Tho' like an Eagle, or as Lyncens Ey'd, (old, He'd prove too Blind to fee une Caufo for Pride è We find (if Natures Secrets we descry) KINGS are like Peasants born, like Peasants die, This mighty THING a Bubble ev'ry Way. Which BEING Want, but in his Frantick Mind * Vid Hor. He ( He greatly glories in his youthful State, A Caufe as little as his Pride is great. Youth at its firft Appearance from us flies, T A Flow'r that blooms, and while 'tis Blooming dies. By which the Rofes blush to be out-fhone: Happy in Vefts, whofe Rich Embroid'ry tell Each Piece a Virtue, and each Pound a Score. Thus meer imaginary Worth and Pelf, Bubble the MAN, and cheat him of HIMSELF. From From each new Toy augmented Pride he takes, I 'Till overfwoll'n the Airy Bubble breaks. But let me, Mortals, in a truer Glafs Than that, in which thou'ft oft adorn'd that Face, A dreadful Sight! But one thy Glafs ne'er fhows. Unveiled Nature's ev'ry Miftery: Bones upon Bones, in wild Disorder thrown, This Corps might be, on which we careless stand, * See Hamlet. C If so, where's all the Grandeur that might grace, i Ini Probability, this MONARCH's Face oй Where is the Lilly, and the blufhing Red The Rofe, alas! and Lilly too is dead: godt two? In full Poffeffion of the Capital. How languid thofe once nervois Arms now fhew, The foaming Courfer o'er the founding Plain. This This Scull like that, and that like this appears, a Not by its Greatnefs known, Shape, Sex or Years: In this Perspective of Futurity, el dersdW See what thou art, and what thou foon fhall't be Then fay, vain Man, don't thus thy Objects feem, Thy Youth a Shadow, and thy Life a Dream. A Hooibre diablok 2o condi no. ERRAT AMD Hageri volt Age 16. Line 11. for hugg, read hugg'd; p. 17. l. 2. for andr. and triumphp.19. 1. 9. for Maonian, r. M20nian; p. 33. 1. 1. for Difpens'ry, r. Difpens'ry's; p. 36.1.7. for Coulours, r. Colour's; p. 48. l. 6. for not, r. no; p. 71. 1. 1. for pafs, r. pafs'd; p. 92. 1. 13. for in, r. is; p. 98. 1. 5. for tho, r. thofe; p. 102. 1. 11. for her Magick, r. Majeftick P. 133. 1. 9. for Maonian, r. Mæonian; p. 134. 14. for is r. you're. |