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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.
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