Epilogue To The Tragedy Of Cato Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFGHHIIJJKL MMDDNN| You see in ancient Rome what folly reign'd | A |
| A folly British men would have disdain'd | A |
| Here's none so weak to pity Cato's case | B |
| Who might have liv'd and had a handsome place | B |
| But rashly vain and insolently great | C |
| He perish'd by his fault and not his fate | C |
| Thank Heav'n our patriots better ends pursue | D |
| With something more than glory in their view | D |
| Poets write morals priests for martyrs preach | E |
| Neither such fools to practice what they teach | E |
| Though your dear country much you wish to serve | F |
| For bonny Britons 'tis too hard to starve | G |
| Or what's all one to any generous mind | H |
| From girls champagne and gaming be confin'd | H |
| Portius might well obey his sire's command | I |
| Returning to his small paternal land | I |
| A low estate was ample to support | J |
| His private life far distant from the court | J |
| Far from the crowd of emulating beaux | K |
| Where Martia never wanted birthday clothes | L |
| For you who live in these more polish'd days | M |
| To spend your money lo ten thousand ways | M |
| Dice may run ill or duns demand their due | D |
| And ways to get God knows are very few | D |
| In times so differing who shall harshly blame | N |
| Our modern heroes not to act the same | N |
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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