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SATIRA II

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UAE virtus et quanta, boni, fit vivere parvo, (Nec meus hic fermo; fed quae praecepit Ofellus,

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Rufticus, abnormis Sapiens, craffaque Minerva)

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Difcite, non inter lances menfafque nitentes ;

Cum ftupet infanis acies fulgoribus, et cum
Acclinis falfis animus meliora recusat :

• Verum hic impranfi mecum difquirite. Cur hoc?
Dicam, fi potero. male verum examinat omnis
Corruptus judex. Leporem fectatus, equove
Laffus ab indomito; vel (fi Romana fatigat
Militia affuetum graecari) feu pila velox,
Molliter aufterum ftudio fallente laborem ;
Seu te difcus agit, pete cedentem aera difco:
Cum labor extulerit faftidia; ficcus, inanis,
Sperne cibum vilem: nifi Hymettia mella Falerno,
Ne biberis, diluta. i foris eft promus, et atrum

NOTES.

VER. 5. a gilt Buffet's reflected pride Turns you from found Philofophy afide;] More forcibly and happily expreffed than the original, acclinis falfis; tho' that be very elegant.

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To Mr. BETHEL.

WHAT, and how great, the Virtue and the Art

To live on little with a chearful heart;

' (A doctrine fage, but truly none of mine)

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Let's talk, my friends, but talk before we dine.

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• Not when a gilt Buffet's reflected pride

Turns you from found Philofophy afide;

Not when from plate to plate your eyeballs roll,
And the brain dances to the mantling bowl.

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Hear BETHEL's Sermon, one not vers'd in fchools, • But strong in sense, and wise without the rules. Go work, hunt, exercife! (he thus began)

Then fcorn a homely dinner, if you can.

i Your wine lock'd up, your Butler ftroll'd abroad, Or fish deny'd (the river yet unthaw’d)

NOTES.

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VER. 9. BETHEL.] The fame to whom several of Mr. Pope's Letters are addreffed.

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Defendens pifces hiemat mare: cum fale panis
Latrantem ftomachum bene leniet. unde putas, aut
Quî partum ? non in caro nidore voluptas
Summa, fed in teipfo eft. tu pulmentaria quaere
Sudando, pinguem vitiis albumque neque oftrea,
Nec fcarus, aut poterit peregrina juvare lagois.
* Vix tamen eripiam, pofito pavone, velis quin
Hoc potius quam gallina tergere palatum ;
Corruptus vanis rerum : quia veneat auro

Rara avis, et picta pandat fpectacula cauda:
Tamquam ad rem attineat quidquam. Num vefceris

ista,

Quam laudas, pluma ? coctove num adeft honor idem?
Carne tamen quamvis distat nihil hac, magis illa;
Imparibus formis deceptum te patet. esto.

Unde datum fentis, lupus hic, Tiberinus, an alto
Captus hiet? pontefne inter jactatus, an amnis

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Oftia fub Tufci? laudas, infane, trilibrem

Mullum; in fingula quem minuas pulmenta neceffe est. Ducit te fpecies, video. quo pertinet ergo

Proceros odiffe lupos ? quia fcilicet illis

Majorem natura modum dedit, his breve pondus.
Jejunus raro ftomachus vulgaria temnit.

m Porrectum magno magnum spectare catino Vellem, ait Harpyiis gula digna rapacibus, at vos

NOTES.

VER. 25. Oldfield] This eminent Glutton ran thro' a

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