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SATYR.
So, being born and bred up near
Our earthy gross Relations here,
Far from the ancient nobler Place
60 Of all our high paternal Race,
We now degenerate, and grow
As barbarous, and mean, and low,[1]
As modern Grecians are, and worse,
To their brave nobler Ancestors.
65 Yet, as no Barbarousness beside
Is half so barbarous as Pride,
Nor any prouder Insolence
Than that, which has the least Pretence,
We are so wretched, to profess
70 A Glory in our Wretchedness;
To vapour sillily, and rant
Of our own Misery, and Want,
And grow vain glorious on a Score,
We ought much rather to deplore,
75 Who, the first Moment of our Lives,
Are but condemn'd, and giv'n Reprieves;
And our great'st Grace is not to know,
When we shall pay 'em back, nor how,
Our earthy gross Relations here,
Far from the ancient nobler Place
60 Of all our high paternal Race,
We now degenerate, and grow
As barbarous, and mean, and low,[1]
As modern Grecians are, and worse,
To their brave nobler Ancestors.
65 Yet, as no Barbarousness beside
Is half so barbarous as Pride,
Nor any prouder Insolence
Than that, which has the least Pretence,
We are so wretched, to profess
70 A Glory in our Wretchedness;
To vapour sillily, and rant
Of our own Misery, and Want,
And grow vain glorious on a Score,
We ought much rather to deplore,
75 Who, the first Moment of our Lives,
Are but condemn'd, and giv'n Reprieves;
And our great'st Grace is not to know,
When we shall pay 'em back, nor how,
- ↑ 63. As barbarous, and mean, and low] The Terms barbarous and barbarousness, in this, and the Lines following, are to be understood in their old Sense, as opposed to rude and uncultivated.
89. Our Bravery's but a mean Disguise.] In the Times in which our Author wrote, what we now call Finery in Dress was generally
express'd
