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"Tis true, 20 Emelius takes a five fold Fee,

Tho' fome plead better, with more Law than he :
But then he keeps his Coach, fix Flanders Mares
Draw him in State, whenever he

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He fhews his Statue too, where plac'd on high,
The Ginnet underneath him feems to fly;
While with a lifted Spear, in Armour bright,
His aiming Figure meditates a Fight.

With Arts like thefe, rich Matho, when he speaks,
Attacks all Fees, and little Lawyers breaks.
Tongillus, very poor, has yet an Itch

Of gaining Wealth, by feigning to be rich;
Bathes often, and in State, and proudly vain,
Sweeps thro' the Streets with a long dirty Train :
From thence, with Lackeys running by his Side,
High on the Backs of brawny Slaves will ride,
In a long Litter, thro' the Market-place;
And with a Nod the diftant Rabble grace
Clad in a Gown, that glows with Tyrian Dye,
Surveys rich Moveables with curious Eye,
Beats down the Price, and threatens still to buy.
Nor can I wonder at fuch Tricks as thefe:
The purple Garments raife the Lawyer's Fees,
And fell him dearer to the Tool that buys;
High Pomp and State are useful Properties.
The Luxury of Rome will know no End;
For ftill the lefs we have, the more we spend.
Truft Eloquence to fhew our Parts and Breeding!
Not Tully now cou'd get ten Groats by pleading;
Unless the Diamond glitter'd on his Hand:
Wealth's all the Rhet'rick Clients understand:
Without large Equipage, and loud Expence,
The Prince of Orators would fcarce fpeak Senfe.

20 Emelius. A rich Lawyer. 21 Marcus Tullius Cicero,

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Paulus 22, who with Magnificence did plead,
Grew rich, while tatter'd Gallus begg'd his Bread.
Who to poor Bafilus his Cause would truft,
Tho' ne'er fo full of Pity ne'er so just ?
His Clients, unregarded, claim their due ;
For Eloquence in rags was never true.
Go, Wretch, thy Pleadings into 23 Africk send ;
Or France, where Merit never needs a Friend.

But oh, what Stock of Patience wants the Fool,
Who waftes his Time and Breath in teaching School!
To hear the Speeches of declaiming Boys,
Depofing Tyrants with eternal Noife!

Sitting or ftanding, ftill confin'd to roar

In the fame Verfe, the fame Rules o'er and o'er :
What kind the Speech, what Colours, how to purge
Objections, ftate the Cafe, and Reasons urge.
All would learn thefe; but at the Quarter day,
Few Parents will the Pedant's Labour pay.

Pay, Sir! For what? The Scholar knows no more
At fix Months End, than what he knew before:
Taught, or untaught, the Dunce is fill the fame,
Yet ftill the wretched Mafter bears the blame.
Once ev'ry Week poor Hannibal is maul'd;
The Theme is giv'n, and strait the Council's call'd.
Whether he fhould to Rome directly go,
To reap the Fruit of the dire 24 Overthrow;
Or into Quarters put his harrafs'd Men

'Till Spring returns, and takes the Field agen.
The murder'd Mafter cries, Would Parents hear
But half that Stuff which I am bound to bear,
For that Revenge I'll quit the whole Arrear.

22 Paulus, was a rich Lawyer, Bafilus and Gallus were very poor.

23 France and Africa were then famous for great Lawyers, and fat Fees,

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24 The Victory obtained by Hannibal at Canna; after which, if he had immediately attempted Rome, in all Probability he had carried it.

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The fame Complaints moft other Pedants make;
Plead real Causes, and the feign'd forfake :
25 Media's Poifon, Jafon's Perjury,

And 26 Philomela's Rape, are all laid by ;
Th' accufing 27 Stepdame and the Son accus'd:
But if my friendly Counsel might be us'd,
Let not the Learn'd this Courfe or t'other, try,
But, leaving both, profefs plain Poverty;
And fhew his 28 Tally for the Dole of Bread,
With which the Parish Poor are daily fed:
Ev'n that exceeds the Price of all thy Pains.
Now look into the Musick Master's Gains,
Where noble Youth at vaft Expence is taught;
But Eloquence not valu'd at a Groat.

On fumptuous Baths the Rich their Wealth bestow,
Or fome expenfive airy Portico;

Where fafe from Showers they may be born in State,
And free from Tempests, for fair Weather wait:
Or rather not expect the clearing Sun,

Thro' Thick and Thin their Equipage must run:
Or ftaying, 'tis not for the Servants sake,
But that their Mules no Prejudice may take.
At the Walk's End, behold, how rais'd on high,
A Banquet-houfe falutes the fouthern Sky;

25 A Notable Sorcerefs, Daughter of etes King of Colchos, and Wife to Jason, who left her afterwards, and married another.

26 Daughter of Pandion King of Athens, was ravish'd by Tereus King of Thrace, who cut out her Tongue that she might not disclose the Secret.

27 Phædra Wife of Thefeus, who fell in Love with her

Son in-Law Hippolitus, and because she could not obtain her Ends of him, accus'd him to his Father that he would have forc'd her.

28 In any Dole, made by the Emperor, or one of the City Magiftrates, the poor Citizens had each a Tally given them ; which they shewed firft, and then received their Proportion.

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Where from afar, the Winter-Sun displays
The milder influence of his weaken'd Rays.
The Cook, the Sewer, each his Talent tries;
In various Figures Scenes of Dishes rife :
Befides, a Matter Cook, with greafie Fift,
Dives in luxurious Sauces to the Wrist.

Amidst this wafteful Riot, there accrues
But poor ten Shillings for 29 Quintilian's Dues:
For, to breed up the Son to common Senfe,
Is evermore the Parents leaft Expence.

From whence then comes Quintilian's vast Estate?
Because he was the darling Son of Fate;
And Luck, in fcorn of Merit, made him great.
Urge not th' Example of one fingle Man,
As rare as a white Crow, or fable Swan.
Quintilian's Fate was to be counted Wise,
Rich, Noble, Fair, and in the State to rise :
Good Fortune grac'd his Action, and his Tongue;
His Colds became him, and when hoarse he fung.
O, there's ftrange difference, what Planets shed
Their Influence on the new-born Infant's Head!
'Tis Fate that flings the Dice; and as she flings,
Of Kings makes Pedants, and of Pedants Kings.
What made 39 Ventidius rife, and 31 Tullus great,
But their kind. Stars, and hidden Pow'r of Fate?

Few Pedagogues but curfe the barren Chair;
Like 32 Him who hang'd himself for meer Despair

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29 Quintilian, a Famous | and the first who beat the ParMan both in Rhetorick and thians in three Battles.

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Oratory, who taught School in the Times of Galba, Do

mitian, and Trajan, and receiv'd his Salary out of the Emperor's Treasury.

30 Ventidius Baffus was a Lieutenant to Marc Antony

31 Here is meant Tullus Servilius, one of the Romas Kings.

32 Thrafymachus, a Rhetorician of Carthage, who hanged himself by reason of his | Poverty.

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And Poverty; 33 or Him, whom to Caius fent
For liberty of Speech to Banifhment.
Ev'n Socrates in Rags at Athens taught,
And wanted to 34 defray the deadly Draught.
In Peace, ye Shades of our Great Grandfires reft,
No heavy Earth your facred Bones moleft:
Eternal Spring, and rifing Flow'rs adorn
The Relicks of each venerable Urn,
Who pious Rev'rence to their Tutors paid,
As Parents honour'd, and as Gods obey'd.
Achilles 35 grown in Stature, fear'd the Rod,
And stood corrected at the Centaur's Nod;
His tender Years in Learning did employ,
And promis'd all the Hero in the Boy.
The Scene's much alter'd in the Modern School,
The Boys of Rufus call their Master Fool;
A juft 36 Revenge on him, who durft defame
The Merit of immortal Tully's Name.

But ask, what Fruit 37 Palemon's Pains have earn'd, Or who has paid the Price of what he Learn'd; Tho' Grammar Profits less than Rhetorick are, Yet ev❜n in thofe his Ufher claims a Share; Befides, the Servants Wages must be paid: Thus of a little, ftill a lefs is made:

33 Secundus Carinus; who | for him, and satisfie the Fees was banifh'd from Rome, by of the Executioner: the Emperor Caligula, for declaiming against Tyrants.

34 When Socrates was condemn'd to die by Poifon, he wanted Money to pay for the Juice of Hemlock which he was to drink; and defir'd one of his Friends to lay it down

35 The Son of Peleus and Thetis, who had Chiron the Centaur for his Tutor..

36 Rufus call'd Tully an Allobroge; as if his Latine were barbarous and not truly Roman.

37 A poor Grammarian, but of great Efteem.

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