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many of you uneafy. Yefterday, as we were told, the stocks rofe, and you were glad to-day they fell, and you are again miferable. But, my dear friends, what is the rifing or the falling of the ftocks to us, who have no money? Let Nathan Ben Funk, the Dutch Jew, be glad or forry for this; but, my good Mr. Bellows-mender, what is all this to you or me? You must mend broken bellows, and I write bad profe, as long as we live, #whether we like a Spanish war or not. Believe me, my honest friends, whatever you may talk of liberty and your own reafon, both that liberty and réafon are conditionally refigned by every poor man in every fociety; and, as we are born to work, fo others are born to watch over us while we are working. In the name of common fenfe, then, my good friends, let the Great keep watch over us, and let us mind our bufinefs, and perhaps we may at last get money ourselves, and fet beg gars, to work in our turn. I have a Latin fentence that is worth its weight in gold, and which I fhalk beg leave to tranflate for your inftruction. An au thor, called Lilly's Grammar, finely obferves, that "Es in præfenti perfectum format :" that is, "Ready money makes a perfect man." Let us then,. to become perfect men, get ready money; and let them that will, fpend theirs by going to war with Spain..

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RULES FOR BEHAVIOUR,

DRAWN UP BY THE INDIGENT PHILOSOPHER.

IF you be a rich man, you may enter the room with three loud hems, march deliberately up to the chimney, and turn your back to the fire. If you be a poor man, I would advise you to shrink into the room as fast as you can, and place yourself, as ufual, upon the corner of a chair in a remote

corner.

When you are defired to fing in company, I would advise you to refufe; for, it is a thousand to one but that you torment us with affectation, ignorance of mufic, or a bad voice.

If you be young, and live with an old man, I would advise you not to like gravy; I was difinherited myself for liking gravy.

Don't laugh much in public; the fpectators that are not as merry as you, will hate you, either because they envy your happiness, or fancy themfelves the fubject of your mirth.

RULES FOR RAISING THE DEVIL.

TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN OF DANEUS DE SORTFARTIS, A WRITER COTEMPORARY WITH CALVIN, AND ONE OF THE REFORM ERS OF OUR CHURCH.

THE person who defires to raise the Devil, is to facrifice a dog, a cat, and a hen, all of his own property,

property, to Beelzebub. He is to fwear an eternal obedience, and then to receive a mark in fome unfeen place, either under the eye-lid or in the roof of the mouth, inflicted by the devil himself. Upon this, he has power given him over three fpirits; one for earth, another for air, and a third for the fea. Upon certain times, the devil holds an affembly of magicians, in which each is to give an account of what evil he has done, and what he wishes to do. At this affembly he appears in the shape of an old man, or often like a goat with large horns. They, upon this occafion, renew their vows of obedience; and then form a grand dance in honour of their falfe deity. The devil instructs them in every method of injuring mankind, in gathering poisons, and of riding, upon occafion, through the air. He shows them the whole method, upon examination, of giving evafive anfwers. His fpirits have power to affume the form of angels of light, and there is but one method of detecting them, viz. to ask them, in proper form, What method is the most certain to propagate the faith over all the world? To this they are not permitted by the Superior Power to make a falfe reply; nor are they willing to give the true one; wherefore they continue filent, and are thus detected.

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Mr. Tibbs, an affected whimsical Character.

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HOUGH naturally penfive, yet I am fond of gay company, and take every opportunity of thus difmiffing the mind from duty. From this mo

tive, I am often found in the centr and wherever pleasure is to be fold, purchaser. In those places, without b by any, I join in whatever goes forw paffions into a fimilitude of frivolou fhout as they shout, and condemn as to disapprove. A mind thus funk for a its natural ftandard, is qualified for ftr as those first retire who would spring greater vigour.

Attracted by the ferenity of the even and I latelywent to gaze upon the com of the public walks near the city. He tered together for fome time, either p beauty of fuch as were handfome, or th fuch as had nothing else to recommend had gone thus deliberately forward for when my friend stopping on a fudden, by the elbow, and led me out of the pu I could perceive, by the quickness of his by his frequently looking behind, that tempting to avoid fomebody who follow now turned to the right, then to the le went forward, he ftill went fafter; but the perfon whom he attempted to escape us through every doubling, and gained each moment; fo that, at laft, we fairly fi refolving to face what we could not avoid

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"Pofitively I had fancied you were gone down to " cultivate matrimony and your estate in the coun"try." During the reply, I had an opportunity of furveying the appearance of our new companion. His hat was pinched up with peculiar smartness; his looks were pale, thin, and fharp; round his neck he wore a broad black ribbon, and in his bofom a buckle ftudded with glass; his coat was trimmed with tarnifhed twist; he wore by his fide a sword with a black hilt; and his ftockings of filk, though newly washed, were grown yellow by long fervice. I was fo much engaged with the peculiarity of his dress, that I attended only to the latter part of my friend's reply; in which he complimented Mr.Tibbs on the taste of hisclothes, and the bloom in hiscountenance. "Pfha, pfha, Charles," cried the figure, no more of that, if you love me; you know I hate flattery; on my foul I do; and yet, to be fure, an "intimacy with the great will improve one's ap66 pearance, and a course of venison will fatten ; ❝and yet, faith, I despise the great as much as you “ do; but there are a great many damned honest "fellows among them; and we must not quarrel "with one half, because the other wants breeding. "If they were all fuch as my Lord Mudler, one of "the most good-natured creaturesthat ever fqueez"edalemon, I fhould myself be among the number "of their admirers. I was yefterday to dine at the "Dutchefs of Piccadilly's. My Lord was there. "Ned," fays he to mc, "Ned," fays he, "I'll "hold gold to filver, I tell where you were poach"ing last night." "Poaching, my Lord," fays

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