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Cir) fil Things content a Fool, and nothing cloys, Which they define the height of Human Joys: He driv’ling on the Shore fecure can be, And view unmov’d the Fempeits of the Sca. No formidable News can him alarm 5 Hoe is. at: Peace, tho” alfthe World does Arm ; From all Misfortunes has a fure Defence 5 His Skalls impregnable for want of Senfe 3 His Paffion’s gzet, and his Mind fedate ; Nothing provokes his Enoy or his Hate : Be wnconcern’d can ſtand with. Laughing Eyes, And fee unworthy Men to Honour rife. Fortune; a Sordid. Piece of Earth, refines, And-from.a Dunghil drawn the- Meteor fhines $ The Upftare’s Inſolence none will endure, His Souls as narrow, as his. Birth’s obfcure : Under the Mask a Fury s Face does fhow, Tho’ for the Conſulate bows humbly low : His Will without. his Reaſon does commands. Thunder's too-weiglity for x Vulgar Hand. When he is freed from. Books, laborious Toil! He does not ſpend. his Time, nor waſte his Oil, Impair-his.Colour; or conſume his Strength, Or grow too ſubtle for himſelf at length 5 °E’er he has travel’d half the Way he’s Dead,, The-very Finenefi of it breaks the Thread. The Turks allow all Tdiots a Shrine 5; They, think in FOLLY fomerhing is Devine? ‘Their A&ions flill an equal Tenor keep, No frightful Images afflict their Sleep. Their Guardian-Angels ftill fuch care do take,, Their Innocence preferves them when Awake. This great Advantage they are happy in, They want the brisk Capacity to fin. Some
