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Cui muftela procul, Si vis, ait, effugere iftinc;
Macra cavum repetes arctum, quem macra subisti.
Haec ego fi compellor imagine, cuncta refigno;
Nec fomnum plebis laudo fatur altilium, nec
Otia divitiis Arabum liberrima muto.
Saepe verecundum laudafti: Rexque, Paterque
Audifti coram, nec verbo parcius abfens :
Infpice, fi poffum donata reponere laetus.

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But having amply stuff'd his skin, .

Could not get out as he got in:
Which one telonging to the House
('Twas not a Man, it was a Mouse)
Obferving, cry'd, "You fcape not so,
"Lean as you came, Sir, you must go.”
Sir, you may spare your Application,
I'm no fuch Beast, nor his Relation
Nor one that Temperance advance,
Cramm'd to the throat with Ortolans:
Extremely ready to refign

All that may make me none of mine.
South-fea Subscriptions take who please,
Leave me but Liberty and Eafe.
'Twas what I faid to Craggs and Child,
Who prais'd my Modefty, and fmil'd.
Give me, I cry'd, (enough for me)
My Bread, and Independency!
So bought an Annual Rent or two,
And liv'd just as you fee I do;
Near fifty, and without a Wife,
I trust that finking Fund, my Life.
Can I retrench? Yes, mighty well,

Shrink back to my Paternal Cell,

NOTES.

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VER. 66. Craggs and Chill,] Mr. Craggs gave him fome South-fea fubfcriptions. He was fo indifferent about them as to neglect making any beneft of them. He used to say it was a fatisfaction to him that he did not grow rich (as he might have done) by the public calamity.

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Parvum parva decent. mihi jam non regia Roma,
Sed vacuum Tibur placet, aut imbelle Tarentum.
Strenuus et fortis, caufifque Philippus agendis.
Clarus, etc.

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A little House, with Trees a-row,
And, like its Mafter, very low.

There dy'd my Father, no man's Debtor,
And there I'll die, nor worse nor better.

To fet this matter full before ye,
Our old Friend Swift will tell his Story.
"Harley, the Nation's great Support,"
But you may read it, I ftop fhort.

80

SATIRE

SATIR A

VI.

OC erat in votis: modus agri non ita magnus,

HO
Hortus ubi, et tecto'vicinus jugis aquaë fons,

Et paulum filvae fuper his foret. auctius, atque
Dî melius fecere. bene eft. nil amplius oro,
Maia nate, nifi ut propria haec mihi munera faxis,
Si neque majorem feci ratione mala rem,
Nec fum facturus vitio culpave minorem:
Si veneror ftultus nihil horum, O fi angulus ille
Proximus accedat, qui nunc denormat agellum!
O fi urnam argenti fors quae mihi monftret! ut illi,
Thefauro invento qui mercenarius agrum

Illum ipfum mercatus aravit, dives amico

Hercule: fi, quod adeft, gratum juvat: hac prece

te oro,

Pingue pecus domino facias, et caetera praeter

Ingenium;

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