Still round and round the Ghosts of Beauty glide, See how the World its Veterans rewards! Ah! Friend! to dazzle let the Vain defign; 245 To raife the thought and touch the Heart be thine! 250 So when the Sun's broad beam has tir'd the fight, Oh bleft with Temper, whofe unclouded ray Let Fops or Fortune fly which way they will; And yet, believe 255 260 265 270 Heav'n, when it strives to polish all it can Its laft beft work, but forms a fofter Man Be this a Woman's Fame: with this unbleft, When those blue eyes first open'd on the sphere; 275 280 Afcendant Phoebus watch'd that hour with care, 285 The gen'rous God, who Wit and Gold refines, Kept Drofs for Ducheffes, the world fhall know it, 290 To you gave fenfe, Good-humour, and a Poet. MORAL ESSAYS. EPISTLE III. ΤΟ ALLEN, Lord BATHURST. ARGUMENT. Of the Ufe of RICHES. THAT it is known to few, most falling into one of the extremes, Avarice or Profufion, ver. I, etc. The Point difcuffed, whether the invention of Money has been more commodious or pernicious to Mankind, ver. 21 to 77. That Riches, either to the Avaricious or the Prodigal, cannot afford Happiness, fcarcely Neceffaries, ver. 89 to 160. That Avarice is an abfolute Frenzy without an End or Purpose, ver. 113, etc. 152. Conjectures about the Motives of Avaricious men, ver. 121 to 153. That the conduct of men, with respect to Riches, can only be accounted for by the ORDER OF PROVIDENCE, which works the general Good out of Extremes, and brings all to its great End by perpetual Revolutions, ver. 161 to 178. How ver. 199. a Mifer acts upon Principles which appear to him reafonable, ver. 179. How a Prodigal does the fame, The due Medium, and true use of Riches, ver. 219, The Man of Ross, ver. 250. The fate of the Profufe and the Covetous, in two examples; both miferable in Life and in Death, ver. 300, etc. The Story of Sir Balaam, ver. 399 to the end. EPISTLE III. P.W HO fhall decide when Doctors disagree, Wand foundeff Cafuifts doubt, like you and me? You hold the word from Jove to Momus giv❜n, And Gold but fent to keep the Fools in play, 5 10 Like Doctors thus, when much difpute has paft, 15 We find our tenets juft the fame at last. Both fairly owning, Riches, in effect, grace No of Heav'n or token of th' Elect; 20 VER. 20. JOHN WARD, of Hackney, Efq; Member of Parliament, being profecuted by the Duchefs of Buckingham, and convicted of Forgery, was first expelled the Houfe, and then stood in the Pillory on the 17th of March 1727. He was fufpected of joining in a conveyance with Sir John Blunt, to fecrete fifty thousand pounds of that Director's Eftate, forfeited to the South-Sea Company by Act of Parliament. The Company recovered the fifty thousand pounds against Ward; |