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The painful family of Death,
More hideous than their queen:
This racks the joints, this fires the veins, 85
That every labouring sinew strains,
Those in the deeper vitals rage:
Lo! Poverty, to fill the band,
That numbs the soul with icy hand,
And slow-consuming Age. 90

To each his suff'rings: all are men,
Condemn'd alike to groan;
The tender for another's pain,
Th' unfeeling for his own.
Yet, ah! why should they know their fate, 95

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Notes

1. V. 83. "Ilate, Fear, and Grief, the family of Puin," Pope. Essay on Man, ii. 118. Dryden. State of Innoc. act v. sc. i: "With all the numerous family of Death." Claudian uses language not dissimilar: Cons. Ilonor. vi. 323: "Inferno stridentes agmine Morbi." And Juv. Sat. x. 218: "Circumsedit agmine facto Morborum omne ge- nus." Jlor. Od. 1. iii. 30, "Nova febrium terris incubuit cohors."
2. V. 84. See T. Warton's Milt. p. 432, 434, 511.
3. V. 90. His slow-consuming fires." Shenstone. Love and Honour.
4. V. 95. We meet with the same thought in Milton. Com. ver. 359: "Peace, brother; be not over-exquisite To cast the fashion of uncertain evils; For grant they be so, while they rest unknown, What need a man forestall his date of grief?" W.
5. V. 98. Soph, Ajax, v. 555: "Ey rų poveiv yap pnder. LOTOC Blog. W. See Kidd's note to Hor. Ep. xi. 2. 140.
6. V. 99. See l'rior, (Ep. to Ilon. C. Montague, st. ix.) From ignorance our comfort flows, The only wretched are the wise."-Luke. Add Davenant. Just Italian, p. 32, "Since knowledge is but