But when no prelate's lawn with hair-shirt lin'd, When (each opinion with the next at ftrife, I plant, root up; I build, and then confound; 165 175 Turn round to fquare, and fquare again to round; 170 180 185 THE SIXTH EPISTLE of the FIRST BOOK O F HOR AC A C E. EPISTLE E VI. To Mr. MURRAY. "NOT to admire, is all the art I know, (Plain truth, dear MURRAY, *needs no flow'rs of fpeech, So take it in the very words of Creech) This vault of air, this congregated ball, 5 ΙΟ * This piece is the most finished of all his imitations, and executed in the high manner the Italian painters call con amore. By which they mean, the exertion of that principle, which puts the faculties on the stretch, and produces the fupreme degree of excellence. For the poet had all the warmth of affection for the great lawyer to whom it is addressed; and, indeed, no man ever more deferved to have a Poet for his friend. In the obtaining of which, as neither vanity, party, nor fear, had any fhare: fo he fupported his title to it by all the offices of true friendship. } 35 Admire we then what earth's low entrails hold, If weak the pleasure that from these can spring, f But wherefore all this labour, all this ftrife? 40 Sigh, while his Chloe blind to wit and worth Yet time enobles, or degrades each line; 45. And what is fame? the meaneft have their day, Grac'd Grac'd as thou art, with all the pow'r of words, 50 55 See Ward by batter'd beaus invited over, And desp❜rate mifery lays hold on Dover. The cafe is easier in the mind's disease ; There all men may be cur'd, whene'er they please. 60 Be virtuous, and be happy for your pains. But art thou one, whom new opinions sway, One who believes as Tindal leads the way, Who virtue and a church alike difowns, 65 Thinks that but words, and this but brick and stones ? Fly then, on all the wings of wild defire, Admire whate'er the maddeft can admire : Is wealth thy paffion? Hence! from pole to pole, Where winds can carry, or where waves can roll, 70 Prevent the greedy, or outbid the bold: Advance thy golden mountain to the skies; Add one round hundred, and (if that's not fair) * Equal to either, in the ministry of his profeffion; and fuperior to both where the parallel fails; TULLY's brightest talents were frequently tarnished by Vanity and Fear; and HYDE's most virtuous purposes perverted and defeated by fuperftitious notions concerning the divine origin of government, and the unlimited obedience of the people. A man A man of wealth is dubb'd a man of worth, A noble fuperfluity it craves, Not for yourself, but for your fools and knaves; 85 90 95 100 105 But if to power and place your paffion lie, If in the pomp of life confift the joy ; Then hire a flave, or (if you will) a lord To do the honours, and to give the word; Tell at your levee, as the crouds approach, To whom to nod, whom take into your coach, Whom honour with your hand to make remarks, Who rules in Cornwall, or who rules in Berks: "This may be troublesome, is near the chair: "That makes three members, this can chufe a may'r." Inftructed thus, you bow, embrace, proteft, Adopt him fon, or coufin at the least, Then turn about, and laugh at your own jest. Or if your life be one continu'd treat, If to live well means nothing but to eat; Up, up! cries Gluttony, 'tis break of day, Go drive the deer, and drag the finny prey; With hounds and horns go hunt an appetiteSo Ruffel did, but could not eat at night, Call'd happy dog! the beggar at his door, And envy'd thirst and hunger to the poor. 110 115 Or |