HORATII Ep. I. Lib. II. Ad AUGUSTU M. UM tot fuftineas, & tanta negotia folus, Res Italas armis tuteris, moribus ornes, Legibus emendes, in publica commoda peccem, Si longo fermone morer tua tempora, Cæfar. 'Romulus, & Liber pater, & cum Castore Pollux, Post ingentia facta, deorum in templa recepti, Dum terras hominumque colunt genus, afpera bella Componunt, agros affignant, oppida condunt, Ploravere [65] THE FIRST EPISTLE OF THE Second Book of HORACE, IMITATE D. WHILS HILST you, my lord, fuch various toils Prefide o'er Britain's Peers, her laws explain, 5 All the fam'd heroes, statesmen, adinirals, Who after death within the facred walls Of WESTMINSTER with kings have been receiv'd, Met with but forry treatment, while they liv'd; 10 And tho' they labour'd in their country's caufe, With arms defended her, and form'd with laws, Ploravere fuis non refpondere favorem : T T Speratum meritis díram qui contudie hydram,/ Infra fe pofitas extinctus amabitur idem. „sty * Prefenti tibi maturos largimur hoñores, a Jurandafque tuum per nomen ponimus aras, 'Nil oriturum alias, nil ortum tale fatentes... 8 Sed tuus hic populus fapiens & juftus in anodA Te noftris ducibus, te Graiis ante ferendo, diW Cætera nequaquam fimili ratione modoque T © Æstimat, & nifi quæ terris femota, fuifque 5.T Temporibus defuncta videt, faftidit, & odit. W Sic fautor veterum, ut tabulas peccare vetantes Quas bis quinque viri fanxerunt, fædera regum r Vel Gabiis, vel cum rigidis æquata Sabinis, o Pontificum libros, annofa volumina Vatum, TO Dictitet Albano Mufis in monte locutas. 15Y i 1 Si quia Græcorum funt antiquiffima quæquè Scripta vel optima, Romani penfantur eadem bRA (1990 Scriptores Yet ever mourn'd they till'd a barren foilprovmols And left the world ungrateful to their toil. Ev'n* He, who long who long the houfe of Com--ns led, 15 -That Hydra dire, with many a gaping head, Found by experience to his latest breath, Envy could only be fubdir'd by death • Great men whilft living mint expect disgraces, 11 Dead they're ador'd when none defire, their places nino noso " »q mum sub basm 20 for gula turiono li1 • This common fate, my lord, attends not you Above all equal, and all envy too; With fuch unrivall'd eminence you fhine, on T. But tho' the people are fo juft to you, To none befides will they allow their due, No minifter approve, who is not dead, Nor till h' has loft it, own he had a head; 30 h Yet fuch refpect they bear to ancient things, They've some for former minifters and kings; And, with a kind of fuperftitious awe, す 1 Deem Magna Charta ftill a facred law. 'But, if because the government was beft Of old in FRANCE, when freedom fhe poffeft, 35 Scriptores, trutina, non eft quod multa loquamur. Nil intra eft olcam, nil extra eft in nuce duri OA * Venimus ad fummam fortunæ pingimus atque Pfallimus, & luctamur Achivis doctior ipfis...J AS TE CHI & FO 991 90 of sot sw svab budi ni nofoting of Vignord * Si meliora dies, ut vina poemata reddit Scire velim, pretium chartis quotus, arroget annus DA "Eft vetus, atque probus, centum qui perficit annos Quid qui deperiit minor uno menfe, vel anno, Inter referendus erit? veterefne poetas, quos An quos & præfens, & poftera refpuet ætas Ifte quidem veteres inter ponetur honeste SIA Qui vel menfe brevi, vel toto eft junior anno Utor permiffo, caudæque pilos ut equina A Paulatim vello, & demo unum, demo etiam unum, Dum cadat elufus ratione ruenis acervi Qui redit ad faftos, & virtutem eftimat annis, Miraturque nihil, nifi quod Libitina facravit. P Ennius & fapiens, & fortis, & alter Homerus, Ut critici dicunt, leviter curare videtur, A 10P. Quo promiffa cadant, & fomnia Pythagorea: Nævius in manibus non eft, & mentibus hæret Rene recens, adeo fanctum eft vetus omne poema, T Ambigitur quoties uter utro fit prior; aufert Pacuvitis docti famam fenis, Accius alti : Dicitur ? |