PLATE II.

"Prosperity (with harlot's smiles,

Most pleasing when she most beguiles),

How soon, sweet foe, can all thy train

Of false, gay, frantic, loud, and vain,

Enter the unprovided mind,

And memory in fetters bind?

Load faith and love with golden chain,

And sprinkle Lethe o'er the brain!

Pleasure, on her silver throne,