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Crown'd with the Freedom of a fmgle life,, 

 He flies domeftic din, litigious ftrife ; 

 Abhors the noify haunts of buftling trade, 675 

 And fteals ferene to folitude and fhade ; 

 There calmly feated in his village bower, 

 He gives to nobleft themes the ftudious hour, 

 While Genius, Practice, Contemplation join 

 To warm his foul with energy divine : 680 



For paltry gold let pining Mifers figh, 

 His foul invokes a nobler Deity ; 

 Smit with the glorious Avarice of Fame, 

 He claims no lefs than an immortal name : 



& curis, in coelibe libera vita, 

 Seceflus procul a turba, ftrepituque remotos r 

 Villarum, rurifque beata filentia quasrit : 480 



Namque recolledo r tota incumbente Minerva, 

 Ingenio, rerum fpecies praefentior extat; 

 Commodiufque operis compagem ampledlitur omnem. 



Infami tibi non potior fit avara peculi 



Cura, aurique fames, modica quam forte beato, 485 



Nominis aeterni, & laudis pruritus habends, 

 Condignse pulchrorum operum mercedis in asvum, 



