CCIII.

You see

They that govern most make least noise. when they row in a barge, they that do drudgery work, slash, and puff, and sweat; but he that governs, sits quietly at the stern, and scarce is seen to stir.-Selden.

CCIV.

Who would believe what strange bugbears
Mankind creates itself, of fears,

That spring, like fern, that insect weed,
Equivocally, without seed,

And have no possible foundation,

But merely in th' imagination?

And yet can do more dreadful feats

Than hags with all their imps and teats;
Make more bewitch and haunt themselves,
Than all their nurseries of elves.

For fear does things so like a witch,
'Tis hard t'unriddle which is which;
Set up communities of senses,
To chop and change intelligences;
As Rosicrucian virtuosis

Can see with ears, and hear with noses;
And, when they neither see nor hear,
Have more than both supply'd by fear,
That makes them in the dark see visions,
And hag themselves with apparitions,
And, when their eyes discover least,
Discern the subtlest objects best.

CCV.

Butler.

All wit and humour, however excellent it may be in itself, which in the smallest degree wounds the feelings of another, is coarse unfeeling horse-play; and no person who possesses either piety, grace, or good manners, will use such jests as are mordentes et aculeati, bitter, poisoned, injurious, or which in any way leave a sting behind them.-Burton.

CCVI.

A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.-Shenstone.

CCVII.

Reasons are the pillars of the fabrick of a sermon, but similitudes are the windows which give the best light. The faithful minister avoids such stories, whose mention may suggest bad thoughts to the auditours, and will not use a light comparison to make thereof a grave application, for fear lest his poyson go further than his antidote. -Fuller.

CCVIII.

If our sex were wise, a lover should have a certificate from the last woman he served, how he was turned away, before he was received into the service of another; but at present any vagabond is welcome, provided he promises to enter into our livery. It is wonderful, that we will not take a footman without credentials from his last master: and in the greatest concern of life, we make no scruple of falling into a treaty with the most notorious offender in this behaviour against others. But this breach of commerce between the sexes proceeds from an unaccountable prevalence of custom, by which a woman is to the last degree reproachable for being deceived, and a man suffers no loss of credit for being a deceiver.-Tatler.

CCIX.

As a man's salutation, so is the total of his character, in nothing do we lay ourselves so open, as in our man⚫ner of meeting and salutation.-Lavater.

CCX.

'Tis not now who's stout and bold?
But who bears hunger best, and cold?
And he's approv'd the most deserving,
Who longest can hold out at starving;
And he that routs most pigs and cows,
The formidablest man of prowess.
So th' Emperor Caligula,

That triumph'd o'er the British sea,
Took crabs and oysters prisoners,
And lobster's 'stead of cuirasiers;
Engag'd his legions in fierce bustles,
With perriwinkles, prawns, and mussels,

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