As Merchants Gains come fhort of half the Mart,
For he who drives their Bargains, dribs a Part.
The covetous Father now includes the Night,
And Cov'nants, thou shalt teach by Candle-light;
When puffing Smiths, and ev'ry painful,Trade
Of Handycrafts, in peaceful Beds are laid:

Then thou art bound to fmell on either Hand
As many ftinking Lamps, as School-Boys ftand,

Where Horace could not read in his own fully'd Book:
And 38 Virgil's facred Page is all befmear'd with Smoke.
But when thou dun'it their Parents, feldom they
Without a Suit before the 39 Tribune, pay,
And yet hard Laws upon the Mafter lay.
Be fure he knows exactly Grammar-Rules,
And all the best Hiftorians read in Schools;
All Authors, ev'ry Poet to an hair;

That, ask'd the Question, he may scarce despair,
To tell who nurst 4° Anchifes; or to name
Anchemolus's 4 Stepmother, and whence the came:
How long 42 Aceftes liv'd, what Stores of Wine
He gave to the departing Trojan Line.
Bid him befides his daily Pains employ,
To form the tender Manners of the Boy;
And work him, like a waxen Babe, with Art,
To perfect Symmetry in ev'ry Part:

38 Virgil, Surnam'd Maro ; the Favourite Poet of Auguftus Cafar.

39 Tribune, Here is meant Tribunus Ærarius, who took Cognizance only of Caufes of lefs Moment, not the Tribunus Plebis, as Britannicus imagin'd.

40 Anchifes was Father of

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Eneas, the Trojan, who was the Founder of Remi.

41 Anchemolus, the Son of Rhatus, a King in Italy, ravilh'd his Stepmother Caf peria.

42 A King of Sicily; who kindly entertain'd Aneas in his Voyage.

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To be his better Parent, to beware

No young Obscenities his Strength impair,
No mutual Filth; to mark his Hands and Eyes,
Distorted with unnatural Ecftafies:

This be thy Task; and yet for all thy Pains,
At the Year's End expect no greater Gains,
Than what 43 a Fencer, at a Prize, obtains.

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43 The People were us'd at their Sword-plays, to gather Money for the Conqueror,

JUVENAL.

THE

EIGHTH SATYR.

By Mr. G. STEP NT of Trinity-College in Cambridge.

The ARGUMENT

In this Satyr, the Poet proves that Nobility does not confift in Statues and Pedigrees, but in Honourable and Good Actions: He lashes Rubellius Plancus, for being Infolent, by reafon of bis High Birth; and lays down an Inftance that we ought to make the like Judgment of Men, as we do of Horfes, who are valu'd rather according to their Perfonal Qualities, than by the Race of whence they come. He advifes bis Noble Friend Ponticus (to whom he Dedicates the Satyr) to lead a virtuous Life, dif fwading him from Debauchery, Luxury, Oppref Lion Cruelty, and other Vices, by his fevere Cenfures on Lateranus,, Damafippus, Gracchus, Ne

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