Quinquennes oleas est, et sylvestria corna;
: Ac, nifi mutatum, parcit defundere vinum ; et

Cujus odorem olei nequeas perferre (licebit
Ille repotia, natales, aliofque dierum ,
" Festos albatus celebret) cornu ipse bilibri
Caulibus instillat, * veteris non parcus äceti.

Quali igitur victu fapiens utetur, et horum
Utrum imitabitur ? hac urget lupus, hac canis, aiunt.

Mundus erit, qua non offendat fordibus, atque In neutram partem cultus miser. - Hic neque servis Albuti senis exemplo, dum munia didit, Saevus erit; nec fic ut fimplex • Naevius, unitam Convivis praebebit aquam: vitium hoc quoque ma

gnum. Accipe nunc, victus tenuis quae quantaque fecum Afferat. « In primis valeas bene; nam variae res Ut noceant homini, credas, memor illius efcae, Quae fimplex o elim tibi federit. at fimul affis. .. Miscueris elixa, fimul conchylia turdis; Dulcia se in bilem vertent, ftomachoque tumultum Lenta feret pituita. Vides, ut pallidus omnis

Sell their presented partridges, and fruits,
And humbly live on rabbits and on roots :
✓ One half pint bottle serves them both to dine,
And is at once their vinegar and wine.
But on some w lucky day (as when they found 55
A loft Bank-bill, or heard their Son was drown'd)
At such a feast, * old vinegar to spare,
Is what two souls so gen'rous cannot bear : ...
Oyl, tho’ it stink, they drop by drop impart, 60
But fowse the cabbage with a bounteous heart.

y He knows to live, who keeps the middle state, .
And neither leans on this fide, nor on that ;
Nor a stops, for one bad cork, his butler's pay, .
Swears, like Albutius, a good cook away; ...65.
Nor lets; - like • Nævius, ev'ry error pass,
The musty wine, foul cloth, or greasy glass. .

• Nrw hear what blessings Temperance can bring: (Thus said our Friend, and what he said I fing) . First Health : The stomach (cramm’d from ev'ry dish,

70 . A tomb of boil'd and roast, and Aesh and fish, Where bile, and wind, and phlegm, and acid jar, And all the man is one inteftine war) Remembers oft · the School-boy's simple fare, The temp’rate sleeps, and spirits light as air. 75

How pale, each Worshipful and Rev'rend guest Rise from a Clergy, or a City feast !

VOL. IV.

Coena desurgat dubia ? quin corpus onuftum
Hesternis vitiis animum quoque praegravat una,
Atque affigit humo divinae particulam aurae.

& Alter, ubi dicto citius curata sopori
Membra dedit, vegetus praescripta ad munia surgit.

Hic tamen ad melius poterit transcurrere quondam ;
Sive diem feftum rediens advexerit annus,
Seu recreare volet tenuatum corpus : ubique
Accedent anni, et tra&tari mollius aetas
Imbecilla volet. Tibi quidnam accedet ad iftam,
Quam puer et validus praefumis, mollitiem ; seu .
Dura valetudo inciderit, seu tarda senectus ?

* Rancidum aprum antiqui laudabant : non quia nafus Illis nullus erat; sed, credo, hac mente, quod hofpes Tardius adveniens vitiatum commodius, quam

Notes. . Ver. 80. The Soul subsides, and wickedly inclines To feem but mortol, eu'n in found Divines.] Horace was an Epicurean, and laughed at the immortality of the soul. He therefore describes that languor of the mind proceed. ing from intemperance, on the idea, and in the terms of Placo,

afigit humo divinae particulam aurae. To this his ridicule is pointed. Our Poet, with more so briety and judgment, has turned the ridicule, from the Doctrine, which he believ d, upon those Preachers of it, whose fealts and compotations in Taverns did not edify

What life in all that ample body, say?
What heav'nly particle inspires the clay?
The Soul subfides, and wickedly inclines
To seem but mortal, ev’n in sound Divines.

& On morning wings how active springs the Mind That leaves the load of yesterday behind ?

How easy ev'ry labour it pursues ? · How coming to the Poet ev'ry Muse? . .85

Not but we may exceed, some holy time, Or tir'd in search of Truth, or search of Rhyme; Ill health some just indulgence may engage, And more the sickness of long life,. Old age ; · For fainting Age what cordial drop remains, 95 If our intemp’rate Youth the vessel drains ?

* Our fathers prais'd rank Ven'son. You suppose Perhaps, young men! our fathers had no nose. Not so: a Buck was then a week's repast, And 'twas their point, I ween, to make it last; 100 More pleas'd to keep it till their friends should come Than eat the sweetest by themselves at home.

Notes. him: and so has added surprizing humour and spirit to the easy elegance of the Original.

Ver. 82. On morning wings etc.) Much happier and nobler than the Original.

Ver. 87. Or tir'd in search of Truth, or search of Rhyme.] A fine ridicule on the extravagance of human purluits ; where the most trilling and moft important concerns of life succeed one another, indifferently.

Integrum edax dominus consumeret. ' hos utinama

inter

Heroas natum tellus me prima tulisset.

* Das aliquid famae, quae carmine gratior aurem Occupet humanam ? grandes rhombi, patinaeque Grande ferunt una "cum damno dedecus. adde

Iratum patruum, vicinos, te tibi iniquum, Et frustra mortis cupidum, cum deerit egenti P As, laquei pretium.

? Jure, inquit, Trausius iftis Jurgatur verbis : ego vectigalia magna, Divitiasque habeo tribus amplas regibus. Ergo, Quod fuperat, non eft melius quo insumere poffis ? Cur eget indignus quisquam, te divite? quare s Templa ruunt antiqua Deûm? cur, improbe, carae Non aliquid patriae tanto emetiris acervo ? Uni nimirum tibi recte femper erunt res?