Quid i verum atque decens, curo et rogo, et omnis in

hoc fum:

* Condo, et compono, quæ mox depromere poffim. Ac ne forte roges, quo me duce, quo Lare tuter: Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri, m Quo me cunque rapit tempeftas, deferor hofpes. Nunc agilis fio, et merfor " civilibus undis, Virtutis verae cuftos, rigidufque fatelles:

*

Nunc in Ariftippi P furtim praecepta relabor,

Et mihi res, non me rebus, fubjungere conor.

9 Ut nox longa, quibus mentitur amica; diefque Lenta videtur opus debentibus: ut piger annus Pupillis, quos dura premit cuftodia matrum : Sic mihi tarda fluunt ingrataque tempora, quae spem Confiliumque morantur agendi gnaviter s id, quod

S

Aeque pauperibus prodeft, locupletibus aeque,
Acque neglectum pueris fenibufque noccbit.

* Omnis Aristippum decuit color, et ftatus, et res.

What i right, what true, what fit we justly call,
Let this be all my care-for this is All:

k

To lay this harvest up, and hoard with hafte
What ev'ry day will want, and moft, the laft.

But ask not, to what Doctors I apply?
Sworn to no Mafter, of no Sect am I :

As drives them storm, at any door I knock:

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And house with Montagne now, or now with Locke Sometimes a " Patriot, active in debate,

n

Mix with the World, and battle for the State,
Free as young Lyttelton, her cause pursue,
Still true to Virtue, and as warm as true:
Sometimes with Ariftippus, or St. Paul,
Indulge my candor, and grow all to all;
Back to my P native Moderation flide,
And win my way by yielding to the tide.

1 Long, as to him who works for debt, the day, 35 Long as the Night to her whose Love's away, Long as the Year's dull circle seems to run,

When the brisk Minor pants for twenty-one :
So flow th' unprofitable moments roll,
That lock all the Functions of

my

foul;

up
That keep me from myself; and still delay
Life's inftant business to a future day;
That task, which as we follow, or despise,
The eldest is a fool, the youngest wife.

Which done, the poorest can no wants endure;
And which not done, the richest must be poor.

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45

t

Reftat, ut his ego me ipfe regam " folerque ele

mentis :

Non poffis oculo quantum contendere Lynceus;
Non tamen idcirco contemnas lippus inungi:
Nec, quia defperes invicti membra Glyconis,
Nodofa corpus nolis prohibere cheragra.
Eft quadam prodire tenus, fi non datur ultra.

X

y Fervet avaritia, miferoque cupidine pectus ? Sunt verba et voces, quibus hunc lenire dolorem

Poffis, et magnam morbi deponere partem.

Laudis amore tumes? funt a certa piacula, quae te 'Ter pure lecto poterunt recreare libello..

Invidus, iracundus, iners, vinofus, amator; Nemo 4 adeo ferus eft, ut non mitefcere poffit, Si modo culturae patientem commodet aurem.

e Virtus eft, vitium fugere; et fapientia prima, Stultitia caruiffe. vides, quae f maxima credis Effe mala, exiguum cenfum, turpemque repulfam, Quanto devites animi capitifque labore.

Impiger extremos curris mercator ad Indos,

VER. 58. Between the fits---] The sense of

magnam morbi deponere partem

is here very happily expreffed. And

Ter pure lecto, etc.

Late as it is, I put myself to school,

And feel fome " comfort, not to be a fool.

* Weak tho' I am of limb, and short of Sight,
Far from a Lynx, and not a Giant quite;
I'll do what Mead and Chefelden advise,

5.0

To keep these limbs, and to preferve thefe eyes.
Not to x go back, is fomewhat to advance,
And men must walk at least before they dance.
Say, does thy y blood rebel, thy bofom move 55
With wretched Av'rice, or as wretched Love?
Know, there are Words and Spells,which can controll
2 Between the Fits this Fever of the foul:

Know, there are Rhymes, which a fresh and fresh apply'd

Will cure the arrant'ft Puppy of his Pride.

Beb furious, envious, flothful, mad, or drunk,

< Slave to a Wife, or Vaffal to a Punk,
A Switz, a High-dutch, or a Low-dutch & Bear;
All that we ask is but a patient Ear.

"Tis the first Virtue, Vices to abhor;
And the first Wisdom, to be Fool no more.
But to the world no bugbear is fo great,
As want of figure, and a fmail Estate.

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65

in the following line, as happily varied. But the whole paffage, which defcribes the ufe and efficacy of fatire, is admirably imitated.

Per & mare pauperiem fugiens, per faxa, per ignes:
Ne cures h ea, quae ftulte miraris et optas,
Difcere, et audire, et meliori credere non vis?
Quis circum pagos et circum compita pugnax
Magna coronari contemnat Olympia, cui fpes,
Cui fit conditio dulcis fine pulvere palmae ?
"i Vilius eft auro argentum, virtutibus aurum,
❝k O cives, cives! quaerenda pecunia primum eft;
Virtus poft nummos: haec 1 Janus fummus ab imo
Prodocet: haec recinunt juvenes dictata fenefque,
Lævo fufpenfi loculos tabulamque lacerto.

VER. 70. Scar'd at the spectre of pale Poverty! Tho' this has all the fpirit, it has not all the imagery of the Original; where Horace makes Poverty pursue, and keep pace with the mifer in his flights

Per mare pauperiem fugiens, per faxa, per ignes. But what follows,

Wilt thou do nothing, etc.

far furpaffes the Original.

VER. 77. Here wisdom calls, etc.] All from hence to ver. 110, is a pretty close translation: but in general done with fo masterly a spirit, that the Original, tho' one of the most finished paffages in Horace, looks only like the imitation of it.

VER. 78. As gold to Silver, Virtue is to Gold.] This perhaps is the most faulty line in the whole collection. The Original is, Vilius eft auro argentum, virtutibus aurum. which only fays, that as filver is of less value than gold, fo Gold is of lefs value than Virtue: in which fimple inferiority, and not the proportion of it, is implied. For it was as contrary to the Author's purpose, as it is to common fenfe, to suppose, that Virtue was but just as much better than gold, as gold is better than filver. Yet Mr. Pope, too attentive to his constant object,