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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46439	The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis translated into English verse by Mr. Dryden and several other eminent hands ; together with the satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus, made English by Mr. Dryden ; with explanatory notes at the end of each satire ; to which is prefix'd a discourse concerning the original and progress of satire ... by Mr. Dryden.; Works. English. 1693	Juvenal.; Persius. Works. English.; Dryden, John, 1631-1700.	1693 (1693)	Wing J1288; ESTC R12345	297,921	482

Torment than a Guilty Mind Which Day and Night doth dreadfully accuse Condemns the Wretch and still the Charge renews XIX A trusted Spartan was inclin'd to Cheat The Coin lookt lovely and the Bag was great Secret the Trust and with an Oath defend The Prize and baffle his deluded Friend But weak in Sin and of the God● afraid And 〈◊〉 well vers'd in the forswearing Trade He goes to Delphos humbly begs advice And thus the Priestess by Command replies Expect sure Vengeance by the Gods decreed To punish Thoughts not yet improv'd to Deed. At this he started and forbore to swear Not out of Conscience of the Sin but Fear Yet Plagues en●u'd and the contagious Sin Destroy'd himself and ruin'd all his Kin. Thus suffer'd He for the imperfect Will To sin and bare Design of doing ill For he that but conceives a Crime in thought Contracts the danger of an Actual Fault Then what must he expect that still proceeds To fi●●●h Sin and work up Thoughts to Deeds XX. Perpetual Anguish fills his anxious Breast Not stopt by Business nor compos'd by Rest No Musick chears him and no Feasts can please He sits like discontented Damocles When by the sportive Tyrant wisely shown The dangerous Pleasures of a flatter'd Throne Sleep flies the Wretch or when his Care 's oppr●st And his toss'd Lambs are weary'd into rest Then Dreams invade the injur'd Gods appear All arm'd with Thunder and awake his Fear What frights him most in a Gigantick size Thy sacred Image flashes in his Eyes These shake his Soul and as they boldly press Bring out his Crimes and force him to confess This Wretch will start at every flash that flies Grow pale at the first murmur of the Skies E're Clouds are form'd and Thunder roars afraid And Epicurus can afford no aid His Notions fail And the destructive Flame Commission'd falls not thrown by Chance but Aim One Clap is past and now the Skies are clear A short reprieve but to increase his Fear Whilst Arms Divine revenging Crimes below Are gathering up to give the greater Blow But if a Fever fires his sulphurous Blood In ev'ry Fit he feels the Hand of God And Heaven-born Flame Then drown'd in deep Despair He dares not offer one repenting Prayer Nor vow one Victim to preserve his Breath Amaz'd he lies and sadly looks for Death For how can Hope with desperate Guilt agree And the worst Beast is worthier Life than He. XXI He that once Sins like him that slides on Ice Goes swiftly down the slippery ways of Vice Tho' Conscience checks Him yet those rubs gone o're He slides on smoothly and looks back no more What Sinners finish where they first begin And with one Crime content their Lust to Sin Nature that rude and in her first Essay Stood boggling at the roughness of the way Us'd to the Road unknowing to return Goes boldly on and loves the Path when worn XXII Fear not but pleas'd with this successful Bait Thy Perjur'd Friend will quickly tempt his Fate He will go on until his Crimes provoke The Arm Divine to strike the Fatal Stroke Then thou shalt see him plung'd when least he fears At once accounting for his deep Arrears Sent to those narrow Isles which throng'd we see With mighty Exiles once secure as He Drawn to the Gallows or condemn'd to Chains Then thou shalt tri●mph in the Villain 's pains Enjoy his Groans and with a grateful Mind Confess that Heaven is neither Deaf nor Blind The End of the Thirteenth Satyr EXPLANATORY NOTES ON THE THIRTEENTH SATYR SOme Read Extemplo quodcunque malum c. Thebes had but seven Gates and the River Nile but seven Mouths That is were of better Quality and had more Wealth Skins and Acorns being the primitive Cloaths and Food according to the Poets If a swarm of Bees pitcht upon a Temple it was lookt upon as an Omen of some very great Mischief Thyestes was treated with a Ha●h made of his own Son Isis. An Aegyptian Goddess suppos'd to be much concern'd in inflicting Diseases and Maladies on Mankind Ladas An Excellent Footman who wan the Prize in the Olympian Games Stentor A famous Crier in the Grecian Army whose single voice was as loud as that of fifty Men together Homer says that Mars being wounded by Diomedes made as great an out-cry as ten thousand Men shouting to the Battel Bathyllus A Fidler and a Player But put here for any idle Scoundrel or insignificant Fellow A Surgeon of no great Credit and Reputation The Villain that kill'd his Father was to be put into a Bag with a Dog a Cock a Serpent and an Ape and thrown into the Sea Philosophers of great Credit and Worth Damocles having very much extoll'd the Happiness of Kings in the presence of Dionysius King of Syracuse Dionysius invited him to Dinner plac'd him in a rich Throne and gave him a very splendid Entertainment but just over his Head hung a Sword by a Hair with the point downward A Philosopher who thought all things were by Chance THE FOURTEENTH SATYR OF JUVENAL Translated into ENGLISH VERSE BY Mr. IOHN DRYDEN Junior ARGUMENT OF THE Fourteenth Satyr Since Domestick Examples easily corrupt our Youth the Poet prudently exhorts all Parents that they themselves should abstain from evil practices Amongst which 〈◊〉 chi●fly poin●s at Dice and Gam●ng Ta●erns Drunkenness and Cruelty which they exercis'd upon their Slaves Lest after their pernicious Example their Sons should copy them in their Vices and become Gamesters Drunkards and Tyrants Lestrigons and Canibals to their Servants For if the Father says Juvenal love the Box and Dice the Boy will be given to an it●hing Elbow Neither is it to be expected that the Daughter of Larga the Adu●●ress shou'd 〈◊〉 more contineut than her Mother Since we are all by Nature more apt to receive ill impressions than good and are besides more pliant in our Infancy and Youth than when we grow up to riper years Thus we are more apt to imitate a Catiline than a Brutus or the Uncle of Brutus Cato Ulicensis For these Reasons he is instant with all 〈◊〉 that they permit not their Children to bear lascivious words and that they Banish Pimps Whores and Parasites from their Houses If they are careful says the Poet when they make an invitation to their Friends that all things shall be clean and set in order much more it is their Duty to their Children that nothing appear corrupt or undecent in their Family Storks and Vultures because they are fed by the Old Ones with Snakes and Carrion naturally and without instruction feed on the same uncleanly Diet. But the Generous Eaglet who is taught by her Parent to fly at Hares and sowse on Kids disdains afterwards to pursue a more ignoble Game Thus the Son of Centronius was prone to the Vice of raising Stately Structures beyond his Fortune because his Father had ruin'd himself by Building He whose Father is a Jew is Naturally prone