De senectute. Ad amicum D. Rogerum Long ... / Adjecta versione Anglica.

  • William Browne
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[1770]
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Credit: De senectute. Ad amicum D. Rogerum Long ... / Adjecta versione Anglica. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ridet Sene&us, dum videt aemulos Tanta petentes folicitudine Fortuna Quae dat, cum mutatae Fam celeres quatiantur alae. Stultum videtur, Judi ce Tullio, Magnam Senes portare Pecuniam : Cum Paululum rejlet Viarum, Anne Viatico opus fit Amplo f Nodo fed illi non opus Oedipo, Levi quidem conamine folvitur : Cum nil Senes quaerant anendum, In loculis Pretium manebit. Hujus fed Vfum quaere Pecuniae? Hic Vfus eft, Incommoda fiuppleat: Aetate Suem fipernunt, onujlum Sat cito profiequerentur Auro. Aurunu It makes Old-age with pleafiure fimik, 1*0 fiee how anxioujly Men toil, For Fortune*s Gifits, which rarely Jlay\ But fly with rapid Wings away. Tully efteems it mofl abfurd, That Old Men £hou?d with Wealth be flor d To journey’s end when corne fo near, A Trifle will their Charges bear. But to untiethis doubty Knot> An Oedipus is needed not: Since Old Men nothing want to buy, Safe, in the purfe, the Price muft lie. But What Ufie from this wealth can rifie t Why this, It ev’ry Want fupplies: if yoifre defpisM, for being Old, You’11 foon be worlhipM, for your GokL G-old e 9
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