An EPIGRAM. Written to the Duke de Noailles. Matthew Prior Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T075639 Prior, Matthew, 1664-1721. Poems on Several Occasions [English poems only]. London Printed for JACOB TONSON at Shakespear's-Head over against Katharine-Street in the Strand, and JOHN BARBER upon Lambeth-Hill. MDCCXVIII. 1718 p. 273. [42],506,[6]p.: ill.; 2°.

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An EPIGRAM . Written to the Duke de Noailles . Vain the Concern which You express , That uncall'd Alard will possess Your House and Coach , both Day and Night ; And that Mackbeth was haunted less By Banquo's restless Spright . With Fifteen Thousand Pound a Year , Do You complain , You cannot bear An Ill , You may so soon retrieve ? Good Alard , faith , is modester By much , than You believe . Lend Him but fifty Louis d'or ; And You shall never see Him more : Take the Advice ; Probatum est . Why do the Gods indulge our Store , But to secure our Rest ?