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7
of
MASTER - PIECES
of
ENGLISHWRITING;
colletted
FROM THE BEST ENGLISH AUTHORS,
provided
with accents for the facilitating of
the Yenglif h pronunciation -
5%
and
fupplied with critical énd explanatory
notes
by
E. C. P. v. STEINHEIL,
onc of the Officers at the Univerfity
of Stutgart.
STﬁTGART,
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To His moft Serene Hllghnefi
Charles.,
Margrafc of Bade-Durlach and
Bade- Bade.
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liberty to crave Yotr pros
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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
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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
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moft devoted fervant
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geny
Lieutcnant,
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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
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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,
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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

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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).
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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.

|
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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,

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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,

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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,

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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
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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,
({

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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
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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
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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
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-

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.
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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,
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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

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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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

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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?

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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 ;
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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,
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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,

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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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
«
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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

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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;
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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
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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;
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hgmn.
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mes,
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And wing my myftic flight to future worlds,
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Will rifing wonders fing: 1 cannot go
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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. But I lofe
Myfelf in Him, in light ineffable ;
Al
vetty
Come then, expreffive filence, mufe ff’z‘s praifes
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