Sat. V. The Universal Passion. 11 ^Modern good-breeding carry to its height.
And Lady D-self will be polite.
Ye rising fair! Ye bloom of Britain 's Isle!When highborn Anna with a foften’d smileLeads on your train, and sparkles at your head,What seems most hard, is not to be well-bred.
Her bright example with success pursue,
And all, but adoration, is your due.
But adoration ? give me something more?
Crys Lyce t on the borders of threescore ;
Nought treads so silent as the foot of Time:
Hence we mistake our autumn for our prime;’Tis greatly wife to know, before we’re told,
The melancholy news that we grow old.Autumnal Lyce carrys in her faceMemento mori to each publick place.
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