Are riches worth your care: (for Nature’s wants 295
Are few, and without opulence supplied.)
This noble end is, to produce the Soul;
To shew the virtues in their fairest light;
To make Humanity the Minister
Of bounteous Providence; and teach the Breast 300
That generous luxury the Gods enjoy.
Thus, in his graver vein, the friendly Sage
Sometimes declaim’d. Of Right and Wrong he taught
Truths as resin’d as ever Athens heard;