ULYSSES. I, with the Firft accuftom'd to contend, TIRESIA S. That haughty Soul will ever keep you poor. ULYSSE S. More have I borne; my Spirit I'll fubdue. TIRESIA S. For Wills of rich old Dotards lie in wait; If there be Children, or a fruitful Wife : Than I, none better understand the Laws: < I, ere the World shall you, my Friend, despise, 'Or of one Mite deprive, will lose these Eyes: • Go home, indulge, of your dear Health takeCare, "I will myself conduct the whole Affair.' Perfift, the greatest Hardships undergo, 2 Though Furius on the Alps fpits hoary Snow, With 1 With out-ftretch'd Paunch, or with Autumnal Heats The new-made Statues raging Sirius splits. See, a By-fander jogs him, and commends If a Friend offer you his Will to read, ULYSSES. Mere Banter, Riddles, or a frantic Fit. TIRESIA S. 3 Whate'er I fay, or fhall, or fhall not be ; This Knowledge Phoebus has conferr'd on Me. ULYSSE S. If lawful, what this Story means explain. TIRESIA S. When, from Eneas fprung, a Prince fhall reign,. Who Who will, o'er Sea and Land, extend his Fame, His Will; Nafica fhall at first refuse, At length comply; but fhall find nothing there, ULYSSE S. None fure could one so chafte, so prudent, gain, Whom to feduce the Suitors ft. ove in vain. TIRESIA S. 5 The frugal Youths were fonder of good Cheer Than of the Dame, who held her Charms too dear: But if the Queen, whom you eftecm fo chafte, The Sweets of an Amour like this fhould tafte, And with you fhare the rich old Letcher's Gold, Sooner than fhe, a Leech would quit his Hold. At At Thebes, a Beldam dwelt, in Times of yore, Who dead, with Oyl would be anointed o'er, And, on his naked Back, enjoin'd her Heir, Thus to the Grave her flippery Coarfe to bear: Alive, he always ftuck to her so close, When dead, the hop'd t' escape him, I suppose. Great Circumfpection ufe in your Address; And, if vain-glorious, furfeit him with Praife: Till, with uplifted Hands, Hold! hold !" he cries, free, You, broad awake, the long-wifh'd Item fee, Tell Tell your Coheir, if ill and like to die, 6 Hell's haughty Empress summons me away. NOTE S. I Homer, in the Odyfey, Book XI. reprefents Ulyffes as defcending into Hell from the Country of the Cimmerians, near the Island of Circe, to confult Tirefias (a celebrated Soothsayer of Thebes in Boeotia) about his future Fortune; and gives us there the Speech of Ulysses, and the Prophet's Answer. This Satire is a Continuation of that Episode, and to be connected with the 148th Verse of that Book. Dacier is of Opinion, that the Scene lies in the fame Place; 6 as appears,' fays he, from the Words quoque, and præter narrata, at the Beginning.' Sanadon, on the other hand, fuppofes the Scene to lie in Ithaca; and that Ulyffes, on his Arrival there, confulted the Ghost of Tirefias a fecond Time. But this is an arbitrary Conjecture, not warranted by any thing in this Satire. It is faid, that Ulyffes muft have been in Ithaca, to ◄ know the Condition of his House and Family.' But this Suppofition is not at all neceffary, fince the Prophet had, in his former Speech, acquainted him with thofe Circumstances. - O nulli quicquam mentite, vides, ut Nudus inopfque domum redeam, te vate; neque illic This Connection will appear more clearly by inferting the Lines from Homer: Weary of Light, Ulyffes here explores A profperous Voyage to his native Shores; But know,-by Me th' unerring Fates difclofe 'New Trains of Dangers, and new Scenes of Woes 'Beneath the Waves • I fee thy Friends o'erwhelm'd in liquid Graves! The |