But now after all (and for Close of all) Let none yet imagine, that
whilst we justifie our present Subject through all the _Topics of
Panegyric_, we would in Favour of the _Sallet_, drest with all its Pomp
and Advantage turn Mankind to _Grass_ again; which were ungratefully
to neglect the Bounty of Heaven, as well as his Health and Comfort:
But by these Noble Instances and Examples, to reproach the _Luxury_
of the present Age; and by shewing the infinite Blessing and Effects of
Temperance, and the Vertues accompanying it; with how little Nature, and
a [125]Civil Appetite may be happy, contented with moderate things, and
within a little Compass, reserving the rest, to the nobler Parts of
Life. And thus of old,
_Hoc erat in votis, modus agri non ita magnus, _&a._
He that was possess'd of a little Spot of Ground, and well=cultivated
_Garden_, with other moderate Circumstances, had [126]_Haeredium_. All
that a modest Man could well desire. Then,
[127]_Happy the Man, who from Ambition freed,_
_A little Garden, little Field does feed._
_The Field gives frugal Nature what's requird;_
_The Garden what's luxuriously desir'd:_
_The specious Evils of an anxious Life,_
_He leaves to Fools to be their endless Strife_.
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