IN THE MOON.
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Until the peaceful, long'd-for Winter's come;
And then disband, and march in Triumph Home;
105 And spend the rest of all the Year in Lies,
And vap'ring of their unknown Victories.
From th' old Arcadians they have been believ'd
To be, before the Moon herself, deriv'd;
And, when her Orb was first of all created,
110 To be from thence, to people her, translated.
For as those People had been long reputed,
Of all the Peloponesans, the most stupid,
Whom nothing in the World could ever bring
T' endure the civil Life, but Fiddling;
115 They ever since retain the antique Course,
And native Frenzy of their Ancestors;
And always use to sing, and fiddle to
Things of the most important Weight they do.
While thus the Virtuoso entertains
120 The whole Assembly with the Privolvans,
Another Sophist, but of less Renown,
Though longer Observation of the Moon;[1]
And then disband, and march in Triumph Home;
105 And spend the rest of all the Year in Lies,
And vap'ring of their unknown Victories.
From th' old Arcadians they have been believ'd
To be, before the Moon herself, deriv'd;
And, when her Orb was first of all created,
110 To be from thence, to people her, translated.
For as those People had been long reputed,
Of all the Peloponesans, the most stupid,
Whom nothing in the World could ever bring
T' endure the civil Life, but Fiddling;
115 They ever since retain the antique Course,
And native Frenzy of their Ancestors;
And always use to sing, and fiddle to
Things of the most important Weight they do.
While thus the Virtuoso entertains
120 The whole Assembly with the Privolvans,
Another Sophist, but of less Renown,
Though longer Observation of the Moon;[1]
- ↑ 121, 122. Another Sophist but of less Renown,—Though longer observation of the Moon.] In the shorter Verse it stands thus:And though the Variation in Words is but small, it makes a considerable Difference in the Character.Another of as great Renown
And solid Judgment in the Moon.
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