antage of naturally more helpless than the other sex; and a good for a cold, and it is not amiss if he has a botman of honour and sense should have this in his tle of spirits in his pocket in case of any sudden view in all manner of commerce with her. Were indisposition. this well weighed, inconsideration, ribaldry, and will appear t elves, arter 2. Je servan THE I hat it is which p as can be. they set ous beri sufferer is From the Subject bay a p from D the ett ex Curiosity having been my prevailing passion, nonsense, would not be more natural to entertain and indeed the sole entertainment of my life, I women with than men; and it would be as much have sometimes made it my business to examine the impertinence to go into a shop of one of these course of intrigues as well as the manners and acyoung women without buying, as into that of any complishments of such as have been most successother trader. I shall end this speculation with a ful that way. In all my observation, I never letter I have received from a pretty milliner in knew a man of good understanding a general fathe city. MR. SPECTATOR, vourite; some singularity in his behaviour, some whim in his way of life, and what would have made him ridiculous among the men, has recom'I HAVE read your account of beauties, and was mended him to the other sex. * 1 should be very not a little surprised to find no character of myself sorry to offend a people so fortunate as these of in it. I do assure you I have little else to do but whom I am speaking; but let any one look over to give audience as I am such. Here are mer- the old beaux, and he will find the man of success chants of no small consideration, who call in as was remarkable for quarrelling impertinently for certainly as they go to 'Change, to say something their sakes, for dressing unlike the rest of the my roguish eye. And here is one who makes world, or passing his days in an insipid assiduity me once or twice a week tumble over all my goods, about the fair sex to gain the figure he made and then owns it was only a gallantry to see me amongst them. Add to this that he must have the act with these pretty hands; then lays out three-reputation of being well with other women, to pence in a little ribband for his wristbands, and please any one woman of gallantry; for you are thinks he is a man of great vivacity. There is an to know, that there is a mighty ambition among ugly thing not far off me, whose shop is frequented the light part of the sex to gain slaves from the doonly by people of business, that is all day long as minion of others. My friend Will Honeycomb busy as possible. Must I that am a beauty be says, it was a common bite* with him, to lay sustreated with for nothing but my beauty? Be picions that he was favoured by a lady's enemy, pleased to assign rates to my kind glances, or make that is, some rival beauty, to be well with herself. all pay who come to see me, or I shall be undone A little spite is natural to a great beauty: and it is by my admirers for want of customers. Albacin- ordinary to snap up a disagreeable fellow lest anda, Eudocia, and all the rest, would be used just as other should have him. That impudent toad Barewe are, if they were in our condition; therefore face fares well among all the ladies he converses pray consider the distress of us the lower order of with, for no other reason in the world but that he beauties, and I shall be has the skill to keep them from explanation with one another. Did they know there is not one who likes him in her heart, each would declare her scorn of him the next moment; but he is well received by them because it is the fashion, and opposition to each other brings them insensibly into an imitation of each other. What adds to him the greatest grace is, that the pleasant thief, as they call him, is the most inconstant creature living, bas a wonderful deal of wit and humour, and never wants some. thing to say; besides all which, he has a most spiteful dangerous tongue if you should provoke him. STRELE. 'Your obliged humble servant, T. N° 156. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1711. · Sed tu simul obligasti, Perfidum votis caput, enitescia Pulchrior multo HOR. Od. viii. 1. 2. ver. 5. Since perjur'd, dost more charming grów. DUKE. To make a woman's man, he must not be a man of sense, or a fool: the business is to enterIno not think any thing could make a pleasanter tain, and it is much better to have a faculty of entertainment, than the history of the reigning fa- arguing, than a capacity of judging right. But vourites among the women from time to time about the pleasantest of all the women's equipage are this town. In such an account we ought to have a your regular visitants: these are volunteers in their faithful confession of each lady for what she liked service, without hopes of pay or preferment. It uch and such a man, and he ought to tell us by is enough that they can lead out from a public what particular action or dress he believed he place, that they are admitted on a public day, and should be most successful. As for my part, I have can be allowed to pass away part of that heavy always made as easy a judgment when a man load, their time, in the company of the fair. But dresses for the ladies, as when he is equipped for commend me above all others to those who are hanting or coursing. The woman's man is a per-known for your ruiners of ladies; these are the on in his air and behaviour quite different from the choicest spirits which our age produces. We have rest of our species. His garb is more loose and several of these irresistible gentlemen among us egligent, his manner more soft and indolent; that when the company is in town. These fellows are to say, in both these cases there is an apparent accomplished with the knowledge of the ordinary deavour to appear unconcerned and careless. occurrences about court and town, have that sort a catching birds the fowlers have a method of of good-breeding which is exclusive of all morality, mitating their voices, to bring them to the snare; and consists only in being publicly decent, priad your women's men have always a similitude vately dissolute. of the creature they hope to betray, in their own It is wonderful how far a fond opinion of her. Conversation. A woman's man is very knowing self can carry a woman, to make her have the least all that passes from one family to another, has regard to a professed known woman's man; but as le pretty officiousness, is not at a loss what is scarce oue of all the women who are in the tour of gallantries ever hears any thing of what is the com understood by Indoles in Latin. The natural dismon sense of sober minds, but are entertained with position to any particular art, science, profession, a continual round of flatteries, they cannot be mis- or trade, is very much to be consulted in the care tresses of themselves enough to make arguments of youth, and studied by men for their own con. for their own conduct from the behaviour of these duct when they form to themselves any scheme of men to others. It is so far otherwise, that a ge-life. It is wonderfully hard indeed for a man to neral fame of falsehood in this kind, is a recom. judge of his own capacity impartially. That may mendation; and the coxcomb, loaded with the fa- look great to me which may appear little to an vours of many others, is received like a victor other; and I may be carried by fondness towards that disdains his trophies, to be a victim to the pre-myself so far, as to attempt things too high for my sent charmer. talents and accomplishments. But it is not, me If you see a man more full of gesture than ordi- thinks, so very difficult a matter to make a judg nary in a public assembly, if loud upon no occa- ment of the abilities of others, especially of those sion, if negligent of the company round him, and who are in their infancy. My common-place book yet laying wait for destroying by that negligence, directs me on this occasion to mention the dawning you may take it for granted that he has ruined of greatness in Alexander, who being asked in his many a fair one. The woman's man expresses youth to contend for a prize in the Olympic himself wholly in that motion which we call strut- games, answered he would, if he had kings to run ting. An elevated chest, a pinched hat, a mea- against him. Cassius, who was one of the consurable step, and a sly surveying eye, are the marks spirators against Cæsar, gave as great a proof of of him. Now and then you see a gentleman with his temper, when in his childhood he struck a play. all these accomplishments; but, alas, any one of fellow the son of Sylla, for saying his father was them is enough to undo thousands: when a gentle master of the Roman people. Scipio is reported man with such perfections adds to it suitable learn- to have answered (when some flatterers at supper ing, there should be public warning of his residence were asking him what the Romans should do for a in town, that we may remove our wives and daugh- general after his death) Take Marius.' Marius ters. It happens sometimes that such a fine man was then a very boy, and had given no instances of has read all the miscellany poems, a few of our his valour; but it was visible to Scipio, from the comedies, and has the translation of Ovid's epis- manners of the youth, that he had a soul formed tles by heart. Oh, if it were possible that such for the attempt and execution of great undertak a one could be as true as he is charming! but that ings. I must confess I have very often with much is too much, the women will share such a dear sorrow bewailed the misfortune of the children of false man: a little gallantry to hear him talk one Great-Britain, when I consider the ignorance and would indulge one's self in, let him reckon the undiscerning of the generality of schoolmasters. sticks of one's fan, say something of the Cupids The boasted liberty we talk of is but a mean re in it; and then call one so many soft names which ward for the long servitude, the many heart-aches a man of his learning has at his fingers-ends. and terrors, to which our childhood is exposed in There sure is some excuse for frailty, when at going through a grammar-school. Many of these tacked by such force against a weak woman.' stupid tyrants exercise their cruelty without any Such is the soliloquy of many a lady one might manner of distinction of the capacities of children, name, at the sight of one of these, who makes it or the intention of parents in their behalf. There no iniquity to go on from day to day in the sin of are many excellent tempers which are worthy to woman-slaughter. be nourished and cultivated with all possible dili It is certain that people are got into a way of gence and care, that were never designed to be affectation, with a manner of overlooking the most acquainted with Aristotle, Tully, or Virgil: and solid virtues, and admiring the most trivial excel- there are as many who have capacities for underlencies: The woman is so far from expecting to standing every word those great persons have writ, be contemned for being a very injudicious silly and yet were not born to have any relish of their animal, that while she can preserve her features writings. For want of this common and obvious and her mien, she knows she is still the object of discerning in those who have the care of youth, desire; and there is a sort of secret ambition, from reading frivolous books, and keeping as frivolous company, each side to be amiable in imperfection, and arrive at the characters of the Dear Deceiver and the Perjured Fair. we have so many hundred unaccountable creatures every age whipped up into great scholars, that are for ever near a right understanding, and will never arrive at it. These are the scandal of letters, and these are generally the men who are to teach others. The sense of shame and honour is enough to keep the world itself in order without corporal punishment, much more to train the minds of un corrupted and innocent children. It happens, I doubt not, more than once in a year, that a lad is chastised for a blockhead, when it is good appre hension that makes him incapable of knowing what his teacher means. A brisk imagination very often may suggest an error, which a iad could not have fallen into, if he had been as heavy in conjecturing. as his master in explaining. But there is no mercy, even towards a wrong interpretation of his mean ing, the sufferings of the scholar's body are to rec tify the mistakes of his mind. I am confident that no boy who will not be al lured to letters without blows, will ever be brought must necessarily be the worse for such indignities; to any thing with them. A great or good mind and it is a sad change to lose of its virtue for the Le natural ce, prof improvement of its knowledge. No one who has much more so than they are, had they never sufgone through what they call a great school, but fered that infamy. ed in the their o any schen 4 for a m must remember to have seen children of excellent But though there is so little care, as I have oband ingenuous natures (as has afterwards appeared served, taken, or observation made, of the natural in their manhood); I say no man has passed through strain of men, it is no small comfort to me, as a this way of education, but must have seen an inge- Spectator, that there is any right value set upon nuous creature expiring with shame, with pale the bona Indoles of other animals; as appears by dors tove looks, beseeching sorrow, and silent tears, throw the following advertisement handed about the it is tr up its honest eyes, and kneel on its tender knees county of Lincoln, and subscribed by Enos Thoto an inexorable blockhead to be forgiven the false mas, a person whom I have not the honour to quantity of a word in making a Latin verse. The know, but suppose to be profoundly learned in child is punished, and the next day he commits a horse-flesh : like crime, and so a third with the same consequence. I would fain ask any reasonable man, 'A CHESNUT horse, called Cæsar, bred by James whether this lad, in the simplicity of his native in- Darcy, Esquire, at Sedbury, near Richmond, in the the Onocence, full of shame, and capable of any impres- county of York; his grandam was his old Royal sion from that grace of soul, was not fitter for any Mare, and got by Blunderbuss, which was got by purpose in this life, than after that spark of virtue Hemsly-Turk, and he got Mr. Courant's Arabian, is extinguished in him, though he is able to write which got Mr. Minshull's Jews-Trump. Mr. Darcy twenty verses in an evening? sold him to a nobleman (coming five years old, the dis arashih e of th STEELE. ENOS THOMAS.' T Seneca says, after his exalted way of talking, when he had but one sweat) for three hundred As the immortal gods never learnt any virtue, guineas. A guinea a leap and trial, and a shilling though they are endued with all that is good; so the man. there are some men who have so natural a propensity to what they should follow, that they learn it almost as soon as they hear it.' Plants and vegetables are cultivated into the production of finer fruits than they would yield without that care; and yet we cannot entertain hopes of producing a tender conscious spirit into acts of virtue, without the same methods as are used to cut timber, or give new shape to a piece of stone. N° 158. FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1711. Nos hæc novimus esse nihil. MARTIAL. We know these things to be mere trifles. It is wholly to this dreadful practice that we may attribute a certain hardiness and ferocity which Our of a firm regard to impartiality, I print these some men, though liberally educated, carry about letters, let them make for me or not. them in all their behaviour. To be bred like a gentleman, and punished like a malefactor, must, as we see it does, produce that illiberal sauciness 'I HAVE observed through the whole course of your which we see sometimes in men of letters. The Spartan boy who suffered the fox (which he had stolen and hid under his coat) to eat into his bowels, I dare say had not half the wit or petulance which we learn at great schools among us: but the glorious sense of honour, or rather fear of shame, which he demonstrated in that action, was worth all the learning in the world without it. 'MR. SPECTATOR, rhapsodies (as you once very well called them) you are very industrious to overthrow all that many, your superiors, who have gone before you, have made their rule of writing. I am now between fifty and sixty, and had the honour to be well with the first men of taste and gallantry in the joyous reign of Charles the Second. We then had, I humbly presume, as good understandings among us as It is, methinks, a very melancholy consideration, any now can pretend to. As for yourself, Mr. that a little negligence can spoil us, but great in- Spectator, you seem with the utmost arrogance to dustry is necessary to improve us; the most excel- undermine the very fundamentals upon which we lent natures are soon depreciated, but evil tempers conducted ourselves. It is monstrous to set up for are long before they are exalted into good habits. a man of wit, and yet deny that honour in a woman To help this by punishments, is the same thing as is any thing else but peevishness, that inclination killing a man to cure him of a distemper; when is the best rule of life, or virtue and vice any thing he comes to suffer punishment in that one circum-else but health and disease. We had no more to stance, he is brought below the existence of a ra- do but to put a lady in good-humour, and all we tional creature, and is in the state of a brute that could wish followed of course. Then, again, your moves only by the admonition of stripes. But Tully, and your discourses of another life, are the since this custom of educating by the lash is suf- very bane of mirth and good-humour. Pr'ythee fered by the gentry of Great Britain, I would pre- do not value thyself on thy reason at that exorvail only that honest heavy lads may be dismissed bitant rate, and the dignity of human nature; take from slavery sooner than they are at present, and my word for it, a setting-dog has as good reason as not whipped on to their fourteenth or fifteenth any man in England. Had you (as by your diuryear, whether they expect any progress from them nals one would think you do) set up for being in or not. Let the child's capacity be forthwith ex-vogue in town, you should have fallen in with the amined, and he sent to some mechanic way of life, bent of passion and appetite; your songs had then without respect to his birth, if nature designed been in every pretty mouth in England, and your him for nothing higher: let him go before he has little distichs had been the maxims of the fair and innocently suffered, and is debased into a derelic- the witty to walk by: but, alas, sir, what can you tion of mind for being what it is no guilt to be, a hope for, from entertaining people with what must plain man. I would not here be supposed to have needs make them like themselves worse than they said, that our learned men of either robe who have did before they read you? Had you made it your been whipped at school, are not still men of noble business to describe Corinna charming, though inand liberal minds; but I am sure they had been constant, to find something in human nature itself BB to make Zoilus excuse himself for being fond of but this they took for ogling and admiring them. her; and to make every man in good commerce There was one of the merry ones in particular, that with his own reflections, you had done something found out but just then that she had but five finworthy our applause; but, indeed, sir, we shall not gers, for she fell a reckoning the pretty pieces of commend you for disapproving us. I have a great ivory over and over again, to find herself employdeal more to say to you, but I shall sum it up all ment, and not laugh out. Would it not be expein this one remark. In short, sir, you do not write dient, Mr. Spectator, that the churchwarden like a gentleman. should hold up his wand on these occasions, and keep the decency of the place, as a magistrate does the peace in a tumult elsewhere?' 'I am, SIR, "Your most humble servant." MR. SPECTATOR, MR. SPECTATOR, THE other day we were several of us at a tea- I Am a woman's man, and read with a very fine table, and, according to custom, and your own ad- lady your paper, wherein you fall upon us whom vice, had the Spectator read among us. It was you envy: what do you think I did? You must that paper wherein you are pleased to treat with know she was dressing, I read the Spectator to great freedom that character which you call a wo-her, and she laughed at the places where she man's man. We gave up all the kinds you have thought I was touched; I threw away your moral, mentioned, except those who, you say, are our and taking up her girdle, cried out, 'Give me but what this riband bound, She smiled, sir, and said you were a pedant; constant visitants. I was upon the occasion commissioned by the company to write to you and tell you, that we shall not part with the men we have at present, until the men of sense think fit to relieve them, and give us their company in their so say of me what you please, read Seneca, and stead.' You cannot imagine but that we love to quote him against me if you think fit. hear reason and good sense better than the ribaldry we are at present entertained with; but we must have company, and among us very inconsiderable is better than none at all. We are made for the cements of society, and came into the world to create relations amongst mankind; and solitude STEELE. 'I am, SIR, "Your humble servant.' T. Omnem, quæ nunc obducta tuenti VIRG, Æn. ii. ver. 604. is an unnatural being to us. If the men of good N° 159. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1711. understanding would forget a little of their severity, they would find their account in it; and their wisdom would have a pleasure in it, to which they are now strangers. It is natural among us, when men have a true relish of our company and our value, to say every thing with a better grace: and there is without designing it something ornamental in what men utter before women, which is lost or neglected in conversations of men only. Give me WHEN I was at Grand Cairo,‡ I picked up several leave to tell you, sir, it would do you no great oriental manuscripts, which I have still by me. harm if you yourself came a little more into our Among others I met with one entitled, The Visions company: it would certainly cure you of a certain positive and determining manner in which you talk sometimes. In hopes of your amendment, '1 am, SIR, < MR. SPECTATOR, 'Your gentle reader.' of Mirza, which I have read over with great plea sure. I intend to give it to the public when I have no other entertainment for them; and shall begin with the first vision, which I have translated word for word as follows: 'On the fifth day of the moon, which according to the custom of my forefathers, I always keep YOUR professed regard to the fair sex, may per- holy, after having washed myself, and offered up haps make them value your admonitions when they my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of will not those of other men. I desire you, sir, to Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in merepeat some lectures upon subjects which you have ditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself now and then in a cursory manner only just touched. on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a pro. I would have a Spectator wholly writ upon good- found contemplation on the vanity of human life; breeding; and after you have asserted that time and passing from one thought to another, "Sureand place are to be very much considered in all our ly," said I, "man is but a shadow, and life a actions, it will be proper to dwell upon behaviour dream." Whilst I was thus musing, I cast my eyes at church. On Sunday last a grave and reverend towards the summit of a rock that was not far man preached at our church. There was something from me, where I discovered one in the habit of a particular in his accent, but without any manner of shepherd, with a little musical instrument in his affectation. This particularity a set of gigglers hand. As I looked upon him he applied it to his thought the most necessary thing to be taken notice lips, and began to play upon it. The sound of it of in his whole discourse, and made it an occasion was exceeding sweet, and wrought into a variety of mirth during the whole time of sermon. You of tunes that were inexpressibly melodious, and should see one of them ready to burst behind a fan, altogether different from any thing I had ever another pointing to a companion in another seat, heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly and a fourth with an arch composure, as if she airs that are played to the departed souls of good would if possible stifle her laughter. There were men upon their first arrival in Paradise, to wear many gentlemen who looked at them stedfastly, * No. 156. • No. 156. + Waller's verses on a Girdle. + See No. 1. dmiring den particul d but fre etty pieces o rself empl not be s church occasions, e? out the impressions of the last agonies, and qualify 'I passed some time in the contemplation of this I had been often told that the rock before me a deep melancholy to see several dropping unexwas the haunt of a Genius; and that several had pectedly in the midst of mirth and jollity, and been entertained with music who had passed by it, catching at every thing that stood by them to save but never heard that the musician had before made themselves. Some were looking up towards heahimself visible. When he had raised my thoughts ven in a thoughtful posture, and in the midst of a a magista by those transporting airs which he played, to speculation stumbled and fell out of sight. Multitaste the pleasures of his conversation, as I looked tudes were very busy in the pursuit of bubbles, upon him like one astonished, he beckoned to me, that glittered in their eyes and danced before and by the waving of his hand directed me to ap-them: but often when they thought themselves ha veproach the place where he sat. I drew near with within the reach of them, their footing failed, and that reverence which is due to a superior nature; down they sunk. In this confusion of objects, I IPOD IS 17 and as my heart was entirely subdued by the cap-observed some with scimitars in their hands, and tivating strains I had heard, I fell down at his others with urinals, who ran to and fro upon the feet and wept. The Genius smiled upon me with bridge, thrusting several persons on trap-doors a look of compassion and affability that familia-which did not seem to lie in their way, and which rized him to my imagination, and at once dis- they might have escaped, had they not been thus pelled all the fears and apprehensions with which forced upon them. ? You Spectat es where s y your Bo I approached him. He lifted me from the ground, The Genius, seeing me indulge myself on this and taking me by the hand, "Mirza," said he, melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long ere a per "I have heard thee in thy soliloquies; follow enough upon it. "Take thine eyes off the bridge," said he, "and tell me if thou yet seest any thing Seneca me." 'He then led me to the highest pinnacle of the thou dost not comprehend." Upon looking up, rock, and placing me on the top of it, "Cast thy" What mean," said I, "those great flights of eyes eastward,” said he, "and tell me what thou birds that are perpetually hovering about the seest."-"I see," said I, "a huge valley, and a bridge, and settling upon it from time to time? I prodigious tide of water rolling through it."-"The see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and valley that thou seest," said he, "is the Vale of among many other feathered creatures, several litMisery, and the tide of water that thou seest is tle winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon part of the great tide of Eternity."-"What is the middle arches."—"These,” said the Genius, the reason," said I, "that the tide I see rises out" are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself with the like cares and passions, that infest human in a thick mist at the other?"-"What thou seest," life." said he, "is that portion of eternity which is 'I here fetched a deep sigh. "Alas," said 1, called time, measured out by the sun, and reach-"man was made in vain! how is he given away to ing from the beginning of the world to its con- misery and mortality! tortured in life, and swalsummation. Examine now," said he, "this sea lowed up in death!" The Genius, being moved that is bounded with darkness at both ends, and with compassion towards me, bid me quit so untell me what thou discoverest in it.""I see a comfortable a prospect. "Look no more," said bridge," said I, "standing in the midst of the he, "on man in the first stage of his existence, in his tide." "The bridge thou seest," said he, "is Hu-setting out for eternity; but cast thine eye on that man Life: consider it attentively." Upon a more thick mist into which the tide bears the several leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of generations of mortals that fall into it." I directed threescore and ten entire arches, with several bro- my sight as I was ordered, and (whether or no the ken arches, which, added to those that were en- good Genius strengthened it with any supernatural tire, made up the number about an hundred. As force, or dissipated part of the mist that was be3 was counting the arches, the Genius told me that fore too thick for the eye to penetrate) I saw the this bridge consisted at first of a thousand arches; valley opening at the further end, and spreading but that a great flood swept away the rest, and forth into an immense ocean, that had a huge rock left the bridge in the ruinous condition I now be- of adamant running through the midst of it, and held it. "But tell me further," said he, "what dividing it into two equal parts. The clouds still thou discoverest on it."-"I see multitudes of rested on one half of it, insomuch that I could people passing over it," said I, "and a black discover nothing in it; but the other appeared to cloud hanging on each end of it." As I looked me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, more attentively, I saw several of the passengers that were covered with fruits and flowers, and indropping through the bridge into the great tide terwoven with a thousand little shining seas that that flowed underneath it; and upon further exa-ran among them. I could see persons dressed in mination, perceived there were innumerable trap-glorious habits with garlands upon their heads, doors that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passing among the trees, lying down by the sides passengers no sooner trod upon, but they fell of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers; and through them into the tide, and immediately disap- could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, peared. These hidden pitfals were set very thick at falling waters, human voices, and musical instruthe entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of peo-ments. Gladness grew in me upon the discovery ple no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together seats; but the Genius told me there was no passage towards the end of the arches that were entire. to them, except through the gates of death that I "There were indeed some persons, but their saw opening every moment upon the bridge. "The number was very small, that continued a kind of islands," said he, "that lie so fresh and green behobbling march on the broken arches, but fell fore thee, and with which the whole face of the through one after another, being quite tired and ocean appears spotted as far as thou canst see, spent with so long a walk. are more in number than the sands on the sea-shore; |