THE

SECOND SATIRE

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SECOND BOOK

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SATIRA

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

Difcite, non inter lances mensasque nitentes ;

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

• 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 expreffcd than the original, acclinis falfis ; tho' that be very elegant.

SATIRE II.

To Mr. BETHEL.

WHAT, and how great, the Virtue and the Art

To live on little with a chearful heart;

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

с

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

• Not when a gilt Buffet's reflected pride

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Turns you from found Philofophy afide;
Not when from plate to plate your eyeballs roll,
And the brain dances to the mantling bowl.
Hear BETHEL's Sermon, one not vers'd in schools,
But ftrong in sense, and wife without the rules.
Go work, hunt, exercife! (he thus began)
Then fcorn a homely dinner, if you can.
¡ Your wine lock'd up, your Butler ftroll❜d abroad,
Or fish deny'd (the river yet unthaw'd)

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VER. 9. BETHEL.] The fame to whom feveral of Mr, Pope's Letters are addressed.

Defendens pifces hiemat mare: cum fale panis
Latrantem ftomachum bene leniet. unde putas, aut
Qui 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, posito pavone, velis quin
Hoc potius quam gallina tergere palatum ;
Corruptus vanis rerum : quia veneat auro

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

ifta,

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

Unde datum fentis, lupus hic, Tiberinus, an alto
Captus hiet? pontefne inter jactatus, an amnis
Oftia fub Tufci? laudas, infane, trilibrem

Mullum; in fingula quem minuas pulmenta neceffe eft.
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