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Sec private Life by wisest Arts reclaimed!
See ardent Youth to noblest Manners fram'd!
See us acquire whate'er was fought by You,155
If Curio, only Curio will be true.
'Twas thenO Shame! O Trust, how ill repaid!
O Latium oft by faithless Sons betray'd!
'Twas thenWhat Frenzy on thy Reason stole?
What Spells unsinew'd thy determin'd Soul? 160
Is this the Man in Freedom's Cause approv'd?
The Man so great, so honour'd, so belov'd?
This patient Slave by Tinsel Chains allur'd?
This wretched Suitor for a Boon abjur'd?
This Curio hated and despis'd by all? 165
Who fell himself, to work his Country's Fall?
O lost alike to Action and Repose!
Unown'd, unpitied in the worst of Woes!
With all that conscious, undissembled Pride,
Sold to the Insults of a Foe defy'd! 170
