pleas'd with a few bawling Currs, or what he calls an happy chase, as with the acquisition of the most useful Office in the State. But does he call this solitude and recesse?Ep. 55. 'Tis exceeding pretty what Seneca observes of Servillus Vatia, who, it seems, had long retired himself to the most pleasant part of the Baiae: There it was (says he) that this Gentleman pass'd his time, and had never been known but from his famous solitude: No man eat, nor drank better: He had rare fish-ponds and Parks (I suppose he kept good Hawks, and excellent Dogs) in sum, he was thought the only happy man; for arrive what would, as to change in the Commonwealth, Vatia still enjoy'd himself; and ô Vatia (they us'd to say) tu solus scis vivere: For my part (adds my Author) I never pass'd by his house, but I cry'd Va∣tia hîc situs est; Here lies Vatia;0