• Jam Saliare Numæ carmen qui laudat, & illud Quod mecum ignorat, folus vult fcire videri: Ingeniis non ille favet plauditque fepultis, Noftra fed impugnat, nos noftraque lividus odit. Quam nobis, quid nunc effet vetus? aut quid haberet Nunc athletarum ftudiis, nunc arfit equorum; Romæ dulce diu fuit & folenne reclufa Mane domo vigilare, clienti promere jura, Cautos • When angry patriots, or in profe or rhymes, Extol the virtuous deeds of former times, They only mean the present to disgrace, 100 105 * ENGLAND, when once of peace and wealth poffeft, Began to think frugality a jest, So grew polite; hence all her well-bred heirs Gamefters and jockies turn'd, and cricket-players; i Pictures and bufts in ev'ry house were seen; What should have paid the butcher, bought PousSIN; 115 * Now operas, now plays were all the fashion, » Not thus behav'd the true old English 'fquire, He fmok'd his pipe each morn by his own fire, 120 There ין Cautos nominibus rectis expendere nummos, Majores audire, minores dicere per quæ › Mutavit mentem populus levis ; & calet uno Fronde comas vincti cœnant, & carmina di&tant. Ipfe ego, qui nullus me affirmo fcribere verfus, Sole, vigil calamum & chartas & fcrinia pofco. Navem agere ignarus navis timet; abrotonum ægro Non audet nifi qui didicit, dare; quod medicorum eft, Promittunt There juftice to dispense was ever willing, And for his warrants pick'd up many a shilling: To teach his younger neighbours always glad, ? But now the world's quite alter'd, all are bent To leave their feats, and fly to parliament: Old men and boys in this alone agree, Ply their obftrep❜rous voters all night long • With bumpers, toasts, and now and then a song: ́ Than statesmen, or their porters, tell more lies; Bufy as CAR-w rave for ink and quills, 125 130 135 • Few land-men go to fea unless they're prest, And quacks in all profeffions are a jest; 140 None dare to kill, except most learn'd physicians: 2 There's Promittunt medici: tractant fabrilia fabri: • Hic error tamen, & levis hæc infania quantas Virtutes habeat, fic collige: Vatis avarus Non temere eft animus; verfus amat, hoc ftudet unum ; Detrimenta, fugas fervorum, incendia ridet; * Non fraudem focio, puerove incogitat ullum Pupillo, y vivit filiquis, & pane fecundo. * Militiæ quanquam piger & malus, utilis urbi; • Si das hoc parvis quoque rebus magna juvari Os tenerum pueri balbumque poeta figurat; Torquet ab obfcœnis jam nunc fermonibus aurem ; • Mox etiam pectus præceptis format amicis, Afperitatis & invidiæ corrector, & iræ ; • Recte |