But show me one who has it in his pow'r Sir Job () fail'd forth, the ev'ning bright and ftill, "No place on earth (he cry'd) like Greenwich hill!" (4) Up ftarts a palace, lo, th' obedient bafe 140 Slopes at its foot, the woods its fides embrace, The filver Thames reflects its marble face. Now let fome whimsy, or that (/) dev'l wit hin Which guides all those who know not what they mean, 66 But give the knight (or give his lady) fpleen; 145. Away, away! take all your fcaffolds down, "For Snug's the word: My dear! we'll live in town.' At am'rous Flavio is the (m) stocking thrown? That very night he longs to lie alone. (n) The fool, whofe wife elopes fome thrice a quarter, For matrimonial folace dies a martyr. 151 Iidem eadem poffunt horam durare probantes? (i) Nullus in orbe finus Baiis prælucet amœnis, Si dixit dives; (k) lacus et mare fentit amorem Feftinantis heri: cui fi (/) vitiofa libido Fecerit aufpicium; cras ferramenta Teanum Tolletis, fabri. (m) lectus genealis in aula est? Nil ait effe prius, melius nil cœlibe vita: (n) Si non eft, jurat bene folis effe maritis. Did Did ever (0) Proteus, Merlin, any witch, itch; They change their (9) weekly Barber, weekly News, 166 When (each opinion with the next at ftrife, (o) Quo teneam vultus mutantem Protea nodo? Quid (p) pauper? ride: mutat (q) cœnacula, lectos, Balnea, (r) tonfores; conducto navigio æque Naufeat, ac locuples quem ducit priva triremis. (s) Si curatus inæquali tonfore capillos Occurro; rides. fi forte fubucula nexæ Trita fubeft tunice, vel fi toga diffidet impar; Rides. quid, (t) mea cum pugnat fententia fecum; Quod petiit, fpernit; repetit quod nuper omifit; (u) Eftuat, et vitæ difconvenit ordine toto; (*) Diruit, ædificat, mutat quadrata rotundis ? You (y) You never change one muscle of your face, 171 175 Kind to my drefs, my figure, not to me. Rich (b) ev'n when plunder'd, (c) honour'd while opprefs'd; Lov'd (d) without youth, and follow'd without pow'r; At home, tho' exil'd; (e) free, tho' in the Tower; In short, that reas'ning, high, immortal thing, 185 Juft (f) lefs than Jove, and (g) much above a king, Nay, half in heav'n---(b) except (what's mighty odd) A fit of vapours clouds this demigod? (y) Infanire putas folennia me, neque rides, Ad fummam, Japens uno (b) minor eft Jove, (c) dives, (d) Liber, (e) honoratus, (f) pulcher, (g) rex denique regum; Præcipue fanus, (b) nifi cum pituita molesta est. THE THE SIXTH EPISTLE Of the FIRST Book of HORA CE. EPIST LE VI. To Mr MURRAY. TOT to admire, is all the art I know, (Plain truth, dear MURRAY, needs no flow'rs of fpeech, So take it in the very words of Creech.) (b) This vault of air, this congregated ball, Self-center'd Sun, and Stars that rife and fall, EPISTOLA VI. TIL admirari, prope res eft una, Numici, N 5 Solaque quæ poffit facere et fervare beatum. (b) Hunc folem, et stellas, et decedentia certis NOTES. Ver. 4. Creech.] From whofe translation of Horace the two first lines are taken. There There are, my friend! whose philofophic eyes hold, Arabian fhores, or Indian feas infold; corpului 15 All the mad trade of (e) fools and flaves for gold? If weak the (b) pleasure that from these can fpring, 20 The fear to want them is as weak a thing: Tempora momentis, funt qui (c) formidine nulla Imbuti fpectent. (d) quid cenfes, munera terræ ? Quid, maris extremos Arabas (e) ditantis et Indos? Ludicra, quid, (f) plaufus, et amici dona Quiritis? Quo fpectanda modo, (g) quo fenfu credis et ore? (b) Qui timet his adverfa, fere miratur eodem Quo cupiens pacto: pavor eft utrobique moleftus: Improvifa fimul fpecies exterret utrumque : (1) Gaudeat, an doleat; cupiat, metuatne; quid ad rem, Si, quidquid vidit melius pejufve fua fpe, For |