His Wealth brave Timon gloriously confounds; 85 90 Not for yourself, but for your Fools and Knaves; Something, which for your Honour they may cheat, And which it much becomes you to forget. h If Wealth alone then make and keep us bleft, 95 Still, ftill be getting, never, never rest. But if to Pow'r and Place your paffion lie, If in the Pomp of Life confift the joy ; k Then hire a Slave, or (if you will) a Lord Tell at your Levee, as the Crouds approach, 1 100 To whom to nod, whom take into your Coach, Whom honour with your hand: to make remarks, Whom rules in Cornwall, or who rules in Berks: "This may be troublesome, is near the Chair: 106 "That makes three Members, this can chufe a * May'r.” NOTES. VER. 91. A noble fuperfluity, etc.] Thefe four lines are an admirable paraphrafe on Exilis domus eft, ubi non et multa fuperfunt, Cui volet, importunus ebur: " Frater, Pater, adde: Ut cuique eft aetas, ita quemque facetus adopta. Si bene qui coenat, bene vivit: lucet, eamus Quo ducit gula: pifcemur, venemur, ut 1 olim Gargilius: qui mane plagas, venabula, fervos, Differtum tranfire forum populumque jubebat, Unus ut e multis populo fpectante referret r Emtum mulus aprum. crudi, tumidique lavemur, Quid deceat, quid non, obliti; Caerite cera S Digni: remigium vitiofum Ithacenfis Ulyffei ; t Cui potior patria fuit interdicta voluptas. Si, Mimnermus uti cenfet, fine amore jocifque Nil eft jucundum; vivas in amore jocifque. W Vive, vale. fi quid novifti rectius iftis, Candidus imperti: fi non, his utere mecum. NOTES. VER. 127. Wilmot] Earl of Rochester. Inftructed thus, you bow, embrace, proteft, n Then turn about, and laugh at your own Jeft. If P to live well means nothing but to eat; And envy'd Thirst and Hunger to the Poor. 121 From Latian Syrens, French Circæan Feasts, 1 125 131 |