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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,
If D*** lov'd fixpence, more than he.

w If there be truth in Law, and Use can give 230
A Property, that's yours on which you live.
Delightful Abs-court, if its fields afford
Their fruits to you, confeffes you its lord :
All Worldly's hens, nay, partridge, fold to town.
His Ven'fon too, a guinea makes your own:
He bought at thousands, what with better wit
You purchase as you want, and bit by bit;
Now, or long fince, what diff'rence will be found? -
You pay a penny, and he paid a pound.

VER. 220. When fervile Chaplains cry,] Dr. Ken--t.

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VER. 232. delightful Abs-court.] A farm over-against Hampton-Court.

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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,
Buy ev'ry Pullet they afford to eat.

Yet these are Wights, who fondly call their own

Half that the Dev'l o'erlooks from Lincoln town. 245
The Laws of God, as well as of the land,
Abhor, a Perpetuity should stand:

Estates have wings, and hang in Fortune's pow'r

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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.

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Man? and for ever? wretch! what wou'dst thou have?
Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave.
All vaft poffeffions (juft the fame the cafe
Whether you call them Villa, Park, or Chafe)
Alas, my BATHURST! what will they avail ?
Join Cotfwood hills to Saperton's fair dale,
Let rifing Granaries and Temples here,
There mingled farms and pyramids appear,
Link towns to towns with avenues of oak,
Enclose whole downs in walls, 'tis all a joke!
Inexorable Death fhall level all,

And trees, and stones, and farms, and farmer fall.

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Gold, Silver, Iv'ry, Vases sculptur'd high,

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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

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Plows, burns, manures, and toils from fun to fun;
The other flights, for women, sports, and wines,
All Townshend's Turnips, and all Grovenor's mines:
Why one like Bu- with pay and scorn content,
Bows and votes on, in Court and Parliament;
One, driv'n by ftrong Benevolence of foul,
Shall fly, like Oglethorpe, from pole to pole:
Is known alone to that Directing Pow'r,
Who forms the Genius in the natal hour;
That God of Nature, who, within us still,
Inclines our action, not constrains our will,
Various of temper, as of face or frame,
Each individual: His great End the fame.

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
A man fo poor would live without a place :
But fure no ftatute in his favour fays,
How free, or frugal, I fhall pafs my days:
I, who at fome times fpend, at others fpare
Divided between careleffnefs and care.

Scit Genius, natale comes qui temperat aftrum,
NATURAE DEUS HUMANAE.

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VER. 288. But fure no ftatute] Alluding to the ftatutes made in England and Ireland, to regulate the Succeffion of Papifts, etc.

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