Nor was it well done to permit my bush, My holly bush, to hang before thy wine, For friends' applauses are not worth a rush, And every fool can get a gilded sign. In troth I have no faculty at praise; My bush is very full of thorns, though it seems bays. III. When I would praise I cannot find a rhyme, But if I have a just pretence to rail, They come in numerous throngs at any time, Their everlasting fountains never fail, They come in troops and for employment pray; If I have any wit, it lies only that way. IV. But yet I'll try, if thou wilt rid thy mind Of thoughts of rhyming and of writing well, And bend thy studies to another kind-- I mean, in craft and riches to excel; If thou desert thy friends and better wine, And pay'st no more attendance on the needy Nine. V. Go, and renounce thy wit and thy good parts-- Wit and good parts, great enemies to wealth,-- And barter honesty for more thriving arts, Prize gold before a good name, ease, and health. Answer the Dog and Bottle, and maintain There's great ease in a yoke, and freedom in a chain. VI. I'll love thee now when this is done, I'll try To sing thy praise, and force my honest Muse to lie. WALTER POPE. The Contents. Page On the Death of the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Ossory. Pindaric Ode 296 To the Memory of the Incomparable Orinda. Pindaric Ode 298 The review to Dr. W. S. Pindaric Ode 301 To my Worthy Friend Mr. Sam. Woodford on his Excellent Version of the Psalms. Pindaric Ode 306 On the Death of the Truly Valiant George Duke of Albemarle. Pindaric Ode 308 The Retirement. Pindaric Ode, made in the time of the great Sickness 1665 312 Translated out of a part of Petronius Arbiter's Satyricon 314 A Thought of Death. 317 Psalm 39, verses 4 and 5 317 Hymn for the Morning 318 Anthem for the Evening 318 Death. A Song 319 The Happy Man 319 On Mr. Johnson's several Shipwrecks 320 An Explanation of an Emblem engraven by V. H. 321 For Thoughts 321 Against Thoughts 323 A Dooms-Day Thought 325 Virtus sola manet, caetera mortis erunt 327 Translated 328 Psalm 15. Paraphrased 329 Job 330 Nudus Redibo 330