IMITATED.

TO MR. MURRAY.

"NOT to admire is all the art I know
"To make men happy and to keep them so."
(Plain truth, dear Murray! needs no flow'rs of
speech,

So take it in the very words of Creech.)

'This vault of air, this congregated ball,
Self-centred sun, and stars that rise and fall,
There are, my Friend! whose philosophic eyes
Look thro', and trust the Ruler with his skies;
To him commit the hour, the day, the year,
And view this dreadful All without a fear.

Admire we then what 3 earth's low entrails hold,
Arabian shores, or Indian seas infold;
All the mad trade of 4 fools and slaves for gold?

HOR. LIB. I. EPIST. VI.

NIL admirari, prope res una, Numici,
Solaque quæ possit facere et servare beatum.
1 Hunc solem, et stelias, et decedentia certis
Tempora momentis, sunt qui 2 formidine nullâ
Imbuti spectent. 3 quid censes munera terræ ?
Quid maris, extremos Arabas 4 ditantis et Indos?
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Or 'popularity? or stars and strings?
The mob's applauses, or the gift of kings?
Say with what eyes we ought at courts to gaze,
And pay the great our homage of amaze?

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If weak the 3 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 :

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Whether we * joy or grieve, the same the curse,
Surpris'd at better, or surpris'd at worse.

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Thus good or bad, to one extreme betray
Th'unbalanc'd mind, and snatch'd the man away; 25
For 5 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;

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Ludicra quid, plausus, et amici dona Quiritis, Quo spectanda modo, quo sensu credis, et ore? 3 Qui timet his adversa, fere miratur eodem Quo cupiens pacto.: pavor est utrobique molestus: Improvisa simul species exterret utrumque : 4 Gaudeat, an doleat ; cupiat, metuatne, quid ad rem; Si, quidquid vidit melius pejusve suâ spe, Defixis oculis, animoque et corpore torpet ? 5 Insani sapiens nomen ferat, æquus iniqui; Ultra, quam satis est, virtutem si petat ipsam.

Inunc, argentum, et marmor vetus, æraque et artes

Procure a taste to double the surprise,

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And gaze on1 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 3 council-board rejoice
To see their judgments hang upon thy voice;
From morn to night, at senáte, rolls, and hall,
Plead much, read more, dine late, or not at all.
But wherefore all this labour, all this strife?
For 5 fame, for riches, for a noble wife?"
Shall one whom Nature, learning, birth, conspir'd
To form not to admire but be admir'd, w

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Sigh while his Chloe, blind to wit and worth,
Weds the rich dulness of some son of earth?
Yet? time ennobles or dégrades each line;
It brighten'd Craggs's, and may darken thine. 45
And what is fame? the meanest have their day;
The greatest can but blaze and pass away.
Grac'd as thou art with all the pow'r of words,
So known, so honour'd, at the House of Lords:

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'Suspice: cum gemmis 2 Tyrios mirare colores: Gaude, quod spectant oculi te 3 mille loquentem : Gnavus mane forum, et vespertinus pete tectum, 5 Ne plus frumenti dotalibus emetat agris Mucius: (indignum, quod sit pejoribus ortus) Hic tibi sit potius, quam tu mirabilis illi.

7 Quidquid sub terra est, in apricum proferet ætas ; Defodiet, condetque nitentia. & cum bene notum:

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Conspicuous scene! another yet is nigh, (More silent far) where kings and poets lie; 1 Where Murray (long enough his country's pride) Shall be no more than Tully or than Hyde!

2 Rack'd with sciatics, martyr'd with the stone, Will any mortal let himself alone? See Ward, by batter'd beaus invited over, And desp'rate Misery lays hold on Dover. The case is easier in the mind's disease; There all men may be cur'd whene'er they please. Would ye be bless'd? despise low joys, low gains; Disdain whatever Cornbury disdains;

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Be virtuous, and be happy for your pains.
4 But art thou one whom new opinions sway,
One who believes as Tindal leads the way,

Who.virtue and a church aliké disowns,

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Thinks that but words, and this but brick and stones? Fly 5 then on all the wings of wild desire,

Admire whate'er the maddest can admire.

Porticus Agrippa, et via te conspexerit Appî;
Ire tamen restat Numa quo devenit et Ancus.
2 Si latus aut renes morbo tentantur acuto,
Quære fugam morbi. 3 vis recte vivere ? quis non ?
Si virtus hoc una potest dare, fortis omissis

Hoc age deliciis.

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4 virtutem verba putas, uť Lucum lignacave ne portus occupet alter,

Is wealth thy passion? hence! from pole to pole, Where winds can carry, or where waves can roll; 70

For Indian spices, for Peruvian gold, ::

Prevent the greedy, or outbid the bold:

1 Advance the golden mountain to the skies;
On the broad base of fifty thousand rise;

Add one round hundred, and (if that's not fair) 75
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 3 friends-as cannot fail to last, 80
A man of wealth is dubb'd a man of worth;
Venus shall give him form, and Anstis birth,
(Believe me many a 5 German prince is worse,
Who proud of pedigree is poor of purse.)

His wealth brave Timon gloriously confounds; 85
Aşk'd for a groat, he gives a hundred pounds :

Ne Cibyratica, ne Bithyna negotia perdas:
' Mille talenta rotundentur, totidem altera; porro
Tertia succedant, et quæ pars quadret acervum.
Scilicet uxorem cum dote, fidemque, et 3 amicos,
Et genus, et formam, regina 4 pecunia donat;
Ac bene nummatum decorat Suadela, Venusque.
Mancipiis locuples, egit æris 5 Cappadocum rex:
Ne fueris hic tu. chlamydes Lucullus, at aiunt,
Si posset centum scenæ præbere rogatus,

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