Note 302 — CANTO THE FIFTH.[270]
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["Not to admire, is all the Art I know To make men happy, and to keep them so, (Plain Truth, dear Murray, needs no flow'rs of speech, So take it in the very words of Creech)."
To Mr. Murray (Lord Mansfield), Pope's Imitations of Horace, Book I. epist. vi. lines 1-4.
Thomas Creech (1659-1701) published his Translation of Horace in 1684. In the second edition, 1688, p. 487, the lines run—
"Not to admire, as most are wont to do, It is the only method that I know, To make Men happy and to keep 'em so."]