i The SAME ODE Imitated. By Mr. SAMUEL SAY. DAnaë, inclos'd in Towers of Brafs, If fove and Venus had not mock'd Vain Brafs! transform'd to Gold,' When Gold appears, the Guards retire, With fuch refiftlefs Power. Subjects their Kings, and Priefts their Gods," Touch'd by thy ftronger Force, tow'rds Thee And Virtue are no more. 1 Care follows clofe, where Gold precedes : Soft Slumbers blefs the Night. With Cæfar all the World; to fhare To Wealth and Power; he fears the Helm • What we deny ourselves, juft Heaven Glad Fugitive- he longs to reach O decent Pride! O truly Lord Heap'd in the crowded Barn, could make A filver Stream, a filent Grove, Still faithful to its Lord: A Life Steals through the World, with Joys unknown And fcepter'd Kings unknown! Though no proud Palace loads the Ground, Moves flow in State; nor coftly Wines Yet fair CONTENT my Cottage chears; Though fragrant Fields, or spreading Lawns, Pleas'd with his Load, fometimes my Pad Happy! who knows himself, and knows 1720. NOTE. A fmall Collection of Poems, with two Critical Effays in Profe, viz the first on the Harmony, Variety, and Power of Numbers, whether in Profe or Verfe; the fecond on the Numbers of PARADISE LOST; written by the learned learned Author of this Ode, appeared in the Year 1745, in a fmall Volume in 4to. Thefe Effays have been much admired by fome Perfons of Taite and Judgment. But as this Book was only printed by Subfcription among the little Circle of his Friends and Acquaintance, it has fallen into few Hands. This Ode may be produced as an Inftance, that Rhime is not wanting, where Verfe is written with Eafe and Elegance. Care follows clofe, where Gold precedes, &c.] This Sentiment is ftrongly enforced and expanded by a modern Claffic. 'When the Defire of Wealth takes hold ' of the Mind, let us look round, and fee how it operates upon thofe, whofe Industry or Fortune has obtained it. When we find them oppreffed with their own Abundance, luxurious without Pleasure, idle without Eafe, impatient and querulous in themselves, and despised, or hated, by the reft of Mankind, we fhall foon be convinced, that if the real Wants of t' is Condition are fatisfied, there remains little to be fought with Sollicitude, or defired with Ardour. The RAMBLER, No. 58. 2 This Horace faw, &c.] This alludes to Horace's declining the Flace of Secretary of State, which was offered him by Auguftus. ODE XVII. To ELIUS LAMIA. By Mr. DUNCOMBE, Sen. ELIUS, whofe noble 2 Lineage springs From a long Race of ancient Kings, (From Him the Lamia's Blood roll'd down, Who greatly fill'd the Formian Throne, F 3 Where Where the flow Streams of Liris rove Bleak Storms, and spread with Weeds the Shore; With this and Wine thy Genius chear, NOTES. This is the fame Lamia mentioned in the 26th Ode of the first Book, and in the 4th Epifle. 2 Horace follows Homer, who, in the roth Book of the Odyffey, fpeaks of Lamus, as King of the Leftrigons. No one contemns the Honour of a Defcent from a long Race of worthy Ancestors, but fuch as have no Pretenfion to that Honour themselves. The Pride of Ancestry, and the Defire of continuing " our Lineage, when they tend to an Incitement of vir'tuous and noble Actions, are undoubtedly laudable.' The CONNOISSEUR, NO. 102. 3 Quando et priores hine Lamias ferunt Denominatos; et nepotum Per memores genus omne faftos, Auctore ab illo ducis originem, &c.] Daniel Heinfius reads ducit instead of ducis; and obferves, that genus is the Nominative Cafe. Bentley has put the Juftnefs of this Correction paft Difpute; he shows alfo, that the Parenthefis must be placed after Tyrannus. Sanadon ftrikes out thefe four Lines, and joins the first Verle with the fifth. He offers feveral plaufible Reasons for this Correction; but as he does not pretend to have the |