosom move
With wretched avarice, or as wretched love?
Know, there are worlds, and spells, which can
6 Between the fits this fever of the soul: [control
Know there are rhymes, which 'fresh and fresh
Will cure the arrant'st puppy of his pride. [apply'd
Be furious, envious, slothful, mad, or drunk,
Slave to a wife, or vassal to a punk,

A Switz, a High-dutch, or a Low-dutch 10 bear;
All that we ask is but a patient ear.

11 "Tis the first virtue, vices to abhor;
And the first wisdom, to be fool no more.
But to the world no 12 bugbear is so great,
As want of figure, and a small estate.
To either India see the merchant fly,
Scar'd at the spectre of pale Poverty!
See him, with pains of body, pangs of soul,
Burn through the tropic, freeze beneath the pole !
Wilt thou do nothing for a nobler end,
Nothing to make philosophy thy friend?
To stop thy foolish views, thy long desires,
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ease thy heart of all that it admires?
14 Here Wisdom calls: 15 "Seek virtue first, be bold!
As gold to silver, virtue is to gold."
There, London's voice, 16 "Get money, money still!
And then let Virtue follow, if she will."
This, this the saving doctrine, preach'd to all,
From 17 low St. James's up to high St. Paul!
From him whose 18 quills stand quiver'd at his ear,
To him who notches sticks at Westminster.

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Fervet avaritia, miseroque cupidine pectus? Sunt verba et voces, quibus hunc lenire dolorem Possis, et magnam morbi deponere partem. Laudis amore tumes? sunt certa piacula, quæ te Ter pure lecto poterunt recreare libello.

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Invidus, iracundus, iners, vinosus, amator; Nemo 10 adeo ferus est, ut non mitescere possit, Si modo culturæ patientem commodet aurem.

11 Virtus est, vitium fugere; et sapientia prima, Stultitia caruisse. vides, quæ 12 maxima credis Esse mala, exiguum censum, turpemque repulsam, Quanto devites animi capitisque labore. Impiger extremos curris mercator ad Indos, Per 13 mare pauperiem fugiens, per saxa, per ignes: Ne cures 14 ea, quæ stulte miraris et optas, Discere, et audire, et meliori credere non vis? Quis circum pagos et circum compita pugnax Magna coronari contemnat Olympia, cui spes, Cui sit conditio dulcis sine pulvere palmæ ?

15 Vilius argentum est auro, virtutibus aurum. 15 O cives, cives! quærenda pecunia primum est; Virtus post nummos:" hæc "7 Janus summus ab imo Prodocet: hæc recinunt juvenes dictata senesque, 18 Lævo suspensi loculos tabulamque lacerto.

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Bernard in 'spirit, sense, and truth abounds; "Pray then, what wants he?" fourscore thousand A pension, or such harness for a slave [pounds? As Bug now has, and Dorimant would have. Barnard, thou art a 2 cit with all thy worth; But Bug and D*1, their Honours, and so forth. Yet every child another song will sing, "Virtue, brave boys! 'tis virtue makes a king." True, conscious honour, is to feel no sin, He's arm'd without that's innocent within; Be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass; Compar'd to this, a minister's an ass.

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And say, to which shall our applause belong,
This new court-jargon, or the good old song?
The modern language of corrupted peers,
Or what was spoke at Cressy or Poitiers?
"Who counsels best? who whispers," Be but great,
With praise or infamy leave that to Fate;
Get place and wealth, if possible with grace;
If not, by any means, get wealth and place."
For what? to have a box where eunuchs sing,
And foremost in the circle eye a king.
Or 'he, who bids thee face with steady view
Proud Fortune, and look shallow Greatness through:
And, 10 while he bids thee, sets th' example too?
If" such a doctrine, in St. James's air,
Should chance to make the well-drest rabble stare;
In honest S*z take scandal at a spark,
That less admires the 12 palace than the park:
Faith I shall give the answer 13 Reynard gave:
"I cannot like, dread sire, your royal cave;
Because I see, by all the tracks about,
Full many a beast goes in, but none come out."
Adieu to Virtue, if you're once a slave :

Send her to court, you send her to her grave.
Well, if a king's a lion, at the least

The 14 people are a many-headed beast :
Can they direct what measures to pursue,
Who know themselves so little what to do?

Alike in nothing but one lust of gold,

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Just half the land would buy, and half be sold: Their country's wealth our mightier misers drain, Or cross, to plunder provinces, the main ;

The rest, some farm the poor-box, some the pews; Some keep assemblies, and would keep the stews;

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7 Isne tibi melius suadet, qui "Rem facias; rem, Si possis, recte; si non, quocunque modo rem." Ut proprius spectes lachrymosa poëmata Pupi! An, qui fortunæ te responsare superbæ Liberum et erectum, præsens hortatur et aptat? 11 Quod si me populus Romanus forte roget, cur Non ut 12 porticibus, sic judiciis fruar îsdem: Nec sequar aut fugiam, quæ diligit ipse vel odit; Olim quod vulpes ægroto cauta leoni Respondit, referam: quia me vestigia terrent Omnia te adversum spectantia, nulla retrorsum. 14 Bellua multorum est capitum. nam quid sequar aut quem?

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Parsbominum gestit 5 conducere publica: sunt qui

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Some with fat bucks on childless dotards fawn;
Some win rich widows by their chine and brawn;
While with the silent growth of ten per cent,
In dirt and darkness, hundreds stink content.
Of all these ways, if each pursues his own,
Satire, be kind, and let the wretch alone:
But show me one who has it in his power
To act consistent with himself an hour.
Sir Job sail'd forth, the evening bright and still,
"No place on Earth (he cry'd) like Greenwich
Up starts a palace, lo, th' obedient base [hill !”
Slopes at its foot, the woods its sides embrace,
The silver Thames reflect its marble face.

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Now let some whimsey, or that ' Devil within Which guides all those who know not what they

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But give the knight (or give his lady) spleen;

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Away, away! take all your scaffolds down, For snug's the word: my dear we'll live in town." At amorous Flavio is the 'stocking thrown? That very night he longs to lie alone.

The fool whose wife elopes some thrice a quarter, For matrimonial solace dies a martyr. Did ever Proteus, Merlin, any witch, Transform themselves so strangely as the rich? Well, but the poor-The poor have the same itch; They change their 11 weekly barber, weekly news, Prefer a new japanner, to their shoes; Discharge their garrets, move their beds, and run (They know not whither) in a chaise and one; They 12 hire their sculler, and when once aboard, Grow sick, and damn the climate-like a lord.

13 You laugh, half-beau, half-sloven if I stand,
My wig all powder, and all snuff my band;
You laugh, if coat and breeches strangely vary,
White gloves, and linen worthy lady Mary!
But when 14 no prelate's lawn, with hair-shirt lin'd,
Is half so incoherent as my mind,

When (each opinion with the next at strife,
One 15 ebb and flow of follies all my life)

I 16 plant, root up; I build and then confound;
Turn round to square, and square again to round;
17 You never change one muscle of your face,
You think this madness but a common case,

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1 Crustis et pomis viduas venentur avaras, Excipiantque senes, quos in vivaria mittant: 7 Multis occulto crescit res fenore. 3 verum Esto, aliis alios rebus studiisque teneri: lidem eadem possunt horam durare probantes?

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4 Nullus in orbe sinus Baiis prælucet amœnis, Si dixit dives; lacus et mare sentit amorem Festinantis heri: cui si vitiosa libido Fecerit auspicium; cras ferramenta Teanum Tolletis, fabri. lectus genialis in aula est? Nil ait esse prius, melius nil cœlibe vita: Si non est, jurat bene solis esse maritis.

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Quo teneam vultus mutantem Protea nodo? Quid 10 pauper? ride: mutat " cœnacula, lectos, Balnea, 12 tonsores; conducto navigio aque Nauseat, ac locuples quem ducit priva triremis. 13 Si curatus inæquali tonsore capillos Occurro; rides. si forte subucula pexæ Trita subest tunicæ, vel si toga dissidet impar; Rides. quid, 14 mea cum pugnat sententia secum; Quod petiit, spernit; repetit quod nuper omisit; stuat, et vitæ disconvenit ordine toto:

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16 Diruit, ædificat, mutat quadrata rotundis 17 Insanire putas solemia me, neque rides,

Nor' once to Chancery, nor to Hale apply;
Yet hang your lip, to see a seam awry!
Careless how ill I with myself agree,
Kind to my dress, my figure, not to me.
Is this my guide, philosopher, and friend?
This he, who loves me, and who ought to mend ;
Who ought to make me (what he can, or none)
That man divine, whom Wisdom calls her own;
Great without title, without fortune bless'd;
Rich ev'n when plunder'd, honour'd while op-
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Lov'd without youth, and follow'd without power;
At home, though exil'd; free though in the Tower;
In short, that reasoning, high, immortal thing,
Just less than Jove, and much above a king,
Nay, half in Heaven- except (what's nighty odd)
A fit of vapours clouds this demi-god!

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BOOK I. EPISTLE VI.

TO MR. MURRAY.

This piece is the most finished of all his imitations, and executed in the high manner the Italian painters call con amore. By which they mean, the exertion of that principle, which puts the faculties on the stretch, and produces the supreme degree of excellence. For the poet had all the warmth of affection for the great lawyer to whom it is addressed; and, indeed, no man ever more deserved to have a poet for his friend. In the obtaining of which, as neither vanity, party, nor fear, had any share, so he supported his title to it by all the offices of true friendship.

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OT to admire, is all the art I know,
To make men happy, and to keep them so."

Or popularity? or stars and strings?
The mob's applauses, or the gifts of kings?
Say with what 2 eyes we ought at courts to gaze,
And pay the great our homage of amaze?

If weak the pleasure that from these can spring,
The fear to want them is as weak a thing:
Whether we dread, or whether we desire,
In either case, believe me, we admire;
Whether we joy or grieve the same the curse,
Surpris'd at better, or surpris'd at worse.
Thus good or bad, to one extreme betray
Th' unbalanc'd mind, and snatch the man away;
For Virtue's self may too much zeal be had;
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
"Go then, and if you can, admire the state
Of beaming diamonds, and reflected plate;
Procure a taste to double the surprise,
And gaze on
7 Parian charms with learned eyes:
Be struck with bright brocade, or Tyrian dye,
Our birth-day nobles' splendid livery.

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If not so pleas'd, at 'council-board rejoice
To see their judgments hang upon thy voice;
From 10 morn to night, at senate, rolls, and hall,
Plead much, read more, dine late, or not at all.
But wherefore all this labour, all this strife?
For "fame, for riches, for a noble wife?
Shall 12, one whom Nature, learning, birth conspir'd
To form, not to admire, but be admir'd,
Sigh, while his Chloe, blind to wit and worth,
Weds the rich dulness of some son of earth?
Yet 3 time ennobles, or degrades each line;
It brighten'd Craggs's, and may darken thine:
And what is fame? the meanest have their day,
The greatest can but blaze, and pass away.
Grac`d as thou art, 14 with all the power of words,
So known, so honour'd, at the house of lords:
Conspicuous scene! another yet is nigh,
(More silent far) where kings and poets lie;
15 Where Murray (long enough his country's pride)
Shall be no more than Tully, or than Hyde!

15 Rack'd with sciatics, martyr'd with the stone,

(Plain truth, dear Murray, needs no flowers 10 of Will any mortal let himself alone?

speech,

So take it in the very words of Creech.)

11 This vault of air, this congregated ball,
Self-center'd Sun, and stars that rise and fall,
There are, my friend! whose philosophic eyes
Look through and trust the Ruler with his skies,
To him commit the hour, the day, the year,
And view 12 this dreadful all without a fear.

Admire we then what "Earth's low entrails bold,
Arabian shores, or Indian seas infold;
All the mad trade of 14 fools and slaves for gold?

Nee medici credis, nec curatoris egere
A prætore dati; rerum tutela mearum
Cum sis, et prave sectum stomacheris ob unguem,
De te pendentis, te respicientis amici.

{* dives,

Ad summam, sapiens uno minor est Jove, *Liber, honoratus, pulcher, rex denique regum; Præcipue sanus, "nisi cum pituita molesta est.

EPISTOLA VI.

NIL admirari, prope res est una, Numici,
Solaque que possit facere et servare beatum,"

Hunc solem, et stellas, et decedentia certis
Tempora momentis, sunt qui 12 formidine nulla,
Imbuti spectent 13 quid censes, munera terræ ?
Quid, maris extreinos Arabas ditantis it Indos?

See Ward by batter'd beaux invited over,
And desperate misery lays hold on Dover.
The case is easier in the mind's disease;
There all men inay be cur'd, whene'er they please.

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Ludicra, quid, plausus, et amici dona Quiritis?
Quo spectanda modo, quo sensu credis et ore?
3 Quitimet his adversa, fere miratur eodem
Improvisa simul species exterret utrumque: [rem,
Quo cupiens pacto: pavor est utrobique molestus:
4 Gaudeat, an doleat; cupiat, metuatne; quid ad
Si, quidquid vidit melius pejusve sua spe,
Defixis oculis animoque et corpore torpet?

5 Insani sapiens nomen ferat, æquus iniqui;
Ultra quam satis est, virtutem si petat ipsam.
I nunc, argentum et marmor vetus, æraque et

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Gaude, quod spectant oculi te mille loquentem:
Suspice: cum geminis Tyrios mirare colores:
Gnavus 10 mane forum, et vespertinus pete tectum;
Ne plus frumenti dotalibus emetat agris
Mutus et (in lignum; quod sit pejoribus ortus)
12 Hic tibi sit potius, quam tu mirabilis illi.
13 Quicquid sub terra est, in apricum proferet ætas;
Defodiet condetque nitentia. cum bene notum
Porticus Agrippæ, et via te conspexerit Appî;
Ire tamen restat, Numa quo devenit et ancus.
16 Si latus aut renes morbo tentantur acuto,

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Would ye be blest? despise low joys, low gains; Disdain whatever Cornbury disdains;

Be virtuous, and be happy for your pains.

2 But art thou one, whom new opinions sway, One who believes as Tindal leads the way, Who virtue and a church alike disowns, Thinks that but words, and this but brick and stones? Fly 3 then on all the wings of wild desire, Admire whate'er the maddest can admire: Is wealth thy passion? Hence! from pole to pole, Where winds can carry, or where waves can roll, For Indian spices, for Peruvian gold, Prevent the greedy, or outbid the bold: "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) Add fifty more, and bring it to a square. For, mark th' advantage; just so many score, Will gain a' wife with half as many more, Procure her beauty, make that beauty chaste, And then such friends-as cannot fail to last. A man of wealth is dubb'd a man of worth, Venus shall give him form, and Anstis birth. (Believe me, many a German prince is worse, Who proud of pedigree is poor of purse)

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His wealth brave Timon gloriously confounds;
Ask for a groat, he gives a hundred pounds;
Or if three ladies like a luckless play,
Takes the whole house upon the poet's day.
10 Now, in such exigencies not to need,
Upon my word, you must be rich indeed;
A noble superfluity it craves,

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.

11 If wealth alone then make and keep us blest,
Still, still be getting, never, never rest.

12 But if to power and place your passion lie,
If in the pomp of life consist the joy;
Then 13 hire a slave, or (if you will) a lord,
To do the honours, and to give the word;
Tell at your levee, as the crouds approach,
To whom 14 to nod, whom take into your coach

Quare fugam morbi. 'vis recte vivere? quis non?
Si virtus hoc una potest dare, fortis omissis
Hoc age deliciis.

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2 virtutem verba putes, et Lucum ligna? 3 cave ne portus occupet alter; Ne Cibyratica, ne Bithyna negotia perdas : * Mille talenta rotundentur, totidem altera, porro et Tertia succedant, et quæ pars quadret acervum. Scilicet 5 6 uxorem cum dote, fidemque, et amicos, Et genus, et formam, regina Pecunia donat; Ac bene nummatum decorat Suadela, Venusque. Mancipiis locuples, eget æris Capadocum rex : Ne fueris hic tu. 9 chlamydes Lucullus, ut aiunt, Si posset centum scenæ præbere rogatus, [habebo Qui possum tot? ait: tamen et quæram, et quot Mittam: post paulo scribit, sibi millia quinque Esse domi chlamydum: partem, vel tolleret omnes. 10 Exilis domus est, ubi non et multa supersunt, Et dominum fallunt, et prosunt furibus. 11 ergo, Si res sola potest facere et servare beatum, Hoc primus repetas opus, hoc postremus omittas. 12 Si fortunatum species et gratia præstat, 13 Mercemur servum, qui dictet nomina, lævum Qui fodicet latus, et 14 cogat trans pondera dex

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| Whom honour with your hand: to make remarks,
Who rules in Cornwall, or who rules in Berks :
"This may be troublesome, is near the chair:
That makes three members, this can chuse a mayor."
Instructed thus, you bow, embrace, protest,
Adopt him son, or cousin at the least,
Then turn about, and laugh at your own jest.
Or if your life be one continued treat,
If to live well means nothing but to eat;
Up, up! cries Gluttony, 'tis break of day,
Go drive the deer, and drag the finny prey;
With hounds and horns go hunt an appetite-
So 'Russel did, but could not eat at night;
Call'd happy dog! the beggar at his door,
And envy'd thirst and hunger to the poor.
Or shall we every decency confound;
Through taverns, stews, and bagnio's take our round;
Go dine with Chartres, in each vice outdo
'K-l's lewd cargo, or Ty-y's crew;
From Latian syrens, French Circæan feasts,
Return well travell'd, and transform'd to beasts;
Or for a titled punk, or foreign flame,

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Renounce our country and degrade our name?
If, after all, we must with Wilmot own,
The cordial drop of life is love alone,

And Swift cry wisely, "Vive la bagatelle!"
The man that loves and laughs, must sure do well,
10 Adieu-if this advice appear the worst,
E'en take the counsel which I gave you first:
Or better precepts if you can impart,
Why do, I'll follow them with all my heart.

EPISTLE I.

TO AUGUSTUS.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE reflections of Horace, and the judgments past in his epistle to Augustus, seemed so seasonable to the present times, that I could not help applying them to the use of my own country. The author thought them considerable enough to address them to his prince; whom he paints with all the great and good qualities of a monarch, upon whom the Romans depended for the increase of an absolute empire. But to make the poem entirely English, I was willing to add one or two of those which con

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Porrigere: 1 Hic multum in Fabia valet ille Velina:
Cui libet, is faces dabit; eripietque curule,
Cui volet, importunus ebur: 2 Frater, Pater, adde:
Ut cuique est ætas, ita quemque facetus adopta
Si bene qui cœnat, bene vivit; lucet: camus
Quo ducit gula: piscemur, venemur, ut olim
Gargilius: qui mane plagas, venabula, servos,
Differtum transire forum populumque jubebat,
Unus ut e multis populo spectante referret
Emptum mulus aprum. 6 crudi, tumidique lavemur,
Quid deceat, quid non, obliti; Cærite cera
Digni; remigium vitiosum Ithacensis Ulyssei;
Cui potiora patria fuit interdicta voluptas.

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? Si, Mimnermus uti censet, sine amore jocisque Nil est jucundum; vivas in amore jocisque.

10 Vive, vale. si quid novisti rectius istis, Candidus imperti; si non, his utere mecum.

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