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. 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: 'What is't to me (a paffenger God wot) teeth. 291 295 300 *" 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? 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? age As winter-fruits grow mild ere they decay? 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. |