Quid i verum atque decens, curo et rogo, et omnis in hoc fum: * Condo, et compono, quæ mox depromere poffim. Ac ne forte roges, quo me duce, quo Lare tuter: Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri, m Quo me cunque rapit tempeftas, deferor hofpes. Nunc agilis fio, et merfor " civilibus undis, Virtutis verae cuftos, rigidufque fatelles: * Nunc in Ariftippi P furtim praecepta relabor, Et mihi res, non me rebus, fubjungere conor. 9 Ut nox longa, quibus mentitur amica; diefque Lenta videtur opus debentibus: ut piger annus Pupillis, quos dura premit cuftodia matrum : Sic mihi tarda fluunt ingrataque tempora, quae spem Confiliumque morantur agendi gnaviter s id, quod S Aeque pauperibus prodeft, locupletibus aeque, * Omnis Aristippum decuit color, et ftatus, et res. What i right, what true, what fit we justly call, k To lay this harvest up, and hoard with hafte But ask not, to what Doctors I apply? As drives them storm, at any door I knock: 20 25 And house with Montagne now, or now with Locke Sometimes a " Patriot, active in debate, n Mix with the World, and battle for the State, 1 Long, as to him who works for debt, the day, 35 Long as the Night to her whose Love's away, Long as the Year's dull circle seems to run, When the brisk Minor pants for twenty-one : my foul; up Which done, the poorest can no wants endure; 40 45 t Reftat, ut his ego me ipfe regam " folerque ele mentis : Non poffis oculo quantum contendere Lynceus; X y Fervet avaritia, miferoque cupidine pectus ? Sunt verba et voces, quibus hunc lenire dolorem Poffis, et magnam morbi deponere partem. Laudis amore tumes? funt a certa piacula, quae te 'Ter pure lecto poterunt recreare libello.. Invidus, iracundus, iners, vinofus, amator; Nemo 4 adeo ferus eft, ut non mitefcere poffit, Si modo culturae patientem commodet aurem. e Virtus eft, vitium fugere; et fapientia prima, Stultitia caruiffe. vides, quae f maxima credis Effe mala, exiguum cenfum, turpemque repulfam, Quanto devites animi capitifque labore. Impiger extremos curris mercator ad Indos, VER. 58. Between the fits---] The sense of magnam morbi deponere partem is here very happily expreffed. And Ter pure lecto, etc. Late as it is, I put myself to school, And feel fome " comfort, not to be a fool. * Weak tho' I am of limb, and short of Sight, 5.0 To keep these limbs, and to preferve thefe eyes. Know, there are Rhymes, which a fresh and fresh apply'd Will cure the arrant'ft Puppy of his Pride. Beb furious, envious, flothful, mad, or drunk, < Slave to a Wife, or Vaffal to a Punk, "Tis the first Virtue, Vices to abhor; 60 65 in the following line, as happily varied. But the whole paffage, which defcribes the ufe and efficacy of fatire, is admirably imitated. Per & mare pauperiem fugiens, per faxa, per ignes: VER. 70. Scar'd at the spectre of pale Poverty! Tho' this has all the fpirit, it has not all the imagery of the Original; where Horace makes Poverty pursue, and keep pace with the mifer in his flights Per mare pauperiem fugiens, per faxa, per ignes. But what follows, Wilt thou do nothing, etc. far furpaffes the Original. VER. 77. Here wisdom calls, etc.] All from hence to ver. 110, is a pretty close translation: but in general done with fo masterly a spirit, that the Original, tho' one of the most finished paffages in Horace, looks only like the imitation of it. VER. 78. As gold to Silver, Virtue is to Gold.] This perhaps is the most faulty line in the whole collection. The Original is, Vilius eft auro argentum, virtutibus aurum. which only fays, that as filver is of less value than gold, fo Gold is of lefs value than Virtue: in which fimple inferiority, and not the proportion of it, is implied. For it was as contrary to the Author's purpose, as it is to common fenfe, to suppose, that Virtue was but just as much better than gold, as gold is better than filver. Yet Mr. Pope, too attentive to his constant object, |