Sat. V. The Universal Passion.

Hums round about her, and with all his powerExtracts sweet wisdom from so fair a flower %

The young and gay declining, Abra fliesAt nobler game, the mighty and the wife:

By nature more an Eagle , than a Dove,

She impiously prefers the World to Love.

Can wealth give happiness ? look round, and feeWhat gay distress! what splendid misery!Whatever fortune lavilhly can pourThe mind annihilates, and calls for more.

Wealth is a cheat, believe not what it says,

Like any Lord it promises -and pays.

How will the miser startle to be toldOf such a wonder, as insolvent gold ?

What nature wants has an intrinsick weight;

All more, is but the fashion of the plate,

Which,