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Which done, the pooreft can no wants endure,
And which not done, the richest must be poor.

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19 Late as it is, I put myself to school,

And feel fome zo comfort, not to be a fool.
21 Weak tho' I am of limb, and fhort of fight,
Far from a Lynx, and not a Giant quite ;
I'll do what Mead and Chefelden advise,
To keep thefe limbs, and to preferve these eyes.
Not to 22 go back, is fomewhat to advance,
And men must walk at least before they dance.

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Say, does thy 23 blood rebel, thy bosom move 55 With wretched Av'rice, or as wretched Love? Know, there are Words, and Spells, which can controll (24 Between the Fits) this fever of the foul: Know, there are Rhymes, which (25 fresh and fresh ap. Will cure the arrant'ft Puppy of his Pride.

que pauperibus prodeft. locupletibus æque,
que neglectum pueris, fenibufque nocebit.

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19 Reftat, ut his ego me ipfe regam, 20 folerque, Elementis.

21 Non poffis oculo quantum contendere Lynceus, Non tamen idcirco contemnas lippus inungi: Nec, quia defperes inviti membra Glyconis, Nodofa corpus nolis probibere chiragrâ. Eft quâdam prodire 22 tenus, fi non datur ultra. 23 Fervet Avaritia, miferoque Cupidine pectus? Sunt verba & voces, quibus hunc lenire dolorem Poffis, & 24 magnam morbi deponere partem. Laudis amore tumes ? funt 25 certa piacula, quæ te pure leto poterunt recreare libello.

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Be 26 furious, envious, flothful, mad or drunk,

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Slave to a Wife, or Vaffal to a Punk,

A Switz, a High-dutch, or a Low-dutch 28 Bear;
All that we ask is but a patient Ear.

29 'Tis the first Virtue, Vices to abhor; And the first Wisdom, to be Fool no more.

But to the world, no 30 bugbear is fo great,
As want of figure, and a fmall Estate.
To either India fee the Merchant fly,
Scar'd at the spectre of pale Poverty!

See him, with pains of body, pangs of foul,
Burn through the Tropic, freeze beneath the Pole!
Wilt thou do nothing for a nobler end,
Nothing, to make Philofophy thy friend?
To stop thy foolish views, thy long defires,
And 32 ease thy heart of all that it admires?

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26 Invidus, iracundus, iners, vinofus, 27 Amator, Nemo 28 adeo ferus eft ut non mitefcere poffit, Si modo culture patientem commodet aurem.

29 Virtus eft vitium fugere, & Sapientia prima Stultitia caruiffe

Vides, quæ 30 maxima credis

Effe mala, exiguum cenfum, turpem que repulfam,
Quanto devites animi, capitisque labore?
Impiger extremos curris mercator ad Indos,
Per 31 mare Pauperiem fugiens, per faxa, per ignes:
Ne cures 32 ea que ftulte miraris & optas

Difcere, & audire, & meliori credere non vis? **

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Here, Wisdom calls: 33 "Seek Virtue first! be bold! "As Gold to Silver, Virtue is to Gold." There, London's voice: 34" Get Mony, Mony still! "And then let Virtue follow if fhe will." This, this the faving doctrine, preach'd to all, From 35 low St. James's up to high St. Paul; From him whose 36 quills ftand quiver'd at his ear, To him who notches Sticks at Weftminster.

BARNARD in 37 fpirit, fenfe, and truth abounds. 85 Pray then what wants he?" fourfcore thousand A Penfion, or fuch Harness for a flave

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As Bug now has, and Dorimant would have.
Barnard, thou art a 38 Cit, with all thy worth;
But wretched Bug, His Honour, and so forth.

Yet ev'ry 39 child another fong will fing,

"Virtue, brave boys! 'tis Virtue makes a King." True, confcious Honour is to feel no fin,

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He's arm'd without that's innocent within ;

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33 Vilius argentum eft auro, virtutibus aurum →→ 34 O cives, cives ! quæ renda Pecunia primum eft, "Virtus poft nummos Hac 35 Janus fummus ab imo Prodocet: hæc recinunt juvenes dictata, fenefque, 36 Levo fufpenfi loculos tabulamque lacerto.

Eft 37 animus tibi, funt mores, eft lingua, fidesque — Si quadringentis Jex, feptem millia defint,

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Be this thy 40 Screen, and this thy Wall of Brafs; 65 Compar'd to this, a Minifter's an Afs.

41 And fay, to which shall our applause belong, This new Court jargon, or the good old fong? The modern language of corrupted Peers,

Or what was spoke at 42 CRESSY and POITIERS? 100
43 Who counfels beft? who whispers "Be but great,
"With Praise or Infamy, leave that to fate;
"Get Place and Wealth, if poffible, with grace;
"If not, by any means get Wealth and Place.
For what? to have a 44 Box where Eunuchs fing, 105
And foremost in the Circle Eye a King.

Or 45 he, who bids thee face with steddy view
Proud Fortune, and look fhallow Greatness thro':
And, 46 while he bids thee, fets th' Example too?
If 47 fuch a Doctrine, in St. James's air,
Shou'd chance to make the well-dreft Rabble stare;

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"Si recte facies." Hic 40 murus aheneus efto, Nil confcire fibi, nullâ pallefcere culpâ !

41 Rofcia, dic fades, melior lex, an puerorum Nania? que regnum recte facientibus offert, Et maribus 42 Curiis, & decantata Camillis?

43 Ifne tibi melius fuadet, qui" Remfacias, rem, "Si poffis, recte; fi non, quocunque modo rem.' Ut 44 propius fpectes lacrymofa Poemata Pupi ! An, 45 qui Fortuna te refponfare fuperba Liberum & erectum, 46 præfens hortatur, & aptat? 47 Quod fi me Populus Romanus forte roget, cur

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If honeft S* z take scandal at a spark,
Pho lefs admires the 48 Palace than the Park;
Faith I fhall give the answer 49 Reynard gave:
"I cannot like, dread Sir, your Royal Cave;
"Because I fee, by all the tracks about,
"Full many a Beaft goes in, but none comes out."
Adieu to Virtue, if you're once a Slave:

Send her to Court, you send her to her grave.

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Well, if a King's a Lion, at the leaft The 50 People are a many-headed Beaft: Can they direct what measures to pursue, Who know themselves fo little what to do? Alike in nothing but one Luft of Gold, Juft half the land would buy, and half be fold: Their 51 Country's wealth our mightier Mifers drain, Or cross, to plunder Provinces, the Main ;

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The reft, fome farm the Poor-box, fome the Pews, Some keep Affemblies, and wou'd keep the Stews, Some 52 with fat Bucks on childless Dotards fawn, 130 Some win rich Widows by their Chine and Brawn ;

Non, ut 48 porticibus, fic judiciis fruar iifdem,
Nec fequar aut fugiam quos diliget ipfe, vel odit?
Olim quod 49 Vulpes ægroto cauta Leoni

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Refpondit, referam : Quia me veftigia terrent "Omnia te adverfum fpectantia, nulla retrorjum. 50 Bellua multorum eft capitum, nam qiud fequar, aut quem?

Pars bominum geftit 51 conducere Publica: Sunt qui 52 Cruftis & Pomis, Viduas venentur avaras, Excipiantque Senes quos in vivaria mittant.

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