To either India see the merchant fly,

Scar'd at the spectre of pale Poverty !
See him with pains of body, pangs of soul,
Burn thro' the tropic, freeze beneath the pole !
Wilt thou do nothing for a nobler end,
Nothing to make Philosophy thy friend?
To stop thy foolish views, thy long desires,
And ease thy heart of all that it admires ?

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2 Here Wisdom calls, 3" Seek Virtue first, be bold! "As gold to silver virtue is to gold.”

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There London's voice, 4" Get money, money still!
"And then let Virtue follow if she will."
This, this the saving doctrine preach'd to all,
From 5 low St. James's up to high St. Paul;

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From him whose quills stand quiver'd at his ear, To him who notches sticks at Westminster.

Esse mala, exiguum, censum, turpemque repulsam,
Quanto devites animi capitisque labore,
Impiger extremos curris mercator ad Indos,
Per mare pauperiem fugiens, per saxa, per ignes :
Ne cures 2 ea, quæ stulte miraris et optas,
Discere, et audire, et meliori credere non vis?
Quis circum pagos et circum compita pugnax
Magna coronari contemnat Olympia, cui spes,
Cui sit conditio dulci sine pulvere palmæ ?

3 Vilius argentum est auro, virtutibus aurum. ❝ 4 O cives, cives ! quærenda pecunia primum est; "Virtus post nummos: "hæc 5 Janus summus ab imo Perdocet; hæc recinunt juvenes dictata senesque, Levo suspensi loculos tabulamque lacerto.

Barnard in spirit, sense, and truth, abounds; 85 "Pray then what wants he?" Fourscore thousand A pension, or such harness for a slave

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[pounds; As Bug now has, and Dorimant would have. Barnard, thou art a 2 Cit, with all thy worth But Bug and D*1, Their Honours! and so forth. Yet ev'ry 3 child another song will sing, “Virtue, brave boys! 'tis virtue makes a king.” True conscious honour is to feel no sin; He's arm'd without that's innocent within : Be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass; 95 Compar'd to this a minister's an ass.

5 And say, to which shall our applause belong, This new court-jargon, or the good old song? The modern language of corrupted peers, Or what was spoke at Cressy or Poitiers? 7 Who counsels best? who whispers, "Be but great, "With praise or infamy leave that to Fate; "Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; "If not, by any means get wealth and place."

Si quadringentis sex septem millia desunt;
Est animus tibi, sunt mores, et lingua, fidesque:
2 Plebs eris. 3 at pueri ludentes, Rex eris, aiunt,
Si recte facies. Hic 4 murus aheneus esto,
Nil conscire sibi, nulla pallescere, culpa.

5 Roscia, dic sodes, melior lex, an puerorum
Nænia, quæ regnum recte facientibus offert,
Et maribus Curiis, et decantata Camillis?

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Isne tibi melius suadet, qui " Rem facias, rem,

For what? to have a 1 box where eunuchs sing, 105
And foremost in the circle eye a king.

Or 2 he who bids thee face with steady view
Proud Fortune, and look shallow Greatness thro',
And 3 while he bids thee sets th' example too?
If such a doctrine, in St. James's air,
Should chance to make the well-dress'd rabble stare;
If honest S**z take scandal at a spark

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That less admires the 5 Palace than the Park; Faith I shall give the answer 6 Reynard gave, "I cannot like, dread Sir! your royal cave; 115 "Because I see, by all the tracts about,

"Full many a beast goes in, but none come out." Adieu to Virtue if you're once a slave: Send her to court, you send her to her grave. Well, if a king's a lion, at the least 'The people are a many-headed beast:

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"Si possis recte ; si non, quocunque modo rem;" Ut' propius spectes lacrymosa poëmata Puppî: An qui fortunæ te responsare superbæ

Liberum et erectum 3 præsens hortatur, et aptat?
4 Quod si me populus Romanus forte roget, cur
Non, ut 5 porticibus, sic judiciis fruar iisdem,
Nec sequar aut fugiam, quæ diligit ipse vel odit;
Olim quod vulpes ægroto cauta leoni

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Respondit, referam : Quia me vestigia terrent, Omnia te adversum spectantia, nulla retrorsum. 7 Bellua multorum est capitum. nam quid sequar, aut quem?

Can they direct what measures to pursue

Who know themselves so little what to do?
Alike in nothing but one lust of gold,

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Just half the land would buy, and half be sold: 125 'Their country's wealth our mightier misers drain, Or cross, to plunder provinces, the main :

The rest, some farm the poor-box, some the pews;
Some keep assemblies, and would keep the stews;
Some 2 with fat bucks on childless dotards fawn; 130
Some win rich widows by their chine and brawn;
While with the silent growth of ten per cent.
In dirt and darkness 3 hundreds stink content.
Of all these ways, if each * pursues his own,
Satire be kind, and let the wretch alone;
But shew me one who has it in his pow'r
To act consistent with himself an hour.

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Sir Job sail'd forth, the ev'ning bright and still, "No place on earth (he cry'd) like Greenwich hill!" 6 Up starts a palace; lo, th' obedient base

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Slopes at its foot, the woods its sides embrace,
The silver Thames reflects its marble face.

Pars hominum gestit conducere publica: sunt qui 2 Crustis et pomis viduas venentur avaras, Excipiantque senes, quos in vivaria mittant: 3 Multis occulto crescit res fænore. 4 verum Esto aliis alios rebus studiisque teneri: Iidem eadem possunt horam durare probantes ? 5 Nullus in orbe sinus Baiis prælucet amœnis, Si dixit dives; lacus et mare sentit amorem

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Now let some whimsey, or that devil within Which guides all those who know not what they But give the knight (or give his lady) spleen, [mean, "Away, away! take all your scaffolds down, 146 "For Snug's the word: my dear! we'll live in "Town."

At am'rous Flavio is the 2 stocking thrown? That very night he longs to lie alone.

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3 The fool whose wife elopes some thrice a quarter, For matrimonial solace dies à martyr. Did ever 4 Proteus, Merlin, any witch, Transform themselves so strangely as the rich? Well, but the 5 poor-the poor have the same itch; They change their weekly barber, weekly news, ·Prefer a new japanner to their shoes, 156 Discharge their garrets, move their beds, and run (They know not whither) in a chaise and one; They hire their sculler, and when once aboard Grow sick, and damn the climate-like a lord. 160

Festinantis heri: cui si vitiosa libido

Fecerit auspicium; cras ferramenta Teanum
Tolletis fabri. 2 lectus genealis in aula est ?
Nil ait esse prius, melius nil cœlibe vita:
3 Si non est, jurat bene solis esse maritis.
4 Quo teneam vultus mutantem Protea nodo ?
Quid pauper? ride: mutat coenacula lectos,
Balnea, tonsores; 7 conducto navigio æque
Nauseat ac locuples, quem ducit priva triremis.

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