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Or, in a mortgage, prove a Lawyer's share;

Or, in a jointure, vanish from the heir;

Or in pure f equity (the cafe not clear)

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own.'

The Chanc'ry takes your rents for twenty year :
At beft, it falls to fome & ungracious fon,
Who cries, "My father's damn'd, and all's
hShades, that to Bacon could retreat afford,
Become the portion of a booby Lord;
And Hemfley, once proud Buckingham's delight,
Slides to a Scriv❜ner or a city Knight.

b Let lands and houses have what lords they will,
Let Us be fix'd, and our own masters still.

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tation, in the concluding part, obliged him to diverfify the fentiment. They are equally noble: but Horace's is expreffed with the greater force.

THE

FIRST EPISTLE

OF THE

FIRST BOOK

OF

HORACE.

EPISTOLA I.

RIMA dicte mihi, fumma dicende camena,

PRIMA

b Spectatum fatis, et donatum jam rude, quaeris,

Maecenas, iterum antiquo me includere ludo.

C

Non eadem eft aetas, non mens. Veianius, armis

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Nunc itaque et 1 verfus, et caetera ludicra pono :

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Why b will you break the Sabbath of my days?
Now fick alike of Envy and of Praise.

Public too long, ah let me hide my Age!
See Modeft Cibber now has left the Stage:
Our Gen'rals now,
d retired to their Estates,
Hang their old Trophies o'er the Garden gates,
In Life's cool Ev'ning fatiate of Applause,

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Nore fond of bleeding, ev'n in BRUNSWICK's caufe. f A voice there is, that whispers in my ear, ('Tis Reason's voice, which fometimes one can hear) "Friend Pope! be prudent, let your

"breath,

"And never gallop Pegasus to death;

Mufe take

"Left stiff, and stately, void of fire or force,

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"You limp, like Blackmore on a Lord Mayor's

"horfe."

Farewell then h Verfe and Love, and ev'ry Toy, The Rhymes and Rattles of the Man or Boy;

strong; stately and yet dull, like the fober and flow-paced Animal generally employed to mount the Lord Mayor; and therefore here humorously opposed to Pegasus,

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