The Spectator
Chapter 397 : (Dryden). 88. VIRG. Ecl. iii. 16. What will not masters do, when servants thus presume

(Dryden).

88. VIRG. Ecl. iii. 16.

'What will not masters do, when servants thus presume?'

89. PERS. Sat. v. 64.

PERS. From thee both old and young with profit learn The bounds of good and evil to discern.

CORN. Unhappy he, who does this work adjourn, And to to-morrow would the search delay: His lazy morrow will be like to-day.

PERS. But is one day of ease too much to borrow?

CORN. Yes, sure; for yesterday was once to-morrow: That yesterday is gone, and nothing gain'd; And all thy fruitless days will thus be drain'd, For thou hast more to-morrows yet to ask, And wilt be ever to begin thy task; Who, like the hindmost chariot-wheels, are curst, Still to be near, but ne'er to reach the first.

(Dryden).

90. VIRG. Georg. iii. 90.

'In all the rage of impotent desire, They feel a quenchless flame, a fruitless fire.'

91. VIRG. Georg. iii. 244.

'--They rush into the flame; For love is lord of all, and is in all the same.'

(Dryden).

92. HOR. 2 Ep. ii. 61. _Imitated_.

'--What would you have me do, When out of twenty I can please not two?-- One likes the pheasant's wing, and one the leg; The vulgar boil, the learned roast an egg; Hard task, to hit the palate of such guests.'

(Pope).

93. HOR. 1 Od. xi. 6.

'Thy lengthen'd hopes with prudence bound Proportion'd to the flying hour: While thus we talk in careless ease, The envious moments wing their flight; Instant the fleeting pleasure seize, Nor trust to-morrow's doubtful light.'

(Francis).

94. MART. Epig. xxiii. 10.

'The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.'

95. SENECA, Trag.

'Light sorrows loose the tongue, but great enchain.'

(P.)

96. HOR. 2 Sat. vii. 2.

'--The faithful servant, and the true.'

(Creech).

97. VIRG. aen. vi. 436.

'They prodigally threw their lives away.'

98. JUV. Sat. vi. 500.

'So studiously their persons they adorn.'

99. HOR. 1 Sat. vi. 63.

'You know to fix the bounds of right and wrong.'

100. HOR. 1 Sat. v. 44.

'The greatest blessing is a pleasant friend.'

101. HOR. 2 Ep. i. 5. _Imitated_.