Tam patiens urbis, tam ferreus ut teneat fe? Juv. HO' grief and fondnefs in my breast rebel, TW When injur'd THALES bids the town farewel, Yet ftill my calmer thoughts his choice commend, I praise the hermit, but regret the friend, Refolv'd at length, from vice and LONDON far, To breathe in diftant fields a purer air, And, fix'd on Cambria's solitary shore, Give to St. David one true Briton more. * For who wou'd leave, unbrib'd, Hibernia's land, Or change the rocks of Scotland for the Strand? JUV. SAT. III. Quamvis digreffu veteris confufus amici; Laudo, tamen, vacuis quod fedem figere Cumis Destinet, atque unum civem donare Sibyllæ. Ego vel Prochytam præpono Suburræ, There There none are swept by sudden fate away, * • While THALES waits the wherry that contains A tranfient calm the happy scenes bestow, + Since worth, he cries, in these degen'rate days Wants ev'n the cheap reward of empty praise; 3 Sed, dum tota domus rhedâ componitur unâ, Subftitit ad veteres arcus. 4 Hic tunc Umbricius: Quando artibus, inquit, honeflis Nullus in urbe locus, nulla emolumenta laborum, Res hodie minor eft, heri quam fuit, atque eadem cras Tre, fatigatas ubi Dedalus exuit alas; Dum nova canities *Queen Elizabeth, born at Greenwich. In |