. Debita Flacco. Echoes of Ode and Epode . 27 Dont take refuge in a pitiful autopsy,And whine, I must, I feel it in my blood ; Did a water-diet ever cure the dropsy ? Hire a forest, buy a steam yacht, raise a stud ! Show the colour of your money to your neighbours ; Be Gods almoner and herald to the poor ;Make the measure and the merit of your labours, To drive misery, say, ten miles from your door. If you follow up old Horaces direction, And will make of generosity a shall win a little kingdom of affection. Where your Uncle found a dungeon in his 28 INVOCATIO AD VENEREM. O V

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. Debita Flacco. Echoes of Ode and Epode . 27 Dont take refuge in a pitiful autopsy,And whine, I must, I feel it in my blood ; Did a water-diet ever cure the dropsy ? Hire a forest, buy a steam yacht, raise a stud ! Show the colour of your money to your neighbours ; Be Gods almoner and herald to the poor ;Make the measure and the merit of your labours, To drive misery, say, ten miles from your door. If you follow up old Horaces direction, And will make of generosity a shall win a little kingdom of affection. Where your Uncle found a dungeon in his 28 INVOCATIO AD VENEREM. O VENUS, rcgina Cnidi Paphique,Sperne dilectam Cypron, et vocantisThurc te multo Glycerae decoramTransfer in aedem. Fervidus tecum puer et solutisGratiae zonis properentque NymphaeEt parum comis sine te JuvenlasMercuriusque.

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