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For the rough seaman’s daily log,
Ol winds, tobacco, girls, and grog,
Varies but little, pleases less,
However art may trim the dress.
Yet, though from conversation lost.
Drench’d to the skin, and tempest tost,
1 hy half-starv’d fiiend has other hopes
1 ban to amuse with spars and ropes.
Tistruc, five hundred leagues from land
I.eave us lew comlorts at command ;
15ut those e have arc so serene,
As give some polish to the scene.
^ itli timid step and modest grace,
Here Morning shows her blushing face
And damask robes, whose bright folds
sweep
Th’enamelPd threshold of the Deep.
Unconscious of her pow’r to please,
She creeps to notice, by degrees,
I ill, less abash'd, with conielv pride,
She slowly lays her veil aside,
I lie gaze of curious starers braves,
And listens to the babbling waves.
■yySucli pudency, so deck d, w as seen
lo swell the charms ol Persia's cjuecn,
w hen in Adassah, Bf.autv waved
Her wand, and sinking Israel saved.
Her lazier Brother see ! at length
Hises with renovated strength,
And lrom the chamber of his rest
Sallies, in royal vestments drest.
Ardent he hies to reach full soon
His upper bound, the midway noon,
Ai which (familiar long to him)
lo bait and rest his languid limb.
•Short pause of labour ! brief repose,
Onr planetary monarch knows :
On in hi 4 hot can er he flit
Vo reach the frontiers of the ski- s,
K joicing, as all monarchs •s/iou'd,
Ja propagating light and good.
[ J'c he continued. I
MlSCI I. L annous Thoughts.
i nc pleasure we derive from the peru
sal oi ancient history is j-m ih,z4«e( ause
st i-i ancient. The mind being formed
* i' '"rat is inhnitfj is naturally tic
*h/h* (l wit!) n linage of unlimited du
.. I: unbounded space. The
retro p et» ol < . , which are faint
ly dn.< . :it n in the depth ol pa; t agi s, is
■’ irig than the view of an ex*
" : ■ , : ■ : ■1 re tne duski lulls, in
u 1 xti e iiiiti ol tlu horizon,an scaicc
-y distinguishable rum ih clotuh:.
Valour v.oui.1 he of no u e, were
t rote no ju: ice; and if all the world
w ere ju i, there would be no need of
valour.
THE JUNKET.
I5y Richard Rummager, F.s'^.
No VIII.
-Qmse me fufpenfam infbmnia terren* !
VlRG l L.
---Wiiat ftrange dreams afFrifl-i
My labouring foul ! Dry den.
I have elected, from the Journal Kn
ee cl >pedique, the following marvellous
account ot a slccft-ivalker, for the enter
tainment of the readers of the Junket.
It will probably not be relished bv those
who are now looking out for Julv ora
tions and toasts, and who have pn pared
their palates for those articles dressed
up and highly seasoned with that politi
cal acid, which has produced and keeps
alive so much acerbity and iil-humour
among us. I may, perhaps, indulge this
description of readers in a future num
ber : at present 1 am disposed to court
the approbation of a. more useful class
oi individuals. e
very singular account ofa Sleep-xeal'.cr
“John Baptiste Negretti, of Vincenze,
i a domestic oi the marquis Louis Sale,
was a man of a brown complexion, of a
very dry, hot constitution, by nature
cholerick, and by custom a drunkard.
Prom the age of eleven he became sub
ject to sleep walking ; but Ire was never
seized with these tits, except in the
mouth of March ; and, at the furthest,
they left him by the middle of April.
“ Me? rs. Rcghelin: and Pagatti took
3 particular pleas ire in observing him,
while in tins condition ; and it is to the
- latter oi thev gentlemen, whose probity
is b vond the reach of slander, that v/c
I are now indebted lor the following cir
cum uuu.i detail.
“ In the month of March, \7to
ward t'ue evening, Ncgrrtii, having sat
down upon a chair in an anti-hamijer,
Ml ad ep, and parsed a quarter of an
h mr like an;, other in the same situation:
he then stretched hims'lf f ir some turn ,
and alterwards remained motion!*.*- , as
if he wanted to pry attentioti to ..utr.c
i ing. At length he arose, M alkc 1 .
crosi the apartment, took a tobacco-box '
out ot his pocket, ami .si turn’d d< * iro'-.s
to have some tobacco ; but, finding he
had hardly any left, 1 e umed a !
of tlisappo'niment, and advancing to the '
chair which a ccr*. :u pers,n was wont .
to occupy, he called luin he i,iname, ,
and asked him for som toi-a <;o : the o- j
thcr accordingly pres ntrd him his • < x
open, and Negrctti, having tak^n hit, 1
quid, put himself In an attitude of
tening; when imagining he heard him
self called, he ran with a wax taper to a ,
place where there usually stood a burn*
ing candle. Thinking he had lighted
his taper, he crossed the hall with it, and
wim gently down stairs, stopping and
turning about from time to time, as if he
had been condiu ting a visitor: on reach
ing the outward door, he placed himself
on one side ol it, saluted the company
he imagined he was ushering out, and
bowed as each ol them seemed to pass
him : this ceremony over, he returned
up stairs very quick, extinguished his
taper, and went to put it back in th<i
place where he had found it. This scene
lie repeated three times the same even
ing. Having left the antichamber, he
went into the dining room, searched in
his pocket for the key of the beauf et, and
called by name for the servant whose
duty it was to deliver that key to him
every night before he went to bed. On
rccei\iog it he opened the beaufet, took
a silver v. uitci or salver f rom it, on which
he* put four glass decanters, and went to
the kitchen, in order, no doubt, to fill
them with water: lie came back with
thi m empty, however, anti when he had
reached the middle of the stair-case, he
put what he had in his hands upon a
kind of post or pillar, ascended the re
maining steps, and knocked at a door;
as it was not opened to him, he returned
down stair: , went in search of the valet
de-chambre, asked him some questions,
uiineti upon ms r»i ri, anti running pre
cipitately up the stair-case, accidentally
touched the salver with his elbow, and
broke the decanters. He again knocked
at the dunrv hut to no purpose ; and on
his return down stairs lie took the salver
with him, whith,h ving carried it into
a dinin'-; room,he placed upon a little ta
ble. Thence he went to the kitchen,
too! a pit; b- r, carried it to the pump,
where h b Jed it with w ater, & then re
turned to the kitchen again. He alter
wards went to the salwr, and, missing
the d canti r , was dig h as-, d ; said they
certainly ought to hi th r* , as he had
placed th m himself,and a keel the other
.-> rvants d they had taken them away,
-'tit r a long search, he op neil the beau
t again, to d. <ni two oth» r decanters,
rinsed t-er , pound water into tin in,
put them until -ilver, lu th n carried
tin* wind • mio the antich.imber, to flic
v iy f’on, ol the dini ig rot m v h is the
' ah t-1 -dia nhrt was uont o r. ccivc
li.ein irom h.^ hand*. They accordingly