My Lord, your Favours well I know; 'Tis with diftinction you bestow; And not to ev'ry one that comes, Juft as a Scotfman does his Plumbs. 66 Pray take them, Sir.-Enough's a Feast: 25 "Eat fome, and pocket up the rest”— What rob your Boys? thofe pretty rogues! Scatter your Favours on a Fop, 30 Ingratitude's. the certain crop; And 'tis but just, I'll tell ye wherefore, You give the things you never care for. A wise man always is or shou'd Be mighty ready to do good: But makes a diff'rence in his thought Now this I'll fay, you'll find in me To give me back my Constitution! 35 40 Reddes dulce loqui: reddes ridere decorum, et Inter vina fugam Cynarae moerere protervae. Forte per anguftam tenuis vulpecula rimam Repferat in cumeram frumenti; pastaque, rurfus Ire foras pleno tendebat corpore frustra. Cui muftela procul, Si vis, ait, effugere iftinc; Macra cavum repetes arctum, quem macra subisti. Hac ego fi compellor imagine, cuncta refigno ; Nec fomnum plebis laudo fatur altilium, nec Otia divitiis Arabum liberrima muto. Saepe verecundum laudafti: Rexque, Paterque The sprightly Wit, the lively Eye, That laugh'd down many a Summer Sun, And all that voluntary Vein, As when Belinda rais'd 'my Strain. A Weafel once made shift to flink Cramm'd to the Throat with Ortolans: 45 50 55 60 All that may make me none of mine. South-sea Subscriptions take who please, Leave me but Liberty and Ease. NOTES. 65 VER. 50. As when Belinda] A compliment he pays himself and the Public on his Rape of the Lock. Audifti coram, nec verbo parcius abfens : Parvum párva decent. mihi jam non regia Roma, Sedvacuum Tibur placet, aut imbelle Tarentum. Strenuus et fortis, caufifque Philippus agendis Clarus, &c. "Twas what I faid to Craggs and Child, There dy'd my Father, no man's Debtor, To fet this matter full before ye, Harley, the Nation's great Support,” But you may read it, I ftop fhort. NOTES. 70 75 80 VER. 67. Craggs and Child,] Mr. Craggs gave him some South-fea fubfcriptions. He was fo indifferent about them as to neglect making any benefit of them. He used to say it was a fatisfaction to him that he did not grow rich (as he might have done) by the public calamity. |