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And led his troops with furious gallops,
To charge whole regiments of scallops;
Not like their ancient way of war,
To wait on his triumphal car;
But when he went to dine or sup,
More bravely ate his captives up,
And left all war, by his example,
Reduc'd to vict'ling of a camp well.

CCXI.

Butler.

Instead of whining complaints concerning the imagined cruelty of their mistresses, if poets would address the same to their muse, they would act more agreeable to nature and to truth.-Shenstone.

CCXII.

Judge we by nature? habit can efface,
Int'rest o'ercome, or policy take place.
By actions those uncertainty divides;
By passions? these dissimulation hides.
Opinions? they still take a wider range:
Find, if you can, in what you cannot change.
Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes,
Tenets with books, and principles with times.

CCXIII.

Pope.

Perhaps a rhymer is as necessary among servants of a house, as a dobbin with his bells at the head of a team. -Swift's Advice to a Young Poet.

CCXIV.

A man may flatter himself as he pleases; but he will find that the women have more understanding in their own affairs than we have, and women of spirit are not to be won by mourners. He that can keep handsomely within rules, and support the carriage of a companion to his mistress, is much more likely to prevail, than he who lets her see the whole relish of his life depends upon her. If possible, therefore, divert your mistress rather than sigh for her.-Steele.

CCXV.

Be not so bigotted to any custom, as to worship it at the expense of truth. All is custom that goes on in continuity: all customs are not alike beneficial to us.-Zim

merman.

CCXVI.

The oath of a lover is no stronger than the word of a tapster; they are both the confirmers of false reckonings.-Shakspeare.

CCXVII.

A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a funnel, but, after having put the lad, like a young horse, on a trot, before him, to observe his paces, and see what he is able to perform, should, according to the extent of his capacity, induce him to taste, to distinguish, and to find out things for himself; sometimes opening the way, at other times leaving it to him to open; and by abating or increasing his own pace, accommodate his precepts to the capacity of his pupil.-Montaigne.

CCXVIII.

It was said of John Lilburn, while living, by Judge Jenkins, "That if the world was emptied of all but himself, Lilburn would quarrel with John, and John with Lilburn;" which part of his character gave occasion for the following lines at his death:

Is John departed, and is Lilburn gone?
Farewell to both, to Lilburn and to John.
Yet, being dead, take this advice from me,
Let them not both in one grave bury'd be:
Lay John here, and Lilburn thereabout,
For if they should both meet, they would fall out.
Notes to Butler's Hudibras.

CCXIX.

It seems with wit and good-nature, "Utrum horum mavis accipe." Taste and good-nature are universally connected.-Shenstone.

CCXX.

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. The time of the one is long, because he does not know what to do with it; so is that of the other, because he distinguishes every moment of it with useful or amusing thoughts; or, in other words, because the one is always wishing it away, and the other always enjoying it.—Addison.

CCXXI.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labour, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. -Burton.

CCXXII.

The greatest dealers in this world may be divided into the ambitious, the covetous, and the voluptuous; and that all these men sell themselves to be slaves, though to the vulgar it may seem a Stoical paradox, will appear to the wise so plain and obvious, that they will scarce think it deserves the labour of argumentation.-Cowley.

CCXXIII.

A translator dyes an author, like an old stuff, into a new colour, but can never give it the lustre of the first tincture; as silks that are twice dyed lose their glosses, and never receive a fair colour. He is a small factor, that imports books of the growth of one language into another, but it seldom turns to account; for the commodity is perishable, and the finer it is, the worse it endures transportation; as the most delicate of Indian fruits are by no art to be brought over. Nevertheless he seldom fails in his purpose, which is to please himself and give the world notice that he understands one language more than it was aware of; and that done, he makes a saving return. He is a Truchman, that interprets between learned writers and gentle readers, and uses both how he pleases; for he commonly mistakes the one, and misinforms the other. If he does not perfectly understand the full meaning of his author as well as he did himself, he is but a copier, and therefore never comes

near the mastery of the original; and his labours are like dishes of meat twice drest, that become insipid, and lose the pleasant taste they had at first. He differs from an

author as a fiddler does from a musician, that plays other men's compositions, but is not able to make any of his own. All his studies tend to the ruin of the interests of linguists; for by making those books common that were understood but by few in the original, he endeavours to make the rabble as wise as himself without taking pains, and prevents others from studying languages, to understand that which they may know as well without them. -Butler.

CCXXIV.

Trust him little who praises all, him less who censures all, and him least who is indifferent about all.-Lavater.

CCXXV.

There is no rule in the world to be made for writing letters, but that of being as near what you speak face to face as you can; which is so great a truth, that I am of opinion, writing has lost more mistresses than any one mistake in the whole legend of love.-Steele.

CCXXVI.

As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honourable than the bare brow of a bachelor.Shakspeare.

CCXXVII.

Some men make a womanish complaint, that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain, if she demands it at pleasure; since it was on this condition you received it.-Cicero.

CCXXVIII.

A virtuous woman should reject the first offer of marriage, as a good man does that of a bishoprick; but I would advise neither the one nor the other to persist in refusing what they secretly approve.-Addison.

CCXXIX.

A man of wit, who is naturally proud, abates nothing of his pride or stiffness for being poor; on the contrary, if any thing will soften him, and render him more pliant and sociable, it is a little prosperity.-Bruyere.

CCXXX.

Every good poet includes a critic; the reverse will not hold.-Shenstone.

CCXXXI.

-As old sinners have all points

O' th' the compass in their bones and joints,
Can by their pangs and aches find
All turns and changes of the wind,
And, better than by Napier's bones,
Feel in their own the age of moons;
So guilty sinners, in a state,
Can by their crimes prognosticate,
And in their consciences feel pain
Some days before a show'r of rain.

CCXXXII.

Butler.

Love is exactly like war, in this; that a soldier, though he has escaped three weeks complete o' Saturday night -may nevertheless be shot through his heart on Sunday morning.-Sterne.

CCXXXIII.

Some men are more beholden to their bitterest enemies, than to friends who appear to be sweetness itself. The former frequently tell the truth, but the latter never.-Cato.

CCXXXIV.

The creditor, whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor, may hold his head in sunbeams, and his foot on storms.-Lavater.

CCXXXV.

A too idly reserved man, is one that is a fool with discretion, or a strange piece of politician, that manages

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