Nam & propriae telluris herum natura neque illum, Nec me, nec quemquam ftatuit. nos expulit ille; Dictus erat: nulli proprius; fed cedit in usum i Nunc mihi, nunc alii, quocirca vivite fortes, Fortiaque adverfis opponite pectora rebus. NOTES. VER. 183. proud Buckingham's etc.] Villers Duke of Buckingham. P. VER. 185. Let lands and boufes etc.] The turn of his d What's Property? dear Swift! you see it alter The Chanc'ry takes your rents for twenty year: 175 181 Who cries, "My father's damn'd, and all's my own. h Shades, that to BACON could retreat afford, Become the portion of a booby Lord; And Hemfley, once proud Buckingham's delight, i Let lands and houses have what Lords they will, NOTES. imitation, in the concluding part, obliged him to diverfify the fentiment. They are equally noble: but Horace's is expreffed with the greater force. EPISTOLA I. RIMA dicte mihi, fumma dicende camena, PRIMA b Spectatum fatis, et donatum jam rude, quaeris, Maecenas, iterum antiquo me includere ludo. с Non eadem eft aetas, non mens. Veianius, armis * Herculis ad poftem fixis, latet abditus agro; VER. 3. Sabbath of my days ?] i. e. The 49th year, the age of the Author. VER. 8. Hang their old Trophies o'er the Garden gates,] An occafional stroke of Satire on ill-placed ornaments. He has more openly ridiculed them in his Epiftle on Tafte. |