Has heaven referv'd, in pity to the poor, This mournful truth is ev'ry where confess'd, But hark! th' affrighted crowd's tumultuous cries Roll through the streets and thunder to the skies: Rais'd from fome pleafing dream of wealth and power, Some pompous palace or fome blissful bow'r, Aghaft you start, and scarce with aking fight Suftain th' approaching fire's tremendous light; Swift from pursuing horrors take your way, And leave your little ALL to flames a prey; -Agmine facto Debuerant olim tenues migraffe Quirites. • Haud facile emergunt, quorum virtutibus obstát Cum pretio -Omnia Roma Cogimur, cultis augere peculia fervis. N 2 Then • Then thro' the world a wretched vagrant roam, While all neglect, and most insult your woes. e Should heaven's juft bolts Orgilio's wealth confound, And spread his flaming palace on the ground, Swift o'er the land the difmal rumour flies, And publick mournings pacify the skies; The laureat tribe in fervile verse relate, How virtue wars with perfecuting fate; f With well-feign'd gratitude the penfion'd band Refund the plunder of the beggar'd land. See! while he builds, the gaudy vaffals come, And crowd with fudden wealth the rifing dome ; The price of boroughs and of fouls restore; And raise his treasures higher than before. Now blefs'd with all the baubles of the great, The polish'd marble, and the fhining plate, 8 Orgilio fees the golden pile afpire, And hopes from angry heav'n another fire. Ultimus autem, Ærumnæ cumulus, quod nudum, & fruftra rogantem • Si magna Afturici cecidit domus, horrida mater, Fam accurrit, qui marmora donet, Conferat impenfas: hic, &c. Hic modum argenti. Meliora, ac plura reponit Perficus orborum lautissimus, Could't * Could'st thou refign the park and play content, For the fair banks of Severn or of Trent There might'ft thou find fome elegant retreat, And ftretch thy prospects o'er the smiling land, On all thy hours fecurity fhall fmile, its wings; And bless thy evening walk and morning toil. 萨 i Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, And fign your will before you fup from home. Some fiery fop, with new commiffion vain, Who fleeps on brambles till he kills his man ; Si potes avelli Circenfibus, optima Sora, Vive bidentis amans, & culti villicus horti, Et fubiti cafus improvidus, ad cænam fi * Ebrius et petulans, qui nullum forte cecidit, Some frolick drunkard, reeling from a feaft, 1 Yet ev❜n thefe heroes, mifchievously gay, m In vain these dangers paft, your doors you clofe And plants, unfeen, a dagger in your breast. n Scarce can our fields, fuch crowds at Tyburn die, With hemp the gallows and the fleet fupply. Propose your schemes, ye fenatorian band, Whose ways and means fupport the finking land; Left ropes be wanting in the tempting spring, To rig another convoy for the k g. ·Sed, quamvis improbus annis, Atque mero fervens, cavet hunc, quem coccina læna Multum præterea flammarum, atque ænea lampas. m Nec tamen hoc tantum metuas: nam qui fpoliet te Non deerit: claufis domibus, &c. Maximus in vinclis ferri modus: ut timeas ne 7 A fingle • A fingle jail, in ALFRED's golden reign, The tide retiring calls me from the land: 9 Farewel!-When youth, and health, and fortune spent, rage, • Felices proavorum atavos, felicia dicas 9 -Ergo vale noftri memor: & quoties te Roma tuo refici properantem reddet Aquino, Me quoque ad Eleufinam Cererem, veftramque Dianam |