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Nam & propriae telluris herum natura neque illum,

Nec me, nec quemquam ftatuit. nos expulit ille;

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Dictus erat: nulli proprius; fed cedit in usum

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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

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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 f equity (the case not clear)

The Chanc'ry takes your rents for twenty year:
At beft, it falls to fome ungracious fon,

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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,
Slides to a Scriv❜ner or a city Knight,

i Let lands and houses have what Lords they will,
Let Us be fix'd, and our own masters still.

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.

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THE

FIRST EPISTLE

OF THE

FIRST BOOK

OF

HORACE.

EPISTOLA I.

RIMA dicte mihi, fumma dicende camena,

PRIMA

b Spectatum fatis, et donatum jam rude, quaeris,

Maecenas, iterum antiquo me includere ludo.

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Non eadem eft aetas, non mens. Veianius, armis

* Herculis ad poftem fixis, latet abditus agro;

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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.

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