Oh blast it, (2) fouth-winds! till a stench exhale Rank as the ripenefs of a rabbit's tail. 39 By what criterion do ye eat, d'ye think, If this is priz'd for fweetnefs, that for stink? . When the tir'd glutton labours through a treat, He finds no relish in the fweetest meat, He calls for fomething bitter, fomething four, And the rich feaft concludes extremely poor: (2) Cheap eggs, and herbs, and olives till we fee Thus much is left of old fimplicity! (p) The robin-red-breast till of late had rest, And children facred held a martin's nest, Till becca-ficos fold fo dev'lith dear 36 To one that was, or would have been, a peer. 40 (9) Let me extol a cat, on oyiters fed, I'll have a party at the Bedford-head; (1) Præfentes Auftri, coquite horum opfonia: quamquam Putet aper rhombufque recens, mala copia quando Agrum follicitat ftomachum; cum rapula plenus Atque acidas mavult inulas. (o) necdum omnis abacta Pauperies epulis regum: nam vilibus ovis Nigrifque eft oleis hodie locus. Haud ita pridem Galloni præconis erat acipenfere menfa Infamis. quid? tum rhombos minus æquora alebant (p) Tutus erat rhombus, tutoque ciconia nido, Donec vos auctor docuit prætorius. ergo (9) Si quis nunc mergos fuaves edixerit affos, Parebit pravi docilis Romana juventus. NOTES. Ver. 42. Bedford-bead;] A famous eating-house. Or Or ev❜n to crack like crawfish recommend; (r) 'Tis yet in vain, I own, to keep a pother 45 About one vice, and fall into the other: Between excess and famine lies a mean; Plain, but not fordid; tho' not fplendid, clean. (s) Avidien, or his wife, (no matter which, For him you'll call a (t) dog, and her a bitch,) 50 Sell their prefented partridges, and fruits, And humbly live on rabbits and on roots: (u) One half-pint bottle ferves them both to dine And is at once their vinegar and wine. But on fome (x) lucky day (as when they found (r) Sordidus a tenui victus diftabit, Ofello Judice: nam fruftra vitium vitaveris iftud, Si te alio pravus detorferis. (s) Avidienus, (t) Cui canis ex vero ductum cognomen adhæret, Quinquennes oleas eft, et fylveftria corna; (u) Ac, nifi mutatum, parcit defundere vinum; et Cujus odorem olei nequeas perferre (licebit Ille repotia, natales, aleofque dierum (x) Feftos albatus celebret) cornu ipfe bilibri Caulibus inftillat, (y) veteris non parcus aceti. Quali igitur victu fapiens utetur, et horum Utrum imitabitur? hac crget lupus, hac canis, aiunt, (x) Mundus erit, qua non offendat fordibus, atque Nor Nor (a) ftops, for one bad cork his butler's pay, Swears, like Albutius, a good cook away; Nor lets, like (b) Nævius, ev'ry error pass, The mufty wine, foul cloth, or greafy glass. (c) Now hear what bleffings Temperance can bring: 65 (Thus faid our friend, and what he said I fing:) (d) First health: The ftomach (cramm'd from ev'ry difh. 69 A tomb of boil'd and roast, and flesh and fish. Remembers oft (e) the fchoolboy's fimple fare, 76 In neutram partem cultus mifer. (a) Hic neque fervis Albuti fenis exemplo, dum munia didit, Servus erit; nec fic ut fimplex (b) Nævius, unctam Convivis præbebit aquam ; vitium hoc quoque mag num. (c) Accipe nunc, victus tenuis quæ quantaque fecum Afferat. (d) In primis valeas bene; nam variæ res The The foul fubfides, and wickedly inclines To feem but mortal, ev'n in found divines. 80 (g) On morning-wings how active springs the mind That leaves the load of yesterday behind? (b) Not but we may exceed, fome holy time, 85 (k) Our fathers prais'd rank ven'fon. You fup- Perhaps, young men! our fathers had no nose. Hefternis vitiis animum quoque prægravat una, Sive diem feftum rediens advexerit annus, Imbecilla volet. (i) Tibi quidnam accedet ad iftam, Illis nullus erat; fed, credo, hac mente, quod hofpes More More pleas'd to keep it till their friends could come, 95 Than eat the sweetest by themselves at home. (1) Why had not I in thofe good times my birth, Ere coxcomb-pyes or coxcombs were on earth? Unworthy he, the voice of Fame to hear, (m) That sweetest music to an honest ear; (For 'faith, Lord Fanny! you are in the wrong, The world's good word is better than a fong.) Who has not learn'd, (n) fresh sturgeon and hampye Are no rewards for want, and infamy! 100 105 When luxury has lick'd up all thy pelf, 66 ΙΙΘ (9)" Right," cries his Lordship, "for a rogue in need "To have a taste is insolence indeed: Tardius adveniens vitiatum commodius, quam Integram edax dominus confumeret. (/) hos utinam inter Heroas natum tellus me prima tuliffet. (m) Das aliquid famæ, quæ carmine gratior aurem Occupet humanam? grandes rhombi, patinæque. Grande ferunt una (n) cum damno dedecus. adde (0) Iratum patruum, vicinos, te tibi iniquum, Et fruftra mortis cupidum, cum deerit egenti Ep) As, laquei pretium. (9) Jure, inquit, Traufius istis |