HOR.

Seu me tranquilla fene&tus

Expectat, feu Mors atris circumvolat alis,
Dives, inops, Romæ, feu fors ita jufferit, exul,
Quifquis erit vitæ, fcribam, color.

IMITATE D.

Whether Old Age a tranquil evening brings,
Or Death fails round me with his Raven Wings;
Rich, poor; at Rome, or London; well, or ill;
Whate'er my fortunes, write I must and will.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR T. CADEL, IN THE STRAND.
M DCC LXXXVII,

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