Frugal, and mild, and temp'rate, conquer'd well,
But govern ill the nations under yoke, 1009 enfans
Peeling their provinces, exhausted all

But luft and rapine; first ambitious grown
Of triumph, that infulting vanity;

Then cruel, by their fports to blood enur’d
Of fighting beafts, and men to beasts expos'd,
Luxurious by their wealth, and greedier still,
And from the daily fcene effeminate. Aden
What wife and valiant man would feek to free
These thus degen'rate, by themselves enslav’d,
Or could of inward flaves make outward free?
Know therefore when my feafon comes to fit
On David's throne, it shall be like a tree,
Spreading and overshad'wing all the earth,
Or as a stone that shall to pieces dash
All monarchies besides throughout the world,
And of my kingdom there fhall be no end:
Means there shall be to this, but what the means,
Is not for thee to know, nor me to tell., bai
To whom the tempter impudent reply'd :
I fee all offers made by me how flight
Thou valu't, because offer'd, and reject'st:
Nothing will please the difficult and nice,
Or nothing more than ftill to contradi&;
On th' other fide know also thou, that I
On what I offer set as high esteem,

Nor what I part with mean to give for nought;
All these which in a moment thou behold'st,
The kingdoms of the world to thee I give;
For giv'n to me, I give to whom I please,

No trifle, yet with this referve, not ellenes fegurs On this condition, if thou wilt fall down rovon tot And worship me as thy fuperior lord, made pahag Eafily done, and hold them all of me; has a way For what can lefs so great a gift deserve?qout

Whom thus our Saviour anfwer'd with difdain: I never lik'd thy talk, thy offers lefs,

Now both abhor, fince thou haft dar'd to utter
Th' abominable terms, impious condition; ov
But I endure the time, till which expir'd,

Thou haft permission on me.
It is written
The first of all commandments, Thou shalt worship
The Lord thy God, and only him shalt serve;
And dar'st thou to the Son of God propound
To worship thee accurft, now more accurft
For this attempt, bolder than that on Eve, 126 JON
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Permitted rather, and by thee ufurp'd, winamene.b
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God over all fupreme? if giv'n to thee,
By thee how fairly is the giver now
Repaid? but gratitude in thee is loft

Long fince. Wert thou fo void of fear or flame,,
As offer them to me the Son of God,
To me my own, on fuch abhorred pa&t,
That I fall down and worship thee as God:
Get thee behind me; plain thou now appear'
That evil one, fatan for ever damn'd.
To whom the fiend with fear abasht reply'd

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To me fo fatal, me it most concerns, Dom pod dou
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Rather more honour left and more efteem; zo star?
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And thou thy felf feem'ft otherwise inclin'dant revIO
Than to a worldly crown, addicted more

To contemplation and profound difpute, des
As by that early action may be judg'd,

When flipping from thy mother's eye thou went'feat
Alone into the temple, there was found
Among the graveft Rabbies difputant
On points and questions fitting Mofes' chair,
Teaching not taught; the childhood fhews the man,
As morning fhews the day. Be famous then
By wifdom; as thy empire must extend,
So let extend thy mind o'er all the world,
In knowledge, all things in it comprehend;
All knowledge is not couch'd in Mofes' law,
The Pentateuch, or what the prophets wrote,

The Gentiles also know, and write, and teach ton da
To admiration, led by nature's lights lo anol diguori
And with the Gentiles much thou must converfe,
Ruling them by persuasion as thou mean'ft;

Without their learning how wilt thou with them,
Or they with thee hold conversation meet?o ad31s
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Their idolisms, traditions, paradoxes? vor zith to boÐ
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Weftward, much nearer by fouth-weft, behold
Where on th' AEgean fhore a city ftands
Built nobly, pure the air, and light the foil,
Athens the eye of Greece, mother of artsal roles #T
And eloquence, native to famous wits acobenia sa T
Or hofpitable, in her fweet recefs,

City or fuburban, ftudious walks and shades;ed bra
See there the olive grove of Academe, effen
Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird
Trills her thick-warbl'd notes the fummer long,
There flow'ry hill Hymettus with the found
Of bees induftrious murmur oft invites

To ftudious mufing; there Iliffus rolls on par wa
His whispring ftream; within the walls then view
The schools of ancient fages; his who bred
Great Alexander to fubdue the world,

Lyceum there, and painted Stoa next :

There thou shalt hear and learn the fecret pow'r
Of harmony in tones and numbers bit

By voice or hand, and various-meafur'd verfe,
AEolian charms and Dorian Lyric odes,

And his who gave them breath, but higher fingy I Blind Melefigenes thence Homer call'd, mouento V Whofe poem Phœbus challeng'd for his own at tuẴ Thence what the lofty grave tragoedians taught

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Of fate and chance, and change in human life; bun A
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Those ancient, whofe refiftlefs eloquence
Wielded at will that fierce democratie,
Shook th' arfenal and fulmin'd over Greece
To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.
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From heav'n defcended to the low-rooft houfest A
Of Socrates, fee there his tenement,

Whom well infpir'd the oracle pronounc❜d

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Wifeft of men; from whofe mouth iffu'd forthetston Mellifluous streams that water'd all the schools dit 10 Of academics old and new, with those

Sirnam'd Peripateticks, and the fect cab to Jonnicazi Epicurean, and the Stoic fevere.

These here revolve, or, as thou lik't, at home, 03
Till time mature thee to a kingdom's weight;
These rules will render thee a king.compleat
Within thy felf, much more with empire join'd. A
To whom our Saviour fagely thus reply'd.
Think not, but that I know these things, or think
I know them not; not therefore am I fhort scu
Of knowing what I aught; he who receives we