THE SECOND SATIRE

OF THE SECOND BOOK OF

HORAC E.

QUAE

SATIR A II.

UAE virtus et quanta, boni, fit vivere parvo, (Nec meus hic fermo; fed quae praecepit Ofellus,

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Rufticus, abnormis Sapiens, craffaque Minerva)

Difcite, non inter lances menfaque nitentes;

Cum ftupet infanis acies fulgoribus, et cum
Acclinis falfis animus meliora recufat:

Verum hic impranfi mecum difquirite. Cur

hoc?

Dicam, fi potero. male verum examinat omnis
Corruptus judex. Leporem fectatus, equove
Laffus ab indomito; vel (fi Romana fatigat
Militia affuetum Graecari) feu pila velox,
Molliter aufterum ftudio fallente laborem ;
Seu te difcus agit, pete cedentem aëra difco:
Cum labor extulerit faftidia; ficcus, inanis,
Sperne cibum vilem : nisi Hymettia mella Falerno,
Ne biberis, diluta. foris eft promus, et atrum

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Defendens

NOTES.

VER. 5, 6.a guilt Buffet's reflected pride

Turns you from found Philofophy afide;]

More forcibly and happily expreffed than the original, acclis is falfis; though that be very elegant.

SATIR E II.

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TO MR. BETHE L.

HAT, and how great, the Virtue and the
Art

To live on little with a chearful heart;

'(A doctrine fage, but truly none of mine)

Let's talk, my friends, but talk 'before we dine.

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Not when a gilt Buffet's reflected pride

Turns you from found Philofophy afide;
Not when from plate to plate your eye-balls roll,
And the brain dances to the mantling bowl.

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Hear BETHEL's Sermon, one not vers'd in

schools,

"But ftrong in sense, and wise without the rules. 10 "Go work, hunt, exercife! (he thus began)

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Then scorn a homely dinner, if you can.

Your wine lock'd up, your Butler ftroll'd abroad Or fish deny'd (the river yet unthaw'd)

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NOTES.

VER. 9. BETHEL. The fame to whom feveral of Mr.

Pope's Letters are addreffed.

Defendens pifces hiemat mare: cum fale panis Latrantem ftomachum bene leniet. unde putas, aut Quî partum ? non in caro nidore voluptas Summa, fed in teipfo eft. tu pulmentaria quaere Sudando. pinguem vitiis albumque neque oftrea, Nec fcarus, aut poterit peregrina juvare lagoïs.

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* Vix tamen eripiam, pofito pavone, velis quin Hoc potius quam gallina tergere palatum; Corruptus vanis rerum: quia veneat auro Rara avis, et picta pandat spectacula cauda: Tamquam ad rem attineat quidquam. Num vefceris ifta,

Quam laudas, pluma? coctove num adeft honor idem ?

Carne tamen quamvis diftat nihil hac, magis illa;
Imparibus formis deceptum te patet, esto.
Unde datum fentis, lupus hic, Tiberinus, an alto
Captus hiet? pontefne inter jactatus, an amnis
Oftia fub Tufci? 'laudas, infane, trilibrem
Mullum; in fingula quem minuas pulmenta ne-
ceffe eft.

Ducit te fpecies, video. quo pertinet ergo

Proceros odiffe lupos ? qui fcilicet illis

Majorem natura modum dedit, his breve pondus. Jejunus raro ftomachus vulgaria temnit.

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Porrectum magno magnum fpectare catino

Vellem, ait Harpyiis gula digna rapacibus. At vos,

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