[Page 63]

Jupiter and Fortune.

A Fable.

1 Once Jupiter, from out the Skies,
2 Beheld a thousand Temples rise;
3 The Goddess Fortune all invok'd,
4 To Jove an Altar seldom smoak'd:
5 The God resolv'd to make Inspection,
6 What had occasion'd this Defection;
7 And bid the Goddess tell the Arts,
8 By which she won deluded Hearts.
9 My Arts! (says she) Great Jove, you know,
10 That I do ev'ry Thing below:
11 I make my Vot'ries dine on Plate;
12 I give the gilded Coach of State;
13 Bestow the glitt'ring Gems, that deck
14 The fair Lavinia's lovely Neck;
[Page 64]
15 I make Novella Nature's Boast,
16 And raise Valeria to a Toast;
17 'Tis I, who give the Stupid, Taste,
18 (Or make the Poets lie, at least);
19 My fav'rite Sons, whene'er they please,
20 Can Palaces in Desarts raise,
21 Cut out Canals, make Fountains play,
22 And make the dreary Waste look gay;
23 Ev'n Vice seems Virtue by my Smiles;
24 I gild the Villain's gloomy Wiles,
25 Nay, almost raise him to a God,
26 While crowded Levees wait his Nod.
27 Enough the Thunderer reply'd;
28 But say, whom have you satisfy'd?
29 These boasted Gifts are thine, I own;
30 But know, Content is mine alone.

Text

  • TEI/XML [chunk] (XML - 58K / ZIP - 7.0K) / ECPA schema (RNC - 357K / ZIP - 73K)
  • Plain text [excluding paratexts] (TXT - 1.1K / ZIP - 834 )

Facsimile (Source Edition)

(Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [Harding C 3644].)

Images

PDF

All Images (PDF - 2.2M)

About this text

Title (in Source Edition): Jupiter and Fortune. A Fable.
Author: Mary Barber
Themes: mythology; fate; fortune; providence
Genres: fable
References: DMI 11371

Text view / Document view

Source edition

Barber, Mary, ca. 1690-1757. Poems on Several Occasions [poems only]. London: Printed for C. Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1734, pp. 63-64. xlviii,283,[7]p.; 8⁰. (ESTC T42622; DMI 519; Foxon p. 45) (Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [Harding C 3644].)

Editorial principles

Typography, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation have been cautiously modernized. The source of the text is given and all significant editorial interventions have been recorded in textual notes. This ECPA text has been edited to conform to the recommendations found in Level 5 of the Best Practices for TEI in Libraries version 4.0.0.

Other works by Mary Barber