Poetical Works: With a Memoir, volume 5

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Poetical Works: With a Memoir, volume 5
Dryden John
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Yet, thy moist clay is pliant to command ; Unwrought, and easy to the potter's hand : Now take the mould ; now bend thy mind to feel The first sharp motions of the forming wheeL But thou hast land ; a country seat secure By a just title ; costly furniture ; A fuming-pan thy Lares to appease : What need of learning when a man 's at ease ? a If this be not enough to swell thy soul, Then please thy pride, and search the herald's roll, Where thou shalt find thy famous pedigree Drawn from the root o
...f some old Tuscan tree ; And thou, a thousand off, a fool of long degree. 60 Who, clad in purple, canst thy censor greet ; And, loudly, call him cousin in the street.
Such pageantry be to the people shown ; There boast thy horse's trappings, and thy own : I know thee to thy bottom ; from within m Thy shallow centre, to thy outmost skin : Dost thou not blush to live so like a beast, So trim, so dissolute, so loosely drest?
V. 44. A fuming-pan, ^c] Before eating, it was customa- ry to cut off some part of the meat, which was first put into a pan, or little dish; then into the fire; as an offering to the household gods; this they called a libation.


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