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

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

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

1

Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain ;1 And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give. Aureng-zebe. Act iv. Sc. 1.

All delays are dangerous in war.

Tyrannic Love. Acti. Sc. I.

Pains of love be sweeter far

Than all other pleasures are.

Ibid. Activ. Sc. 1.

His hair just grizzled

As in a green old age. Edipus. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Of no distemper, of no blast he died,

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

Ibid. Act iv. Sc. I.

1 There are not eight finer lines in Lucretius. - Macaulay, Hist. of England, ch. xviii.

She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty, Grows cold, even in the summer of her age. Edipus. Act iv. Sc. 1.

There is a pleasure sure

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

This is the porcelain ciay of humankind.2

Don Sebastian. Acti. Sc. 1.

8

I have a soul that, like an ample shield,
Can take in all, and verge enough for more.
Ibid. Acti. Sc. 1.

A knock-down argument: 't is but a word and

1 There is a pleasure in poetic pains Which only poets know.

Cowper, The Timepiece, Line 285.

2 The precious porcelain of human clay.

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

3 Give ample room and verge enough.

Gray, The Bard, ii. 1.

4 Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.

Blair, The Grave, Line 88.

5 Le véritable Amphitryon

Est l'Amphitryon où l'on dîne.

Molière, Amphitryon, Acte iii. Sc. 5.

JOHN BUNYAN. 1628-1688.

And so I penned

It down, until at last it came to be,

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

see.

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

The name of the slough was Despond.

Ibid.

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

Ibid. Part 1.

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

He that is down needs fear no fall.1

Ibid. Part ii.

RICHARD BAXTER.

1615 - 1691.

I preached as never sure to preach again,

And as a dying man to dying men.

Love breathing Thanks and Praise.

1 Compare Butler, Hudibras, Part i. Canto iii. Line

877.

246

L'Estrange. - Tillotson.

EARL OF ROSCOMMON. 1633-1684.

Remember Milo's end,

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

And choose an author as you choose a friend.

Ibid. Line 96.

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

Ibid. Line 113.

The multitude is always in the wrong.

Ibid. Line 184.

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

Translation of Dies Ira.

ROGER L'ESTRANGE.

1616-1704.

Though this may be play to you,

'Tis death to us.

Fables from Several Authors. Fable 398.

JOHN TILLOTSON.

1630-1694.

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

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

THOMAS KEN. 1637-1711.

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow,
Praise Him, all creatures here below!

Praise Him above, ye heavenly host!

Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

Morning and Evening Hymn.

MATTHEW HENRY.'

1662-1714.

To their own second and sober thoughts.2 Exposition, Job vi. 29. (London, 1710.) Though the iniquity was sweet in thy mouth, and rolled under thy tongue as a pleasant

morsel.

Discourse on Uncleanness.

Rolled under the tongue as a sweet morsel. Commentaries. Psalm 1xxviii.

Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore called the staff of life.3

Ibid. Psalm civ.

1 Matthew Henry says of his father, Rev. Philip Henry (1631-1691), "He would say sometimes, when he was in the midst of the comforts of this life, All this and heaven too!"-Life of Rev. Philip Henry, p. 70. London, 1830.

2 Among mortals second thoughts are the wisest. Euripides, Hippolytus, 438. I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law. Fisher Ames, Speech on Biennial Elections, 1788.

3 Compare Swift, Tale of a Tub, post, p. 262. Corne which is the staffe of life. - Winslow's Good Newes from New England, p. 47. London, 1624.

The stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water. — Isaiah iii. 1.