Grac'd as thou art with all the pow'r of words, So known, fo honour'd, at the House of Lords: Confpicuous scene! another yet is nigh, (More filent far) where kings and poets lie; 2 Where Murray (long enough his country's pride) Shall be no more than Tully or than Hyde!

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3 Rack'd with sciatics, martyr'd with the stone, Will any mortal let himself alone? See Ward, by batter'd beaus invited over, And defp'rate Misery lays hold on Dover. The cafe is eafier in the mind's disease; There all men may be cur'd whene'er they please. Would ye be 4 bless'd? despise low joys, Difdain whatever Cornbury difdains; Be virtuous, and be happy for your pains. 5 But art thou one whom new opinions sway, One who believes as Tindal leads the way, Who virtue and a church alike disowns, Thinks that but words, and this but brick and ftones? Fly 6 then on all the wings of wild defire, Admire whate'er the maddeft can admire.

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Is wealth thy paffion? 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:
7 Advance the golden mountain to the skies :
On the broad base of fifty thousand rise;

Defodiet, condetque nitentia. I cum bene notum
Porticus Agrippæ, et via te confpexerit Appî;
Ire tamen reftat Numa 2 quo devenit et Ancus.
3 Si latus aut renes morbo tentantur acuto,
Quære fugam morbi. 4 vis recte vivere ? quis non?
Si virtus hoc una poteft dare, fortis omiffis
Hoc age deliciis.

5 virtutem verba putas, ut Lucum ligna? 6 cave ne portus occupet alter, Ne Cibyratica, ne Bithyna negotia perdas: 7 Mille talenta rotundentur, totidem altera; porro

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Add one round hundred, and (if that's not fair)
Add fifty more, and bring it to a square:
For, mark th' advantage; just fo many fcore
Will gain a wife with half as many more,
Procure her beauty, make that beauty chafte,
And then fuch friends-as cannot fail to laft.
A 3 inan of wealth is dubb'd a man of worth;
Venus shall give him form, and Anftis birth.
(Believe me many a 4 German prince is worse,
Who proud of pedigree is poor of purse.)
His wealth 5 brave Timon gloriously confounds; 85
Aik'd for a groat, he gives a hundred pounds:
Or, if three ladies like a luckless play,
Takes the whole House upon the poet's day.
6 Now, in fuch exigencies not to need,
Upon my word you must be rich indeed :
A noble fuperfluity it craves,

Not for yourself, but for your fools and knaves;
Something which for your honour they may cheat,
And which it much becomes you to forget.
7 If wealth alone then make and keep us blest,
Still, still be getting, never, never rest.

8 But if to pow'r and place your passion lie, If in the pomp of life confifts the joy,

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Tertia fuccedant, et quæ pars quadret acervum.
Scilicet uxorem cum dote, fidemque, et 2 arnicos,
Et genus, et formam, regina 3 pecunia donat;
Ac bene nummatum decorat Suadela, Venusque,
Mancipiis locuples, egit æris 4 Cappadocum rex :
Ne fueris hic tu. 5 chlamydes Lucullus, at aiunt,
Si poffet centum scenæ præbere rogatus,
Qui poffum tot? ait: tamen et quæram, et quot habe-
Mittam: poft paulo fcribit, sibi millia quinque [bo,
Effe domi chlamydum; partem, vel tolleret omnes.

6 Exilis domus est, ubi non et multa fuperfunt,
Et dominum fallunt, et profunt furibus. 7 ergo
Si res fola potest facere et servare beatum;
Hoc primus repetas opus, hoc postremus omittas.
• Si fortunatum species, et gratia præstat;

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- To do the honours, and to give the word; Tell at your levee, as the crowds approach, To whom 2 to nod, whom take into your coach, Whom honour with your hand; to make remarks, Who 3 rules in Cornwal, or who rules in Berks: "This may be troublesome, is near the chair; "That makes three members, this can chuse a may'r." Instructed thus, you bow, embrace, protest, Adopt him 4 son, or cousin at the least, Then turn about, and 5 laugh at your own jest.

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Or if your life be one continu'd treat, If 6 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 7 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. Or shall we & ev'ry decency confound, Thro' taverns, stews, and bagnios, take our round? Go dine with Chartres, in each vice outdo 9 K-l's lewd cargo, or Ty-y's crew, From Latian Syrens, French Circæan feafts, Return'd well travell'd, and transform'd to beafts;

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• Mercemur servum, qui dictet nomina, lævum
Qui fodiat latus, et 2 cogat trans pondera dextram
Porrigere. 3 Hic multum in Fabia valet, ille Velina:
Cuilibet hic fasces dabit; eripietque curule,
Cui volet, importunus ebur. 4 frater, pater, adde:
Ut cuique eft ætas, ita quemque 5 facetus adopta.
Si 6 bene qui cϾnat, bene vivit: lucet; eamus,
Quo ducet gula; pifcemur, venemur: (ut 7 olim
Gargilius, qui mane plagas, venabula, servos,
Differtum tranfire forum, populumque jubebat:
Unus ut e multis populo spectante referret
Emptum mulus aprum.) & crudi tumidique lavemur.
Quid deceat, quid non, obliti; Cærite cera
Digni; 9 remigium vitiofum Ithacenfis Ulyssei;

Or for a title punk or foreign flame
Renounce our country, and degrade our name?

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The cordial drop of life is love alone,

And Swift cry wisely Vive la bagatelle!
The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.

3 Adieu-if this advice appear the worst, E'en take the counsel which I gave you first;

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Or better precepts if you can impart;

Why do, I'll follow them with all my heart.

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Cui potior patria fuit interdicta voluptas.
2 Si, Mimnermus uti censet, fine amore jocisque
Nil eft jucundum; vivas in amore jocisque.

3 Viva; vale. fi quid novifti rectius iftis; Candidus imperti: fi non, his utere mecum.

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(Imitated in the Manner of Doctor Swtft.]

TIS true, my Lord, I gave my word
I would be with you June the third;

Chang'd it to August, and (in short)
Have kept it as you do at court.
You humour me when I am fick;
Why not when I am splenetic?
In Town what objects could I meet?
The shops shut up in ev'ry street,
And fun'rals black'ning all the doors,
And yet more melancholy whores:
And what a dust in ev'ry place!
And a thin Court that wants your face,
And fevers raging up and down,
And W* and H** both in Town!

"The dog-days are no more the cafe,"
'Tis true, but winter comes apace:
Then southward let your bard retire,
Hold out some months 'twixt fun and fire,
And you shall see the first warm weather
Me and the butterflies together.

My Lord, your favours well I know; 'Tis with diftinction you bestow,

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HOR. LIB. I. EPIST. VII.

UINQUE dies tibi pollicitus me rure futurum, Sextilem totum mendax defideror. atqui, Si me vivere vis tanum recteque valentem; Quam mihi das ægro, dabis ægrotare timenti, Mæcenas, veniam; dum ficus prima calorque Designatorem decorat lictoribus atris: Dum pueris omnis pater, et matercula pallet : Officiofaque fedulitas, et opella forenfis Adducit febres, et testamenta refignat. Quod fi bruma nives albanis illinet agris; Ad mare descendet vates tuus, et fibi parcet, Contractusque leget; te, dulcis amice, reviset Cum zephyris, si concedes, et hirundine prima.

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