. Night thoughts. ushd him hack;Supj)orted by a doctor of renown,His point he gaind. Then arttully dismistTiic sage; for Deatli designd to be conccald. 850He iXivc an old vivacious usurerHis meagre aspect^ and his naked bones;In gratitude for plumping up his prey,A j^amperd spendthrift; whose fantastic air,Well-fashiond figure, and cockaded brow, 855 He took in change, and underneath the prideOf costly linen, tuckd his filthy crooked bow he straitend to a cane;And hid his deadly shafts in Myras eye. The dreadful masqueradcr, thus equipt, 860 Out-sallies on adventures. Ask you where?
. Night thoughts. ushd him hack;Supj)orted by a doctor of renown,His point he gaind. Then arttully dismistTiic sage; for Deatli designd to be conccald. 850He iXivc an old vivacious usurerHis meagre aspect^ and his naked bones;In gratitude for plumping up his prey,A j^amperd spendthrift; whose fantastic air,Well-fashiond figure, and cockaded brow, 855 He took in change, and underneath the prideOf costly linen, tuckd his filthy crooked bow he straitend to a cane;And hid his deadly shafts in Myras eye. The dreadful masqueradcr, thus equipt, 860 Out-sallies on adventures. Ask you where?Mhcre is he not? For his peculiar haunts,Let this suffice; sure as jiight follows treads in Pleasures footsteps round the world,A\hen Pleasure treads the paths which Reason , against Reason, Riot shuts the door, B66 And Gaiety supplies the place of Sense,Then, foremost at the banquet, and the leads the dance, or stamps the deadly die;Nor ever fails the midnight bowl to crown. 870 ^ AI //i//.i A , / •/Voifn-) ,i^4iii};iQy, A 7 //;^ //i,i/i Jloffor/i X26. THE RELAPSE. 115 Gaily carousing to his gay compeers,Inly he laughs, to see them laugh at absent far: And when the revel fear is banishd, and triumphant for all the joys beneath the moon, 875 Against him turns the key, and bids him supWith their progenitors—he drops his mask;Frowns out at full; they start—despair—expire! Scarce with more sudden terror and surprise,From his black masque of nitre, touchd by fire, 880He bursts, expands, roars, blazes, and is not this triumphant more than simple conquest, in the fiend? And now, Lorenzo, dost thou wrap thy soulIn soft security, because unknown 885 Which moment is commissiond to destroy ?In Deaths uncertainty thy danger Death uncertain? Therefore thou be fixt;Fixt as
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