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minister being big with child, could not attend the public affairs, as so great an exigency of state required; but this I can give no manner of credit to, since it seems to contradict a fundamental maxim in their government which I have before mentioned. My author gives the most probable reason of this great disaster; for he affirms that the general was brought to bed, or (as others say) miscarried, the very night before the battle: however it was, this signal overthrow obliged them to call in the male republic to their assistance; but notwithstanding their common efforts to repulse the victorious enemy, the war continued for many years before they could entirely bring it to a happy conclusion.

No. 435.] SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1712.
Nec duo sunt, et forma duplex, nec fœmina dici,
Nec puer, ut possint: neutrumque et utrumque videntur.
OVID, Met. iv. 378.
Both bodies in a single body mix,

A single body with a double sex-ADDISON. on subjects that never vary, but are for ever fixed Most of the papers I give the public are written and immutable. Of this kind are all my more serious essays and discourses; but there is another sort of speculations, which I consider as occasional papers, that take their rise from the folly, extravagance, and caprice, of the present age. For I look The campaigns which both sexes passed together behaviour of my countrymen and contemporaries, upon myself as one set to watch the manners and made them so well acquainted with one another, and to mark down every absurd fashion, ridiculous that at the end of the war they did not care for part-custom, or affected form of speech, that makes its ing. In the beginning of it they lodged in separate appearance in the world during the course of these camps, but afterward, as they grew more familiar, they pitched their tents promiscuously. From this time, the armies being checkered with both sexes, they polished apace. The men used to invite their fellow-soldiers into their quarters, and would dress their tents with flowers and boughs for their reception. If they chanced to like one more than another, they would be cutting her name in the table, or chalking out her figure upon the wall, or talking of her in a kind of rapturous language, which by degrees improved into verse and sonnet. These were as the first rudiments of architecture, painting, and poetry, among this savage people. After any advantage over the enemy, both sexes used to jump together, and make a clattering with their swords and shields, for joy, which in a few years produced several regular tunes and set dances.

As the two armies romped on these occasions, the women complained of the thick bushy beards and long nails of their confederates, who thereupon took care to prune themselves into such figures as were most pleasing to their female friends and allies.

When they had taken any spoils from the enemy, the men would make a present of every thing that was rich and showy to the women whom they most admired, and would frequently dress the necks, or heads, or arms of their mistresses, with any thing which they thought appeared gay or pretty. The women observing that the men took delight in looking upon them when they were adorned with such trappings and gewgaws, set their heads at work to find out new inventions, and to outshine one another in all councils of war, or the like solemn meetings. On the other hand, the men observing how the women's hearts were set upon finery, begun to embellish themselves, and look as agreeably as they could in the eyes of their associates. In short, after a few years' conversing together, the women had learned to smile, and the men to ogle; the women grew soft, and the men lively.

When they had thus insensibly formed one another, upon the finishing of the war, which concluded with an entire conquest of their common enemy, the colonels in one army married the colonels in the other; the captains in the same manner took the captains to their wives: the whole body of common soldiers were matched after the example of their leaders. By this means the two republics incorporated with one another, and became the most flourishing and polite government in the part of the world which they inhabited.-C.

my speculations. The petticoat no sooner began to had not time to muster themselves before I detected swell, but I observed its motions. The party-patches them. I had intelligence of the coloured hood the very first time it appeared in a public assembly. I might here mention several other the like contingent subjects, upon which I have bestowed distinct papers. By this means I have so effectually quashed those irregularities which gave occasion to them, that I am afraid posterity will scarce have a sufficient idea of them to relish those discourses which were in no little vogue at the time when they were written. They will be apt to think that the fashions and customs I attacked were some fantastic conceits of my own, and that their great-grandmothers could not be so whimsical as I have represented them. For this reason, when I think on the figure my several volumes of speculations will make about a hundred years hence, I consider them as so many pieces of old plate, where the weight will be regarded, but the fashion lost.

Among the several female extravagances I have
keeps its ground. I mean that of the ladies who
already taken notice of, there is one which still
dress themselves in a hat and feather, a riding-coat
and a periwig, or at least tie up their hair in a bag
or riband, in imitation of the smart part of the op-
posite sex.
account of the mixture of two sexes in one common-
As in my yesterday's paper I gave an
wealth, I shall here take notice of this mixture of
two sexes in one person. I have already shown my
dislike of this immodest custom more than once;
but, in contempt of every thing I have hitherto
said, I am informed that the highways about this
great city are still very much infested with these
female cavaliers.

de Coverley's about this time twelvemonth, an
I remember when I was at my friend Sir Roger
equestrian lady of this order appeared upon the
plains which lay at a distance from his house. I
friend; and as his tenants ran out on every side to
was at that time walking in the fields with my old
see so strange a sight, Sir Roger asked one of them,
who came by us, what it was? To which the coun-
try fellow replied,
your worship's presence, in a coat and hat." This
""Tis a gentlewoman, saving
produced a great deal of mirth at the knight's house,
where we had a story at the same time of another
of his tenants, who meeting this gentleman-like lady
on the highway, was asked by her whether that was
Coverley-hall? The honest man seeing only the
male part of the querist, replied, Yes, Sir;" but
upon the second question, whether Sir Roger de
Coverley was a married man? having dropped his

eve upon the petticoat, he changed his note into not forbear going on Wednesday last to a place of No, Madam." no small renown for the gallantry of the lower order Had one of these hermaphrodites appeared in Ju-of Britons, namely, to the Bear-garden, at Hockleyvenal's days, with what an indignation should we have in-the-Hole: where (as a whitish-brown paper, put seen her described by that excellent satirist! He into my hands in the street, informed me) there would have represented her in her riding-habit as a was to be a trial of skill exhibited between two greater monster than the centaur. He would have masters of the noble science of defence, at two of called for sacrifices, or purifying waters, to expatiate the clock precisely. I was not a little charmed with the appearance of such a prodigy. He would have the solemnity of the challenge, which ran thus: invoked the shades of Portia or Lucretia, to see I, James Miller, serjeant (lately come from the into what the Roman ladies had transformed them-frontiers of Portugal), master of the noble science selves.

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of defence, hearing in most places where I have
been of the great fame of Timothy Buck, of London,
master of the said science, do invite him to meet me
and exercise at the several weapons following, viz.
"Back sword,
Single falchion,
"Sword and dagger, Case of falchions,
"Sword and buckler, Quarter staff."

For my own part, I am for treating the sex with greater tenderness, and have all along made use of the most gentle methods to bring them off from any little extravagance into which they have sometimes unwarily fallen. I think it, however, absolutely necessary to keep up the partition between the two sexes, and to take notice of the smallest encroachments which the one makes upon the other. If the generous ardour in James Miller to dispate I hope, therefore, that I shall not hear any more the reputation of Timothy Buck had something re complaints on this subject. I am sure my she-dissembling the old heroes of romance, Timothy Buck ciples, who peruse these my daily lectures, have returned answer in the same paper with the like profited but little by them, if they are capable of spirit, adding a little indignation at being chal giving into such an amphibious dress. This I should lenged, and seeming to condescend to fight James not have mentioned, had not I iately met one of Miller, not in regard to Miller himself, but in that, these my female readers in Hyde-park, who looked as the fame went out, he had fought Parkes of Coupon me with a masculine assurance, and cocked ventry. The acceptance of the combat ran in these ner hat full in my face. words:

For my part, I have one general key to the behaviour of the fair sex. When I see them singular in any part of their dress, I conclude it is not without some evil intention; and therefore question not but the design of this strange fashion is to smite more effectually their male beholders. Now to set them right in this particular, I would fain have them consider with themselves, whether we are not more likely to be struck by a figure entirely female, than with such a one as we may see every day in our glasses. Or, if they please, let them reflect upon their own hearts, and think how they would be affected should they meet a man on horseback in his breeches and jack-boots, and at the same time dressed up in a commode and a nightraile.

“I, Timothy Buck, of Clare-market, master of the noble science of defence, hearing he did fight Mr. Parkes of Coventry, will not fail (God willing) to meet this fair inviter at the time and place ap pointed, desiring a clear stage and no favour.Vivat Regina."

I shall not here look back on the spectacles of the Greeks and Romans of this kind, but must believa this custom took its rise from the ages of knighterrantry; from those who loved one woman so well, that they hated all men and women else; from those who would fight you, whether you were or were not of their mind; from those who demanded the com bat of their contemporaries, both for admiring their mistress or discommending her. I cannot therefore I must observe that this fashion was first of all but lament, that the terrible part of the ancient fight brought to us from France, a country which has in- is preserved, when the amorous side of it is forfected all the nations of Europe with its levity. I gotten. We have retained the barbarity, but lost speak not this in derogation of a whole people, hav- the gallantry of the old combatants. I could wish, ing more than once found fault with those general methinks, these gentlemen had consulted me in the reflections which strike at kingdoms or common- promulgation of the conflict. I was obliged by a wealths in the gross-a piece of cruelty, which an fair young maid, whom I understood to be called ingenious writer of our own compares to that of Elizabeth Preston, daughter of the keeper of the Caligula, who wished the Roman people had all but garden, with a glass of water; who I imagined might one neck, that he might behead them at a blow. I have been, for form's sake, the general representa shall therefore only remark, that as liveliness and tive of the lady fought for, and from her beauty the assurance are in a peculiar manner the qualifica-proper Amaryllis on these occasions. It would have tions of the French nation, the same habits and cus- run better in the challenge," I, James Miller, ser toms will not give the same offence to that people jeant, who have travelled parts abroad, and came which they produce among those of our own coun- last from the frontiers of Portugal, for the love of try. Modesty is our distinguishing character, as Elizabeth Preston, do assert that the said Elizabeth vivacity is theirs: and when this our national virtue appears in that female beauty for which our British ladies are celebrated above all others in the universe, it makes up the most amiable object that the eye of man can possibly behold.-C.

No. 436.] MONDAY, JULY 21, 1712.
Verso pollice vulgi

Quemlibet occidunt populariter.—Juv. Sat. iii. 36.
With thumbs bent back, they popularly kill.-DRYDEN.
BEING a person of insatiable curiosity, I could

On a large tomb in the great church-yard of Coventry is the following inscription.

"To the memory of Mr. John Sparkes, a native of this city. he was a man of a mild disposition, a gladiator by profession, who, after having fought 350 battles in the principal parts el Europe with honour and applause, at length quitted the stage, sheathed his sword, and with Christian resignation, submitted to the grand victor in the 52d year of his age.

"Anno salutis humanæ 1733."

His friend, Serjeant Miller, here mentioned, a man of vest athletic accomplishments, was advanced afterward to the rack of a captain in the British army, and did notable service in Scotland under the Duke of Cumberland in 1745.

is the fairest of women." Then the answer; "I Timothy Buck, who have stayed in Great Britain during all the war in foreign parts for the sake of Susannah Page, do deny that Elizabeth Preston is so fair as the said Susannah Page. Let Susannah Page look on, and I desire of James Miller no favour."

his eyes in a moment, and the huzzas of the crowd undoubtedly quickened the anguish. The assembly was divided into parties upon their different ways of fighting; while a poor nymph in one of the galleries apparently suffered for Miller, and burst into a flood of tears. As soon as his wound was wrapped up, he came on again with a little rage, which still This would give the battle quite another turn; disabled him further. But what brave man can be and a proper station for the ladies, whose complexion wounded into more caution and patience? The next was disputed by the sword, would animate the dis- was a warm eager onset, which ended in a decisive putants with a more gallant incentive than the ex-stroke on the left leg of Miller. The lady in the pectation of money from the spectators; though I gallery, during this second strife, covered her face, would not have that neglected, but thrown to that and for my part, I could not keep my thoughts from fair one whose lover was approved by the donor. being mostly employed on the consideration of he Yet, considering the thing wants such amend- unhappy circumstance that moment, hearing the ments, it was carried with great order. James Mil- clash of swords, and apprehending life or victory ler came on first, preceded by two disabled drum- concerned her lover in every blow, but not daring mers, to show, I suppose, that the prospect of to satisfy herself on whom they fell. The wound maimed bodies did not in the least deter him. was exposed to the view of all who could delight in There ascended with the daring Miller a gentleman, it, and sewed up on the stage. The surly second of whose name I could not learn, with a dogged air, Miller declared at this time, that he would that day as unsatisfied that he was not principal. This son fortnight fight Mr. Buck at the same weapons, deof anger lowered at the whole assembly, and, weigh-claring himself the master of the renowned Gorman; ing himself as he marched around from side to but Buck denied him the honour of that courageous side, with a stiff knee and shoulder, he gave intima- disciple, and, asserting that he himself had taught tions of the purpose he smothered till he saw the that champion, accepted the challenge. Issue of this encounter. Miller had a blue riband tied round the sword arm; which ornament I conceive to be the remain of that custom of wearing a mistress's favour on such occasions of old.

There is something in human nature very unaccountable on such occasions, when we see the people take a painful gratification in beholding these encounters. Is it cruelty that administers this sort Miller is a man of six foot eight inches in height, of delight? or is it a pleasure that is taken in the of a kind but bold aspect, well-fashioned, and ready exercise of pity? It was, methought, pretty remarkof his limbs, and such a readiness as spoke his ease able that the business of the day being a trial of in them was obtained from a habit of motion in mi-skill, the popularity did not run so high as one litary exercise.

would have expected on the side of Buck. Is it
that people's passions have their rise in self-love,
and thought themselves (in spite of all the courage
they had) liable to the fate of Miller, but could not
so easily think themselves qualified like Buck?

The expectation of the spectators was now almost
at its height; and the crowd pressing in, several
active persons thought they were placed rather
according to their fortune than their merit, and took
it in their heads to prefer themselves from the open Tully speaks of this custom with less horror than
area or pit to the galleries. This dispute between one would expect, though he confesses it was much
desert and property brought many to the ground, abused in his time, and seems directly to approve
and raised others in proportion to the highest seats of it under its first regulations, when criminals only
by turns, for the space of ten minutes, till Timothy fought before the people. "Crudele gladiatorum
back came on, and the whole assembly, giving up spectaculum et inhumanum nonnullis videri solet; et
their disputes, turned their eyes upon the champions. haud scio annon ita sit ut nunc fit; cùm verò sontes
Then it was that every man's affection turned to ferro depugnabant, auribus fortasse multa, oculis qui-
e or the other irresistibly. A judicious gentlemandem nulla, poterat esse fortior contra dolorem et mor-
aear me said, "I could, methinks, be Miller's se- tem disciplina." "The shows of gladiators may be
tand, but I had rather have Buck for mine." Mil- thought barbarous and inhuman, and I know not
er had an audacious look that took the eye; Buck but it is so as it is now practised; but in those times
a perfect composure, that engaged the judgment. when only criminals were combatants, the ear per-
Buck came on in a plain coat, and kept all his air haps might receive many better instructions, but it
the instant of engaging; at which time he un- is impossible that any thing which affects our eyes
dressed to his shirt, his arm adorned with a bandage should fortify us so well against pain and death."
of red riband. No one can describe the sudden
Concern in the whole assembly; the most tumultu-
038 crowd in nature was as still and as much en-
aged as if all their lives depended on the first blow.
The combatants met in the middle of the stage, and
haking hands, as removing all malice, they retired
with much grace to the extremities of it; from
whence they immediately faced about, and ap-
ached each other, Miller with a heart full of re-
ation, Buck with a watchful untroubled counte-
ure: Buck regarding principally his own defence,
Her chiefly thought:ul of annoying his opponent. THE other day passed by me in her chariot a lady
It is not easy to describe the many escapes and with that pale and wan complexion which we some-
perceptible defences between two men of quick times see in young people who are fallen into sor-
yes and ready limbs; but Miller's heat laid him row and private anxiety of mind, which antedate
pen to the rebuke of the calm Buck, by a large age and sickness. It is not three years ago since
on the forehead. Much effusion of blood covered she was gay, airy, and a little towards libertine in

No. 437.] TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1712.
Tune impune hæc facias? Tune hic homines adolescentulos,
Imperitos rerum, eductos, libere, in fraudum illicis?
Sollicitando et pollicitando eorum animos lactas?
Ac meretricios amores nuptiis conglutinas?

TER. And, act v. sc. 4.

Shall you escape with impunity; you who lay snares for young
men of a liberal education, but unacquainted with the world,
and by force of importunity and promises draw them in to
marry harlots?

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"MR. SPECTATOR,

her carriage; but, methought, I easily forgave her ill as giving the whole and herself to an unworthy that little insolence, which she so severely pays for husband. But Sempronia can administer consolein her present condition. Flavilla, of whom I am tion to an unhappy fair at home, by leading her to speaking, is married to a sullen fool with wealth. an agreeable gallant elsewhere. She can then Her beauty and merit are lost upon the dolt, who preach the general condition of all the people in the is insensible of perfection in any thing. Their married world, and tell an inexperienced young hours together are either painful or insipid. The woman, the methods of softening her affliction, and minutes she has to herself in his absence are not laugh at her simplicity and want of knowledge, with sufficient to give vent at her eyes, to the grief and an "Oh! my dear, you will know better." torment of his last conversation. This poor crea- The wickedness of Sempronia, one would think, ture was sacrificed with a temper, which, under the should be superlative; but I cannot but esteem that cultivation of a man of sense, would have made the of some parents equal to it: I mean such as sacrifice most agreeable companion, into the arms of this the greatest endowments and qualifications to base loathsome yokefellow, by Sempronia. Sempronia bargains. A parent who forces a child of a liberal is a good lady, who supports herself in an affluent and ingenious spirit into the arms of a clown or a condition, by contracting friendship with rich young blockhead, obliges her to a crime too odious for a widows, and maids of plentiful fortunes at their own name. It is in a degree the unnatural conjunction disposal, and bestowing her friends upon worthless of rational and brutal beings. Yet what is there so indigent fellows; on the other side she insnares in- common, as the bestowing an accomplished woman considerate and rash youths of great estates into the with such a disparity? And I could name crowds arms of vicious women. For this purpose, she is who lead miserable lives for want of knowledge in accomplished in all the arts which can make her their parents of this maxim, that good sense and acceptable at impertinent visits; she knows all that good nature always go together. That which is atpasses in every quarter, and is well acquainted with tributed to fools, and called good-nature, is only an all the favourite servants, busy-bodies, dependants, inability of observing what is faulty, which turns, and poor relations, of all persons of condition in the in marriage, into a suspicion of every thing as such, whole town. At the price of a good sum of money, from a consciousness of that inability. Sempronia, by the instigation of Flavilla's mother, brought about the match for the daughter; and the reputation of this, which is apparently, in point of fortune, more than Flavilla could expect, has gained her the visits and the frequent attendance of the crowd of mothers, who had rather see their children miserable in great wealth, than the happiest of the race of mankind in a less conspicuous state of life. When Sempronia is so well acquainted with a woman's temper and circumstances, that she believes marriage would be acceptable to her, and advan. tageous to the man who shall get her, her next step is to look out for some one, whose condition has some secret wound in it, and wants a sum, yet, in the eye of the world, not unsuitable to her. If such is not easily had, she immediately adorns a worthless fellow with what estate she thinks convenient, and adds as great a share of good humour and sobriety as is requisite. After this is settled, no importunities, arts, and devices, are omitted, to hasten the lady to her happiness. In the general, indeed, she is a person of so strict justice, that she marries a poor gallant to a rich wench, and a moneyless girl to a man of fortune. But then she has no manner of conscience in the disparity, when she has a mind to impose a poor rogue for one of an estate: she has no remorse in adding to it, that he is illiterate, ignorant, and unfashioned; but makes those imperfections arguments of the truth of his wealth; and will, on such an occasion, with a very grave face, charge the people of condition with negligence in the education of their children. Exception being made the other day against an ignorant booby of her own clothing, whom she was putting off for a rich heir: "Madam," said she, 66 you know there is no making children, who know they have estates, attend their books."

Sempronia, by these arts, is loaded with presents, importuned for her acquaintance, and admired by those who do not know the first taste of life, as a woman of exemplary good-breeding. But sure to murder and rob are less iniquities, than to raise profit by abuses as irreparable as taking away life; but more grievous, as making it lastingly unhappy. To rob a lady at play of half her fortune, is not so

"I am entirely of your opinion with relation to the equestrian females, who affect both the mascu line and feminine air at the same time; and cannot forbear making a presentment against another order of them, who grow very numerous and powerful; and since our language is not very capable of good compound words, I must be contented to call them only the naked-shouldered.' These beauties are not contented to make lovers wherever they appear, but they must make rivals at the same time. Were you to see Gatty walk the park at high mall, you would expect those who followed her and those who met her would immediately draw their swords for her. I hope, Sir, you will provide for the future, that women may stick to their faces for doing any further mischief, and not allow any but direct traders in beauty to expose more than the fore part of the neck, unless you please to allow this after. game to those who are very defective in the charms of the countenance. I can say, to my sorrow, the present practice is very unfair, when to look hack is death; and it may be said of our beauties, as a great poet did of bullets,

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They kill and wound, like Parthians, as they fly.

I submit this to your animadversion; and am, the little while I have left,

"Your humble Servant, the languishing
"PHILANTHUS

"P. S. Suppose you mended my letter, and made a simile about the 'porcupine;" but I submit that also."

T.

No. 438.] WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1712
-Animum rege, qui, nisi paret,
HOR. 1 Ep. ii. 62.

Imperat

-Curb thy soul,

And check thy rage, which must be rul'd or rule.-CREECH

Ir is a very common expression that such a one is very good-natured, but very passionate. The ex

* Ingenuous

with as little consistency, and threatens things as much out of his power.

fellow. A peevish fellow is one who has some reason in himself for being out of humour, or has a natural incapacity for delight, and therefore disturbs all who are happier than himself with pshes and pshaws, or other well-bred interjections, at every thing that is said or done in his presence. There should be physic mixed in the food of all which these fellows eat in good company. This degree of anger passes, forsooth, for a delicacy of judgment, that will not admit of being easily pleased; but none above the character of wearing a peevish man's livery ought to bear with his ill manners. All things among men of sense and condition should pass the censure, and have the protection, of the eye of reason.

pression, indeed, is very good-natured, to allow passionate people so much quarter: but I think a passionate man deserves the least indulgence ima- The next disagreeable person to the outrageous ginable. It is said, it is soon over; that is, all the gentleman, is one of a much lower order of anmischief he does is quickly dispatched, which, Iger, and he is what we commonly call a peevish think, is no great recommendation to favour. I have known one of these good-natured passionate men say in a mixed company, even to his own wife or child, such things as the most inveterate enemy of his family would not have spoken, even in imagination. It is certain that quick sensibility is inseparable from a ready understanding; but why should not that good understanding call to itself all its force on such occasions, to master that sudden inclination to anger? One of the greatest souls now in the world is the most subject by nature to anger, and yet so famous, from a conquest of himself this way that he is the known example when you talk of temper and command of a man's self. To contain the spirit of anger, is the worthiest discipline we can put ourselves to. When a man has made any pro. gress this way, a frivolous fellow in a passion is to him as contemptible as a froward child. It ought to be the study of every man for his own quiet and peace, When he stands combustible and ready to flame upon every thing that touches him, life is as uneasy to himself as it is to all about him. Syncropius leads, of all men living, the most ridiculous life; he is ever offending and begging pardon. If his man enters the room without what he was sent for " That blockhead," begins he-" Gentlemen, I ask your pardon, but servants now-a-days"The wrong plates are laid, they are thrown into the middle of the room; his wife stands by in pain for him, which he sees in her face, and answers as if he had heard all she was thinking:-"Why? what the devil! Why don't you take care to give orders in these things?" His friends sit down to a tasteless plenty of every thing, every minute expecting new insults from his impertinent passions. In a word, to eat with, or visit Syncropius, is no other than going to see him exercise his family, exercise their patience, and his own anger.

It is monstrous that the shame and confusion in which this good-natured angry man must needs behold his friends, while he thus lays about him, does not give him so much reflection, as to create an amendment. This is the most scandalous disuse of reason imaginable: all the harmless part of him is no more than that of a bull-dog, they are tame no longer than they are not offended. One of these good-natured angry men shall, in an instant, assemble together so many allusions to secret circumstances, as are enough to dissolve the peace of all the families and friends he is acquainted with in a quarter of an hour, and yet the next moment be the best-natured man in the whole world. If you would see passion in its purity, without mixture of reason, behold it represented in a mad hero, drawn by a mad poet. Nat. Lee makes his Alexander say thus:

Away! begone! and give a whirlwind room,
Or I will blow you up like dust! Avaunt!
Madness but meanly represents my toil.
Eternal discord!

Fury revenge! disdain and indignation!

Tear my swoll'n breast, make way for fire and tempest.
My brain is burst, debate and reason quench'd;
The storm is up, and my hot bleeding heart
Splits with the rack; while passions, like the wind,
Rise up to heav'n, and put out all the stars.

No man ought to be tolerated in an habitual humour, whim, or particularity of behaviour, by any who do not wait upon him for bread. Next to the peevish fellow is the snarler. This gentleman deals mightily in what we call the irony; and as those sort of people exert themselves most against those below them, you see their humour best in their talk to their servants. "That is so like you; You are a fine fellow; Thou art the quickest headpiece;" and the like. One would think the hectoring, the storming, the sullen, and all the different species and subordinations of the angry should be cured, by knowing they live only as pardoned men ; and how pitiful is the condition of being only suf fered! But I am interrupted by the pleasantest scene of anger and the disappointment of it that I have ever known, which happened while I was yet writing, and I overheard as I sat in the back-room at a French bookseller's. There came into the shop a very learned man with an erect solemn air; and though a person of great parts otherwise, slow in understanding any thing which makes against himself. The composure of the faulty man, and the whimsical perplexity of him that was justly angry, is perfectly new. After turning over many volumes, said the seller to the buyer, "Sir, you know I have long asked you to send me back the first volume of the French sermons I formerly lent you."—" Sir,” said the chapman, "I have often looked for it, but cannot find it; it is certainly lost, and I know not to whom I lent it, it is so many years ago."-"Then, Sir, here is the other volume; I'll send you home that, and please to pay for both."" My friend," replied he, "canst thou be so senseless as not to know that one volume is as imperfeet in my library as in your shop?"-" Yes, Sir, but it is you have lost the first volume; and, to be short, I will be paid."-" Sir," answered the chapman,

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you are a young man, your book is lost; and learn by this little loss to bear much greater adversities, which you must expect to meet with.""Yes, Sir, but I'll bear when I must, but I have not lost now, for I say you have it, and shall pay me."-" Friend, you grow warm; I tell you the book is lost; and I foresee, in the course even of a prosperous life, that you will meet afflictions to make you mad, if you cannot bear this trifle."— Sin, there is in this case no need of bearing, for you have the book."-" I say, Sir, I have not the book; but your passion will not let you hear enough Learn resignation of yourself to the distresses of this life: nay, do

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Every passionate fellow in town talks half the day to be informed that I have it not.

• Lord Somers.

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