SATIRA II Q UAE virtus et quanta, boni, fit vivere parvo, (Nec meus hic fermo; fed quae praecepit Ofellus, d Rufticus, abnormis Sapiens, craffaque Minerva) Difcite, non inter lances menfafque nitentes ; Cum ftupet infanis acies fulgoribus, et cum • Verum hic impranfi mecum difquirite. Cur hoc? NOTES. VER. 5. a gilt Buffet's reflected pride Turns you from found Philofophy afide;] More forcibly and happily expreffed than the original, acclinis falfis; tho' that be very elegant. To Mr. BETHEL. WHAT, and how great, the Virtue and the Art To live on little with a chearful heart; ' (A doctrine fage, but truly none of mine) C Let's talk, my friends, but talk before we dine. e • Not when a gilt Buffet's reflected pride Turns you from found Philofophy afide; Not when from plate to plate your eyeballs roll, S Hear BETHEL's Sermon, one not vers'd in fchools, • But strong in sense, and wise without the rules. Go work, hunt, exercife! (he thus began) Then fcorn a homely dinner, if you can. i Your wine lock'd up, your Butler ftroll'd abroad, Or fish deny'd (the river yet unthaw’d) NOTES. ΙΘ VER. 9. BETHEL.] The fame to whom several of Mr. Pope's Letters are addreffed. Defendens pifces hiemat mare: cum fale panis Rara avis, et picta pandat fpectacula cauda: ista, Quam laudas, pluma ? coctove num adeft honor idem? Unde datum fentis, lupus hic, Tiberinus, an alto 1 Oftia fub Tufci? laudas, infane, trilibrem Mullum; in fingula quem minuas pulmenta neceffe est. Ducit te fpecies, video. quo pertinet ergo Proceros odiffe lupos ? quia fcilicet illis Majorem natura modum dedit, his breve pondus. m Porrectum magno magnum spectare catino Vellem, ait Harpyiis gula digna rapacibus, at vos NOTES. VER. 25. Oldfield] This eminent Glutton ran thro' a |