To store her children with if all the world 730 Should in a pet of temp'rance feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but

frieze,

Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be un

prais'd,

Not half his riches known, and yet despis'd, And we should serve him as a grudging master, As a penurious niggard of his wealth,

And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons,

736

Who would be quite surcharg'd with her own weight

And strangled with her waste fertility,

by a mention of the riches in the bowels of the earth, points to the abundance of gold, silver, and gems produced in the neighbouring country of South America.

(738) The lines from this to the 746th will appear less bombastic, if we refer them duly to the objects of great magnitude which they really regard; the first, to the libration of the earth upon her axis; the 739th to the wings formed of the

Th' earth cumber'd, and the wing'd air darkt with

plumes,

The herds would over-multitude their lords,

740

The sea o'er-fraught would swell, and th' unsought diamonds

Would so imblaze the forehead of the deep,
And so bestud with stars, that they below
Would
grow inur'd to light, and come at last 745
To gaze upon the sun with shameless brows.
List, lady, be not coy, and be not cozen'd
With that same vaunted name, Virginity.
Beauty is nature's coin, must not be hoarded,
But must be current, and the good thereof,

750

prototype of the nightingale, drawn in fig. 186, extending over the West India Gulf; the 740th to the sign or constellation Taurus, which, as shewn in treating of the Zodiac, has a main part of its prototype in this same gulf; the beginning of the 741st line, to those inundations of these seas, which, in former notes, have been spoken of more at large; the 743rd to the West India Gulf again, as being the prototype of the Sign Gemini and its

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Consists of mutual and partaken bliss,
Unsavory in the enjoyment of itself;
If you let slip time, like a neglected rose
It withers on the stalk with languish'd head.
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown
In courts, in feasts, and high solemnities,
Where most may wonder at the workmanship;
It is for homely features to keep home,

755

They had their name thence; coarse complexions
And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply 760
The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool.
What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that,
Love darting eyes, or tresses like the morn?
There was another meaning in these gifts,
Think what and be advis'd, you are but young
765

yet.
Lady. I had not thought to have unlock'd my lips
In this unhallowed air, but that this jugler
Would think to charm my judgment, as mine eyes,

constellation of stars; and the 746th to the constant action of a blazing sun, for a considerable portion of the year vertical to those districts.

Obtruding false rules, prankt in reason's garb.
I hate when vice can bolt her arguments,
And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.
Impostor, do not charge most innocent nature,
As if she would her children should be riotous
With her abundance; she, good cateress,

770

Means her provision only to the good,

775

That live according to her sober laws,
And holy dictate of spare temperance:

(774) Good cateress. This very strange expression seems to me to point to another remedy as useful against the fevers in question, namely, caterache or Scolopendrium, one of the species of plants called maiden-hair, which have the property of sweetening the blood. The History of Drugs, in treating of the caterache, says this particular sort of maiden-hair is called by the inhabitants of Languedoc, Goldy-locks, because of its near approach to hair and its golden colour. It is pectoral, and particularly appropriated to diseases of the . spleen." It had been before alluded to, among other remedies in 763, tresses like the morn.

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If every just man, that now pines with want,
Had but a moderate and beseeming share
Of that which lewdly pamper'd luxury
Now heaps upon some few with vast excess,
Nature's full blessings would be well dispens'd
In even unsuperfluous proportion,

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And she no whit incumber'd with her store,
And then the giver would be better thank'd, 785
His praise due paid; for swinish gluttony
Ne'er looks to heav'n amidst his gorgeous feast,

(787) Whether this expression, the swinish gluttony that crams and blasphemes its feeder, may not involve some further evidence, in addition to that offered in the 3rd chapter on Homer, that le mal d' Amerique, as De Pauw calls it, is derived from eating the flesh of the peccary or Mexican hog, is for the reader to judge. The expressions sensual sty (77) and sensual folly (984) may have the same subject possibly in view; and as these evidences on that topic are very modern when compared with those which are stated in the beginning of this volume to have originally led to that con