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That bears its joys or forrows undifguis'd, 

 May by obfervant Tafte be there furpriz'd. 660 

 Thus, true to Art, and zealous to excel 

 Ponder on Nature's powers, and weigh them well; 

 Explore thro' earth and heaven, thro' fea and ftdes, 

 The accidental graces as they rife; 



of J;*!*y e And while each prefent form the Fancy warms, 665 

 Swift an thy tablets fix its fleeting charms. 



To Temperance all our livelieft Powers we owe, 

 She bids the Judgment wake, the Fancy flow ; 

 For her the Artift fhuns the fuming feaft, 

 The Midnight roar, the Bacchanalian gueft, 670 

 And feeks thofe fofter opiates of the foul, 

 The focial circle, the diluted bowl ; 



Ex fefe faciles, ut inohfervatus, habebis. 

 Nondefin'tpu-^ ox quodcumque mari, terris, & in ae're pulchrum, 



gillares. 



ContigtTit, chartis propera mandare paratis, 

 Dum praefens animo Ipecies tibi fervet hianti. 



Non epulis nimis indulget Pi&ura, meroque 475 



Parcit : Amicorum nifi cum fermone benigno 

 Exhauflam reparet mentem recreata; fed injde 



