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When I consider life, 't is all a cheat.

Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit ;
Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay:
To-morrow's falser than the former day;

Lies worse; and, while it says we shall be blest
With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Strange cozenage! none would live past years
again,

Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain ;
And from the dregs of life think to receive
What the first sprightly running could not give.

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Of no distemper, of no blast he died,

But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long;
Even wondered at, because he dropt no sooner.
Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years;
Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more:
Till, like a clock worn out with eating time,
The wheels of weary life at last stood still.

1 Delays have dangerous ends. Henry VI. Part i. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Ibid.

Act iv. Sc. I.

Shakespeare, King

[Dryden continued.

She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty, Grows cold, even in the summer of her age.

Edipus. Act iv. Sc. 1.

There is a pleasure sure

In being mad which none but madmen know.1 The Spanish Friar. Act ii. Sc. I.

This is the porcelain clay of humankind.2

Don Sebastian. Acti. Sc. I.

3

I have a soul that, like an ample shield,
Can take in all, and verge enough for more.
Ibid. Acti. Sc. I.

A knock-down argument: 'tis but a word and a blow. Amphitryon. Act i. Sc. I.

The true Amphitryon. Ibid. Act iv. Sc. I.

The spectacles of books.

Essay on Dramatic Poetry.

STEPHEN HARVEY.

And there's a lust in man no charm can tame
Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame;
On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly,
While virtuous actions are but born and die.

1 Cf. Cowper, p. 361.

Juvenal. Satire ix.1

2 Cf. Byron, Don Juan, Canto iv. St. 11.

8 Cf. Gray, p. 331.

From Anderson's British Poets, Vol. xii. p. 697.

JOHN BUNYAN. 1628-1688.

And so I penned

It down, until at last it came to be,

For length and breadth, the bigness which you Apology for His Book.

see.

Some said, "John, print it," others said, "Not so," Some said, "It might do good," others said, "No."

The name of the slough was Despond.

Ibid.

Pilgrim's Progress. Parti.
It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because
the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity.
Ibid. Part I.

Some things are of that nature as to make
One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.
The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of
the Pilgrim.

He that is down needs fear no fall.1

Ibid. Part ii.

RICHARD BAXTER. 1615 – 1691.

I preached as never sure to preach again,
And as a dying man to dying men.

Love breathing Thanks and Praise.

1 He that is down can fall no lower. - Butler, Hudibras, Parti. Canto iii. Line 877.

232

L'Estrange. -Tillotson.

EARL OF ROSCOMMON. 1633-1684.

Remember Milo's end,

Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend. Essay on Translated Verse. Line 87.

And choose an author as you choose a friend.

Ibid. Line 96.

Immodest words admit of no defence,
For want of decency is want of sense.

Ibid. Line 113.

The multitude is always in the wrong.

Ibid. Line 184.

My God, my Father, and my Friend,
Do not forsake me at my end.

Translation of Dies Ira.

ROGER L'ESTRANGE.

1616-1704.

Though this may be play to you,

'Tis death to us.

Fables from Several Authors. Fable 398.

JOHN TILLOTSON.

1630-1694.

If God were not a necessary Being of himself, he might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.1 Sermon 93, 1712.

1 Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudroit l'inventer. - Voltaire, A l'Auteur du livre des trois imposteurs, Epit. cxi.

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To their own second and sober thoughts.1

Exposition, Job vi. 29. (London, 1710.)

SIR JOHN POWELL.

1713.

Let us consider the reason of the case. For

nothing is law that is not reason.2

Coggs vs. Bernard, 2 Ld. Raym. 911.

RICHARD RUMBOLD.

1685.

I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.

When on the Scaffold (1685). Macaulay, Hist. of England.

1 I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law. Fisher Ames, Speech on Biennial Elections, 1788.

2 Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason.... The law, which is perfection of reason. — Coke, Institute, Book i. Fol. 976.

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