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Insanis omnes gelidis quaecunqne lacernis	A
Sunt tibi Nasones Virgiliosque vides	A
Mart	B
Imitation	C
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Thou know'st not what thou say'st	D
In garments that scarce fence them from the cold	E
Our Ovids and our Virgils you behold	E
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Part first	F
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To you ye Bards whose lavish breast requires	A
This monitory lay the strains belong	G
Nor think some miser vents his sapient saw	A
Or some dull cit unfeeling of the charms	A
That tempt profusion sings while friendly Zeal	H
To guard from fatal ills the tribe he loves	A
Inspires the meanest of the Muse's train	I
Like you I loathe the grovelling progeny	J
Whose wily arts by creeping time matured	K
Advance them high on Power's tyrannic throne	L
To lord it there in gorgeous uselessness	A
And spurn successless Worth that pines below	M
See the rich churl amid the social sons	A
Of wine and wit regaling hark he joins	A
In the free jest delighted seems to show	M
A meliorated heart he laughs he sings	A
Songs of gay import madrigals of glee	J
And drunken anthems set agape the board	N
Like Demea in the play benign and mild	O
And pouring forth benevolence of soul	P
Till Micio wonder or in Shakspeare's line	Q
Obstreperous Silence drowning Shallow's voice	A
And startling Falstaff and his mad compeers	A
He owns 'tis prudence ever and anon	Q
To smooth his careful brow to let his purse	A
Ope to a sixpence's diameter	R
He likes our ways he owns the ways of wit	S
Are ways of pleasance and deserve regard	T
True we are dainty good society	J
But what art thou Alas consider well	U
Thou bane of social pleasure know thyself	V
Thy fell approach like some invasive damp	W
Breathed through the pores of earth from Stygian caves	A
Destroys the lamp of mirth the lamp which we	J
Its flamens boast to guard we know not how	X
But at thy sight the fading flame assumes	A
A ghastly blue and in a stench expires	A
True thou seem'st changed all sainted all enskied	J
The trembling tears that charge thy melting eyes	A
Say thou art honest and of gentle kind	J
But all is false an intermitting sigh	V
Condemns each hour each moment given to smiles	A
And deems those only lost thou dost not lose	A
Even for a demi groat this open'd soul	P
This boon companion this elastic breast	J
Revibrates quick and sends the tuneful tongue	Y
To lavish music on the rugged walls	A
Of some dark dungeon Hence thou Caitiff fly	V
Touch not my glass nor drain my sacred bowl	P
Monster ingrate beneath one common sky	V
Why shouldst thou breathe beneath one common roof	V
Thou ne'er shalt harbour nor my little boat	J
Receive a soul with crimes to press it down	Q
Go to thy bags thou Recreant hourly go	M
And gazing there bid them be wit be mirth	Z
Be conversation Not a face that smiles	A
Admits thy presence not a soul that glows	A
With social purport bid or even or morn	Q
Invest thee happy but when life declines	A
May thy sure heirs stand tittering round thy bed	J
And ushering in their favourites burst thy locks	A
And fill their laps with gold till Want and Care	A2
With joy depart and cry 'We ask no more '	-
Ah never never may the harmonious mind	J
Endure the worldly Poets ever void	J
Of guile distrustless scorn the treasured gold	J
And spurn the miser spurn his deity	J
Balanced with friendship in the poet's eye	V
The rival scale of interest kicks the beam	B2
Than lightning swifter From his cavern'd store	C2
The sordid soul with self applause remarks	A
The kind propensity remarks and smiles	A
And hies with impious haste to spread the snare	A2
Him we deride and in our comic scenes	A
Contemn the niggard form Moliere has drawn	Q
We loathe with justice but alas the pain	Q
To bow the knee before this calf of gold	J
Implore his envious aid and meet his frown	Q
But 'tis not Gomez 'tis not he whose heart	J
Is crusted o'er with dross whose callous mind	J
Is senseless as his gold the slighted Muse	A
Intensely loathes 'Tis sure no equal task	D2
To pardon him who lavishes his wealth	E2
On racer foxhound hawk or spaniel all	F2
But human merit who with gold essays	A
All but the noblest pleasure to remove	V
The wants of Genius and its smiles enjoy	G2
But you ye titled youths whose nobler zeal	H
Would burnish o'er your coronets with fame	H2
Who listen pleased when poet tunes his lay	I2
Permit him not in distant solitudes	A
To pine to languish out the fleeting hours	A
Of active youth then Virtue pants for praise	A
That season unadorn'd the careless bard	J
Quits your worn threshold and like honest Gay	I2
Contemns the niggard boon ye time so ill	J2
Your favours then like trophies given the tomb	K2
The enfranchised spirit soaring not perceives	A
Or scorns perceived and execrates the smile	L2
Which bade his vigorous bloom to treacherous hopes	A
And servile cares a prey expire in vain	Q
Two lawless powers engaged by mutual hate	J
In endless war beneath their flags enrol	L2
The vassal world this Avarice is named	J
That Luxury 'tis true their partial friends	A
Assign them softer names usurpers both	M2
That share by dint of arms the legal throne	Q
Of just Economy yet both betray'd	J
By fraudful ministers The niggard chief	V
Listening to want all faithless and prepared	J
To join each moment in his rival's train	Q
His conduct models by the needless fears	A
The slave inspires while Luxury a chief	V
Of amplest faith to Plenty's rule resigns	A
His whole campaign 'Tis Plenty's flattering sounds	A
Engross his ear 'tis Plenty's smiling form	N2
Moves still before his eye Discretion strives	A
But strives in vain to banish from the throne	Q
The perjured minion he secure of trust	J
With latent malice to the hostile camp	W
Day night and hour his monarch's wealth conveys	A
Ye towering minds ye sublimated souls	A
Who careless of your fortunes seal and sign	Q
Set let contract acquit with easier mien	Q
Than fops take snuff whose economic care	A2
Your green silk purse engrosses easy pleased	J
To see gold sparkle through the subtle folds	A
Lovely as when the Hesperian fruitage smiled	J
Amid the verdurous grove who fondly hope	O2
Spontaneous harvests harvests all the year	P2
Who scatter wealth as though the radiant crop	Q2
Glitter'd on every bough and every bough	X
Like that the Trojan gather'd once avulsed	J
Were by a splendid successor supplied	J
Instant spontaneous listen to my lays	A
For 'tis not fools whate'er proverbial phrase	A
Have long decreed that quit with greatest ease	A
The treasured gold Of words indeed profuse	A
Of gold tenacious their torpescent soul	L2
Clenches their coin and what electral fire	R
Shall solve the frosty gripe and bid it flow	L2
'Tis Genius Fancy that to wild expense	A
Of health of treasure stimulates the soul	L2
These with officious care and fatal art	J
Improve the vinous flavour these the smile	L2
Of Cloe soften these the glare of dress	A
Illume the glittering chariot gild anew	Q
And add strange wisdom to the furs of Power	R
Alas that he amid the race of men	Q
That he who thinks of purest gold with scorn	Q
Should with unsated appetite demand	J
And vainly court the pleasure it procures	A
When Fancy's vivid spark impels the soul	L2
To scorn quotidian scenes to spurn the bliss	A
Of vulgar minds what nostrum shall compose	A
Its fatal tension in what lonely vale	L2
Of balmy Medicine's various field aspires	A
The blest refrigerant Vain ah vain the hope	O2
Of future peace this orgasm uncontroll'd	J
Impatient hence of all the frugal mind	J
Requires to eat to drink to sleep to fill	L2
A chest with gold the sprightly breast demands	A
Incessant rapture life a tedious load	J
Denied its continuity of joy	G2
But whence obtain philosophy requires	A
No lavish cost to crown its utmost prayer	A2
Suffice the root built cell the simple fleece	A
The juicy viand and the crystal stream	B2
Even mild Stupidity rewards her train	Q
With cheap contentment Taste alone requires	A
Entire profusion Days and nights and hours	A
Thy voice hydropic Fancy calls aloud	J
For costly draughts inundant bowls of joy	G2
Rivers of rich regalement seas of bliss	A

William Shenstone

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