MISCELLANEOUS THOUGHTS. 437 6. " Sic levis umbra virum, sir Paulum, Paulus Jesum. " Sequitur, non assequitur. LXIX. Epigrams. I. In minim maris meridionalis thesauri incrementum, Anno 1720. a, EXORTA e medio jam fortiter aura popello " Spirat in Australes fruetus : Argentea spurns Tollitur in montes ; (mirandum) atque aurea regna " Exurgunt ponto. Circuntfremit unque turba " Mercantum, in coelum aspirans: Summa requora nauta " Certatim scandunt, & se mirantur in astris : " Quisque sibi diadema facit, nam plurimus extat " Crcesus. At infidos, O qui sapis, effuge fluctus, " Nec tumida, credas ( licet auro splendeat) undwe, " Ne repelas miserum per millepersela profundum, " Rex brevis. Hen ! simulac subsiderit aura popelli. " Uncle jaeet ; montes pereunt ; evanida regna ; " Nil suberit spuma nisi fortè marina e vorago." 3. On the wondrous Rise of the South -sea Stock,1740. 'Tis said the citizens have sold Faith, truth and trade, for South -sea gold: 'Tis false ; for those that know can swear " All is not gold that glisters there." 3. Inscribendurn maris Meridionalis Gazophylacio, sive officina. " QUISQUIS es, hic Mira, cui crescere nummulus ardet, " -Cuive crumena gravis nimis est: Hic gaza paratur " Ample magia, sed onustra minus ; centena talents. " Australi videos citò ter triplicata sub undâ ; f0 Quod gravitatis abest numerum supplere videbis, " Hic bulls, fumus, rumor, spec, lana caprina, " Nix wstiva, umbra, phantasmata, somnia, venti. " Prtedia in Utopicis regionibus, aurea spuma, " Aeriwq ; arces venduntur, emuntur in horas. Vel si brevior inaeriptio magia arridit : " Non Dane quod hic micataurum est. April6, 1720. 4. Sabina and her Companions travelling together to see fine Buildings and Gardens. WHILE round the gardens and the groves Your foot, your eye; your fancy roves, With still new forms of pleasure in a warm pursuit, Let every tree yield knowledge too, Safer than that in Eden grew, Where your own mother Eve found poison in the fruit. 5. The same. Go, view the dwellings of the great, The spacious court, the tow'ring seat, The roofs of costly form, the fret -work and the gold ; Mark the bight tap'stry scenes, and say, Will thesemake wrinkled age delay, Alü legendum sellent mortimerina.
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