X ^. X°°- ^ >* 3,0 x^^. l0 J "> * °o Si w ,*°... Ol. 4. .^' ^L - ^ aM ./ THE D C T 11, \. "THOUGH THOU HADST MADE A GENERAL SURVEY OF ALL THE BEST OF MEN'S BEST KNOWLEDGES, AND KNEW SO MUCH AS EVER LEARNING KNEW ; YET DID IT MAKE THEE TRUST THYSELF THE LESS, AND LESS PRESUME. — AND YET WHEN BEING MOV'u IN PRIVATE TALK TO SPEAK ; THOU DIDST BEWRAY HOW FULLY FRAUGHT THOU WERT WITHIN; AND PROV'D THAT THOU DIDST KNOW WHATEVER WIT COULD SAY. WHICH SHOW'D THOU HADST NOT BOOKS AS MANY HAVE, FOR OSTENTATION, BUT FOR USE ; AND THAT THY BOUNTEOUS MEMORY WAS SUCH AS GAVE A LARGE REVENUE OF THE GOOD IT GAT. WITNESS SO MANY VOLUMES, WHERETO THOU HAST SET THY NOTES UNDER THY LEARNED HAND, AND MARK'D THEM WITH THAT PRINT, AS WILL SHOW HOW THE POINT OF THY CONCEIVING THOUGHTS DID STAND ; THAT NONE WOULD THINK, IF ALL THY LIFE HAD BEEN TURN'D INTO LEISURE, THOU COULDST HAVE ATTAIN'D SO MUCH OF TIME, TO HAVE PERUS'D AND SEEN SO MANY VOLUMES THAT SO MUCH CONTAIN'D." Daniel. Funeral Poem upon the Death of the late Noble Earl of Devonshire. " Well-languaged Daniel," as Browne called him in his " Britannia's Pastorals," was one of Southey's favourite poets. Let the above extract speak of the Author of " The Doctor, &c" THE EDITOR. EDITOR'S PREFACE. The intrinsic beauty, and, what is of more consequence, the moral and religious value of the sentiments contained in " The Doctor, &c," has called for a new and popular Edition of that work. It has fallen to my lot, — otherwise laboriously occupied, — to edit it. What is done, ought to be done well, — whether it be so or not, competent readers will be the best judges. Not unversed in books, and familiar with ancient and modern languages as toward circumstances have made me, I trust the endeavour has not been unattained, — though some errors — . . . Quas aut incuria fudit Aut humana parum cavit natura — will unavoidably be detected and charitably overlooked. Five out of six, it has been said by those quite able to form an unbiassed and judicious opinion, were assured as to the authorship of " The Doctor, &c." It is now well known that the lamented Southey played with its pages as he did with his kittens, — as a relaxation from his bread-earning and every- day pursuits. It is not too much to say that no one but Southey could have written it. Line upon line, — page upon page, — shows the man that feared God, and honoured the King, and loved his Country, and despised all political tinkers, whether in matters ecclesiastical or civil. The extract following from a letter to Miss Caroline Bowles, — the present no less talented than amiable and excellent Mrs. Southey, and my much valued friend, — contains the most interesting particulars relative to the work. It is dated, Keswick, June, 1835. " Miss B., who then lived in the next house, was the Bhow Begum. That whole chapter " (that is, Chapter VII. A. I.) " is from the life, and the Book grew out of that night's conversation, exactly as there related. But to go farther back with its history. There is a story of Dr. D. D. of D. 3 and of his horse Nobs, which has, I believe, been made into a Hawker's Book. Coleridge used to tell it, and the humour lay in making it as long- winded as possible ; — it suited, however, my long-windedness better than his, and I was frequently called upon for it by those who enjoyed it, and sometimes I volunteered it, when Coleridge protested against its being told. EDITOR'S PREFACE. As you may suppose, it was never twice told alike, except as to names, and the leading features. "With something of Tristram Shandy, something of Rabelais, and more of Montaigne, and a little of old Burton, the predomi- nant characteristic is still my own." Though railroads outrun literature, and Mammon has more votaries than religious and useful learning, it says something for us that a book such as " The Doctor, &c." should again be called for, the more so when it is considered that its readers, after all, must be rather fit and few than many. But, well said Walter Savage Landor, — " Southey was the first, and remains to the present day almost the only critic, who was constantly guided by truth and conscience. Added to which, his judgment, especially in works of imagination, was incomparably more correct than any other man's." It only remains to add that the " Author of the Doctor, &c, in his Study," and the " Sketch of the Bust," are by Nash, — "Edward Nash," — (as he is described in the Colloquies, i. 238.) — (i My dear, kind-hearted friend and fellow traveller, whose death has darkened some of the blithest recollections of my latter life." Both of these are excellent in their way, — but the engraving of the Bust, in the eyes of myself, and Southey 's eldest daughter, Edith May Warter, is perfect. " The View of Keswick from the Study Window " is by Mrs. Southey, and it is a view not to be forgotten. For the few foot-notes not marked R. S., the Editor is responsible. I had laid down the pen, when these words of old Fuller — (an especial favourite of Southey's) — flashed across my mind. Reader! " No discreet PERSON WILL CONCLUDE OUR FAITH THE WORSE, BECAUSE OUR CHARITY IS the more." Apply them as thou readest ! John Wood Warter. Vicarage House, West Tarring, Sussex, May 1 5th, 1848 r t &V fr/T^ ufru PRELUDE OF MOTTOES. Now they that like it may : the rest may chuse. G. Wither. Je veux dface descouverte qu'on scache que je fay lefol. Ei pourqnoy ne me le sera-t-il permis, si le grand Solon dans Athenes, ne douta de le faire pour apporter un grand bien a sa Republique t La Republique dont fay charge, est ce petit monde que Dieu a estably en moy ; pour la conservation duquel je ne scay meilleur moyen que de trompet mes afflictions par quelques honnesles jeux d'esprit j appellez-les bouffbnneries si ainsi le voulex. Pasquier. If you are so bold as to venture a blowing-up, look closely to it ! for the plot lies deadly deep, and 'twill be between your legs before you be aware of it But of all things have a care of putting it in your pocket, for fear it takes fire, or runs away with your breeches. And if you can shun it, read it not when you are alone ; or at least not late in the evening ; for the venom is strongest about mid- night, and seizes most violently upon the head when the party is by himself. 1 shall not tell you one line of what is in it ; and therefore consider well what you do, and look to yourself. But if you be resolved to meddle, be sure have a care of catching cold, and keep to a moderate diet ; for there is danger and jeopardy in it besides. Dr. Eachard. — For those faults of barbarism, Doric dialect, extempo- ranean stile, tautologies, apish imitation, a rhapsody of rags gathered together from several dung-hills, excre- ments of authors, toyes and fopperies, confusedly tumbled out, without art, invention, judgement, wit, learning, harsh, raw, rude, phantasticall, absurd, insolent, indis- creet, ill-composed, indigested, vain, scurrile, idle, dull, and dry: — I confess all; ('tis partly affected;) thou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself. 'Tis not worth the reading ! I yield it. I desire thee not to lose time in perusing so vain a subject. I should be peradven- ture loth myself to read him or thee so writing ; 'tis not operce pretium. All I say is this; that I have precedents for it. Burton. A foolish extravagant spirit, full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolu- tions ; these are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mate r, and delivered upon the mellowing of the occasion. But the gift is good in those in whom it is acute, and I am thankful for it. Love's Labour Lost. If the world like it not, so much the worse for them. Covvper. — un boschetto, Donne per quello givanfior cogliendo, Con diletlo, co' quel, co' quel dicendo ; Eccolo, eccol! . . che a? — efiordaliso! Va la per le viole ; Piit cola per le rose, cole, cole, Vaghe amorose. me, che' I prun mipungei Quell' allra me v' aggiunge. U', il, o, cW e quel che saltaf Un grillo ! un grillo ! Venite qua, correte, Ramponzoli cogliete ; E' non con essi ! Si, son ! — colei o colei Vien qua, vien qua perfunghi, un micolino Piu cold, piii cola per sermollino. Ugolino Ubaldini or Franco Sacchetti. If the particulars seem too large or to be over tediously insisted upon, consider in how many impertinent and trifling discourses and actions the best of us do consume far more hours than the perusal of this requires minutes, and yet think it no tediousness : and let them call to mind how many volumes this age imprints and reads which are foolish if not wicked. Let them be persuaded likewise, that I have not written this for those who have no need thereof, or to shew my own wit or compendiousness but to instruct the ignorant ; to whom I should more often speak in vain, if I did not otherwhile by repetitions and circumlocutions, stir up their affections, and beat into their understandings the knowledge and feeling of those things which I deliver. Yea, let them know that I know those expressions will be both pleasing and profitable to some which they imagine to be needless and super- abundant ; and that I had rather twenty nice critics should censure me for a word here and there superfluous than that one of those other should want that which might explain my meanings to their capacities, and so make frustrate all my labour to those who have most need of it, and for whom it was chiefly intended. G. Wither. Tempus ad hoc mecum latuit, por tuque resedit, Necfuil audaces impetus ire vias. Nunc animi venere ; juvat nunc denique funem Solvere : Ancora sublata est ; terra?, portusque valete ! Imus ; habet ventos nostra carina suos. Wallius. POSTSCRIPT. There was a certain Pisander whose name has been preserved in one of the proverbial sayings of the Greeks, because he lived in continual fear of seeing his own ghost. How often have I seen mine while arranging these volumes for publication, and carrying them through the press ! Twenty years have elapsed since the in- tention of composing them was conceived, and the composition commenced, in what manner and in what mood the reader will presently be made acquainted. The vicissi- tudes which in the course of those years have befallen every country in Europe are known to every one ; and the changes, which, during such an interval, must have occurred in a private family, there are few who may not, from their own sad experience, readily apprehend. Circumstances which when they were touched upon in these volumes were of present importance, and excited a lively interest, belong now to the history of the past. They who were then the great per- formers upon the theatre of public life have fretted their hour and disappeared from the stage. Many who were living and flourish- ing when their names were here sportively or severely introduced are gone to their account. The domestic circle which the introduction describes has in the ordinary course of things been broken up ; some of its members are widely separated from others, and some have been laid to rest. The reader may well believe that certain passages which were written with most joyousness of heart, have been rendered purely painful to the writer by time and change : and that some of his sweetest thoughts come to him in chewing the cud, like wormwood and gall. — But it is a wholesome bitterness. He has neither expunged nor altered any thing on any of these accounts. It would be weakness to do this on the score of his own remembrances, and in the case of allu- sions to public affairs and to public men it would be folly. The Almanack of the cur- rent year will be an old one as soon as next year begins. It is the writer's determination to re- main unknown ; and they who may suppose that By certain signs here set in sundry place, they have discovered him, will deceive them- selves. A Welsh Triad says that the three unconcealable traits of a person by which he shall be known, are the glance of his eye, the pronunciation of his speech, and the mode of his self-motion ; — in briefer English, his look, his voice, and his gait. There are no such characteristics by which an author can be identified. He must be a desperate mannerist who can be detected by his style, and a poor proficient in his art if he cannot at any time so vary it, as to put the critic upon a false scent. Indeed every day's experience shows that they who assume credit to themselves, and demand it from others for their discrimination in such things, are continually and ridiculously mistaken. On that side the author is safe ; he has a sure reliance upon the honour as well as the discretion of the very few to whom he is naturally or necessarily known ; and if the various authors to whom the Book will be ascribed by report, should derive any grati- fication from the perusal, he requests of them in return that they will favour his purpose by allowing such reports to pass uncontradicted. PRELUDE OF MOTTOES. [Prefixed to Vol. III. in the original Edition.'] PRELUDE OF MOTTOES. "Ayivvv, £ . . . xx^dtx »PTiX8' ikChti . . . . uvovir' oLtt' a,v ociiT'/i tfoi Sozti, roXf&ritrov, t'dt, xagytrov, ocyoc/aoct x,ot^bi xou troQurieos yevy. Euripides. PRELUDE OF MOTTOES. [Prefixed to Vol. V. in the original Edition.] PRELUDE OF MOTTOES. See here, see here, a Doctor rare, Who travels much at home ; Come take his pills, — they cure all ills, Past, present, and to come. Take a little of his nif-naf, Put it on your tif-taf. The Bishoprick Garland. Quod virgo proba, quod stolata mater, Quod purus positd severitate Jam post pulpita perlegat sacerdos. T. L. on Sir Wm. Killigrew's Selindra. I entered en this work certainly with considerable materials, and since engaging in it, in reading, in think- ing, in correcting and improving, I have proportioned my labours to my undertaking. Every step I advanced, I did but more clearly see how much farther I might go. Here too readers and some writers may be reminded of the effect produced by finding a pleasure in your employ- ment ; some burdens are sweet ; you lose the sense of weight by the deceptions of fancy and occasional rests ; and in proportion as your journey becomes more agree- able, you are in danger of growing more dilatory. George Dyer. Si tu tombes entre les mains de ceux qui ne voyent rien d'autruy que pour y trouver sujet de s'y desplaire, et qu'ils te reprockent que ton Docteur est ennuyeux ; responds lew qu'il est a leur choix de lui voir ou ne lui voir point. — Si tu te trouves parmy ceux qui font profession d'inter- preter les songes, et descouvrir les pensees plus secrettes d'autruy, et qu'ils asseurent que * * est un iel homme et * * une telle femme ; ne leur respond rien ; car Us scavent assez qu'ils ne scavent pas ce qu'ils disent : mais supplie ceux qui pourroient estre abusez de leur s fictions, de consider er que si ces choses ne m'importent, f aurois eu bien peu d'esprit de les avoir voulu dis&imuler et ne V avoir sceufaire. Que si en ce qu'ils diront, il n'y a guere d'ap- parence, il ne lesfaut pas croire : et s'il y en a beauccup, il faut penser que pour couvrir la chose que je voulois tenir cachee et ensevelie,je Veusse autrement desguisee. Astree — mutatis mutandis. I would not be in danger of that law of Moses, that if a man dig a pit and cover it not, he must recompense those which are damnified by it ; which is often interpreted of such as shake old opinions, and do not establish new as certain, but leave consciences in a worse danger than they found them in. I believe that law of Moses hath in it some mystery and appliableness ; for by that law men are only tiien bound to that indemnity and compensation, if an ox or an ass, (that is such as are of a strong constitution and accustomed to labour) fall therein; but it is not said so, if a sheep or a goat fall : no more are we if men in a silliness or wantonness will stumble or take a scandal, bound to rectify them at all times. And therefore because I justly presume you strong and watchful enough, I make account that I am not obnoxious to that law; since my meditations are neither too wide nor too deep for you. Donne's Letters. Such an author consulted in a morning sets the spirits for the vicissitudes of the day, better than the glass does a man's person. Sir Richard Steele. The Load-stone of Attraction I find out, The Card of Observation guides about, The Needle of Discretion points the way. Dutchess of Newcastle. — (Z^roi Trctvtrcitrdz /u..otfAxu. Sibylline Verses. Of things that be strange Who loveth to read In this book let him range His fancy to feed. Richard Robinson. At ego tibi sermone isto — Varias fabulas conseram, auresque tuas Benevolus lepido susurro permulceam. Apuleius. Whoso doth attempt the Author's works to read Must bring with him a stayed head, and judgement to proceed ; For as there be most wholesome hests and precepts to be found, So are there rocks and shallow shelves to run the ship aground. Arthur Golding. I am studying the art of patience: — to drive six snails before me from this town to Moscow, neither use goad nor whip to them, but let them take their own time. The patientest man i' the world match me for an experiment ! Webster. He says and he says not, cares and he cares not, he's king and he's no king ; his high-born soul is above this sublunary world ; he reigns, he rides in the clouds and keeps his court in the Horizon : he's Emperor of the Superlative Heights, and lives in pleasure among the Gods ; he plays at bowls with the Stars, and makes a foot- ball of the Globe ; he makes that to fly far, far out of the reach of Thought. Hurlothrumbo. Lo libresfo befaitz, e de bos motz complit ; E sil voletz entendre, li gran e li petit Podon i mot. apendre de sen e de bel dit; Car aisel qui lefe nal ventre totfarsit, E sel que nol conoish, ni nol a resentit. Ja no so cujaria. Cansos de la Crozada contr els Ereges Dalbreges- Something oddly The book-man prated ; yet he talked it weeping. Ford. We content ourselves to present to thinking minds, the original seeds from whence spring vast fields of new theories, that may be further cultivated, beautified and enlarged. Truth however being of a coherent nature.it is impossible to separate one branch from another and see it in all its beauty. I beg therefore my readers not to judge of the work by parcels, but to continue to the end, that so they may see the connection of every part with the whole. Scattered rays do not always enlighten ; but when reunited they give a mutual lustre to each other. The Chevalier Ramsay. Xll PRELUDE OF MOTTOES. I must be allowed my freedom in my studies, for I sub- stitute my writings for a game at the tennis-court or a club at the tavern. I never counted among my honours these opuscula of mine, but merely as harmless amuse- ments. It is my partridge, as with St. John ; my cat, as with Pope St. Gregory ; my little dog, as with St. Dominic ; my lamb, as with St. Francis ; (my pig, he might have said as with St. Antony,) my great black mastiff, as with Cornelius Agrippa ; and my tame hare, as with Justus Lipsius. Catherinot. As quoted and translated by D' Israeli. To ignorants obdurde, quhair wilfull errour lyis, Nor zit to curious folks, quhilks carping dois deject thee, Nor zit to learned men, quha thinks thame onelie wyis, But to the docile bairns of knowledge I direct thee. James I. Albeit I have studied much and learned little, yet I have learned to glean some handf'ulls of corn out of the rankest cockle; to make choice of the most fragrant flowers of humanity, the most virtuous herbs of philosophy, the most sovereign fruits of government, and the most hea- venly manna of divinity ; to be acquainted with the fairest, provided for the foulest, delighted with the temperatest, pleased with the meanest, and contented with all weather — greater men may profess and can achieve greater mat- ters : I thank God I know the length, that is the short- ness of my own foot. If it be any man's pleasure to ex- tenuate my sufficiency in other knowledge, or practise to empeach my ability in words or deeds, to debase my for- tune, to abridge my commendations, or to annihilate my fame, he shall find a cold adversary of him that hath laid hot passions watering, and might easily be induced to be the invective of his own non proficiency. Gabriel Harvey. I Prefixed to Vol. VI. in the original Edition.~\ PRELUDE OF MOTTOES. Two thyngys owyth every clerk To advertysyn, begynnyng a werk, If he procedyn wyl ordeneely, The fyrste is what, the secunde is why. In wych two wurdys, as it semyth me, The Foure causys comprehendyd be Wych as our philosofyrs us do teche, In the begynnyng men owe to seche Of every book ; and aftyr there entent, The fyrst is clepyd cause efficyent: The secunde they clepe cause materyal, Formal the thrydde; the fourte fynal. The efficyent cause is the auctour, Wych aftyr hys cunnyng doth hys labour To a complyse the begunne matere, Wych cause is secunde ; and the more clere That it may be, the formal cause Seltyth in dew ordre clause be clause. And these thre thyngys, longyn to what, Auctour, matere and forme ordinat, The fynal cause declaryth pleynly Of the werk begunne the cause why ; That is to seyne what was the entent Of the auctour fynally, and what he ment. OSBERN BoKENAM. Look for no splendid painted outside here, But for a work devotedly sincere; A thing low prized in these too high-flown days : Such solid sober works get little praise. Yet some there be Love true solidity. And unto such brave noble souls I write, In hopes to do them and the subject right. I write it not to please the itching vein Of idle-headed fashionists, or gain Their fond applause ; I care for no such noise. I write it only for the sober sort, Who love right learning, and will labour for't; And who will value worth in art, though old, And not be weary of the good, though told 'Tis out of fashion By nine-tenths of the nation. I writ it also out of great good will Unto my countrymen ; and leave my skill Behind me for the sakes of those that may Not yet be born ; but in some after day May make good use Of it, without abuse. But chiefly I do write it, for to show A duty to the Doctor which I owe. Thomas Mace. Physicians are many times forced to leave such methods of curing as themselves know to be the fittest, and being overruled by their patient's impatiency are fain to try the best they can in taking that way of cure, which the cured will yield unto: in like sort, considering how the case doth stand with this present age, full of tongue and weak of brain, behold we yield to the stream thereof: into the causes of goodness we will not make any curious or deep inquiry ; to touch them now and then it shall be sufficient, when they are so near at hand that easily they may be conceived without any far removed discourse. That way we are contented to prove, which being the worse in itself, is notwithstanding now, by reason of common imbecility, the fitter and likelier to be brooked. Hooker. Qui lit beaucoup et jamais ne medite, Semble d celuy qui mange avidement, Et de tous mets surcharge tellement Son estomach que rien ne luy profit. QUATRAINE DE PlBRAC. Thus Englished by Sylvester, Who readeth much and never meditates, Is like a greedy eater of much food, Who so surcloys his stomach with his cates That commonly they do him little good. Je scay qu'en ce discours Von me pourra reprendre, que fay mis beaucoup de particularitez qui sont fort super- flues. Je le crois : mais,je scay, que si elles desplaisent a aucuns, elles plairont aux autres : me semblant, que ce n' est pas assez, quand on loue des personnes, dire qu 'elles sont belles, sages, vertueuses, valeureuses, vaillanles, mag- nanimes, liberates, splendides et tres-parfaites. Ce sont loiianges et descriptions generates, et lieux-communs empruntex de tout le monde. II en faut specifier Men le tout, et descrire particulieremeni les perfections, afin que micux on les louche au doigt: ct telle est man opinion. Bkantome. PRELUDE OF MOTTOES. xin Non sai se V arte, o il caso abbia forntta Cost bell' opra, o siano enlrambi a parte ; Perocche V arte e tal cite il caso imita, E' l caso e tal eke rassonriglia all' arte: E questo a quella, e quella a questo unita, Quanto pud, quanta sa, mesce e comparte. Un la materia al bel lavor dispose, L'altra meglio adornolla, e pots' ascose. Metastasio. Tous ceux qui ont quelquesfois pese le grand travail et le labeur de V imagination, Vont juge pour le plus grand qui se puisse trouver, et ont eu raison ; d'aulant que celuy lequel veutet desire en contenter plusieurs, doit aussi chercher des moyens difftrens, afln que ce qui est ennuyeux a I'un, l' autre le trouve doux et agreable ; car de le donner & tous, il est impossible ; veu, qu'entre trois personnes seulement que Von aura conviees, il se trouvera une grande dtference de gouts, ainsi que I'a dit Horace, luy dis-je qui Vavoit si bien experiments : par ainsi il n'est pas possible qu'en une si longue kistoire que celle dontje vay traictant, que je ne donne de la peine par la diver site des chapitres. Toutesfo'is si le jugement s'en j met par des personnes privees et libres de toute passion, Us diront que e'est le vray moyen d'entretenir les esprits curieux. L'Histoire du Chevalier du Soleil. Be rattier wise than witty, for much wit hath commonly much froth; and 'tis hard to jest and not sometimes jeer too ; which many times sinks deeper than was intended or expected ; and what was designed for mirth, ends in sad- ness. Caleb Trenchfield, (probably a fictitious name,) Restituta. In some passages you will observe me very satirical. Writing on such subjects I could not be otherwise. I can write nothing without aiming, at least, at usefulness. It were beneath my years to do it, and still more dishonour- able to my religion. I know that a reformation of such abuses as I have censured is not to be expected from the efforts of an author ; but to contemplate the world, its follies, its vices, its indifferences to duty, and its strenuous attachment to what is evil, and not to reprehend, were to approve it. From this charge, at least, I shall be clear ; for I have neither tacitly, nor expressly flattered either its characters or its customs. Cowper. Nemo eo sapientius desipuisse, nemo stultius sapuisse videtur. Said of Cardan by I know not who. II y en a qui pensent que les lecteurs regoivent peu.d' in- struction, quand on leur represente des choses qui n'ont pas este achevees, qu'eux appellent ceuvres imparfaites ; maisje ne suis pas de leur advis ; car quand quelquefait est descrit a la verite, et avec ses circonstances, encor qu'il ne soit parvenu qu'd mychemin, si peut-on tnusjours en tirer dufruict. La Noue. Authors, you know of greatest fame, Thro' modesty suppress their name ; And would you wish me to reveal What these superior wits conceal? Forego the search, my curious friend, And husband time to better end. All my ambition is, I own, To profit and to please unknown, Like streams supplied from springs below Which scatter blessings as they flow. Dr. Cotton. Thus have I, as well as I could, gathered a posey of observations as they grew, — and if some rue and worm- wood be found amongst the sweeter herbs, their whole- someness will make amends for their bitterness. Adam Littleton. This worthy work in which of good examples are so many, This orchard of Alcinous, in which there wants not any Herb, tree, or fruit that may mans use for health or pleasure serve ; This plenteous horn of Acheloy, which justly doth de- serve To bear the name of Treasury of Knowledge, I present To your good worships once again,— desiring you there- fore To let your noble courtesy and favour countervail My faults, where art or eloquence on my behalf doth fail, For sure the mark whereat I shoot is neither wreaths of bay, Nor name of author, no, nor meed; but chiefly that it may Be liked well of you and all the wise and learned sort ; And next, that every wight that shall have pleasure for to sport Him in this garden, may as well bear wholesome fruit away As only on the pleasant flowers his retchless senses stay. GOLDING. Doubtless many thoughts have presented, and are still presenting themselves to my mind, which once I had no idea of. But these, in I believe every instance, are as much the growth of former rooted principles, as multiplied branches grow from one and the same main stem. Of such an inward vegetation I am always conscious ; and I equally seem to myself to perceive the novelty of the fresh shoot, and its connexion with what had been produced before. Alexander Knox. The extensive argument and miscellaneous nature of the work led him to declare his sentiments on a multitude of questions, on which he thought differently from other writers, and of course, to censure or confute their opinions. Whole bodies of men, as well as individuals of the highest reputation, were attacked by him, and his manner was to speak his sense of all with freedom and force. So that most writers, and even readers, had some ground of com- plaint against him. Not only the free-thinkers and un- believers, against whom the tenour of his book was directed, but the heterodox of every denomination were treated without much ceremony, and of the orthodox themselves, some tenet or other, which till then they had held sacred, was discussed and reprobated by him. Strag- gling heresies, or embodied systems, made no difference with him ; as they came in his way, no quarter was given to either, "his end and manner of writing," as Dr. Mid dleton truly observed, "being to pursue truth wherever he found it." Hurd's Life of Warburton. Thou art like my rappee, here, a most ridiculous super- fluity; but a pinch of thee now and then is a more delicious treat. Clandestine Marriage. Yea — but what am I? A scholar, or a schoolmaster, or else some youth ? A lawyer, a student, or else a country clown ? A brumman, a basket-maker, or a baker of pies ? A flesh, or a fishmonger, or a sower of lies ? A louse, or a louser, a leek or a lark, A dreamer, a drommell, a fire or a spark ? PRELUDE OF MOTTOES. A caitiff, a cut-throat, a creeper in corners, A hairbrain, a hangman, or a grafter of homers ? A merchant, a maypole, a man or a mackarel, A crab or a crevise, a crane or a cockerell ? Api us and Virginia. It may appear to some ridiculous Thus to talk knave and madman, and sometimes Come in with a dried sentence, stuft with sage. Webster. Etsi verb, quce in isto opere desiderentur, rectius forsan quam quivis alius, perspiciam ; et si meo plane voto stan- dumfuisset, id, in tanta, quce hodie est librorum copia, vel plane suppressissem, vel in multos annos adhuc pressissem; tumen aliquid amicis, aliquid tempori dandum ; et cum iis qui aliquid fructus ex eo sperant, illud communicandum putavi. Hunc itaque meum qualemcunque laborem, Lec- tor candide, boni consule ; quod te facile faclurum confldo, si eum animum ad legendum attuleris, quern ego ad scri- bendum, veritatis nimirum aliisque inserviendi cupidum. Sennertus. CONTENTS. PRELUDE OF MOTTOES.— Page vii. POSTSCRIPT.— p. viii. CHAPTER VII. A. I.— p. 1. A FAMILY PARTY AT A NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOUR'S. Good Sir, reject it not, although it bring Appearances of some fantastic thing At first unfolding ! George Wither to the King. CHAPTER VI. A. I.— p. 2. SHOWING THAT AN AUTHOR MAY MORE EASILY BE KEPT AWAKE BY HIS OWN IMAGINATIONS THAN PUT TO SLEEP BY THEM HIMSELF, WHATEVER MAY BE THEIR EFFECT UPON HIS READERS. Thou sleepest worse than if a mouse should be forced to take up her lodging in a cat's ear : a little infant that breeds its teeth, should it lie with thee, would cry out as if thou wert the more unquiet bedfellow. "Websteb. CHAPTER V. A.I.— p. 3. SOMETHING CONCERNING THE PHILOSOPHY OF DREAMS, AND THE AUTHOR'S EXPERIENCE IN AERIAL HORSEMANSHIP. If a dream should come in now to make you afear'd, With a windmill on his head and bells at his beard, Would you straight wear your spectacles here at your toes, And your boots on your brows and your spurs on your nose? Ben Jons on. CHAPTER IV. A. I.— p. 4. A CONVERSATION AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE. Tel condamne mon coq a-Vane qui unjour enjustifiera le bon sens. Li Pretieuse. CHAPTER III. A. I.— p. 5. THE UTILITY OF POCKETS. A COMPLIMENT PRO- PERLY RECEIVED. La tasca e propria cosa da Christiani. Benedetto Varchi. CHAPTER II. A.I.— p. 6. CONCERNING DEDICATIONS, PRINTERS' TYPES, AND IMPERIAL INK. Hy aura des clefs, et des ouvertures de mes secrets. La Pretieuse. DEDICATION.— p. 8. CHAPTER I. A. I.— p. 8. NO BOOK CAN BE COMPLETE WITHOUT A PREFACE. I see no cause but men may pick their teeth, Though Brutus with a sword did kill himself. Taylor, the Water Poet. ANTE-PREFACE.— p. 8. I here present thee with a hive of bees, laden some with wax, and some with honey. Fear not to approach ! There are no Wasps, there are no Hornets here. If some wanton Bee should chance to buzz about thine ears, stand thy ground and hold thy hands : there's none will sting thee if thou strike not first. If any do, she hath honey in her bag will cure thee too. Quarles. PREFACE.— p. 9. Oh for a quill plucked from a Seraph's wing ! Young. INITIAL CHAPTER.— p. 10. 'Eg eu d*i roc. !T(ureo. — Homer. CONTENTS. THE DOCTOR, Eccoti il libro ; 7nettivi ben cura Iddio t' ajuti e dia buona ventura. Orl. Innam. CHAPTER I. P.I.— p. 11. THE SUBJECT OF THIS HISTORY AT HOME AND AT TEA. If thou be a severe sour complexioned man then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge. Izaak Walton. CHAPTER II. P. I.— p. 11. WHEREIN CERTAIN QUESTIONS ARE PROPOSED CON- CERNING TIME, PLACE AND PERSONS. Quis? quid? ubi? quibus auxiliis? cur? quomodo? quando? Technical Verse. CHAPTER III. P.L— p. 12. WHOLESOME OBSERVATIONS UPON THE VANITY OF Whosoever shall address himself to write of matters of instruction, or of any other argument of importance, it behoveth that before he enter thereinto, he should reso- lutely determine with himself in what order he will handle the same ; so shall he best accomplish that he hath un- dertaken, and inform the understanding, and help the memory of the Reader. Gwillim's Display of Heraldry. CHAPTER IV. P. I. —p. 13. BIRTH AND PARENTAGE OF DR. DOVE, WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF A YEOMAN'S HOUSE IN THE WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE A HUNDRED YEARS AGO. Non possidentem multa vocaveris Recte beatum ; rectius occupat Nomen beati, qui Deorum Muneribus sapienter uti, Duramque collet pauperiem pali, Pejusque letho flagitium timet. Horace, L. 4. Od. 9. CHAPTER V. P.L— p. 15. EXTENSION OF THE SCIENCE OF PHYSIOGNOMY, WITH SOME REMARKS UPON THE PRACTICAL USES OF CRANIOLOGY. Hanc ergo scientiam blande excipiamus, hilariterque amplectamur, ut vere nostram et de nobismel ipsis trac- tantem ; quam qui non amat, quam qui non amplectitur, neo philosophiam amat, neque suce vilce discrimina curat. Baptista Porta. CHAPTER VI. P. I.— p. 17. A COLLECTION OF BOOKS NONE OF WHICH ARE INCLUDED AMONGST THE PUBLICATIONS OF ANY SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF KNOWLEDGE RELIGIOUS OR PROFANE. — HAPPINESS IN HUMBLE LIFE. Felix ille animi, divisque simillimus ipsis, Quern non mordaci resplendens gloria fuco Solicitat, non fastosi mala gaudia luxus, Sed tacitos sinit ire dies, et paupere cultu Exigit innocuce tranquilla silentia vita. Politian. CHAPTER VII. P. I.— p. 20. RUSTIC PHILOSOPHY. AN EXPERIMENT UPON MOONSHINE. Quien comienza en juventud A Men obrar, Serial es de no errar, En senetud. Proverbios del Marques de Santillana. CHAPTER VIII. P.L — p. 23. A KIND SCHOOLMASTER AND A HAPPY SCHOOL BOY. Though happily thou wilt say that wands be to be wrought when they are green, lest they rather break than bend when they be dry, yet know also that he that bendeth a twig because he would see if it would bow by strength may chance to have a crooked tree when he would have a straight. Euphues. INTERCHAPTER I. — p. 26. REMARKS IN THE PRINTING OFFICE. THE AUTHOR CONFESSES A DISPOSITION TO GARRULITY. PRO- PRIETY OF PROVIDING CERTAIN CHAPTERS FOR THE RECEPTION OF HIS EXTRANEOUS DIS- COURSE. CHOICE OF AN APPELLATION FOR SUCH CHAPTERS. Perque vices aliquid, quod tempora longa videri Non sinat, in medium vacuas referamus ad aures. Ovid. CONTENTS. CHAPTER IX. P. I. — p. 26. exceptions to one of king solomon's rules — a winter's evening at daniel's fireside. These are my thoughts ; I might have spun them out into a greater length, but I think a little plot of ground, thick sown, is better than a great field which, for the most part of it, lies fallow. N orris. CHAPTER X. P.I. — p. 27. ONE WHO WAS NOT SO WISE AS HIS FRIENDS COULD HAVE WISHED, AND YET QUITE AS HAPPY AS IF HE HAD BEEN WISER. NEPOTISM NOT CONFINED TO POPES. There are of madmen as there are of tame, All humoured not alike. Some Apish and fantastic ; And though 'twould grieve a soul to see God's image So blemished and defaced, yet do they act Such antic and such, pretty lunacies, That spite of sorrow, they will make you smile. Dekker. CHAPTER XI. P. I. —p. 29. A WORD TO THE READER, SHOWING WHERE WE ARE, AND HOW WE CAME HERE, AND WHERE- FORE ; AND WHITHER WE ARE GOING. 'Tis ( my venture On your retentive wisdom. Ben Jonson. CHAPTER XII. P. I.— p. 31. A HISTORY NOTICED WHICH IS WRITTEN BACK- WARD. THE CONFUSION OF TONGUES AN ESPE- CIAL EVIL FOR SCHOOLBOYS. For never in the long and tedious tract Of slavish grammar was I made to plod ; ' No tyranny of Rules my patience rackt ; I served no prenticehood to any Rod ; But in the freedom of the Practic way Learnt to go right, even when I went astray. Dr. Beaumont. CHAPTER XIII. P. I. — p. 33. A DOUBT CONCERNING SCHOOL BOOKS, WHICH WILL BE DEEMED HERETICAL: AND SOME AC- COUNT OF AN EXTRAORDINARY SUBSTITUTE FOR OVID OR VIRGIL. They say it is an ill mason that refuseth any stone ; and there is no knowledge but in a skilful hand serves, either positively as it is, or else to illustrate some other knowledge. Herbert's Remains. CHAPTER XIV. P. I. — p. 36. AN OBJECTION ANSWERED. Is this then your wonder ? Nay then you shall under- stand more of my skill. Ben Jonson. CHAPTER XV. P. I. — p. 37. THE AUTHOR VENTURES AN OPINION AGAINST THE PREVAILING WISDOM OF MAKING CHILDREN PREMATURELY WISE. Pray you, use your freedom : And so far, if you please allow me mine, To hear you only ; not to be compelled To take your moral potions. Massinger. CHAPTER XVI. P. I. — p. 38. USE AND ABUSE OF STORIES IN REASONING, WITH A WORD IN BEHALF OF CHIMNEY-SWEEPERS AND IN REPROOF OF THE EARL OF LAUDER- DALE. My particular inclination moves me in controversy especially to approve his choice that said, for/in mallem quamformosa. Dr. Jackson. INTERCHAPTER II. — p. 40. ABALLIBOOZOBANGANORRIBO. Io 7 dico dunque e dicol die ognun rrC ode. Benedetto Varchi. CHAPTER XVII. P. I. —p. 42. THE HAPPINESS OF HAVING A CATHOLIC TASTE. There's no want of meat, Sir ; Portly and curious viands are prepared To please all kinds of appetites. Massinger. CHAPTER XVIII. P. I. — p. 44, all's well that ends well. Tot. d'atv iTifj.vYio-()£), — vsro rov koyov t^a.vaysca.^o/u.ivoi lTt/XV7j(r8ri 5' dTrafxEiSu/JLtvoc;. Ofclice colu'i, che intender puote Le cagion de le cose di natura, Che al piu di que' che vivon sono ignotc ; E sotto il pie si mettc ogni paura Defati, e de la morte, ch'e si trisla, Ne di vulgo gli cal, ne d'altro ha cur a. Tansillo. CHAPTER XXIII. P. I. — p. 52. ROWLAND DIXON AND HIS COMPANY OF PUPPETS. Alii se ve tan eficaz el llanto, las fabulas y historias retratadas, que parece verdad, y es dulce encanto. * * * * Y para el vulgo rudo, que ignorante aborrece el manjar costoso, guisa el plato del gracioso extravaganle ; Con que les hart as de contento y risa, gustando de mirar sayal grossero, mas que sutil y Candida camisa. Joseph Ortiz de Villena. CHAPTER XXIV. P.I. — p. 55. QUACK AND NO QUACK, BEING AN ACCOUNT OF DE. GREEN AND HIS MAN KEMP. POPULAR MEDI- CINE, HERBARY, THEORY OF SIGNATURES, WIL- LIAM DOVE, JOHN WESLEY, AND BAXTER. Hold thy hand ! health's dear maintainer ; Life perchance may burn the stronger : Having substance to maintain her She untouched may last the longer. When the Artist goes about To redress her flame, I doubt Oftentimes he snuffs it out. Quarles. CHAPTER XXV. P.I. — p.G2. Hiatus valde lacrymabilis. Time flies away fast, The while wc never remember How soon our life here Grows old with the year That dies with the next December ! Hekrick. CHAPTER XXVI. p.L — p.64. DANIEL AT DONCASTER ; THE REASON WHY HE WAS DESTINED FOE THE MEDICAL PROFESSION, RATHER THAN HOLY ORDERS ; AND SOME RE- MARKS UPON SERMONS. Je ne veux dissimuler, amy Lecleur, que je n'aye Men preveu, ct me Herts pour deiiement adverty, que ne puts evitcr la reprehension d'aucuns, et les calomnies de plu- sieurs, ausquc Is c'esl cscrit desplaira du tout. ClIKISTOFLE DE IIeRICOURT. CHAPTER XXVII. P. I. — p. 67. A PASSAGE IN PROCOPIUS IMPROVED. A STORY CONCERNING URIM AND THUMMLM ; AND THE ELDER DANLEL'S OPINION OF THE PROFESSION OF THE LAW. Here is Domine Picklock, My man of Law, sollicits all my causes, Follows my business, makes and compounds my quarrels Between my tenants and me ; sows all my strifes And reaps them too, troubles the country for me, And vexes any neighbour that I please. Ben Jonson. CHAPTER XXVIII. P. I. — p. 69. PETER HOPKINS. EFFECTS OF TIME AND CHANGE. DESCRIPTION OF HIS DWELLING-HOUSE. Combien de changemens dequis que suis au monde, Qui n'est qu'un point du terns ! Pasquiek. CHAPTER XXIX. P. I. — p. 70. a hint of reminiscence to the reader. the clock of st. george's. a word in honour of archdeacon markham. There is a ripe season for everything, and if you slip that or anticipate it, you dim the grace of the matter be it never so good. As we say by way of Proverb that an hasty birth brings forth blind whelps, so a good tale tumbled out before the time is ripe for it, is uaf rateful to the hearer. Bishop Hackett. CHAPTER XXX. P. I. — p. 72. THE OLD BELLS RUNG TO A NEW TUNE. If the bell have any sides the clapper will find 'em. Ben Jonson. CHAPTER XXXI. P. I. — p. 75. MORE CONCERNING BELLS. Lord, ringing changes all our bells hath marr'd ; Jangled they have and jarr'd So long, they're out of tune, and out of frame ; They seem not now the same. Put them in frame anew, and once begin To tune them so, that they may chime all in. Herbert. CHAPTER XXXII. P. I. — p. 76. AN INTRODUCTION TO CERTAIN PRELIMINARIES ESSENTIAL TO THE PROGRESS OF THIS WORK. Mas demos ya el assiento en to importante, Que cl tiempo huye del mundo por la posla. Balbuena. CHAPTER XXXIII. P. I. — p. 78. DONCASTRIANA. THE RIVER DON. Kivers from bubbling springs Have rise at first ; and great from abject things. Miudleton. CONTENTS. CHAPTER XXXIV. P. I. — p. 80. MORAL, INTEREST OF TOPOGRAPHICAL WORKS. LOCAL ATTACHMENT. Let none our Author rudely blame Who from the story has thus long digrest ; But for his righteous pains may his fair fame For ever travel, whilst his ashes rest. Sir William Davenant. INTERCHAPTER III. — p. 82. THE AUTHOR QUESTIONS THE PROPRIETY OF PER- SONIFYING CIRCUMSTANCE, DENIES THE UNITY AND INDIVISIBILITY OF THE PUBLIC, AND MAY EVEN BE SUSPECTED OF DOUBTLNG ITS OMNI- SCIENCE AND ITS INFALLIBILITY. Haforse Testa la plebe, ove si chinda in vece Di se?mo, altro die nebbia'f o forma voce Chi sta pik saggia, die un bebu dCarmento ? Chiabheka. CHAPTER XXXV. P. I. —p. 83. DONCASTRIANA. POTTERIC CARR. SOMETHING CONCERNING THE MEANS OF EMPLOYING THE POOR, AND BETTERING THEIR CONDITION. Why should I sowen draf out of my fist When I may sowen wheat, if that me list ? Chaucer. CHAPTER XXXVI. P.I. — p. 85. REMARKS ON AN OPINION OF MR. CRABBE's. TOPO- GRAPHICAL POETRY. DRAYTON. Do, pious marble, let thy readers know What they and what their children owe To Drayton's name, whose sacred dust We recommend unto thy trust. Protect his memory, and preserve his story ; Remain a lasting monument of his glory ; And when thy ruins shall disclaim To be the treasurer of his name, His name that cannot fade shall be An everlasting monument to thee. Epitaph in Westminster Abbey. CHAPTER XXXVII. P. I. — p. 87. ANECDOTES OF PETER HEYLYN AND LIGHTFOOT, EXEMPLIFYING THAT GREAT KNOWLEDGE IS NOT ALWAYS APPLICABLE TO LITTLE THINGS ; AND THAT AS CHARITY BEGLNS AT HOME, SO IT MAY WITH EQUAL TRUTH SOMETIMES BE SAID THAT KNOWLEDGE ENDS THERE. A scholar in his study knows the stars, Their motion and their influence, which are fix'd, And which are wandering ; can decypher seas, And give each several land his proper bounds : But set him to the compass lie's to seek, Where a plain pilot can direct his course From hence unto both the Indies. Heywood. CHAPTER XXXVIII. P. I. — p. 90. THE READER IS LED TO INFER THAT A TRAVELLER WHO STOPS UPON THE WAY TO SKETCH, BOTA- NISE, ENTOMOLOGISE OR MINERALOGISE, TRA- VELS WITH MORE PLEASURE AND PROFIT TO HIMSELF THAN IF HE WERE IN THE MAIL COACH. Non servio materia sed indulgeo ; quam quo dutit se- quendum est, non quo invitat. Seneca. INTERCHAPTER IV— p. 91. ETYMOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES CONCERNING THE REMAINS OF VARIOUS TRIBES OR FAMILIES MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURAL HISTORY. All things are big with jest ; nothing that's plain But may be witty, if thou hast the vein. Herbert. CHAPTER XXXIX. P. I. — p. 92. A CHAPTER FOR THE INFORMATION OF THOSE WHO MAY VISIT DONCASTER, AND ESPECIALLY OF THOSE WHO FREQUENT THE RACES THERE. My good Lord, there is a Corporation, A body, — a kind of body. Mibdleton. CHAPTER XL. P. I. — p. 96. REMARKS ON THE ART OF VERBOSITY. A RULE OF COCCEIUS, AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE LAN- GUAGE AND PRACTICE OF THE LAW. If they which employ their labour and travail about the public administration of justice, follow it only as a trade, with unquenchable and unconscionable thirst of gain, being not in heart persuaded that justice is God's own work, and themselves his agents in this business, — the sentence, of right, God's own verdict, and themselves his priests to deliver it ; formalities of justice do but serve to smother right ; and that which was necessarily ordained for the common good, is through shameful abuse made the cause of common misery. Hooker. CHAPTER XLI. P. I. — p. 97. REVENUE OF THE CORPORATION OF DONCASTER WELL APPLIED. DONCASTER RACES. Play not for gain but sport : who plays for more Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart ; Perhaps his wife's too, and whom she hath bore. Herbert. INTERCHAPTER V. — p. 98. WHEREIN THE AUTHOR MAKES KNOWN HIS GOOD INTENTIONS TO ALL READERS, AND OFFERS GOOD ADVICE TO SOME OF THEM. I can write, and talk too, as soft as other men, with submission to better judgements, — and I leave it to you Gentlemen. I am but one, and I always distrust myself. I only hint my thoughts : You'll please to consider whether you will not think that it may seem to deserve your con- sideration — This is a taking way of speaking. But much good may do them that use it ! ASGILL. XX CONTENTS. CHAPTER XLII. P. I.— p. 100. DONCASTER CHUECH. THE RECTORIAL TITHES SECURED BY ARCHBISHOP SHARP FOR HIS OWN FAMILY. Say ancient edifice, thyself with years Grown grey, how long upon the hill has stood Thy weather-braving tower, and silent mark'd The human leaf in constant bud and fall ? The generations of deciduous man, How often hast thou seen them pass away ! HURDIS. CHAPTER XLIII. P. I. — p. 101. ANTIQUITIES OF DONCASTER. THE DE^E MATRES. SAXON FONT. THE CASTLE. THE HELL CROSS. / 'ieux monuments, — Las, peu a peu cendre vous devenez, Fable du peuple et publiques rapines ! Et bien qu'au Temps pour tin temps facent guerre Les bastimens, si est ce que le Temps Oeuvrcs et noms finablement atterre. Joachim du Bellay. CHAPTER XLIY. P. I. — p. 103. HISTORICAL CIRCUMSTANCES CONNECTED WITH DONCASTER. THOMAS, EARL OF LANCASTER. EDWARD IV. ASKE'S INSURRECTION. ILLUS- TRIOUS VISITORS. JAMES I. BARNABEE. CHARLES I. CHURCH LIBRARY. They unto whom we shall appear tedious, are in no wise injured by us, because it is in their own hands to spare that labour which they are not willing to endure. Hooker. CHAPTER XLV. P. I. — p. 105. CONCERNING THE WORTHIES, OR GOOD MEN, WHO WERE NATIVES OF DONCASTER, OR OTHERWISE CONNECTED WITH THAT TOWN. Vir bonus est quis f Terence. INTERCHAPTER VI. —p. 106. CONTINGENT CAUSES. PERSONAL CONSIDERATIONS INDUCED BY REFLECTING ON THEM. THE AUTHOR TREMBLES FOR THE PAST. Vcrcis que no hay lazada desasida De nudo y de pendencia soberana ; N't a poder trastornar la orden del cielo Lasfuerzas llegan, ni el saber del suelo. Balbuena. CHAPTER XLVI. P. I. — p. 107. daniel dove's arrival at doncaster. the organ in st. george's church, the pulpit, mrs. neale's benefaction. Non ulla Musis pagina gratior Quam quaj seven's ludicra jimgere Novil, faligatamque nugis Utilibus recreare mentem. Dr. Johnson. CHAPTER XL VII. P. I.— p. 111. DONCASTRIANA. GUY'S DEATH. SEARCH FOR HIS TOMBSTONE IN INGLETON CHURCHYARD. Go to the dull churchyard and see Those hillocks of mortality, Where proudest man is only found By a small hillock on the ground. Tixai.l Poetry. CHAPTER XL VIII. P. I.— p. 112. A FATHER'S MISGIVINGS CONCERNING HIS SON'S DESTINATION. PETER HOPKINS'S GENEROSITY. DANIEL IS SENT ABROAD TO GRADUATE IN MEDICINE. Heaven is the magazine wherein He puts Both good and evil ; Prayer's the key that shuts And opens this great treasure : 'tis a key Whose wards are Faith and Hope and Charity. Wouldst thou prevent a judgement due to sin ? Turn but the key and thou mayst lock it in. Or wouldst thou have a blessing fall upon thee ? Open the door, and it will shower on thee ! Quarles. CHAPTER XLIX — p. 113. CONCERNING THE INTEREST WHICH DANIEL THE ELDER TOOK IN THE DUTCH WAR, AND MORE ESPECIALLY IN THE SIEGE AND PROVIDENTIAL DELIVERY OF LEYDEN. Glory to Thee in thine omnipotence, O Lord who art our shield and our defence, And dost dispense, As seemeth best to thine unerring will, (Which passeth mortal sense,) The lot of Victory still ; Edging sometimes with might the sword unjust ; And bowing to the dust, The rightful cause, that so much seeming ill May thine appointed purposes fulfil ; Sometimes, (as in this late auspicious hour For which our hymns we raise,) Making the wicked feel thy present power ; Glory to thee and praise, Almighty God, by whom our strength was given ! Glory to Thee, 6 Lord of Earth and Heaven ! Southey. CHAPTER L. P. I. — p. 115. VOYAGE TO ROTTERDAM AND LEYDEN. THE AUTHOR CANNOT TARRY TO DESCRIBE THAT CITY. WHAT HAPPENED THERE TO DANIEL DOVE. He took great content, exceeding delight in that his voyage. As who doth not that shall attempt the like ? — For peregrination charms our senses with such unspeak- able and sweet variety, that some count him unhappy that never travelled, a kind of prisoner, and pity his case that from his cradle to his old age he beholds the same still ; still, still, the same, the same ! Burton. CHAPTER LI. P. I. — p. 117. ARMS OF LEYDEN. DANIEL DOVE, M. D. A LOVE STORY, STRANGE BUT TRUE. Oye el extraflo caso, advierte y sieuie ; Suceso es raro, mas verdad ha sido. Balbuena. CONTENTS. xxi CHAPTER LIL P. I. — p. 118. SHOWING HOW THE YOUNG STUDENT FELL IN LOVE — AND HOW HE MADE THE BEST USE OF HIS MISFORTUNE. // creder, donne vaghe, e cortesia, Quando colui che scrive o chefavella, Possa essere sospetto di bugia, Per dir qualcosa troppo rara e bella. Dunque chi ascolta questa istnria mea E non la credc frottola o novella Ma cosa vera — come ella e difatto, Fa che di lui mi chiami soddisfatto E pure che mi diate plena fede, De la dubbiezza altrui poco mi cale. RlCCIARDETTO. CHAPTER LIII. P. I. — p. 120. OF THE VARIOUS WAYS OF GETTING IN LOVE. A CHAPTER CONTAINING SOME USEFUL OBSER- VATIONS, AND SOME BEAUTIFUL POETRY. Let cavillers know, that as the Lord John answered the Queen in that Italian Guazzo, an old, a. grave discreet man is fittest to discourse of love-matters ; because he hath likely more experience, observed more, hath a more staid judgement, can better discern, resolve, discuss, advise, give better cautions and more solid precepts, better in- form his auditors in such a subject, and by reason of his riper years, sooner divert. Burton. CHAPTER LTV. P. I. — p. 121. MORE CONCERNING LOVE AND MARRIAGE, AND MARRIAGE WITHOUT LOVE. Nay Cupid, pitch thy trammel where thou please. Thou canst not fail to catch such fish as these. CHAPTER LV. P. I. —p. 128. THE AUTHOR'S LAST VISIT TO DONCASTER. Fuere quondam hcec sedfuere ; Nunc ubi sint t rogitas ? Id annos Scire hos oportet scilicet. borne Musce, Lepores — Charlies mercel gaudia offuscata nullis Litibus! sine nube soles! Janus Douza. CHAPTER LVI. P.I. — p. 124. A TRUCE WITH MELANCHOLY. GENTLEMEN SUCH AS THEY WERE IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1747. A HLNT TO YOUNG LADIES CONCERNING THEIR GREAT-GRANDMOTHERS. Fashions that are now called new, Have been worn by more than you ; Elder times have used the same, Though these new ones get the name. Middleton. CHAPTER LVII. P. L— p. 126. AN ATTEMPT IS M4.DE TO REMOVE THE UN- PLEASANT IMPRESSION PRODUCED UPON THE LADIES BY THE DOCTOR'S T YE- WIG AND HIS SUIT OF SNUFF-COLOURED DITTOS. So full of shapes is fancy That it alone is high fantastical. Twelfth Night. CHAPTER LVIII. P. I. — p. 126. CONCERNING THE PORTRAIT OF DR. DANIEL DOVE. The sure traveller Though he alight sometimes still goeth on. Herbert. CHAPTER LIX. P. I — p. 128. SHOWING WHAT THAT QUESTION WAS, WHICH WAS ANSWERED BEFORE IT WAS ASKED. Chacun a son stile ; le mien, comme vouz voi/ez, n'est pas laconique. Me. de Sevigne. CHAPTER LX. P. I. — p. 128. SHOWING CAUSE WHY THE QUESTION WHICH WAS NOT ASKED OUGHT TO BE ANSWERED. Nay in troth I talk but coarsely, But I hold it comfortable for the understanding. Beaumont and Fletcher. CHAPTER LXI. P. L— p. 130. WHEREIN THE QUESTION IS ANSWERED WHICH OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN ASKED. Ajutami, tu penna, et calamaio, Ch' io ho tra mono una materia asciutta. Mattio Franzesi. , CHAPTER LXIL — p. 132. IN WHICH IS RELATED THE DISCOVERY OF A CERTAIN PORTRAIT AT DONCASTER. Call in the Barber ! If the tale be long He'll cut it short, I trust. Middleton. CHAPTER LXIIL— p.133. A DISCUSSION CONCERNING THE QUESTION LAST PROPOSED. Questo e bene un de' piu profondi passi Che noi habbiamo ancora oggi tentato • E non e mica da huomini bassi. Agnuolo Firenzuola. CHAPTER LXIV. — p. 135. DEFENCE OF PORTRAIT-PAINTING. A SYSTEM OF MORAL COSMETICS RECOMMENDED TO THE LADIES. GWILLIM. SIR T. LAWRENCE. GEORGE WITHER. APPLICATION TO THE SUBJECT OF THIS WORK. Pingitur in tabulis formce peritura vcnustas, Vivat ut in tabulis, quod pcrit in facie. Owen. CHAPTER LXV. — p. 137. SOCIETY OF A COUNTRY TOWN. SUCH A TOWN A MORE FAVOURABLE HABITAT FOR SUCH A PERSON AS DR. DOVE THAN LONDON WOULD HAVE BEEN. Be then thine own home, and in thyself dwell ; Inn any where; And seeing the snail, which every where doth roam, Carrying his own home still, still is at home, Follow (for he is easy paced) this snail ; Be thine own Palace, or the World's thy jail. Donne. CONTENTS. CHAPTER LXVI. — p. 139. ME. COPLEY OF NETHERHALL. SOCIETY AT HIS HOUSE. DRUMMOND. BURGH. GRAY. MASON. MILLER THE ORGANIST AND HISTORIAN OF DONCASTER. HERSCHEL. All worldly joys go less To the one joy of doing kindnesses. Herbert. CHAPTER LXVIL— p. 140. A MYTHOLOGICAL STORY MORALISED. Ilfaut mettre les fables en presse pour en tirer quelque sue de verite. Garasse. CHAPTER LXYIIL — p. 144. ECCENTRIC PERSONS, WHY APPARENTLY MORE COMMON EST ENGLAND THAN IN OTHER COUN- TRIES. HARRY BINGLEY. Blest are those Whose blood and judgement are so well commingled, That they are not a pipe for Fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Hamlet. CHAPTER LXIX. — p. 147. A MUSICAL RECLUSE AND HIS SISTER. Some proverb maker, I forget who, says, " God hath given to some men wisdom and understanding, and to others the art of playing on the fiddle " Professor Park's Dogmas of the Constitution. CHAPTER LXX. — p. 148. SHOWING THAT ANY HONEST OCCUPATION IS BETTER THAN NONE, BUT THAT OCCUPATIONS WHICH ARE DEEMED HONOURABLE ARE NOT ALWAYS HONEST. J'ai peine d concevoir pourquoi le plupart des homines ont une si forte envie d'etre heureux, et une si grande incapacity pour le devenir, Voyages de Milord Ceton. CHAPTER LXXI. — p. 150. TKANSITION IN OUR NARRATIVE PREPARATORY TO A CHANGE IN THE DOCTOR'S LIFE. A SAD STOBT SUPPRESSED. THE AUTHOR PROTESTS AGAINST PLAYING WITH THE FEELINGS OF HIS EEADERS. ALL ARE NOT MERRY THAT SEEM MIRTHFUL. THE SCAFFOLD A STAGE. DON KODBIOO CALDKIION. THISTLEWOOD. THE WOULD A MASQUERADE, BUT THE DOCTOR ALWAYS IN HIS OWN CHARACTER. This breaks no rule of order. If order wore infringed then should I flee From my chief purpose, and my mark should miss. Order is Nature's beauty, and the way To Order is by rules that Art hath found. GwiLLlM. CHAPTER LXXIL — p. 154. IN WHICH THE FOURTH OF THE QUESTIONS PRO- POSED IN CHAPTER II. P. I. IS BEGUN TO BE ANSWERED; SOME OBSERVATIONS UPON AN- CESTRY ARE INTRODUCED, AND THE READER IS INFORMED WHY THE AUTHOR DOES NOT WEAR A CAP AND BELLS. Boast not the titles of your ancestors, Brave youths ! they're their possessions, none of yours. When your own virtues equall'd have their names, 'Twill be but fair to lean upon their fames, For they are strong supporters ; but till then The greatest are but growing gentlemen. Ben Jonson. CHAPTER LXXIIL — p. 156. RASH MARRIAGES. AN EARLY WIDOWHOOD. AF- FLICTION RENDERED A BLESSING TO THE SUF- FERER ; AND TWO ORPHANS LEFT, THOUGH NOT DESTITUTE, YET FRIENDLESS. Love built a stately house; where Fortune came, And spinning fancies, she was heard to say That her fine cobwebs did support the frame ; Whereas they were supported by the same. But Wisdom quickly swept them all away. Herbert. CHAPTER LXXIV.— p. 157. A LADY DESCRIBED WHOSE SINGLE LIFE WAS NO BLESSEDNESS EITHER TO HERSELF OR OTHERS. A VERACIOUS EPITAPH AND AN AP- PROPRIATE MONUMENT. Beauty ! my Lord, — 'tis the worst part of woman ! A weak poor thing, assaulted every hour By creeping minutes of defacing time ; A superficies which each breath of care Blasts off; and every humorous stream of grief Which flows from forth these fountains of our eyes, Washeth away, as rain doth winter's snow. Goff. CHAPTER LXXV. — p. 159. A SCENE WHICH WILL PUT SOME OF THOSE READERS WHO HAVE BEEN MOST IMPATIENT WITH THE AUTHOR, IN THE BEST HUMOUR WITH HIM. There is no argument of more antiquity and elegancy than is the matter of Love ; for it seems to be as old as the world, and to bear date from the first time that man and woman was: therefore in this, as in the finest metal, the freshest wits have in all ages shown their best work- manship. Robert Wilmot. CHAPTER LXXVL — p. 1G0. A STORY CONCERNING CUPID WHICH NOT ONE READER IN TEN THOUSAND HAS EVER HEARD BEFORE; A DEFENCE OF LOVE WHICH WILL BE VERY SATISFACTORY TO THE LADIES. They do lie, Lie grossly who say Love is blind : by him And heaven they lie ! he has a sight can pierce Thro' ivory, as clear as it were horn, And reach his object. Be/ujmont and Fletcher. CONTENTS. xxm CHAPTER LXXYIL — p. 163. MOKE CONCERNING- LOVE AND THE DREAM OF LIFE. Happy the bonds that hold ye ; Sure they be sweeter far than liberty. There is no blessedness but in such bondage ; Happy that happy chain ; such links are heavenly. Beaumont and Fletcher. INTERCHAPTER VII. — p. 164. OBSOLETE ANTICIPATIONS ; BEING A LEAF OUT OF AN OLD ALMANACK, WHICH LIKE OTHER OLD ALMANACKS THOUGH OUT OF DATE IS NOT OUT OF USE. If You play before me, I shall often look on you, I give you that warning before hand. Take it not ill, my masters, I shall laugh at you, And truly when I am least offended with you ; It is my humour. Middleton. INTERCHAPTER VIII. — p. 167. A LEAF OUT OF THE NEW ALMANACK. THE AU- THOR THINKS CONSIDERATELY OF HIS COMMEN- TATORS ; RUMINATES; RELATES AN ANECDOTE OF SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE; QUOTES SOME PYRAMIDAL STANZAS, WHICH ARE NOT THE WORSE FOR THEIR ARCHITECTURE, AND DE- LIVERS AN OPINION CONCERNING BURNS. To smell a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body ; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the Soul. " Earth thou art, to earth thou shalt return." Fuller. INTERCHAPTER IN.— p. 169. AN ILLUSTRATION FOR THE ASSISTANCE OF THE COMMENTATORS DRAWN FROM THE HISTORY OF THE KORAN. REMARKS WHICH ARE NOT IN- TENDED FOR MUSSELMEN, AND WHICH THE MISSIONARIES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN ARE ADVISED NOT TO TRANSLATE. You will excuse me if I do not strictly confine myself to narration ; but now and then intersperse such reflections as may offer while I am writing. John Newton. INTERCHAPTER X.— p. 171. MORE ON THE FOREGOING SUBJECT. ELUCIDA- TIONS FROM HENRY MORE AND DR. WATTS. AN INCIDENTAL OPINION UPON HORACE WALPOLE. THE STREAM OF THOUGHT " FLOWETH AT ITS OWN SWEET WILL." PICTURES AND BOOKS. A SAYING OF MR. PITT'S CONCERNING WILBER- FORCE. THE AUTHOR EXPLAINS IN WHAT SENSE IT MIGHT BE SAID THAT HE SOMETIMES SHOOTS WITH A LONG BOW. Vorrei, disse il Signor Gasparo Pallavicino, che voi ragionassi tin poco phi minutamente di questo, che non fate ; che in vcro vi tcnete motto al generate, et quasi ci ?nostrate le cose per transito. Il Cortegiano. CHAPTER LXXVIIL — p.174. AMATORY POETRY NOT ALWAYS OF THE WISEST KIND. AN ATTEMPT TO CONVEY SOME NOTION OF ITS QUANTITY. TRUE LOVE THOUGH NOT LN EVERY CASE THE BEST POET, THE BEST MORA- LIST ALWAYS. El Amor es tan ingenioso, que en mi opinion, maspoetas ha hecho el solo, que la misma nnturaleza. Perez de Montalvan. CHAPTER LXXIX. — p. 177. AN EARLY BEREAVEMENT. TRUE LOVE ITS OWN COMFORTER. A LONELY FATHER AND AN ONLY CHILD. Read ye that run the aweful truth, With which 1 charge my page ; A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age. Cowper. CHAPTER LXXX. — p. 178. OBSERVATIONS WHICH SHOW THAT WHATEVER PRIDE MEN MAY TAKE IN THE APPELLATIONS THEY ACQUIRE IN THEIR PROGRESS THROUGH THE WORLD, THEIR DEAREST NAME DIES BEFORE THEM. Thus they who reach Grey hairs, die piecemeal. Southey. CHAPTER LXXXL— p. 179. A QUESTION WHETHER LOVE SHOULD BE FAITHFUL TO THE DEAD. DOUBTS ADVANCED AND CASES STATED. even in spite of death, yet still my choice, Oft with the inward all-beholding eye 1 think I see thee, and I hear thy voice ! Lord Sterline. CHAPTER LXXXIL — p. 181. THE DOCTOR IS INTRODUCED, BY THE SMALL POX, TO HIS FUTURE WIFE. Long-waiting love doth entrance find Into the slow-believing mind. Sydney Godolphin. CHAPTER LXXXIIL— p. 182. THE AUTHOR REQUESTS THE READER NOT TO BE IMPATIENT. SHOWS FROM LORD SHAFTESBURY AT WHAT RATE A JUDICIOUS WRITER OUGHT TO PROCEED. DISCLAIMS PROLIXITY FOR HIMSELF, AND GIVES EXAMPLES OF IT IN A GERMAN PRO- FESSOR, A JEWISH RABBI, AND TWO COUNSEL- LORS, ENGLISH AND AMERICAN. Pand. He that will have a cake out of the wheat, must tarry the grinding. Troilus. Have I not tarried ? Paud. Ay, the grinding ; but you must tarry the bolting. Troilus. Have I not tarried ? CONTENTS. Pand. Ay, the bolting ; but you must tarry the leaven- ing. Troilus. Still have I tarried. Pand. Ay, to the leavening : but here's yet in the word hereafter, the kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and the baking. Nay, you must stay the cooling too ; or you may chance to burn your lips. TllOILUS AND CRESSIDA. CHAPTER LXXXIV. — p. 184. A LOOP DROPPED IN THE FOREGOING CHAPTER IS HERE TAKEN UP. Enobarbus. Every time Serves for the matter that is then born in it. Lepidus. But small to greater matters must give way. Enobarbus. Not if the small come first. Shakespeare. CHAPTER LXXXV. — p. 184. THE DOCTOR'S CONTEMPORARIES AT LEYDEN. EARLY FRIENDSHIP. COWPER'S MELANCHOLY OBSERVATION THAT GOOD DISPOSITIONS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE CORRUPTED THAN EVIL ONES TO BE CORRECTED. YOUTHFUL CONNEC- TIONS LOOSENED IN THE COMMON COURSE OF THINGS. A FINE FRAGMENT BY WALTER LANDOR. Lass mich den Slunde gedenken, und jedes kleineren unstands. Ach, wer ruft nicht so gem unwiederbringliches an! Jcnes s'dsse Gedr'dnge dcr leichtesten irdischen Tage, Ach, wer schatzt ihn genug, diesen vereilenden Werth I Klein erscheinet es nun, duch ach ! nicht kleinlich dem Herzen ; Macht die Liebe, die Kunst,jegliches hleine doch gross. Goethe. CHAPTER LXXXVL — p. 188. PETER HOPKINS. REASONS FOR SUPPOSING THAT HE WAS AS GOOD A PRACTITIONER AS ANY IN ENGLAND ; THOUGH NOT THE BEST. THE FITTEST MASTER FOR DANIEL DOVE. HIS SKILL IN ASTROLOGY. Que sea Medico mas grave Quien 7nas aforismos sabe, Bien puede ser. Mas que no sea mas cxperto El que mas huvicre mucrto, No puede scr. Gongora. CHAPTER LXXXVIL — p. 191. ASTROLOGY. ALMANACKS. PRISCILLIANISM RE- TAINKD IN THEM TO THIS TIME. I wander 'twixt the poles And heavenly hinges, 'mongst eccentrical*, Centers, concentricks, circles and epicycles. Albumazar. CHAPTER LXXXVIIL — p. 193. AN INCIDENT WHICH BRINGS THE AUTHOR INTO A FORTUITOUS RESEMBLANCE WITH THE PATRI- ARCH OF THE PREDICANT FRIARS. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE FACT AND THE FABLE ; AND AN APPLICATION WHICH, UNLIKE THOSE THAT ARE USUALLY APPENDED TO ESOP'S FABLES, THE READER IS LIKELY NEITHER TO SKIP NOR TO FORGET. Dire aqui una maldad grande del Demonio. Pedro de Ciecja de Leon. CHAPTER LXXXIX — p. 194. A CHAPTER CHARACTERISTIC OF FRENCH ANTIQUA- RIES, FRENCH LADIES, FRENCH LAWYERS, FRENCH JUDGES, FRENCH LITERATURE, AND FRENCHNESS IN GENERAL. Quid de pulicibus ? vitce salientia puncta. Cowley. CHAPTER XC. — p. 199. WHEREIN THE CURIOUS READER MAY FIND SOME THINGS WHICH HE IS NOT LOOKING FOR, AND WHICH THE INCURIOUS ONE MAY SKIP IF HE PLEASES. Voulant doncques satisfaire d, la curiosite de touts bons compagnons, j' 1 ay revolve toutes les Pantarches des Cieux, calcule les quadrats de la Lune, crochele tout ce que jamais penserent touts les Aalrophiles, Hyper nephelistes, Anemophy laces, Uranopctes et Ombrophores. Rabelais. CHAPTER XCL — p. 202. THE AUTHOR DISPLAYS A LITTLE MORE OF SUCH READING AS IS SELDOM READ, AND SHOWS THAT LORD BYRON AND AN ESSEX WIDOW DIFFERED IN OPINION CONCERNING FRIDAY. Sifavois disperse cecien divers endroits de mon ouvrage, faurois evite la censure de ceux qui appelleront ce chapitre un fatras de petit recueils. Mais comme je chcrche la commodile de mes lecteurs plutot que la mienne, je veux bien au depens de cette censure, leur epargner la peine de rassembler ce quej'aurois disperse. Bayle. CHAPTER XCIL— p. 206. CONCERNING PETER HOPKINS AND THE INFLUENCE OF THE MOON AND TIDES UPON THE HUMAN BODY. A CHAPTER WHICH SOME PERSONS MAY DEEM MORE CURIOUS THAN DULL, AND OTHERS MORE DULL THAN CURIOUS. A man that travelleth to the most desirable home, hath a habit of desire to it all the way ; but his present business is his travel; and horse, and company, and inns, and ways, and weariness, &c, may take up more of his sensible thoughts, and of his talk and action, than his home. Baxter. CHAPTER XCIIL— p. 210. REMARKS OF AN IMPATIENT READER ANTICIPATED AND ANSWERED. ^fi ■xoXXa, Xfgss? olgTi xocvowir' 'iffy, On juvv,uovli ■ 0VZ.iT 00 'j''HV Sophocles. CONTENTS. CHAPTER XCIV.— p. 213. THE AUTHOR DISCOVERS CERTAIN MUSICAL COR- RESPONDENCIES TO THESE HIS LUCUBRATIONS. And music mild I learn'd that tells Tune, time and measure to the song. Higgins. CHAPTER XCV.— p. 214. WHEREIN MENTION IS MADE OP LORD BYRON, RONSARD, RABBI KAPOL AND CO. IT IS SUG- GESTED THAT A MODE OP READING THE STARS HAS BEEN APPLIED TO THE RECOVERY OF OBLITERATED ROMAN INSCRIPTIONS ; AND IT IS SHOWN THAT A MATHEMATICIAN MAY REASON MATHEMATICALLY, AND YET LIKE A FOOL. Thus may ye behold This man is very bold, And in his learning old Intendeth for to sit. I blame him not a whit ; For it would vex his wit, And clean against his earning To follow such learning As now-a-days is taught. Doctour Double- Ale. CHAPTER XCVL— p. 217. A MUSICIAN'S WISH EXCITED BY HERSCHEL'S TELESCOPE. SYMPATHY BETWEEN PETER HOP- KINS AND HIS PUPIL. INDIFFERENTISM USEFUL IN ORDINARY POLITICS, BUT DANGEROUS IN RELIGION. Not intendiamo parlare alle cose che utile sono alia umana vita, quanto per nostro intendimento si potra in questa parte comprendere ; e sopra quelle particclle che detto avemo di comporre. Busone da Gubbio. CHAPTER XCVIL — p. 220. MR. BACON'S PARSONAGE. CHRISTIAN RESIGNA- TION. TIME AND CHANGE. WILKIE AND THE MONK IN THE ESCURIAL. The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination ; And every lovely organ of her life Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit, More moving delicate, and full of life, Into the eye and prospect of his soul, Than when she lived indeed. Shakespeare. CHAPTER XCVIIL— p. 222. CHRISTIAN CONSOLATION. OPINIONS CONCERNING THE SPIRITS OF THE DEAD. The voice which I did more esteem Than music in her sweetest key ; Those eyes which unto me did seem More comfortable than the day ; Those now by me, as they have been, Shall never more be heard, or seen ; But what I once enjoyed in them, Shall seem hereafter as a dream. All earthly comforts vanish thus ; So little hold of them have we, That we from them, or they from us, May in a moment ravished be. Yet we are neither just nor wise, If present mercies we despise ; Or mind not how there may be made A thankful use of what we had. Wither. CHAPTER XCIX— p. 224 A COUNTRY PARISH. SOME WHOLESOME EXTRACTS, SOME TRUE ANECDOTES, AND SOME USEFUL HINTS, WHICH WILL NOT BE TAKEN BY THOSE WHO NEED THEM MOST. Non e inconvcniente, che delle cose delettahili alcune ve sieno utili, cosi come dell' utili rnolte ne sono delettahili, et in tutte due alcune si truovano honeste. Leone Medico (Hebreo). CHAPTER C — p. 227. SHOWING HOW THE VICAR DEALT WITH THE JUVENILE PART OF HIS FLOCK; AND HOW HE WAS OF OPINION THAT THE MORE PLEASANT THE WAY IN WHICH CHILDREN ARE TRAINED UP TO GO CAN BE MADE FOR THEM, THE LESS LIKELY THEY WILL BE TO DEPART FROM IT. Sweet were the sauce would please each kind of taste, The life, likewise, were pure that never swerved ; For spiteful tongues, in cankered stomachs placed, Deem worst of things which best, percase, dpserved. But what for that V This medicine may suffice, To scorn the rest, and seek to please the wise. Sir Walter Raleigh. CHAPTER CI.— p. 229. SOME ACCOUNT OF A RETIRED TOBACCONIST AND HIS FAMILY. Nonfumum cxfulgore, sed exfumo dare lucem. Horace. INTERCHAPTER XL— p. 231. ADVICE TO CERTAIN READERS INTENDED TO AS- SIST THEIR DIGESTION OF THESE VOLUMES. Take this in good part, whatsoever thou be, And wish me no worse than I wish unto thee. Tusser. CHAPTER CII. — p. 232. MORE CONCERNING THE AFORESAID TOBACCONIST. I doubt nothing at all but that you shall like the man every day better than other ; for verily I think he lacketh not of those qualities which should become any honest man to have, over and besides the gift of nature wherewith God hath above the common rate endued him. Archbishop Cuanmer. CONTENTS. CHAPTER CIIL — p.236. A FEW PARTICULARS CONCERNING NO. 113. BISHOPSGATE STREET WITHIN; FAMILY AT THAXTED GRANGE. AND OP THE Opinion is the rate of things, From hence our peace doth flow ; I have a better fate than kings, Because I think it so. Katharine Philips. CHAPTER CIV. — p. 239. A REMARKABLE EXAMPLE, SHOWING THAT A WISE MAN, WHEN HE RISES IN THE MORNING, LITTLE KNOWS WHAT HE MAY DO BEFORE NIGHT. — Now I love, And so as in so short a time I may ; Yet so as time shall never break that so, And therefore so accept of Elinor. Robert Greene. CHAPTER CV.— p. 242. A WORD OF NOBS, AND AN ALLUSION TO CiESAR. SOME CIRCUMSTANCES RELATING TO THE DOC- TOR'S SECOND LOVE, WHEREBY THOSE OP HIS THIRD AND LAST ARE ACCOUNTED FOR. Un mal que se entra por medio los ojos, Y va se derecho hasta el corazon ,• Alii en ser llegado se torna qficion, Y da -mil pesares, plazeres y °nojos; Causa alegrias, tristezas, antojos j Haze llorar, y haze reir, Haze cantar, y haze planir ; Da pensamientos dos mil a manojos. Question de Amor. INTERCHAPTER XII. — p. 245. THE AUTHOR REGRETS THAT HE CANNOT MAKE HIMSELF KNOWN TO CERTAIN READERS ; STATES THE POSSIBLE REASONS FOR HIS SECRESY ; MAKES NO USE IN SO DOING OF THE LICENCE WHICH HE SEEMS TO TAKE OUT IN HIS MOTTO ; AND STATING THE PRETENCES WHICH HE AD- VANCES FOR HIS WORK, DISCLAIMING THE WHILE ALL MERIT FOR HIMSELF, MODESTLY PRESENTS THEM UNDER A GRECIAN VEIL. "EvOct yko ri htt ■tytvhc; Xiyt. Herbert. CHAPTER CXXIIL — p. 303. SOME ALLUSION TO, AND SOME USE OF THE FIGURE OF SPEECH CALLED PARENTHESIS. J'ecrirai ici mes pensees sans ordre, et non pas peut- etre dans une confusion sans dessein ; c'est le veritable ordre, et qui marquera toujour s mon objet par le desordre ineme. Pascal. CHAPTER CXXIV. — p. 306. THE AUTHOR MORALISES UPON THE VANITY OF FAME ; AND WISHES THAT HE HAD BOSWELLISED WHILE IT WAS IN HIS POWER TO HAVE DONE SO. Mucho tengo que llvrar, Mucho tengo que reir. CHAPTER CXXV.- FAME IN THE BOROUGH ROAD. DANIELISES. Due, Ftimo,— Hue me insolenti tramite ; devius Tentabo inaccessos profanis Invidice pedibus recessus. Vincent Bourne. CHAPTER CXXVL — p. 313. MR. BAXTER'S OFFICES. MILLER* S CHARACTER OF MASON ; WITH A FEW REMARKS IN VINDICATION OF gray's FRIEND AND the doctor's AC- QUAINTANCE. Te sonar c qu.is mihi Genique vim dabit lui? S'yii) quis cequor hocce arare ckarteum, Et arv a per papyrina Salu loquace seminar e lite ras? Janus Dousa. Gongora. p. 309. THE AUTHOR CHAPTEB CXXVII. p. 318. Till, doctob's theory of PROGRESSIVE EXIST- i.\< B. Quam mullec pecudes humano in corporc vivunt! Palingenius. CHAPTER CXXVIII. — p. 320. ELUCIDATIONS OF THE COLUMBIAN THEORY. Thou almost makest me waver in my faith, To hold opinion with Pythagoras, That souls of animals infuse themselves Into the trunks of men. Merchant of Venice. CHAPTER CXXIX. — p. 326. WHEREIN THE AUTHOR SPEAKS OF A TRAGEDY FOR THE LADIES, AND INTRODUCES ONE OF WILLIAM DOVE'S STORIES FOR CHILDREN. Y donde sobre todo de sa dueTio El gran tesoro y el caudal se infiere, Es que al grande, al mediano, y al pequcrio, Todo se da de balde a quien lo quiere. Balbuena. THE STORY OF THE THREE BEARS.— p. 327. A tale which may content the minds Of learned men and grave philosophers. Gascoyne. CHAPTER CXXX. — p. 330. CHILDREN AND KITTENS. APHORISMS ASCRIBED TO THE LAUREATE, DR. SOUTHEY. MORE COLUM- BIAN PHILOSOPHY. Oh ! if in after life we could but gather The very refuse of our youthful hours ! Charles Lloyd. CHAPTER CXXXI. — p. 331. THE DOCTOR ABSTAINS FROM SPECULATING ON PERILOUS SUBJECTS. A STORY OF ST. ANSELM. This field is so spacious, that it were easy for a man to lose himself in it ; and if I should spend all my pilgrimage in this walk, my time would sooner end than my way. Bishop Hall. CHAPTER CXXXIL — p. 333. DR. CADOGAN. A REMARKABLE CASE OF HEREDI- TARY LONGEVITY. REMARKS ON THE ORDINARY TERM OF HUMAN LIFE. Live well, and then how soon so e'er thou die, Thou art of age to claim eternity. Randolph ^ CHAPTER CXXXIII. — p. 334. MORE THOUGHTS CONCERNING LIFE, DEATH AND IMMORTALITY. Clericus es ? legito hcec. Laicus ? legito ista libenter. Crede mihi, invenies hie quod uterque voles. D. Du.-Tr. Med. CHAPTER CXXXIV. — p.337. A TRANSITION, AN ANECDOTE, AN APOSTROPHE, AND A PUN, PUNNET, OR PUNDIGRION. Est brevitaie opus, ut currat sententia, nru se Impediat verbis lassas onerantibus aures j Etsermone opus est, modo tristi, scepejocoso. Horace. CONTENTS. XXIX CHAPTER CXXXV. — p.338. REGINALD HEBER. A MISTAKE OBVIATED, WHICH MIGHT OTHERWISE EASILY BE MADE. Perhaps some Gull, as witty as a Goose, Says with a coy skew look, " it's pretty, pretty ! But yet that so much wit he should dispose For so small purpose, faith" saith he, " 'tis pity !" Davies of HEREFORD- CHAPTER CXXXVI. —p. 339. THE PEDIGREE AND BIRTH OF NOBS, GIVEN IN REPLY TO THE FIRST QUERY IN THE SECOND CHAPTER P. I. Theo. Look to my Horse, I pray you, well. Diego. He shall, Sir. Inc. Oh ! how beneath his rank and call was that now ! Your Horse shall be entreated as becomes A Horse of fashion, and his inches. Beaumont and Fletcher. LNTERCHAPTER XVI. — p. 340. THE AUTHOR RELATES SOME ANECDOTES, REFERS TO AN OPINION EXPRESSED BY A CRITIC ON THE PRESENT OPUS, AND DESCANTS THEREON. Every man can say B to a battledore, and write in praise of virtue and the seven liberal sciences ; thresh corn out of full sheaves, and fetch water out of the Thames. But out of dry stubble to make an after-harvest, and a plenti- ful crop without sowing, and wring juice out of a flint, that is Pierce a God's name, and the right trick of a workman. Nash. CHAPTER CXXXVIL — p. 345. DIFFERENCE OF OPINION BETWEEN THE DOCTOR AND NICHOLAS CONCERNING THE HIPPOGONY, OR ORIGIN OF THE FOAL DROPPED IN THE PRECEDING CHAPTER. his birth day, the eleventh of June When the Apostle Barnaby the bright Unto our year doth give the longest light. Ben Jonson. CHAPTER CXXXVIIL— p. 346. DOUBTFUL PEDIGREE OF ECLIPSE. SHAKESPEAR (N. B. NOT WILLIAM) AND OLD MARSK. A PECU- LIARITY OF THE ENGLISH LAW. Lady Percy. But hear you, my Lord ! Hotspur. What say'st thou, my lady ? Lady Percy. What is it carries you away ? Hotspur. Why my Horse, my love, my Horse. Shakespeare. CHAPTER CXXXIX. — p. 347. FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS RELATING TO ONOMA- TOLOGY. Moreover there are many more things in the World than there are names for them ; according to the saying of the Philosopher ; Nomina sunt finita, res autem in- finites ; ideo unum nomen plura significat : which saying is by a certain, or rather uncertain, author approved: Muftis speciebus non sunt nomina ; idcirco necessarium est nomina fingc re, si nullum ante erit nomen imposition. Gwillim. CHAPTER CXL. — p. 353. HOW THERE AROSE A DISPUTE BETWEEN BARNABY AND NICHOLAS CONCERNING THE NAMING OF THIS COLT, AND OF THE EXTRAORDINARY CIR- CUMSTANCES THAT ENSUED. Quoiqu'il en so>t, je ne tairai point cette histoire ; je V abandonne a la credulite, ou d Vincredulite des Lecterns, ils prendront d cet egard quel parti il leur plaira. Je tiirai seulement, s'ils ne la veulent pas croire, que je les defie de me prouver qti'elle soil absolument impossible j ils ne le prouveront jamais. Gomgam. CHAPTER CXLL— p. 354. A SINGULAR ANECDOTE AND NOT MORE SAD THAN TRUE. Oh penny Pipers, and most painful penners Of bountiful new Ballads, what a subject, W T hat a sweet subject for your silver sounds ! Beaumont and Fletcher. CHAPTER CXLIL— p. 355. A DEFECT IN HOYLE SUPPLIED. GOOD ADVICE GIVEN, AND PLAIN TRUTH TOLD. A TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO THE MEMORY OF F. NEWBERY, THE CHILDREN'S BOOKSELLER AND FRIEND. Neither is it a thing impossible or greatly hard, even by such kind of proofs so to manifest and clear that point, that no man living shall be able to deny it, without deny- ing some apparent principle such as all men acknowledge to be true. Hooker. CHAPTER CXLIIL— p. 356. A FEEBLE ATTEMPT TO DESCRIBE THE PHYSICAL AND MORAL QUALITIES OF NOBS. Quant a moi, je desirerois fort sqavoir bien dire, mi que j"eusse eu une bonne plume, et bien taillee a convmande- rnent, pour Vexalter et lou'er comme il le merite. Toutes- fois, telle quelle est,je m'en vais V employer au hazard. Brantome. CHAPTER CXLTV. — p. 363 HISTORY AND ROMANCE RANSACKED FOR RESEM- BLANCES AND NON-RESEMBLANCES TO THE HORSE OF DR. DANIEL DOVE. Renowned beast ! (forgive poetic flight !) Not less than man, deserves poetic right. The Bruciad. CHAPTER CXLV. — p. 309. WILLLS.M OSMER. INNATE QUALITIES. MARCH OF ANIMAL INTELLECT. FARTHER REVEALMEXT OF THE COLUMBLAN PHILOSOPHY. There is a word, and it is a great word in this Book,* l;r i to uv to, — In id ipsutn, that is, to look to the thing itself, the very point, the principal matter of all ; to have our eye on that, and not off it, upon alia omnia, any thing but it To go to the point, drive all to that, as also to go to the matter real, without declining from it this way or that, to the right hand or to the left. Bp. Andkewes. * The New Testament which the Preacher had before him. XXX CONTENTS. CHAPTER CXLVL— p. 373. DANIEL DOVE VERSUS SENECA AND BEN JONSON. ORLANDO AND HIS HORSE AT RONCESVALLES. MR. BURCHELL. THE PRINCE OF ORANGE. THE LORD KEEPER GUILDFORD. REV. MR. HAWTAYN. DR. THOMAS JACKSON. THE ELDER SCALIGER. EVELYN. AN ANONYMOUS AMERICAN. WALTER LANDOR, AND CAROLLNE BOWLES. ■ Contented with an bumble theme I pour my stream of panegyric down The vale of Nature, where it creeps and winds Among her lovely works with a secure And unambitious course, reflecting clear, If not the virtues, yet the worth of brutes. Cowper. CHAPTER CXLYII. — p. 375. OLD TREES. SHIPS. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE. LIFE AND PASSIONS ASCRIBED TO INANIMATE OBJECTS. FETISH WORSHIP. A LORD CHAN- CELLOR AND HIS GOOSE. Ce que fen ay escrit, c 'est pour une curiosite, qui plaira possible a aucuns : et non possible aux autres. Brantome. CHAPTER EXTRAORDINARY. — p. 379. PROCEEDINGS AT A BOOK CLUB. THE AUTHOR accused of " Lese delicatesse," or what is CALLED AT COURT " TUM-TI-TEE." HE UTTERS A MYSTERIOUS EXCLAMATION, AND INDIGNANTLY VINDICATES HIMSELF. Rem profeclo mirabilcm, longeque stupendam, rebusque veris veriorem describo. Hieuonymus Radiolensis. CHAPTER CXLYIII. — p. 384. WHEREIN A SUBSTITUTE FOR OATHS, AND OTHER PASSIONATE INTERJECTIONS IS EXEMPLIFIED. What have we to do with the times ? We cannot cure 'em : Let them go on : when they are swoln with surfeits They'll burst and stink : Then all the world shall smell 'em. Beaomont and Fletcher. CHAPTER CXLIX — p. 887. A PARLOUS QUESTION ARISING OUT OF THE FORE- GOING CILVPTER. MR. IRVING AND THE UN- KNOWN TONGUES. TAYLOR THE WATER POET. POSSIBLE SCHEME OF INTERPRETATION PRO- POSED. OPINIONS CONCERNING THE GIFT OF TONGUES AS EXHIBITED IN MADMEN. Speak what terrible language you will, though you understand it not yourselves, no matter ! Chough's lan- guage, gabble enough and good enough. Shakespeare. CHAPTER CL. — p. 390. THE WEDDING PEAL AT ST. GEORGE'S, AND THE BRIDE'S APPEARANCE AT CHURCH. See how I have strayed ! and you'll not wonder when you reflect on the whence and the whither. Alexander Knox. CHAPTER CLL— p. 391. SOMETHING SERIOUS. If thou hast read all this Book, and art never the better, yet catch this flower before thou go out of the garden, and peradventure the scent thereof will bring thee back to smell the rest. Henry Smith. CHAPTER CLIL— p. 393. ODD OPINIONS CONCERNING BIOGRAPHY AND EDU- CATION. THE AUTHOR MAKES A SECOND HIATUS AS UNWILLINGLY AS HE MADE THE FIRST, AND FOR THE SAME COGENT REASON. Ya sabes — pero esforxoso Repetirlo, aunque lo sepas. Calderon. CHAPTER CLIII. — p. 394. MATRIMONY AND RAZORS. LIGHT SAYINGS LEAD- ING TO GRAVE THOUGHTS. USES OF SHAVLNG. I wonder whence that tear came, when I smiled In the production on't ! Sorrow's a thief That can when joy looks on, steal forth a grief. Massinger. CHAPTER CLIV. — p. 396. A POET'S CALCULATION CONCERNING THE TIME EMPLOYED IN SHAVING, AND THE USE THAT MIGHT BE MADE OF IT. THE LAKE POETS LAKE SHAVERS ALSO. A PROTEST AGAINST LAKE SHAVING. Intellect and industry are never incompatible. There is more wisdom, and will be more benefit, in combining them than scholars like to believe, or than the common world imagine. Life has time enough for both, and its happiness will be increased by the union. Sharon Turner. CHAPTER CLY. — p. 397. THE POET'S CALCULATION TESTED AND PROVED. Fiddle-faddle, don't tell of this and that, and every thing in the world, but give me mathematical demonstration. CONGREVE. CHAPTER CLYL— p. 399. AN ANECDOTE OF WESLEY, AND AN ARGUMENT ARISING OUT OF IT, TO SHOW THAT THE TIME EMPLOYED IN SHAVING IS NOT SO MUCH LOST TIME ; AND YET THAT THE POET'S CALCULATION REMAINS OF PRACTICAL USE. Questo medesimo anchor a con una allra gagliardis- sima ragione vi confermo. Lodovico Dominichi. CHAPTER CLVIL— p. 401. WHICH THE READER WILL FIND LIKE A ROASTED MAGGOT, SHORT AND SWEET. Malum quod minimum est, id minimum est malum. Plautus. CONTENTS. XXXI CHAPTER CLYIIL— p. 401. DB. DOVE'S PRECEPTORIAL PRESCRIPTION, TO BE TAKEN BY THOSE "WHO NEED IT. Some strange devise, I know, each youthful wight Would here expect, or lofty brave assay : But I'll the simple truth in simple wise convey. Henry More. CHAPTER CLIX. — p. 402. THE AUTHOR COMPARES HIMSELF AND THE DOCTOR TO CARDINAL WOLSEY AND KING HENRY VHI. AND SUGGESTS SUNDRY SIMILES FOR THE STYLE OF HIS BOOK. I doubt not but some will liken me to the Lover in a modern Comedy, who was combing his peruke and setting his cravat before his mistress ; and being asked by her when he intended to begin his court ? he replied, he had been doing it all this while. Dryden. CHAPTER CLX. — p. 404. MENTION OF ONE FOR WHOM THE GERMANS WOULD COIN A DESIGNATION WHICH MIGHT BE TRANS- LATED A ONCE READER. MANY MINDS IN THE SAME MAN. A POET'S UNREASONABLE REQUEST. THE AUTHOR OFFERS GOOD ADVICE TO HIS READERS, AND ENFORCES IT BY AN EPISCOPAL OPINION. Judge not before Thou know mine intent ; But read me throughout, And then say thy fill ; As thou in opinion Art minded and bent, Whether it be Either good or ill. E. P. CHAPTER CLXL— p. 405. WESLEY AND THE DOCTOR OF THE SAME OPINION UPON THE SUBJECT OF THESE CHAPTERS. A STUPENDOUS EXAMPLE OF CYCLOP-EDLVN STO- LIDITY. A good razor never hurts, or scratches. Neither would good wit, were men as tractable as their chins. But in- stead of parting with our intellectual bristles quietly, we set them up, and wriggle. Who can wonder then if we are cut to the bone ? Guesses at Truth. CHAPTER CLXII. — p. 406. amount of every individual's personal sins according to the estimate of mr. toplady. the doctor's opinion thereon. a bill for certain church repairs. a romish legend which is likely to be true, and part of a Jesuit's sermon. Mankind, tho' satirists with jobations weary us, Has only two weak parts if fairly rrckon'd ; The first of which, is trilling with things serious ; And seriousness in trifles is the second. Remove these little rubs, whoe'er knows how, And fools will be as scarce, — as wise men now. Bishop. CHAPTER CLXIIL — p. 409. AN OPINION OF EL VENERABLE PADRE MAESTRO FRAY LUIS DE GRANADA, AND A PASSAGE QUOTED FROM HIS WORKS, BECAUSE OF THE PECULIAR BENEFIT TO WHICH PERSONS OF A CERTAIN DENOMINATION WILL FIND THEM- SELVES ENTITLED UPON READING OR HEARING IT READ. Chacun tourne en realties Autant qu'ilpeut, ses propres songes ; L'homme est de glace aux verites, II est defeu pour les mensonges. La Fontaine. CHAPTER CLXIV. — p. 410. AN INQUIRY IN THE POULTRY YARD, INTO THE TRUTH OF AN OPINION EXPRESSED BY ARISTOTLE. This is some liquor poured out of his bottle ; A deadly draught for those of Aristotle. J. C. sometime of M. H. Oxon. CHAPTER CLXV. — p. 411. A QUESTION ASKED AND RIGHTLY ANSWERED, WITH NOTICES OF A GREAT IMPORTATION AN- NOUNCED IN THE LEITH COMMERCIAL LIST. " But tell me yet what followed on that But." Daniel. CHAPTER CLXYL— p. 412. A WISH CONCERNING WHALES, WITH SOME RE- MARKS UPON THEIR PLACE IN PHYSICAL AND MORAL CLASSIFICATION. DR. ABRAHAM REES. CAPTAIN SCORESBY. THE WHALE FISHERY. Your Whale he will swallow a hogshead for a pill : But the maker of the mouse-trap is he that hath skill. Ben Jonson. CHAPTER CLXYIL— p. 416. A MOTTO WHICH IS WELL CHOSEN BECAUSE NOT BEING APPLICABLE IT SEEMS TO BE SO, THE AUTHOR NOT ERRANT HERE OR ELSEWHERE. PHILOSOPHY AND OTHER-OSOPHIES. Much from my theme and friend have I dig-essed, But poor as I am, poor in stuff for thought, And poor in thought to make of it the best, Blame me not, Gentles, if I soon am caught By this or that, when as my themes suggest Aught of collateral aid which may be wrought Into its service : Blame me not, I say; The idly musing often miss their way. Charles Lloyd. CHAPTER CLXYIII. — p. 416. NE -PLUS-ULTRA- WHALE-FISHING. AX OriNION OF CAPTAIN SCORESBY's. THE DOCTOR DENIES THAT ALL CREATURES WERE MADE FOB THE USE OF MAN. THE CONTRARY DEMONSTRATED IN PRACTICE BY RELLARM1NE. Scquar quo vocas, omnibus enim rebus omnibusque seitnonibus, alfqvid salutare miscendttm est. Seneca. CONTENTS. CHAPTER CLXIX. — p. 419. LINKS AND AFFINITIES. A MAP OF THE AUTHOR'S INTELLECTUAL COURSE IN THE FIVE PRECEDING CHAPTERS. r fi que soy, razona poco Porque dc sovibra a mi va nada, o poco. FuE^nrc Deseada. INTERCHAPTER XIX.— p. 437. THE AUTHOR DIFFERS IN OPINION FROM SIR EGER- TON BRYDGES AND THE EMPEROR JULIAN, SPEAKS CHARITABLY OF THAT EMPEROR, VINDI- CATES PROTEUS FROM HIS CENSURE, AND TALKS OF POSTHUMOUS TRAVELS AND EXTRA MUNDANE EXCURSIONS, AND THE PUBLIC LIBRARY IN LIMBOLAND. Petulant. If he says black's black, — if I have a humour to say it is blue — let that pass. All's one for that. If I have a humour to prove it, it must be granted. Witwould. Not positively must, — But it may, it may. Petulant. Yes, it positively must, — upon proof positive. Witwould. Ay, upon proof positive it must ; but upon proof presumptive it only may. That's a logical distinction now. Congreve. CHAPTER CLXXIL — p. 439. DESCARTES' NOTION CONCERNING THE PROLON- GATION OF LIFE. A SICILIAN PROPOSAL FOR BREEDING UP CHILDREN TO BE IMMORTAL. ASGILL'S ARGUMENT AGAINST THE NECESSITY OF DYING. O harmless Death ! whom still the valiant brave, The wise expect, the sorrowful invite ; And all the good embrace, who know the Grave A short dark passage to eternal light. Sir William Davenant. CHAPTER CLXXIIL — p. 452. MORE CONCERNING ASGILL. HIS DEFENCE IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, HIS EXPULSION, FARTHER SPECULATIONS AND DEATH. Let not that ugly Skeleton appear ! Sure Destiny mistakes; this Death's not mine ! Dryden. CHAPTER CLXXIV. — p. 456. THE DOCTOR INDULGES IN THE WAY OF FANTASTIC AND TYPICAL SPECULATION ON HIS OWN NAME, AND ON THE POWERS OF THE LETTER D., WHETHER AS REGARDS DEGREES AND DIS- TINCTIONS, GODS AND DEMI-GODS, PRINCES AND KINGS, PHILOSOPHERS, GENERALS, OR TRAVELLERS. My mouth's no dictionary: it only serves as the needful interpreter of my heart. Quarles. CHAPTER CLXXV— p. 458. THE DOCTOR FOLLOWS UP HIS MEDITATIONS ON THE LETTER D. AND EXPECTS THAT THE READER WILL BE CONVINCED THAT IT IS A DYNAMIC LETTER, AND THAT THE HEBREWS DID NOT WITHOUT REASON CALL IT DALETII — THE DOOR — AS THOUGH IT WERE THE DOOR OF SPEECH. THE MYSTIC TRIANGLE. More authority, dear boy, name more ; and sweet my child let them be men of good repute and carriage. Love's Labour Lost. CONTENTS. CHAPTER CLXXVL — p. 461. THE DOCTOR DISCOVERS THE ANTIQUITY OF THE NAME OF DOVE FROM PERUSING JACOB BRY- ANT'S ANALYSIS OF ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY. CHRISTOPHER AND FERDINAND COLUMBUS. SOMETHING ABOUT PIGEON-PIE, AND THE REASON WHY THE DOCTOR WAS INCLINED TO THINK FAVOURABLY OF THE SAMARITANS. An' I take the humour of a thing once, I am like your tailor's needle ; I go through. Ben Jonson. CHAPTER CLXXVIL — p. 462. SOMETHING ON THE SCIENCE AND MYSTERY OF NUMBERS WHICH IS NOT ACCORDING TO COCKER. REVERIES OF JEAN D'ESPAGNE, MINISTER OF THE FRENCH-REFORMED CHURCH IN WEST- MINSTER, AND OF MR. JOHN BELLAMY. A PITHY REMARK OF FULLER'S, AND AN EXTRACT FROM HIS PISGAH SIGHT OF PALESTINE, TO RECREATE THE READER. None are so surely caught, when they are catch'd, As wit turn'd fool: folly, in wisdom hatch'd, Hath wisdom's warrant, and the help of school, And wit's own grace to grace a learned fool. Love's Labour Lost. CHAPTER CLXXVIII. — p. 465. THE MYSTERY OF NUMBERS PURSUED, AND CER- TAIN CALCULATIONS GIVEN WHICH MAY RE- MIND THE READER OF OTHER CALCULATIONS EQUALLY CORRECT. ANAGRAMMATISING OF NAMES, AND THE DOCTOR'S SUCCESS THEREIN. " There is no efficacy in numbers, said the wiser Philo- sophers ; and very truly," — saith Bishop Hacket in repeating this sentence ; but he continues, — " some numbers are apt to enforce a reverent esteem towards them, by considering miraculous occurrences which fell out in holy Scripture on such and such a number Non potest fortuitb fieri, quod tarn swpefit, says Maldonatus, whom I never find superstitious in this matter. It falls out too often to be called contingent ; and the oftener it falls out, the more to be attended." CHAPTER CLXXIX.— p. 467. THE SUBJECT OF ANAGRAMS CONTINUED ; A TRUE OBSERVATION WHICH MANY FOR WANT OF OB- SERVATION WILL NOT DISCOVER TO BE SUCH, VIZ., THAT THERE IS A LATENT SUPERSTITION IN THE MOST RATIONAL OF MEN. LUCKY AND UNLUCKY — FITTING AND UNFITTING — ANA- GRAMS, AND HOW THE DOCTOR'S TASTE IN THIS LINE WAS DERIVED FROM OUR OLD AC- QUAINTANCE JOSHUA SILVESTER. Ha gran forza una vecchia opinione ; E bisogna grand' arte, e gran fatica, A cavarla del capo alle persone. BRONZINO PlTTORE. CHAPTER CLXXX.— p. 469. the doctor's ldeas of luck, chance, acci- dent, fortune and misfortune. the duchess of Newcastle's distinction be- tween CHANCE AND FORTUNE, WHEREIN NO- MEANING IS MISTAKEN FOR MEANING. AGREEMENT IN OPINION BETWEEN THE PHILO- SOPHER OF DONCASTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER OF NORWICH. DISTINCTION BETWEEN UN- FORTUNATELY UGLY, AND WICKEDLY UGLY. DANGER OF PERSONAL CHARMS. "Eo~rl yu.% ui; aXriQco? e5rt' Do you know, Sir, what mutton broth means at a city breakfast on the Lord Mayor's Day, mutton broth being the ap- pointed breakfast for that festival? It means according to established usage — by THE DOCTOR. 37 liberal interpretation — mutton broth and every thing else that can be wished for at a breakfast. So, Sir, you have here not only ■what the title seems to specify, but every thing else that can be wished for in a book. In treating of the Doctor, it treats de omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis. It is the Doctor &c, and that &c, like one of Lyttleton's, implies every thing that can be deduced from the words preceding. But I maintain that the little which has been said of comical old Textor (for it is little compared to what his Dialogues con- tain) strictly relates to the main thread of this most orderly and well-compacted work. You will remember that I am now replying to the question proposed in the third chap- ter P. I. " Who was the Doctor ? " And as he who should undertake to edite the works of Chaucer, or Spenser, or Shakespear would not be qualified for the task, unless he had made himself conversant with the writings of those earlier authors, from whose storehouses (as far as they drew from books) their minds were fed ; so it behoved me (as far as my information and poor abilitj ex- tend) to explain in what manner so rare a character as Dr. Dove's was formed. Quo semel est imbuta recens, — you know the rest of the quotation, Sir. And perhaps you may have tasted water out of a beery glass, — which it is not one or two rinsings that can purify. You have seen yew trees cut into the forms of pyramids, chess-kings, and pea- cocks : — nothing can be more unlike their proper growth — and yet no tree except the yew could take the artificial figures so well. The garden passes into the possession of some new owner who has no taste for such ornaments : the yews are left to grow at their own will; they lose the preposterous shape which had been forced upon them, without recovering that of their natural growth, and what was formal becomes gro- tesque — a word which may be understood as expressing the incongruous combination of formality with extravagance or wildness. The intellectual education which young Daniel received at home was as much out of the ordinary course as the book in which he studied at school. Robinson Crusoe had not yet reached Ingleton. Sandford and Merton had not been written, nor that history of Pecksey and Flapsey and the Robin's Nest, which is the prettiest fiction that ever was composed for children, and for which its excellent authoress will one day rank high among women of genius when time shall have set its seal upon desert. The only book within his reach, of all those which now come into the hands of youth, was the Pilgrim's Progress, and this he read at first without a suspicion of its allegorical import. What he did not understand was as little remembered as the sounds of the wind, or the motions of the passing clouds ; but the imagery and the incidents took possession of his memory and his heart. After a while Textor became an interpreter of the im- mortal Tinker, and the boy acquired as much of the meaning by glimpses as was desirable, enough to render some of the per- sonages more awful by spiritualising them, while the tale itself remained as a reality. Oh ! what blockheads are those wise persons who think it necessary that a child should comprehend every thing it reads ! CHAPTER XV. P. I. THE AUTHOR VENTURES AN OPINION AGAINST THE PREVAILING WISDOM OP MAKING CHILDREN PREMATURELY WISE. Pray you, use your freedom ; And so far, if you please allow me mine, To hear you only ; not to be compelled To take your moral potions. Massinger. " What, Sir," exclaims a Lady, who is bluer than ever one of her naked and woad- stained ancestors appeared at a public festival in full dye, — " what, Sir, do you tell us that children are not to be made to understand what they are taught?" And she casts her eyes complacently toward an assortment of those books which so many writers, male and female, some of the in- fidel, some of the semi-fidel, and some of the super-fidel schools have composed for the 38 THE DOCTOR. laudable purpose of enabling children to understand every thing. — " What, Sir," she repeats, " are we to make our children learn things by rote like parrots, and fill their heads with words to which they cannot attach any signification ? " " Yes, Madam, in very many cases." " I should like, Sir, to be instructed why?" She says this in a tone, and with an ex- pression both of eyes and lips, which plainly show, in direct opposition to the words, that the Lady thinks herself much fitter to in- struct, than to be instructed. It is not her fault. She is a good woman, and naturally a sensible one, but she has been trained up in the way women should not go. She has been carried from lecture to lecture, like a student who is being crammed at a Scotch University. She has attended lectures on chemistry, lectures on poetry, lectures on phrenology, lectures on mnemonics ; she has read the latest and most applauded essays on Taste : she has studied the newest and most approved treatises practical and theo- retical upon Education : she has paid suf- ficient attention to metaphysics to know as much as a professed philosopher about matter and spirit: she is a proficient in political economy, and can discourse upon the new science of population. Poor Lady, it would require large draughts of Lethe to clear out all this undigested and undiges- tible trash, and fit her for becoming what she might have been ! Upon this point, how- ever, it may be practicable to set her right. "You are a mother, Madam, and a good one. In caressing your infants you may perhaps think it unphilosophioal to use what I should call the proper and natural language of the nursery. But doubtless you talk to them ; you give some utterance to your feelings ; and whether that utterance be in legitimate and wise words, or in good ex- temporaneous nonsense, it is alike to the child. The conventional words convey no more meaning to him than the mere sound ; but he understands from cither all that is meant, all that you wish him to understand, all that is to he understood. He knows that it is an expression of your love and tenderness, and that he is the object of it. " So too it continues after he is advanced from infancy into childhood. When children are beginning to speak they do not and cannot affix any meaning to half the words which they hear ; yet they learn their mother tongue. What I say is, do not attempt to force their intellectual growth. Do not feed them with meat till they have teeth to masticate it. " There is a great deal which they ought to learn, can learn, and must learn, before they can or ought to understand it. How many questions must you have heard from them which you have felt to be best answered, when they were with most dexterity put aside ! Let me tell you a story which the Jesuit Manuel de Vergara used to tell of himself. When he was a little boy he asked a Dominican Friar what was the meaning of the seventh commandment, for he said he could not tell what committing adultery was. The Friar not knowing how to answer, cast a perplexed look round the room, and think- ing he had found a safe reply pointed to a kettle on the fire, and said the Command- ment meant that he must never put his hand in the pot while it was boiling. The very next day, a loud scream alarmed the family, and behold there was little Manuel running about the room holding up his scalded finger, and exclaiming " Oh dear, oh dear, I've committed adultery ! I've committed adul tery ! I've committed adultery ! " CHAPTER XVI. P. I. USE AND ABUSE OF STORIES IN REASOrNING, WITH A WORD IN BEHALF OF CHIMNEY- SWEEPERS AND IN REPROOF OF THE EARL OF LAUDERDALE. My particular inclination moves me in controversy especially to approve his choice that said, Jortia mallem quamformosa. Dr. Jackson. I ended that last chapter with a story, and though " I say it who should not say it," it is a good story well applied. Of what use a story may be even in the most serious de- bates may be seen from the circulation of THE DOCTOR. 39 old Joes in Parliament, which are as current there as their sterling namesakes used to be in the city some threescore years ago. A jest, though it should be as stale as last week's newspaper, and as flat as Lord Floun- der's face, is sure to be received with laughter by the Collective Wisdom of the Nation : nay, it is sometimes thrown out like a tub to the whale, or like a trail of carrion to draw off hounds from the scent. The Bill which should have put an end to the inhuman practice of employing children to sweep chimneys, was thrown out on the third reading in the House of Lords (having passed the Commons without a dissentient voice) by a speech from Lord Lauderdale, the force of which consisted in, literally, a Joe Millar jest. He related that an Irish- man used to sweep his chimney by letting a rope down, which was fastened round the legs of a goose, and then pulling the goose after it. A neighbour to whom he recom- mended this as a convenient mode objected to it upon the score of cruelty to the goose : upon which he replied, that a couple of ducks might do as well. Now if the Bill before the house had been to enact that men should no longer sweep chimneys but that boys should be used instead, the story would have been applicable. It was no other- wise applicable than as it related to chimney- sweeping : but it was a joke, and that sufficed. The Lords laughed ; his Lordship had the satisfaction of throwing out the Bill, and the home Negro trade has continued from that time, now seven years, till this day, and still continues. His Lord- ship had his jest, and it is speaking within compass to say that in the course of those seven years two thousand children have been sacrificed in consequence. The worst actions of Lord Lauderdale's worst ancestor admit of a better defence before God and Man. Had his Lordship perused the evidence which had been laid before the House of Commons when the Bill was brought in, upon which evidence the Bill was founded ? Was he aware of the shocking barbarities connected with the trade, and inseparable from it ? Did he know that children in- evitablv lacerate themselves in learning: this dreadful occupati that they are fre- quently crippled by it? frequently lose their lives in it by suffocation, or by slow fire ? that it induces a peculiar and dread- ful disease ? that they who survive the accumulated hardships of a childhood during which they are exposed to every kind of misery, and destitute of every kind of com- fort, have at the age of seventeen or eighteen to seek their living how they can in some other employment, — for it is only by chil- dren that this can be carried on ? Did his Lordship know that girls as well as boys are thus abused ? that their sufferings begin at the age of six, sometimes a year earlier ? finally that they are sold to this worst and most inhuman of all slaveries, and sometimes stolen for the purpose of being sold to it ? I bear no ill-will towards Lord Lauder- dale, either personally or politically: far from it. His manly and honourable conduct on the Queen's trial, when there was such an utter destitution of honour in many quarters where it was believed to exist, and so fearful a want of manliness where it ought to have been found, entitles him to the respect and gratitude of every true Briton. But I will tell his Lordship that rather than have spoken as he did against an act which would have lessened the sum of wickedness and suffering in this country, — rather than have treated a question of pure humanity with contempt and ridicule, — rather than have employed my tongue for such a purpose and with such success, I would But no: I will not tell him how I had concluded. I will not tell him what I had added in the sincerity of a free tongue and an honest heart. I leave the sentence imperfect rather than that any irritation which the strength of my language might excite should lessen the salutary effects of self-condemnation. James Montgomery ! these remarks are too late for a place in thy Chimney Sweepers' Friend : but insert them, I pray thee, in thy newspaper, at the request of one who ad- mires and loves thee as a Poet, honours and respects thee as a man, and reaches out in 40 THE DOCTOR. spirit at this moment a long arm to shake hands with thee in cordial good will. My compliments to you, Mr. Bowring! your little poem in Montgomery's benevolent album is in a strain of* true poetry and right feeling. None but a man of genius could have struck off such stanzas upon such a theme. But when you wrote upon Hu- manity at Home, the useful reflection might have occurred that Patriotism has no busi- ness abroad. Whatever cause there may be to wish for amendment in the government and institutions of other countries, keep aloof from all revolutionary schemes for amending them, lest you should experience a far more painful disappointment in their success than in their failure. No spirit of prophecy is required for telling you that this must be the result. Lay not up that cause of remorse for yourself, and time will ripen in you what is crude, confirm what is right, and gently rectify all that is erro- neous ; it will abate your political hopes, and enlarge your religious faith, and stablish both upon a sure foundation. My good wishes and sincere respects to you, Mr. Bowrine ! INTERCHAPTEB, II. ABALLIBOOZOBANGANORRIBO. Io 7 dico dunque, e dicol che ognun nCode. Benedetto Varchi. Whether the secret of the Freemasons be comprised in the mystic word above is more than I think proper to reveal at present. But I have broken no vow in uttering it. And I am the better for having uttered it. Mahomet begins some of the chapters of the Koran with certain letters of unknown signification, and the commentators say that the meaning of these initials ought not to be inquired. So Gelaleddin says, so sayeth Taleb. And they say truly. Some begin with A. L. M. Some with K. H. I. A. S. ; some with T. II. ; — T. S. M. ; — T. S. or I. S. others with K. M.; — H. M. A. S. K.; — N. M. ; — a single Kaf, a single Nun or a single Sad, and sad work would it be either for Kaffer or Mussulman to search for meaning where none is. Gelaleddin piously remarks that there is only One who knoweth the import of these letters ; — I reverence the name which he uses too much to employ it upon this occasion. Mahomet himself tells us that they are the signs of the Book which teacheth the true doctrine, — the Book of the Wise, — the Book of Evidence, the Book of Instruction. When he speaketh thus of the Koran he lieth like an impostor as he is : but what he has said falsely of that false book may be applied truly to this. It is the Book of Instruction inasmuch as every individual reader among the thousands and tens of thousands who peruse it will find something in it which he did not know before. It is the Book of Evidence because of its internal truth. It is the Book of the Wise, because the wiser a man is the more he will delight therein ; yea, the delight which he shall take in it will be the measure of his intellectual capa- city. And that it teacheth the true doctrine is plain from this circumstance, that I defy the British Critic, the Antijacobin, the Quarterly and the Eclectic Reviews, — ay, and the Evangelical, the Methodist, the Baptist, and the Orthodox Churchman's Ma- gazine, with the Christian Observer to boot, to detect any one heresy in it. Therefore I say again, Aballiboozobanganorribo, and, like Mahomet, I say that it is the Sign of the Book ; and therefore it is that I have said it ; Kondimen ne la lingua degli Hebrei Ni la Latina, ve la Grrca antica, Ne quella forse ancor degli Aramei.* Happen it may, — for things not less strange have happened, and what has been may be again ; — for maybe and has been are only tenses of the same verb, and that verb is eternally being declined : Hap- pen I say it may ; and peradventure if it may it must ; and certainly if it must it will : — but what with indicatives and subjunc- * MOLZA. THE DOCTOR 41 lives, presents, prceterperfects and paulo- post-futura, the parenthesis is becoming too long for the sentence, and I must begin it again. A prudent author should never exact too much from the breath or the attention of his reader, — to say nothing of the brains. Happen then it may that this Book may outlive Lord Castlereagh's Peace, Mr. Pitt's reputation (we will throw Mr. Fox's into the bargain) ; Mr. Locke's Metaphysics, and the Regent's Bridge in St. James's Park. It may outlive the eloquence of Burke, the discoveries of Davy, the poems of Words- worth, and the victories of Wellington. It may outlive the language in which it is written ; and, in heaven knows what year of heaven knows what era, be discovered by some learned inhabitant of that continent which the insects who make coral and ma- drepore are now, and from the beginning of the world have been, fabricating in the Pacific Ocean. It may be dug up among the ruins of London, and considered as one of the sacred books of the sacred Island of the West, — for I cannot but hope that some reverence will always be attached to this most glorious and most happy island when its power and happiness and glory, like those of Greece, shall have passed away. It may be deciphered and interpreted, and give occasion to a new religion called Dovery or Danielism, which may have its Chapels, Churches, Cathedrals, Abbeys, Priories, Mo- nasteries, Nunneries, Seminaries, Colleges, and Universities ; — its Synods, Consistories, Convocations, and Councils ; — its Acolytes, Sacristans, Deacons, Priests, Archdeacons, Rural Deans, Chancellors, Prebends, Canons, Deans, Bishops, Archbishops, Prince Bishops, Primates, Patriarchs, Cardinals, and Popes; its most Catholic Kings, and its Kings most Dovish or most Danielish. It may have Commentators and Expounders — (who can doubt that it will have them ?) — who will leave unenlightened that which is dark, and darken that which is clear. Various inter- pretations will be given, and be followed by as many sects. Schisms must ensue ; and the tragedies, comedies, and farces, with all the varieties of tragi-comedy and tragi-farce or farcico -tragedy which have been repre- sented in this old world, be enacted in that younger one. Attack on the one side, de- fence on the other ; high Dovers and low Dovers; Danielites of a thousand unima- gined and unimaginable denominations ; schisms, heresies, seditions, persecutions, wars, — the dismal game of Puss-catch- corner played by a nation instead of a family of children, and in dreadful earnest, when power, property, and life are to be won and lost ! But, without looking so far into the future history of Dovery, let me exhort the learned Australian to whom the honour is reserved of imparting this treasure to his countrymen, that he abstain from all attempts at disco- vering the mysteries of Aballiboozobanga- norribo ! The unapocalyptical arcana of that stupendous vocable are beyond his reach ; — so let him rest assured. Let him not plunge into the fathomless depths of that great word ; let him not attempt to soar to its unapproachable heights. Perhaps, — and surely no man of judgement will sup- pose that I utter any thing lightly, — per- haps, if the object were attainable, he might have cause to repent its attainment. If too " little learning be a dangerous thing," too much is more so ; II saper troppo qualcke volta nuoce.* " Curiosity," says Fuller, " is a kernel of the Forbidden Fruit, which still sticketh in the throat of a natural man, sometimes to the danger of his choaking." There is a knowledge which is forbidden because it is dangerous. Remember the Apple ! Remember the beautiful tale of Cupid and Psyche ! Remember Cornelius Agrippa's library ; the youth who opened in unhappy hour his magical volume ; and the choice moral which Southey, who always writes so morally, hath educed from that profitable story ! Remember Bluebeard ! But I am looking far into futurity. Blue- beard may be forgotten ; Southey may be MOLZA. 42 THE DOCTOR. forgotten; Cornelius Agrippa may be no more remembered ; Cupid and Psyche may be mere names which shall have outlived all tales belonging to them; Adam and Eve — Enough. Eat beans, if thou wilt, in spite of Pytha- goras. Eat bacon with them, for the Levi- tical law hath been abrogated : and indulge in black-puddings, if thou likest such food, though there be Methodists who prohibit them as sinful. But abstain from Aballi- boozobansanorribo. CHAPTER XVII. P. I. ft THE HAPPINESS OF HAVING A CATHOLIC TASTE. There's no want of meat, Sir ; Portly and curious viands are prepared To please all kinds of appetites. Massinger. A fastidious taste is like a squeamish ap- petite ; the one has its origin in some disease of mind, as the other has in some ailment of the stomach. Your true lover of litera- ture is never fastidious. I do not mean the helluo librorum, the swinish feeder, who thinks that every name which is to be found in a title-page, or on a tombstone, ought to be rescued from oblivion ; nor those first cousins of the moth, who labour under a bulimy for black-letter, and believe every thing to be excellent which was written in the' reign of Elizabeth. I mean the man of robust and healthy intellect, who gathers the harvest of literature into his barns, threshes the straw, winnows the grain, grinds it at his own mill, bakes it in his own oven, and then eats the true bread of knowledge. If In- bake his loaf upon a cabbage leaf, and eat onions with his bread and cheese, let who will find fault with him for his taste, — not I! The Doves, father as well as son, were blest with a hearty intellectual appetite, and :i Btrong digestion: but the son had the more catholic taste. lie would have relished caviare ; would have ventured upon layer undeterred by its appearance — and would have liked it. What an excellent thing did God bestow on man, "When he did give him a good stomach ! * He would have eaten sausages for break- fast at Norwich, sally-luns at Bath, sweet butter in Cumberland, orange marmalade at Edinburgh, Findon haddocks at Aber- deen, and drunk punch with beef-steaks to oblige the French if they insisted upon obliging him with a dejeuner a VAngloise. A good digestion turneth all to health. f He would have eaten squab -pie in De- vonshire, and the pie which is squabber than squab in Cornwall ; sheep's head with the hair on in Scotland, and potatoes roasted on the hearth in Ireland ; frogs with the French, pickled herrings with the Dutch, sour-krout with the Germans, maccaroni with the Italians, aniseed with the Spaniards, garlic with any body; horse-flesh with the Tartars; ass-flesh with the Persians; dogs with the North Western American Indians, curry with the Asiatic East Indians, birds' nests with the Chinese, mutton roasted with honey with the Turks, pismire cakes on the Orinoco, and turtle and venison with the Lord Mayor ; and the turtle and venison he would have preferred to all the other dishes, because his taste, though catholic, was not indiscriminating. ^ He would have tried all, tasted all, thriven upon all, and lived content- edly and cheerfully upon either, but he would have liked best that which was best. And his intellectual appetite had the same happy Catholicism. He would not have said with Euphues, " If I be in Crete, I can lie ; if in Greece, I can shift ; if in Italy, I can court it : " but he might have said with him, " I can carouse with Alexander; abstain with Romulus; eat with the Epicure ; fast with the Stoic ; sleep with Endymion ; watch with Chry- sippus." The reader will not have forgotten, I trust, (but if he should I now remind him of it,) that in the brief inventory of Daniel's library there appeared some odd volumes of that " book full of Pantagruelism," the in- Beaumont and Fletcher. f Herbert. THE DOCTOR. 43 estimable life of the Great Gargantua. The elder Daniel could make nothing of this book ; and the younger, who was about ten years old when he began to read it, less than he could of the Pilgrim's Progress. But he made out something. Young Daniel was free from all the isms in Lily, and from rhotacism to boot ; he was clear too of schism, and all the worse isms which have arisen from it : having by the blessing of Providence been bred up not in any denomination ending in ist or inian, or erian or arian, but as a dutiful and con- tented son of the Church of England. In humour, however, he was by nature a Pan- tagruelist. And, indeed, in his mature years he always declared that one of the reasons which had led him to reject the old hu- moral pathology was, that it did not include Pantagruelism, which, he insisted, depended neither upon heat or cold, moisture or dry- ness, nor upon any combination of those qualities ; but was itself a peculiar and ele- mentary humour ; a truth, he said, of which he was feelingly and experimentally con- vinced, and lauded the gods therefore. Mr. Wordsworth, in that poem which Mr. Jeffrey has said won't do — (Mr. Jeffrey is always lucky in his predictions whether as a politician or a critic, — bear witness, Wel- lington ! bear witness, Wordsworth and Southey ! bear witness, Elia and Lord Byron !) — Mr. Wordsworth, in that poem which The high and tender Muses shall accept With gracious smile deliberately pleased, And listening Time reward with sacred praise : Mr. Wordsworth, in that noble poem, ob- serves, * Oh many are the Poets that are sown By nature ! Among the emblems of Daniel Heinsius — (look at his head, reader, if thou hast a collection of portraits to refer to, and thou wilt marvel how so queer a conceit should have entered it, for seldom has there been a face more gnarled and knotted with crabbed cogitation than that of this man, who was one of the last of the Giants;) — among his emblems, I say, is one which represents Cupid sowing a field, and little heads spring- ing out of the ground on all sides, some up to the neck, others to the shoulders, and some with the arms out. If the crop were examined, I agree with Mr. Wordsworth, that poets should be found there as thick as darnel in the corn ; — and grave counsellors would not be wanting whose advice would be that they should be weeded out. The Pantagruelists are scarcer. Greece produced three great tragic poets, and only one Aristophanes. The French had but one Rabelais when the seven Pleiades shone in their poetical hemisphere. We have seen a succession of great Tragedians from Better- ton to the present time ; and in all that time there has been but one Grimaldi in whom the Pantagruelism of Pantomine has found its perfect representative. And yet the reader must not hastily con- clude that I think Pantagruelism a better thing than Poetry, because it is rarer ; that were imputing to me the common error of estimating things by their rarity rather than their worth, an error more vulgar than any which Sir Thomas Brown has refuted. But I do hold this, that all the greatest poets have had a spice of Pantagruelism in their composition, which I verily believe was es- sential to their greatness. What the world lost in losing the Margites of Homer we know not, we only know that Homer had there proved himself a Pantagruelist. Shake- spear was a Pantagruelist ; so was Cer- vantes ; and till the world shall have produced two other men in whom that humour has been wanting equal to 'these, I hold my point established. Some one objects Milton. I thank him for the exception ; it is just such an excep- tion as proves the rule ; for look only at Milton's Limbo and you will see what a glo- rious Pantagruelist he might have been, — if the Puritans had not spoilt him for Panta- gruelism. 44 THE DOCTOR. CHAPTER XVIII. P. I. all's well that ends well. Tot, y civ inipLvYitrdcd — iino rov "kbyov i%ot,voc.y%,otZ,b[x.ivo$ 'frifx.vyi