Why one like Bu--- with pay and fcorn content, 280 e Yes, Sir, how small foever be my heap, A part I will enjoy, as well as keep. 285 My heir may figh, and think it want of grace A man fo poor would live without a place: But fure no statute in his favour says, How free, or frugal, I fhall pass my days: I, who at some times spend, at others fpare, 290 Divided between careleffness and care. 'Tis one thing madly to disperse my store; Another, not to heed to treasure more; NOTES. both the naturalism and the fate of Horace, which are covertly conveyed in these words, Ścit Genius, natale comes qui temperat aftrum, NATURAE DEUS HUMANAE. VER. 288. But fure no ftatute] Alluding to the ftatutes made in England and Ireland, to regulate the Succeffion of Papifts, etc. Exiguo gratoque fruaris tempore raptim. *Pauperies immunda procul procul abfit: ego,utrum Nave ferar magna an parva; ferar unus et idem. Non agimur tumidis velis Aquilone fecundo: Non tamen adverfis aetatem ducimus Auftris. Viribus, ingenio, fpecie, virtute, loco, re, Extremi primorum, extremis ufque priores. * Non es avarus: abi. quid? caetera jam fimul isto Cum vitio fugere? caret tibi pectus inani Ambitione? caret mortis formidine et ira? Somnia, terrores magicos, miracula, fagas, Nocturnos lemures, portentaque Theffala rides ? NOTES. VER. 312. Survey both worlds,] It is obfervable with what fobriety he has corrected the licentiousness of his Original, which made the expectation of another world a part of that Glad, like a Boy, to fnatch the first good day, f What is't to me (a paffenger God wot) 295 300 8" But why all this of Av'rice? I have none.” I wish you joy, Sir, of a Tyrant gone; But does no other lord it at this hour, 305 As wild and mad? the Avarice of pow'r? 312 In fpite of witches, devils, dreams, and fire? Pleas'd to look forward, pleas'd to look behind, And count each birth-day with a grateful mind? NOTES. fuperftition, he would explode; whereas his Imitator is only for removing the false terrors from the world of fpirits, fuch as the diablerie of witchcraft and purgatory. Natales grate numeras? ignofcis amicis? Lenior et melior fis accedente fenecta? Quid te exemta levat fpinis de pluribus una? b Vivere fi recte nefcis, decede peritis. Lufifti fatis, edifti fatis, atque bibisti: Tempus abire tibi eft: ne potum largius aequo Rideat, et pulfet lafciva decentius aetas. Has life no fournefs, drawn fo near its end; age As winter-fruits grow mild ere they decay? 316 Or will you think, my friend, your business done, When, of a hundred thorns, you pull out one? h Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; You've play'd, and lov'd, and eat, and drank your fill: Walk fober off; before a sprightlier age 324 Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage: Leave fuch to trifle with more grace and ease, Whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please. Ŕ 2 |