Can bind and loose all sorts of sin, 91 2003 And only keeps the keys within ;o 7 si, doruk, M Has no superior to control,

But what itself sets o'er the soul;7

And, when it is enjoin'd t'obey,

Is but confin'd, and keeps the key; › disanta
Can walk invisible, and where,

And when, and how, it will, appear;
Can turn itself into disguises!

Of all sorts, for all sorts of vices:
Can transubstantiate, metamorphose,

And charm whole herds of beasts, like Orpheus
Make woods, and tenements, and lands,

Obey and follow its commands,

And settle on a new freehold,

As Marcly-hill remov'd of old;

Make mountains move with greater force
Than faith, to new proprietors;

And perjures, to secure th' enjoyments
Of public charges and employments:
For true and faithful, good and just,
Are but preparatives to trust;

The gilt and ornament of things,

And not their movements, wheels, and springs.

All love, at first, like generous wine,
Ferments and frets until 'tis fine;
But, when 'tis settled on the lee,

And from th' impurer matter free,

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Becomes the richer still the older, suatu ort And proves the pleasanter the colder, tyd af

Far greater numbers have been lost by hopes,
Than all the magazines of daggers, ropes,
And other ammunitions of despair,

Were ever able to dispatch by fear. to acontent

When princes idly lead about, but

Those of their party follow suit, a'q zold ass in AC Till others trump upon their play,moro desit ne na′′ And turn the cards another way.blick et male elt

Authority is a disease and cure, toodet on sh Which men can neither want nor well endure, ma'

A man of quick and active wit('d'a lilwan A For drudgery is more unfit, of bb teda... cúi Compar'd to those of duller parts, and Than running-nags to draw in carts, forma mwe il

Too much or too little wit. in a Lara slatt. n° Do only render the owners fit? yul ca nu b'un cata For nothing, but to be undone top sih, oinc Much easier than if they'ad none.

As those that are stark blind can traces BA

The nearest ways from place to place,

And find the right way easier out,

Than those that hood-wink'd try to do't;

So tricks of state are manag'd bestia J By those that are suspected least, alkoh

And greatest finesse brought about.

By engines most unlike to do'tlantv 19 A mer??

As at th' approach of winter allureus tarla a The leaves of great trees use to fall,ska 1979 91 And leave them naked to engage

With storms and tempests when they rage,
While humbler plants are found to wear toel OA
Their fresh green liv'ries all the year; usato A
So when the glorious season's gone

With great men, and hard times come on,
The great'st calamities oppressiu el pass
The greatest still, and spare the less. 2514

An ass will with his long ears fray to ne, Ai The flies, that tickle him, away at 8 via im 2 201 But man delights to have his ears

Blown maggots in by flatterers. in by flatterers. esa spytar of Ba.

Are us'd in selling than in buying;s voluia quara1? But in the great, unjuster dealing

Is us'd in buying than in selling.) 1 120 7. 829 do 3£

All smatt'rers are more brisk and perto A Than those that understand an art:...

As little sparkles shine more bright

Than glowing coals, that give them light.t!

In Rome no temple was so low as As that of Honour built, to show

How humble honour ought to be, ang hund Though there 'twas all authority. gel pobudu 1

As 'tis a greater mystery, in the art
Of painting, to foreshorten any part
Than draw it out, so 'tis in books the chief
Of all perfections to be plain and brief.

Navigation, that withstood wa
The mortal fury of the Flood, lucra
And prov❜d the only means to save...!
All earthly creatures from the wave,,
Has, for it, taught the sea and wind
To lay a tribute on mankind,
That, by degrees, has swallow'd more ›
Than all it drown'd at once before.

As he whose destiny does prove

To dangle in the air above,"
Does lose his life for want of air,

That only fell to be his share; !
So he whom Fate at once design'd
To plenty and a wretched mind,.,199
Is but condemn'd t' a rich distress,
And starves with niggardly excess.

A convert's but a fly, that turns about, After his head's pull'd off, to find it out..

All the inventions that the world contains,

Were not by reason first found out, nor brains; we But pass for theirs who had the luck to light: q? Upon them by mistake or oversight.

BUTLER.

THE GENIUS AND LEARNING OF SHAKSPEARE.

SHAKSPEARE is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will always supply, and observation will always find. His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets, a charactér is too often an individual: in those of Shakspeare, it is commonly a species.

It is from this wide extension of design that so much instruction is derived. It is this which fills the plays of Shakspeare with practical axioms and domestic wisdom. It was said of Euripides, that