5 word! So give me your promise by a nod, and I'll tell you what, Jack,-I mean you dog,-if you don't by― Capt. A. What, sir, promise to link myself to some mass of ugliness; to : Sir A. Zounds! sirrah! the lady shall be as ugly as I choose she shall have a hump on each shoulder; she shall be as crooked as the crescent; her one eye shall roll like the bull's in Cox's museum; she shall have a skin like a mummy, and the beard of a Jew. She shall be all 10 this, sirrah! Yes, I'll make you ogle her all day, and sit up all night to write sonnets on her beauty. 15 20 25 Capt. A. This is reason and moderation, indeed! Sir A. None of your sneering, puppy! no grinning, jackanapes! Capt. A. Indeed, sir, I never was in a worse humor for mirth in my life. Sir A. 'Tis false, sir; I know you are laughing in your sleeve; I know you'll grin when I am gone, sirrah! Capt. A. Sir, I hope I know my duty better. Sir A. None of your passion, sir! none of your violence, if you please; it won't do with me, I promise you. Capt. A. Indeed, sir, I was never cooler in my life. Sir A. 'Tis a confounded lie! I know you are in a passion in your heart; I know you are a hypocritical young dog; but it wont do. Capt. A. Nay, sir, upon my word, Sir A. So you will fly out! Can't you be cool, like 30 me? What good can passion do? Passion is of no service, you impudent, insolent, overbearing reprobate! There, you sneer again! Don't provoke me! But you rely upon the mildness of my temper, you do, you dog! You play upon the meekness of my disposition! Yet take care; 35 the patience of a saint may be overcome at last! But mark! I give you six hours and a half to consider of this; if you then agree, without any condition, to do every thing on earth that I choose, why, confound you! I may in time forgive you. If not, don't enter the same 40 hemisphere with me! don't dare to breathe the same air, or use the same light with me; but get an atmosphere and a sun of your own: I'll strip you of your commission I'll lodge a five-and-three-pence in the hands of trustees, and you shall live on the interest. I'll disown you; I'll disinherit you; and hang me, if ever I call you Jack again! [Exit. Capt. A. Mild, gentle, considerate father, I kiss your hands. LESSON CCIV.-ANTONY'S ADDRESS TO THE ROMAN POPU- Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears: If it were so, it was a grievous fault :- He was my friend, faithful and just to me: 15 And Brutus is an honorable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome, When that the poor hath cried, Cæsar hath wept: 20 Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. Yet Brutus says, he was ambitious; You all did see, that, on the Lupercal, 25 Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition? And sure he is an honorable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke; 30 You all did love him once, not without cause: Have stood against the world: now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence. I will not do them wrong, I rather choose But here's a parchment, with the seal of Cæsar; 10 I found it in his closet: 't is his will. Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read,) And they would go and kiss dead Cæsar's wounds And dip their napkins in his sacred blood,15 Yea, beg a hair of him for memory. And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it as a rich legacy, Unto their issue. If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. 'T was on a summer's evening in his tent: Look! In this place, ran Cassius' dagger through :- Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms, 35 Which all the while ran blood, great Cæsar fell. *This double superlative, like "the most straitest sect of our reli gion," (Acts xxvi. 5,) was tolerated by the best English writers, two or three centuries ago. † Statua, for statue, common among the old writers. 5 The dint of pity:-these are gracious drops. Kind souls! What! weep you when you but behold Good friends! sweet friends! Let me not stir you up They that have done this deed are honorable! 10 And will, no doubt, with reason answer you. I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts! But, as you know me all, a plain, blunt man, LESSON CCV.-THE VICTOR ANGELS. -Milton. Now when fair morn orient in Heaven appeared, Up rose the victor Angels, and to arms The matin trumpet sung: in arms they stood Of golden panoply, refulgent host, 5 Soon banded; others from the dawning hills Looked round, and scouts each coast light armed scour Where lodged, or whither fled, or if for fight, Came flying, and in mid air aloud thus cried; He comes; and settled in his face I see His adamantine coat gird well,—and each Fit well his helm,-gripe fast his orbed shield, So warned he them, aware themselves, and soon 10 Instant, without disturb, they took alarm, LESSON CCVI.-IMPRESSMENT OF AMERICAN SEAMEN.- Who is prepared to say, that American seamen shall be surrendered, as victims, to the British principle of impressment? And, sir, what is this principle? She contends, that she has a right to the services of her own subjects; 5 and that, in the exercise of this right, she may lawfully impress them, even although she finds them in American vessels, upon the high seas, without her jurisdiction. Now I deny that she has any right, beyond her jurisdiction, to come on board our vessels, upon the high seas, for any 10 other purpose, than in the pursuit of enemies, or their goods, or goods contraband of war. But she further contends, that her subjects cannot renounce their allegiance to her, and contract a new obligation to other sovereigns. I do not mean to go into the 15 general question of the right of expatriation. If, as is contended, all nations deny it, all nations, at the same time, admit and practice the right of naturalization. Great |