Mores hominum = The manners of men / described in sixteen satyrs by Juvenal, as he is published in his most authentick copy, lately printed by command of the King of France ; whereunto is added the invention of seventeen designes in picture, with arguments to the satyrs ; as also explanations to the designes in English and Latine ; together with a large comment, clearing the author in every place wherein he seemed obscure, out of the laws and customes of the Romans, and the Latine and Greek histories, by Sir Robert Stapylton, Knight.

Figura Septima.

PRimò praecipitem in vitium descripserat Autor Romam; dein rigidos aliena in crimina sontes; Rus praelatum Vrbi; vitandam rectiùs Aulam; Ad coenam & sannas simul, accubuisse Clientes; Ducenti Vetulo qualisque futura sit Vxor. Subjicit hîc, doctos qualis fortuna sequatur. Lappa ¹ Poëta togam, mox libros pignorat Atreo. Historicus ² scriptor ruris nemorisque recessum Eligit; attonitus mentem de pane parando, Et, cùm turgescat millesima pagina, chartis. Causidico ³ macro & docto petasunculus & vas Pelamidum dantur: ditiaureus affluit amnis Indocto, ⁴ crassúmque premit lectica Mathonem. Rhetore ⁵, quis color & quae quaestio summa, magistro Scire volunt omnes; mercedem solvere nemo: Sed nostrum instituens, gallinae filius albae Quintilianus ⁶, habet miro tot praedia fato. Ars nihil Enceladi, claríque Palaemonis affert; Grammaticus ⁷, cui tetra haeret fuligo lucernae, In pueros oleum perdit: qui vimine Flaccum ⁸, Et qui Virgilium ⁹ docuit trepidare minores, Vapulat à magnis; unúsque est pluribus impar.

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The seventh Designe.

VIce at the height in Rome: And that cry'd down By Knaves: The Country better then the Town: The Court far worse: The feasted Client jeer'd: The City-Wanton whipt: these you have heard. Now see the Virtuosi how they fare, In what a sad condition Scholars are. Lean Poverty is in the Poet's looks: Lappa to ¹ Atreus pawns his Cloak and Books: The great ² Historian, shelter'd in the wood, There meditates how he may compass food, And Reams of Paper, to write Tomes upon. The well-read ³ Lawyer gets, for fees, Poor John. Th' ⁴ unlearned feeds so high, he hardly can Crowd his fat sides into his large Sedan. The ⁵ Rhetorician poures on flowry Theams, Almost for nothing, all his golden streams: Yet th' Author's Rhet'rick-Master wealthy grows, Quintilian's ⁶ one of Fortunes rare white Crows. The ⁷ Schoolmaster (so often like to choak, When Boyes that con by Lamp-light smell of smoak; He that made young besmutted ⁸ Horace sweat And ⁹ Virgil shake) is by great School-boyes beat.