Grac'd as thou art with all the pow'r of words, So known, fo honour'd, at the Houfe of Lords: Confpicuous fcene! another yet is nigh, (More filent far) where kings and poets lie; 2 Where Murray (long enough his country's pride) Shall be no more than Tully or than Hyde!

3 Rack'd with sciatics, martyr'd with the stone, Will any mortal let himself alone?

See Ward, by batter'd beaus invited over,
And defp'rate Mifery lays hold on Dover.
The cafe is easier in the mind's disease;

There all men may be cur'd whene'er they please.
Would ye be 4 blefs'd? defpife low joys, low gains:
Difdain whatever Cornbury difdains;

Be virtuous, and be happy for your pains.

5 But art thou one whom new opinions fway, One who believes as Tindal leads the way, Who virtue and a church alike difowns,

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Thinks that but words, and this but brick and ftones ?

Fly then on all the wings of wild defire,
Admire whate'er the maddeft can admire.

Is wealth thy paffion? hence! from pole to pole,
Where winds can carry, or where waves can roll; 70
For Indian fpices, for Peruvian gold,

Prevent the greedy, or outbid the bold:

7 Advance the golden mountain to the skies:
On the broad bafe of fifty thousand rife;

Defodiet, condetque nitentia. I cum bene notum
Porticus Agrippæ, et via te confpexerit Appî;
Ire tamen reftat Numa 2 quo devenit et Ancus.
3 Si latus aut renes morbo tentantur acuto,
Quære fugam morbi. 4 vis recte vivere ? quis non ?
Si virtus hoc una potest dare, fortis omiffis

Hoc age deliciis.

5 virtutem verba putas, ut Lucum ligna? 6 cave ne portus occupet alter, Ne Cibyratica, ne Bithyna negotia perdas :

7 Mille talenta rotundentur, totidem altera; porro

Add one round hundred, and (if that's not fair)
Add fifty more, and bring it to a fquare:
For, mark th' advantage; juft fo many score
Will gain a wife with half as many more,
Procure her beauty, make that beauty chafte,
And then fuch 2 friends-as cannot fail to last.
A 3 man of wealth is dubb'd a man of worth;
Venus fhall give him form, and Anftis birth.
(Believe me many a 4 German prince is worse,
Who proud of pedigree is poor of purse.)

His wealth 5 brave Timmon gloriously confounds; 85
Afk'd for a groat, he gives a hundred pounds:
Or, if three ladies like a lucklefs play,
Takes the whole Houle upon the poet's day.
Now, in fuch exigencies not to need,

Upon my word you must be rich indeed :
A noble fuperfluity it craves,

Not for yourself, but for your fools and knaves;
Something which for your honour they may cheat,
And which it much becomes you to forget.

7 If wealth alone then make and keep us bleft,
Still, fill be getting, never, never rest.

8 But if to pow'r and place your paffion lie, If in the pomp of life confifts the joy,

Tertia fuccedant, et quæ pars quadret acervum.
Scilicet uxorem cum dote, fidemque, et 2 arnicos,
Et genus, et formam, regina 3 pecunia donat ;
Ac bene nummatum decorat Suadela, Venufque,
Mancipiis locuples, egit æris 4 Cappadocum rex:
Ne fueris hic tu. 5 chlamydes Lucullus, at aiunt,
Si poffet centum fcenæ præbere rogatus,

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Qui poffum tot? ait: tamen et quæram, et quot habeMittam poft paulo fcribit, fibi millia quinque [bo, Effe domi chlamydum; partem, vel tolleret omnes.

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6 Exilis domus eft, ubi non et multa fuperfunt, Et dominum fallunt, et profunt furibus. 7 ergo Si res fola poteft facere et fervare beatum ; Hoc primus repetas opus, hoc poftremus omittas. 8 Si fortunatum fpecies, et gratia præftat;

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Then hire a flave, or (if you will) a lord,
To do the honours, and to give the word;
Tell at your levee, as the crowds approach,
To whom 2 to nod, whom take into your coach,
Whom honour with your hand; to make remarks,
Who 3 rules in Cornwal, or who rules in Berks :
"This may be troublesome, is near the chair;
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"That makes three members, this can chufe a may'r."
Inftructed thus, you bow, embrace, protest,
Adopt him 4 fon, or coufin at the least,
Then turn about, and 5 laugh at your own jest.
Or if your life be one continu'd treat,
If 6 to live well means nothing but to eat;
Up, up! cries Gluttony, 'tis break of day,
Go drive the deer, and drag the finny prey;
With hounds and horns go hunt an appetite-
So 7 Ruffel did, but could not eat at night;
Call'd happy dog the beggar at his door,
And envy'd thirft and hunger to the poor.
Or fhall we & ev'ry decency confound,

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Thro' taverns, stews, and bagnios, take our round?
Go dine with Chartres, in each vice outdo

9 K-l's lewd cargo, or Ty-y's crew,
From Latian Syrens, French Circæan feasts,
Return'd well travell'd, and transform'd to beasts;

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1 Mercemur fervum, qui dictet nomina, lævum
Qui fodiat latus, et 2 cogat trans pondera dextram
Porrigere. 3 Hic multum in Fabia valet, ille Velina:
Cuilibet hic fafces dabit; eripietque curule,
Cui volet, importunus ebur. 4 frater, pater, adde:
Ut cuique eft ætas, ita quemque 5 facetus adopta.
Si bene qui coenat, bene vivit : lucet; eamus,
Quo ducet gula; pifcemur, venemur: (ut 7 olim
Gargilius, qui mane plagas, venabula, fervos,
Differtum tranfire forum, populumque jubebat :
Unus ut e multis populo fpectante referret

Emptum mulus aprum.) 8 crudi tumidique lavemur.
Quid deceat, quid non, obliti; Cærite cera
Digni; 9 remigium vitiofum Ithacenfis Ulyssei;

Or for a title punk or foreign flame

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Renounce our country, and degrade our name?
If, after all, we muft with Wilmot own,

The cordial drop of life is love alone,

And Swift cry wifely Vive la bagatelle !

The man that loves and laughs muft fure do well.
3 Adieu-if this advice appear the worst,
E'en take the counfel which I gave you first;
Or better precepts if you can impart;
Why do, I'll follow them with all

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Cui potior patria fuit interdiéta voluptas.
2 Si, Mimnermus uti cenfet, fine amore jocifque
Nil eft jucundum; vivas in amore jocifque.

3 Viva; vale. fi quid novifti rectius iftis; Candidus imperti: fi non, his utere mecum.

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[Imitated in the Manner of Doctor Swtft.]

IS true, my Lord, I gave my word
I would be with you June the third;
Chang'd it to August, and (in short)
Have kept it as you do at court.
You humour me when I am fick;
Why not when I am fplenetic?
In Town what objects could I meet?
The fhops fhut up in ev'ry street,
And fun' als black'ning all the doors,
And yet more melancholy whores:
And what a duft in ev'ry place!
And a thin Court that wants your face,
And fevers raging up and down,
And W* and H** both in Town!

"The dog-days are no more the case,"
'Tis true, but winter comes apace:
Then fouthward let your bard retire,
Hold out fome months 'twixt fun and fire,
And you fhall fee the firft warm weather
Me and the butterflies together.

My Lord, your favours well I know; 'Tis with distinction you bestow,

HOR. LIB. I. EPIST. VII.

Sextilem totum mendax defideror. atqui,
Si me vivere vis lanum recteque valentem;
Quam mihi das ægro, dabis ægrotare timenti,
Maecenas, veniam; dum ficus prima calorque
Defignatorem decorat lictoribus atris:
Dum pueris omnis pater, et matercula pallet :
Officiotaque fedulitas, et opella forenfis
Adducit febres, et testamenta refignat.
Quod fi bruma nives albanis illinet agris;
Ad mare defcendet vates tuus, et fibi parcet,
Contractufque leget; te, dulcis amice, reviset
Cum zephyris, fi concedes, et hirundine prima.
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