i?df LOVE of FAME, Sat.VlI.

That key of nature, by whose wit she clearsHer long, long secrets of five thousand years.

Would you then fully comprehend the whole,Why t and in what degrees , Pride sways the foul ?(For tho’ in all, not equally, slie reigns)

Awake to knowledge, and attend my strains.

Ye Doctors! hear the doctrine I disclose,

As true, as if ’twere writ in dullest prose;

As if a letter’d dunce had said “ ’tis right,”

And imprimatur ufher’d it to light.

To glorious deeds this paflion fires the mind ;And closer draws the ties of humankind,Confirms society % since what we prizeAs our chief blessing, must from others rife.

Ambition in the truly-noble mindWith lister-virtue is for ever joyn’d ;

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