The ground about the house maintains it there,
The house maintains the ground about it here.
Here even hunger's dear; and a full board
Devours the vital substance of the lord.
The land itself does there the feast bestow,
The land itself must here to market go.
Three or four suits one winter here does waste,
One suit does there three or four winters last.
Here every frugal man must oft be cold,
And little luke-warm fires are to you sold.
There fire 's an element, as cheap and free,
Almost as any of the other three.
Stay you then here, and live among the great,
Attend their sports, and at their tables eat.
When all the bounties here of men you score,
The place's bounty there, shall give me more.

EPITAPHIUM VIVI AUCTORIS *.

"HIC, o viator, sub lare parvulo
"Couleius hic est conditus, hic jacet ;
"Defunctis humani laboris

"Sorte, supervacuâque vitâ.

"Non indecorâ pauperie nitens,
"Et non inerti nobilis otio,
"Vanóque dilectis popello

66 'Divitiis animosus hostis.

* Epitaphium Vivi Auctoris.] The conceit of a living death, was altogether in the taste of our author; but so happily pursued in this agreeable epitaph, that the play of wit takes nothing from the weight and pathos of the sentiment.

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"Possis ut illum dicere mortuum ;

"En terra jam nunc quantula sufficit ! "Exempta sit curis, viator,

"Terra sit illa levis, precare.

"Hic sparge flores, sparge breves rosas "Nam vita gaudet mortua floribus

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Herbisque odoratis corona

"Vatis adhuc cinerem calentem."

EPITAPH ON THE LIVING AUTHOR.

HERE, stranger, in this humble nest,
Here Cowley sleeps; here lies,
Scap'd all the toils, that life molest,
And its superfluous joys.

Here, in no sordid poverty,

And no inglorious ease,
He braves the world, and can defy
Its frowns and flatteries.

The little earth, he asks, survey:

Is he not dead, indeed?

"Light lie that earth," good stranger, pray,

"Nor thorn upon it breed!"

With flow'rs, fit emblem of his fame,

Compass your poet round;

With flow'rs of ev'ry fragrant name

Be his warm ashes crown'd!

A PROPOSITION

FOR

THE ADVANCEMENT

OF

EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY*.

* Ingenious men delight in dreams of reformation.-In comparing this Proposition of Cowley, with that of Milton, addressed to Mr. Hartlib, we find that these great poets had amused themselves with some exalted, and, in the main, congenial fancies, on the subject of education: that, of the two plans proposed, this of Mr. Cowley was better digested, and is the less fanciful; if a preference, in this respect, can be given to either, when both are manifestly Utopian: and that our universities, in their present form, are well enough calculated to answer all the reasonable ends of such institutions; provided we allow for the unavoidable defects of them, when drawn out into practice. HURD.

A PROPOSITION, &c.

THE COLLEGE.

THAT the philosophical college be situated within one, two, or (at furthest) three miles of London; and, if it be possible to find that convenience, upon the side of the river, or very near it.

That the revenue of this college amount to four thousand pounds a-year.

5.

That the company received into it be as follows: 1. Twenty philosophers or professors. 2. Sixteen young scholars, servants to the professors. 3. A chaplain. 4. A bailiff for the revenue. A manciple or purveyor for the provisions of the house. 6. Two gardeners. 7. A master-cook. 8. An under-cook. 9. A butler. 10. An underbutler. 11. A surgeon. 12. Two lungs, or chemical servants. 13. A library-keeper, who is like

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