Go, dare the storms and terrors of the main ;
Brave hunger, thirst, and pawn your soul for gain:
As interest bids, be sure to buy or sell;

Still as you hoard, the mighty heap shall swell:—
Now twice, now thrice the sum it was before ;-
Now it is five; now it is ten times more :-

O good Chrysippus, you who sagely found
Limits to number, and to space a bound,
Instruct me here, and your assistance lend,
That to this growing wealth I find an end.

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NOTES UPON PERSIUS.

NOTES.

SATIRE I.

Ver.1.0 curas hominum! O quantum est in rebus

inane!

The Author may be supposed to have commenced a satire upon the idle vanities of the world, when his friend interrupts him, by asking him, who would read so grave a piece of morality. Casaubon has had the dexterity to find out, that Persius meant to be facetious in this line. He hath omitted none of those things, says the commentator, quæ satiricum cachinnum possunt movere. But it seems, he not only sneered, but conveyed in these few words much recondite wisdom. Vides, continues Casaubon, quam apto, quam philosophico, quam rexvx principio utatur Persius?