sense, and ingenuity of those who had the right on their side; but this method of conviction operated too slowly. Pain was found to be much more enlightening than reason. Every scruple was looked upon as obstinacy, and not to be removed but by several engines invented for that purpose. In a word, the application of whips, racks, gibbets, gallies, dungeons, fire and faggot, in a dispute, may be looked upon as popish refinements upon the old heathen logic.-Addison.

DCCLXIII.

What is our high prais'd philosophy,
But books of poesy in prose compil'd,
Far more delightful than they fruitful be,
Witty appearance, guile that is beguil
Corrupting minds much rather than directing,
Th' allay of duty, and our pride's erecting.
For, as among physicians, what they call
Word Magic, never helpeth the disease
Which drugs and diet ought to deal withal,

And by their real working give us ease:
So these word-sellers have no power to cure
The passions which corrupted lives endure.
Sir Fulk Greville.

DCCLXIV.

Court and country, which are the genuine offspring of the British government, are a kind of mixed parties, and are influenced both by principle and by interest. The heads of the factions are commonly more governed by the latter motive; the inferior members of them by the former.-Hume.

DCCLXV.

The terme is a time when justice keeps open court for all commers, while her sister equity strives to mitigate the rigour of her positive sentence. It is called the terme, because it does end and terminate business, or else because it is the terminus ad quem, that is, the end of the countryman's journey who comes up to the terme, and with his hobnayle shoes grindes the face of the poore stones, and so returnes againe. It is the soule

of the yeare, and makes it quicke, which before was dead. Innkeepers gape for it as earnestly as shelfish doe for salt water after a low ebbe. It sends forth new bookes into the world, and replenishes Paul's walke with fresh company, where Quid novi? is their first salutation, and the weekly news their chiefe discourse. The taverns are painted against the terme, and many a cause is argu'd there and try'd at that barre, where you are adjudged to pay the costs and charges, and so dismist with "welcome gentlemen.” Now the city puts her best side outward, and a new play at the Blackfryers is attended on with coaches. It keeps watermen from sinking and helpes them with many a fare voyage to Westminster. Your choyse beauties come up to it onely to see and be seene, and to learne the newest fashion, and for some other recreations. Now monie that has been long sicke and crazie, begins to stirre and walke abroad, especially if some young prodigalls come to towne, who bring more monie than wit. Lastly, the terme is the joy of the city, a deare friend to countrymen, and is never more welcome than after a long vacation.-Wye Saltonstall, 1631.

DCCLXVI.

The generality of mankind are so very fond of this world, and of staying in it, that a man cannot have eminent skill in any one art, but they will, in spite of his teeth, make him a physician also, that being the science the wordlings have most need of.-Steele.

Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for a hermitage.
If I have freedom in my love,
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone that soar above,
Enjoy such liberty.

DCCLXVIII.

Lovelace:

Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration: an emperor in his night cap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.-Goldsmith.

DCCLXIX.

The good merchant never demands out of distance of the price he intends to take. If not always within the touch, yet within the reach of what he means to sell for. Now we must know, there be foure severall prices of vendible things. First, the price of the market, which ebbes and flows according to the plenty or scarcity of coyn, commodities, and chapmen. Secondly, the price of friendship, which perchance is more giving than selling, and therefore not so proper at this time. Thirdly, the price of fancie, as twenty pounds or more for a dog or hawk, when no such inherent worth can naturally be in them, but by the buyers'or sellers fancie reflecting on them. Yet, I believe, the money may lawfully be taken. First, because the seller sometimes, on those terms, is as loth to forego it, as the buyer is willing to have it. And I know no standard herein, whereby men's affections may be measured. Secondly, it being a matter of pleasure, and men able and willing, let them pay for it. "Volenti non fit injuria." Lastly, there is the price of cosenage, which our merchant from his heart detests and abhors.-Fuller.

DCCLXX.

Farewell, ye gilded follies? pleasing troubles;
Farewell, ye honour'd rags, ye glorious bubbles;
Fame's but a hollow echo, gold pure clay,
Honour the darling but of one short day;
Beauty th' eyes' idol, but a damask'd skin.
State, but a golden prison to live in

And torture free-born minds; embroider'd trains
Merely but pageants for proud swelling veins;
And blood, allied to greatness, is alone
Inherited, and purchas'd nor our own.

Fame, honour, beauty, state, train, blood, and birth, Are but the fading blossoms of the earth.

DCCLXXI.

Sir H. Wotton.

Astrology is the excellent foppery of the world! that when we are sick in fortune, (often the surfeit of our own behaviour,) we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on; an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's tail; and my nativity was under ursa major; so that it follows, I am rough and lecherous.-Tut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled at my bastardizing,—Shakspeare.

DCCLXXII.

It has been said in praise of some men, that they could talk whole hours together upon any thing; but it must be owned to the honour of the other sex, that there are many among them who can talk whole hours together upon nothing. I have known a woman branch out into a long extempore dissertation upon the edging of a petticoat; and chide her servant for breaking a China cup, in all the figures of rhetoric.-Addison.

DCCLXXIII.

The rich have still a gibe in store,
And will be monstrous witty on the poor;
For the torn surtout and the tatter'd vest,
The wretch and all his wardrobe are a jest:
The greasy gown sully'd with often turning,
Gives a good hint to say the man's in mourning;
Or if the shoe be ript, or patch is put,
He's wounded, see the plaster on his foot,
Want is the scorn of every wealthy fool,
And wit in rags is turn'd to ridicule.

DCCLXXIV.

Dryden's Juvenal.

A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough: a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.-Pope.

DCCLXXV.

The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting or knot of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so are there a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs that make men fortunate.Lord Bacon.

DCCLXXVI.

Two beggars told me,

I could not miss my way; will poor folks lie,
That have afflictions on them; knowing 'tis
A punishment or trial? Yes; no wonder,
When rich ones scarce tell true: to lapse in fulness
Is sorer, than to lie for need; and falsehood
Is worse in kings, than beggars.

DCCLXXVII.

Skakspeare.

It is the boast of an Englishman that his property is secure; and all the world will grant, that a deliberate administration of justice is the best way to secure his property. Why have we so many lawyers but to secure our property? why so many formalities but to secure our