When, mixing mirth and wisdom with your wine, 66 "This, with your other things, must yield you clear "My lord, I'm satisfied you meant me well: of your intent; "At least, I feel some ills unfelt before, My income less, and my expenses more." "How, doctor! double vicar! double rector! "A dignitary! with a city lecture! "What glebes-what dues-what tithes-what "fines-what rent! Why, doctor!-will you never be content?" "Would my good lord but cast up the account, "And see to what my revenues amount; My titles ample; but my gain so small, "That one good vicarage is worth them all : "And "And very wretched sure is he, that's double 66 My horses founder'd on Fermanah ways; "Ways of well-polish'd and well-pointed stone, "Where every step endangers every bone; And, more to raise your pity and your wonder, "Two churches-twelve Hibernian miles asunder! "With complicated cures, I labour hard in, "Beside whole summers absent from my garden!"But that the world would think I play'd the fool, "I'd change with Charley Grattan for his school *"What fine cascades, what vistoes, might I make, "Fixt in the centre of th' Iernian lake! "There might I sail delighted, smooth and safe, "Beneath the conduct of my good sir Ralph: "There's not a better steerer in the realm; "I hope, my lord, you'll call him to the helm.""Doctor-a glorious scheme to ease your grief! "When cures are cross, a school's a sure relief. "You cannot fail of being happy there, "The lake will be the Lethe of your care: "The scheme is for your honour and your ease; "And, doctor, I'll promote it when you please. "Meanwhile, allowing things below your merit, "Yet, doctor, you've a philosophick spirit; "Your wants are few, and, like your income, small, "And you 've enough to gratify them all : "You've trees, and fruits, and roots, enough in store: "And what would a philosopher have more? * A freeschool at Inniskillen, founded by Erasmus Smith, esq. See Journal to Stella, March 29, 1713. ↑ Sir Ralph Gore, who had a villa in the lake of Erin. "You "You cannot wish for coaches, kitchens, cooks"My lord, I've not enough to buy me books "Or pray, suppose my wants were all supplied, "Are there no wants I should regard beside? "Whose breast is so unmann'd, as not to grieve, Compass'd with miseries he can't relieve? 66 "Who can be happy-who should wish to live, ""Tis true-but, doctor, let us wave all that"Say, if you had your wish, what you'd be at.' "Excuse me, good my lord-I won't be sounded, "Nor shall your favour by my wants be bounded. 66 My lord, I challenge nothing as my due, "Nor is it fit I should prescribe to you. "Yet this might Symmachus himself avow, "(Whose rigid rules * are antiquated now)— 66 My lord! I'd wish to pay the debts I owe"I'd wish besides-to build, and to bestow." * Symmachus bishop of Rome, 499, made a decree, that no man should solicit for ecclesiastical preferment, before the death of the incumbent. AN AN EPISTLE UPON AN EPISTLE FROM A CERTAIN DOCTOR TO A CERTAIN GREAT LORD. BEING A CHRISTMAS BOX FOR DR. DELANY. As Jove will not attend on less, It shines most in the marble cover. How could so fine a taste dispense Who Who think your Muse must first aspire, You've cause to say he meant you well: Smedley, thou Jonathan of Clogher, But you must have cascades, and all How different is this from Smedley! FF No |