DAMASIPPUS. Examples only puzzle the Difpute. STERTINI U.S. What if a Man should purchase many a Lute, To make a Shoe, fhould Lafts and Awls provide ; To Heaven ungrateful, dreaded Want to shun, Thyfelf thou ftarv'ft, that thy luxurious Son, Or Slave enfranchis'd, may the more enjoy, And on their vagrant Lufts thy Wealth employ ! How little more would coft thy daily Food, If, on thy Sallad pour'd, the Oil were good, If neat thy Vefture and well-comb'd thy Hair! Why then this Perjury, thefe Thefts, to gain If thou with Stones fhould'ft pelt the gaping And ev'n the Slaves, which to thyfelf belong, Nor did thy Sword cut short their vital Thread, Think'ft thou that Fiends his Mind alone poffeft, The impious Parricide was stain'd with Gore: His His Senfes once a Lethargy opprefs'd, • Store, Left all be feiz'd by your rapacious Heir!' "What! while I live?" Then rouse yourself, beware! And wholesome Broths by my Prescription take; For empty are your Veins, your Stomach weak. Here, here, be quick, pour down this Soup of 'Rice.' "The Coft ?" A Trifle." "I will know the "Price." Eight Pence.'"From Thieves, ah! wherefore fhould I fly, "If I by Slops, fo dearly bought, must die ?" STERTINIUS. Madman and Fool. DAMASIPPUS. Is he, who ne'er the Stain Of Avarice has incurr'd, accounted fane? STERTINI U S. No; by no Means. DAMASIPPUS. STERTINIUS. You fhall hear. This Patient's Stomach of Complaints is clear," Says 23 Craterus. "Then may he fafely rife, "And is he well?" No, no, the Doctor cries, TheStone torments his Reins, theGout his Knee. From Perjury, from Avarice you are free: 'Tis well; a Pig then to your Lares give. But if a Dupe to rafh Pursuits you live, Hafte to Anticyra! By Reason's Rules, The Prodigal and Miser both are Fools. Two ancient Farms that near Canufium lay Opidius, blefs'd with Riches, (fo they say,) Between his Sons, while living, would divide, And wifely thus addrefs'd them ere he died: • When I have feen thee, Aulus, void of Care, In open Veft thy Nuts and Marbles bear, And lofe, or give them to thy Fellow-Boys; And thee, Tiberius, careful count thy Toys, And anxious hide them in fome fecret Place, From hence your various Frenzies I could trace; That one, like Nomentanus, would behave, The other, like Cicuta, fcrape and save. Now therefore, by our Houfhold-Gods, your Sire Adjures thee, Aulus, to preserve entire "What he fhall leave; nor thou, Tiberius, try O'er the wife Limits Nature fets, to fly; Nor add to my enough, though little, more! Befides, left on Ambition's Wings you foar, By folemn Vow, my Sons, let each be bound • With no State-Honours ever to be crown'd. "Let him who first shall break it, like the worst ⚫ Of Citizens, be outlaw'd and accurs'd!' Would't thou thy whole Estate, O Madman! wafte, To have the Circus with thy Splendor grac'd, AGA |