Let dogs delight to bark and bite,
For God hath made them so;

Let bears and lions growl and fight,

For 't is their nature too.

Song xvi.

Your little hands were never made

To tear each other's eyes.
How doth the little busy bee

Improve each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day,
From every opening flower!

Ibid.

Song xx.

Ibid.

For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.
To God the Father, God the Son,
And God the Spirit, three in one;
Be honour, praise, and glory given,
By all on earth, and all in heaven.
Glory to the Father and the Son.
Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber!
Holy angels guard thy bed!
Heavenly blessings without number
Gently falling on thy head.

A Cradle Hymn.

'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him

complain,

"You have waked me too soon, I must slumThe Sluggard.

ber again."

Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.

A Funeral Thought. Book ii. Hymn 63.

The tall, the wise, the reverend head
Must lie as low as ours.

Ibid.

Strange! that a harp of thousand strings
Should keep in tune so long.

Hymns and Spiritual Songs.

Book ii. Hymn 19.

So when a raging fever burns,

We shift from side to side by turns,
And 't is a poor relief we gain

To change the place, but keep the pain.
Ibid. Book ii. Hymn 146.

Were I so tall to reach the pole,
Or grasp the ocean with my span,
I must be measur'd by my soul:
The mind's the standard of the man.1
Hora Lyrica. Book ii. False Greatness.

WILLIAM CONGREVE.

1670-1729.

Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast,

To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

The Mourning Bride. Act i. Sc. 1.

By magic numbers and persuasive sound.

Ibid. Act i. Sc. 1.

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

Ibid. Act iii. Sc. 8.

For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds,
And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.

Ibid. Act v. Sc. 12.

'I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man. Seneca, On a Happy

Life, Ch. 1. (L'Estrange's Abstract.)

If there's delight in love, 't is when I see

That heart which others bleed for bleed for me. The Way of the World. Act iii. Sc. 12. Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude.

I came up stairs

born in a cellar.

Love for Love. Act ii. Sc. 5.

into the world, for I was

Ibid. Act ii. Sc. 7.

Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in those The Old Bachelor. Act ii. Sc. 2.

days.

Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.1

Ibid.

Defer not till to-morrow to be wise,

Act v. Sc. I.

To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise.2

Letter to Cobham.

SAMUEL GARTH.

1670-1719.

To die is landing on some silent shore,
Where billows never break, nor tempests roar ;
Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 't is o'er.
The Dispensary.3 Canto iii. Line 225.

1 See Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, Act ii. Sc. 2; Quarles, Enchiridion, Canto 4, xl.

2 Be wise to day, 'tis madness to defer. -Young, Night Thoughts, i. ; and see Martial, Book v. Ep. 59. 8 Thou hast no faults, or I no faults can spy, Thou art all beauty, or all blindness I. Christopher Codrington, On Garth's Dispensary.

NICHOLAS ROWE. 1673-1718.

As if Misfortune made the throne her seat, And none could be unhappy but the great.1 The Fair Penitent. Prologue.

At length the morn, and cold indifference came.2
Ibid. Acti. Sc. 1.

Is she not more than painting can express,
Or youthful poets fancy when they love?

Ibid. Act. iii. Sc. 1.

Is this that haughty gallant, gay Lothario?

Ibid. Act v. Sc. 1.

BISHOP BERKELEY. 1684-1753. Westward the course of empire takes its way;3 The four first acts already past,

A fifth shall close the drama with the day;
Time's noblest offspring is the last.

On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America.
[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign.
and proportioned to the human constitution, as
to warm without heating, to cheer but not ine-
briate.1
Siris. Par. 217.

1 None think the great unhappy, but the great.

Young, The Love of Fame, Satire i. Line 238.

2 But with the morning cool reflection came. - Scott, Chronicles of the Canongate, Ch. iv., also quoted in the notes to the Monastery, Ch. iii. n. 11, and with calm substituted for cool in the Antiquary, Ch. v., and repentance for reflection in Rob Roy, Ch. xii.

Westward the star of empire takes its way.

Epigraph to Bancroft's History of the United States.
Cups

That cheer but not inebriate.

Cowper, The Task, Book iv.

274 Bolingbroke. - Farquhar.

HENRY ST. JOHN, VISCOUNT BOLINGBROKE. 1678-1751.

I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that History is Philosophy teaching by examples.1

On the Study and Use of History. Letter 2.

GEORGE FARQUHAR.

1678-1707.

Cos. Pray now, what may be that same bed of honour?

Kite. Oh! a mighty large bed! bigger by half than the great bed at Ware: ten thousand people may lie in it together, and never feel one another. The Recruiting Officer. Act i. Sc. 1. I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.

The Beaux' Stratagem. Act iii. Sc. 1.

'T was for the good of my country that I should be abroad.2

Ibid. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Necessity, the mother of invention.

The Twin Rivals. Acti.

1 Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ars Rhet. xi. 2 (p. 398, R.), says: Παιδεία ἄρα ἐστὶν ἡ ἔντευξις τῶν ἠθῶν· τοῦτο καὶ Θουκυδίδης ἔοικε λέγειν, περὶ ἱστορίας λέγων· ὅτι καὶ ἱστορία φιλοσοφία ἐστὶν ἐκ παραδειγμάτων, quoting Thucydides, I. 22.

2 We left our country for our country's good.

Barrington, New South Wales, post, p. 425.