Meantime, it lies in dawb, and hid in grease;
Those are the husband's nights ; she naves her dni^
He takes fat kisses and is stuck with glue.
But to the lov'd adulterer when she steers.
Fresh from the bath, in brightness she appeaitt
For him the rich Aiabia sweats her gum ;
And precious oils from distant Indies come ;
How haggardly soe'cr she looks at home.
Th' eclipse then vanishes ; and all her ftwe
Is opened, and restor'd to every grace,
The crust remov'd, her cheeks as smooth as wiXkf
Are pol.sh'd with a wash of asses' milk ;
And should she to the farthest north be sent,
A train of these attend her banishment
But hadst thou seen her plaister'd op t»efbrey
'Twas so unlike a face, it seem'd a sore.

'Tis worth our while, to know what all the day
They do, and how they pas.s their time away;
For, if oVr-ni«ht the husband has been slack.
Or counterfeited sleep, and tnm'd his back,
Next day, be sure, the servants go to wrac'k.
The chamber-maid and dresser are call'd wbom;
The page is stript, and beaten out of doors.
The whole house suffers for the master's crime;
And he himself is warn'd, to wake another time.

She hires tormentors by the year, she treats
Her visitors, and talks ; but still she beats
Heats while she paints her face, surveys her gown,
Casts up the day's account, and still beats on :
Tir'd out. at l< ng^h, with an outrageous tone.
She bids them in the devil's name be gone.
Compar'd with such a proud, insulting dame,
Sicilian tyrants may renounce their name.
For, if she hastes abroad to take the air.
Or goes to Isis' church (the bawdy-house of jwayw)
She hurries all her handmaids to the tafk ;
Her head alone, will twenty dresstrs ask.
Ps^cas, the chief, with breast and shoulders bar^
Trembling, considers every sacred hair ;
If any straggler from his rank be found,
A pinch must, for the mortal sin, conipoond.
Psecas is not in fault : but. in the glass,'
The dame's ofleuded at her own ill face.
The maid is banish'd ; and another girl,
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The Tett are stMitnonM on • point so nice ;
▲nri first, the grave oH woman gives adrice.
The next U callM, and so the turn goes round.
As «ach for age, or wisdom^ is renownM :
Such eoonsel, such deliberate care, they take,
As if her lilb and honour lay at stalce :
With curls oa curls, they build her head before.
And mount it with a fvrmidable tower.
A giantess she seems ; but look behind.
And then she dwindles to the pi^my kind.
Duck-legged, short- waisted, such a dwarf she is,
That she must rise on tip-toes for a kiss.
Meanwhile, her husband's whole estate is spent 1
Hf may go h^re, while she receives his tent,
^e minds him not ; she lives not as a wife.
But, like a bowling neighbour, full of strife:
Near him, in this alone, that she extends
Her hate to all his servants and his friends.

Bellona's pri *st8, an eunuch at their he^.
About the streets a mai procession lead ;
The vent rable g' iding, large and high.
Overlooks the herd of his inferior fry.
His awkward clergymen about him prance ;
And beat the timbrels to their mystic dance :
Meanwhile, his cheeks the mitred prophet sveUs,
And dire presages of the year foretels.
Unless with eggs (his priestly hire) they haste
To expiate, and avert tb* autumnal blast
And add beside a^mnrrey-oolour'd vest,
Which, in their places, may receive the pest :
And, thrown into the 6ood, their crimes may bear,
To purge th* unlucky omens of the year.
Th' astonished matrons pay, before the rest;
That sex is still obnoxious to the priest

Thro' you they beat and plunge into the stream,
If so the god has wanM them in a dream..
Weak in their Ihnbs, but in devotion strong.
On their bare hands and feet they oawl along .
A whole field's length, the laughter of the thsong.
Should lo (Io*6 priest 1 me^n) command
A pilgrimage to iM^cro's burning sand,
Through deserts they would seek the secret spring ;
A holy water for lustration bring.
How can they pay their priests too nrach respect.
Who trade with Heaven, and eartMy gains neglect !
With him, domestic gods discourse by night r
By day. attended by his choir in white.
The bald-pate tribe runs madding thro' the street.
And smile to see with how much ease they eheat
The ghostly sire forgives the wife's elelightir,
Who sins, through firailty, on forbidden n'ghts.
And tempts her husbani in th<; holy time.
When carnal pleasure is a mortal crime.
The sweating image shakes his head, but he,
With mumtiled prayers, atones the detty^
The pioos priesthood the fat goose receive,
And they once brib'd, the godhead must forgive.

No sooner these remove, but, full of (bar,
A ^psy Jewess whispers in your ear,
And begs an alms : an high priest's daughter she,
Vers'd in their Talmnd, and divinity, '

And prophvsies licneath a shady tree.
Her «oods a basket, nd old hay her beH,
Hhe strolls, and telling fortunes gains her bread :
Farthings, and some small monies, are her fees ;
Yet she interprets all yo'ir dreams for these.
Foretels th' estate, when the rich uncle dies,-
And sees a sweet-heart in the sacrifice.
Such toys, a pig'^on'f entrails can disclose ;
Which yet th^ Ameaiatt augurtar oatgoss>:



In dogs, a- victim more obscene, he rakes ;
And murder'd infants for inspection takes:
For gain, his impious practice he pursues ;
For gain, will bis accomplices accuse.

More credit, yet, is to Chaldeans given ;
What they foretel, is deem'd the voice of Heaven;
Their answers, as firom Hammon's altar, come {
Since now the Delphian oracles are dumb,
And mankind , ignoi*ant of future fate.
Believes what fond astrologers relate.

Of these the most in vogue is he who, seal
Beyond seas, is return'd from banishment.
His art who to aspiring Otho sold ;
And sure succession to the crown foretold* '

For his esteem 4b in his exile placed ;
The more beKev'd, the more he was disgrac'db
No astroiogic wizard honour gains,
Who has not oft been banish'd, or in chains.
He gets renown, who, to the halter near,
But narrowly escapes, and buys it dear.

From him your wife inquires the planets' wlll^
When the black jaundice shall her mother kilh
Her sister's and her uncle's end, would know :
But, first, consults his art, when yon shall go.
And, what's the greatest gift that Heaven can give.
If, after her, th' adulterer shall live. '
She neither knows, nor cares to know, the rcst|
If Mars and Saturn shall the world infest ;
Or Jove and Venus, with their firiendly rays.
Will interpose, and bring us better days.

Beware the woman too, and shun her sight.
Who in these studies does herself delight.
By whom a grea^ almanac is borne.
With often han<lling, likechafd amber worn x
Not now consulting^, but consulted, she
Of the twelve houses, and their lords, is ftee/
She, if the scheme a Iktal journey show,
StajTS safe at home, but lets her husband go^
If but a mile she travel out of town.
The pla'ietary hour must first be known,
And lucky moment ; if her eye but akes
Or itches, its decumbiture she takes.
No nourishment receives in her disease,
But what the stars and Ptolemy shall please.
The middle sort, who have not much tO' spare,.
To chiromancers' cheaper art repair.
Who clap the pretty palm, to make'the lines morof

fair.
But rich the matron, who has more to give.
Her answers from the Brachman will receive:
Skill'd in the globe and sphere, he gravely stands,
And, with his compass, measures seas and landib

'The poorest of the sex have still an itch
To know their fortunes, equal to the rich.
The dairy-maid inqnires, if she shall take
The trusty taylor, and the cook forsake.

Yet these, tho' poor, the pain of childbirth bear|>
And, without nurses, their own infants rear:
Yon seldom hear of the rich mantle, spread
For the babe, bom in the great lady's bed.
Such is the power of herbi> ; such afts they use
To make them barren, or their fruit to lose.
But thou, whatever slops she will have bon^ht,
Re thankful and supply the deadly draught!
Help her to make man -slaughter { let her breed,
And never want for savin at her nee^.
For, if she holds till her nine months be run.
Thou may'st be fether to an .V^hiop's son*
A boy, who, ready ^tien to thy hands,
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One of tbat'huey'that, shoidd iie cross the way.
His omen "would duiculour all the day. ^
- 1 paag tht! foundling by, a race waknomn,
At doors expos'd, whom matrons ooake their own :
And into noble families advance
A juundesB issue, the blind wovk of chance.
Indu^ent Fortune does her case employ,
And, smiling, broods upon .the nake<l boy :
Her §rarment spreads, and laps him in the fold,
And covers, with her wings, from .nightly cold :
Givesiiim her blessing ; puts him in a way ;
Sets up the farce, and laob^hs at her own play*
Him she proinutes; she fivours him alone.
And makes provision for him, as her own.

The craving wife the force of magic tries.
And philtres for tb' unable husband buys :
The potion works not on the part designed ;
But turns his jbrains, and stopifies his mind.
The sotted jnoon-calf gapes, and staring on.
Sees his own business by another done :
A long oblivion, a benumbing frost.
Constrains bis head ; and yesterday is lost :
Some nimbler juice would make him foam and rave,
like that Caesonia to her Caius gave :
Who, plucking firom the forehead of the fole
His mother's love, infos'd it in the bowl :
The boiling blood ran hissing in his veins,
Till the mad vapour mounted to his brains.
The thunderer was not half so muah on fire^
When Juno^s girdle kindled hisdebire.
What woman will not use the poisoning trade,
When Caosar's wife the precedent has made ?
Let Agrippina's mushroom be forgot,
Giv'n to a slavering, old, unuseful sot ;
That only clos'd the driveling dotard's eyet,
And sent. his godhead downward to the skies.
But this fierce potion calls for fire and sword ;
Nor spares the common, when it strikes the lord.
So many mischiefs were in one combined ;
So much one single poisoner cost maiikmd.

If strpdames seek their sons-in-law to kill,
'Tis venial trespass ; let them have their will :
But let the child, entrusted to the care
Of his own mother, of her bread beware :
Beware the food she reaches with her hand ;
The morsel is intended for thy land.
,Tbe tutor be thy taster, ere thou eat ;
There's poison in thy drink, and in thy meat.

You think this feign'd ; the Satire in a rage
Struts in the buskins of the tragi<'. stage.
Forgets his business is to laugh and bite :
And will of deaths and dire revenges write.
Would it were all a fable, that you read ;
But Drymon's wife pleads guilty to tlie deed.
" 1," she confesses, ** in the fact was caught.
Two soub dispatching at one deadly draught."
" What two ! two sons, thou viper, in one day !*'
** Yes, seven," 8he cries, ** if seven were in n»y
Medea's legend is no more a lye ; [way !"

One age adds credit to antiquity.
Gteat ills, wc grant, in former times did reign.
And murders then were done t but not for gain.
Less admiration to great crithes is due.
Which they thro' wrath, or thro' revenge, pursue.
For, weak of reason, impotent of will,
The sex is hurry'd bca<llun^ into ill :
And, like a cliff from its foundation torn.
By raging earthquakct>, into seas is borne,
^ut those are fiends, who crimes from thought
And, cool in mischief, meditate the tin. [begin ;



They read th' example of a pfO«s wili.
Redeeming, with her own, her husbaod't life j -
Vet, 4f the laws did Uiat exchange afibrd.
Would save their lapdog sooner than 4helr lor^

Wherever 3k>u walk, the Belidcs jkmi moet|
And Clytemnestras grow in every stsieet :
Hut here's the difierence : Asaa^ennon's wife
Was a gross butcher with a bloody knife ;
But murder, xiow, is to perfection grown.
And subtke poisons areeoiploy'd alone:
Unless some antidote prevents their arts,
And linos with babam <^ll the nohier parts s
In 8uch a case, reserved for such a 4ieed«
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TBB AtCUMCKT.

The poet's design, in this divine satire, is to fvpre>
sent the various wishes and desires of manUiid i
and to set out tbefolly of them. He runs tbmogb
al> the several heads of ricbes, honoors, ^
quence, fame for martial otdhiervenaents, k»g
life, and beauty ; and gives instances, hi eack,
how frequently they have proved the roin «
those that oerned them. He conchides, then-
fore, that since we genendly ohoose so ill fer
oursftves, we should ^ better to leave it to the
gods, to make the choioe for ns. AH we caa
safely ask of Heaven, lies within a very sntU
compass. It is but health of body and mind.
And if we have these, it is not inocb ttatter
what we want besides; for we bave sIk^*^
enough to make as happy.



Look round the habitable world, bow iem
Know their own good ; or, knowing it, pursiie«
How void of reason are our hopes and fea» 1
What in the conduct of our life appears
So well design'd, so luckily begun,
But, when we have our wish, we wish undone }

Whole houses, of their whole desires poMPt.
Are often ruin'd, at their own request.
In wars, and peace, things hortful we require.
When made obnoxious to our own desire.

With laurels some have fatally been crowo'd;
Some, who the depths of eloquence have fouad.
In that unnavigable stream were drown 'd.

'llie brawny fool, who did his vigour boail;
In that presuming confidence was lost:
But more have been by avarice opprest.
And heaps of money crowded in tbe cheat :
Unwieldy sums of wealth, which higher mount
Than files of marshalPd figures can account
1 o which the stores of Croesus, in tbe scale.
Would look like little dolphins, when they saH
In the vast shadow of the British wbale.

For this, in Nero's arbitrary time.
When virtue was a guilt, and wealth a criae,
A troop of cut-throat guards were sent to isias
The rich mens' goods, and gut their paiaoes:
Ihe mob, commission'd by tbe govenuDfOl,
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Tht femrfbl pail tt i gBi, Who tmrtSit hite,
CbBVg'4 with the carriage of a paltry plate.
Shakes at the mooothmc shadow of a futh ;
And sees a tei^-cott f^ from every buth:
The beggar lii^s, ev*n-when he sees the plac9
Beset with'thietes, and nerer mends his pace.

Of alllhe TOWS, the Ik^ and «hief request
OTeach, is to be richer than the test :
And yet no donbts the poor man's draught control,
He dreads no poison in his homely bowl.
Then fear the deadly drug, when gems dhrhia
Enchase the oop, and sparMe in tht wine.

Will yon not now the pair of sages praise,
Who the same end pursu'd, by sereral ways }
One pity*d, one confeemnM, tiie woeful times :
One kughM at folltes, one lamented crimes ;
Laughter is easy ; but the wonder lies,
What atote of 4>rine sapplyM the weaper*s eyts»
Demecritos cosM feed his spleen, and riiAe
His sides and sbonlders till he fbK them a^e^
Thou|^ hi his country town no lietors were,
Kor Vads, nor ax, nor tribune did appear x
Kor all the foppish gravity of ihow,
Which cunning ma g is trat es on crowds bestow.

What had he done, had he bdheld, on high.
Our pretor seated, in mock majesty ;
His chsiriot rolling o'er tiie dusty -phica,
•While, with dumb pride, and a set formal 6ce,
fie mores in the dull ceremonial track.
With Jore% embroidered coat upon his back t
A suit of hangings had not more opprest
His shoulders, than that ]oag, laborious rest :
A beaTy gawgaw (caU<d a crown) that spread
Abont his temito, drownM his narrow head :
And would have erushM it with the massy fret^t, ;
But that a sweating slave suitain'd the we%ht :
A slave in the samechariot^aeeo to ride.
To mortify the mighty 'madman^ pride.
4lnd now th' imperial eagle, raised on hi^
^P^th golden beak (the mark of majesty)
Trumpets before, and on the left and right,
A cavalcade of nobles, all In white :
In thehr own natures ihlse and flatta^g-tribes.
But made his friends, by places aivl by bribes.

In hts own age, Bemocritus could 'find
Sufieient cause to Ungfa at human kind :
Learn fvom so great a wit ; a land of bogs
With ditcfaeafenc'd, a heaven madeiht with firogs,
Kily form a spirit fit to sway the state;
And make the ndghbouiing monarchs fear their

He laughs at all the tulgar caresand fears;
At their vain triumphs, and their vainer tears:
An eqnal temper in his mind he found,
'When fortune «att6r>d hhn, and when she firown'd.
nia plain, from hence, thht what our vows request,
Are hurtfhl things, or useless at the'best

Some ask for env/d power ; which public hate '
Pmrtnca, and harries headlong to their fate :
Down go the titles ; and the statue crown*d,
Is by base hands in the next rfver dniwn'd.
The guiltless bosses, and the chariot wheel.
The same eflecti of vulgar fury feel 3
The smith prepares his hammer for the stroke,
While the lunj^d bellows hissing fire provoke ;
fiijanus, alaaest first of Roman names,
The great Sejanus crackles in the flames t
P6nn'd in the forge, the pKant brass is laid
Bn anvils ; and of head and Ihnbs are made,
fun, cans, aadjpiiB-|K>Cs^ a irhola latdten trade*



Adorn 3rour doors irfth laur€% ; tnd afnfll,
Milkwhite, and large, lead to the Capitol ;
Sejanus, wHh a rope, is dragg'd afong ;
The sport and laughter of the giddy thiong !
" Good Lord,*» they cry, "what EOiiop lips he ha^
How^fbul a snout, and whata hanging foce !
By Heaven, I never could endure bis sight ;
But say, hcnv came his monstrous crimes to light f
What is the charge, and who ttie evidence,
(The saviour of the nation and the prince ?)**
" Nothing of this ; but our old Cbsar seift
A noisy letter to bis pariiament :**
'* Nay, sirs, if Cssarwrit, I aiik no more,
He*s guilty, and the question's out of door. **
How goes the mob ? (for tbat»s a mif^y thing J
When the king 's trump, the mob are for the king s
Tbey'ibllow fbrtnne, and the conraion cry
Is still against the rogue condemn*d to die.

But the smile veiy mob, that rascal crowd.
Had cry'd Sejanus, with a shoat as loud ;
Had his designs (by fortune's fkvour blest)
Succeeded, and the prince^ age opprest [foce.
But long, long smce, the times have dmng'd their
The -people grown degenerate and base :
Not suffered now the freedom df 'th^r choice.
To make their magistrates, and sell their voice*
Our wise forefathers, great by sea and land.
Had once the power and absoiutecommand ;
Ail oAces of trust, themselves disposed ;
RaisM whom they pleased, and whom they pleas^

deposed I
But we, ' who give Otir native righti away.
And our enslaved posterity betray.
Are now reduc'd to beg an alms, and go
On holidays to see a puppet^how. [doubt x

** There was a damnM design,'* cries one, '" vi
For warrants are already issueicl out ;
I met Brutidiits in a mortal fHght ;
He'stdipt for certain, and plays leiist in sight :
I fear the rage of our offended prince.
Who thinks the senate slack m his defence t
Come let us haste, our loyal seal to show,
And spurn the wretched corps of Casar's foe :
But let our daves be present there, lest they
Accuse their masters, and for gain betray.*'
Such were the wh i spei s of those jealous times.
About Sejanus* punishment and crimes. [fate

Now tell me truly, would'st thou change thj
To be, like him, first minister of state ?
To have thy levees crowded with resort.
Of a depending, gaping, servile court :
Dtspoae all honours of the sword and gown,
Grace with a nod, and ruin with a firown :
To hold thy prince in pupilage, and sway
That monarch, whom the mastered worid obey?
While be, intent on secret lust alone,
Lives to himsdf, abandoning the throne ;
Cbop*d in a narrow isle, observing dreams
Withflattering^ wizards, and erecting schemes!

I well believe, thou wouldst be groat as he ;
For every man's a fbol to that de g ree ;
All wish the dire prerogative to kill ;
Ev'o they would have the power, who want tlif

will:
But wouldst thou have thy wishes understood.
To take the bad together with the good,
Would'st thou not rather choose a small renown.
To be the mayor of some poor paltry town,
Bigly to look, and barbarously to speak ;
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In every wish, and knew not bov tD pr^y :
For he wbo grasp*d the workl*t exbaiiitad ttoc*
Yet oever hiid enough, but wifth*d for more,
Rait'd a top •heavy tower, of moaatrous height,
tVhich, mouldering, cruih'd him undcmeatb the
Whatdid the mighty Pompejr'sCUJ beget? [weight
U niin'd him, wb», gnsater than the great.
The stubborn pride of Roman nobles broke ;
And bent their haughty necks beneath his yoka :
What else but his inraHxierate hist of power,
Prayers made and granted in a luckless hour ?
For few usurpers to the shades descend
By a dry death, or with a quiet end.

The bi^, who scarce has paid his entrance dawn
To bis proud pedant, or dcxUin^d a noun,
(So small an elf, that when the days are foul.
He and bis aatcliel must be borne to school,)
Vet prays, and hopes, and aims at nothing less.
To prove a Tully, or Demosthenes i
But both these orators, so much reoown'd.
In their own depths of eloquence were dttmn'd :
The hand and head were never lost, of those
Who dealt in doggrel, or who puonM in prose.

" Fortune foretun'd the dying notes of Rome:
Till I, thy consul sole, censoVd thy doom."
His fate had crept below the IKted swords.
Had ail his maUo^ been to murder words.
I rather wouM be Maevius, thrash for rhym^
like hit, the scorn and scandal of the times.
Than that Philippic fatally divine,
Which is inscribed the second, should be mine.
Kor he, the wonder of the Grecian throng.
Who drove them with the titrreot of his tongue.
Who shook the theatres, and sway'd the state
Of Athens, found a more propitious fate.
Whom, bom beneath a boding horoscope,
His sire, the Uear-ey'd Vulcan of a shop.
From Mart's forge, tent to Minerva's schools.
To learn th' unlucky art of wheedling fools.
With itch of honour, and opinion, vain,
All things beyond their native worth we strain :
The spoils of war, brought to Feretrian Jove,
An empty coat tf armour hung above
The conqueror*t chariot, and in triumph borne,
A streamer from a boarded galley torn,
A chap-fall'n heaver loosely banj^ing by
The cloven helm, an arch of victory.
On whose high convex sits a captive foe.
And sighing casts a mournful look below ;
Of every nation, each illustrious name.
Such toys as these have cheated into fame :
Exchattglog solid quiet, to obtain
The windy satisfisction of the brain.

So much the thirst of honour fires the blood :
So many would be great, so few be good.
For who would virtue for herself regai-d,
Or wed, without the portion of reward ?
Yet this mad chase of fame, by few pursu'd.
Has drawn destruction on the nitiltitude :
This avarice of praise in times to come.
Those long inscriptions, crowded on the tomb,
Should some wild ii?-trce take her native bent,
And heave below the gaudy monument.
Would crack the marble titles, and disperse
The characters of all the lying verse.
For sepulchres themselves must crumbling fall
In time's abyfts, the common grave of all.
Great Hannibal within the balance lay ;
And tell how many pounds his asiies weigh;



Whom Afric was n6t aUe to oonliaa.
Whose length runs level with th' Atlantic i
And wearies fhulful Nilus, to convey
His tun beat watert by to long a way ;
Which Ethiopia's double clime divides.
And elephantt in other mountains bidet.
Spain first be won, the p3rrenseanB past.
And steepy Alps, the moundt that nature cast : ^
And with corroding juicet at he went,
A passage through the living rocks he rent.
Then, fike a torrent, rolling from on high.
He pourt his head-long rage on Italy :
in three victorioua battles over-run ;
Yet ttill uneasy, criet, " There't nothing dona,
Till level with the ground their gatet aro laid ;
And Punic flags on Roman towers ditplay'd.''
Ask what a face bekmg'd to his high fame ;
His picture scarcely would deserve a frame :
A sign pott dauber wouM ditdain tQ paiat
The one-ey'd hero on his elephant.
Now what's his end, O charming glory ! ny
What rare fifth act to crown his huffing play }
In one deciding battle overcome.
He flies, it banish'd from bin native home:
Begs refuge in a foreign court, and there
Attends, his mean petition to prefer ;
Repuls'd by surly grooms, wbowait before ^
The sleeping tyrant's interdicted «ioor. [s%a%
What wondrous sorts of death has Heaven de-
Distinguish'd from the herd of human kind.
For so untam'd, so turbulent a mind !