"When golden Angels cease to cure the Evil, A grain of courage, or a spark of spirit, If D*** lov'd fixpence, more than he. W w If there be truth in Law, and Use can give 230 A Property, that's yours on which you live. 235 All Worldly's hens, nay, partridge, fold to town, VER. 220. When fervile Chaplains cry,] Dr. Ken-t. Emtor Aricini quondam, Veientis et arvi, Emtum coenat olus, quamvis aliter putat; emtis Sub no&tem gelidam lignis calefactat ahenum. Sed vocat ufque fuum, qua populus adfita certis Limitibus vicina refigit jurgia: tanquam 7 Sit proprium quidquam, puncto quod mobilis horae, Nunc prece, nunc pretio, nunc vi, nunc morte su prema, Permutet dominos, et cedat in altera jura. Sic, quia perpetuus nulli datur usus, et haeres Haeredem alterius, velut unda fupervenit undam: Quid vici profunt, aut horrea? quidve Calabris Saltibus adjecti Lucani; fi metit Orcus Grandia cum parvis, non exorabilis auro? a Gemmas, marmor, ebur, Tyrrhena figilla, ta bellas, Argentum, veftes Gaetulo murice tinctas, Sunt qui non habeant; eft qui non curat habere. VER. 248. bang in Fortune's pow'r,-Loofe on the point of ev'ry wav'ring bour] A modern idea (the magnetic needle) here fupplied the Imitator with expreffion much fuperior to his Original, ▾ Heathcote himself, and fuch large-acred men, 240 Lords of fat E'fham, or of Lincoln fen, Buy every stick of wood that lends them heat, Yet these are Wights, who fondly call their own Half that the Dev'l o'erlooks from Lincoln town. 245 Estates have wings, and hang in Fortune's pow'r 250 By fale, at least by death, to change their lord. 260 And trees, and ftones, and farms, and farmer fall. b Cur alter fratrum ceffare, et ludere, et ungi Praeferat Herodis palmetis pinguibus; alter Dives et importunus, ad umbram lucis ab ortu Silveftrem flammis et ferro mitiget agrum: Scit Genius, natale comes qui temperat aftrum: NATURAE DEUS HUMANA E, mortalis in unumQuodque caput, vultu mutabilis, albus, et ater. Utar, et ex modico, quantum res poscet, acervo Tollam: nec metuam, quid de me judicet haeres, Quod non plura datis invenerit. et tamen idem Scire volam, quantum fimplex hilarisque nepoti Difcrepet, et quantum difcordet parcus avaro. Diftat enim, fpargas tua prodigus, an neque fumtum VER. 273. All Townshend's Turnips] Lord Townshend, Secre tary of State to George the Firft and Second -When this great Statefman retired from bufinefs, he amused himself in Hufbandry; and was particularly fond of that kind of rural improvement which arifes from Turnips; it was the favourite fubject of his converfation. VER. 277. Ay, like Oglethorpe,] Employed in fettling the Colony of Georgia. VER. 280. That God of Nature, etc.] Here our Poet had an opportunity of illuftrating his own Philofophy; and thereby giving a much better fenfe to his Original: and correcting both the naturalism and the fate of Horace, which are covertly conveyed in these words, "Talk what you will of Tafte, my friend, you'll find, Two of a face, as foon as of a mind. 270 Why, of two brothers, rich and restless one grace Yes, Sir, how small foever be my heap, Scit Genius, natale comes qui temperat aftrum, 280 285 293 VER. 288. But sure no ftatute] Alluding to the ftatutes made in England and Ireland, to regulate the Succeffion of Papifts, etc. |