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P R E F A CE.
THE
HE following Imitations complete my
deſign of familiarizing to the young
Reader the Roman Satire, conſiſtently
with my more immediate aim of delineat-
ing preſent manners. Theſe are not ac-
companied, as the former, with the text
entire; the unequal character of the Orie
ginals ſeems to demand this diſtinction :
for ſurely nothing but an undiſcerning zeal
for Antiquity can rank theſe two Satiriſts
among the models of correct Compoſition;
the metaphorical diſorder, the pedantic con-
ciſeneſs of the one, and the declamatory
looſeneſs of the other, being, one would
think, too glaring to eſcape the ſober and
intelligent Critic. Not that they are by any
a 3
means
(vi),
means to be put in the ſame claſs: the
firſt appears to have had moſt in his eye
the great Maſter that preceded; but by
reaſon of an imagination not enough ſub-
fervient to the rules of art, and a ſcrupu-
lous attachment to a prudith Philoſophy
little favourable to the graceful freedom of
ſatiric expreſſion, he made a very imper-
fect uſe of ſo exquiſite a model. I forbear
to enlarge upon their other anomalies fo
groſsly injurious to the ſublime moral they
vould inculcate. The ſenſe of the indecent
prejudices imbibed by ſome of the more
early Reſtorers of polite literature is ſuf-
ficient to juſtify all our fears in our deal:
ings with Youth, and teach us to be nicely
obfervant through what channels we con-
vey inſtruction to tender minds.
Of the Moderns none perhaps more de-
ſerves the attention of the Learner than our
own Ethic Poer; who, in the delicate arts,
of method, the finer finiſhings of curious
expreſſion,
(vii)
expreſſion, and a peculiar felicity, that rea
conciles dignity and eaſe, is without a Rival
the firſt of his School.
*
:
The application of Poetry to the pur-
poſe of moral improvement is agreeable to
the opinion and practice of the moſt judi-
cious in elder Greece: Oi wanauoi (to ſpeak
in the words of the wiſe Geographer)
ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΙΑΝ τινα λέγεσι ΠΡΩΤΗΝ ΤΗΝ
ΠΟΙΗΤΙΚΗΝ, εισάγεσαν εις τον βίον ημάς ΕΚ
ΝΕΩΝ, και διδάσκεσαν έθη, και πάθη, και
πράξεις, ΜΕΘ' ΗΔΟΝΗΣ.
Η
P
C Ο Ν.
(viii)
CON T E N TS.
IMITATIONS OF JUVENAL.
Page 1
Sarire VII.
SATIRE XIII.
SATIRE XIV
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41
IMITATIONS OF PERSIUS.
SATIRE II.
SARIRE III.
SATIRE IV.
SATIRE V.
SATIRE VI.
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VII.
D
ROOP not, ye Wits ! one comfort ſtill re-
mains;
What would ye more? a new AUGUSTUS reigns.
No longer now with fripp’ry fetch'd from France
Piece fimzy farces, or eke out Romance ;
Nor ligh in filence o'er the Tragic page, 5
Slaſh'd by ſome ſportive Tyrant of the Stage.
Yet better ſure to liſt in Roscius' pay,
Than in the cauſe of vice to tune the lay ;
Ver.1.]
Et ſpes, & ratio ftudiorum in Cæſare tantum.
Solus enim triftes hac tempeftate Camenas
Refpexit.
A 2
With
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10
With luſcious tales to footh Perissa's ear;
In pert, low, ribald ſtyle at genius ſneer ;
From daring Deiſts impious trath to ſteal,
Or turn a party-ſeribler for a meal.
But now not one of all the raptur'd race,
Who gives to eloquence a meaſur’d grace,
Driv'n by diſtreſs ſhall make mean arts his care, 15
Or the Dependant's badge ignobly wear :
Riſe then! with gencrous emulation riſe !
And from a Monarch's hand receive the prize ;
And bluth, the foremoſt of the vain and vile,
Of peers and peereffes to court the ſmile. 20
Thrive? and by verfe?-Should ev'ry Muſe inſpire
Some favour'd Bard with more than SHAKESPEAR's
fire,
The wealthy ones of theſe diſcerning days
Would kindly leave him poverty and praiſe.
VER. 13.]
Nemo tamen ftudiis indignum ferre laborem
Cogetur pofthac, nećtit quicunque canoris
Eloquium vocale modis, laurumque momordit.
Hoc agite, Juvenes ! circumſpicit, & ftimulat vos,
Materiamque fibi ducis indulgentia querit.
Oye!
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25
30
O ye! who, dazzled by a name's fair boaſt
Gliff'ring in capitals on rubric poſt,
Build in low tenement the lofty rhyme,
Deluded fools ! hear Wiſdom's voice betime;
Your reams of fuftian to the grocer's take,
Or one bright ſacrifice to Vulcan make.
Think, while each better buſineſs you delay,
Life's ſtream unprofitably glides away ;
Poets, and poetry provoke your ſpleen,
And tuneful, friendleſs fixty ſhuts the ſcene.
Yet why ſhould Wits a patron with to find,
If Lords affect to recompence in kind?
Critics from flatter'd Molo penſions ſeek ;
For loſs of time he gives them Attic Greek :
While the pale pedant for a dinner dies,
Molo with manuſcripts regales his eyes.
35
40
VER. 31.]
Sed defluit ætas
Et pelagi patiens, & callidis atque ligonis.
Tædia nunc ſubeunt animos ; tunc ſeque ſuamque
Terpſichoren odit facunda & nuda ſenectus.
VER. 35.]
Accipe nunc artes, ne quid tibi conferat iſte
Quem colis.
A 3
But
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But ſee! where, hail'd MÆCENAS of the land,
ARISTO round him calls the learned band :
At him each ſon of PHOEBUS points his quill;
Silent and ſoft the dews of praiſe diſtill;
Merit unheeded acts the decent part;
45
Some Dunce of Faction has ARISTO's heart.
Hard lot! but when would poets warning take ?
Still fruitleſs furrows on the ſand they make :
Strive they to quit their taſk? they ſtrive in vain;
Imperious Habit holds them in her chain :
50
Thouſands this deſp’rate rhyming rage holds faſt,
And lords it o'er the wretches to the laſt.
The poet, who would plan the perfect page,
Above the themes that touch a trivial age,
He, who the lights of Athens would reſtore, 55
Or on the wings of PINDAR pants to ſoar,
VER. 47.]
Nos tamen hoc agimus, tenuique in pulvere ſulcos
Ducimus, & littus fterili verſamus aratro.
Nam fi diſcedas, laqueo tenet ambitiofi
Conſuetudo mali; tenet inſanabile multos
Scribendi cacoëthes, & ægro in corde ſeneſcit.
VER. 53.)
Sed vatem egregium, cui non fit publica vena,
Qui nihil expofitum foleat deducere. ----
Foe
(7)
Foe to all ſtrife, impatient of chagrin,
Unruffled ſeeks the ſtill fequeſter'd ſcene.
Say! to what purpoſe drinks he of the ſtreams,
That fill the fancy with inſpiring dreams, 60
If in that hour, when richeſt raptures roll,
The pinch of poverty benum his ſoul?
For a day's meal had Milton felt a fear,
URANIA's voice had vainly reach'd his ear; 64
Thro'Night's dark defert the Fiend ne'er had ſtray'd,
Nor earth-rent mountains caſt their horrid ſhade.
Pope liv'd, and throve, when firſt in moral trance
He ſaw before him Truth's bright form advance :
Snatch'd from the croud on Contemplation's wings
He look'd with pity on the pride of Kings : 70
Axietate carens animus facit, omnis acerbi
Impatiens, cupidus fylvarum, aptuſque bibendis
Fontibus Aonidum. Neque enim cantare ſub antro
Pierio, thyrſumque poteft contingere fana
Paupertas, atque æris inops, quo nocte, dieque
Corpus eget.
VER. 67, Lit'd and Throve.]
“ But (thanks to Homer) ſince I live and thrive."
Mr. Pope.
A 4
Then
( 8 )
76
Then to his car pale Virtue wail'd her woes;
Then to his eye old England's Genius roſe.
To DRYDEN who all Pindus could refuſe,
Had Fortune ſmil'd propitious as his Muſe?
The Peer, who ſquander'd thouſands on his whore,
Unmov'd could ſee his fav’rite Poet poor,
Leave him with politics to blot his bays,
Rank panegyrics, and patcht ſmutty plays.
WALLER at eaſe might weave the learned line,
Or Cowley wildly wanton with the Nine;
80
Yet to the needy Many Art how vain,
If glory, empty glory, be the gain?
Riſe, patriot Bard ! invoke the moral Muſe;
To mend the times exert thy honeſt views;
Or, Britain's fame in loftieſt ſong to grace,
Call forth fome Hero of Dardanian race :
85
Ver. 75.]
Non habet infelix Numitor, quod mittat amico,
Quintillæ quod donet habet.
Ver. 79.]
Contentus fama jaceat Lucanus in hortis
Marmoreis : at Sarrano, tenuique Saleio
Gloria quantalibet, quid erit, fi gloria tantum eft?
Comforts
(9)
Comforts more folid one third night affords,
Than praiſe on Epic from a ſcore of lords.
Who now will dangle at the great man's door?
Alas! the SIDNEY's, SACKVILLES, are no more: 90
Wits once were priz'd; but now muſt be content
To ſooth proud managers, or keep long Lent.
Ill-fated Bards! but ſure more certain gains,
Ye ſage Hiſtorians ! wait your ſtudious pains,
Condemn'd the tomes of RYMER to devour, 95
And feaſt on rotten records in the Tower.
Your cares, your coſts, your vigils, need I tell ?
Page grows on page, on volumes volumes ſwell :
Shall not Patrician bounty ſhed her beam
On him, whoſe glory is his country's theme? 100
The man of books for buſtle ne'er was made,
A ſhy, mute thing, fit only for the ſhade.
Ver. 87
Quod non dant proceres, dabit Hiftrio, tu Camerinos,
Et Bareas, tu Nobilium magna atria curas ?
Quis tibi Mæcenas ? quis nunc erit aut Proculeius ?
Tunc par ingenio pretium : nunc utile multis
Pallere, & vinum toto neſcire Decembri.
VER. 93.]
Vetter porro labor fæcundior, Hiſtoriarum
Scriptores !
Sed genus ignavum, tecto quod gaudet & umbra.
Then
( 10 )
Theti happy they of ESCULAPIUS' train,
Who bow to HARVEY's buft in Warwic lane,
Scarce known a day, a minute to ſit ſtill, IOS
Save, when the God of Med'cine guides their quill!
No porings, wan and wakeful, waſte their hours;
Wealth unimplor'd defcends in copious ſhow'rs.
Yet, to adorn one man, ſhould Heav'n unite
SYD'NHAM's cool ſenſe with RADCLIFFE's piercing
fight,
IIÓ
With theſe all BOERHAAVE's learned ſtores com-
bine,
For want of fees this prodigy would pine,
Did not an equipage his worth proclaim,
Or high-born bablers ſpread abroad his name.
Go, bold Divine ! uplift Religion's ſhield, 115
And rout the foe, that long has brav'd the field :
Go! to the Church immortal trophies rear,
And wage her battles to thy fixtieth year ;
Thou then with ſome grave Biſhop mayft find grace,
And gain at laſt a Vicar's needy place :
Or, ſhould kind Fortune fix you in a ſtall,
On ſome State-bankrupt half your profits fall.
120
Ver. 103.] The lines that follow, to li. 143, have no
reference to the text, which ſeems ſcarce ſuſceptible of
an application.
Yet
(
II
Yet ſhall a ſimp'rer, that a court affords,
Whofe brighteſt Claſſic is the look of Lords,
Some crimſon’d Chaplain, whoſe deep learning lies
In all APICIUS was once known to prize, r26
Some Tool in crape, who each intriguing year
Deſerts his God to ſerve his patron Peer,
Ere forty ſummers he can tell complete,
By juſt degrees aſcend the ſainted ſeat.
130
Ye Sages, who upheld the ſacred cauſe,
Explain'd old doctrines, or enforc'd new laws,
Might ye again to earth your talents lend,
With all your labours you would want a friend;
Ruſt in a cell, or (harder ſtill !) be ſent 135
To fome lean vicarage in the wilds of Kent.
When my Lord preaches, tinſel'd fools below
With gaping wonder catch the frothy flow;
Let * * boldly Heav'n's beheſts imparty
Skill'd to convince the head, or move the heart;
Ver. 124
Whoſe BRIGHTEST CLASSIC] Allulon
to the following paſſage taken from a letter of the ve-
nerable Biſhop Field to the Duke of BUCKINGHAM:
« In the great library of men, that I have ſtudied
“ theſe many years, your Grace is the beſt book and
" moft CLASSIC AUTHOR, that I have read.” See
CABALA, P. 117.
Reaſon
( )
12 iz
Reaſon and eloquence unnoted thine,
That boaſt no radiance from St. James's ſhrine.
But mark yon ſtructure, where thro’lungs of braſs
From morn to eve the rules of LILLY pafs !
Ah ill-ſtarr'd drudge, fore-doom'd to prate and
pore,
145
Stun'd with the ſame dull fing-fong o'er and o'er !
Is there, who feels not a fond father's joy
To hear the pedant prattle of his boy ;
To watch the wanton movements of a mind,
Proud her unfolding energies to find ? 150
Punctual his debt of thanks each parent pays,
But every other recompence delays.
FAVONIO fees his hopeful fons prove fools,
And damns at once all pedagogues and ſchools.
Yet where's the fault, if learning's ſpark divine 155
Thro' the thick lumpiſh clay refuſe to thine?
Ver. 143.)
Declamare doces, O ferrea pectora Vetti,
Cum perimit Sævos claſſis numeroſa tyrannos?
Occidit miſeros crambe repetita magiftros.
VER. 153.]
culpa docentis
Scilicet arguitur, quod læva in parte mamillæ
Nil falit Arcadico juveni.
Who
( 13 )
Who but muſt pity him, ty'd down to teach,
Day after day, the rudiments of ſpeech,
With laws of verſe, of profe, who ſtuffs his brain
By bit and bit to deal them out again; 160
To hear tall truants whine forth Attic Greek,
Or Aatten Tully's periods twice a week?
Grave Trifer! if your point be eaſe and bread,
No more with Rome and Athens vex your head;
Leave fancy'd fights; go! battle at Bengal; 165
Or wage the wordy war in Rufus' hall;
So ſhall repoſe and affluence at laſt
(No thanks to Patrons) crown your labours paſt.
What ſums are laviſh'd on the pomp of life?
Deep grots are ſunk to pleaſe a giddy wife;
170
Aſpiring pyramids here catch our eyes ;
There tipt with turrets pillar'd temples riſe:
VER. 163.]
Ergo fibi dabit ipſe rudem, fi noftra movebunt
Confilia, & vitæ diverſum iter ingredietur,
Ad pugnam qui rhetorica deſcendit ab umbra.
Ver. 169.)
Balnea fexcentis, & pluris porticus
Parte alia longis Numidarum fulta columnis
Surgat, & algentem rapiat cænatio folem.
On
( 14 )
On the dry rock in all her bloomy pride
Lur'd by large off'rings FLORA Ihall reſide;
Prudiſh POMONA here ſhall fix her ſeat, 175
And pour her treaſures at the maſter's feet :
Artiſts to him ſhall flock from BOURBON's court;
Rome ſhall for him her firen arts import.
Happy the man who trains his Lordſhip’s heir !
A boundleſs bounty ſure repays his care:
180
Princely in all befide, the prudent Peer
In this fole inſtance bargains by the year.
Not but ſome boaſt the favours of the Great ;
Baſk, early balk, in warm prebendal ſtate ;
Or, luckier lot! as tho' by Heav'n's own call, 185
Cloſe life's calm evening in the Prelate's ftall.
What cannot Fortune in her frolics do?
Fortune gives birth, gives beauty, courage too:
Ver. 177.]
Veniet qui fercula docte
Componit ; veniet qui pulmentaria condit.
Hos inter fumptus ſeſtertia Quintiliano,
Ut multum, duo ſufficient : res nulla minoris
Conftabit patri, quam filius.
Ver. 187.]
Felix & pulcher & acer,
Felix & ſapiens & nobilis.
In
( 15 )
In every earthly thing her ſons excell;
They dance, diſpute ; they rhyme, ſpeak, fiddle
well.
190
If the but bid, ſome ſtrange reverſe appears ;
Peers fink to jobbers, jobbers riſe to peers ;
A bankrupt Chief pow'r's ſummit ſhall attain,
Then fall, and be a bankrupt once again.
Grant, to their with the favour'd few fucceed; 195
Avails it to the many, left in need,
Who, worn and wan, with late repentance curſt,
Think of all trades the Teacher's trade the worſt ?
Great ſhades ! on whoſe cold clay may earth light lie,
And ſpring eternal breathing ſweets ſupply,
Ye, who could hold the doctrine no diſgrace,
That the Preceptor fill'd the Parent's place.
200
Felix orator quoque maximus, & jaculator.
Si Fortuna volet, fies de Rhetore Conſul;
Si volet hæc eadem, fies de Conſule Rhetor.
Servis regna dabunt, captivis Fata triumphos.
Ver. 199.]
Dii! majorum umbris tenuem & fine pondere terram,
Spiranteſque crocos, & in urna perpetuum ver,
Qui Præceptorem fancti voluere parentis
Ele loco.
Time
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210
Time was, the Great, averſe to taunt or teaſe,
Knew the rare art to make dependance pleaſe,
Without the Patron's pride profeſs regard, 205
And, without ſeeming to oblige, reward.
Then were no hints oblique of favours paſt;
No tricks to bind th' expectant's chains more faft!
Now is he ſure to loſe life's choiceft
years
In ſad viciſſitude of hopes and fears.
And what advantage, if juſt half his pay
In fees, in bribes, melt leiſurely away
?
Or is fome vacant benefice in view ? .
Nibblers on nibblers, bonds on bonds enſue.
Yet where's the wit to grieve, while there remains
Something for all his piddlings, all his pains ? 216
So that he barter for clear gains his ware,
A ſmall abatement ſcarce deſerves his care.
Ver. 211.]
Et tamen ex hoc
Diſcipuli cuftos præmordet Aconitus ipſe,
Et qui diſpenſat frangit fibi, cede, Palæmon,
Et patere inde aliquid decreſcere; non aliter quam
Inſtitor hybernæ tegetis.
Proceed,
( 17 )
Proceed, ye Great! of Learning plead the cauſe,
Yet cramp poor pedagogues with ſtricteſt laws. 220
For you by day they toil, by night they pore;
For you Antiquity's dark depths explore ;
On Metre's magic curious to refine,
Extract the warbled wonders from a line; 224
Trace noun and verb thro' all their winding ways;
And thrid of dialects the tangled maze :
For you, nice talk ! exert a Sage's ſkill,
And mould the manners like mere wax at will;
Obſervant when to blame, or to commend,
And act the Cenſor, yet not link the Friend. 230
This done, their ſuit from year to year delay'd,
They find ſome fav’rite footman better pay'd,
Ver. 219 ]
Sed vos fævas imponite leges,
Ut Præceptori verborum regula conſtet ;
Ut legat hiſtorias, auctores noverit omnes.
2
Exigite, ut mores teneros ceu pollice ducat,
Ut fi quis cera vultum facit.
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S A T I RE
XIII.
L
ET knaves diſguiſe their feelings, as they
pleaſe,
In their own minds they ne'er can be at eaſe;
Of Judge, of Jury, tho' they make a jeſt,
Each bears a ſure Avenger in his breaſt.
Of him, who wrong'd you, how forlorn the
fate,
Ev'n now a ſacrifice to public hate !
Ver. 1.]
Exemplo quodcunque malo committitur, ipfi
Diſplicet auctori. prima eft hæc ultio, quod, ſe
Judice, nemo nocens abſolvitur, improba quamvis
Gratia fallaci Prætoris vicerit urna.
And,
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( 22 )
IO
And, to be fair, your purſe is not ſo light,
That one ſmall lofs ſhould leave you bankrupt
quite.
Reflect a little; to the times attend;
Are you ſole fuff'rer from a faithleſs friend ?
Caſes of friends, who bluſh not to betray,
Are common grown, the chat of every day:
To all afflictions Reaſon fets a bound;
A wiſe man fuits his wailing to his wound.
Why rail, why madden at a breach of truſt? 15
* Is it a prodigy to be unjuſt?
Starts he at this, who half an age has known;
He who has ſeen four ſov’reigns on the throne ?
Her choſen few by rule let Wiſdom train,
O'er Fortune proud a victory to gain;
Yet happy! whom to ills long uſe has broke,
Who walk thro’ life, ſubmiſſive to the yoke.
20
Ver. 19.
Magna quidem facris quæ dat præcepta libellis
Victrix Fortunæ Sapientia : dicimus autem
Hos quoque felices, qui ferre incommoda vitæ,
Nec jactare jugum vita didicere magiſtra.
What
( 23 )
What year revolves, not fully'd by the fame
Of fome Aſpirant to the villain's name?
This ſnares ſome helpleſs orphan in his pow'r; 25
That cheats a wealthy widow of her dow'r.
A man of worth how rare ! at ſome court-night
A Beau plain-dreſt is ſcarce a ſtranger fight.
Yet if a rogue by ſtratagem or lies
Out-wit us once, we ſummon Earth and Skies, 30
Loud, as when two brib'd Bawlers at the bar
Stun all the benches with the wordy war.
Grave Trifler! Babe of fixty! not to ſee
What charms endear another's property.
O fool! to dream that dread of ought can awe 35
The needy villain, unreſtrain'd by law !
Ver. 23.]
Quæ tam feſta dies, ut ceſſet prodere furem
Rari quippe boni : numero vix funt totidem, quot
Thebarum portæ, vel divitis oftia Nili.,
Ver. 33.)
Dic, ſenior bulla digniffime, nefcis
Quas habeat Veneres aliena pecunia ? neſc:s,
Quem tua fimplicitas riſum vulgo moveat, cum
Exigis a quoquam ne pejeret, & putet ullis
Effe aliquod numen templis, aræque rubenti?
B 4
Time
( 24 )
Time was, when men the checks of conſcience.
knew,
Their manners plain ; their wants, their wiſhes few;
Ere ſtaring ſtriplings, proud abroad to roam, 24
Returu'd well prankt with foreign fopp'ries home;
Ere the mock Reas'ner made our faith his theme,
Prick'd by a luft of doubting to blaſpheme.
Our Lords and Ladies then could ſup alone,
The noiſy terms of Drums and Routs unknown :
No Patriot, won by an imperious Dame, 45
For ſtrings or titles barter'd honeſt fame;
No madding Minion, rais'd by Fortune's hand,
Dar'd to infult the Nobles of the land :
To guard high-ways no gibbet frowning ftood;
No axe, no ſcaffold, bluſh'd with traitor blood : 50
No dark diſtruſt kept back a thought; the ſoul
Spontaneous flow'd : Joy crown'd the mantling
bowl.
.
VER. 37.)
Quondam hoc Indigenæ vivebant more
Ver. 43.]
Nulla ſuper nubes convivia Cælicolarum:
Prandebat fihi quiſque Deus, nec turba Deorum
Talis, ut eit hodie.
Koves
2
( 25 )
55
Knaves then were prodigies : in this good time
Not to relieve fall'n merit was a crime.
Now if a Great man, privileg'd, be known
In pure reſpect to give you back your own,
What thanks are due? or if, to ſerve a friend,
Some fool officiouſly the Duke offend,
What worth! we cry; and, fir'd by fancy, place
His buſt at Stow among th' illuftrious race. 60
Yeg; when a man of principle I ſpy,
I gaze, as if a Phenix met my eye;
Or Pow'r celeſtial, from his hallow'd height
Gliding, with ſtreamy ſplendors ſtruck my ſight.
Your friend, you tell me, has a debt forſworn ; 65
Thouſands with temper have ſuch loſſes born :
The firſt mere Cit, to whom you hint your caſe,
Supports worſe accidents with cloudleſs face.
Not all Malbecco's wary wit could ſave
A bulky pledge from one deligning knave. 70
VER. 53.]
Improbitas illo fuit admirabilis ævo. -
Nunc fi depoſitum non inficietur amicus,
Şi reddat veterem cum tota ærugine follem,
Prodigiofa fides, & Tuſcis digna libellis.
No
( 26 )
j
No legal evidence ! they're quite at reft ;
With eaſe they turn Religion to a jeſt:
And not a rogue, that's perjur'd ev'ry quarter,
But ſtrait aſſumes the courage of a martyr.
Of guilt no ſymptom on the brow is ſeen
75
The ſpeech unfalt'ring, and the eye ſerene.
There are with modern ſages who maintain
That thoughts of Providence are viſions vain;
Who own no God but Chance; uncheck'd by fears
Give to her guidance days, and months, and
years,
80
Thus ſchool'd, no wonder, if with dauntleſs look
They mock their Maker, while they kiſs the book.
Others there are, to whom the grace is giv'n
To dread the vengeance of offended Heav'n,
Ver. 71.]
Tam facile & pronum eſt ſuperos contemnere teſtes,
Si mortalis idem nemo fciat. aſpice quanta
Voce neget ; que fit fi&ti conftantia vultus.
Ver. 77.)
Sunt qui in Fortunæ jam cafibus omnia ponant,
Et nullo credant mundum Rectore moveri,
Natura volvente vices & lucis, & anni;
Atque ideo intrepidi quæcunque altaria tangunt.
Eft alius metuens ne crimen pæna fequatur.
Hic putat effe Deos, & pejerat, atque ita fecum :
Who
( 27 )
Who on the threats of Theologues rely,
85
Yet in their actions give themſelves the lie.
Tho' fraud on fraud the bolt impending call,
On them and theirs let the juſt judgment fall;
Let Pain, let Sickneſs all her fury vent,
So that they thrive in ſtocks, they are content: 90
The pride of park and villa will atone
For all the pangs of providential ſtone.
Reſolve me, for fair fame who finely feel,
Can the calm joys of Conſcience give a meal ;
Or the nice ſenſe, that in punctilious pet
95
Spurns at a proffer'd penfion, pay a debt?
Of wrath divine the terrors they well know:
But 'tis fome comfort Heav'n delays the blow :
Decernat quodcunque volet de corpore noftro
Ifis, & irato feriat mea lumina fiftro,
Dummodo vel cæcus teneam, quos abnego, dummos.
Ver. 97.]
Ut fit magna, tamen certe lenta ira Deorum cl
Si curant &c. · 103,
If
( 28 )
If every ſinner ſmart for his offence,
My turn, each cries, will be a cent'ry hence : 100
Yet, it may be, forgiveneſs I ſhall find;
Failings I have, but all of venial kind :
And not all crimes are puniſh'd; the fame fate
Waits not the puny Plund'rer, and the great :
Fruit of his ſpoils a coronet this gains ; 105
That friendleſs meets a gibbet for his pains.
Lent by ſelf-love fuch lenitives control
The fears juſt riſing in the guilty ſoul.
If but Suſpicion's lighteſt breath tranſpire
To taint their name, they inſtantly take fire : 110
To impudence for aid you ſee them fly;
For impudence with moſt is honeſty.
VER. 103.)
multi
Committunt eadem diverſo crimina fato;
Ille crucem pretium ſceleris tulit, hic diadema.
Sic animum diræ trepidum formidine culpæ
Confirmant.
Ver. 111.)
Nam cum magna malæ fupereft audacia caufæ,
Creditur a multis fiducia.
Go
( 29 )
Go thou, ill-fated ! Go! thy throat extend ;
With loud complaint the ſeats of Juſtice rend;
Loud, as of SATAN the Miltonian roar,
115
When Hell's dark concave with one thout he tore :
Without ſure proofs no verdict you'll obtain ;
In ſuch a cauſe ev'n YORKE would plead in vain.
Hear with what words a friend would ſooth
your rage;
Not with the tenets of Geneva's fage,
Not with ſcraps pilfer'd from the common-place
Of ſome puſt pedant Statiſt in diſgrace :
Sick men in danger the great Doctors fee;
But you may ſafely truſt the leaſt, ev'n me.
Mark well the frauds, that every clime have curſt;
If of all villainies this be the worſt,
126
120
VER. 113.]
Tu miſer exclamas, ut Stentora vincere poffis,
Vel potius quantum Gradivus Homericus
Ver. 119.]
Accipe, quæ contra valeat folatia ferre
Et qui nec Cynicos, nec ſtoica dogmata legit.
Ver. 123.)
Curentur dubii medicis majoribus ægri ;
Ta venam vel diſcipulo committe Philippi,
In
( 30 )
In woe's wild agony your lot deplore ;
Rail, rave, tie up the knocker of your door,
Since now-a-days a ſharper pang attends
The loſs of money than the death of friends : 130
For gold, for gold, unbidden flows the tear;
Ev'n Politicians are plain-dealers here.
Yet why ſo wretched ? run from place to place,
The like diſaſters fadden ev'ry face.
134
Theſe, as ſome Demon prompts, their deeds diſown;
In vain the fign, in vain their arms are ſhown;
Thoſe very arms emblaz'd in field of Or,
Born by their boaſted fires in days of yore.
To ills not ſubject ? and a Son of Earth? -
What lucky Planet govern'd at thy birth, 140
That thou, Heav'n's darling, ſhouldſt live free from
care,
While all beſide the griefs of mortals ſhare ?
A puny Cheat ſcarce aſks a moment's rage,
Rank'd with the mightier monſters of the age;
Ver. 139 )
Te nunc delicias extra communia cenſes
Ponendum ; quia tu gallinæ filius albæ,
Nos viles pulli nati infelicibus ovis.
Rem pateris modicam, & mediocri bile ferendam
Si fectas oculos majora ad crimina: confer
Ruffians,
:
( 31 )
Ruffians, who ftab for plunder or for pay,
145
Or give to ſpreading flames whole ſtreets a prey ;
The tools of Faction, who at her beheſt
In looks read ſcandal, words to treaſon wreſt;
Who plead for Laws and Truth, yet, as their theme
Is State or Church, can libel or blaſpheme.
150
I paſs, who, practis'd to play Voisin's part,
With ftudy'd tortures point Death's ſecret dart;
I paſs, Luft's Votaries who live and die,
Eternal Wall'wers in Circean fty :
To learn what vices times corrupt produce,
155
Perhaps the City Knight may be of uſe :
Read Bowſtreet a few days, and, if you can,
Call yourſelf then a miſerable man.
Conductum Latronem, incendia ſulphure cæpta
VER. 151.]
Confer & artifices, mercatoremque veneni.
VER. 155.]
Humani generis mores tibi noffe volenti
Sufiicit una domus, paucos conſume dies, &
Dicere te miſerum, pollquam illinc veneris, aude.
VER. 151. Voisin.] A principal in the poiſoning
Conſpiracy, which alarmed the French Court in the last
century. I'or a fuller account, ſee the Mem. of MAD. DE
MAINTENON by M. DE LA BEAUMELLE, liv. vi. C. 2.
Who
( 32 )
Who in the Peak e'er wonders at a wen?
Or ftares at fallow ſkins in Lincoln fen? 160
From Dover croſs the ſeas, in long lutrines
You ſee the Preachers flirting like Pantines;
With naſal twang diſcordant rings the place,
Each action aided by a new grimace :
A Britiſh Audience would with laughter fplit, 165
Or deem ruch Antics for dark durance fit :
There not a titt'rer ſhows the leaſt ſurpriſe ;
Prieſtly Buffoons are common in their eyes.
“ Shall then the Cheat no penal terrors awe?
“ Shall crimes that brave the Gods, elude the
66 Law ?”
170
Grant at the bar you ſee the Culprit ſtand,
Convict; and (more can feileft wrath demand ?)
Doom'd the dire death of RAVILLAC to feel,
Each ſtretcht ſtrain'd ſinew burſting on the wheel;
VER. 159.]
Quis tumidum guttur miratur in Alpibus ?
Ver. 169 )
Nullane perjuri capitis, fraudiſque nefandæ
Pæna erit? abreptum crede hunc graviore catena
Prorinus, & no!tro (quid plus velit ira ?) necari
Arbitrio.
Yet
:
( 33 )
Yet from his pangs what profit do you gain? 175
Still the whole lofs remains, and will rernain.
" What joy the rogue's leatt drop of blood to fez !
“ Revenge! Revenge! what's life compar'd with
66 thee?"
So *, ſo * *, with Ambition's gale
On Party's troubled ocean wont to ſail ;
Whoſe paſſions, lill’ning to no law's control,
Make one eternal hurricane of foul.
Not ſo, who by a thankleſs King betray'd,
O'er that King's every failing caſt a ſhade;
Not fo, who victim of revengeful Pow'r 185
Pray'd for his murd'rers in life's parting hour.
180
VER, 177.]
At vindicta bonum vita jucundius ipſa.
Nempe hoc indocti, quorum præcordia nullis
Interdum aut levibus videas flagrantia cauſis.
Quantulacunque adeo eſt occafio, fufficit iræ,
Chryſippus non dicet idem, nec mite Thaleris
Ingenium, dulcique ſenex vicinus Hymetto. -
VER. 183. Earl of CLARENDON.
VER, 185.) Lord Russel.
с
Hai
( 34 )
Hail Truth! whoſe firſt beheſts as we obey,
Each vice, each error, gradual drops away.
He, whom Revenge can charm, is curſt, you'll find,
With a mean, impotent, and ſelfiſh mind.
iga
Yet ſay not, they eſcape, who brave the laws;
Guilt, conſcious Guilt, with thouſand terrors awes;
With ſecret ſtings the Fury goads, and ſhakes
O'er the aſtoniſh'd ſoul a whip of ſnakes.
Who in his breaſt a felf-tormentor feels
195
May laugh at burning bulls, and wracking wheels.
Who but conceives a wickedneſs within
Incurs the pains of perpetrated ſin.
VER. 187.]
plurima felix
Paulatim vitia, atque errores exuit omnes
Prima docens rectum Sapientia. -
VER. 191.)
Cur tamen hos tu
Evaſiſſe putes, quos diri conſcia facti
Mens habet attonitos, & furdo verbere cædit,
Occultum quatiente animo tortore flagellum?
Pæna autem vehemens, ac multo fævior illis,
Quas & Cæditius gravis invenit, aut Rhadamanthus,
Nocte dieque fuum geftare in pectore teftem,
But
( 35 )
But has he dar'd the meditated deed?
Thoughts, ceaſeleſs thoughts, in teaſing train fuc-
ceed.
200
If on ſome folemn feſtive day a Lord
Tempt him to taſte the bounties of his board,
As a ſick man he eyes the ſteaming ſtore,
Or chews the growing morſel o'er and o'er :
High-flavour'd wines are flat: in vain for him 205
Champagne leaps ſparkling o'er the cup's bright
brim.
Should he at night his tir’d toſs'd limbs compoſe,
Happy to catch the promiſe of repoſe;
No reſt is his : the vengeful Fiends purſue ;
In dreams thy form terrific meets his view, 210
Thy form enlarg’d : the ſpectre he beholds
Aghaſt, and inſtant all the fraud unfolds.
Ver. 200.]
Perpetua anxietas, nec menſe tempore ceffat :
Faucibus ut morbo ficcis, interque molares
Difficili creſcente cibo : fed vina miſellas
Exſpuit: Albani veteris pretiofa fene&us
Difplicet.
VER. 210.)
- Tua facra & major imago
Humana turbat pavidum, cogitque fateri.
Theſe,
2
( 36 )
Thcfe, theſe are they, who ſtart, turn pale with
fears,
Heav'n's firſt low thunders mutt'ring in their ears :
No comfort now Philoſophy affords;
215
Her ſoothing ſyſtems but a waſte of words :
Each faſh, each murmur, their quick ſenſe ap-
pals;
On them, on them, the bolt ideal falls.
This danger paſt, ſome future ſtorm they dread
To burſt with heighten'd horrors on their head. 220
Does Pain, or Sickneſs ſeize? they ſtrait incline
To deem theſe inſtruments of wrath divine;
Now ſue to Heav'n for mercy; or too late
Deal out a largeſs to the poor they hate.
VER. 213-)
Hi funt, qui trepidant, & ad omnia fulgura pallent,
Cum tonat, exanimes primo quoque murmure coli;
Non quafi fortuitus, nec ventorum rabie, ſed
Iratus cadat in terras, & vindicet ignis.
Illa nihil nocuit; cura graviore timetur
Proxima tempeftas, velut hoc dilata ſereno.
Præterea lateris vigili cum febre dolorem
Si cæpere pati, miffum ad ſua corpora morbum
Infelto credunt a Numine; faxa Deorum
Hæc & tela putant.
How
( 37 )
How various men of fin! to change how prone ! 225
In act determin'd; but in act alone :
The crime committed, to cool thought reſign'd
What's right, what's wrong, they then begin to
find.
Would they reform ? unchang'd unconquer'd fil
Habits corrupt prevail, and prompt to ill. 230
Of MAMMON's Worſhipers has there been found,
Who to iniquity could fix a bound?
Vain thought the bluſh once banilh'd to reſtore !
Who once a knave will be a knave no more? 234
Yes; the days come, when added crimes ſhall draw
Thy perjur'd friend within the graſp of law :
From his dire end thy hate ſome joy ſhall know,
And ſatiate feel ev'n Pity for a foe :
Ver. 231.]
Nam quis
Peccandi finem poſuit fibi ? quando recepit
Ejectum femel attrita de fronte ruborem?
Quiſnam hominum eft, quem tu contentum videris
i uno
Flagitio ? dabit in laqueum veſtigia noſter
Perfidus. -
Pæna gaudebis amara
Nominis inviſi, tandemque fatebere lætus
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Then
( 38 )
Then ſhalt thou learn in Providence to truft,
And own, tho' Juries wink, that God is juſt.
Nec ſurdum, nec Tirefiam quenquam effe Dcorum,
THE
THE
FOURTEENTH SATIRE
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( 41 )
S A T I RE
XIV.
YE
ES; I muſt ſay it; Britain is undone,
If vicious habits creep from fire to fon;
Such as an HOWARD's ſcutcheon would efface,
Or ſhade the glories of a Russel's race.
Does the Duke game ? the Marquis ſhall be
feen
5
Hem'd by a ſharping circle at fifteen.
Ver.5.]
Si damnoſa ſenem juvat alea, ludit & hæres
Bullatus, parvoque eadem movet arma fritillo.
Shall
( 42 )
*
Shall the youth, wont from infancy to note
The fav'ry raptures of a reverend throat,
In Gallic arts long leſſon’d by his Sire,
9
The Chief's, or Patriot's painful wreath acquire?
Go! be the ſkill of Cam and Ifis join'd
To form, by Wiſdom's better rules, his mind;
Fruitleſs their care : his glory is to ſhine
A true deſcendant of a lick'riſh line.
Appius, a fiend of Paffion; in whoſe face 15
Spleen fits, and triumphs with a four grimace,
Who keeps his family in ceaſeleſs fear,
The POLYPHEME of all the region ncar,
Think ye, will he his fon to meekneſs ſchool,
Or train him to a temper calm and cool,
20
VER. 11.)
Barbatos licet admoveas mille inde magiftros,
Hinc totidem, cupiet lauto cænare paratu
Semper, & a magna non degenerare culina.
Ver. 18.]
- Antiphates trepidi laris, ac Polyphemus ?
Teach
( 43 )
Teach him, that failings our indulgence claim,
That Nature faſhion'd rich and poor the ſame?
Perissa's daughter wed, you'll feel too late
You've choſen no Lucretia for your mate;
The miſs, who, ere twelve winters the could
tell,
25
Knew, with reſiſtleſs airs, to act the belle,
To liſp, to languilh, heave the practis'd figh,
And dart ſweet miſchief from the melting eye;
Who to wild Gallants luſcious lines indites,
And with her freakiſh friends holds noiſy nights,
In all her mother's myft'ries deeply read, 31
Treats, aſſignations, ſwarming in her head.
So Nature bids : when great examples move,
Domeſtic vices too perſuaſive prove;
Some few, illumin’d by a richer ray,
35
Direct their courſe, as Reaſon points the way;
Ver. 33.]
Sic Natura jubet : velocius & citius nos
Corrumpunt vitiorum exempla domeſtick, magnis
Cum ſubeant animos auctoribus. unus & alter
Forfitan hæc fpernant juvenes, quibus arte benigna
Et meliore luto finxit præcordia Titan.
Moſt
( 44 )
Moſt in their Parents' footſteps fondly run,
Drawn to the very track they ought to fhun.
Is it your wiſh a faultleſs ſon to ſee?
Watch your own conduct from all ſtain be
free:
40
For youth too oft, whatever care is had,
Perverſely docile, imitates the bad :
No place but ſwarms with * *s of the kind;
But where another Savile ſhall we find ?
With due reſerve before a Child be ſeen; 45.
Taint not his innocence with talk obſcene :
l'ar hence be midnight revels, midnight balls !
And keep, O! keep him from thoſe wanton walls,
Sed reliquos fugienda patrum veſtigia ducunt ;
Et monftrata diu veteris trahit orbita culpæ.
VER. 43.]
Catilinam
Quocunque in populo videas, quocunque ſub axe :
Sed nec Brutus erit, Bruti nec avunculus uſquam.
Nil dictu fædum viſuque hæc limina tangat,
Intra quæ puer eſt. Procul hinc, procul inde puelta
Lenonum, & cantus pernoctantis parafiti.
Maxima debetur puero reverentia. fi quid
Where
4
( 45 )
Where Love leads in his looſe-zon'd titt'ring
crew,
And AMORET trips half-naked to the view.
50
Should you perceive at ſome unguarded hour
The Tempter willing to exert his pow'r,
Scorn not the playful preſence of your boy,
But check the riſings of unruly joy.
Ah think! ſhould he to ſome great guilt aſpire, 55
(For fons not only copy of their fire
The form and features, but the manners too,
And every failing piouſly outdo :)
Strait in reproofs you'd vent your rage; or, worſe!
In filence meditate your heavieſt curſe. 60
Turpe paras, nec tu pueri contempferis annos :
Sed peccaturo obſiftat tibi filius infans.
Nam fi quid dignum Cenforis fecerit ira,
(Quandoquidem fimilem tibi fe non corpore tantum
Nec vultu dederit, morum quoque filius, & cum
Omnia deterius tua per veſtigia peccet)
Corripies nimirum, & caftigabis acerbo
Clamore, ac poft hæc tabulas mutare parabis.
ſhame!
( 46 )
O ſhame! dare you--you, Sir, a reverend rake,
The parent's front, the parent's vengeance take,
You, whom long ſince a courſe of roar and riot
Has render'd ripe for diſcipline and diet?
Yet, thoʻno decency e'er claim'd your care, 65
The leaſt punctilio 'twere a fin to ſpare :
Let but a peer or peereſs come to dine,
In poliſh'd pride the rich buffet ſhall ſhine;
A brighter gloſs the Perſian quilts diſcloſe,
And the lac'd lackeys ſtand in tawdry rows. 70
Why this ſolicitude for poor parade,
While every ſerious buſineſs is delay'd ?
A ſpotleſs family, without a vice,
Is a concern, in which you're not ſo nice.
Unde tibi frontem libertatemque parentis,
Cum facias pejora fenex; vacuumque cerebro
Jampridem caput hoc ventoſa cucurbita quærat?
Hofpite venturo, ceſſabit aemo tuorum.
VER. 71.]
Illud non agitas, ut fanctam filius omni
Aſpiciat fine labe domum. vitinque ra ontem?
Can
( 47 )
Can he demand a recompence too great, 75
Who forms a man of merit for the ſtate,
A WOLFE, or Yorke, to bleed in Britain's cauſe,
Or from Rebellion's gripe to ſnatch the laws ?
It matters much what manners and what arts
Uſe, early uſe, to tender age imparts.
80
To pathleſs woods the mother ſtork repairs,
And ſnakes and lizards to her offspring bears,
Who, when full-plum'd to fail thro' air, in queſt
Of the fame animals, defert their neft :
The vultur, nurtur'd to the carrion taſte, 85
With tender talons tears the rank repaſt :
Gratum eft, quod patriæ civem, populoque dediſti
Ver. 79.]
Plurimum enim intererit, quibus artibus, & quibus
hunc tu
Moribus inſtituas. Serpente ciconia pullos
Nutrit, & inventa per devia rura lacerta :
Illi eadem fumptis quærunt animalia pennis.
Vultur jumento & canibus, crucibuſque reli&tis,
Ad fætus properat, partemque cadaveris affert.
Hinc eft ergo cibus magni quoque vulturis, & fe
Paſcentis, propria cum jam facit arbore nidos.
Fanlote
( 48 )
Eaglets mature, and birds of generous breed,
Wont from their ſhell on foreſt-game to feed,
When hunger prompts, their prey in foreſts ſeek,
And ſouſe on hares and fawns with ray’ning
beak.
90
CENTRONIUS in one favour'd ſon attains
A rich reward for all his piddling pains :
What pride! the little pedant when he ſaw
Quit for a view of canker'd coins his taw;
Heard him ſome vaſe's tap’ring beauties tell, 95
Or praiſe the pearly lining of a ſhell !
Nor did the taſteful LABEO with leſs joy
Behold himſelf reflected in his boy ;
LABEO, who, proud to act no vulgar part,
Would rival Boyle in the Palladian art; 100
But, grown more prudent, ere it was too late,
Left to his ſon his plans and his eſtate,
Sed leporem, aut capream, famulæ Jovis, & ge-
nerofæ
In faltu venantur aves : hinc præda cubili
Ponitur ; inde autem, cum ſe matura levabit
Progenies, ſtimulante fame, feſtinat ad illam,
Quam primam rupto prædam guftaverit ovo.
Now
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Now lee; the wonder of an age to com?,
A ſtructure worthy Athen worthy Rome!
Fair-op’ning to his wiſh a ſite is found;
105
The pile ſlow-riſing heaves above the ground:
Domes, arches, colonades, lick up his gold;
The front to finish next his lands are ſold ;
The laſt few hundreds wake him from his trance,
And waft him o'er a fugitive to Franče.
1109
Who in the fon Sir CALEE does not trace,
The trembling tone, formality of face,
The curls, the coat? for to reform the dreſs
With him is pagan, popith ; nothing leſs :
Stiff in his gait, preciſe in all he ſays,
Each ſtep he meaſures, and each word he weighs.
Why lives the Son a loit'rer round the year?
Look on Sir Cales, and the cauſe is clear.
Moſt vices take their followers at firſt vicw;
Av'rice alone reluctant we purſue :
120
115
Ver. 111.]
Quidam fortiti metuentem Sabhata Patrem, &c.
VER. 119.)
Sponte tamen juvenes imitantur cætera : folam
Inviti quoque avaritiam exercere jubentur.
D
A chcat;
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A cheat; than whom no virtue can be feet
More grave in garb, or more demure in mien.
'T'is true; Sir * had ſome penurious ways;
Yet his ceconomy exacts our praiſe ;
No ſaint more temperate : his favings ſure;
125
And well he knew thoſe ſavings to ſecure.
For management by all around him fear'd;
And in the 'Change how honour'd! how rever'd!
Theſe, theſe, who wealth above all bleſſings prize,
Too many fathers ſtyle ſupremely wiſe ; 130
Who deem the Poor to bliſs can have no claim;
But to be rich and happy are the fame.
“ Go, boys," they cry,“ keep faſt the golden rule!
" Go! learn true wiſdom at Sir * 's ſchool."
)
Fallit cnim vitium fpecie virtutis & umbra,
Cum fit triste habitu, vultuque & veſte feverum.
Nec dubie tanquam frugi laudatur avarus,
Tanquam parcus homo, & rerum tutela fuarum
Cerţa magis, quam fi fortunas fervet eafdem
Heſperidum ſerpens, aut Ponticus. adde quod hunc de
Quo loquor, egregium populus putat, atque verendum
Artificem.
Vice
i
51
Vice has it's elements : theſe they impart, 135
The beggarly beginnings of their art :
Next the found tenets of the trade are told,
Tenets, which Tuscus and his ſpare ſpouſe hold;
From their ſtary'd fervants who with care conceal
The bony fragments of a Sabbath meal, 140
But bounteouſly permit them to regale
On falted herrings and on muddy ale,
And for themſelves or friends with mead refine
The laſt thick droppings of a pint of wine.
Do the dark dungeons of Moorfields contain 145
Frantics ſo deſp'rate as the Naves of gain,
All penury's pinching pains thro'life whio try,
To leave a golden mountain when theỳ die ?
VER. 135.]
Sunt quædam vitiorum elementa : his protinus illos
Imbuit, & cogit minimas ediſcere fordes.
Mox acquirendi docet inſanabile votum.
Servorum ventres modio caltigat iniquo
Ipfe quoque eſuriens. -
VER, 145.]
- Manifeſta phreneſis,
. Ut locup!e6 moriaris egenti vivere fate.
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Alals
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Alas! to have is but to wiſh for more;
Believe me, none leſs covet than the Poor.
150
Tird of the town PATRICE a villa buye;
A farm adjoining ſoon attracts his eyes :
That field ſo fertile, and that range of trees,
In a few years he purchaſes with eaſe :
Next on his neighbour's ground a wiſh he throws :
Happy, could he that meadow but encloſe! 156
Not ſell it! Thall PATRICE entreat in vain ?
(For with ſome folks to beg is to obtain :)
Threaten'd with law his neighbour takes advice,
Glad to give up his acres at half price. 160
In vain the men look grave, the women rail ;
Unmov'd he hears the lamentable tale,
More pleas’d by rapine envious talk to raiſe,
Than live on little with a people's praiſe.
VER. 149.
Creſcit amor Nummi, quantum ipfa pecunia creſcit,
Et minus hanc optat, qui non habet. Ergo paratur
Altera villa tibi, cum rus non fuffiçit unum,
Et proferre libet fines; majorque videtur
Et melior vicina feges.
Yet
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Yet in that little he perhaps might find
165
More health of body, and more peace of mind,
A charm, that might each harſher ſenſe aſſuage,
And gild the dark December of old age.
Bleft times! when our forefathers with diſdain
Could ſee men tread the crooked paths of gain :
Glory their with, and competence their aim, 17!
By noble means they fought an honeſt fame,
Proud from our coafts the Spaniard to repel,
Or rear rich trophies, where the TALBOTS fell:
No penſion, no court-bauble, they defir'd; 175
Each to his own paternal cell petir'd;
There every want and every wilh confin’d,
And knew no treaſure but a peaceful mind.
The fons, diſcipled in each manly grace,
Beam'd back the modeſt virtues of their race. 180
Now dreams of grandeur haunt each infant brain,
The princely palace and the liv'ry'd train:
Hence with portentous crimes theſe days are curſt;
Of mental monſters Avarice is the worſt;
Ver. 183.]
Inde fere fcelerum caufæ, nec plura venena
Miſcuit, aut ferro graffatur fæpius ullum
Humanæ mentis vitium, quam fæva cupido
D3
To
( 54 )
To dark and deathſul deeds ſhe ſtirs thic ſoul, 18a
She points the poniard, and ſhe drugs the bowl:
Heirs, reſtleſs heirs, hier dire bcheſts obey :
No torture to her zealots like delay :
Wild for the prize the minor in career 189
Of Law, of Fame, of Conſcience, knows no fear.
This luſt of gain eſcap'd not Maryell's eye:
". Hence to your ſeats, ye youths!” he oft would
cry:
(: The days of rural innocence reſtore;
“Live as your Anceſtors have liv'd before.
" Who toils the tenant of his own eſtate
195,
" Will never turn informer to the Great,
“ Mix with the Sharpers, join the factious tribe,
Or, worſe! betray his country for a bribe."
Indomiti cenſus. Nam dives qui fieri vult,
Et cito vult fieri. Sed quæ reverentia legum ?
Quis metus, aut pudor eit unquam properantis avari?
Vivite contenti cafulis, & collibus iftis,
O pueri, Marſus dicebat & Hernicus olim.
Nil vetitum feciſſe volet, quem non pudet alto
Per glaciem perone tegi; qui fummovet Euros
Pellibus inverſis. Peregrina ignotaque nobis
Ad fcelus atque nefas, quodcunque eſt, purpura
ducit.
Thus
( 55 )
200
Thus fpake the patriot of a former age :
Maxims more prudent guide a modern ſage :
Ere yet the child has number'd thirteen years,
This ſaving law is trembling in his ears :
“ Go, boy! where Int'reſt bids: they never err,
" Who, in their choice of friends, the rich prefer."
Do the lad's lineaments ſhow a rough grace ? 205
He buys the promiſe of an enfign's place :
Be Mars propitious, and he'll never fear
To riſe a Col'nel in his fortieth year,
Or ſhould the frailties of a Autt'ring frame
Dim the pure luſtre of a ſoldier's fame,
For gown and hand he barters his cockade,
And leaves to BRADDOCK all BELLONA's trade.
As ſhifts his patron's taſte, behold him ſhine
A play'r, a cook, a gambler, or divine.
Nor needs he bluſh to thrive by arts like theſe: 215
Gain ſtill is gain, acquire it as you pleaſe :
210
Hæc illi veteres præcepta minoribus : at nunc, &c.
VER. 215.]
Neu credas ponendum aliquid diſcriminis inter
Unguenta & corium. Lucri bonus eft odor ex re
D
For
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j
For mark the doctrine; MONEY MUST BE HAD;
No matter if the means be good or bad:
This, this, before their elements of ſpeech,
To boys, to giris, fires, grandfires, matrons teach.
But why theſe precepts ? Go, ſecure of mind : 221
Soon will the monitor be ieft behind
Soon with a figh confeſs himſelf outdone,
As the mad * * by his madder ſon.
Ceaſe then a while your leſſons to impart; 225
The native caint has not yet reach'd the hcart:
Scarce ſhall his downy cheeks the man revcal,
And court the firſt ſharp glidings of the ſteel,
Qualibet.
Unde habeas, quærit nemo, fed oportet habcrc.
Hoc monſtrant vetulæ pueris poſcentibus ailem
Hoc diſcunt omnes ante Alpha & Eeta puellæ,
Vea, 221.
- Dic, o vaniſlime, quis te
Feſtinare jubet i meliorem præſto magiftro
Diſcipulum. Securus abi: vinceris, ut Ajax
Præteriit Telamonem, ut Pelca vicit Achilles.
Parcendum elt tcneris.
Frontleſs
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Frontleſs he'll cheat; with oaths confirm a lic;
For vileft traſh pack cards, or cog the die ; 230
Defame a friend, fet families at ſtrife,
Or poiſon, if need be, a wealthy wife.
Small knaves for lucre traverſe lands and feas;
Great villains do their bus'neſs with more eaſe.
"Well, Heav'n be judge ! in me no failure lies :"
Each pious father lifts his hands, and cries. 236
Yet ſure who counſels to heap gain on gain
Lends to another's paſſions the looſe rein:
In vain you bid him warily proceed ;
Far from the goal he flies with frantic ſpeed. 240
Ver. 233.]
Nam quæ terraque marique
Acquirenda putes, brevior via conferet illi.
Nullus enim magni ſceleris labor. hæc ego nunquam
Mandayi, dicos olim, nec talia fuaſi :
Mentis caufa malæ tamen eft & origo penes te.
Nam quiſquis magni cenſus præcepit amorem,
Et lævo monitu pueros produxit avaros :
Et totas effundit habenas
Curriculo ; quem fi revoces, fubfiftere neſcit,
Et, te contempto, rapitur, metiſque relictis.
Would
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Would you ſet bounds ? by ſelf-indulgence taught
Each thinks he goes no further than he ought.
The wights, who to their ſons are wont to ſay,
That all, who give, are in a deſp’rate way;
Who with a fhrug the fools to Bedlam ſend, 245
Whom Pity prompts to raiſe a finking friend;
What do they but an ardent itch create
By fraud or force to compaſs an eſtate;
Teach them for wealth more fierce deſires to feel,
Than e'er felt WILLIAM for the public weal, 250
When, fir'd by Freedom, Albion's bliſs he
plan'd?
And drove a Tyrant-bigot from the land ?
Nemo fatis credit tantum delinquere, quantum
Permittas : adeo indulgent fibi latius ipſi.
Cum dicis juveni ftultum qui donet amico,
Qui paupertatem levet attollatque propinqui ;
Et fpoliare doces, & circumſcribere, & omni
Crimine divitias acquirere, quarum amor in te eſt,
Quantus erat patriæ Deciorum in pectore, quantum
Dilexit Thebas, fi Græcia vera, Menaceus.
Soon
..
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Soon will you ſee the ſparks, your breath fupply'd,
Burſt in a blaze, and ſpread deſtruction wide.
Nor hope to 'ſcape a flame, that levels all :
255
You too a victim to it's rage ſhall fall.
Your looks, your frame, Neſtorean years preſage:
Torture to wait the flow decays of age !
What mail, or antidote, can eaſe your thought, 259
When Avarice points the ſteel, or drugs thedraught?
No SCRUB, no BẠys, who by grimace or wit
Sets in a roar the rabble of the pit,
Yields ſuch a ſight, as who in pride of pelf
Is pleas'd to make a martyr of himſelf;
Who, worth a million, humbly deigns to fear 265
Some ſad reverſe, ſome other South-ſea year.
Ye Foots! ye WOODWARDS ! quit the comic
trade;
On the world's ſtage more pleaſant pranks are
play'd.
VER. 253.]
Ergo ignem, cujus ſcintillas ipſe dediſti,
Flagrantem late, & rapientem cuncta videbis :
Nec tibi parcetur miſero.
Ver. 261.]
Monſtro voluptatem egregiam, cui nulla theatra,
Nulla æquare queas prætoris pulpita lauti,
Si ſpectas &c.
Who
(60)
Who'but muſt ſhake with laughter, when he ſees
A wretch for lucre barter health and eaſe ?
270
Yet all, : from thoſe who ſtretch their lungs for
hire,
To him who wantons on the wav'ring wire,
Reap and enjoy the harveſt of their pains,
While ſome folks put no period to their gains.
Go, frantic! if the God of Gold commands, 275
Go, walk with Peſtilence o'er ſcorching fands,
All life's beſt comforts left! or ſhiv'ring go
Where Winter's banners wave o'er hills of ſnow?
For what? unrival'd among Cits to range
and envy of a crowded Change ; 280
To buy a borough in ſome venal year,
Or match your daughter with a ruin'd Peer.
Madneſs is various, this no peace can know,
While froward Fancy paints each friend a foe;
The gaze
Ver. 271.]
Hic tamen ancipiti figens veſtigia planta
Vi&tum illa mercede parat, brumamque famemque
Illa refte cavet: tu propter mille talenta,
Et centum villas temerarius.
veniet claffis, quocunque vocarit
Spes lucri.
VER. 283.]
Non unus mentes agitat furor.
From
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From Heav'n th' inſpiring call another hears, 285
And ſets his fainted neighbours by the ears ;
A third, who roams the ſeas to ſwell his heap,
A tott'ring plank between him and the deep,
Tho' in demeanor a true ſage he ſeem,
Battie no leſs a lunatic would deem: 290
Let Death with horrors hang the black’ning ſkies,
In tow'ring pyramids let ſurges riſe,
Rocks rear their heads, or icy mountains roll;
Gold ſheds a foothing opiate on his ſoul.
Nor with the getting does the miſchief end ; 295
More dangers wait him ; cares on cares attend :
His own domeſtics fill him with affright;
Robbers by day, aſſaſſins in the night:
A
Ver. 287.]
Parcat tunicis licet atque lacernis,
Curatoris eget, qui navem mercibus implet
Ad ſummum latus, & tabula diftinguitur unda.
Occurrunt nubes & fulgura ; folvite funem
Nil color hic cæli, nil faſcia nigra minatur:
Æftivum tonat.
Ver. 295.]
Tantis parta malis cura majore metuque
Servantur : miſera eft magni cuſtodia cenſus.
3
Geme,
( 62
)
Gems, vafes, ftatues, pictures, ſculptur'd plate
Unumber'd terrors to their lord create.
300
If ſuch the plagues of full proſperity,
Who moſt demands our envy? Is it he,
Who in an hermitage content has found,
Or he whole wilhes not Peru can bound?
Reaſons to value pelf tho' ſhrewd men ſeek, 305
Nature and Common-fenſe one language ſpeak.
Let fools, let ſlaves, before their idol bend;
I know no wants, Philofophy my friend.
Aſk ye, what's competence? cloaths, food, and fire :
Or ſhould your views to ſomething more aſpire,
Go! ſee where Temperance and Plenty meet 311
To bleſs one man in Thurcaſton's retreat.
Should
you ſtill hang the lip, and knit the brow,
An added rent or two I might allow.
VER. 302.)
Quanto felicior hic qui
Nil cuperet, quam qui totum fibi pofceret orbem,
Nullum numen habes, fi fit Prudentia ; fed te
Nos facimus Fortuna Deam. Menſura tamen quæ
Sufficiat cenſus, fi quis me conſulat, edam.
In quantum fitis atque fames & frigora poſcunt.
Nunquam aliud Natura, aliud Sapientia dicit.
Not
( 63 )
Not pleas’d? alas ! could treaſures be ſupply'd 315
From Earth's vaſt ſtores, enow for * *'s pride,
Enow for THORNTON's bounty, could they more
Than teach you to be wretched, and be poor?
Si nondum implevi gremium, fi panditur ultra ;
Nec Cræfi fortuna unquam, nec Perſica regna
Sufficient animo, nec divitiæ Narciſfi.
I MI
1
I MITATIONS
OF
PER SI U S.
E
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S A T I RE
II.
!
OY to my Friend! may fome rare bleſſing
wait
The morn, that lengthens by a year life's date.
With grateful off'rings hail the Guardian Pow'r,
That watch'd afcendant at your natal hour.
Nor have you once in ſecret pour'd a pray'r, S
Or form'd a wiſh, that might defeat his care.
Ver. 1.]
Hunc, Macrine, diem numera meliore lapillo,
Qui tibi labentes apponit candidus annos.
Funde merum Genio.
A ſpot-
E 2
( 68 )
IO
A ſpotleſs name, ſound ſenſe, and honour clear
Who aſk, aſk loudly, that the world may hear :
Not ſo who to himſelf devoutly cries;
"O! could I ſee my father's obſequies!”
Or who the lucky chance of LABEO craves,
Bleft in four wives, all peaceful in their graves :
Or he, who croſsd in politics or love
Prays Heav'n a proſp'rous Rival to remove.
Reſolve me, impious! (little I require) 15
What thoughts conceiv'ſt thou of th' eternal Sire?
Is there, whom thou a juſter Judge wouldſt call
Than him, whoſe juſtice rules this earthly ball ?
VER. 7.]
Mens bona, fama, fides, hæc clare, & ut audiat hoſpes.
Illa fibi introrſum & ſub lingua immurmurat: ô li
Ebullit Patrui præclarum funus !
Ver. 15.)
Heus age, reſponde: Minimum eſt quod ſcire laboro,
De Jove quid fentis :
An ſcilicet hæres,
Quis potior Judex?
Dar't
( 69 )
20
Dar'ſt thou then urge to God without a fear
Requeſts a BORGIA would with horror hear?
When lightnings flaſh, what! becauſe thou and
thine
Eſcape the fury of the bolt divine,
And with fulphureous touch fome oak is riven,
Deem'ſt thou, thy paſt offences are forgiven ?
Or by what bribe doſt thou preſume to win 25
Th' omniſcient Judge to wink upon thy ſin ?
Mark the wiſe Mother, or the Aunt more wiſe :
Her puny Hope ſhe reads with doting eyes ;
His looks, his lineaments, his words preſage
Some pleaſing promiſe of a riper age.
30
VER. 19.)
Hoc igitur, quo tu Jovis aurem impellere tentas,
Dic agedum Staio: proh Jupiter ! O bone, clamet,
Jupiter !
Ignoviffe putas, quia, cum tonat, ocyus ilex
Sulphure diſcutitur facro, quam tuque domuſque ?
Aut quidnam eft, qua tu mercede Deorum
Emeris auriculas?
VER, 27.]
Ecce Avia, aut metuens Divûm Matertera, Cunis
Exemit puerum.
Tunc manibus quatit, & fpem macram fupplice voto
E 3
She
( 70 )
She fees him now in falh and ſolitaire
March in review with Milo's ſtrut and ſtare
3
Now trip the gaze of ſome court-maſquerade ;
Now at St. James's ruſtle in brocade ; 34
Or ſends him with * 's followers brave and bold,
To plunder eaſtern provinces for gold.
Where-e'er he treads, behold! a new-born roſe:
Some grace of feature Venus' ſelf beſtows :
Then ſuch a ſhape, as cannot fail to move
A noble Dowager with virtuous love :
40
And, if kind Fortune grant a ſecond Wife,
A City-heireſs may be his for life.
Such ſimple ſupplicants we well can ſpare ;
Or, if they pray, good Heav'n, avert their pray'r !
Nunc Licini in campos, nunc Crafli mittit in ædes.
Hunc optent generum Rex & Regina: puellæ
Hunc rapiant: quicquid calcaverit hic, rofa fiat.
Aft ego Nutrici non mando vota; negato,
Jupiter, hæc illi, quamvis te albata rogarit.
GRYLLS
( 71 )
GRYLL, big and bloated with one endleſs feaſt, 45
Sues with long life and vigour to be bleſt.
Grave fool! thy fauces and thy ſoups reſign ;
Or know, the lot of PARR will ne'er be thine.
FLAVIA for luck at cards the Saints would bribe ;
With gifts wins WHITFIELD and the godly tribe :
(Such of fanatic FLAVIA is the creed ; 51
She hopes by Interceffors to ſucceed :)
Deſpair not, FLAVIA! tho’your vows are vain ;
Thouſands are loſt; yet bribe, and play again ;
Till the laſt Guinea, all his fellows gone, 55
Sigh, hopeleſs figh, in your lank purſe alone.
VER. 45.]
Poſcis opem nervis, corpuſque fidele ſenectæ :
Efto; age. Sed grandes patina, tucetaque craffa
Annuere his Superos vetuere, Jovemque morantur.
Ver. 53.]
Jam dabitur, jamjam ; donec deceptus, & exfpes
Nequicquam fundo fufpiret nummus in imo,
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Say
(
72 )
Say ye, before Rome's golden Calf who fall,
Why with oblations hang the hallow'd wall?
Would ye force mercy from the throne above
By ſuch vile traſh, as worthleſs mortals love? 60
Low minds, whom no ethereal ſpark inſpires !
Before God's altars bring ye man's deſires ?
Deem ye, Celeſtials a delight can find
In ought, that flatters Nature ill-inclind?
She from Earth's entrails rends ſecreted ſtore, 65
And gathers to a maſs the tortur'd ore;
Teaches the quilt in broider'd pride to ſhine,
And hews bright bawbles from the rocky mine:
Tis thus fond Nature errs, nor errs in vain ;
But what by gold can Pow'rs Superior gain? 70
VER. 61.]
O curvæ in terras animæ, & cæleftium inanes !
Quid juvat hoc templis noftros immittere mores,
Et bona Diis ex hac fcelerata ducere pulpa ?
VER.69.]
Feccat & hæc peccat: vitio tamen utitur. At vos,
Dicite, Pontifices, in fancto quid facit aurum :
Let
( 73 )
Let us preſent, (a Sacrifice to Heav'n
Dearer than bribes by graceleſs Greatneſs giv'n ;)
Compos'd affections, thoughts from taint quite free,
An heart, deep-tinctur'd with humanity :
Who offer theſe with hope prefer their pray'r, 75
While Kings and Popes build Churches, and def-
pair.
Quin damus id fuperis, de magna quod dare lance
Non poffit magni Meffalæ lippa propago:
Compofitum jus fafque animo; fanctoſque receffus
Mentis, & incoctum generoſo pectus honefto :
Hæc cedo, ut admoveam templis, & farre litabo.
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:
SAT I RE
III.
A
-BED! what! when the ſhutters ſpeak
the day,
The ſmall chinks widening with the ſtreamy ray.
What hours we ſeep ! long hours that might
digeft
The crude intemp'rance of a city feaſt.
Not till bright Sol his beams meridian ſhed,
A youth of faſhion can forſake his bed.
Ver. 1.)
Nempe hæc aſlidue ? jam clarum mane feneſtras
Intrat, & anguftas extendit lumine rimas.
Up!
( 78 )
IO
Up! up! mad Sirius burns the thirſty blade,
And all the herds ſtand panting in the ſhade.
« Indeed! ſo late !" the ſluggard maz'd replies,
Brufhing the dews of Number from his
eyes,
He yawns, and dreſſes ; ſips his tea ; then rings:
Calls for his deſk: the deſk his Valet brings.
A pen he firſt effays; the point's too fine:
With ink ſo viſcous who can write a line ?
Dilute it ; what a paly hue! the quill 15
Now leaves no ftain ; now double drops diſtill,
A book he takes; but ſhudders at the fight;
Grows dim and dizzy ; ſcarce can bear the light.
Go, fool! again for pap and caudle cry,
Like ſome ſoft Chick, or babe of Quality;
In froward fit, go! beat thy Nurſe's breaſt,
Hufh'd, and but huſb'd by lullaby to reft.
20
Ver.7.]
En quid agis ? Siccas infana Canicula meffes
Jamdudum coquit, & patula pecus omne fub ulmo eft.
Ver, 19.]
- At cur non potius, teneroque columbo,
Et fimilis regum pueris, pappare minutum
Pofcis, & iratwa mammz lallare recufasi
The
( 79 )
The pen, the paper is in fault, you ſay:
Peace, Auent Babler! with yourſelf you play.
The veffel, made not by the Potter's law,
25
With the leaſt fillip rings forth every flaw.
Now, a moiſt pliant clay, haſte now to feel,
Without a moment's pauſe, the forming wheel.
In proud poſſeffions you abound, 'tis true :
What want you more? has Wiſdom charms for
you?
If the rich only are completely bleſt,
Thanks to kind Fortune, you ſecure may reſt.
Hence then ! to every paffion give the rein;
Be like a Lord, voluptuous, choleric, vain:
Make your high lineage your eternal boaſt :
35
Tell, ere the Norman reach'd the Britiſh coaſt,
How great each Anceſtor ; who brave and bold
Repreſt rude ravagers, ftern kings control'd.
30
An tali ftudeam calamo i cui verba i quid iftas
Succinis ambages ? tibi luditur : effluis amens,
Contemnere. Sonat vitium percuffa, maligne
Reſpondet viridi non cocta fidelia limo.
Udum & molle lutum eft; nunc, nunc properandus,
& acri
Fingendus fine fine rota,
Some
( 80 )
Some with grave face may hear this fuftian ſtyle,
But I, who know you, cannot fail to ſmile. 40
Without a bluſh can he his Sire's great deeds
Vaunt, who looſe Natta in looſe life exceeds ?
NATTA, ſo lethargy'd, fo loft to ſhame
Who does not pity, for he's palt all blame?
See him in Sin's abyſs inſenſate drop! 45
He finks; nor ſends one bubble to the top.
Ye Pow'rs of Vengeance ! when ye would con-
found
Some Louis running mad Ambition's round,
Give him to fee fair Virtue's form divine,
And, while he ſhuns her, feel his loſs, and pine. 50
Ver. 39.)
Ad populum phaleras: ego te intus & in cate novi.
Non pudet ad morem diſcincti vivere Nattæ ?
Sed ſtupet hic vitio, & fibris increvit opimum
Pingue : caret culpa ; neſcit quid perdat: & alto
Demerſus ſumma rurſus non bullit in unda,
Magne Pater Divûm, fævos punire tyrannos
Haud alia ratione velis, cum dira libido
Moverit ingenium ferventi tincta veneno,
VaRTUTEM VIDEANT, INTABESCANTQUE RELICTA.
7
The
;
( 81 )
The purpled Paraſite, when o'er his head
The ſteely death hung trembling by a thread,
Aveiro, agonizing on the wheel,
Felt not ſuch horrors as the wretch muſt feel,
The gulph of vice wide-op’ning to his eyes, 55
« Gone! gone for ever!” to himſelf who crics ;
Rack'd with remorſe waſtes filently within,
His friend, his wife, unconſcious of his fin.
In youth's briſk feaſon the light mind will ſtray;
Not Maro's Muſe can win us from our play: 60
To leap, to run, to ride, is all our care ;
Teach the pois'd paper-bird to fail in air,
Direct the feather'd ſhaft to fy: but you
To boyiſh bawbles long ſince bade adieu,
A candidate at MARG'Ret's hallow'd
gate, 65
Where the lank fons of Logic pore and prate.
Anne magis Siculi gemuerunt ara juvenci,
Et magis auratis pendens laquearibus enſis
Purpureas ſubter cervices terruit; imus,
Imus præcipites, quam fi fibi dicat, & intus
Palleat infelix, quod proxima nefciat uxor.
F
Have
( 82 )
Have Tutors taught you what to ſeek, to ſhun?
And is life's better taſk not yet begun?
Is there a certain mark at which you aim?
Or fickle do you follow caſual game,
70
In the wild wantoneſs of childiſh play,
Without a thought but of the preſent day?
Beneath the pale puft ſkin when waters ſpread,
Ev'n HEBERDEN deſpairing ſhakes his head;
But gives one golden precept for his fees : 75
CHECK IN IT'S FIRST APPROACHES A DISEASE.
Rife, Wretches! riſe to Wiſdom's voice attend :
Man's nature learn; his Being's uſe and end:
What conduct Truth preſcribes; with that fute
guide
To ftem by wary windings life's rough tide : 80
Learn to with well ; ſet bounds to gain, and know
What real uſe a guinca can beſtow :
*
Vsr. 77.)
Diſcite, o miferi, & cauſas cognofcite rerum ;
Quid fumus, & quidnam vi&uri gignimur, ordo
Quis datus, aut metæ quam mollis flexus, & undæ.
Quis modus argento : quid fas optare ; quid aſper
Vuile nummus habet : patriæ, cariſque propinquis
With
( 83 )
With Savile's large, yet temper'd, bounty ſpend;
Now let your Country ſhare, and now your friend :
Maintain your rank, whatever rank be giv'n; 89
Nor thou preſumptuous brave the laws of Heav'n :
Repine not, tho' ſome baſe-born Tool of ſtate
By * *'s whim, or policy, grow great;
A ſon of Mars, proud, beggarly, and bold,
Drain in ten years a Province of her gold.
90
Startled at ſounds like theſe fome jockey Peer,
Some bluſt'ring Col'nel, ſtrait aſſaults my ear.
" Give me plain common ſenſe, I aſk no more ;
“ O'er muſty records let the pale Earl pore;
“ The Baronet a court's gay circle fight 9S
“ For the pure pleaſures of an Attic night;
“ Turn from a Nymph of Quality to ſpeak
To ſome puft pedant, briſtled o'er with Greek;
Quantum elargiri deceat: quem te Deus effe
Jullit, & humana qua parte locatus es in re.
Diſce, nec invideas &c.
VER. 91.]
Hic aliquis de gente hircola Centurionom
Dicat: Quod ſapio, fatis eft mihi: non ego curo
Effe, quod Arcefilas, ærumnofique Solones,
Obitipo capite, & figentes lumine terram.
VIR. 98.]
Tout hériſsé de Grec. BOILEAU, Sat. iv.
« Og
F 2
( 84 )
:
“ Or join a gloomy Theologue in walk,
" And of dark myft'ries divinely talk?
100
* Is it for this they wake, look wan; and ſteal,
“ Hem'd round with folios, a cold ſcanty meal,
“ Of Icering lords the taunts condemn'd to bear,
« The Belle's ſhrill titter, and the Squire's broad
« ftare.”
• Feel, feel my pulſe, dear Doctor! in his bed 105
TO CRATERUS thus Apicio fick’ning ſaid
• I burn, I thirſt: how parcht my palate, fee !
• A feaſt, alas! is now no feaſt to me.'
The Doctor nods, examines, gives advice ;
Succeſs foon follow'd, tho' the caſe was nice.
Apicio now his lick'riſh clubs declines;
With caution takes his glaſs, with caution dines :
When in ill hour Quin's footman at the door:
A turtle at PontAck's preciſe at four
He yields, fome minutes with himſelf at ſtrife; 115
For who can bear to be a ſlave thro' life?
Thoughtleſs he crams, he ſwills: reels home with
pain :
The Doctor callid pronounces phyfic vain -
IIO
VER. 101.]
Hoc eft quod palles ? cur quis non prandeat, hoc eft ?
His Populus ridet, multumque torofa juventus
Ingeminat tremulos naſo crifpante cachinnos.
« Sis!
( 85 )
« Sir! you may ſpare the trouble to apply :
« No Glutton bloated with diſeaſe am I; 120
“ No thirſt; no heat"-allow'd ; but ſhall I find
Not one ſuſpicious ſymptom in your mind ?
From Lelia's eye when luſcious glances dart,
Feel you no throb, no Autter, in your heart?
When Pratt with maces, ſeal, and train ſweeps
by,
125
Heaves not baſe Envy in your breaſt a ſigh?
Should Chance preſent a danger to your fight,
Your looſe limbs tremble ; Fear unmans you quite:
Your temper touch'd, how ſudden you take fire?
Your red eyes ſparkle; your blood boils with ire; 130
While laſts the fit, your words, your actions ſhow
You need the rougheſt rigors of MONRO.
Ver. 119.)
Tange, mifer, venas, & pone in pectore dextram ;
Nil calet hic - viſa eſt fi forte pecunia, five
Candida vicini ſubrifit molle puella,
Cor tibi rite falit?
Alges, cum excullit membris timor albus ariſtas.
Nunc face ſuppoſita ferveſcit fanguis, & ira
Scintillant oculi : diciſque faciſque, quod ipſe
Non ſani eſte hominis non fanus juret Oreſtes.
F 3
THE
;
#
THE
FOURTH SATIRE.
1 MI Τ Α Τ Ε D.
F
r;
( 89 )
S A T I RE
IV.
THE
HE public councils do you wiſh to ſway?
(Suppoſe Pym's patriot form ſhould riſe,
and ſay :)
Some Churl may aſk on what you build your
claim,
Juſt not a minor, and unknown to fame :
Superior parts, diſcernment in affairs,
5
In the rare few outſtrips the growth of hairs :
VER, 1.)
Rem Populi tractas? barbatum hæc crede magiftrum
Dicere.
VER. 5.)
Scilicet ingenium, & rerum prudentia velox
Ante pilos venit.
In
4
( 90 )
In you the Statiſt's laſt beſt art we find,
When to conceal, and when to ſpeak the mind.
Should a bold demagogue the rabble fire
To vent at ſome proud minifter their ire, 10
The filent rhetoric of your eyes and hand
More than ten maces ſtillneſs ſhall command.
When in St. Stephen's Party points her ſtings,
And the whole Houſe with keen invectives rings,
If you but riſe, two words will have more pow'r 15
To calm all heats, than roarings, to the tow'r !
So well you weigh the merits of each fide,
With nicer ſkill not Mucio could decide.
Tho' this fome warm admirers may pretend,
Hear one, who is, and would be thought your
friend.
Ceaſe then, while yet a youth, by name to hail
Each dirty Voter, fawn, and wag the tail;
20
VER. 7.]
Dicenda tacendaque calles
Ergo ubi commota fervet plebecula bile,
Fert animus calidæ feciffe filentia turbæ
Majeftate manus.
VER. 21.)
Quin tu igitur fumma nequicquam pelle decorus
Ante diem blando caudam jactare popello
Definis;
Or;
( 91 )
:
Or, as you paſs, with hands uprais'd to pour
On the maz'd multitude a filv'ry ſhow'r.
Let Cleon's heir, agog for public praiſe, 25
Fell all his woods to purchaſe rank huzzas;
Yet Wiſdom more the noble youth approves
Who bows to Truth in Granta's hallow'd groves.
Tell me, what joys have charms for Cleon's heir ?
To dreſs, to dance, to flutter with the fair,
30
Or feed for ſome fond Minx a lawleſs Aame :
Is there a footman would not do the ſame?
The Marquis vaunts his ſcutcheon, and diſplays
A roll of ſtatiſt-fires from Rufus' days :
Can I but ſmile, when the firſt Hind I ſee 35
Is juſt as ſound a Senator as he ?
To pry in others frailties all how prone !
But who once deigns to peep into his own?
Of grave VEDICTUS drop a word ; you heat,
" Vedictus!” ſtrait re-echoed with a ſneer; 40
“ He in revenue who is lord of more
" Than of ſome Northern Nobles. half a ſcore :
1
YER. 37.]
Ut nemo in ſefe tentat deſcendere; nemo :
Scd præcedenti ſpectatur mantica tergo !
« VED-
( 92 )
" VedicTUS! of all wretches ſure the worſt,
By his defrauded Genius daily curft :
“ He, who on folemn ſeaſons ftale port ſips, 45
56 Or with preſented cider wets his lips;
“ Sets up to ſale his pigeons and his deer,
" And lives on rooks and mutton thro' the year."
Peace! at your elbow one I fee, who knows
Your fouler faults, and itches to expoſe; 50
Your wiles, your arts, that have ſo oft betray'd
The rich raw heir, and unſuſpecting maid.
Blows thus we give and take; with mutual ſtrife
Wounding and wounded : Such the lot of life.
Nor dream your character eludes the fight, 55
Tho' trick'd and tinfeld by a mien polite :
Yet, Sir! proceed ; affume what part you will ;
With MARVELL's virtue blend a BURGHLEY'S
ſkill;
Go! with all WHARTON's follies, St. John's
crimes,
Shine, if you can, the SULLY of the times. 60
• When grateful Pæans in my praiſe I hear
• From Court and City ſhall I ſtop my ear ?'
On Amoret if you caſt a lick'riſh eye ;
If for another's beauteous Wife you figh;
Or, when againſt the Fav'rite you declaim, 65
If a blue ſtring or title be your aim;
With
( 93 )
With cheap applauſe you ſooth your ear in vain :
Praiſe, foreign praiſe, the mob's low gift diſdain :
To your own breaſt retire ; ſearch that with care,
And bluſh to find what furniture is there.
70
VIR. 68.]
Reſpue, quod non es : tollat ſua munera cerdo :
TECUM HABITA, & noris quam fit tibi curta fupellex,
THE
Τ Η Σ
FIFTH SA TI RE
Ι Μ Ι Τ Α Τ Ε D,
Η
( 97 )
S AT I RE
+
V.
O
FOR an hundred mouths, an hundred
tongues,
A throat of braſs, and adamantine lungs !
Such is the Poet's prayer from Homer's days
To the fine Fabler in ELIZA's praiſe.
• Agreed: but tell me, what's this pompous verſe, 5
That aſks powers more than human to rehearſe?
Let Fancy's fav’rites, gifted Bards, who fing
• The deeds of conqu’ring Chief, or Patriot King,
VIR.I.]
Vatibus hic mos eſt, centum fibi pofcere voces,
Centum ora, & linguas optare in carmina centum.
G
«Or
( 98 )
IO
• Or veil in allegory dark their theme,
On Pindus' miſty ſummit doze and dream :
"Your modeſt Mufe affects not flights like theſe;
(Content co teach with dignity and eaſe,
“To touch the tainted manners of the times,
. And playful rally fools in honeſt rhymes.
• Be this your praiſe : nor e'er this praiſe reſign, 15
• In the firſt claſs of fuftian fops to ſhine.'
Think not, I toil with figures forc'd and vain
To ſwell the bubble of an empty ſtrain :
No; 'tis to you I ſpeak; to you fincere
I truſt my ſecret foul without a fear,
Mov'd by the Muſe : pleas'd let me ſhew, what
part
You ſhare (with pride I tell it) of my heart;
20
VER. 11.]
Verba togæ ſequeris, junctura callidus acri,
Ore teres modico, pallentes radere mores
Doctus, & ingenuo culpam defigere ludo.
VER, 17.]
Non equidem hoc ftudeo bullatis ut mihi nugis,
Pagina turgefcat. -
Secreti loquimur: tibi nunc, hortante Camæna,
Excutienda damus præcordia ; quantaque noftræ
Pars tua fit, Cornute, animæ tibi, dulcis amice,
Oftendiſſe juvat.
You,
( 99 )
You, who diſtinguiſh with quick.judging ſenſe
Truth's bullion from the tinſel of pretence :
With this intent I urg'd the bold requeſt, 25
To tell, how deep you're rooted in my breaſt,
To paint in words, what words can ſcarce declare,
The full and friendly feelings latent there.
When firſt in Granta's groves I dropt with joy
For cap and gown the bawbles of the boy ; 30
When, as each vanity my wonder drew,
Wand'ring and wild from this to that I flew;
When Error, dubious of life's better way,
In devious paths leads giddy minds aſtray;
'Twas then I ſaw you, ſaw a friend, a guide, 35
Form'd to inſtruct without th' inſtructor's pride,
To hint a fault without the Cenſor's tone,
And win with counſel, that ſeem'd half my own.
VER. 33.]
Cumque iter ambiguum eſt, & vitæ nefcius Error
Diducit trepidas ramoſa in compita mentes :
Me tibi fuppofui: teneros tu ſuſcipis annos
Socratico, Cornute, finu.
G 2
Yes;
( 100 )
40
Yes ; I remember oft, how many a day
In moral converſe paſt improv'd away,
Whether we faunter'd in ſome ſhaded walk,
Or at the ſocial hearth prolong'd our talk.
Leiſure, or ſtudy, juſt to both the ſame;
Our minds ſo pair’d, we vary'd but in name.
Yet diff'rent objects diff'rent humours ſtrike; 45
In taſte, purſuit, what two were e'er alike?
Driv'n by the God of Gold this boldly braves
All PHOEBUS' fervors, and all Neptune's waves;
That, purpled o'er with turtle and champagne,
Battens at eaſe, and laughs at ſlaves of gain : 50
From youth to age on cards another dotes ;
TO VENUS this his ſervices devotes ;
Ver. 39.]
Tecum enim memini longos conſumere foles,
Et tecum primas epulis decerpere noctes :
Unum opus, & requiem pariter diſponimus ambo ;
Atque verecunda laxamus ſeria menfa.
Ver. 49.]
Hic fatur irriguo mavult turgeſcere fomno;
:- hunc alea decoquit, ille
In venerem putret : fed cum lapidoſa chiragra
Till,
( 101 )
Till, frail and flutt'ring, left of limbs and eyes,
Health, gift of Temperance, he learns to prize,
Reflects with horror on each rank offence, 55
And late regrets the loſs of innocence.
While felfiſh arts and ſenſual joys prevail,
With painful vigils you, my Hurd! grow pale;
Or with an eloquence, no fears confine,
Enforce the precepts of the page divine.
Here learn, ye young, your longings to aſſuage !
Here ſeek, ye old, a lenitive for age !
Yet vain advice; all, ſtudious of delay,
(Who can refuſe them ?) aſk the following day. ;
The morrow come that inſtant is no more;
65
Yet ſtill they crave indulgence as before :
60
Fregerit articulos veteris ramalia fagi,
Tum craſſos tranfiffe dies lucemque paluftrem,
Et fibi jam feri vitam ingemuere relictam.
At te nocturnis juvat impallefcere chartis :
Cultor enim es juvenum, purgatas inferis aures
Fruge Cleantheâ. petite hinc, juveneſque, feneſque,
Finem animo certum, miferiſque viatica canis.
Cras hoc fiet.
Dax
G 3
( 102 )
:
Day urges day; their graſp the morrow fhuns,
Like the firſt wheel beneath the beam that runs;
The wheel behind purſues with equal haſte;
In vain; the foremoſt Aies away as faſt. 70
What can enſure the preſent day our own?
Reaſon replies, 'tis LIBERTY alone.
Not that which BALBUs for his hirelings buys,
When of ſome borough he conteſts the prize ;
Not that, which gladden'd * *'s graceleſs heir, 75
When the Law loos'd him from his Guardian's care :
Thro' School, thro’ College, rapidly he ran;
To Cheats, to Whores, a Vaffal, ere a Man.
Trick'd with each folly, blacken'd with each vice,
The Rake ſtarts up his Worſhip in a trice: 80
The lift'ning Quorum his deciſions awe;
His Worſhip hears; his Worſhip gives the law;
Ver. 68.]
Nam quamvis prope te, quamvis temone ſub uno
Vertentem ſeſe fruſtra ſectabere canthum,
Cum rota poſterior curras, & in axe ſecundo.
Libertate opus eft.
Ver. 80.]
Momento turbinis exit
Marcus Dama. Papæ ! Marco ſpondente recuſas
His
( 103 )
1
His Worſhip's exigencies need a ſum;
Dare you demur ? his word outweighs a plum:
This, this is freedom, the pure gift of pelf: 854
" Is he not free, who's maſter of himſelf?"
Granted; not ROUSSEAU more. 6. Look then on
me;
" I'm Maſter of myſelf, and therefore free."
Freedom, my friend, you ſagely have defin'd;
But in your poſtulate a flaw I. find.
go
“ Say! ſince I reach'd my one and twentieth year,
“ Breaths there, whoſe churliſh counſels I ſhould
" fear?
« Cenſors and cenſures I alike diſown;
“ Or if reſtrain'd, reſtrain'd by law alone."
Sir, drop your noſtrils ire, while I impart 95
Truths, that may tear the mother from your heart,
Decrees of Chanc'ry never could diſpenſe
To fots fobriety, to blockheads ſenſe :
".
Credere tu nummos ? Marco ſub judice palles ?
Marcus dixit ; ita eft.
Hæc mera libertas: hoc nobis pilea donant.
VER.91.]
Vindicta poftquam meus a Prætore recefli,
Cur mihi non liceat juflit quodcunque voluntas,
Excepto fi quid Maſuri rubrica vetavit ?
Diſce ; fed ira cadat nafo, rugoſaque ſanna,
Dum veteres avias tibi de pulmone revello.
Sooncs
G4
( 104 )
Sooner expect Manzoli's melting note
From the coarſe channel of a deep baſe throat, 100
Or a tame fool, that lolls in HANDEL's chair,
To catch all HANDEL's ſpirit, HANDEL's air :
In vain weak Ign'rance would her bounds exceed :
So Common Senſe and Nature have decreed.
What if a Cobler, recent from the ſtall,
Were rais'd by grace to plead in Rufus' hall;
Would not the Lawyers ſwear the man was mad;
Or deem, who brought him to the bar, as bad?
Tell me, have you by Wiſdom's rules been bred
With ſteady ſtep life’s Nipp'ry paths to tread? 110
Falſehood's diſguiſes have you ſkill to know?
What ſolid worth, what ſuperficial ſhow?
105
Ver. 99.]
Sambucam citius caloni aptaveris alto.
Publica lex hominum naturaque continet hoc fas,
Ut teneat vetitos inſcitia debilis actus.
Ver. 105.)
Navem fi pofcat fibi peronatus arator
Luciferi rudis; exclamet Melicerta, periffe
Frontem de rebus. Tibi recto vivere talo
Ars dedit ? & veri ſpeciem dignoſcere calles,
Ne qua
ſubærato mendoſum tinộiat auro.
Approve
( 105 )
Approve you all Truth dictates to be done ;
And ſet a brand on what you ought to fhun?
Aſk you no more than juſt what Fortune ſends, 115
Ev'n with a pittance lib'ral to your friends;
At one time willing to reſerve your ſtore;
Glad at another to throw wide your door,
In the dark dirt of gain nor bury'd deep,
Nor yet agog to ſquander all your heap?
Be fair, and ſay, “ All this is in my pow'r;"
I grant your claim to freedom from that hour,
Yet, Sir, ſince lately you were much inclin'd
To failings, incident to human kind,
If in ſome vapid corner of your breaſt 125
You harbour ſtill a certain wily gueſt,
I 20
Quæque fequenda forent, quæque evitanda viciſlim,
Illa prius creta, mox hæc carbone notâfti ?
Es modicus voti; preſſo lare, dulcis amicis :
Jam nunc aftringas, jam nunc granaria laxes ?
Hæc mea ſunt, teneo, cum vere dixeris ; eſto
Liberque ac fapiens, Prætoribus ac Jove dextro.
Sin tu, cum fueris noftræ paulo ante farinæ,
Pelliculam veterem retines, & fronte politus
Aftutam vapido fervas fub pectore vulpem:
Tho?
( 106 )
Tho' decencies politely well you ſave,
I ftrait retract the liberty I gave.
If not betime you put yourſelf to ſchool,
Do what you lift, you're ſure to play the fool. 136
What ſhallow Coxcomb with his wealth e'er bought
The bleſſing of one reaſonable thought ?
The clown that gameſome gambols at the wake,
With MARCEL's motion not two ſteps can take.
Dar'ſt thou of Liberty ufurp the name? 135
Slave as thou art, fay, whence thy vaunted claim ?
'Tis true, no father's menaces you fear;
No Guardian thunders precepts in your ear :
Aſk you, what other tyrants can control ?
Other? yes, worſe; the tyrants of the ſoul. . 140
Quæ dederam ſupra repeto, funemque reduco.
Ni tibi conceſſit ratio, digitum exere, peccas.
Et quid tam parvum eft ſed nullo thure litabis,
Hæreat in ftultis brevis ut ſemuncia recti.
Hæc miſcere nefas : nec cum fis cætera foſfor,
Tres tantum ad numeros Satyri moveare Bathylli.
Liber ego.runde datum hoc fumis tot ſubdite rebus :
An dominum ignoras, niſi quem vindicta relaxat ?
VIR. 134.]
MARCEL; a late eminent Maſter of a dancing-ſchool
in Paris,
. Fie !
( 107 )
• Fie! fie! ſo late a-bed ! riſe, fluggard, riſe !'
(Cloſe at your pillow Avarice ſtands, and cries :)
Up! up! fee * , obedient to my call,
Mad for more millions, ſcorches at Bengal. 144
Hence then; for gems, for gold, go! ranſack mines:
O'er ſeas bring brandies, ſpices, filks, and wines :
To ſwell your ſtore each wary method try;
As Int'reſt gives command, affirm, deny:
Adieu to Conſcience! for who dreads that curſe
Muſt fit contented with an empty purſe.' 150
You riſe, you form your plan ; a ſhip in haſte
Is hir’d to waft you o'er the watry waſte;
Proviſions heav'd aboard : and now the gales
Prompt you to ſeize the deep with ſpreading fails :
When ready Luxury drops words like thefe: 155
• Where run you, Sir ? why raſhly riſk your eaſe?
Ver. 141.)
Mane piger ſtertis ; Surge, inquit Avaritia : eja
Surge. negas. Inftat, Surge, inquit: Non queo. ſurge.
Et quid agam? Rogitas : Saperdas advehe Ponto
Verte aliquid ; jura. Sed Jupiter audiet : eheu
Baro, reguftatum digito terebrare falinum
Contentus perages, fi vivere cum Jove tendis.
Ver. 156.)
Quo deinde, infane, ruis ? quo?
You
( 108 )
You the long labours of the ſeas endure !
Frenzy, beyond a Battie's ſkill to cure !
Fool! what can tempt you winds and waves ta
dare,
To breath rank dews, to parch on ſalted fare ; 160
What, but the wiſh, that ſums, which now are
lent
At four, or five, may ſweat out cent per cent ?
Come ! come! the preſent moments learn to prize;
Life's hour is ſhort; ev'n while I ſpeak, it flies :
A clod, a ghoſt, a name thou foon ſhalt be; 165
Conſider then ; and ſnatch life's joys with me.'
What will you do, a bait on either ſide ?
Tell me, the pref'rence how will you decide ?
Quid tibi vis ? calido ſub pectore maſcula bilis
Intumuit, quam non extinxerit urna cicutæ.
Tun' mare tranfilias ? tibi torta cannabe fulto
Cæna fit in tranftro, vejentanumque rubellum
Exhalet vapida læſum pice feffilis obba ?
Quid petis: ut nummi, quos hic quincunce modeſto
Nutrieras, pergant avidos ſudare deunces?
Indulge genio, carpamus dulcia : noftrum eft,
Quod vivis: cinis, & manes, & fabula fies.
Vive memor leti: fugit hora; hoc, quod loquor,
inde eſt.
One
( 109 )
One point is clear, a maſter you muſt have;
Now to this tyrants now to that a ſlave: 170
Nor, tho' you ſteadily ſhall once withſtand
Their urgent mandates, deem, you've burſt
your
band :
The Cur, eſcap'd his priſon, Aies in vain,
While at his neck he trails a length of chain.
• I'll bear no more;' (thus high-born Milo raves;
When added ſettlements his miſtreſs craves, 176
Or when ſome Gallant, at her toilet ſeen,
Ruffles his Lordſhip with a fit of ſpleen :)
• Return! forgive! it never ſhall be ſaid
Milo was vaſſal to a jilting jade,
180
Or on his family entailid diſgrace,
The firſt tame fool of an illuſtrious race :
At a mad Minx's door to wait and whine
I leave to Cullies of plebeian line.'
Ver. 171.]
Nec tu, cum obftiteris femel, inftantique negaris
Parere imperio, rupi jam vincula dicas.
Nam & luctata canis nodum abripit: attamen illi,
Cum fugit, a collo trahitur pars longa catena.
Let
(110)
:
190
Let this imperious jilt that very night 185
Scrawl two kind words, behold him foften'd quite :
Not go? not fee her ?' you ftrait hear him ſay,
Juſt like the fniv'ling Doter in the play:
6 When of her own accord ſhe ſends and fues ?
Twould aſk a ſtoic fterneſs to refuſe.'
What think ye of his claim to ſelf-command,
Who fells his foreſts, mortgages his land,
With fatted oxen and with buts of beer
To burſt his venal voters thrice a year;
Huzzaing thouſands daily round him draws, 195
Prick'd with the itch of popular applauſe !
Or is the Peer more maſter of himſelf,
Who at ſet times, for pleaſure or for pelf,
Vouchſafes, Britannia's councils at a ſtand,
To join the grooms and gamblers of the land, 206
With jockeys Thares the turf's illuſive praiſe,
Or thrids with ſharpers whiſt's perplexing maze?
VER. 191.]
Jus habet ille fui palpo, quem ducit hiantem
Cretata Ambitio ? vigila, & cicer ingere large
Rixanti populo.
VER. 197.) The Devotee in the text is diſplaced
to make room for the NEWMARKET PEBR ; a ſubſtitution,
which needs no comment.
5
• Dear
( 111 )
• Dear Sir! your doctrine is ſublimely rare;
• But ſhould you vent it in Newmarket air,
. Some big-bon'd booby, ſome red-coated Aſs 205
· Would bellow a loud laugh from lungs of braſs,
• And ſwear one Hoyle more ſolid ſcience ſhows,
• Than a whole regiment of rough Rousseau's.
VER. 204.]
Dixeris hæc inter varicoſos Centuriones,
Continuo craffum ridet Vulfenius ingens,
Et centum Græcos curto centuffe licetur.
-
THE
Τ Η Ε
SI X TH SA TIRE
I MIT A T E D.
H
*
.
( 115 )
+
S A TIRE
VI.
MY
Y Friend ! has Winter warn'd you to re-
treat
From airy
to your own low ſeat?
Still do you dote on deeds of Elfin age,
And muſe and moralize o'er Fiction's page ;
Or, nobly fir'd the tender times to mend, 5
Do you to Virtue ſome new gift intend,
You, who can make the darkeſt doctrines clear,
And urge with delicacy truths ſevere?
VER. 1.]
Admovit jam bruma foco te, Baffe, Sabino i
H 2
To
:
( 116 )
To me a ſnug retirement Granta yields,
Where miſts glide milky o'er Cam’s fenny fields,
Once printed by the footing of the feet II
Of our new CHAUCER by infufion ſweet.
Here much at eaſe I live, without a care
Of courtly changes, that make ſome folks ſtare;
Nor do I heave one figh, when Fortune brings
Flatt'rers and fools to Miniſters and Kings ; 16
When Knights corrupt are penſion'd for their pains,
Or when a meddling Prieſt a mitre gains.
A felhíh ſaving Wretch of mean degree
Dies worth a million : what is that to me?
My meals fall be juſt as you ſee them now,
Nor ſhall thought add a wrinkle to my brow.
20
Ver. 11.]
“ Ne dare I like, but through infuſion ſweeţe
Of thine own ſpirit, which doth in me ſurvive,
I follow here the footing of thy feete,
That with thy meaning ſo I may the rather meete."
SPENSER's addreſs to the ſpirit of CHAUCER.
F. Q. B. IV. C. II. S. xxxiv.
Ver. 19.]
Et fi adeo omnes
Direſcant orti pejoribus, uſque recufem
Curvus ob id minui fenio, aut cenare fine určto.
Some
3
.
( 119 )
Some may diſlike theſe tenets : Twins, we find,
(So wills the Genius) feldom of a mind.
This on dry roots at home is pleas'd to pine, 25
And but at others' coft vouchſafes to dine;
That, large of foul, and exquiſite of taſte,
Licks up a manor in one rich repaſt.
Yes, Sir! whate'er you think, my own l'll ſpend,
My hand and heart ſtill open to a friend;
30
Not quite ſo frantic in a year or two
To fall, like *, a victim to vertù,
Nor, as ſome Fops, ſo prodigally vain,
To glut my gueſts with wheatears and champagne,
Learn by your heap to balance your expence; 35
Spare not; and leave the reſt to Providence.
“ Forbid it, Charity
-One aſks
One, whom Benevolence has bankrupt made :
p"
your aid,
Ver. 23.)
Diſcrepet his alius. Geminos, Horoſcope, varo
Producis genio. Solis natalibus, eft qui
Tingat olus ficcum muria vafer in calice empta,
Ipſe facrum irrorans patinæ piper : hic bona dente
Grandia magnanimus peragit puer. utar ego, utar,
Nec rhombos to libertis ponere lautus,
Nec tenuem follers turdarum noffe falivam,
Pity!
H 3
biridan tersebut
( 118 )
Pity! a man of ſuch rare worth thould fail :
Ah! weigh the ruthleſs rigaſs of a jail. 40
Come! come! be bounteous; fend him a ſupply-
“ What! that my heir may curſe me, when I die,
• By vulgar rites difgrac'd: no blazon'd herſe;
* No marble bust; no monumental verſe ?"
Bestius, too anxious for a neap eſtate,
45
Vents on a French Metropolis his hate :
Such is the plague, fince pamper'd peers brought
o'er
The ſçavoir vivre from a neighbour ſhore :
Rough Yorkſhire Squires, plain rural Rectorschooſe
Their foups, their eſſences, and rank ragouts. 50
Pollio, you cry, is ſplendidly profuſe :
Yet place and figure plead a fair excuſe,
What if his Lordſhip on ſome grand court-day,
Loyal and liberal, to his heir ſhould ſay:
VER. 47)
Befius urget
Doctores Graios, ita fit, poftquam ſapere urbi
Cum pipere & palmis venit noftrum hoc maris ex-
pers,
Føniſecæ craſlo vitiarunt, unguine pulife
.
«Sir!
2
( 119 )
65
• Sir! of my zeal to give a public mark, $S
I treat the town with fireworks in the park :
To-morrow my great friends at • * dine ;
At night a ball - how, Sir! do you repine ?
You think perhaps theſe coſts he ill can bear,
Whom Caution counſels not to ſpend but ſpare: 60
Speak out: or, rightly if I read your mind,
You flight the trifle I may leave behind :
Well then; adieu poor prejudice of birth!
I'll ev'n adopt ſome Cit, or ſon of Earth.
Inheritance is gain: why then inquire
Where are the lands bequeath'd me by my fire,
The woods, the manors; or eternal quote
The ſaving faws dull dotards cant by rote:
. On int'reft int'reſt heap; ſpend that, my ſon !
" Touch once the principal, and you're un-
cdone?
70
What will be left? — left, Sir! - now, now I'll
live;
Now taſte the bleſſings rank and riches give.
Shall I, another * *
Mope in a moated manſion, dark and drear,
Raiſing vaſt ſums, when I'm laid low in duſt, 75
To ſwell a madman's luxury or luft?
Or how ſhall I fet limits to my ſtore?
A plum-a million - ſay a million more
On!
round the year
( 120 )
On! on ! alas! not ev'n CHRYSIPPUS' ſelf,
Were he alive, could bound the wiſh for pelf.' do
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