DON JUAM.

Canto 11.

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Thou mak’st the chaste connubial state pvecarions,'And jestest with the brows of mightiest men:Caesar and Pompey, Mahomet, Belisarius ,

Have much employ’d the muse of history’s pen;Their lives and fortunes were extremely various,Such worthies Time will never see again;

Yet to these four in three things the same luck-holds,They all were heroes, conquerors, and cuckolds-

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Thou mak’st philosophers ; there’s Epicurus And Aristippus , a material crew!

Who to immoral courses would allure usBy theories quite practicable too;

If only from the devil they would insure us,

How pleasant were the maxim, (not quite new),,Eat, drink, and love, what can the rest avail us ?“So said the royal sage Sardanapalus.