And shouting Folly hails them from her shore; 18 His seat, where solitary sports are seen, 14 As some fair female, unadorn'd and plain, Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes; 13 Takes] Abstulerat miseris tecta superbus ager.' Martial, Ep. 1, 2, 3. 'Veil'd in a simple robe, their best attire, Thomson, Autumn, 1. 202. But when those charms are past, - for charms When time advances, and when lovers fail, Where then, ah! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And even the bare-worn common is denied. If to the city sped, what waits him there? 16 To see profusion that he must not share; To see ten thousand baneful arts combin'd To pamper luxury, and thin mankind; To see each joy the sons of pleasure know Extorted from his fellow-creatures' woe. 15 And while] Sinks the poor babe, without a hand to save.' 16 To see profusion] not fated to share.'. Roscoe's Nurse, p. 69. He only guards those luxuries he is An. Nat. iv. p. 43. Here while the courtier glitters in brocade, There the black gibbet glooms beside the way. With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, 17 These poor shivering females have once seen happier days, and been flattered into beauty. They have been prostituted to the gay and luxurious villain, and now turned out to meet the severity of the winter. Perhaps now lying at the doors of their betrayers, they sue to wretches whose hearts are insensible.' Cit. of the World, ii. 211. See also The Bee. The City Night Piece, p. 126. Do thine, sweet Auburn, thine, the loveliest train, Do thy fair tribes participate her pain? Ah, no! To distant climes, a dreary scene, Where half the convex world intrudes between, Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go, Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe. Far different there from all that charm'd before, Those matted woods where birds forget to sing, Those pois'nous fields with rank luxuriance crown'd, 18 To savage beasts who on the weaker prey, Or human savages more wild than they!' Sir W. Temple. y. Nicholls' Poems, ii. 80. The breezy covert of the warbling grove, 19 That only shelter'd thefts of harmless love. Good Heaven! what sorrows gloom'd that parting day That call'd them from their native walks away; When the poor exiles, every pleasure past, 20 Hung round the bowers, and fondly look'd their last, And took a long farewell, and wish'd in vain 20 Compare Quinctiliani Declam. xiii. p. 272. • Quod cives pascebat, nunc divitis unius hortus est. Æquatæ solo villæ, et excisa patria sacra, et cum conjugibus, parvisque liberis, respectantes patrium larem migraverunt veteres coloni,' &c. 21 good old sire] The good old sire!' v. Dryden's Ovid, vol. iii. p. 302. And, 'The good old sire, unconscious of decay! The modest matron clad in homespun gray.' v. Threnod. August. |