If, with thy guards, thou fcourt the Atreets by night, THE THE judicious Cafaubon, in his proem to this fatire, tells us, that Ariftophanes the grammarian being afked, what poem of Archilochus's Iambics he preferred before the reft; anfwered, the longeft. His answer may juftly be applied to this fifth fatire; which, being of a greater length than any of the reft, is alfo, by far, the most inftructive : for this reafon I have felected it from all the others, and infcribed it to my learned mafter, Doctor Bulby; to whom I am not only obliged myself for the best part of my own education, and that of my two fons; but have alfo received from him the first and trueft tafte of Perfius. May he be pleased to find in this tranflation, the gratitude, or at leaft fome fmall acknowledgment of his unworthy fcholar, at the distance of twenty-four years, from the time when I departed from under his tuition. This fatire confits of two diftin& parts: the firft contains the praifes of the ftcick philofopher Cornutus, matter and tutor to our Pertus. It alfo declares the love and piety of Pertius, to his well-deferving matter; and the mutual friendship which continued betwixt them, after Peruus was now grown a man. As alfo his exhortation to young noblemen, that they would enter themfelves into his inftitution. From whence he makes an artful tranfition into the fecond part of his fubject: wherein he first complains of the floth of fcholars, and afterwards perfuades them to the puriuit of their true liberty: Here our author excellently treats that paradox of the Stoicks, which affirms, that only the wife or virtucus man is free; and that all vicious men are naturally flaves. And, in the illuftration of this dogma, he takes up the remaining part of this inimitable fatire. THE THE FIFTH SATIRE. Infcribed to the Reverend Dr. BUSBY. The Speakers PERSIUS and CORNUTU s. PERSIUS. F ancient ufe to poets it belongs, OF To with themselves an hundred mouths and tongues : Whether to the well lung'd tragedian's rage They recommend the labours of the stage, CORNUTUS. And why would'ft thou thefe mighty morfels chufe, Of words unchew'd, and fit to choak the Mufe? Let fuftian poets, with their stuff, be gone, Of melting ore; nor canst thou ftrain thy throat, Like rolling thunder till it breaks the cloud, And the sweet accents of the peaceful gown : Get Another shakes the bed, diffolving there, And his past years, that in a mift were spent. But thou art pale, in nightly studies, grown, Thou long with studious care haft till'd our youth, Unhappy he who does this work adjourn, PERSIUS. But is one day of ease too much to borrow? Yes, fure: for yesterday was once to-morrow. Who, like the hindmost chariot-wheels, art curft, t which bondmen from their mafters find, The |