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SCG-C.733.041
2-9 Jun 1733:12 (73)
[Two verses within essay on people's complaints about their
lot in life:]
If adverse fortune brings to pass,
And wilt that thou an ass must be,
Then be an ass, and live an ass;
For (out of question) wise is he,
Who undergoes with patient mind,
The state that chance has him assign'd.
Under which fiction, men of understanding meant nothing
less, than what Horace writeth in his first satyr, where he
reproves those of his time with a sly, insinuating grace, of
that inconsistent humour that they would never stand to one
kind of life, and that knew no medium, nor put any bound to
their insatiate desires.
The soldier when his strength remains no more,
Who many tedious nights and wint'ry storms has bore,
Commends the merchant's wealth, the merchant, he,
When lash'd by billows of the boist'rous sea,
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