The George and Garter dangling from that bed Great Villers lies—alas! how chang'd from him, 305 Of mimick'd Statesmen, and their merry King. 310 No Fool to laugh at, which he valued more, 315 As well his Grace reply'd, “Like you, Sir John? 320 For very want; he could not build a wall. 325 For very want; he could not pay a dower. A few gray hairs his reverend temples crown'd, 'Twas very want that fold them for two pound. What! even deny'd a cordial at his end, Banish'd the Doctor, and expell'd the friend? 130 Yet numbers feel, the want of what he had! Cutler Cutler and Brutus, dying, both exclaim, "Virtue! and Wealth! what are ye but a name !" A plain good man, and Balaam was his name; His word would pass for more than he was worth. An added pudding folemniz'd the Lord's: 340 345 Conftant at Church, and Change; his gains were fure, His givings rare, fave farthings to the poor. The Devil was piqu'd such saintship to behold, And long'd to tempt him, like good Job of old: 350 But Satan now is wifer than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor. Rouz'd by the Prince of Air, the whirlwinds sweep The furge, and plunge his Father in the deep; 355 "Live VARIATION. Ver. 337. In the former Editions, That knotty point, my Lord, fhall I difcufs, "Live like yourself," was soon my Lady's word; And lo two puddings fmoak'd upon the board. 360 Afleep and naked as an Indian lay, An honeft factor ftole a Gem away: He pledg'd it to the knight, the knight had wit, Some fcruple rofe, but thus he eas'd his thought, 365 The Tempter faw his time; the work he ply'd; Behold Sir Balaam now a man of spirit, 370 375 His Compting-houfe employ'd the Sunday-morn: 380 Seldom at Church, ('twas such a bufy life) But duly fent his family and wife. There (fo the Devil ordain'd) one Christmas-tide 385 Firft, for his Son a gay Commiffion buys, Who drinks, whores, fights, and in a duel dies: 399 In Britain's Senate he a seat obtains, 395 400 THE Vanity of Expence in People of Wealth and Quality. The abuse of the word Tafte, ver. 13. That the first principle and foundation in this, as in every thing elfe, is Good Senfe, ver. 40. The chief proof of it is to follow Nature, even in works of mere Luxury and Elegance. Inftanced in Architecture and Gardening, where all must be adapted to the Genius and Ufe of the Place, and the Beauties not forced into it, but refulting from it, ver. 50. How men are difappointed in their moft expenfive undertakings, for want of this true Foundation, without which nothing can please long, if at all; and the best Examples and Rules will be but perverted into fomething burdenfome and ridiculous, ver. 65, &c. to 92. A defcription of the falfe Taste of Magnificence; the firft grand error of which is, to imagine that Greatnefs confifts in the Size and Dimension, instead of the Proportion and Harmony of the whole, ver. 97. and the fecond, either |