Return to visit their degenerate sons, 400
How would they scorn the joys of modern time,
With all our art and toil improv’d to pain!
Too happy they! But wealth brought luxury,
And luxury on sloth begot disease.
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Learn temperance, friends; and hear without disdain
The choice of water. Thus the Coan[4] sage
Opin’d, and thus the learn’d of every school.
What least of foreign principles partakes