[Carey continued.

Genteel in personage,

Conduct, and equipage;

Noble by heritage,

Generous and free.

The Contrivances. Acti. Sc. 2.

What a monstrous tail our cat has got!

The Dragon of Wantley. Act ii. Sc. I.

Of all the girls that are so smart,
There's none like pretty Sally.1

Sally in our Alley.

Of all the days that 's in the week

I dearly love but one day,

And that's the day that comes betwixt

A Saturday and Monday.

Ibid.

SAMUEL GARTH. 1670-1719.

To die is landing on some silent shore,
Where billows never break, nor tempests roar ;
Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 't is o'er.
The Dispensary.2 Canto iii. Line 225.

1 Of all the girls that e'er was seen,

There's none so fine as Nelly.

Swift, Ballad on Miss Nelly Bennet.

2 Thou hast no faults, or I no faults can spy,

Thou art all beauty, or all blindness I.

Christopher Codrington, On Garth's Dispensary.

JONATHAN SWIFT. 1667-1745.

I've often wished that I had clear,
For life, six hundred pounds a year,
A handsome house to lodge a friend,
A river at my garden's end.

Imitation of Horace. Book ii. Sat. 6.

So geographers, in Afric maps,1
With savage pictures fill their gaps,
And o'er unhabitable downs

Place elephants for want of towns.

Poetry, a Rhapsody.

Where Young must torture his invention
To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

Ibid.

Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature
Lives in a state of war by nature.

So, naturalists observe, a flea

Has smaller fleas that on him prey ;

Ibid.

And these have smaller still to bite 'em ;
And so proceed ad infinitum.

Libertas et natale solum ;

Ibid.

Fine words! I wonder where you stole 'em.

Verses occasioned by Whitshed's Motto on his Coach.

1 As geographers crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts and unapproachable bogs. Plutarch, Theseus.

A college joke to cure the dumps.

Cassinus and Peter.

'T is an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery's the food of fools ;
Yet now and then your men of wit
Will condescend to take a bit.

Cadenus and Vanessa.

The two noblest things, which are sweetness and light. Battle of the Books. And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. Gulliver's Travels. Part ii. Ch. vii. Voyage to Brobdingnag.

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement sumIbid. Part iii. Ch. v. Voyage to Laputa.

mers.

Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.1 Tale of a Tub, Preface.

1 In Sebastian Munster's Cosmography, there is a cut of a ship, to which a whale was coming too close for her safety, and of the sailors throwing a tub to the whale evidently to play with. This practice is also mentioned in an old prose translation of the Ship of Fools. Sir James Mackintosh, Appendix to the Life of Sir Thomas More.

Swift continued.)

Tale of a Tub.

Bread is the staff of life.

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

Thoughts on Various Subjects.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for

being eminent.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Not die here in a rage like a poisoned rat in Letter to Bolingbroke, March 21, 1729.

a hole.

I shall be like that tree, I shall die at the top. Scott's Life of Swift.1

ALAIN RENÉ LE SAGE.

1668-1747.

I wish you all sorts of prosperity with a little Gil Blas. Book vii. Ch. 4.

more taste.

1 When the poem of "Cadenus and Vanessa," was the general topic of conversation some one said, “Surely that Vanessa must be an extraordinary woman, that could inspire the Dean to write so finely upon her." Mrs. Johnson smiled and answered, that "she thought that point not quite so clear, for it was well known the Dean could write finely upon a broomstick."-Johnson's Life of Swift.

COLLEY CIBBER. 1671-1757.

So mourned the dame of Ephesus her love;
And thus the soldier, armed with resolution,
Told his soft tale, and was a thriving wooer.

Richard III. Altered. Act ii. Sc. 1.

Now by St. Paul the work goes bravely on.

Act iii. Sc. I.

The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian dome Outlives in fame the pious fool that raised it.

I've lately had two spiders

Act iii. Sc. I.

Crawling upon my startled hopes.

Now tho' thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from

me,

Yet still they crawl offensive to my eyes;

I would have some kind friend to tread upon 'em.

Act iv. Sc. 3.

Off with his head! so much for Buckingham!

Act iv. Sc. 3.

And the ripe harvest of the new-mown hay
Gives it a sweet and wholesome odour.

Act v. Sc. 3.

Act v. Sc. 3.

With clink of hammers' closing rivets up.

1 With busy hammers. — Shakespeare, Henry V., Act

iv. Chorus.