Balnea, 6 tonfores; conducto navigio aeque
Naufear, ac locuples quem ducit priva triremis.
62 Si curatus inaequali tonsore capillos
Occurro; rides. fi forte fubucula pexae
Trita fubeft tunicae, vel fi togá dissîdet impor; Rides, quid, 63 mea cum pugnat fententia fecum; Quod petiit, fpernit; repetit quod nuper omifit;
64 Aeftuat, & vitae difconvenit ordine toto;
65 Diruit, aedificat, mutat quadrata rotundis?
66 Infanire putas folennia me, neque rides,
Nec 67 medici credis, nec curatoris egere
A praetore dati rerum 68 tutela mearum
Cum fis, & prave fectum ftomacheris ob unguem,
De te pendentis, te respicientis amici,
Prefer a new Japanner, to their fhoes,
Discharge their Garrets, move their beds, and run
(They know not whither) in a Chaife and one;
They hire their fculler, and when once aboard,
Grow fick and damn the climate like a Lord. 160
62 You laugh, half Beau, half Sloven if I ftand,
My wig all powder, and all snuff my band;
You laugh, if coat and breeches ftrangely vary,
White gloves, and linen worthy Lady Mary!
But when 3 no Prelate's Lawn with hair-shirt lin❜d, 165
Is half fo incoherent as my Mind,
When (each opinion with the next at ftrife,
One 64 ebb and flow of follies all my life)
I s plant, root up; I build, and then confound;
Turn round to fquare, and fquare again to round; 170
66 You never change one muscle of your face,
You think this' Madnefs but a common cafe,
Nor 67 once to Chanc'ry, nor to Hale apply;
Yet hang your lip, to fee a Seam awry!
Carelefs how ill I with myself agree,
Kind to my drefs, my figure, not to Me.
Is this my 68 Guide, Philofopher, and Friend?
'This he, who loves me, and who ought to mend ;
Who ought to make me (what he can, or none,)
That Man divine whom Wifdom calls her own; 180
Great without Title, without Fortune blefs'd;
Rich 69 ev'n when plunder'd, 7 honour'd while opprefs'd;
VER. 182. when plunder'd) i. e. By the Public; which has rarely her revenge on her plunderers; and when she has, more rarely knows how to use it.
Ad fummam, fapiens uno 69. minor eft Jove,
Liber, 7 honoratus, 72 pulcher, 73 rex denique regum;
Praecipue fanus, 75 nifi cum pituita molefta eft.
Lov'd 'without youth, and follow'd without pow'r;
At home, tho' exil'd; 72 free, tho' in the Tower;
In fhort, that reas'ning, high, immortal Thing, 185
Jult 73 less than Jove, and 74 much above a King,
Nay, half in heav'n -
75 except (what's mighty odd)
A Fit of Vapours clouds this Demy - God?
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