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How many then should cover that stand bare !
How many be commanded, that command!

Он, who can hold a fire in his hand,
By thinking on the frofty Caucafus ?
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite,
By bare imagination of a feast?

Or wallow naked in December fnow,
By thinking on fantastic fummer's heat?
Oh, no! the apprehenfion of the good,
Gives but the greater feeling to the worse;
Fell forrow's tooth doth never rankle more,
Than when it bites, but lanceth not the fore.

'Tis flander;

Whofe edge is fharper than the fword; whofe tongue
Outvenoms all the worms of Nile; whofe breath
Rides on the pofling winds, and doth belie
All corners of the world. Kings, queens, and ftates,
Maids, matrons, nay the fecrets of the grave,
This viperous flander enters.

THERE is a tide in the affairs of men,

Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life

Is bound in fhallows, and in miferies.

TO-MORROW, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty fpace from day to day,
To the last fyllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

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The way to dufky death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That ftruts and frets his hour upon the stage,

And then is heard no more! It is a tale

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Told by an idiot, full of found and fury,

Signifying nothing.

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NARRATIVE PIECES.

CHA P. I.

THE

DERVISE.

DERVISE, travelling through Tartary, being arrived

At the town of Balk, went into the king's palace by

mistake, as thinking it to be a public inn or caravanfary. Having looked about him for fome time, he entered into a long gallery, where he laid down his wallet, and fpread his carpet, in order to repose himself upon it after the manner of the eastern nations. He had not been long in this pofture before he was discovered by fome of the guards, who asked him what was his business in that place? The Dervile told them he intended to take up his night's lodging in that caravanfary. The guards let him know, in a very angry manner, that the house he was in was not a caravansary, but the king's palace. It happened that the king himself paffed through the gallery during this debate, and fmiling at the mistake of the Dervise, asked him how he could poffibly be fo dull as not to distinguish a palace from a caravanfary Sir, fays the Dervise, give ine leave to ask your ma

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jefty a queftion or two. Who were the perfons that lodged in this house when it was first built? The king replied, His ancestors. And who, fays the Dervife, was the last perfon that lodged here? The king replied, His father. And who is it, fays the Dervise, that lodges here at present? The king told him, That it was he himself. And who, fays the Dervife, will be here after you? The king anfwered, The young prince his fon. Ah, Sir, faid the Dervife, a houfe that changes its inhabitants fo often, and receives fuch a perpetual fucceffion of guests, is not a palace but a caravansary.'

CHA P. II.

TURKISH TALE.

SPECTATOR.

E are told that the Sultan Mahmoud, by his perpe

Wale wars abroad, and his tyranny utnoney had all

ed his dominions with ruin and defolation, and half unpeopled the Perfian Empire. The vifier to this great Sultan (whether an humorist or an enthufiaft, we are not informed) pretended to have learned of a certain Dervise to understand the language of birds, fo that there was not a bird that could open his mouth, but the vifier knew what it was he said. As he was one evening with the emperor, in their return from hunting, they faw a couple of owls upon a tree that grew near an old wall out of a heap of rubbish. I would fain know, fays the fultan, what those two owls are faying to one another; liften to their difcourfe and give me an account of it. The vifier approached the tree, pretending to be very attentive to the two owls. Upon his return to the Sultan, Sir, fays he, I have heard part of their converfation,

but

but dare not tell you what it is. The Sultan would not be satisfied with such an answer, but forced him to repeat word for word every thing the owls had faid. You must know then, faid the Vifier, that one of these owls has a for, and the other a daughter, between whom they are now upon a treaty of marriage. The father of the fon faid to the father of the daughter, in my hearing, brother, I confent to this marrriage, provided you will fettle upon your daughter fifty ruin'd villages for her portion. To which the father of the daughter replied, inftead of fifty I will give her five hundred, if you pleafe. God grant a long life to Sultan Mahmoud; whilt he reigns over us, we shall never want ruined villages.

THE ftory fays, the Sultan was fo touched with the fable, that he rebuilt the towns and villages which had been deftroyed, and from that time forward confulted the good of his people.

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perpetual war against each other: the name of the first was Luxury, and of the fecond Avarice. The aim of each of them was no lefs than universal monarchy over the hearts of mankind. Luxury had many generals under him, who did him great fervice, as Pleasure, Mirth, Pomp, and FafhiAvarice was likewise very strong in his officers, being faithfully served by Hunger, Industry, Care, and Watchfulnefs: he had likewife a privy-counsellor who was always at his elbow, and whifpering fomething or other in his ear: the name of this privy-counfellor was Poverty. As Avarice conducted

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