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Poor Swift, with all his loffes vext, Not knowing where to turn him next, Above a thousand pounds in debt, Takes horse, and in a mighty fret Rides day and night at fuch a rate, He foon arrives at Harley's gate; But was fo dirty, pale, and thin, Old Read * would hardly let him in. 120 Said Harley, welcome, rev'rend dean ; What makes your worfhip look fo lean? Why, fure you won't appear in town In that old wig and rufty gown? I doubt your heart is fet on pelf So much, that you neglect yourself. What! I fuppofe now ftocks are high, You've fome good purchase in your eye; Or is your money out at use?---Truce, good my lord, I beg a truce, 130

115. Offenfus damnis, media de nocte caballum Arripit, iratufque Philippi tendit ad ædes.

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121. Quem fimul afpexit fcabrum intonfumque Philippus, Durus, ait, Voltei, nimis attentufque videris Effe miki.

(The doctor in a paffion cry'd,)
Your raillery is mifapply'd;
Experience I have dearly bought;
You know I am not worth a groat:
But 'tis a folly to contest

When refolve to have your jest ;.

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Then, fince you now have done your worst, Pray leave me where you found me first *.

136. Quod te per genium, dextramque, deofque penates Obfecro, et obteftor, vite me redde priori.

HORACE, LIB. II. SA T. VI. Part of it imitated †.

OFTEN wish'd, that I had clear
For life fix hundred pounds a year,
A handfome house to lodge a friend,
A river at my garden's end,
A terras walk, and half a rood
Of land fet out to plant a wood.

1. Hoc erat in votis: modus agri non ita magnus, Hortus ubi, et teto vicinus jugis aquæ fons, Et paulum filvæ fuper his foret.

* In England, where he feems by this poem to folicit a fettlement in the manner peculiar to himself.

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+ This poem was written about the fame time with the preceding, and apparently with the fame view.

Well, now I have all this, and more, I ask not to increase my ftore, But fhou'd be perfectly content, Cou'd I but live on this fide Trent, Nor cross the channel twice a year To spend fix months with statesmen here. I muft by all means come to town, 'Tis for the fervice of the crown. "Lewis, the dean will be of use; 15 "Send for him up, take no excuse.” The toil, the danger of the seas, Great minifters ne'er think of these ; Or, let it coft five hundred pound, No matter where the money's found; 20 It is but fo much more in debt, And that they ne'er confider'd yet.

“Good mr. dean, go change your gown, "Let my lord know you're come to town. I hurry me in hafte away,

Not thinking it is levee-day;
And find his honour in a pound,
Hemm'd by a triple circle round

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Chequer'd with ribbons blue and green; How fhould I thruft myself between? 39

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Auctius atque

Dii melius fecere.

17. Sive Aquilo radit terras, feu bruma nivalem Interiore diem gyro trahit, ire neceffe eft.

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