[mm] Nec tamen hoc tantum metuas:  nam qui spoliet te, Non deerit, clausis domibus, &c.

[nn] Maximus in vinclis ferri modus, ut timeas, ne Vomer deficiat, ne marrae et sarcula desint.

[oo]
Felices proavorum atavos, felicia dicas
Saecula, quae quondam sub regibus atque tribunis
Viderunt uno contentam carcere Romam.

[pp] His alias poteram, et plures subnectere causas:  Sed jumenta vocant—­

[qq]
—­Ergo vale nostri memor et, quoties te
Roma tuo refici properantem reddet Aquino,
Me quoque ad Helvinam Cererem vestramque Dianam
Convelle a Cumis.  Satirarum ego, ni pudet illas,
Adjutor gelidos veniam caligatus in agros.

[A] Queen Elizabeth, born at Greenwich. [B] The invasions of the Spaniards were defended in the houses of
    parliament.
[C] The licensing act was then lately made. [D] Our silenc’d. [E] The paper which, at that time, contained apologies for the court. [F] H—­y’s jest. [G] And what their armies lost, their cringes gain [H] And gain a kick. [I] The Spaniards at this time were said to make claim to some of our
    American provinces.
[J] This was by Hitch, a bookseller.  Justly observed to be no picture of
    modern manners, though it might be true at Rome.  MS. note in Dr.
    Johnson’s hand-writing.
[K] And, while thy beds. [L] And plants unseen. [M] A cant term in the house of commons for methods of raising money. [N] The nation was discontented at the visits made by the king to
    Hanover.
[O] Sustain’d the balance, but resign’d the sword.

THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES;

IN IMITATION OF

  THE TENTH SATIRE OF JUVENAL.

Let[a] observation, with extensive view,
Survey mankind, from China to Peru;
Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife,
And watch the busy scenes of crowded life;
Then say, how hope and fear, desire and hate
O’erspread with snares the clouded maze of fate,
Where wav’ring man, betray’d by vent’rous pride
To tread the dreary paths, without a guide,
As treach’rous phantoms in the mist delude,
Shuns fancied ills, or chases airy good;
How rarely reason guides the stubborn choice,
Rules the bold hand, or prompts the suppliant voice. 
How nations sink, by darling schemes oppress’d,
When vengeance listens to the fool’s request. 
Fate wings with ev’ry wish th’ afflictive dart,
Each gift of nature, and each grace of art;
With fatal heat impetuous courage glows,
With fatal sweetness elocution flows,
Impeachment stops the speaker’s pow’rful breath,
And restless fire precipitates on death.
[b]But, scarce observ’d, the knowing and the bold
Fall in the gen’ral massacre of gold;
Wide wasting pest! that rages unconfin’d,
And crowds with crimes the records of mankind;