THE SAME FOR EVER! and described by all And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. To draw the man who loves his God, or king: There, none distinguish 'twixt your shame or pride, That each may seem a virtue, or a vice. In men, we various ruling passions find; In women two almost divide the kind; Those, only fix'd, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway. That, nature gives; and where the lesson taught Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; Yet mark the fate of a whole sex of queens! Beauties, like tyrants, old and friendless grown, Nor leave one sigh behind them when they die. Still round and round the ghosts of beauty glide See how the world its veterans rewards! Ah! friend! to dazzle let the vain design; To raise the thought, and touch the heart, be thine! Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray And yet, believe me, good as well as ill, Heaven, when it strives to polish all it can -you. And ripens spirits as he ripens mines, Kept dross for duchesses, the world shall know it, EPISTLE III. TO ALLEN LORD BATHURST. This epistle was written after a violent outcry against our author, on suspicion that he had ridiculed a worthy nobleman merely for his wrong taste. He justified himself upon that article in a letter to the Earl of Burlington; at the end of which are these words: "I have learnt that there are some who would rather be wicked than ridiculous; and therefore it may be safer to attack vices than follies. I will therefore leave my betters in the quiet possession of their idols, their groves, and their high places, and change my subject from their pride to their meanness, from their vanities to their miseries; and as the only certain way to avoid misconstructions, to lessen offence, and not to multiply ill-natured applications, I may probably, in my next, make use of real names instead of fictitious ones." ARGUMENT. OF THE USE OF RICHES. That it is known to few, most falling into one of the extremes, avarice or profusion. The point discussed whether the invention of money has been more commodious or pernicious to mankind. That riches, either to the avaricious or the prodigal, cannot afford happiness, scarcely necessaries. That avarice is an absolute frenzy, without an end or purpose. Conjectures about the motives of avaricious men. That the conduct of men, with respect to riches, can only be accounted for by the Order of ProvidENCE, which works the general good out of extremes, and brings all to its great end by perpetual revolutions How a miser acts upon principles which appear to him reasonable How a prodigal does the same. The due medium and true use of riches. The Man of Ross. The fate of the profuse and the covetous, in two examples: both miserable in life and in death. The story of Sir Balaam P. WHO shall decide, when doctors disagree No grace of Heaven, or token of the elect; 1 John Ward, of Hackney, Esq., Member of Parliament, being prosecuted by the Duchess of Buckingham, and convicted of forgery, was first expelled the House, and then stood on the pillory on the 17th of March, 1727. He was suspected of joining in a conveyance with Sir John Blunt, to secrete fifty thousand pounds of that Director's estate, forfeited to the South Sea Company by act of parliament. The Company recovered the fifty thousand pounds against Ward; but he set up prior conveyances of his real estate to his brother and son, and concealed all his personal, which was computed to be one hundred and fifty thousand pounds. These conveyances being also set aside by a bill in Chancery, Ward was imprisoned, and hazarded the forfeiture of his life by not giving in his effects till the last day, which was that of his examination. During his confinement, his amusement was to give poison to dogs and cats, and see them expire by slower or quicker torments. To sum up the worth of this gentleman, at the several eras of his life at his standing in the pillory, he was worth above two hundred thousand pounds; at his commitment to prison, he was worth one hundred and fifty thousand; but has been since so far diminished in his reputation, as to be thought a worse man by fifty or sixty thousand. Fr. Chartres, a man infamous for all manner of vices. When he was an ensign in the army, he was drummed out of the regiment for n B. What nature wants, commodious gold bestows, "Tis thus we eat the bread another sows. cheat; he was next banished Brussels, and drummed out of Ghent, on the same account. After a hundred tricks at the gaming-tables, he took to lending of money at exorbitant interest and on great penalties, ac cumulating premium, interest, and capital, into a new capital, and seiz ing to a minute when the payments became due; in a word, by a constant attention to the vices, wants, and follies of mankind, he acquired an immense fortune. His house was a perpetual bawdy-house. He was twice condemned for rapes, and pardoned; but the last time not without imprisonment in Newgate, and large confiscations. He died in Scotland in 1731, aged 62. The populace at his funeral raised a great riot, almost tore the body out of the coffin, and cast dead dogs &c. into the grave along with it. The following epitaph contains his character, very justly drawn by Dr. Arbuthnot: HERE continueth to rot The body of FRANCIS CHARTRES, and INIMITABLE UNIFORMITY of life, In spite of AGE and INFIRMITIES, in the undeviating pravity of his manners, in accumulating WEALTH; For, without TRADE or PROFESSION, He was the only person of his time When possessed of TEN THOUSAND a year, And having daily deserved the GIBBET for what he did Think not his life useless to mankind! A conspicuous PROOF and EXAMPLE, Of how small estimation is EXORBITANT WEALTHI By his bestowing it on the most UNWORTHY OF ALL MORTALS. This gentleman was worth seven thousand pounds a year estate in land, and about one hundred thousand in money. Mr. Waters, the third of these worthies, was a man no way resen |