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IV.

What to thy Friends thy Hands confign,

And bounteously bestow;

That Treasure, that alone is thine,

And always will be so.

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I.

W do they err, who throw their Love
On Fate or Fortune wholly,

Whom only Rants and Flights can move,
And Rapture join'd with Folly!

II.

For how can Pleasure folid be

Where Thought is out of Seafon?

Do I love You, or You love Me,

My Dear, without a Reason?

III. Our

III.

Our Sense then rightly we'll employ,

No Paradise expecting;

Yet envying none the trifling Joy,

That will not bear reflecting.

IV.

For Wisdom's Pow'r (fince after all
Ev'n Life is past the curing!)
Softens the worst that can befall,
And makes the best enduring!

CATULLIAN UM,

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Decantatum illud

Boys and Girls, come out to play, &c.

Defte, ô pueri puellulæque,

Omnes undique, fed lubenter omnes ;

Lufuri pueri puellulæque.

Phabe pallidulo renidet orbe,

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Vix impar jubari meridiano,

Ne vobis vacet aut cibo aut fopori;
Non nobis vacat aut cibo aut fopori.
Vocant vos trivia choro fonantes,

Vocant vos comites; adefte ludis;
Vocant vos pueri puellulæque.

On Ben Johnson's Buft, lately fet up in Weftminfter Abby, with the Buttons on the wrong Side.

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Rare Ben Johnson! what, a Turn-coat

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Thou ne'er wert fuch, till thou wert clad in

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When Time thy Coat, thy only Coat impairs,
Thou'lt find a Patron in a hundred Years:

Then let not this Mistake disturb thy Sprite,
Another Age shall fet thy Buttons right.

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REFLECTIONS upon these two Verfes of Mr. OLDHAM'S :

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Lord of my felf, accountable to none
But to my Confcience, and my God alone.

I.

Ive there, compos'd of earthly Frame,

Who dare fuch Height of Pride to own,

Lords of themselves, themselves to name,

As if accountable to none?

II.

How vain th'affuming in a Dream
The Greatness due to God alone!

Who self-sufficient, and fupreme,

Still reigns accountable to none.

III.

Thus Lucifer his Honours loft,
Hurl'd headlong from his azu

So dear the short aspiring Colt,

To reign accountable to none.

IV.

Pride foars for Seraphim too high!

Shall Man be proud, a Wretch forlorn! Ere well he lives ordain'd to die,

Of Sin conceiv'd, and Woman born!

V.

An angry Look, or fudden Word,
A ftinging Weed, or little Thorn
Can discompose this mighty Lord,
Of Sin conceiv'd, and Woman born.

VI.

The flightest Toy can end his Span,
The meanest Object of his Scorn
Can crush this independant Man,
Of Sin conceiv'd, and Woman born.

VII. But

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