But on fome (1) lucky day (as when they found
A loft bank bill, or heard their fon was drown'd),
At fuch a feaft. (u) old vinegar to pare,
Is what two fouis too generous cannot bear :
Oil, though it ftink, they drop by drop impart,
But fowfe the cabbage with a bounteous heart.
(x) He knows to live, who keeps the middle
ftate,

And neither-leans on this fide, nor on that;
Nor (y) tops, for one bad cork, his butler's pay,
Swears, like Albutius, a good cook away;
Nor lets, like (a) Nævius, every error pass,
The mufty wine, foul cloth, or greafy glass.
(b) Now hear what bleflings temperance can
bring:

(Thus faid our friend, and what he said I fing)
(6) First Health: the stomach crammi'd from every
dish,

A tomb of boil'd and roaft, and flesh and fish,
Where bile, and wind, and phlegm, and acid jar,
And all the man is one inteftine war)
Remembers oft (d) the school-boy's fimple fare,
The temperate fleeps, and fpirits light as air.
(e) How pale, each worshipful and reverend guest
Rife from a clergy, or a city feaft!
What life in all that ample body, say?
What heavenly particle infpires the clay?
The foul fublides, and wickedly inclines

To feem but mortal, ev'n in found divines. [rind
(ƒ) On morning wings how active springs the
That leaves the load of yesterday behind!
How eafy every labour it purfucs!
How coming to the poet every muse!
(g) Not but we may exceed, fome holy time,
Or tir'd in fearch of truth, or fearch of rhyme;

(4) Accipe nune, victus tenuis quae quantaque Aferat () In primis valeas bene; nam variae res 1t noceant homini, credas, memor illius efcae, Quae fimplex olim (d) tibi federit. at fimul affis Mileueris elixa, fimul conchylia turdis; Dulcia fe in bilem vertent, ftomachoque tumultum Lenta feret pituita. (e) Vides, ut pallidus omnis Coena defurgat dubia? quin corpus onuftum Hefternis vitiis animum quoque praegravat una, Atque affigit humo divinae particulam aurae. (ƒ) Alter, ubi dicto citius curata fopori Membra dedit, vegetus praefcripta ad munia furgit. (6) Hic tamen ad melius poterit tranfcurrere quondam ;

Ill health fome juft indulgence may engage;
And more the fickness of long life, old age;
(b) For fainting age what cordial drop remains,
If our intemperate youth the veffel drains?

(i) Our fathers prais'd rank ven'son. You fuppofe,

Perhaps, young men our fathers had no nose.
Not fo: a buck was then a week's repast,
And 'twas their point, 1 ween, to make it laft;
More pleas'd to keep it till their friends could

come,

Than eat the fweetest by themselves at home. (*) Why had not I in thofe good times my birth, Ere coxcomb pyes or coxcombs were on earth?

(pye

Unworthy he, the voice of fame to hear, (1) That fweeteft mufic to an honeft ear; (For 'faith, Lord Fanny! you are in the wrong, The world's good word is better than a fong) Who has not learn'd, () fresh fturgeon and ham Are no rewards for want, and infamy! When luxury has lick'd up all my pelf, Curs'd be thy (n) neighbours, thy trustees, thyself, To friends, to fortune, to mankind a fhame, Think how pofterity will treat thy name; And (a) buy a rope, that future times may tell Thou haft at Icaft beftow'd one penny well. [need (p)" Right, cries his lordship, for a rogue in "To have a tatte, is infolence indeed :

"In me 'tis noble, fuits my birth and state,

My wealth unwieldy, (g) and my heap too great.” Then, like the fun, let bounty spread her ray, And thine that fuperfluity away.

Oh impudence of wealth! with all thy store. How dar'ft thou let one worthy man be poor? Shall half the (r) new-built churches round thee fall?

Make keys, build bridges, or repair Whitehall:

Sive diem feftum rediens advexerit annus,
Seu recreare volet tenuatum corpus: ubique
Accedent anni et tractari mollius aetas
Imbecilla volet. (b) libi quidnam accedet ad ístam,
Quam puer et validus praefumis, mollitiem; feu
Dura valetudo inciderit, feu tarda fenectus?

(i) Rancidum aprum antiqui laudabant: non
quia nafus

[hofpes Illis nullus erat; fed, credo, hac mente, quod Fardius adveniens vitiatum commodius, quam Integram edax dominus confumeret (4) hos utinam inter

Heroas natum tellus me prima tuliffet. [aurem (1) Das aliquid famae, quae carmine gratior Occupet humanum? grandes rhombi, patinacque Grande ferunt una (m) cum damno dedecus adde (n) Iratum patruum, vicino, te tibi iniquum, | Et fruitra mortis cupidum, cum ocerit egenti (0) As, laquei pretium.

() Jure, inquit, Traufus iftis Jugatur verbis: ego vectigalia magna, Divitialque habeo tribus amplas regibus. (9) Ergo, Quod fuperat, non eft melius quo infumere poflis? Cur eget indignus quifquam, te divite? quare (F) Templa ruunt antiqui Deam? cur improbe,

ca: 30

Or to thy country let that heap be lent, As Mo's was, but not at five per cent. () Who thinks that fortune cannot her mind,

change

Prepares a dreadful jeft for all mankind.
Ard (1) who ftands fafeft? tell me, is it he
That fpreads and fwells in puff'd prosperity,
Or bleft with little whofe preventing care
In peace provides fit arms against a war?

(*) Thus Bethel fpoke, who always speaks his thought,

And always thinks the very thing he ought:
His equal mind I copy what I can,

And as I love, would imitate the man.

In South-Sea days not happier, when furmis'd
The lord of thousands, than if now (~) excis'd;
In foreft planted by a father's hand,
Than in five acres now of rental land.
Content with little I can piddle here
On (r) broccoli and mutton, round the year;
But (y) ancient friends (though poor, or out of
That touch my bell, I cannot turn away. [play)
Tis true, no (z) turbots dignify my boards,
But gudgeons, flounders, what my Thames affords:
To Houndow Heath I point, and Bansted Down,
Thence comes your mutton, and these chicks my

Non aliquid patriae tanto emetiris acervo? Uni nimirum tibi recte femper erunt res? (1)O magnus pofthac inimicis rifus! uterne (4) Ad cafus dubios fidet fibi certius? hic, qui ⚫ Puribus affuerit mentem corpufque fuperbum; Aa qui contentus parvo metuenfque futuri, pace, ut fapiens, aptarit idonea bello?

() Quo magis his credas: puer hunc ego parvus Ofellum

Integris opibus novi non latius ufum,

Quam nunc () accifis. Videas, metato in agello, Cum pecore et gratis, fortein mercede colonum, Non ego, narrantem, temere edi luce profesta Quidquam, praeter (a) olus fumofae cum pede pes, Ac mihi feu (y) longum poft tempus venerat holSive operum vacuo gratus conviva per imbrem Vicinus; bene erat, non (z) pifcibus urbe petitis, Sed pullo atque hoedo: tum (a) penfilis uva fe

pernae.

cundas

Et nax ornabat menfas, eum duplice ficu.
Poft hoc ludas erat (6) cuppa potare magiftra:
Ac venerata Ceres, ita culmo furgeret alto,
Explicuit vino contractae feria frontis.

Sacviat atque novos moveat Fortuna tumultus! Quantum hinc imminuet? quanto aut ego parcius,

aut vos,

My life's amusement's have been just the fame,
Before, and after (c) standing armies came.
My lands are fold, my father's houfe is gone;
I'll hire another's; is not that my own, [ing gate
And yours, my friends? through whose free open-
None comes too early, none departs too late;
(For I, who hold fage Homer's rule the beft,
Welcome the coming, speed the going guest).
"Pray heaven it laft (cries Swift) as you go on
"I wish to God this houfe had been your own:
"Pity to build, without a fon or wife;
"Why, you'll enjoy it only all your life,"
Well, if the ufe be mine, can it concern one,
Whether the name belong to Pope or Vernon?
What's (d) property? dear Swift you fee it alter
From you to me, from me to (e) Peter Walter;
Or, in a mortgage, prove a lawyer's fhare;
Or, in a jointure, vanifh from the heir;
Or in pure (f) equity (the cafe not clear)
The Chancery takes your rent for twenty year:
At beft, it falls to fome (g) ungracious fon, [own."
Who cries, "My father's damn'd, and all's my
(b) Shades, that to Bacon could retreat afford,
Become the portion of a booby lord;

And Hemfley, once proud Buckingham's delight
Slides to a fcrivener, or a city knight.
(i) Let lands and houses have what lords they will,
Let us be fix'd, and our own masters still.

O pueri, nituiftis, ut huc (c) novus incola venit?
Nam (d) propriae telluris herum natura neque illum
Nec me, nec quemquam ftatuit. no expulit ille;
Illum aut (e) nequities aut (ƒ) vafri infcitia juris.
Poftremum expellet certe (g) vivacior heres.
(b) Nunc ager Umbreni fub nomine, nuper Ofelli
Dictus erat ulli proprius; fed cedit in ufum
Nunc mihi, nunc alii. (i) quocirca vivite fortes,
Fortiaque adverfis opponite pectora rebus.

BOOK I. EPISTLE I.

TO LORD BOLINGBROKE.

ST. JOHN, whofe love indulg'd my labours past,
Matures my prefent, and fhall bound my lait !
Why (6) will you break the fabbath of my days?
Now fick alike of envy and of praife.

Public too long, ah let me hide my age!
See modeft () Cibber now has left the stage:
Our generals now, (d) retir'd to their eftates,
Hang their old trophies o'er the garden gates,
In life's cool evening fatiate of applaufe, [caufe.
Nor (e) fond of bleeding, ev'n in Bruniwick's

EPISTOLA I.

PRIMA dicte mihi, fumma dicende camena, (6) Spectatum fatis, et donatum jam rude, quaetis, Maecenas, iterum antiquo me includere ludo. Non eadem eft aetas, non mens. (c) Veianius, armis (d) Herculis ad poftem fixis, latet abditus agro; Ne populum (e) extrema toties exoret arena,

(ƒ) A voice there is, that whispers in my ear, ('Tisreafon's voice, which fometimes one can hear) Friend Pope be prudent, let your (g) mufe take "breath,

And never gallop Pegasus to death; "Let stiff, and ftately, void of fire or force, "You limp, like Blackmore, on a Lord Mayor's "horfe." [toy,

Farewell then (b) verfe, and love, and every The rhymes and rattles of the man or boy; What (i) right, what true, what fit we juftly call, Let this be all my care- - for this is all : To lay this (4) harvest up, and hoard with hafte, What every day will want, and moft, the laft.

But ask not, to what (†) doctors I apply :' Sworn to no mafter, of no fect am 1: As drives the (m) storm, at any door I knock, And house with Montague now, or now with Locke :

[day,

Sometimes a () patriot, active in debate,
Mix with the world, and battle for the ftate,
Free as young Lyttleton, her caufe pursue,
Still true to virtue, (o) and as warm as true:
Sometimes with Ariflippus, or St. Paul,
Indulge my candour, and grow all to all;
Back to my (p) native moderation flide,
And win my way by yielding to the tide.
(4) Long, as to him who works for debt, the
Long as the night to her whofe love's away,
Long as the year's dull circle feems to run,
When the brifk minor pants for twenty-one;
So flow th' (r) unprofitable moments roll,
That lock up all the functions of my foul;
That keep me from myself; and still delay
Life's inftant bufinefs to a future day:
That (s) task, which as we follow, or defpife,
The eldest is a fool, the youngest wife :
Which done, the pooreft can no wants endure;
And which not done, the richest must be poor.

(ƒ) Eft mihi purgatam crebro qui perfonet

aurem ;

Solve (g) fenefcentem mature fanus equum, ne
Peccet ad extremum ridendus, et ilia ducat.
Nunc itaque et (b) verfus, et caetera ludicra pono:
Quid (i) verum atque decens, curo et rogo, et
omnis in hoc fum:
[fim.
(4) Condo, et compono, quae mox depromere pof-
Ac ne forte roges, (1) quo me duce, quo lare tuter:
Nullius addictus jurare in verba magiftri,
(m) Quo me cunque rapit tempeftas, deferor hofpes.
Nunc agilis fio, et merfor (a) civilibus undis,
Vitutis verae cuftos, (o) rigidufque fatelles
Nunc in Ariftippi (p) furtim praecepta relabor,
Et mihi res, non me rebus, fubjungere conor.
(4) Ut nox longa, quibus mentitur amica; di-
efque

Lent: videtur opus debentibus: ut piger annus
Pupillis, quos dura premit cuftodia matrum :
Sic mihi tarda (fluunt ingrataque tempora,
quae fpem
[quod
Confiliumque morantur agendi gnaviter (s) id,
Acque pauperibus prodeft, locupletibus aeque,
Acque neglectum pueris fenibufque nocebit.

(†) Late as it is, I put myself to school, And feel fome (u) comfort, not to be a fool. (v) Weak though I am of limb, and short of fight, Far from a lynx, and not a giant quite: I'll do what Mead and Chefclden advise, To keep thefe limbs, ard to preferve these eyes. Not to (x) go back, is fomewhat to advance, And men must walk at least before they dance.

Say, does thy (y) blood rebel, thy bofom move With wretched avarice, or as wretched love? Know, there are worlds, and spells, which can controul

(z) Between the fits this fever of the foul:
Know, there are rhymes, which (a) fresh and
fresh apply'd

Will cure the arrant'ft puppy of his pride.
Be (6) furious, envious, flothful, mad, or drunk,
(c) Slave to a wife, or vaffal to a punk,
A Switz, a High Dutch, or a Low Dutch (4) bear;
All that we ask is but a patient ear.

(e) 'Tis the firf virtue, vices to abhor;
And the first wifdom, to the fool no more.
But to the world no (ƒ) bugbear is so great,
As want of figure, and a finall eftate.
To either India fee the merchant fly,
Scar'd at the spectre of pale poverty!
See him, with pains of body, pangs of foul,
Burn through the tropic, freeze beneath the pole!
Wilt thou do nothing for a nobler end,
Nothing, to make philofophy thy friend?
To ftop thy foolish views, thy long defires,
And (g) ease thy heart of all that it admires?
(b) Here Wisdom calis: (i)" Seek virtue firft, be
"bold!

"As gold to filver, virtue is to gold."

(1) Reftat, ut his ego me ipfe regam () folerque elementis: [ceus; (v) Non poflis oculo quantum contendere LynNon tamen idcirco contemnas lippus inungi: Nec, quia defperes invicti membra Glyconis, Nodofa corpus nolis prohibere chiragra. Eft quadam prodire () tenus, fi non datur ultra.

(y) Fervet avaritia, miferoque cupidine pectus? Sunt verba et voces, quibus hunc lenire dolorem Pollis, et (z) magnam morbi deponere partem. [te Laudis amore tumes? funt (a) certa piacula, quae Ter pure lecto poterunt recreare libello.

(6) Invidus, iracundus, iners,vinofus, (c) amator; Nemo (d) adeo ferus eft, ut non mitefcere poffit, Si modo culturae patientcm commodet aurem.

(e) Virtus eft, vitium fugere ; et fapientia prima, Stultitia caruiffe. vides, quae (ƒ) maxima credis Effe mala, exiguum cenfum, turpemque repulfam, Quanto devites animi capitifque labore. Impiger extremos curris mercator ad Indos, Per (g) mare pauperiem fugiens, per faxa, per

ignes:

Ne cures (b) ea, quae ftulte miraris et optas,
Difcere, et audire, et meliori credere non vis?
Quis circum pagos et circum compita pugnax
Magna coronari contemnat Olympia, cui ipes,
Cui fit conditio dulcis fine pulvere palmae?

Vilius argentum eft auro, virtutibus aurum.

"And then let virtue follow, if the will." This, this the faving doctrine, preach'd to all, From() low St. James's up to high St. Paul! From him whofe (m) quills ftandquiver'd at his ear, To him who notches flicks at Westminster. Bernard in (a) fpirit, fenfe, and truth abounds; "Pray then, what wants he?" Fourfcore thousand pounds?

A penfion, or fuch haraefs for a flave

As Bug now has, and Doriniant would have.
Barnard, thou art a (0) cit with all thy worth;
Bet Bag and D*1, their Honours, and fo forth,
Yet every (p) child another fong will fing,
"Virtue, brave boys! 'tis virtue makes a king."
True, confcious honour, is to feel no fin,
He's arm'd without that's innocent within :
Be this thy (g) fcreen, and this thy wall of brass;
Compar'd to this, a minister's an afș.

(And fay, to which fhall our applaufe belong,
This new court jargon, or the good old fong?
The modern language of corrupted peers,
Or what was fpoke at (s) Crefly or Poitiers!

(t) Who counieis beft? who whifpers, "Be but great,

"With praife or infamy leave that to fate; "Get place and wealth, if poffible with grace: "If not, by any means, get wealth and place." For what? to have a (u) box where eunuchs fing, And foremost in the circle eye a king. Or(s) he, who bids thee face with steady view' Proud fortune, and look fhallow greatness [too? And, (x) while he bids thee, fets th' example, If (y) fuch a doctrine, in St. James's air, Should chance to make the well-dreft rabble ftare; In honeft S*z take fcandal at a spark,

through:

That lefs admires the (z) Palace than the Park :

"(4) O cives, cives! quaerenda pecunia primum "eft; [ab imo "Virtus poft nummos:" haec (1) Janus Junimus Prodocet: haec recinunt juvenes dictata fenefque, (*) Laevo fufpen& loculos tabulamque lacerto. Et() animus tibi, funt mores, eft lingua, fidefque ;

Sed quadringentis fex feptem millia defint.

Piebs eris. (p) at pueri ludentes, Rex eris, aiunt, Si recte facies. Hic (9) murus ahencus efto, Nil confcire fibi, nulla pallefcere culpa.

(r) Rofcia, dic fodes, melior lex, an puerorum eft Naenia, quae regnum recte facientibus offert, Et maribus () Curiis et decantata Camillis?

() line tibi melius fuadet, qui, "Rem facias; rem,

"Si poffis, recte; fi non, quocunque modo rem." Ut () propius fpe&tes lacrymofa poëmata pupi! An, () qui fortunae te refponfare superbae Liberam et erectum, (x) praefens hortatur et aptat?

(5) Quod fi me Populus Romanus forte roget,

cur

Non, ut (a) porticibus, fic judiciis fruar isdem : VOL, VIII

"I cannot like, dread fire, your royal cave;
"Because I fee, by all the tracks about,

"Full many a beaft goes in, but none comes out."
Adieu to virtue, if you're once a slave:
Send her to court, you fend her to her grave.
Well, if a king's a lion, at the leaft

The (b) people are a many-headed beast:
Can they direct what measures to pursue,
Who know themselves fo little what to do?
Alike in nothing but one luft of gold,

Just half the land would buy, and half be sold : Their () country's wealth our mightier mifer's drain,

Or cross, to plunder provinces, the main;

The reft, fome farm the poor-box, fome the pews;
Some keep affemblies, and would keep the flews;
Some (4) with fat bucks on childlefs dotards
fawn;

Some win rich widows by their chine and brawn;
While with the filent growth of ten per cent,
In dirt and darkness, (e) hundreds ftink content.
Of all these ways, if each (ƒ) pursues his own,
Satire, be kind, and let the wretch alone:
But fhow me one who has it in his power
To act confiftent with himself an hour.
Sir Job (g) fail'd forth, the evening bright and fill,
"No place on earth (he cry'd) like Greenwich
"hill:"

(b) Up ftarts a palace, lo, th' obedient base
Slopes at its foot, the woods its fides embrace,
The filver Thames reflects its marble face.
Now let fome whimfey, or that (i) Devil within
Which guides all thofe who know not what
they mean,

But give the knight (or give his lady) spleen ; "Away, away! take all your feaffolds down, "For fnug's the word: my dear! we'll live in town."

At amorous Flavio is the (4) ftocking thrown? That very night he longs to lie alone. (4) The fool, whofe wife elopes fome thrice a

Nec fequar aut fugiam, quae diligit ipfe vel odit;
Olim quod (a) vulpes aegroto cauta leoni,
Refpondit, referam: Quia me veftigia terrent
Omnia te adverfum spectantia, nul a retrorfum.
(6) Bellua multorum eft capitum. nam quid fe-

quar aut quem? [qui Pars hominum geftit (c) conducere publica: funt (d) Cruftis et pomis viduas venentur avaras, Excipiantque fenes, quos in vivaria mittant: (e) Multis occulto crefcit res fenore. (ƒ) verum Efto, aliis alios rebus ftudiifque teneri: lidem eadem poffunt horam durare probantes?

(g) Nullus in orbe finus Baiis praelucet amoenis, Si dixit dives; (b) lacus et mare fentit amorem Feftinantis heri: cui si (i) vitiosa libido Fecerit aufpicium; cras ferramenta Teanum Tolletis, fabri. (*) lectus genialis in aula eft ? Nil ait effe prius, melius nil coelibe vita: (1) Si non eft, jurat bene folis effe maritis,

I

They change their (2) weekly barber, weekly news,
Prefer a new japanner, to their fhoes;
Discharge their garrets, move their beds, and run
(They know not whither) in a chaife and one;
They (p) hire their fculler, and when once aboard,
Grow fick, and damn the climate-like a lord.
(9) You laugh, half-beau, half-floven if I ftand,
My wig all powder, and all fnuff my band;
You laugh, if coat and breeches strangely váry,
White gloves, and linen worthy Lady Mary!
But when () no prelate's lawn, with hair-shirt
Jin'd,

Is half fo incoherent as my mind,

When (each opinion with the next at strife,
One (1) ebb and flow of follies all my life)

(t) plant, root up; I build, and then confound:
Turn round to fquare, and fquare again to round;
() You never change one mufcle of your face,
You think this madness but a common case,
Nor () once to Chancery, nor to Hale apply;
Yet hang your lip, to fee a feam awry!
Careless how ill I with myfelf agree,
Kind to my drefs, my figure, not to me.
Is this my (x) guide, philosopher, and friend?
This he, who loves me, and who ought to mend;
Who ought to make me (what he can, or none)
That man divine, whom Wisdom calls her own;
Great without title, without fortune blefs'd;
Rich (y) ev'n when plunder'd, (z) honour'd while
opprefs'd;
[power;
Lov'd (e) without youth, and follow'd without
At home, though exil'd; (6) free though in thetow-

cr;

In short, that reasoning, high, immortal thing, Juft (c) lefs than Jove, and (d) much above a king, Nay, half in heaven-(e) except (what's mighty odd)

A fit of vapours clouds this demi-god!

(m) Quo teneam vultus mutantem Protea nodo? Quid() pauper! ride: mutat (o) coenacula, lectos, Balnea, (p) tonfores; conducto navigio aeque Naufea, ac locuples quem ducit priva triremus. (9) Si curatis inaequali tonsore capillos Occurro; rides. fi forte fubucula pexae Trita fubeft tunicae, vel fi toga diffidet impar; Rides quid, (r) mea cum pugnat fententia fecum; Quod petiit, fpernit; repetit quod nuper omifit; () Aeftuat, et vitae difconvenit ordine toto; (1) Diruit, aedificat, mutat quadrata rotundis ? () Infanire putas folennia me, neque rides, Nec (v) medici credis, nec curatoris egere A praetore dati; rerum (x) tutela mearum Cum fis, et prave fecum ftomacheris ob unguem, De te pendentis, te refpicientis amici.'

Ad fummam, fapiens uno (c) minor eft Jove, (y) dives,

(6) Liber, ( honoratus, (a) pulcher, (d) rex denique regum;

Praecipue fanus, () nifi cum pituita molefta eft.

BOOK I. EPISTLE VI.

TO MR. MURRAY.

"NOT to admire, is all the art I know, "To make men happy, and to keep them fo." (Plain truth, dear Murray, needs no flowers, of Speech,

So take it in the very words of Creech.)

(b) This vauk of air, this congregated ball, Self-centred fun, and flars that rise and fall, There are, my friend! whofe philofophic eyes Look through and trust the Ruler with his skies, To him commit the hour, the day, the year, And view (c) this dreadful all without a fear.

Admire we then what (d) earth's low entrails
Arabian fhores, or Indian feas infold, [hold.
All the mad trade of (r) fools and slaves for gold?
Or (ƒ) popularity? or stars and strings?
The mob's applaufes, or the gifts of kings?
Say, with what (g) eyes we oughtat courts to gaze,
And pay the great our homage of amaze?

If weak the (b) pleasure that from these can
Spring,

The fear to want them is as weak a thing;
Whether we dread, or whether we defire,
In either cafe, believe me, we admire;
Whether we (i) joy or grieve, the fame the curse,
Surpris'd at better, or furpris'd at worse.
Thus good or bad, to one extreme betray
Th' unbalanc'd mind, and snatch the man away;
For (4) virtue's self may too much zeal be had;
The worst of madmen is a faint run mad.
(1) Go then, and if you can, admire the state
Of beaming diamonds, and reflected plate;
Procure a tafte to double the furprise,
And gaze on (m) Parian charms with learned eyes,
Be ftruck with bright () brocade, or Tyrian dye,
Our birth-day nobles' splendid livery.

EPISTOLA VI.

NIL admirari, prope res eft una, Numici,
Solaque quae poffit facere et fervare beatum.

(6) Hunc folem, et ftellas, et decedentia certis Tempora momentis, funt qui (c) formidine nulla Imbuti fpectent. (d) quid cenfes, munera terrae ? Quid, maris extremos Arabas (e) ditantis et Indos? Ludicra, quid, (ƒ) plausus, et amici dona Quiritis? Quo fpectanda modo, (g) quo fenfu credis et ore?

(b) Qui timet his adverfa, fere miratur eodem Quo cupiens pacto: pavor eft utrobique moleftus: Improvifa fimul fpecies exterret utrumque : (i) Gaudeat, an doleat; cupiat, metuatne; quid ad

rem,

Si, quidquid vidit melius pejufve fua spe,
Defixis oculis animoque et corpore torpet?

(4) Infani fapiens nomen ferat, aequus iniqui ; Ultra quam fatis eft, virtutem fi petat ipfam. (1) I nunc, argentum et marmor (m) vetus, aera¬

que et artes

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