When first TOBACCO bleft our Ifle, The merry Catch, the Madrigal, THE THE PLEASURE of being OUT OF DEBT. HORACE, Ode XXII. Book 1. imitated TH Integer vitae fcelerifque purus, &c. I. HE Man, who not a Farthing owes, Who rife by Fraud and Cunning; Though in the Pig-market he ftand II. He paffes by each shop in Town, He quaffs the Nectar of the Tuns, III. What Joy attends a new-paid debt! Our Manciple I lately met Of Visage wife and prudent; I on the nail my Battels paid, Hear this, each Oxford Student! IV. IV. With Juftice and with Truth to trace Exceeds all Man's recounting; Or half-ftarv'd Cat-a-Mountain. V. A Phiz fo grim you scarce can meet Not BUCKHORSE, fierce with many a bruife, On his undaunted Forehead. vi. Place me on Scotlands bleakeft hill, provided I can pay my Bill, Hang ev'ry thought of Sorrow; There falling Sleet, or Froft or Rain, To Heddington then let me ftray, I'll ne'er complain of Phœbus; But But while he fcorches up the Grafs, And toaft her in a Rebus. ODE to an EAGLE, Quis tam crudeles optavit fumere pœnas, 2 VIRG. Atque affigit bumi dievere particulam aura. Hor Mperial Bird, who wont to foar IM High o'er the roiling Cloud, Where Hyperborean Mountains hoar Their Heads in Ether throud ; Thou fervant of Almighty Jove, Who free and swift as thought, could'st rove II. Oh cruel Fate! what barbarous hand, What more than Gothic Ire, At fome fierce Tyrant's dread Command, To check thy daring Fire, Has Has plac'd thee in this fervile Cell, Nor ever quits the carnal Breaft, But lurks and fneaks at Home! III. Though dim'd thine Eye, and clipt thy wing. Nor on thy Mis'ry cafts a care; The Stream of Love ne'er from his Heart But ftinks, and ftagnates there. IV. Yet ufeful ftill, hold to the Throng→→→→ Hold the reflecting Glass, That not untutor❜d at thy wrong The passenger may pass: Thou Type of Wit and sense confin'd, Born |