Over the Country's Wrongs: and by this face
Of seeming Zeal and Justice craftily

It wins those hearts for which it's bait is thrown, But know it by these signs:-'tis flattering, cruel, Pompous, and full of sound, and studied Rage; Of faith neglectful; heaping wrong on wrong; Ambitious; selfish ;-while the true is calm, Firm, persevering, more in Act than Shew. 3136. HOPE.

Hope temperately.

[itself. 3137. EXTERNALS-the MIND assimilates to 2. All outward ill from inward takes it's force; No weather appears bad to those who win.

3138. AMBITION.

Ambition is eccentric, devious, wild,
Blazing in terrors of abhorred War;
And scorns to move in that obedient Orb
Where it might give a fair and natural Light;
More proud to flame as an exhaled Meteor,
A Prodigy of Fear, and a Portent-

Of boundless mischief to the unborn times.
3139. INGRATITUDE.

3. Ingratitude acts as the Cuckoo-Bird
Uses the Sparrow, thrusting from that Nest
Where it has grown to such a prosperous bulk
The very offspring foster'd with itself.

3140. REBELLION.

The Garment of Rebellion still is fac'd

With some fine colour that may please the eye Of fickle changelings and poor discontents, Which gape and rub the elbow at the news Of hurly-burly Innovation:

And never yet did Insurrection want

Such water-colours to impaint his cause,
Nor moody Beggars starving for a time
Of pell-mell havock and confusion*.

3141. KINGS.

True Kings still love their People:-even That are misled upon Rebellion's part: [those And what the Good thus feel the rest pretend. 3142. DETRACTION.

Of Detraction will hardly suffer Honour,which the Dead are either below or above,-to live with the best deserving of the Living. 3143. TREASON always distrusted.

Treason is still but trusted like the Fox:
Who ne'er so tame and cherisht is lockt up
Suspect of wild tricks of his Ancestors.
Look how Men can, or sad or merrily,
Who once have been at War against a King,
Interpretation still misquotes their looks,
And they are fed like Oxen at a stall,
The better cherisht still the nearer Death.
3144. LEADERS in CRIME.

Who are the Spring of all must pay for all.
3145. VALOUR-DUTY-DANGER.
True Valour still is found where Duty lies,
Whate'er the Peril.

* Here is Rebellion painted in it's strongest and most invidious Colours by one who had been a Rebel, and was then an Usurper. Yet we may think with BACON and MONTESQUIEU, and ROUSSEAU; and with LIVY and TACITUS, and MACHIAVEL, that popular Insurrections have their source almost always in real and great and general Grievances unredresst:-however the Selfishness of some and the Violence of others pervert the general Impulse from it's true Object and Limits.

3146. KINDRED-MERIT.

Affection loves a Brother as a Brother;

But Worth makes him respected as our Souls. 3147. HONOUR.

2. Honour ne'er promises but he means to pay.

3148. THOUGHT-LIFE-TIME.

§ E'en Time, that takes survey of all the World, Must have a Stop.

3149. IDENTITY.

He is but the counterfeit of a Man who has not the Life of a Man*.

3150. RESIGNATION.

Patiently endure

What not to be avoided falls on thee +.

3151. VALOUR respects itself in an ENEMY. § Valour will teach to cherish it's high Deeds Even in the bosom of our Adversaries.

3152. PERSEVERANCE.

An Enterprize, when fairly once begun, Should not be left till all that ought is won. 3153. RUMOUR.

Rumour from Orient to the drooping West,
Making the Wind his Post-horse, still unfolds
The Acts commenced on this Ball of Earth;
Upon his Tongue continual Slanders ride,
The which in every language he pronounces,
Stuffing the ears of Men with false Reports.

* Mens cujusque, IS est cuique. CIC. So COOPER, late of Manchester; now of America.

† Τληναι καλως χρη θεόθεν εφηπίου

Κακον.

Nil actum reputans dum quid superesset agendum.
LUCAN of CÆSAR.

PART II.

3154. COMMANDER-his DEATH.

A Leader's Death, whose Spirit lent a fire E'en to the dullest Peasant in his Camp, Being bruited once, takes fire and heat away From the best temper'd Courage of his Troops. 3155. ACTION.

2¶. Action has little time to spare to mourn. 3156. PASSION--Energies created by it.

3§. News which would make men sick if they were well

Oft makes them, in some measure, well when sick; E'en as the Wretch, whose fever-weaken'd joints, Like strengthless hinges, buckle under life, Impatient of a fit, breaks like a fire

Out of his Keeper's Arms-so doth strong Passion Make the awaken'd Spirit thrice itself*.

3157. PASSION & RASHNESS-how destructive. Passion and Rashness in a public Cause

Betray the Lives of Thousands.

3158. CALAMITIES-where probable, should be met without Surprise.

2. Who hazards much, with Fortitude should bear Events which may be seen as probable: Nor sink beneath the shock, when nought befalls More than that being which was like to be. 3159. OBEDIENCE-of little Value unless voluntary. 3. Well that Leader binds his Followers Whom both with Body and with Mind they follow.

* Anger and even Terror have been known to remove a fit of the Gout; to give activity to the bedridden; and to produce instantaneous and most extraordinary Energies.

ADVERSITY.

3160. FRIENDS

In great Emergencies make Friends with speed. 3161.

* Friends never fewer than where most the Need. 3162. WIT SYMPATHY.

2. True Wit is not only Wit in itself; but by Sympathy and Excitement the Cause of Wit in others. 3163. VANITY.

3. Vanity may keep Persons in favour with themselves who are out of favour with all others. 3164. DEAFNESS-moral.

4. There are those who are deaf to the hearing of every thing good.

3165. APOPLEXY-Causes of it.

5. Apoplexy may have it's origin from Study; from much Grief; from perturbation of the Brain, howsoever caus'd.

3166. INATTENTION-STUDY-CONVERSA

TION ACTION.

6+. The Disease of not listening-the Malady of not marking-is a great Evil either in Study, or Conversation, or Action.

3167. PATIENCE.

7. It is easier to be as Poor as Job than as 3168. PRODIGALITY.

[Patient.

The most prodigal would often wish that their means were more and their expense less.

3169. PRUDENCE.

§ Where all is well, keep it so.

3170.

Awake not a sleeping Wolf.

3171. AGE.

White Hairs should have, to a reasonable degree, the effect of Gravity.