When fervile Chaplains cry, that birth and place W If there be truth in Law, and Ufe can give 230 A Property, that's yours on which you live. Delightful Abs-court, if its fields afford Their fruits to you, confeffes you its lord: All Worldly's hens, nay partridge, fold to town, ' Heathcote himself, and fuch large-acred men, Lords of fat E'fham, or of Lincoln fen, 241 Buy ev'ry stick of wood that lends them heat, Buy ev'ry Pullet they afford to eat. NOTES. VER. 232. delightful Abs-court] A farm over-against Hamp ton-Court. Sed vocat ufque fuum, qua populus adfita certis Limitibus vicina refigit jurgia: tanquam * Sit proprium quidquam, puncto quod mobilis horae, Nunc prece, nunc pretio, nunc vi, nunc morte fuprema, Permutet dominos, et cedat in altera jura. Sic, quia perpetuus nulli datur. ufus, at haeres Haeredem alterius, velut unda fupervenit undam: Quid vici profunt, aut horrea? quidve Calabris. Saltibus adjecti Lucani; fi metit Orcus Grandia cum parvis, non exorabilis auro? ว Gemmas, marmor, ebur, Tyrrhena figilla, tabellas, Argentum, veftes Gaetulo murice tinctas, Sunt qui non habeant; eft qui non curat habere. NOTES. VER. 248. hang in Fortune's pow'r-Lofe on the point of ev'ry wav'ring hour.] A modern idea (the magnetic needle) here fupplied the Imitator with expreffion much fuperior to his Original. Yet these are Wights, who fondly call their own Half that the Dev'l o'erlooks from Lincoln town. The Laws of God, as well as of the land, 246 Abhor, a Perpetuity should stand: Estates have wings, and hang in Fortune's pow'r "Loose on the point of ev'ry wav'ring hour, Ready, by force, or of your own accord, 250 By fale, at least by death, to change their lord. Man? and for ever? wretch! what wou'dst thou have? Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave. And trees, and ftones, and farms, and farmer fall. are, Who, if they have not, think not worth their care. 'Cur alter fratrum ceffare, et ludere, et ungi Pracferat Herodis palmetis pinguibus; alter Dives et importunus, ad umbram lucis ab ortu Silveftrem flammis et ferro mitiget agrum: Scit Genius, natale comes qui temperat aftrum: mortalis in NATURAE DEUS HUMANAE, unum Quodque caput, vultu mutabilis, albus, et ater, "Utar, et ex modico, quantum res pofcet, acervo Tollam: nec metuam, quid de me judicet haeres, Quod non plura datis invenerit. et tamen idem Scire volam, quantum fimplex hilarifque nepoti Difcrepet, et quantum difcordet parcus avaro. NOTES. VER. 273. All Townshend's Turnips,] Lord Townshend, Secretary of State to George the First and Second. When this great Statefman retired from bufinefs, he amufed himself in Husbandry; and was particularly fond of that kind of rural improvement which arifes from Turnips; it was the favourite fubject of his converfation. VER. 277. fly, like Oglethorpe,] Employed in fettling the Colony of Georgia. P. VER. 280 That God of Nature, &c.] Here our Poet had an opportunity of illuftrating his own Philosophy; and to giving a much better fenfe to his Original; and cor 'Talk what you will of Tafte, my friend, you'll find Two of a face, as foon as of a mind. Why, of two brothers, rich and restless one 270 Plows, burns, manures, and toils from fun to fun; The other flights, for women, sports, and wines, All Townshend's Turnips, and all Grosvenor's mines : Why one like Bu- with pay and fcorn content, с Yes, Sir, how small foever be my heap, A part I will enjoy, as well as keep. 285 grace A man fo poor would live without a place : NOTES. recting both the Naturalism and the Fate of Horace, which are covertly conveyed in thefe words, "Scit Genius, natale comes qui temperat aftrum, |