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C. P. v. STEINHEIL, onc of the Officers at the Univerfity of Stutgart. STfiTGART, ’printed for Erhard and Loeflunfi‘:,;.‘}-fi I 7\92{ f«‘?—‘h\ To iy tef an . ang i £y ang ey b@ ot refe lefg lay }. .... ot To His moft Serene Hllghnefi Charles., Margrafc of Bade-Durlach and Bade- Bade. Sit ] A T 1 take the liberty to crave Yotr pros { teétion for this attempt, it is becaufe I am led by my fubjett. In You every art and {cience, but in particular the englifh literature and language have fo zdalous and fo enlightened a patron, that what- ever tends to premote them; feems to be entitled to claim Your favour, Thig reflection and the fame of Your High- nefs’s humanity have emboldened mie to. lay the followir/lgy ellay at Your feet, If 2y bt it anfwers in any degree to thatpurpofe, and to the dignity of the name under which 1 have prefumed to fhelter it, I am amply rewarded for the pains, I took in its comp\ofition. I am unable to trace Your Charaéter, in which all the great and amiable qua- lities fhine forth with full perfection, but I hope You will graciously conde- {cend to pardon my boldnefs and to grant me this occafion of declaring in public, that veneration and that profound refpedt, B, Schr; With which I am {chrie /Your mo{? .Seremee Highnefs’s ey 1 2 ‘mpi’c humble and {ibeyf moft devoted fervant 1€gm E. C, P. v. Steinheil, geny Lieutcnant, Jéne ”» e e A4 G P L i VT o ¥ ;2 dav b4 &y o Sw”fi" X Dofe, undet it, 1 [ toolf et qua- Hon, \ Dar&e’llung dcs ‘Plans. nde rant lbY\C,, Bey der gegenwirtigen Menge von {pe&, Schriften, welche in jedem Fache ge- fchrigben werden, wird es beynahe je- Zu zeis dem Schriftiteller zur Pflicht, gen, dafs feine Schrift nicht zu den tiberflifligen gehore, 1ch hofle die Dar- legung des Plans, den ich mir bey ge- genwirtigem Werke gemacht habe foll Eilr | jene Vermuthung ganz von mir entfer. X 2 v Darflellung des Plans, nen, und zugleich Lehrern und Lernen- Pu den einen deutlichen Begriff von der Ab- The ficht geben, in welcher ich es unter- Vie nommen, und in welcher ich wiin{chte, We dafs es gebraucht wiirde In wie fern mf ich glaube, dafs es fich von andern &hn- nd l1rhen Lehrbiichern unterfchelde will Keir ich gleichfalls gelegenheitlich anfiihren, ben, der Ich nenne dies Werk eine Reihe gu- £ ter Mulfter, Das Wort Reihe f{chlieft Dee den Begrilf von {yftematifcher Ordnung anf in f{ich den man nicht nothwendiger Ba weife mit dem Wort Sammlung verbin- hab det: denn die Auffize folgen in demfel- §en, ben fo auf einander dafs immer der Anf; leichtere vor dem fchwereren vorher geht nk So nothig diefes Erfordernifs zum Unter- ey icht befonders ftudirender Jiinglinge ift, ey fo wird man doch finden, dafs diefer dan ¥ ¥ Dasfiellung des Plans. 16 Pun& in mehreren Sammlungen zum Ab Theil fehr vernachlifligt worden ift. et Viele derfelben fangen zum Beifpiel mit chite, weitlduftigen Erz'aihhmgen, oder gar forn mit philofophifchen Betrachtungen an, ihn und die Herausgeber derfelben fcheinen wil keine Riikficht darauf genommen zu ha- e ben, dafs dem Anfinger die Erlernung der Sprache fehr erfchwert wird, wann gl er neben der Bedeutung der Worter, der lieft Declination und Conjugation, auch gleich nung anfanglich feine Aufmerkfamkeit auf den figer Bau der Perioden' richten mufs, Ich hin habe daher zur Erléichterung derjeni- gen, die diefe Sprache ftudiren, den L['el"" det Anfang mit kurzen Sizen gemacht, die ?h to in keiner Verbindung mit einander fte- hen, und nach und nach verwickelter ter- lflf) werden, Auf diefe folgen kurze, als- oft dann lan.gere Erzihlungen, weil der hi- 3 S, Vi Darftellung des Plans. ftorifche Stil immer der leichtefie ifts und dati fo folgen auch die iibrige Gattungen des gen Red Stils einander, immer die fghwerere der leichtéren. it i Es Manhiéfaltigkeit des Stils ift Aye'in an- (at deres Erfordernifs, das um fo mehr in Betrachtung gezogen zu werden. ver- den dient, als die Bediirfniffe derjenigén hogl Ich ver{chieden find, die die englifche Spra- che erlernen. Anfinglich waren es laf /mei{’cens Kaufleute, die fich dem Studio N diefer Sprache widmeten, Daher find o hin mehrere Sammlungen nur fiir diefen Stand beftimmt; allein izt wird die eng- giey lifche Sprache fiir die meiften Stande {oh wo nicht Bediirfnifs, doch Modeftudium, fun Auch in diefer Ritkficht glaube ich, dafs Th; meine Sammlung einen Vorzug vor den bil meiften andern Verdieqt. - Man findet VII | _Dérfiellung dés Plan;, s und darinn Erzfihlungen", Reifehefchreibun- 0 des gen, mehrere Gattungen von Briefen, re det Reden, Abhandlungen, Gefprache‘, Auf- tritte aus Luft{pielen und Trauer{pielen, und menrere Gattungen derfDichtkunf’c. if Ate Es verfteht fich von f{elbft, dafs jede eht in Gattung des Stils nur kurz beriihrt wer- Ve den kounte, fonft wiirde der Preis zu hoch fiir ein Lehrbuch geworden feyn, 1igen Ich nahm daher aus Trauer{pielen und Spta ) Luft{pielen nur einige Auftritte, die im tudio Zufammenhang ftunden, und liefs theils ¢ fnd ganze Aultritte, theils einzelne Stellen hinweg , die zur Befriedigung der Neu- efen gierde nicht uhumg‘émglich nothwendig eng inde {chienen, und durch derep HinWeg]a{L un fung der Zufammenhang desjenigen Theils, aus welchem ich ein Ganzes Aafs bildete, mich nicht zu leiden diinkte, den det VIIL Darfielldflg des Plans, . Die Namen der Schriftfteller fiehén el fet mpifiens. unter den Auflizen oder an der Spize derfelben. Hieraus lifst fich ten Ton ‘die ‘Wahl, der Stiikke leicht beurtheilen. ‘Wer jemals dle englifche Sprache e ftudirt hat, wird mir zugeftehen, dafs fing die Ausfgrache fiir den Anfanger wohl fren Um die meiften Schwiirigkeiten hat. ol diefe Zu‘,érleichtern, habe ich daher das e ganze Werk, die lezten Bogen ausge- W nommen, mit Accenten verfehen, . Den Gebrauch derfelben will ich hier deut- W ‘lichy erkliren, g4 my Der allgemeine "Endzwek der Ac- i cente ift: die Sylbe zu bezeichnen, auf die welcher der Ton des “Wor’ts ruht, Schon bey diefes ift fiir Anfanéér fiufer[tkfchwer s ver noch lfchwerer fiir diejenigen, die vorher, o Dasfellung des Plans. | IX hen ‘welches meifier;s der Fall i{’c‘, franzo- an fifch gelernt haben: denn in den Wor- fich ten franzofifchen Urfprungs liegt der e, Ton meiftens auf einer andern Sylbe als im Franzofilchen, z B. poffible, impof- ache fible &c, Regeln wiirden hier den An- s finger nur verwirren, oder ihn wenig- woll ftens langfamer zum Zwek fiihren; auch Um laffen fich Wenige Regeln mit Beftimmt- dss heit angeben. Es ift dalier befler, ihn 2= wenigftens anfanglich diefe Sache durch Den die fleb}mg Zu le/hren,' und ihm erft, Jeut wann er ginige Uebung hat’, nach Maas- gab feiner Fihigkeit oder feiner Beftim- mung die Regeln zu {agen, die man hier mit Gewifsheit feftfezen kan. Um nun Ac auf diefen Endzwek zu etreichen p habe ich hon beynahe das ganze Werk mit Accenten verfehen, und da, wo ich einigen Zwei- P el p.4 barflellung des Plans, fel hatte, die befte Lexica zu Rath ge- zogen und mit einander verglichen, Die richtige Sezung des Tons ift al- fo der erfte Endzwek, den ich durch die Accente zu erreichen fuchte: allein ich bemiihte mich auch die Aus{prache der Vocalen und Diphthongen fo viel als moglich durch diefelben auf folgende Art zu er‘leichtem, Bekanntlich hangt die Ver{chieden- heit diefer Ausfprache groftentheils da- von ab, ob der Vocal als lang oder als kurz angefehen wird. Man giebt in Riikficht auf die Ausfprache jedes ein- zelnen Vocalen, in fo fern fie von der Linge oder Kiirze deflelben abhé'ngt; , fol- ; - gende Regéln an; Da&jief!ung des Plans. Xk g8 a, wenn es lang ift, wird ausge- fprochen wie eh - wenn es kurz ift @ t e ¢, wenn es lang ift, wird ausge- nreh {prochen wie b Jein == wenn es kurz ift ache i, wenn es lang ifi:, Wifd ausge- | 1ls fprochen wie (4 ende - wenn es kurz ift 0, wenn es lang ift, wird ausge- ob fprochen wie den — wenn es kurz ift, wie ein Mit- {1 telton zwilchen a und 0 als #, wenn es lang ift, wird ausge- n fprochen wie 10- Jub — wenn es kurz ift 3 et fol Y, wenn es lang ift, wird ausgg. {prochen wie (1] 3 e wenn es kurz ift XI1I - Davftellung des Plans. e Nun entfteht aber die ganz natiirli- Ul che Frage: in welchen Fullen hat jeder una in wel- 102 diefer Vocalen die lange, de chen Fillen hat er die kurze Ausfpra- che? Auch hievon laffen fich allgemeine Regeln angeben, Allein um die Sache S anfchaulicher und leichter zu machen, il und den Anfanger fiicht in die Nothwen- be digkeit zu fezen, fich wenigftens nicht de bey« jedem Vocalen auf die Regel zu be- I finnen, habe ich auf die Vocalen, auf | welche der Ton des Worts fillt, wenn fie lang ausgefprochen werden , | den g Gravem ('), und wenn fie kurz ausge- e ”fprochen' werden, den Acutum (') ge- il fezt., Auf diefe Art denke ich kann der of Lehrling mit einer kleinen Aufmerkfam. ) keit ine weit kiirzerer Zeit die rechte Ausfprache lernen, als wenn man ihm fi | bey jedem Voc;alen\ dic Regel wie % \C € Ddrfiellué;g des Plang, XIII tli holt, Hat man ihm einmal die lange der und kurze Ausfprache erklirt, fo darf el man dann in den meiften F é’llén nur auf den Accent deuten, ra o1ne Durch diefe Anordnung ifi nun eine chie Schwiirigkeit erleichtert » aber noch 11y weit grofsere Schwiirigkeiten zeigen fich ell cht bey den Diphthongen; denn diefe wer- den oft ohne Riikficht auf Linge und be Kiirze, oder fonft eifien auf eine hin- wuf lingliche Anzahl von Fillen paffenden ens Grund, auf eine ver{chiedene Art‘ aus- Jen gefprochen, Diefem neuen Hinderniffe der Erlernung der Ausfprache habe ich nun einigermafen gleichfalls durch die et 1 obigen Accente auf folgende willkiihrli- che Art abzuhelfen gefucht, P te m%‘ Im Allgemeinen ift die 'Bemerkufig vorau;zufchiékén, dafs, wenn die Aus- y B oo X1iv Davfellung des Plans, fprache fcharf ift, der Acutus auf dem al Diphthong, wenn aber die Ausfprache au gedehnt ift, der Gravis auf demfelben {teht, Beede Accente ftehen immer auf w demjenigen der beyden Vocalen, deffen einzevlner Laut am meiften gehort Wird. f {S Dicjenige Diphthongen , bey wel- chen mir wegen ihrer vielfsltigen Aus- [ fprache, die willkiihrliche Unterfchei- (e dung deffelben durch die Accente vor- zliglich nothwendig {chien , {ind fol- gende: ea, ei, it, 00, Oy OW, Ul b Bey diefen wird die verfchiedene Aus- (e fprache auf fb]geude Art durch die Ac- cbnte bezeichnet, da Wenn ez’ wie 7b ausgelprochen wird, de a dann fi:eht der Gravis auf dem ¢; wenn es wie ein gewdhnliches deutfchcs ¢ a Darfielluflg des Plans, XV lem ausgelprochen wird, i’ceht der Acutus che auf eben demfelben Vocal_. bea Wenn e wie 7h ausgelprochen wird, ot dann fteht der Gravis auf dem e wenn effen es wie ¢ ausgelprochen wird , dann itd, fteht eben der Accent auf dem ; s wenn vel es wie e ausgefpréchen wird, -z, B. in Yits either, neither, fteht der 4mms auf el demv ls 4 jor - Wenn e wie b ausgefproéllen wifd., ol z. B.in field, yietd, dann fteht der Gra- vis auf dem ¢; wenn es wie ¢i ausge- {prochen wird, dann fteht eben der Ac- us cent auf dem 7, A\ Wenn oo wie ub ausge{‘prochen wird, dann fteht der Gravis auf einem der bey- 1 d; den o; ‘wird es ausnahmsweife wie o ol ausgefprochen, dann fteht der Aewrus § ¢ auf eben dem Vocal, XVi Davyfrellung des Plans, Wenn ox wie au ausgefprochen wird, € dann fteht der Gravis auf dem o; wird fch es wie ob ausgelprochen, z. B. in cour?, fgr: joil, dann fteht eben der Accent auf die dem u; ‘Wird es wie a ausgefprochen, €l ; z. B. in dem Wort céunzry, dann fceh? der Acutus auf dem o, gl thor Wenn ow wie au ausgefprochen wird, iy dann fteht der Gravis auf dem o3 wenn Ien: gar kein Accent darauf {’ceht, wird es i b wie ob ausgefprc?chen. ‘Wenn ui wie ub ausgefprochen wird, Ay z. B, in fidit, [uit, dann fteht der Gra- fehy v‘is auf demu; wenn es wie ausgefpro- feh chen wird, z. B. in build, builz, dann e fteht der Acutus auf dem 7z of Bey denjenigen Diphthongen, in wel« der tin chen ein e oder»z' vo;‘kommt , kann man €S Davflellung des Plans. XVII itd, €s dem”Anffihger noch bequemer und an- yird {chaulicher machen, wenn mah die Aus= fithy fprache eines folchen Diphthongen auf R die Ausfprache diefer beyden Vocalen chen, einzeln betrachtet z‘urfikffihrt,\ und ihm fagt, dafs der andre Vocal gar nicht aus- fteh? gefprochen werde, weil in diefen Diph- thongen wirklich nur die lange oder kur- W'lfds ze Ausfprache eines diefer beyden Voca- yenn len gehort wird, z, B, éar, (ihr) éavl, ( erl)‘ ] e conceit, (kanfiht) [arisfied, (fitisfeid) build, (bild) field, (Ghd). Dafs durch Sezung der Accente die i, e Ausfprache fehr erleichtert werde, haben {chon lingft mehrere Kenner der engli- )0 fchen Sprache eingefehen, Man hat da- ann her eine accentuirte Ausgabe des Ficar of Wakefield, die aber f{ehr felten gewor= ele den ift, Auch hat Herr Profeffor Breyef an einige Bogen feiner Sammlung accentuirt; e XX & T qsted Dmfiei]ng des Plans, allein \ffenigé accentuirte Bogen {cheinen au mir nicht hinlinglich zur Erlernung det il Ausfprache; auch haben jene Accente de nicht den ausgedehnten Gebrauch, den de ich mit denfelben verbunden, und wo- al durch ich einigen Schwiirigkeiten mehr el abgeholfen za habén glaube, e Durch die unten beygefiigte Anmer-n k kungen fuchte ich folgende Abfichten zu ) erreichen: ~ Sie erkliren dem Anfinger nicht nut Wt den Sinn der Worte des Texts, und er- fparen ihm das befchwerliche Aufichla- gen in einem Worterbuche, folnderln‘ fie I geben ihm auch zugleich mehrere Bedeu- | tungen eines Worts an. - Gemeiniglich {; ftehen auch bey den abgeleiteten Worten ihre Stammworte, und bey diefen die ab- geleitete oder zunachft mit ihm verwand- te, Auf diefe Art bekommt der Anfinger A Darflellung des Plans, XX 1nen auf eine leichte und unyermerkte Art mit der einem Worte zugleich mehrere andre in ente den Kopf, die ihm durch die Affociation dea der Ideen weit mehr eingeprigt werden, | {70~ ndio rlo als durch das zweklofe Auswe i i l rnen neht einer Menge von Worten Wodm h das Gedachtnifs auf Kolten der Beurtheilungs- N kraft mehr befchwert als gefcharft wird, 1 2 Der Anfinger wird dadurch auch mit dem Genius der Sprache bekannt, indem er die nuf verfchiedenen Ableitungsarten derfelben | of Da er gemeinl= immer vor Augen hat lae glich {chon vorher andere Sprachen er- fie lernt hat, aus welchen die englifche theils !u. Worté, theils ganze Redensarten entlehnt, ch fo leitet ihn der Anblick derfelben zur el Orthographie, deren Regeln er fich durch b einiges Nachdenken felbft abfirahiren J kann, wenn ihm der Lehrer nur eine ol klemen Wink gtebt Zum Theil find auch X 2 cxh e, XX Dayflellung des Plans, {elbft in diefen Anmerkungen Regeln der Pls Orthographie gelegenhelthch angebracht, We Der Anfanger trifft gleichfalls in diefen Pu Bemerkungen befondere Regeln und Aus.- ol nahmen der Aus{prache an, die feiner al Aufmerkfamkeit weniger entgehen, weil fi fie gleich unter den Beyfpielen ftehen, I folghch auch feinem Gedichtniffe auf eine il leichtere Art eingeprigt werden als fChw wenn fie ihm gleich anfanglich alle auf ¢he einmal aufgedrungen wiirden, eth Auf eben diefe gleichfam fpielende Art e werden ihm nach und nach alle Regeln Ul der Grammatik beygebracht, die er un- € ter ihren Beylpielen angezeigt findet, | Schwere Conftrutionsarten werden ihm m erliutert, eigene Conftruétionsarten her- ausgehoben, zuweilen uberfezt, und mit $ g anderen deutfchen von eben dem Sinn, €l¢ aber von verfchiedenem Ausdruk, vergli- chen. A Diefes kann zu gleicher Zeit eine fe Anleitung ftir ihn werden, um felbft aus I dem Deutfchen in das Englifche zu iiber- {ezen, n Diefen hier nur ganz kurz dargelegten £ XXI Darjigllzmg des Plans, et Pian hatte ich, als ich das nachftehende ch f Werk begann, Ihn zur Zufriedenheit des el £n Publikums und derjenigen, die diefe'Spra- USe che lernen, auszufiihren, gab ich mir einet alle erdenkliche Miihe, Dafs deffen Aus. wel fihrung mit vielen Befchwerlichkeiten hen, und mit vieler Arbeit verkniipft fey, wird ¢l 16 mir, wie ich hoffe, jeder Kenner der engli- als {chen Sprache einrdumen, Von einem fol- af chen werde ich daher auch Verzeihung erhalten, wenn er hie und da Unvollkom. At menheiten bemerken follte, und Beleh- eln rungen mit vielem Danke annehmen: denn un es ift mein Wunfch, nicht nur felbft mej- ]d(?tt ne Kenntniffe zu erweitern, fondern auch fm meinen Schiilern das Studium diefer Of'« Sprache leichter zu machen , als es mire it geworden ift, indem ich meiftens mein 1, eigener Lehrmeifter war, und nur die Ji« Ausfprache , die fich freylich nicht vom 16 felbft lernen Idfst, von gebohrnen Eng- Uindern lernte, J§ fla - Mir ift keine Sammlung bekannt, wor= inn alle hier aufgézihlte Endzweke vers ffinigt waren; vielleicht blgibt mir alfo: XXIL Dayfiellung des Plans: # wenigftens das Verdienft, einen Verfuch von der Art gemacht zu haben, Drukfehler konnten an einem Orte nicht vermieden werden, wo das gegenwurtige, das erfte englifche Buch ift, das die Preffe verlafst, und wo ich felbft nicht gegen- wirtig war., Die hauptfachlichften, wel- L/ che den Sinn oder die Ausfprache ver- oy unftalten, find hinten angemerkt, Eben diefer Umitand, dafs diefes das das in diefer y! erfte englifche Werk ift, Druckerey erfcheint, veranlafste die Un-, b1 bequemlicbkeit, dafs die Buchftaben m, 3‘ 6 yund » am Ende eines Bogens immer aus einer andern Schrift gefezt werden mufs- I ten, weil fie in der englifchen Sprache haufiger vorkommen, als in der franzofi- fchen, lateini{chen oder italienifchen, und 8] daher nicht {o viele in der Schrift vorhan- o1 den waren, in wglcher das Werk gedrukfc 10 wurde, 11 | Stutgart den 6t Februar ’17q2, 12 Der' Verfaffer, n, “ ‘fudi icht figg, The Contents. Prefle 20l el * ¥ Short Sentences st =~ ver 2, E)\;amples of virtne and vice drawn - P from hiftory 23 i - = ] 3 Tales 67 jelet 4. Fables in profe I0L Une, ny 5. Anecdotes 104 6., Lives I1t £ aus nuls 7s Letters A, Familias che 153 B. Commercial 173 e nd 8. Travels - 186 anle 9. Moral Effays 2i5 ik 10. Parliamentary Speeches - 225 - 11. Jeft or fmart fayings 239 12. Menexenus a Dialogue of Plato 246 13, Scenes‘fmm the f{chool of {candal 289 ~ XX1V The Coutents. -t 14 .Si:yie of Chancery v 315, Scenes from Julius Caefar a tragedy of Shakefpeare ) 336 16. The Choice of Hercules [ 399 17. Some paffages from Miltons paradife loft =] ) 416 18. A Ballad oy o 428 Y 19. The Court of death a Fable 435 L4 o & 20, Epigram}s 438 21, Epitaphs - i 4 439 a2+ To Sleep, an Elegy am 440 23. A Panegyric on Great Britain 443 = - 24, A Hymn | 451 J € Y fi U ki I ) 0 it ( t f Short Ve A= A= Sooy==s 2 336 R (@) Short (‘?)‘fént-enccs. ] i) %)T 4ke heed d) of fpéaking, e) when ‘yoi‘s‘ 435 sre f) angry, % 438 43 Paffion is g) a fort of féver in the mind, oo 440 s 43 fentence, ein Saz, a) Short, kurz, b) fentences, plur, von 4! Der Pluralis wird in dep englifchen Sprache bey den Subfantivis for- wmirt, indem man dem Subftantivo ein s, oder 'wenn ‘es die Ausfprache erfordert ein es hinza fiigt, ) take heed, der lmperativus von to take heed, fich in Acht nehmen. d) of fpea- king das Gerundium von fo fpeak, fprechen, imperf. fpoke oder [pake, fupinum fpoken, €) when, ein Adverbium, wann. £) angry, Zornig, g) a fort — mind, eine Art von Fieber in der Seele, Man findet hier die bey- den Artikel g und #/e. Die Abficht beyder ift, die Sache von der man fpricht zu beftimmen, odet ihren Umfang einzufchrinken, Der Ar- tikel' a deutet an, dafs die Sache von der man fpricht in der Einheit genommen werde. ohne Jedoch diefe Sacl'lé felbfi‘ naher zu beftimmen, it T 2 Shore [fentences, that h5 always i) leaves us k) weaker, 1) than m) it n) finds o) us, X ’ ) e, To be angry, is p) to rev}énge‘the q) fahlts of r) Others upbn s) ourfélves, ¢ d 7 Der Artikel the beftimmt gkénau‘ welche .éifizely ne Sache, oder wenn es mehrere find, welche Sachen es feyen, von denen man fpricht. Se bald von Gattungen oder Arten die Rede ift, ohne eins oder mehrere von denfelben heraus ih zu heben, fo pflegt man dem Wort gar keinen hoct Artikel vorzufezen, h) always, immer, i) Tiehy leaves , 3, perf, preef, ind. Diefe hat bey allen fo wohl regulairen als irregulairen verbis ein i 5 am KEnde. to leave, verlaffen, k) weaker, X) § Der Com-~ fir comparatives von weak {chwach., muf parativus wird der Regel nach bey allen ein- dois fylbigten Wértern wie im Deutfchen formirt. 1) tham, als, folgt immer auf den Comparati- 10 ¢ vum, m) if, es; ein pronomen perfonale, Dot n) finds, Siehe nota i, to fiwd, finden, im- ol bt perf. et fupin, found. 0) #s, uns, p) to oy revenge fome thing upom ome, etwas an einem rachen q) fault, Fehler, von dem franzofi= {chen Wort faute., 1) others, andre, hat hier ein 5 im Plurali, weil es als Subftantivum ge- braucht wird, Y braucht, fo bekommt es keins, Wird es als Adjetivum ge- 1 8) ourfelves, uns feibft ; fingularis ourfelf. Diejenigen W ér- ff( ter die fich mit einem £ endigen, verwandeln der bo Regel nach das f im Plyraliin ein v und fezen noch ¥ @ _Sborf [entences, 3‘“& thay “The t) héight of u) good bredding is v) fhown, w) rather x) in néver giving offén= alts ce, than in y) doing obliging things. z) He, that Will not a) héar, b) cinnot ¢) 'jfidge, and he that céynn’ot d) béar contrie dition, may with all his e) wit f) mifswhig( gle g mgrk. Iche So if rals 25 hinzu. ) height, die Hohe, der Gipfel, high inet hoch, u) good breeding, Anftand, gute Er- ) ziehung, von to breed, erziehen, v) to fhow, Jen [howed, [hown, zeigen, w) rather, vielmehr, elmn X) in never - offence. Eine Participialcon~ kefy ftruion, die man im Deutfchen umichreiben om mufs: darinn, dafs man nicht beleidigt. y) el doing , obliging , zwei Participia preefentis von mifh to do thun, und Zo oblige, verbinden. Alle bl Participia prefentis fo wohl regulairer als irre- lleo ulairer Zeitworter endigen fich auf ing. z) = he that, derjenige weleher, Das leztere Pro- to nomen wird fo wohl von Perfonen als von E em Sachen gebraucht, fia jet a) to hear, imperf, et fup. fheard, horen, Ioe b) canuot, kan nicht, zufammengezogen von (% can und not, ) to judge, urtheilen, von dem ] franzdfifchen Wort juger. d) to bear, bore, born, tragen, von dem niedet{achfifchen bah- et yen. e) wit, Wiz. f ) to mifs, verfeblen, von ch N g) ma;f‘k, Ziel‘ dem deutfchen Wort mi{{f 2 4 Short fentencess a - Socrates h) beéing 4fked . who i’ was the k) wifeft man, 1, answered, he that m) offinds P n) :léai’c. o) If you have p) érred. q) perfevére not { in it; r) thivk it no s) fhame, t) to fub@ie b heing afted. partic. praefent. pafi?vi. von fo a/k; fragen welcher gefragt wumide . i who. wer, k - wifeft. der weifefte, Siehe Nota k. pag. 2, ) answeved ivperf von to answer, antwor- ten. . Das 'myerfettum wird der Regel n:ch v aus dem Infinitivo fo formirt, dafs man dima felben, wenn er fich auf ein e endiget, nur ein d d anhidngt; endiget er fich aber auf einen Con- \ {fonanten, fo fligt man diefem ed hinzu Aus- nahmsweife wird diefer Confonant Cfters ver= doppelt. m) offends; to offend, beleidigen, von dem franztiifchen Wort offenrfer. n) leaft, am wenigften. ein irregulirer “uperlativus von little wenig ; Comparativus /+fs weniger. 0)ifs wenn; wisd gebraucht, wenn es eine Bedine S e S s O gung anzeigt, da hingegen w’en Nota-e. pag. I. gebraucht wird, wenn man eine Zeit andeuten will ; gerade fo wie wenn und wawnn im Deut- fchen, oder fi und guard im Franzofifchen, p) to ery. irren, q) to per/éveve beharren, von dem Franzififchen per/everer. Faft bey allen franzélifchen Zeitwrtern von . der erften Conjugation . welche in das Englifche ilerge- wirft man nur das # firale tragen werden, binweg, t) to thivk. thought. derken, So pald es mit dem Acculativo confuruirt wird, - 1 ‘Sb’ort [entences, 5 the € u) trith, but rither v) fejbice, that you nds have found it, w' There is x) nb 'y) excéfs in the z) world ot fo a) comméndable, b) as an excéfs of griti- it tude. He is c) rich d) enbugh, that e) neé&s f) néither g) to flitter nor h) to bdrrow and foaflh Vel traly rich, that is i) fétisfied’. S0 (f« liei(’c es dafiir halten, ) Shame, Schand@ vch von dem deut{chen Wort Schaam. t) to /ub- M mit to, {ich etwas oder einem unterwerfen, von el dem franzéfifchen Wort foumettre. u) trath, one Wahrheit, #rue, wahr: truly, wahrhaftig, \use V) to rejoice, lich freuen, joy, Freude, joy- Vet ful Py frefi dig‘ W ' .there is und um plur. there 190y are, es ift, es giebt, '‘Ganz das franzofifche ki ey $/ y a, nur dafs jenes nicht wie diefes im Plu- fol rali gebrauchlich ift, X) no, nicht. keines. ) 'Y) exce/s, Vebermaas, von dem Franzulifchen f L 4 dine excé;.' z) warld , Welt. Gl IO et a) commendrble, lobenswiirdig. b) as, wie, als, it {chen" viche. ¢) rich, reich, von dem Franzifi- el Eine andere Herleitungsart aus efly dem Franzofifchen, wobei man das ¢ finale hinweg wirft, d) enough, genug, wird aus- ey gefprochen (ihnahff). ‘e) to wneed , bediirfen, et is reglert den Accufativum. f) weither . wor, e weder, noch, g) to flatter , das franzofifche 50 Wort flatter , eine Ausnahme von der Nota q. dy pflg; 4e h) to borrow , entlehuen, 1) fatis- | 6 Short [entences. He that k) overcOmes his paffion 1) cone quers his gréateft m) énemies. n) Crielty is fo cOntrary to o) himan ni- v s fied s Sulpinum von to fatisfy, befi'iedige-n.' Al- le Verba, welche fich in y endigen, verwan- deln bey Formirung des Imperf, et Supini das 'y in 4, undfezen ed hinzu; wobey in Riikficht b der Ausfprache die Regel zu merken, dafs wenn ! 'das y im Infinitivo wie ¢i ausgefprochen wur- de, das jed auch wie eid ausgefprochen werde; wurde aber das y im Infinitivo wie 7 ausge- fprochen, fo mufs man das j¢ im Imperfecto und Supino auch {o ausfprechen, k) to over- come , uberwinden, Es ift nach der deut{chen (:;E Analogie zufammengefezt von over, tiber, und 20 come, kommen, und wird auch nach der deutfchen Analogie conjugirt, wie {iberhaupt beinahe alle englifche Verba, die vom Deut- fchen abgeleitet find, Impetf. overcame, Su~ pinum, overcome. 1) to comquer , beliegen, von dem Franzofifchen cenquérir. m) ene-~ mies , Feinde, Der Pluralis von ememy; wo- bei die Regel zn merken, dafs alle Subftantiva, M s S et e ARG A Wl e b die fich in y endigen, um den Pluralem zu for« miren, das in 7 verwandeln, und noch es hinzufezen, n) cruelty, Graufamkeit, von dem franzofifchen Wort cruel. o) human, menfchlich, von dem Franzéfifchen humain, r.wo‘von auch lmmam,. leutfelig, abgelejte;‘ ift, i 7 ; Shors [fentences. Otte ture, th#t it p) is diftinguifhed q) by r) that s) fcAndalous ndme inhumanity, N3 Trie t) devotion is the fource of u) re- pofe; it fupports us in v) life, and w) fwée-l tens x) déath, - The y) care of religion and of z? ofir Ale /A p) is diftinguif hed » aus‘gezeichnet wird, Man 028 ficht raucht das Verbum #o pe im Englifchen, um yent das Paffivum damit zu conjugiren, gerade fo yur wie im Frauzofifchen das Verbum étre. Fran- zofen, welche die englifche Sprache lernen, rde; diirfen daher nur zur Erleichterung der Con- J4od ¢to jugation des Paflivi, jedes Tempus nach dem ey Franzififchen formiren, q) by, durch. r)that, he jener, this, diefer, Pluralis thofe, jene , thefe, und diefe. s) feamdalous, {chandlich, anftoflig; von dem Franzoéfifchen fcandalenx. Die Ab- et upt leitungsregel ift hier diefe, dafs alle Adjeétiva, if« welche im Franzofifchen fich auf eux endigen, e bey ihrer Uebertragung in das Englifche die En- dung ous bekommen, t) ‘devotion, Andacht, nn’ Gottesfurcht, u) repofe, Ruhe. von dem )= v) life. das Leben, to live , leben, Franzvfifchen répos. In dem erften Wort wird das § fy e wie ei, in dem lezten wie i ausgefprochen. W) fo fweeten, verfiflen, von [fwe:t, {iifs, ) daher auch fweetnefs, Sifligkeit, fieet - meats, ol Confeét, X) death, der Tod, dead, todt, th T V) care, die Sorge, to take care of ete. Sors ge tragen fur etwas, f der unfrigg, z) our ,uanfer, a.;,;,,, 8 Short [entencess’ > 2) fouls'is the one thing néceflary, ~ He that b) neglétts the férvice of the ¢) almighty, d) dies e) witholt dding that, for f) which be was g) made h) to live. fi He, who mikes a i) jeft of the k) frail- ties' of human nature, 1) u p pbraids the. god of nature, t m) Old 4ge is n) too vénerable for riils lery and fhould be o) réverenced, The p) unfOrtunate are Objefts of coms A péffion not of riillery. i W a) /Zml, die Seele. b) #o fiegiefi’, verfitts \ men, von dem Franzofifchen négliger. c) ale ‘anighty, allmichtig, von afl und mighty, allen Worten, In werden, wirft man ein / weg die mit al zufammen gefezt allein die Aus- bR/ {prache des doppelten / bleibt. d) dies, von to die fterben, e) without, ohne, wird alle- mal mit dem Participio conftruirt. f) which, welches, wird gebraucht, wann man von leb- lofen Dingen fpricht, anftatt dafs man das Pro- nomen relativam w/o nur von lebenden Din- gen gebrancht, g) to make, made , machen, h) he, who, derjenige, welcher. Siehe Noe ta z. pag. 3. i) feft, Spafs, Scherz, k) frail- ties, von frailty,” Gebrechlichkeit, Siehe Noa ta m. pag. 7, 1) to upbraid, tadeln, m) old age, das Alter, n) teo, zu fehr, O) lo re= wrenfe,, verehren, | P) #nfortunate , ungliks Short [entences: 9 that Fléttery‘ is a fort of q) bad m/6ney, to hty, which our vanity r) gives clrrency, hich - If we s) did net flatter ourfélves, the flittery of Others could do us t)little u) hirm, talle d of A v) bealt w) drefled out is as the x)ecin- namon tree, the y) bark is more z) worth ke than the a) body, b) None more impfitiently ¢) fhffer injue Oms ~ _aa Yich. q) fad, fchlimm, worfe, fchlimmer, woyft, {chlimmfte, r) to give currency, W™ Alle Umlauf bringen. s) did - flatter. Das erftere (13 ift das Imperfettum von #o do thun, Diefes In Verbum wird im Prefenti und Imperfetto be= bzt fonders bey fragenden und verneinenden Re- J§= densarten andern Verbis hinzugefiigt, und ift von einer alten deutfchen Art zu reden, her- o {7 genommen, welche nun bey uns in Abgang by gekommen ift, t) little, klein, wenig, lefs, ho weniger, Jjeaff, am wenigiten, w) harm, Je Schaden, das deutfche Wort Harm. (v)a beaus [l ein Stuzer, In diefem Wort wird das ea#, das i fonft wie iu ausgefprochen wird, wie o ausgea fprochen. w) to drefs out, herauspuzzen. X) cinnamon tree, Zimmetbaum, y) the bark, die Rinde, z) worth, werth, a) the body, der Korper, % mand, keiner. c) to fuffer, leiden, Lo 19 " Shovt [entences. ties, than d)i thofe that are moft e) fc’)rwgrd in doing them, v) A f) fine g)coat 1s h) but a livery, whes bu the pérfon who i) wéars it, k) difcovers no higher fénfe than that of a 1) féotman, X Thbfe who'- are‘ incapable of gréat crimes me do not m) réadily fufpéct Others of them. p( n) Cuftom is the o) plague of wife fhen,' and the p) idol of q) fodls, Ufe mikes évery pofture r) familiar, to the body, and évery opinion to the s) mind, =2 — —r - Jouffrir. d)thofe. Siche Nota r. pag.v, e) for- ward , bereitwillig, fiirwizig, zudringlich. f) fine, fchon, g) coat, Rock. h) but, nur, i) to wear, tragen, wird nur von de- nenjenigen Sachen gebraucht, die man auf dem Leibe trigt zum Unterfchied von fto bear, er- Lo T Pt OO o Ve o e o tragen, to bear up, aufrichten. k) to difco- ver, entdeken, von dem Franzofifchen décou- vrir, 1) a footman, ein Bedienter. m) rea- dily , bereitwillig. n) cuflom, Gewohnheit, Gleichbedeutende Worte find, ufe, habit. o) the plague, die Peft, pP) idol/, ein Guizenbild, von dem Franzofifchen idole. q) ool , ein Thor, von' fo_u, t) familiar, leicht, s) mind, Short fentences. b § 4 yard Our t) humour has more .fahlts, ‘than our ) underftinding, hes Familidrity, it is true, v) breéds contémpt, but l6ve is not to be w) gained witholt 5 10 x) fome degrée of it, The y) beft phildfophy is to ftudy i) man’s itmes mortality , and to a) m [ upbn déath, édifate b) fréqqently e, Our ¢) infancy is' full of ignorance and o lfldo die Seele. t) humour, Laune, w) wsder- Janding , Verftand, to underftand, verftehen, V) to breed , erzeugen, to breed up, erziehen, bred up, erzogen. W) ¢o gain, gewinnen, erhalten, von dem franzvfifchen Wort gaguer, for gain, Gewinn, X) fome, im Singulari, irgend ch einer; im Plurali, einige. Y) good, better, beft, wird eben fo irregulair comparirt wie im i Deutfchen, 3 z) mawn’s, der Genitivus von el man , der Menfch, Der Apoftroph unterfchei- gl det ihn von dem s finali des Pluralis, [co- o a) to meditate upon fomething, tiber etwas nachdenken, b) frequently, oft, von dem o eito franzofifchen Wort fréquent. Sehr oft wird th im Englifchen das Adverbium aus dem Adje- &ivo formirt, indem man lezterem die En- i i dungsfylbe /y hinzuftigts c) infancy, Kind- h beit, von dem Ilateinifchen Wort infans, 12 Shor? fifiteme:. d) feirs, our e yohth of £) fin, our age of % i g forrow, and our whole life of h) din- ger 3 Néver- thitk (youf fotil.fin’ a gbod chfe as' long as you i) are afraid to think of Fé:r may 1) keép a man out of dinger, but cOurage m) Only can n) fuppOrt him in it. li When a man /0) 6ywn’s himfelf to be in an il D érror, he does butp tell you in Other words, i, that he is wifer, than he was. Ye i It is not q) uncommon r) to fee §) de= i\ d) fear. Yurcht, to fear, firchten, e) yout)r, die Jugend, ein Jingling, young, jung, ft) fin, Sunde, fo fin, fundigen, finmer, ein Sunder. é g [orvow, Kummer, i am forry, es thutmir leid. h) danger, Gefahr, dangerous, gefihr- Yich. i) to be afraid to do fomething, fich fiirchten etwas zu thun; to be afraid of fome- 2hing, lich vor etwas fiirchten, k) dying, Partic. von to dye, oder to die, fterben, b te keep, kept, halten, behalten, to keep from, be- wahren var. m) only . 2llein, nur, n) to Sfupport, untesftiizen, erhalten, von dem fran zblitchen fupporter. 0) to own, geitehen, p) ta teil, told, fagen, erzihlen, q) uncqm- Shosz. [entences, I3 e of jé&ed t) cotntenances in ) gilt v) claches, Al and w) mérry fices x behind *them, 'The y) fight cfa z. driinkard is a bétter a) férmon b) agiinfk that vice, than the beft cile, that ever was c) préached upbn that 1ibject, k of There are véry d) féw, ) who {, know huw to be g idle and mnocent gety him mon , ungemein, Man braucht das #» im Eng=- lifchén wie im Deutfchen, um die Negation 1 it auszudri ken, r to (€€ o /aw Jeen fehen, s) dej-tled, medergefch agen. t counvieravi~ rrds, e, Blick, u' grit, vergiidet, von to gild, wverginden. Gemeiniglich wird bey den Verbis, die ich in d endigen, dased im imperfeéto und des Supino in ¢ zufsmmen gezogen, vV coach. eine Kutfche, coachnan, ein Kutfcher, car- rioge , Fohrwerk, M uggon, Wagen, waggo- wer, Fohrmann, W meryy . Juftig. x) be= hind , hinter v) fight, Anblick z) drum- wth kard , Trurkenbold, von to arznk dranks fty el drzmk trinken, iy I« ) fermon. eine Predigt, zum Unterfchied ch von /peech . eine Rede b agaivft, gegen, 6= C to preach, predigen, d) frw, wenig, e) who- to be. welcke wiflen wie man feym Jy fo kan, ein Angliciin us £ to kmow, kvew, 3 known, wifien Beinah alle Verba welche f0 fich auf ow cder o endigen, verwandeln, uvm Ja das lmperfe¢tum zu formiren, das o oder a in Iy ¢, und um das ‘upinun: zv machen, fezen fie jo nur ein ¢ an den Infinitivum, g, idle, mif- 14 Short fimem'efi I h) By dding nbthing, we 1) léarn to do k) ill, The pléafure of the bbdy is i : cérfimohly the ¢) ”l) poifon of the mind, of m) Ufe n) ftidy for o) delight p) &rna- ) ment and q) ability, and r) labour if not for ‘! _g) food , for t) phyfick, and tve, ~ Sdlomon u) notes, that from idlex;e{'s and A v) {1oth come W) pbverty'férvitgde, x)frlit- ~ Wig tef| 'Sfig, idlene/s, Mifliggang, Féujlheit. | h) by o doing wothing , dadurch dafs wir nichts thun, 1) to learm, learnt, lernen, ‘Eine Zufammen- ‘ziehung des ed in ¢, k) ill, bofes. 1) poi- {0 m) to ufe, gebrauchen, u/e, Ge=- 7] brauch, #ufage, Behandlung, n) fludy, das ¢ Studiren, to fludy, ftudiren, Q) delight, Ver- g guigen, fto delight, ergozen, p) ornament, Uhy Zierde, Schmuk, von dem franzodfifchen Wort Yor OVHer zieren. q) ability, Fihigkeit, Thi. h r) to labour , arbeiten, tigkeit, Ausbildung, labour , Arbeit ein Arbeiter, fCh( labourer Yo s) food, Nahrung, to feed, fed, nihren, e ‘t) phyfick, Arzney, u) to wmote, bemerken, 0 siote, Bemerkung, von dem franz. Wort noter. fic v) /loth, Yaulheit, w) poverty, Armuth, dy wvon dem franz, anvre ; pooy, arm, X) fruit- lg/s, fruchtlos, - Eben die Zufammenfezung fi 5 15 Short fim‘eme;; y b lefs y) wifhes and def » i?es, hfinger z)"bég. p gary déath, An a) habit of idlenefs or inapplication of ythe mind b) contriéts a c) ftagnation of humours, d) nimnefs of the e) joints and f) dilnefs (N3 of the g) brain, }3) hardly or néver fco be t for i) clred, Sthdy and k) léarning 1) refine our inindé and ménners, make a man thinking, m)attén- tive, mn) indiftrious and o) wary, -an old s ond frilt man p) chéarful and refélyed:% they are an e wie im Deutfcfien. “ y) wifh, Wunfch; fo will, winfchen, z) beggary, Bettelftand, )y von o beg, bitten, peggar, ein Bettler, chumy 2) habit, Gewohnheit, Fertigkeit, ) fo 1m€l{' contralt, bewerkftelligen, verurfachen. ¢) flag= wnation , Stillftand. d) numbnefs, Stumpfheit, (e e) joint, Gelenk. f)-dutne/s, Dummbheit, s g) brain, Gehirn, h) hardly, keum. i) to Jer cure, heilen, enty k) learning, Gelehrfamkeit, o1t von fo learn, lernen. Siehe Nota i, pag. 13. e 1) 2o refine, verfeinern, von dem franzofi- fchen raffiner. ‘m) attentive, aufmerk{am, tefl, von dem franzofifchen Wort attentif. Alle tef) diejenigen englifchen Adjetiva, die von fran- refhy zolifchen - Adjettivis abgeleitet find, welche ety fof's fich auf £ endigen, verwandeln gewohnlich thy das £ in ve, n) induflrious, arbeitfam, fleif- fig; induftry, Fleifs, o) wary, vorfichtig, i 98 g) chearful, hgite-r, to chear, aufhei;erx1. -~ D — 16 Short fififflm)‘.‘\A drnament in profpérity ; a reflige in advérfity, an entertainment q) abréad, a compinion at home, they chear in {Slitude and prifon, and P moOderate our péfiiops in the’ héight of fore tune, Religion will béar a man vup in all eftites : and Accidents, make his thoughts virtuous, his v words ‘difcréet, 4ctions prudent and life r) bla- \f melefs; as s) 4iming Only at the glory of god, and doing all the good he can’ .to him- felf and Others, When you have found a friend be t) faith~ ot ful, u) difcreét and fincére, béar his little en v) failings, and, w) fo fir as confifts with it Hi hoénour and a good cOnfeience, cultivate his be friendfhip x) left it expire; y) Yyet néither fe I afk nor z) grant him 4ny thing ;’mjuf-’c or fa L] Ei € o q) abroad, auswirts, at ’bomé-,’ zu Haus, [ x) blamelefs, tadellos, von dem franzofifchen U Wort blamer ; to blame, tadeln; blame, Tadel, $) to aim at a thing, nach etwas {treben, t) faithful, treu, faith, die Treue, u) dis- te creet, befcheiden, von difcret. , v) failings, b Fehler, von to fail, fehlen, aweit, W) ,/.0 fi?i"’ fo nicht, X) left, aus Furcht es mOchte, damit ¥) wet, doch, z) to gramt, verwil- ligen, % a) evil, 5 Short fentences: 17 ity ) évii. b) Love him fo, as to c¢) hite his on a fatlts, and néver by too gréat familiarity ex- , and pofe yourfelf to his d) contémpt. f fore A ¢) good nitured man has the f) whole world g) to be happy out of, h) Whatéver eftates good i) befills his k) fpecies, a well 1) defér- ving pérfon m) promoted, a - moédeft man ad- s, Lis ) blie vanced, an n) indigent o) one p) relieved, )ry’ of ) hifme 2) evil, tbel. b) to love, lieben. c) to )fide hate , haflen, d) contempt, Verachtung, von dem lateinifchen Wort contemuere. e) good g litte natured , gutartig, gutherzig. f) whole, ganz, yith Hier wird das w nicht ausgefprochen, g to Man e his be - out of; anftatt, out of which etc. ngithet fezt das Pronomen relativaum, wenn es mit ei- ner Prepofition conftruirt wird, an den An- oft of fang der Redensart und die Przepofition an das Ende derfelben. Bisweilemrr laft man auch, wie es hier der Fall ift, das Pronomen relativum ganz hinweg und fezt blos die Preepofition an Jauss das Ende der Redensart; jenes mufs dann im chen ‘Ueberfezen f{upplirt werden, h) Whatever, adeh was auch immer, ift eine Nachahmung des la- shefly teinifchen quicunque etc. i) to bl{fa[l, bl,’ff‘”, dis befallen, befallen, k) [pecies, Gefchlecht, 1) deferving , Part. preef. von to deferve, ver- 15 dienen, m) to promote, befordern, n) indi- fo lgmif gent, diirftig. 0) ome. erfezt hier blos die ik telle des Subftantivi. Am Ende eines Perio- fii wird es befonders hdufig zu diefem End- ovi 18 Short [entences, ) all this‘ he 16oks upén as a ) remdte Y 5) bléifing of providence on himfelf; which f then t) feéms u) to make him aménds for m the v) narrownefs of his own w; fortune, when it x) doth the fame thing, y)he would of have done; had it beén in his z) power: a) for b) what a ¢) luxlrious man in pé. 17 i e ———" bfs hi fiy zweék gebraucht, weil man mit Adje@ivis im Englifchen keinen Perioden zu fchliefsen pflegt, ) p) to relieve, helfen, erretten. q) all - upon, Eine ahnliche Verfezung wie Nota g. fo look upon , anfehen, r) remote , entfernt, s) blef- ing , Wohlthat; to ble/s, fegnen, b/ifs, Gluk- feligkeit. t) to feem, {cheinen, u) to make amends , einen Erfaz geben, V) narvowne/s, Geringfiigigkeit, von warrow, eng, w) for- tune, Vermigen, Gluksgiiter, X) dath’ 3 Perf, pref. von o do. Gegenwirtig braucht man ftatt des #/ haufiger das s. y) Hier ift das Pronomen relativum which ausgelaffen, wel- ches im Accufativo fehr oft ausgelaflen zu wer- - T e @ o den pflegt, z) power , Macht, von dem fran. zufifchen Wort pouvoir, a) for, ift bald eine Prepofition, bald eine Conjuncttion, Im erften Fall heift es fur, und regiert den Accufativom; im zweiten heift es de%%. b) what, das was, Pronomen relativom, ©) luxurious, {chwelgerifch, von luxurieux. g e 4 N en ey epe P ™ Shore [fentences, 19 ot werty would d) want for e) délicacies, for hich £) horfes and g) fébotmen; a good nitured fot man wants it for his friend or for the podr. Ine, ould ‘A wife man h} maintains the 1) firength of his body not by délicacies, but by témpe- et il rance, and drinks wine as k) fick men take phyfick, 1) mérely for m) héalth, Réafon is his rule, confcience his n) cobunfellor, and his 4tions are ever céntrary to thofe, o) he finds fault with, Age rénders him néither 5 1M p) mordfe, nor q) impérious; his r) know- egt oty Pt [ook tf ik Siehe Nota s. ,a’g.‘ o d) to want, bediirfen, make Mangel haben, brauchen., Want, Mangel, Be- duirfnifs, e) delicacies, Pluralis von delicacy, e, Lekkerbiffen, von dem franzsfifchen delicateffe. for f) horfe, ein Pferd; flallion, ein Hengft; ma- ) g, ve, eine Stute, g) footmen, ein irtegulairer cht Pluralis von footman, ein Bedienter, Diejeni- ift rele gen Subftantiva, die fich auf an endigen, ver- 7t wandeln ausnahmsweife, um den Pluralem zu alle machen, das ¢ in ¢, h) to maintain, ethalten, behaupten, von dem Franztfifchen maintenir. 2 i) firemgth, Starke, rong, ftark, k). fifk, krank, fickne/s , Krankheit, 1) merely, blos. m) health, Gelundheit, healthy. gefund. n) ine counfellor, Rathgeber , (confeiller), 0) to find nd ¢ Sfault with @ thing, etwas tadeln, Siehe Nota My y. pag. 18. und Nota g. . I7. P) morofes o miirrifch, Q) émperious, bettichfiichtig, r) know- = do Shovt [entences, ledge s) Influetices and € témpers his mind b with all the humanity, ghodnefs u) calme nefs ftrength and fincérity of a v) found and unaffécted phildfopher, and makes his conver= fation fo w) affable, x) pléafant and y) in« ftractive. that z) both young and old delight ? in it and a) improve by his b) céunpils. d What c¢) fehlpture is to a d) block of D marble, educition is to a hiiman foll, The philofopher the faint, the héro, the wife, the {0 good or the gréat man very oOften e) lie Vi f‘) h%d in a plebéian, which a proper educi- q\ ledge, Kenntnifs, von fo kmow. Siehe Nofa f, s) to influrnce, einen Einflofs haben; jufluence, Einflufs. t) to temper , miligen. u) calmnefs, Ruhe, von calm, ruhig; Calm. eine Meeres- ftille, v) found, gelund, grandlich, w) af- fable, gefprichig, X) wleafaut, angenehm, gefillig, von dem Franzofifchen plaifant. V) in- rafiive, unterrichtend, z) both, beide, fo wohl, Siehe Nota m, pag, 15, ; a) to improve by fomething , aus etwas Ny zen ziehen, b) council. Rath C) fcu piure, Bildhauerey. feuiptor, ein Bildhauer, d) bhlock, ein Block. e) to lie, lugen’ lie , eine Lii~ 8 £) hid, verborgen; to hide, hid, hid= g i a3 - Shore fentence!. nind tion might have g) difinterred and have lIme brought to h) light, and Vel When 1 look upbn the i) tombs of the ) 1o gréat, fays Mr Addifon, every k) emotion lght of 1) énvy dies in me; When Iréad the m) épi- taphs of the n) beautiful, every inordinate defire goes out; when I o) méet with the of p) grief of parents upon a tOmbftone, my The héart melts with compaffion ; when 1 fee the the tomb of parents themfelves, I confider the ) lie vanity of grieving for thofe, whom we muft e vq) quickly follow; when I fee kings lying r) by thofe who depofed them; when I con- fider rival wits, placed fide by fide, or the ofaf. ity (e iy dem, verbergen, g) to difintey, entdeci{en. f h) fight . Licbt; to light, anziinden; /lighte- Bhrflt aing , ein Bliz; to enlighten , aufkliren, i) i tombs, Grabmiler; tombstone, Grabftein; to 19 entomb, begraben. k) emotion, Regung. 1) envy, Neid; ¢o envy, beneiden. m) epitaph, Grab- {chrift, n) beantiful, {chén; beauty , Schon- heit. 0) to meet one oy with one, einem be- U ;flr gegnen, einen antreffen, p) grief, Schmer- %..' zen; ‘to gvieve. trauern, Q) quickly, Adv. I fchnell ; guick, Adj. quickuefs, Sublt, to qui- i cken, Verbum, befchleun?gen. r) by, neben, 22 Short [entences. 8) holy men, that divided the world wfth their t) cOntefts and difpites: 1 u) reflé& with forrow and v) afténifhment on the litte le competitions, fictions and debates of mén- kind ; when I read the {éveral dates of the tombs of fome that died as w) yéfterday, and fome fix hundred yeéars x) agl, I confi- der that great day, when we {hall all of us tr be y) cotémporaries and z) make an appéa- rance togecther, o W f) s) holy, heilig. t) comteft, Streitigkeit. u)to sefleff , nachdenken, von dem franzofifchen Wort sefléchiv. wveflexion, das Nachdenken, V) aftoni/hment, das Erftaunen, to aftonifh, erftaunen. W) yefierday, geltern; pefore ye- Sfterday, vorgeftern, X) ago, vor. Wird im- mer hinter das Subftantivum gefezt, zu dem es gehort, z, E, a year ago, vor einem Jahr, three days ago, vor drei Tagen, y) cotem- § poraries, von dem Franzaofifchen contemporain. Das Adjeétivom wird hier ftatt des Subftantivi W gebraucht, z) make - together , mit einander V( auftreten, Lo 4 n P e‘ ! /3 a3 vit i Examples of virtue and vice drawn litte from real life, e f the : Patérnalvléve. 1daf) 2) A}m()ng the incrédible nfimber of pérfons, onfie f g who were b) profcribed Gnder the f{écond tritmvirate of Rome, were the c) célebrated o Orator Cicero and his d) bréther Quintus, When the €) néws of the profcription was f3 brought to them théy g) endé;avoured h) to ) make théir efcipe to i) Brutus in Mécedon. chen ken, m'[ hy Y- j im- a) among, zwifchen, unter, ' Es unter- {fcheidet {ich darinn von den Worten letween dem und beiwixt , Jiht dafs diefe beyde nur bei zwei - Sachen, jenes aber bei mehreren gebraucht !ifl‘ wird, b) to profcribe, in die Acht erklaren, ivi von dem Lateinifchen pro/cribere. c) celebra- fer ted , beriihmt, von dem franzufifchen célehre. d) brother, Bruder im Plurali, brethren und byothers. e) mews, Neuigkeit. Wird nur im Plurali gebraucht, aber fo conftruirt, als ob es im Singulari ftiinde. f) to bring , brought, nach der deutfchen Analogie. g to endeavour, fich bemithen; endeavour, Subft. Bemithung, h) to make - efcape , fich zu flichten, i) Bru- TUS. Der Gebrauch der Artikel ift Not. g. p. 1. angeggben worden, ‘Bei den Nominibus pro- L] 24 Examples of virtue énd vice Theyk) trivelled togéther fome time, 1) mi< tually condoling théir bid firtune; but as their m) departure had béen véry n) precipi= tate and they were not furnifhed with méney, and Other néceffaries for their vbyage, it was NP S R 3 P R o) agréed that Cicero p) fhotld mike what hafte hé conld to the féa-{ide to fechre}their paffage, and Quintus retirn home, to make But as in moft more ample q) provifion, ti houfes there were r) as mény informers 4s o doméfticks, his retlirn wis immédiately kndwn I and the houfe s) of courfe filled with fdldiers f and affaffins, Quintus concealed himfelf {& efféétually, that the {Oldiers could not find him; enrdged at their difappointment, they, — priis werden fie deswegen nicht angewendet, weil diefe fchon {o beftimmt f{ind, dafs fie kei- ner genauveren Beftimmung mehr bediirfen, k) to travel, reifen; traveller, ein Reifender, V) mutually, wechfelsweife. m) departure, Abreife, von dem Franzofifchen départ, n) pre- cipitate , ubereilt, o) to agree, ubereinkoma- men, befchliefien, p) fhouid make what hafte he could, follte fich beeilen fo fehr er kénnte, q) provifion, Vorrath. r)as many - domeflicks, eben {o viele Angeber als Bediente, As, wenn es zweimal auf einander kommt, heift das er=- fie mal, eben fo viel' s das zweite mal, als, 25 drqwn frqm real life, hig put his fon to the tdrture, in Order to make it a8 him difcOver the place of his fathers concéal- Cipie ment; but filial afféction t) was proof in the oney yoing ROman againft the mOft éxquifite tor- LW ments, An involuntary {igh, and {6metimes what a déep u) groan was all that could be ex- th elf torted from the génerous youth, His v)égo- make nies were incréafed, but with amizing for- noft titude he w) flill perfifted in his refolition s 18 of not x) betraying his father, Quintus was 10wl not far off, and the réader may imagine, bét« ) dies ter than can be expréflfed, how the heirt of olf 10 the father muft hive béen affééted with the find fighs and groans of a fon y) expiring in tore tures to {ave his life, He could béar it no they longer; bt quitting thé plice 6f his concéal- ment, he prefénted himfelf to the affiffins, bégging with a fléod of téars z) to put him ety to déath and dismifs the innocent child, whofe kel génerous behaviour the triumvirs themfélves feno del" ) prré omme s)’ of courfe, dem zu folge. t) to be proof ift againft, es eushalten gegen, u) groan, ntes fchluchzen, ichzen, V) agonies, Schmerzen, Sing. agony, Angft, w). ftill, immer, noch. sy X) to betray, verrathen, Y) to expire, fter- Al g ben, von dem franzofifchen expirer, ;) 1] put to death, umbringen, o 26 Examples of virtue and vice if informed of the faét would jidge wérthy of the higheft approbition and a rewéard. q Bt the inhiman ménfters. without béing the W léaft affééted with the téars either of the fa- hi ther or the fon, anfwered that théy both muft die; the father, becaufe he was profcribed, and the fon beciufe he hid concealed his fa- ¢ b ther, Thén a new conteft’ of téndernefs b) arofe, who fhould die the firft; but this fi the afléffins foon decided by c) behéading them both at the fime time, fCh\: The béauties of hiftory by L. M, Stretch, Hiy Ity lep bely The coOnduét of young Appius during the Lafi profcription ab6ve méntioned d) renéwed the k), (%) example of the piety of Aenéas, and with un the like fuecefs, His father Appius 4ged and du, Rl e) infirm féeing himfelf profcribed, did not 5 think, that, what remdined of a languif hing Ver life was worth the pains of preférving, and Jem Wif thy L) 6 A of a) reward, Belohnungs fo veward, belohnen. b) to arife, arofe, arifen, entftehen. «¢)to behead, A enthaupten, von /ead, das Haupt. d) to ko tur yenew , ernguern, von new , nev, e) ?nfirm, drawn. from real life, was willing to f) wéit for thé mubrderers thy id, quletly in his own holfe. He could not ho- the wéver refift the préfling infrances and zéal of fie his fon, who took him in his Thoulders and K\\l{t g) loaded with this précious h) blirden i) went lbedy k) thrdugh the city 1) unknown to fome and fi comminding the réfpet of éthers by the nefs béauty of fo comméndable an m) aétion, As this foon as they n) got out of Rome, the fon e fchwach, gebrechlich, £) to wait for fome glethy thing , auf etwas warten; to wait on one, ei~ nem f{eine Aufwartung machen, 'g) loaded, eladen, von to load, h) burden, burtheu, the Laft, i) went,lmperfeCtum von o go, gehen, k) through, durch, correfpondirt in der Be- the deutung mit dem franzvfifchen 4 trquvers, und yith unterfcheidet fich von by, welches ebenfalls durch heift, darinn, dafs diefes nur in dem and Fall gebraucht wird, wenn fich die Dinge, 10t welche es verbindet, wie Urfach und Wirkung verhalten. ng D) wunkuown to fome, ohne dafs es nd jemand wufste, unkuown, mit dem Dativo, un-~ wiflend., m) 4 o an aflion. Bei den Verglei- chungs-Partikeln /o, as, how, fo,to0 und den Ad- jectivis fuch und many fezt man den Artikel zwiflchen die Partikel und das Subftantivum, oM oder zwifchen das Adjeftivim und Subftanti- vum. n) to get, got, gotten, kommen, be- ’d' kommen, Dies find die allgemeinfte Bedeu- {0 tungen diefes Worts, das noch eine Menge i 28 Examples of vivtue and vz’c{ 0) fc.)me-'timés aflifting his father p) to.wfilk, and fome - times, q) carrying him, when the fatigue was too gréat, condléted him to the E féa, and ry convéyed him s) fife to Sicily. [ The péople preférved the remémbrance of this affetionate coOnduét, and on his return to Rome, A4fter the tritmvirs had t) put a ftop to the profcription, all the u) tribes v) uni- le nimously w conclirred in x) rdifing him to the acdilefhip. Bot the goods of his father Ve héaving béen confifcated, he had not méney ma to y) defray the expénces of the z) {hows to b k N ebenbedeutufigen hat. o) fome times, bis- wweilen p) to walk, gehen, fpazierengehen, q) to carvy, tragen, in dem Verftande, wenun man eine Laft trigt. Siehe Nota d und i pag I 3. und 10. 1 {0 convey, geleiten, dasGeleit geben, 4 s) /afe, ficher, von dem franzdififchen Wort li Jauf. t) to put a ftop, Einhalt thun, einftel- ) lefh u) tribe, Stamm, Zunft, von dem latei- o nifchen Wort tribus. V) unanimously, ein- €l ftimmig, von dem franzoiifchen wunanime, w) to comcur , iibereinkommen, von dem la- teinilchen comcurrere. Gleiche Bedeutung hat iy das Wort to agree. X) to raife, erheben, l (Verbum aftivam), to #i/e, emporkommen, {teigen, (Verbum neutrum). beftreiten. V) #o defray, h z) fhows, Schau fpjele s Yon fa fhow, Siehe Note v, pag, 3. 29 dramwn from biffory. V}(llkg belonging to that 6ffice: on which accéunt the the artificers b, chirged néthing for their - the bour, and the people tixing themfélves wil- ilys lingly, eich c) according to his d) ability, 2 s not 6nly enabled him to defray the expences 1 10 of the uifual e) fports, bt to f) plrchate an fhop g) eftate h) twice the value of that, which he had loft, s una m {o Valerius Maximus i' likewife k) relites a athet véry {ingular fact upén this fabjeft. A woa- 10ney man of illGftrious birth had been condémned fows to be ftrangled. The réman praetor 1; deli» vered her up to the triimvir, wh;‘: m caufed RS ,\ bis geheflo a) to belong , gehbren. ; b) to charge , an- weat rechnen, ¢) accoraing , nach, regiert immer ;p@& den Dativam d, ability, Fahigkeit . Gelchik- ohen, Vort lichkeit; ahle, fahig; to enable . f.hig machen, e) [ports, Luftbarkeiten, Schauipiele, f, to ftel- vurchaje , kaufens purchale, Kauf; purchafer, atei- ein Kiufer. g) effate, Landguth, Vermigen, eln- jimes h) ouce, twice, thrice, ein- zwei- dreimal, Bei den iibrigen Zahlen driikt man das ma/ mit 1 2 times aus, 1) likewife , gleichfalls, k to re- y hat late, erzahlen. 1) to detiver up, ausliefern, ében, ety m) caufed her to be; et her dic; [uffeved Dies {ind die drei verfchiedene her - to fee. rifs Arten, wie man im Englifchen das deutiche n 10 dajjen ausdrikt, je nachdem man einen Begriff 80 Exdmpl"e:v of wirtue anrd vice her to be cirried to ptifon n)in order to her f] béing,: put to déath, The o) gacler who was Ordered to éxecute her,” was p) ftrick with = {0 compaflion, and could not refGlve to q) kill her, He r) chofe therefore to let her die L s) of hiinger, Defides which he fuffered her diughter to fée her in prifon, tiking cire however that {he bréught her néthing t) to eit, As this continued miny diys, he was th u) furprized that the prifoner lived fo léng for without eating; and v) fufpéting the diugh- the (he damit verbindet, In erfterer Redensart liegt der Begriff einer wiirkenden Urfache, in der L) zweiten der einer Zulafflung, in der dritten der einer Erlaubuifs, n) in ovder to - death. um fie umzubringen, Eine ganz eigene eng- i lifche Participial-Conftruétion. o) gaoler, Ker- kermeifter. Das go wird in diefem Wort wie Jiy e o ausgefprochen, p) ruck, dahingeriffen; Supinum von to firike, fchlagen; [firoke, ein €l i Schlag. q) fo kill, todten. r) to chufe, chofe, chofen , wahlen; choice, Wahl, Die deutiche s) to die of I hunger vor Hunger fterben, i Preepofition wor, wird, wenn fie einen der hier befindlichen Bedeutung ahnlichen Sinn hat, ) gemeiniglich im Englifchen durch den Geniti- vum ausgedriikt, t) to eat, ate, eaten, ellen, d u) furprized, erftaunt, Supinum von # 0 fur-= prize, [urprize, da; Erftaunen, V) to fufpeit, 74 ) / ) 3t drvawn from biffory, he ter, upbn w) witching her, difcovered, that was fhe néurif hed her méther with her own milk x) Amazed at fo plous and at the fime time yith kill fo y) ingenious an invéntion, he told the fa& to the tritimvir, and the tridmvir to the praé- ' die ¢ bt tor, who beliéved the thing z) mérited rela- it ting in the afflémbly of the people. The cri- minal was pirdoned, a decrée was piffed that ) to was the méther and diughter fhotld be fubfifted for the reft of their lives at the expénce of 16ng ugh the pliblic, and that a témple facred to piety {hould bé 'erééted neir the prifon, Cénfcience, fiegt A a) jéweller, a man of good chiratter der and confiderable b) wealth ¢, hiving occéfion pitten dfflt/’o enge im Verdacht haben, von dem franzbfifchen Kere Jufpell. [ufpicion, der Verdacht. w) to watch, bewachen; watch, eine Talchenuhr ; watchman, e ein Nachtwachter {fens x) amazed, erftaunt, Su- 0y e'm pinum von fo amaze. erftaunen; amaze, das [hofh Erftaunen, y ) ingenious, linnreich, von dem franzolilchen ingduieux. gemius, das Genie, it 9 z) merited relating, erzihlt zu werden (eine tlche y der Erzihlung) verdiente. Eine eigene engliiche ] hfl'tr Conftruétion, wo das Partic pref, die Stelle: onifle des Subftantivi oder des Infinitivi vertritt, - flete a) jéweller, ‘ein Juwelier; jewel, Juwdé, Jire b) wealth, Vermogen, Reichthum, ' c, iaving f‘%;e’ 3¢ Examples of virne and vice in the 'wfiy of his bifinefs to trivel at fome of diftance from the plice of his d) abode, took €) aléng with him a férvant, in-Order to take he Hé had with him his care of his portmanteau, fome of his béft jéwels and a large {um of §) th mbney, to which his férvant was likewife £) privy. The mafter hiving eoccafion to 0b ma g) difmdunt on the h)road, the férvant wit- ching this opportlnity, took a piftol from prd his mafters i) faddle, and k) fhot him déad Tt on the 1) {p6t; then m) rifled him of his je- o wels and moéney and n) hinging a large ftone to his neck, he o) thréw him into the nea- - ) o 3 ‘ocmfibn-tmvel, indem er in Handelsgefchéif- by ten eine Reife machen mufste. to have orca- jon, heift bedirfen, nothig haben, miuflen, d) abode, Wohnung. e) along with him , mit b fich, f) tobe privy to fome thing , um etwas wiflen, ~ g) to difmount, abfteigen. Ein gleich- 2 bedeutendes Wort ift to alight. h) wado der ‘Weg, die Landftrafle. i) faddle, ein Sattel, k k) to fhoot, f[hot, fchiefen. 1) fpot, Plaz, 'm) to rifle one of fome thing, einen einer Sa- q ~che berauben. n) to hang, hung, hingen, to houg ome to a tree, einen an einem Baum aufhingen, to hang a flone to ome’s meck, einen Stein an eines Hals héngen. 0) to throw, threw, thrown, werfen. Siehe Nota f, g ?) booty, < = drawn. from veal life. 33 foms reft canal, With this p) booty he q) made took off to a diftant part of the céuntry, whére | téke he had reafon to beliéve, that neither he nér his mafter wére kndwn. Thére he r) begin him m of §) to trade in t) a véry low wiy at firft, cewife that his ob{clrity might wu) fcréen him frém on f0 obfervition, and in the courfe of v) a good Wils many years feémed to rife by the nitural progrefs of bufinefs into wéalth and confide- from L déad ration; {o that h‘,i\s good fortune appéared at s e bnce the effé& and reward of in‘dufiry‘and 0 fine e e p) booty, Beute. q) zo make off to, fich ent- fernen an, nach, in, r) to begin, began, be- gun, anfangen ; beginner, Anfanger, s) to ofchi trade , handeln; trade, Handel ; tradesman, orfk ein Handelsmann, t) in a very low way, fehr u) to fcreem from, vor etwas ver- it gering. it bergen. Eine andere Art das deutfche o aus- zudritken, wenn folches eine Entfernung oder et\.\'as Abwendung von etwas anzeigt V) a good g\emh many years, ziemlich viel Jahre, Eigentlich Tdc dEf Gt kan der Artikel ¢ nur im Singulari gebraucht Plfll. werden, Siehe Nota b. pag. 1. Dies leidet »r Sfl‘ aber eine Ausnahme befonders bei den Worten ew und many, die jedoch nur fcheinbar ift, ngefl. denn man verfteht alsdann darunter eine grofe Baum oder kleine Anzahl von Dingen colleétivifch mt‘fi y ) 10 genommen, welches diefem Plurali dann doch otd fo wieder den Begriff eines Ganzen oder der Ein~ C 0oty = 34 .Examples of virtue and vice virtue, OF théfe he w) cotmterfeited ‘the ap- péarance fo well, that he x) gréw into great 2 crédit, mirried into a good fimily, and by bl the y)laying out his z (ldden 2) ftores d lcreedy, as he fiw occifion, and joining to all an do univérfal b) affability, he w.s admitted to a * {i ¢) {hare of the gbvernment of the town, and rofe from éne poft to'anéther, d) till at laft I In this 6ffice he was chofen chi¢f magiftrate, 0 he maintained a e) fair charatter and conti- 1) nued to fill it by né fmall applaufe, both as the gévernor and a judge; till bne day, as he o Vi f) fat on the g)bench with fome of his bré- felf thren a criminal was brought before him, who i was accifed of hiving h) murdered his ma- of fter, The i). évidence cime out full, k) the h: heit giebt. w) to tountef/eit, nachmachen, i X) to grow, grew ,grown, wachfen. werden, de Siche Nota f, p. 13. growth, Wuchs, y)to lay, loy, lain, legen. z) fudden, plozlich, ba I¢ ohy a) ftores, Vorrath, b) affability, Gefpras chigkeit, Leutfeligkeit, von affahle, gefprachig, I ¢) Jhare, ein Theil; to fhare, theilen, d) ¢ill, ley bis 3 untii, bis, e) fair, fchon, gut, fair, die 0y Melle (grofer Markt). f) to Jeat, [at, fizen. f) ¢) bench, eine Bank. h) to murder, ermor- bl murder . mord ; murderer den s Magrder, b) i) evidence, Beweis, Zeugnis, ") 35 drawn fifi’um biffory, * 3 hp. jhfy broight in their 1) vérdict, that the prifoner was m) guilty, and the whéle aflém- gtta* d by bly waited the féntence of the préfident of el Iy, the court (which n) he hippened to be that Al an day) with gréat fufpénfe, 0) Meanwhile he d10 8 appeired to be in untfual diforder and agité- p, and tion of mind, his célour changed dften; p) at it | il length he q) aréle from his féat, and coming gffice down from the bench, placed himfelf juft fi oot r) by the unfortunate man at the s) bar, to oth 8 the no fmall afténifhment of all préfent, 25 1 . You fee befére you, {aid he, addréfling him- g bre felf to thofe, who had fat on the bench with him, a ftriking inftance of the juft t) awirds vho y M of héaven, which u) this day after thirty ) the yéars V) concéalment prefénts to you a gréa= e, die Gefchworne, ch 1) verdif¥ , der Ausfpruch den der Gefchwornen, m) guilty, fchuldig, firaf- y)to bar, regiert den Genitivum; guilt, das Ver- b, brechen. n) which he happened - day, wel- ches er zufilliger weife diefen Tag war, 7o 0) Meawwhile , mitt- fpri happen, fich zutragen. chigs lerweile, p) at length, zulezt. (atlaft.) q)te )t l arife s arofe , arifen , fich erheben, entipringen. die 1) by; neben. s) bar, die Schranken eines Ge- 1760 richts. t) award, Urtheil, richterlicher Spruch. 0! W) this day - years, heut vor dreifsig Jahren, dere V) concealment | Velrberg.‘u ng, VOn to conceals % ulh - 36 Examples of virtue and wice ter criminal, than the man jult now fofina‘? guilty, Sl . e Then he made an ) 4mple conféffion -of his guilt and of all its aggravations, Nor can 1 feel, continued he, any relief from the sgonies of an x) awdkened cOnfcience, but by requiring that juftice be y) forthwith done agiinft me in the moft public and {Glemn P manner, é ¢ We may eifily fuppdfe the améizement of al all the affémbly and z) efpécially of his a) fel- h low judges. Howéver they procéeded npon i his conféffion b) to pafs {éntence upbn him, and he died with all the c) fymptoms of a S il ;: fich verbergen, W) ample , Weitléuftig; X) to awaken, erwachen, y) forthwith , fogleich, z) efpecially , vorziiglich. pli ol Kamerad‘ Diefes Wort wird mit Vie- a) fellow, um eine Gleich- Ten Wortern zufammengefezt, heit des Standes oder der Befchiftigung anzu- zeigen, wie das Wort mit im Dent{chen, Z E hier, Mit- Richter, Collegen. Es hat auch eine verachtliche Bedeutung, und entfpricht in diefem Fall dem Wort Kerl #m Deutichen, b) 1o pafs [emtence upon one, einem das Ur- el PARSN Ftige ennsy’ e theil {prechen. c) fymptoms , Kennzeichen, 37 dramn from biftory. ind pénitent mind, Dr. Fordyce in his dialégues vpon education fays, the abbve is a true ftory, and hippened in a d)néighbour nof pot many years ago. Y ing/ ftate Yot m the Benéficence, , bt A cértain cardinal by the multitude of his y done génerous aétions gave occifion for the world o il to call him the patron of the poor, This ecclefifftical prince had a coOnftant chftom, e) once a week to give public dudience to all indigent péople in the f) hall of his pa- @fd lace, and to reli¢ve évery one accOrding to npun i, their various necéffities, or the motions of his Own g) bounty, One day a poor widow 3 of 8 encotiraged by the fame ot his botinty, came into the hall of this cardinal, with her only diughter, a beautiful maid about fifteén yéars L of 4ge, When her h) turn came to be héard gle\(‘,hs ambng a i) crowd of petitioners, the cardinal obférving the marks of an extradrdinary moé- {yie eich izl d) neighbouring , benachbart ; neighbour, Nach- bar; seighbourhood, Nachbar{chaft, e) once quch a week, einmal i der Woche ; week, die Wo- ht 18 che. f) hall, eine Halle, ein grofer Saal, hiet g) bounty, Gite, h) turn, Reihe; by turus, )it wechfelsweife, 1) crowd J eine Menge, Jigty 38 Examples of virtue and vice defty in her fice and k) carriage as alfo in tue yo her diughter, encburaged her to tell her and wants 1) freely. She m) blifking and not ma without n, téars o) thus addréffed herfelf to him: the My lord, I p) owe for the q) rent of Wi my houfe five r) crowns, and fuch is my In misfortune, that I have s) no way left to pay it, t) fave what would u) bréak my g glvi héart, (and my lind lord v) thréatens to for- to 1 ce me to it) that is w) to proftitute this my five only diughter, whom I have hitherto with ¢)o gréat care éducated in the x) piths of vir- thoy — and i, k) carriage, das Betragen, die Manieren, 1) nf Wi veely, frei, (Adverbium) ; free, frei ( Adjettiv.); to free, befreien, freemafon, Freimaurer, m) to to blufh, errdthen. n) tear, eine Thrane; fo tear, tore, torn, zerreiflen, o) thus, alfo, p)fo owe, fchuldig feyn. q) remt of the hou/e, Hausmie- the, r) crown, Krone, ein Laubthaler. s) #o ri‘ih‘ bid way left, kein Mittel tibrig; left ift das Supi- Dig num von to leave, Vverlaflen, Siehe Nota i, pag. 1. t) fave, (Adverb.) ausgenommen, u)to break . broke, brokem, brechen, Die Verba in eak, find auf eine dhnliche Art irregulir und be machen das Imperf, in oke, und das Supinum. Jo in oken. Pa V) to threatem, bedroben; thyeate- ning , Drohung. w) to proftitute , entehren, ! x) path, Fosweg, Plad. y) moved with, ge- Ne 4 drawn fiom biftory. 39 fo n tue. What I beg of your éminence is, that you would pléafe to interpdfe your authérity, | Det 1 not and protéct us from the violence of this criel man, - till by héneft induftry we can prociire of to the money for him. ‘The cirdinal y) moved ent of with admiration of the woman’s virtue and 1 my médeft requéft z' bid her be of good coura- eft to ge: then he immediately a) wrote 2 billet and k my giving it into the woman's hand, Go,faid he ) for to my b) ftéward and he f{hall deliver thee is my five crowms to pay thy rent. The widow ) WI th c) overjoyed and retrning the cardinal d) a f Vi thoufand thanks, went diréctly to the ftéward, and gave him the note. When he had réad She aft6- it, he e) pulld out fifty ctOwns. nifhed at the f)méaning of it, and not kno- 0, ) &W)y wing what the cirdinal had wrote, refufed mh to take above five crownbs',. faying fhe g)mén-~ wary 010ty mie riihrt von; to move. bewegen‘, rihren. 2) t>o bid, bade , bidden , befehlen; to forbid, ver- ) 10 up! bieten, ta Ly )t a) to write, wrote , written ov *9rote, {chrei- a 10 ben b) fleward, Haushofmeifter. c) over- und d) a thoufand. Siehe Nota v. joyed, entziikt, nu pag. 27. e) to pull out, herausziehen. f) the lt meaning , die Meynung, von to mean, mey- fefh g nen, g) -to‘mention\, Meldung thun, anfiih‘ren. % 40 Examplek of vivtue and vice tioned no more to his éminence and fhe was fureit was fome h miftike, On the other hand the ftéward i) infifted on his mafter’s order, not But all k) daring 1) to call it in quéftion. the arguments, he could ufe were infufficient m) to prevail on her, to take any more than five crowns; n) Wherefore to end the con- trover{y, he offered to go o) back with her to the cardinal and p) refér it to him, When they came before that q) munificent prince, and he was fully informed of the bafinefs, It is true, fays he, I miftéok in writing fifty crowns, give me the phper, and 1 will r ré- Je (l &ify it. Up6n which he wrote agéin {aying ¢l h) mifia')‘ée, Irrtfium; to miftake, fich irren, i) to infift on fomething, auf etwas beftehen, k) to dare, fich untezftehen, 1)to call in que- m; o Stion, in Zweifel zichen, bezweifeln, prevail on one, einen uberreden, n) wheye- ore, weswegen, o) back, zurik; back , (Subft,) der Ruken, der hintere Theil von et- Was. p) to refer to, verweifen, lich bezie~ hen, q) munificent , freygebig. r) to relify, berichtigen , von dem franzofifchen wefiifier. Die Art der Uebertragung derjenigen franzofi- {chen Zeitworter ins Englifche, die fich auf fier gnc;ligen » ift diefe, dafs diefc Endung fichin /y dvawn from bifforys 41 wah to the wbéman: fo much s) cindour and vir- Here 1 have or- d the tue deférve a récompence, , 1ok dered you five hundred crowns; what you tall can fpare of it, t) lay up as a n) dowry te ent give with your diughter in marriage. e than o0le Indolence. h het Theodofius, the roman émperor, had beent hen ufed, when a v) child to fign all the afts, 1ince, which were brought to him by his minifters, s, It without réading them; and he was fo indo- ity £ 16 lent and thoughtlefs as to continue the fame chftom after he was married, His fifter Pul- hying cheria, to w) apprize him of the evil confe- quences, that might attend it, ciufed an alt ot to be driwn up, whereby he x) yiélded to her for ever the émprefs Eudocia as her y){la- ety ve. This aét the émperor figned as ufual ?ehefl. que m, 0 ’ heres bfltk ) verwandelt, 8) candour, Redlichkeit, t) ta )i et‘ w) dowry, Heurathsgut, ,ezie- lay up , zurik legen. iy Avusftener, Witthum, von dem franzéfifchen douaire. v) child, eiu Kind, im Plurali chil- if dren. childhood. Kindheit. W) to apprize one bl of fome thing . eien von etwas belehren, X) e fit oy yield , weichen, abt_retten.‘ 19! /lrave , Sklave, 42 Extamplés of virtue and vice without z) perifing it, or even aj enquiring swhat it conthined, Some fhort time after his fifter prefénted him with the 2, and defired the would réad it He did, but was {o b)a- fhimed of bis ‘P_,fa{‘t indolence and negléét, that he néver after figned any papers, till he had éither atténtively réad them himfelf, or was well inform d what they contained, Univerfal hiftory, Val, XVI, i ‘Flattery. Afi‘tinchu’s_» ‘Sidetes king of Syria was 2 ¢ p’rincev éftimable for many good qualities, As a prOof of his c¢) wisdom he detéfted flattery. One day having loft himfelf d) a hinting, and being alone, be e) rode up to the f) cét- ~ ”Sk‘lavifin.l z) to pevufe , durchlefen. a) to enquire, for{chen, nachfragen; enquiry Unterfuchung, b, to be afhamed of /omething, fich einer Sache f{chidmen, c) wisdom, Weis- heit , von wife, weife d) a hunting , im Ja- gen, Ver Artikel a wird bisweilen ftatt der Prépolfitionen in, of, o, on, into gebraucht, fo hunt, jagen’s huuter, ein Jager; hunt’sman, ein Jager, Jagerburfche, von dem angelfiichfifchen huntian, von welchem auch das deutfche Wort Huni-abgeleitet ift. e) tovide, rode, reiten, £) cottage, Hutée, von dem angel{%chii{chen - drawn Jrrom biftory. 43 ing his tage of a poor fimily, who recéived him in the beft manner, g) they could, without red kndwing him, At fapper having himfelf tor- )% ned the converfation upén the coOnduét and that chiratter of the king, they faid, that he was fiad in évery thing h) elfe a good prince, but o that his too gréat piffion for hinting made him negléét the affiirs of the kingdom and A i) repofe too much coOnfidence in his k) couir- tiers, whofe 4¢tions did not always correfpond, with the gbodnefs of his inténtions; Antio- chus'made no anfwer at that time, The next % 4 A day upOn the 1) arrival of his m) train at fery. the cottage, he was known, He repéated to :ings his atténdants, what had pafled the n) évening cot- before, and told them by way of reproach: »Since 1 have tiken you into my férvice, I have not héard a trith, concérning myfelf, till o) yéfterday, 1y Plutarch in bis spophth, p, 185 ?:é,’n s ‘Wort cot, eine Hiitte; cottager, Hiittenbewoh- ot ner, fo which. g) Hier ift darunter zu verftehen, in n h) elfe, fonft; elfewhere, anderswo, efl i) to repofe, fezen, legen, k) courtier , Hof- it mann. 1) agrrival, Ankunft, von dem fran- Iy zofifchen arriver. m) train, Gefolge, n) i} evening , der Abend (eve). 0) yefterday, ge- 44 Examples of virtue and vice Niele, bifhop of Lincoln and And'rews bifhop of Winchefter, being at dinner with king James in public, James in this fituation had the imprudence to propdfe p) aldud this quéftion, q) whéther he might not take his fubjet’s méney without confént of r) parlia= ment 2 The s) {ycophant Niele replied: ,, God forbid, you fhould not, for you are the t) bréath of our u) noéfirils! Andrews v)de- elined anfwering the quéftion, faying he was not w) fkilled in parliamentary cafes, On the kings x) tUrging him he ' y) pléafant- ly replied; ',,I think your méajefty has an Ly, O e gmmy o - ftern, p) aloud, laut, von Joud und a als Prepofition zufammen gefezt. q) whether , ob. t) parliament. In diefem Wort wird das 7 in der Mitte nicht ausgefprochen, s) [ycophant, ein Schmeichler, Speichelleker, t) breath, der Athem, vom angelfdchfifchen brathe , nieder- fachfifch bradem, u)uoftril, Nafenloch, v)¢o decline, ablehnen, fich weigern, declined ans- wering , ein Anglicifmus, wo das Participium ftatt des Infinitivi gebraucht wird. W) /killed, gelchickt; umfkilled, ungefchickt; /kill, die Ge- ichickiichkeit, = x) to wrge ome, in einen drin- gen Yy ,'«pcfim[antlu, {cherzhaft (fr. pla;fant)‘ ’ i]mmn from biffory, 45 ewd m&d&nb‘ted z) right to 'mg bro'thetf Niele's \ yith money, “ Hon Life _Qf Andrews bifhop of Winf'hefier,- this ¢ 1 Genero/fity. ;%irlia- A\efch'ines and Demofthenes were the two (God gréateft 6rators, which a) Gréece or perhips the any other nation ever produced. The former )de- having b) drawn up an accufation aghinft one Was Ctefiphon or rather agiinft Demofthenes, a (n No time was fixed for héaring the c) trial. ante ciufe ever excited fo much curibfity, nor a0 was d) pléaded with {fo much pomp, Péople e) flocked to it from all parts, fays Cicero and they had gréat réafons for fo doding; for what fight could be nobler, than a ) cOnflick between two 6rators, éach of them éxcellent 48 in his way, both formed by nature improved b, pin by grt, and énimated by perpétual diffénfions, ufmt, der der )t z) right, Recht; .he is in the right, er hat pis recht, i Sheiland. M’ a) Greece, Gr b) to draw up, (e entwerfen, ¢) trial, Procefs. d) to plead, einen Procefs fuhren (fr. plaider). e) to flock fir to fomething , haufenweife fich be etwas ver- 1t fa’mmlen\, von flock, die Heerde, f) confli&, 46 | Examples of virtue and vice and an g) infuperable h) jéalofif}/! The difpo- {ition of the péople and the i) jinlture of the times feemed to favour Aefchines; k) néver- thelefs he loft his caufe and was juftly 1) fén- tenced to be m) binifhed for his rafh accu- {ation, He n) thereupén went and o) fettled e ————— at Rhodes, whete he Opened a {chool of élo- quence, the fame and glory p) of which con- tinued fo many 4ges. He begin his q) léCtue i res with the two orations, which had occa- m fioned his banifhment, - Gréat r) encomiums Je were given to that of Aefchines; but when 0 they héard that of Deméfthenes, the s) plau- 1 dits and acclamations were redolbled; and it t was then, ke fpoke thofe words Ifo gréatly o Kampf. g) z'n{upera?)le, untiberwindlich. h) jéa- loufy, (t/chellufi) Eiferfucht (fr. jaloufie). 1) jun- 1l Fure - times , ZLeitumftande. k) neverthele/s, deffenunerachtet 1) to femtemce, verurtheilen, von fentence , ein Spruch. m) to bani/h, ver- bannen. n) therewpon , hierauf, 0) to [fettle, fich hauslich niederlafien, p) of which, deren, Which , im Genitivo wird immer dem omi- nativo nachgefezt, anftatt dafs der Genitivus von who dem Nominativo voraus geht. q) /e- fures, Vorlefungen r) emcominm , Lobrede, (ift aus dem griechifchen abgeleitet), &) plan- B S e o BT e T e i dramwn fi‘oin biftory. 47 B t) lfiudable in the u) mouth of an énemy.; the ,yBut what applaufes wouid you have beftd- jefs wed, had you héard -Demé&henes fpéuk it o0 himfelf! 000 The vifor likewife made a good ufe of for the inftant Aefc ines left ffled the cénquett, Athens, in order to v) embérk for Ricdes, "¢lo. con Demofthenes w) ran after Jim, and foiced fite him to accépt of a purfe of méney; which muft fave obliged zim fo much the more as oithe s he x) had lefs room to expétt fuch an offer, On this occafion Aefckines cried out; ,, How plien will it‘b»e péifible for me to y) regrét a _cémiy- [au= d it try, in which ) léave an enemy more géne- rous, than ] can hope to find friends in any atly part of the world, ) . Honour, < The {panif hiftorians relate a mémorable o infrance of As6nour and regird to trith, A I 45y el dit, Beyfall, aus dem lateinifchen, t}"laudab[é,- eI lobenswiirdig, von dem lateini(cien laudabilis, fby u) mouth, Mund, Miindung. by way of moutl, ne ET‘I. miundlich, v)to embark, fich einfchiffen (em= barquer). w) to vum , van, run, lavfen; fo us 12 run after one, einem nachlaufen, X) had lfs e room, weniger Urfache hatte; woom, Raum, flo ein Zimmer, y) to regret, ‘bedauern, (fr, re- \ 48 Examples of virtue and vice fpénifth cavalier in a 2) flidden quérrel a) {lew a moorifh géntleman and b) fled. His ¢ pur- flers foon d) loft fight of him, for he had f e) unpercéived' thrown himfelf over a garden wall, The Owner a moor héppening to be in was addréflfed by the fpaniard h his garden, on his knées, who f) acquiinted him with Ct his cafe and implored concéalment, ,, Eat this* o faid the moor, ,giving him g) half a h) peach, had firft Slou now know, that you may i) confide in p—— Jean N it hPH gretter). Z) [udde?z q;mrrel , ein plozlicher 0ne Streito his a) flew, Imperf; von io ftay, [lew, [lain, dey todt {chlagen, b) to flee, fled, fliechenj von dem aungelfichiifchen flean, Der Infinitivus von diefem Verbo wird oft unrichtigerweife diefes heift aber fliegen, und fly gefchrieben ;. hat im Imperfeto nicht fled, fondern flew. c) purfuer, " Verfolger, von to purfue, verfol- f ren. d) to lofe fig ht of ome, einen aus dem £ Geficht verlieren, e) u-nperceived ,anvermerkt, il £) to acquaint one with Jomething, einen von €l etwas benachrichtigen; acquaintance, Bekannt- (g fi fchaft, Bekannter. g) half a, ‘Wie bei den Ad- &ivis die einen Grad der Vergleichung an- bt je C hen fie und dem Sub- zeigen der Artikel zwif ftantivo gefezt wird, fo gefchieht dies auch bei den Worten a/f und hal . h; each, ein €l Pferfich, von dem franzélichen péche. 1) to con- li de dvawn from hz’flory: 49 ey my protéction.® He then k) 1ocked him up in his garden 1) apirtment, telling him, as pur- had foon as it was night, he would m) provide den for his n) efcipe to a place of gréater {afety, e {0 The moor then went into his houfe, where aiard he had but juit féated himfelf, when a great with crowd with louid acclamations came to his this" gite, bringing the o) cérpfe of his fon, who ach, had juft been killed by a Spiniard. When the e in firft p) fhock of furprife was a little over, he learnt from the defcription given, that the fatal q) déed was done by the r) very perfon then in his power., He méntioned this to no Nighes one; but as foon as it was dark retired to his garden, as if to griéve alone, giving or- /Zam. Then R (] ders that néne {fhould follow him. pitivo i iyt 7 N flr nff()l Vde in fomething, fich auf etwas Verlafl'én. k) to lock up, einfechlieflen; Jock. ein Schlofs; dem padlock, ein Vorleg-Schlofs. L apavtment, lel'kto ein Zimmer, auch eine Reihe von Zimmern yon m) to provide for fomething, qnnk (appartement). n) efcape, Flucht; oA fur etwas beforgt feyn. to efcape , flichen (échapper). 0) corpfe, Leich- 0 a nam. (corps). P) fhock, Anfall, von to /hock, 1 Q!]b‘ ftofsen, angreifen, q) deed, That, Handfchrift, .aufh ein offentliches Inftrument, Urkunde, Wirk- y el (¥ lichkeit, Daher,indee_l%, in der That, 1) very, jvdf 50 ‘E‘xm'n‘ple: of virtue and vice s) al:cé&‘ing the Spaniard, he faid , ,» Chriftian, the perfon, you have killed is my fon, his body is now in my houfe. You ought to 6a fuffer, but you have éaten with me, and I j have given you my faith, which muft not be broken. He then led the afténifhed Spa- niard to_his t) ftibles, and mounted him on fi one of his u) fléeteft horfes, and faid, ,fly it far, white the night can cover you, you will {h be fafe in the mOrning, You are indéed guil- tol ty of my fon’s blood: but god is juft and the good, and I thank him', I am innocent of A0 yours; and that my faith given is preférved, 18 This point of hoénour is moft religioufly t obférved by the Arabs and Saracens, from whom it was v) adbpted by the Moors of Africa and by them was brought into Spain, the effé€ts of which remaiin to this day. One inftance of {panifh hbénour cannot but flill be w) frefh in the mémory of many living #nd lie fii deférves to be x) handed dc‘)w/n to the lateft et poi’cfiérity. — lad¢ (Adjettiv.) eben derfelbe. ) fo cccoft, anre- den (fr. accofter). t) flable, Stall, (fr. étable) fe to ftgble, in den Stall einfperren.- u) fleet, biL fchnell. V) to adopt, an Kindesftatt annehmen, fe aufnehmen, w) frefh, frifch, von dem angel- By fichfifchen Wort frefe. X) to hand down, iiber< Q f dramn from biftory. 5I A, In the yéar 1746, when we were in y) hot hig war with Spain, the Elifabeth of London, to captain William Edwards coming through the i1 gulph from Jamaica richly z) laden, met with ot a moft violent ftorm, in which the f hip Sp a) fprung a léak, that obliged them for the i} faving of their lives to run into the Havin- nfly nah, a fpanifh port, The captain went on wi I fhore, and diréttly waited on the gévernor, il told the occifion of his b) phtting in, and and that he c) furréndered the fhip as a d) prize, t of and himfelf and his men as prifoners, only Vedo requéfting good e) quérter, »No Sir%, replied oully the gévernor, ,,if we had taken you in f) fair from war at fea, or approaching our coaft with s of g) hoftile inténtions, your {hip would then Spal (ne 1l be liefern; o hand, einhindigen, i)ei der Hand dnd teft dem niederfachfi{chen Zet. fuhren. y) hot. heifs, hizig, wolliiftig; von Z, to iade, laden, Jaden, a) to fpring a leak, lech werden ,‘ das Wa- N fer hinein laffen, von, /leak, ein Rifs. b to 1) put in, einlavnfen, c) to furrender, uberlie- Jothy fern, fich ergeben (fr. /e reunire.. d) prize, nefly Prife, Beute im Krieg (fr. prife) €) quarter, ¢l Quartier, Wohnung. £) in fair war, in of- Jia fenem Kriege, g) hq/iz'g ,zfe?ndfelig (vom la- 52 Examples of virsue and vice have been a prize, and your péople prifoners; but when h) diftréffed by a témpeft you come into our ports, for the fafety of your lives, ne we the énemies, beéing men, are bound as hiy fuch by the laws of huminity, to afford re- th lief to diftréfled men, who afk it of us. €! We cannot even aghinft our énemies take ad- vintage of an aft of god, You have i) léa- ve therefdre to unload your fhip, if that be nl néceffax‘y to ftop the léak; you may k) refit Wit her here, and 1) -traffick fo far as fhall be eett r_iécefihry to pay the m) chirges; you may fim then depart and I will give you a pafs to be U) in force, till you are n) beyénd Bermuda: if 104 after that you are taken, you will then be wh alawful prize; but now you are only a ftran- e ger, and have a ftringer’s right to fafety and 2l prqté&ion. 6 ‘The {hip accordingly departed le » and arrived fafe in London, Humanity. When Quintus Cecilius Metellus, the ro- Udg Wi du éein. hoftilis). ~ h) difiréfled, ungliicklich; diftréfs , Ungliik, Elend,” 1) leave, Erlanbnifs. ¢l k) to refit, ein Schiff ausbeffern. fe 1) to traffick, die einen Handel treiben; trafick, Handlung, Joi m) ‘c.’lfarg»es ; U:nkoi’cen. n) beyond , jenfeit, Joi b ?frdwn /fram biftory. 53 efs) man procénful had o) in#éfied Nertobrigia, ome a chief lord of the céuntry named Rhetoge- Ves) nes, came out of the place, and furréndered himfelf to the Romans; but as he had left in g a8 q 18 the city his wife and children, the inhfbitants f 18, enrdged at his defértion, placed them in the {4 ide p) bréach, which the q) légionaries were to mount, r) Hereupén the good natured géne- | Jea ut be ral, finding, he could not attick the city ) § eii‘t without -s) fpilling their blood, abindoned a Il be cértain cénqueft and raifed the t) fiege, The may fame of an at of fuch huminity, being {oon to be u) fpréad thrdugh all Terracénian Spain, the inh#bitants of the revélted cities v) ftrove, gt i en De who fhould fitft fubmit to him, Metellus re- ferane céived them and améng the reft the Nertobri- gians into an alliance with Rome, and at y nt length recévered the whole country. p fel Univérfal hiftory Vol, XII, p. .387‘. e 10 iiber etwas hinaus, 0) to inveft a town, ei- ne Stadt berennen, p) breach, Brefche, eine durch das Gefchiiz gemachte Oeffnung (fr Asé- lichs che). q) tegionaries, die Soldafen der romi- fchen Legionen. r) Hereupon, hierauf; eben bnir& di¢ Znfammenfezung wie im Ueutichen, s) to 1%[/3, }ll]ng' Jpill, vergieffen. t) fiege, Belagerang, w) to Jpread, [pread, ausbreiten, fich verbreiten, eity 54 Examples of virsue "rmd vice \ Magnanimity. c\ u‘ Subrius Flavius the rdman tribline, being w) impéached, x, for having confpired agdinft N the life of the émperor Nero, mnot only y) Owned the charge, but gloried in it. Updn 4 the émperor’s afking him, what provocation he had given him to z) plot his déath? ,, be= caufe 1 a) abhérred thee*, faid Flavius, ,,though there was not in the whole army one more ) zéaloufly attiched to thee, than [, as long as thou didft mérit affétion; but 1 begin to hate thee, when thou becimeft the miirderer fi of thy mother, the murderer of thy brother iy and wife, a b) chariotéer, a comédian, an ( V) to firive, firove, - fich bemiihen. w) to impeach , anklagen (fr, empecher), Es wurde ehemals auch in der Bedeutung des franzofi- fchen Worts empecher gebraucht, diefe Bedeu- tung ift aber izt veraitet, impeachment, An- klage, x) for haviug confpired, weil er fich ver{chworen habe, Das wegen, weil, dafs im Deutfchen wird 6fters im Englifchen fehr {chun ~durch Participial - Conftrutionen ' ausgedriikt. y) to own, geftehen, bekennen. z) to plot, fich verfchwéren , heimlich berathfchlagen, durchzutreiben fuchen; plot, Verfchworung. a) to abhor , verabfcheven; abhéyvence, V érf,- abi:cheuang. b) chariotesr , Fuhrmann, wird i£ dramn from biftory. 55 ¢) incéndiary }a.nd a tyrant,* - Tacitus a tells eing us that the whele confpiracy afforded nothing, 1 nft which proved fo bitter and d) pungent to on Nero as this reproach, He Ordered Flavius ly U pln to be immédiately put to déath, which he vt jon faffered with amizing intrepidity, When the execltioner defired him to e) ftretch out his bt oigh f) neck viliantly, ,,1 wifh*, replied he, mote » thou mayft ftrike as viliantly, Jong One of the favourites of king Hehry ‘the ;(m 0 having been rderet fifth, when prince of Wales, g) indifted for fome h) misdeméanour was other an condémned i) notwithftdnding all the intereft he could make in his fivour; and he was fo W )0 yurde i ol nur von Streitwagén oder bei einem Wettren- nen gebraucht, c) imcendiary,, Mordbrenner, An (vom latein. incendiarius). d) pungent . fte. ! ich fs 10 chend, {pizig. e) to firetch out, ausftrecken, f) weck , der Hals, der Bufen eines Frauenzim- {chin mers ; necklace , Halsband ; meckeloth , Halstuch, drik A g) to indif¥, endif¥ oder indite , {chriftlich vor ) pmh indif¥ment , eine von den Gericht verklagen; ]]agell. Gefchwornen fur giiltig erkannte Klage ; iber- Ing haupt auch eine Anklage oder Befchuldigung, h) misdemeanour , Verbrechen, Misbrauch ei- {/er qlfd nes Offentlichen Amtes, 1) notwithfiandz’ng, 56 Examplér of virtue and vice k' incénfed at the 1) iffue of the trial, that he ftruck the judge on the bench. This ma- giftrate, whofe name was Sir William Gafcoign E 4éted with a {pirit becOming his charatter, h\ He inftantly Ordered the prince to be comit- ted to prifon, and young Henry by this time {énfible of the infult, he had Offered the laws of his country, fOffered himfelf to be quietly condiifted to m) gaol by the Officer of jufti- ; ce, The king, (Henry the fourth) who was an excellent judge of minkind, was no foo- Pé ner informed of this tranfaction, when he o cried out in a tranfport of joy: ,, Hippy is e the king, who has a migiftrate n) pofléffed ) of céurage to éxecute the laws, and ftill more hippy in hiving a fon who will fubmit to fuch o) chaftifement, {E Continence. In the réign of Charles the fécond, when mit dem Accufativo, unerachtet, k) z'hcm/a, erbittert. 1) i/fue, Ausgang, m) gaol, Ker- ker (ft. geole). Man {chreibt es auch jai/ und - e e _ N g fpricht es aus (d/chihi). a thing, etwas belizen. n) fo be pofjeffed of o) chaftifement , Ziichtigung ; to chaftife, ziichtigen (fr, chatier). Ten. drawn from biffory, / 57 that P) iicénfioufnefs was at its héight in Britain, m a q) yéoman of the guards refufed the miftrefs ign of a king. Thé lady, who was diffatisfied tef, with her noble lover, had fixed her eyes i upon this man, and thought, fhe had no time more to do than fpéak her pléafure, He got Jaws out of her way. He refufed to underftand etly her, and when {he prefled him, firther, faid, ifti- I am married, The ftory réached the king with all its circumftances : but they, who ex~ W‘AS foo- péted an extrivagant r) laugh upon the oc- He fent for the 1 he cafion were s) difappointed, yis pérfon; he found him a géntleman, / though fled t) redliced to that mean ftation, and, u),6dds note fifh, man“, fays he, ,,though I am not ho- I value £ 10 neft enbugh to be virtuous myfelf, them that are. He gave him an appointment and refpétted him for life, hen p) licentionfuefs, Ausgelaffenheit. Q) yeoman of the guard, Ein Gemeiner von der Leibgarde, r) laugh , das Gelachter, von to laugh, lachen, t[e d’ s) dilappointed, getiufcht ; difappointment, (et Tiaofchung. t) to reduce, bringen, herabfe- ond zen, gerathen (fr, reduire). u) odds fifh, ein f englifcher Schwur, den man nach Belieben in iy ) einen deutfchen tibertragen kann, etwan Mei- 58 Examples of virtue and vige Difintereftednefs, t When Brefle was tiken by ftorm from the Venétians, the chevalier Bayard fived a houfe from plunder, whither he had retired to have a dangerous wound v) dreft, which he re- I:f céived in the fiege, and fecured the miftrefs of the fimily and her two daughters, who were hid in it, At his depérture the lady, as® a mark of her grititude, Offered him a w)c4- 0 fket, contiining two thohfand five hundred to diicats, which he x) ébftinately refufed, But hi obférving that his refufal was véry difpléafing fh to her, and not ciring to léave her diffitis- | fied, he confénted to accépt of her préfent, and calling to him the two young lidies to take his léave of them, he prefénted éach of them with a thoufand dicats, to be 4dded to their portion, and left the remaining five hundred to be diftributed among the inhibi- ) tants that had been plt’mdered. ¥ Vie dfi‘ chevalier Bayard, ner fechs. V) to dvefs a wound, eine Wunde wverbinden, w) cafket, ein Kaftchen, X) ob- fiinately,‘ hartnakig, vom lateip, obftinatus ; R R R B XL NI ) el s 30 & 59 dvawn from real | life. . A poor man, who was y) door-keeper to a z) boarding houfe in Milan, found a the oufe purfe with two hundred crowns in it;. \Thé man, who had loft it, informed by a public ave a) advértifement came to the houfe, and gi- 6 18 ving good proof that the purfe belonged to iftrels him, the door-keeper b) reftored it to him, who ‘The dwner, full of joy and grititude, éffe- , 88 red his benefictor twenty crowns, which the ) e other 4bfolutely refufed. He then came down \dred to ten, and afterwards to five, but finding But him ftill ¢) inéxorable, he throws his purfe upon aling the ground, and in an angry tone, ,,1 have fl}iti& loft nothing ¢ fays he, ,, nothing at all, if font, you thus refufe me to d) accépt of 4ny thing.s o5 10 The doodrkeeper then accépted five crowns, chof Jed 10 five i obftinacy . Hartnackigkeit, y) door - keeper, Thurhuter. z) boarding - houfe, ein Kofthaus, 'vop board, der Tif?h, und figurlich die Koft, d, a) advertifement, suter Rath, offentliche Ankiindigung (fr, gquertiflement). b) toreftore, wieder geben, erfezen. c) imexoyable, uner- bittlich, d) to accept, gernt annehmen, zum Unterfchied von seceive. welches annehmen gnde iiberhaupt heift. Es wird gewdhnlich mit dem )oé fsy Accofativo, zuweilen aber auch wie z, E, hier 6o Examples of vivrue and vice which he immédiately diftributed among thq poor, i} ‘Prodigality. ] The €) prodigility of the emperor Helio- gibalus was as boundlefs, as his f) luft; for in the fhort time of his réign he is faid to have rediiced almoft to béggary all the {ab- jefts of his émpire, and to have left the g) exchéquer quite h) émpty, He fiffered th n6thing to appéar at his table; but what was pe brought from the moft diftant countries at an n( imménfe expénce, His pélace, his chamber, an and his beds were all firnifhed with cloth of ) gold. When he went abroad, all the way \ betwéen his chamber and the place, where his chariot waited for him, was i) ftréwed with gold duft, for he thought it benéath him to k) tréad upln the ground like other men, All his tibles chefts, 1) chairs and fuch T s Sl SRl L S T L mit dem Genitivo 'conftruirt. e) [érodigalify, Verfchwendung, £) luft, Wollutt, g) excig- quer , die Schazkammer, h) empty, leer; to empty , leeren; ewmptine/s, Leere, 1) to flrew, ftreuen. k) to twvead, trod, trodden, treten, 1) chair, cin Seflel wit einer Lehne, zum Un- ;iramn fi’om" biflo@. | 61 the m) véflels, a8 wer‘e“ déftined for the méanefk Ufes, were of pure gold, Though his cl_othés were excéedingly coftly and n) befét with jéwels and précious ftones, he is faid never B dlioe to have worn one o) fuit twice, nor éver for put on agiin a ring, which he had once Ufed, d to He was cénftantly ferved in gold plate; but fih- every night after {{ipper prefénted to bis guefts the and atténdants, what had been made ufe of oted that day, He often diftributed amobng the i people and p) {oldiery, not only corn and an money, as other émperors had done, but gold and filver plate, jéwels, précious ftones, and 1het, hof q) tickets r) intitling t/em to imménfe fums, yay which were immédiately paid. He caufed zis hete fifh s) ponds to be filled with water diftilled el / / Jath her ich terfchied von flool, ein beweglicher Siz ohne Lehne, m) vefl+!, Gefchirr, Gefafs. n) befet, befezt, vou to befet, befezen, einfchlieffen, umringen, 0) fuit, ein ganzer Anzug; law- Juit, ein Procefs. p) foldiery, Kriegsvolk, von /oldier , ein Soldat. q) ticket, ein Loos, 1y ein Billet, das bei Offentlichen Schaufpielen aus- i getheilt wird, um eingelaffen zu werden, ein f0 Zettel. r) to iutitle ome to fomething , einen Wy zu etwas berechtigen, von title, ‘Titel, Recht, [y ;]n s,)\pmd,'ein_ Teich; fi/h-pond, ein Weyher, 62 Examples of virtue and vice from rofes, and the t) naumachia, ‘\}:Vhere the u) fea- fights were exhibited with wine His banquets and entertiinments were expénfive an almoft beyond belief, his favourite v) dif/es 1 being w) téngues of x)peacocks and y) nigh- i tingales, and the brains of z) parrots and fic a; phéafants, He b) fed 4is dogs with the of c) livers of d) geefe, hkis korfes with e) rai- il fins and his lions and other wild f) beafts b with g) partridges and phéafants, In {hoert £ve the whole wéalth of the roman émpire was Ving e fcarce fufficient to fupply the extr:iva‘gance of Qne man, Vit of 1) t) naumachia , ein lateinifches Wort; das eng- lifche heift maumachy, der Plaz, wo die ‘ee- {i gefechte bei den Romern gegeben wurden, de u) /ea-fights, Seegefechte, vonto fight, fought, n fechten. v difli. ein Gerichte, eine Schiffel, eine Schale (angelf. di/c und latein. difcus). Vi Zunge. X) peacock, ein Pfau, fo w ) tongue, gl y) mightingale , eine Nachtigall; z) parrot, N ein Papagey. ) a a) pheafant, ein Faf n (fr. fai/an). b) to feed, fed. futtern, daker food, Nahrung de c) liver, die Leber. d) geee, ein irregulairer v } luralis von goo/e, eine Gans. - e rajfins. Ro- e ki finen, f) beaft, ein Vieh (fr. béte). “g) par- I3 dmzvé from biftory, 63 Religiono e 1is Mr, Addifon fo deférvedly célebrated for ve an uncOHmmon #ccuracy in thinking and réafo- o8 ning, /Zas given abundant procf of /is %) be- ol lief of chriftianity and his i) zéal againft in- and fidels of all kinds, in his évidences of the tie chriftian religion, All &is vvritings on reli- ol gious fubjetts difcéver a ftrong méfculine and afts k) ftéady piety; and his 4miable cénduét in ort évery part of his life gives us tie moft con- vincing proof, that what fhe wrote ere yas o the génuine {éntiments of /is mind, But Zis virtue 1) fhone out m) brigiteft at tie point of déath; for after a long and mihly but vain n) &rugble- with his o) diftémpers, fe dis- - tridge , ein Reblu/n (fr. \p?rdm‘xj. k) belief, efly der Glaube, von to believe, glauben, Es ift Dht, im Englifchen gewdhnlich aus den meiften 2 el Verbis, die fics auf ve endigen, Subftantiva $). fo zu formiren, dafs das v in ein £ verwan. fall. delt und das e hinvveg geworfen wird, i) zeal, Eifer (fr, zéle). r0fy k) fieady, ftandhaft, 1) fhone, Imperfet. von to fhine, glinzen, m) bright, (altdeutlch, brecht) hell, glinzend, ) 10 deutlic, Davon find abgeleitet, to brighten, ng Verb, brightifh, Adj. brightly, Adv. bright- ref wefs, Subft. n) flruggle, Kampf; to fruggle, {0 kampfen; flruggler, Kimpfer, 0) diftemper, i3 64 Examples of vivtue and vice _ miffed his phyficians and with them all hopes of life: but with his hopes of life he dismif- ti fed not his p) concérn for the living, but h fent for a youth kéarly q) related and finely b accomplifhed, but not abéve beéing the better for good impréffions from a dying friend, He came, but life now glimmering in the r) {6- cket, the dying friend was {ilent, After a décent and proper paufe the youth faid ,,Déar i Sir, you fent for me, I believe and hope you have {6me commandsy 1 {hall hold them moft Wit ficred.* May diftant ages not only héar, but feel the reply! Forcibly s) grifping the youth’s the hand, he {Oftly faid, See in what péace a i chriftian can die, He fpoke with difficulty fix 1l and foon expired, Through divine grace icw gréat is man! through divine mércy how t, ftinglefs déaflfl who could not thus expire? Conjéctures on eriginal difpofitio@ : b “wvon dis und temper . eine ungleiche Mifchung der Theile, Unpafslichkeit. p)concern, Theil- nehmung, Wichtigkeit, Kummer, qQ) »élated %o ome, mit jemand verwandt. Alle Adjettiva, welche eine Verwandfchaft anzeigen. werden das fe mit dem Dativo conftruirt. r. focket, ] Rohrlein, worauf ein Licht gefteckt wird. /.ife fi mow glimmers iy the focket, das Lebenslicht 6 giimmert nur noch ein wenig, s) to gra/p, greifen, ergreifen; grafp, der Griff, t) fling- (f le/s, e T, 65 drawn fi"qr‘n l[?ifioify. Sir Tf’a';ic Néwton, univérfally ack’n(){VIe&, hopes ismife ged to be the ableft philofopher and mathema- but tician, that this or perhips any éther. nation has prodiced, is alfo well kndown to have nely bettet been a firm beliévet‘ and a férious . chriftian, 0, He His difcéveries concérning the frame and {y- ftem of the univerfe were applied by him to 1) fo- fler 4 demonftrate the béing of a god, and to il et firate his pbwgr and Wisdom_ ‘in the credtion, Pe yO“ il mCfi This gréa-t man gppfiea himfelf Tikewife éfif, but with the utmoft~attéfition to the fitdy of = the holy feriptures, and confidered the féveral outs géace b parts of them with uncémmon ex4€tnefs; parf fllc\m ticularly as to the Order of time, and the fé- ries of préphecies and évents reliting to the e fiow y how M efliah. UpOn which héad he left behind him an eliborate difcourfe, to prove that the i} ol thmous prophecy of Daniel’s weeks, which has been fo indfi&riously‘ pgryéfted by the huog [ heil i givay fefs, ftachellos von fting, der Stachel. ) fra- (dEfl me, Gebiude, Rabm, Gehdufe, Geriift; #o das Jif Sfrawe , bauen, bilden, entwerfen, V) dis- glicht conr/ e, ein Gefprich, eine Rede, Abhandlupg 'f fl/f” (fr, di/cour;). i g B JofSs e 66 Examples of vivtue and vice ¢, deifts of our times, was an expréfs pr6phecy of the coming of the Meffiah and fulfilled in Jeéfus Chrift, View of his philé{ophy, t%l e dré mi 1ne tol a CC te Wi B lg i [ W 07 heey filed Exémplary jiftice of a pérfian s_filtan‘ - ly. As a ‘pérfian faltan lay encéfiped on the plainvs of Avala a cértain gréat man of the army én- tered by force into a b) péafants houfe, and finding his wife very hindfome, tirned the good man out of his c¢) dwelling and went to bed to her, The péafant complained: the next moérning to the filtan and defired d) re- dréfs, but was not able to point out the cri- minal, , The émperor, who was very much incénfed at the injury done to the poor man, told him that prébably the offénder might give his wife another vifit, and if he did, commanded him immeédiately to repiir to his tent and acquaint him with it. Accbrdingly within two or three days the 6fficer éntered agiin the péafants houfe, and turned the Ow- ner out of doors; who thereupén applied himfelf to the impérial cout, as he was orde- % g a) Tale, eine kurzweilige Erzihlung, ein Mahrchen, b) péafant, ein Bauer; von pai- ¢) dwelling , Wohnung , von to dwell, wohnen, "é) redrefs , Iiillfe, Vergiitung, > 68 Tales, red The faltan went in pérfon with his b guards to the poor man’s houfe, where he of arrived about midnight, As the atténdants A cirried éach of them a flambeau in their hands; be the filtan after having Ordered all the lights to be put out, gave the word to enter the houfe, find out the criminal and put him to This was immédiately éxecuted and déath. the corps laid out upon the e) floor by the ] €émperors commind, He then bid évery one of light his flambeau , and ftand abcut the déad fo: bédy, The faltan apprdached it, locked upon ther the face and immédiately fell upon his knees in prayer. that Upon his rifing up, he Ordered 0t the péafant to fet befbre him whatéver food 1 he had in the houfe, The péafant brought out a great deal of cdarfe f) fare, of which the émperor eat very héartily, The péafant feeing him in very good humour, prefimed & 1 to afk him why he had ordered the flambeaus D to be put out, before he had commanded the di ka addilterer to bfz {lain 2 ‘\«Vhy g, upon their i e —t— i de e) flooy, (angelfachfifch flor, dGUffch flur) der W Fusboden in einem Haufe £) fere. Speife, & b Kofk; a bill of fare, ein Kiichenzettel, g) upon- an again, beift: Wiederanziinden, Es ift eine Ei- fi le.e.fo 69 | his e lie ‘being léghted again , he looked upon the face of the déad bédy, and fell down in prayer? fants And why, 4fter this he had ordered méat to nds be fet befdre him, of which he now éat fo hohts héartily 2 The faltan, being willing to gra- et {he tify his hoft, é&nswered him in this manner: him to Updn heéaring the gréatnefs of the. offénce, od and which had been coritted by one of the irmy, by the 1 had réafon to think it might have been one for who elfe would have been i one of my f{ons, > déad fo audicious and prefiming? 1 gave orders upon therefore for the lights to be extinguilhed, knees that T might not be h, let aftray by partidlity dered or compiffion from doing jhftice to the cri- food minal, Upén lighting the flambeau a fécond rought am— whith afant genheit der englifchen Sprache die Preepofitio- med nen mit Participien zu conftruiren, welche im eals Deutfchen felten, wenigltens in Riikficht auf die vergangene Zeit nicht nachgeahmt werden | the kan, denn die obige Ueberfezung ift nicht Im Ueberfezen vom Deutfchen heit ganz getreu, in das Englifche ift dies vorziiglich zu merken, denn da werden meiftentheils in denen Fallen, wo im Deutfchen Przpofitionen oder Conjun- &ionen mit grofen Umichreibungen ftehen, im ! det p(ii{ey Englifchen weit fchoner und kiirzer Participia vpflfl‘ angebracht. h) to let afiray, verleiten, ver- Bie fihren; aftray, abwirts, vom rechten Weg 70 Tales. time, T looked upbn the face of the déad per- t fon, and to my i} unfpéakable joy, found it ft il was not my fon, It was for this réafon that I immédiately fell on my knées, and gave t thanks to god, As to my eating héartily of the food you have fet before me, you will céafe to k) woénder at it, when you know that the gréat anxiety of mind, 1) I have : been upén this occafion, fince the firft com- jl thel plaints you brought me, has hindered my éating 4ny thing from that time till this very 0] moment, — a0 Addifon, pretq A UlyS Sultan Mahmoud and his V'i_‘fier. fis Stltan Mahmoud by his perpétual wars ab- tion rdad, and by his tyranny at home, had filled The his dominions with ruin and defolition and an half unpéopled the pérfian émpire, The vifier for to this gréat {Gltan whether an humourift or an enthufiaft, we are not informed, preténded )%Y( £ il entfernt. i) unfpeakable, unausfprechlich, von Ll to [peak fprechen, k) Dies Verbum wird im- £l mer mit at conftruirt, fo wie im Deutfchen mit fe #ber. 1) Hier ift die Preepofition und das Pro- W nomen avusgelafien gz'n whichy ftatt dafs man fonfk 4 Tales. 71 | pete to have léarned of a cértain dérvife to under- nd it ftind the language of birds; fo that there was that not a bird that could Open his mouth, m) but mve the vifier knew what it was, he faid, As ity of he was one évening with the émperor, 1n 0 yil their retGrn from hinting, they faw a céu- know ple of n) owls upén a tree, that grew neéar an old wall upén a o) héap of rubbiflh, I | have (om would p) fiin know, fays the fUltan, what § my thefe two Owls are faying to ome anOther; q) liften to their difcourfe and give me an ey account of it, The vifier approached the tree preténding to be véry atténtive to the two owls, Upén his return to the {Gltan; ., Sir, el fays he, 1 have héard part of their converfa- tion, but r) dire not tell you what it was.* 15 1 The {Gltan would not be fatisfied with s) fuch f flld an 4nfwer, but forced him to repéat word g and for word évery thing, the dwls had faid, yifier ft or »» You muft know then, faid the ‘vifier, that \ nded N nur das Pronomen éusiulaffen pflegt, m) but, ausgenommen, n) owl, eine Eule, o) heap, yon ein Haufe; to heap, aufhiufen; heapy, in Hav- i fen aufgehduft, p) fain (Adv.) gern; to fain, mit wilnf{chen, fchmachten, q) toliften, horchen, i 1) to dare durft, daved, dirfen, s) fuch ane )i SO 72 Tales. one of thefe Owls has a fon, and the other a daughter; betwéen - whom they are now f upén a tréaty of marriage. The fither of the fon faid to the father of the diughter, in my héaring, brother, 1 confént to this mir- § riage, provided you will fettle wpon vour diughter fifty rGined villages for her portion, ; To which the fither of the daughter replied, inftéad of fifty 1 will give you five hindred, th if you pléafe, God grant a long life to Sil- tan Mahmoud; t) whilft he réigns over us, qre ha we fhall never want ruined villages, of The ftory. fays, the f{iltan was fo tbuched his with the fable that he rebuilt the towns and A villages, which had been u) deftroyed, and from that time férward, conftlted the good of his p('?ople. };b The *) Baf ketxfia;ker, In the midft of the 6cean commonly cal- led the fouth {¢a lie the v) islands of Solo- § Siehe Nota m, p. 27. t) whilft, wihrend, ;'0 lang als, U) to deftroy, (vom lateinifchen de- l firuere) zerftoren, verwiiften, zu Grund rich- Z \ ten, *) bafketmaker , ein Korbmacher, v) isiand Zales. 73 thet mon In the center of 'tho{'e lies one d]’{’canfi oW from the reft and larger ia proportion, The [ Of prince, who now réigns 4bfolute in this cén- { 1 tral island has given the name of Sglomons i islands to the whole, by the effét of that vour wisdom where ‘with he polifhed the manners f timh of his péqple° lied ired, A defcéndant of one of the gréat men of this island, becoOming rich w) to fuch a de- Stl» grée, as to defpife the good qualities, which 18, had originally x) ennobled his family, thought of néthing but how to fupport and diftinguifh his dignity by the pride of an ignorant mind Icheii He ane and difpofition abandoned to pléafure, and had a houfe on the féa-fide, where he {pent good a gréat part of his time in hunting and fifhing; but found himfelf at a lofs in purflit of a large y) flip of marfh land, overgrc‘)wn with und isle, Infel, Tn diefen beiden Wortern wird cal- das s nicht ausgefprochen, das doch im Engli- )10 fchen fonft immer ausgefprochen zu werden pilegt, W) . to fuch-as to, hier mufs as mit da/s Uberfezt werden und in diefem Verftande wird es oft befonders um einen Nachdruk an- Mo zudeuten gebraucht und dann immer mit dem It Infinitivo conftruirt, ch X) to ennoble, adeln (fr, s ennoblir). y) a [lip of mar/h land, eine Stre- 4 ‘Tn‘le:. | | high 2) rééds,‘that lay betwéen his houfe and the féa: refélving at length, that it bechme i not a man of his quility to fubmit to reftraint i in his pléafures, for the a) éafe and b) incon- vénience of an Obftinate ¢) mechinic, and \ having often endéavoured inviin to buy it of the dwner, who was an héneft poor bifket- it maker, and whofe d) lively hood depénded on wérking up the e) flags of thofe reeds in of a manner peculiar to himfelf; the géntleman fel it took advintage of a very high wind, and cominded his férvants f) to burn down the €0] g) barrier, ‘The bifketmaker, who faw him- e felf h) undéne, compliined of ‘the oppréffion 1 in terms more i) fhited to, his fenfe of the ke fumpfichtes Erdreich, z) reed , ein Rohr, Schilfrohr, / a) -eafe, Bequemlichkeit, b) iuconvenience, ; Befchwerlichkeit, Nachtheil, c) mechanic, ein Handarbeiter, Handwerksmann, d) fively hood, Nahrung. e) flags, breite lange fchwerdtfor- mige Blitter; mar/h flag, SumpfSchwertel, ei- ne Pflanze, die dergleichen Blitter hat, f) to burn dowmn, niederbrennen, g) barrier, Ver- fchanzung, Schranken, Granzen, jedes Hinder- nifs tiberhaupt (fr, barriere). h) undone, zu Grund gerichtet, von to undo, 1) fuited oder jutgj Y an;;afl'e’nd, iibereinkommen, von to fuit Tules. 75 and injury, than the refpé due to the rank of Ame the offénder ; and the reward this imprudence rant prociired him, was the additional injuftice of C0fle k. blows and reproaches, and all kinds of ill and ufage, inftlt, and indiggity. : Al t of There was but one rémedy, and he took (ke i ed it; for, gbing to the capital, with the marks of his hard ufage upon him, he threw him- efs 10 leman felf at the feet of tke king, and procured a citation for his oppréffor’s appéarance; who and 1 he conféfling the charge, procéeded to juftify his behaviour by the poor man’s 1) unmindful- him {fion nefs of the fubmiffion due from the vilgar to géntleman of rank and diftinCtion, But pray, f i i replied the king, what diftinétion of rank had the grandfither of your father, when being a m) cléaver of wood in the pilace of my ol anceftors, he was raifed from améng thofe ) vilgar, you {péak of with fuch contémpts el his diftintion was nobler than yours it was lOOd» the diftinétion of fou;, not of fbrt?ne! I am e 3 ) V oder [ute, tibereinftimmen. ‘k) blow;f, Schlage l 1) unmindfuine/s, Unachtfamkeit, m) cleaver of wood , Holzfpalter; to cleave, Imperf, clove, i clave oder cleft, Partic, cloven oder cleft, fpal- er /mt ten, zertheilen, (von dem niederfichfifchen 26 Tales. forry, I have a géntleman in my'kingdoh:; that who is n) bafe enOugh to be ignorant, éafe and diftin&tion of fortune were o) beftd- t t wed on him for any other end, than that, being at reft from all cires of providing for himfelf he might apply his héad, héart and hand for the public advéantage of éthers. Here the king discontinuing his fpeech gé fixed an eye of indignation, on a f{Gllennefs which he obférved in the p) hiughty offén- ang be der, who miittered out his q) dislike of the bt encOuragement, this way of thinking muft give to the r) commonalty, whom he confide- al fh red as pérfons of no cénfequence, in compi- rifon of men, who were born with hénours, When refléttion is winting, replied the king with a s) fmile of t; disdiin, men muft find their defét in the ‘pai}n of their fiifferings, - Kléven). n) bafe, ’niedertréichtig (fr. bas). 0) to befiow fome thing on or upon one, ei- nem etwas geben, (deutfch fatten, hollin- difch beftzden), P) haughty, tbermiithig, {tolz, Lhochmuthig (fr. Aant). q) dislike, Mifsfallen, r) commonalty, das gemeine Volk (fr, comun- auté ). s) fmile, Licheln; to fmile, (Verb.). t) disdain y Unwillen, Verachtung; zo disdain, R " i =t B Sl T PR b 7 al(;’:. 77 o, Yanhumo , added he, turning to a hhrdy. that céptain of his géllies’, u) ftrip the injlired and eftle the injurer, and conveying them to one of the moft remdte parts of the islands, fet them that, on {hore in the night, and léave them both g for t and to their fortune, -~ The place m which they Weré landed wag eech a marfh, under cbver of whofe flags 'the nels géntleman was in hopes to concéal himfelf, fi¢n- and v) give the {lip to his companion, whom he thought it a disgrice to be found with ; the muft but the lights in the gilley hdving given (ide- alirm to the favages, a confiderable bédy of them came down in the mérning, and difco. pa outs: vered the ftrangers in their hiding places w) fitting up a difmal yell, they furrdunded kg them and advéncing néarer and né'are(r with ] fifld a kind of x) clubs, feem?d detérmined to dis- 1gs P m) verachten (fr, dédaisner). u) to el ausziehen, entbitfen, v) to giv firip' firipfg € oue the flip, [ einem entwifchen, lich heimlich hin weg {teh- ol len. W) feiting up a difmal yell, indem fig ,“811. ein erfchreckliches Geheul anfiengen . difmal, e traurig, fchrecklich, vom lateiniichep 4 ies ma- b)) fus ; yell, Geheule; to yell, heulen, X) club, iy 78 Tflkf ¢ pitch them without fenfe of hofpltahty or mércy, Here the géntleman begin to difcover, that the fuperiérity of /is blood was imaginarys for between a cénfciousnefs of {ame and cold under the nikednefs %e had néver been ufed to, a féar to the evént from the y) fidércenefs of the favages, and the want of méans to he fell behind folten or divért their afpérity, the poor fhirer of Ais calimity, and with an unminly z) fnéakingnefs gave up tie poft of i hbnour , and made a léader of tie véry man, U whom he had thought it a disgrice te confi- der as a companion, The bifketmaker in the contrary, to whom the pOverty of kis condition Zad made nikednefs /abitual, to whom a life of pain and mortifichtion, reprefénted déatk as not dréadful , ‘and whofe remémbrance of /is {kill in arts, of which thefe {4vages were ignorant ein Priigel, eine Keule, Streitkolben, Y) fier=- cenels , Wuth (fr, fifr) z) /ueakingnefs, Nie- dertrac’ tigkeit , kriec/endes Weien, von [uake, eine Scilange, T m ™ d T el Spenn 3 T(Ile.fo 79 gave him hopes of becoOming fafe, from de- y o monftrating that he could be ufeful, moved with bolder and more Open fréedom, and fa- g ot ving 2a) plicked a Z4ndful of t/e flags, fat 02ty 3 ddwn withdut emotion, and méking figns, ) C(fidy that he would f{how them {lmetling wérthy n Uled their atténtion, fell to work with {miles and ‘0ene f b) nbddings; while the fivages drew néar a’pd ns 10 gazed in exfpetition of t/e cOnfequence, el ind It was not long before /he fad c) wréatfed { an a kind of d) céronet, of pretty e) wérkman- {hip, and rifing with refpétt and féarfulnefs, )flf Of mat approached the favage, who appéared the chilf, onft and plicing it géntly on Ais héad, fo c{eérmed and firack /is fOllowers, that they threw down their clubs, and firmed a dance of wél~ come and congratulition round tke aut/or of y’ fo fo furprifing a favour, made There was f) not one but {howed the f pflm marks of /is impatience to be made as fine as ; not {kil orant a) to pluck, pflicken b) uoddz'%g, Win- ken, wvon to nod, winken, nicken mit dem Kopfe,- ¢) to wreathe, winden. d) coronet, eine kleine Krone, die der Adel in England vom Herzog an bis zum Baron tragen darf, i (das Diminut vom lateini{chen corona). e)worp= manfhip , Arbeit, von to work, wrought, ar- ks beiten, f) wot oue but, pic/zt einer der nicit, 8o Tale-fo his cép1tain; fo the poor baf ketmaker had his Ve hands full of employment; and the fivages mi obférving one quite idle, \white the other my was fo bafy in their férvice, took up arms the in g) behilf of natural jiftice, and begin to Vi lay on arguments in favour of their pirpofe, “7 t The balketmakers pity now efficed the h) remémbrance of his fGfferings, fo he arofe and fecured his oppréflor by making figns, he fol that he was ignorant of the art; but might if they thought fit, be ufefully empldyed in les, m waiting on the work, and i) fetching flags to his fupply, k) as faft as he fhould want 0D the 1 thefn. {8 - This propofition 1) luckily feli in with the defire, the fz’wages had, to m) keep themfel- L her Va ) beimlf; ( bihahf) balben, von Zdlf, halb, Rar Das / vor dem f wird nicht ausgefprochen, ligp In my behalf, meinethalben; iu beha f of na- Dat\ tural juftice, der natirlichen Gerechtigkeit hal- (& ben. h) remembronce, Erinnerung, von ¢ i yemember . fich erinnern, 1) #o fetch, hohlen, Ch( k) as faft as, fo gefchwind als. icklicherweile , von luck, D) luckily, Degs ein gluck:icher We ZUfau. m) io keep - leifure, miflig feyn, der ky Weile T?l éss 8K 4 his ves at l¢ifure, that they might n) croud and yages mark the prégrefs of a work they took fo ey much pléafure in; they left the géntleman atms therefore to his duty in the bafketmaker's {ér= 010 vice ; and confidered him from that time f61- frpole ward, as one, who was and ought to be tréa- ted as o) inférior to their beneficor, ef the Men, wives, and children from all p) cor- 8 aro{ ners of the island came in q) droves, the men fgflsy i) fell to work, r) githered s) boughs and t) po- les, made a fine u) hut to lédue the bifket- )sed in maker, = and brought down diily from the g fogs ¢ wan country fuch provifions, as they live upon themfelves, tiking care to Sffer the imAgined fervant néthing till his mafter had done éating, ith te themfe! Weile haben n) to croud, fich in Menge herbei driangen. — 0) infevior to. Die Adjefti- Welche einen Grad der chht oder des Rangs anzeigen, regieren gieich denen, die ei- ha bo nen Grad dEI Vet‘wandtfi‘i aft rafidmken den :)Cheno Dativam, p) corner, ein Winkel, eme Eke 0{ e (fr. cornier). qQ) a’row, ein Hauffe, von fo it hal drive , treiben, r) to gather mnme}n abbre- -on ¢ chen pflucken. s) boug/a. (baul) der Aft ei- \Ob*e b nes Baums. Es unterl"cheldet fich von branch, wikilh Welches ein Zw reig von emem Att heift; t) pa- iche le, eine Stange, u) hut , eine Hitte, ger We 82 Tales, : Three months refléftion in this mortified an condition, gave a new and juft turn to our 1 géntlemen’s idéas; in fo much, that lying gi awike one night, he thus conféflfed his fénti- th ments in favour of the bifketmaker, 1 have fo been to blame and wanted jidgment to di- ftinguifh between éxcellency and 4ccident, When I fhould have v) méafured nature, I | but 1doked to vanity. The préference, which fortune gives, is but w)émpty and imiginary; ] and 1 percéive too late, that only things of I am afhamed, Ind ufe are naturally hénourable. her when I compire my malice to remémber your it humanity ; but if the gods fhould pleafe to call me to a repofféffion of my rank and hap- 9) As pinefs, I would divide all with you in x) ato- tl nemeng of my jaftly panifhed y, drrogance, tl He prémifed and z) perfc‘);‘med his prémife; for the king foon after fent the ciptain, who had 1ainded them, with préfents to the fava- ges; and Ordered him to bring both back aghin: Joi de ho leer; V) to meafure, meflen (fr, mefurer). W) empty, Leere, Sa to empty, leeren; emptinefs , X) atonement , Erfaz , Schadloshaltung, y) ar- de " rogance, Hochmuth, 2z) to perform, ausfiih- ren. 2l Ve 83 ’ Tales. Ortified and 'it continues to this day a clftom in that to ont island, to degride all géntlemen who cannot t lying give a better réafon for their pride, than that § {éntie they were born to do n6thing; and the word ] have for this punilhment is: fend him to tfze bafket- to i maker, jecident, iture, | The efféct of goo& niture, a a) fa‘tir}- , whith tale, ginatyy There was in my cbuntry a widow, who ings of had two diughters: the éldeft was juft like Timec) her mother, b) crofs, c¢) farly and proud; )t \']Oflf but the youngeft, a béautiful girl, was all pléafe fo d) méeknefs, cOmplaifance and good nature, and 1y As péople however are génerally fond of their own e) likenefs, the mother defpifed ogflflC?w this pretty young créature, and obliged her to f) driidge in the g) kitchen, whilft her comile; 1, \Vhfl 4 p {ave a) a8 faiiy-—tale, ein Feen-Midhrchen, von _ aghifl: Sfairy, eine Fee, eine Nymphe, b) ¢rofs, wun- unbiegfam,- e derlich, eigenfinnig C) f%rlyg hochmiithig , trozig, miirrifch d) meckne/s, ool Sanftmuth, von meek, {anftmiithig, e) like- Leef 7] nefs, Ebenbild, ) to drudge, (von dem nie- der(ichfifchen ¢recken, welches {chleppen oder J) i ziehen heift) fchwere und verachtliche Arbeit gus ve;ricllten > drudge, eié {unge , ein Sklave, - 7 ales, 84 fhvéurite , the éldeft fat h) primed up in the W thy i) parlour, and was indllged in évery thing, but b As this little girl was obliged to do all ftc the houfholdwork, it was her biifinefs améng other things, to go twice évery day to a k) well, néar two miles from the houfe, to pl draw water, One day juft as fhe was going to fill her 1) pitcher, there came to her a Wa ken poor woman, and begged that fhe would let her drink. Oh, ah m) goody, with all my {ee héart, fays the and accordingly n) rinced her pitcher, took fome of the cléareft water and 9t held it up to her mouth, that f{he might and after the pit- fiay drink with the more éafe; e cher was retirned, o) drépped her a fine P courtely, notwithftanding fhe was fuch a poor p) tigged woman, and éiked ‘if fhe W it Pe o) kitchen, die Kiiche. h) primed, gepuzt, ] von prime, vornehm, ,vortrefflich. 1) ar= lour , ein Gefellfchaftszimmer, Sprachfaal, von wi k) well, ein Ziehbrunnen, dem fr, parioir. 1) pitcher, einirrdener W afferkrug. m goody, meine Gute, eine Art Weiber von geringem Stande anzureden, n) to rince, oder rinfe, o) to drop a courte/y. lich neigen. far fpiihlen, p) ragged , verlumpt, rags, Lumpen, Ve Zales. 35 in th would pléafe to have any more? ,,No, I thing, thank you, my prétty dear, {aid the woman, but fince you are fo good natured and be- hive with {fuch good méanners, I cinnot help be- do all fiowing a blefling on you; and from hénceforth, among gy {0 8 whenéver you fpéak, there {/all come out of i 0 your mouth éither a flower, or a jéwel, or a piéce of gold.« For you muft know, tis g going er 8 was a faity all the wlile, who had only ta- id et ken the form of a poor céuntry woOman, to fee 4Ow this little girl would behave. ny cef fit W/hen {he came /fdme her mother began fer 108 ) to fcold at ker ftdying \fo long; ,, Where mlghf have you been all this time, r) hifly? fays he pi {le. Déar mama fays the girl, I beg your g fie pardon for ftaying fo long, for fhe néver told fuch 8 a lie, but 1 met with¢ — and was going on if fhe with the frory, when inftantly flew out of her mout/z two rofes, two s) pinks, two péarls, two diamonds and t/ree piéces of gold. Blefs me, fays her mother quite aftoniffed puZ ewhat do 1 fee! rofes and pinks and péarls and plfl , voB nnells ro()d Ih gem » to feold , {chelten, zanken. 1) hufly, (7u- flll/" fammen gezogen aus huswife ) eine fdzmuzwe )l(TenO verichtliche Weibsperfon, s) pink , eine Nelk 36 Zules, diamonds, and gold come out of the gitl’s the mouth, How happens this, child2¢ The prét- dré ty girl told Zer mother the whole ftory, du- ring whick time there dropped from fer mouth ik fuch a variety of flowers, picces of gold and kn précious ftones, that the houfe was t) firéwed ai from one end to the Ot/er, ,, Blefs my eyes th faid the mobther 1 muft fend my child thither; A Finny come /ither and fee what drops from b your fifters mouth, when fhe {péaks. Take d03 not the pitcher and go you for fome water, my déar and obtiin the fame bléfling, ¢ Yes, I i will u) warrant you fays the ill bred v) minx, drink it would be a fine fight indéed to fee me draw water.¢¢ You f{sall go, nifly, faid the mother, and this minute, So awiy fhe went, te) pa but ) grimbled and x) growled all the ways and inftead of the pitcier, took the beft fil~ gi ver y) tankard in the Zoufe, ¢ I t) to fii‘ew, ftrenen, u) to warrant ,' fur et- was gut fte/en, v) minx, ein garftiges unfla- 2) tiges Menf{ch, w) to grumble, murren; to i fich tber etwas be- ma grumble at [omething , {chweren, X) to grew/, murren, brummen, T (von dem niederficififcien Wort 1’018%)0 Ing y) tankard, eine Kaqpe mit einem Deckel, per 7 ale:.‘ 87 gitli As foon as fhe arrived at the fountain, there came out of the wood juft by, a lady e et / du dréfled with the moft fpléndid ménner, and mouth afked léave to drink, This was, you muft 14 and know the fame fairy, who had now tiken the air and drefs of a princefs, to fee /ow far rrgped Iy ¢S the girl’s pride and ill nature would carry her, Am 1 come hither z) quoth the a) faucy it from b) flut, to férve you with water? Pray what Téke do you tike me for, c)a whiting maid? I did not bring the f{ilver tankard here for your la- r, \CH dyfhip, as 1 know of: but howéver you may drink, if you will, foe me You are not over and abéve mannerly, id the replied the fhiry, withdut phtting herfelf in a et paffion, and fince you are firly and-disobli- e W) ging, whenéver you {péak a word hereifter, efl’ ffl' d) a fnake or a €) toad {fall fly out of your As foon as the moéther faw her co- mi‘)lith. 2) quoth, vonto quote, citiren, anffihren@ Es r et wird mit dem ¢k am Ende blos gebraucht, wenn éa 1‘nfl f man die eigene Worte einer Perfon anfii/rt, be a) faucy, frech. b) [lut, ein unflitiges Thier. c¢) a waiting maid, eineMagd, dy a melh /make, eine Schlange; rattie [nake, eine Klap- jon) kel perSchlange. e) toad, eine Kr&e; & toad- 28 Tales, ming home , fhe cried out, Well d4dughter! Wl Well mother! anfwered the f) pert hifly, and Wi out of her mouth g) léaped two h) vipers flo and a toad. O mércy, cried the méther, !m what do 1 fee! All this is occifioned by the di i) witch her fifter; but fhe fhall pay for it; ti and immediately ran to béat her, but the poor il child fled away, and hid herfelf in a foreft, €l that was in the néighbourhood, din v The kings fon being on hié 'retiirn from pine hinting, accidéntally caft his eye on this fair virgin, and being enchanted by her griceful thof fue features, 4fked her what {he did there alone, it and why fhe cried? She told what had hap- ks pened, and faid her mama’s rage was fo gréat, The il that fhe was afraid to retGrn home, young prince feeing {o miny brilliant dia- '\7 fg monds drop from her mouth which were { €qualled in brightnefs by néthing but her eyes, W promifed her his royal protétion; condtéted €1 her to his fathers court, and having obtiined his permiffion, mirried her the next day, and eater, ein Schmarozer, £) pert. gefchwizig, To unver{chamt. g) to leap ., P {pringen, hitpfen., h) viper, eine Otter, i) witch, eine Hexe; I Tales. 39 ohter! suilt for her a k) ftitely pélace, the front of yy and which was overldiid with plre gold, the ipers floors 1) paved with péarls ‘and the m) cie- Gther lings and walls n) bedécked with the richeft by the diamonds, The turf in her garden béars a con- for 1t tinual vérdure, the moft delicious fruits bow e poot down their labouring branches to falute the forefl enchinted eye and the odoriferous never fa- ding flowers pay an etérnal tribute to her virtue and good nature, In this ftate of hép- - from pinefs fhe fiffers none to approach her, but is i thofe, who are eftéemed for their piety, vir- ;r‘acefu\ tue and good manners; and pérfons of évery ] flm)fley ftate and condition, who come thus recom- ad e ménded are admitted. Sheis bléfled with a h gféfl[r numerous 6fffpring, who all inhérit her 4miable The virtues, and évery thing préfpers in the hou- ot die fe and in the ftite, 'The prince her hiisband, were thinks himfelf bleffed abéve all men in the : e)’eSy world, and fhe is the hippieft woman upon fi6ted éarth, vtfiifled 7 and to bewitch, bezaubern, k) flately, fattlich, prichtig,. 1) paved, gepflattert ( fr, pave e il m) cieling , Tafelwerk an der Decke eines Zim- upfen. Jexe mers, die Decke felbft, n) fo bfledeck, {chmii- - Tales. Qo But how different of this was the fate of ha dec her fifter! She by her pride and ill niture at laft réndered herfelf difagréeable éven to her red fuc méther, who being finable to o) béar with her intélerable témper p) tGrned her off; and ot n feeing herfell thus defpifed and hated by all mankind , {he retired into-a wood to avoid ar being feen and was there q)torn in pieces by Jae a wolf, the g him Bozaldab of an éaftern tale. V)@ hin ‘Bozél‘d-ab, ciliph of Egypt had dwelt fe- i curely for miny years in the r) filken s) pa- el and had évery moérning vilions of pléafure, of t) anointed his héad with the oil of glidnefs, b) when his o6nly fon Aboram, for whom he ) ken, von to deck, decken, {chmiicken, 0) to pr bear, wird fo wohl mit dem Accufativo als 1ng mit der Prazpofition with counfiruirt, p) to gh turn off, den Abfchied geben, hinaus ftoffen, to q) to tear, tore torm, zerreiffen. Die meiften Verba, welche auf ear fich endigen, formiren z\ iy das Imperf. und Sup. auf diefe Art. 1) filken, ~von Seide; filk, Seide. 's) pavilion, ein Zelt, t) o amoint, falben (vom franz, oiudre). 3 e S 01 Tales. ate of had. erdwded his tréafures with gold, exté-n- ure a ded his dominions with conquefts, and feclt- to her red them with u) imprégnable fortrefles, was with fiiddenly wounded as he was hunting with an s and 4rrow from an unkndwn hand and expired in the field. Boz4ldab in the distrd&ion of by ol | aV(‘)fd gri¢f and defpiir refufed to retfirn to his pa- lace, and retired to the glodmieft grétto in 0es by the néighbouring mountain: he there rolled himfelf in the v) duft, tore awdy the hairs of his w) hoary béard, and x) dafhed the y) cup of confolation, that patience Gffered him, to the ground. He faffered not his ot fe- minftrels to approach his préfence; but lifte- ) e ned to the z) feréams of the mélancholy birds )tning of midnight, that 2) flit through the félitary Eldnefs, b) vaults and échoing chimbers of the pyra- om he NSRS uniberwindlich (vom fr. im= / u) z'm[oreghable s Staub; fo duft, ftaubicht prenable). V) duft, RL machen, den Staub ausklopfen, W) hoary, o als grau, x) to dafh, zerfchmettern, zerbrechen ; p) f0 to dafli to the grouwnd, zu Boden werfen, )fl‘(?fl. y) cup, ein Becher, Kelch (vom fr. coupe.) iften ) [cream, das Gefchrey, Wehklagen; to fcreans, nirel fchreyen, wehklagen, Ikt a) flit, flichen, flattern (verwandt wmit fleets Zdto h 'fchnefl). b) vault, Gewolbe (von dem fr, Q2 Tales. mids, Can that god be benévolent he cried, who thus wounds the foul, as from an bind , ¢) ambufh with unexpétted {Orrows and §ery d) crifhes his créatures in a mément with fudde irremediable calimity? Ye lying Imans, e) pra- throt te to us no more of the juftice and the kind- than nefs of all-dirééting and all-16ving prévi- inl : dence! He whom you preténd doth reign in and héaven, is fo far from protétting the mife- hand rable fons of men, that he perpétually delights afton, £) to blaft the fweeteft flowers in the garden file of hope, and like a malignant g) giant, to béat down the ftrongeft towers of hippinefs ) with the iron mace of his anger. If this being M& lo pofléfled the gbodnefs and the power, with which flattering priefts have invéfted him, he would doubtlefs be inclined and enibled to 0 banifh thofe évils, which rénder the world th a h) dingeon of diftréfs, a vale of vinity 9 al?c‘,l' woe, — 1 will continue in it no longer, Ker k) vouté}. ¢) ambufh, Hifltefha]t’(vfiom fr. eme hin buche). d) to crufh, zerquetfchen, niederdrii- {en ken, iiberwaltigen, wvernichten, e) to prate. plaudern, fchwazen. f) to blaft, durch Hize lem ne welk machen, verfengén, vereiteln. g) giant, fohy ein Riefe (vom fr. gdaunt). h) dung'eozz , ein iy / - e, Tokes, 93 et At that 'mbment he furiously riifed his m 4l hand, which defphir had 4rmed Wlth a i)dig- s and ger, to ftrike deep into his borom, VVLGIK t with fiddenly thick k) flafhes of lightning fhot through the cavern, and a being of more 1& 1e klfld than human beauty and magnitude, arrayed in 1) azure robes, erowned with m) amarinth, pr oV 1o 10 and n) waving a branch of palm in his right hand e mife arréfted the arm of the trémbling and eligh afténithed . caliph and faid with a majéftic garden {mile, féllow me to the top of this mduntain, i, 10 ,, Look from hénce, % faid the idwful con- P;me{s 1S bemg dtétor, ,,1 am Caloc, the ingel of péace, look from hénce into the valley.« ) N ith Bozaldab oOpened his eyes, and behéld = hmh b bled 1 0) birrena a p) filtry and félitary island, in the midft of which fat a pale méager and f yinity g) ghéftly figures it was a mérchant juft pée i Jongety ey -—/ Kerker (fr. domjon), i) dagger, ein Dolch, k) fla/h, eine plozliche Flamme, D) azure, himmelblau, m) gmaranth, Amaranth, Tau- fr, om {end{chon n) to wave, {chwingen, eine wel- derdfll lenformige Bewegung machen, von wave, ei- ) W ne Welle 0) barrem, unfruchtbar, P) Ju itrys h Hi {chwiihl, todtenblafs, einem Geifk qQ) ghaftly. ) M[Jfltl dhnlich (wahr{cheinlich von gho/t , €in Gexfi). iy em 94 | Tales. rifhing with fimine, and laménting, that he fif could find néither wild r) bérries, nor a fing- of le s) fpring in this t) forlorn uninhAbited ob u) défert; and bégging the protéction of héa- Ve ven agiinft the tigers that would now cér- tainly deftroy him, fince he had confumed the laft v) flel he had colléCted to make tt nightly fires to w) affright them. He then caft a cifket of jéwels on the fand, as trifles ” of no ufe; and x) crept féeble and trémbling ) to an éminence, where he was accliftomed to mir held {it every évening to watch the fétting fun, and to give a fignal to 4ny {hip that might they and y) haply apprf)ach the island, \efs a y v) berries , Beere, Plur.von berry. s) [pring, eine Quelle, t) forlorn, verlaffen, hiilflos, 0 einfam (eigentlich das Participium eines veral- teten angelfichfifchen Verbi forleoran, verlie- la ren, u) defert, eine Eindde (wenn man den Ver Accent auf die erfte Sylbe legt); verlafien, (wenn man den Accent auf die zweite Sylbe by legt). v) fuel , zunder, w) te affright, er- W fchreken. X) tocreep, crept, kriechen, Die- A\ jenigen Verba, die fich auf ¢ep endigen, {ind alle leg auf eine dhnliche Art irregulair, indem fie das ¢) Imperf. und Supinum in ept formiren, Y) haply, dey or ungef'ahr‘; hap, ein Zufall; o hap, fich ) 74 Zales. 95 » Inhjbitant of héaven, cried; Bozéldafi, hat be fiffer not this seretch to périfh by the fury a fing- of wild beéafts, Péace, faid the 4ngel, ,,and yihited f hea- obférve. ‘He looked agiin, and behold a véflel arrived at the z) défolate isle, What W g yofimed words can paint the a) répture of the b) ftir- - ving mérchant, when the céptain éffered to 0 mit He then transport him to his nitive céuntry, if he would rewird him with half the jéwels of his s trifles fmbling c) cifket, No fooner had this pitilefs com- mander recéived the ftipulated fum, than he med {0 held a confultition with his d) crew, and ng fim) they agréed to e) feize the remiining jéwels, - might and léave the unhippy éxile in the fame help- lefs and lamentable condition in which they difcbHvered him, He f) wept and trémbled g;) intréated and implored invhin, ity hfilflO& zutragen; to happen, fich zutragen. Z) defo- et late, unbewohnt, ode, troftlos; ¢o defolate, yetlie verheeren, an den fl afiefl. a) rapture , das Entziiken, b)to fiarfi, ver= Sylbe hungern, hungern, c) cafket, (das Diminuti- 7ht' e vum von ca/k, ) ein Kiftchen, - befonders ein " Die Schmukkiéftchen; #o cafket, in ein Kiftchen legen, verfchlieflen, d) crew, das Schiffsvolk, d olle e) to feize, ergreifen, fich bemichtigen (von fie das dem fr. faifir).\ £) to we vl g) to emireat, bitten, ep, wept, weinen, fic Tales, 96 Will héaven petmit fuch injhftice to be Ve goo pra&tifed crled Bozaldab., ,,Look aghin, ¢ faid the angel, »and behdld the véry fhip in el diffe which h) fhort fighted as. thou art, thou wilhedft the mérchant might embérk, dafhed eye in piéces on a rock: doft thou not hear the cries of the finking f2ilors? Prefume not to P diréct the gdévernor of the univerfe in his fh i) difpofal of évents, The man whom thou of haft pitied Chall be tiken from this k) dréary of § folitude, but not by the method thou wouldft firy His vice was 4varice, by which preferibe, 3l]d | he becime not only abominable but wretched; Varie he fincied fome mighty charm in wéalth, 0 § which like the 1) wand of Abdiel, would of | gratify évery wifh and Obviate évery féar, thy This wéalth he has now been tdught not only to defpife, but abhér: he caft his jéwels upén the fand and conféfled them to be ufelefs; he 2l Offered part of them to the m) mariners, and T percéived them to be pernicious ; he has now tepl s wh Aeapemoae 4 had Wh h) [hort fighted, Kurzfichtig, i) difpofal, An- ordnung . Regierung. k) dreary, {chrecklich, furchterlich. 1) wamnd, Spizgarte, Zauberru- ) viniers). §es .the, m) mariners, Seeleute fr, ma n) wory. | Tales. 97 to be 1éarnt that they are réndered Ufeful or wvain, good or evil only by the fituition and tem- fud per of the pofféflor, Happy is he whom hip in diftréfs has taught wisdom! But turn thine tho hed eyes to andther and more interéfting fcéne, % oar the The caliph inftantly behéld a magnificenf o ot 10 péilace, adérned with the ftatues of his ance- ] in lis flors wrought in jafper; the n) ivory doors m thod of which tOrning on o) hinges of the gold dréary of Golconda, difcHvered a throne of diamonds vouldf furrounded, with the Rajahs of fifty nations hich and with ambifladors of many cdéuntries in etched; various habits and of different compléxions; Wéfl]f}b on which {at Aboram, the much laménted fon Y ould of Bozaldab, and by his fide a princefs fairer than a Houri, 1y fen pot ot s upon »» Gricious Alla! it is my fon, cried Bo- zaldab ,, Oh let me hold him to my héart! ¢ el e Thou canft not grafp an unfubftintial vifion, i ad replied the éngel: .»1 am now {hewing thee, s 10w what would have been the déftiny of thy fon, had he continued longer on the éarth.* , And why, ¢ retirned Bozaldab, , was he not per- il AF eCkHCh' n) fvory, von Elfenbein ({r. ivoire), 0©) hin- nhe® ges, die Angein einer Thir (von to hang, nitrs) )it} é’ ales. 93 mit’t’ed to continue 2 Why was T not fiffered {he wal to be a witnefs of fo much felicity and po- wer ? ¢ ,,Confider the féquel,*“ replied he, Bozaldab s that dwells in the fifth Aéaven, ¢ vid looked éarneftly, and faw the countenance of on which he had been ufed to be< frc his fon, hé hold the placid fmile of fimplicity, and the ac p) vivid blafhes of héalth, now q) diftorted tha with rige, and now fixed in the infenfibility of driinkennefs: it was agiin 4nimated with 5 disdain, it became pale with apprehénfion, and dore appeared to be r) withered by intémperance; %! his hand's were s) fthined with blood, and he been trémbled by turns with fury and terror: the Y) e pilace fo lately fhining with oriéntal pomp, LR chinged fuddenly into the cell of a dingeon, LI where his fon lay firetched out on the cold ted t) gigged and bound with his pavement, eyes put out. Soon after he percéived the favourite fultana, who before was féated by Ven his fide lenter ‘with a bowl of Pdlfon , which kg Wil erf hangen). p) vivid, IeBhaft. q) difiorted, ver- ) dreht, entftellt (vom latein. diftorius). r) to g wither , verwelken, s) to ftain, beflecken, be- {udeln, t) gag 9 S i aed, gels?lebelt, yon fo gag, Tales. 99 el fhe compélled Aboram to drink, and After- nd po- wards mérried the fuccéflor to hi§ throne, ed he, .y Happy, ¢ faid Calbc, ,»is he whom pré= Sozaldab mace of vidence has by the angel of déath u) fnatched from guilt! from whom that power is v) with- d to b and te héld, which if he had pofféfled, would have accimulated upbn himfelf yet gréater mifery difiérrfid than it could bring upon others, ¢ Al of ith ,, It is.enéugh,* cried Bozaldab, ,,1I é- ofly nd dore the w) infcrutable fcheme of omnifcien- gemnce; ce! From what dréadful évil has my fon o be been x) refched by a déath which I rafhly o 1 y) bewailed as unfortunate and z) jremature! al pomh a déath of innocence and péace, which has dingenh bléffed his -mémory upbn éarth and transmit- the old ted his fpirit to the fkies, W)'f}I his a) Caft awhy the digger, replied the héa- ‘Ve.d the ted by venly méflenger, which thou b) waft prepa- which e knebeln, ) te fnaich from, entreiflen, v)¢o withhold , vorenthalten W) inf/erutable , un- erfor{chlich, x) to refcue, erretten, befreien, gd’ Ver‘ y) to bewail, beklagen. beweinen. Z) pre- L mature , frilhzeitig, unzeitig ( vom lat. prae- maturus). ety be f gflgf a) to caft away, hinweggwe:_fen. b) waft Tales, 100 ring to plunge into thine own héart. "Ex- change complaint for filence, and doubt for adoration, Can a mortal look down without c) giddinefs and d) ftupefattion, into the vaft abyfs of etérnal wisdom? ' Can a mind, that fees not infinitely, perféctly comprehénd any te thing améng an infinity of ébjets mutually be rélative? Can the channels which thou com- Ch mhndei’c to be cut to recéive the annual in- to | unéitions of the Nile, contain the waters of hitnf the Ocean? Remémber, that pérfect hippinefs cannot be conferred on a créature; for pérfect the o nd hippinefs is an Attribute as incommunicable, as pérfe€t power and etérnity, ¢ All} Mg The 4ngel, while he was fpéaking thus tay " firetched out his e) pinions to fly back to the Q f) empyreum; and the flutter of his wings be was like the rashing of a g) cz’z’tara&. th - o Ein Vérbum, preparing , im Begriff warft, ph\ das eine Handlung ausdriiken foll, die man 1o eben thut oder thun wollte, mufs immer im Particip. praef ftehen und im erften Fall dem Precfenti von to pe, imm zweiten dem [mperfetto c) giddinefs, von to be, beigefugt werden. Schwindel, Unbefonnenheit (von giddy,{chwind- licht, d) flupefaition , Betiubung. €) pinions, (v Schwingen, ) empyrenm , die hochite Region Ji des Himmels, g) cataraf¥, ein Wallerfall, Iy PN ieil | Ex. bt for Fibles in ptofe'. pithout e vaft The a) Mifgr. g, thet A mifer be¢ing déad and fairly intérred, came nd fny to the banks of the river Styx, defiring to itualy be b) férried over aléng with the other ghofts. I come Charon deminds his c) fare, and is furprifed ol e to fee the mifer, rather than pay it throw aters of himfelf into the river, and d) fwim over to ;ippinefs the other fide, notwithftinding all the clamour pérfe& and oppofition, that could be made to him. icable, All hell was in an e) tproar; and each of the judges was méditating fome plnif hment f) fui- g thus table to a crime of fuch dingerous cOnfe- Shall he to it quences to the inférnal revénues, : wingi be chained to the rock albng with Prome- theus? Or tremble below the précipice, in cémpany with the Danaides? Or aflift Syfi- oty phus in rolling his ftone? No, fays Minos, none qf théfe, we muft ipvént fome fevérer ) man et i | dem yfell0 fingf a) mifer, ein Geizhals. b) o Jerry over, mit einem Bot tiberfahren, ¢) fare, Fuhrlohn wind- (vom deutfchen Wort fahren), d) to fwim, o1 Jwam , [wom , {chwimmen. {egjon e) uproar, “Au_f- lHu ruhr, 1) fuitable, angeme.v'en, 102 Fabies. ) ! pfinif11meni;.~ Let him be fent -back to the inju {here éarth, to fee the ufe, his héirs are making of fer 1¢ his riches, his ¢ Avarice and the éarth, dam g Our old mother éarth once lbdged an in- {he di&ment\agfiin& 4varice before the court of of Jupiter, for her g) wicked and malicious coun- the fel and advice, in témpting inducing and per- the | fudding and tréitorously-’fédhcing the children of the h) pliintiff, to commit the detéftable fom, tion crime of parricide upén her, and i) méngling filloy her body, k) ranfack her very 1) bowels for That hidden tréafure, The indiftment was véry Auy long and m) verbofe; but we muft omit a and gréat part of the repetitions and {ynOnimous fto terms, not to tire our réader too much with our tile, Avarice being chlled to 4nfwer to this chirge had not much to fay in her own defénce., The injury was clearly proved upon her, The fact indéed was notérious, and the n) o y g) wicked , lafterhaft, bofe, h) plaintiff, det Cli Kliger oder Kldgerinn, i) to mangle, zerreif- Be fen, verftiimmeln, k) to rawm/ack, pliindern, ab(v 1) bowels, die Eingeweide, (Wird nur im Plu- rali gebraucht, ) ‘m) verbofe, weitlanftig. au§ T, Fi (lb]&f ¢ 108 \ injury had' been fréquently’ repéated, When to the therefore the plaintiff demanded jiftice, Jupi- g of/ ter réadily gave féntence in her favour; and his decrée was to this plrpofe, , that fince dame Avarice, the n) deféndant, had thus griévously injured dame Earth, the pliintiff, J a1 ite {he was hereby ordered to take that tréafure, cottt of of which fhe had o) feloniously p) rébbed 15 Coute the éarth, by rinfacking her béfom, and in nd pere the fame manner as before, opening her bo- hildren fom, reftdre it back to her without diminii- téfable tion or reténtion, From this {éntence it {hall g follow, fays Jlpiter to the by ftanders, — yels o That in all future 4ges, the q) retainers of s Vel Avarice Thall 1) bliry and concéal their riches, omit 4 and reftore to the Earth, what\ they took nimodé from her, ‘ch with fer t0 ¢ oWl j ool nd the ;1) defendant, der éder die Beklagte. 0) feld- niously, auf eine gottlofe treulofe Art; von p) robbed, Sup. von felon, ein Verbrecher, to 9‘017, ftehlen ( fr, dérober ). ‘q) wetaiver, Client, Diener, ) to bury, begraben; burial, f de Begribnifs, In diefem Wort und denen davgon ool abgeleiteten wird das # ausnahmsweile wie & mdefflo 3 o Plo ausgef] prochgn, iuftige 104 - Anecdotes, itk It was of the ditke of Montague that the fol- ang lowing #necdote ufed to be related. When at his villa at Richmond, a man one day ca- To he me to the houfe, and deminded to fee the duke; his s) grace Being engiged with eoms= ack lis pany, the férvants told the man he could not be feen; the man however infifted on féeing pérfo a con him, and bid the férvant tell the duke, that it was a relation, who wanted to fpeak with bing by the him, The duke foon made his appearance, and afked the man, who féemed deranged in fuid t what he wanted and how he the & his faculties, was related to him 2 The man 4nfwered, ,,I n i the am your grace’s brother: your grice knows we are all brothers and fifters from Adam, 30111 had His grace feeing the t) drift of this infwer et gave the poor man half a guinea, #4dding, This that if he got as much from all his brothers and fifters, he would be a richer man than fefldJ himfelf,. don, Self é) grace, ift ein Titel, den mén in England den Herzogen und Erzbilchoffen giebt, und der dem At dentichen, lhr Gnaden, entfpricht, t) drift, ¢l e Anecdotes. 10§ Singular anecdote of Paul Jones. After Jonef’s crew had linded at Lord Sel- he fol kirk’s, and ftripped the houfe of the plate, and tiken it on board, the {hip lay to, while When day o Jones wrote a letter to his Lordfhip, which he fent on {hore In this letter he candidly fee the acknb6wledged that he méant to have féized i com his pérfon, and to have detained him as a ould 10 pérfon of much cénfequence to him in cafe of n feeng thet a conteft; but difclaimed any concérn in ti- king away his plate, which he faid was déne f with by the crew infpite of his reménftrances; who 1ance faid they were detérmined to be repiid for nged in the hard{ hips and dangers they had encountered how Be in attémpting to fet fire a few days before to red, nI the t) {hipping in the harbour of Whitehaven, knovs Jones however informed his lordfhip that he Adim,* had fectred all the plate, and would cértainly fofwer retlirn it to him at a convénient opportinity, dding This he afterwards plnétually performed by rothess fending it to Lord Selkirk’s béinkers in Lon- i thit don This faét has been authénticated by Lord Selkirk himfelf, London Chrénicle for the year 1701, e ynd &t Abficht (von to drive , trexben) t) flupmnga or dem eine Flotte, ein V orxath von Schiffsmaterialien;, dri 100 Anecdotes. Wénderful »longévity.} e Mt Jonathan Hartop now living at the R00 village of Aldbotough néar’ Bbroughbridge, por York{hire, has atthined to the amazing age the G of 137 .yéars, hiving been born in 1653, His father and mother both died of the plague {o and td at their houfe in the Minoties.in 1666, he pérfettly remémbers the gréat fire of Lon- m ver don, ‘He is fThort in fthture has been married five times, and has now alive {éven children, rece \Was He can réad without fpéctacles, and plays at u) cribbage with pérfect recolléction, Laft mon amg Chriftmasday he walked nine miles to dine with one of his gréat grand children, He 1 remémbers Charles the fécond pérfettly welly and once frivelled from London to York He éats but with the facétious Killigrew, iittle and drinks néthing but milk; he enjoys alfo an uninterriipted flow of fpirits. The ft to third wife of this véry extradrdinary old man was an illegitimate ddughter of Oliver Crom- lag Wi e fo u) cribbage, der Name eines englifchen Kar- 16 tenfpiels zwifchen zwei Perfonen. V) face- tious, luftig, drollig (vom lateinifchen face- tMS)o Sy, Anecdotes. 107 well, who gave with her a pdrtion of about he 500. 1, fterl, He has in his pofféflion a fine hridge, pOrtrait of the uftirper by Cooper, for which ng 4ge the late Mr Hollis éffered him 3001, but was refufed. Mr Hartop lent the gréat Milton 50 1. n 1653 o plage foon fter the reftoration, which the bard re- tirned him with honour, thouch not without y() ) flfld f Lon much difficulty, as his circumftances wete véry low, Mr Hartop would have declined mipied hildren, recéiving it aghin, but the pride of the poet was équal to his génius, and he fent the ays at Lak mobney with an 4ngry letter, which is extant améng the curious pofléffions of thxs véne- o ine rable man, 4 Be London Chronicle for the year 1790, y N2 York The Highlander. 5 bt The Englifh atticked in 1747 the fpanifh enjoys féttlement of St. Auguftin, but were obliged Th to raife the fiege. A party of footch high- | mai landers, who attémpted to céver their retréat, fom were w) routed and cut to pieces, A fér- jeant alone was {pared by the Indians, who fought under-the banners of Spain, and was | Kflf reférved for that x) lingering déath, to which fut ¥ fm w) to rout, eine Armee fchlagen, x) linge=~ 108 Anecdotes. thofe fivages ‘devoted their prifonets This hat man, when he behéld the inftruments of the app( cruel torture that awaited him, is faid to ha- éale ve addréffed the fangumary tribe in ‘thefe Ty terms, of pr ,, Heroes and patriarchs of the new world it} you were not the énemies, I fought to meet: £a) you have however gained the viftory. Make The fate of Tem what ufe of it, you think fit proo war has delivered me into your hands; and But fince it is the {ence, 1 difpute not your right ciftom of my féllow citizens to offer a ran- fom for their lives, liften to a propofition, which is not to be rejécted fs {ifi Know then, brave Américans! that in the Ve country , which gave me birth, there are cér- 10! tain men endowed with fupernitural knéw- 1Edgeo One of 'thefe fages, who was allied be to me bv blood, gave me, when I became plr g ay) foldier a charm which was to render me inv filnerable, You faw how I efcaped all fl"l he your darts ; ‘without that enchintment was it poffible I f{hould have furvived the miny chy 1B rwg ¥ langfa m, y) Joldier , wird ausgefpro- chen' fohd/eher, 1) 109 ‘ 'Aflecdaté:, Thie hard blows, with which you affiiled me? [ of the appéal to your vilour, Did I éither féek for to ha- éafe or fly from danger? It is not fo much thefe my life, that 1now beg of you, as the gicry of revealing a fecret of importance to your prefervation, and of réndering the moft Va- worl liant nation of the world immértal, Only 0 meeh léave one of my hands at liberty, for the cé- Make remonies of the enchantment, I will give a fute of proof of its pdwer upbn myfelf in your pré- ) and fence, is the 4 120 The Indians héarkened with avidity to a olition, {peech, that équally fuited their wirlike difpo- {ition and their inclinition téwards the z) mir- vellous. After a fhort deliberation they un- in the e offe lodfed one of the prifoners arms. The fc6tch- man requéfted that his broad fword {hould fnaw- | aflied be given to the moft alért and moft vigorous pérfon, in the aflémbly; and laying bare his ecame neck , after he had ribbed it dver with mégic s me figns and muttered a few inarticulate words, e il he called out with a loud’ voice, and a WaS it i chéerful air: Behold now ye fage Indians an incontéftable évidence of my fincérity, You l,{‘Pm' z) mérvellous, wunderbar. 110 dmcdotg:. | witrior who grafp the inftrument of déath, firike with your whole force; You are not énly {Ginable to fevere my héad from my body b}u/t éven to piérce the fkin of my neck, He had {circely prondunced thefe words, Chr when the Indian fétching a moft dréadful relat blow, made the héad of the férjeant fly to the I ow diftance of twénty yards, The afténifhed f4- i, o g vages ftood immoveable. They looked at the blbody chrcafe, and then caft their eyes upon il themfelves, as if to reprdach one anéther for (il their ftpid credility, Admiring however the iy firstagem employed by the firanger to fhorten jul his déath, and to avoid the torments that tl were prepared for him, they grinted to his v corpfe the fimeral hénours of their cOuntry. From Abbé Resnal's kiftory of the Indies, f{z( dic I Tl foig “ K al M K| ay g g lep 11X dtath, are 1ot "‘L‘IVes. y body L PYEe Ck.“ - gords, Chrii’copher Pitt, of zéhom whatéver 1 {hall dréadful relite more than has been alréady plblifZed, yto the 1 owe to the kind comunicition of Dr Wir- the {fon (hed fi ton, was born in 1699 at Blanford, J ot the of a phyfician muc/ eftéemed, He was in 5 0pol 1714 recéived as a fchblar into Weftminfter her for College, where he was diftinguif’ed by éxer- and at /is re- et the cifes of uncémmon élegance; horten moval to new College in 1719 prefénted to ts that the eléftors, as the product of his private and o I voéluntary fthdies, a compléat vérfion of Lu- H]ntf% o Jndie * Lebensbefchreibungen, Da ich zu vermu- then Urfacke habe, die Lehrlinge werden durcs die von mir in den vorigen Bogen beobachtete Met/ode bereits eine ziemlicke Copiam verbo rum {ick erworben haben; fo werden fick die folgende Bemerkungen nur nock auf die Ey- klirung der etwan vorkommenden Kunft- oder fehr feltener Worter, vorziglich aber auf Er- klirung {chwerer Conftruétionen, Hinweifun auf Eigenjeiten der Englifcien Spracke, Rew geln des Syntaxes und befondere Abweichun- gen von der ken, gewahnfichen Ausfpracie beziee 112 - Lives. fcafi’-s. poem , which ke did not then know to have been translited by Rowe, ety fore This is an inftance of éarly diligence, whe which well deférves to be recorded. The ced fuppréffion of fuch a work, recomménded by el fuch uncémmon circumftances, is to be re- it grétted, 1t is indéed cllpable; to load libra- of ¢ies with fupérfluous books; but incitements Je to éarly éxcellence are néver fupérfluos, and degn from this example the dénggt is not gréat of bene) many imitations, pafe too " When he had refided at his céllege thrée ,{yéars, he was prefénted to the rétory of Pin- to ern in Dorfetfhire ( 1722) by his relation, Mr Pitt of Stratfieldfea in Hampfhire; and re- P figning his féllow{hip, continued at Oxford 1 two yeéars longer, till he bech@e mafter of to arts (1724)s b He prébably about this time fltranslhted Vi- i das art of poetry, which Triftrams {pléndid edition ad then made pépular, In this trans- lation he diftinguil hed himfelf, both by its géneral élegance, and by the killful adaptation he of his niimbers, to the images expréffed; a be €S béauty which Vida has with gréat ardour en- forced and exémplified, He < N Trimy Lives 113 00y 10 He then retired to his a) rl'iving, a place yery pléafing by its fituation, and there- fore likely to excite the imagination of a poet, figen, where he pafled the reft of his life, réveren- ¢ The ced for his virtue, and beléved tor the {6ft- ded by nefs of his témper, and the éafinefs of his 0 be tee mainners, Before firangers he had fomething ad Jibyge of the fcholar's timidity or diftrift but when itements he becime familiar, he was in a very high o5, degrée chéarful and enterthining. His géneral éat of bepévolence proclured géneral refpéft; and he pafled a life hénourable 'and plicid, néither : ) too gréat for the kindnefs of the low, nor tao low for the nétice of the gréat, of bie ‘rel‘ation, At what time he compdfed his mifcellany, ; and 1& publifhed in 1727, it is not eafy nor néceffa- (xfod ry to know: thofe which have dates appéar after 0 to have been very éarly produétions, and [ have not obférved that 4ny rife above medi6- ed Ve crity. Joni transe by its a-j living , kommt von #o live, leben, und heift feiner urfpriinglichen Bedeutung nach Le- ptfitiOfl bensunterhalt ; die entferntere aber, in welcher Jed; # es hier genommen wird, heift ein Landgut, |ur efl‘ Es heift auchA ein Pfarrdientt, H He 114 Lives. "I‘ he faccefs of his Vida 4nimated him to ly bt a higher undertiking, and in his thirtieth yéar CITors he publif hed a- vérfion of the firft-book of peth the Eneid. This being, 1 fuppdfe comménded 1éads by his friends , he fome time afterwards added and three or four more; with an advértifement, cont in which he reprefénts himfelf as translating that with gréat indifference, and with a prégrefs 1y of of which himfelf was hardly confcious. This glée can hardly be true, and if trqe, is nothing to petifal the réader, len {en thy At laft without any firther conténtion with his modefty or any awe of the name of He t\nsg‘ Dryden, he gave us a compléte énglifh Eneid, Yl § which 1 am férry not to fee joined in the a fto late publichtions with his other poems: It would have been pléafing to have an oppor- tunity of compiring the two beft translitions, that perhips were éver prodiiced by one na- tion of the fame author. Pitt engiging as a rival with Dryden, né- turally obférved his fiilures and avoided them, and as he wrote after Pope’s Iliad, he had an example of an exift, eéquable, and fpléndid verfification, With thefe advantages, fecOn- ded by gréat diligence, he might fuccéfsful- i , Lives. 11§ hit to ly labour particular pifiages, and efcipe miny h yeut €rrors. 1f the two vérfions are compired, ook of perhips the refult would be, that Dryden mended léads the réader forward by his géneral vigour s adid and fprightlinefs, and Pitt often ftops him to ifement, 3 contemplate the éxcellence of a fingle cbuplet 2 nslating that Dryden’s faults are forgOtten in the hiir- rdgrel ry of delight, and that Pitt’s béauties are ne- ! This glééted, in the languor of a cold and liftlefs ing {0 perufal; that Pitt pléafes the criticks and Dry- den the péople; that Pitt is quoted den réad. ‘and Dry; thotion He did not long enjoOy the reputition which e of this gréat work deférvedly conférred; for he b neiy left the world in 1748, and lies biiried under in the a ftone at Blandford, on which is this infeription, st | In, mémory, of. oppor Chr, Pitt. clerk, "M, ‘A. /éflbfl’y pe Véry'o éminent. 1e e Jfor. his tilents, in. poetry, .and, yet. more, for. the. univérfal. cindour, of, 1 né’ his, mind, and. the, primitive, themm, fimplicity. of, his. manners, had 4t He. lived. innocent, lléfldld .and, died, beloved, g Apr. 13, 1748, ffl Jged. 48. re H £ 116 Lives., b) Admiral Blake; 200 At a time when a nation is engiged in a wit war with an énemy whofe infllts rivages and it barbarities have long called for véngeance, an account of fuch énglifh commanders, as have Ox mérited the acknéwledgments of poftérity, by Wi exténding the power and riifing the hénour of their céuntry, feem to be no imprOper en- by tertainment for our réaders. We fhall there- dify fore attémpt a fuccinét narrition of the life ol ] of Admiral Blake, in which we have n6- ! 00! thing farther in viéw', than to do juftice to the e Wher his bravery and cénduét without inténding any parallel between his atchiévements ‘and thofe of our préfent idmirals, W Robert Blake ‘was born at Bridgewater in his father A Sommerfetfhire in Aunguft 1508, B being a mérchant of that place who had ac- d an quired a confiderable fortune by the {pénifh bo fehy -.trade. ¢) Of his f’aarliefi yéars we have no Yty T b) Tn dem Wort admiral wird das d nicht aus- wit gefprochen, c¢) Die eigenthiimliche englifche che Conftruction leidet nicht, dafs der Genitivus 4oy oder Accufativus den Anfang einer Redensart We mache ; indeffen finden doch auch Inverfionen reg wie im Deutfchen ftatt, In dergleich,en Fillen Co 1eg e, Lives. 117 account and therefbré can amhfé the réader dins with none of thofe prognéfticks of his fiture 6 and 4&ions fo often d) met with in memoirs, 1C€l. i ys Tve, In 1615 he éntered into the univérfity of Oxford, where he continued till 1623 though ity by honout without being much countenanced or caréfled per et by his fupeériors, for he was more than once there- difappointed in his endéavours after académi- cal preférments, It is obférvable that Mr, he life re 10 Wood (in his Athenz Oxonienfes, afcribes the reptlfe he met with at Wadham College, fice 10 where he was compétitor for a e) féllow{hip, fending s 4 wird dann der vorangehende Genit, oder Accuf. gafed 1 zufammen als eine Conjunétion oder als eine Parenthelis betrachtet, und die Redensart fingt is fthe dann gleichfam dennoch mit dem Nominativo f]gd ace an; diefer darf wenigftens nicht nach dem Ver- rpz’mifh bo ftehen. 1n diefem Beifpiel heift es im Deut~ ye 10 {chen: Von [einen friheften Sahren haben wir. Nach der englifchen Conftruétion heift es: et Von [einen friiheften ajahren wir haben. d) met with, angetroffen, Die Praepofition, mit wel- ht 805 cher ein Verbum gewohnlich conftruirt zo wer- Jifche den pflegt, wird dem Verbo oft beigefezt, \itivos wenn gleich nichts da ift, das von derfelben jensit regiert wird, e) fellowfhip, die Stelle eines .fionen Collegiaten auf englifchen Univerfititen, Col- Fillen legiatus, 118 Lives, éither to want of léarning or of ftiture. With It fegard to. the firft ob]eétxon the fame writer gewal had before infdrmed us that he was an darly fecot #Yer and fludious, though ke fometimes reli¢ved bifho his ftudies by the amufements of fowling and fon fithing. As it is highly prébable that he did Whi not want capicity, we may therefore conclude upén this conféffion of his diligence, that he cotf could not fail of being léarned at léaft in the ted f degree réquifite to the enjoyment of a féllow- Qeclay {hip; and may fafely afcribe his difappointment to his want of ftature, it being the cGftom mn, ad g of Sir Hénry Sivil then f) warden of that céllege to pay much regard to the Outward Vety, 1 appearance of thofe, who fblicited preférment wh in that fociety, So much do the gréateft évents owe {6metimes to 4ccident or f6lly. He after wards retired to kis native place, where ,, ke ] lived“ fays Clirendon ,, witkdut 4ny appéaran~ 10 ce of ambition, to be a gréater man, than je o was , but g) invéighed with gréat fréedom for aghinft the licence of the times, and pdwer of tifo the court vaw tloy ) 'mrdm Vorfteher eines Collegii. g) to in- tadein, veigh againft jomethmg , etwas mit Bifterkeit h) N ‘ Livef. 119 , With In 1640 he was chdfen burgefs for Brid- Writet gewater by Lhe puritan pérty, to whom he had 0 darly recommeénded himfelf by his disapprobation of telieved bifsop Laud’s violence and fevérity, and his ling and non compliance with thofe new céremonies, which he was then endéavouring to introduce, it be di conclté When the civil war broke out, Blake, in that be conformity with his avowed principles decla- f in the red for the i) pirliament; and thinking a bare fellow- declaration for right not all the duty of a good ntment man, raifed atroop of dragoons for Ais party, ciftom and appéared in the field with {o much bra- of that very, that he was in a fhort time advanced, utward without meeting 4ny of thofe obftraétions Sérment which he had encountered in the umivériity, fk évents He dfter In 1635 he was gévernor of Thunton, when the lord Goring came before it with }Jfif 3 u}‘e J00CO men The town was ill fortified, and pearate unfupplied with almoft évery thing néceflary Hhan e cedom for fupporting a fiége. The ftate of this gir- et of rifon encéuraged Célonel Wind/iam , who was acquainted with Blake to propofe a capitula- tion, which was rejéted by Blake with in- o e In diefem Wort wird das g ferkelt k) parliament, \ nic/it ausgefproc/en, Y20 Lives. - dignition and contémpt, nor were éithet mé- on naces or perfuafions of any efféét, for ke ture maintained the place under all its disadvanta- ffte ges, till the fiége was raifed wh army, \by the parliament’s m pr He c«gntinued on mény other occhfions to Pt give proofs of an infuperable courage, and a ftéadinefs of refolution not to be fhiken; by i and as a proof of his firm ad/érence to the pirliament , joined with the i) bérough of and theee Taunton in retirning thanks for their refolii- tion to make no more k) addréffes to the alt the king. = Yet 1) was /e fo far from approving the déath of Charles the firft, that he made no byt fcrfiplek of declaring, that ke would vénture his life to fave him, as willingly as ke had e déne to ferve the pirliament, tl In Fébruary 1648 -9 ke was made a co- i miffioner of the nivy, and appointed to ferve E T Y i) borough, (vom deutf‘chén 'ng) eine Stadt v mit einer biirgerlicken Obrigkeit; ein Flekken, Marktflekken, k) addre/s, eine Schrift, die { man einem Hélern iibergiebt, 1) was he, eine Conftruétion, die im Englifchen feir unge- gwohnlich, und nicht nacszumachen ift, indem, t pur in fragenden Sdzen der Nominativus nach it dem Verbo ftesen foll, fonfl‘ aber nicit, Ic ) Li’ve.fo 121 et mt- on that élement, for which he {éems by ni- for e ture to have been defigned. He was {oon advintse ffterwards fent in purfuit of prince Rupert, lments whom he fhut up in the hirbour of Kinfale in Ireland for féveral months, till want of fions 1o provifions, and defphir of reliéf excited the prince to make a daring éffort for his efcipe, , and 8 fiken; by forcing through the pérliaments fleet: this defign he éxecuted with his ufual intrepidity to the and fuccéeded in it, though with the lofs of gh of three {hips, He was purfued by Blake to the efolie coaft of Partugal where he was recéived into o the the Tagus, and tréated with gréat diftinétion ng the by the Pértuguefe, ade 10 Blake céming to the mouth of that riVer,M venture fe M fent to the king a méflenger, to infarm him, that, the fléet in his port belénging to the 4 C0 plblick énemies of the cémmon - wéalth of England, he demanded léave to fall upén it, ferve po— This béing refufed, "ghbugh the refufal was in very foft terms, and accémpanied with decla- Stadt ritions of eftéem and a préfent of provifions, ken, fo exéafperated the 4dmiral, that withdut 4ny : die hefitition he fell upon the pértuguefe fleet, | el unge: then retlirning from Bréfil, of which he took ndem {éventeen {hips and burnt three, It was to gach no piirpofe that the king of Portugal, alirmed 122 Lives. at fo unexpééted a deftriftion, ordered prince yeir Rupert to retake the brafil {hips, Blake car- cely ried home his prizes without moleftition, the fore prince not hiving force enéugh to purfie him had and well pléeafed with the opportiunity of the quitting a port, where he could no longer be ced protécted, an( pé Blake foon ffippiied his fleet v'{rith‘:'pfovi- ) fions and recéived Orders to mike m) reprizals Rupe upén the French , who had fuffered their port n) privatéers to moléft the énglifh trade; an venal injury which in thofe days was always im- gig médiately refénted, and, if not repaired cér- el tainly putnif hed, Sailing with this comiffion, 0 he took in his way a french man of war, hay valued at a million, How this fhip hippe- thy ned to be fo rich, we are not informed ; but fes as it was a criifer, it is prébable, the rich lading was the accimulated plinder of many prizeé. Then following the unfortunate prine to. ce Rupert, whofe fléet by fidrms and battles was now reduced to five fhips, into Cartha- th gena, he deminded léave of the {panifh go6- 0) de Cl m) reprizais; Repreflalien, n) prz'bateer, ein ¥ Kaper - Schiff, de 123 Lives. peinge wvernor to attick him in the hirbour ,/ but re- ke cil- ceéived the fame &nfwer, which had been be- n, the fore retirned by the Portuguefe: that they le him had a right to protéé all fhips that came into ty of their dominions; that if the 4dmiral were for- ced thither, he fhould find the {ime fecurity; nget bo and that he required him not to violate the péace of a neutral port, Blake wyithdréw povi up6n this anfwer into the mediterranean; and ;riza!s Rupert then léaving Carthagena éntered the theit port of Malaga, where he burnt and funk fé- ey a0 veral énglith mérchant Thips, Blake, o) jid- ging this to be an infringement of the neu« S ife d cére trality proféffed by the Spaniards, now made iffion, no feruple to fall upbn Rupert’s fleet in the f wa hirbour of Mélaga, and hiving deftroyed ippee three of his fhips, obliged him to quit the d; but féa, and tike finftuary at the {panilh court, p tich In Fébruary 1650 Blake, fill continuing miny to cruife in the mediterrinean, met a french prin- ttles fbip of confiderable foree, and c@mm,énded!. tthae . <5 | g()- o) judging - neutrality, der dies fiir einen Bruch p— der Neutralitit hielt, Im Englifchen der Ac- cufativus cum Infinitivo, der in diefer Sprache hiufig gebraucht wird, nm das da/s oder fir J ¢l der Deutfchen kiirzer auszudriikken, \ 124 Lives. Hall the cAptain to come on board, there béing no Oppe war declared betweéen the two nations, The ciptain, when he came was ifked by him, not the whéther he was willing to lay down his fword lany and yiéld, which he gallantly refiifed, though W in his énemy’s power. Blake fcorning to take the advintage of an artifice, and detéfting the ap- fpe pearance of tréachery, told him, ,,that he Vér 'was at liberty to go back to his fhip, and de- with fénd it as long as he could,* The captain willingly accépted his 6ffer, and after a fight fuper me o of two hours conféffed himfelf cénquered, kiffed his fword and furréndered it, eXpen thout 0t 3 In 1652 broke out the mémorable war be- tween the two cémmon - wéalths of England Tkig and Holland, ‘in which the gréateft admirals, beh that perhips 4ny f4ge has produced, were en- ag gaged on éach fide, in which néthing lefs A was ‘contéfted than the dominion of the {éa, ang and which was cdrried on with vigour, ani- con méfity, and refolution, proportioned to the fity importance of the difpute, The chiéf com- 2 manders of the dutch fleets were van Trump, E de Ruyter and de Witt, the moft célebrated names of their own nitions, and who had been perhips more renowned, had they been ) oppofed by iny other énemies, The ftates of 125 tLives. Hélland having carried on their trédé withdut ing 10 oppofition and almOft without competition, The not énly during the initive réign of James y him, the firft, but during the commotions of Eng- fword land had arrived to that héight of naval po- thbugh wer, and that iffluence of wéalth, that, with o take the arrogance of which along continued pro- the {périty néturally prodices, they begin to in« thit be vént new cldims, and to tréat Other nitions and de- with infolence, which néthing can defénd but céptafn fuperibrity of forces, They had for fome ti- fight me made uncémmon preparations at a vaft need, expénce, and had equipped a large fleet, wi- thout any Aapparent dinger thréatening them, or 4ny avowed defign of atticking their jat bé‘ fnglind neighbours, This unufual irmament was not behéld by the Englifh without fome jéaloufy, dninly yere ¢ and care was tiken to p) fit out fuch a fleet, as might fecure the trade from interriiption, e {2, and the coafts from infults: of this Blake was conftituted admiral for nine lmonths. In this , ani- to the fituation the two nations remained, kéeping com- a watchful eye upbn eéach Other, without 4ting hoftilities on éither fide, till the rgth Tomp 3brated p) to fit out ’a fleet , eine Flotte éusriii’cen, j heen 65 of 126 Lzves. of May 1652, when van Trump appédared in thar boat the déwns with a fléet of 45 men of war, Blake who had then but twénty fhips, upbn pétl wit] the approach of the dutch 4dmiral faluted him the with thrée fingle fhots, to require that he loc fhould , by ftriking his flag fhew that refpéct Bl to the Englifh, which is due to évery nation in their own dominions: to which the Ditch- lar bes man Anfwered with q) a broad fide; and Blake percéiving that he inténded to difpute Dutcl gl the point of hénour, advanced with his own fhips before the reft of his fleet, that, if it tieulo fot ¢ were poflible, a géneral battle might be pre- vénted, But the Dutch, inftéad of admitting 1ot g may 1 him to tréat, fired upon him from their whole fleet, without 4ny regird to the caftoms of the | gar , or the law of nations, Blake for fome dcm; time ftood alone agiinft their whole force, till the refe of his fquidron coHming up, the fight with‘ was continued from betwéen four and five in the 4fternoon till nine at night, when the whic 1) b Dutch retired with the lofs of two {hips, ha- in tf virfg not defcrbyed a fingle vellel, nor more Vete RUy q) a broad fide, die ganze Lage, welche aus den Kanonen auf der einen Seite des Schiffs ge- WY’ geben wird ?‘ eine Lage. P Lives, X127 ted in than fifteen men, moft of which were on board the #Admiral, who as he wrote to the i waly parliament, was himfelf engaged for four hours o of him with the main body of the dutch fleet, béing hat e the mark at swhich they dimed; and, as Whit- reped lock relites, recéived abéve a thoufand fhot, pition Blake in his letter acknOwledges the particu- lar bléffing and prefervation of god and afcri= Diltche bes his faccefs to the juftice of the ciufe, the . ond Dutch hiving firft atticked him upén the it s 0w énglifh coaft. 1t is indéed little lefs than mi- riculous that a thoufand gréat fhot fhould |t, .fi it not do more execution; and thoie who will be pre not admit the ‘interpo'fition of providence, mitting ¢ yhol may draw at léaft this inference from it, that the braveft mam is mot dlways in the gréateft Ofms of danger, of fone o1ee il In July he met the‘; dutch fifhery fleet pe gt with a cénvoy of twelve men of war, all o five shich he took, with 100 of their hérring en the r) bufles, And in September, being ftitioned )Sy h in the downs with about {ixty fail, ke difcé- ot vered. the dutck A4dmirals De Witt and De 'Ru"yt’,er with néar the fame nGmber, and ad- he 418 r) bufs, ein kleines Fahrzeng, fls Se‘ Tives. 128 i Va’;ficed t6Wat'<is them but the Dutch Being fiex rel] obliged by the nature of their coaft and {hil- lownefs of their rivers, to build their fhips in fuch a manner, that they require lefs depth to"i Cou of water than the énglifh veflels, took ad- ged véntage of the form of their fhipping, and W) {heltered themfelves behind a s) flat called ént kentiflh knock ; fo that the Englifh finding {c- vili me of their Thips t) aground, were obliged to alter their courfe, but percéiving éarly the next morning that the Hollanders had for{aken lénge( their ftation they purfied them with all the e wit fpéed that the wind, which was weak and mote uncéi:tain, alldowed but found themfelves tn- fnen able to réach them with the bulk of their i flicet and therefore detiched fome of the ligh- the teft frigates to chafe them, = Théfe came fo me néar, as to fire upén them about three in the aga his 4fter noon ; but the Dutch inftéad of ) técking about, v) hoifted their fails, ftcered towards Upa their own coaft, and finding themfelves the Wit the two denj s) flat, ein feichter Ort in der See, t) aground, (wann von Schiffen die Rede ift) gefirandet. that u) to tack about, das Schiff wenden, lavieren, (ein SchiffsTerminus), V) to hoift the [ails, die Seegel aufziehen. » V) next Lives. 12Q | Being fiext dav f8llowed by the whole énglifh fleet, ] bl retired into Goree, The fhilors were éager ¢ {hips to attick them in their own bartours; but a s depth council ‘'of war béihg‘ convéned, it .was jid- 00k 4= ged imprident to hdzard the fleet upén the 2, and w) fhoals, of to 'engage in ény important t calld énterprize, without a frefh {upply Xo‘f pror-l ding fo- viiipns. obliged rly the Tfuat in this eng’figement the viftory be. orfaken l6nged to the Englifh is beyénd difpite, fin- il the ce without the ’ofs of one fhip, and with no more than forty men Kkilled they drove the énemy into his own ports, took the réar 4d- Jyes U of fhel miral and anOther véffel, and fo difcOuraged the dutch dadmirals, who had not agréed in theix ihe g méafures, that De Ruyter, who had declared . came b aghinft hizarding a battle , defired to refign his comiffion, and De Witt, who had infifted tickitg upén fighting, fell fick, as it was fuppofed, et with vexition, But how gréat the lofs of ves {he the Dutch was is not cértainly known; that two {hips were taken, they are too wife to deny, but affirm , that thofe two were all rgmldn that were deftroyed, 'The Englif h on <he f randeto i, iviere - ' /ai/.ff w) fheals, feichte Oerter in dexr See, I gext 130 L?’Uff PN other fide affirm that three of their veflels fate were difabled at the firft encounter, that their and nimbers on the fécond day were vifibly di- attés fenf minifhed, and that on the laft day they faw ic three or four {hips fin}k in their flight, 1 De Witt béing ndw difchirged by the Hol- the landers as unfortunate and the chiéf command ter, reftdored to van Trump, gréat prepardtions (tio were made for retriéving their reputition, tant and repairing their 16fles, Their endéavours were aflifted by the Englifh themfelves, now Bl made factious by f{uccefs; the men, x) who tichmy fill n were intriilted with the civil adminiftration béing jéalous of thofe, whofe militiry commands 10en ¢ had procured fo much hénour, left they who Dles rhifed them fhould be eclipfed by them, Such ther is génerally the revolition of affiirs in évery tath fed vau x) who — admz'm'flrafion, welchen die biirger- liche Verwaltung anvertraut war, Dergleichen Conftruétionen mit dem Paflivo kommen im Englifchen oft vor, welche im Deutfchen mit flf Man dem Acttivo gegeben werden miuffen, e ¢ mufs fich dies vorziiglich merken, wann man aus dem Deut{chen ins Englifche iiberfezen will, indem es fehr weitfchweifig und iibel klingen wiirde dergleichen deutfcieActiv-Conftruétionen im Englifchen wieder mit dem Ativo zu geben. if Lives, 13t yeffek frate; dinger and diitréfs produce unanimity t theit and bravery, virtues, which are fé¢ldom un- bly die atténded with {Geceefs but {Gccefs is, the pa- rent of pride, and pnde of jéaloufy and fa- ey fi £, étion ; fdétxon mikes way for calamity, and hippy is that natlon whofe calimities renéw the Hok their unanimity. Such 1s the rotation of in- omman{ terefts, that équally tend to hinder the deftra- aations tion of a péople, and to obftrict an exdrbi- oy tant incréafe of power, déavours Blake had weéakened his fleet by many de- yes, 1OV x) who tichments, and lay with no more than forty fail in the y) Downs, very ill provided with on being mmands men and ammunition, and expéting néw fup. plies from thofe, whofe animofity hindered Y Wit them from providing them, and who chofe m, Sul rather to {ée the trade of their céuntry diftréf- in evety fed, than the féa - Officers exalted by a new — acquifition of honour and influence, bilrge! Jeichen Van Trump defirous of diftinguif hing him. nen 10 felf at the refmption of his command by fo- en il Man me remarkable aftion, had affémbled eighty klinget ) down, eine Diine, ein Sandhiigel an der ione? Ki ue. ; gEbeu' 1 % 132 Lives. {hips of war and ten firefhips, and ftéered b) b towards the Downs, where Blake, with who- feffa fe condition and ftrength he was prébably ac- pui quainted was then ftationed Blake not able well to reftrain his nétural érdour, or perhaps not the fully informed of the fuperibrity of his éne- and mies, put out to encéunter them thovgh his G fleet was fo wéakly minned that half of his briy {hips were obliged to lie idle without engging byt for want of failors, TI'he force of the whole the @ dutch fleet was therefore fuftiined by about lidve twénty two fhips Two of the énglifh fri- ) (b gates named the Vénguard and the viftory béatiy after hiving for a long time ftdod engiged and I amidft the whole. dutch fleet broke through nor did the Enolifh only without much injury, Qe lofe any fhips till the évening, when the Gir- Not land carrying férty guns was boarded at-once Not by two gréat fhips, z) which were oppdfed they by the Englifh, till they had fcircely 4ny bloy men left to defénd the a) decks; then, reti- thev froo ring into the lower part of the veffel }aVe z) Eine abermahge Pafliv-Conftru€tion, die im Deuatfchen mit dem Aétivo gegeben whtdda b) mufs, Siehe Nota x. p. 130. bley ch 2) deck, das Verdeck eines Schiffes, Sch i, Lz'vef. ,133 tected b) bléw up their decks, which were now pof- who {éffed by the énemy, and at length were over ly ac¢ plwered and tiken, The Bonaventure a ftout o able well built merchant fhip, going to reliéve s ot the girland was atticked by a man of war, s nee and after a ftout refiftance, in which the captain, who defénded her with the tutmoit agh s "of his bravery, was killed, was likewife cirried off iging by the Dutch. = Blake in the Tritmph feeing whole the Garland in diftréfs, préfled férward to re~ btk lieve her, but in his way had his foremaft ifh fis ¢) fhattered, and was himfelf boarded; but yictory beating oft the énemies he disenghged himfelf, and retired into the Thames with the lofs of ngéged rough only two fhips of force, and four fmall fri- gates, but his whole fleet much fhétteregi. Rl e Git Nor was the vittory ghined at a chéap rate, notwithftéinding the unbfual disproportion of at onee oppbfed ftrength ; for of the dutch fliglhips one was blown up, and the other two disibleds a Jy dny ; fetl- proof of the énglifh, bravery, whieh fhould they have induced Van Trump, to have \fpared the b) to blaw’ up, in die Luft fpfengen. Imperf; jie Im blew , Sup. blown, c) fhattered , tibel zuge- erdes richtet, zer{chmettert , wird vorziiglich von Schiffen | gebraucht, Lives. 134 infolence of carrying a d) broom at his e) tép- To of | maft in his triumphant paffage through the channel , which he inténded as a declaration, erim that he would f) fweep the féas of the éng- mof lith {hipping; this , which he had little réa- the fon to think of accOmplifhing, he foon after toc the périfhed. in atFémpting. the There are,f()rhetimes obfervations and en- the ; quiries, which all hiftorians feem to decline him by agréement, of which this 4€tion may afford can e us an example: nbthing appéars at the firft méntig viéw more to demind our curidfity or afford 5ty matter for examinition, than this wild en- to the counter of twénty two f{hips with a force, eed 4 according to their accounts, who favour the of Dutch, three times fupérior. Néthing can iy juftify a commander in fighting under fuch gié disadvantages, but the impoffibility of retréa- Detr ting, But what g) hindered Blake from re- terpr for tréating as well before fhé f ight, as fifter it? s d) broom , ein Befen. =€) topmaft, der obere Maft tiber dem Maftkorbe. (fr, pevroquet ). £) to fweep, mit einem Befen kehren, fegen. @) to hinder wird immer mit der Preepofition h) | Jrom confir Pir t, hen A, Live:.‘ 135 ) tope To fay he was h) ignbrant of the ftrength oh the of the dutch fleet is to impute him a very ration, criminal degrée of négligence; and at léaft it S muft be conféfled that, from the time he faw them, he could not but know that they were e e on aftet too powerful to be oppdfed by him, and éven then there was time for retréat, To urge the 4rdour of his failors is to divéft him of nd ete the authérity of a commander, and to charge him with the moft reproachful wéaknefs that Jecline g oftd can enter into the chiraller of a géneral. To b Bt méntion the impetuélity of his own cburage, is to make the blame of his temérity équal i o Wfld 513 to the praife of his valour; which {eems in- déed the moft gentle cénfure that the truth g forcey of hiftory will allow. We muit then admit, out fe hing &9 amidft our ¢ulogies and applaufes, that the gréat, the wife, and the viliant Blake was once pr foch rettéae betrayed to an incon{iderate and défperate en- terprize, by the refiftlefs drdour of his own m fe et 1t fpirit, and a noble jéaloufy of the hénour of his c/éuntry. ober¢ ) f elh h) Die Adjettiva, die eine Kenntnifs oder Un- ofition kenntnifs anzeigen, regieren den Genitivum, 136 Zz’ves‘ A It was not long, befdre he had an oppor- ath Vel thnity of revinging his lofs, and reftriining the infolence of the Duteh, On the 1&th of L nj Fébruary 1652, Blake being at the héad of eighty fail, and aflifted at his own requéft an by Célonels Monk and Dean efpied Van Trump in with a fleet of abOve 100 men of war, as Clarendon relites, -of 70 by their own piiblic accounts, and 0o mérchant fhips vnder his fil cénvoy. The Englifh with their ufual intre- pidity advanced téwards them; and Blake in cony thwa the Triamph, in which he #&lways led his figy fleet, with twelve fhips more came to an eg engagement with the main bédy of the dutch tay fleet, and by the difparity of their force was e reduced to the laft extrémity, hiving recéi- Or ved in his. i) hull no féwer than 700 fhots, when Lawfon in the Fairfax came ta his affi- P france The reft of the énglifh fleet now ca- me in, and the fight was continued with the €0 Vi ttmoft degrée of vigour and refolution, till the night gave the Dutch an opportunity of (0 an retiring with the lofs of one flagfhip, and fix it i i) lull, der Korper eines Schiffes. Es ift ver- P muthlich eine Verwechslung mit dem Wort tc hulk, welches eben diefe Bedeutung hat, & S, Live Y 137 Oppote 6ther men of war, The Englith had many On board riining veflels dimaged but none loft, 4th of Lawfons {hip were killed wo men, and as éd of miny on board Blake’s, who loft his captain requel and {{cretary, and himfelf recéived a wound Tromp in the thigh, jat, 8 pie ‘Blake hiving fet afhore his wounded fixen, Jer his fiiled in purfuit of Van Trump, who fent his | intre convoy before, and himfelf retired fighting lake 11 towards Bulloign, Blake ordered his light o his frigates to fOllow the mérchants, fill conti- to o nued to héirrafs Van Trump, and on the third ,' dutch day the 2cth of Fébruary, the two fleets ca- e W me to anGther battle, in which Van Trump g; reféi‘ once more retired before the Englifh, and ) {hotsy miking ufe of the peculiar form of his {hip- yis ol ping, fecured himfelf in the fhdals, The ac- oW 8 counts of this fight, as of all the éthers, are th the vAarious; but the dutch writers themfelves il conféfs, that they loft ¢ight men of war, ity of and more than twénty mérchant fhips, and nd fix it is ;prc‘)bable , that they fiffered much more ‘than they are willing to alldw, for thefe re- péated deféats provoked the cémmon péople b ver to riots and infurrétions, and obliged the fort ‘fie‘a.tes, to afk, though ineffétually for péace, 138 Lives: In April féllowing the form of gbvern;, ment in England was changed, and the fu- and préme authOrity affumed ‘by Cromwell ; updn wit which . occafion Blake with his afféciates de- Wit clared that notwithftanding the change in the ad- the miniftration, they fhould ftill be réady to dis- Th charge their truft and to defénd the nation Tr from k) infults injuries and encroachments. der 5 It is not,* fays Bldke, ,,the bafinefs of a but féaman to mind ftate affairs, but to hinder dexty foreigners from fooling us, This was the idmir principle from which he néver déviated, and hitho which he lways endéavoured to inciilcate in in fh the fleet as the fureft foundation of unanimity Uhn ,, Diftirb not one anéther and ftéadinefs, affl with doméftic difputes, but remémber that we are Englifh, and our énemies are foreig- ners, ¢ Enemies! whom, let what party fo ot ¢ éver previil it is dlways the intereft of our the céuntry to humble and rei’créin. 4 fl - feg {hiy tot k) infult, hat zweierlei Bedeutungén, Zuerft heift es das Auffpringen auf etwas, und in die- fem Verftande hat es den Accent auf der lez- ten Sylbe. Hernach heift es eine Beleidigung mit Worten oder Handiungen, und in diefer D ggdeutung hat es den Ton auf der erften Sylbe, fich P Lives, 139 )VEftle After the 3oth of April 1653 Blake, Monk he {o and Dean, failed cut of the énglifh harbours updn with 100 men of war, and finding the Dutch & e with féventy fail on their own coafts, drove e af them to the Texel and took fifty 1y doggers, to dis Then they failed nérthward in purfuit of Van nation Trump, who hiving a fleet of mérchants un- ments, der his cénvov, durft not énter the channel s of 3 but ftéered téwards the Sound, and by gréat hindet ¥ dextérity and addréfs efcaped the three énglifh gs the 4dmirals, and brought all his {hips into their and hiarbour; then knowing that Blake was ftill cate 10 in the north came before Dover, and fired upbdn that town, but was driven off by the qnimty et caitle, of ha foreig Monk and Dean fthtioned themfelves again at the mouth of the Texel and blécked up qfl:y [0 f our the Dutch in their own ports with eighty fail; but héaring that Van Trump was at Go- ree with 120 men of war, they drdered ali fhips of force in the river and ports to repair to them, perf die Jeze ung 1) doggers, eine Art kleiner Schlfi"e, deren man hefer fich Zum Flfchen bedient, y}beo Lives. 140 . On Jufieagd the two fleets came to an en- mitt] been gagement in the beginning of which Dean was cérried off by a cinnon ball; yet the | they ges, fight continued from about twelve, to fix in the afternoon, when the Dutch gave way, tial excl and retreated fighting, Var On the 4th in the 4fternoon, Blake came Wit up with éighteen frefh fhips and procured men the Englifh a compléte vi€tory ; nor could and g the Dutch 4ny otherwife preférve their fhips natury than by retiring once more into the flats and fhéllows, where the largeft of the énglifh The Engi veffels could not approach. mifte In this battle Van Trump bbard;d vice ‘Admiral Pen; but was béaten off, and himfelf 1 boarded, and redliced to blow up his decks, Cro of which the Englifh had gotten pofléffion, feer He was then éntered at once by Pen and an6- Ved ther; nor could péflibly have efciped, had bein; not De Ruyter and De Witt arrived at that the %n{’cant and refche@ him, I Howéver the Dutch may endéavour to by exténuate their lofs ig this batf:le, m) by ad- m) by admitting - taten. Eiue Paftici pial-Con- Infy firuttion vereinigt mit dem Accufativo cum ftey Lives. 141 l an efls mitting no more than' éight fhips to have been taken or deftréyed, it is évident, that | Dem they muit have recéived much gréater dima- et the to fix ges, not only by the accounts of more ‘impérw- tial hiftorians, but by the remoénftrances and & Wayy exclamations of their 4dmirals themfelves, Van Trump decliring before the States, that ke came withdout a nlumerous reinfdrcement of large procixred men of war he could ferve them no more; ot could and de Witt crying out before them with the ir {1ips nitoral warmth of 4is charatter, ,, Why,fhould afs and 1 be filent before our lords and méfters? tie éng\i{h Englifs are our mafters and by cénfequence mafters of the {éa od VI | hinkl In November 1654 Blake was fent 'by is dels Cromwell into the Mediterrinean. with a pd- werful fleet, and may be faid to Zave recéi- offefions d an0- ved the homage of all that part of the world, being équally courted by the hhughty Spaniards, , bud the farly Dutch, and the latvlefs Algerines, t that In March 1656 hiving forced Algiers to out fo fubmiffion, Ze éntered the harbour of Tunis by ads e Infinitivo, durch weléhe die-deufflrhe Con- J-Con- o cum ftrution auf eine doppelte Art abgekiirzt wird, © Lives. 142 and deminded teparition for the robberies 0) fire practifed upén the Englilh by the pirates of that place, and infifted that the captives of X Zis nation {fould be fet at liberty The go- fiv vernor having planted bétteries aléng the {ho- the re, and drawn up his {4ips under the ciftles Fr fent Blake an fhaughty and infolent anfwer, 2 There are our ciftles of Golletta and Porto To Ferino,* faid ke, ,, upbn which you may do Fiy with your sworft; ¢ 4dding Gther ménaces and in- fults, and méntioning in terms of ridicule the kind count inequélity of a fight betwéen fhips and caftles, Blake %ad likewife deminded léave to tike in fatly water, which was refufed /Aim Fired with mh | tsis initiman and infolent tréatment he the fai n) chrled kis whifkers, as was his chftom, when he was angry, and éntering Porto Fe- eff rino with his gréat fhips difcharged his {hot fo faft upon the bétteries and caftles, that in two hours the guns were dismounted, and the works forfaken, thongh he was at firft expo- I‘Elg fed to the fire of fixty cannon. He then or- froy dered his 6fficers to fend out their long boats e well manned to féize nine of the piratical {Zips A\ n) he cuvled his whifkers, er kraufelte feinen Scinurrbart, (da =, Ll.ve.-fc 43 bbeties o) lying in. the road, himfelf cofitinuing to ates of fire upén the ciftle. This was fo bravely ives of éxccuted that with the lofs of 6nly twénty- [lie go- five men killed and férty - éight wounded, all the fhoe the fhips were fired in the f{ight of Tunis, i ctls From thence failing to Tripoli /e conclided et a peace with that nation, then retirning to Tunis /4e found no6thing but fubmiffion, And d Porto may do fucs indéed was his reputation that ke met with no farther oppofition, but collééted a and i ale the kind of tribute from the princes of thofe cfim@c céuntries, his bafinefs béing to demind repa- thke in ration for all the injuries offered to te Enga lif2 during the civil wars, He exiaéted from of with ot he the duke of Tufcany 60coo 1, and, as it is faid, fent fome fixty {hips laden with the cfifiOmy 010 fe efléCts, which he had recéived from féveral ftates. Jis fhot that in The refpétt with which he oblige& all fé- and the expl- reigners to tréat his céuntry men, appéars from a ftory related by bifiop Burnet, Wien en 0 y boats he lay before Malaga in a time of péace wits Spain, fome of Ais failors went affiore, and i — ' feine? 0) lying in the road, welche auf der Riede (das ift vor Anker) laggn; r\oozd, die Riede, Fives. 144 méeting a procéffion of the p) hoft, t;ot bnly bif fng refufed to pay 4ny refpéct to it, but laughed at thofe who did. The péople being-put by poy kng one of the priéfts upén refénting this indig- nity , fell up6n them and béat them fevérely, pu the When they returned to their {hip they com- pliined of their ill tréatment, upbn which {3 Blake fent in to Demind the priéft who had dy procured it. The vicerdy Anfwered, that hi- the ving no authOrity over the priefts, he could and not fend him: to which Blake replied, that Engl he did not enquire into the extént of the vi- bnd | ceroys authoérity, but that if the priéft q) were not fent within three hours, he would burn the tOwn, The viceroy then fent the priéft a0y to him, who pléaded the provocition given fiy nt by the féamen, Blake bravely and ritionally anfwered, that if he had compliined to him, Of he would have plnifhed them fevérely, for he ivould not have his men afl’rgnt the efti- blif hed 1 f We Rty ) ¢ p) hoft, die Hoftie; q) were, das Tmperfeét. egy Conjunttivi von ¢o e, welches jedoch nicht g oft vorkommt, indem man meiftens auch da, fege wo im Deutfchen der Conjunétivus fteht, das Jire Imperfect, im lndic. I was, gebraucht, ({ Li'vef * 145 t bl blifhed religion of any place; but that he was 4ngry that the Spédniards would affime that l‘aughed it by power, for r) he would have all the world infge know , , that an Englif hman was (mly,tc) be 'e\"efei}'. ptnifhed by an Englithman, So having ufed the priéft civilly, he fent him back, béing 3}7 (0 1 which {stisfied that he was in his power. This cén- duét fo much pléafed Cromwell, that he réad oo had hat ba the letter in council with gréat fatis’fii&idn”’ and faid he hoped to make the name of an , could that Englithman as gréat as €ver that of a Roman had been, he Vie ) wete " In 1656 the protéétor I;éving declired war § bum againft Spain, detiched Blake with twénty five men of war to s) inféft their coafts, and p givel intercépt their {hipping, In purfuance of thefe ol orders he t) cruifed all winter u) abdut the to him, /, for S ) efié- pifhed 1) hé would — know, Er wolle, dafs die ganze Welt wiffe; wieder der Accuf, mit dem Infi- o nitivo, um das deutfche da/s zu vermeiden, s) to infeft their coafts, ihre Kiften zu ver heeren, t) to cruife, kreuzen, ein Schiffsters erfels minus, der dig Bedeutung hat; hin und her u) about ihe h nicht fegeln um Beute zu machen, ich i fiveights, beim Eingang des mittellindifchen it 15 Meeres ; fireight, eine Meerenge, ein enger Pafs, 146 Lives, ftréights , and then lay at the méuth of the the hirbour of Cales where he recéived intélli- {hi gence that .v) the fpénilh plite fleet lay at 10 4nchor in the bay of Santa Cruz in the isle Wi of ''éneriffe, On the 13th of April 1657 he th depirted from Cales, and on the 2cth arrived Vi at Santa Cruz, where he féund fixteen {pa- to nifh véflels, The bay was defénded on the pl north fide by a ciftle well mounted with cor cinnon, and in Sther parts. with féven forts lofs with cinnon proportioned to the bignefs, all whil united by a line of communicition minned Asi with mufquetéers, The {panifh ddmiral drew tlon up his {fmall (hips under the cinnon of the ang ciftle, and ftationed fix gréat gilleons with their broadfides to the féa: an advintageous and prudent difpofition but of little efféct againft the Englifh comminder who' detér- mined to attick them, ordered Stayner to én- 1n¢ Wi ter the bay with his fquadron; then pofting fo- ot me of his largeft Thips to play upOn the for- tifications , himfelf atticked the galleons which ung the 4fter a ghllant ref ftance were at length abin- W dyo‘ned'by tl}e Spéniards , though the l¢aft of th e W] V), the fpanifl plate- fleet, dvie {panifche Silber- 30 flotte, l‘ag LT, Lizfaf. 147 of the them was bigger than the biggeft of Blake’s‘ Intel {hips, The forts and fmaller véflels béing ay at now { hattered and forfzken, the whole fleet the isle was fet on fire, the gilleons by Blake and 7 be the fmalleft veflels by Stiyner, the énglifh aived véflels béing too much fhittered in the fight oen fp to bring them away. Thiis was the whole on the plate - fleets deftroyed, and the Spéniards, ac- g with cording to Réipins remirk, - fuftiined a gréat on forls lofs of fhips, mobney, men and mérchandize ,»fi', 81[ while the Englifh giined néthing but glory, nfinned. As if he, that incréafes the military reputa- drew tion of a péople did not encréafe their power, of e and he that weéakens his' énemy in effé&t ns \Vith firéngthens himfelf, tageots o el The whole aftion fays Clarendon, was fo g delit incrédible that all men, who knéw the place, fo €1 wondered that any {ober maun, with what ng fo- céurage fo éver endied, wonld éver have e for« undertiken it, and /they could hardly perfuade which themfelves to beliéve what they had, done: abin- while the Spiniards comforted themfelves with att of the belief, that they were dévils and not men P who had deftrdoyed them in fuch a ménner, So much a firong refolution of bold and cou= Gilher* ) thgeous men can bring to pafs, that no re- K 2 148 .ZI.'UC | A fiftance or advéntége of ground can difappoint U them ; and it can hardly be imagined how {mall i a lofs the Englifh fuftiined in this unparalle- gui led 4tion, not one fhip being left behind, nfy and the killed, and wounded not excéeding a8 200 men; when the flaughter on board the it fpanifh fhips and on fhore was incrédible, {a The géneral cruifed fome time 4fterwards by with his viftérious fleet at the mouth of Ca- les, to intercépt the {panifh fhipping; but finding his conftitution broken by the fatigue dy b of the laft three yeéars, detérmined to retiirn tame home, and died before he came to land. Qared S His bédy was embalmed and hiving liin his was fome time in ftate at Gréenwich houfe, Cla w)btried in Henry VII. chipel, with all the ma faneral folémnity dlie to a man fo famed for att his bravery, and fo fpétlefs in his intégrity; He nor is it without regrét that I am obliged to con relite the tréatment, his body met a yéar beer after the X) reftoration, when it was tiken dife to fi w) to bury, begraben, In diefem Wort und feinen derivatis wird das # ausnahmsweife wie 0 ausgefprochen, Kon x) the refloration, die Pe- Schy riqde der Wiedereinfezung Karls des zvfzeiten, gen e, 149 : ‘Lz'v.:r,’:. ppoint up by expréls commind, and buried in a pit {mall in St, Margaret’s churchyard,. Had he béen jirale- guilty of the marder of Charles the firfk, to behind, infalt his bédy had béen a méan revénge; but ceeding as he was innocent, it was at léaft inhuma- ard the nity, and perhips ingrititude. ,» Let no man, e {ays the oriéntal préverb,* pull a déad lion eryands by the ‘béard. of Cae SR ITRERERS Rt 7; i dy has béen paid to his better remains, his fatigue setiirn name and his mémory. Nor has any writer , dared to deny him the praife of intrepidity, hénei’ty, contémpt of wéalth, and love of no lan his country, »» He was the firft man,% {ays Clarendon, ,,that declined the old track, and , Wi ) ol te made it apparent, that the {ciences might be attiined in lefs time than was imAgined, — e fot He was the firft man, that brought {hips to i contémn ciftles on fhore, which had éver gged {0 been tiught to be véry fOérmidable, but ‘were ) yéar taken difcobvered by him to make a noife 6nly, and to fright thofe who could rirely be hurt by th und Konigs von England wird Voni den englifchen ife wie fie Pes Schriftftellern per ex cellentiam , ¢/e reyiara;iam genannt, %reitelh 150 Lives. g N W e miny proportion of céurage into féamen, by miking yet | them fee by expérience, what mighty things and they could do if they werte ref6lved, and Jeft 1 taught them to fight in fire as well as upén pérf the water; and though he has been véry well cirel imitated and f6llowed, was the firft that gave ofte the example of that kind of naval céurage, him and bold and réfolute atchiévements,‘ ténde quent Officer To this atteftition of hi; military éxcel- to the lence, it may be préper to fubjoin an account that of "his moral charaéter from the author of Li- £t ¢ ves englifl and foreign. , He was jéalous,* fays that author of the liberty of the fUbject, and the glory of his nation; and as he made Ufe of no mean artifices to riife himfelf to Mmay of | thé higheft command at {éa, fo he néeded no intereft but his mérit to fuppdrt him in it, the \’iéw He f{corned néthing more than méney, which as faft, as it came in, was laid out by him the { in the férvice of the ftate, and to fhow that a B give he was 4nimated by that brave plblick fpirit, which has fince been réckoned rather romin- fol 1 tic than herdic. And he was {o disinterefted that, though no man had more opportunities to enrich himfelf than he, \’V%IO had tékeg fo 9) =Ly, Lives,. 5% d the mény millions from the énemies of England, nking yet be threw it all into the pablic tréafury, things and did not die 500 l.-richer than his father J, and left h1m ; which the Author y) avérs from his 3 Upin perfonal knéwledge of his fimily and their circumftances, hiving béen bred up in it, and Y wel 11t gave often héard his brother give this account of Guragey him He was religious according to the pre- ténded purity of thofe times, but would fré- quently alldw himfelf to be mérry with his 6fficers, and by his téndernefs and generélity feel to the {éamen had fo endéared himfelf to them, pccoutt that when he died they laménted his lofs as e of L that of a cémmon father, Jous, U‘D}eai Inftéad of more téftimonies his charalter o mae may be properly conclided with one incident el (0 of his life, by which it appéars how much ded 10 the fpirit of Blake was fupérior to all private i th Views, His bréther in the laft 4étion with which the Spaniards, having not done his duty, was 7 him at Blake's defire difcirded, and the fhip was - that given to anOther; yet was he not lefs regird fpmt, ful to him as a bréther, for when he died, mal e refted nities il fo ) to aver, behaupten, - Lives, 152 ‘he left him his eftite, knowing him well qualified, to adorn or enjoy a private fortu- ne, though he had found him unfit to ferve his country in a piliblic chirater, and had therefore not fuffered to rab it, N méth high fimg Was i W1 d: Ce of I Co 1§ tr b fin m A 153 wel Ort Letters. ferve A. Familiar, bad Lady Cravenjto his Serene Highnefs the Margrave of Brandebourg Anfpach and Bareith, Avignon July 30, 1785, N 6thing can be more delightfol than my laf¥ I have had méthod of travelling by water, high and coOntrary winds; but the Rhone's famed rapidity, that [ had héard fo much of, was néither furprifing nor térrifying; the fhores on éach fide were rocks interfpérfed with vineyards and chftles. 1 linded the firfk day at Comdrieux, where I bought fome éx- cellent wine for 25 fols a bottle, the growth of that place. About a léague from thence is la montagne Tupain belonging to Mr de Iz Condamine, where the beft Cote - rotie wine is to be had; that word fignifies réally and trily roafted coaft; the grapes being almoft broiled by the fun. The wine is of a red and firong kind, réckoned véry fine, but like many 6ther fine things I did not rélifh it, A little farther on the left is /Hermitage a / 154 Letteys. fpot fo called beciufe formerly a hérmit lived upén that hill, the wine of which is too much i is fi known for me to fay 4ny thing about it I gave three livres a bottle for it, but found the white fo much better than the red, . that 1 ordered fome to be fent to Marfeilles, from {ifk LI whence 1 fhall haYe it {hipped for England, 4 ” 1 1§ v .‘Theré is a fine tOwn called ienme that has a fine gothic cathedral, which I went on fhore to look at, togéther with a2 mOnument th ¢ belénging to the Moutmorin fimily W}ll éxg- 15 €9 “cuted‘. Celye h&t l 1 féw {éveral people on the banks of the b Rhone fifting gravel ; théy find it améng litt- Wi e bits of folid gold, walhed down from the Y mountains, a moft hérrid employment in this hot weéather, 1 {hould think; but what will not poor mortals do for gold, fince the rich are often {laves to that which Fhéy dught to be mifters of, | Ma'ntéh'mart is a caftle from \Whence I am told three kingdomsi _are feen and. féven pro- vinces, I did not ftop /to fee this or any (fther,\;of the mény caftles, I pafled by iefl evs, 155 Lived The fhotes 13ofe all their beality néar much Avignon, which I could not fee, beciufe it it 1 is furrounded by a high tarreted wall, found Madame de Branmcas the Déc de Crillons et fifter, was véty civil to me. 1 dined with , fiom L —d; whofe héalth is much impadired, and ghnd 1 hope this climate will do him féme goods y thot — Adiel1 déar Sir} , yours, nt on PS. I am told by {éme one who knows ment the Duc de Crillon véry well, that his fifter £X¢ is exiftly like him; which 1 can éafily. con- ccive, for fhe has as many préjeéts about her girdens and houfes, as her bréther had of the about the tiking of Gibraltar; I hope they 0 Jite will fuccéed better than his have, for fhe is om the a very good hhmoured-lfidy. in this ¢ wil 13 l'iCh gt 0 eIam fl pré" 4 Lesters. 156 tive Ladyf Craven to his feréne higfinefs yth’e abyf Margrave of Anfpach and Bareith, alo Marfeilles Auguft. 5. 1785. Dear Sir, I thought it unnéceflary to give {id you 4ny defcription of Avignon, becaufe you for have been there, but as you did not tike év the fame z) road to it, as I did in cOming and from it, I will endéavour to give you fome lave faint idéa of a nitural curiéfity, that I have 2 mi) feen, and which pléafed me véry highly, the chear much famed fontaine de Vauclufe. Hivet 11 fet dut from Avignon in the middle of there the day ‘and arrived at a town called Lille, 1ot where 1 took a french poft-chaife, and went péa in it by the fide of the Sorgue’s cléar fireéam, till the rdad was too narrow for the carriage péy to procéed; I then wilked in a nirrow path hdy winding round the imménfe récky mountains to the left with the ftréam rapidly flying by me to the right' about a mile, till a civern prétty much in the fhape of thofe, which 2 | fiy. lions come out of, in an Opera, prefénted ik} Sp; it‘felf to my view, and from that flows the un ebs z) iéad , der Weg, eine andere Bedeutung als W P {4so ota, o, il Letters, 157 5 the viver, a) I am told it is an unféthomable,f ith, abyfs, Why it is called a fomtaine, 1 am at a lofs to guefs, 1785 Monftrous rocks rife Over and on éach 0 nge fide of this b) craggy arch; thefe féem to bend ufe yoU forward, to meet or crufh the curious, Which 10 f ke éver way I tirned my eyes, 1 faw gigantic coming and fantiftic {hapes, which niture feems to 7 fome have placed there to aftonifh the gizer with [ have a mixture of the mélancholy, térrible, and ) the chéarful ; for the cléarnefs and rapidity of the river makes it a lively 6bjett, and where e of there is a flat place on the banks, though 3d Lifll, not above a few féet in circimference, the i wett péafants have planted trees or fowed girdens freim — you lift up your eyes and fee the moft pérfet contrifts to them — the birds, which it hévered téwards the Gpper part of the rocks ntains = ng by cg’wern a) I am>told , man fz{gt mif, Wieder eine Paf. i fiv-Conftruttion, die man im Deutfchen mit man umfchreiben mufs, und die der englifchen eftated Sprache ganz eigen ift. Siehe Notax. pag . lgo. V) the und Nota z, pag, 132. b) craggy, rauh, yp- — eben, = Es ftammt von dem alten brittifchen Wort ¢rag, ab, welches einen ) jahen F elfen, g i oder eine Klippe anzeigt, \ 158 Lerteys. were f{circely percéptible, In looking into whi the the civern, it appéars horrible and gloomy ; I could almdft have fancied the river ran pmk thus faft rejoiced to quit the minfion from de whence it {prung. No wonder Petrarchs fong c) ¢ if he courted his mufe this 1 was plaintive, feéne perpétually before his eyes; love and all Iy 1d his liughing train muft fly the human imagi- nation, Jeilk where nature displays her féatures in the majéftic and térrible ftile, and I was véry Vfr/ f glad to find fo good an excufe as this fitna- tion for Petrarch’s etérnal complaint till now I WOR; ‘I was phzzled to guefs how a man of his mead fenfe could pafs the gréateft part of his life in éternizing a lady’s contémpt of -a faithful paf- £X08 {ou fion — but I now beliéve there was no Laura “L ‘or if there exifted one, he found in éither cafe his imaginition particularly ttrned to e poetry, and that of the mélancholy kind; m 1 who 0n | this prébably his fimmer réfidence, th 10¢ you know — and have as playful a mife as 8iveg éver fmiled upon mbrtal fat exiAmining the aftonifl hing picture before me with a {ilent re- veréntial fort of admiration, — and {hould if I had not 0) ¢ have remained there till night n R been informed that it grew véry late and I dem Org muft fee the piftures of Petrarch and Laura fen in the chateanw of the marquis de Chamont, T, ‘Lefl'fl‘m". 159 g info which s a miferable héufe a féw fteps from the fontaime. Thefe piCtures are véry mbdern Jomy; g 1all probably as like you, as the pérfons they were drazon for, ) from 1 retGrned to Lille and éat c¢) craw-fif4 and d) trout, the moft éxcellent bs fong, 1 ever tifted, which abdund in the Sorgue, Wfe tis gl I pafled tirough Aix to come to this place, imagle I did not ftop, as 1 expélted a letter at A7gs- Seilles , the contén pores 10 § ts of wfii,c/z interéfted me véry much, 5 véty fitnae I faw mény p]a‘ntétions of canes, whics 1 | now woOnder, we do not chltivate in our e) water= of his méadows in England — and I bought ver life i éxcellent mélons- out of tie fields for five fol pe fous a piéce, o Lo in cie A céuntry flowing wif/z wine and oll, afid med where f) figs and mélons are to be githered nd; on éach fide of t/e road, may be a véry fine i who thing; but a want of vérdure and fine tréeg ife 98 gives it a moft uncoOmfortable Wand ungéntle-—_ ng the 1ent l:e: { hould ¢) eraw-fifli, eine Art kleiner Krébf‘e. die fi;h in Backen auflalten. Dies Wort frammt von ad 30 dem franzofifchen ecreviffe ab, d) trout, eine Forelle. e water - meadows 3fifldl » lumpfic/ite Wie- | Laurd fe’n,’ f) figs, Feigen, :aiflflfltl 160 Lettew. minlike appéarance, When I compired Eng- hir roc land and the fcene before me togéther, 1 could almoft have fancied, 1 had the maladie du and all pays upén me, fo much I did wifh to fee a greén g) carpet under my feet and fome of cal our beautiful féliage over my héad. te Adieu déar Sir: how é6ften 1 wifh to be with you, 1 léave the jlftice of your héart Y to detérmine, I remain yours moft afféctio- then nately, Jou P, S. 1 forgét to tell you, that while I this § was changing horfes at Lille Italked to Cap- foung tain B —a failor, who lives with his wife and Ve, two children in that néighbourhood. He vé- it ry civilly invited me to pafs the evening in his houfe, talked abdut my bréther G — and informed me that the fource of the Sorgue was at this time reméarkable low ; and I found by the marks, the térrent had left, on the tocks, when at its héight, that it muft be at léaft forty feet lower now than when it ti- kes it, winter-courfe, As I faw it, it creeps himbly g) carpet, ein Teppich; figlirlich ein bunter ebener Bodeén, - Letters. 161 d Epe htimbly from the cavern under part of the [ conld rock and becémes ripid as it finds its' lével die dy and forms a river; whereas, when it is in 0 fee a all its glotry, it tumbles over the rock, a wild fome of cafcade, which muft add confiderably to its terrific bealities, (h to bt 1 was informed by the inh4bitants of = e heart clufe, that péople, who are tired of life fling (itfto- hemfelves into the cavern, where as I told you before the water is unfithomable, upén this information, 1 4fked if bddies were Often Whlel found there; I was anfwered in the Affirmati= to Cap ve, and that they were chlefly the bodies of fife and e v& priefs, Adieu, B il Sorgh ] found on the } be & it B - creeps fmbly / puy - 162 Lefffl'.fo Thomion to his fifter, "h €l Hagley in Worcefterfhire &0 to Ottober the 14th 1747. i My déar fifter, P I thought you had known me better than to i intérpret my filence into a decay of afféction, th efpécially as your behaviour jas always been s léflg fuch , as ratfer to incréafe than diminiff it, it Don’t imé4gine, becaufe 1 am a bad correfpén- fiad { dent, that I can éver prove an Gnkind friend and brétler, i 10 I muft do myfelf the jaftice to Bu £ tell you that my afféttions are niturally véry and if T %ad éver réafon 10ng¢ fixed and coOnftant ‘i\l\\u to compliin againft you (of which by the bye hoy 1 lave not the leaft {hidow) 1 am confcious h) as difpofe wh of fo miny defélts in myfelf of me to be not a little c/iritable and forgiving, th di It gives me the trieft héartfelt fatisfiCtion to héar, you have a good, kind hiisband, and iy are in éafy conténted circumitances; but were a they Otherwife, that would oniy awiken and Ji i 10 an h) as, wird oft fur das Pronomen, welc/et, welche, welches gebmucht befonders, want it man einen Nac/druk damit andeuten will, 1) ST, &/ Letteys, 103 As Our "heigthen my téndernefs towards you hite good and ténder héarted pirents did not live il to receive any matérial téftimonies of t higheft human grititude, 1 owed them; (than whicl néthing could /ave given me é&qual pléafure) the Only retirn I can make them han 10 now is by kindnefs to thofe, they left be/ind éction, them: would to God poor Lizy /ad lived s beel longer, to have béen a farther witnefs of the il 1 truth of what 1 fay, and that 1 miglt have el had the pléafure of féeing once more a fifter fiad who fo trly deférved my eftéem and love, e 10 But {%e 1s happy, while we muft toil a little | Ve]‘y 16nger here below ; let us Lowéver do it cléar- stafon fully and gratefully, fupported by tie pléafing e e hope of meeting yet agiin on a fifer {J ore, nfciod where to recollétt the ftorms and difficulties gt of life will not perhips be inconfiftent wits g that blifsful ftate, You did right to call yout diughter by het nhme; for you muft néeds 1&1011 have fiad a particulat ténder friénd(Aip for one | and ere anOther endéared as you were by, Y nitare , by having paffed the afféCtionate years of your and gout/ together and by that gréat {Oftner . and engager of Aéarts; mutnal hard(ip, That Jchefi it was in my poier to éafe it a little s I acs wfifln count one of the moft éxquifite plCflfilE{S of 3 La° Letters. 164 my life, — But enéugh of this mélancholy, fa bt though not unpléafing firain, ye I eftéem you for your fénfible and disine 2e terefted advice to Mr Bell, as you will fee th by my letter to him: as I apprbvé entirely A of his mirrying, you may readily afk me, f; why [ don’t mirry at all, My circumftances W have hitherto been fo vériable and uncértain this in this flictuating world, as indice to keep fron me from enghging in fuch a ftate: and now liof though they are more féttled, and of late my (which yo'u' will be glad to héar) confiderably l‘mfil; improved, I begin to think myfelf too far advanced in life for fuch youthful undertékings, not to méntion fome Gther pétty réafons, that are apt to ftartle the délicacy of difficult old batchelors. 1 ah howéver not a little fu- fpicious that, was I to pay a vilit to Scot- land (which 1 have a thought of doing foon) 1 might péifibly be témpted to think of a thing not éafily repaired if done i) amifs, I i) amifs, fihrecht, iibel, Es ift immer ein Ad« verbiom und darf dem Subftantivo nie vorge- fezt werden, ob es gleich bisweilen mit einem Adjettivo im Deutfchen Gberfezt werden mufs, e Letters, 165 }]OIY) have ilways been of opinion, that none make better wives than the ladies of Scétland, and yet who more forfaken than they, while the disite géntlemen are continually running abroad all il fee the world over? Some of them, it is true You aiey are wife enéugh to retGrn for'a wife, b mey fee, 1 am beginning alréady to make intereft frances with the fcotch lidies, — But no more on ) this infétious fubject, — Pray let me hear ofrtiin 0 heth from you now and then; and though 1 am | now mot a régular correfpéndent, yet perhips I ;f Iate may mend in that refpect, Remémber me etably kindly’to, your hiisband, and beliéve me to be 00 far Your moft afféctionate brofiher Akings James Thomfon, s, i ol old fle fo ; §oot foon) of{i % o Ad orge* inett muifio 166 Letters, f0n Fromk Mr Gay to Mt e h ) Jo Stanton - Harcourt 9thI Augufi: 1718. 1y be The 6nly néws, you can expéét to have from me hére, is néws from héaven; for I ab4 th am quite Out of the world, and there is fcirce 4ny thing, can reéach me excépt the nodife of th b thinder, which undoubtedly you hive héard téo. We have héard in old authors, of high 00y towers lévelled by it to the ground, while be b ity the himble valleys have efciped; the énly thing, that is proof agiinft it, is the laurel, as | of tf which howéver 1 take to be no gréat feci- rity to the briins of médern authors, But Vet tha to let you fee, that the céntrary to this often hzppens , I muft acquaint you, that the high- mj eft and moft extrivagant héap of towers in ha the Univerfe, which is in this néighbourhood, 1t ftands ftill undeficed while k) a cock of bar- fo ley in our next fiéld has been confumed to of afhes. Would to God that this héap of bir- W ley had béen all that périfhed! for unhippily Ve benéath this little fhelter fat two much more conftant lévers, than éver\w.ere found in a D B }() ‘a/ coek of barley, ein Haufen Gerfte, Sa 0) £y Lettevs. 167 gomance under the fhade of a l) béech - tree‘ \ John Heéwit was a well fet man of abdut 1718 Sarah Drew might rather five ant twénty; be cilled m) comely than beautiful, and was 0 have for 1 about the {fame 4ge; they had paffed through s foarce the various labours of the year togéther with the gréateft fatisfaction; if The milked 'twas nlile of his mérning and évening care to bring the i hiad of high cows to her hand It was but laft fair, that W hile be bought her a préfent of gréen filk for her firaw - hat; and the pé4fey on her filver ring » dnly Jaore was of his chufing. Their 16ve-was the talk t fect of the whole néighbourhood; for {cindal né- ver affirmed, that they bad 4ny other viéws, ' But i Often than ' the lawful pofléffion of éach Other in It was that véry mbrning that he he g mirriage had obtained the confént of her parents, and owers 1 it was but till the next week, that they wére outhood to swait to be happy. Perhips in the interval of ba of their work they wére now talking of their med t0 wédding cloaths, and John was n) fuiting {é- of bar veral o) pOppies and fiéld - flowers to her mpplly 1 more d 10 8 eine D) beech ~ tree, oder auch beech allein, — Buche, m) comely . angenehm, n) to [uit, Sachen wvon einer (’qttuno zufammen le(re o) poppy, Plur, pop”es, Mohn, 168 Letrers. comi)léxion, to chufe her a ‘knot for the 1eft While they were thus biified, al wédding day. (it was on the laft of July, betwéen two and 0% three in the 4fternoon) the clouds grew black, W and fuch a ftorm of lightning and thinder ¢l enflied, that all the labourers made the beft of f their way, to what fhélter the trées and héd- Sarah was frighten'd and fell al ges afférded, down in a {fwdon on a héap of barley; John, f who never {éparated from her, tior fat down by her fide, héving p) riked togéther two or isa three heéaps, the bétter to fecure her from the frorm, Immédiately there was héard fo loud a crack, as if héaven had {plit afiinder, évery one was folicitous for the féfety of his néigh- bour, and called to one anéther throughout the field. No 4nfwer béing retirned to thofe, who called to our lévers, they ftept to the place where -they lay; they percéived the wir- ley all in a fmoke, and then fpied this fAith- i ful pair, John with one arm about Sarah’s {a neck, and the Other held over her, as to o fcréen her from the lightning, They wére both fir_ka in this génder pé#ure, Sarahig P) to rake, zufammen rechen, 169 Letters, for the left eye - brbw was {inged, and there applared bified, a black {pot on her bréaft, her 16ver was all 70 ang over black, but not the léaft figns of life 7 black, wére found in éither, Atténded by their mélan- {hinder choly compinions, they wére conveyed to el of the town, and the next day intérred in Stan- ang hids ton Hircourt churchyard, My Lord Hércourt and £l at Mr Pope's and my requéft, has caufed a ; Joh, ftone to be rlaced over them, upbn condi= tion that we fhould firnifh the épitaph, which oy by o O is as follows, rom e When éaftern 16vers feed the flneral fire, fp loud On the fame pile the faithful pair expires Hére pitying héaven that virtue mitual found, , Vel - néighe And blafted both that it might néither wound, Héarts fo fincére, th'almighty faw well pléafed, oughbflf 2 thol Sent his own lightning, and the vittims 0 the {eiz'd, But my lord is apprehénfive , the céuntry Je bt : fiithe Péople will not underftand this; and Pope fays', h’ell make one with {omething of fcri- Caral's 28 fo pture in it, and with as little péetry, as Hép- e s kips and Sternhold, 1’ am etc, Gatal s i 170 - Letters. ,King Charles the firft to the Lords for to refpiting the execution of Lord orfy Strafford, *) his if ‘My Lords. offe {ort | did yéfterday fatisfy the.njl’l{’cice of the kinga it} dom, by piffing the bill of q)attiinder aghinft the éarl of Strafford: but mércy being as in- his| be 4 hérent in, r) and inféparable from a king, as jafticc I delire, at this time in fome méafure phop I fo me T #) Ich riike diefen Brief theils als ein Beifpiel g flon: einer befondern Gattung von Briefen ein, {ol- cher nehmlich, bei welchen ein gewifles Cere- fen moniel wegen Unterfchied des Rangs beobach- mo tet werden mufs, theils aber auch fiir Liebha- ber der Gelchichte, weil er mir den Charalter feri diefes ungliiklichen Konigs in ein helles und 0] vortheilhai'tes Licht zu fezen {cheint, fur Q) bill of attainder, eine Bill dafs jemand ei- mo; nes Verbrechens fiir tiberwiefen zu erklaren, of r) Die zwei Preepofitionen iz und from geho- fho ren hier zu' dem Subftantivo. king, welches um Wiederholung zu vermeiden, bei der erften fO] hinweg gelaflen und erft bei der zweiten gefezt HEL das hier ftatt findet, weil beide Prae- pofitionen eben denfelben Cafum regieren, Es Sprache mit der deutfchen gemein hat, ift diefes eine Abkiirzung, welche die englifche 5) j e sy, | Lerters, 171 ds for to fhow that likewife, by fGffering that un- 1 fortunate man to fulfill the nitural courfe of his life in a clofe imprifonment; "yet o that, if éver he make the léaft offer to efcipe, or Offer diréétly or indiréttly, to meddle in 4ny e Kinge fort of plblic bifinefs, efpécially with me, éither by méflage or letter, it fhall coft him agink his life without further précefs, This, if it may g2 ite ng, % be done without the disconténtment of my people, will be an unfpéakable conténtment néafite to me, s VTo‘ which end, as in the firft pléce, Iby this letter do éarneftly defire gyour approbi- Beifpd tion; and to endéar it the more, have chd- 1, fole g Cetes fen him to céirry it, that of all your houfe is eobicl moft déar to me. So I defire, that by a con- [ jesae ference , you will endéavour to give the haralet houfe of cobmmons conténtment ; likewife af- Jes W furing you, that the exercife of mérey is no ynd e« more pléafing to me, than to fee both houfes c[iren. of parliament confént, for my fake that I eht- {fhould mdderate the fevérity of the law irn es um fo important a cafe, erfifefl eert Pre- I will nqt fay, that ydur! s) compiying , B s) complying with me, Uebereinflimmung mit ;lifche mir, Die Participia werden in der englifchen - - Lettevs. 172 with me in this my inténded mércy, f{hall make me more willing, but cértainly it will make me more chéarful in granting your but if no lefs than his life juft griévances: Sui can fatisfy my péople, I muft fay, fiat juftitin. oW Thus, agiin recomménding the confideration 1 of my inténtions to you I reft Ter Your unalterable and affé€tionate (]} friend Whitehall the 1ith of May ate th 1641, fl VEr Charles R, Vet ¢ ] P, S, If he muft die, it were charlty t) to repneve him till faturday, €S, The parliamentary and conftitu- any tional hiftory of England 20y, Wik Sprache fehr oft als Subftantiva gebrancht, ei- rung ne Conftruction, welche fehr fchon ift und {ebr 2N t) to ich viel zur Kiirze des Ausdruks beitragt. ung reprieve a malefattor, die Hinrichtung eines We Verbrechers auffclueben, Was R W, Letters, 173 y Tl it will B, Cpmmércial. o g Y(}llf Triefi. bis e Suffic:iefit expér:ienée and prt’)perty\ of my o own, {vitable to my undertéking, intitle me, [esition I prefume, to tike part in commércial occiir= rvences, and inform you of the fétting up my Aoty houfe, and my fignature. The principal ébjeé‘ts of my negotiéti’ém are the plirchafe and fale of iron, fteél, quick- filver, copper, pbdt-alh _and grain or whaté- ver elfe the trade of our place may éffer, Hetewith I transmit “y’ou the clrrent pri- 1ty t) a? ces, and intréat your Orders, in cafe you find fny thing therein, for an opportunity, Hé- ponfit nour me with your friendfhip : I will endéa- ;lflfldo *) Ich habe hier zum Anfang einen Brief gea wihlt, worinn die Nachricht von der Etabli. rung eines neuen Handelshaufes gegeben wird, zu den folgenden Briefen aber habe ich abficht« 7hto el o Jet lich eine fortgefezte Correfpondenz {iber einen £ 1 und eben denfelben Gegenfrand genommen, weil Lehrlinge darinnen beinahe alles finden, was Kaufleute einander zu fagen hgben. - 174 Ketters. vduf to mérit' it; 'with the fame férvour I . fubfcribe myfelf, B0 Your moft obédient il for humble{ {érvant, Orléans, Yo Mr — = in Amfterdam has commimicated acee to us the addréls of your houfe, with the aflurance, that we can beft procure polifh mp Wax wax from you, g % Till now we hive wrote for that article el from Hambro’; but as it is prébable, you fut may be in a préferable fituation in your céun- ot try, to ferve us with advintage, we were encOuraged by a trial to convince outfelves, how far out fuppbfition is or is not, well 20 grounded, Therefore pléafe to fend ) Re 1, calk with 2000 1B, wt. for our rifk to M{lrs in Hambro'; and to éxe- Cf}el die cute this order fo, that we may be encéura- lng ged to chirge you with gréater, Our wax- ty, bléaches are véry confiderable: we need an- fcgé nually 50 cafks; and will willingly transfét Dey you our Orders, in this irticle, in cafe we fche find account in your mérchandife, m'()g e Lepters, 175 vout | Be fo obliging to pick us out no éther than good, cléan wax, fitteft for the bleéach, On jent fénding them you can draw upén our crédit i for the vialue, on above méntioned friends in Himburgh u) and make {ure account of your bills being hénoured Inieated We wait your dnfwer. Tt would be véry accéptable, if you add therein, a {6mewhat iith the ample account, of the minner, in which the r pohfb wax trade is carried on améngft you, that we may make prévious refléétions thereén, We tticle prefcribe you no price, hodping you will re- tirn our cénfidence, by your mteomtv in the g, YO 1t (ot performance e We "Tis known, véry much Gaftinois fiffron DHAL) goes from our prévince to Silefia, Poffibly \ und fich fichere 0) and make — honoured Rechnung auf die Annahme ihrer Wechfel ma- chen, Abermals eine Participial - Conftruétion, 0 €t 2 die von dem Subftantivo' gccosut regiert wird courd und im Deutfchen am beften mit dem Subftan- tivo uberfezt wird, 1m Rikiiberfezen. in das « ax Englifche ift diefe Participial- Canftrattion viel ed 4 fchdner und der englifchen Spre;che angemeffe- ranSfel' ner, als wenn man es w 1cder wie im Deut- fchen mit dem Subftantivo, gab/e welches auch ofe W moglich wire, 176 Lettevss note you employ yourfelves in this trade too, bléa Should our fuppofition be right, we beg your thet chirges; a traffic might thereby arife between latiy us, in which préfit could accrue on both fi- des, The price of faffron ftands ndw fo low, as vou will find here under noted that one tait ce may with jiftice excite one’s friends to {pé- culate therein, This juntture will prébably Wit foon vanifh {peculators having alréady be- ] gin to make advantage of it Hénour us fion ¥ with your commands the fooner the better; verthe we will affiduously endéavour to prove that nbtice we a&ually are, Your ete, Anfwer to the precéding, W) vor Breslaw, meh e v) The mére we are obliged to our mutuoal Ikal Subj friend Mr of Amfterdam, for procuring us the enty bénefit of your acquaintance, the more is our ferne duty to juftify by fatls, the favourable préju- we § We have made die ¢ dice, you entertiin for us, fenu s altet arty v) The, in diefer Verbindung wird das erfte étlor fezt, mal mit je und das zweite mal mit defto ubera finit Letters. 177 note to éxecute youtr drder for one cafk of o too, bléach - wax, beft quality, Our next will 60 }’Olll' therefore contiin w) invoice of fame with re« ghyeen Iative advices, i fie Your opinion, that the féreigher ean ob= o low, fhat o1 thin wax with bettet advintage from our pla= ce than from Hambré 1o fye pérfectly coincides w}th experience, probbly gy bes If in this trade the difference on a divi- nofr 0 fion x) be of no gréat fignification, yet ne- ette!; verthelefs in cipital orders it deférves y) being ve that noticed; and the more as it, dirééts itfelf ac e w) Die Z\Veifiualige Hinweglafihng des Artikels ¢ vor dem Wort invoice, und vor fame ift hier mehr eine vom Converfations-Stil hergenom= mene Freiheit, als dafs fie fich auf eine gramma- x) be, das Prefens tikalifche Regel griindete, r mi]fflfll Subjunétivi, von fo be. Man fagt nehmlich entweder I may be, thon mayft be , und fo r 1s the ferner , oder fratt deffen I be, thou be, he be, '~ Es kommt zwar eben js oUf we be, you be , they be. die Art zu canjugiren auc h zuweilen im Proe= , prejie {enti Indic. von to e vor, allein diefe ift ver. e made altet und keineswegs nachzuahmen, y) Das Participium ftatt dem Infinitiv 0, eine Conftrii- AN &tion , die nicht oft vorkommt, indem der in= 2 ot finitivus in diefen Fillen {chiklicher ift, 1 Uper M - 178 Lettevs, cording to the fmall or gréat importation, and fen caufes alterations in the piirchafe prices, which bou are more or lefs Welghty, in proportxon to of ! the circumiftances, buf yel Anéther foundation which is almdft to be z) re lied on, blafes the advantage- ihll more e to our fide, up el By virtue of the engigements which the peri neighbouring Péland is accuftomed to enter- Wan tain with Breslaw, the moft fruitful prbévin- ferye ces of that exténfive kingdom, render us their prédutts ; améng which wax is the moft confiderable, Podolia and the Ukrain ligh are famous in this, T'he bléachers find their Pl bénefit in it and the Hamburghers themfel- Wi ves give us ‘from time to time commiffions ch therein; whereby it is véry plain that they 01 prefér our wax to what comes to their own el market , thro’ the baltic, n; fto The trade in polifh prodhétions is conféf- fedly in the hands of Jews. Thofe péople - Z) to rely on fometing , fich auf etwas ver= lafien, Auch im Paffivo wird dies Vetrbum mit W diefer Przepofitlon confcrulrt ; wovon hier el Vi Beifpiel ift, de il Letters. 179 1, a1d fend us wax hither ; and’ from them it is which bought for réady méney through the hands don o of a Jew broker, Now it is the mérchant’s forts, mn bufinefs, to f{éparate ‘the different yellow, middle and high red; to divide the ft to be ufeful from the ufelefs and refufe, and pack il more up Only the firft for his friends. This bufi- nefs fuppofes a kndbwledge , founded on ex- ich the périence, “We hope a) proving, that b) we are enfer- wanting néither in prittice not defign, to tovine ferve out friénds in the beft way. der 1S 1] s the To make our future accounts mote ’intéi- ligible, than they would be without an ex- Tiraice 4 thei planition, we muft inform you that our weight differs from that of Hémburgh, They Yo charge you for the wax per pound; but we qifions at e on the cc’)ntrar‘y are acciftomed to b‘uy and fell it by the ftone, Five ftone and a half i OW! make one hundred wéight at 132 1B, ¢ach {tone c‘onthining 24 of our pdunds, onfél- e péopfe / a) Wiederum das Partic,. ftatt des Infinitivi, wie Notay, nur dafs hier das Verbum in Actis g yers b) we are — m fl}lf vo und dort im Paflivo fteht. ol defion, dafs es uns weder an Erfahrong n ¢ y - pch an Einfichten fehlt, 12 180 Letters, Our books are kept in rixdollars, (filver grofhes and deniers One rixdollar contains thirty filver grofhes, and one filver grofh twelve deniers. Our courfes of exchange are réckoned in bank pounds, grofhes and deniers; K but they are as évery where elfe, {abjett to changes, Three livres and three quarters tour- nois may be on an c) average, réckoned as one of our dollars; or which is all one, 16l eight filver grofhes, as value one livre, If ther you would fpare tédious calculations, and ouy prefér footing on a cértain ‘to an uncértain 400 | one, we Offer to take éight filver grofhes for Teqn one livre as a d) ftindard and’' to manage e our acceunts in future concérns accordingly, L This is what we have to reply to your efteemed of — — which will probably be fufficient for your information, We conclude with the affurance of béing | with the moft particular refpét. Yours, Be [ et fo 4 ¢) average, heift hier gleicke odcr verhiltnifs- mifige Vertheilung. d) flandard, Maasftab, hier eine angenommene Munze nach der man rechnet, i ST, &?ffl"o 185 ) {llver ntaing - Séquel to the formgr. gtofhy | to Berlin, Breslaw. e ot We have fhipped here yefterday by céptain Jeniers; Kofchel 1. Cafk mirked and nimbered as per hjet 0 margin; — — freight free. 15 foure oned Pléafe to fee them well recéived, and, Il oney reimbirfing the ciptain his juft expénces, fur- e I ther them withdut lofs of time for our ac- J and count to M{lrs — ~= = in Hambro’ on whom cbrtain you can draw for your e) disburfements the- 168 for reén. We beg advice of what pafles and ha- ve the h6nour to be nnagt ingly) A continuition of the fame corre- to }’Oflf {pondence, ably to Hambfirgh. | Breslaw. { being We have fent off a few dags agd to Mr in Berlin one cafk of wax, mirked and niim- bered as per margin, with Orders diréétly to forward it to you, with account of its dis- é‘ltniés- gasfiab’ @) disburfement Erhblung, (ein kaufminni- fcher Terminus). 182 Lettevs, birfements, Pléafe duly to recéive fame, and yefte obférve therewith the further Orders of Meflrs ink in Orleans, We doubt not but {aid friends in for will have préperly infiricted you, in what concérns the blifinefs in guéftion, and credited To us with you for amount, In this expetti- per for tion, we have this day drawn upbdn you for L. 820 banco at 14% Sch, banco, at five - "weeks , to' the 6rder of Mr — = We promife ourfelves a ré’ady accéptance of this draught, and pray you f) to fettle about Pl it with faid gentlemen in Orleans, bmg\ We fubfcribe with the moft particular "re,-e fpéct el Further Correfpéndence theredn, pof to Orleans, mn Bres!aw. byi We refér to dur laft, and inclofe you invoi- apc ce ‘of i) f 1, Cafk of wax, with mark and nimber We | as per margin, which we fent the day before 0} f) ‘to fettle about it - gmé[emm , lich mit den befagten Herrn dariiber zu verftehen, Aber- g) mals eine Ka ufminnifche eigen§ Art zu f?}fes bep chen, €1n ,sfln«, . Lettevs, ' 183 e, and yefterday by the way of Betlin, to Meflrs, — — Mefls in Hamburgh for your further order. Pléafe fiiends in conformity to faid invoice, to ‘erédit us for rixdollars 1076-7 - 6 priffian ciarrency, ] what ordlifed To ]iquidate this drticle, we draw this day xpeEti- per cqntra,k up6n faid friénds in Hamburgh, ol for for your account at 13i3 per Cent. q five L. 820 Banco at 413 Sch, P or, Rixd. 708, 46, Sch, Hamb, banco, at 5 tanve»(?f ) shout weéeks., Pléafe to acquiint faid géntlemen in Ham- burgh therewith, and by fréquen\tr commiffions lar g prefént us occafion to redpen your account, In our laft we forgét to anfwer your pro- ot pofal about faffron. But as we have no tréffic in this article we are not able to g) bénefit by your oOrders, We will howéver h) make a point of doing évery thing poffible, to pro- in\(oi‘. mote your intereft therein, For this purpofe we have moft firénuously recomménded your fimbet > houfe, to one of our frignds Mr, - - in - - - L 4 pefore it den g) to}benefit by your orders, fl;re Auftriige zu Abete benuzen., h) make a point, fich Muhe geben, e einen Verfuch mac“‘nven_, e 184 Letters. We probably he will apply to you in future, with orders of this fort. We wifh it the more, per 0C( as he is a man with whom you can carry on the moft confiderable correfpbéndence, wi- we will let no thout rifk, To conclude, opportinity f{lip of téftifying how entirely we are Yours, [ to Breslaw. Hamburgh libe bear In reply to yours of — — —, we will take fuch timely care of the one cafk of wax, i) you Cm have Ordered us thro’ Berlin and comply with the diréétions of Mfi'rs. — — — In Orleans fhe i concérning it, th The L. 820, at 413 Sch, Banco drawn on us, will préfit due hénour when prefénteds but as we have from faid correfpbndents no particular Orders about this yet, the accéptan- ce will énly be for your, the drawer’s account, ¥l and we will fo long reférve your guarantde, till thofe friends {hall farther authorize us, — k\ i) das fie uns uiber Betlin fpedirt haben, i =, Letters, 185 , Wil We k) doubt not, but this will fhortly hap- > More, pen. Priying you to fivour us with your occafional commiffions, we are totally, ) caty 08y Wi Yours, | Jet no enttly A letter of recommendaition for a mérchant Leipfig, Iflatter myfelf, you will take kindly this | liberty of making you acquainted with the béarer Mr N — — He- traffics confiderably in 1l take fuch articles as you manufiéture; and his cir- ) o cumftances are fo fituated, that you can wia thout feriple indertake commiffions from him, yvi Otleans I rank him améng the niimber of my wbr— thxefc friends, gy 01 Pray endéavour to make his ftay améng fEnted! you, as agréeable as poffible, nts 10 You will find him a man of more than ceptafl coOmmon mérit, and wérthy your cdnfidence, ooduth T have the hoénour to be, ranteds e SR PSS ST 76 U k) auf das Verbum to doubt folgt immer die Con- gun&mn but, 186 vinTie aovier ] sk $)ass put {elef Of the ndture of the tirkifh gévern. litic: ment, and of the grand fignior’s 9 ,I »pro‘cfiéfiiqn to the mofqg«?. Ne The gc’:vernrfient here is intirely in the hands ,an The grand fignior, with all of the army, hor his 4bfolute power is as much a flave as 4ny fi of his ffibjets, and trémbles at a janizaries €0 b frown. Here is indéed a much gréater appea- with rance of {bjection than amongft us, A mi- filtan nifter of ftate is not {poke* to but upén the ted o knee, Should a refléétion on his cénduct be \ and ‘dropt in a coffechoufe, (for they have fpies “You évery where) the houfe would be razed to mof 1o the gr6u11d, and» Per héps the whole company oy ) R,eifebefchreibungen, Sie find zwar auéh ther aus Briefen genommen , allein da bei denfelben die Form des Briefes und tiberhaupt griftentheils that der Briefftyl nicht beobachtet ift, fondern blos erzihlt wird; = {o verdienen fie als eine eigene it to Gattung des Styls bebandelt zu werden, ~1In der Befchreibung des Bergs Aetna insbefondere, nift die weiter unten vorkommen wird, “herricht ganz der eigene aber fehr {chone Stil eines er- zfihlenden Reifenden, ’ an| A Travels. 187 put to the térture, No hiizzaing mobs , {én- felefs pamphlets and tivern ’difphtes about po- Vel e litics, - i s s» A confequéntial ill that fréedom draws: ,.,A bad efféét, but from a noble caufe. None of our harmlefs chlling names! but when o fands a minifter here difpléafes the people, in thrée ith il hours time he is drigged éven from his ma- 2 1y fters arms, ‘They cut off his hands héad and pizales féet, and threw them before the pilace gite e+ with all the refpéét in the world; while the A e filtan (to whom they all proféfs an unlimi- ted adorition) fits trémbling in his apartment dut be and dares ncither defénd nor avénge his fa- vourite, ve fpls This is the bléfled condition of the 7ed 10 moft 4bfolute ménarch upon ¢arth, who owns mpany rno law but‘his will, I cfinfiot he]p‘ within in the léyalty of my héart, that the parliament would fent hi- auch ther a fhip load of our piffive obédient men, elben that they might fee drbitrary gévernment in thells its cléareft and firbngeft light, where it is hard 1 blos epe to jhdge, whéther the prince, péople or mi- :igl in nifters, are moft miferable, 1deres it 1 went yéfterday along wi)th the french 5 o .ambfifi'adrefs; to fee the grand fignior in his Travels. 188 £ g ?pfifl”age to the mofque, He wasd precéded by coff with vaft {ily a numerous guard of janizaries, white féathers on their héads, as alfo by the foot and horfe guards, and the rOyal garde- VA ners, who are a very confiderable body of Tan men, dréffed in different habits of fine lively re célours, fo that at a diftance they appeared the like a parterre of tulips. After them the aga et of the janizaries, in a robe of purple vélvet, appe 1) lined with filver tifflue, his horfe led by forty two flaves richly dréffed. Next to him the count chié¢f guirdian of the frrag/lio - /adjes in a déep He b yéllow cloth (which fited very well to his kwe? black face lined with m) fables. Laft of all Rt came his {ublimity himfelf, arrayed in green, thy lined with the n) fur of a black mufcovite fox, which is fuppofed worth a thoufand pounds fterling, and mounted on a flne horfe with furniture embroidered with jéwels, Six more horfes gichly o) capirifoned were led after him, and two of his principal courtiers l W bore, one his gold, and the éther his filver n L] 1) lined with filver ti[fi;e, mit Silbef-Stoff be- {ezt, m) /fable, Zobelpelz. n) fur, ein Pelz, p) an n) ¢o caparifon, mit einer Schabracke belegen. { o 189 vael_:; cided by ééfi‘ee-pot on a p) ftaff, Anéther cirried a filver ftool on his héad for him to {it on, ith val 1t would be too tédious te, defcribe fhe ) by the ] gude- vérious drefles and tarbans, by which theie by of rank is diftinguifhed; but they were all ex- e ey trémely rich and gay, to the number of fome ' aypéafed thoufands; fo that perhaps there cannot be e ogt {éen a more beautiful procéffion, ‘The fGltan p Véh’eb appéared to us a hindfome man of about Jed by forty, with {6mething howéver fevére in his him the countenance,, and his eyes were full and black, 1 4 d‘eep He héppened to ftop tGinder the window where ] to li we ftood, and (I fuppdfe being told who we && Of 3‘] wére) 1doked upén us véry atténtively, fo that we had full léifure to confider him, in gréefl; ilorie Lady Montague. it Of the pérfons and manners of the e i 'CIS' Six tarkifh ladies, ol In this céuntry it is furprifing to fee a'young wdman that is not véry handfome, They have i naturally the moft beautiful compléxion in the world and génerally black eyes, I can with off e p) flaff, der weife Stab eines kiniglichen Be. i Pelz amten oder Mar{challs, pelege 7i ravelf. 100 gréat trutli afi'ért\;‘ that the court of /Engllz‘i“nd', led (though 1 believe it the faireft’ in Chriften- dom) does not conthin fo miny beauties as el m are Gnder our protétion here, They génerally 18 Thave ftheir eyebrows, and ‘both Greeks and lit Turks have the ciftom of pltting round theit /eylés a black tinCture, that at a diftance, or by candle light, adds véry much to the black- or ot nefs of them, I fincy miny of our ladies would be overjoyed to know this fécret; but and their it is too vifible by day. They dye their nails a q) rofe célour; but I own 1 cannot en()ugh OR! sae whal accaftom myfelf to this fifhion to find .z’my beauty in it. 1§ ¢ 1l Their hiir hangs at its fuil length behind, 10 divided into tréffes, r) braided with péarl or ¢ I ibbon, which is ilways in gréat quantity. {0 néver faw in my life fo miny fine héads of fo hiir. In one lady’s T have counted one htnd- red and ten of the tréffes all natural, but it muft be owned, that évery kind of bealty is Car more cémmon here than with us. g ) by Q) Hier‘ it die Praepc)fition with hinweggelaflen, welches in diefer Verbindung ofters zu gelches Y) lin hen pflegt‘ 1) to braid, flechten, B o Twzvelfi nglénd, The héad 'drefs is compdfed of cap cals which is in winter of fine vél- hriften led talpock, vet embroidered with péarls of diamonds, and tes 25 faenlly in {Gmmer of alight fhining filver ftuff. This is fixed on one fide of the héad, hinging a dhs 0 nd tht little wdy down, with a gold s) tiffel, and bound on éither fide with a circle of diamonds, nee, O e Dlicke or a rich embroidered hz’mdkerchief. On the Other fide of the héad the hair is Iiid flats it lidis and here the ladies are at liberty to fhow t; bl i nails their fincies, fome pitting flowers, 6thers a t) Aph'lme of u) héron’s féathers, and in fhort, m{)\l'?}'\ md '&fly what they plé(afe,; but the moft géneral fafhion is a large bouquet of jéwels, made like nitu- ral flowers, that is the v) buds of péarl, the 1 be}u'nd; rofes of different cOlour'd rlbies, the jéffami- péafl o nes of diamonds, and the jonquils of topizes, fo well fet and w) enimelled that it is hard il ! héflds 0{ to imé4gine iny thing of the kind fo bealitiful, g hin bt it As to their morality or good cOnduét, I ity can fay like Ha;'lequin, that it is juft as it is o5 " et 8) mflki, eine Schnur. t) plume, ein Feder- bufch, u) herons feathers , - Reigerfedern, ol v) buds, die Knofpen, w) enamelled , email- eloe* lirt s mit Schmelzwerk geziert, €92 Travels. with yéu; 'afié the tarkifh adies don’t comis dow mit one fin the lefs x) for not being Chri- Iy ftians, Now that T am a little acquainted wh Thi with theit ways, y) I cinrot forbéar admi- ring éither the éxemplary difcrétion, or exs fin tréme ftupidity of all the writers that have 10 given accounts of them, It is véry éafy to is fee, they have in réality more liberty, than filk, we have. No woman of what rank fo éver this z) is permitted to go into the ftreets without tiftn two marlins, one that cévers her face, all It is a) but their eyes, and anOther that hides the to kr whole drefs of her héad, and hangs half way nn down fhre i s x) for: ;wt bei ng Chriftians, weil fie keine tir Chriften find, Wieder eine Participial-Conftru- &ion, um eine Conjunétion zu vermeiden. th fe]« Die Prapofition for insbefondere, wird meiften~ theils mit dem Participio conftruirt. y) / can- an not forbear admiring . ich kann nicht umhin zu bewundern, Auf diefes Verbum und das Verbum fo help, wenn es eben die Bedeutung e hat, mufs immer das Participium folgen. z)is ‘Abermals eine b) ermitted, hat die Erlaubnifs, de Paffiv-Conftrution, auf welche ich fchon mehr- malen aufmerkfam gemacht habe, und die im 281 Deutfchen mit dem Attivo gegeben werden. () mufs, Da a; 2) but, ausgenommen, p— Travels. 193 t o by her bucks # Eheirsfhiped. atealle: whik y Chit ly concéaled by a thing they call a firigee, mininted which no woman of 4ny fort appéars withdut, 1 admis This has b) ftrait {léeves that reach to their of 6% fingers ends, and it c) laps all round them, b v In winter it not unlike a d) riding hood. -y is of clothy and in {Gmmer of pliin ftuff or g, {0 filk, You may guefs then how efféttually fo évet this disguifes them; {o that e) there is' no ithout diftingnifhing the gréat lady from her flave, ey fl” It is impOffible for the moft jéalous hisband des the to know his wife, when he meéts, and no If wey man dare touch or follow a woman in the down ftreet, — This perpétual méifquerade gives them en- fie kfl'fle tire ifberty of féllowing their inclinations wi= The gréat ladies (onfre thout danger of difcovery, e feldom let their gallants know, who they are: metfer ) [ oo and it is fo difficult to find it out, that they il hin und das jentung ¢ AL b) firait fleeves, enge Ermel, c¢) o lap, be- a]s eine deken, verbergen, d) riding hood, ein kur- zer weiblicher Mantel mit einer Kappe, e) theve e In is no diftinguifhing, es ift kein Unterfchied, et wer Das Participium Praefentis wird hier wieder fiyr das Subftantivum genommen, N 194 Tvavels. can véry féldom f) guefs at her name, whom afe they have correfponded with g) for above h) €X half a yeéar togéther, You may eafily imagi- ne, the nimber of faithful wives véry {mall JbY in a country, where they have néthing to th féar from a lover's indifcrétion, fince we fee, fo miny have the céurage to expofe them- f felves to that in this world, and all the thréa- fe tened plnifhment of the next, which is ne- ver preached to the turkifh damfels. Néither flot have they much to apprehénd from the refént- Wou ment of their husbands; thofe ladies that are ot tich hiving all the méney in their own hands, fRor Upén the whole T look upbdn the turkifh fee women as the Only' free péople in the em- it pire. The véry divan pays refpéét to them; and the Grand fignior himfelf when a Baffa is éxecuted, néver violates the privileges of the harem, or women’s apirtment, which remains unféarched and entire to the widow. They th £) to guefs at [omething , etwas errathen, g) Die Prep. for, wird thl im Deutfchen gar nicht ausgedritkt; im Englifchen aber pfleqt maun fie immer zu {ezen, wenn man wie hiet eine gewille Reihe von ZeitAbfizen anzeigen will, dureh welche eine Sache for tgedauert hat, -~ N S = - Zvavels. 195 whom are quéens of their {lives, whom the hl’lsfiand above h) has no permiffion fo much as to look upbn, imégie excépt it be an old woman or two that his y fuall lady chufes, 1t is true their law permits hing f0 them folr wives; but there is no inftance of we a man of quality that mikes Ufe of this liber- o them ty, or of a woman of rank that would fGf- e thrés- fer it, ) is 0ee Thus you fee the minners of minkind do Neithes not differ fo widely, as our voyage - writers pefént- would make us beliéve. Perhips it would be hat are more entertdining, to add a few firprifing ct- hands ftoms of’my own invéntion, but nothing ol feems to me f{o agreéable as truth and I be- he eme liéve noéthing fo accéptable to you, ) thern Lady Mo:_ntague. fafla - Of an entertiinment given by the of the ~ % mains Grand Vizier's lady, They At Adrianople I was invited to dine with — the Grand Viziér's | lady, and it was with a 0 g plet h) has wo kermz‘/]ion fo much as to look upon, ) I]i@f nicht einmal die Erlaubnifs hat anzufehen,” S pigel much, wenn eine Negation vorher geht und gs nachfolgt, wird mit zicht einmal iberfezt, ot 2 1 196 Travels. fin gréat deal of pléafure; I prepired myfelf fof an entertiinment, which was néver before gi= the fof ven to 4ny Chriftian, 1 thought, I fhould me very little fatisfy her curiéfity (which 1 did not doubt was a confiderable métive to the fri invitition) by going in a drefs; {he was Ufed 1y {u to fee, and therefore dréfled myfelf in the court-habit of Viénna, which is much more h bl magnificent than ours, Howéver, I chofe to ber go incognito to avdid dny difpltes about cé- remony, and went in a tirkifh coéach, attén- pénfi told ded Only by my woman, that held up my fpew i) train, and the gréek lady who was my ins térpretefs, tleg g 1 was met at the colirt door by het black 1t eunuch, who helped me out of the eoach {h with gréat refpéft, and condiéted me through de {éveral rooms, mwhere her k) fémale { IHVes? w0 - for am jl i) train, die Schleppe an einem Frauenzimmer- Kleid. k) female [laves, Sklavinnen, Eine Art das Geichlecht im Englifchen auszudriiken durch Hinzufezung eines Adjeétivi, Bisweilen dritkt man es durch Hinzufezung eines Subftan- tivi aus, zuweilen durch die Endung ¢fs oder ix, und endlich auch durch ein ganz andres. £, Fetade Sem=2 Wort, F Travels, 197 finely dréffed, were ringed on éach {ide. In If fo e the innermoft I found the lady fitting on her {houl fofa, in a {able veft. She advanced to méet me. and introduced me to haif a dozen of her b dd to the friends with gréat civility, She {éemed a ve- 1 was j 1 ry good woman, néar fifty years old {urprized to obférve fo little magnificence in o the h more her houfe the farniture béing all véry moéde- rate, and excépt the hibits and nGmber of hofe her {laves, noéthing about her appeared ex- out 6 atten pénfive, She guéflfed at my thoughts, and told me, fhe was no lénger of an age to )p my fpend éither her time or méney in {uperflui- ny ties; that her whole expénce was in charity and her whole employment priying to god f b aCk I'here was no affeCthtion in this {péech, Both fhe and her hisband are entirely given up to o el devotion, He néver looks vpon any Gther hrolg) {lavesy woman and what is much more extraérdinary, touches no 1) bribes, notwithftanding the ex- ample of all his predecéffors, He is {o feru- m) he would not ac- pulous on this point jmer e—_ Fine iken D) bribes, Befiechungen, m) Hier ift die Con- /ellen junétion that hinweggelaflen, welche im Eng- frap: lifchen iiberhaupt forgfaltig vermieden, und bald odes durch ein Participium, bald gar nicht ausgedriikt ndres wird, 198 Travels. cépt Mr. W—s préfent ,‘ till he had been af- fou {fured Over and oOver, that it was a f{éttled hay pérquifite of his place at the éntrance of évery we ambaflador. She entertiined me with all kind eat of civility till dinner came in, which was f{ér- ha ved one difh at a time, to a vaft nimber, Vi all finely dréffed fter their manner, which I Wi do not think fo bad, as it h’as fometimes been ma reprefénted, ~ med tbis | I am a véry good jidge of their eating having lived three weeks in the houfe of an Play | ouiar Efféndi at Belgrad, who gave us véry. magni- ficent dinners dréflfed by his own cooks, The me { 0 ( firt week they pleafed me extrémely; but I own 1 then begin to grow weary of their it R thn Jeay table, ‘and defired our own cook might add a difh or two after our own manner, But [ attribute this to ciftom, and am véry much inclined to beli¢ve, that an Indian zvho had néver tafted of éither, would prefér their coo- kery to ours, Their fauces are véry high, and all the roaft n) véry much done - They The ufe a gréat deal of véry rich o) fpice, L D) dag Dsg >n) very much done ]m; , fehr gut au..sgebravten.~ 0) [pi= pile €e, Gewiirzt fe Trvavels, 199 eet ol foup is férved for the laft difh, ‘and they fettled have at léaft as gréat a varie_:ty of ragouts as f tvery we have, I was véry férry, 1 could not al Kind ¢éat of as mény, as the good lady p) would s fite have had me, who was véry éarneft, in fér- n{miet ving me of évery thing. The tréat concluded ohih | with coffee and perfumes, which is a high two flaves knéeling perfu- mes beel mark of refpéét; med my hair, clothes and hindkerchief, After this céremony fhe commanded her {laves to - gitng play and dance, which they did with their s of 0 guitars in their hands; and fhe excufed to V(magfli' me their want of {kill, f{aying fhe q) took 5, T I re- no care to accomplifh them in that art, hut | of thel tirned her thanks and {oon fif'tgr took my léave, 1gh£ il Lady Montague, it | y i ‘,}ho hfid ir cot / high, They The p) wounld -'n'ze, Der Accfif. cum Inflhitivé, das Verbum ift aber hinweggelaflen. q) took, Das Imperf. Ind, das im Deutfchen mit dem Imperf, Conjunét, gegeben werden mufs, Sonft o pflegt man es im Englifchen mit dem Imper- fecto von to do auszudriiken, 200 vael:. b A viéw of the ftars and rifing fun from mount Aetna, W The afcént for {ome time was not i’réep; and as the furface of the fnow funk a little, we \l had tblerable good fdoting 5 but as it foon be~ gin to grow ftéeper, we found Our labour gréatly incréafe, Howéver we detérmined to perfevére, calling to mind in the midft of dur libour, that the émperor Adrian, and the‘p'hi-. J 16fopher Plato had undergéne the fame; and {il from the fame mobtive too, to fee the rifing At fun from the top of Aetna, After incrédible W labour and fatigue, but at the fame time mi- -\ 4 xed with a gréat deéal of pléafure, we arrived i befc‘)f'e dawn at the rlins of an ancient ftri- ture, called il torre del filofofo, fuppodfed to have been built by the phil6fopher Empedo- cles, who tock up his habitation here, the better to ftady the nature of mount Aetna, By 6thers it is {fuppofed to be the riins of a temple of Vulcan, whofe fhop, r) all the world knows, (where he.tufed to make éx- cellent thunderbolts a’nd celéftial armour, as ) i—lier ift die Conjunétion as hinweggelaflen, Travels, 201 fun well as nets to catch his wife, when f{he went aftriy 5 was éver kept in mount Aetna. Here we réfted ourfelves for fome time, and p; ond made a frefh application to our liqueur bottles le, we which I am perfuaded both Vulcan and Empedo- 00n bee cles, had they been here, would have gréatly r Jabout s) approved of, 4fter fuch a march, nined 10 of out 1 found the mércury had fillen to 20. 6. he pi We had ndw time to pay our adoritions in a filent cbntemplition of the fublime ébjeéts of e n natutre. The {ky was cléar, and the immeénfe o g redible vhult of the héavens appeared in awful mi- We found ourfelves more me jefty and fpléndour. ftruck with admiration than below, and at arived firft were at a lofs to know the caufe; till ot fiffi we obf{érved with afténifhment, that the niim- ;bfed 0 (e ber of ftars feemed to be infinitely incréafed and the light of éach of them appéared brigh- :J:j pei ter than ufual. The whitenefs of the milky }a. ; of 8 way was like a pure flame that fhot acréfs 3]1 the the héavens; and with the niked eye we could obférve clifters of ftars that were invifible in e &5 # the régions below, We did not at firfy at- , 8) to approve of a thing, etwas b.flligen, Jifens 202 Travels, - ténd to the ciufe, nor recollétt that we had 18 now piflfed through ten or twelve thoufand ly a féeet of grofs vapour, that blunts and confu- fes évery ray, before it reaches the firface of the éarth, We were amazed at the diftinct- nefs of vifion and excliimed togéther, what a olorious fituation for an obférvatory! Had Empedocles bad the eyes of Galileo, what !'f; difcOHveries muft he not have made We re- Cl grétted that Jupiter was not vifible, as I am mo perfuided, we might have difcévered fome of had or at léaft his fatelhtes with the niked eye, ted with a fmall g glafs, which I had in my pécket, S We obferved a light a gréat way below us of on the mountain , which {éemed to move i amo6ngft the forefts, but whether an ignis fa- tuus, or what it was, 1 {hall not preténd to fay We likewife took ndtice of {éveral of thofe méteors called falling ftars, which ftill appeared as much élevated abéve us, as when {¢en from the plain; fo that in all probability, thofe bodies move in régions much beyénd | the bounds, that f{ome philéfophers have af- {figned to our atmofphére. After contemplating thefe Objets for fome time, we fet.off and foon after arrived at the foot of the gréat ¢rater of the mountain, This 203 \ Tyravels. had is of an exAét conical figure, and rifes equal- fand ly on all {ides, It is'comefed {Olely of 4f hes nf- and Other burnt matérials, difcharged from the mouth of the volcano, which is in its center, e of tindt- This cdnical mduntain is of a gréat {ize. Its wht circumference cinnot be lefs than then miles, Heére we toock a {écond reft, as the gréareft Had what part of dur fatigue flill remained, The mér- cury had fillen to 20. 43 We found this o 1 [ am mountain * excéllively fteep ; and although it had appéared black, yet it was likewife cove- o of aft red with fnoow, but the furface (luckily for ?keto us) was fpréad over with a prétty thick layer of 4fhes, thrown out from the crater. Had y U nove it not béen for this, we néver {hould have g foe been able to get to the top, as the fnow was évery whére frozen hard and {6lid from the id 10 ol of pidreing cold of the éi‘r. il rhen In abdut an héurs climbing we arrived at a place where there was no fnow, and where llty1 énd a warm and comfortable vipour iffued from g the mountain , which induced us to make ang- ther halt, Hére I found the. méreury at (9, 63 The thermometer was fallen three degrées me below the “point of copgelation; and before the we left the fiimmit of Aetna it fell two degrées his | Tvavels. 204 more, viz to27. From this fpot it was énly he abc‘mtathgée hindred yards to the highefc {fims« m mit of the mountain, where we atrived in full time to fee the moft wbnderful‘and moft % fublime fight in nature, lef But here defeription muft éver fall fhott, for no imaginition has dired to torm fo glo- gi rious an idéa of fo glorious and fo magnifi- dir cent a {céne, Néither is there on the ftrface ning of this globe 4ny one pdint, that unites fo fepar miany 4dwful and fublime ébjeéts, — The im- ‘ménfe elevation from the {Grface of the éarth, the { 0y drawn ‘as it were to a fingle point, without fron any néighbouring for the {énfes and imagina- fhe tion to reft upén, and recéver from their N afténifhment in their way déwn to the wotld, fi This point or t) pinnacle, raifed on the brink en of a bottomlefs gulph as old as the world, €X 6ften difcharging rivers of fire, and throwing th out blrning rocks, with a ndife that {hikes his the whole island. .Add to this the unbounded Al extént of the p1‘6fpeét, comprehénding the o gréateft divérlity, and the moft beaiitiful fcé- vr\} e t) pinnacle, die S pize, Zinne, der Gipfel eines Gebaudes, D h; fl(twlf ® 205 ) on}y nery in niture, with the rifing fun adviancing {oms in the éaft, to illiminate the wbndrous {cene, ed 0 The whole itmofphere by degrées kindled § of up, and {howed dimly and faintly the bound- lefs profpeét around Both fea \and land (ho 1ooked dark and confufed as if only emeér- g ging from their original chaos, and light and darknefs féemed ftill undivided till the mor- gl fi firface ning by degrées advéncing, completed the ) feparation, The ftars are extinguifhed and o 111 the fhades disappear, The fOrefts, which but alth, ndw féemed black and béttomlefs gulphs, thov from whence no ray was reflétted to {how a;}ma their form or coélours, appear a new crestion & rifing to the fight catching life and beauty The {céne ftill wOf]flt from évery increafing beam, ) br J]k enlirges, and the horizon {eems to widen and expand itfelf on all fides; till the fun like QoG the gréat creator appears in the eaft, and with, hikes his u) pnfi.lc rhy completes the nughty {cene, \I]flded All appéars enchintment, and it is with diffi. g e culty we can belicve we are ftill on éarth, The fénfes unacciftomed to the fublimity of ] fee \ s - eints u) ;nlfl/hc, bildend, pla/hck, Subft, die Bild= hauerkunft,” Travels, 200 fuch a {céne, 4re bewildered and confounded to and it is not till After fome time, that they are cipable of féparating and jhdging of the Cl tt 6bjets that compofe it, — ‘The bbdy of the fun is féen rifing from the 6cean, imménfe i the tracks both of {éa and land intervening; islands of Lipari, Panari, Alicudi, Strombolo t and Volcano, with their fmoking {Gmmits, a8 appéar tinder your feet; and you look down 18l on the whole of Sicily as on a map, and can of trace évery river through all its windings The viéw is thoy from its fource to 1its mouth if y abfolutely ~boundlefs on évery {ide; nor is Wo there any one G&bjett within the circle of Vi vifion to interrdpt it; fo that the fight is I gvery whére loft in the imménfity : and I am be perfuaded it is 6nly from the imperféttion of that the coOafts of Africa, and th our organs, dven of Greéece are not difcévered, as they are cértainly abéve the horizon, The cir- I8 cumferenc o of the vifible on the top of Aetna, St cannot be lefs than 2000 miles. At Malta 1t which is néar 200 miles diftant, they percéive 1 all the ertiptions from the fécond région, and ty that 1sland is 6ften difcOvered from about one half the elevation of the mountain; fo that at the whole elevition , the hérizon muft exténd ) v, Tvavels, 207 nded; to néar double that diftance, or 4oo miles, they which makes oo for the diameter of the f the circle, and 2400 for the circimference, But of the this is by much too vaft for dur fénfes, not ménle inténded to grafp fo boundlefs a fcene, g the I find indéed by fome of the Sicilian au- ombolo immitsy thors, particularly Mafia, that the 4frican coaft as well as that of Naples, with miny of its - down islands, have been difcOvered from the top nd cat of Aetna, Of this howéver we cinnot boaft, ndings though we can véry well beliéve it, Indéed e 1§ not 18 if we knew the héighth of tie mountain, it would be éafy to calculate the extént of its e of vifible hérizon; and vice verfa, if its vifible 13 It hérizon were exitly afcerthined, it would 1d an be an éaly matter to calculate te heéights of o o the mountain, 1y flfld s they But the moft beautiful part of the fcéne he ¢ is cértainly the mountain itfelf; the island of Sicily and the numerous islands lying round Aetndy Malta it. All thefe by a kind of mégic vifion, that 1 am'at a lofs v) to account for, feem as if they were brought cidfe round the w) { kirFs 1, flfid it 0 £t o V) to account for [omething, etwas erklaren, 24 efld w) [kirt, das auiferfte, die Granze, Travels. 208 of Aetna, the diftances appéafing tedliced to i) né6thing, Perhéps this fingular efféét is pro= pof diiced by the'rays of light palling from a ra- mo rer medium into a denfer, which x) from a Va well known law in 6pticks.) to an obférver in the rare medium, appéars to lift up the Ob- iefts that are at the bittom of the denfe one, de W as a piéce of moOney pliced in a bafon appéars be lifted up as foon as the bafon is filled with tain water, nof The regione deferta or the frigid zdne of 0 Teq Aetna, is the firfk ébject that calls our attén- It i tion, It is mirked out by a circle of fnow L which exténds on all {ides to the and ive, by In the cénter diftance of about eight miles, July of this circle, the gréat crater of the moun- fere tain réars its blrning héad; and the régions i) of inténfe héat, féem for éver to be united €X( in the fame point. On the north fide of the tne fnowy région, they affute us, there are fé- ted veral fmall lakes, that 4re néver thiwed; and fand; that in miny plices, the inow mixed with 0fp< the af hes and falts of the mountain, is accls ot mula= Dy Lo + x) from’ fteht hi?l‘ fir according to, tire i Tvavels. ‘ 209 oed 1 mulated to a vaft depth, And indéed T fup- s ptos pofe, the quart ty of falts contiined in this 4 4. mountain, is one gréat réafon of the prefer: from wvaticn Qf its {hows, obfervet The vegione ‘dgfygrm 1s immédiately fuccée- the 0 ded by the Julvofa or the woody region, nfe ong which forms a circle or girdle of the moft appeas beautiful gréen, which furrdunds the mdun- o Wi tain on all Tides and is cértainly one of the moft delightful fpots on éarth, This prefénts e of a remarkable contrift with the défert région, qttene It is not fmooth and éven like the gréateft of fnow part of the latter; but it is finely variegited by an infinite nimber of thofe beattiful little o CE0eS mountains that have been formed by the dif- ferent ertGptions of Aetna, All thefe have i Mo now acquired 2 wadnderful degrée of fertility, excépt a véry few, that are but néwly for= be mfited jo of e med; that is, within théfe five or fix hiind- red years; for it cértainly requires fome thou- fp 16 f- fands to bring them to their gréateft degrée wed ; ol of perf’é&ion,’ We looked down into the cra< ol i ters of théfe and attémpted but in viin to f el nimber them, 5\ ke The circiimference of this zone ot gré_af circle of Aetna is not lefs than féventy or ] o 210 Travels gighty miles, It is évery whete fuccceded by f1vi the vineyards, 6rchards, and corn- fields that Cho compofe the regione culta or the fertile région, wi This laft zone is much broader than the éthers, 1e and exténds on ull fides to the foot of the mountain, Its whole circlimference according 11 to Recupero is 183 miles, It is likewife cé= A vered with a nimber of little conical and fr i‘phmcal mountains and exhibits a woénderful By variety of forms and cOlours and mikes a de- time hghtful contraft wu:h the two Other régions, of A 1t is bounded by the féa to the fouth and fouth eafi and on all its 6ther {ides by the tiver Semetus and Alcantara, which run al- The whole courfe of thefe tig moft round it 16l rivers is leen at once, and all their beantiful of windings through théfe fértile valleys y) 160- Ul ked upon as the fivourite pofléffion of Ceres hetfelf, and the Very fecene of the rape of her daughter Proferpine, 0 Caft your eyes a little farther and you embrace the whole island and fee all its cities, 14 0 e L t y) Das Verbum fo /ook erd {fo wohl iwm Aéti- vo als im Paflivo immer mit der Praepofition sspon conftroirt, z\ Travels. 21¢t ded by rivers and mountains, delineated in the great ds thab chart of nature: all the adjacefit islands, the Teglon; Gthers, whole coaft of Italy, as far as your éye can réach for it is no where bounded, but évery ; of the On the fun’s firft where loft in the fpace, 000t rifing , the fhidow of the moduntain exténds wile 00 acrofs the whole island and makes a large yeal 1 track vifible éven in the {féa and in the air, dnderfl By degrées this is {hértened, and in a little 65 2 time is confined Only to the neighbourhood ¢ 01§ of Aetna, i aod by the We now had time to eximine a fourth fun & région of this wonderful mountain véry diffe- f thel rent indéed from the Others’ and produ&lve of wvery different fenfitions; but which has el undoubtedly given béing to all the teft; I e méan the région of fire, of (e sofhe The préfent crater of this imménfe Volca= no is a circle of about three miles and a half in circamference. It goes z) Thélving down j you citiesy on ach fide, and forms a régular héllow like a vaft amphitheatre, From mény plices of — thxs fpace, iffue vélumes of fu:phureous fmoo- Al )fi 08 %) [helving , abhangig, B 03 =N 2123 ?mvei&. of ke, which béing much héavier than the cirs cumambient air, inftéad of rifing in it, a8 ce ifs fmoke génerally does immédiately on its get- Va ting out of the crater, rolls down the fide of the mountain like a torrent till céming n 'l to that part of the atmofphere of the fame di {pecific gravity with itfelf, it fhodts off ho- rizbntally , and forms a large tralt in the air, according to the diréction of the wind; which €X] Loy bappily for us cérried it exdétly to the fide éppofite to that where we were placed it forr #r The crater is fo hot, that it is véry dan- gerous if not impéifible to go down ihto its befldes the fmoke is véry incommodious and o there in many places the farface is fo foft, B have been inftances of péople finking down b in it and paying for their temérity with their {! lives, Neéar the cénter of the crater is the b gréat mouth of the Polcano ; that treméndous gulph fo célebrated in all 4ges looked upOn as 18 the térror and fcourge both of this and an6= all ther life and équally ufeful to ancient poets, th when the mufe or or to moédern divines ] when the {pirit infpires We behéld it with W twe and with hérror, and were not furprized that it had been confidered as the place of the damned When we refléCt on the imméniity Travels, 213 e i of its depth, the vaft cells and civerns, when- ce fo miny lavas have iffued; the force of £, o S gete its intérnal fire, to riife up thofe lavas to fo e fide vaft a héigth, to fupplrt them, as it were, and éven to force them. over the odming in the air, véry fammit of the crater, with all their e fame f hoe dréadful accémpaniments; the poiling of the the e aify matter, the {hakin fs] g of the mountain, yhich explofion of fliming rocks, etc.; we muft al- Iow . that the moft entbufiiftic imagination, 1 ide in the midit of all its térrors, hardly éver ! formed an idéa of a hell more dréadful. Y ite ito ity It was with a mixfure both of pléafqre 15 and and piin, that we quitted this Awful fcéne. there But the wind had arifen véry high, and clouds begin to ghther round the mountain. In a ; dovt h gl {hort time they formed like andther héaven gy the below us, and we were in hopes of féeing a thunder-ftorm Under our feet: a {cene that bndous is not uncémmon in thife ‘exilted régions, péfl 2 gno- and which I have alréady f{éen on the top of But the clouds were foon pbetS’ the high Alps, e Ot difpélled aghin by the force of the wind, and i We‘wefe difappbié‘ted in our expeltations, )riZEJr 1 had 6ften béen told of th\e gréat effélt o the nitf px‘odhceé by difcharging a gun on the tg»p of Travels, 214 high mduntains, I ‘tr‘xed it here, ‘when we were a good déal furprized to find, that in- ftéad of incréafing the found, it was almoft rediiced to nOthing, The report was not équal to that of a pocket piftol, We compa- red it to the ftroke of a ftick on a door: and furely it is confiftent with réafon, that the dr thinner the air is, the lefs its impréffion muft be on the ear; for in a vacuum there can be tio no noife, and the nearer the approach to a aj Citey vacuum, the impréffion muft always be the fmaller, Where thofe gréat effécts have been infir {han prodhced, it muft have been 4am6ngft a nlim- ber of mountains, where the found is rever. fing (oY berated from one to the ‘Other. g Brydone, T of ph Th by wh 1o 1) da i 215 1 We t in- Moéral Effa,ys.n Imp& not On éntrance into life and the cdéndué mpie of éarly manhood. qnd it the There Eféems to be a pecliliar propriety in, ad- dréffing. méral précepts to the rifing genera- ) muf tion, Befides that, like trivellers éntering on an be there are to 4 a journey, they want diréction; 7 circumftances, which render it prébable, that o the infirGétion will be more efficicious in youth, heen num than at a maturer périod. Long hébits of bua finefs or pléafure, and an indifcriminate inter- eyele courfe with mankind, Often fuperindiice a gréat degrée of infenfibility; and the'a) batte- red véteran at laft confiders the admonitions of the méralift as the vain babbling .of a {0- phift, and the declamition of a fchoolboy, The keen edge of méral percéption is blinted by long and reiterated collifion; and to him who has loft the finer fenfibilities, it is no lefs fffiitlefs to addréfs a'm(’wral difcourfe, than 2) battered wveteran, ein alter ausgedienter Sol- dat; {o batter, durch den Gebrauch abniizen, battered , {tumpf, - 16 Mardl Efiy&. to reprefént to the déaf the charms of mé- kin e lody, or to the blind the beauties of a picture, ten But vouth pofiéffes fenfibility in perfé&tion; aft and unléfs education has been totallv neglé. W Cted , or erroneuusly purfiied its hibits are Furnifhe with a nétural ufvally wvirtuous. fufceptibility , and free from acquired impédi- el ment the mind is then in the moft favourable g ftate for t/e admiffion of inftriaétion, and for gre léarning sow to live, e Wi I will then fuppofe a young man préfent. T who has pafled thrdough the forms of a liberal =8 education at fckool, and w/o is juft éntering on the ftage of life, to aft /Zis part accérding { to Ais own judgment, 1 will addre{'s him wit all the afféétion and imcenty of a pirent, in the following méinner, You have ‘violent piffions implinted in { you by naturc for the accomplifiment of her fi purpofes ; but conclude not as many jfave i done to their riin, that beciufe they are vio- lent they are”irrefiftible. I'he fame nature, which gave you paffions, gave you alfo réa- fon and a love of order. Rehglon idded to the light of nature and the experience of min- 1 217 Morval Effays, of mée kind has conclirred 1n eftibliffing it as an ceure, unquéftionable trith, that the irrégular.or in- témperate indalgence of the péifions is always (ction; atténded wits pain in fome mode or Otler, neglé which gréatly excéeds its pléafare, DS 418 nitunl Your péffions will be éafily reftrained from endrmous excefs, if you really wifh and 46- imptd ouable neftly endéavour. to reftrain them. But the and for greater part of young men ftidy to inflame their fury, and give them a degree of force, which they pofféfs not in a fitate of nature, refent, Tlhey run into temptition and defire not to iheral be delivered from évil They knowingly and ntering willingly facrifice to mowentary gratificitions edratng the comfort of all, whick {jould {wéeten the remainder of life, Begin then wits moft fin- ifs fim cérely wfl'hmg to' conquer thofe fibtle and parem, powerful énemies, whom you carry in your bofom. Pray for divine affiftance, Avodid ed 10 folitude the firft mément, a loofe thought in- finuates itfelf and /Zaften of I to the cémpany of thofe, whom you refpéct b) Convérfe not Jive Vi on fubjetts which léad to impure idéas, Ha- mtlll'e, *-—-—_.,____, ) 1 ed fo b) to converfe on fometlzmg. mit etwas um hen, fich mit etwas unterhalten, ge- mall* 218 Moral Effayts boa - ve céurage to decfl_;le réading imméral books, even when they fall into your hands, If, at wit to a proper age, you form a ftrong attic/ment It is i A to a virtuous wbdman, dare to mirry. better to be poor than wicked, Chérifli the thy ébjett of your éatly love, Be indGfttious and by truft in prévidence, t] Thus {fall you avdid the perpétual térments of unriily affé€tion the moft ldatifome of dis- fire éafes and tZe thoufand pénalties of {Elfifs cé- 0r el libacy, Thus you fhall pléafe god, and your Bl own féart if it is a good one, and difpléafe flane none, but an ill-jhdging and wicked world, thoe and per/idps a fow of your covetous relitions, they itk ,» But réally you Zave not fo much to fear from the violence of the concupifcible affé- oY &ions,, when unafflifted by véluntary complian- pul ce, as from vanity. The pervérfe ambition of jl ¢) arriving at the chitaéter of a man of fpirit fre by vicious audicity, #has of late univérfally Ty prevailed, and fas rdined the gréater part of dis the britifs youth, I have known miny young U ll men proud of the impureft of @ifiémpers, and é) to am\'ive at fomething , Z0 etwés gelangen, dV P 210 Moval Effays, boafting of misfortunes which ate atténded 00k, If, a ith the gréateft pain and miflery, and dught Far more Jave fment to be accémpanied wit/ {hame, It is tZken piihs to fhine amidft the little circle of b their vicious acquaintance, in the chiraéter of i gay libertines tZun to acquire ufeful quahtxes, the eftlem of tie good. fnenfs From métives of vianity, héalth an péace of dis are {icrificed, fortunes lavifhed without crédit ) ce or enjoyment, €very relative and pérfonal duty your neglééted and religion boldly d) fet at de- [¢afe fiance, To be admitted into the cémpany of )oflfi thofe, who disgrace the family title which tions they inhérit, thoufand plinge into debanchery 0 fear without paffion, into drlinkennefs withdut convivial enjoyment, into gaming without the ) JUlp méans or inclination for play Old age ri- phan pidly advances, on of When vianity at length re- tréats from infult and from mortificition, 4va- (pmt fally rice {uccéeds; and meannefs, and diséafe, and disgrace and poverty, and difcontent and des- it of pair diffufe clouds and darknefs dver the évea yung ning of life, Such is the lot of thofe, wha and T— d) to fet at defiauce, verachten, elly N 220 : M GT/‘fli E,%y: ® héan glory in their {hime, and are afhimed of revi !:hgir glory, Have fenfe and refolhtiofi enéugh theretore to give up all preténfions to thofe titles of a fol fine féllow, a rake or whatéver vilgar name {e !Et the témporary e) cant of the vicious beftéws all on the diftinguifhed libertine, Preférve your ha principles, and be ftéady in your cénduct, And fto though gour éxemplary behiviour may bring bas gro on you the infilting and ir6nical appellation of a faint a piiritan, or éven a méthodift, dion I perfevére in réctitude. It will be in gour ot I power foon, not indéed to inflt but to pity. hi Have fpirit and display it. But let it be that Yo fort of fpirit, which Urges you to procéed in are the path, in which you were placed by the 0y faithful guide of gour infancy, Exhibit a het noble fuperiority in diring to disregard the artful and malicious reproaches of the vain, éve who liabour to make you a f) conwért to f6l- you ly, in order to keep them in countance. They Yoy gwill laugh at"firfi;, but eftéem you in their and e &) cant, die einer gewiflen Men{chenklafle ei- ° mit gene Sprache, Kunfi{prache, f) convert, ein bez Neubekehrter, Profelyt, Tot TN Jifififli’t?l .lZZ?fiiglt. 22%¢ ned of héarts, éven while they laugh, and in the end revere your yirtue, refore Let that génerous cdéurage, which céne s 0f 4 fcious réétitude infpires, enable you, to defpis ! e fe and negléct the affaults of ridicule, When all 6ther modes of attick have failed, ridicule beftoss e Jout has fuccéeded, The biilwpark of virtue which L Ao ftood firmly againft the weéapons of argument, has tottered ‘on ‘its bafis, or fallen to the j hrtng JJtior ground on the {lighteft tbuch of migic ri- dicule In the {chool, in the céllege, in the odift your world at large, it is the powerful éngine, ephich is Ufed Jplu to lével an exalted chiraéter, e the You will infallibly be atticked with it, if you oted are in any refpélts fingular; and {ingular in miny relpéts you muft be, if you are émi- by te it nently virtuous, 10 i Love truth and dire to fpeak it at all o Vally events The man of the world will tell 4o, 0 fo you muft diffémble; and g) fo you mufk, if your Gbjetts and purfuits are like his, méan They ) thelr and {élfih But your piirpofes are génerous; @) fo yout muft , das muft du. Das, wenn es mit Nachdruk auf etwas vorhergehendes fich fle e ‘bezieht , wird im Engh{chen nicht mit dem Proe t’ e nomen, fondern mit fo ausgedrikt, 222 MOWIZ Ef yfo and youtr méthods of obtaining them are the- refdre undifgtifed. You méan well Avow your méaning, if hénour requires the h) avd- wal and fear néthing, You will indéed do " right, to wifh to pléafe; but you will be anxious to pléafe the worthy énly, and none c] but wérthy Attions will efféét that phrpofe, With refpéét to that art of pléafing, which requires the facrifice of your fincérity , defpife g it, as the bafe quility of flitterers, {ycophants, fu chéats and i) fcoundrels, An habitual lyar; fi befides that he will be known and marked fin with infamy, muft pofféfs a poor and pufil Wi l4nimous héart; for lying k) originates in co- wardice it oricinates alfo in friud, and a liar 4l whatéver may be his ftation, would cértainly, if he were fure of fecrecy, be a thiéf, Sorry am I to fay, that this habit is véry common in the world, éven ambng thofe, who make b a figure, in the réalms of diffipation; thofe, whofe hénour would compél them, | to ftab you to the héart, if you were to tell them V l) h) avowal, Geftindnifs, 1) feoundrel, ein Schurke, & k) to originate in a thing, aus et= I was entfprmgen, feinen Grund in etwas haben, A, Moral Effays 223 plamly the mortifying truth, that you conviét thee them of a lie, \vow Wlth all your good quaht1es unite the hu~ 270 4 do m;htv of a chriftian, . Be not morodfe, Be cautions of over valuing yourfelf, Make al- il be gone 1owances for the vices and érrors which you will daily fee, Remémber that all have not pole hieh had the bénefit of méral infiriftion; that a delpit gréat part of minkind are in efféét Orphans, tirned loofe into the world without one hants, faithful friénd to give them advice; left to 1}” ’ find theit own way in a dark and rigged atked wildernefs, with fnares and 1) gquickfands and pufi\ m) chafms ardund them, Be candid therefore in ¢ and amoéng all the improvements of educition i1 and refinements of manners, let the bealtiful gt chriftian graces of meéeknefs and benévolence Sory {hine moft confpicious, Where éver you can, hmmot relieve diftréfs, prevént mifchief, and do good ) make but be néither oftentations, nor cenférious, thofe, Be cheerfol and gratefully enjdy the good o fiob | them which providence has n) beftéwed upén you, 1) quickfand, Sand, der einem unter den Fiflen weicht, m) chafm , eine Spalte, Kluft, Ab- grund, [ et n) to beftow /amethmg upon om, Eie s & nem etwas geben, fabese e N 284 Moval Effays. But be moderate, Moderition is the law of enjoyment, All beybnd , is néminal pléafure . and real pain, §p I will not ‘mfdtipfy my précepts, Chide Ad- good books and féllow their diréétion, Opt religious, virtuous, ménly principles. Fix them deéeply in your bofom, and let them go with you unloofened and undltered to the grave, ]flt fion, If you follow fuch advice as from the meft; pure motive of férving you moft efléntially, did n 1 have given you, 1 will not indéed prémife Y that you {hall not be unfortunate, according Tax to the cémon idea of the word; but I will Ve confidently affure you, that you { hall not be fid unhé.ppy. I will not prémife you worldly COl fhccefs, but I will engige, that you fhall nif deférve it and {hall know how to béar its e ébfen?e. g L ob £ g thy £y Yo el by 225 aw of éafure Parliamentary Spéeches. Speech of king Charles the firft at the Chi dlfiomuon of the parliament , Al es, fig 1n 1628. fiem g0 ¥ My Lords, to the I néver cime hére at f{o unpleafling an occa-= fion, it béing for the diffolution of the pirlia« m the inent; therefore miny may wonder, why I atially did not rather chufe to do this by commiifion; promlte it being a géneral mixim of kings, to lay pootding harfh commands by their minifters themfel- 1w I ves only executing plealing things But con- [ goth fidering that juftice is as well 4nfwered in iy comménding and re\vardmg of thue, as pu- oll fhan mfhmo‘ of vice, 1 thought it néceflary to co- béar 18 me hére this day; to declare to youmyv lords and all the world that it was Only the dis- obedient carriage of th lower houfe that has ciaufed this diflolution at this time; and that you, my lords, ate fo far from béing taufers of it, that I have as much ¢émfort in your lordfhips cirriage towards me, as] hav chufe to diftdfte their proceeding Yet, that 1 muft neéeds } may be clearly Gnderfiood p . 226 Pirliamentavy Spéeches, fay' that they do mifiéke me wonderfully, that think I lay the fault équally upén all the lo- Sp wer houfe; for as 1 know there are as mény as dutiful and 10yal {Objeéts as 4ny are in the world; fo 1 know that it was Only fome vipers améngft them, that had caft this mift of difference before their Syes; although there were fome améngft them, that would no be inféCted with this contigion; infomiich, that bi ies fome by their fpéaking (which indéed was the géneral fault of the hdufe on the laft day) jeby did fhow their obedience. the To conclide my lords, as thofe évil affétted pérfons muft look 1ty of for their rewards, f{o you that are here of the higher houfe, may jiftly cliim from me be that protéétion and favour, that a good king owes to his 16yal and faithful nobility. And tl now my Lord keeper Y dq what I have com- manded you, €] il Then the ‘Lord Keeper difl6lved the par- liament.in the kings name with the ufual foe ac 1émnities, {\ { / vairlz'amenmry kSp'éec‘bes; 227 Yy that Spééch of the fpéaker of the houfe of the 19- 5 many commons at the opening of th}é i the parliament 1640, y fome his mit Moft gracious {6vereign, h there | 10 be My proféffion has thuglt me, that from the higheft jadge and higheft {éat of juftice, there , that | wis lies no writ of error, no appéal, Your ma- jefty in full pdrliament, has been pléafed by dzy) , my the mouth of the Lord Kéeper to declire yout réyal jidgment in affirmition of the elétion Jook te of of your houfe of cémmons, whereby I am become their fpéaker, and their {érvant, What m me } king is there therefore left unto me, but in the firft place devoutly to beféech almighty god, - And the author and finifher of all good works, to > (0« enible me by his bléffing to difcharge h6- neftly and efféCtually, fo gréat a tafk, fo gréat l Pé{o a truft. And, in the next place, himbly to ] foe acknéwledge, as 1 do the gréat grace and favour, that is done unto me by your mAje- fty ; and réadily to conform myfelf to your good pléafure and command, to which I now {ibmit with all péffible chéarfulnefs; left elfe my too much diffidence to Gndertake the f{ér- viqe might add a further disadvintage to my P2 228 Pivliamentary Splechess performance, than peradvénture would arife out of my other imperféctions, molt {ove Two énemies 1 might féar, the cémmon to ¢ énemies of fuch férvices, expefidtion and jéa- fer loufy: 1 am not worthy of the former, and Time that tries truth, e 1 contémn the latter, hin {hall let the whole world fee and know, that Toy I am and will be found an équal fréeman; 1ioh zéalous to ferve my gracious king, and zta- left to ferve my déareft cOuntry, T Updn Mobnarchy rbyal and lieréditary, is of all fifteer forts of gévernments the moft compléte and éxcellent ; whether we regird the glory, the b gove You wealth or the fafety of the gbdvernor or of etk the péople, or of botl, And 1 hope there are not of this nation any, that are of anti- this imonirchical {pirits or refolutions, no nor dis- pofitions, nor friénds to fuch, as are fo; if there be, I wifh no gréater Liénouf to this parliament, than to difcOver them; and by A all méans pbifible to affift your gracious mi- Goy jelty , to fuppréls them’ ‘of to confound them, i You are a gréat king at all times, but {it« nef ting now attended by your prélates, your i lords and péople in free parliament, are in the el Ligheft flate of mijefty al?d glblfy. 1y 220 Pirliamensary Spéecéefg | arife I remémber well T héard your méjeflty’s moft-réyal and léarned fither, Yur late déar mmott févereign king James of facred mémory, {péak to that pirpofe of himfelf and of kings in gé- d jiae neral; his méijefty {itting then in parliament and upén that throne, which by defcént from ) tf l[h, him and from innumerable royal dnceftors, 1s ;V, h&t now become your mijelty’'s lawful feat and semal right inhéritance, d zéie To behdld you thus in péace and {afety, upén this gréat and good occifion, After full of all fifteen yéars expérience of your moft péaceful ¢ and gévernment, yiélds moft compléte joy to all s the your mijefty’s lbyal and well affétted {ub- ot of jects; who cinnot but conclir with me in 3 ther&'{ this defire, f anil Serus in coelum vedeas, diuque 0! dis o; 1 Lactus interfis populo britanno. ) this England is your féat of réfidence, mnot «“zf made a province, nor géverned by a viceroy. M- God open all dur éyes and underftandings, to hefs difcérn and vilue the gréat bléffings and bé- tf te nefits, we enjoy by your mijefty’s gracious préfence and immédiate influence of life and yom‘ chéarfulnefs to all the phrts of thefe your ) the nobleft kingdoms! 230 Pavliamentavy Spéeches. Scotland ' is your birthélace, and therein then has advantageé of your Other réalms; god ma- pros ke them and keep them éver {¢nfible and wér- A thy of that hénour, fily Treland begins a pace to {mitate England in a gréat and quick progréffion in civility eI of ménners and converfation; by mény fédu- for lous plantitions and improvements of the foil ; i, by their recéiving and eniéing of the more the wholefome laws and ftitutes of this kingdom; flfe and by miny dGther good effééts and fruits of to e peace and bléfled gévernment, ficred France is ftill an atténdant to your réyal (lmy file and title, / (raw 1\ and The prerégative of a king is as néceflary €O as it is gréat, Without it, he would want RN that pdwer and mijefty which is, and dught by to be inféparable from the crown and fcepter, of Nor can there 4ny dinger ref(lt from fuch a prerégative in the king, to the liberty of the EX¢ fabject; fo long as both of them admit the thi témperament of law and jiftice: efpécially under fuch a king as your mijefty, who to iy your immortal glory ambng your printed laws, of have piblifhed this to the whole world for th it your méxim, The {z‘bu;{y of the péople fiyeng- Parliamentary Spéeches, 231 thereln thens the king’s previgative, and the king's od ma prerogatwe is to defénd the péople’s bberty. d war A mixim like apples of gold in pi€tures of filver, Englond Kings, as they are kings, are néver faid to civilty err, Only the beft may be abiifed by misin- 1y fid formation, The higheft point of prerégative he {ol If therefore by the king do no wrong. e mofe the fiibtlety of misinformers, by the fpécious 1gdomm, falfe preténces of piiblic good, by ciinning and uits of clofe contrivance of their ways to feduce; the facred réyal pérfon fhall, at 4ny time be cir- cumvénted or f{urprifed, or Overwrought and ¢ 1oyl draiwn to command things céntrary to law, and that the fame be done accordingly : thefe commands will be void, and the king inno- bty 4 want cent, éven in his véry pérfon, béing defénded néverthelefs the authors | ught by his prerégative eptes of fuch misinfOrmations, and A€ors in thofe abufes, will ftand liable and expofed to firict | fuch of the examination and juft cénfure; as hiving ng- thing to defénd themfelves but the cblour of t the cially 2 v0id command, made void by juft preroga- tive, and by the fundaméntal and true réafon ho 10 Jaws, of ftate and ménarchy: and what difference is there, or can be in law, betwéen a void com. j for 74 mand, and no command at all 2 232 Pirliamentary Spéeches, If religion jaftice and mérey, all happily mott affémbled and graciously lédged togéther in of g alm) your rdyal bréalt, may give to your well af- fected fibjetts a good hope of a good fhccels eftd of this parliament ; I know not why we abl fhould not, all of us expéct it with much wh confidence, Some few particulars pertaining yir to théle géneral héads, 1 humbly beg, of your con and majefty, that without offénce of your ficred ears , I may have léave to méntion and ob- ténd; {érve, for the farther comfort of myfelf and to th all that héar me, T What prince of thxis land was éver known thrta to keep the hours and times fet for priyer and by for the f{érvice of almighty god with that re- giv gularity and cOnftancy as’ your méjelty? Niy 30 more, have you not éver fince your accéfs to ma the crown, had one day in évery week, be- the fides the lords day dédieated and applied to I préaching and devotion? T may not ftay here, fo there is andther particular équalling nay much excélling both the former: and that is your mijefty’s gréat care to e¢ducate thofe plédges to of cOnjugal and moft abundant mitual love, by that is betwéen gyour majefty and your moft W gracious cOnfort, the beft queen and woman, Jaf and the foundition of our future hopes, the pe Pivliamentavy Spéeches. 233 ippily moft illiftrious prince Chayles and the reft et it of your rbyal prégeny, in the true religion of || of almighty god piblicly proféfled and by law ficeels eftiblifhed in this kingdom: What téngue is hy we able to expréfs the gréat joy and cémfort, 1 moch which all your mijefty's moft 16yal and 16- hing ving {abjefts do derive unto themfelves, in f out contemplation’ of your mijefty's gréat pxety ficred and prudence in this one a&t expréffed, eX= d ob ténding itfelf not Only to the préfent time, but f and to the good of fuccéffion in all after - ages, - Tolching juftice, there is not 4ny more (oW cértain fign to difcérn an équal jadge, than get ad by his patience to be well informed befdre he at e give his {éntence; and I may boldly fay, all Ny your jadges throughout all your kingdoms, cels t0 may take example by your mijefly, and léarn . bee their duty, from your pritice in this kind, jed 1 myfelf have often been witnefs of it to my no little admiration and contént, fetey much From your patient héaring let me pafs on yOUf dges to your righteous judgment, and therein bring but one inftance, but it {hall be a gréat one lovey Ty SUN——— moft When your lords and your péople in your laft pérliament prefénted to your mijefty a )msz h petition , concérning divers rights and liberties 234 Farliamentavy Spleches. of your {ubjefts; the petition béing of no fo fmall weight and impdrtance, as by the {ame to may well appéar, your méjefty ifter meet de- s liberation, in few but efféétual words, (foit pe droit fait comme il eft defiré) made them fuch of an anfwer, as fhall renown you for juft jl’ldgment, in this age and to all poftérity, 1 I T make hafte to come to your mércg whe- reof I cinnot but have need again and aghin, feo before 1 have finif hed that/férvice, to which I am enjoined, and am not Altogether in de. thin; hay fpair of obtaining it: néverthelefs the mércy which I méan to célebrate, is not 6nly con- mof {in cérning fingle or particular pérfons, but who- th le nitions; that unexampled mércy and clé- mency, which (in your royal wisdom and ablindant goodnefs, happily met togéther) your th majefty voucbfafed to fhow to us and all your g kingdom; in not drawing your {fword of ja- th ftice the laft {immer, againft your péople of 40 Scétland , though your armies were much the tir better and firénger, b It féems, your méjefty remémbéred with ‘ D more téndernefs of héart than they do, that they were Chriftians and your ffibjeéts, and i that your power was poffe et nolle nobile, What i ST, Parliamentary Sbéecbgf.i 235 of 10 fo éver might be the rule that iqc]ine;i you fame to mércy, 1 am fure the bénefit redounds to t de- us and ours; who by thefe méans are ftill in (i peace and tranquillity, not without good hope fuch of long continuance; a bléfling peradvénture undervalued by us, we have had fo much of t ik ity it, under your méjei’cy’s moft gracious father’s réyal gbvernment, ) whee agity I have yet no inftri&ions from your hou- fe of commons, therefore can propdund né- vhich 1 des thing as by warrant from them: but if 1 may have léave to prefént to your méjefty my own méry moft hiimble and moft héarty wifhes and de- y cole fires, they may be dirééted to religion, and f wbo' nd cle chiyglny, gémmerce, jaftice and Unity, il flfld That this périiament may be fimous for the care and conténtment of god's true reli- ) your [l yous gion in this world and that to come, and to of jie that purpofe that the moft réverend prélates, Je of your mijefty’s 4rchbifhops and bifhops, {it- h the ting on the right hand of your throne, will be therein moft férward, to whom it is moft proper. with That the lords témporal, girt with their that and fwords in their creation as more fp'écially re- What warded, or defigned for 4ltions military; 236 Pavliamentary Spleches. :would ,‘call to r«fiind the moft noble and the on! moft wvaliant of their Anceftors whofe lands che and hénours they inhérit; and how fimous all this land has been at home and abroad, for ter deeds of arms and ats of chivalrv; and to la- bour to reftore it , by all méans to its ancient glory. The beft way to preférve péace is to be réady prepited and well fitted for war, Us or That your méjefty would be pléafed to héa eommand, that your grave and réverend jlid- fireg ges, whofe obfervations f{hould excéed all fight éther men’s, though they be but affiftants in endés this férvice; to contribute the beft and Gtmoft &y they can, to expliin, to execute, to ad- all véance Our good old laws; and togzpropdund 08 fuch things for the enaéting of wholefome ang and plain néw fiitutes, that évery fabject of fior this réalm may be enibled to know and dGnder- of ftand bimfelf cléarly, both what he has to do, of ¢ and what he may pofféfs, and what not, {01 There are no confiderable mines royal in this viil kingdom: trade and cémmerce, the exporta- tion of our wools in manufa&ures, and natj- té\m ve commbdities, is that which firnilhes us with gold and filver, the matérials of qur i monies ; and has the 6nly poOwer to enible us téq to fupply your mijefty, for the defénding of Iy e, Pivliamentavy Spéeches, 237 the ourfelves, and offénding of éthers, That mér- ands chants and tradesmen therefore {hould have mous is a moft fpec1al in= all meet encout‘agement for tereft of this island Ly 0l But were we néver fo valiant nevef f{o neient 15 10 wéalthy, if love and unity be not améngft Jafy us, what good will our wéalth do ourfelves, or to your mijefty? He that commands a o 0 héart in love, he, and he only comminds af- ]ud furedly the purfe to pay, and the hands to fight g all L pray god therefore that we may all nts 1 endéavour to knit {uch a knot of true affé- emof &ion, betwixt the héad and mémbers ; that fo & 11 jefuited féreign #tates, who look perchin< ¢e with énvious and malignant ¢yes upén us; ]pUUfld and would be glad to rejdice in owur dlvw )]e{(]me fions, may fee themfelves loft and deféafed ]ect of of all their fubtle plots and combinations, and UfldeA of all their wicked hopes and expeftations, 0 doy to rénder us, if their endéavours might pre- not, th viil a people inconfiderable at home, and com- jotfas témptible abréad ki Religion téaches us, Si Deus wobisctm g US quis coutra nos? And expérience, I hope will f auf téach us, Si fumus infepavabiles y [fumus ins hle 1S 1t was wont to bey and I hope Juperabiles, ng Of P 238 Paivliamentavy Spéeches. it éver will be, the ténet and pofition of your houfe of cémmons, that the good of the king and of the péople cinnot be fevered: lif and curfed be évery one that {hall go about to d1V1de them. tc -1 féar I have véntured too far on your 1 réyal patience, though yet I conféfs, I néver b knéw it wéaried néverthelefs I will here i conclide, Ouly firft I beféech your grdcious Th mijefty, in the name and right of the whole knoy houfe of eé6mmons, ~that in your jiftice you fle would be pléeafed to grant and confirm to them, for their better encOburagement to pro- i) ceed in their oréat bifinefs, théfe their ancient and juft liberties, which time out of mind, hig of they have rightfully enjoyed of be a Was he [ 0) duy /“l“‘ 239 yout Jefts or {mart fayings, f the A notorious thiéf, béing to be tried for his jered ; | fibéut life conféffed the rébbery, he was charged with, The jidge hereupén dirécted the jury to find him guilty upén his own conféffion, i \‘ yous The jury having laid their héads togéther, [ névet brought bim in wot guiity, And when the Il here judge 4fked the réafon, the foreman replied, ieions There is réafon enéugh, my lord, for we all know him to be o whole ne of the gréatei’g \liars in the world, e Y?‘l om0 A fénator who was not déemed the wifeft o pie- man in the houfe, has a ciftom of { haking ncien his héad, when anéther fpeaks ; which giving f it offence to a particular pérfon, he compliined of the indignity, Hereupén one who had beerr acquiinted with the firft géntleman from a child, as he told the houfe affured them it was 6nly the effé& of an ill habit; for, fays he, though he often {hakes his héad, there is néthing in it, A drfifiken féllow hiving o) made away 0) to make away wiz}/'z one’s money, fein Geld durchbringen, 240 Fefts and finafi [2yings. with all his goods, excépt his féather bed, ywas at length obliged to part with that too; wh fon for which béing reproved by fome friénds, do ,Phoo, fays he, I am véry well, thank héa- ven, and why fhould p) 1 kéep my bed?2¢ A fcholmafter 4fked one of his boys in a de bl {harp winter-mérning what was litin for Ju cold? The boy héfilating a little, the méfter {aid, ,, What , Sarah, can’t you tell?¢ ,, Yes lor Sir, « fays the boy, 5,1 have it at my q) fin= gers end % yours bar ¢ ' King Charles the fécond in coémpany with the lord Roéchefter and fome 6thers of the i Lin nobility, had been drinking the beft part of the night; when Killigrew came in, ,, Now, ¢ the fays the king, we f{hall hlar of dur faults.* wNo« quoth Killigrew, ,,1 néver trGuble my kn héad with that, wh-ich all th¢ town talks of, you Coamm——— fi)m( p) Die Zweideutigkeit liegt in dem Wort keep, Was to keep heift behalten und to keep his bed heift fein Bette hiiten; oder krank feyn. q) fo have Prot fome thing at the fingers end, heift nach dem buchftdblichen Sinn etwas an den Spizen der 1w Finger haben. Zugleich aber heift nach einer ) d fpruchwortlichenn Redensart : 1 have it at my Jingers eund; es liegt mir auf der Zunges Ver p—— Fefts and finrzrtfa‘jiizg:. u 241 A country fquire 4fked a 1) mérry-dndrew, et bed at £00; why he pIéy’d the fool? ..for the fame réa- fon, faid he, as you do, out of want; vou friénds, do it for want of wit, 1 for want of méney. ok héas bed 1 A s) dyer in 2 cdurt of juftice béing Or- dered to hold up his hand, which was all 07 ina black; ,,take off your glove friend,“ faid the hin fot jidge to him, ,, Put on your fpéétacles, my g il lord, “ 4nfwered the dyer, i Ves gl An t) arch prifoner, who had an unfia vourable countenance, béing brought to the bat to be tried for horfe- ftéaling the judge ‘ly \Vith immediately cried, ,,Oh! here is a noted vil- of the lain, I’'m {ure, why firrah, 1 can fee the ro- pt of gue in his face® ,,Aye,* my lord, . fays i Now; the féllow, I wonder at that, for 1 did not | f;}lllfi.“ know , that my face was a lookingglafs, till uble your lérdfhip {'a/w yourfelf in it. 1Jks of A fool kept by king James the firft, ;upép — féme offénce -done by him to a géntleman, was told that his fool’s coat {hould be no it keefy prqté&ion to bhim, for he cértainly would P hel fo ot ch det? iZéU ef Y) mervy andrew , ein Spafsmacher, Harlequin, h eivd s) dyer, Farber von fo dy 3 €, farbenj t) avchy verichlagen, L Q 7 242 Fefts and finare [dyings. beéat his héad off, if éver he did the like again, packe The fool ran openmouth’d to the king with orant who bid him not be afraid his complaint, to h for if the géntleman f{hould kill Aim, he al | would hang him the day after, u) , 1 had foun much rather, ¢ replied the fool you would King hang him the day before Was Teo! Some pérfons pleading their caufe before the lord chancellor, and fhowing as it were, cell the the the boundaries and limits of their land council on one faid we lie on this fide my M W hfl fon lord; and the council on the éther fide f3id . We lie on this {ide,* The lord chincellor ”p ER{ Tony arofe and fdld, SAL VoD V) lie on both fides, pray which would you have me beli¢ve? ¢ Wi ‘Upbn the ‘hippy rvetirn of king Charles Wit the fecond one Bull who had loyal]y and léarnedly maintdined his méijeftys rights, was e It ] prefénted by the king wit/ ‘a grant for a very confiderable bénefice; but before the phtent bad his was {ealed my lord chéncellor Hyde had difpofed of it to anéther The parfon hiving Iour that fpent all his moéney, put his hand into his u) I had much rather, es wire mir lieber, V) to lie, heift liegen und ligen, V) €lng S, Fefts and fmars fzijz'fig:. 243 ag’difl» pécket and finding nbthing but the kings yith grant there, with his hand to it, went boldly afraid, to his mijefty jand told him, he had loft 1, be all his méney out of his pocket, and he 1 Ind found none but his méjeftys band there, The would king {miled, and afked him, if his bufinefs was done: He replied, no; and he was the- rebn immeédiately recomménded to the chin- o hefle cellor Hyde, to put him Into bufinefs, Says £ wese the chancellor knowing him to be a wit, 1 the » What’s your name?“ ,,Bull®“ fays the pir- de my e faid, fon., ,,Whére are your horns 2 fays my lord, » Pléafe your lordfhip, replied the pérfon, the ncellor horns always go aléng with the w) Hyde, b {ide el When the army of Léwis XIV of France was encamped in Flanders, diring his wars ; (has with the conféderates, the king Ufed fometi- ally mes to refide. at the héad quarters himfelf, hts, WS 1t hippened, that a very fine horfe which he o verf ha’d lately putchafed, was exercifed befdre his' tent, and améng Gthers who had githered rlde bfid round him was a ciporal, who héving béen ) g that afternoon too free with agua vitae, was ito 18 P il y fiebet iv) Hyde, als der Name des Kanilers und /Zyde, eine Haut, Q2 344 Fofts and finart [iyingss He become as gréat a man as his majefty. whic had firolled up to the fpot, and gétting wi- Ving thin the circle, put himfelf into an attitude be i of cénfequence, and after having {ome time { hm made his obfervation with the air of a pro- oin found cénnoiflfeur, he trufts a quit of tobacco W into his mouth, and f{wore it was as fine the a creature as he éver faw, and as well bro- pi ke; then téttering up to the gréoom, who had cof been riding it, and juft dismOunted, ifked he y him, who was the owner? At this moment ('Jnly | the king came out from his tent, and over- man, héaring the corpotals quéftion, with whom horf \ he had alréady been divérted told him colir- fele teously, that the horfe was his; the corporal thi made his mijefty a f{light cémpliment by mo- wh ving his hat, and then {étting his arms x) a ha kimbo, told him that his réafon for ifking dr was, that he had a liking to the horfe, and fél was inclined to buy i, The king faid, he ho bhad no inténtion to fell it, but if it would hi oblige him, he would tréat with him on the fame -{pot the next moérning, The corporal thrafting out’his hand, cried y¥) a match; to -~ X) a kimbo, iiber das Kreuz, iiber einénder. y) a match, Top, es bleibt dabei, e, 'f}'zfir dfldfinqrt Sayings. 245 He which the king confénted and rode off , gi- g Wie ving private orders that no ptnif hment {hould tifude be infli¢ted upén the corporal, but that he e time fhould be brought before him the next mér- 4 pro- ;iing,‘ In the mérning, when the poor féllow obicco was told what had pafled and conduéted to s fine the king's tent, he was {éized with a dréadful | bro pinic left his infolence and drinkennefs might 0 had coft him his life, Into the préfence howéver ilked he was cirried; and the king who inténded ment Only {6me {port, afked him, if he was the Vel man, that would laft night have bought his ‘hom hoife? No an't pléafe your méijefty, fays the COUte fellow , that man went away at three o'clock >rp0ral thisc'mérning.“ Did he fo, fays the king, ymé who (Gnderftood that at three o'clock fleep L had fubftituted a {ober man for one that was (king drunk, I am véry glad, that'I have got fo and ‘i‘énfible and décent a pérfon in his ftéad, and he hope he will néver come back ; for if ] fee ould him, I fhall cértainly refént his behaviour, the )ol’fll {0 el 246 f Dialogues. * Menexenus, a dialogue of Plato, Socra.tes . Mfenexenus. Soc. W hénce come you, Menexenus? from the Forum 2 Men, From the Forum, Socrates and from the f{énate - houfe. T Soc., What particular bifinefs called you to I the {énate - houfe? I fuppofe, moft wonder- j\ ful young man, that imigining yourfelf ar- sived to the higheft pitch of léarning and - pjt]iléfophy , and évery way fufficiently qu4li- { A * Der grofte Theil diefes Dialogs befteht zwar eigentlich in einer Rede, von welcher Afpafia g als die Verfaflerinn angegeben wird ; allein ich waufte kein {chéneres Mufter von einem Dialog i) zu geben als diefes; zu gleicher Zeit ift auch I diefe Rede zu merkwtirdig und zu gut, als dafs ; nicht jeder Lefer iiber die Hinweglaflung der- felben ungehalten gewefen wire, Beide Stiike U aber von einander zu trennen und die Rede un- 0 ter den Artikel Spéeches zu {ezen, wiare um ds ihres Zufammenhangs willen unfchiklich gewe- il fen, | ds P i N Uy, Menesemus. A Dialogue of Plato. 247 fied, z) you are pirpofing to turn yourfelf to affairs of ’gréater impOrtance, and that we may néver want a fupply of mégiftra- Aty tes out of your fimily, you yourfelf are thinking, a) young as you are, of gover- ning us old féllows. Men Indeed, Socrates, I fhould moft réadi- 7 from ly enterthin fuch an ambition ,- encifiuraged by your permiffion and advice; but éther- d from wife I would by no meéans think of it The occafion of my gbing to the fénate- fo yO\l houfe was b) the hiving héard that they yonge inténded to make choice of the drator, who ofelf ot flf g il Iy quah z) Tom are purpofing, du haft eben im Sinn, Das Particip, praef. in Verbindung mit dem Ver- bo to be zeigt an, dafs die Sache gerade in der WAL Zeit gethan wird, da man davon {pricht. Afpafls a) young as you are, fo jung du auch bift, ~ el ich Diele zwei eigene Redensarten im Deut{chen Dialog und Englifchen entfprechen einander, b) /e ft aue having heard. Hier wird das Participium pree- fentis ganz fiir ein Subftantivum genommen et und fo gar der Artikel vorgefezt, welches nicht , Stk oft vorkommt, Es ift dies eine {ehr abkirzen- de Redensart, die befonders bei der vergange- ede 17 jre U nen Zeit im Deutfchen nic ‘ht nachgeahmt wer- r gCWe den kan, 248 Menexenus, c)» is to fpéak the fineral orition in hé- nour of thofe, who were {liin in the fér- vice of the céuntry. For preparations, you o O =3 know , are now making to célebrate their ébfequies at the publick expénce, Soc Véry true, Pray, whom have they chofen ? Men, No bddy as yet. They h;we adjolir- ned that confideration till to mbrrow : but th 1 fuppofe éither Dion or Archinus will be appointed, o a Soc. Sure, Menexenfis, it muft nleds be a fine thing for a man to’die in battle; for ¥ Y j\ be he éver {o poor and inconfiderable, he will have the good fértune at leaft to be bhried with pomp and fpléndor, and to have his prifes fet forth by wife and ingénious ¢) Das Verbum #o e in Verbindu\ng mit dem Infinitivo eines andern Verbi deutet immer ein Sollen , eine Nothwendigkeit, doch keine ab- sfolute Nothwendigkeit an, in welchem lezte- rem es {ich von dem Imperf. Conj, I ought, welches auch mit dem Infinitivo eonftruirt wird , unter{cheidet, d) be he ever fo poor, er fei auch noch fo arm, Wiederum zwei eigene in beeden Sprachen ein ander entfprechende Re- densart.eg. ) iy { A bz’alogue of Plazos 249 in hde men; not in crude and éxtémporar_y pane- e {rs gyricks, but in difcolirfes well confidered and prepired for a long time before. And %, ou te thel indéed fo magnificent, fo cépious, and éven exlberant upén évery tbpick, and fo beau~ tifully variegited with fine names and words ve tey are the pinegyricks which our oOrators give b us upén thefe oceafions, that they e) s it ad}Ofit' were bewitch our fouls, and what with Ve but yill be the encomiums, which they fo pléntifully pour dut upbdn the city , upbn thofe, who have at 4ny time dled in battle, upén the ; be 2 whole féries of our anceftors, éven to the for remoteft 4ges, and what with thofe, which Me, he they beftéw upén the udience, I myfelf, to b Menexenus bave often been Animated with t0 e a génerous pride, and liftening in a kind of 1gén30\19 éxtaly to their flatteries have for the time / imagined myfelf grown gréater, more noble and more illiftrious, and have fincied not t dem énly, that I myfelf appéared more confide- . et €l rable in the eyes of thofe firangers, who ne ab- at 4ny time accoOmpanied me upén thofe Jezte occafions, but that they alfo were afféted otigl_”’ in the fame ménner; and perfuided by the 01’y ¢ igené de Ree e) as it were, gleichfam, 250 Menexenuz, L4 érator , to look updn me and Atiens. with more admirdtion than before, And this fenfe of my own dignity and impdrtance hat’ often remained upoén me f) for more than three days. Nay with fo powerful a charm has the difcourfe and éven the voice of the fpéaker funk into my éars, that for four or five days I have fcarce been 4ble to recol- 166t myfelf or know in what part of the world [ was but iméigined myfelf {ometi- mes an inhabitant of the fortunate xslands. So déxtrous are our Srators! N Men. Socrates, you are always rillying the Y Orators Howéver I am afraid the pérfon, they fhall now pitch upén, will not come off fo well; for as he will be appointed on a {Gdden, he will be necéffitated to fpéak | without 4ny preparation. S r: Soc. How fo, my good friend? This fort of péople have orations always réady prepa- red, Befldes, it is no difficult matter to £) for more than three days, Uber drei Tage Dies /ang im Deutfchen, welches die lang. ununterbrochene Dauer einer ‘Sache wihrend ei- nes gewiflen Zeitraumes ausdriikt, wird im Englifchen mit dem Wortchen for gegeben, o ? ‘A Dialogue of Plato, 251 5, with fpéak, ex tempore upbn fuch topicks, Was s fenfe a man required to célebrate theipraifes of ¢ hath the Athénians, in an aflfembly of Pelopon- e than néfians, or of the Peloponnéfians in an af- ) chatm {émbly of Athénians, he muft be an éxcel- of the lent 6rator indéed to ghin the affént and fou of approbation of his auditory. But when a ) tecol man is to perform befdre an andience, g) of the whofe priifes are the fibject of his difconir- ometi= fe, it féems to be no difficult matter to Jands, make a good fpeech, Men, Is that your opinion, Socrates 2 h ng e Soc, 1 protéft, it is, pérfon, Men, Do you beliéve, that you youtfelf come fhould be 4ble to make a fpeech, fupp&fing tted 00 the {énate {fhould néminate you 2 Soc, If I fhould, Menexenus, it would be ) fpéflk no gréat wonder, confidering I have been fort of inftriéted by a miftrefs, who is fo fir . from being contémptible in Rhetérick, that reph e 0 fhe has made méiny good érators, one in Toge ) audiénce, whofe. Ein Nomen Col].e&iifum, 6§ di? das eine Anzahl von Perfonen in fich begreift, 3nd el wird in Riikficht auf das Genus betrachtet, als wite es eine Perfon. Daher wird hier das Pro- 1 i nomen relativum who nicht which gebraucht, 91 Menexenus, 252 parficular, who excélled all the Gfeeks, Pericles the fon of Xauthippus. len. What miftrefs do you fpéak of? I fup- - pofe you méan A/fpafia. Soc, I méan her, and Conwus the fon of Me- trobius alfo, For thefe two are rmy mafter’s 1 he in h) mifick, {he in rhetbrick, That a man thus éducated Thould be a good fpéa- ker is not very farprifing, fince it is not impoliible éven for a {chélar of Lam;arz'm or Autivhon, who i) éither for mufick or Ne rhetérick are much inférior to my mafters; I fay it is not impéifible éven for fuch a % one to gain the good opinion of the Athé- nians, if he makes their priifes ‘the theme of his oration, Men. And pray, what would you fay, were gyou to {péak? o P Soc From my own ftock perhips little or néthing, But yéfterday k) I héard 4fpafia » / h) Das Wort maufick, deutet hier nicht die Ton- an. kunft, fondern blofs den Wohlklang der Worte i) either, or heift hier fo wohl als auch, k) I heard prowounce, ich horte ausfprechen, Sonft braucht man in diefen Fillen lieber das Particip. preefentis, z. B, Ich fah ihn laufen, 7 Jaw him mnm’ug etc. =3 A Dialogue of Plato, 253 eeks, prondunce a faneral oratlon upbn the {iib- je€t of thefe véry pérfons, for fhe had juft héard what you tell me, that the Athénians fup were gding to- chufe an érator for the oc- Wi cafion: upén which f{he immédiately ran ter's dver to me the topicks, that were préper at 4 to be infifted upén; and what fhe had for- fpa merly made rife of when fhe compofed il the faneral orition fpoken by Pericles, out #ils of the feraps of which, I iméigine (he pat— ched up this difcourfe, Of Men. ‘mb, Can you remémber what {he f2id? Soc Elfe 1 fhould be much to blime, for cha 1th by fhe tock the piins to téach it me herfelf and refréfhed my bemory with a few boxes Eme on the ear, whenéver I forgtt dny thing, Men, What then hinders your repéating it 2 et Soc Poffibly my mifkrefs will be offénded, if 1 make her difcotrfes piblick. e Of Men, Not in the leaft, 1 dare fays Howéver 711/ ] Socrates, oblige me {e fir as to {péak, what Afpafin faid, if you pléafe or dny thing elfe, no matter what, 1) {o you swiil but fpéak on tte ICho e D fo you will th [peak, wann du nur fpricht, das Wiederum zwei eigene einander in beiden Spra- chen ent{precnende Redensarten, Menexenus. 254 Soc, But you will laugh at me perhips for it playing the fool in ‘'my old age. Men, Not at all, Socrates: spéak, I ;m’féhg you by all méans, of Soc. Well: Ifind, I muft grétify you, though you fhould éven order me to fall m)a dan- ol Befides we are aldne, Atténd then, fc cing. 0 She came diréétly to the point, and began th T her orations as 1 remémber, with méntio- ning thetdecéafed, in the féllowing manner: det tbefi #) Whatéver was réquifite to be dénme for win thefe braive men has been performed on dur the oy ticy lon th m) a da;umg, a ift hier nicht der Artikel, fondern die verkiirzte Praepofition at, welche RS- S, 0] vor Hauptworter und Participia preefentis gefezt b wird, wann diefe leztern eine noch nicht voll- endete Handlung anzeigen. Es wird im lez- i tern Fall im Deutfchen durch 2u, oder gar nicht Ju e ausgedrfikt. ‘ n a' *) Zum befleren Verftindnifs und zur befle- JUK ren Beurtheilung diefer ganzen Rede wird es den Lefern nicht unangenehm feyn, wann ich t()g eine ganz kurze Befchreibung des Gebrauchs (e anfiihre, wie man bej den Athenienfern das An- & th denken und die Leichenbegingniffe derjenigen Biirger feierte, die in der Schlacht gefallen wa- fi ren, Sie ift aus dem Thuy cydides in das Engli- Clf fche durch /7% iiberfezt, Iy - A Dialogue of quto. 255 paft: They have recéived their dies and are s for now proceeding on their fated johrnéy, dis- | trea In the fame winter (namely in the firft year hough of the peloponnefian war) the Athenians, in g dan obedience to the laws of their country, per- formed at the publick expence, the obfequies 1 fh@flo of thofe citizens, who firft loft their lives in begat this war; the manner of which is as follows. flénfl()' Three days before that appointed for the fu~ neral, they ereft a pavilion, underneath which npers they lay out the bones of the deceafed, allo- » for wing to their refpetive friends and relations OUr the liberty of bringing rwhatever they judge proper to add, by way of {howing their par- ticular concern or regard for thofe, who be- longed to them. On the day of the interment there are brought in waggons (or herfes) fo h‘tlkeffl many chefts (or coffins) made of Cyprefs, welCh? olett one for every tribe, in whick are put the bones of the deceafed, each man according to ] ‘ofl his tribe, Befides thefe there is an empty bier, il Jes properly cover’d in honour of thofe, whofe picht in order ‘for their interment, bodies could not be found and brought away In tZe funeral proceflion who fo ever is difpos’d, whether e befi‘tiv be a citizen ot a foreigner, /as leave to march, i1 €8 together with the female kindred of the de- n 1Ch ceafed, who affift at the fepulcire, making quchs great lamentations, After this they depofite g5 Al the bones in the public churci-yard, which is enigen fitnated in the moft beautiful fuburb of t/e of 110 city ; and /iere they have always been accufto- Eflgh med to bury all, who fall in battle thofe only Menexenus, 256 miffed with thele pablick Abnours, paid to and them as well by the whole ftate as by their motk But to make own fimilies and friénds. ceffc thefe hénours compléte, {émething remains find to be faid; which not only the laws require whe to be réndered to them, but reafon alfo, tho For an éloquent and well fpoken ordtion the impréffes on the mind of the audience a la- the fting admirition of gréat and virtuous noy 4&ions, But the préfent occafion deminds an oration of a particular kind: an oration to it that may at one and the fame time do ji- ftice to the déad, A4nimate and {odtZe the nécef Ay living ;/ excite the children and bret/ren of the decéafed to an imitation of their virtues; Vithy and Vit the e their excepted , | who wete flain at Marathon, to bYe whom as to men O f diftinguif/ed and unco- aDpe: formed their obfequies in mon virtue, they per 8 ¢ the very place where t hey loft their lives. As {foon as the remaint are buried in the ground, then, {ome Athenian eminent as we 1l for his wis= dom as his dignity, is appointed by the ftate ble oration in 4onéur of Vent to ronounce 2 {uita Whe the dead. After which the whole company de- part this cufto m they conftantly obferve in livig as often as the cafe /appens, n every war , tr) : conformity to a law enatled for that purpofe. mot} 257 A Dialogue of Flato. piid to and adminifter coOmfort to the fathers and the and whoéver of their remoter 4n- )y thet mothers, ) make ceftors is yet alive, And where fhall we femalns find an Orator équal to fuch a talk? or with equie what tépick f{hall we begin the praifes of fon 4, thofe brive men, who when living made \ oratlon their friénds hippy by their virtues, and with 106 2 J their déaths ptrchafed the fifety of all, who now furvive? yirtuots deminds \ oration As they,were in fomg méaflure inciébted to nature for their virtue, it is in my opinion o ji néceffary to begin their pinegyrick with an the the account of their original: For that they were fven of virtuous was owing to their béing fprung of yirtues; virtuous 4nceftors, Let us then célebrate in ad the firft place their noble birth, in the {écond their nlrture and educations; and afterwards by exhibiting their aftions to view, make it &bfl ” {0 appéar that #lefe allo were virtnous, and fuch d uned* ;uies i as correfpénded to all thofe advintages Firfy (2] then, as to the nobility of their defcénts They ;roufl y are {prung from a race of dnceftors, not ad- 1'15 wiS‘ ventiticus , not transplanted from 1 know not o Jtt 10u! 0 where , but uatives of the foil, dwélling and any % living réally and préperly in their own céun- rge I try; nirfed not like Other nations by a ftep- s i ‘urpofe' mother but a parent, the véry land which R Nicnexenus. 2% tfiey inh4bited ; in which they now lye biried; pa fle the foil which bred, which ntrfed them, and al on which as their own has agiin recéived them of | jinto her béfom., It is highly réafonable thé- con refore to beft6w fome encomiums on this 15 1 mother; and the rather, becaufe the nobi]ity my of thefe her children will at the fame time, for and in the fame propértion be illuftrated and . 1t ] adOrned, This country indeéd deférves to be fo célebrated by all minkind, not 6nly by us ber her children, and that upbén miny accounts; 5 nouy but principally, becaufe fhe is a favourite of, héaven, of which the rivalry of the gods, The who conténded for her, and the decifion that by mot} fbllowed therenpdn is a clear éyidence. And {he how can #ny mértal réafonably preténd to re- and fufe pr?xife to that céuntry, which the gods have vouchf{afed to hénour ? Anéther tépick mat of of panegyrick is this, that at the véry time PH‘M when the éarth bred and prodiced animals of all kinds both wild and tame, n) this céun- For | try of Ours preférved her purity; refufed to bring forth fivage béafts; and among all 4oi- g {he mals - chofe to prodhce‘ man 6nly, who fur. gén« n) this country of our's, wieder ein Anglici- fmus, anfiatt this our country, dies unfer Land, o)) nich e A Dialbgue of Plato, {tied pvéfi'es the reft in underft4nding; and who 1, and alone has inftituted laws for the obferviation | them of jiftice and the worfhip of the gods,© To le the- confirm what 1 here advénce, that this éarth on {his is the génuine‘ parent of our forefathers, 1 oty muft obférve, that évery thing that brings i time, forth is provided with nburifhment for what fed and s to be it has prodlced; and that a woman is proved to be réally and in faét a méther o) from by s her being fupplied with native fountains of junts; néurifthment for the flftenance of the child. ite of The like {ubftintial évidence of her having gods brought forth man has this our céuntry and yn thet mother; for fhe alone at the fame time,. and ol fhe firft produced the Ufeful griin of whéat | tofe: and barley, the préper and the beft food of o 308 man; fo that it is évident {he was the pirent ik of this fpécies of 4nimals; and to her théfe 1y me proofs hold more ftréngly than to a woman, als of For this gréat méther did not moft cértainly coune in bréeding and producing cé'py after her ed 0 daughters, but they after her; néither did l | hole but fhe gridge the world thefe her friits, o fir génerously difpénfgd them to Other nations, ]Q"!Cl o) from heift hier durch, Eine Bedeutung, die ]:fl!]d¢ ‘n?cht oft vorkommt, R 2 - fi‘,fifif&%‘ 2?0 Mefzexenm‘. For her c’hfldren {he in the next place prodi= nam ced the Olive, the fupport of toil; and after i fhe had thus nburifhed and réared them up We to manhood, fhe brought them déities for Wit tedi their gbvernors and inftractors; whofe name gér it is unnéceffary to méntion in this plice, We all know who farnifhed us with the né- bef ceffaries and fecurities of life, who inftraéted Upo us in the arts réquifite to our daily fupport; who ¢ive us and who tinght us the ufe of obfer Our advin Arms for. the defénce of our céuntry, anceftors thus born and thus brought up, frh- {H\;Cefl( med a gbvernment, of which it may not be chajcg imprgper to {péak a féw words. For gbvern- Was ment is the nirfe of men; a good one of the virtuous men, a bad one, of wicked men. of | That thofe who went before us were éduca- €qu ted Under a2 good gévernment is néceflary to Con fhow; for indéed it was Owing to the ad- dff vantage of béing bred under a good gévern- Iney ment, that both they and their defcéndants n the f4thers of the decéafed becime virtuous. fl‘;e 4 The, form of the gbvernment then was as it a5 ) now is, an Ariftécracy < Under this form of bor gévernment we ftill live, and for the moft be part have done fo from that time tc; this. On Let Others call it a Demécracy, or by what birt 261 ' Dinlogie of Phite: nime they pléafe: It is 'in truth an Arifie- ptoe d ditet eracy founded on the 'good will of the péople. e 0 We have always had migiftrates invéftod ties for with kingly power, fome of whom were hé- (e name reditary, Gthers elective: but the people were 5 e, génerally the moft powerful, and they always the né« beftéwed the authority and pdwer of the flate ftedfeed upén thofe whom they jhdged moft worthy. No man was excilided for the méannefs, the uppirt; obfeurity , or the péverty ‘of his family nor e of advanced for the céntrary qualifications of his QOut D fra« dnceftors, as is prictifed in 6ther ftates. | Their Whoéver ot be choice was limited to one point.. hyerne was efteémed to be wife and good, he had % one of the authority, and he the power. The chufe of this équal gévernment améng vs was the o mel, equélity of our original. For éther fates are gduce compofed of men of évery céuntry and of fary 10 different extrictions; whence their gévern- the - ments are unequal; Fyranmies -or Oligdrchies frenn- dants in which one part of the péople look wupon {ouss the Gther as their {lives, and they upbn them as their mafters, But we, who are all bréthren 5 18 i born ‘of one and the fame vérent, disdain to i of be the f{laves or the lords of one anéther, > m(\)fi On the céntrary the nitural equility of owur i yhet births compélled us to feck after a legal equi- 262 Mmexeims‘. lity in dur gévernment , and forbade us to ¢Xp yi¢ld any fubjéttion amdng ourfelves, excép- Hence poe ting 6nly to the wife and virtuous. tice it came to pafs, that all our anceftors the Obl fathers of the dectafed, and they themfelves the being thus nobly born, thus nérfed up in li- Wi berty, exhibited in all their cénduét as. well an private as piiblick, a nimber of gréat and of glorious aétions for the férvice of minkind; Wh thinking it their duty as well to protéét the , Grécions againft Grécians, as to maintain the e | géneral liberty of Gréece agiinft all féreign firf p invaders. How they repélled the invafions of to be Eumolpus , of the Amazons, and of Other énemies before them, and in what manner per | that they defénded the 4rgives aghinft the Thebans, fub] and the Heracleides againft the 4rgives the The time will not permit me fully to relate: befi- oW des their virtues hiving been finely célebra- Pér ted by the poets in their melddious fongs, the br) world has alréady been made acquainted with 1 | them, fo that we {hould but disgrice ourfel- ang ves in attémpting the fame fibjects in fimple hig profe. For thefe réafons therefore [ think linj proper to pafs over thefe métters, Jaftice 4 has been déne to their mérits, But I think maft myfelf ob]igedy to recall the mémory of thofe g TN A Dz’élogue of Plflfo. 263 ) s o exploits, which, wérthy as they were, the xcep poets have not thought wérthy of their né- Hence tice, and which are now almoft biried in ors {hie oblivion; that by fétting forth the praifes of omfelves 1 may the gréat men who performed them, p it [ woo the poets to admit them into their fongs g5, el and verfes, The chief of thefe are the d¢tions éat and of cur forefathers, ‘the children of -this 1il, okinds who held the hands of thofe lords of Afia, proté& the Pérfians, when they attémpted to enfla- iin the whofe virtue thérefore in the ve Europe; foreign firlt place deférves to be commémorated and ons of to. be prhifed, To give their mérits-its pro- f Othet per luftre we ought to tzke a view of it in manne! that period of time, when all Afia was in Theans fubjéétion to the third king of the pérfian race, i fe The firft of thefe was Cyrus, who by his own gréat abilities freed his cOuntrymen the o1 bll Pérfians, enflaived the Medes his mifters, and cElebrie brought dnder his dominion the reft of Afia, 'gs’ tbe d with as far as Egypt. His fon f{ubdied Egypt, outlel and as much of Libya as was accéffibie, by fimple his arms, Darius the third king exténded the limits of his émpire by bis landforces as far fhiok as Scythia, and by his fléets made himfelf J it mafter of the féa and of the islands; in {o thiok thofe much that no one durft ftand up in oppofi- {f; S 264 Menexenus. tion to hinll.l The véry opinions of all min- the kind feem to have been fubdued; fo miny fo dot powerful, and fo warlike were the nations, pat which were bound to the péifian yoke. This ye Darius acclifing us and the Zretrians of an attémpt upén Surdis made that a preténce for by fénding an army of five hundred thoufand (Y1 men on board his fhips and trénsports, and th a fleet of three hundred f3il, over which he wit appointed Datis to be géneral Ordering him, fety under the forféiture of his héad, to bring form back the Zretrigus and Athemians ciptive. Tnep Daiis fiiling to Eretria aghinft a nition, tiong which of all the Greeks had at that time the 0(( gréateft reputation for vélour, and was more- phi over véry numerons, fubdied them in three y days; and' that mone of them might efcdpe, the he tock this méthod of féarching the whole th island, Caufing his troops to march to the ty utmoft limits of the Erétrians and exténd 2 themfelves from féa ta féa, ‘he ordered them of to join their hands, and fwéep the céuntry, 1’0; that he might be able to affure the king, that Wi not a man had efcaped him, With the like fi defign he pafled from Zietria to Marathon, th imdgining, he had nothing to do but to clap Y the fame inévitable yoke upén the neck of & A Dialogue of Plato. 263 | mén. the Athénians, and cirry them off, ‘as he had iny fo done the Zrétrians. Diring thefe transattions ations, part of which were accomplifhed, and part , This yet. in execltion, no nation of the Gréeks of a1 offered to ftir to the affiftance éither of the nce for Eretrians or the Athenians, excépt the La- houfand cedemonians , and they did not join wus till 5, a0d the day- ifter the battle, The reft ftruck hich be with terror, andv‘preférrinsr their préfent {3- i Jim, fety, kept quiet at home, By this one may ) hflfl% form a jhdgment of the brivery of thofe ’éptj 1) men, who recéived ‘the attick of the Barba- nation viaus at Marathon, chaftifed, the 4drrogance me the of dfia, and were the firft who eréted tré- S more: phies for their viGtory over a birberus éne- in three my; by their example inftriicting Others that the power of Perfia was not invincible; and eliph o ok that wéalth and nGmbers mufy yield to vir- fo the tue. [ call thefe men thétefore not 6nly odur natural but our civil fathers alfo, the fithers extéfld | them of our liberty and of ‘the liberty of all Zy- untrf rope. For the Grécians, furvéying this day’s work, were taught by their Marathonian ma- if that fters to hizard new battles in the defénce of e ke Vfl[,llmlfl their cbuntry, Upon thefe thérefore, dught we in réafon to beftéw the firft palm, and ) CJ&p give the fécond to them, who Afterwards o of 266 Menexenus, The fought and cénquéred in the féa- tights ‘at Salamis and Artemifinm. He who would Gr(% go over the {éveral 4¢tions of thefe brave ati La men, en(imerate the miny difficulties théy had to ftruggle with, both by f{éa and land pat and tell, how they furmdunted them, would af fo have much to fay. But I fhall only méntion what appéars to me to be the gréateft exploit by after that of Marathon. For by that viétory f the Greeks had been only tiught that upOn fill land it was pOffible for a {mall nimber of himf Grécians to overcome a multitude of Barba- vadiy rians; but that at féa they were able to effé&t g The who the fame thing, was not yet évident, Pérfians had the reputation of béing invincible and at féa, by the fuperidrity of their nimbers, 1o their riches , their naval {kill and ftrength.. tha! Now what is moft praif’ewéfthy in thofe bra- thy ve men, who fignalized themfelves at féa is, th that they did théreby, as it were loofen thofe at bands of térror, which had held the Grécians - {o faft bound, and caufed them no lénger to ftand in awe of numbers, whether of fhips ) or men, From thefe two 4aétions this of Sa- le fe lamis and that of Marathon, all Gréece was inftricted and accuftomed not to be afrdid of P the Barbariaus Either ?\by fea or by land. gl 1 P 26y 4 {)i;zlogue of Plato. hits ot The third gréat exploit for the deliverance of would Gréece as well in oOrder as in degrée is the brave altion of Plataea, in the glory of which the s they Lacedemonians and Athenians had an équal nd Jand part, This gréat this arduous énterprize was \yould atchiéved, 1 fay, by thefe two nations and méntion for this their mérit are they now célebrated by us and will be by our poftérity to the epl pictory Iateft times, After this many ftites of Gréece upon [ ftill {ided with the Barbarian, and the king er of himfelf was reported to have a defign of in- b vading Greece once more, It would then be highly dnjuft not to take nétice of thofe alfo, effelt ’1 Le who compléted the work of their forefathers, ncible and p) put the finifhing hand to our delive- rance, by q) feduring the féas of évery thing mbers; that had the name of Barbarian, and driving gngfh, them within their own limits, r) Thefe were ) brde they, « who were enghged in the nival fight b 18, thofe at Eurymedon in the expeditipns to Cyprus, cjans - » of 10 p) to put the finifhing haund to a | work, die hips lezte Hand an ein Werk legen. q) to feour, St fegen. 1) Diefe waren es, fo fagt man im a8 Deutfchen, im Englifchen mufs das leztere 4§ of Pronomen dem erftern im Genere und Numerg . and. gleich fegn. / 268 Menexenus. to Egypt and miany other pi%aces. Thefe ought Gr eC we thérefore t0 commémorate and to acknéw- they ledge Our obligations to them for hiving taught after the gréat king to féar; to atténd to his own mon; fafety, and not to be plétting the overthrow mnt) of Gréece, This wiar againft the Barbarians hech did our cOmmonwealth with ker own fOrces at for ler ésly , draw out to the véry dregs, qui own fecurity, and that of her illies, Péace thi béing made and Atliens beéing now in fer their higheft glory, there fell upén . fher, what is foner moft commonly the lot of the {uccéfsful, firft g a rivalry in fome Other ftates of Greece , and Doue from t/ence jéaloufy, which dréw her, tha' the"m‘ unwilling into war agiinft Grecians: upéa Wit the bréaking cut of which war the Athénians a0 fought a battle witk the Lacedemonians at ter Tho' Tanagra for the liberties of BOotia. W the iflue of that battle was doubtful .=t the tef following aétion proved décifive: for {Ome e of the 4llies of the Bbotiams hiving deféried thofe, to whofe afliftance they came, our céuntrymen Aaving on the third day after ob. Y thined a victory, we recévered to a fenfe of Le thofe, by their duty, who withéut réafon fad fillen OFf from it. Ve Theéfe brive men hé‘\fing Di fought agdinft Grécians for the liberties of bei ba \ 269 | A Dialogue of Plaso. ought Grécians , and delivered tZofe, whole eiufe 00\- they had undertiken to defénd, were the firfk taught after the pérfian wir, updn whom the coHm. § OWD monwealth conférred the hbnour to be bliried rthiow in this pablick cdemetery. After this the wir harians becime more géneral; all Gréece fell upén us forees at once, and rivaged our céuntry, ill s) re- for fet quiting the fivours, they had recéived from Peace this city, But the Atlénians siving deféated "l') et their énemies in a féa- fight, and tiken pri- hat 18 foners in the island of Sphafleria their 1a- ders the Lacedemonians , when it was in their \, firf e, 0f power to have put them to déath, fpared ' th their t) lives, forgive them .and made péace with them; i thinking that altzo’ in a gwar fenians againft Barbarians néthing lefs than their Gt- ter thin f/ould be u) himed at, get that in a jans 1w war betwéen Grécians and Grécians, the cén- of tle teft {Lould be carried on as far as vi&ory in- déed, but that tie common intereft of Gréece {ome féried our r o s) to requite, vergelten, t) Das Subftantivum Leben hat im Deutfc/en keinen Pluralem, wo/l e of aber im Englifc/en. u) to aim wird im A&i- vo immer mit der Praepofition a¢ conftruirt, nv /Zf'ld 1ying Diefe Praepofition belalt es auck im Paflivo bei, fo wie folckes die meiften englifchen Ver- g5 Of ba thun, Menexenus. 270 fad 6ugli;c not to be facrificed to any particular in t reféntment, Are not thefe brave men tliére- affif fore worthy to®be praifed, who were engaged cou in that war, and who now lie buried fere? Lec They, who made it appear, if indéed it was X) a quéftion w/idther in the firft pérfian war for andther nition was not at léaft équal to the ang Athénianss they, I fay, who made it appéar Oyt hat fuch a quéftion was entirely groundlefs, came ‘Thefe men made the fuperiérity of the Athé- mode nians fufficiently évident, by their coming off vittérious in that war, in which all Gréece priile in o took part againft them, >and v) wériting in UI(? Hé battle with the forces of Athens o6nly, thofe in qng who had fet themlelves up for the chitfs of Greece, tho' they could w) preténd to no fyled Cufe more than an équal {hare with the Athénians their in their viftories gained over tie Barbarians. fo After the place arofe anbther hérrible and un- and expélted war, in which many brave men fell, Upor who hére lie blried, Some of thefe erééted miny tréplies in Sicily; to which céuntt'? they X) Sty V) to worft one, einen iiberwinden, w) to pre- LN ben tend to fome thing, auf etwas Anfpruch ma- my chen, . A Dialogue of Plato. 278 Jad failed in order to protélt the Léontines tieu! in their liberties, whom we were bound to thére affit by f{6lemn treaties, But before tzey [waged could arrive, the piflage béing long, the | fere? Leontines were reduced to extrémities, and 1788 x) disabled from gielding them 4ny afliftance; jan At for which reafon they gave over tie attémpt | to fie and were unfortunate ; though it muft be ppear owned t/eilr énemies, thofe againft whom they Umflela. came to fight belhaved with fuch virtue and Atie - moderation , that they deférved far gréater wng Off praife, than fome who were 6n jj conféderates Jxebce in that war, Others fignalized themfelves in L,UQ; W the Hellespont by taking all t/e énemy’s /i ips ol in one day, and by {éveral 6ther viftories, 1 itfs of ftyled this a hérrible and unexpéted war be- to 10 chufe {6me of the ftites of Gréece y) cérried thenns their énmity to this city {o far, as to prefume bariats to fend an émbally to the king of Pérfia, their nd U and our moft invéterate énemy, to invite of fe upén their own particular views, that Barbarian ricted y they x) to be disabled from doing a thing, aufler Stand gefezt werden, etwas zu thun, _fl to car- vy a thing [o far asto, eine Sache fo weit trei- ben, dafs etc, Das Verbum, welches folgt, foprt mu('s im Infinitivo fte/en, o 242 Menexenus. fote into Greece, whom for the cémmon chufe, théy Jiad formerly joined with us to drive out of put cons Europe; thus uniting in a léague againft Athens ow all the Greeks and Barbarians, Upén which occafion the ftrengt/ and valour of this ftate ‘v'm‘ For Our énemies, qui became moft confpicuous, tra looking upon At/ens as alréady vanquifked, Wi and faving ftized fome of dur {hips at Mity- bro lene, thefe gillant men (for fo tfey confélfedly man, were) whom we ndW commémorate, went to i Ien their rellef with fixty fail, and bodarding the % iy énemy’s {lips, gained a viftory over them, and delivered tleir own allies, but met with Othery mieh a lot unyorthy of their valour., for their p%ople bodies were not, as they dught to have been, 1 taken up out of the féa, but had their burial there, - And furely they deférve to be remém- and A\ alide bered éver with praife and /onour. For by cont their valour we came off viftorious not in that All engagement only but tiroughout, the whole war; and through their bravery z) was it, that tha firm our commonyealts gained the reputation of tefop béing invincible, though atté}cked by the united forces Who s but then z) Wie im Deutfc/en, Befier aber ift es, wann gy man das Pronomen ¢ vor dem Verbo fezt, g A Diaslogue of Platos 273 forces of all mankind Néither has thi Te- X ‘Yor we were ot of putation been falfified in fact. conquered not by our énemies; but by our Atfens own dilléntions. As to them we remain in- ik vincible even to this day But w nave 7“11" 1S fiu[e quifhed, have fubdued ourfelve After thefe ,nemse\ transattions a calm enfiing and a péace bet qlllfhEda a civil wixt us-and all 6ther nations, war t Mty broke out wvhich was carried on in fuch a edly manner, that if by the de ’rcub of héaven ent ¢ difféntions muft mceflarny arife , a man would gt pray that Zis cOuntry might be fo and not tliemy For how éafil b how btherwife diftémpered, [ W lt!l much like fri¢nds and féllow citizens, d1d the )Y £ people of the Piraeus, and thofe of the city; 1o beely fun into a reconciliation witl ach other! bum} and with how much moderation did they lay fell afide their hoftility againft thofe of Al for b contrary to the expeltatiobs of 1 Gréece! i that All which is to be afcribed to no Gther chufe il than their confanguinity; the natural bafis of at t,th firm and real friéndf{hip We ought not thé- on of refore to pafs Over in filenceé even thofe; umted who in this war were {lain on ¢ither {ide; foroes but as far as in us lies *"dmvom to reconcile them to éach other; {icr muncr praying and apon ‘thefe occafions to thoie daemons Wwho wand S el Menexenus. 274 nd diréCtion over themn riang have the comnand in as much s we outfelves are reconciled dem For they did not attick 2ach Other a) out of fefs hitred and milice but from the malignity of the ..,. !” tl et 10 rtune, Of this we outfelves are li- nefs vine évidences; who beéing of the fame com- diat fnon Ol Jina with them hav forgiven eéach wi her both what we did and what we fiffe= the and en= ted. After this the city had reft the joyed a profound peace, ¢afily pardoning the A cof Barbarians, who hiving been ill enéugh trea- Argi ted by this fiste, retarned it but as they plied u'Tt 03¢ But {he could not help refénting the the g behaviout of the Greeks, when fhe called to ?EY 9 and the mind the bénefits they had recéived a8 1 retrib’:ition they made, by uvniting with the quat Batbarians , depriving us of our fhips, to deft which tiey formetly owed their own dehve- An rance, and pulling down our wills, in retirn thir for having {aved theirs from rdin, ~ The city paf then having taken the refolution not to give Wor for the future Any afliftance to the Greeks whéthe oppréfled by Grécians or by Barba« b) f b e am—— chey Perf; a) ou# of, und from find in diefem Fall eirl= ander oY 4.’ eich und konnen eins fur das andré ey dag gelezt werden, kle ey, A Dialogue of Plate. 275 ¢t thefn rians, remiined quiet: upén which the Lace- oncled demonians, imagining that Athens the patro= nefs of liberty was fallen; and that ndw was ) out ot the time for them to purfie their own bifi- 1gn V0 o 1te | nefs, the enflaving of éthers, b) fet imme- me Cott diately about it I need not enlarge upén en ¢ what followed Thofe transitions are néi- e [l ther of an Ancient date, nor p oxple\ed by and the variety of i¢tors We all know in what a confternition the chief ftates of Greece the mflg 1 ofy tred flrqwes, the Bootians, the Corintlians ap— g they plied to this city for fuccéur; and what was i {he the gréateft miracle of all that the kmg of {0 Pérfia himfelf was redliced to fuch a firamht’ led and f}]@ as to have no hopes of {afety from any 6ther yith quarter but from this véry c) city, whofa deftriétion he had fo d) eagerl}, purfued 1Sy {0 And indéed if Athens can be accifed of any | delive nfe i thing, it is of having been always too com- piffionate, too much inclived to falve the b e city wounds of the affli¢ted For at this véry o g Greeks Barhs b) to Jet about Jomething , fich an etwas ma- chen, ©) city whofé, das Wort city it hier perfonificirt, deswegen fteht hier das Prono. men who. d) eageriy, 1u diefem Wort wird 111 efil das g ausnahmswexfe wie ein deutfches g ges an! k €11, Sa 276 Menexenus. { the tlme {'he was not able to peffevere and to keep to her refollition, of not affifting thofe péa we in the pexfe\ eration of their liberties, who had maliciously and defignedly injured her, i She vielded {he aflifted them, and by that th affiftance refcied them from flavery, and ol th gave them their liberty till they {hould think fit to enflive themfelves again, She il had not indéed the affrance to att fo pre- wi s pofterous a patt as to fend the king of Perfia king an) fuccdurs, fhe e) bore too gréat a réves= rence to the tréphies of Marathon of Salamis {Ome and Plataea: yet by conniving at the alffi- Ai g| france given him by flgitives, and fuch as il at yoluntarily’ éntered into his fErvice, {he was st conftffedly the caufe of his preurvthon. At this time fhe repdired her fortifications and e het fléets, and prepared agiin for war; fin- Wi th ding herfelf under the necéflity. of éntering into one with the Lacedemonians, for the lef The king of Pér- of proteéhon of the Parians, fia on his part, as {oon as he faw the Lace- fo demonians had given over all thoughts of e il carrying on a war by fea, took imbrage at Wi \ e) to bear a veverence to owe , Achtung fui 614 nen haben, f), A4 Dialogue of Flato. 277 the Adthenians; And refélving to bréak the and 1 g thole péace demanded thofe grécian ftates which P were upin the Cdnti id ent (of Afia) to be de- - who livered up to him (thofe wvéry ftates which o het, the Lacedemonians had formerly confénted to by that give up) as the condition of his continving I 0t the Amity with us and our 4llies. This de- [foud mind he did not imigine would be compiied A She with, and he made it Only that he might upén fo pree its béing rejécted have a fair preténce for brea- f et king the treaty. But he was miftiken as to ] 1Eves {fo6me of the allies; for the Coriuthions the alomis e a{\"\- Argives and the Rootians detérmined to com- uch # ply with his demind, and €ven éntered into a trgpty with him which they confirmed by he wis ¥ ath, to give up the Greeks upén the conti- on, A nent of Afia, provided ke would farnifh them s 0 with méney. But we and we alone had not i fm‘ the affurance to abindon thofe ftates, much pfeni] le(s to fweéar to fuch a tréaty. That the city or. the of Athens is fo fpirited, {o frank, fo cOnftant, f pet- fo héarty in the cémmon caufe, and as it Lace-‘ were by nature {o avérfe to the Barbarian, ht of muft be afcribed to her béing wholly Greek, gt I without én\y mixture of féreign f) alloy, - i o £) alloy, geringeres Metall , die Legie\rung, ein R, Menexenus, 278 For none of your féreign heroes, Pefops Cad- The MUS et (e Foyotus Danaus a nd many éthers, who Temt tho’ living under grécian lhws, were Barba< fu L ! rians by extriction; none of thefe, I fay are of the number of our citizens We are g¢- me! nuine Greeks, no Half - Barbarians, Hence pl proceeds the genume and unad(iterated énmity of Athens to all Barbarians. Wherefore we 1 the were once more left aldone for refufing to do (& nd an dction, fo infamous and fo impious as Inore that of delivering up Grécians into the hands of Pérlians Chlim But béing reftdred to what we ahts had been deprived of in the former war by thirg he' afliftance of héaven we profecuted this béay with more flccefs For becéming once aghin exh mafters of a fl¢ biving rebuilt our walls quit and recévered out colonies , we were {oon fréed from a war, which owur énemies were Plag Ac véry glad to get rid of. In this war we loft indéed miny gillant men, fome at Corinth, by the disadvintage of their fitudtion, Gthers ”]fl ] i at Lechasum by tréachery, Nor were they mof} els gillant who fived the king of Perfia and drove the Lacedemonians But out of the feas, Yoy e E - - 8oiy ger in om gerer Zufaz uberhau;t Vermmderung der bm;e. left P e A Dmlrfmq of Plato. 79 s (o Thefe are sthe men 1 would recall to you. remémbrance and in hénouring and priifing 5, Who Batbae fuch as thefe it becomes all of you ta join, fay are Such were the exploits of thofe brave e gt men who here lie buaried fuch were the ex- Hence pldits of thofe éthers alfo, who, though un- nmity hippily deprived of btrial died like them in ore We the f{érvice of their cOuntry; exp oits m ny gm {0 and gréat indced as has been relaied but o 2 more and ftill gréater yet remain untocid to hands en(imerate all which miny whole days and it W ights would f{carce f{liffice 1t is th duty , by thérefore of all and évery particular man to of (his béar thefe things in mind, and as in bat le to g A exhort the children of thofe fathers not to it W JJS’ quit their rank, in which their 4nceflfors have 1 foon placed them, by 2 bafe and cowardly retréat, o5 (E0 Accordingly, 1 myfelf, O ye fons of virtuous and as long as [ Jofe men do now exhort vou, [grj iy fhall remain améng vou will néver céafe re- your ut= fers minding and exhoérting you to ul o they moift endéavours to f{urpals them in wvirtue, fia ilIld But upén this occafion it is my duty to tell fm' you what your fathers, when they were going to expdfe their lives for their co'wtry Y commanded us to {ay to thole, whom they mg der left behind, in cafe any Zaccident {hould befall 280 Me;zexe_nut. N themfelves. T will repéat ;‘o.yo‘u what T héard Pl from their own mouths, and what, if: [ may il jadge from the difcouirfe they then held, they » ]f would now glidly fay to you themf{elves, G were it in their power, Imigine thérefore yl you heéar them fpeaking,. Thefe were their ! WOl'dS : - ! ol v 0 chil&ren! That you are fons of vir- ) »tuous fithers is évident from our préfent s W » circimftances, For l‘l‘éving it in dur éptiofl [ thr | s to live with dishonour, we have génerously il somade it our choice to die, rather /th_an bring » @,’0\] pourfelves and our poftérity into disgrace, 2L Wi €Ct spand refl infamy back upén our parents i wand forefathers; perfudded as we were that ! » the life of one who dishénours his fimily, 9 { ssis not worth living, and that fuch a man y | s ¢an have no friénd éither hére upén éarth 9§ s amoéng. minkind, or amdéng the gods here- ] tf o After in the réalms belOw. [t behoves you % i o thérefore to béar thefe our words in re- ng s mémbrance to the end that all your under. ! s takings may be accémpanied with virtue; 9\ »affuring vourfelves, that without virtue pl »évery acquifition, évery purfuit is bafe and 2 infamous. nh For wéalth can add no dignity ok o an unminly mind, The riches of _‘fuch‘ =Y 281 A Dialogue of Plato, ¢ 1h £ale ,-an one are for gthers not vfcr himfelf; N¢i- [ma ,» ther are beatty and firength of bédy, when | ;\ d, the » joined with bafenefs and cowardice, to be 1m.E\\ () s, déem’d ornaméntal, but disgraceful rathers I3 thérelc 1e! o fince, if they make a man more confpicuous 61 {hel s they at the fame time make the bifenefs of s his fodll confpicuous alfo. Wisdom in like s manner {éparated from jiftice, and the reft of VIt 5, of the virtues, is not wisdom but clnning. prf efll » Wherefore in the firft plice and in the 1afk on opt » throughout the whole cotirfe of your lives erous »it is incliimbent updn you to libour with il i bin »your faculties to furpifs us and your progé- h‘g‘ 2C€; sy Nitors in glory, Otherwife be affired, that enis pi\l ,,in this contelt of virtue, if we remain vi- Ke]‘fl Lid ]1 » Ctorious, the vittory will cOver us with [a Llrm \' » confufion, which in the céntrary, if obtai- 4 il s Ded by you, will make us hippy. The moft i e fh » efféCtual way for you to {urpifs us, and ob- is here- s tain this vittory, is {o to &érder your codn- es YOU »duft, as néither to ablfe nor wafte the in 16 3 glory left you by your dnceftors. For can ndee » 4ny thing be more ignominious for a man, e vl s» Who would be thought {6mething, than to VI ftie »Tecéive hénour not from bis own mérit, » but from the-reputition of his forefathers, ale il dflTfllfy » Heréditary hénoqr is indéed a. noble and of fuch 28% Metzexgnztf. s {pléndid pétrin/lon.y. But to enjoy a fair s I neftite éither in fime or méney, and for » PL\ ., want of a préper fupply of wdalth and glory ol 4 Of your own, not to be able to transmit y Il ., it to your poftérity, is infamous and un- b} ni 4 minly. 1f you g) endéavour 4fter thefe nl ,,things, you will be wélcome to us, and we ! »to you , whenéver your réfpetlive fates ! ,»Thall condiét you to us in the world bes I de 510w ¢ but if you disregard them and becéme ) 1&t1 . profligate, mnot one of us fhall be willing ylior ,',tO reCéiVe you. Thus much be {piken to yDin ., Our children: but to our fathers and our T » mothers, if any of them {hould furvive, and nby ;,it fhould be thought néeceflary, to adminia W ., fter comfort to them, fay that it is their utl ., duty, patiently to béar misfortunes, when- 1 bf s, 6ver they happen and not to h) give them- 3 U Lfelves up to grief: Otherwife they will né- ] e ,ver be without {6rrow; for the Ordinary ) soccurrences of life will dfford {ufficient mat- 1] WI'J ,, ter for affliction, They {hould feck to héal 9 ¢ »and mitigate their trdubles in the remém- P R 1 t_O g) to endeavour after fomething, nach etwas itreben, e h) to give oue Jelf up to grief, fich vom Schmerzen hipreifl'e‘n laflen, )k AT, A Dialogue of Plato, 283 it s brance, that 2as to the moft confiderable | for ] s pOInt the gods have héard their prayers, olor » For they did not pray that- their children mSH‘ t , might be immdrtal but virtuous and re- d un 5 DOWned il And this the gréateft of all bléf- 1 i »» fings they have obtdined 1t is not éafy for od e ymértal man to have évery thing fall out flws ssaccording to his wilhes in this life, Befi- 1d bes »»des by béaring their misfortunes with refo- come » lution and fortitude they will ghin the opi- Jing smion of béing the génuine pirents of mag- n {0 » Dinimous children, and of béing themfelves | ot ,men of céurage and magnanimity; whéreas £ m\d » by finking {Gnder their {érrows, they will dain yriife a fufpicion of their not béing odur fa- o thers, or thofe, who f{hall priife us will S t}wr et » be thought to have moft gréfsly flattered {hen 18} néither of which things Ought to come » to pafs, They themfelves rather fhould ill B8 B;dl nf 1 ;1) béar chief téftimony to our praife, fhe- ot o ;’ o wing by their ations that they are indéed s THEND, and the fathers of men, The old fo Dol ol » proverb, Z%t tao much of dny thmg , ftems »to be well faid, and in falt it is fo, Fog = ~ ehwts f jic i) to bear teflimony, Zeugnifs ablegen, = 284 Mmexemzf. N 5 who has within himfelf ‘all that is \nécefihr_f} ) am » to héppimfs , or néar-the matter and who ] be ,sdoes not fo depénd upén Sther men, as to ',? 0 ,, have himfelf and his affairs in a perpétual b)ly ,, flutudtion, according to their good or ill il »eonduct, he 1 fay, is beft provided for this ',,t( o life; fie is moderate, he is prudent, he is a oyl whéther 99 MAI 5 and he upbn all occalions, e ,, he obtdins or lofes an eftite or children, yth ,» will pay the gréateft regird to-this préverb: ,,for placing all his cénfidence in himfelf, he ., will néither be too much élevated with joy, o nor depréfled with {érromw. Such men we 51 M they ,»Thould think wérthy to be our fathers; fuch oo ,swe wilh them'to be, as they; and fuch we 5,“\( paffirm they are; fuch likewife are we now v ,sproved to be, by néither mirmaring nor »0 ,, trémbling at déath, tho’ we were to meet ! ., it this ipftant. And this fame ftite of mind 3 C ,do we recomménd to our fathers and to 9 h< 4y 0ur mothers , -intréating them to make ufe 95l ,,of fuch féntiments as thefe to. the remiining Pt »» part of their lives; and to be merfuaded that i —— b ., they will do us the gréateft pléafure by not i pi‘l ,,weeping and lam¢énting for us; that if the r ,,déad bave any knbwledge of what pifles renf 4y aMONG thle living, their affli¢ting themfelves, th ey, 285 A Dialogue of 4‘ Plato. éoefary yand béaring their misfortunes héavily wlll d who 3 be véry unaccéptable to us, whéreas on tie , 25 10 s, cOntraty , their béaring their afflictions light- el »ly and with moderition will be meft plea- dor il s ling, Our lives and 4€tions are now/going for this s,to have an end, but fuch an end as améng leist s, ten is déemed moft glérious, which thére- £ whether ,, fore ought rhther to be griced with hénour, childeer, o than fhllied with lamentations, By tiking roven! , care of our wives and children; by éduca- elf, be s ting the latter, and tirning themfelves and i joy s their minds wholly to fuch like employments, en Wwe s they will the more réadily forgét their mis- Y fich s, fortunes; and 1éad a life more exémplary uch e »mote agréeable to reafon and more accép- ge. 100 ,» table to us, Let this faffide to be fpoken mg 70r ,on our part to our refations and friénds, to e s, To the céommonwealth we recomménd the of mind s Care of our pirents'and children; beféeching flfld to »her to give thefe an hénourable education, e ife ,,and to chérilh thofe in their old age, ina But we are {én= jining 3 RANNEr w(')rtlzy of them. § that ,,fible that without this recommendition, all -y proper care ipill be tiken of both.® y not if the Thefe things, o ye children, and ye pa- pa’fiks rents of the decéafed , have they given me it el ¢harge to fay to you on their part; and I have T a8h M’em yenul, ihoft willingly and to the befi: of my pdwet pielt €xecuted tleir commands On my own part our and for their {akes 1 befeec/'z you ye fous; to emp imitate your fathers; you fathers to take cOm- ful fort for the lofs of thefe your fons; affuring am yourfe]ves that bot% in our piblick and in duf flot private capicities se will take care of you, and out cherilh your old age, as the réfpeftive duties hot and relations of évery one of us may require; fy Ye gourfelves iwell know what provifions the fer ¢ cémmongwealts fas made; that by expréfs thhate 13ws fhe has ordered care to be tiken of th telatio children and parents of thofe, who die in James battle ; and /as given it in charge to the ehief “ufim migiftrate, to take tZem abéve all Others into fupok his particular protéftions; that the latter may of fy be guirded from all injuries and the former prot not be fénfible of their érphan ftate, nor féel thir the want of a father; whole place the cém- Qe monwealtl fupplies, by aflifting in the care f e:]ef of their educition while they are clildren and dis= fitto when they are grown up to mankood Jou g imiffing them to their {éveral vocitions with — tie \ an #hoénourable préfent of a compléte fuit of armour, And this {he does not 6nly with a view of intimating to thém and reminding them of the occupitions of their futhers by b ¢ fimyg e, », A Dialogue of Platos 287 pflw& prelénting them with thofe implements of vi= lour, oy part which their fithers fhad {o olortousy {ous; to em nld £ i rlU B ’Ylfld 0 but alfo tiat being arrived to t/e ke cli full {herw d farnifled with the Yrmout of - afling a man, when they firft k) go to take pofléf= and in o0t fion of their houlekold gods, they may fet out with a good cmen, o, ul Moredver, {Ze fails ive dute not 'from time to time to pay thefe annivér- fary hbnouts to the decealed taking updn y feqm& fons th her to perform in géneral with reghrd to tiZem exprefs whatéver is due to eacs from their réfpetive 1 of the relations , nd to compléte all by ex/libiting ; dle games of different kinds, equéftrian and gyme naftick, {he efféctual e ehict mifical and poétical {upplies the Office of fons and leirs to fit/ersg jers {0t of futhers to {on and tZat of guirdians and e ) protéttors to their pirents and kindred dis= ot charging at all times all and évery part of the éng to all, e €Ol duties that beld Léarn t/érefore by i fe ot refléCting upOn théle things, to béar your afs el fifd fli€ions with more pitience, fot by fo doing you will alt the moft friéndly part as well to , 0 ' the dead as to the living and be better able to nge and recéive comfort, to chérils and fut of it A mindi%g k) co to iake [gngjfian, eine franzosfifche Cong et frruttion, P P b ) ) f i 2 =) 238 Ménexeizm. A Di(zlogue of Plato. afl'i{’c’ each O6ther, And ndw lAving jbiht]y puid the tribute of your {6rrow to the decéa- fed , as the law dirélts, you may all depart, ) This Menéxenus is the fpeech of A/}{Jafid the Miléfian, Men. 1In trith, Socrates, Afpafia is a hippy woman , if f/e can indéed make fuch fpée- ches as thele, Soct, If you doubt of it, come albng with Sir me, and vou f{/all heéar fier herfelf. ol Men, I have been Often in her coOmpany, and Chare, véry well know what f/e is. lo Soct, Well then, don’t you admire fer and S'\W T( are you not obliged to fer for this oration ? Coe Men, I am gréatly obliged, Socrates, éither to fer or to him, who éver was the aut/ot My of it, but ‘more particularly to you who Roy have repéated it to me. Soct. Véry well: but remémbet not to fpéak My of it, that I may fhereifter be at liberty to i ‘ communicate to you fome more of ker fine Ty ip political difcotirfes. Men. You may depénd upén my not betrhying you. Be you énly as good as your word, ) - laum Socr, 1 will not fail, Auch 0 e Y iy Scenes fech| s It 289 "we o jont e deria Scénes frdm Comedies. dep;i‘rt. 4 il i *)Some Scenes from the fchool of {candal, §4 Lirn 0oy foch Ipe Per fons. ’Sir Oliver Surface, a rich nibob. 6* [3{]0‘ Wil Sofeph Surface, a vile diffémbler, Al i Charles , brother to the former, a libettine, in love with Maria, et and Sir Toby Bumper; ) tion’? Sc om;;{mions of Chatles, Carelefs, 3 gither Mofes, a Jew, }'OU il Rowley, Maria, ‘t to fpéfi“‘- Siy Peter Teazle, and Lady Teazle. h’befl/ /10 Trip. et fifle g * k Die folgende Auftritte find nicht allein fehr wol‘d; launifch und voll guter Moral, fondern fie find auch in Riikficht des guten Converfationsftyls zu empfehlen, Der Name des Autors, es ift Sheridan, wird diefe Behauptu ng hinl‘angii{:h rechtfertigen, 'l‘ Scefifs Scénes from Comedies. 00 Scéne, Sir Charles’s houfe. th the \Charlés; Carele/s, Sur T;)éy, and gentlemen 1) difcovered drinking, pe 0f Char[es. Ha, ha, ha! < by héaven you ate Sy in the right' ~— the degéneracy of the age is aftonifhing; there are many of our ac- quaintance , who are men of wit genius o and fpirit, but then they m) won’t drink. i Carel, True Charles, but then they fink into Jo the more fubftantial lixuries of the table, A bim and quite negléct the bottle. of b Cha. Right, - befides foclety fuffers by it fo ey inftéad of the mirth and huimour, that Ufed thing to n) mantle over a bottle of fo-rgundy,‘ Gefitf. il Chg. 1) Dies Wort wird in der deutfchen Uebetfea zung nicht ausgedriikt. m) wow't, eine Ab= e kit zung ftatt will not. Es kommen in dem Converfationsityl fehr viele Abkiirzungen vor, Man mufs die- Ctm die ich immer erklidren werde, Ve felbe nicht nur verftehen lernen, fondern fich Cla, auch diefelbe fo bekannt machen, dafs man die 00 gewObnliche zu rechter Zeit felbft anbringt, indem es affectirt ift im Englifchen immer alles auszulprechen wie ‘es in Biichern fteht, Ja man wird dadurch der gewOhnlichen Claffe fo gar unverftandlich, n) to mantle, {chiumen, 0) ' Db feine Fliigel ausbreiten;, ruhen, R, Scénes from Come dies, 291 their converfation is becéme as infipid, 25 lemet the Spa water they drink , which has all the pértnefs of Champfugn ‘without 'its fpmt or flavour. o afe Sir Toby. But what will you fa) to thofe, he age who prefér play to the bottle? o) There's g Harry, Dick and Carelefs himfelf, who are gemls under a hazard remmen drink Cha. Pfha! no fuch thing — What, would k1010 you trhin a hotfe for the courfe by kéeping table, him from corn ? Let me throw updn a bottle of burgundy, and I néver lofe; at leaft I b fot néver feel my lofs and p) that's the fime t ufed thing, - glmd) j Gentl, True befides q) ’tis wine, that detel.. mines, if 2 man be réally in love, Cha So it is — fill up a dézen blimpers to a dbzen beauties, and fhe that floats at the petes ¢ Ab top, is the gitl that has bewitched you, ) detm Carel But come Charles, you have not gi- YOIy ven us yout real favourite, N 5 die il hd Cha. Faith 1 have withhéld her Only in il d]e compaffion to you, for if 1 give her, you ) [;5[ L r ol i li fle 10 0) There's anftatt there is, es ift, oder da 1fl:. mel) p) that's, anftatt that is. q) ’tzs, anfiatt it is, T2 502 Scénes from Comedies. muft r) toaft a round of her peers; which Cor is impoffible (/ighs) on ‘éarth, Carel. s) We'll toaft fome héathen déity, or Cha Tr celéftial goddefs to match her, Cha, Well then bampers — bumpers all a- Co round — Here’s Maria — Maria, — (sighs) 1. Geuntl. Maria — pfha, glve us her fir- name. Cl i Cha. Pfha — Hang her firname, that’s too formal to be regiftered on love’s cilendar, to el 1. Gentl Maria then — t) Here’s Maria, Maria — Come, here’s Maria, Sir Toby. Trip enters and whifpers Charles, W it Cha Géntlemen, I muft beg your pirdonm, fis, (rifing) 1 muft léave you upén bifinefs — A {en Carelefs take the chair fes Carel. What ’tis is fome wench — but we Mol won't lofe you for her, (o Cha. No, upén my hénour — It is only a e jew and a broker that are come upon ap- Sty pomtment & ) r) to toafi, Gefundhelt trinken, s) We'll ans flatt we will, t) Here's anftatt here is, i — S, Scénes from Comedies. 293 Carel. which A jew and a broker! We'll have u) ’em in, 1] i fy o Cha. Fhen v) defire Mr Mo/es to walk m, Trip. And little Premium too, Sir, l Carel. Aye Mofes and Premium. (exit Trip) (szgus) Charles, we'll give the rifcals fome géne- rous burgundy, hes No hang it — wine draws but forth Cha the nitural qualities” of a man’s héart, and af’s b to make them drink would dnly be to endflrt 2 wet their knavery (18 Enter Sir Oliver and Mofes, Walk in gentlemen, walk in; Trip, give $i chairs ; fit down Mr. Premium, fit ddwn Mo- {es, Glafles Trip; come Mofes, 1’1l give yon pard(]fl, a {éntiment s Here's flccefs to ufury. Mo- e = fes fill the géntleman a blmper. Mofes. s Hére's {lccefs to ufury.* AL Carel True, Charles, ufury is induftry and deférves to {uccéed only 4 Then hére’s all the fuccefs it de- Sir Oliv. on & {érves. R u) ’em anfiatt them. v) defire, wird hier und in dhnlichen Fallen durch laflen ausgedriikt; ;fll e defire him to walk in, lafs ihn herein kommen, 294 Scénes fiom Comedies., Cavel, Ch, démme, Sir, that won’t do; you ‘demfr to the toaft, and {hall drink it in a pint bumper at léaft. Mofe ftr Mofes, Oh, pray Sir, confider Mr Premium for is a géntleman, thi Carel, And thérefore lves go?jd wine, and Cha, w) 1’1l fee juftice déne to the bottle, — Mo Fill Mofes a x) quart, litt Cha. Pray confider , géntlemen, Mr, Premium ma is a ftranger, gint Sir 06, 1 Wifh,,: l-was out of their! cém= mong pany. (aside) Qent Carel. Come aléng my boys, if they won't lend - drink with us, we’ll not fray with them; ot the dice are in the next room — y) You’ll 1 to us, fettle your bifinefs Charles,,f and come It ur Cha., Ay, aye — But Carelefs, you muft be fo réady, perhfipsA‘I may have occalion for i you, Carel, Aye, aye z) bill, bonAd_\ or annhitya 'tis all the fame to me, X Cha, Sir ( (Exit with the reft.) 11 \vj I’l] anftatt 7 wz/l X) a quart, eine Maas, Y) Zon 'll anftatt you will. z) bill ein Wech- fel zum Unterfcheid von bond ein Schuld{chein, Y l 295 Scénes fvohi Comedies. do; you - Mofes, Sir Oliver and Charles, kit ing Mofes. Mt Premium is a géntleman Qf the ftricteft honour and fécrecy and always per- Dreminm forms, what he underthkfs. ~ Mr, Premium, this is — (formally) vine, ad Cha. Prha! hold your téngue — My friénd bottle, = Mofes, Sir is a véry héneft fellow, but a little flow at expréflion — 1 fhall cut the . Dreniin matter Véry {hort; — a) I’'m an extrava= gant young féllow, that wants to borrow it o E S méney; and you, as I take it, are a pru- dent old féllow who has got money to y won't lend — L am fuch a fool- as to give fifty h them; per cent rather than go withdut it; and you y) Yorl I fuppofe are rogue. endbugh tg take ‘an nd come hindred, if you can get it, And now we underftind one andther, and may proceed to bifinefs withdut forther céremony, o ¢ Sir Oliver, Excéeding frank upén my word — 1 fee you are not a man of cémpliments, ¢ apuif Cha. No Sir. Sir Oliver. Sir, 1 like you the better for it — Howéver you are miftdken in one thing 2 1 have go méney to lend’, but I beliéve, % e ?ing Mflfl& i il WEC]]" a) I ’m anftatt I am. 1]d[€h€iflc /4 206 Scénes f}oné Cémedies. I could procure you; fome from a friénd; Ch but then he is a damn’d uncénfcionable dog; is he not Mofes ? Mojes. Yes, but you b) can’t help that, Sis Oliver. And then he has not the moéney by Ch ~ him, but muft fell ftock at a gréat lofs, muft he not Mofes ? Mofes. Yes indéed — You know I ilways S fpeak the truth and fcorn to tell a lle, Ui Cha. Aye, thofe who fpéak truth ufually Ve c¢) do — And Sir, I muft pay the differen~ Ju ce, I fuppdfe — Why look ye d) Mr Pre- pef mium, I know that méney is not to be Sir ( had without paying for it, il Sir Qliver. Well — but what feclirity could you give! — You have 'not 4ny land, I fupp(‘)fe? Che e 1 b) can’t anftatt cannot. ¢) Das Verbum au- xiliare fo do wird im Englifchen theils dazu ge- braucht, einem andern Verbo einen Nachdruk Ch zu geben, theils auch fiir ein anderes gefezt, um deflen W iederhohlung zu vermeiden, Lez- teres ift hier der Fall, d) ye oder you ift der M Nominativus Pluralis des Pronomens der aten tik, wenn man Perfon, Es ift €in Fehler gegen die Gramma- ye als den Accufativum fir yon braucht, ) Scénes from Cémedies. 297 riénd; Charles. Not a molehill nor a twig, but e dogy what grows in bow ~— pots oOut at the windows, af, Sir Oliver. ‘Nor any fiock, I prefume, ey by Cha. Néne but live ftock, But pray Sir, ate 5, mit you acquiinted with 4ny of my conné- ¢tions ? Sir Oliver. To fay the trith, I arfi. \ alwags 18 Cha, Then you muft have héard, that I ha- il ve a rich old Gncle in India Sir Oliver Sur- ifferens face, from whom 1 have the gréateft ex- Ir Pre- pettations, o be Sir Oliver, That you have a wéaithy uncié, I have héard; but hdw your expettitions y could will tarn out, is more, I beliéve, than land; I " you can tell. Cha. O yes, I'm told I am a ménfirous fa- vourite; and that he inténds léaving me évery thing, Sir Oliver, Indéed! this is the firft time, I jm 40 éver héard of it, 70 86 Cha. Yes, yes, he inténds miking me his chdt: heir — Does he not Mofes ? gefez b Lez Mofes. O yes, €) 1’ll tdke my odath of that, Iflj et of ofet g iy e) I'll anflfitt 1 will, 293 Scénes from Comedies. Sir Oliver. (aside) Egad they ’ll petfuade Che me préfently, that I ’m at Bengal Cha Now what I propofe, Mr Preminm, is to give you a poff obit on my uncle's life, Though indéed my uncle f) Noll has been and upén my {foul, I S véry kind to me, {hall fincérely be férry to héar 4ny thmg has happened to him. Sir Oliver. Not more than I fhould, I afiure () you, But the bond you 6ffer me hippens to be the worft fecurity, zmou could é6ffer bir me, for 1 might live tc be an hundred and (g néver recéver g) the principal \ SW Cha. O yes, you would, for the moment he 0y dies, you come upbn me for the mdney A( Sir Oliver. Then'1 belidve, I Thould be the (ha moft unwélcome dun, you éver had in your 1 < Yife, g Cho What you are qfrmd my little Premlum, tnat my uncle is too good a life, Sir Sir Oliv, No indéed, 1 am not; though I ke have héard he’s as héal and as héarty, ag Ye any man of his yéars in- Chriftendom Mo Si v i ) ZVo/Z oder Nol, eine Abkurzung des Namens Qliver, ) the priucipal, das Capital, ) Scénes from Comedies, 2909 nade Cha. O there you are misinféormed, No no, The poor uncle Oliver! he bréaks a pace 1, 18 climate Sir has hurt his conftitution, and T am told he is fo much altered of late, that lifey b ol his neareft reldtions don’t know him. Sir Oliv No! ha ha ha! fo much altered U\\ I fing of late that his néareft relitions would not know him, Ha ha, ha that’s droll h) egad afi It Cha, What, you are pléafed to héar, he is \ ppes on the decline, my little Premium, it 8ir Oliver, No, 1 am not, ~ no, no, no. Cha { and Yes, you are, for it mends your chince, Sir Oliv, But]am told Sir Oliver is céming nt he over — Nay {6me fay, he is actually arri- ved ney be te Cha. Oh there you are misinformed agdin —No— no fuch thing — he is this mOment at Ben- n JOUr oal What ¢ I muft cértainly know better than you miltty Sir Oliver, Véry true as you fay, you muff know better than I; though 1 have it from gh | a( véry good authobrity — Have I not Mofes‘l MO/éSo Moft undoubtedly, Siy Oliv. But, Sir, as 1 underftind you mess h) egad, wahrlich 300 Scénes from Comedies. want fome hundreds imeédiately, 1is there Sir néthing, that you would difpofe of ? Cha. How do you méan? Ch Sir Oliver. For inftance now ¢ T have héard ( your father left behind him a gréat quéntit‘y of mifly old plate, Si Cha. 'Yes, but that is géne long agh — Mo- fes ean inform you how, better than I can. (h 8 Sir Oliver. (aside) Good lack! all the f4- Cla, mily race cups, and corporation bowels g6- md ne It was alfo fuppofed that his library was one of the moft viluable and com- Si?‘ 0 » Wi pléte, Cha. Much too large and véluable for a pri- S bl vate géntleman; for my part, I was always of a communicative difpofition, and thought Cha it a pity to keep fo much knéwledge to myfelf, it Sir Oltver. Mércy on me! knéwledge that has run in the fimily like an heir-loom f? (aside) And pray how may they have been difpofed of ? b Cha. O! you muft afk the aultioncer that,— I dént believe éven Mofes can dirétt you there, ( HMofes. No i 1 név(%f meddle with books. Scenes from Comedies jor - there Sir Olivers The profligate! (aside) And is there néthing you can difpofe of ? Cha Néthing — finlefs you have a tafte for ] hsard old family pittures I have a whole room full of anceftors abdéve ftairs, ity Sir Oliver. Why, f{ure you would not feII ¢ your relations ? = o Cha. Every foul of them to the beft bidder, [ can Sir Oliv, Not your gréat uncles and Aunts? the ff Cha. Aye, and my grandfathers and grand Is g0 mbthers, braty Sir Oliv. (aside) 1’1 néver forgive him this, com Why? — What — do you tike me for Shylock in the play, to raife méney from a i me on your own flefh and blood! s Cha. Nay, don’t be in a paffion my little Pre-- hough mium; what is it to you if you have your :vdge méney’s worth ? Sir Oliver. ‘That’s véry true, as you fay — e that Well, well, I believe, I can difpofe of the Joom family cinvas, (aside) 1’1l néver forgive heen him this, Euter Carelefs, lato you Care! Come Charles, what the dévil are you doing fo long with the broker — We are ks waiting for you, 302 Scenes from Comedies. Cha, Oh! Carelefs, you are juft come in ti- Sir me, we are to have a fale aboéve ftairs — 1 am gding to fell all my anceftors to little Premium, Carel, Burn your ancefl:ors ! Chao Ch No, no, he may do that afterwards, if he will But Carelefs, you {hall be the auétioneet Sl Carelefi‘. With all my héart — I handle a 40 hammer as well as a dice box — a going (ha, — 2 going, Cha. Bravo ! = And Mofes, you {hall be the fon ot appraifer if we want one, i) Mofes. Yes, 1’1l be the appraifet 10 Sir Oliver, (aside) Oh the préfligate. Cha. What’s i) the matter my little Premium ? te A you k) don’t feem to relifh it, e Sir Oliver, (Afféiting to langh) Oh yes T do, Sip véiftly ha ha ha, I — (aside) Oh the pré= digal! Its i, Cha. Véry true; for when a man wants money , who the dévil can he make free whs dn with if he can’t with his own relations, (Exit,) By 1) What’s anftatt what is, What’s the mai- 1) fo tery nun, wie ftehts2 . k) down’t fur do wots 1Chk( o Scenes from Comedjess 303 i fr Szr Olivers (followmor) I'll" néver forgwe him, 1§ = 0 ltte Enter Carelefs, Sir Oliver, Charles and MO{QS‘ Charles» Walk in géntlemen walk in; hére th they are — the fimily of the Surfaces up e the to the conqueft Sir Olivers And in my opinion a géodly andle colléttion, goig Cha. Aye, there they are done in the triie fpirit and ftyle of poOrtrait.— phinting , and he the not like our médern Raphaels, who will make your pitture independéntly of yourfelf: no .the gréat mérit of thefe are; the invé= terate 1) likenefs they béar to the original, iitn? All #iff and Sukward as they were and hke nothing in hlman nhature befides, (10 Siv Oliver, Oh we Thall néver fee fuch fious e pl’O res of men aciin, Cha. I hope not, —~ You fee Mr, Premium wants what a2 doméftic man T am; hére I fit of free an évening furrdunded by my Anceftors — To TiliEd But come let us proceed to bafinefs, 1) to bear a likenefs to fomething, eine Aelifis ) v lichkeit mit etwas haben, ioh o 304 Scenes from Comediess Sir your pilpit Mr autionéer =— Oh here is a gréat chair of my father’s, that feems fit for & Care néthing elfe, Carele/s. The Véfy thing — m) but what {hall no 1 do for a hammer, Charles? An auétionéer au is néthing without a himmer, Clmo Si Che A hammer! (looking round) Let’s fee, what have we here — Sir Richard, heir ne to Robert — a genealogy in full egad = du Here Carelefs, gyou fhall have no cémmon t bit of mahogény; here’s the fimily trée, and 0r 1 now you may n)knbdbck down my 4nceftors with their own o) pé(}igree. g 1 Sip Why M, i, V m) what [hall I do for a hammer , Was foll ich 000 zum Hammer nehmen, n) #o knock down hat foff hier einen Doppelfinn, Eigentlich heift es nie- derwerfen, todtfchlagen. Hier bezieht es fich i 0l aber auf die Gewohnheit, die in England bei S | dafs der Auttionier mit Auétionen herrfcht, i dem Schlag eines Hammers anzeigt, wann eine (ha Sache verkauft ift, Die verkaufte Sache ift alfo fiir die tibrige bei der Auétion anwefende (ol Gefellfchaft todt, das ift nimmer im Commerz, weil fie das Eigenthum eines Einzelnen gewor- i! den ift, Diesift die Gelegenheit zu dem Dop- elfinn, indem hier die verkauften Dinge Ab- DG bildungen von Perfonen find, 0) pedigreey 0ty Stammbaum , Gefchlechtsregifter, & Scénes from Comedies, 305 Sir Oliver. f 16 4 What an unnitural rogue be is ! fit ot — An expért fafto parricide. (aside) Carel, p) Gad, Charles, this is lucky; it will (bl not 6nly fe’rvie for a himmer but a catalo- oneet gue too, if we {hould want it, Cha, True — Come, hére's my gréat uncle ots ) Sir Richard Ravelin, a marvellous good gé- neral in his day ~- He férved im all the d, bt duke of Marlborough's wars and got that egad - cut over his eye at the battle of Malplaquet gmmon ¢, and — He is not dréfled out in féather’s like our médern ciptains, but enveloped in wig ceftors and regiméntals, as a géneral {hould be = What fay you Mr Premium, | Sir Mofes, Mr Premium would have you fpéak, Cha. Why, ybu fhalk\have him for ten pounds, and I’'m fure, that’s cheéap for‘a ; {0” ih ftaff officer, o 2 o5 18 Sir Oliv. Héaven deliver me! his gréat uncle t 65 fi jind b?i Sir Richard going for ten pdunds, — (afide) — Well, Sir, I take him at that price, jor 1l Cha, Carelefs, knock down my uncle Richard, on ¢le jche ! Carel, Going, going — a going — géne’ ’mmefly eyor i DOD p) Gad, eine AbkiirZung von’Egad. Siehi¢ 06 Ab‘ Nota b, p. 299, filgi’fli U 300 Scénes from Comedies. Che Cha., Thisis a maiden fifter of his, my gréat 4unt Deborah, déne by Kneller, thought to be one of his beft pi¢tures, and eftéemed a véry formidable likenefs There {he fits, Si as a {hépherdefs feeding Her flock — You fhall have her for five pounds, q) ten, C C 1’m fure the fheep are worth the méney. Sir Oliver. (aside) Ah poor Aunt Deborah! a woman that fet fuch a vilue upon her- felf going for five pounds, ten, — Well Sir, r) fhe’s mine, i Cha. Knock down my aunt Deborah Ca- Sir relefs, & Carel, Goéne, f¢ Cha. Here are two cdufins of theirs == Moe Cle fes, thefe pitures were done, when beaux (o wore périwigs and ladies their own hair, Sir Oliver. Yes truly — Héad dréffes feem Cl to have been fome what' lower in thofe . days. Cha Here’s a grand father of my méther’s, a judge well known on the weftern cir= cu1t What will you give for him ? Four guineas! Mofes. 9 q) ten, Z°hn nehm de fur f he is, lich Schillinge, r) fhe's li d S, Scénes from Comedies. 354 Cha, - Why you don’t bid the price of his wig, ¥ g1t hough Premium , you have more refpeé‘t for the woolfack ; do let me knock him down at fteemed be fits fifteeng Sir Oliver. By all ‘méans, / ~ You Cavel, Gone, q) Here are two bréthers William and money. Cha. Walter Blunt Efquire, both members of par- eborah! and what’ on et liament, and gréat {peakers; véry extraérdinary, I beliéve this is the _ el firft time they were éver bought or {old Sir Oliver. That's véry extradrdinary in- , G deed! 1°1l tike them at your own price, for the hénour of parliament, Cha Well {aid, Premium, - Jlow heaux Carels 1’11 knock them down at forty pounds, — s) Going — a going. — goine, i, Cha. Hére's a jolly pértly féllow; 1 don’t 5 e know what relation he is to the fimily; fio but he "was formerly mayor at Norwich her's . t) let’s knock him down at éight pounds, Sir Oliver, No, I think fix is enbugh for a 1 Cir mayor. s) Going = a going - JOUEL,s Dies entfprlcht dem Ausruf, der bei un fern Autionen gewohn. lich ift ; zum erften, zum zZweiten, und zZum Jrs dritten mal, t) let’s fur let us, 308 Scénes from Comedies. Cha. Come , come, make it guineas, and I'll €9 throw you the two aldermen into the bar~ al gain, Sir Oliver, They are mine. Sir Cha Knock down the mayor and ildermen, Carel. Gobne, Cha. But hang it, we fhall be all day at this rate; come come give me three hundred :t pounds ; and tjke all on this ide the room n) in a lump, — that will be the beft Way. Cla be« Sir Oliver. Well , well, . any thing to ac- cOmmodate youj; they are mine, — But pid there’s one pértrait, you always péffed over. 1 Carel W hat that ill looxing féllow oOver it 0 the fettee, fi Sir Oliver. Yes fir tis what I méan but Bu 1 don't think him fo ill 1ookmg a fellow fh by any méans, Ch Cha. That’s the pitture of my uncle Sir Oli- ver — Before he went abroad, it was do6- ne, and is eftcemed a véry gréat likenefs, | li Carel That your uncle Oliver! Then in my Sip opinion you will néver be friénds, for he is one of the moft ftern looking rogues I { A W) in a lwmp, auf einmal, oder wie man fonft zu fagen pflegt, per Baufch und Bogen, Ch \ 309 Scénes from Comedies. and [l éver behéld; he has an unforgiving eye, he bare and a damn'd disinhériting countenance. i Don’t you think fo Mr Premium ? Sir Oliver . Upén my foul 1 do not Sir; I detmen, think it as héneft a looking face as any in the room, déad or alive. — But I fuppofe ot ths your uncle Oliver goes with the reft of the hundred lumber, 1t 100 Cha. No, hang it, the old géntlemanvhas ft i to A been véry good to me, and 1’1l keep his piture as long as ] have a room to put But | over it in, r ovet Sir Oliver. (aside) The régue is my néphew 4fter all — 1 forgive him évery thing. — an but But Sir 1 have {fome what taken a fancy to that picture. fellow Cha. 1 am {6rry for it, Mafter brbker, for What the i Ol you cértainly won’t have it. s do- 'dévil have you not got enéugh of the fi- 16{50 " mily ? ) my Sir Oliver. (aside) 1 forgive him évery ot be thing, — Look ye Sir, 1 am a firange fort of a féllow , and when I take a whim in s | my héad I dont vélue moéney: 1’7 give — you as much for that as for_ all the reft, (ool ‘Clm. Pry thee don’t bé tréuble fome 54 1 \ 310 Scénes from Comedies, Sir tell you, I won’t part with it, and v) the- (ha, re’s an end w) on’t, Sy Sir Oliver, How like his father the dog is d — I did not percéive it before, but 1 think I néver faw fo ftrong a refémblance, (asde) Well Sir, here’s a draft for your fum. (gi- (. ving a bill) You’ll not let Sir Oliver go theno Cha. O No, I tell you once for all Sir Oliver. Then néver mind the difference, we’ll balance that fome 6ther time — But f%ej e give me your hand; (prelles it) you are a damn’d héneft fellow, Charles — O lord (7% k felh I beg pardon Sir for being fo free — Come aléng Mofes, Juls de Cha. But hark ye Premium, you’ll prowde good 16dgings for thefe géntlemen, (going) ’9( Che Sir Oliver, I1’ll {fend for them in a day or two. Cha. And pray let it be a Genteel convéyan- (hy ce, for I affire you moft x) of’em have been ufed to ride in their own cirriages, (g Sir Oliver. I will for all but Oliver, t Cha. For all but the little Nabob ti }\ V) there’s fir theve is, w) on’t fir on i, x) of ‘em fir of theus, Ao, Scines from Cémedies, 31K Siy Olivey You are fixed on that, y) the Cha, Peremtorily Sir Oliver. (aside) -Ah the déar extrivagant dop 1§ | think dog! — Good day Sir, Come Mofes, = Now let me fee who dares call him préfli- (wit) gate, ([Exit with Mofes.) um, ({ Carel Why Charles, this is the véry prince fiver g0 of brokers, Chll s 1 wonder where Mofes got acquainted with fo hbdneft a féllow, — But Carelefs Ferens, ftep into the cémpany, 1’ll wait on you ~ Bt préfently, 1 fee 0ld Rowley cOming, ] ate 4 Carel don’t let that But hark ye Chatles, ) lord! féllow make you part with any of that Come Tri- méney to difcharge mu{’:y old debts, desmen you know are the moft 1mpertment pronde péople in the world, (go’fig) Cha. True, and paying them would only be diy 0 encduraging them, Carel, Well fettle your bifinels and make ey atl what hafte you can, (Exit.) 1. fave Cha Eight hundred pounds! Two thirds of 1068 this are mine by right — Five hundred and thirty odd pounds! Gad, I néver knew till now, that my 4nceftors were {uch valuable acquiintance, — Kind ladies and géntlemen, and moft ol ih T-am vour véry much obliged gaiy 312 Scénes from Comedies. ~ griteful humble férvant, (bowing to the ley plétures ) ho Rou Enter Rowley be Ah Rowley, you are juft come in time Cha to tike leave of your 0ld acquaintance { Row!ley. Yes Sir, I héard they were going — But how can you fuppdrt fuch fpmts / under all your misfortunes? t Cha That's the caufe, mafter R()wley, my Fow, misfortunes are fo many, that I can’t afford (la, to part with my {pirits 0! Rowley. And can you réally take léave of gy your 4nceftors with fo much Gnconcern, 0 Cha. Uncorcern! what! I fuppdfe, you ére furprized, that 1 am not more forrowful at 16fing the cémpany of fo many wérthy friénds, It is véry diftréfling to be fure; M but you fee they néver move a mulcle, then why the dévil {hould I! iy Rowley Ah dear Charles! Cha But come, I have no time for trifling; — here take this bill and y) get it chinged My and carry an hundred pounds to poor Stan- e, 7) y) get heift hier laffen, che We ' Scénes from Comedies, 313 to the ley, or we fhall have fome body call that has a better right to it, Rowley. Ah, fir, I wifh you would remém- ber the préverb, — 2 {0 tim Cha, Be juft before you are ge’mraas-—Why Ance if I could, fo 1 would, but jaftice is an 1e g0 old, lame, hébbling z) béldam, and 1 can’t b fins get her, to kéep pace with generofity for the foul of me, Do, déar Sir, refléét y; By Rowley - afford Cha. That’'s véry true, as you fay — But Rowley, while 1 have, by héaven’s 1’ll ave of give — {o damn your morility, and away, ettl, to old Stanley with the méney, (Exeunt) o e il Enter Sir Oliver and Mofes, ity 8 fres Mofes, - Well Sir, 1 think, you have féen Mr Charles in ill his glory — ’tis gréat pity, e he’s fo extrivagant, Sir Oliver, True — but he would not felt my pitture, — flin Mofes. And Ioves wine and Wémen fo much anged, Stan z) beldam, ein altes Mitterchen im verichtli- chen Verfiande, vom franzofifchen belle dame, welches ehedem eine alte Frau bezewhnete. 314 Scéflé; fiom Cémedies,. Sir Oliver. But he would not fell my pitu- e, Mofes. And games fo déep. Sir Oliver. . But he would not fell my pictu- o re, =~ Oh here comes Row]ey. Ed Se Enter ;Réwley. Rowley. Wéll Sir, 1 tind you have made a oY purchafe, tr: Siv Oliver, Yes our youfig rake has parted 10¢ with his anceftors like cld tipeftry, but ROW!B_Z/o And he has commifficned me to re- Sur tirn you an hindred pounds of the purcha- Y\cy fe — moéney, but under your fictitious cha- 118 rater of old Stanley, 1 faw a taylor and [ two hofiers a) dincing atténdance, who I know will go unpdid, and the hundred t pounds would juft fatisfy them. ¢ Sir Oliver. Well, well, I'll piy his debts ‘and his benévolence tdo., — But now I’'m f; no more a broker, and you fhall introduce me to the élder br(‘)the_r as old Stinley, St 2) to dance attendance, mit Demuth warten; ¢o dance ift hier ein’(\/:grbum altivom, D) v Scenes from Cémedies. 3135 ) pid Scene, Jofephs furface’s apirtments. Enter Jofeph and a Sérvant, Sefeph. Mr Stinley!— why {hould you think ) pify I would fee Mr Stanley! you know well enéugh, he comes entréating for fome thing Servant, They let him in before 1 knéw: of it; and dld Rowley is with him, I am fo dis=- made 4 cyofeph. Pfha gyou bléckhead ; tricted with- my own misfortunes, 1 am not ‘in a humour to fpéak to 4ny one — parted but Thew the féllow up. ( Exit Sérvant) to te Sure fortune néver played a man of my pé- gmcha licy fuch a trick before — my charater riie us (f ned with Sir Peter — my hopes of Maria lo il loft — I'm in a prétty humour to liften to poor relations truly, — ®) 1 fhan’t be able \1h0 [ el to beftbw éven a benévolent féntiment on old Stanley,- Oh here he comes; 1'll retlrg, (eb and endéavour to put a little chérity in my face howéver, (Exit) ) ['m oduce Enter Sir Oliver and, Rowley [ Sir Ofiver, What does he ayoid us! That was him, was 1t not, ptells b) I fhaw't fir I fhall not. 216 Scénes from Cémedz’e:: Roulléy. Yes Sir; buf his nerves are too weéak to béar the fight of a poor relation: I oY e ter to himo fhould have come firft, to bréak the mat- ley Sir Oliver, A plague of his nér;res e yet St this is he, whom Sir Peter extols as a man Jo of a moft benévolent way of thinking. Rowley. Yes - he bas as much {péculative Sir benévolence as éany man in the kingdom, ( though he is not fo fénfual as to indilge o himfelf in the éxercice of it, Sy Oliver. ou Yet he has a ftring of féntiments, Jou I foppofe, at his finger’s end, o Rowley. And his favourite one is, That cha- §ir0 rity begins at home, Sir Oliver. Iy And his, 1 prefume is of that W doméftic fort, which never ftirs abroad at all, fo Rowley. Well Sir, I'll léave you to introdu- oy ce yourfelf as dld Stanley; I muft be here t again to annodunce you in your real chi- fi raéter, i Sir Oliver. True and you’ll dfterwards meet th me at Sir Péter’s. Rowley. Without lbfing‘ a moment, Sy Rowley.) cae Sir Oliver., Here he cémes — I don’t like the by complaifance of his features, Scezze: fi'om Cémetlz'e\:f 317 ) weak Enter Jofeph, on: | oYofeph. Sit your moft obédient; I beg pir- e tat- don for kéeping you a moment — Mr Stan- i ley 1 prefume, Sir Olwer. - yet At your férvice, Sir, 5 4 0 &yofeph. Pray, be {éated Mr Stanley, I intréat ng, 0 you, Sir, colaive Sir Oliver. Déar fir, there's no occafiom, ingdom, (asiude) Too ceremonious by hilf, indilge &yoleph, Though I have not the pléafure of your acquaintance, I am véry glad to fee ments, you look fo well, — [ think Mr Stanley you were unearly related to my méther, % chae Sir Oliver. 1 was, fir; fo néarly that I féar, my préfent péverty may do diferedit to her of [I il weéalthy children; elfe 1 would not preflime 3d i a”o to tréuble you now. &Jofeph. Ah fir, don’t méntion that — For introdh' e et the man who is in diftréfs has always a right ] e to claiim kindred with the wéalthy; I am fure, 1 with, 1 was of that nimber, or ¢ meet that it was in my power to afford you éven a {fmill reliéf, (B Sir Oliver. 1f your uncle Sir Oliver was here, 1 fhould bhave a friénd. Jofeph. 1 wifh, he was firy you fhould not o te want an ddvocate with him, believe me, 813‘ Scenes from Cémedies. Sir Olivei. 1 Thould not néed oné, my dis- it _tréfles would comménd me But I imagi- ned, his bounty had endbled you to be the Q dgent of his’ charities, Sofeph. Ah fir, you are miftaken; Avarice, avarice is the vice of dge; to be fure, it has been fpréad abroad that he has been véry Sis bountiful to me, but withdut the lgaft foun- dition, though I néver chufe to contr:adi& 5 the report, i Szr Oliver. And has he néver remitted you / pén ¢) billion, d) rupees or pagodas ? of Sofeph. Oh déar Sir, no fuch thing, I have i ) indded recéived fome trifling préfents from oty him, fuch as {hiwls, avadavat’s, and indian Dby crackers ; noOthing more Sir, o g Siy Oliver. (astde) Thete’s grititude‘fof twel- jou ve thoufand pounds! Shawls avadayats and e indian crackers ! Sip y M;' Stan- orofephs Then theré’s my brother, (b ley ; one would fcarce beliéve what 1 have c%/e? done for that unfortunate young man,. nj Sir Oliver, (aside) Not I for one. e BRI it Ch €) bullion, ein Gold- oder Siiberklumpen, Ufle verarbeitetes Silber ‘oder Gold., d) rupees or .p?gédas ’ Namen indianifcher Minzen, Scenes from Cémedies, 319 my dis oyo/eph, Oh the fums [ have lent him ! =~ imag] Well t was an amiable weéaknefs — [ muft be the OWH 3 T .can’t defénd it though it appéars more ‘blameable at préfent, as 1t prevénts Avatice me from f{érving you Mr Stanley, as my fire, 1 héart direéts. gen V) Sir Oliver. (aside) Diffémbler! w Then yon >af foun cannot aflift ‘me, o e ofeph I am very unhappy to fay ’tis net in my power at préfent; but you may de- fed 4OV + pénd vpon héaring from me when I can be of dny fervice to you, [ have Sir Oliver, Sweet fir, you are too good g from ¢/ofeph. Not at all Sir; to pity without the 4 indian power to relieve is fill more painful, than to afk and be denjed Indéed Mr Stanley o you have déeply afféted me, Sir your moft s ol devoted ; I wif'h you héalth and fpirits. Sir Oliver, Your éver griteful and perpétual e S (bowing low) humble {érvant, | hatt o/ ofeph 1 am extrémely {orry, Sir for your misfortunes .— Here, open the door — Mr I Stanley, .your moft devoted, Sir Oliver. Your moft obliged férvant, = Charles, you are my héir, efly i (aside and exit,) 320 Cor #*) Style of Chancery, 1638 ma The Petition of Right. mo ey 71 he petition exhivited to his mdjefly by the 16y fords [pivitual and témporal, and Commons in A this prdfent parvliament affémbled, concérning bif divérs vights aud liberties of the [#bjelt. it To the king’s moft éxcellent majefty, aJty Hambly fhow tnto dur {évereign lord the liame the lords fpiritual and témporal, and By Q{ing 5 Cbm- f0m Ied #) Um derjenigen willen, welyche die eng- will frn Yifche Kanzlei-Sprache zu kennen und verftehen wiinfchten, habe ich einige Beifpiele des Kanz- of leiftils in diefe Sammlung aufgenommen, und be dazu einige der wichtigften Aktenftiike aus det englifchen Conftitution und Gefchichte genom- e men, Die eigene Bedentung, in welcher fonft g PRIt bekannte Worter hier gencmmen werden, die 0t befondere Wendung und das Schleppende ma- and chen diefen Stil befonders fchwer. Ich endige daher mit demfelben die Mufter des profaifchen tha Stils, und laffe auf denfelbigen einige Scenen but aus einem Trauerfpiele Shakefpeare'’s folgen, n welchen zum Theil fchon ein gewiffes Metrum tha herrfcht, mit welchen alfo, wie mich dunkt, e am f{chiklichften der Uebergang zur Poelie ge- macht wird, Style' of Chincery, 321 Commons , in parliament affémbled, that whé- i reas it is declired and enitted, by a fitute made in the reign of king Edward I, c6ém- monly called fiatutum de Tallagio mon comces dendo , that no tillage or aid {hall be l3id or ] Iy fi lévied, by the king or his heirs in this réalm, ot it without the good will and aflént of the arch- edig bifhops, bifhops, éarls, barons, knights, bur- s gefles and 6ther the fréemen of the cémmon- ;em ' alty of this réalm: and by authérity of para Jord the liament, holden in the 25th year of king al y and Edward III, it is declared and enaéted, that Com from thenceforth no perfon fhall be compél- - led to make 4ny loans to the king aghinft his wiil, becaufe fuch 1dans were againft the : 619 engJ franchifes of the land, And by Other laws verfiehefl of this réalm it is provided, that none {hould gos oo men, L be charged by finy\ charge or impofition cal- ke 48 et led a benévolence, mnor by fuch like chzirge; e genom' againft the ftitutes before méntioned, and the pet fo1 Other the good laws and ftatufes of this réalm, fefty dle and your {abjetts have inhérited this fréedom, [y €0 lig Ofal{Ch ¢l that they {hould not be compélled to contri- Qoenet bute to any tax, tallage aid, or Other like charge not fet by cémmon confént in parlias g Memm ment 3 j di )(\e fi ¢ J¥ X 322 Style of Clrdfl&evy. Vet néverthelefs of late divérs commiffions, itis diré&ed to findry commiffioners in féveral may counties, with inftractions, have iffued, by of i (pretéxt) means whereof your péople have from been in divérs places afiémbled, and required mnany to lend cértain fums of méney upto your of h mijeflty, and many of them upén thelr tefii- A {al {o to do, have had an (unlawful ) oath adminiftred unto them, not warrantable by Bdw the laws and ftatutes of this réalm, and have anth, been confitrained to becéme bdund to make effite and give atténdance before your appearance , of his privy council; and in 6ther places; and Sthers = inprfy of them have thérefore been imprifoned, con- Wiyt !, fined and f{indry other ways moléfted and W of and divérs other charges have disquieted : been laid and 1évied upén your péople in fé- Ne veral counties; by Lords Lieatenants, Com~ fhtut teg of miffioners for méfters, jdftices of péace and 6thers, by commind or diréétion from your Vets mijefty, or your privy council, agiinft the Prifon Wheg laws ar}d free cuftoms of thisr réalm, b*‘fl)tfi And e) whéreas alfo by the ftitute called o the gréat Cbhrles of the liberties of England tely, kée; thei e) whereas heift im Kanzleiftil fintemalen, that Style of Chincery 323 )ifions, it is declared and enitted hat no’ freeman feveral or be disféized may be tiken or imprifoned ed, by of his fréeholds or liberties, or his free ca- 6 have ftoms, or be outlawed or exiled 68 te i any equited manner deftroyed, but by the lawful jidgment 0 Vou of his peers, or by 'the law of the land it fefl | Gath And in the 28th year of the teign of kin ng Edward 111, ble by it was declired and enitled by authérity of parliament, that no man of what od ave 0 mk eftate ot condition he be, fhould be put out fe ¥ out of his lands ot ténements , not tiken, nor Gthers lmpmfoned nor dishérited , nor put to déath, 4, con without béing brought to aaner by due prl- cefs of law: of 1l g vt ] Néverthelefs againft the ténor of the faid e ftatutes , and éther the good laws and ftatu- g (om tes of your réalm to that end provided, di- vérs of your flbjetts have of late been im- m youl prifoned without any aufe {howed and inft the when for their deliverance they were brought before your jiftices, by your mijefty’s writs of Habeas Corpus, there to tGndergo and re- ¢ Cfl]] d réive as the court {hould order, and their Eng]flfl kéepers commanded to cértify the caufe of —— their detiiner, no caufe was cértified but that they were detiined by your mijefty efly X 2 324 Style of Cba‘fl;eryo‘ fpécial command, fignified by the lords of by your privy coeuncil; and yet were retfirned eV back to féveral prifons, without béing char- you ged with 4ny thing, to which they might by make anfwer by due précefs of law, an And whéreas of late, gréat c()rhpanies of auf dit {oldiers and mariners have been dispérfed into divers counties of the réalm and the inhibi- {ol fon tants, againft their wills have been compélled to recéive them into their houfes and t/ere énfi to fuffer them to foiolirn, againft tie laws autr fuch and ciftoms of this réalm, and to the gréat griévance and vexation of the péople, ble time And whéreas alfo, by authobrity of par=- liament' in the 25th year of the reign of ey Ciufe king Edward IlI, it is declired and eniéted, that no man f{hall be forejudged of life or fling limb againft the form of the gréat charter, and Other the laws and ftitutes of this réalm: i and by the faid gréat charter and éthers the i laws and ftatutes of this your réalm, no man by ought to be adjlidged to déath but by the def laws eftiblifhed in this your réalm, éither by lfy the ciftoms of the fime réalm or by aéts of Degy parliament: and whéreas no offénder of what kind foéver, is exémpted from the procéedings ofl; to be ufed, and plnifhments to be inflicted e Style of dekcery. 325 otds of by the laws and ftitutes of this your réalm: ffted néverthelefs of late divérs commiffions, under i your mijefty's gréat feal, have iffued forth, | nfight by which cértain pérfons have been afligned and appointed commilfioners with pdower and authOrity to procéed, within the land, accor- anies of {ed info ding to the juftice of martial law aghinft fuch foldiers and mariners, or éther diffolute pér- inhadie fons joining with them, as {hould commit )mpélled any murder, rébbery, félony, muting or éther d the e faws outrage or misdeméanor whatsoéver and by fuch fammary colrfe and order, as is agrée- o great able to martial liw, and is Ufed in irmies in time of war, to procéed to the trial and con- of pi demnation of fuch offénders, and them to cign of enieh caufe to be éxecuted and put to déath acgc‘n’. ding to the martial law, f loor By pretéxt whereof fome of your mijefty’s charet g téalm; fiibjetts have been by fome of the faid com- miffionersput to déath; when and where, if s the by the laws and ftitutes of the land they had 10 Mat deférved déath, by the fame ldws and ftatutes by the thet }f ilfo they might and by no 6ther ought to have been adjidged and éxecuted: ofts f And ilfo, fandry grievous, offénders by f e sedings célour thereof cliiming an exémption, have i efciped the pianifhment dlie to them by the Style of Chdncery 320 laws and ftitntes of this rour réalm; by réae to fon that divérs of your éfficers and minifters that or forborn to of juftice hav unjuit'y refufed time procéed agiinft fuch offenders, according to miff the fame laws and {tatotes uphHn preténce fev that the faid offénders were punifhable Only Ot by martial law , and by authérity of fuch com- iny miffions as aforefaid; which commifiions, and cif all others ‘of like nature, are w holly and di- of re&y céntrary to the izud laws and {titutes put ¢ of this your réalm, chifes They do therefore humhlj pray your moft Al éxcellent méijefty, that no man hereafter f) be moft compélled to make or yield 4ny gift, loan, libertig benévolence, tax, or fuch like charge without I thi common confént by att of parliament and Ifo that none be calledfl to make Anfwer or take domg fuch oath, or to give atténdance, or be con- Your fined or 6therwife moléfted or disquieted ot concérning the fame, or for refufal théreof eXa And that no fréeman in 4ny fuch manner as llo is before méntioned be imprifoned or detai- and ned; And that your mijefty will be pleafed 10y afore £) be compelled, der Comun&lvus. Man kan fery Zuweilen nehmlich fagen /7 may be und [ be, tes braucht man auch 7 42 im Preef. 1:1(‘1("1t1VI, aber dies ift obfolet befonders im Smgularh of ¥ kmg( & Style of Chancery, 327 by téa to remove the faid f{oldiers and miriners, and inifers that your péople may not be fo birdened in ot 1o time to come and that the aforefaid com- {ing miifions for procteding by martial law may be elence revoked and anntlled and that hereffter no le 01y commiffions of like niture may iffue forth to ch com any pérfon or pérfons whatsoéver to be éxe- 1S ‘(md cuted as aforefaid, left by colour of them any ‘md dt of your mijefty’s fabjefts be deftroyed or fritutes put to déath, céntrary to the laws and fran- chifes of the land. moft “All which they moft humbly pray of your f)he moft éxcellent majefty, as their rights and liberties , 10an, according to the laws and ftatutes of this réalm and that your majefty would ithou 1t, Ell”d alfo vobuchfafe to declare, that the awards, of ke doings and procéedings, to the préjudice of your péople, in iny of the prémiffes, f{hall (0N Bl not hereifter| be draiwn into cOnfequence or qmeled and that your majefty would be (el example 1 8§ alfo griciously pléafed for the future fafety e y and cémfort of your people fo declare vour plea o réyal will and pléafure, that in the things afOrefaid, all your 6fficers and minifters {hall ferve you, according to the laws and ftatu- g b0 tes of this réalm, as they tender the hbonour el of your mijefty, and the profpérity of this oot Jflno kingdom, 328 Style of Chincery. A proclamation piblifhed by king foharles Ar the firft for difi6lving the parliament, da- dy cc ted the 2d of March, 1628, de, 1r uth { Whéreas we for the géneral good of our ditious kingdom caufed our high colirt of parliament fons o to affémble and méet by prorogition on the 0 e ooth of January laft paft, fince which time been f the fame has been continued: and although in e ¢ this time by the malévolent difpofitions of il fome ill affected pérfons of the houfe of com- Inte e mons, We have had findry juft caufes of offénce and dislike of their procéedings; yet Where il we ref6lved with patience to try the atmoft; fie | which We rather did, for that we found in fent that houfe a gréat number of {ober and grave ma pérfons, well affécted to religion and gbvern- the ment, and defirous to preférve unity and ge peace in all parts of our kingdom : and thére- all fore, on the five and twéntieth day of Fébrua- A ry laft, by the uniform advice of our privy hay eduncil, We caufed both houfes to be adjour- ned Until this préfent day; hoping in the méan time that 'a better and more right un- derftinding might be begbtten between us 8) and the mémbers of that houfe; whereby to fre this parliament might bave a hippy end and iffue, Im; Ieg| A 329 Style of 'Clyémery/. Chatles And for the fame intént we did again this day commind the like adjolirnment to be ma- i ‘da- de, Until the tenth day of this month; yet it hath {o héppened, by the disobédient and fe- d of ot ditious carriage of thofe faid ill afféted pér- peliament fons of the houfe of cémmons, that we and p on e our régal authérity and commindment have ich time been fo highly contémned, as our kingly 6ffi- hough it ce cinnot béar, nor 4ny former age can pi- itons o rallel, And thérefore it is our full and 4bfo- of chne lute refolution to diffblve the faid pirliament jufes ol whereof we thought fit to give nétice dnto L all the lords fpiritual and témporal, and to itmott; the knights citizens and biirgeffes of this pré- found fent parliament, and to all éthers whom it md gra\’é may concérn; that they may depart about | gbvem- their néedful affairs without atténding 4ny 16n- oty 8 ger hére, Néverthelefs se will that they and all Others {hall take nétice, that we do and‘ id thete 1 Fébrua. éver will diftinguifh betweéen thofe, who 1 privy have g) fhowed good afféCtion to religion adjofir- — in the ght W g) Selten braucht man das Partic. Paffivi von wéefl ] to [how in diefer regulairen Form, fondern mej- yhe] ftens in der irregulairen [hown. Hingegen das Imperfeftum von #o fhow wird immer in der regulairen Form gebraucht. 330 Style of Chincery. and gévernment, and thofe that have given from themfelves Over to faction, and to work dis- Vet re tirbance to the peace and good orde to wi F' of our kingdom, ¢ fence Given at our court at Whitehall, this hall ¢ {écond day of March, in the fourth yéar of th of our réign of Gréat Britain, France and hour 1reland, Aftert / And wirta) and fél« The warrant for éxecuting Charles the- firft king of Gréat- Britain, this n} JOu in At the high colrt of juftice for the trying and and jGdging of Charles Sthart, king of To England Jinuary 29, Anno Domini 1648. : , Whéreas Charles Stuart, king of England is and h) ftindeth convitted, atthinted and, Ic comdémned, of high tréafon and other high crimes, and {éntence upén fiturday laft was prondunced agiinft him by this court to be ,pu't to déath, by §he féveritng of his héad h) Tm feietlichen Sgil pflegt man in der 3teri Perfon Preefentis Indicativi das ¢/ beizubehalten, da man fonft im gewohnlichen Stil ftatt deflel- ben das s braucht, cell Style of Chancery, 331 0 given from his bbdy, of which fentence exectition otk dis- yet remaineth to be déne; thefe dre thérefore of ot to will and require you, to fee the faid fén- tence éxecuted in Open ftréet, before W hite- Il, this hall upén to mérrow béing the thirtieth day ith e of this inftant month of January, betwéen the ance and hours of ten in the morning and five in the 4fternoon of the fime day with full efféét, And for fo doing this {hall be your fufficient wiarrant, And thefe are to require all Officers s the and foldiers, and Gther the good péople of this nation of England, to be aflifting Gnto you in this férvice.‘ Given tnder our hands > trying and feals, Fing of To Colonel Francis Hacker, Colonel Huncks, ni 1048 and Lieutenant — Colonetl Phayre, and to évery of them, Engfflnd ted {mdl Jo. Bradfhaw, prefident, etC¢ e G e igh Tho. Grey. i v - fp be The préamble to anl aff for the atthinder $ hiéad of {éveral pérfons guilty of the hérrid S e murder of his mijelty king Charles the firft, :hflken! In all humble manner {nto your» moft éx- | defid cellent majefty, fhow your méjei’ty’§ moft dutiful - 332 S‘;yle of Chincery. and 16yal fiibjeéts the Lrds ond. commons in powet parliament afiémbled , that the hérrid and éxe- did de crable marder of your mijefty’s réyal father, the i our late moft gracious f{bvereign Charies the tréaty firft, of éver bléfled and glorious mémory, femo hath been committed by a party of wretched for { men défperately wicked and hardened in their pérfo impiety; who hiving firft plétted and contri- to th ved the rhin and deftriiétion of this éxcellent and monarchy, and with it, of the true reformed gronn préteftant religion, which had béen {o long commo protéted by it, and flurifhed under it, found bers, { it néceflary, in oOrder to the chrrying on of Wt a fy their pernicious and trditorous defigns, to (mt g throw down .all the bhlwarks and fénces of {hete | law, and to fubvért the véry béing and con- e the ftitution' of pariiament, that fo they might at nd i laft make their way Open for 4ny flrther at- Wa I témpts updn the ficred pérfon of his majefty intge himfelf; and that for the more eafy effééting pofe thereof, they did firft fedlice fome part of A roy the then army into a compliance, and then they [ kept the reft in fubjéftion to them, partly for of h'\z hopes of preférment, and chiéfly for féar of f0 1 13fing their employments and arréars, fntil by fl@Oi thefe and éther more odious arts and devices, them they had fully firéngthened themfelves both in tej -~ Style of Chdncery. 333 s 1 power and fittion 3 which béing done, they ala exe did declare againft all manner of tréaties with al father, the pérfon of the king, éven then, when a jarls the tréaty by advice of both houfes was in béing; § MEMONY) remonftrate aghinft the houfes of parliament wieched for fuch proceedings; f{eize upén his réyal pérfon, while the commiffioners were retiirned 4 in the \fld (on to the houfe of parliament with his infwer, bcellen and when his concéffions had béen voted a ground for peace, refirmed feize updn the houfe of commons, feclide and imprifon fome mém- {o long found bers, force out Gthers, and there béing left i 0n 0 but a {mall rémnant of their own créatures, (not a tenth part of the whole) did féek to s y U) fonees O fhelter themfelves by this weéak preténce, un- and o der the name and authérity of a pirliament and in that name laboured to préfecute what , mlgw 3[ other was yet. behind and unfinifhed of their long s il inténded tréafon and cénfpiracy : to this plr- pofe they prepared an ordinance for erécting effechng a prodigious and unhéard of tribunal, which pd ther they called an high cout of juttice, for trial of his ma]e{’ty, and hiving eéafily prociired it »?UHJ fo to pafs in their houle of cémmons, as it then foar 0 ftood moulded Lmfil b; véntured to fend it up {from devic®s thence to the peers then fitting, who totally rejéfted it; whéreupon their rage and firy o o I Lo 34 Style oj Chdncery, incréafing, they prefume to pafs it aldne as the an. act of the cémmons, and in the name of treaf and he commons of England, and hiving ghined the preténce of law, made by a power of moff their own making puxfue it with all péfiible ther lent force and cruelly, until at laft upbn the i goth day of Janudry 1648, his facred mijefty was brought unto a fcaffold, and there piiblicly and ther mirdered before the gates of his own royal mon. pa]ace. out o And bechufe by this hérrid 4ction the pré= o 1 te{’cant religion hath recéived the gréateft Whatso wound and reproach, and the péople of Eng- 10 haye land the moft infoppértable {hame anc infamy, { the that it was péffible for the énemies of god fet vin whilft the and tke king to bring upon us, 59 ) fanitic rage of a few 1) mifcreants (who were Expté as far from béing triie préteftants as they Villai were from béing true fiibjetts) {tands impu- befe ted by out ddverfaries to the whole nation: fhay | We thérefore, your majefty’s faid dutiful and —~ k) fo 16yal fiibjefts, the lotds and cémmons in par- liament affémbled, do hereby rendunce, abd- gen minate, and protéft aghinft that impious aft, angeg e twerd Gefe 1) miscreant, ein Ungliubiger, ein Abtriinni ¢h | ger, VOT}]Q infs) P Style of Clyzmcery. 335 one 2 the éxecrable murder and moft, unpéralleled tréafon , committed againft the facred pérfon name of and life of our late {Overeign, your majefty’s g grined pver of moft royal father, and all procéedings ténding thereunto; 1 efice and do beféech your moft éxcel- ] i lent majefty, that it may be declared and be opon ¢ it thereby declared that by the undoubted o ey e pibley and fundaméntal laws of this kingdom nci- ther the peers of this réalm, nor the cém- i 1oy mous , nor both togéther, in parhament or out of parliament, nor the péople colle@:xvely e pro or reprefentatively, nor 4ny &ther pérfons oreatefi whatsoéver, éver had, have, hath, or ducht of Eng to have any coércive power over the pérfons } ntam) of the kings of this réalm, And for the bet- 5 0f 0 — and ter vindication of ourfelves to poftérity Jhilt ¢ as a lafting ménument of our Gtherwife in- \ hO e expréflible deteftation and abhorrency of this villainous and abéminable faét, we do furthes 18 s s 1mp beféech your moft éxcellent majefty, that it may be k) enalted, etc, fi 416 k) to enalt, ein Gefez geben, Es wird hiemit 10 pak ausgedrukt, dafs das]emge, was in dem vori- gen als der Wille der beiden Patlamentshaufer £y “M angegeben wurde, nun als ein Gefez angefehen Om fit[! werden {oll, Es folgt hierauf die Form des et Gefezes, worinn alles vorige wiederhohlt wird, Ich habe es daher weggelafien, weil ich die vorhergehenden Beifpiele des Kanzleiftils fir o hmlanghch halte¢ 336 %) Scenes from Julius Cefar a Tragedy of Shikefpeare, Pérfons reprefénted. Sutius Caelar, Caf ORavius Caefar Triumvirs Aafter the Bfl M. Antony death of Julius Caefar. 0y M, Aemilins Lgpz‘dzzs B Brutus, | :}) Caffiuss Cafca, Trebonius, Confpirators againft uf Ligarius, Julius Ceefar, Decius Brutus, | Metellus Cimber, Cinna, J drtermidords, a fophift of Cnidos. a Soolhfayer. il CHN Calphurnia, Wife to Czfar, B ke, #) .Ich habe Auftritte aus diefefi 'ffafierfpiel deswegen zum Mufter gewahlt, weil der Stoff zu demfelben eine merkwiirdige Begebenbeit ausder Gefchichte enthalt, die den jungen Leu- ten zugleich dadurch wieder in das Gedachtnifs )¢ gebracht wird, A, Scenes from Fulius Caefar, 337 fir Scéne A ftreet in Rome, Brutus, Caffius, Cafl. W;ll you go fee the drder of the courfe Bru, Not 1. fre the s Cil Caffs I pray you, do, .Bi"uo I am not gamefome; I do 1) lack {6- me part Of that quick fpirit that is in Antony, Let me not hinder Caffius your defires; I°1l leave you, agam& CafJ. Brutus, I do obférve you ndw of lite, B{&Yo I have not:from your eyes that géntle. nefs And fhow of love, as I was wont t(') have:’ You béar too fiibborn and too fl;range a hand, Over your friend that loves you, Brw. Caffius, Be not decéiv’d: look, If T have véil'd my gl ptel et 308 sebentel gefl LV\I eddch ol 1) to lack, mangeln, bedtrfen, v W 33 Scenes from Fulins Caefar. I turn the tréuble of my countenance Bru Mérely upén myfelf, Vexed I am Of late with piffions of fome difference, Concéptions ¢nly préper to myfelf, i (1 Which give fome {oil perhaps, . to my m) behaviours But let not thérefore my good friends be - griev'd; Ambng which number, Caffius , be you one, Nor CQn{’crue any firther my negléét, “Than that poor Brutus, Wlth h1m(’elf at WA, A Forgets the f hows of love to Gther men, I have much miftook it Cafl. Then Brutus, your piflion; this bréaft of mine By By meéans whereof hath buried Thoughts of gréat vilue, 6rthy cogi- - tations, 0 Tell me, good Brutus, can you fee your face ? I m) behaviours wird hier auf eine etwas feltene Art im Plurali genommen und heilt nicht wie fonit das Betrag)en, fondern die Minen, die Ge-= berden, e 7 nes from Fulius Cacfay, 339 jnce Brus No Caflivs; for the eye fees not itfelf, But by refléxion; by fome other thmgs. 1e0ce) Caf. "Tis ufts l[q And it is véry much laménted Brutus, 0 0 That you have no fuch mirrors; as will turn ends be Your h1dden worthinefs into your eye, That you might’fee your fhadoW. ) he you have héard, Where many of the beft refpéét in Rome, féty ( Except immottal Coefar s) -ipéaking of n[bf i Brutiis, And ‘groaning Gnderneath this 4ge’s yoke, ¢ (el Have wifh'd, -that noble Brutus Had his eyes iftook Bru, - Into what dangers would you lead me, Caffius, of it That you would have me feek {nto myfelf For that whichis not in me ? ) Cogt Caf, Thérefore, good Brutusy: -be prepar’d to héat¢ And fince you'know you' cannot fee yourfelf So well as by trefléétion; I your glafs, Will mbdeftly difcéver.to -yourfelf fe Jteot That of yourfelf , which yet you know h[ i i not oOf, fo ¢ Flourifl and fhout,) g 340 Scénes from Fulius: Caefay. Bru What meéans this {honting? I do féar, . the people Chufe Caefar for thelr king, Caff. Ay, do you féar it% . Then muft I think, you would not have it fo, Bru. I would not, Caffius; yet 1 love him well ¢ But wherefore do you hold me here fo . long ? What is it that you would 1mpar’c to me ? b If it be aught téward the géneral good Sét honour in one eye and déath i’ the other, And ‘I will look on-both indifferently, For let the gods fo fpéed me, as I love The name of hénour, more than [ fear . déath, Caff, 'k know that V1rtue to be in you, Bru- tus, As well as I do know your outward favour Well, hénour is the {iibjeft of my ftory. 1| n)t I cinnot tell what vou and o6ther men L' te Think of this life; for, my fingle 0) {elf, ey al ey, 341 - Scdnes from Sulius Caefar, do féar, ]'iwad as n) lief not be, as live to be In dwe of fuch a thing as I myfelf, 1 was born free ‘as Cefar; fo were you We both have fed as well; and we cag ot have bath » Endyre the winter’s cold, as well as he, For énce upbn a raw and ghfty day, ve him The tréubled Tyber o) chafing wit;h’; hig, {hores, ere fo Cefar {ays to me, ,, dar'ft thou, Caffius, ypat 0 now s Leap in with me into this angry fléod, And fwim to ydnder point2% Updn the good, 1 the word, Accdutred as 1 was, I plinged in, et ‘And bid him féllow: fo indéed, he did, The térrent rdard, and we did p) bif- § | Jove fet it p |t With Mty finews; thréwing it alide , Broe And fiemming it with héarts of céntrq- verfy, ;utwflffl e n) to have licf, lieb haben, lieber wollen, ; forsh I had as lief mot to be, as live to be, ich woll- te eben fo lieb nicht exiftiren, als leben etc, p e 0) to chafe, wirmen, an einander reiben, ei- , figgle nen etziirnen, entriiftet feyn, p) fo buffet, mit Fauften fchiagen, - 342 ,,§‘céms from _‘}’ulz'ufcaefim _B_ut‘ere we could arrive the point pr Qe pos’d, jor I fink.“ Cafar cry’d ,, help me, Caffius, I, as Aeneas, our gréat 4nceftor, ’Did‘ from the flaimes of Troy upén his fhoulder The old Anchifes béar; fo from the wa- ves of Tyber Did I the tired Ceefar: and this man Is now becéme a god; and Caffius is A wretched creature, and muft bend his ~ body, If Cefar CEirelesly but nod on him, B, He had a féver , when he was in Spain, And, when the fit was on him., I‘fiid mark How he did fhake: ‘’tis true this god (af, did {hake: His coward lips did from their g) célour 13 And 1tixai_: fame ‘e ye, whife bend doth awe the world, pid io,fe IES luftre's I did hégr him grban; PPN q) colour ; die Farbe, und zugleich die Fahne, ) Shakefpeare zielt mit diefer Redensart auf die Ing af doppelte Eedeu_tung diefes W’orts‘ =% Scémes from: Fulivs Caelar, 343 it pro Ay, and that tongue of his, that bade thé Romans Mark him, and write his fpseches in their [ fink,% baoks, pan i Alas! it cry’d — ,, give me {ome drirk, Titinius ¢ — e i As a fick girl, Ye gods, it doth amaze me, a0 A msn of fich a faeble témper fhould So r) get the ftirt of the majéftick world, 1S 48 bend b And béar the palm aldne, ( Shout, Flourifh, ) | Bru, Anéther géneral {hout! ly 1 do beli¢ve, that thefe applanfes are nours that are heéap’d 1 ST For fome néw hé on Caxefar, Cafi", Why, man, he doth beftride the }nfir- g ol row world Like a Coléflus; and we pétty men cglot huge legs, and péep Walk upnder his ‘about I doth To find durfelves dishOnourable graves. Men at f6me time are méfters of their grbafl fates : ) to get the ftart of ome, einem 2uvor kom- Ffihfl?o men , einen tber{pringen, of g Eine "Anf;pielu’ng auf die olympifché Spiele, 344 Scénes from Fulius Caefar. The fault déar Brutus, Is not in our ftars, But in outrfelves, that we are tinderlings, Brutus and Ceefar! what {hould be in that Caefar? Why {hould that name be founded more than your'’s ? Write them togéther, yours is as f3ir a i name; Sound them, it doth becoOme the mouth e as well Wéigh them, jt is as héavy ; coOnjure i\ with s) ’em, Brutus will ftart a {pirit, as foon as Czefar, Now in the names of all the gods at once, B, Upén what meat does this our Ceefar féed That he is grown fo gréat? Age thou art Thaim’d: Rome thou haft loft the bréed of noble bldods When went there by an 3ge, fince the gréat fléod t)In der § But it was faim'd with more than with beids one man? che V)n den truy §) ’em anftatt them, dif; Woyf S - Scénes from fil@izy Caefar. 345 b ot ay, till ndw, that tilk’d When ‘could'they f: of Rome, derlings, T Bat her wide _wélls encOmpafs’d but one d e in man? Now is it t) Rdme indéed; and room led more enbugh ; When there is in it but one 6nly man, s fait 8 Oh! you and I have héard our fathers * {ay, e moith There was a Brutus éncee, that would have u) brook’d conjire The’ etér'nél d‘é@il to kéep his ftite in Rome, S Caefar, A éafily as a king. 5 9t 006 Bru., That you do love me, T am V) né- el fid thing jéalous; 1 fho W)v What would you work me to, I have fome aim, of ool s noe the £ Tn diefer Zeile ift ein Wortfpiel mit Rome, der Stadt diefes Namens und »oom, Raum, weil beide Worter im Englifchen einerlei Ausfpra- a il che haben, u) to brook, ertragen, erdulden, V) mothing wird hier fiir not gebraucht gegen den Sprachgebrauch, vermuthlich nm des Me- trums willen, w) Die Conftruétion ift hier diefe: I fave fome aim to what you would waork me. 346 Scenes from Foilius C;zef)r. How 1 have thbught of this, and of thefe G times, I fhall recdunt herefter; for this pré- fent, x) fo 'with love 1 might an 1 vkvould"not‘, B entfeat you, Caefe Be any vffirther mo v’d. What you haye An, faid 1 will bonf ider; what you have to fay, Caef, I will with patience héar, and find a time "Both z) ‘méet to héar, and Anfwer fuch high things, ¥ Till then my noble fricnd, a) chew upén this Brutus had rather be a villager, - A, Than'to repute himfelf a fon of Rome Under fuch hard conditions, as this time (ny Is like to lay upég us, SR x) fe, time, welches Wort hier um des Me- trums willen hinweg gelaflen ift, y) /o fteht hier fur if. z) meet, ein Adj, fuglich, be~ P quem, {chicklich, a) to ehew upon fome thing heii’cv eigentlich auf etwas beiflen, im figiirlichen Verftande aber, worinn es hier genommen wird, uber etwas N b)} nachdenken. tlig P Scénes from Fulius Caefar. 347 d of thek Caf. 1 am glad that my weak words Have ftruck buth thus much fhow of fire from Brutus. his e Enter Caefar and his train. o | miglt Bru, The gimes are done, and Cefar is re- turning, Antonius ! oo ve Caefar. Aut. Coefar ! e {0 fm Caef. (to Ant. apart,) Let me have men abc‘)ut % d find ¢ me that are fat ;. b) Sléek - héaded men, and fuch as f léep ef fich a-nights: Yon Caffius has a léan and hiingty look W upor He thinks too much, Such men are dan- gerous Aut, Féar him not, Czfar, he’s not dange- rous; fome s tmé He's a noble Roman and well given, Caefar, c) Would he were fatter; — but I fear him not: | Vet if my name were liable to fear, 1 do not know the man, I {hould avoi'd, os Me fteht So foon as that d) fpare Caffius, He hy e réads much; renthfh 13 406y ery b) fleek - headed , glatt kopiigt c¢) I ift hier elidirt d) /pare, Adj, mager, 348 Scénes from Fulius Caefay, He is a gréat obférver; and he looks He Quite through the déeds of men Eifey l6ves no plays, As thou doeft Antony; he hears no mulick : (af. Séldom he fmiles; and {miles in fuch a {6 I‘t As if he mo6ck’d himfelf, and fcorn’d hls {pirit, B, That could be movd to fmile at dny thing, K Such men as he be néver at héart’s eafe, Whflfi: they behold a gréater than them- felves; Gl And thérefore are they véry dan‘erous I rather tell thee what is to be féar’d, B Than what I féar; for always I am Ce- far, Come on my right hand, for this éar is déaf, And tell me truly, what thou think’ft of By, him, Cafl (Exeunt Caefar and his train.) B, (aff By S, Scenes from Fulius. Cuaefar, 349 looks Scéne Brutus’s garden,; en, - He Euter Cafl' us, Cafca, Decms Cinna Metellm and Trebonius. heats 00 Cafl. 1 think. we are too. bold upon your “ i fuch 8 reft, Good morrow: ~Brutus : do we trouble or'd b you?; Brflo 1 have been: up this h()ur ; awake all le ot night Know I thefe men, that come along with ~you? s éil o them (afide,) Caff; Yes évery man of .them, and no man here, ngeTOUS But honouts you 5 ‘and évery one' doth opf d wifh, [ m (2 You had but: that opinion of yourfeff, Which évery ndble Roman béars of you, s r ¥ This is Twrebowius. B”u‘ He is wélcome -hither fink o Cafl This, Decius Brutus., Bru, He is wélcome too, o) CaJl. This Cafca this Cinna; And this Metellus Cimber, Br e They are all wélcome, What watchful cares do mterpofe themfl {elves 350 Scenes from SFulius Cae}?zr: Between your eyjes ‘and night 2 Cafl" Shall 1 entreat a word ? ([ hey w’n/' re1) Bru; Give me }our bhands all over one by 01’18 Cafl. And let. us: fwear our refolution, Bru. No not an oath. If not the face of P men The fufferance of our fouls, the t1me§ ¥ abufe = If thefe be métives weéak , break ofl’ be- times, Th And évery man hence to his idle bed; So let high fighted tyranny range on, g But if Till 'each man drop by léttery, thefe, The As - I am fure they do, béar fire endugh No To kindle cowards, and to fteel with valout The meltlng {pitits of woémen; then coun= trymen, ‘What need we any {pur, but our own caufe, €) To prick us to redréfs? ~What othet f) to bond’ ot eln A liedey i et 8) to prick, ftechen, antteiben, ermuntern, ,/fl&'«b | Scén‘e's | ’7'1',0?72 ?uiz'ui‘ Cuejar. 33:. Than fécret Romans, that have fpbl;e the word, - whiloe) [ e by An@ ‘will not f)p él_ter? And whai; (?ther‘ oOath, ~ % i Than héne'fiy to honefty engig’d, o fige of That {hall be, or we will fall for it? Swiear priefts and cowards, and/ men cau- ¢ timel telous Old feeble g) cérrions ,-and fuch ffifl‘efing k of b¢ fouls: That wélcome wrongs tnto bad chqfes, B bed; {weéar ony Such créatures as men doubt: but do not fthin Bt i The ‘éven virtue of our énterprize, : en'jUgh' Nor the infuppréffive ) mettle of dur J it {pirits,: To think that or our chufe or c‘)urp‘per;..’ formance, 1 ont Did néed an dath; when évery drop of it O bléod, e, ¢ gthel £) to palter; x;icht \aufrichtig‘ hand'e.ln,~ fein. Wort zuritkziehen. g) carrion, befler carion, ein Aas, figiitlich, wie hier, eine verachtliche liederliche Weibsperfon, ein Rabenaas. Es wird nur in den niedrigen Sprecharten gebraucht, hj mettle, Metall, Munterkeit, Muths erfl} 352 Scenes from Fulius Caefar, That évery Roman béars, and nobly bears, Is guilty of a féveral baftardy, If he doth bréak the {milleft particle Of any prémife that hath paft from him. Decius, Shall no man elfe be tbuch’d but 6nly Ceefar ? Caf. Decms well Grg’d; — I think, it is not méet, Mark Antony, fo well bel6v’d of Cae{'ar, Should 'outhve Czefar: we fhall find of him L Af hrewd contriver ; ; and you know, his means, An 1f he lmprove them , may well ftretch i fo far, Ar As to i) annoy us all: which to prevént, Let Antony and Cexfar fall togéther Bru, Our courfe will {éem too bléody, Caius Caffius, To cut the héad off, and then hack the limbs 3 Like wrath in déath and énvy 4fterwards; For Antony is but a limb of Ceefar Let us be f{4crificers, but not bitchers, Cajus ; N i) fo anmoy, fchaden, Y L] Scenes from Fuiius Caefar. 353 bl bets We all ftand up aghinft the fpirit of Cae- far; ticle And in the fpirit of man there is no blbod: om O, that we then could céme by Caefar’s jch'd o {pirit And not dismémber Caefar! but alis! Caefar muft bléed for it! hink And gentle friénds, (et k) Let’s kill him boldly , but not writh- ] find of fully Let’s carve him as a difh fit for the gods, 0w, 1S Not héw him as a carcafe fit for hounds ¢ And let dur héarts as fabtle mafters do, | firetch Stir up their férvants to an aét of rage, And after {féem to chide them. This fhall | prevw make Our plrpofe néceffary, and not énviouss fie, Which fo appearing to the cémmon eyes, g Gt We {hall be call’d purgers, not mirde- rers Jck fh And for Mark Antony, think not of him; For he can do no more than Caefars rwafd arm, £ When Caefar’s héad is off, ches o k) let’s ftatt let us, 354 = Scenes from Fulins Caefars Cafl' Yet I féear him} For in the ingrafted love he bears to Cae- far, — Bru. Alas, good Caffius, do not think of him: If he love Caefar, all that he can do Dec Is to himfelf; take thought, and die for Caefar : And that wete much, he { hould for he is given To {ports, to wildnefs and much cém- pany. L Tfflbo There is no féar in him¢ let him not But die ; He For he will live, and laugh at this here« after. L Bru. Péace, count the clock, (Clock firikes.) Caf. The clock hath 1) ftricken three, Treb 'Tis time to part Gaf, Cajl. But it is doubtful yet, Whether Caefar will come forth to day, By, or not! For he is fuperftitious grown of lite; Citng Quite from the miin opinion he held 6nce Met, 1) ftricken, fur fruck, ein ungewuhnhches art, Pall, von o firike, fchlagen, T Scénes from 7ulz'm Caejar. 355 Of fantaly, of dréams, and céremoniess tsto Cree It may be, thefe appirent prédigies, The unaccGftom’d térror of this n}ght,& ik of And the perfuafion of his augurers, May/ hold him from the cipitol to day, an 00 Decins, Néver féar that: if he be fo refolv’d nd-di fo I can o’ersway him: for he léves to " héar, That Unicorns may be betray’d with trées, d; for e And béars with glaffes, élep‘hants with ¢h cone holes, Lions with toils and men with flitterers, im ot But xwhen I tell him, he hates ,flétterers, He fays he does; béing then\/mofl: flit.. s Dete tered, Let(mé work: forI can give his humout the trlie bent; { flr},é:s,) And 1 will bring him to the cipitol, [66) Caff. Nay, we will all of us be there to fetch him, IS that the {ltq fo &1f Bru, By the éighth hour, termoft ? Be that the Gttermoft, and fail not ate Cz’nnaf then, Jd on Met, Cajus Ligarius doth béar Caefar hard, Who rated bim for fpeaking well of Poém- pey s it Z’z- 356 Scénes from Fulius Caefar. 1 wonder none of you have thought of him, .B Ve Ndow good Metellus go aldéng to him ¢ He léves me well; and 1 have given him réafons Coef Send him but hither , and I ’1l fafhion him, Caf. The mbrning comes upén us, We ’ll ldave you Brutus: — And friends! difpérfe yourfelves: but all remémber What you have f4id, and fhew yourfel- S, ves true Romans, (e Bru. Good géntlemen look frefh and mér- Ar rily 3 5 S, Let not our looks put on our purpofes, But béar it, as our roman attors do, (al, With untir’d fpirits and formal cénftancy. And fo good mérrow to you évery one, (Exeunt,) e m)) flop ley | Scénes from ’}ulzus Caefar. 357 ugh The {céne chinges to Caefars p:ilace. Thunder and llghtnlng Enter 0 i iven bit Julius Caefar. Cae/. m) Nor héaven, nor éarth have been I A at péace to night; Thrice hath Calphurnia in her f{léep cry’d out, \V! brlltUS ' v Help, ho! they mirder Caefar® Who’s within 2 ot Enter a [ervaut youtfe Serv, My Lord? 108, Caef. Go, bid the priefts do prefent ficrifice, nd mete And bring me their opinions and fuccéfs, Sgl’vo I will my Lord, (Exit,) purp0[55! Enter Calphurnia, 5 dO; Cfllo What meéan you Caefar 2 Think you to walk forth 2 gofhncy You fhall not ftir out of your houfe to re[y 1)1 day Caef. Caefar fhall forth. The things that thréatened me, in) Man {'arrt im En@hfchen e1gent]1ch uéither, wuor , W« de1 , noch, ahem um des Metrums wil- len ftch: hier zweimal 1OV, 358 Scénes from Fulius Caefar, Ne’er 100k’d but on my back; when they {hall fee The face of Caefar, they are vanifhed Cal, Caefar, I néver ftood on n) céfemonies, Yet now they fright me, There is one within, Coe Bef ides the things that we have heard and feen, Recounts moft hérrid {ights féen by the watch, A honefs hath o) wélped in the ftréets; (a, And grives have }a\vn’d and yielded up their déad Fierce flery warriors fight upén the clouds, In ranks and fquadrons and right form of e/ war ‘Which p) drizzled bléod upén the Capi~ tol s The noife of battle hirtled in the air; - n) Unter ceremonies wird hier der Aberglaube verftanden , mittelft deffen man zufillige Bege- benheiten fiir iible Bedeutungen halt, Oben pag. 334, verfteht man darunter Verfohnopfer. S ©) to whelp, gebahren, wird nur von Thieren gebraucht p) to drzzzle , tropfeln, AT Scénes from: Fulins Cacfar, 359 hen they Horfes did néigh and dying men did groan, And ghofts did {hrigk and fqueal -about aifhed, the firéets, O Caefar! thefe things are beyond all ufe, femonies, g1t 18 00¢ And 1 do féar them., Caef. What can:be'avoided, ave héird Whofe end is plrpos’d by the nntrhty gods ? by Yet Caefar {hall go forth: for thefe pre- - di¢tions fheeets; Are to the world in géneral as to Caefar, Cal. When béggars die, there are no comets Ided g {éen: The héavens themfelves blize forth the oo déath of princes, Cae/ Cowards die miny times before their fmof N déaths s The valiant néver tafte of déath but dnce. he 4 Of all the wonders that I yet have héard, It féems to me moft ftringe that men ay fhould féar: Séeing that déath a néceflary end Will come when it will come, Joube Eunter a [érvant, o Bege What fay the augurers? (hen Serv. They would not have you to fi:n’ forth mgpfef ] to day, hiereh 360 Scénes from Fulius Caefar, Plicking the éntrails of an éffering forth, L They could not find a héart within the (w| beéaft, ( Exit [ervant.) Caef. The gods do this in {hame of cowar- dice : Caefar {hould be a béaft withdut a héart, Di, If he {hould i’cay at home to day for .féar, No, Caefar fhall not: danger knOWS full (e ‘well, i} Tfiat Caefar is more dingerous than he, Ar We were two lions q) litter’d in one day, And I the elder and more térrible; And Caefar fhall go forth, Cdl» Alas! my lord Your wisdom is confum’d in cénfidence Do not go forth to day : call it my féar; Ca That kéeps you in the houfe, and not Cae yvour own, We °’ll fend Mark Antony to the fénate- houfe; And he will fay, you ate not well te day 3 De q) to litter , Junge werfen ¢ 361 Scenes from Fulius Caefar, ng forh Let me upén my knée prevail in this, hin the Caef. Mark Antony fhall fay, I am not well; And for thy humour I will ftay at home. i Enter Decius. Here’s Decius Brutus, he fhall tell them f coat fo, g héart Dec. Caefar all hall' Good mérrow wérthy day for - Caefar; I come to fetch you to the fénate-houfe, oy fll Cae/. And you are céme in véry hippy time, To béar my greeting to the f{énators, o heo And tell them that I wlll not céme to da one fl% 7 Cannot is falfe, and that 1 dare not falu {er: I will not céme to day Tell them[fe fidence Decius, Cal. Say, he is fick, ) fear d 1ot Caef. Shall Caefar fend a lye? Have I in cénqueft firetchd mine arm fo fir, Enate To be afraid to tell grey-béards the truth? — d to Decius, go tell them, Caefar will not céme; Dec, Mokt mighty Caefar, let me know fome caufe, % E 362 Scénes from Fulius Caefar. Left I be laugh’d at, when T tell them fo - Cae/, The caufe is in my will 1 will not céme; That is endugh to fitisfy the {énate, But for your private fatisfittion, Becaufe I love -you, I will let you know, Calphurma here, my wife, fthys me at ! home‘ She dréamt laft night, fhe faw my ftitue, D”o Whlch like a fountain with an hindred fpouts, D1d tun pure blood; and miny lufl:y Ro- mans T Came {miling and did bathe their hands : in it And thefe The does apply for warnings and porténts, And evils 1rnmment and on her knée Hath beggd that T will ftay at home to day, Dec, This dréam is all amifs intérpreted It was a vifion fair and fOrtunate: Your ftitue fpouting blood in miny pi- pes, > In which fo miny {miling Romans bath’d, &/ i 363 Scénes from Fulius Caefar. Il them Sionifies, that from you gréat Rome fhall ] will no fuck Reviving blood; and that gréat men {hall {emte prefs ) For tinftures, ftains, rélicks, and cogni- [ Jet yoo fance, 'Jhxs by Calphurnia’s dréam is {ignify’d, ) e 4 Ca¢/- And this way have you well expouna ded it, oy ftue; Dec, I have, when you have héard what 1 Hindred I can fay; And know it now ; the {¢énate have con- cluded ifty Ro To give this day a crown to mlghty Caefar. eit had If you fhall fend them wdrd you will not céme, oS Their minds may change, Beflides it were a mock knee home {0 Apt to be réndered for fome one to fay, Bréak up the {énate till anbther time, ; When Caefar’s wife fhall méet with béts ter dréams, oy i It Caefar hide himfelf, fhall they not whifper, onal$ L Lo Caefar is afraid! Pardon me Caefar, for my deaf, dear lovg Scénes from Fulius Caefar, 364 To your proceeding bids me tell you Cag) this; And réafon to my love is liable, Caef. How foolifh do your féars {éem now, Se Calphurnia ? 1« 1 am afhimed, I did yiéld to them, Give me my robe, for I will go, Ant, Gy, Enter Brutus, Ligarius, Metelius, Cajca, Trebowius, Cinna and Publins. And look where Publius is come to fetch Ih me, Good mérrow Caefar, Re Publ Be Caef. Welcome Publius, — What Brutus are you ftirr'd {o éatly Treh, too 2 — Good mérrow Cafca, — Cajus Ligarius, Caefar was né’er fo much your énemy, As that fame ague which hath made you Coy lean, == ¥) What is 't o’ clock ? Bru. Caefar ’tis s) ftricken eight, Bry, ) What is t o clock ? ffir What is it of the clock 2 Wie viel Uhr ift es? s) ftricken, ein ungewothnliches Part, Pafl, , von to firike, fchlagen; das gewohnhche ift firuck, U U Scenes from Fulius Caefar, 365 tell you Ca.ef I thank you for your pains and cotir- tely, t, Enter Auntony, féem 10W, See Antony, that révels long t) o’ nights Is notwithftanding up: Good mérrow, them, Antony., g Aut, So to moft ndoble Caefar, Cae/. Bid them prepire within: V I am to blame to be thus; waited for 1 o Now Cinna; — now Metellus: — What Trebonius! 2 fo fetch — I have an hour’s talk in ftore for you; Remémber, that you call on me to day: Be néar me, that I may remémber you, Treb, Caefar, 1 will, — (aside) and fo néar fo @ty will 1 be, That your beft friénds {hall wifh, I had Ligarthy béen fhrther, eflemy' Caef. Good frlends‘ go in and tafte fome age JOb wine with me, And we like friends, will go ftraight Way togéther. Bru, That évery like is not ‘the fame, o Caefar, l oftzé m el ) f Nfif; %) o wights fiir on nightss 366 Scenes from Fulius Caefar, 9he héart of Brutus u) yerns td think mt upén! Wi (Exeunt,) féng : The Seene changes to a fireet néar the Ciapitol, Enter Artémidorusm réading a paper, ‘Cae{'ar, bewire of Brutus; take héed of Caf- fins ; come not near Cafca; have an eye to 3 Cinna; truft not Trebonius; mark well Me- * tellus Cimber ; Decius Brutus loves thee not y If thou haft wrong’'d Cajus Ligarius,. There is but one mind in all théfe men, and it is v) bent againft Caefér. ‘ _If kthou'be ft not \ Y u) to yem, befler yearn, Mitléiden haben, v) bent, zufammengezogen VoD bended. Man Decy kan fiiglich alle englifche Conjugationen in drei I Klaffen eintheilen. Zur erften gehvren alle re- gulaire Verba, nebft denjenigen die blos durch Contraétion irregulair werden, wie das gegen- wirtige Verbum to bend. Zur zweiten gehd- Cflefar ren diejenige, deren Imperfetta und Part, Pafl, Soot) fich auf git endigen, Das Kennzeichen der A, dritten Klaffe ift, dafs die in derfelben enthal- Duii tenen' Verba im Tmperfe€to den Vocal oder Diphthong in einen kiirzern verwandeln, und ihz: Part, Pafl, fich auf en endigen, Sy, ¢ Scénes from Fulins Caefars 367 to think iminc)rtal s look about you; feciirity gives way to confpiracy, The mighty gods de- ) fénd thee! Thy lover Artemidox;us“. |!o Heére will T frand, till Caefar pafs ai]éné, And as a fhitor will I give him this. »5pef. ( My héart laménts, that virtue cinnot live el of (4 Out of the téeth of emulition, n g If thou réad this, o Caefar, thou mayft weH J live, thee 1ot If not the fites with triitors do contrive, - There (Exit,) and it § et 20t Scéne, a firéet before the Cdpitol, The Cdpitol; the [énate [itting, Fléfirif ,h; Enter Caefar, Brutfis; Caffius, Cafca, Decius, Metellus, Trebonius, Cinna s An- , e tony , Lepidus, Artemidorus, and a ] glletee Soothfager, s it eg@fl' Caefar. The ides of March are come, i geho- Sooth, Ay, Caefar, but not gbne, flft0 Pafi' Art Hail, Caefar! réad this fchedule, Chefl def o ns Decius.. Trebonius doth defire you to o ’er gl 0 ff réad Joy W At your beft Léifure, this his humble fiit, e 368 Scénes from Fulius Caefar. O Caefar, réad mine firft; for mine's 3 DM Art fuit That tduches Laefar néarer, Réad it gréat Bru, Caefar, Cace/, What tbuches us ourfelf, {hall be laft Cinne ferv'd .drto Deldy not Caefar; reéad it inftantly, Cf What, is the féliow mad? Caef. Cafli What, urge you your petltlons in the M, ftréet 2 Céme to the Capitol, I (Cacfar enters the cdpitol, the refi fol- lowing.) dn C’afl Cafca be fGdden, for we fear prevén- G, 1 - tion, l\t The Brutus, what fhall be -w) done? If this MI | be known, A Caffius or Caefar néver {hall turn back, Int For 1 will flay myfelf, BV“. Caffius, be cénftant, To Caf, Trebonius knows his time} for, look ‘you, Brutus, T He driws Mark Antony out of the way, X)g W) dowe Teeht eigentlich fiir doen und gehort nach alfo zur dritten Conjugatxon» Siehe Nota v it | P-3 i g P e ' Scénés fl&m Fulius Caefér. 369 mie’s s Dec. Where is Metellus Cimber 2 Let Efm gvo} And préfently prefér his fUit to Caefar, ditgréa Bru, Heis x) addréft; prefs néar, 'and {é- cond him, il be b you are the firft, that réar Cinna. ‘.Cafca ’ your hand, antly Caef. Are we all réady 2 What is now amifs, That Caefar and his {énate muft redréfs 2 s i e Met, Mofl: high, moft mighty, and moft ptiffant Caefar, Metellus Cimber throws before thy féat wfl fil (kneeling) An humble héart: — ] prev‘en- Caef. 1 muft prevént thee, Cimber. Thefe céuchings and thefe l16wly clirtefies ) i Might fire the blood of érdinary men; And turn predrdinance and firft decrée Into the y) lane of children, Be not m it fond, To think, that Caefar béars fuch rébel Blood, w f, Jook That will be thaiw’d from the trlie quility Wb X) addreft fteht hier fiir ready. y) laue {oll nach Johnfons Meinung /aw heiffen. Diefe Les- | gehi')ft art hat wenigftens einen beffern Sinn, Lama ota Y ift ein enger Durchgang, 370 Scénes from Fulius Caefjar, With that which mélteth fools; I méan T {weet words, Low crooked cfirt fies, and bafe 2z) {ph- ~ niel - fawning, (g} Thy bréther by decrée is b4nifhed : s 1f thou doft bend and pray , and fawn for him, B I fpurn thee like a a) cur out of my way. Know, Caefar doth not wrong ; nor thh- out caufe Will he be fatxsfied Tt Met. Is there no voice more worthy than Th my own, To found more fweetly in gréat Caefar’s Th For the repealing of my banifhd brother ? B Bm, 1 kifs thy hand, but not in flittery, Caefar 3 § ~ Defiring thee, that Publius Clmber may Have an immeédiate fréedom of repeal C'aef What Brotos! Cafl. Pardon, Caefar; Caefar, pardon: Y As low as to thy foot doth Caffius fall Th et \ z) fpaniel, ein Wachtelhurd ; f;oamel - fawning fchmeicheln, wie die Wachtelhunde a) cur, ein Bauer nhund, ein {chlechter Menich, em Schurke, b) fa W g e 3 Scenes from 7ulzur Caefizr. 7k I mby - beg enfranchlfemernt for Publius Cime ber 1) foh Caef; 1 could be well mov’d, if I were as, d fawn 5 TH could pray to 1 move, priyers would move me But I am con{’cant as the northern fiar, y \VflYo Of whofe true, b) fixt, and rdhng qui~ it with hty, There is no féllow in the f irmament, than The fkles are piinted \mth unmxmber’d f] p’xrks, fars They are all fire, and évery one detli {hine; pother But there’s but one in all .doth hdld his place ; fitterf) So in the world, tis farnifh'd weH W1th men, or MY And men are flefh-and bléod, and appre. ol hénfive; Yet in the ntmber, I do kunow but one ‘That unafiallable holds on his tank, fll Unfhik'd of motion , and that 1 am he, Let me a little fhow it, éven in this; g ) i b) fixt, zufammengezogen von fixed gehort o zur erfien Conjugation, Siehe Nota v, p, 366 Aaa = A 372 Scénes from 7ulzus' Caefar, That I was cbnfiant, Cimber fhould be banifh'd ; By, And cénftant do remain to kéep hlm fo. 1l Cinna. O Caefat, — Cae/. Hence! Wilt thou lift. up Olympus? Ar Dec. Gréat Caefar. — Caef. Doth not Brutus c) boot lefs kneel? (. Cafca, Spéak hands for me, ( They fiab Cae- Jar) C Caef FEt tu Brute 2 — Then fall Caefar! ( Dies) Bry, Cinna. Liberty! Fréedom! Tyranny is déad! So Run hence, procliim, cry it about the ftreets, (Hxs Cafl Sotne: to the cobmmon pilpits, and cry ' out, An¢ sLiberty, fréedom, and enfranchifement! ¢ Bru Péople, and fénators! be not affrighted ; Y Fly not, ftand ftill Ambition’s debt is paid, T (Eunter Trebonius.) Cafl. Whexes Antony ? Treb Fled to his houfe amaz'd Men, WlVGS and children, frare; cry dut L and run ©)bootlefs, vergeblich von boot, der Nuzem, d) lio PP e ] Scenes from Fuiius Caefar. 373 (hould b As it were d) dooms - day. Bru, Fates! we will know your pléafures: — him {0, That we fhall die, we know ; tis but the time, yeops! And drawing days out, that men fiand upén, kneel! Cufl' Why, he that cuts off twénty yéars fah (e of life, Cuts off fo miny yéars of fearing déath, Bru, Grant that, and then is déath a bénefits ! (D) dead! = So are we Caefar’s friénds that have yout the abridg’d His time of féaring déath, — Stoop, Ro- and cry mans, ftoop; And let us bathe our hands in Caefar’s et i blood it Up to the €lbows y and besmear our el {fwords 3 Then walk we forth éven to the maxket-. place, And, wiving our red wéapons o ’er out héads, ny bl Let's all ery, ,,Péace! Fréedom! and Li- berty ! (Dtppmg their fwords in Caefar’s blood,) & v d) dooms~ day, Gerichtstag, der jlingfte Tag, ,,,,, 374 Scéne; from Fulius C'qejb‘r.' Enter> Autony, . i But here comes Antony, — W élcbme i Mark Antony, ] I Ant. O mighty Caefar! doft thou lie fo low? Areiall thy coOnquefts, glories, triumphs, fpoils, i e) Shrun_k to ‘this little méafure?2 ,—-\\,Farg thee well. s I know not géntlemen, what you inténd, Who elfe muft be let bléod, who ,.v,elf'e.is f) rank: ) | As 1f I myfelf, there is no hour fo fit The As Caefar’s déath’s hour nor}nq"'inftm- ment Br, The Qtf half that worth as thofe your {words, made rich As e) Shrunk, Part. Pafl. von to fhrink, eingies hen, einfchranken. Es gehort zur dritten Con- jugation, wenn es gleich nicht auf en ausgeht, indem das ex abgefchnitten worden. Auf diefe Art ift das en bei poch mehreren Participiis Paflivi weggeworfen worden, fung, [unk, Jprung. Dals diefe Bemerknng richtig fei, zeigt die deutfche Analogie, pach welcher diefe Par- ticipia gebildet worden, wnnd bei welchen das en in obigen Part. beibehalten ift, nehmlich Pyt S e, S gefungen, gefunken, gefprungen. . ) rank, tiberreif, zu yiel Friichte tragend, Hier heift es zp michtig, ==y Scenes from Fulius Caefay, 375 Wlth the moft noble blood of all this Télcome, ‘ world, I do befeech you, if ye béar me hard, 0 low? “Now whilft your purple hands do reek triumphs, and fmoke, ? - fin Fulflll your pléafure, Live a thoufand yéars, on futéd I fhall not find myfelf fo apt to die: ‘No place WIH pléafe me fo, no méan of 1o elle 8 déath, As here by Caefar, and by vou cut off, fit nftru Yhe choice and mafter {pirits of this 2ge, Bru. O Antony beg not your déath of us, fyord Though now we muft appéar bléody and cruel As by odur hands, and this our préfent " act, You fee, we do; pingle: yet fee you but odur n ot hands, And this the bléeding bufinefs, they have usgel uf diee dzef done i Our héarts you fee not, they are pmful ik j 26t And pity to the géneral wrong of Rome fe fur (As fire drives out fire, {o pity, plty) e 0 Hath done this déed on Caefar, For your i part, ¢ e To you odur {words have léaden pdints, Mark Antony 376 Scénes from Fulius Caefar, Our arms in Pcrengigh of 'mélice, and dur héarts, Of brother’s temper, do recéive you in ‘With all kind love, good thdughts, and réverence, Cafll Your voice fhall be as firong as 4ny man’s In the difpofing of new dignities Bru. Only be patient, till we have appéas’d befide themfelves with The multitude g) féar ; If And then we'will deliver you the caufe, Sha I 'Why & that did love Caefar, when I h) ftrook him, To! Procéeded thus, Sty 1 ‘Ant. 1 doubt not of your wisdom, b Let éach man render me his bléody hand, Firfc 5 Marcu§ Brutus, will I {hike with you ; — Next, Cajus Caffius do I tike your hand; Now Decius Brutus, yours ; — now yours, I Metellus 3 = Yours, Cinna; — and, my véliant Cafga, l { \ yog}'s 3 = g) befide thémfelws with féar, aufler ficl% Vbr Furcht, h) ftrook fir firuck, Imp, und Sup, von to firike, Siche Nota s. pag, 364, 1) ao P i J Scénes from Fulius' Caefar. 377 y g oue Tho’ laft, not léaft in love, yours, good Trebonius, 2 You 10 Géntlemen all ; — alds; what (hall T fay ? ghts, nd My crédit now ftands on fuch flippery ground, '.lhat one of two bad ways you mufi g 45 conceéit me, § Elther a coward or a flitterer, = *tis ¢ appes That I did l6ve thée, Caefar, oh Iyes yih true If then thy fpirit look upon us now, the cill Shall it not grigve thee, déarer than thy déath whea | To fee thy Antony miking his péace, Shaking the bloody fingers of thy foes, Moft noble ! in the préfence of thy 1) corfe? oy bt Had I as many eyes, as thou haft wounds, ik ¥l Weeping as faft, as they firéam forth thy bléod i hand’ yyours It would becéme me better , than to clofe Cafcw, In terms of friéndfhip with thine éne- mies, ch vot d Sop i) corfes fur corpfe, Leichnam, 378 Scénes from. Fulins Caefars Pardon, me, Julius! s Here wa{r’c""tlbmu A k( bay'd, brave 1) hart; Here didft thou fall, and here thy hénters ftand o n Sign'd in thy fpdil, and crimfon in thy m) lethe, O world! thou waft the féreft to "this hart; And this indéed, o world the héart of thee. By, How like a deer, firicken byva{éfiy prin- ces, Déflt thou here lie 2 T Cafl:‘ Mark Antony = Anz. Phrdon/ me, Cajus Caffius : dnt ~ The ¢nemies of Caefar {hall fay this; ~ Then, in a friénd, it is cOld médefty. Cafl. 1 blame you not for praifing Caefar fo; But what compiét méan you to have with us ? \prick'd in m'lmber of our By Will you be n friénds ? Caf k) to pay, mit bellenden Hunden hezen, jagen, 1) hart, Hirfch, m) lethe, it ein veraltetes Wort, welches Tod und Zerftorung bezeich. net, n) to prick, ftechen, to prick names, Namen ftechen ader zei zeichnen, chnen, glfq hier ein. Seénes from Fulius Caefar. 379 ft thos Or fhall we on, and not depénd on you? Ant, Thérefore 1 took your hands, but, was ]) har indéed, hinters Swiy’'d from the pdint by looklng down on Caefar, infly Frxend am 1 ‘with you all and lve yon all; his Upon this hope that you f hall give me réafons, hear Why, and wherein Caefar was dingerous. Bru. Or elfe this were a {ivage fpectacle, prif Our réafons are fo full of good regard, ~ That were you, Antony,: the fon of Caefar, You {hould be fatisfied, Ant. That’s all 1 feek: I And am more over fuitor, that I may fiy. Produce his body to the market-place: it fo; " And in the pulpit, as becémes a friénd, haye Spéak in the order of his fineral, ; Brw. You fhall, Mark Antony, - ont Caf. Brutus, a word with you, — (afi de.) You know not what you, do, do not coufént, 1g€fl. That Antony fpéak in his funeral fetes ich Know you, how much the people may be mov’d sy ol By that, which he will Gtter ¢ 380 Scettes from Fulius Caefar, Em. By your pardon, Brw, I will myfelf into the pulplt firft, And fhow' the réafon of our Caefat’s déath 4nt, What Antony fhall {péak, T will protéft He fpeaks by léave and by permiffions And that we are conténted Caefar {hall Have all due rites, and lawful céremo- nies: It fhall advintage more than do us wrong. I like it Ca_fl“ 2 know not what may fall: not, Byu, Mark Antony, here tike you Caefar’s — -~y bbdy You fhall not'in your flineral fpéech bla- me us, But fpeak all good you can devife of Caefar ; And fay’ yfiu o) do’t by our permiffion, Elfe {hall’ you not have 4ny hand at all About his: fitneral. And you {hall fpeak In the fame pilpit whereto I am gomg, After my«fpeech is ended, Ant, Be it fo; I do defire no more, Di e, Ve 0) do’t fur do i, ke e Scefles from Fulius. Cagfar. 38t Bru, Prepare the bédy then, and féllow us, (Exennt Can/pzratars ) ] Taefat's Mamt Antony. dnt, O piu‘don me , thou bléeding piece of pro ft éarth, That I am méek and gentle with thefe o1y (hall - biitchers, Thou art the rains of the nobleft man, gty That éver lived in the p) tide of times, Woe: to the hand that fhed this coftly oy blood ! Jike 8 Over thy wounds now «do I préphely, — efat’s Which like' dumb mouths, do ope their raby lips, h bl To beg the voice and Gtterance of my téngue; — A curfe { hall light upbn the limbs of o of men j Doméftick fary and fierce civil ftrife, Wi e e TR all Shall q) ciimber all the various parts of ]taly s fpeak Bléod and deftrliétion fhall be fo in ufe, 10§ And dréadful ébjeéts fo familiar, p) tide fteht hier fUr courfe; in the tide of ti- mes, in dem Laufe der Zeiten, q) to cumber, verwitren , in Befchwerde oder Gefahr verwi- keln, 382 Scém: Jrom Gulius Caefar. That mbthers {hall but fiile, when they 7 behold b Thexr xnfants quarter’d with the hands of war ; And plty chbakd with clftom of fell déeds: And Caefar’s {pirit ranging for revénge, Wlth Ate b Y his flde, come hot from Pl ~. hell, B, Shall in thefe cbnfines, with a ménarch’s voice, m Cry hévock “and let {lip thé dogs of war, That this foul déed fhall fmell abdve the A éarth il With cérrion men, groaning for brrial, Wi it (Exit Antony) tl The [cene changes into The Forum. Enter Brutus and Caffius with the Plebéians, Pleb. We will be fitisfied ; let us be fitisfied, Bru. Then follow me and give me audlence ;‘ friénds, Caffius go you into the 6ther firéet And part the nGmbers, — 1 Thofe that will héar me fpéak, let em anffy Itte ftay hére; e & S,céimfiom ,fi’uéim ‘ .‘Cflejdf. 333 follow Caffius ¥ ’leQfe that will n il . orhim; ‘, go with {0) Afid-pfibiik' réaf ns 4 halll be réndefed 1ds of Of Caefar’s “déath. of el (Exit Caffius, with fome of the ple- béians , Brutus goes into the yo- Jrrums) g6 Pleb. The ndble Brutus is afcénded 5 silence from Bru., Be patient till the laft, Romans , céduntrymen, and I()vers! héar narch’s me for my caufe; and be Tilent, that you may héar, Beliéve me for mine hénour; Wt and - have refpéét ‘to unine hénour, that e the you may beliéve, Cénfure me in your wisdom ; and awake your fenfes, that you il may the better jidge. 1f there be 4ny in ) this aflémbly, 4ny déar friénd of Caefar’s, to him 1 fay, that Brutus’s love to 'Cae- far was no lefs than his, If then that friénd demind, why Brutus r)rofe agiinft Caefar, this is my 4nfwer: «— Not, that 1 16ved Caefar lefs, but that T loved Ra- fied, ine more, Had you rather Caefar were ence living, and die all }fliwes; than that o 1) raofe, Pa’rt; Pafl, von to rife, wvofe, rifen, auffteben, fich emporen; ein Beifpiel von der ot - dritten Conjugation, Siehe No'f, Vo P 360, N 384 Scenes from:Fulius Caefar, Caefar were déad, to live all frée men ® { As Caefar lov'd me, I weep for him; as. he was fortunate, I rejoice ‘at‘ity: “as he was valiant, 1 hénour him; “but as he was ambitious, I flew him, There are § téars, for his love; joy for his fortune; hénour for his valour; and déath for his ;1 ambition, Who is hére fo bafe, that Al would be a bénd ~man? If 4ny, {peak ; 1 Pl for him 1 have offénded, Who is here fo riude, that would not be a Roman? 2 P If 4ny, fpéak; for him have I offénded. $ P Who is here fo vile, that will not love 4 Ppeh S his céuntry? If 4ny, fpéak; for him have T offénded I paufe for a reply, B, All, Nbne, Brutus, ndne, % Pl Bru. Then néne have 1 offénded, Bru, I have dbne no more to Caefar, than you fhall do to Brutus, The quéftion of his déath is enrdlled in the cépitol; his glory not exténuated, wherein he was wérthy; nor his offénces enfOrced for Whlch he fhffered déath. Enter Marvk Antony with C’ae/ar s bédy. Hére comes his body molirned by Mark 91 Antony : who, though he had no hand in Pey Wel bis e } Scenes from yulim Caefzr‘ 385 his déath, Chall recéive the bénefit of his o8 men! him; dying, a place in the commonwéalth; as s) which of you fhall not? With this a8 B but 4s e I depart; that as I {léew my beft 16ver for the good of Rome, I have the fame Thete aro - fortue; digger for myfelf, when it fhall pléafe my country to need my déath, h for i e, fi 4. "Live, Brutus , live! live! 1. Pleb. Bring him with triomph home into I fpé&k, his houfe, ) 1§ hete n, Pleb, Give him a ftatue with his énceflors Qoman? fféfldedo 3. Pleb. Let him be Caefar, 4. Pleb. Caefar’s better parts ot love Shall be crown’d in Brutus m have Bru, My cdéuntry men — 2, Pleb. Peéace! filence! Brutus {péaks .Bz"M. Good céuntrymen let me depart aldne, And for my fake ftay here with Antonys han J0U Do grace to Caefar’s cérpfe, and grice pof b his fpéech s gloy Tending to Caelar’s glories; which Mark 'Ol‘thy y Antony I ch 1o By our permiffion is allbw’d to make, s) which fir who, welches leztere nur von ik Perfonen, das erftere nur von Sachen gebraucht n werden foll. od Bb i 386 Scénes from Fulius Caefar. 1 do intréat you, not a man depart, Save 1 alone till Antony have {poke, (Exit.) I. P[eb0 Stay , o' ‘and let us héar Mark An- tony. 3‘ Pllbo Let hlm 00 up into the plblic chair, We’ll héar him, Noble Antony go Sp Ant For Brutus fake I am t) beholden to you : 4. Pleb. What does he {ay of Brutus? 3. Pleb. He fays, for Brutus fake He t#inds himfelf beholden to us all, So Cor 4 Pleb. u) "T'were beft he fpéak no harm of Brutus here. He I, Plebo This Caefar was a tyrant 30 Ple&¢ Nay, that’s cértain, Bt Ax We are bleft, that Rome is rid of h1m 2. Pleb, Peace; let us heéar, what Antony can fay, Aunt You gentle Romans, — Al - Péace, ho! let us héar him, Di flm‘. Frlends ROmans , céuntrymen, lend me your éars, A t) beholdem, von einem veralteten Zeitwort #o behold, das von dem deutf{chen falten abftammt; verpflichtet. gefaiten. Es wird mit dem Datjp Y) by Yo coni’cruu't u) ’twere fur it were, 1) 2 387 Scénes from' Fulius Caefizr. iif I come to blry Caefar} not to praife him, ke, The évil that men do, lives ifter thems Latk Ane The good is oft intérred with their bdnes; So let it be with Caefar! The nble Bru- tus i chai Hath tdld you, Caefar was ambitious: o i den t0 1f it were fo, it was a griévous fault; And griévously hath Caefar 4dnfwered it, 51 Here under léave of Brutus, and the reft, (For Brutus is an h(’)nourable man, A So are they all, all hénourable men) Come I to fpéak in Caefar’s fiineral, it of He was =y friénd, faithful and juft to . me: But Brutus fys, he was ambitious; And Brutus is an bénourable man him He hath V) brought miny ciptives home g Antory to Rome, Whofe ronfoms did the géneral coffer - fill; Did this in Caefar feem ambitious? ot When' that the poor have cry'd, ‘Caefar hath wept : Ambition fhould be made pf ftérner fcufi‘: ;mmtj Dt v) brought, Part. Pafl, von to bring, gehort zZur zweite‘n Conjugation, Siehe Nota v, p, 366. Bb 2 388 Scenes from Fulius Caefar, Yet Brutus fayg, he was ambitious; And Brutus is an hénourable man, You all did fee, that, on the Lupercal, 1 thrice prefénted him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refufe, Was this 1 ambition 2 Yet Brutus fays, he was ambitious; 4 | And, fure, he is an hénourable man, 1 fpeak not to w) disprove, what Bru- tus {poke, But hére I am to fpéak, what 1 do L f know Yaqu all d1d love him once not Wlthéut 30 caufe : What caufe withholds you then to mourn %P for him, O judgment, thou art x) fled to brutifh & beéafts, it And men have loft their réafon! Beéar with me, W) to disprovz, zufammengezogen von fo dis- approve. x) flec, zufammengezogen von fi fleed, geoort alfo zur erften Conjugation Not. v, pag. 366. Infinitivus fo flee, flichen, Es darf nicht verwechielt werden. m1t to fly, flew, flown, fliegen, S, s, Scenes from Fulius Caefar, 389 5 My héart is in the Offin here with Cae- ar, 4 And I muft paufe, till it come back to prea) foy, me, 1. Pleb.: Methinks, there is mueh réafon in VaS g his fayings, 1s; e, Pleh, Mark’d ye his words? he would not take the crown ; ma, Thérefore ’tis cértain, he was not ambi-~ ht B tious, X PIQ If it be found fo, fome will dear abla it 1 de it 3. Pl Poor {oul! his eyes are red as ftire yithout with weeping 2+ Pl There’s not a nobler man in Rime mou than Antony NOW mark him, he begins to fpeak. 4. Pl, il Ant. But yéfterday the word of Caefar might Have ftood againft the world ROw ligs | B he there, And néne {o poor to do him réverence, O mafters! If I were drsposd ta {¥ir Your héarts and minds to miitiny and age, od-s‘ nfi?f ) 1 fhould do Brutus wrong and Cail L g picht wrong, Who, you all know, are hénourable fowth men, Ly \ 390 Scénes’ frofi ?uliw Caefar. - theni wron I will not do - chufe g; 1 rather To wrong the déad, to wrong myfelf and you, Than I will wrong {uch hénourable men, But hére’'s a parchment, With the feal of Caefar, ¥ fSund It-Sn his eldfet; 'ts: his wills: Let but the commons héar this téftament, 4P (Which pardon me I do not médn to réad; And they would go and kifs déad Caefar’s A, wounds, And dip their nipkins in his facred bléod; Yéa beg a'hair of him for mémory, And dying, méntion it within their wills, Bequeathing it as a rich légacy, & Udte their iffue, 4] 4 Pleb., We’ll héar the will : Réad it Mark 4l Antony. All, The will, the will: — We will héar Caefar’: will, Ant. Have patience, gentle friénds, 1 muft L4 v not réad it; It is not méet, you know how Caefar lov'd you, You are not wood, you are not ftones, but men; P Scénes from Fulius Caefar. 391 het And béing men, hearing the will of Cae- ar, myle It will inflime you, it will make you ma le men, *Tis good, you know not that you are foal of his héirs ; For if you {hould, o what would come yill of it? famen 4. Pleb. Read the will , we will hear 1t edn {0 Antony ; You f{hall réad us the will; Caefar's wills hefir’s Ant., Will you be patient? will you ftay a while 2 ldod I have o’erfhot myfelf, to tell you of i f I féear, I wrong the hénourable men, yil Whofe dag ers have ftibb’d Caefar: I do féar it, 4. Pl They were traitors: Hénourable men! All, The will! the téftament! / Yk 2. P/, They were villains, murderers The hea will ! Réad the will! Ed mff ¢ Ant, You will compél ‘me then to read the will 2 elat Then make a ring about the corpfe of Caefar, 1168 And let me fhow you him that made the will, 392 Scénes from Fulius Caefar. Shall T defcénd? and will you give me leave 2 All., Come down, (He cémes dewen from the 2, Pl Defcénd. pélgit) You fhall have léave 3. Pl 40 Plo A ring, ftand round, 1.‘Pl. Stand from the y) héarfe ftand from the b6dy. Aut.. ¥ you have tiars, prepire to fhed them now. You all do know this mantle: I remém- ber The firft time éver Caefar put it on; *Twas on a {immers évening, in his tent, That day he overcame the Nervii, — Look! in this plice, ran Caffius digger through ¢ See what a rent the énvious Cafca made: Through this the well beloved Brutus ftabb’d, And, as he pliick’d his curfed fhéel away, Mark how the bléod of Caefar féllow’d 3t 4 Y) hearfe, die Babrel oo, Scérze: from Fulius Caefar. 393 give me ‘As rif hmg out of dbors to be refolv’ d, If Brutus fo uukindly knock’d, or no; For Brutus, as you know, Was Caefars angel ; fromth Jbdge, o you gods! how dearly Caefar lov’d him! This was the moft unkindeft cut of all For when the noble Caefar faw him {tab, and from Ingratitude more ftrong than traxtors arms, { to fhed Quite vinquifh’d him: then burft his femeit- mighty héart: And in his mantle muffling vp his face, on; Even as the bafe of Pompeys ftatue, Which all the while ran blood gréaf s Caefar fell, i, = O, what a fall was there, my country- g men! Then 1 and 'you and all of us fell ddwn, Whilft bloody tréafon fléurifh’d over us, i O now you weep; and, I percéive, you feel | i) The dint of pity : thefe are gricious v’ drops. Kmd fouls, what, weep you, when ym:a but behold Qur Caefar’s véfture wuunded‘? Look yom cre ! s 304 Scénes fz?oin Fulius Cae!ézr. 'Here is himfelf, marr'd as you fee, by traitors, 1. Pl. O piteous fpettacle o Pl O noble Caefar o] v Pl, O woeful day! : Pi, O traitors, villains! 1. Pl O moft bloody fight! 2.4 Pl We will be revéng’d: revénge: about, — féek, burn - « fire, - - kill, z) flay - - let not a traitor live, . Aut Stay Cbuntrymen, — 1. Pl. Peéace there, héar the noble Agtonly. Fo 2. P, We’ll héar him, we’ll follow him, we’ll dle with him, A Ant, Good friénds, fywoet friends, let me not ftir you up | To fuch a {idden fléod of miiting, ' » They , that have déne this déed are hé- N nourable : What privatg griéfs they have, alds, [ know not, That made them do it; they are wife and hénourable, — z) to flay, umbringen; Tmperf, /leL& s Part, Pafl, flain, fur /layen ode borum. t flaien , gehort aifo zur dritten Klafle der Ver P cenes from Guiius Caciar. 395 And wfll no doubt Wlth réafons anfwer fie, by you. I cbme not, friénds, to ftéal away your héarts ; 1 am no é6rator as Brotus is: 1 But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, pe! abol That love my friénd ; and that they know full well 7)1l That give me publick léave to fpéak of him, Antony, For I have néither writ nor words, nor worth, w him, A&mn nor utterance, nor the power of him {péech, e 00 To fiir men’s blood; I énly fpeak right on J I tell -you that hich you yourfelves gte bo do know; Show you f{weet Caefar’s wounds, poor, is [ poor, dumb mouths ! And bid them fpéak for me, But were I o and Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an An- tony Would ruffle up your fpirits and put 2 Parf. tongue ¢ al e 396 Scenes from Fulius Caefar, In évery wound of Caefar, that {hould 9 Pl move A, The fténes of Rome to raife and mutmy, 4 All We 'll mitingy — A, | 3. Pl, We’ll burn the houf’e of Brutus. 3. P/, Away then, come féek the confplra-. tors, Ant Yet héar me céuntrymen, yet héar me {peak, All. Péace, ho! Heéar Antony, moft m‘)ble Antony, Ant Why, friends, you go to do, you know To not what, Her Wherem hath Caefar thus deférv’d Vour 16ves? 1P Aljs , you know not. I muft tell you then, — "You have forgot the will, I tdld you of, All, Moft triie; — the will, — a) let’s ftay, and héar the will %P LAnt, Here is the will and under Caefar’s 3P féal 4P To évery Roman citizen he gives To évery féveral man twénty five drach- mas Ant a) let’s fur Jet ws, P 7 if Scénes from Fulius Caefar. 397 Moft noble Caefar! t {houl o, Pl. Ant, Héar me with patlence. § mutio All, Péace, ho! Ant. More oOver, he hath left yon all his 11 Walks, Lo His private arbours, and new planted “Orchards, On this fide Tiber: he hath left them heat me you, noft a8 And to your heirs for éver; cémmon pléafures, ot know To walk abroad, and récreate yourfelves, Here was a Caefar: When comes {uch "4 your anOther ? ¢ P! Néver, néver: come, awiy, awiys - tell oo ‘We’'ll burn his bady in the holy place, And with the brands fire all the triitor’s g you ol houfes, Tiake up the bbdy. et's 10 il Wi ll 2. Pl Go, fetch fire Pluck down benches ao{ar § 3. P 4 Pl Pluck down forms, windows, 4ny thing, (Exeunt Plebeians with the body.) 4 dh(:h Ant Now let it work : Mischief thou art a féot Take thou what colirfe thou wilt !.— How now , féllow? e 398 Scenes from Fulius Caefar, Enter a fervant. Serv, OCavius is alr€ady come to Rome Ant Where is he 2 Serv. He and Lepidus are at Caefar’s houfe, Ant, And thither will I firaight, to vifit N him The He cémes upén a wilh, Fortune is Stey meérry, Wher And in this mood will give us any thing, Serv, T héard him fay , Brutus and Caffius Int Are rid, like midmen, through the gates Or vice of Rome, Ant. Behkfi: they had fome nétice of the Ot people, By o How I had mbv’d them, Bring me to Summ O&avius, Yout (Exeunt,) As For Reti Sep f Mg HlS W Fay T 399 ome (T he ;.chbice of Hercules, s houle, to vi Now héd fhe fon of Jove méture, attaifi’d The joyful prime: when youth, elate and gay, tone 1 Steps into life; and follows unreftrain’d Where paffion leads, or prudence_ points ‘th'e Uy thiflg' \Vazlo Cafins In the pure mind, at thofe ambiguous years, be itts Or vice, rgnk weed, firft ftrikes her poistous ‘root; of e Or héply virtues op'ning bud appears By juft degrees, fair bloom of faireft fruits Summer {hall ripen what the Spring began; ;mek‘ Youth’s generous fires will glow more con= ftant in the man, As on a day, reflefting on his age For higheft deeds now ripe, Aicides {ought Retirement ; nurfe of contemplation fage; Step following ftep, and thought fucceeding thought, Mufing with fteady pace the youth purfu'd His walk ; and loft in meditation ftay’'d Far in a lonely vale with {olitude 4Co The choice of Hevculesi Converfing ; while intent his mind furvey’d Hes The dubious path of life: Before him lay A vef Here, virtuous rough afcent, there pleafure’s — flow'ry way, Aug Setene ~ Much did the view lelde his wavermg mmd' Now glowd his breaft with generous thirft of Stil fame; Now ]ove of eafe to fofter thought inclin’d More Ple H1s y1eld1ncr foul and quench’d the rifing flame, Majett When lo! far off two female forms he fpies, Direft to him their fteps they feem to b)bear: The 4 Both large and tall exceeding human fize, Both far exceeding human beauty, fair. Bll bo And Graceful, yet each with different grace they moves: The This finkmg facred awe; that fofter winning 1ove. Al Ligh The firfk in native dignity furpafs’d ; Th Artlefs and unadorn’d {he pleas’d the more: Helgh Health P il b) to bear, bore, boren oder abgekiirzt born, e) 1) gehort zur dritten Conjugation “nach Not. Ve Yoty rJQ 3669 Uty The choice of Hevcules, 401 rveyd ‘Health o ’er her looks a genuine luftre caft; ) Iy A veft more white than new fall'n fnow fhe Alites= c) wore, Augufc {he d) trod, gyet modeft was her air ; Serene her eye, yet darting heav’nly fire, ing i s ti of - Still The drew near; and nearer {till more fair, it incnd More mild_,appéar’dz yet fuch as might,infi)ire Pleafure corretted with an awful fear; he il Majeflically fweet, and amiably fevere. he fpieS; b beat: " The other dame feem’d ev’n of. féirer hue; afi fize, i But bold her mien; unguarded lov’d her eye: And her flufhd cheeks confefs’d at neare, il ty view The bofrow’d bluf hes of an artful dye, ; i} All foft and delicate with airy {wim Lightly fhe danc’d along; her robe betray’d Thro’ the clear texture every tender limb, nofeé: Height’'ning the charms it\ only feem’d to {hade; - Heafih €) wear, wove, woren s or wWorn, wie in der Zt bm’fl! vorigen Note, d) to tread, trod, trodden, No{, i treten, gehort wieder zur dritten Conjugation, Ce 402 The choice of Hevcules. s And as it flow’d adown, fo loofe and thin, Her ftature {hewd more tall more {nowy- Rov white her {kin, Smoot W Oft with a fmile fhe view’d hérfelf afkance; Leave Ev'n on her fhade a confcious look fhe threw ; Then all around her caft a carelefs glance, To mark what gazing eyes her beauty drew. Th As they came near before that other maid Approaching decent eagerly {he prefs’d All th With hafty ftep; nor of repulfe afraid The wondring’ youth with freedom bland ad- drefs’d : Al W1th winning foftnefs on his neck fhe hyng ; To & Th Sweet as the honey -dew flow’d her enchan- ting tongue, Fitt Dear Hercules, whence this unkind delay? The Dear youth what doubts can thus diftract thy mind ? e Secure]} follow , where [ lead the ways; And range thro’ wilds of pleafure unconfin'd. Joy With me retire from noife, and pain and care; The chosce of Hevcules, 403 and thi, Embath’d in blifs, and wrapt in endlefs eafe: Rough is the road to fame, thro’ blood and e Tnowy war 3 1, Smoo';h is my way, all my paths are peace, With me retire from toils and perils free; ol ey Leave honour to the wretch! Pleafures were ook {k made for thee, glantt ity drevs Then will I grant thee all thy foul’s de- et i {ire; (! All that may charm thine ear, and pleafe thy id, fight and ade All that thy thought can frame, or wifh require, veck [ To fteep thy ravifh'd fenfes in delight, The fumptuous feaft, enchanc’d with mufic’s el ' found; - Fitteft to tune the melting foul to love: Rich odours breathing choiceft {weets arounds The fragrant bow’r cool fountain, f{hady delay? grove: fifrft Frefh flowers, to ftrew - thy couch and crown thy head, way j Joy {hall attend thy fteps, and eafe {hall {mooth oufl thy bed, in 4 Cc 2 The choice of Hevcules, 404 Thefe will I freely conftantly fupply: Heed Sta Pleafures not earn’d with toil, nor mix’d with WOE Tob Far from thy reft repining want h hall fly; Nor labour bathe in fweat thy careful brow. Mature the copious harveft fhall be thine Let the firong hind fubdue the ftubborn foil : Leave the rafh {foldier fpoils of war to win ;s By (She Won by the foldier thou fhalt' fhare the Co fpoil : - Thefe fofter cares my bleft allies employ, Wich to wifh and to New pleafures to invent; enjoy, Ty The youth her winning voice attentive Promi caught : He gaz'd 1mpatlent on the fmiling maid; WV then her name be- Stlll gaz'd and liften'd : fought Noy fhe R My name, fair youth, is Happinefs ¢, {aid. Thy Well can my friends: this envy’d truth maintain ¢ they beft can fpeak s They fhare, my blifs my praife ; 5 ¥ho' { lander call me Sloth — detraéhon Vam ! &)y len P i Zhbe choice of Hevcules. 405 Ji Heed not what flander vain detrattor fays; xd with ~Stander ftill prompt true merit to defame; TO blot the brighteft worth, and blaft the hl faireft fame,** A e thine, o foll; war By this arriv’d the fair majeftic maid (She all the while with the fame modeft pace, hare Compos’d advanc'd.) Know, Hercules, {he faid plO}’, With manly tone, sthy birth of heavn’ly and to race ; that lov’d infiruétion’s Thy tender age, voice, brave and tentve Promis’d thee generous, patient wife; When manhood fhould confirm thy glorious id; choice jme be Now expeftation waits to fee thee rife, Rife, youth! exalt thyfelf and me; approve fhe Thy high defcent from heav’n, and dare be worthy e) Jove, fruth [tk Hier ift um des Metrums wil- afthIl e) worthy syove. len die Praepofition of hinweg gelafien, The choice ‘of H’;arcules. 406 In But what truth prompts, my"tongué{f hall not disguife Jor he Thef fteep afcent muft be with toil fubdu’d:k Watchings and cares muft win the lofty prize, Propos’d by héav’n; true blifs and real good. We Honour rewards the brave and bold alone; She fpurns the timorous, indolent and bafe: Danger and toil ftand ftern before her throne; In at Fit And guard, ({fo Jove commands) the facred place, To ex Who f{eeks her, muft the mighty coft fui’cain., The And pay the price of fame; labour and care T yat and pain, Con Seorcl Th s Wouldft thou e;ngag.ez the gods peculiar care 2 Vlg 0‘ Hercules, th'immortal powers adore ! With a pure heart, with facrifice and pray’r Attend their altars: and their aid implore, Or wouldft thou gain thy country’s loud applaufe, (4 Lov'd as her father, as her god ador’d? \ Be thou the bold affertor of her caufe; Her voice in council; in the fight, her fwotd, Tu 2 4 The choice of Hevcules. 407 In peace in war, purfue thy country’s gue {1l good : ubdo'd For her bare thy bold breaft and pour thy gen’rous blood fe oty ] ool Wouldft thou, to quell the prond and lift d alone, th’oppreft d bal In arts of war and matchlefs firenoth excel 2 to throne; Flr{’c conquer thou thyfelf, To eafe, e ficred reft, ’Io each foft thought of pleafure bid farewel foftain, The night alternate due to {weet repofe, gnf (e In watches wafte; in painful march the day: Congeal’d amidft the rigorous winter's fnows; Scorch’d by the {fummers thirft - inflaming ray. Thy harden’d limbs fhall boaft fuperior mights pecuhar Vigour fhall brace thine arm, refiftlefs in the fight, ¢ ¢ and Hearft thou what monfters then thou muft 7] engage ; {oud ( Abrupt fays {loth,) , What toils {he bld’s thee pxove What endlefs toils 2 Tl fit thy tender age Tumult and war; fit age for joy and love W()fdo 403 The choice of Hevcules. To Turn gentle youth, to me, to love and joy! To thefe | lead ;: no monfters here {hall ftay Hles £ for Thine ealy courfe; no cares thy peace annoy; | | lead to blifs a nearer {moother Way, Nor { Short is my way; fair eafy, {mooth and Tk plain ! Turn gentle youth ! with me eternal pleafures In du reign, ¢ The From s» What pleafures, wvain miftaken wretch ate thine ! ( Virtue Wlth fcorn reply'd) ,,who f ]eepfc in eafe Fron ,,Inf‘enfate whofe foft limbs the toil decline Tlows That feafons blifs, and makes enjoyment pleafe, Ay Draining the copious bowl ere thirft re- i quire ; Sley Feafting ere hunger to the feaft invite: Whofe taftelefs joys anticipate defire; Whom luxury f{upplies with appetite: Hu Yet nature loaths; and thou employfl: in- vain Varlety and art to conquer her disdain F To The fparkling neftar, coold with fummer F fDOWS, Rej The dainty board, with choiceft viands fpre %, ST, / The choice of Hevcules, 409 nd jo To thee are taftelefs all! Sincere repofe [ oy Flies from thy flow’ry couch, and downy bed oy, For thou art only tir'd with indolence: Nor f{leep with felf - rewarding toil haft bought; i and Th’imperfect {leep, that lulls thy Ianguxd fenfe Jeafires In dull oblivious interval of thought: That kindly {teals th’inaétive hours away From the long ling'ring fpace that lengthens out the day, h ate :epft in From bounteous nature unexhaufted ftores decline Flows the pure fountain of fincere delights pleaf& Averfe from her, gyou wafte the ‘joylefs it e hours; Sleep drowns thy days, and riot rules thy night Immortal though thou art, indignant Jove Hurld thee from heaven, th’ 1mmortals bhfsful fin place; For ever banifh’d from the realms above, To dwell on earth with man’s degenerate race : Fitter abode! On earth alike disgrac’d; mine Re]e&ed by the wife and by the foo/ emb- rac’d, 1621 The choice of Hercules. 410 Fond wretch, that vainly weeneft all delight @ To gratify the fenfe referv’d for thee! Yet the moft pleafing objett to the fight They Thine own fair aétion never didft thou fee. Tho' lullld with fofteft founds thou lieft along; B Soft mufic, warbling voices, melting lays Neer didft thou hear, more figeet than {wwee- Me, teft fong Charming the foul, thou ne’er didft hear thy Re Al praife, No — to thy revels let the fool repair Cor To fuch, go fmooth thy fpeech; and {pread thy tempting fnarc. In upj Ny The Vaft happinefs enjoy thy gay allies! A youth of foliies; an old age of cares The Young yet enervate; old yet never wife; Vice waftes their vigour, and their mind im- * pairs, Vain idle delicate, in thoughtlefs eafe, N Referving woes for age, their prime they L fpend ; Hunl All wretched hopelefs , in the evil days, L With forrow to the verge of life they tend. Sy S, The choice of Hevcules. 411 | delih Griev’d with the prefent ; of the paft I af ham’d i They live and are defpis’d: they die, nor more 00 1664 are nam’'d oo fed [ But W1th the gods, and god-like men [ Jus dwell ; an fiet Me, his fupreme delight, th’almighty Sire feat th 4 | Regard’s well pleas’d Whatever works excel All, or divine, or human, I infpire, Counfel with ftrength and induftry with all art, fyrend In union meet conjoin’d, with me refide: 1€ My dittates arm, inftruct and mend the heart, The fareft policy the wifeft guide, Wxth me true friend{hip dwells: fhe deigns to bend () Thofe generous fouls alone, whom I before W I{Ie ) have join'd nd im b Not need my friends the wvarious coftly feaft ; e (he Hunger to them th'effelts of art fupplies: Labour prepares their weary limbs to reft dfl lSy Sweet is their {leep ; light, chearful firong they % tend rife, L3 The choice of Hevcules, 412 Thlo health thro’ joy, thro pleafule and Th renown, They tread my paths, and by a foft defcent, Swe At length to age all gently finking down, The Look back with transport ‘on a life well fpent: Throt In which no hour flew unimprov’d away; Slot In which fome generous deed diftinguifh’d Unve every day. Fa So fi And when. the defcm’d term at length com- pleat, Their afhes reft in peace; eternal fame No Sounds wide'their praife: i 4 rmmphant over fate, Mafks In facred fong for ever lives their name, This, Hercules, is happinefs! Obey Leay My voice and live, Let thy celeftial birth Lift and enlarge thy thoughts, Behold the v ¢ ks way, That leads to fame, and raifes thee from earth Her W Wi Immortal ! Lo! I gunide thy fteps. Arife, Purfue the glorious path and claim thy na- tive f{kies,* And W Her words breathe fire celeftial and impart NOW New vigour to his foul; that fudden caught T, The choice of Hevcules. 413 e and The generous flame; With great intent his heart defoent, Swell full ; and labours with exalted thought: down, The mift of error from his eyes dispell’'d, « I fenk Through all her fraudful arts in cleareft light J away Sloth in her native form he now be}}eld nguith Unveild fhe ftood confeft before his fight ; Falfe Siren! — All her vaunted charms, that {hone So frefh erewhile and fair; now wither’d h com pale and gone, | ovet No more the rofy bloom in {weet disguife Mafks her diffembled lcoks: each borrowd grace [+ Leaves her wan cheeks ; pale hcknefs clouds her eyes b Livid and funk, and paffions dim her face d te As when fair Iris has a while display’d earth Her watry arch, with gaudy ‘painture gay; While yet we gaze, the glorious colours ife 1% fade, And from our wonder gently fteal away: Where { hone the beautous phantom erft fo bright, Now low rs the low - hung cloud; all gloomy ;par { to the fight, it 414 Zhe choice of Edevcules, But virtue more engaging all the while, He f Disclos’d new charms; more lovely, more {erene; Ty . Beaming {weet influence. A milder {mile Soften’d the terrors of her lofty mien, (tow: Lead goddefs, I am thine! (transported cry'd Alcides ;) 4, O propitious pow’r thy way Teach me! pqfl'efs my foul; be thou my guide: From thee, o never let me ftray ! While ardent thus the youth his vows ad- dreft; With all the goddefs fill'd already glow’d his breaft, The heav’nly maid, with ftrength diving endu’d there all her pow’rs com- His daring foul; bin’d: ‘Firm conftancy , undaunted fortitude, Enduring patience ;-arm’d his -mighty mind, Unmov’d in toils in dangers undismay’d, By many a hardy deed and bold emprize, From fierceft monfters , thro’iher pow’rful aid, P N f’ be choice of Hevcules. 418 hiley He freed the earth: thro’ her he gain’dr the - mote {kies, ’Twé§ virtue plac’d him in the blefs'd aboa {nile de; Crown’d with eternal youth: among the gods, nsported a god, yay hou 1 fs ads ‘V"d his {iyine CoMm* 'md~ i 76; il Some 416 b 2 i The Can 1 Some paffages of Milt‘()t‘l’;s‘ What paradife loft. And A Tpéech of Satan from the firft book, Who Is this the }region, this the f;oil, the clime, Ve | Said then the loft f) archangel, this the feat Hete That we muft change for heaven, this mourn- Here ful gloom To 1 Better For that celeftial light? Be it {o, fince he Who now is fov’rgign'c,an/ difpofe and bid What {hall be right: fartheft from him is beft, ! Whom reafon equall’d, force hath made fu- preme Above his equals, Farewell happy fields, Hail Ot ¢ Where joy for ever dwells! Hail horrors! hail 1\*1ay Infernal world, and thou profoundeft hell And Receive thy new poffeflor; one who brings ) D A mind not to be chang’d by place or time, The Bl‘fgh KA Of he o Who f )'archangel , in diefem Wort wird dés ch ausnahmsweife wie £ ausgefprochen, fo wie beinahe in allen Wortern griechifcher Abftam- musg, 8 d Some pafi?yges of lez'on’s pnma’ ife lofl 417 The mind is its own place and in itfelf ons Can make a heav’n of hell, a hell of heaven, What matter where, if I be fill the fame, And what I {hould be, all but lefs than he ft b Whom thunder hath made greater? here at leaft ' Cllme; We fhall be free; th’almighty hath not buxlt Here for his envy, will not dtive us hence ¢ he fa 5 mout Here we may feign fecure; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition tho' in hell ; ¢ e Better to treign in hell than ferve in heaven, | bid is beft An addrefs to light from the third book, node f Hail holy light, offfpring of heavn firftboin, eld Or of th’eternal coeternal beam foro! May 1 exprefs thee unblamd? fince god is S light, Jell And never but ih unapproached hghfi brings - ¢) Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, e Bright effluence of bright effence increate, The Or hearft thou father putre effential ftream, Whofe fountam who fhall tell 2 before the {un, i 0 ‘ 0 W]C pplap g) dweit , fur dwelled, Siehe Nota v, p, 366; Dd 418 Some paffages out of Before the heav’'ns thou wert and. at the i) on voice Of god as with a mantle didft inveft Thee, The mhng world of waters dark and deep That Won from the void and formlefs mfimte. Thee I revifit now with bolder wing Night Efcap’d the ftygian pool, though long detam d Thofe In that obfcure fojourn: while in my flight S0 w ThrouOh utter and through middle darknefs Bling born And With othér notes than to th’ orphean lyre Then I fumr of Chaos and eternal night, Harmo h) lauoht by the heav’'nly mufe to venture Sings ¢ i down Tuneg The datk defcent, and up to reafcend, Tho* hard and rare, Thee 1 revifit fafe, Seafo And feel thy fov'reign vital lamp: but thou Day, Revifit'ft not thefe eyes, that woll in vain Or § To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; Or { So thick a drop ferene hath quench’d their By orbs, Surtg Or dim f{uffufion veil’d Yet not the more Ceafe 1 to wander, where the mufes haunt, Clear {pring or {hady grove, or funny hill 1) [ h) taught, Part, Pafl. von to teach, nach der Inity, Von ¢ zweiten Conjugation, Miltons paradife loff, 419 | ot dhe i) Smit with the love of facred fong: but chief Thee, Sion, and the flow'ry brooks beneath deep That wafh t;hy hailow’d feet, and warblin 1] flow b o Nightly I vifit: nor fome times“ forget tiin' Getain Thofe other two equal'd with me in fate, / fllght So were I equal'd with them in renown, atlaels Blind Thamyris and blind Maconides, And Tirefias, and Phineus , prophets old, Iyre Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful birds renture Sings darkling, and in {hadieft covert hid Tunes he}' notturnal note, "I‘hps with the year Seafons return, but not to me returns e, it foo Day, ot the {weet approach of ev’n or morn, Or fight of vernal bloom ) or fummet’s rofe, yan damn; Or flocks, or herds, or human face divines i thei But cloud inftead, and ever -during dark Surrounds me; from th"é chea'rful ways of men 016 i il i) fmit, oder fwitten, das Part, Pafl, von #o Jmite, {chlagen; to be fmitten with fome thing, von etwas eingenommen feyn, g 06t Ddo | Some paffages out of* 429 Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair He fo Prefented with an univerfal blank His fa Of nature’s works, to me expung’d and ras'd Ablolp And wisdom at one entrance guite {hut out, Round So much the rather thou celeftial light Cluftri Shine inward and the mind through all her She 25 powers Her Irradiate 3 there plant eyes, all mift from leShe\h thence 7 ds the Purge and difperfe; that I may: fee and tell Subied Of things invifible to moral fight And by Vielded Defcription of our firft parents in their And W Nor o ftate of innocence and Satans reflettions thereon, from the fourth book Then W 0f g I'wo of far nobler! {hape ereft and tall Sm b]‘e( Godlike ereft; with native honour clad In naked majefty feem'd lords of all, Wity And worthy feem’d; for in their looks divine, The image of their glorious maker {hone, A by S”flpl (it ‘Truth, wisdom, fan&itude fevere and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom plac'd | fs' Whence true authority in men though both Not egual, as their fex not equal feemd 0 god b hag For contemplation he and valour form’d For foftnefs fhe and fweet attraftive grace; Thy leton’f pavadife lof? 421 oe fur He for god only {he for god in him, His fair large front and eye fublime declard d s Abfolute rule; and hyacinthine locks it out, Round from hlS parted forelock manly hung 1A Cluftring , but not beneath his fhoulders broad, She as a veil, down to the {lender waift gll bet Her unadorned golden trefles wore, } from Difshevel'd but in wanton ringlets wav'd, As the vine curls her tendrils, which lmply’d it Subjection, but reqmrd with gentle fyay, And by her yielded, by him beft receiv’d, Yielded with coy {ubmiilion , modelt pride, And f{weet relutant amorous delay, fieit Nor thofe my&emous parts were then' con- hereofh ceal’d } Then was not guilty {hame, dlshonefi £hame Of nature’s works; honour dishonourable \]' Sin - bred ! how have ye troubled all mankind With {hows inftead, mere {hows of feeming pure, qiviney And banifh*d from man’s life bis happrefi life, 17 Simplicity and {potlefs innocence ? )6y nor {hunn'd the So pafs’d they naked on, 1mnt Of god or angel, fot they thought no ill: | both ; 60 hand in hand they pals'd, the lovelieft p?lll‘ That ever fince in love’s embraces-met ; (6 422 Some paffages out off Adam the goodlieft man of men fince born To 1 His fons, the faireft of her daughters Eve, Under a tuft of fhade, that on‘a green Hb Infiny Stood whifp'ring foft, by a frefh fountam fide His b Gave They fat them down: and after no more toil Of their {weet gard'ning labour than fuffic'd (ouc ‘and made eafe To recommend cool ‘Zephyr, More eafy, wholfome thirft and appetite OY bl Decl More grateful , to their fupper fruits they fell, Ne@arine fruits, which the compliant boughs To tf OF hea Vielded them, fide - long as they fat reclined On the foft downy bank, damaf k’d Wlth flo- When \VEI,‘S. e The favoury pulp they chew, and in the rind Still as they thirfted fcoop the brlmmmg fiream } Nor gentle purpofe, nor endearing fimiles Tako Wanted nor youthful dalliance as befeems Crey Fair couple, link’d in happy mutual league, Not Alone as they, About frif king play’d All beafts of th'earth fince wild, and of all LItUe Wi chafe, In wood or wildernefs, foreft er den. I th Sporting the lion ramp’d, and in his paw Dandled the kid; bears tigers, ounces, pards, The Gambol’d before them , th'unwieldy elephant R | Ahg P Y Milton’s pavadife loff 423 horn To make them mirth us’d all his m:ght and wreath’ d Eive, 0 His lithe probofcis; clofe the ferpent fly " ountain Infinuating . wove wi‘h gordian twine His braided train, and of his fatal guil ote tol Gave proof unheeded: others on the grafs Couch’d, and now fill'd with palture, gazing oficd o elle fat, ' fe Or bedward ruminating: for the fun clin’d was hafting now with prone career oy Tell houohs To th'ocean isles, and in th’afcending fcale Of heav’n the ftars that ufher evening rofe: oclined When Satan ftill in gaze, as firft he ftood th flo Scarce thus' at length fail'd fpeech recover’d {ad, Yo find i O hell what do mine eyes with guef be- hold! s Into our room of blifs thus hmh advanc'd ems Creatures of other mold earth-born perhaps, 9008 Not fpirits, yet to heav'nly {pirits bright Little inferior; whom my thoughts purfue of t With wonder, and could love, {o lively {hines In them divine refemblance, and {fuch grace] W The hand that form’d them on their {hape hath pard5$ pour’d. Phaflfi Ah gentle pair, ye little think how mgh 424 Some paflages out of Your change approaches when all thefe de- el lights Honor Will vanifh, and deliver you to woe By o More woe, the more your tafte is now of Joy To q Happy , but for fo happy ill fecur’d Long to contmue, and’ this high feat your heav'n Mo 11 fenc'd for heav’'n, to keep out fuch a foe As now is enter'd: yet no purpos’d foe Thefe Alm s To you, whom T could pity thus forlorn, Though I unpitigd. League with you I feek Thus And mutual amity {o firait, fo clofe, That [ with vou muft dwell or you with Lnfpeak me TO U8 Henceforth : my dwelling haply may not pleafe In the Like this fair paradife, your fenfe, yet fuch Thy [ Accept your maker’s work; he gave it me, Which I as freely give: Hell fhall unfold Speal To entertain you two, her wideft gates, Angg And fend forth all her kmgs' there will be And Cire room, ! Not 11ke thefe narrow hrmts to receive On 8 Hin Your numerous offfpring : if no better place, Thank him who puts me loath to this revenge Faire On you, whao wrong me not for him who wrong’d, If b Sure And fhould I at your harmlefs innocence S, Milton’s pavadife loft, 4 £ 3 hele doe Melt, as 1 do, Vet public reafon Jufi: Honour and empire with revenge enlargd By conqu’ring this new world compels' me 0y of now To do what elfe, though damn’d.I fhould abhor yout Morning — prayer of our firft parents, ch a foo Thefe are thy glorious works, parent of good ! foe Almighty! thine this univerfal frame; Jorn, Thus wondrous fair thyfelf how Wondrous [ feck then! Unfpeakable! who fitft above thefe heav’ns, o with To us invifible, or dimly feen In thefe thy loweft works: yet thefe declare it ple fih Thy goodnefs beyond thought and pow’r divine, f 06, HfOlds Speak ye who beft can tell, ye fons of light Angels! for ye behold him, and with fongs b5 vill be And choral {fymphonies, day without night Circle ‘his throne rejoicing: ye in heav’n On earth join all ye creatures to extol ye Him firfk, him laft bim midft and W1thout plaC& end! N evengd Faireft of ftars, laft in the train of night 1 Whfl If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'ft the fmlhng 06 morp At 426 Some pzffl?zges ot of With thy bright circlet pra1fe him in thy Orv fphere Rifin While day arifes, that {weet hour of prime,. Hl.s p Thou fun of this great world both eye and . foul, Breal Acknowledge him thy greater, found his pralfe In thy eternal courfe, both when thou climbft, With Foup And when high noon haft gain'd, and when “thoun fall'ft, Melod Noon that now meet'ft the orient fun, now Join fly ft, That fix’d in their orb that Wlth the fix’d ftars, Bear ¢ flies ; And ye five other wand ring fires, that move Ye In myftic dance not without fong, refound 'Ihe | His praife, who out of darknefs call'd up light Witn Air, and ye elements, the eldeft birth To} Of nature’s - womb that in quaternion run Made Perpetual circle, multiform, and mix Hail And nourifh all things, let your ceafelefs To§ change Haye Vary to our great maker ftill new praife, DISpe Ye mifts and exhalations that now rife From hill or fteaming lake, dufky or gray, Till the fun paint our fleery (kirts with gold In honour to the world’s great author rife; Whether to deck with clouds th’uncolour’d fky P J— Milton’s pavadife loft 27 in thy Or wet the thirfty earth with falling {howers, Rifling or falhqg ftill advance his praife, iy His praife, ye: Wmds, that from four quarters blow ye Breathe foft or loud; and wave your tops ye 5 prm pines, Jimbft, With every plant, in {ign of worfhip wave, when Fountains and ye, that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praife, now Join voices, all ye living fouls, ye birds, That finging up to heaven gate afcend, ) tha Bear on your wings and in your notes his praife, move Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk LOUFd ‘The earth, and ftately tread, or lowly creeps plgd Witnefs if I be filent, morn or even, To hill or valley, fountain, or frefh fhade i Made vocal by my fon and taught his praife, Hail univerfal lord! be bounteous ftill alees To give us only good; and if the night Have gather’d ought of evil or conceal’d Disperfe it, as now light dispels the dark, 1y g b rile ourd ST 428 9 A Bl y Ja0 % Turn, gentle hermit of the ééle, ,» And guide my lonely way, » But ,» To where yon taper cheers the yale 2 ) s With bhofpitable ray, oA fc b ., For here, forlorn and loft I tread, ,» With fainting ftep and {low ; Then ,,Wh:eré wilds immeafurably fpread, 4 [l Man i » Seem Iengthening as I go, ) N‘ 5 Forbear my; fon , ¢ the hermit cries, ,» To tempt the dangerous gloom; Soft ag Hi ,, For yonder faithlefs phantom flies The ¢ » 10 lurle thee to thy doom, ,»Here to the houfelefs child of want, » My door is open ftill; Far It s And tho’ my portion is but fcant, A f 1 givfe\ it with good will, " » Then turn to night, an;i freely {hare No ¢ » What e’er my cell beftows, s My rulhy couch and frugal fare, The \ s My bleffing and r.epf)feg T, 429 4 Ballad, . ,» No flocks, that range the valléy free, ,s To flaughter T condemn : 5 Taught by that power that pities me, I learn to 'pity them, » But from the mountains grafly ‘fide', »» A guiltlefs feaft T bring, » A fcrip with herbs and fruits fupply’d ;s And water from the fpring. Then pilgrim turn, thy cares forego; All earth - born cares are wrong o Man wants but little here below, » Nor wants that little long, ¢ Soft as the dew from heav’n defcends, His gentle accents fell; The modeft ftranger lowly bends, And follows to the cell, Far in a Wildefnefs obfcure The lonely manfion lay, A refuge to the neighbouring poof And firangers led aftray, Nb ftores beneath its humble thatch Requir'd a mafter’s care; The wicket opening with a latch, Receiv’'d the hafmle()s pair, 439 Al And now when bufy cro‘v.fds retire To take their evening reft, o An The hermit trimm'd his little fire, And cheer'd his penfive. guefi; And fpread his vegetable ftore, s y Ang And gaily preft and {mil'd And {kill'd in legendary lore, Al The lingering hours beguil’d, Around in {ympathetic mirth o A Its tricks the kitten tries, . The cricket chirraops, in the hearth} Y On €4 The crackling faggot flies, ] But nothing could a charm impart 9 For f To footh the firangers woes; yt For grief was heavy at his heart, Bflt, 1 And tears began to' flow, His #i6inz chres. the-Hernis S Surpn With anfwering care oppreft : § lee ( And, ,, whence unhappy you’th , ¢ he cry'd The forroz‘ezs of thy breaft? s FrOm better habitation {purn’d The »s Reluétant doft thou rove; »Or grieve for friend{hip uoreturn'd, The ! 4 Or unregarded love? A Ballad. 43t » Alas, the joys that fortune brmgs, » Are trifling and deca_/, 3 And thofe who prize the paltry thmgs, s More tuflmg ftill than they.- ss And zhat is friend{hip but a name, s»» A charm that lulls to fleep; y A fhade, that follows wealth or fame, » But leaves the wretch to weep 2 s And love is ftill an' emptier found » The modern fair one’s jeft 5»On earth unfeen, or only found » 10 warm the turtle’s neft s For fhame, fond youth, thy fortows hush » And fputn the fex,* he faid} But, while he fpoke, a filing blufh His love lorn gueft betray’d Surpriz’d he fees new beauties rife Swift mantling to the view, Like colours o’er the morning {Kkies, yd As bright, as tranfient too, The bashful look, the rifing breaft Alternate fpread alarms, The lovely ftranger ftands confef} A maid in all her charms, 432% A Ballad And, ,,ah forgive a {tranger rude, ” The A wretch forlorn {he ery'd y1h Whofe feet unhallow'd thus intrude y Conle ,»» Where heaven and gou refide, y 10 But let a maid thy pity {hare, The de Whom love has taught to ftray; Wit »» Who feeks for reft, but finds defpair Their / s Compamon of her way. The; ,,My father liv'd befide the Tyne, F()i' fh s A wealthy lord was he; Impc oy And all his wealth was mark’d as mine, And wj s» He had but only me, I [t »» To win me from his tender arms, il qui ,s Unnumber’d fuitors came; He 1e s Who prais’d me for imputed charms, ] And f » And felt or feign'd a flame: ”hl But , Each hour a mercenary crowd » With richeft proffers ftrove: % A , Among the reft young Edwin bow'd I 4» But never talk’d of love, ) Am 5o In humble fimpleft habit ¢lad nlnd s»s No wealth nor power had he; sl he had «s Wisdom and worth were all !s)] \ig s But thefe were all to me, " Al s The W, A Ballac]. 439 ,» The i)loffofil opening to the day » The dews of heaven refin’d, ,, Could nought of purity display, ,» To emulate his mind, The dew, the bloffom on the tree, With charms inconftant {hine;.: f Their charms were his, but woe to tng, Their conftancy was mine, For ftill T try’d each fickle art, Importunate and vain; g And while his paffion touch’d my heart, 1 triumph’d in his pain, Till quite dejetted with my fcorn, He left me to my pride; ,,And fought a folitude forlorn, . In fecret* where he died, But mine the forrow, mine the fault, s, And well my life Thall pay, s I’ll {feek the folitude, he fought, ‘,,And firetch me where he lay, == = ,y And there forlorn defpairing hid, » 1’1l lay me down and die: y»’Twas fo for me that Edwin did, - +»» And fo for him will L% Ee ¥ 434 A Ballad, ,, Forbid it, heaven,¢ the hermit cry’d, ~ And clafp’d her to his breaft: The wondring fair one turn'd to chide, 'Twas Edwin felf, that préi’c; » Turn Angelina ever dear, ,» My charmer turn to fee, Death In all 5 Thy own thy long loft Edwin hete, Th"atte ' Refior’d to love and thee Difeaf s Thus let me hold theé to my heart, Crowd ', And ev’ry care refign: A voie 4 And fhall we never, never part, This Let ey s My ,er e my rall that’s mine? Merit ,s No never, from this hour to patt, Al ot 4 ,» We'll live and love fo true; Fever - ,,The figh that rends thy conftant heart, Advan ” Shall break thy Edwin’s too,* Ttot Let 1} QOn ¢ Wlth ; Nex Pleags From Ang | Sl Ay e 435 |d, de, Th"e court of death: a Fable, Death on a folemn night of ftate, In all his pomp of terror fate, ) Thattendants of his gloomy reign, Difeafes dire, a ghaftly train! Crowd the wvaft court, With hollow tone, A voice thus thunder’d from the throne s This night our minifter we name, Let every fervant fpeak his claim} Merit {hail bear this ebon wand, All at the word firetch’d forth their hand, Fever with burning heat pofleff’d Al Advanc'd and for the wand addrefl’d, 1 to the weekly bills appeal, Let thofe exprefs my fervent zeal, On ev'ry {light occafion near, With violence I perfevere, Next gout appear’d with limping pace, Pleads how he {hifts from place to place; From head to foot how fwift he flies, And ev’ry joint and finew plies Still working when he feems fuppreft, A ‘moft tenacious ftubborn gueft, Kea The court of death. 436 A haggard {peftre from the crew yloreg Crawls forth and thus afferts his due * * yliten ,’'Tis I, who taint the fweeteft joy, oHe { , And s And in the f h\ape of love deftroy » My fhanks, funk eyes and nofelefs face ”The ,» Prove my pretenfions to the place, L) Whe Stone urg’d his ever growing force; And next confumptions meagre corfe, With feeble voice, that {carce was heard, Broke with -{hort coughs, his fuit preferr’d: 4 Let none objett my lingring way, » 1 gain like Fabius by delay; s Fatigue and weaken every foe » By long attack, fecure tho’ { low. Plague 1‘epfefents his rapid power, Who thinn’d a nation in an hour, All fpoke their claim and hop’d the wand. Now exfpettation hufh'd the band, ‘When' thué the monarch from the throne, ,» Merit was ever modeft known. ,» What no phyfician fpeak/ his right 2 ,» None here 2 but fees their toils requite, ,, Let then intemp’rance take the wand, »» Who fills ‘with gold their zealous hand, s» You fever, gout, and all the reft, s» Whom wary men as foes deteft, e, The cours of death. 437 » FOtego your 'é_]aim , O mére pretend, ,» Intemp'rance is efteem’d a friend; »He Thares their mirth their focial joys, e - ,»And as a courted gueft deftroys, face ,, The charge on him muft juftly fall, »s Who finds employment for you all, eatd, efert d: W Q[‘d, )il Udo - 438 Eprgrams On Snow that melted on a ladys breaft, Or Thofe envious flakes, which came in hafte, To prove her breaft fo fair; Natu Grieving to find themfelves furpafl’d God Difiolved into a tear, To a lady ftung by a bee, To heal the wound a bee had made, App Upon my Delia’s face 'Tis ] Its honey to the part fhe ldid, That And bid me kifs the place Rind) Pleas'd 1 obey’d and from the wound Tha Suck’d both the fweet and fmart; Tha The honey on my lips I found - Con The fting within my heart, And Who On the marriage of an old maid, \ Ang Caelia, a coqfiette in her prime, . The vaineft fickleft thing alive; Whe Behold the firange effetts of time, Wi Marries and dotes at forty five, Thus weather cocks that for a while,. Have turn'd about with every blaft; Grown old and deftituteof oil, Ruft to a point and fix at laft, P 439 Epdtephm breah On Sir lfaac Newton by Mr, Pope n of Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in migh God {faid ylet Newton be, and all was light, On the {ame. Approach ‘ye wife of foul with awe divine, *Tis. Newtons fame that confecrates this {hrine! That fun of knowledge, whofe meridian ray Kindled the gloom ‘of nature into day That foul of fcience, that unbounded mind nd That genius, which ennobled human kind ! Confefl’d fupreme of men, his country’s pride; And half efteem’d an angel till he dy’d: Who in the eye of heav'n like Enoch ftood, a!dt An& .through the paths of knowledge walkd Wlth god; Whofe fame exten’ds a fea without a f hore, Who but forfook one world, to know the laws of more, ) ft; 440 And But o ToiSE e o Yorlo An Elegy From 0 fleep thou flatterer of happy minds, Bu ‘How foon a troubled ‘ breaft thy falfehood finds! But Thot Thou common friend, officious in thy aid Where no diftrefs is fhown, nor want be- tray’d; Forg But oh, how fwift, how fure thou art to { hun { oy For ¢ The wretch, by Fortune or by love undone! Where are thy gentle dews, thy fofter pow’rs, And Ty Which us’d to wait upon my midnight hours 2 Why dofc thou ceafe thy hov’ring wings to An Wi fpread, With frlendly {hade around my reftlefs bed? For The Can no complainings thy compaffion move? Is thy antipathy fo ftrong to love? Ang Fac O no! thou art the profp’rous lovers friend And doft uncall'd his pleafing hours attend W; An With equal kindnefs, - and with rival charms, T'hy flumbers lull him in his fair One’s arms; Or from her bofom he to thine retires, Let Where footh’d with ea{'e, the panting youth refpires, No Th Till foft repofe reftore his drooping fenfe, # TO Sleep. 441 And rapture is reliev’d by indolence, But oh what fortune does the lover bear, Forlorn by thee, and haunted by defpair! From racking thoughts by no kind {lumber freed, ds, alfehood But pamful nights his joylefs days fucceed, But why, dull god, do T of thee complain, Thou didft not caufe nor canft thou eafe my ] aid pain, yant b Forgive what my diftratting grief has faid; 1 own, unjuftly T thy floth upbraid. to fimn For oft 1 have thy proferr’d aid repell’d, indone! And my reluttant eyes from reft with - held; POVt Implor'd the mufe to break thy gentle chams, hous? And fung with Philome! my nightly ftrains ngs 0 With her T fing, but ceafe not: with her fong For more enduring woes my days prolon of! The morning lark to mine accords his no move? And tunes to my diftrefs his warbling Ao Each fetting and each riling fun I mourn jond Wailing alike his abfence and return nd, And all for thee — What had 1 w ji{1Sy {aid 2 1S Let me not name thee, thou /too ct maid qouth No — as the wing'd muficians of the Th’affociates of my melody and love, b 442 Zo Slee*[é. In moving fouhd”s alone relate. their pain; ¥ And not with voice articolate complaim; So fhall my mufe my tuneful forrows fing, And lofe in air her name from whom they {pring, O may no wakeful thoughts her mind moleft, Hy Soft be her f lurnbers ; ‘and {incere her refty Infpie Walk For her o fleep, thy balmy fweets prepare, The peace I lofe for her, to her transfer, And Hufhd as the falling dews, whofe noifelefs Ric fhow’rs Thy f Impet] the folded leaves of ev'ning flow’rs, Unmg Steal on her brow ; and as thofe dews attend, Till warn'd by waking day to re-afcend; With So ‘wait thou for her morn; then gently rife, And to the world reftore the day-break of Bleg | her eyes, Bell Ben Ag; Tby Axg Ple; An P 443 et hif; A Panegyric on Great Britain ys g, om they j f(om Thomfon’s S‘ea{o‘ns, d mole S Happif Britanm'a ! where the Queen of drt.;', i Infpiring vigour, Liberty abroad teft fepare Walks, unconfin’d, even to thy fartheft cotts, sfer, And fc.atters plenty with ’unfpari“ng hand, noielel Rich is thy foil, and merciful thy clime; Thy ftreams unfailing in the fummer’s drought § W, Unmatch’d thy‘ guardian - oaks; thy valleys attend, ., float nd; With golden waves: and on thy mountains tly 1 flocks Bleat numberlefs ; while roving round break of N ’ their -fides, Bellow the blackening herds in lufty droves, Beneath thy meadows glow and rife unquell'd Againft the mower's fcythe. On every hand Thy villas {hine, Thy country teems with wealth ; And property affures it to the {wain, Pleas’d and unwearied, in his_“‘guarded"toi‘l. F\fill are thy cities with the fons éf art And trade and joy' in every bufy freet, A 444 A Panegyvic on Gveat - Britains Mingling are heard: even drudgery himfelf, Th As at the car he fweats, or dufl'y hews Tnw The palace ftone looks gay, Thy crouded And por ts, 53 s Where rifing mafts an endlefs profpett yield, Comt With labour burn, and echo to the Thouts Of hurried failor, as he hearty waves And His laft adieu, and loofening every {heet With Refligns the fpreading veflel to the wind Name On bay Bold firm, and graceful are thy generous That 4 youth, By bardfhip finew’d, and by danger fir'd ? and And ot QcattermtT the nations, where they go Who v - ficdt Withtk Or on the lifted plain, or ftormy feas, Like Mild are thy glories too, as o’er the plans Like 3 Of thriving peace thy thoughtful fires pre- A da fide; Frog, In genius, and fubftantial learning high ; A For every virtue, every worth, renown’d ;| Sincere, plain hearted, hofpitable, kind And Vet like the muftering thunder when pro- vok’d They The dread of tyrants, and the fole refource Of thofe that wnder grim oppreffion groan, The By, iy A Panegyric on Great Britain. 445 el Thy fons of glory many! Alfred thine, s In whom the fplendor of heroic war, wouded And more heroic peace, ‘when govern’d well, 7’ & »e‘-i Combine; whofe hallowed name the virtues {hout {aint, § And his own mufes love; the beft of kmgst hee With him thy Edwards and thy Henrys { hine, ind, Names dear to fame; the firft who deep im- prefl’d On haughty Gaul the terror of thy arms, engrons That awes her genius fill. In ftatesmen thou 14, And patriots fertile Thine a fteady More, 0} dlld Who with a generous tho miftaken zeal Withftood a brutal tyrant’s ufeful rage, Like Cato firm like Ariftides juft pfava Like rigid Cincinnatus nobly poor A dauntlefs foul ere¢t, who {mil’d on death, re, P Frugal and wife a WValfingham is thine; A Drake, who made thee miftrefs of the '0; deep, And bore thy name in thunder round the world, \ ?YO Then flam’d thy fpirit high: but who can ireé fpeak "The numerous worthies of the maiden veign 2 A % 446 A Panegyvic on Great Britain, Tn Raleigh mark their every glory mix’d, Bing Ralezgh the fcourge of Spain! whofe breaft with all The g The faO'e the patriot and the hero burn’d. With Norifunk his vigout, when a coward - reigh The warrior fettered and at laft refign’d Stain’ Aimis To glut the vengeance of a vanquifh’d foe, Then ative ftill and vnreftrain’d, his mind In lo His 1 Explor'd the vaft extent of ages paft, And with his prifon - hours enrich’d the world 0f hi Yet found no times in all the long refearch By anc OF ang So glorious, or fo bafe, as thofe he prov’d In which he ' conquer’d and in which he bled In av Nor can the mufe the gallant Siduey pafs, Soon Her The plume ()f War' with early laurels crown’d, Thing Unfit The lovers myrtle and the poets bay, A Hamden too is thine, illuftrious land And Wife ftrenuous, firm, of unf{ubmitting foul Wi Who fiem’d the torrent of a downward age To 4 To {lavery prone, and bade thee tife again, In all thy native pomp of freedom bold: King Bright,, at his call thy age of men effulg’d Of men on whom late time a kindling eye Shall turn, and tyrants tremble while they read, at h A Panegyvic on Great Britain, 447 X, Bring every fweeteft flower, and let me & b breaf ftrew - (4 The gra;f,e, where Ry / lies; whofe temper'd i, blood, J. 1 With calmeft chearfulnefs for thee reyfign"d, Stain’d the fad annals of a giddy reign; 'd, " foe, Aiming at lawlefs power, tho’ meanly funk mind In loofe inglorious luxury. With him His friend, the *) Britifh Caffius fearlefs bled; hd the Of high determin’d {pirit, roughly brave, By ancient ledrning to th’enlightened love - eatch, ovd, Of ancient freedpm warm’d, Fair thy re~ nown ich he In awful fages and ‘in noble fards ; Soon as the light of dawning fcience fpread pafs, Her orient ray, and wak'd the Mufes’ fong, el Thine is a. Bacon ; haplefs in his choice, Unfit to ftand the civil ftorm of ftate, And thro the fmooth barbarity of courts, ) With firm but plianc virtue , forward fill 4 {oub To urge -his courfe; him for the i’cudious_ age {hade g’c\ifi, 3 Kind ' néture form’d , deep, comprehenfive, clear, [g’d, e yf@‘ . Zlg;rnan Sidney. g 248 A Panegyvic on Great Britaim Who Exact and elegant, in' one rich foul Plato, the Stagyrite, and Tully join’d Let & To m The great deliverer he! who from the gloom Of cloifter’d monks, and jargon - teachmg From In, all {chools, Led forth the true philofophy, there long Creati Thro Held in the magic chain of words and forms, And definitions void : he led her forth I no Daughter of heaven! that {low - afcending ftill Ts no Of ¢l Inveftigating fure the chain of things, With radiant finger points to heaven again, A gen; Aftonif The generous *) Afhley thine, the friend of man ; VAN Not Who {cann’d his mnature with a brother’s eye, His weaknefs prompt to {hade, to raife his The aim, Who To touch the finer movements of the mind, O'et Not And with the moral beauty charm the heart, Why need 1 name thy Boyle, whofe pious Chay fearch We Amid the dark recefles of his works, Of t The great creator fought And why thy Locke, Brit: Who The Ang Sha ¥) dAutony Afhiey Cooper , ear! of Shaftesbury. Wi i A Panegyvic on Great Britam. 449 Who made the whole internal wotld his own? ) Let Newton, pure intelligence, whom God To mortals lent, to trace his boundlefs works tloom From laws fublimely fimple, {peak thy fame phing For lofty fenfe, In, all philofophy. Creative fancy, and infpection keen ong Thro’ the deep windings of the human heart, d forms, Is not wild Shake/peare thine, and nature’s b boaft? [cending s not each great, each amiable Mufe Of claffic ages in thy Milton met ? A genius univerfal as his theme igfl i end of Aftonifhing as Chaos, as the bloom Of blowing Eden fair, as heaven fublime, Nor fhall my verfe that elder bard forget, er's e The gentle Spencer, fancy’s pleafing fon; il Who like a copious river, pour’d his fong O’er all the mazes of enchanted ground: mind, Nor thee, his ancient mafter, langhing fage, et Chaucer, whofe native manners - painting vetfe, pwus Well - moraliz’d {hines thro’ the Gothic cloud Of time and language o’er thy genius thrown, May my fong foften, as thy daughters I Britannia, hail! for beauty is their own, The feeling heart, fimplicity of life, yio And elegance and tafte: the faultlefs form, Shap’d by the ‘hand of harmony, the cheek, g ‘W here the live crimfon, thre’ the native white Ff . 450 - A Panegyric on Great Britain, Soft fhootig, o’er the face diffufes bloom, ¥, Roug And every namelels grace; the parted lip, Like the red rofe-bud moift with morning-dew, Wi TWhil Breathing dehght and, under flowing jet, That Or funny ringlets, or of c1rc1mg brown, Who The neck {light {haded and the fwelling breaft} Aud The look reliftle(s, piercing to the foul, Still And by the foul inform’d. when dreft in, love She fits high fmflmg in the confcious eye, I{land of blifs! amid the fubjett feas, That thunder round thy rocky coafts, fet up, At once the wonder terror and delight Of diftant natiens; whofe remoteft {hores fr Can foon be fhaken by thy mnaval arm; Not. to be fhook thyfelf, but all affaults ' Thefe, Baffling , as thy hoar cliffs the loud fea-wave, Are O Thown! by whofe almighty #od the fcale Is full Of empire rifes, or alternate falls, Thy | Wide Send forth the faving wvirtues round the land, In bright patrol: white peace and focial fove Bele And The tender — looking charity intent On gentle deeds, and f{hedding tears thro Th €N Wit 1l - {miles; Undaunted #ruth and , dignity of mind ; Shag Ay Courage compos’d and keen ; found tempemme Healthful in heart and look; clear chaftity, Ang With blufhes reddening as fhe moves along, By § Disordered at the deep regard fhe draws Thy Satlaiinas it A Panegyvic on Gveat Britain, 451 bloo, Rough induftry ; altivity untir'd iy g deryy With copious life inform’d, and ali awakes While in the radiant front, f{uperior {hines ]g i That firft paternal virtue pubzzc zeal ; WL, 1 e Who throws o’er all an equal wide furvey, Aund ever mufine on the common weal Ul Still labours glorious with. {fome at deflign, in love « ) e}eo €45, fet op A Hymn ) fes from Thomfon s Se fens. ltg Thefe as they change almighty father, thele Are but the various ood, The rolling vear -\Wa Is full of thee Forth in the pleafing {pring he [l I'hy beauty waiks Thy tendernefs and love Wide flufh the fields; the foftening air is balm ¢ ]and; Echo the mountains round, the foreft fmiles; | fove And every fenfe and every heart is joy, Then comes”thy glory in the fummer months, thto With light and heat refulgent Then Thy fon Shoots' full perfection thro the fwelling year: And oft Thy voice in dreadful thunder ipm‘*s, L 1 And oft at dawn deep noon or falling eve iy By brooks and groves, in hollow whifpering )] gales, Thy bountv {hines, in automn unconfip’d, Ffz 452 A Hymu. And fpréads a common feaft for all that lives, In s In Winter awful TVhown ! with clouds and fforms One Around Thee thrown, tempeft o’er tempeft Brea roll'd, Majeftic darknefs! on the whirlwind’s wing, Oh Riding fublime thou bidft the world adore, Wi And humbleft nature with thy northern blafk, Fill An Myfterious round! what f{kill, what force “divine, W Deep felt, in thefe appear | a fimple f:rai‘n,; Yet fo delightful mix’d with fuch kind art, Thi Such beaqty and beneficence -combin’d ; Shade unperceiv'd, fo foftening into {hade; His p] And all fo forming an harmonious whole; That, as they ftill fucceed, they ravifh ftills Ad But wandering oft with brute unconfcious gaze, Vet Man marks not 7%ee, marks not the mighty Ye i hand, Al That ever bufy, wheels the filent {pheres; A Works in the fecret deep; fhoots, freaming, Sot thence The fair profufion, that o’erfpreads the fpfing: O Flings from the fun dire€t the flaming day; Sof Feeds every creature; hurls the tempeft forth: And, as on earth this grateful cha}lge revolves, In With transpott touches all the fprings of life, W Nature, attend! join every living foul, Bquath the fpacious temple of the fky, Ve Jg Hyfl’l”o 453 Tt Lives, In adoration join j and ardent raife it forms One general fong! To Him ye vocal gales, t tnpel Breathe foft, whofe fpirit in your frefhnefs breathes ; 's it Oh talk of Him in folitary glooms! | gdore, Where o’er the rock, the fcarcely waving pine etn Hafl Fills the brown fhade with a religious awe, it fors And ye, whofe bolder note is heard afar, Who {hake th’aftonifh’d world lift high to teainy heaven nd art Thimpetuous fong, and fay from whom you rage, His praife, ye brooks, attune, ye tremblmg hades hole; rills ; And let me catch it-as I mufe along, \{h fil” IS 0 Ze; Ye headlong torrents, rapid, and profound Ye fofter floods that lead the humid maze Along the vale; and thou, majeftic main, A fecret world of wonders in thyfelf efeS eauilfy Sound His ftupendous praife; whofe greater Voice prmg Or bids you roar, or bids your roarings fall, Soft roll your mcenfe , herbs and fruits and oy {orth flowers, In mingled clouds to Him ; whofe fun exalts, »01‘ % Jitey Whofe breath perfumes you, and whofe pencil pamtm / Hfl; j Ye forefts bend, ye harvefis wave, to Hzm, - 454 A Hymn, Ttie Breathe yotrr ftill fong into the reapet’s heart At o As home he goes beneath the joyous moon, And, Ye that keep watch in heaven, as earth afleep In on Unconfeious lies, effufe your mildeft beams, Or if Ye conftellations, while your angels firike, - And Amid the fpangled fky, the fylver lyre, Ther Great fource of day' beft image here below The 1 of thy creator, ever pouring wide, Sti From world to world, the vital ocean round For 1 On nature write with every beam His praife, Whet} The thunder rolls; be hufh’d the profirate world; | Ruffets Or wi While cloud to cloud returns the {olemn hymn, Bleat out afrefh, ye hills; ye mofly rocks, Be my Ang, Retain the found: the broad refponfive lowe, Ye valleys raife; for the great Shepherd reigns, And his unfuffering kingdom yet will come, Ye woodlands all awake: one boundlefs fong 0f t Burft from the groves! and when the refilefs day, Rivg Expiring, lays the warbling world afleep, Sweeteft of birds ! {weet Philomela, charm Gilds Mame The liftening {hades, and teach the night His Smce praife, Ye chief, for whom the whole creation fmiles, In ) Ang At once the head, the heart, and tongue of all Crown the great hymn ! in fwarming cities vaft Whey Aflfembled men to the deep organ join G Hynfiz 455 s heatt, Ttie long: refounding voice, oft breaking clear, $ 11000, At folemn paufes, through the {welling bafe ; And, as each mingling flame increafes each, hileep In one united ardour rife to heaven. beams, Or if you rather chufe the rural {hade, firke, e, And find a fane in every facred grove; There let the {hepherds flute, the virgin’s lay, below The prompting feraph and the poets lyre, Still fing the' God of Seafons , as they roll, ) foutd, ] pfflif@o For me, when I forget the darling . theme, Whether the bloflom blows, the fummer - ray roftate Ruffets the plain, infpiring autumn gleams; Or winter rifes in the blackening eaft; ' hgmn. ocks, Be my tongue mute, my fancy paint no more, 3 Iovwe, And, deathilo tny ’ f’Ofge": my heart to beat ! eigny ' Should fate ‘cofimand me to the farthefy | onts verge s fong Of the green earth, to diftant barbarous cli- rellels mes, Rivers unknown to fong; where fitft the {un ,’5Py fyiL Gilds Indian mountains, or his fetting beam, Flames on th’atlantic isles; ’tis nought to me: { His Since god is ever prefent, ever felt, In the void wafte as in the city full; fnies And where Hg vital breathes there muit be of a joy. vl When even at laft the folemn hour {hall éome, i A Hymn. 456 And wing my myftic flight to future worlds, 1 chearful will obey; there with new powers Will rifing wonders fing: 1 cannot go Dié f Whete univerfal love not fmiles around, Suftaining all yon orbs, and all their fons; From feeming evil fill educing good, And petter thence again and better fiill In infinite progreffion. 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