Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social | BOLDNESS OF.

cell,

Thus it is in the world-hive; most where

men

Lie deep in cities as in drifts.

INDUSTRY OF THE.

When beggars grow thus bold

No marvel, then, that charity grows cold.
Drayton.

Bailey. FREEDOM OF.

Beggar!-the only free men of our commonwealth,

Many coloured, sunshine loving, spring-Free above scot-free, that observe no laws,

betokening bee!

Yellow bee, so mad for love of early bloom

Obey no governor, use no religion,
But what they draw from their own ancient
custom,

ing flowers! Till thy waxen cells be full, fair fall thy Or constitute themselves, yet are no rebels.

work and thee,

Broome.

The beggar, as he stretch'd his shrivel'd hand,

Rais'd not his eyes-and those who dropp'd the mite

Even bees, the little alms-men of spring Pass'd on unnoticed.

bowers, Know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.

Others, like merchants, venture trade WHO MAKES A.
abroad;

Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings,
Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds;
Which pillage they, with merry march,
bring home,

To the tent royal of their emperor;
Who, busied in his majesty, surveys
The singing masons building roofs of gold;
The civil citizens kneading up the honey;
The poor mechanic porters crowding in
Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate;
The sad-ey'd justice, with his surly hum,
Delivering o'er to executors pale
The lazy yawning drone.

A DUMB.

Shakespeare.

Ibid.

Art thou a man, and shams't thou not to beg,
To practise such a servile kind of life?
Why, were thy education ne'er so mean,
Having thy limbs, a thousand fairer courses
Offer themselves to thy election.
Either the wars might still supply thy wants,
Or service of some virtuous gentleman,
Or honest labour; nay, what can I name
But would become thee better than to beg?
But men of thy condition feed on sloth,
Sir Walter Raleigh. As doth the beetle on the dung she breedsin;
Not caring how the metal of your minds

BEGGAR.

A beggar that is dumb, you know,
May challenge double pity.

A GUEST.
His house was known to all the vagrant Is eaten with the rust of idleness.
train,

Now, after me, what e'er he be, that should

He chid their wand'rings, but reliev'd their Believe a person of thy quality, pain,

While thou insist in this loose desp'rate course,

The long remember'd beggar was his guest,
Whose beard descending swept his aged I would esteem the sin not thine, but his.

breast..

Goldsmith.

Ben Jonson.

We are slow to believe that, which if be-
Ovid.

Meet the first beginnings-look to the bud-
ding mischief, before it has time to ripen lieved would hurt our feelings.

Seneca.

The music nighest bordering upon heaven.
Lamb.

THE VILLAGE.

Levity of behavior is the bane of all that How soft the music of those village bells, is good and virtuous. Falling at intervals upon the ear ODDITIES OF. In cadence sweet! now dying all away, Now pealing loud again and louder still, Clear and sonorous as the gale comes on, With easy force it opens all the cells Where memory slept.

Oddities and singularities of behavior may attend genius; when they do, they are its misfortunes and its blemishes. The man of true genius will be ashamed of them; at least he will never affect to distinguish himself by whimsical peculiarities.

PROPER.

S. W. Temple.

A TRUE.

BENEFACTOR.

Cowper.

And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two

What is becoming is honorable, and what blades of grass to grow upon a spot of is honorable is becoming.

RULES FOR.

Tully.

ground, where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more

Never put off till to-morrow what you can essential service to his country, than the do to-day. whole race of politicians put together.

Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.

it.

BENEFITS.

Never spend your money before you have BRAGGING OF.

To brag of benefits one hath bestown,

seem none,

Swift.

Never buy what you do not want because Doth make the best seem less, and most

it is cheap.

So oftentimes the greatest courtesy

Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, Is by the doer made an injury.

and cold.

INGRATITUDE FOR.

Broome.

Men are not only prone to forget benefits; they even hate those who have obliged

We seldom repent having eaten too little. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. them, and cease to hate those who have inHow much pain the evils have cost us jured them. The necessity of revenging that have never happened! ar. injury, or of recompensing a benefit Take things always by the smooth han- seems a slavery to which they are unwilling dle. La Rochefoucauld.

A stream where alike the elephant may AND RELIGION. swim and the lamb may wade.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools Gregory the Great. with her ghost. Collon.

My advice is, to consult the lives of other men, as he would a looking glass, and from thence fetch examples for his own imitaScott. tion.

And birds that scarce have learn'd the fear down-pour of rain.