What's that whereby Apollo cheers

The world with day's progressive light;
So that when Hesperus appears,

Diana regulates the night;

So that the refluent tide may break
The force of the devouring sea,
Lest it should bury in th' attack,

The earth with its profundity?

The pow'r which earth and sea obey,

The pow'r which rules in heaven above,
That pow'r which bears such mighty sway,
Extending over all, is LOVE.

If love should once let go the rein,

All those that make it now their care

To love, and to be lov'd again,

Would carry on continual war:

All things which now to others lend,
That all in one may life enjoy,
Would then but severally tend,

The common fabric to destroy.

The world contains nothing which has not some quality, which is of use to other works of creation ;-the air, yields fowls; the water, fish; the earth, fruit; and all these, yield something from themselves, for the use not only of man, but of each other. Surely, he who is rightly minded must not think his charity to one in need, a courtesy ; but a debt which nature, at his first being, bound him to pay. I would not water a strange ground, to leave my own in drought; yet I think, to every thing which has sense, there is a kind of pity owing. Solomon's good man is merciful, even to his beast. Let my mind be charitable, that God may accept me. Let my actions express it, that man may be benefited.

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OF TRAVEL.

It was a frequent saying of Alexander, That he had discovered more by his eyes than other kings could comprehend in their thoughts. In this, he referred to travel. There is no map like the view of a country. Experience is the best informer; and one journey will shew us more than any description can. Some would not have a man move out of his own country; and Claudian mentions it as a happiness, for one's birth, life, and burial, to have been all in one parish. But surely, travel is of service to man. He has lived as if locked up in a larger chest, who has never seen any but his own land. One who is learned, honest, and who has travelled, is the best compound of man, and can correct the vices of one country with the virtues of another. Italy, England, France, and Spain, are as the court of the world; Germany, Denmark, and China, are as the city; and he who has not seen the best of these, is a little lame in knowledge. Yet I think it not fit, that every man should travel. It makes a wise man better; but a fool worse, for he attends to nothing but the public sights, the exotic manners, the aperies and the vices of the country he visits. A travelling fool is the shame of all nations: he shames his own, by his conduct abroad: he shames others, by bringing home nothing but their follies. A man, to improve himself by travel, ought to observe and comment on what he sees, noting as well the bad, to avoid it, as the good, to make use of it;-and without registering

these things by the pen, they will pass away without profiting him. One can hardly conceive how much the committing of a thought to paper, fixes it in the mind. He who does this, can, when he pleases, go over his journey again in his closet. It were an excellent thing in a state, to have always a select number of youth, of the nobility and gentry, to send abroad at years of some maturity, for education. Their parents could not better dispose of them, than in thus dedicating them to the commonwealth; nor could they themselves be in, a fairer way of preferment; and there is no question but they might prove highly serviceable to the state, on their return home, well versed in the world and foreign languages, and well read in men; which, for policy and negociation, is much better than any book-learning, though never so deep and extensive. Being abroad, the best is to converse with the best, and not to choose by the eye, but by fame. For politics, instruction is to be had, at the court; for traffic, among merchants; for religious rites, among the clergy; for government, among the lawyers; and as for the country itself and rural knowledge, the boors and peasantry can best help you. Curiosities ought not to be neglected, especially antiquities; for these shew us the ingenuity of past ages, and include in them both example and precept. By comparing these with modern inventions, we may see how the world improves in knowledge. But above all, search out men of distinguished and superior merit. There is no monument like a living worthy man. We shall be sure to find something in him, to

kindle our faculties and enlarge our minds, and rouse us to a generous emulation of his virtues. Parts of extraordinary note cannot so lie hid, but they will shine forth through the tongue and behaviour, to the admiration and advantage of beholders; but, unless a man has judgment to direct him, he will, at his return, find all his labour lost. Some men, by travel, change in nothing: and some again, change too much. Indeed the moral outside, wheresoever we be, may seem best, when something fitted to the nation we are in but wherever I should go or stay, I would ever keep to my God and friends, unchangeably. Howsoever he returns, he makes an ill voyage, who changes his faith with his tongue and garments.

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MUSIC

OF MUSIC.

USIC is more for pleasure than for profit, and of all music, that is best which comes from an articulate voice; nature being always most lovely, in an unaffected and spontaneous flowing. A dextrous art shews cunning and industry, rather than judgment and genius. It is a kind of disparagement to be a cunning fidler; it argues a man's neglect of better employments, and shews that he has spent much time upon a thing unnecessary. Hence it has been counted ill, for great men to sing or play, like a professional musician. Philip asked Alexander, if he were not ashamed that he sang so skilfully. Many a mind has been seduced to evil by the ear. Stratonicè

took Mithridates by a song. Lively tunes cheer the mind; grave ones render it melancholy; lofty ones raise and elevate it. Whose dull blood will not caper in his veins, when the very air he breathes in, frisketh in a tickled motion? Who can but fix his eye and thoughts, when he hears sighs and dying groans, described by the mournful instrument? I think he has not a mind rightly formed, whose zeal is not inflamed by an heavenly anthem. Music is good or bad, according to the effect it produces. As the Spartans used it, it was an excitement to valour and honourable deeds; but then, they were so careful of the manner of it, as to fine Terpander, and nail his harp to a post, for being too inventive, by adding a string to it more than usual; though by his playing, and his poetry, he had appeased a sedition against the state. Sometimes, light notes are useful; as in times of general joy, and when the mind is depressed by sadness. But certainly those are best, which enflame zeal, encite courage, or induce gravity. One is for religion, as among the Jews; the other for war, as among the Grecians and Romans; and the last for peace and morality: thus Orpheus civilized the satyrs and barbarians. Those who altogether despise music, may well be suspected to be somewhat of a savage nature. We find that in heaven there are hallelujahs sung. I believe it to be a helper both to good and ill; and will therefore honour it, when it moves to virtue, and beware of it, when it leads to vice.