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Diftat enim,fpargas tua prodigus, an neque fumtum

Invitus facias, nec plura parare labores;

Ac potius, puer ut feftis Quinquatribus olim, Exiguo gratoque fruaris tempore raptim.

Pauperies immunda procul procul abfit: ego,

utrum

Nave ferar magna an parva; ferar unus et idem.
Non agimur tumidis velis Aquilone fecundo:
Non tamen adverfis aetatem ducimus Auftris.
Viribus, ingenio, fpecie, virtute, loco, re,
Extremi primorum, extremis ufque priores.
"Non es avarus: abi. quid? caetera jam fimul isto
Cum vitio fugere? caret tibi pectus inani
Ambitione? caret mortis formidine et ira?

Somnia, terrores magicos, miracula, fagas,

Nocturnos lemures, portentaque Theffala rides?

NOTES.

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

But fure no statute in his favour fays,

How free, or frugal, I fhall pafs my days:
I, who at fome times fpend, at others fpare,
Divided between carelesnefs and care.
'Tis one thing madly to difperfe my store;
Another, not to heed to treasure more;
Glad, like a Boy, to fnatch the first good day,
And pleas'd, if fordid want be far away.

'What is't to me (a paffenger God wot)
Whether my veffel be first rate or not?
The Ship itself may make a better figure,
But I that fail, am neither less nor bigger.
I neither strut with ev'ry fav'ring breath,
Nor strive with all the tempest in my
In pow'r, wit, figure, virtue, fortune, plac'd
Behind the foremost, and before the last.

teeth.

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300

*" But why all this of Av'rice? I have none.” I wish you joy, Sir, of a Tyrant gone; But does no other lord it at this hour,

305

As wild and mad? the Avarice of pow'r?
Does neither Rage inflame, nor Fear appall?
Not the black fear of death, that faddens all?
With terrors round, can Reason hold her throne,
Despise the known, nor tremble at th' unknown?

Natales grate numeras? ignofcis amicis?

Lenior et melior fis accedente fenecta?

Quid te exemta levat fpinis de pluribus una? Vivere fi recte nefcis, decede peritis. Lufifti fatis, edifti fatis, atque bibisti:

Tempus abire tibi eft: ne potum largius aequo

Rideat, et pulset lasciva decentius aetas.

Survey both worlds, intrepid and entire,

312

In spite of witches, devils, dreams, and fire?
Pleas'd to look forward, pleas'd to look behind,
And count each birth-day with a grateful mind?
Has life no fournefs, drawn fo near its end? 316
Can't thou endure a foe, forgive a friend?
Has but melted the rough parts away,

age

As winter-fruits grow mild ere they decay?
Or will you think, my
my friend, your

business done,

When, of a hundred thorns, you pull out one? 321 Learn to live well, or fairly make

your will; You've play'd, and lov'd, and eat, and drank your

fill:

Walk fober off; before a sprightlier age

Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage: Leave fuch to trifle with more grace and ease, 326 Whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please.

NOTES.

VER. 312. Survey both worlds,] It is obfervable with what fobriety he has corrected the licentiousness of his Original, which made the expectation of another world a part of that fuperftition, he would explode; whereas the Imitator is only for removing the falfe terrors from the world of fpirits; fuch as the diablerie of witchcraft and purgatory.

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