the fame refolution with the abbeffe of Andouillets) I'll not go a step further- 'Tis very well, Sir,

faid I-I never will argue a point with one of your family, as long as I live; fo leaping off his back, and kicking off one boot into this ditch, and t'other into that I'll take a dance, faid I-so stay you here.

A fun-burnt daughter of labour rofe up from the group to meet me, as I advanced towards them; her hair, which was a dark chestnut, approaching rather to a black, was tied up in a knot, all but a fingle trefs.

We want a cavalier, faid fhie, holding out both her hands, as if to offer them-And a cavalier ye shall have, faid I, taking hold of both of them.

Hadft thou, Nannette, heen array'd like a ducheffe! -But that curfed flit in thy petticoat!

Nannette cared not for it.

We could not have done without you, faid fhe, letting go one hand, with felf-taught politenefs, leading me up with the other.

A lame youth, whom Apollo had recompenfed with a pipe, and to which he had added a tabourin of his own accord, ran fweetly over the prelude, as he fat upon the bank-Tie me up this trefs inftantly, faid Nannette, putting a piece of firing into my hand-It taught me to forget I was a stranger-The whole knot fell down-We had been feven years acquainted.

The youth ftruck the note upon the tabourin-his pipe followed, and off we bounded-" the deuce take that fit

The fifter of the youth, who had ftolen her voice from heaven, fung alternately with her brother'twas a Gascoigne roundeiay.

VIVA LA JOIA!"

FIDON LA TRISTESSA!

The nymphs joined in unison, and their swains an octave below them

I would have given a crown to have it few'd upNannette would not have given a sous-Viva la joia! was in her lips-Viva la joia! was in her eyes. A tranfient spark of amity shot across the space betwixt us-She look'd amiable!-Why could I not live, and end iny days thus! Juft Difpofer of our joys and forrows, cried I, why could not a man fit down in the lap of content here-and dance, and fing, and fay his prayers, and go to heaven with this nut-brown maid? Capriciously did she bend her head on one fide, and dance up infidious- Then 'tis time to dance off, quoth I ! fo changing only partners and tunes, I danced it away from Lunel to Montpellier-from thence to Pefenas, Beziers I danced it along through Narbonne, Carcaffon, and Calle Naudairy, till at laft I danced myfelf into Perdrillo's pavilion.

T. SHANDY, VOL. IV, CHAP. 24.

OPPRESSION.

SOLOM

OLOMON fays, Oppreffion will make a wife man mad. What will it do then to a tender and ingenuous heart, which fells itself neglected,-too full of reverence for the author of its wrongs to complain?See, it fits down in filence, robbed by difcouragements, of all its natural powers to please,-born to see others loaded with careffes-in fome uncheery corner it nourishes its difcontent, and with a weight upon its fpirits, which its little stock of fortitude is not able to withfland, it droops and pines away.-Sad victim of caprice!

SERMON XXII. P. 136.

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VIRTUE AND VICE.

HOEVER confiders the ftate and condition of human nature, and upon this view, how much ftronger the natural motives are to virtue than to vice, would expect to find the world much better than it is, or ever has been ;-for who would suppose the generality of mankind to betray fo much folly, as to act against the common intereft of their own kind, as every man does who yields to the temptation of what is wrong?

SERMON XXXIII. P. 61.

WISDOM.

THERE is no project to which the whole race of mankind is fo univerfally a bubble, as to that of being thought wife: and the affectation of it is fo visible, in men of all complexions, that you every day fee fome one or other fo very folicitous to establish the character, as not to allow himself leifure to do the things which fairly win it :-expending more art and ftratagem to appear fo in the eyes of the world, than what would fuffice to make him fo in truth.

It is owing to the force of this defire, that you fee in general there is no injury touches a man so fenfibly, as an infult upon his parts and capacity: tell a man of other defects, that he wants learning, industry or application, he will hear your reproof with patience.

Nay, you may go farther; take him in a proper season, you may tax his morals, you may tell him he is irregular in his conduct,paffionate or revenge ful in his nature,-loofe in his principles ;-deliver it with the gentleness of a friend,poffibly he'll not only bear with you, but, if ingenuous, he will thank you for your lecture, and promife a reformation :--but hint, hint but a defect in his intellectuals,-touch but that fore place,-from that moment you are look'd upon as an enemy sent to torment him before his time, and in return may reckon upon his refentment and illwill for ever : fo that in general you will find it safer

to tell a man he is a knave than a fool,and stand a better chance of being forgiven, for proving he has been wanting in a point of common honefty, than a point of common sense.- -Strange fouls that weare! as if to live well was not the greatest argument of wisdom; -and, as if what reflected upon our morals, did not most of all reflect upon our understandings!

SERM. XXVI. P. 207.

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CORPORAL TRIM'S

REFLECTIONS ON DEATH.

My young mafter in London is dead! said Obadiah.

Agreen fatin night-gown of my mother's, which had been twice fcowered, was the first idea which Obadiab's exclamation brought into Sufannah's head. Then, quoth Sufannah, we must all go into mourning-Oh! 'twill be the death of my poor mistress, cried Sufannab.

-My mother's whole wardrobe followed.

What

a proceffion! her red damask,-her orange tawny,her white and yellow luftrings,-her brown taffety,her bone-laced caps, her bed-gowns,-and comfortable under-petticoats.—Not a rag was left behind.-No,— She will never look up again, faid Susannak.