A Modern Essay On the Thirteenth satire OF JUVENAL  
By HENRY HIGDEN.  
— Ridiculum acri  
Fortius & melius magnas plerunque secat res.  
Licenced November 11th. 1685. Roger L'Estrange.  
LONDON, Printed for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge's Head in Chancery-Lane, near Fleetstreet. 1686.   

To the Right Honourable, GEORGE, EARL OF DARTMOUTH, etc.  
My Lord,  
THE high Station Your Lordship's Virtues have plac●d You in, have signally marked You out for Addresses and Dedications, (a troublesome Persecution that must always attend the Great and Fortunate) and possess me (among the Crowd) with assurance enough to think, that being warranted by ancient Custom, I may even venture to play the bold Britain, and pin a Dedication upon Your Lordship. Since no teeming Heroic Muse, though (after hard Labour) it produce but a Mouse; Or Puny Scribbler, that makes a shift to grunt out a Souterkin of a Farce or Novel, but straight some Noble Person must be picked out, and an Illustrious Name prefixed: So that the Pillars of the Nation, like those of the Exchange, are daily hung round with Advertisements of [Outward and Homeward bound, etc.] by every Skipper that hoists Sail for Parnassus, though but in a Dogger or Cockboat. And truly, though so poor a Trifle is altogether unworthy of your Lordship's Acceptance, or Patronage, yet that must not bar our Plea to your Protection: For by a certain sort of Right, which we Scribblers, with the rest of the Liberty and Property Men, call Prescription, Your Lordship is as liable to suffer in this kind, as the Gravest and most Gouty Judge is obliged to hobble the Measures about the Temple fire.  
'Tis under this claim I presume to give your Lordship this trouble, especially in this Censorious and Captious Age, when the undoubted Worth of the Patron is absolutely necessary to give it an Authentic Passport in the World, where not only the Book, but the Author's Principles and Practice must fall under the Censure of the severest Observators. And therefore I could not beg Protection under a more secure and glorious Umbrage than Your Lordship: A Person whose unshaken Loyalty has been so eminently signal, and whose Courage and Conduct both by Sea and Land, have been so highly Serviceable to His Majesty, and the Defence and Honour of our Nation. So that Your Lordships many accumulated Preferments are but the Meede of that rising Virtue, which was ever the Darling of your ROYAL MASTER; who besides being worthily styled the GREATEST, has gained the high Attribute of being the JUSTEST of Princes. But one yet farther Encouragement to Dedicate this slight Essay, upon so famed an Author as Juvenal, more particularly to Your Lordship, is, That I tender it into His hands who is so able to judge of the Original.  
But now having laid so inconsiderable an Offering at Your Lordship's Feet, though I must own myself that puny Brother of the Quill, as not to be Rich enough to adorn your Triumphs with Flowers, and Garlands, however my Zeal and Veneration for Your Lordship is no less, though I strew your way but with Rushes and Daisies: which at present is the highest Tribute can be rendered You by,  
My Lord, Your Lordship's Most Obedient, Humble Servant, HENRY HIGDEN.   

TO THE READER.  
I Was once minded to have dropped this Brat in the wide World without further Consideration; till the Stationer plainly told me, That without a Customary Preface it would never pass Muster, and so prove his damage. And faith I was easily persuaded that such an ill rigged Companion would hardly meet with a tolerable Reception, without a civil Introduction and Recommendation.  
Therefore bethinking myself to say something to humour him, turning to the Title Page, I found I had Christened it, A Modern Essay: And how, thought I, can it be Modern, without so much as one Recommendatory Copy of Verses before it, though written perhaps by the Author in praise of himself and his Poem, and fathered upon some unknowing Friend: 
Nor huffing Picture in the front,  
With Bays and wicked Rhyme upon't.   
Without which necessary Ornaments and Embellishments, a Poem will no more be valued, than a Quack without his Velvet Jump, and the Silver-headed Cane to put off his Gravity; or Holiday Artillery-man without a new-scoured Head-piece, and a tawdry Plume waving in his Crest. Which most alluring recommendations being at present wanting, I have thought it fitting to bespeak the gentle Readers kindness in a few lines, which if obtained, may encourage us to mend all in a Second Edition, if the Fates permit.  
And here again I was more at a loss than ever: For should I run division in praise of my Author, or the excellence of his Satiric Vein, some captions Brother-Paper-stainer would straight have a sting at me, with a Who disputed the one, or doubted the other? Should I, to show my pretended Reading, or Judgement, go about to give a Character of our Poet, and make Comparisons betwixt him and his other Rivals in satire, I might draw an unnecessary Quarrel upon my own Head: Therefore I have waved that point, and thought good to squander the little Paper I have allowed me, in defence of myself; which I hope the severest Judges will allow me in my own Cause, since scarce one in a hundred; were he to re print Tom Thumb, but would find something to say on so fair an occasion; Pro dignitate suscepti.  
Well then, A Modern Essay let it be; for as a Transsation I could not, and as a Paraphrase I would not own it: If I have ventured at something between both, I hope I may be the less censured, since the Vices here taxed by our Satirist, are not so antiquated, but a slight Inquisition may discover them amongst ourselves, though perhaps something altered in Dress and Fashion. As near therefore as I could, I have equipped them Al-a-mode; though nevertheless you'll find little other than the Old Shock new Trimmed, and that our present Age comes not much behind our Author's, in all sorts of Genteel Vice and Debauchery. But as to the particular Argument of this satire, viz. Breach of Trust, and Perjury, we need not the aid of SALAMANCA, since our own and our Neighbouring Island have in that long Bow outshot all the World beside.  
Some Critics cavil our Author's Humour is too stiff, morose, and over-serious in downright lashing and chastising Crimes: Whereas a jocular and facetious Jeer and Reproof, laughs Vice out of Countenance, and often works a perfect Cure and Conversion; and merrily discovering the odious deformity of Vice, shames ingenious spirits into Virtue. Another sort of Well-willers to our Author have concluded with themselves, his Verse being altogether stately, he ought, Spaniard-like, to maintain his Gate and Gravity; nor must descend from his lofty Buskins, to Act the least part of the Comic Droll; which point I will not here discuss. But if I have aimed to abate something of his serious Rigour, and expressed his sense in a sort of Verse more apt for Raillery, without debasing the dignity of the Author, I hope the first will not be offended, and the latter will be entreated for a Pardon. As for the Notes, I have composed them as short and plain as I could, to point out and illustrate the meaning of our Author; and though abler Readers may despise their help, yet I doubt not but they will be assisting to the weaker Brethren.  
To conclude, shall any of Calvinus' fraternity think to rally off his Crime with a depositum custodi; Or to excuse the matter, as having been so from the beginning: And if it were not for credulous Fools, how should wiser men live? I shall desire him to place this satire as a Mirror before him in a clear light, and 'tis odds 'twill reflect his own likeness, and possibly make him see his own dear self at full length, where I will leave him in Contemplation, and conclude,  
That brevity is very good  
When w' are, or are not understood.   

JUVENAL's THIRTEENTH satire.  
THE ARGUMENT.  
Our Author comforts his Friend Calvinus, who afflicts himself overmuch for the loss of a Sum of Money, committed to the secret Trust of a supposed Friend, who denies and forswears it; showing such Deceits and Losses are frequent in this Corrupt Age, and familiar at Rome. That though the cunning Knave may avoid the Censure and Punishment of the Laws, yet he shall not escape the Scourge and Terror of his own Conscience.  


NOne can a Crime in secret act,  
But Conscience first condemns the Fact;  
From whose dumb Checks Offenders find  
A lasting Torment in their Mind.  
And though a well-bribed (1) Sh'riff ensure ye  
A biased IGNORAMUS Jury;  
Who, for the purpose, culled and packed,  
Regard their Interest, not the Fact.  
How ere absolved, yet still, the stains  
On Memory's Record remains;  
And though they may the Gild outface,  
Good Men detest an Act so base.   

Thy Loss, thank Heaven, is not so great,  
Scarce to be felt in thy Estate;  
And since the Fraud by which you smart,  
Is usual, take't not to Heart:  
Both Law and Equity afford  
A Thousand Precedents on Record;  
Demonstrating, That Breach of Trust is  
So frequent, 'tis scarce thought Injustice.  
Let Fools torment themselves, and grieve  
For each slight Loss which they receive;  
It cannot be the part of Wisdom,  
Vainly to mourn, when Mischief is done:  
For Trifles, Grief should not abound,  
But bear proportion with the Wound.  
Thou, like a Bedlamite, dost rage,  
Because in so debauched an Age,  
A confident and ancient Crony,  
Sunk, and forswore a Bag of Money.  
And this a Miracle appears  
To a grey Fop of Threescore years.  
Shall Lessons by Experience taught,  
Be thrown away, and go for nought?  
Can't thy dull Genius edify  
By Precepts of Philosophy?  
Whose saving Truths the wise advance,  
To vanquish all th' Attacks of Chance;  
Custom even the unlearned convincing,  
To bear the Yoke, and without wincing;  
Since vain Reluctaney and Strife,  
Increase the irksome load of Life.   

When was there yet a Holiday,  
Did not new Frauds and Tricks betray?  
Money's by Murder, Treason, got,  
Cheats, Poison, Padding, and the Plot:  
Bullies, Buffoons, Knights of the Post,  
Roar, domineer, and rule the Roast;  
And Dagger, Pistol, poison's made  
The Implements of gainful Trade;  
Since Good Men are so rare, that even  
In Rome itself you'll scarce find seven:  
Why should we fond dream, a dozen  
Of Jurors may not bribe and cozen,  
When Sodom might (in times of Yore)  
Have been preserved for Half-a-score?  
With Iron, Brass, Silver, and Gold,  
Past (2) Ages did resemblance hold;  
To name this last degenerate Race,  
Nature no Metal yields so base.  
Yet we for want of Faith, in vain  
Aloud of God and Man complain;  
Loud, as a Pleader in the Hall,  
Resolved t' out-noise, and brazen all.  
Thou, Grandsire, that for nothing grieves,  
Deservest a Bibb and Hanging-sleeves:  
knowst not, that others hoarded Riches  
With Tantalising Charms bewitches;  
And powerful Lechery allure 'em,  
That Locks and Bars cannot secure 'em?  
Who can but laugh at Sot so idle,  
That swears an Atheist on a Bible,  
Flattering himself he will be just,  
Because an Oath secures his Trust?  
Think'st he believes a Power Divine  
Inhabits every Church and Shrine?  
Thy Folly makes the sly Rogue laugh,  
To see old Birds so caught with Chaff:  
Such Rules the Infant World obeyed,  
When (3) Saturn first the Sceptre swayed;  
Ere forced he laid his Kingship down,  
And for a Scythe exchanged a Crown.  
When (4) Juno was a Tomring Lass,  
And (5) Jove without a hair on's Face,  
Played at Bopeep in Ida's Cave,  
Before plain Heaven turned Courtly brave:  
Ere Foreign Tricks, old Rights invading,  
Brought in Balls, Treats, and Masquerading,  
(6) No handsome Boy or (7) Wench did Skink  
To add a Gusto to their Drink.  
Or Clownish (8) Vulcan, all besmeared  
With Soot, wiped Nectar from his Beard.  
Then frugal Gods and eke Goddesses,  
Dined privately on homely Messes;  
Scant Bills of Fare served moderate wishes,  
Plain wholesome, no Luxurious Dishes.  
There Godships in the Upper House  
Were not as now so numerous,  
When for good Husbandry the Skies  
Were managed by few Deities.  
Nor did their Number, Pomp, and State  
Make (9) Atlas groan beneath the weight;  
None ruled the (10) Ocean, or did keep  
His Court and Revels in the Deep,  
Or surly Tyrant Ruled in Holl  
Ghosts, that in gloomy Minsions dwell:  
Nor tortured Souls as yet did feel  
Whips, Futies, Vulture, or the Wheel.  
The jolly shades, frolic and free,  
Found no restraint of Liberty.  
Virtue was then at such a height,  
Dishonesty was wondered at,  
Had then a Boy not capped a Beard,  
Or, That not risen when Age appeared,  
Though his own happier home afforded  
More Nuts and Acorns larger hoarded,  
It was so Capital a Crime,  
Deserved no Clergy at that time  
For Beards then swept pre-eminence  
From Valour, Beauty, Birth, and Sense.   

Now find a Friend so firm and just;  
Who never broke his Faith, or Trust;  
So to a secret promise true,  
He ne'er concealed one penny due:  
Let Fame such an Example tell,  
We'll registered in Chronicle;  
And who but him, the Town shall ring,  
And for the News, Te Deum sing;  
Him, him, I'll like a Mooncalf view,  
Or Monster shown at Barthol'mew;  
And wonder more, than if't had reigned  
Millstones an hour, and no one brained;  
Than Sea of Milk, freshwater Oyster,  
Mule pregnant, or Bees swarmed in Cloister;  
Or what has been devised by Fiction,  
When bantring Drolls the World put tricks on;  
This Man our Wonder shall engage,  
As the sole Phoenix of the Age.  
And is it so?— why then is't wondered,  
If you are bilked of paltry hundred?  
By Chamber, and Bankers of London,  
Orphans, and herds of Fools are undone,  
Which like a Deluge, in a day  
Their whole Estates have swept away.   

If slight of Hand, and quaint Disguise  
Conceal our Cheats from Mortal Eyes,  
What matter is't, what Heaven' spies?  
Such Witnesses we'll ne'er dispute,  
That seeing all things will be mute;  
The point resolved, with demure look  
The formal Knave salutes the Book;  
With Canting tone, and turn'd-up Eyes,  
The brazen Rogue vents Perjuries;  
Varnishing Tales Apocryphal,  
With colours most Canonical.  
Avouching (Verbo Sacerdotis)  
'Slight matters that occur to's notice;  
Confirms untruths he does depose,  
With Volleys of the deepest Oaths;  
And can with confidence defy  
Jove, and his whole Artillery:  
By two-edged Sword of Bully Mars,  
Apollo's Bow and Shafts he swears;  
By chaste Diana's Murdering Quiver,  
And Trident of the Sea's Lawgiver;  
By Pallas Spear, and by the Club  
Wherewith Alcides used to drub;  
And all the dreadful Weapons seen  
In Heaven's warlike Magazine;  
And wishes (if he Married be)  
The Devil takes Wife, and Family.   

Some do believe the World's advance  
From Club of Atoms, jumped by chance,  
Which jumbled in a Chaos lay,  
Struggling to hit this lucky way;  
Then Order from Confusion rose,  
And Matter, fitly did dispose,  
Which has subsisted ever since,  
By Nature, not by Providence;  
That no God steers the course of things,  
Event from wild Chance-medley springs;  
The Sun by his own virtue burns,  
Whose crooked course the Year returns,  
Dispensing influence to all,  
Makes Summer, Winter, Spring, and Fall;  
To the dull mass fresh life does give,  
Makes Plants and Trees shoot forth and live;  
Wholly cashiering Providence,  
Religion, as a shame pretence,  
Devised to prop weak Humane Law,  
And Superstitious Fools to awe;  
Whence unconcerned, they'll swear upon  
Both Testaments, or Koran;  
And turning serious things to Jest,  
Swear, swallow, or take any Test.   

Another Mongrel sort revere  
A God, and Vengeance, yet forswear;  
Thus arguing with themselves; For me  
Let Heaven, what it please decree;  
Strike me with every Malady,  
Stone, Palsy, Gout, or Leprosy;  
Content I'll live deaf, dumb, and blind,  
So I may keep what I purloined;  
I'd rather grope my envied store,  
Than live without it, scorned and poor:  
What starving wretch did ever doubt  
To swop his Health for the Rich Gout?  
Or Footman having won the Race,  
To Sup high, would not pawn his Bays?  
In vain you humm haranging Vicar,  
If he want Coin to purchase Liquor;  
What can reward his pains, and studying,  
But Money, Sunday's Beef, and Pudding?  
Or what damned Poet ere would write,  
That did not hope a good third Night?  
It is not Zeal for a good Cause,  
But Fees stir up the Man o'th' Laws;  
Nor thirst of Fame, but hope of Plunder,  
Makes Hero's charge through Pikes & Thunder.   

Heaven's Vengeance heavy is we know,  
But heavy things move always slow;  
And if to punish all they doom,  
When will my day of rec'ning come?  
If courteous Heaven he as we find,  
Still to repenting sinners kind,  
Who knows but I may find a place  
In some free gen'ral Act of Grace?  
Besides, Jove's more a (11) Gentleman,  
Than for each petty fault to damn;  
And will for frailties pardon grant,  
Which in our Nature they did plant;  
Men pushing the same Game of sin,  
With differing Fates, some lose, some win;  
While one in Cart meets with Reproaches,  
The other Lords it in gilt Coaches;  
A Traitor once successful grown,  
Heaven his prevailing Cause does own;  
Else why should Providence permit  
Usurpers on the Throne to sit?   

With Arguments like these they keep,  
And lull their Consciences asleep;  
Till by degrees they lose all sense  
Of shame, and every act dispense;  
As Women having broke the Ice  
Of Honour, plunge in every Vice:  
From paths of Vertne newly strayed,  
Outdo Professors of the Trade;  
By their old Tempter once drawn in,  
They boggle at no sort of sin:  
These Qualms once over, 'twill be sport  
To see him dare thee to the Court,  
Proffer ye Answer, Affidavit,  
Speak which you please, Sir, you shall have it.  
Perhaps the matter so he'll handle,  
He'll bring an Action for the Scandal,  
Where, Confidence will Gild outface,  
And for mere Innocence will pass;  
The Cause by a right Jury tried,  
Get a fat Verdict on his side;  
Or if you chance to guard that blot,  
Perhaps he'll swear you into th' Plot;  
While you roar our like a whipped Strumpet  
At Bridewell, loud as speaking Trumpet,  
And in Blasphemous terms in vain  
Of God and Man alike complain.  
Can there be Gods above, and bear  
Audacious Perjury to hear?  
So unresenting, tame, and base,  
T' endure Affronts done to their Face:  
'Twould move a perfect stone or stock,  
To see a Villain thus to mock;  
Why offer we vain Sacrifice,  
Or court regardless Deities?  
What need we either Church or Steeple,  
Or Priests to sponge upon the People,  
If blindly no regard be had  
To Men, or Actions good or bad?  
If in Truth's Quarre (they ') l not arm,  
Or do us either good or harm?  
Why should they balk us or encourage,  
If they are no more than Chips in Porridge?  
Or why allow their Pictures room,  
Or reverence then each Common Tomb?  
Or pay respect to Heavenly Madams,  
More than the Statue of (12) Jack adam's?   

Cease thus to rave and calmly try,  
What Comforts Reason can apply:  
Stiff Precepts from the Stoics brought,  
Or Books by rigid Cynics wrought,  
Or the Calm Epicure, content  
With Herbs and Roots weak Nourishment,  
Are useless here: This easy Cure  
Is done without the help of Lower.  
If the Misfortune which you tell,  
Want in the World a Parallel,  
Then I'll not hinder you to maul,  
Your reverent Head against the wall,  
Or Grief extravagant to show;  
Let Tears as from a Fountain flow:  
For desperate Debts we seldom look,  
But write them on the back o'th' Book:  
In vain with Locks, after the Deed,  
We would secure the pilfered Steed.  
The Funerals of our Friends with State,  
And mournful Pomp, we celebrate,  
Condoling their Deceased Souls,  
With Bellow loud, as Irish howls;  
Content to grieve in outward show,  
And squeeze a feigned Tear or two;  
With real Sorrow truer hearted,  
We mourn our Money that's departed;  
While all agree in this belief,  
We do not Counterfeit our Grief.  
If Law and Equity produces  
Each Day fresh instance of Abuses,  
'Tis each Defendants usual practice,  
For to disown their Bond their Act is;  
Proceed to Juries when they've packed 'em,  
Find Money paid, or non est factum,  
A Counterfeit Bill of Exchange  
No Man does now admire as strange:  
When for to make the Cheat pass better,  
Post brings advice in feigned letter.  
To those Intrigues who is a Stranger  
That ever heard the name of (12) Granger?  
And all this vouched by witnesses,  
That make a trade of Perjuries,  
And daily are at Change-time found,  
In Temple-Walks, or the Church-round;  
Though Fortune sometimes vilely nicks 'em,  
And in the Wooden-ruff fast sticks 'em.   

Why then are you too delicate  
To share with us the common Fate?  
Why you so great a Favourite,  
That no Mischance on you must light?  
While we predestined Reprobates,  
Are persecuted by the Fates.  
Like Slaves must drudge and carry double,  
Tugging the labouring Oar of Trouble:  
Thy wrongs are scarcely worth regard,  
If with known Villainies compared,  
Th' effects of Rapine, Lust, and Rage,  
Which every day amaze the Age:  
Murder is to each hectoring Blade,  
A gainful, fashionable Trade;  
While Bravoes let themselves to hire,  
As hackney Seconds, to each Squire.  
For drunken Brawls, notorious Misses,  
(13) Gilt makes them Combat like the Swisses.  
Examples of all Crimes appear  
In every (14) Newgate-Calendar:  
Rape, Incest, Murder, Sodomy,  
Theft, Sacrilege, and Burglary;  
Here Papists set the Town on Fire;  
Or else the (15) Monument's a Liar;  
But who will Credit Patience Ward,  
A Knight o'th' Post upon Record?  
Villains the Sacrament receive,  
Only with a Design to thieve;  
And after Service staying late,  
Both watch and pray to steal the Plate.  
Presented as I well remember,  
To bribe the Town, to choose a Member:  
These make no more to strip a Shrine,  
Then Buccaneers beyond the Line;  
A Saint or Demy-God melt down,  
Remorseless as Blood stole the Crown.  
For which and other famous Pranks,  
Some purchase Punishment, some Thanks.   

These are but slight and trivial Crimes,  
Mere Peccadillios of our times,  
Did you your private Wrongs compare  
With Poisoners, Treason, Massacre;  
All which, with far more useful Lessons,  
From Dawn till Night you'll hear at Sessions,  
Consider well men's manners, then  
Say you're ill treated if you can.   

Why should you grumble if you meet  
Fowl play, where every Man's a Cheat?  
Who wonders at a crafty Scot?  
Or Dutchman given to the Pot?  
Who would admire a Black in Guiny?  
Or Church land should produce a Nynny?  
Or Daughter bred by Mother lewd,  
That has the self same Course pursued?  
Or fulsome Bawd with half a Nose,  
Confirm her wheedling Shamms with Oaths?  
All this unto a Man of Sense,  
Being but natural Consequence.   

(18) When Hostil Cranes, with clamours loud,  
In Squadrons make a noisy cloud,  
The Pygmy-land Militia rise  
T' oppose their common Enemies;  
With force united Puny-Nation,  
Join to resist threatening Invasion;  
If from the Body any stray,  
Pickeering Crane sweeps him away,  
And does in gripeing Talons bear,  
The sprawling Warrior through the Air.  
Doubtless so Comical a sight,  
Would with the Novelty delight;  
But in that numerous dwarfish Host,  
Where none's but a foot high at most,  
And such Encounters happen daily,  
None on the accident will rally.   

But shall so base a Perjury,  
Pass unrewarded, and shot-free?  
Shan't Vengeance dog him at the Heel,  
And he divine resentment feel?  
Suppose the Wretch this very hour,  
Wholly consigned into your Power;  
And suffered for his punishment  
The sharpest Pains you could invent;  
Impaled, gashooked, wracked or strappadoed,  
Or on live Coals were Carbonadoed,  
In some unthought of manner dies,  
That Malice yet is to devise;  
All this will not retrieve your loss,  
Or make you richer by a Cross:   

But then Revenge in these Intrigues  
Sweeter than Muskadine and Eggs;  
Is by fond Mortals understood,  
Above all sublunary good:  
So do the Mad cap, harebrained crowed  
Of Dam-me-Boys, roar out aloud,  
Who for a frolic, or but flight  
Occasions, will lug out and fight;  
And when the Brutes are mad or drunk,  
Swagger for nothing, or a Punk;  
Huff, Bully, Bounce Rhodomontadoes,  
And quarrel with their very Shadows.  
Such Practice has been in all Ages,  
Condemned by sober Men and Sages:  
Passions in narrow Compass penned,  
Like winds, will struggle for a vent;  
While Souls enlarged, do seldom find  
Such Storms in their serener mind;  
Who can with ease and scorn surmount,  
All sense of Wrong, and an Affront:  
For so the wise (19) Crysippus thought,  
And (20) Thales mild Example taught:  
(21) Socrates suffered without strife,  
Sworn and trappaned out of his life;  
Undaunted, drank the Poison up,  
Nor wished his Foes might pledge the Cup:  
Wisdom apt Remedies can find,  
To cure each Sickness of the Mind,  
With weeding Errors from the Ground,  
Plants in their Room, what's true and sound:  
Revenge by Nature growing wild,  
By care is rooted out, and killed:  
But if the Soil Indulgence give;  
No Plants of Justice there will live;  
O'er-run, and choked, thrive there no longer,  
Where Reason's weak, Passions grow stronger,  
The certain cause that still we find,  
It domineers in Womankind,  
And leads their easy Minds astray,  
Like Will i'th' Wisp, out of the way;  
Hoodwinked they rove the crooked Path,  
Of Head strong Lust, Pride, Fraud & Wrath,  
Till tired, and torn, with Bush and Bryer,  
In Bogs of Infamy they mire.   

Can you then fond think, because  
Crimes scape the Censure of the Laws,  
They pass unpunished? No: within,  
Conscience afflicts them for their sin;  
While sharper pains their Souls torment,  
Than Judge, or Tyrant can invent:  
No sense of Torture can compare  
With Pangs of Sinner in despair:  
That's sharp, but momentary Grief;  
This knows no End, nor hopes Relief;  
While in their Breasts condemned, they feel,  
And antedate the Pains of Hell.   

A Story just pat to this Case  
I've read, but cannot quote the place,  
Tho in Authentic writ, I'm certain;  
That once upon a time, a Spartan  
Unto whose trust, a friend like you,  
Had left a bag of Coin or two,  
Of which possessed, the Rascal grudges  
To part with's Booty out of's Clutches;  
To be resolved of what he doubted,  
Consults the Oracle about it,  
If he might use Equivocation,  
Or else forswear it on occasion;  
And so might bite his Friend confiding:  
Which made the enraged Priestess chide him,  
And plainly told him from Apollo,  
Due punishment such Crimes should follow.  
Worthy the God was the Prediction  
Which proved a true one, and no Fiction;  
With Thunder of the Sentence stunned,  
He hasts his Purchase to refund:  
Now 'twas not Honesty, but Fright,  
Which made the Knave at last do Right;  
Nor did Compliance save his Bacon,  
That would have Virtues Paths forsaken;  
Himself with his whole Fireside,  
At once for an example died,  
Together with Remote Relations,  
Unto the Third, Fourth Generations.  
If Perjury although but meant;  
Met with so Tragical Event:  
What dreadful Vengeance must impend,  
So base, and treacherous a Friend?   

Whoever but designs a Crime,  
Is guilty, at the self same time,  
Although perhaps he ne'er proceeds  
To ripen his intent to Deeds;  
If the foul Crime he perpetrate,  
Perpetual horrors on him wait;  
Th' Effects of black Despair he feels  
That haunt and dog him at the heels;  
Grief, Sorrow, each unwelcome Guest,  
Take Lodgings in his anxious Breast:  
If to divert his Pangs he try  
Choice Music, Mirth or Company,  
Like Bancoe's Ghost, his ugly Sin,  
To mar his Jollity, stalks-in;  
At Costly Banquet, 'twill not cease  
To haunt, and to disturb his peace;  
And though the chief Guest at the Treat  
He nauseats all, and cannot eat,  
The Morsel chewed he cannot swallow,  
As if his Teeth were clogged with Tallow:  
To rouse him from his Dumps, they try  
A Glass of noble Burgundy;  
That friendly God's a sure relief,  
From every Soul to banish Grief.  
His vitiated Taste (alas!)  
Receives no pleasure from the Glass;  
And at old Hock makes as severe  
A face, as if 'twere Vinegar.   

At night in Bed tosses and turns  
Restless, while watchful Taper burns;  
Or if by chance, slumber allows  
His harassed Limbs a short repose,  
His working fancy represents  
Fresh Argument for discontents  
Dreams he th' abused Temple fees  
And the affronted Deities,  
You his wronged friend before his Eyes,  
Stalking in a Gygantick size,  
Ready upon his Corpse to fieze  
To revenge Theft and Perjuries.  
Bathed in cold Sweats he frighted Shrieks  
At Visions bloodier than (24) King Dick's.  
These are the trembling Cowards start  
At every chance with akeing Heart,  
Look pale and are of Wits bereaven  
To hear th' Artillery of Heaven.  
Not guessing Chance can make so loud  
A Crack, when Winds break through a Cloud,  
And flash, when each the other shocks,  
Like Flint and Steel in Tinderbox:  
The Wretches, in a sad Condition,  
Fancy each Bolt brings its (25) Commission,  
From Heaven's avenging Arm being sent,  
And aimed at them for punishment;  
Which if they scape, than they believe  
That respit's, but a short reprieve  
From an inevitable Doom,  
That with surprise will surely come;  
If Pulse uneven restless night,  
With Symptoms of a Fever fright,  
They think the dreadful Summon's come  
To hurry 'em to eternal Doom;  
To Heaven they dare not send a Prayer,  
Lest they wake fleeping Vengeance there;  
And to their own destruction raise  
Anger, they know not to appease.  
Sin's of unconstant fickle Nature,  
Varying its Object, shape and Matter;  
To start fresh Game is always ranging:  
Like Proteus makes no end of changing;  
Chameleon Trimmer shifting dye,  
By turns, wears every Livery.  
Set the Door open to one Sin  
All sorts of Crimes will straight rush in;  
Decoyed to swallow by the Devil  
Quickly distinguish Good from Evil;  
Fruits of Apostasy we find  
Too soon in the debauched mind;  
And though perhaps, sometimes within  
Pangs of Remorse are felt for Sin;  
When with like appetite we burn,  
To our old haunts again, return;  
Nature and Custom draws us in,  
For who can bond or stint his Sin?  
Reproofs, are Arguments for laughter,  
To those have eat Shame, and drank after;  
Grown resolute, like Man of Mettle,  
They burnish face with brazen Kettle.  
For Men, in the Career of Vice,  
Like those that slide upon the Ice,  
Can't on the sudden stop, but run  
Pushed by their Passions Headlong on;  
Nor on the Precipice can stay,  
For Hell is down hill all the way:  
Who ever yet made stop at Sin,  
When with Success, his hand is in?  
A lucky Entrance makes him flush,  
And at all Games his Fortune push,  
Till he the Gentle Habit get,  
Of Vice, and dance into the Net,  
With Irons cramped in Dungeon close,  
The (26) Devil brings him his old shoes:  
There jilting Fortune will deceive him,  
Feigned Friends, the World and Pleasure leave him;  
Then lying pensive and forlorn,  
Exposed to Miseries and Scorn,  
Must in base humble suppliant fashion,  
The favour beg of Transportation.  
Or to teach others useful Lesson,  
Must to the Gallows make procession,  
Where the poor Wretch, on sad Triangle,  
A public Spectacle shall dangle,  
Doubtless so long a wished for sight,  
Cannot but ravish with delight;  
And then at last with joyful mind  
You'll own, Heaven's neither deaf nor blind.    


(a) EXEMPLO. Vel facinore, cujus malum exemplum nocet, alios peccare docens.  Exemplo quodcunque malo committitur, ipsi  
Displicet ductori, prima est baec ultio, quod se  
Judice, nemo nooens absolvitur. 
(b) IMPROBA. Quamvia gratia, fallacis & corrupti Praetoris, vel Judicis, Urnam, & Judicium, (i. e.) jus, & equitatem, viceric, & superaverit: Qua nocentes saepissime absolvuntur.  Improba quamvis  
Gratia fallacis praetoris vicerit urnam.  

(a) QUID SENTIRE. Secundum argumentum, quod omnes factum islud tanquam sceleratissimum damnent, & detestentur.  Quid sentire put a omnes, Calvine, recenti  
De scelere, & fidei violatae crimine? Sed 
(b) SED NEC. Tertium argumentum quod Calvinus satis dive●, & in re adeo tenui natus non sit, ut levi● jactur●, decem nimirum H. S. quae valent 250 Anglicanas Coronas aut circiter, obruat illum, & ad desperationem adigat.  nec  
Tam tenuis census tibi contigit, ut mediocris  
Jacturae te mergat onus: Nec 
(c) NEC RARA. Quarta consolatio, ab exemplis aliorum, quod hujusmodi damnum non ipse solus expertus sit, sed quod idem multi alii perpessi sunt.  rara videmus  
Quae pateris: casus multis hic cognitus, & jam  
Tritus, & è medio fortunae ductus acervo.  
Ponamus nimios gemitus, flagrantior 
(a) FLAGRANTIOR. Vehementior.  aequo  
Non debet dolor esse 
(b) VIRI. Prudentis, magnanimi.  viri, nec vulnere major.  
Tu quamvis levium minimam, exiguamque malorum  
Particulam vix ferre potes, spumantibus 
(c) SPUMANTIBUS. Aestuantibus visceribus, quasi bili, ira &c fervore spument.  ardens  
Visceribus, sacrum tibi quod non reddat amicus  
Depositum, stupet 
(d) STUPET HAEC. Objurgat admirationem Calvini cum interrogatione. An Calvinus qui Fonteio Consule natus est, & jam Sexaginta annos vixit, haec & corsin●lia, quae passim & ubique sunt, cum stupore deminatur?  haec, qui jam post terga reliquit.  
Sexaginoa annos Fonteio consule Natus?  

(a) AN NIHIL. Profecisti artevitae humanae, tot rerum usu, & tanta aetate.  An nihil in melius tot rerum proficis usu?  
Magna quidem, sacris quae dat praecepta 
(b) LIBELLIS. Ethici docentes Philosophiam, moralem humanitatem & sapientiam, exultare fortunae, & valida esse contra omnia adversa fortunae tela.  libellis,  
Victrix fortunae sapientia. 
(c) DUCIMUS. Id est, illos etiam merito felices & sapientes dicimus, qui sine libris Philosophorum, per vitae humanae usum & experientiam, omnia vitae incommoda ferre didicerunt, & necessitatis jugo non reluctari.  Ducimus autem  
Hos quoque felices, qui ferre incommoda vitae,  
Nec jactare jugum vitâ didicere Magistra.  
Quae 
(d) FESTA DIES. Id est quae dies adeo sacra & festa est quae non prodat furem, aut manifestat aliquod sceleraturn fecinus cujusedam furis vel perfidi, aut nummos gladio vel veneno in pixide parata partos.  tam festa dies, quae cesset prodere furem,  
Perfidiam, fraudes, atque omni ex crimine lucrum  
Quaesitum; & gladio 
(a) GLADIO. Notat latrones & sicarios.  p●rtos, & 
(b) PIXIDE. Intelligit, venificas & venenum in pixide clausum & paratum.  Pixide nummos?  
Rari 
(c) RARI. Dicit, autem vix in tota urbe Roma septem bonos inveniri, alludens ad Graeciae sapientes, qui numero septem fuerunt.  quippe boni numero vix sunt totidem, quot  
Thebarum 
(d) THEBAE. In Boeotia septem portae fuerunt.  portae, vel 
(e) NILI. Septem ostia.  divitis 
(f) DIVITIS. Nam inundans agros Aegypti sao limo feraces & fertiles reddie.  ostia Nili.  
Nunc 
(a) NUNC AETAS. Id est, nunc aguntur à nobis pejora saecula &c deterioria quam fuit ferreum, quorum sceleri & vitio ipsa Natura nullum nomen invenit, nec metallum adeo vile habeat, ut pravitatem hujus saeculi torrupti satis apte possit exprimere. Quemadmodum priora saecula ab auro, argento, etc. denominata fuerunt.  aetas agitur, pejoraque saecula ferri  
Temporibus, quorum sceleri non invenit ipsa  
Nomen, & à nullo posuit natura metallo.  
Nos 
(b) NOS. Inepti sceleraturn facinus videntes clamore implorare deorum atque hominum fidem incipimus, tanquam novum & inusitatum aliquod spectantes, cum hujusmodi crimina passim & ubique obvia habeamus.  hominum divumque fidem clamore ciemus.  
Quanto Fessidium 
(c) FESSIDIUM. Ostendic clyentes habuisse conductos, qui eum causas agentem alta voce collaudarent, non causidicis solum, verum & Poetis usitatum.  laudat vocalis agentem  
Sportula, die senior 
(d) DIC SENIOR. Acriter objurgat & vexat Calvinum, qui tot annos vixerit, & sui saeculi mores non dedicerit, ideoque dignus habitu puerili, cum animum puerilem habet.  bulla 
(e) BULLA. Fuit insigne puerorum ingenuorum quod è collo ad pectus porrigibatur, habens figuram cordis, ut quidam arbitrantur: alii Priapi.  dignissime, nescis  
Quas 
(f) NESCIS QUAS. Id est, nescis in quantis delitiis sit aliens pecunia per fraudem occupata.  habeat Veneres aliena pecunia?—  
Quem tua simplicitas risum vulgo moveat, cum  
Exigis 
(a) EXIGIS. Fidem & pietatem ab illo, qui Deum non credit, nec ultorem fore perjurii, & ob id stolida tua simplicitas merito irridetur.  à quoquam ne pejeret, & putet ullis  
Esse aliquod numen Templis, aereque rubenti?  
Quondam hoc indiginae 
(b) INDIGINAE. Latini ab origines antiquissimi Italiae populi, ex nullo parente, ex nulla patria orti, quasi indegeniti, vivebant hoc more (i. e.) simpliciter.  vivebant more,—  

(a) PRIUSQUAM. Imperante adhuc Saturno, quo aureum saeculum fuit, cum Satur●us nondum à filio love regno esset pulsus, qui profugus a Creta in Iraliam pervenis, ibi que a Jano lio spitio exceptus est. — priusquam  
Sumeret agrestem posito diademate falcem  
Saturnus fugiens, tunc cum virguncula 
(b) JUNO. Nondum adulta, & Jovi fratri suo nupta.  Juno,  
Et privatus adhuc Idaeis 
(c) JUPITER. Cum Jupiter nondum Rex esset, sed privatus in Idaeis antris à Rhea matre abscondebatur, ne à patre Saturno devoraretur.  Jupiter antris.  
Nulla super nubes convivia coelicolarum,  
Nec 
(d) PUER ILIACUS. Ganymedes Filius Trois Regis Ilii nondum in Coelum raptus Cinoedus & Pincerna Jovis.  puer Iliacus, formosa nec Herculis 
(e) UXOR. Heben juventutis Deam intelligit, quae ante Ganymedem Jovi Cyaethos ministrabat, crat filia Junonis qu●● postea in Coelum recepts Herculi nupsit.  uxor,  
Ad Cyathos, & jam siccato nectare tergens  
Brachia 
(f) VOLCANUS. Cum non esser Volcanus deorum faber.  Volcanus Lyparaea nigra taberna.  
Prandebat sibi quisquis Deus, nec turba deorum  
Talis, ut est hodie, contentaque sidera paucis  
Numinibus, miserum urgebant 
(a) ATLANTA. Quia fingunt Atlanta coelum sustinere.  Atlanta minori  
Pondere: nondum aliquis sortitus triste 
(b) PROFUNDI. Nepunum intelligit quimari imperat.  profundi  
Imperium,—  
— Aut Sicula torvus cum conjuge 
(a) PLUTON. Cum nondum esser Pluto deus ille inferni immitis horrendusque cum conjuge Proserpina, Ceteris, filia in Aerna Sie●●●e monte rupià.  Pluton,  
Nec 
(b) NEC RO●A. Que action 〈…〉 volume & Jutions to 〈◊〉 inferece  Rota, nec 
(c) NEC FURIAE. 〈…〉 sce●●●●●, Allecto, Tisiphona & Megaera, quae variis cruciatibus nocentes persequuntur.  furiae, nec 
(d) NEC SAXUM. Sisyphi ob furta & fraudes.  saxum, aut 
(e) VULTURIS. Qui jecur Tytii lancinat, co quod Latonam de stupro sollicitâsset.  vulturis atri  
Poena, sed infernis 
(f) HILARES. Sui jutis laetae sine Plutone, sine Judicibus, viz. Aeaco, Rhadamantho, Triptolemo.  bilares sine regibus umbrae.  
Improbitas illo fuit admirabilis aevo.  
Credebant hoc grands nefas, & morte piandum,  
Si juvenis vetulo non assurrexerat, & si  
Barbato cuicunque puer, licet ipse videret  
Plura domi fraga, & majores 
(g) GLANDIS ACERVOS. Priscorum censim.  glandis acervos.  
Tam venerabile erat praecedere quatuor annis,  
Primaque par adeo sacrae lanugo senectae.  
Nunc si depositum non inficietur amicus,  
Si reddat veterem cum tota aerugine 
(a) FOLLEM. Cruinenam & sa●●ilum è corio ●●nquam follem.  follem,  
Prodigiosa fides, & 
(b) THUSCIS. Quae digna sit cum reliquis portentis & prodigiis, ob inusitatam novitatem scriptis Aruspicum Thuscorum inserari.  Thuscis digna libellis,  
Quaeque coronata lustrari debeat agna.  

(a) EGREGIUM. Innuit ulterius virum integrum & inculpatum, Romae monstro biformi &c prodigioso partim esse similem.  Egregium, sanctumque virum si cerno, 
(b) BIMEMBRI PUERO. Veluri si puer natus esset semibos, ut Minotaurus; vel semiequus, ut Centauri.  bimembri  
Hoc monstrum puero, vel mirandis sub aratro  
Piscibus inventis; & foetae comparo 
(c) MULAE. Gravidae & praegnantis, quia mulae nunquam concipiunt. Ratio est qui● mula gignitu● & constat ex animalibus specie differentibus, viz. Equo & Asina.  mulae?  
Sollicitus tanquam lapides effuderit imber,  
Examenque apium longa consederet uva  
Culmine delubri, tanquam in mare fluxerit amnis  
Gurgitibus miris, & lactis vortice torrens.  
Intercepta decem quereris sestertia fraude  
Sacrilega. Quid si bis centum perdidit alter  
Hoc arcana modo? majo●em tertius illa  
Summam, quam patulae caperet vix angulus arcae?  
Tam 
(a) TAM FACILE. Egregia haec sententia notat, homines pronos & proclives esse ad fallendum, deos qui omnia vident ut testes facile contemnentes, modo homines ignorent.  facile & pronum est superos contemnere testes,  
Si mortalis idem nemo sciet. 
(b) ADSPICE. Accurate & graphice depingit talium hominum constantem malitiam, audaciam & impudentiam, qui alta voce, & constantia ficti & simulati vultûs, audacter & pertinaciter pejerare audent.  Adspice quanta  
Voce neget, & quae sit ficti constantia vultus!  
Per solis radios, Tarpeiaque fulmina jurat,  
Et Martis frameam, & Cirrhaei spicula vatis:  
Per calamos venutricis pharetramque puellae,  
Perque tuum pater Aegei Neptune tridentem:  
Addit & Herculeos arcus, hastamque Minervae,  
Quidquid habent telorum armamentaria coeli.  
Si vero & pater est, comedam, inquit, flebile nati  
Sinciput elixi, Pharioque madentis aceto.  

(a) SUNT. Impii homines omnia casu, nihil autem providentia dei fieri censeant, (juxta Epicurum qui deum & providentiam sustulit.) ignorantes, naturam, fatum, fortunam, casum esse ejusdam dei nomina; quae falsa & impia opinio, causa est tantorum scelerum & perjuriorum.  Sunt in fortunae qui cafibus omnia ponunt,  
Et nullo credunt mundum Rectore moveri,  

(a) NATURA. Quasi natura bruta & irrationalis sit causa rerum naturalium; & omnium rerum vicissitudinem, ortum, & interirum producat. Cum tamen vere loquendo Natura nihil aliud est quam Deus.  Natura volvente 
(b) VICES. Diei, anni, temporum, motuum.  vices, & lucis, & anni,  
Atque ideo 
(c) INTREPIDI. Sine ullo metu & timore pejerant.  intrepidi quaecunqne 
(d) ALTARIA. Nam v●tres a●●●●ngentes solebant in templis conceptis verbi● jurare.  altaria tangunt.  
Est alius, metuens ne crimen poena sequatur:  
Hic putat esse Dees, & pejerat, atque ita secum:  
Decernat quodcunque volet de corpore nostro  

(a) ISIS. Haec Dea cum Harpocrate corporibus morbos immittere credebatur.  Isis, & 
(b) IRATO. Infenso & infesto.  irato 
(c) FERIAT. Oculis me privet, & coecum reddat.  feriat w●en lumina 
(d) SISTRO. Instrumentum aereum vel etiam aureum & argenteum, quo in sacris Isidis arguto strepitu resonabant, Isi● enim, sistrum gerebat in dextra manu. Anglice a Tymbrel.  sistro●.  
Dummodo vel coecus teneam quos abnego nummos.  
Et phthisis, & vomicae putres, & dimidium crus  
Sunt 
(a) TANTI. Judicand● scilicet & estimanda: Innuit enim longe satius aegrotare cum divitiis quam sanum esse & p●uperem.  tanti? 
(b) PAUPER LADAS. Licet velocissimus cursor, non dubiter optare locupletem podagram; si non eget helleboro ex insula Anticyra proveniente; nec nobilissimo aliquo medico, qualis fuit Archiginal.  Pauper locupletem optare podagram  
Nec dubitat Ladas, si non eget Anticyra, nec  
Archigine. Quid enim velocis gloria plantae  

(c) PRAESTAT. Id est, inanis gloria & corona ex ramo olen victoribus data, nihil prosunt pauperi & esurienti cursoti.  Praestat, & esuriens Piseae ramus olivae?  

(a) UT SIT. Verba sunt perjuri cum concessione conjuncta, (l. e.) licet Dei ira sit vehemens & gravis, tamen consolatur me quòd lenta & tarda sit; interea nos genio & voluptati indulgebimus.  Ut sit magna, tamen certe lenta ira deorum est.  
Si curant igitur cunctos punire nocentes,  

(b) QUANDO. Post longum tempus ad me veniat, ridiculè cogitans deum more hominum per temporum intervalls agere.  Quando ad me venient? Sed & exorabile numen  
Fortasse experiar: solet his ignoscere.—  

(a) MULTI. Homines cadem scelera saepe committupt, sed diversa sorte, eventu & successu.  Multi  
Committunt cadem diverso crimina faro:  

(b) ILLE CRUCEM. Supplicium crucis, furcae, vel mortis atrocis pretium& mercedem sceleris tulit.  Ille crucem sceleris pretium tulit, hic 
(c) HIC DIADEMA. Coronam, laudes & honores.  diadema.  

(d) SIC. Id est, talibus & similibus consolationibus se in scelere adversus poenam impii confirmant.  Sic animum dirae trepidans formidine culpae  
Confirmant,—  

(a) TUNC TE. Id est, postquam animum ita obfirmavit, ultro te ad aram cum alacritate praecedit, & ibi se jummen●o purget. — Tunc te ad delubra voeantem  
Praecedit, 
(b) TRAHERE. Immo vero cunctanrem te trahit, & fi ire recuse●, tibi molestus est, & interim coram alii● te ludibrio babet.  trahere immo ultra, ac vexare paratus.  

(a) NAM. Id est, ubi cum mala causa seeleratiff●ni homlrtis saepe audacia conjungitur, illa audacia apod multos speciem innocenti●e & integrit obsence, putant enim tan●●m aud●●m & sid●●am ex recta conseremia prosi●●sci.  Nam cum magna malae superest audacia causae,  
Creditur à multis fiducia. 
(b) MIMUM. Pe●ju●us 〈…〉 calumniatur, non secus ut dominum suum vexat servus ille fugitivus & confidens, quem mimus repres●●at in fabu●● mimographi Catulli urbani & faceti.  Mimum agit ille,  
Urbani qualem fugitivus scurra Catulli.  

(c) TU MISER. Tu innocens à perjuro vexatus deo inclamas voce Stentorea.  Tu miser exclamas, ut 
(d) STENTORA. Hic in exercitu Graecorum ad Trojam, tantam vocis altitudinem habuit ut solus clamaret quantum alii quinquaginta. Hinc prover bium, Stentore clamofior.  Stentora vincere possis,  
Vel potius quantum 
(e) GRADIVUS. Mars, apud eundem Homerum à Diomede vulneratus, exclamavit quantum decem mill'a virorum.  Gradivus Homericus:—  

(a) JUPITER HAEC. Jovem ipsum ut socordem increpat, qui videt, & audit tam manifesta perjuria, & non punit; & hominum stuporem arguit qui simulacris aeneis & marmoceis numen inesse aliquod sibi persuaserunt.  Jupiter haec? nec labra moves, cum mittere vocem  
Debueras, vel marmoreus, vel aheneus? 
(b) AUTCUR. Id est, siperjuris non vis punire, & nos non audire, non etiam dignus es cui sacrificemur.  Aut cur  
In carbone tuo chartâ pia thura solutâ  
Ponimus, & sectum vituli jecur albaque porci  
Omenta?  
— Vt video, nullum discrimen habendum est  
Effigies inter vestras, statuamque 
(a) VAGELLI. Hominis stolidissimi.  Vagelli.  
Accipe quae contra valeat solatia ferre,  
Et qui nec 
(b) CYNICI. Duplici pallio, STOICI. fimplici utebantur, caeteturn in doctrina ni●il erat discriminis.  Cymicos, nec Stoica dogmata legit  
A Cynicis tunica distantia;—  
— Non 
(a) NON EPICURUM. Epicurum non admicatin, quisummum bonum in volupeate & tranquillirate ponit, fuit tamen Epicurus (teste Seneca) sobrius admodum parvo horto & oleribus contentus.  Epicurum  
Suspicit exigui 
(b) LAETUM. Non sine voluptate contentum.  laetum 
(c) PLANTARIBUS. Olusculis.  plantaribus horti.  

(d) CURENTUR. Aflicti gravibus aerumnis, gravem poscunt Philosophum, qui consoletur & cuter.  Curentur dubii medicis majoribus agri:  

(e) TU. cujus damnum levis est non ita gravi consolatori opus habe●.  Tu venam vel 
(f) DISCIPULO. Medico mediocri.  discipulo committe Philippi.  
Si nullum interris 
(g) TAM Quam ejus qui ae fefellit.  tam detestabile factum  
Ostendis, taceo, nec pugnis cedere pectus  
Te veto, nec plana faciem contundere palma:  
Quandoquidem accepto 
(h) CLAUDENDA EST JANUA. Irridet eo● qui juxta Proverbium equo amisso stabulum clauduat.  claudenda est janua damno,  
Et majore domus gemitu, majore tumultu  
Planguntur nummi, quam funera. Nemo dolorent  
Fingit in hoc 
(a) IN HOC CASU. In amission● bonorum.  casu, vestem 
(b) DIDUCERE. Dil●cerare.  diducere summam  
Contentus, 
(c) VEXARE. Lachrymis misere 〈◊〉 rendo oculos vix viexpressis.  vexare oculos, humore coacto.  
Ploratur lachrymis amissa pecunia veris.  
Sed si cuncta vides simili for a plena querela,  
Si 
(a) SI DECIES. Si ●●sitatissimum Romae est, ut instrumenta obligatoria ceratis tabulis inscripta vel decies legantur obsignenturque, suam tamen chirographam debitores negant se unquam scripsisse, & dicunt adulterinam vanam & supervacuam esse.  decies lectis diversa parte tabellis  
Vana supervacui dicunt chirographa ligni,  
Arguit ipsorum quos littera, gemmaque princeps  

(b) SARDONICHUM. Sigilium in gemma preciosa soulp●●●.  Sardonychum, loculis quae custoditur eburnis:  
Tenunc delicias 
(a) EXTRA-Comminem & vulgarem sortem.  extra communia censes  
Ponendum, quia tu 
(b) TU GALLINAE FILIUS ALBAE. Proverbium in illos qui aliquid peculiare esse volunt: vel sibi videantur egregii & super alios feliciter nati.  gallinae filius albae,  

(c) NOS VILES. In allegoria persererat. Tu singularis & nobilis communem hominum sortem detrectas, quam nos è vili turba nullius pretii homunculi sustincre cog●mur.  Nos vile pulli nati infelicibus ovis.  
Rem pateris modicam, & mediocri bile ferendam,  
Si flectas oculos majora ad crimina: confer  
Conductum 
(a) LATRONEM. Sicarium ad occidendum conductum notat.  latronem,  

(a) INCENDIA. O●●m sulfure nunc pulvere ●●rmentario facta.  Incendia sulfure coepta  
Atque dolo, primos cum janua colligit ignes:  

(b) CONFER. Compara spoliationem templorum cum dene●●tion● depositi tui.  Confer & hos verteris qui rollunt grandia templi  
Pocula adorandae rubiginis, & populorum  
Dona, vel antiquo posit as à Rege coronas.  
Haec ibi si non sunt, minor extat sacrilegus, qui  
Radat inaurati femur Herculis, & faciem ipsam  
Neptuni, qui bracteolam de Castore ducat.  
An dubitat solitus totum conflare 
(a) TONANTEM. Jovis Statuam.  Tonantem?  
Confer & 
(b) ARTIFICES. Veneficos qui venennum parant.  artifices, 
(c) MERCATOREMQUE. Venditorem simul & emptorem.  mercatoremque veneni;  
Et 
(d) DEDUCENDUM. Parricidam intelligit includendum cull●o, cum gallo, cane, fimia, & serpente.  deducendum corio bovis in mare, cum quo  
Clauditur adversis innoxia 
(e) SIMIA. Innoxia adversis fatis, in sociam poenam destinat●, cum ●●ps● non occiderit parentem.  sinia fatis.  
Haec 
(a) QUOTA. Minima s●ilicet.  quota pars scelerum, quae 
(b) CUSTOS. Rutillium Gallicum intelligit qui sub Domitiano praefectus fuit Rome & Custos urbis.  custos Gallicus urbis  
Vsque à Lucifero, donec lux occidat, audit?  
Humani generis mores tibi nosse volenti  
Sufficit una 
(b) UNA DOMUS. Illius Rutillii.  domus, paucos consume dies, et  
Dicere te miserum, postquam illinc veneris, 
(c) AUDE. Si potes juste.  aude.  

(d) QUIS TUMIDUM. Quis ea quae vulgo accidunt, & quae quotidiana, & quasi è loci natura sunt, miranda putet; Romae videre omnes scelere profligatos, non magis mirum est quam in Alpibus omnes strumosos vitio aquae quam ibi potant, tanquam mammosas in Meroe Aegypti civitate: Germanos cum Or coerulis oculis & flava caesarie.  Quis tumidum guttur miratur in Alpibus? aut quis  
It Meroe crasso majorem infante mamillam?  
Coerula quis stupuit Germani lumina? flavam  
Caesariem, & madido torquentem cornua cirro?  
Nempe quod hic illis 
(a) NATURA. Uthaec illis Natura & more, ita & nobis Romanis. ●●elera.  Natura est omnibus una.  
Ad subitas Thracum volucres, nubemque sonoram  
Pygmaeus parvis currit bellat or in armis:  
Mox impar hosti, raptusque per aëra curvis  
Vnguibus à saeva fertur grue, si videas hoc  
Gentibus in Nostris, risu quatiere;—  
— sed illic,  
Quanquam eadem assidue spectentur praelia, ridet  
Nemo, ubi tot a cohors pede non est altior uno.  

(a) NULLANE. Objectio; Ita ne ille perjurus impune evader?  Nullane perjuri capitis fraudisque nefandae  
Poena erit?—  
— 
(a) ABREPTUM. Puta majoribus poenis afficitur, quam animus tuus exposcit, quid tibi prodest, nec damnum ex hac re refarciari potest.  Abreptum crede hunc graviore catena  
Protinus, & nostro (quòd plus velit ira?) necari  
Arbitrio; manet illa tamen jactura, nec unquam  
Depositum tibi sospes erit, sed corpore trunco  
Invidiosa dabit minimus solatia sanguis.  

(b) AT VINDICTA. Per objectionem, id est vindicta quae in oculos incur●it, vel per carnificem vel per nosmet ipsos gratissima est.  At vindicta bonum vita jucundius ipsa.  

(a) NEMPE. Respondet Poeta ad objectionem; & dicit homines stultos, indoctos, imperitos, rudes, & imbecilles, iracundos esse, & vindictae cupides, etiam ob nullas causas irascentes, non viros sapientes.  Nempe hoc indocti, 
(b) QUORUM. Cor s●●pe praeterrem, ob nullam causam vel nullius momenti, videas incandescere, & ira flagrari.  quorum praecordia nullis  
Interdum, aut levibus videas flagrantia causis,  
Quantulacunque adeo est occasio, sufficit irae.  
Crysippus non dicit idem, nec mite Thaletis  
Ingenium, dulcique senex 
(a) VICINUS HYMETTO. Socrates.  vicinus Hymetto,  
Qui partem acceptae saeva inter vincla cicutae  
Accusatori nollet dare.—  
— plurima felix  
Paulatim vitia, atque errores exuit omnes,  
Prima docens rectum 
(a) SAPIENTIA. Philosophia mor●lis, quae imprimis irae & reliquis affectibus froema inji●i; & vindictam docet obedire, & morigerare, docens otiam quod justum & Naturae conveniens est.  sapientia: quippe minuti  
Semper, & infirmi est animi, exiguique voluptas  
Vltio, continuo sic 
(b) COLLIGE. Argue, conclude, mulieres sunt Vindictae cupidissimae, at mulieres sunt infirmi animi, Ergo etc. Quo enim minor est animus, eo affectibus magis percellitur & superatur.  collige, Quod vindictae  
Nemo magis gaudet, quam foemina—  
— 
(a) CUR TAMEN. Probat jam sequentibus neminem sceleratorum imp●●●●tem habere.  Curio tamen hos tu  
Evasisse putes, 
(b) QUOS. Certe illi impune non evaserunt, qui suam poenam, & vindictam, semper comitem habent.  quos diri conscia facti  
Mens habet attonitos, & 
(c) SURDO. (i. e.) tacito & latenti tormento, quod animum & interiora affligit, quod nominant occultum flagellum; hae sunt furiae illae infernales, quibus Oreftes, Alcmeon & alii fuerunt agitati.  surdo verbere caedit  
Occultum quatiente animo tortore flagellum?  
Poena autem vehemens, & multo saevior illis,  
Quas & 
(d) CAEDITIUS. Index illius temporis apud Vitellium crudelissimus; qui semper graviotibus suppliciis delectabatur.  Caeditius gravis invenit, & 
(e) RHADAMANTUS. Inferorum index justissimus, & maxime severus Jovis & Europae filius, Rex Lyciae.  Rhadamantus.  

(a) NOCTE. Conscientiam Testem quae nunquam cessat accusare & reum convincere, & de illo supplicium sumere. Quo nulla poer●, nullus cruciatus, gravior & truculentior excogitari potest, quam est ipsa revera poena infernalis.  Nocte, dieque suum gestare in pectore testem:  

(b) SPARTANO, etc. Glauco per hanc historiam oftendit, fieri non posse, ut qui depo●●●um abnegarit poenam effugiat. Hanc histociam recitat Herodotus Lib. 60.  Spartano cuidam respondit 
(c) PYTHIA VATES. Apollinis sacerdos fatidica, qui Pythius dictu●, à Serpente Pythone o●cis●●.  Pythia vates:  

(a) HAUD. Illam malam mentem & quod deum tentaret.  Haud impunitum quondam foret, quod dubitaret  

(b) DEPOSITUM. Fidci commissum non reddere.  Depositum retinere, & fraudem 
(c) JURE. (i. e.) suum scelus ac dolum Jure jurando tueri, ac conformare vel palliare, & excusare.  jure tueri  
Jurando: 
(d) QUAEREBAT explorabat & tentabat ec quid etiam deus hanc frandem esset approbaturus.  quaerebat enim quae numinis esset  
Mens, & an hoc illi facinus suaderet Apollo.  
Reddidit ergo 
(a) METU. Poenarum quai Ora●lum minitabatur.  metu, 
(b) NON MORIBUS. Non amore virtutis & Justitiae, quia timuit, non quia sponte voluit.  non moribus, & tamen omnem  

(c) VOCEM. Oraculi veram esse ostendit.  Vocem 
(d) ADITI. Vatis ex adito (i.e.) loco Templi intimo & ab al●●s inaccesso.  aditi dignam templo, veramque probavit:  
Extinctus tota pariter cum prole, domoque,  
Et quamvis longo deductis gente propinquis.  
Has partitur poenas peccandi sola 
(a) VOLUNTAS. Si in Spartano voluntas sola peccandi, (facto non commisso) tem severe puniatur, quanto magis sceleratum factum sui perfidi amici puniendum sit?  voluntas.  

(b) NAM SCELUS. Egregia sententia cum sacris literis conspirans; (i. e.) qui apud se cogitavit & deliberavit scelus committere, reus est aequè arque si cogitatum feelus perpetrasset.  Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum  

(c) FACTI. apud deum revera qui animum respicit, scelera & mala facta, non ex se, vel per se, adeo mala sunt, quam quod ex malo animo profisciscuntur.  Facti crimen habet, 
(d) CEDO. Concedo quanto magis si sceleratus, suas impias meditationes in actum produxit punietur.  cedo si conata peregit?  

(e) PERPETUA ANXIETAS. Ostendit Conscientiam illius qui crimen admisit, continua, & pe●petua tormenta persentire.  Perpetua anxietas,—  
— nec Mensae tempore cessa●t  
Faucibus ut morbo siccis, interque molares  
Difficili cresente cibo.—  
— Sed vina miselhis  
Expuit, Albani veteris pretiosa senectus  
Displicet. Ostendas melius, densissima ruga  
Cogitur in frontem, 
(a) VELUT. Non'secus ao si acetum ex falerno vino acerrimum bibisset.  velut acri ducta Falerno.  

(b) NOCTE (i. est) si sollicitudo cor urens ex mala Conscientia, postquam diu multumque in lecto versavit, brevem somnum quod rectum non est vel saltem rarissimum, ipsi indulsit, paulo post Conscientiâ exitatus rursus evigilat.  Nocte brevem si forte indulsit cur a soporem,  
Et toto versata toro jam membra quiescunt,  
Continuo templum, & violati numinis aras,  
Et quòd praeciquis mentem sudoribus urget,  
Te videt in somnis: tua sacra, & major imago  
Humanâ turbat pavidum, cogitque 
(a) FATERI. Se scelus summum admisisse, & summa etiam poena dignum esse.  fateri:  
Hi 
(b) HI SUNT. Mali semper pevidi sant, & timent quoties fulgura audiunt, quae-à Jove irato mitti gutant sceleratis puniendis.  sunt qui trepidant & ad omnia fulgura pallent,  
Cum tonat, exanimes primo quoque murmure coeli,  
Non quasi 
(a) FORTUITU. Casuex opinione Epicuri.  fortuitu, 
(b) NEC VENTORUM RABIE. Cum illi violenter inter se confligunt, Physici scribunt, quod ex collisione ventorum & nubium, non secus ut lapidum ignis eliciatur.  nec ventorum rabie, sed  

(c) IRATUS. Sceleribus hominum tanquam vindex eorundem.  Iratus cadat in terras, & 
(d) ET JUDICET. Alii vindicet, ut supplicium de sceleratis sumat.  judicet ignis.  

(e) ILLANIHIL. Tempestas praeterita nihil nocuit, proxima quae sequitur sollicitudine majori timetur; hujus exemplum habuimus in Caligula.  Illa nihil nocuit, curae graviore timetur  
Proxima tempestas: velut hoe dilata sereno.  

(a) PRAETEREA. Praeterea si in Pleuritida incidant, cujus calor somnum adimit, censent illum vindictae loco à deo immissum.  Praeterea lateris vigili cum febre dolorem  
Si coepere pati, missum ad s●●● corporae morbum  
Infesto credunt à Numine: Saxa deorum  
Haec, & rela putant: Pecudem spondere Sacello  

(b) BALANTEM. Pro sanitate recupetanda Ovem vel Agnum offer on audent.  Balantem, & laribus 
(c) CRISTAM. Gallorum diis gratissi●ae ' credebatur' quà Lares, & penates praecipoe plac●ti. Et Gallum ●●sculapio solvebat, qui convaluerat.  cristam promitters Galli  
Non audent. Quid enim 
(d) SPERARE. Nocentes aegri miserri●●i sunt, quibu●spes negata●●●, quae omnibus hominibus relicta credebatur.  sperare nocentibus aegris  
Concessum? vel quae non dignior 
(e) HOSTIA. Quae hostia adeo vilis est, quae pro sceleratorum vita mactari debeat, quae potius vivere debeat, quam homines impii & scelerati.  hostia vitae?  
Mobilis, & varia est firme naturae malorum.  

(a) CUM. ●●d perp●●●●●d●● sc●●us venerins, in calem ●●●●stamis perstant, abundat in illi● cons●●●●nem.  Cum scelus admittunt superest constantia: quod fas,  
Atque nefas; tandem incipiunt sentire peractis  
Criminibus. 
(b) TAMEN. Sibi sceleris ma●e ●o●iscie ●●fipi●èse Volunt, non ra●●●● abstinere n●q●ui●●●, ad vicis pro●●i● d●icedine ●●m 〈◊〉 con●●●●●●ine capti & p●●pediti.  Tamen ad mores naturae recurrit  
Damnatos, fixa & mutari nescia: Nam quis  
Peccandi finem posuit sibi?—  
— 
(a) QUANDO Ille 〈◊〉 perfidus qui semes vercum●●● 〈…〉 li●●tes praeter●● 〈…〉 recipiet, queim ●●met de per●●●●●●●on●e dejecit.  Quando recepit,  
Ejectum semel attrirae de snome rubor●●●?  

(b) QUISNAM. Qui● est 〈◊〉 qui semel cum per●●●e●●● 〈◊〉 non hoc fromeiter de●●derat 〈◊〉 sum vitlum deficit 〈…〉.  Quisnam hominibus est, quem tu 〈◊〉 videris ●●●●slagitio?—  
— 
(a) DABIT Pedibus vincietur olim 〈◊〉 signbitur qui te perside decepit.  Dabit in laqueum vestigia noster  
Perfidus, & nigri patietur carceris 
(b) UNCUM. (i. e) in renebricoso carcere unco ferreo constringetur; vel potius sub unco carnificis ad s●alas Gemonias.  uncum.  

(c) AUT. In insulum eju● Maris ex●io deportabitur, intelligit Gyaram 〈◊〉 Cyc●●lus.  Aut Maris Aegaei rupem, scopulosque fraequentes  
Exulibus magnis.—  
— 
(a) POENA. Crudeli et 〈◊〉 quam sceletatus dabit.  Poena gamies is amarae  
Numinis invist, 
(b) TANDENQUEL. La●●●eris perjorum sui pe●cati deum plenrem semisse.  tandemque Iute●ere ●eth,  
Nec 
(c) NEC SURDUM. Qui●●on an●liat peri●ria hominum, & preces oppre●●ore●● via 〈…〉 ●●i●ina●● 〈…〉.  surdum, nec 
(d) NEC TIRESIAM. Nec 〈…〉 Tire●●●●.  Tiresiam quemquam esse deorum.   
FINIS.   

ANNOTATIONS.  
(1) SHeriff. Our Author observes, That Offenders often escape the Censure of the Laws, by corrupting the Prator or Judge, and swaying his Urn or Judgement, which I have been bold to change into a more Modem way of Corruption, by bribeing Sheriffs and packing Juries, a very parallel Practice. But for the better explanation of our Author, I have thought it convenient, to say something here of the Manner of the Roman Trials at Law. The Praetor sat as Judge or Precedent of the Court, to whom by the drawing of Lots was added a certain Number of Assistants, who were upon their Oaths to give a true Judgement or Verdict: Which after the hearing the Cause they signified by casting certain Balls or Tables of Wax into the Prator's Urn; who collecting their Votes according to the majority pronounced the Opinion or Sentence of the Court, as the Lord High Steward does among our Peers. If the Majority of the Votes were marked with the letter A. the Defendant was Acquitted, if with C. he was Condemned: If with N. L. (i. e.) N●● Lia●et, it betokened they were not satisfied with the fullness of the Proof. And then the Cause was deferred to a further hearing, which many Turns in the transacting the Business by the Praetor, might give opportunity for a Bribe to slip in upon occasion.  
(2) Past Ages. The common Copies of our Author in this place have it, Nona aetas. To make out which the Commentators have been put upon several Fancies and Shiffs, of which Number Lubin seems the plainest, affirming, That the Poet reckons here not after the Roman, but the Grecian manner; The Greeks counting eight Ages viz. Gold, Silver, Electrum (or a mixture of Gold and Silver) Brass, Copper, Led, Tin and Iron, and so by consequence the Age worse than Iron, must be the Ninth; in which reckoning, he is forced to strain hard to make the Metals reach to eight, making the Iron which, is the fourth in the Roman, the eight in the Grecian account, which is very liable to suspicion, since it is apparent in our Authors, 6th. satire Verse the 24th. our Author counting the Ages by the Metals, makes no such distance between the Silver and the Iron Age, saying, Omne alind crimen Mox ferrea protulit Aetas. where the word Mox implies the Iron was not long after the Silver Age. And therefore I have followed Nunc aetas, according to the Roman account. Page 7th.  
(3) Saturn. Here our Poet takes an occasion to lash out into a large description of the Golden Age, for the largeness of which Digression, he has been censured, and might well have deserved it, if he had had no other design in it, than a bare description. But his satiric Vein lays hold on so fair an occasion, to rally and deride the folly of the Roman Theology, and multiplicity of Deities, and to expose their Vanity to the derision of sevener Judgements; the wiser Heads, even in those Dark Times, concluding it most absurd to imagine there could be more or other than one immense and incomprehensible Being. Our Author says the World lived simply and honestly in the Golden Age, before Saturn was expelled from his Kingdom of Co●et, and forced to fly into Italy, where he was kindly received and harboured by Janus. Page 8th.  
(4) Juno. Before Juno was grown into her Teens, and Married to her Brother Jupiter. Page 9th.  
(5) Jove. When Jupiter skulked in the Caves of Mount Ida, where he was concealed by his Mother from his Father Saturn, who had bound himself by Contract with his elder Brother Titan, to devour all his Male Children. That after him Titan or his Children might inherit their Birthright in the Kingdom. Page 9th.  
(6) No handsome Boy. Before Ganymede was perferr'd to be Page and something else to Jupiter, and to fill Nectar in the place of Hebe. Page 9th.  
(7) Or Wench. Hebe the Goddess of Youth and Daughter of Juno, she was removed from her Office of filling Nectar for the Gods, to make room for Ganymede Son to the King of Troy, which made Juno have a perfect Aversion for that City, and to plague Aeneas in his Travails, she was married to Hercules after his deification. Page 9th.  
(8) Vulcan. Before Vulcan was made the Smith of Heaven, and kept his Forge in the Island of Lypary, whence coming all besmeared with Smoke, they made Smug wash, before he was admitted to the Table. Page 9th.  
(9) Atlas. A high Mountain in Mauritania, whose Top is invisible, being obscured with Clouds, and covered with constant Snow, which made the ignorant Inhabitants conjecture the Mountain propped up Heaven. And might give occasion to the Poets to fancy the Heavens were supported by a Giant of that Name, who might well be sensible, and sink under the oppression of so many new created Godheads. Page 10th.  
(10) Ocean and Hell. When Jupiter with the help of his Brothers, Neptune and Pluto, had deposed their old Father Saturn, they divided the Dominion amongst them in this manner. Jupiter obtained Heaven for the Seat of his Government, Neptune ruled the Ocean, and Pluto the Souls in Hell: which fabulous division might fall out real in this manner: Jupiter the eldest had the Crown, Neptune was Admiral, and Pluto High Priest and Chief Justice, governing their Souls and Bodies, with Terrors of Laws and Conscience. Page 10th.  
(11) Gentleman. Captain Vrats his Opinion in the Case, doubtless of great consolation at the Gallows. Page 20th.  
(12) Graunger. A Person very notorious for his prodigious Science and dexterity in Counterfeiting all manner of Hands and Writing, who being at last detected, performed the Exercises usual in those Cases, and through the Pillory over-saw several Markets according to his Sentence in the Court of King's Bench, where he lately died.  
(13) Gelt. The Germane Word for Money, often and clamorously repeated by the Mercenary Swissers when they mutiny for Pay; to which demand, if they have not present satisfaction, they have often in the face of their Enemy thrown down their Arms, rather chooseing to expose their Lives to the Enemy, than fight for ill Paymasters. Page 30.  
(14) Newgate Calendar. The Judges at the Old Bayly and all Assizes, have a Calendar or Writing given them wherein the Names and Orimes of every particular Prisoner is set down. Page 31.  
(15) Monument. The Pillar erected by the City of London in Memory of the great and dreadful Fire 1666, whereon Sir Patient Ward in his Majoralty caused an Inscription to be engraven, charging the Fire of London to have been procured by the Contrivance and Treachery of the Papists. Which Inscription has been since expunged by Authority. Page 31.  
(16) Buccaneirs. The Jamaica Rovers or Freebooters so called, famous and terrible in the West, Judges for their many and desperate Exploits, whose Custom is, when they surprise and sack a Town, first to plunder the Church, and then make it a Prison for the Spaniards. Page 32.  
(17) Blood. Famous for his attempt to steal the Crown, and seize the Person of the Duke of Ormond.  
(18) The Pygmy-land. Here our Author to divert his Friend, describes the ridiculous War between the Cranes and the Pigmies, a dwarfish Nation inhabiting the remote Mountains of India, at continual Wars with their Mortal Foes the Cranes, who infest their Country. They make a yearly expedition to the Sea side, armed with Bows and Arrows, and riding on Rams and Goats, about the Spring time, when the Cranes hatch, where they destroy their Eggs and Young ones, least growing too numerous they might overpower them and force them from their Country, as they once drove a Colony of their Nation out of Thrane. Page 34.  
(19) Crysippus. A Stoic of a meek Temper, a subtle Logician. He died laughing. Page 38.  
(20) Thales. One of the Seven wise Men of Greece. Page. 38.  
(21) Socrates. A most excellent Philosopher, of a mild and pleasant Humour, he was falsely accused by Anitus, Lycon and Melitus, for holding some wrong Opinion of the Gods: Being brought before the Judges, and by them asked what in his own Opinion he deserved; He answered, to be maintained at the public Charge, which free Answer so distasted the Bench, That they Condemned him to die by Poison, which he drank without Concern. Page 38.  
(22) Whoever. A worthy Opinion of a Heathen Poet, agreeing with the Principles of Christian in Holy Writ. Page 44.  
(23) Bancoes' Ghost. In the Tragedy of Macbeth, where the coming-in of the Ghost disturbs and interrupts the Entertainment. Page 45.  
(24) Vision Dicks. In the Tragedy of Richard the 3d.  
(25) Commission. A fort of Turkish Opinion held amongst the Seamen, that every Bullet has his Commission to hit the person predestinated, and no other, which stroke of Fate is inevitable.  
(26) The Devil. Alluding to a Fable in Aesop, where the Malefactor in Prison summons his Familiar to his Assistance according to their Contract, the Spirit appearing with a Bundle of old Shoes, which he pretended he had worn out on his Errands; and told him without a Recruit he could not budge one foot further; not quite so treacherous a trick as he served the Conjurer in the Tragedy of the Duke of Guise. Page the last.  
FINIS.