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Commendatory VERSES to the Tran:
flator, of Moria Encomium,. Gc.
To the AUTHOR of this Tranflation.
(rezza Sg] ve thought, Sir, hitherto without:
SA Succefs,
On all'Expedients for Happineſs :
This to defire by Nature we're in
clin’d,
Which we in our Refearches feldom find.
It does, like Beauty, in the Fancy lye,
Or, as ’tis pleafing to the Lover’s Eye, £
Gamelion-like, from all Things takes a Dye. $
One thinks it fll confiſts in Janguine Mirth,
When the Debauch to Wit muf givea Birth:
Another's happy if Corénnas kind ;
The Wife Man calls it Indalence of Mind:
The Miſer to them all prefers his Wealeh 3
The jolly Toper fays ’tis forid Health :
But thefe Miftaken Wretches go aftray,
Erafmus only has found out the Way.
Like to Fanraftick Chymi(ts they prefume, ¬
Till all their Proje@s break away in Fume :
To fearch the Secret out they vainly try,
For after all, it does in Fotry lye.
This, by its Innccence -— the heh Eftate,
Will with Refiftance blunt the Edge of Fate;
One with a Genius, Nature does enfpére,
Which others by Philoſophy acquire :
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