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LIV.

"But should to Fame your Hearts impervious be,

"If right I read, you Pleasure All require:
"Then hear how best may be obtain'd this Fee,
"How best enjoy'd this Nature's wide Desire.
"Toil, and be glad! Let Industry inspire
"Into your quicken'd Limbs her buoyant Breath!
"Who does not act is dead; absorpt intire
"In miry Sloth, no Pride no Joy he hath:
"O Leaden-hearted Men, to be in Love with Death!

LV.

"Better the toiling Swain, oh happier far!

"Perhaps the happiest of the Sons of Men!
"Who vigorous plies the Plough, the Team, or Car;
"Who houghs the Field, or ditches in the Glen,
"Delves in his Garden, or secures his Pen:
"The Tooth of Avarice poisons not his Peace;
"He tosses not in Sloth's abhorred Den;
"From Vanity he has a full Release;
"And, rich in Nature's Wealth, he thinks not of Increase.

LVI.