385 And b great Naffau to Kneller's hand decreed d Fortis b Alexandri vultum fimulantia. quod fi [At neque dedecorant tua de se judicia, atque Munera quae multa dantis cum laude tulerunt, Dilecti tibi Virgilius Variufque poetae ;] Nec magis expreffi d vultus per ahenea figna, Quam per vatis opus mores animique virorum Clarorum apparent. nec fermones ego mallem Repentes per humum, quam res componere gestas, Terrarumque f fitus et flumina dicere, et arces e 390 How How g barbarous rage fubfided at your word, And Nations wonder'd while they dropp'd the fword! And i Afia's Tyrants tremble at your Throne— 405 410 Well Montibus impofitas, et s barbara regna, tuisque ficto Well may he p blush, who gives it, or receives; Nec prave factis decorari verfibus opto: Ne p rubeam pingui donatus munere, et una Cum fcriptore meo capfa porrectus aperta, 9 Deferar in vicum vendentem thus et odores, Et piper, et quicquid chartis amicitur ineptis. 415 BOOK C BOOK II. EPISTLE II. "Ludentis fpeciem dabit, & torquebitur." HoR. DEAR EAR Col'nel, Cobham's and your country's You love a Verse, take fuch as I can fend. b A Frenchman comes, prefents you with his Boy, Bows, and begins-" This Lad, Sir, is of Blois : "Obferve his shape how clean! his locks how curl'd! "My only fon, I'd have him fee the world: "His French is pure; his Voice too-you shall hear. "Sir, he's your slave, for twenty pound a year. "Mere wax as yet, you fashion him with ease, "Your Barber, Cook, Upholsterer, what you please: "A perfect genius at an Opera fong "To fay too much, might do my honour wrong. "Take EPISTOLA II. FLORE, bono claroque fidelis amice Neroni, b Si quis forte velit puerum tibi vendere natum Tibure vel Gabiis, et tecum fic agat: "Hic et "Candidus, et talos a vertice pulcher ad imos, "Fiet eritque tuus nummorum millibus octo; "Verna minifteriis ad nutus aptus heriles; "Litterulis Graecis imbutus, idoneus arti "Cuilibet: argilla quidvis imitaberis uda: "Take him with all his virtues, on my word; 15 Though faith, I fear, 'twill break his Mother's heart. "Once (and but once) I caught him in a lie, "And then, unwhipp'd, he had the grace to cry: "The fault he has I fairly fhall reveal, " (Could you с o'erlook but that) it is, to steal.' If, after this, you took the graceful lad, I think Sir Godfrey should decide the fuit; 20 25 d Confider then, and judge me in this light, I told you when I went, I could not write; You "Quin etiam canet indoctum, fed dulce bibenti. "Multa fidem promiffa levant, ubi plenius aequo “Laudat venales, qui vult extrudere, merces. "Res urget me nulla : meo fum pauper in aere. "Nemo hoc mangonum faceret tibi: non temere a me Quivis ferret idem: femel hic ceffavit, et (ut fit) "In fcalis latuit metuens pendentis habenae : "Des nummos, excepta nihil te fi fuga laedit." c Ille ferat pretium, poenae fecurus, opinor. Prudens emifti vitiofum: dicta tibi eft lex. Infequeris tamen hunc, et lite moraris iniqua. & Dixi me pigrum proficifcenti tibi, dixi Talibus officiis prope mancum; ne mea faevus |