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Has heaven referv'd, in pity to the poor,
No pathless waste or undiscover'd shore ?
No fecret island in the boundless main ?
No peaceful defart yet unclaim'd by SPAIN ?
Quick let us rise, the happy feats explore,
And bear oppreffion's infolence no more.

This mournful truth is ev'ry where confess'd,
SLOW RISES WORTH, BY POVERTY DEPRESS’D:
But here more flow, where all are slaves to gold,
Where looks are merchandise, and fimiles are fold 3
Where won by bribes, by flatteries implor'd,
The groom retails the favours of his lord.

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
Res angufta domi ; fed Roma durior illis
Conatus

Cum pretio

-Omnia Roma

Cogimur, cultis augere peculia fervis.

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Then

• Then thro' the world a wretched vagrant roam,
For where can starving merit find a home?
In vain your mournful narrative disclose,

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
Nemo cibo, nemo hofpitio, tectoque juvabit.

• Si magna Afturici cecidit domus, horrida mater,
Pullati proceres.

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,
Some hireling fenator's deferted feat;

And ftretch thy prospects o'er the smiling land,
For less than rent the dungeons of the Strand;
There prune thy walks, fupport thy drooping flow'rs,
Direct thy rivulets, and twine thy bow'rs;
And, while thy beds a cheap repast afford,
Despise the dainties of a venal lord.
There ev'ry bush with nature's mufick rings,
There ev'ry breeze bears health upon

On all thy hours fecurity fhall fmile,

its wings;

And bless thy evening walk and morning toil.

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,
Aut Fabraterie domus, aut Frufinone paratur,
Quanti nunc tenebras unum conducis in annum.
Hortulus hic

Vive bidentis amans, & culti villicus horti,
Unde epulum poffis centum dare Pythagorais.
i Poffis ignavus haberi,

Et fubiti cafus improvidus, ad cænam fi
Inteftatus eas.

* Ebrius et petulans, qui nullum forte cecidit,
Dat pænas, noctem patitur lugentis amicum
Peleida.

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Some frolick drunkard, reeling from a feaft,
Provokes a broil, and ftabs you for a jest

1 Yet ev❜n thefe heroes, mifchievously gay,
Lords of the ftreet, and terrors of the way;
Flush'd as they are with folly, youth and wine,
Their prudent infults to the poor confine;
Afar they mark the flambeau's bright approach,
And shun the fhining train, and golden coach.

m In vain these dangers paft, your doors you clofe
And hope the balmy bleffings of repofe :
Cruel with guilt and daring with despair,
The midnight murd'rer bursts the faithlefs bar;
Invades the facred hour of filent reft,

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
Vitari jubet, et comitum longiffimus ordo,

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
Vomer deficiat, ne marre et farcula defint.

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A fingle

• A fingle jail, in ALFRED's golden reign,
Could half the nation's criminals contain;
Fair Juftice then, without conftraint ador'd,
Held high the steady scale, but deep'd the fword;
No spies were paid, no special juries known,
Bleft age! but ah! how diff'rent from our own!
Much could I add, but fee the boat at hand,

The tide retiring calls me from the land:

9 Farewel!-When youth, and health, and fortune spent,
Thou fly'ft for refuge to the wilds of Kent;
And tir'd like me with follies and with crimes,
In angry numbers warn'st fucceeding times;
Then shall thy friend, nor thou refuse his aid,
Still foe to vice, forsake his Cambrian shade;
In virtue's caufe once more exert his
Thy fatire point, and animate thy page.

rage,

• Felices proavorum atavos, felicia dicas
Secula, quæ quondam fub regibus atque tribunis
Viderunt uno contentam carcere Romam.
His alias poteram, & plures fubnectere caufas :
Sed jumenta vocant.

9

-Ergo vale noftri memor: & quoties te

Roma tuo refici properantem reddet Aquino,

Me quoque ad Eleufinam Cererem, veftramque Dianam
Convelle a Cunis: fatirarum ergo, ni pudet illas,
Adjutor gelidos veniam caligatus in agros.

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