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Up, up, says Avarice! thou snor’st again,
Stretchest thy limbs, and yawn’st, but all in vain:
The tyrant Lucre no denial takes;
At his command th’ unwilling sluggard wakes.
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Time has made you dote, and vainly tell
Of arms imagined in your lonely cell:
Go! be the temple and the gods your care;
Permit to men the thought of peace and war.
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Were I no queen, did you my beauty weigh,
My youth in bloom, your age in its decay.
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Better gleanings their worn soil can boast
Than the crab vintage of the neighb’ring coast
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He burns the leaves, the scorching blast invades
The tender corn, and shrivels up the blades
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Did we for these barbarians plant and sow,
On these, on these our happy fields bestow?
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Nor let false friends seduce thy mind to fame
By arrogating Jonson’s hostile name;
Let father Flecknoe fire thy mind with praise,
And uncle Ogleby thy envy raise.
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Saint Andre’s feet ne’er kept more equal time,
Not ev’n the feet of thy own Psyche’s rhyme;
Though they in numbers as in sense excel,
So just, so like tautology, they fell.
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Go, miser! go: for lucre sell thy soul;
Truck wares for wares, and trudge from pole to pole,
That men may say, when thou art dead and gone,
See what a vast estate he left his son!
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When did his muse from Fletcher scenes purloin,
As thou whose Eth’ ridge dost transfuse to thine?
But so transfused as oil and waters flow:
His always floats above, thine sinks below.
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But when the western winds with vital pow’r
Call forth the tender grass and budding flow’r,
Men, at the last, produce in open air
Both flocks, and send them to their summer’s fare.
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Thou hop’st with sacrifice of oxen slain
To compass wealth, and bribe the god of gain
To give thee flocks and herds, with large increase;
Fool! to expect them from a bullock’s grease.
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Give me, ye gods, the product of one field,
That so I neither may be rich nor poor;
And haying just enough, not covet more.
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I saw th’ angelic guards from earth ascend,
Grieved they must now no longer man attend;
The beams about their temples dimly shone;
One would have thought the crime had been their own.
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I beg the grace
You would lay by those terrors of your face;
Till calmness to your eyes you first restore,
I am afraid, and I can beg no more.
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Firm Doric pillars found the solid base,
The fair Corinthian crown the higher space,
And all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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The whole division that to Mars pertains,
All trades of death that deal in steel for gains,
Were there; the butcher, armorer, and smith,
Who forges sharpen’d fauchions, or the scythe.
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If I by chance succeed
In what I write, and that’s a chance indeed,
Know I am not so stupid, or so hard,
Not to feel praise, or fame’s deserved reward.
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Old age, with silent pace, comes creeping on,
Nauseates the praise which in her youth she won,
And hates the muse by which she was undone.
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So noiseless would I live, such death to find:
Like timely fruit, not shaken by the wind,
But ripely dropping from the sapless bough.
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