u When golden Angels cease to cure the Evil, You give all royal Witchcraft to the Devil : When fervile Chaplains cry, that birth and place 220 Indue a Peer with honour, truth, and grace, Look in that breast, moff dirty D--- ! be fair, Say, can you find out one fuch lodger there? Yet ftill, not heeding what your heart can teach, You go to church to hear thefe Flatt'rers preach. 225. Indeed, could wealth bestow or wit or merit, A grain of courage, or a fpark of fpirit, The wifeft man might blush, I must agree, w If there be truth in Law, and Use can give 230 VER. 220. When fervile Chaplains cry,] Dr. Ken--t. 235 VER. 232. delightful Abs-court.] A farm over-against Hampton-Court. 7 y Emtor Aricini quondam, Veientis et arvi, Emtum coenat olus, quamvis aliter putat ; emtis Sub noctem gelidam lignis calefactat ahenum. Sed vocat ufque fuum, qua populus adfita certis Limitibus vicina refigit jurgia: tanquam 2 Sit proprium quidquam, puncto quod mobilis horae, Nunc prece, nunc pretio, nunc vi, nunc morte fu prema, Permutet dominos, et cedat in altera jura. Sic, quia perpetuus nulli datur ufus, et haeres Haeredem alterius, velut unda fupervenit undam: Quid vici profunt, aut horrea? Saltibus adjecti Lucani; fi metit Orcus Grandia cum parvis, non exorabilis auro? a Gemmas, marmor, ebur, Tyrrhena figilla, tabellas, 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 supplied the Imitator with expreffion much fuperior to his Original. y 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 2 Loose on the point of ev'ry wav'ring hour, Ready, by force, or of your own accord, By fale, at least by death, to change their lord. 250 255 Man? and for ever? wretch! what wou'dst thou have? And trees, and stones, and farms, and farmer fall. a Gold, Silver, Iv'ry, Vases sculptur'd high, 260 Paint, Marble, Gems, and robes of Perfian dye, 265 There are who have not--and thank heav'n there are, Who, if they have not, think not worth their care. 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 HUMAN A E, mortalis in unumQuodque caput, vultu mutabilis, albus, et ater. c Utar, et ex medico, quantum res pofcet, acervo Tollam: : nec metuam, quid de me judicet haeres, Quod non plura datis invenerit. et tamen idem Scire volam, quantum fimplex hilarifque nepoti Difcrepet, et quantum difcordet parcus avaro. Diftat enim, fpargas tua prodigus, an neque fumtum VER. 273. All Townshends Turnips] Lord Townshend, Secretary of State to George the First and Second--When this great Statesman retired from business, he amused himself in Husbandry; and was particularly fond of that kind of rural improvement which arifes from Turnips; it was the favourite fubject of his conversation. VER. 277. fly, 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, b Talk what you will of Tafte, my friend, you'll find, Two of a face, as foon as of a mind. Why, of two brothers, rich and restless one 270 275 Plows, burns, manures, and toils from fun to fun; Yes, Sir, how fmall foever be my heap, A part I will enjoy, as well as keep, My heir may figh, and think it want of grace Scit Genius, natale comes qui temperat aftrum, 280 285 290 VER. 288. But fure no ftatute] Alluding to the ftatutes made in England and Ireland, to regulate the Succeffion of Papifts, etc. |