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GEORGE COLMAN, Eſq;
By his ſincere Friend, and
Obliged humble Servant,
ADVERTISEMENT
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Cour, written by Mr. F avart, 18
FR ground work of the following little
piece, But I believe whoever ſhall
examine both Operas, will find that I ha 4
been perhaps too wanton in my imitation,
and departed too widely from the original.
They may probably wiſh that I had pil-
fered more and written leſs. What I'
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piece with the other, will eaſily perceive,
and to thoſe who cannot make the com-
pariſon, any explanation on that head is
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When Mr. Favart's comedy was firſt
put into my hands, T could not but be
much pleaſed with the life and ſimplicity
he had thrown into his performance, with-
out deſcending to that ſpecies of humour,
which the Engliſh have very little
reliſh of, groſs Italian buffoonry. This I
have chiefly endeavoured to preſerve in the
following Opera, with what ſucceſs the
Public will determine.
Dramatis Perſonæ.
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Y Aſtolpho, Mr. Packer.
| | . 5 8 Hobbinol, 7 Mr. Yates. Y
1 Daman, Mr. Baddeley.
[ Fabian, | Mr. Didier. F |
E | Olin, Mr. Vernon.
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| Phœbe, | Miſs Slack.
Liſetta, Mrs. Clive. ;
| Cl, Miſs Wright. 1
| Emily, ; Mrs. Scott.
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A view of a plain intermixed with a number of fruit-
trees, and the cottages of peaſants, the men and
women employed in different occupations before
their doors and in the field.
PHoEBE af work.
AIR 1.
HIL ZE the cool and gentle PEER
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0 MVature walking ver the ſcene
# Clad in robes of lively green,
uo i | From the ſweetneſs of the place
Labour wears a chearful face.
Sure I 794 of j Joys ſincere,
Faithful Colin ever near;
When with ceaſeleſs toil oppreſs'd,
Wearied nature ſinks to reſt.
All my labours to beguile
Love ſhall wake me with a ſmile.
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To you, Colin, I am bethrothed, and to-morrow
hall be our wedding-day ; let that thought make you
_ chearful. Away, I prithee love, your work calls you
remember that the fruit of your toils will ſoon be be-
ſtowed upon me.
Colin. Do you bid me Jeon you think 1 I
have no power I am ſo happy. Will you, my deareſt,
grant me one boon before I go? m
| Phebe. Name it. |
Colin. Your hand, that I may kiſs it.
Phebe. There—take it. |
Colin. Now Tam. alive agen. T'll to my GEN
ſtrait, and whilft I pluck the hag. you ſhall delight
me with a ſong.
[Colin gets up into the tree, the peaſants come round
about him with their baſkets, in the mean time ſbe ſings.]
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PHonBE. | | |
Of Colin's tender love poſſeſs'd | '
My heart is glad, my ſpirits blaſi; |
His chearful looks, his ſoul ſincere
Shall give the ſmile, and wipe the tear.
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No ſplendour gilds my homely ſcene, "I
My ftores are few, my cottage mean, s
But Phoebe's ſmile rewards my pain,
And Colin is a wealthy ſwain.
BOT E.
No 0 jealous thought ſhall lain my 1
No fears alarm, no cares moleſt,
Pleas'd with the Ns _ my hopes purſue
Por gh. is hind, and I am true,
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1 HFogiNOoL, Damon. | x
Hiob. Go your ways for a pair of fond turtles. —
Ah Damon, it was juſt ſo for all the world when I
went a courting to our Cicely. There was ſuch pip-
ing, and ſinging, and dancing — Ah ! thoſe were
merry days—well, well—but they are all done and paſt
Damon. Trae, neighbour, true, we have had our
day: let the young ones begin now—the very thoughts
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of them. :
AIR III.
Tho my features Jm told
Are grown wrinkled and old,
Dull wiſdom ] hate and deteſt.
Not a wrinkle is there
Which is furrow'd by care
And my heart is as light as the beſt.
When I look on my boys
They renew my paſt joys,
Myſelf in my children I ſee ;
While the comforts I find
In the kingdom my mind,
Prinounce that my kingdom is free.
In the days I was young,
_ Oh! T capered and ſung,
The laſſes came flocking apace.
But now turn'd of threeſcore
I can do fo no more,
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of their approaching happineſs make .my old nerves
ſpring agen, and I could almoſt caper for joy. |
e, I grow young agen at the ſight
ii then let my boy take my place,
Of our pleaſures we crack,
For we fill love the ſmack
And chuckle oer what we have been;
Yet why ſhoul we repine,
You've had yours, Ive had mine,
And now let our children begin.
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Bae What ſignify the great folk, with their
lace, and their furbelows ?—all is not gold that
gliſtens, neighbour, many a ſound looking ſheep, is
rotten at heart Our pleaſures may be as good though
not ſo coſtly as theirs.
Hob. Twas but laſt ſummer, Damon, that our
Squire got himſelf a wife, a parlous fine lady, and a
rich one too. Lord, it did one good to look upon
her, ſhe had ſuch a delicate white and red, for all the
world like our Kate's doll; yet a body would believe
that they came together only to live aſunder, — For
Madam lies ih one bed, Squire lies in another, and
| they are now like the two buckets of our town-well,
when one comes up, t'other goes down, and if they
happen to meet each other you would think they had
never ſeen one another before. If this be the matri-
mony of your town folks give me the country I ſay.
Damon. T'Il warrant it will not be ſo with our young
couple — bleflings light upon them, they think of
nothing but the feaſt and the dance, and adod well |
dance at the wedding too.
Hob. Dance! ah, ah, don't you remember
Damon, come Lammas . *twill be ſix and * years
agone, when I met Cicely at our feaſt. „
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Men the head of poor Tummas was broke |
By Roger, who play d at the wale,
And Kate was alarmed at the froke
And wept for poor Tummas's ſake ;
| When his worſhip gave noggins of ale,
And the liquor was charming and ſtout,
0 thoſe were the times to regale,
And we footed it rarely about.
Ven our partners were buxom as does,
And we all were as happy as kings,
Each lad in his holyday cloaths,
And the laſſes in all their beſt things.
Fi hat merriment all the day long ! |
May the feaſt of our Colin prove fuch,
Odzooks, but Dll join in the ſong, |
And PH hobble about with my crutch.
"a it was that very day his worſhip was 1.
juſtice of the peace and coram then Cicely and I
came together for the firſt time. She was a tight
wench then, her cheeks were as freſh as a roſe and as
red as a Catherine pear —— there was your dancing
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Col. Oh, neighbours, neighbours, all our *
are oyer-run with horſes, hounds, and huntſmen,
they force into the vineyard.
Plague on all ſportſ-
men
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men, they are born to ruin us. Here Roger, Tummas,
quick, make haſte, the gate ſtands open, ſhut it faſt,
for if we don't take care they'll ravage all.
P!bœbe. We muſt be patient, Colin, it's the prince's
bunt.
Col. A murrain take all hunts I ſay. Here are they
hunting about every day and all day, and their fine
ſports forſooth muſt be our ruin. Our labour is all
in vain. they are coming this way I think, get in
lads and laſſes, theſe roaring fellows are keen ſportſ-
men when they have our wives and daughters in
chace., [A Hunting- piece bebind.] Exeunt omnes.
SCENE III. bo
Enter AsToLPHo and Fanrax.
Fabian. A country girl | Sir, and is this. the oe
of your adoration ?
Aftolpho. It is, and what is ſtill more -xraodinary,
her wit charms me as much as her ets
Fabian. A miracle !
Aſtolpho. She is indeed a wonder, and I have been
told that an old lady whoſe circumſtances obliged her
to dwell in retirement, has been the protectreſs of this
ſweet creature, and formed and cultivated her mind
by an excellent education, leaving her poſſeſſed of the
moſt amiable ſimplicity, a native frankneſs of 2
and an agreeable vivacity.
Fabian. Does not your highnef fear ſome _
tation?
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Aſbolpbo. What ſignifies the blood ſhe ſprings from?
A handſome woman 1s Te born above her con-
dition. |
virtue, —
doat on this little rural innocent, and what is ſtill
more extraordinary, with but little hopes of ſucceſs.
Fabian. Ts ſhe ſo coy then ?
Aſtolpho. My anſwer here muſt be ſtill more roman-
tick. I adore her, and yet, which perhaps is the beſt
Th proof, I have never dared to utter my paſſion.
Fabian. But how can you hope to gain her heart
without ſolicitation ?
Aftolpho, For that purpoſe I han at length retained
a female ſolicitor, Liſetta, whom I have ſent to exert
all her artifice to win her to the court. I have no re-
liance but upon her ſkill, but here they come w—_ us
retire, and watch their converſation.
SCENE IV.
\ Fabian. But the Princoſ E mil Sir her rank and
Aftolpho. I confeſs them. Yet my heart, ſpite of
myſelf, is on the point of proving faithleſs to her. 1
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1 And morning ſtreaks the purple D. |
| 1 wake to love with jocund glee
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5 With ſecret Pleaſure T ſurvey
| The frolic birds in amorous play, ©
Fhile fondeſt cares my heart aw
Which Aer leaps, and beats for joy.
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You muſt have, 2 very merry heart, rity: a |
to be fo chearful in ſuch Aa _— and obſcure bie
tion.
Phebe. The obſcutity of my candition/ is ws
means of my happineſs: on have I to Wer =
* tranquillity ? ?
Liſetta. Tranquillity ! — etiayhaly | cranquillit
is the pleaſure of a drone, dull and ſtupid. I love
active pleaſures, to go on in a perfect round of de-
lights, that whirl one about till one's almoſt giddy |
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my dear creature, you are moſt horribly miſtaken.
Your purling ſtreams, ſecret groves, and dying ſwains,
are mighty pretty things to read of, but there is
nothing ſo abſurd in nature as preferring the gloom of
a country life amongſt a parcel of cows, ſheep, and
men like brutes, to the brilliancy of a court, —
And let me tell you, young maiden, that face was
never made to be buried in a cottage. Come,
come, I know ſomething that would make your little
heart go pit-a-pat for an exchange. You ſhall have
Nothing to do but to wiſh and be ſatisfied. You ſhall
have coaches and horſes, and jewels and ſervants.
Phabe. Alas a day! who will give me all theſe fine
things?
Liſetta. Don't you a the other * you
ſhewed a gentleman his way out of theſe woods, who
comes a hunting here ſometimes ?
Phebe. Oh that's the civil gentleman = of calls
himſelf the prince's friend. He has promiſed to ſpeak
a word for us at court, and to be ſure he'll do us real
ers for he profeſſes great regard.
Liſetta. Regard - — 2 fiddleſtick for regard, — tk
beauty as your's will command love wherever it ap-
pears, What ſignifies moping in theſe 24 an
conſider how you will ſhine in a court.
Pbœbe. Ah madam, I ſee you laugh at me. I am
not deſigned for ſuch fine folks, I ſhould be ped
to ſhew my face at court. .
Liſetta. Not you indeed. Ten is no lh thing as
' ſhame at court. — You ſhall flaunt it about in a gilt
equipage, with n bandlome footmen behind it,
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dreſſed in ſilks and ſattins, and gold and ſilver, and
fringes, and laces and flounces, with jewels on your i
fingers and diamonds in your ears, and a watch by
your, ſide. And then your toilette wt your toilette
ö Phebe. Toilette! What's that
Rh Liſetta. What a pretty Nizi tis! The ladies trea-
| ſury, from whence in all ages they draw their moſt
= laſting charms. The throne of art, the armory of
cupid, and the altar of the graces 3 it is there that
they triumph over nature, and repair the ruins of age
by the delicate touches of the ras
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Phebe. This is paſt my comprehenſion,
Uunderſtand it.
-- Liſetta. Aye to be ſure.
Phœbe. I ſhould like it vaſtly, 1 wiſh I was there.
Had 1 more charms, Colin perhaps mi icht love me
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Tes that's *a magazine of 61 arms ba
To triumph over time. 150
Whance beauty borrows half her a
Aud always * her prime.
2 4 gt the prude, cogurtte, and faint
Induftrious ſets her face,
Wile powder, patch, and waſh, and paint
Repair or give a grace.
| To arch the brow there lies the bruſb,
The comb to tinge the hair,
The Spaniſh wool to give the bluſh,
The pearl to die them fair.
Hence riſe the wrinkled, old, and grey,
In freſheſt beauty flrong, |
As Venus fair, as Flora gays
As Hebe ever young.
1 don't
Shall I grow — at court ?
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Phebe. J have a good mind and * J am afraid, —
but ſee yonder comes the e who W to
the prince.
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The fiſh nibbles, I'll Jeaye him to hook. it.
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Enter AsToLÞHo, |
Juen. Chanda fair 8 what ſtill at BR
your ruſtic employments. Fie, fie, to bury ſuch
charms in the country is treaſon againſt beauty.
Phaebe. Indeed Sir, your language is paſt my ſimple
underſtanding, —— A fine gentlewoman was here but
now, and ſhe talked all riddles to me; pray, Sir, can
you explain them ? She told me that there was a re-
ceipt at court to make beauty everlaſting, and that
ſomebody adores me; for my park I can't ſnd what ſhe
means.
Adulplo. Oh Phabs !
__ Phate. Bleſs me Sir, you ſigh, is there any ; thing
gives you pain? What is the matter with you?
Aſtolpho. I love you, Phebe.
Phaebe. Is that all? And fo you love me.
Aſtolpho.” Moſt ſincerely.
Phebe. I'm glad on't.
Aſtolpho. Indeed |
Phabe. Aye indeed, Sir. Surely Sir you will not
deny the requeſt of her you love.
Aſtalpho. No Phebe, no, name it and be ſatisfied.
_ Phebe. You know Sir, they are continually hunting
here from morn to night, if you have any intereſt, good
Sir,
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Sir, ſpeak to the prince, that we may be no more
troubled with him, for my part I can't find out what
has poſſeſſed them to run over our fields in ſuch a man-
ner; for the pleaſure of killing a little leveret they'll
deſtroy you forty acres of corn — only ſee.
Aſtolpho. Be ſatisfied, your _—_ is n
granted.
Phebe. I thank you Sir with. all my 3 and
above all I beg you will never come here, for I don't
like to ſee you.
Aflolpho. What! how's that Phebe, I hoped—-
Phebe. Hoped !—pray what Sir. |
Aſtolpho. You do not love me then
Phebe. II not I indeed—T love Colin.
Hftolpho. Vexation | who? Colin | who
Phabe. A young man in our pariſh who courts me
and, has promiſed me marriage.
Aliolpho. Conſider Phœbe, do not throw away your
affections, place them more properly. Let me conjure
you. [Taking hold of her hand.] |
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Enter Corry.
Colin. Softly, ſoftly weider you may not doch hy
Phoebe.
Aftoiphs. So here 8 my worthy rival.
Phoebe. [ putting herſelf before Colin.
I Phpbœbe. 1 pray Sir, do ndt hurt him. P
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not here to cauſe unhappineſs. He reſts ſecure for
me, if Calin is indeed ſo dear to you, be aſſured I am
his friend )
© Clin. Plague on the friendſhi p of the fox, hs
comes in ſuch a civil leering way to ſteal: away the
chickens. If you muſt needs pamper yourſelf with
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PHOEBE.
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Be calm I pray my tru? Iove dear,
You know not what you're doing,
A lord is in our preſence here, . :
Aßfront may prove our ruin. |
| Corin.'
How can I ere believe him ſuch
. Theſe trafty wiles purſuing.
TeAſt.] My lord you honou# mie too much,
A Plague on both your moving.
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Oh Colin ceaſe your idle prate;
| Your folly muſi undo us. |
You know not from & man ſo great
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Believe not what the courtiers ſwear,
They ruin whil/t they re civil,
ToARt. ] 7 thank you Sir for all your cate,
—Such kindneſs is the devil.
As TOoLPHO to PHOEBE.
I was in hopes my tenderneſs might have won upon
you; the happy Colin, J perceive, intereſts you more ;
may he be the means of compleating your happineſs,
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3 I am rewarded with affliction. But your will
ſhall be my law, adieu, remember, think upon my
love, and be aſſured of every ſervice in wy power.
1 . Exit.
Colin. Thank heaven the coal is «clear wel all is
calm agen. |
Phebe. Indeed, Colin, you We the gentleman
much too roughly.—He is a lord, and he has promiſed =
to carry me to court. |
Colin. To court! and will you go?
Phabe. To be ſure, why not? they ſay it is a
charming place, — we'll go together, love! 4
Colin. Hear me, Phebe, nothing that's handſome is
ſafe at court, his deſign is to betray you, which you
don't ſeem to ſuſpect. he talked to you about love,
why did you liſten to him, Phebe ? |
Phpœbe. What if he did talk about love, his love is
hopeleſs, and your courtiers are too well bred to offend
againſt good manners.
Colin. Ves, yes, 3 are ſuch fort of folks to be
ſure—you have found them ſo.
Phebe. Why do you ſuſpe& me? J only give e. ear to
ſuch diſcourſe to laugh at it, to laugh with you my
dear Colin, remain ſecure in that aſſurance.
Colin. O no doubt that is charming and fine, but
don' t I ſee him at this very moment lurking about,
and ſtaring upon you as if he'd look you through amt,
through? as he is not yet gone about his buſineſs, go
home to your own cottage, to-morrow you are to be
my wife, go along without any more to do. 1 tell
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' Phoebe. I can't
Colin. You muſt
Phebe. I won't
. Colin. You ſhall |
Phebe. Mighty well; Colin, 1 don' t ve tie at
your hands, let me alone |
PA OR B E.
AIR VIII.
Be not ſo croſs and rude,
You hurt me Colin—Oh —
Ay lord is much too good
To ſee me treated ſo.
His lordſhip's tender care, |
Shall keep me free from harm ;
PII tell him all I ſwear =
O lud you break my arm.
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As roLPHo, FAB IAN, and Attendants.
Aftelphe Inſolent villian ! en her this .
Colin. Let us alone Sir, I beſeech you, tis our on
affair, and you have nothing to do with us.
Fabian. Stand off, fellow, *tis the prince. |
Phœbe. The prince; you! the prince. 8
HMolpho.
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' Aftelpho. Yes, I endeavoured to conceal my rank,
that your love might be diſintereſted. But to preſerve
you I will now uſe my own authority. come
hit!£ |
Colin The prince |!—-the devil { Abe.
Adolpho. Come, Phœbe, and adorn my court, there
your beauty ſhall ſhine with all it's advantages, and
partake with the ſovereign of the homage of all hearts.
Phebe. Yes Sir, I will go with you. (To Colin)
Henceforth you ſhall learn to prize me better.
Colin. Was ever ſuch perſidy?
PHOEBE.
AER -- 1K
Go ! ſeek ſome nymph of humbler lot,
To ſhare thy board, and deck thy cot,
With joy I fly the ſimple youth
Who holds me light, or doubts my truth.
Thy breaft for love too wanton grown,
Shall mourn it's peace and pleaſure flown,
Nor fhall my faith reward a fwain
Who dcubts my love, or thinks me vain,
Colin. A plague take the whole ſex, ſay 1. wy are
25 light as chaff, and fickle as the wind.
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Thus laughed at, Jilted, and betray'd,
amp, I tear, I raue;
Capricious, light, injurious maid,
PII be no more thy ſlave.
| 7 E rend thy image from my heart,
Thy charms no more engage;
My foul fhall take the juſter part,
And love ſhall yield to rage.
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LisETTA and CLARA.
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Phæbe. Ladyſhip ! don't laugh at me.
Liſetta. One ſlight touch more. |
| Phærbe. More daubing ! have done, III no more
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'22 THE CAPRICIOUS LOVERS.
= AIX XI.
7 Fink 3 you | ladies for your care, |
But I pray you both farbear,,
Sure J am all oer ſcratches !
That your curious hands muſt place,
- Such odd ſpots upon my face |
With yew pencils, paint, and .
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How I totter in my gait,
From a dreſs of ſo much weight,
With my robe too dangling after ;
Could my Colin now but ſee _
What a thing they ve made of me,
Ob be d Jp bis ſides with laughter.
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laſt. Theſe things are wondrous awkward to me, pray
let's have done.
Clara. Vour diamonds madam.
Phœbe. O how they ſparkle. but dre are ſome
flowers — Poh, they have no ſmell | every thing i is
unnatural here. Beauty is but a painted ſign. All is
impoſture even to the very flowers,
Clara. Theſe flowers ma'am, are made to pleaſe
the ſight, not the ſmell, and in this inſtance they ex-
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The flowers which grace their native za,
Awhile put forth their bluſbing heads,
But &er the cloſe of parting day x 5
They wither, VOY and die away. 18
But theſe 3 mimic ic il bath __
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Which art at n can renew. 288 5
Liſetta. A fan for your SR.
Phebe. Dear me ! what uſe can I 2225 of this?
Liſetta. This is a wonderful inſtrument. It's exer-
ciſe is various and. * Tou ſhall hear i it ma' am.
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44 T HE CAPRICIOUS LOVERS.
AIR XIII.
For various purpoſe ſerves. * Jan,
2 thus — a decent blind, 05 ”
Between the flicks. to peep at nan, N
Nor Jet betray your mind. =. wel 1
Each action has a meaning l |
Riſentment's Sin the Jaap, 5 |
A flirt expreſſes Hrong . |
Conſent | a r gentle tap... ty K
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1 All modes of mals art, e
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_ The hayd | if not the heart.
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By love's capricious boy, ;
Who knows how lightly all mankind
Are govern'd by a toy.
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Ah ma' am, you'll ſoon underſtand the power of
this art. I am raviſh'd with it already. What an
amiable figure
Clara. What a genteel air
Liſetta. How immenſely elegant !—horrid ns
(Afide.) |
Phoebe. (Over hearing ) What did you ſay ? - |
Liſetta. Quite in nature; you'll be the object
of * adoration. 8 .
Clare.
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: Phebe. rs are Writ: yhun ln I hardly 5
know myſelf, and yet after all, a peacock, a jay, or 8
butterfly is dreſt ten times finer; here are gold and
ſilver, and jewels, and ribbands of all the colours in
the rain- bow. A great hoop that hides my real
figure, waſhes that take away my natural complexion,
ſhoes that will cripple. me, and ſtays that make _
NON." I ihe 9 was in my een *.
AIR x.
Nan od When lates finpl 05595 | OE eg
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A flream was all iy Jooking glaſs ©
| And health my only paint.
The charms I beaft, ( alas how few!)
T gave to nature s care,
5 As vier ner Jpoilt their native hue,
They could not want repai ny
Liſetta. Vour ladyſhip will excuſe me, but upon
my word, your notions are quite antiquated, and hays
notahe leaſt reliſh of the Bon Ton.
Pbæbe. Bon Ton! what's that!
Liſetta. Every thing in the world, ma'am, in the
polite world at leaſt. It is e to 2 or walk,
or talk without it ma am. 8
Phebe. What will you nd me out of my 3
ſenſes! d' n I have nct Re.
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26 THE CAPRICIOUS LOVERS.
the uſe of my eyes, my tongue, or my feet? Don't
I ſpeak plainly? Don't you underſtand me? Don i
you call this ſpeaking?
* Liſetta. Not quite according to the bon ton, 5 1
there is no occaſion for your ſpeaking plainly, it is the
worſt thing you can do, nor for my underſtanding
you, nay indeed, that's ſtill worſe than t'other, you
ſhould never ſpeak to be underſtood. As to your
manner, d-r-a-w-l out your words in a faint weak voice
as if you did not know how to get them off your
tongue. Your ladyſhip, entre nous, ſpeaks too much in
the country tone. You ſeem all health and ſpirits,
Put a little fickly delicacy into your accents, languiſh
with your eyes; and totter in your gait, and then
you'll be quite in the bon ton ma'am.
Phebe. How ſtrange and ridiculous | 1 this
place is the region of abſurdities.
AIR. XV.
How flrange the mode nick ruth neglects
And reſis all beauty in defects
But we by homely nature taught,
The' rude in ſpeech are plain in thought.
Liſetta. Why there again! in your ſinging now!
Your ladyſhip has a fine pipe, but not a note accord-
ing to the bon ton. No Italian expreſſion, which is
the life and ſoul of all muſic, the very eſſence of har-
mony; your ſingers of taſte will run up and down the
ladder of ſounds from the cellar up to the garret, now
rumbling * in the grand Spirituaſs _ they make
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your ears crack again, and then in the Piano they ex-
pire like a ſwan to their own melody. In our fa-
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yourite compoſitions we are not contented with making z
the ſound an echo to the ſenſe, but by a happy jumb-
ling of both together create the moſt exquiſite confu-
ſion of harmony in the univerſe. Pleaſe your lady-
ſhip, Tl give you a ſpecimen; and __. if you .
1 III — yow to court.
ATR XVI.
Wo thunder i in thy accents ll”
No fear ſhall ſhake my daring foul,
O tyrant, grumble, rant and rave,
Ay ſpirit ſearns to be thy flave.
But pity lends her ſoothihg aid,
Can I forſake my tender maid 2
O tyrant, vain is thy decree,
Her mournful looks are death to me.
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Lads, Yes Fabian, I do obſerve, nay 90 NE. un-
eaſineſs. The ſenſtbility of the princeſs alarms me;
I know her virtues, and am convinced of, her affection
for me. Though from her delicacy ſhe has not hitherto
upbraided me, I perceive ſhentertains ſtrong ſuſpicions,
which you know are but too well grounded.
Fabian. Yet hoſe my lord, are eaſily removed.
Aſtolpho. And how?
Fabian. Your highneſs' orders liars way done it,
for what you promiſed Pherbe, will be a proof, which
Emily cannot ſuſpect, that this amour has nothing
real in it. When this fame Colin whom the young
madam doats on comes do ente, * love will be a
blind for your's. Vi 1ou
Afolpho. True I have feng. for 8 but what then ?
pray explain.
Fabian. The awkward ſimplicity of country lovers
muſt make an agreeable contraſt with the elegance of
court manners, an amuſement only fit for laughter.
As ſuch only you deſigned it, for that purpoſe you :
brought them hither, for entertainment and obſerva-
tion. The princeſs cannot ſuſpect your deſigns upon
Phabe, when her own Calin is permitted to be with
Hers. and yeu will eaſily find means to compaſs your
intentions when all ſuſpicions are quieted.
Afielpho, But fee the princeſs comes I would avoid
her — Exeunt.
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Enter uv and CL ARA.
doubt.
Clara. Do not torment yourkl, and create i
nary affliction. .
AIR XVII.
Ourſotver foo often We 5
And wrong our judgement to believe,
Mben thinking harſhly of the ſwain :
Me ae our hapes and brood on pain.
Em. With the generality of women 1 confeſs the
heart is not ſo much affected as their vanity is hurt by
the fickleneſs of their lovers. Self love is too often
the link which unites their ſouls, but the only intereſt
which ſways my boſom is the pureſt and tendereſt
affection. |
Clara. Believe me, „ madam, the prince is no franger
to your tenderneſs he will return it.
Emily. You- would comfort me 1 e 1
am alarmed from too flight a cauſe. However, watch
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Transfix the maiden's tender heart,
Of eaſy faith and fond belief 8
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Till left her helpleſs late to mourn,
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Aſtolpho. Well, what think you of the courts does
it delight you, Phabe 2
Phebe. It is the ſeat of wonders. 3 thing
changes character here, the men are quite different. I
met one who is the lord of the manor in our neigbour- |
hood, 2 very proud gentleman amongſt us, he carries
his head ſo high and looks ſo fierce, and threatens
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upon him, "Rem he was bowing and ſcraping and
cringing, Why are they ſo complaiſant here, theſe
great folks who terrify and C mineer over us in the
country ? Does the court make them ſo much better?
No, I believe if they do any good here tis only to
get a right to do ſomething. bad elſewhere. |.
Aſtolpho. I hear you with pleaſure. Did not the.
brilliancy and the politeneſs of court ſurprize 8
Phœbe. Oh they were extravagantly polite indeed.
They paid their compliments with wonderful civility,
and ran over my perſon and features in a loud whiſper
with the moſt minute obſervation, — upon my word
ſhe's a mighty. pretty tight thing, quite an angel for the
country, what a poor little innocent it is, what an air
ſhe has, what a walk, what a voice !—— _
. Aſtolþho., Oh, that. is mere pleaſantry— they'll. be
more careful by and by, and ſhew you infinitely, more
reſpect. They will be eager to invent new diverſions
for you, they will read your wiſhes in your eyes, 1
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where the prince pays his.
' Aftalpho. Nay, but Emily, you miſundertand.
- Emily to Phæbe. Your ſuperior charms,” | |
Phoebe. Pray madam do not mock me. ;
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my preſence interrupts I ſee, I will retire.”
Phæbe. Stay, ſtay, we have no loco e to n of
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I muſt approve your highneſs flame,
Your paſſion for the fair,
And all the world muſt feel the ſame,
Who marks her ſhape and air.
A mien ſo rich in ev'ry grace,
Her manners ſo polite,
Such beauty beaming From her face,
Mas ever ſuch a fright !
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Hhæbe. so then, the prince is her lover. Yes, yes,
I plainly perceive it. Upon my word, this place
abounds with very odd cuſtoms. (To A fiolpho) Can
you divide your heart to two at a time. (To Emily) 5
The prince loves me. too, madam, he has ſworn it.
Emily. (ironically to R Meer .
that's all.
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Phabeto Emily. You need not be under any ap-
5 prehenſions on my aoceunt. F 'or «my . I love
Colin.
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come, I told you wy the Don' t give any
credit, 0 |
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Aſtolpho. Twas but a whim that cauſed all this, for
J imagined the ruſtic ſimplicity-of theſe peaſants might
make an agreeable contraſt with the refined manners
_ 6f our courtiers.
| Emily. (Forcing a laugh) A very ridiculous projet
truly! Oh we ſhall be charmingly amuſed; * Come
let us hear ſome of her prattle. Well my dear, |
and how do you like the court ? Wen
Ppbœbe. May I ſpeak, my lord?
| Alalpbo. Oh, what you pleaſe.
_ 'Phebe. Then if 1 muſt fairly confeſs the truth, I
am heartily tired of this horrid place, where every
object I perceive ſeems a contradiftion_to common
ſenſe. Their whole deſign is to reverſe nature; where
people are for ever buſy in doing nothing, where they
| eat without appetite, and lie down without reſt, where
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their mirth is all grimace, and their pleaſure nothing
but perpetual noiſe. 1 WT
Clara. Her obſervation, madam. to. me ſeems per-
fectly juſt; groves and retirement are your a
places for innocence and imply:
AIR. XX.
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Calm Zephyr breathes a gentle gale, et,
4 But ruſtling thro' the lofty trees
- I.. fwells beyond the peaceful breeze.
1 Thus free from envy's poiſon'd dart,
—_ | You boaſt a pure unruffied heart,
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yourſelf, I want none of him. I am ſure, I did not
come here to look for him. (weeping) I have nothing
to reproach myſelf with, only let them ſuffer me to go
and I ſhall be happy. Is it my fault? what have I to
do with it? If Colin was to treat me ſo, inſtead of
making myſelf ſo pleaſant with other folks, I ſhould
die for grief, —But what is this I hear, — ah tis Colin,
how engaging he'll find me, let n me ſee if he will re
collect me in this dreſs. EIS
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A I A. XXII. |
Plague take ſuch folks,
| Their whims, their jokes,
With their nonſenſe, rant and riot,
| This calls me clown,
That ſhoves me down,
Can a body neer be quiet?
„ S8ao puſh'd about,
Thruſt in, thruſt out,
In a tumult, noiſe and hurry
m ſqueez'd to death,
Poe bſt my breath,
And 18 wits run ws ferry.
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make a fool and laughing ſtock of me. A parcel of
_ ſervants I think they called them, though I took
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36 THE CAPRICIOUS LOVERS.
them for lords, they were all ſo belac'd and beruffied,
have put me into this drefs forfooth in ſpite of my
teeth; and what have I to do with theſe taudry trap-
pings. I want nothing in this world but mine own
ſweet- heart Phæbe. They cams truly to fetch me
hither, and yet I can't find her; a plague upon em,
every thing diſtracts me; I know not whether J ftand
on my head or * legs.
Phebe. I'Il e' en go and accoſt n -Sirt Sir.
Colin. Lud lud, what can this fine lady want with
me? 1 1
Phebe. This is the luckieſt accident in the world;
he can never find me out through this diſguiſe.
Colin. How ſhe ſurveys me, I believe ſhe'll look me
through and through, EE,
Phabe. I'IlLl een try his eniliiicy, — and pray Sir
what occaſion -cafi have brought you to court?
Colin. Me? I only come to look for our Tau.
Pbœbe. Who Sir, Phæbe?
Colin. Ves, a tight laſs of our pariſh, who has pre-
mis'd to be my wife, but ſhe has left me in the lurch.
Phebe. You amaze me, that's ſcarce poſſible.
Colin. Aye forſooth but it's true. |
Phœbe. But after all, Sir, why ſhould that give you
any manner of uneaſineſs, a perſon of your figure I
am ſure has it always in his power to make a better
choice; you was never made to be treated with diſdain.
I tell you ſo, Sir, as a friend.
Calin. Friend! a friend to me, madam. Lord! I
never ſaw you before in wy life. |
Phe.
Phabe, Upon my word, Sir, I wiſh you well.
Colin. What? without knowing me
Phebe. Oh Sir, people of your fort are 1
known; you have a certain air in your countenance, an
appearance in your dreſs.
Colin. Oh madam, upon my . |
Phebe. Which. een explain themſelves to my
eyes.
Colin. O, as to that, your e
. - Phebe. And then what is ſtill more diſtinguiſhing,
your exceſſive politeneſs. 85
Colin. Politeneſs ! I polite ! indeed, madam, I don't
pretend to know any thing of that matter. To be
ſure I was always counted a civil body, and I know
how to keep my diſtance and doff my hat, for I know
that's good manners for certain when one talks to 2
great lady.
Phoebe. But you Sir are a a
Colin. A gentleman! I a gentleman ! O ink; 0
lud.
Phœbe. I ſee it plainly, but you are i too
modeſt, you are indeed. ——
Colin. Yes, yes, forſooth, I am a country gentle-
man. |
Phœbe. * that "IM is Py in DE that is a ſuff-
cient recommendation, and demands a peculiar pro-!
tection.
Colin. (Aſide) Odſbud, but I believe this lady has
taken a fancy to me. They had good reaſon indeed,
who told me one need but ſhew one s face at court to
make one's fortune.
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Phoebe. Bleſs me, what a charming figure; what
eaſe, what elegance, Oh Sir, if you come hither to
make your fortune you cannot fail of ſucceſs, Come,
come, you ſhall be my ſervant. — O heavens what
ails me] I am fo dizzy I can * ſtand; lord how
my heart flutters ! |
Colin. O madam, leis ſhall I ait you.
Phebe. No Sir, I thank you, by no means. I be-
gin to recover, I feel myſelf grow better Face. Oh
the ſweet, fweet gentleman ! .
Colin. Indeed, madam, you frighten me, what would
you have me do, pray ſpeak, madam.
Phœbe. You muſt—O Sir ſpare my bluſhes, jon
how I tremble !—You muſt love me a little can
"you ? will you ? if you do your fortune is made.
Colin. Fhis can be no trick. It grieves me to ſee
her in ſuch a taking. T'll &en pretend to fall in love
with her. Adad, I muſt have more about me than I
dreamt of to make ſuch — impreſſions on ladies of
ſuch high faſhion.
Phoebe. (Aſide) So ſo, he begins to waver. Let me
ſee how far he will carry it—well Sir, and will you
agree to my propaſal ? —— give me your hand.
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Colin. Oh madam, I-II dare not.
Phebe. Am I fo frightful then ?—come, come.
Colin. There then—I never was hard-hearted in all
Lo days.
Phoebe. (di e herſelf ) Oh traitor, Fare I
caught you this is no more than J expected; now
look upon me. Is it thus you reward your Phoebe ?
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Phebe. Yes, it is Phebe.. I have found you now. ;
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Colin, O maiden, think me not jo baſe,
J feign'd i 11 proteſt.
Phoebe. Go, go, deceitful ſwain.
Colin. Say not theſe words again,
Phcebe. Thy guilt is now too true. 5
Colin. Such words are death from you.
Phoebe. No better are thy du. 0
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Damon. Y E, aye, eee your ene folk, for
all their vapouring and bouncing, are no
honeſter than they ſhould be. Who would have
thought that our Phebe would have been ſent for to
court!
Hob. Sent for quoth a, no Damon, .
drawn in by artifice.— Lord! what a parcel of nonſenſe
of teeth, and lips, and ivory, and coral, and diamonds,
did ſome of thoſe ſcented puppets pour out before the
wenches in our village, till the maids grew ſo fan-
taſtic that they did not know their heads from their
tails. 8
Damon. Fair 1 cover foul 133 ; give me
plain ſpeech, and plain manners I fay. |
Hob. By my troth, Gaffer, I never could abide
theſe leg-making gentry, who, bow and ſcrape, and
palaver, with their hats ſtuck, like gizards, under their
arms; and all the while a mean no more by their
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civility than to cuckold the huſband, or . the
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Damon. Thank Heav'n Hebbinol, we have none of
thoſe vices, we are not ſo polite.
Hobbinol. In good truth, neighbour, I envy none
of thoſe ſort of folk.
AIR - HK,
Tho my dreſs, as my manners, is ſimple and plain,
A raſcal I hate, and a knave I diſdain ;
My dealings are juſt and my conſcience is clear,
And I'm richer than thoſe who have thouſands a year.
Do bent down with age and for ſporting uncouth,
J feel no remorſe from the follies of youth;
I flill tell my tale, and rejoice in my ſong,
And my boys think my life not a moment too long,
Let the courtiers, thoſe dealers in grin and grimace,
Creep under, dance over for title or place ;
Above all the titles that flow from a throne,
That of honeſt I prize, and that title's my own.
But ſure they cannot mean miſchief to our young
couple, ſince my boy Colin has been ſent for to court
with all haſte, and to meet your Phœbe they ſaid. —
Body O me, how their eyes will ſparkle when they
meet each other! I'll warrant you now ſhe is as me-
lancholly as a turtle that has loſt | it's mate.
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42 THE CAPRICIOUS LOVERS.
Damon. But for my part, Hobbinol, I cannot abide
the thoughts of her being at court; why the place is
for all the world like a fair, full of nonſenſe, noiſe
and ſhew.
Hob. Aye neighbour, they 5 fair here all the |
year round, and a plentiful market too, only the goods
now and then are a little ſtale. |
Damon. A plague take their town manners I ſay.
Though I doft my hat never ſo low, and beſpeak
them never ſo civilly, they do but laugh in my face.
Adod, I think we been as proper folks as the beſt of
them in our time. They mun keep their flaunts and
fleers to themſelves. It is a wonderment to me, neigh-
bour, how we found our way hither. ;
Heb. Or how we eſcaped whole from ſo many
dangers. I thought I ſhould have had my body
ſqueezed to death by one of thoſe Iggetting fellows,
with poles in his hand and a chair at his backſide, who
thruſt me into the kennel almoſt under the wheel of a
coach, and then ſurlily cry'd out, “by your leave.”
Had I known that had been the way of aſking a
civil queſtion, ecod! but I would have had my IT
ready to have given him an anſwer.
Damon. Well, well, theſe diſaſters are at an end
now.
Hob. True 8 true, we mun 1 bide here,
we muſt try what we can to recover our children, and
for my part I do think Colin will be Pee mad if he
miſſes his dear Phebe. E renn.
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SCENE II.
5 dreſſing room in the Palace.
PfoEBE, LIS ETTA.
AI R. XXIII.
From flow'r to flow'r the butterfly,
O' er fields or gardens ranging,
Sips fweets from each and flutters by,
And all his Fg 15 changing.
| Thus roving man new objects ſway,
25 By various charms delighted,
While fhe who pleaſes moſt to day
To-morrow ſhall be flighted.
Faithleſs, faithleſs Colin“ And pray, madam, does
Colin know the prince deſigns this viſit to me?
Liſetta. O yes, he is of it—long ſince,
poor ſoul.
Phehe. The news of it has affected him no doubt
| Liſetta. Oh yes, madam, for a quarter of an hour,
or ſo. Now he'd run up and down ſtamping and
. tearing, and raving and rending like a madman; then
he'd ſtop ſhort of a ſudden, and folding his arms
like a lover deſpairing beſide a clear ftream, heave 2
deſperate ſigh, with the moſt rueful length of face
mortal ever beheld. The Knight of the woeful coun-
tenance was a cherub in compariſon,
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A1 R. XXIV.
Oh *twould pierce a heart of fone
To hear him roar and blubber,
So great à lover ne er was known,
— Nor e' er ſo great a lubber.
Like little maſter left alone,
By gay mamma forſaken,
With hiccup, ſob, and figh and groan
His heart i is almoſt WO |
But, like the reſt of his ſex, ſorrow took no faſt
hold of him, *twas but an April ſhower, and all was
fair again. a
Phote. Indeed Liſetta, v were it not for his treachery
I could almoſt find in my heart to pity him. But,
dear Liſetta, T find myſelf ſtrangely fatigued ; your
pleaſures here pall the mind without entertaining it;
my ſpirits are quite overpower'd.
Liſetta. I'm glad of it; now, now you begin to
have the hon ton, —lI was ſure your ladyſhip could not be
ſo long amongſt the polite world without catching the
manners of it, *Tis nothing but nerves, weak nerves,
2 and faſhionable vapours, things of courſe. |
Phebe. Vapours, and weak nerves, why can it be a
faſhion to be ſick ? |
Liſetta. O lord ! as I told you _ it's downright |
ungenteel to be otherwiſe. Your ruddy complexions,
and active limbs, may do very well for a dairy maid
in
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in the country; but here they are perfectly unneceſ-
fary, nay, abſolutely improper. Lard, ma'm, it is
as unfaſhionable for a fine lady to be without a com-
plaint, as tis to be out of debt. |
Pybœbe. The more I obſerve your manners here, the
more they ſurprize me. But were it not poſſible,
madam, that Colin might be concealed ſome where
| here-abouts, that he may over-hear our intercourſe ?
Liſetta. Undoubtedly, madam; but for what purpoſe
does your ladyſhip intend
Phebe. The deareſt in the world, revenge.
Liſetta. That is indeed a moſt delicious morſel, 3
the injuſtice he has done you by his ſuſpicions, deſerves
the worſt of mortifications from your hands.
Phœbe. Well, Liſetta, E leave that management to
you. The prince will be delighted with it. Adieu,
I ſhall attend his highneſs's-pleaſure,
Exit Liſetta.
If Colin Names me now tis not without reaſon, but
I will fill ſurprize him more. Alas! why did I come
hither ! Is it the air I breathe which poiſons all my
peace ? at home, my only thought was mirth, for
there all was tranquillity, pleaſure and happineſs.
AIR
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AIR. XXV.
When far from faſhion's gilded ſcene =
J breath'd my native air,
My thoughts were calm, my mind ſerene,
No doubtings harboured there.
: But now no more myſelf J find,
Diftraftion rends my breaſt ;
While hopes and fears diſturb my mind,
And murder all my reſt,
Enter Emily, CLARA.
Emily. So, Clara, I ſtill find her here you ſee. The
ſo much boaſted charms of the country will I fear loſe
all their reliſh after the ſplendour of a court. ©
Clara, Love, madam, is undoubtedly very intoxicat-
ing, and it is no wonder if the addreſſes of a prince
turn the brain of an ignorant village laſs.
AI R.
ſimple folks who are the ſervants of nature.
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AIR XXVI.
Flattering hopes the mind deceiving
' Eaſy faith too often cheat,
Waman, fond and all believing,
Loves and hugs the dear deceit.
Noiſy ſhew of pomp and riches,
Cupid's trick to catch the fair,
| Lowly maids 160 oft bewitches,
Flattery is the beauty's ſnare,
Emily to Phebe. So then, you will not leave us
yet. The court has ſtronger attractions than you _
were aware of, Phebe.
Phebe Alas! madam, did it depend upon my
choice I would be far off, The pleaſures of this
place are loſt upon me, they are too artificial for us
Emily. Quit then, as faſt as you can, a place fo con-
trary to your manners. I would not delay a moment.
Alas! why cannot I ſhake off tnis en pomp
and pageantry of courts ?
AIR
4 THE CAPRICIOUS LOVERS.
AIR. XXVII.
What's all the pomp of gaudy courts,
But vain delights, and tinſel toys,
While pleaſure crowns your rural ſports +
With calm content, and tranquil joys.
Clara. O lard! madam, how pretty muſt it be to
wander along by the flowery banks of murmuring
rivers, and to breath the delightful fragrance of the
meadows ! Oh tis a paradiſe on earth.
A I R. XXVIII.
Return, ſweet laſs, to flocks and ſwains,
Mphere ſimple nature mildly reigns,
here love is every ſhepherd's care, |
And every nymph is kind as fair. :
The court has only tinſel toys,
Inſipid mirth and idle noiſe;
But rural joys are ever new, Rs
Fhile nymphs are kind, and ſhepherds true.
Phebe. Upon my word, ladies, you reaſon excellent-
ly well in your turn. I perceive the advice of every
body flows from ſelf-intereſted motives. You would
moſt obligingly inform me that my preſence diſpleaſes
you, madam ; I heartily believe it. But, now [I
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think on it, I can't go yet, *tis abſolutely impoſſible. I
have a particular engagement with the N Ws
Emily. With the prince!
Phebe. Yes, with the prince; Oh you will 1
exceedingly.
Emily. Laugh! I laugh! ww]
Phebe. The prince you know is in love with you. |
Emily. (/ighs) And what-then ?
Phoebe. Fhen!— why he deſires an interview with
mo. eo en DT es OG
Emily. Which you have granted, I ſuppoſe,
Phebe. Oh, doubtleſs. It is not for folks in ſuch
an humble ſituation as mine to refuſe ſo great an
| honour, and indeed, after ſo many inſtances of friend-
ſhip and protection, it were a fin to deny ſo ſmall a re-
queſt, But I ſee, madam, you are diſcompoſed.
Emily. Who I! not I, not in the leaſt,
Pbœbe. I can't abide to be thought ungrateful.
Emily. So then, Phœbe, after all this parade of
honour, and virtue, and love, you can make an ne
nation ? ©} ee,
Phebe. Come, come, don't be ſuſpicious; 5 7
you dread a rival, you may find a friend. I pity your
uneaſineſs madam, nor will I ever be the cauſe of
adding to it. Come then with me, and, if poſlible, en-
deavour to forget your jealous reſentment. I warrant
you all will be well yet. e
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Enter CoLry.
4 195 XXIX.
05 booby, Blockhead, numpſtul, aſs, :
Oh fatal ſtrange miſtake ;
fear Doe lift my deareſt laſs ;
Ob ſure my heart will break,
Where Hall I now my Phœbe find,
05 lovely, cruel fair;
And will ſbe then be ſtill untind?
I tremble, I deſpair.
I'm ruined, dead, undone. They have bewitched
her, they have poifoned her, they have given her
ſomething to ſteal away her heart; and yet I ſcarce
can credit it. It is impoſſible — what Phebe meet
the prince, alone! alas! it is but too true. My folly
has aggravated her to an entire negle& of me. Well,
Heaven be thanked I am not quite friendleſs yet, The
go0d-natured gentlewoman who brought me hither has
promiſed to place me where I may over-hear all, and if
I find my ſuſpicions true, I know how to be revenged
for the trick ſhe has played me. Yes, I will give vent
to my anger, yes, thou cruel, hard- hearted Phœbe, III
tell you to your face that you are a falſe, ungrateful
huſſey,
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.huſſey, and then — I'll go and hang myſelf; and then
—Yyou ſhall never ſee me more. But yonder's
che fine lady my friend and guide. Lord! Lord!
how my heart beats! how I dread the event
Exit.
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An apartment in the Palace.
Enter PH OE EE. |
So then — hitherto all things are rightly diſpoſed, |
Colin now may be ſatisfied of our interview; how -
ſtrangely am I ſituated ! at once the object of the
prince's love, which I never was ambitious of; of te
princeſs's jealouſy, whom. I wiſh to - ſerve; and my 3
own Colin's hard ſuſpicions, which are moſt unjuſt; 1
| but here comes the prince. 0 ' 8 | |
Enter As rol ho.
Well, my Lord, you find me an obedient fervant; —
what would your highneſs have with me ?
Aſtolpho. Can that be a queſtion now Phæbe, does
not the tenor of my whole behaviour explain itſelf to
you? Come, come, you know I love you.
Phebe. Love me, alas my lord, I was born to bp |
| humbler hopes, and your highneſs can never be at a |
, loſs for more worthy objects. | :
| Aftolpho. Worthier—Surely Phebe, you take a _
ſure in creating my miſery.
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Phœbe. No, I would rather wiſh to make you
happy.
Aftolpho.” Alas ! T have wiſh'd, I have ſighed a long
time for a heart without guile, a heart that was ſimple
and ingenuous; a happineſs not to be met with at court.
Phebe. Oh, my lord, that is a happineſs you have
always in your own power.
Aſtolpho. My power! do you e my paſſion
then? am I ſo bleſt?
Phoebe. Indeed I will not wel one moment to
make you ſo. Wait but my return and I will con-
vince you. | Exit.
Aſtolpho. What can this mean? I am aſtoniſhed,
my ſpirits are all in arms, and my heart flutters with
expectation. 55
Phebe returns with Emily. |
' Phebe. There my lord, (preſenting Emily) that hap-
pineſs is now your own; and I feel a ſatisfaction in
being the means of it. | Exit.
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Enter 0 o LIN from behind.
A 1 R XXX.
Confuſion, tortures, death, Ar,
Why am I thus betrayed?
A Thy vows I whiflle to the air,
o, perjured, treacherous maid.
0 E mily hots at Colin, and enter Phebe on the other fade.)
T ſee my fault, I bluſh for ſhame,
Oh joy to find thee true!
Oh nymph forbear that fault to blame
Which roſe from love to yo.
Phœbe to Aftolpho. Now. Sir you are maſter of that
treaſure you ſo long deſired; be happy in the poſſeſſion
of it. And now, Colin, what is become of your
jealouſy ? take care how you harbour again a fiend
which deſtroys all peace. |
Colin. I begin to revive again. :
Emily to Aſtolpho. Aſſured as I am of your incon-
ſtancy, I might perhaps break out into reproaches,
but your conduct afflicts me more than it offends, and
makes .me unhappy without being violent. I ſee, Sir,
I have loſt your heart. (going)
Aſtolpho. ( flopping her) Stay, ſtay my princeſs, our
hearts were not deſigned for ſuch ſeparation, Phæbe, it
is true, by thus enlightning my bewildered ſenſes has
humbled
8 THE CAPRICFOUS LOVERS.
humbled me ſufficiently, and I ſhould bluſh indeed, if
I did not endeayour to imitate her. Her example ſhalt
excite me, and if my revived affections are worthy of |
a return, Hymen ſhall unite us on this day.
Emily. Love ſurely may excuſe its own frailties. —
Oh Phebe, let me embrace thee, how much do I owe
to your friendſhip [—how ſhall I reward you?
Phebe. Leave that to Colin, madam, for from him
alone I expect it. Come Colin, endeavour to amend
your errors ; here, take my hand, now you know all
my vengeance,
AI R. XXXI.
Again in ruſtic weeds array'd,
A fample ſiwain, a ſimple maid,
O'er rural ſcenes with joy we'll rove,
oF By dimpling brook, or cooling grove.
Thy hands ſhall pluck, to grace my bow'r,
The luſcious fruit, the fragrant flow'r,
Whilſt joys ſhall Bleſs, for ever new,
TY Phoebe kind, my * true.
Colin. Nor ſhalt thou be deceived—let us away Wi th
haſte. We will be married ſtrait, this is true joy
indeed; what need of ſo much myſtery to be happy?
but however, Sir, I pray you leave off your hunt-
ing on our grounds. Peace and quietneſs are better
than all the honours in the world -
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ac MIC OPER A.
A I R. XXXII.
Why fhould I now, my love, *
That toil awaits thy chearful fwain,
Sence labour oft a: faveet beſtows
Which lazy ſplendour never knows.
Hence ſprings the purple tide of health,
De rich man's wiſh, the poor man's wealth,
And ſpreads thoſe bluſhes o er the face
n dich come and go with native grace.
The pride of dreſs, the pomp of ſhew,
Are trappings oft to cover woe
But we, whoſe wiſhes never roam,
Shall taſte of real joys at home.
Aſtalpho. May | heav” n protect you both, live long in
peace and happineſs, and ſhare my bounties as you
pleaſe.
Enter FABIAN.
Here are two old men come after Calin, and Phobe,
they make ſuch a buſtle and clamour one would think
they were ſtark ſtaring mad.
Aſtolpho. Oh bring them in, the W will x now
be general indeed. (To W 0 ) what uneaſineſs * my
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I tell you, I will have my daughter. ,
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Give me my ſon, I ſay, body o'me, you 8
fac'd chitterling; Oh, that I was dut threefcore for
your ſake, | |
Damon. Don t talk to me, my own's my own, and
I will come in.
Phebe. . heavens! my father.
; Enter HoßgBINOL, and DAMox.
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Damon. So, ſo, we have found you now Adod,
but we have not. They do —— but make fools of
us, I think.
Hob. For my part I believe it is the land of OY I
did not want ſuch fine folks, our ſearch is after a
couple of ftray'd children, and they told us they were
here. (Going up to Colin) I pray you, Sir, can you tell
me any tidings? (diſcovering him) Ods my life, its my
own boy Colin; I am tranſported, I am overjoyed,—
and why did not you anſwer your father, you dog ?—
Only fee, Damon, how they have bedizened him, a
looks for all the world like a king in the puppet-
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- Phebe to Damon. And here too is your Phœbe, Sir,
It is no wonder you ſhould not diſcover me through
this diſguiſe, ſince even the quick ſighted eyes of a
lover have been deceived before now.
Damon. Have I recovered thee at laſt, my child !
My neighbour and I have had a weariſome purſuit
after thee.
Colin.
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Culia. All is well that ends well, father; we ſhall
now be as happy as the day is long, thanks to the
prince there. In truth we are much obliged to him.
Hob. Oblig'd ! quoth a, yes, yes, 1 "OA he
has been very ne
A IR. XXXIIL
No doubt but your fool ſcap has known
His highneſs obligingly kind,
— Odzoots I could nock the fool down,
Was e er OY a couckoldy kind?
To be ſure, like a good oleh ſpouſe,
You ve lent him a part F your bed; -
He has fitted the horns to your brows,
And J. fee them ſprout out of your head,
To heep your wife virtuous and chaſte
The court is a wonderful ſchool,
V lord you've an excellent taſte,
And, ſon, you are a cuckoldy fool.
I your lady ſhould bring you an heir,
Tye blood will flow rich in his veins,
| Many thanks to my lord for his care
— You dog, I could knack out your brains,
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Colin. I ſcorn to be any man's be, |
I know what is proper and right.
Hob. You talk, Sir, exceedingly brave,
You puppy, get ont of my fight.
Colin. Dear father, ne er truſi to report,
| My Phoebe it true to her ſibain.
Hob. Then why this fine jaunt up to court?
You dupe, you're a cuckold in grain.
Aſtalþho. Be not ſo diſtruſtful, old friend. I have
ſeen my error, and repent it. The temporary uneaſi-
neſs you have found in the loſs of your children, will
be amply compenſated in the happineſs of to-day.
Here (taking Emily by the hand) my affections are ſettled.
Phœbe merits no ſuſpicions, and if mutual love hap-
Pily rewarded can enſure a bleſſing upon earth, her
union to-day with Colin ſhall effect it. Come, come,
we ſhall all be happy.
Emily to Hebbinol. Y ou may be perfectly ſatisfied, Sir,
your fears are all groundleſs. It is from the conviction of
her innocence, and by her interpoſition, that all parties
are reconciled. Surely you ought to be fatiched on
this point, when you ſee I am.
Hob. Say you ſo? why then, come hither nen
Heav'n bleſs you. — Body o' me, but I cry for joy.
Damon. Let me join my bleſſing too. And now,
: adod, Va as gay as a lark, and as light as a cork.
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ſweet it is to gain the affections of a heart which owes
all its charms to innocence and fimplicity ! but to find
one without guile in the midſt of courts, whoſe
tivated by art, makes up my peculiar felicity.
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Colin. For thee my love ſhall ever burn,
Thou art my fondeſt aim. |
| Phoebe. Ay love ſhall yield thee fweet return,
I burn with equal flame.
Emily. No care ſball &er my ſoul annoy,
No fears my Bliſs deſtroy.
Colin. For thee my love ſhall burn, +
Phoebe. My love ſhall yield return.
Emily. Love is our whole employ,
All. Ob, this is perfect joy.
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HE Author of The cata re-
duke to an ignorant eviler; or,
| The Blackſmich refured, be gins
his nb performance with acquainking
the public, Thar he takes up the pen, not
Fo much in defence of his abſent friends,
(one of whom was in Briftol at the time
of his writing), as of the truth. I muſt
beg the ſame indulgence of the reader,
while I dd juftice-ro the character of a
treated by this as mean, as unequal adver-
fary, in his pretended Refutation of enthu-
ſlaſm delineated; which, in my humble o-
pinion, is a performance, that will be ever
unanfwered: And I take this, A
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PREFACE.
of publickly thanking irs honeſt and inge-
nuous Author, for the eminent ſervice he
has done Chriſtianity, and the Proteſtant
cauſe. ' I have had a perfect knowledge of
him from his infancy, and poſitively affirm,
that he is in every reſpect exactly the re-
verſe of what this contemptible ſcribler has
drawn him. It is ſome what ſtrange, that
a perſon of the Blackſmith's public cha-
racter ſhould lie under ſuch a charge, and
yet his neighbours and acquaintances, who
ſee him daily, be entirely ignorant of it,
till this fellow, who knows neither his face:
nor his name, can furniſh the world vith
than 50⁰ miles. I who know him very
well, do in verho ſacerdotis, declare, Ihat
he is a man who has all the good qualities
that can meet together, to - recommend
him. He is poſſeſſed of all tlie parts of
learning that are valuable in a clergyman,
in a degree this petulant Reprover is ut-
terly incapable of poſſeſſing any ſingle one.
He has joined to a good skill in the chree
Yue languages, a a great compaſs of the
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beſt philoſophy; and his writings are ©
proof of his piety. And to all this learn-
ing, and the good uſe he has made of it,
is added a temper happy beyond expreſſi-
on: A ſweet, eaſy, modeſt, inoffenſive, o-
bliging behaviour adorn all his actions; and
no paſſion, vanity; inſolence or oſtentation,
appear, either in what he writes or ſays:
And yet theſe faults are often incident to
the beſt men in the freedom of converſa-
tion, and in writing againſt impertinent
and unreaſonable adverſaries, eſpecially
uch as (like this Reprover) ſtrike at the
foundation of virtue and religion. This
is the learning, this the temper of the
Blackſmich, who, becauſe he has made a
ery laudable attempt to reſcue Chriſtia-
ity from the power of enthuſiaſm, muſt
e blackened and defamed ; mult be baſe-
worried out of the great and clear re-
Jutation he has all his life- time been poſ-
fled of, by men who have never read any
F his wrigings, and if they did could not
derſtand Wo And he that has ſo ma-
e. ſhining qualities muſt be inſulted by e-
e fry worthleſs wretch, as if he had as little
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that are agaiaſt, even as chis Reprover,
who by the ſpecimen he has given, che
world of his learning and good manners e:
vidently proves him to have been trivon
conceptus et educatus ftercore. : "1,
I hus much che love of truth obliges me
publicly to teſtify in favour of a ande
ingenuous adveriary, he being a member c
che eſtabliſhed church in this kingdom, ane
Jo a NI of the church of Scotland.
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1 force of a command, I ſhall endea vour in the beſt
manner I am able, to give you'{atisfaQion in relation
40the-patophlet noi Gnder'conſdgration, inicled; A
-ſaſotable rebuke to an ignorant reviler; or, Thę
blackfmith refuted. It is in my dpinion. at. firſt light
apparent, the difference between the two writers Jies
pretiſely in this, that the one has clear and juſt-notir
ons of his ſubject, the other ſeems to be at a loſs hat
' 4d fay; and betrays the moſt profound iguotrance of
what he had undertaken to writd upon. A very noble
and equal match this. The ſacceſs has been as equal
truthi againſt fabſhood, learning againſt Iguoradiees
ſame againſt infamy. The Blackſmith had maintained
That faith, belief, bt the rational aſſent of the mind,
could id no cal :go beyond the perception of the un-
defſianding ; ; and that to:beheve'a thing without knows
| ing what we baͤllere, or without having any certain
oy | fixed ideas to the terms of the-propoſition aſſented to;
7 muſt be ĩmpoſhble and: chntradictury. : Now this plain
pk ly affected thoſe who ſet up for the belief of what they
\ cannot explain or render intelligible! and who; aſter
then baveibcens ſo often and 10 ttoſd)y? prefſed*ro iti
ere not able to ufſſu ny deter u = be their oi?
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words, The Reprover very kindly undertakes the cauſe
of theſe myſterious believers, and gives us an inſtance
of a propoſition which he underſtands not, and, which
he at the ſame rime believes, namely, the doctrine of
the Trinity, who, as he ſays, are three in perſon, and
but one in eſſence. This, he ſays; he believes upon
the teſtimony of revelation, |
The Reprover is wonderfully happy in the clearing
of difficulties, and if he could have made good what he
Here has aſſerted, he would have decided this contro-
verſy at once; and we might all from henceforth have
agreed, at leaſt in words, whether we meant the ſame
thing or not. But 1 am afraid, Sir, that the Reprov-
er's zeal has in this caſe been very prejudicial to his
memory. Where, I would ask him, does the Holy
Scripture aſſert this, that they. are three in perſon,
and but one in eſſence? Others indeed, before him,
have pretended to draw this as à conſequence, and
have accordingly. ſet it up as their own inference and
deduction from ſcripture ; but that it ſhould be ſcrip-
ture itſelf, or a ſcripture Expreſſion, was never, I ſap-
poſe, known or heard of till now. If this Reprover
has found out any ſuch aſſertion, in any hitherto un-
known copy of manuſcript of the New Teſtament, 1
hope, he will no longer conceal ſo very material and
remarkable a diſcorery: or, if he has been favoured
with a particular revelation from heaven, in relation
do this matter, he will be kind enough to communicate
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what the Lord hath ſpoken to his ſervant : but if, as
" I am poſitive, he can produce no ſuch evidence, or re-
ich velation, he, in my humble opinion, has here diſcover»
of ed ſomething which he had much better have concealed,
1 One would think that ſelf exiſtence and original exiſt-
ence, begotten and unbegotten, ſhould be an eſſential
difference, and that the ſame numerical eſſence cannot
. be original and unoriginal, ſelf-· exiſtent and derived ;
8 but this, perhaps, the Reprover will allow to be above
2 reaſon, and therefore it may be as impoſſible, as if it
27 were contrary to reaſon. |
2 The pains which this Reprover and ſuch ſort 'of
ne
writers are at to perplex, obſcure, and render unintel-
80 | bgible the very firſt principles of all religion, concer-
ning the notion and belief of one God, and the un-
charitable zeal they diſcover in hereticating all thoſe
who have too much good ſenſe to fall in with their
dark inexplicable ſchemes, is what cannot (and indeed
aught not) to be looked upon without an equal degree
of horror, indignation, and contempt. |
The unity of God had been ever thought a prin-
ciple very plain and intelligible, and obvious enough
to the common ſenſe of mank ind, till certain refiners
upon St. Paul and the ſcriptures took it into a ſyſtem
of ſchool-divinity ; and then the Chriſtian doctrines,
by the help of Pagan metaphyſics, were thrown all in-
to darkneſs and confuſion. They found they had a pro-
firable trade, and gained much in leflening the number
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of candidates for church preſerments, by turning the
articles of faith into unintelligible, inexplicable myſte-
ries, which they themſelves could neither underſtand
nor explain- In ſhort, he was thought the beſt Chri,
ſtian, who underſtood the leaſt of his own faith 7 and |
it came at length to be looked upon as a point of me-
fit in a man, ſtrenuouſly to maintain, that the Chriſti-
an revelation is no revelation at all, or that it reveals
things which cannot poſſibly be revealed, becauſe they
are incomprehenſible to human underſtandings.
Of this number i is this ſublime believer, this myſtes
rious Reprover, who lays down (as I underſtand him)
an unconteſted principle, namely, That God may re-
veal ſome things, the nature, reaſons, 6ircumſtances,
and modes of which cannot be brought daun to
the level of our” weak underſtandings. He means,
ſuppoſe, "that! a thing in itfe{ may be reveal ·
ed. as to its truth and exiſtence, though the man-
ner, reaſons and other circumſtances of the thing are
not revealed, and ſo ſtill remain à8 to us incomprehen.
for ſhould it be ſaid, that the modes, reaſons, PLN
revealed or made Known to üs, and yet that they filß
remain incomprehenſible or unknown notwith(tanding;
the revelation, it would be'a contradiction; inctermsy,)
But here 1 muſt not diffemble a plain truth, which i 18,
chat this inſolent Reprover immediately contradicts
himſelf The Buackfmitk bel bfſetted, page 16. That
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thoſe things that are above reaſon as depending whol-
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e. Jy upon revelation, muſt, by the revelation, itſelf, be
d brought down to our underſtandings and capacities,
iy ſo as to enable us to form ſome clear and conſiſtent no-
d tions and Ecaceptions about them. Now, in anſwer
2 to this, the Reprover, page 19. ſays, There are many
i- things revealed that we cannot form clear and conſiſt-
8 ent notions of, yet it is far from abſurd in us to gire
7 our aſſent to them on teſtimony, eſpecially the teſtĩ -
1 mony of him who cannot be deceived himſelf, or de-
* ceive others. A thing in itſelf, as to its truth and ex-
riſence in general, may be certainly revealed, and made
clear and intelligible enough where the unrevealed
manner and other circumſtances of the thing may remain
ſtill unknown and incomprehenſible: in which caſe ve
ought to receive and believe the thing ſo far as it is
revealed, and content ourſelves in being ignorant in
other matters, where God has not thought fit to in-
form us. And who ever doubted of this, or once de-
nied it? And therefore the Reprover's urging it as a
matter of great conſequence, and as what the Black.
imith would not grant, is ſomewhat extraordinary, and
a glaring, inſtance of his Chriſtian tenderneſs, mode-
tation, and charity. If be cannot find a man, who.
owning; a thing to be na. from Gad, will yet not
believe it, becauſe he: cannot underſtand the reaſon.
or manner of the ching. let him bear the imputation
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leaſt appearance, I will not ſay of Chriſtian charity,
but even of Pagan juſtice : It being evident to all men,
that morality is no part of the Reprover's religion.
Let him prove the thing in diſpute, that there are
three diſtin intelligent agents in the o God, and I
Hall receive it; but he muſt know very well that it is
the thing itſelf, and not the manner of the thing, which
he affirms, and his adverfary denies, to be a matter of
divine revelation; and tho? he pretends to throw off
all his ignorance and inconfiſtency upon the unreavel-
ed and unknown caufes, reaſons and modes of things,
yet I hope to demonſtrate, that his ignorance lies in
his having no notion of the very thing he writes a-
bout, In order to which, I beg leave to obſerve to
you, that there is one general contradiction incluſive
of all particular contradictions, and io which they are
all reducible, namely, Thar the ſame thing, at the ſame
time, may be, and not be; or, that the ſame propoſi-
tion may be true and falſe, at the ſame time. Now,
could the Reprover get but over this, he might very
ſafely undertake tranſubſtantiation itſelf. Now this
complication of all abſurdities, the Reprover with alt
his myſterious believers aſſume as their firſt principle;
which they employ as the great engine, to remove al}
other difficulties, and extricate themſelves from the
rroubleſome weight whenever they are taken, as is ve-
ry often the caſe, in affirming and denying the ſame
ting Their principle i is this, that the fame thing
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may be, and not be; or the ſame propoſition may be
true and falſe; not indeed in the ſame, but in differ-
ent reſpects. Now, Sir, be but kind enough to grant
the Reprover this ſingle principle, and I will defy you
or any man living ever to be able to faſten a contra»
dition upon him; becauſe it will evidently follow from
the principle itſelf, that there can be no ſuch thing in
nature as a contradiction, but every thing is equally
true and falſe at the ſame time, I think it therefore,
incumbent upon me to prove, that this diſt inction of
the ſame and different reſpects is merely imaginary and
verbal, that the ſame thing, at the ſame time, ſhould
be true and falſe in any ſenſe at all, either in the ſame
or in different reſpe&ts. Every man living muſt al-
low, that every affirmation or negation, in a propoſi-
tion, aſſerted, or denied, in any one particular deter-
minate ſenſe, muſt neceſſarily, in that determinate ſenſe,
be either true or falſe ; and cannot be both or nei-
ther, for this: plain and obvious reaſon, becauſe in a
particular determinate ſenſe there can be no variety z
and there is, and can be no medium between truth
and falſhood. It is alſo manifeſt, that the thing we af-
firm or deny, cannot be the ſame thing any longer
than the terms of the propoſition retain ihe ſame pre ·
cile determinate meaning; for where the complex i-
deas to which the terms of the propoſition are affixed,
ſhall be any way altered or varied, either by putting
in ſome new ens or r by leaving out any of the old,
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though the ſame ſound may be retained, yet the thing
icſelf, which is hereby affirmed or denied, will by no
means be the ſame, but quite different things : even as
different as an egg is from an elephant, or a musket
bullet from a pike. What is therefore often, if to
ſerve a particular exigency, called one ſame thing
in different reſpects, is really, in fact, two very differs
ent things, one of which may be eaſily true, while at
the ſame time the other may, is, and neceſſarily muſt
be, contradictory and falſe. And this, Sir, is really
the great myſtery of different ſenſes and reſpects, bes
ing merely a contrivance of ſubtle: diſputants, when
they are determined to ſhuffle upon you very different
and perhaps contradictary things, under the ſame ſounds
as one and the ſame thing. $39!
I ſhall now apply this method of WL to the
Reprover's Tri- une ſubſiſtence of the God-head; and |
ſhew that it expreſly implies an impoſſibility and con-
tradiction in the abſtract nature and reaſon of things;
and that if the Reprover will be ſo conſiſtent with him⸗
ſelf, as to ſtand to his principles, he mult found his
hope of ſalvation upon a neceflary-and eternal contra -
diction, and profeſs himſelf a Mono- tritheiſt. But us
ling preliminaries, let us come to the argument.
Io ſay, that there are three things really diſtinct
qnd different, ſo that the one is not the other; that
each of theſe three diſtinct and different things ate in
eh and yet that there ate not three different:things!
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which are jbfinite, or three infinites, but only one ia-
finice; or one ching only that is infinite, this I poſiti re-
no | 4y affirm, is an expreſs contradiction in the nature, of
48 things. Thus alſo, to affirm, that there are, three
cet really dition and difterent ſubject, which are 2 i
and yet, that 4 are not POR infiake powers, wiſ-
doms, or intelligences, or three infinitely powerful,
wiſe and intelligent ſubjects, but only one ſuch is ma-
nifeſtly contradictory and impoſſible in the nature and
reaſon of things. For the diſtinctneſs and infinity of
the ſame ſpecific attributes, muſt neceſſarily be multi-
plied with their diſtinct infinite ſubjects; and the ne-
gation of this muſt be eternally a contradiction, while
the ſame prèciſe meaning is aſſixed to the fame terms,
And mentally to change the ſenſe of the terms by claps
ing a different meaning to the ſame ſound, under a pre-
' tence of the fame'thing in different reſpects, whem at
the ſame time, it is really two very different things;
this, I fay, is not to clear a contradiction, but to uſe a
rillainous piece of artifice, and EM * the _—_
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Permit me, Sir, to carry this Sendet Farnblers Te
is, you know, univerſally allowed by all the Athanaſi-
ans, that the Father, the Son, and Spirit, arè thres di-
ſtin& and different ſubjects; and fo far diſtinct, that
they are each of them indued with really diſtin& and
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Hie affirm, that each of theſe diſtin and different fab:
jects, is God in the ſtricteſt ſenſe, ' or God abſolutely,
| ſupreme over all; and yet they maintain, that there is
but one only fubject that is God alone; that is, ſay
they, that there are three who are each of them di-
" ſtitily God, and yet there is but one who is God a.
lone. Now, Sir, the foregoing doftrine when reduc-
ed to the form of a propoſition, plainly amounts to
this, There is but one God : The Father is God, the
Son is God, the Holy Ghoſt is God; therefore theſe
three are one God. If the Reprover uſes the word
God preciſely in the ſame ſenſe as applied to the Fa-
ther, to the Son, and to the Holy Ghoſt; if he has
not one diſtinct determinate idea, when he uſes theſe
different ſounds, as I imagine he cannot, his argument
muſt ſtand thus: There is but one God. But God is
God, God is God, and God is God. Therefore God
is ne God. If he can ſhew that I have miſrepreſent ·
ed him in this way of ſetting forth his argument, and
that there is due ſingle idea in his account that is. not | |
in mine, and in the very ſame order; 1 ſay, if he can
prove this, I doubt not but he will think himſelf oblig-
ed to do it in 440644 0p of his fo clear and accurate
reaſoning.
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evident in itſelf, yet it may be proper to conſider the
general evaſion by which they endeavour to get off
mn it; and it is this: * ſay, that the three di-
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one common ſubject of the eſſential properties, and ſo
are one and the fame | in ſubſtance or eſſence, But here
they labour to get rid of one contradiction, by running
at leaſt into twenty more; for either this one common
ſubject of the eſſential attributes, is preciſely and de-
terminately the very ſelf ſame with the three diſtin&
ſubjects of the perſonal attributes, or it is not, If they
affirm that it is, this will be ſaying, That one ſubje& is
three diſtia& ſubjects, and three diſtin ſubjects but
one ſubject, without diſtindion or diverſity; and this
at the ſame time and in the ſame ſenſe: which, I pre-
ſume, every one mult allow to be an expreſs contra -
dition. But if i it be ſaid, That the common ſubject of
the eſſential properties, is not the ſelf-ſame but a di-
ſtinct ſubject from the three other diſtinct ſubjects of
the perſonal properties; then ſince alſo the eſlential
attributes are ſuppoſed to be communicated to the three
diſtinct ſubjects ot the perſonal attributes, this muſt ne-
ceſſarily make four diſtinct ſubjects, each of which j is.
indued with all the eſſential attributes; that is, four
diſtinct infinitely perfect ſubſtances. It is true, theſe
infinite ſubſtances will be undividedly and inſeparably
united to each other mutually, ſince it is impoſſible
that three infinitely extended ſubſtances ſhould. be di-
vided or ſeparated with reſpect to ſpace or dimenſion ;
but then this does not deſtroy the real exiſtence, and
numerical diſtinctions, of the ſubſtances themſelves. I.
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to avoid this multiplicity of ſubſtances, it is ſaid, That
the ſubſtances that ſuſtain the'perſonal attributes, are
not numerically diſtin, but one aud the ſame with the
common eſſence ; as this deſtroys all manuer of diſtinc-
tion betwixt eſſential and perſonal attributes, and fup-
poſes a perſon to be only a diſtinct mode of ſubſiſtence
in the one common fubject or fubſtance; which is Sa-
belliauiſm: So by confounding the diſtinct ſubſects, and
fuppoſtng them to be numerically one and the ſame, it
contains a moſt palpable contradiction, and effectually
overthrows the Reprover” s hypotheſis of a Fri- une
Subſiſtence. And, indeed, Sir, conſider this ſcheme in
what light ſoever you pleaſe, you wilt find it replete
with abſurdities, and mult therefore neceſſarily deſtroy
itſelf. There is pne evaſion ſtill behind, as the der-
pier reſort of thoſe, who in this ſcheme are preſſed
with contradictions; that is, when they cannot get
themſelves off by any poſlible ſenfe that can de put to
their own words, they fly to the incomprehenſibility of
the ſubject, which, as they ſeem to think, gives them
a right to uſe words without a meaning- And thus, at
length, they ſtand acquitted in empty ſounds and im-
: penetrable darkneſs, for who can charge a propofition
with a contradiftion, which is on all hands owned to be
unintelligible, and to have no determinate ſenſe or
meaning at all. |
And now, Sir, having demonſtrated the impoſſibili-
ty 0 ſelf-contradiftorineſs of the Reprover's hypo-
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theſis of a tri-une ſubſiſtence; let us enquire. what
muſt be his faith in this great article; you will give
me leave, Sir, to. retort the accuſation he with ſo'lits
ile truth and decency urges againſt the Blackſmithy
upon himſelf ; for in his own words, p. 19. J am per-
fwaded he has made a raſh attempt to bring the pow-
er of religion into diſrepute, by taking the ſide of thoſe
great enemies of the truth, Socinus and his deluded
followers. If he is not a Socinian, it will be impoſſible
for any man to ſay what he is; for I ſhall ſhew that
his verbal orthodoxy differs nothing from real hereſy.
In order to ſhew how far, and wherein he differs
from a Socinian, I ſhall conſider in what particulars
they muſt neceſſarily be agreed, and then leave it to
the learned Reproyer himſelf to expreſs (if he can)
the difference,
He muſt, I fuppoſe, agree with the Socinians in heb
3 following particulars,
Firſt, That there has exiſted, from all eternity, by
an abſolute intrinfic neceſſity of nature, one only ſu-
preme independent firſt cauſe of all things ; one indi-
vidual intelligent being of abſolute infinite perfection
or one God: This is the firft principle of natural re-
ligion, demonſtrable a priori from the nature and rea-
ſon of things: and in this, Chriſtians, Jews, and Ma-
hometans are all agreed. This is the only true noti-
on that men have, or can have of the Supreme Being.
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worſhip, from that which always was the true objed
of all religious worſhip, and ſupreme adoration to
mankind under the light and law of nature. What the
ſcripture. does in this caſe, is, firſt, To reſtore the
knowledge and worſhip of the one true God, by ſetting
his being and perfections in a clearer light, and confir-
ming this account of him by miracles, after the true
knowledge of God, as revealed by nature, had been
Joſt, and men, thro' the general depravity of human
nature, had ſunk into idolatry and polytheiſm. The
ſcripture reveals alſo to us the true and acceptable man-
ner of worſhipping the one true God, through the a-
Jone mediation of his only begotten Son, whom the
ſcripture requires us to receive and own as the Son of
God, the one mediator between God and man; and that
we honour, worſhip, and glorify him in this capacity
ol mediator, as the perſon appointed by God the fa-
ther to govern and judge the world But this neither
ſuppoſes or implies the ſmalleſt alteration or difference
io the nature, notion, or idea of the one ſupreme be-
ing, the ſupreme and ultimate object of religious wor-
{hip and adoration. So that this principle ſtands now,
as it ſtood before in the nature and reaſon of things;
and is not altered, but cleared, reſtored, and ſet in a
ſtronger light. But ſince it has been pretended by
writers. of the ſame complexion with this ſo very for-
ward Reprover, that they have a different object of
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means join, with a good conſcience, in the ſame cotu-
munion ; let this Reprover ſhew that he has any one
different idea concerning God as the ſupreme obje& of
worſhip, which a Socinian has not, or for ſhame, let
him drop this plea, as being ſcandaſbus in himſelf, and
thoſe who uſe it without the leaſt foundation, aud
when they have nothing elſe to ſay. L cannot ſce
where this Reprover differs from the Socinians as ta
the object of his worſhip- If there can be any differs
ence, it can be only in the manner of it; in che abſut
dity of his pretending to worſhip the one God theo
the mediation of himſelf; and ſuppoſiug the per ſoni
or intelligent being mediating, to be the ſame with ths
perſon offended; or that the perſon mediatiug. is:noe
really a perſon, an intelligent being or agent, bud is
metaphyſical nature, or abſtract idea only. 1g
Scͤeccondly, The Reprover muſt, I ſuppoſe, agree with!
T. the Socinians in denying, that the Father, the Word.
* and the Holy Ghoſt, are diſtinct intelligent agents on
(elf. conſcious minds ;. which is what they have always
declared to be their meaning, when they deny them te
be three diſtin& per ſous. This is the only Triuity
which a Socinian denies ; and herein the Reprover v
J imagine, as much an unitarian, or antitrinitarian, af 5
any Socinian in the world. And as for any incompres
henſible differences or diſtinctions in the one iudiidqu-
al ſupreme being, call them perſonal,” or What you,
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cinians have always declared, that the Father, the
Word, and the Holy Ghoſt, are but one God; they
have, I own, commonly ſuppoſed the Word to be the
eſſential wiſdom, and the Spirit to be the eſſential pow:
er, or energy of God ; and hereupon they have deni -
ed them to be diſtinct per ſons, that is, diſtin 1ntelli-
gent beings or agents. The notion of the generation
and proceflion of the Son and Holy Ghoſt from eter-
Bity; or before all time, either by a voluntary or nes
teflary. act, has been always thought of the laſt im-
portance to keep up any idea of diſtin& perſons ; and
therefore this is what the Socinians have always ſtre-
nuouſſy. denied: and ſince the Reprover has fallen in;
wich them in their fundamental principle, and hath
granted them their whole ſcheme, he may perhaps
Ike them ſo well at laſt as to prevail with thoſe reli-
gious mountebanles, his ſuperiors, to admit chem into |
thei? delicious ſociety. it
Thirdly, The Reprover's hypotheſis of a tri une
ſabſiſtence in the Deity ſuppoſes that Chriſt's human
ſoul was not the: Word bimſelf incarnate, or made
fleſh, but attother intelligent being, diſtinct from the
Word; - he muſt altow, with the Socinians, that the hu-
mut perſon, born of the virgin, the true body and
reaſbnable-ſoul; or the man Chriſt Jeſus, is a diſtin&/!
intelligent being from the ſupreme God. Nothing cas
be more trifing and abſurd, than to ſay here, That
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ahoogh the natures are diſtinct, yet the perſon ji is the
* ſame, unleſs the Reprover could ſhew, that diſtinct
r iatelligent natures maſt not be diſtinR intelligent be-
f ings, perſons, or agents. But I hope, he will not in
3 this-place talk of mere logical entities, or of metaphy-
; kcal abſtract natures and ideas, but of things really and
8 actually exiſting. without us; and yet this empty found
- of, words is the only difference he can pretend to keep
3 wich the Socinians.
: Io ſay that a hom ſoul is the ſame intelligent bs
5 ing or agent with the ſupreme God, or that the ſu-
by .
1 preme God is the ſame intelligent conſcious perſonal
ſelf with an human ſoul, is not only blaſphemy, but
fi the moſt palpable abſurdity and contradiction. I would
8 not be thought hereby to ſuggeſt that this is what the
Reprover muſt. mean by the hypoſtatical union as it
ſtands in the ſcheme of a tri-une ſubſiſtence in the Dei -
ty, for I have the charity to think he can mean no-
thing at all by it. But does it not from hence appear,
bow egregiouſly divines may diſtract and inflame the
minds of ſincere. and well-meaning. people, by the
mere magic of words? And as it is poſſible by the
mechaniſm of ſounds, to teach even a monkey either
7 1 to fight or to dance, and to expreſs his good or ill lik-
1 ing at pleaſure: So I am ſorry I muſt ſpeak out 2
. plain truth, and tell the world, here i is a maſter in I
rael, a, zealous champion for the orthodoxy of ſounds,
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thodoxy di differs in any thing that is intelligible from
real 'Socinianiſm (himſelf being judge) I ſhall confeſs
he has ſaid ſomething to the purpoſe, and own he is
no Socinian, but an orthodox ſcriptural Trinitarians
All that the 'Socinians ſay, is, that the ſupreme God
and a human ſoul cannot be the ſame intelligent being,
agent, or perſon; and therefore, that they cannot,
with either truth or conſiſtency; be joined rogether
under one common name, as if they were the ſame I,
the ſame He, or the ſame intelligent agent or perſon-
al ſelf. And indeed, Sir, I muſt ſay, that I think: it is
very hard that men muſt be damned, only becauſe they
ſpeak common ſenſe, and do not chime in with this
petulant Reprover's nonſenſe, and renounce the very
firſt principles of reaſon and religion: It is very well if
he hall be able to maintain the credit of being fil inthe
f abe with the ſaints, after he has /ptatoly yielded up the
capſe. 10 thoſe Thuets' the Sociniatis ; for 1 can ſcarce
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M O «> L TALE 8
. OF
M.MARMONTEL.
T ranſlated from the French:
BY
C. DENIS; AND! R. ien
VOL. IL
DUBLIN:
Printed for A. Lx ATH TEX, P. Witsox, J.
ExSHAW, S. Frice, H. SauxpEks, and
J. Por rs. |
| | M DCC XIV.
CONTENTS
OF THE
SECOND VOLUME.
”
T HE Bad Mother Page 1
The Good Mother | 1
The Shepherdeſs of the Alps Py |
Lubin and Annetta
—
67
The Marriage of the Samnites, an ancient
Anecdote 79
The Connoiſſeur 99
The School for Fathers 1238
The happy Divorce I52
The good Huſband = a | IE 189
THE
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THE.
MORAL TALES
OF
Mr MARMONTEL.
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"THE BAD MO THER.”
| NN MN ON GST the monſtrous dat
"4 wh bo of nature, we may juſtly place the
heart of a mother who loves one of
** her children excluſive of all the reſt.
| I don't mean that diſcerning tenderneſs
that diſtinguiſhes 4 in thoſe ſeedling plants which
will beſt anſwer one's care and culture; what I
talk of is that blind fondneſs, that prepoſſeſſion and
diſlike that ſome have in chooſing one idol, and
making ſeveral victims among the little innocents
. that they have brought into the world, and which
are all equally entitled to a parent's love. Tis
of this wandering from nature, this unjuſt partia-
ty ſo common and ſo ſhameful to humanity that
I am giving an example. |
The governor of one of our ſea-ports, a town
of great trade, who had endeared himſelf to the
inhabitants by his ſtri& obſervance to ſuppreſs
vexations of all kinds, made it his conſtant rule to
ſupport the weak, and keep the ſtrong in awe. -
Vor. IL B This
1
This good governor, whoſe name was Carandon,
died, with all his virtues, poor, and almoſt .infol-
vent. He left a daughter whom nobody ſought
for in marriage, becauſe ſhe had great pride, lit-
tle beauty, and no fortune. It happened, how-
ever, that there was a rich merchant, who, in
acknowledgment of favours received from her fa-
ther, made her an offer of marriage. Mr. Caran-
don had been fo friendly, ſo beneficent, we are
all under ſuch obligations to him, ſaid the honeſt
Mr. Coron, ſo was the merchant called, that it
is but merely doing juſtice to his memory, to
fhew our gratitude to his daughter. In conſe-
quence he made his propoſal to the lady, and
Miſs Carandon, with a great ſeeming — —
did bim the honour to accept of his hand, provi-
ded nevertheleſs, as it was but reaſonable, that
ſhe ſhould be abſolute miſtreſs in all that regard-
ed her houſe and family. The great reſpect that
Coron had for the memory of the father, was
tranſmitted to the daughter. He conſulted her as
an oracle; and if perchance it ſhould ſo happen
that they did not quite agree in their opinions,
ſhe knew how to ſilence him at once, by ſaying,
with an impoſing tone, my father . . . . Coron
did not give her time to finiſh her period, but
immediately owned himſelf in the wrong.
This good-natured huſband died long before ol
age; and left her two ſons, which the had the
complaiſance to permit him to be the father of.
| When he was on his death-bed, he thought it
high time to ſettle his affairs, and make his will,
It was always, {aid Madam Coron, a maxim with
Mr. Carandon, my father, that, in order to keep
children in awe, they ſhould be left dependent on
their mother, ſo that ſhe might diſpenſe their fa-
ther's wealth to them according to their deſerts,
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Jeſerts.
Mr.
1 .
Mr. Carandon's maxim was enough, and Coron's
laſt will and teſtament was made accordingly. His
- whole inheritance was depoſited in his wife's
hands, with the fatal power to diftribute it to their
children, in what proportion ſhe thought fit. The
eldeſt of theſe two children was her darling; not
that he had any perfections either of body or mind
more than the youngeſt, nay, far from it ; but ſhe
had liked to have died when ſhe brought him into
the world; he was the firſt that ma“ e her feel the
pains of labour, and the joys of delivery ; in ſhort,
he engroſſed her tenderneſs ſo much, that ſhe had
not the leaſt for any body elſe. And to excuſe her
partiality, ſhe gave all the bad reaſons of a bad
mother. |
' Young Jacquinot was her neglected ſon, His
mother ſcarce ever ſaw him; and if ſhe did, it
was only to ſcold and find fault. The poor child,
always in awe and fear, durſt not look up, and
never anſwered but in trembling. He has, ſaid
ſhe, juſt the vulgar ſoul of his father, and what
you call the very air of thoſe ſort of folks.
As for her eldeſt, who had been permitted to
be as wilful, ſtubborn, and impertinent as is poſ-
ſible; he was the pink of gentility. His untract-
ableneſs was deemed a becoming pride, and his
humours too great a ſenſibility, One of his chief
per fections was, that he never gave up his opinion
when he was in the right; now you muſt know
that he never was in the wrong. The flatterers
never ceaſed admiring him; he looked ſo much
of the gentleman, and had the honour to be very
like Madam his mother. This eldeſt ſon was call-
ed L'etang, (for it was not thought proper to let
him bear his father's name). This eldeſt ſon then
had maſters of all ſorts. The leſſons were all for
him, but little Jacquinot reaped the benefit of
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them; ſo that, in a few years, Jacquinot knew all
that had been taught to his brother, who ſor his
part knew nothing at all. 1 5
Goody nurſe, and other old goſſips, Who con-
ſtantly attribute to children their own bright
thoughts, and make them fay ſo many pretty ſay-
ings, as they knew Madam Coron's foible, they
endeavoured to make her believe, which ſhe rea-
dily did, that her eldeſt fon was a prodigy for one
of his age. But the maſters leſs complaiſant, or
more indiſcreet, when they complained of the in-
docility and inattention of her beloved eldeſt, ne-
ver ceaſed beſtowing their praiſes on the youngeſt.
They did not ſay preciſely that L'etang was a fool;
but they all agreed that littie Jacquinot had a great
deal of wit. The mother's vanity was hurt; and
by an injuſtice, that one would hardly believe in
nature, were it not that we ſee every day ſuch
examples, ſhe redoubled her hatred for the poor
boy, was vexed at the progreſs he made in his
learning, and was reſolved to fave hes ſpoiled dar-
ling the mortification of the compariſon.
ever, a very moving circumſtance that
happened, rouſed in her the ſentiments of nature;
but that little return to virtue, only humbled,
without correCting her. Jacquinot was about ten
years old, and L'etang was near fifteen, when
their mother fell dangerouſly ill. The eldeſt was
very much taken up with his pleaſures, and very
little with his mother's health. It is the puniſh-
ment of a weak mother, to doat upon an unnatu-
ral child. Her diforder encreaſed, and ſhe was
thought to be in imminent danger. Jacquinot
perceived it, and his dear little heart was ſeized
with grief and apprehenſion; his impatient long-
ing to ſee his mother broke thro? his conſtraint:
for he was never ſuffered to make his appearance
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but when called for. But, in ſhort, his tenderneſs
gave him-conrage. He took the opportunity, as
the door happen'd to be left a- jar, to ſteal into the
room: he ſoftly, with a trembling ſtep, approach-
ed the bed. Is it you, my ſon ? ſaid ſhe —No,.
mamma, tis Jacquinot. This anſwer, full of inno-
cence and reproach, ſtung his unjuſt mother with.
ſhame and remorſe; but forne few feigned careſ-
ſes of her good-for-nothing: favourite, gave him
back all the aſcendant he had before; and Jacqui-
not was neither more beloved, nor leſs neglected.
Madam Coron was ſcarce recovered from her
ifineſs, when ſhe reſolved to ſend Jacquinot out of
the . Her pretence was, that L' etang, natu-
rally lively, was too ſuſceptible of diſſipation to
have a companion in his ſtudies; and that the im-
pertinent predilection of maſters for one child: that
was more humble and careſſing, might diſcourage
another, whoſe character of a higher ſtamp, and
leſs pliable, required more care and attention; and
therefore fie would have L' etang to be the only
object of their iniſtruction. Accordingly Jacqui-
not was ſent to ſchool. e ee |
_ EUetang was no- ſooner turned oſ ſixteen, but
he packed off all his maſters, mathematics, natu-
ral philoſophy, muſic, &c. &c. who left him as
much improved as when they began with him.
He then entered the academy, to perform his ex-
erciſes, in which he ſucceeded juſt as much as he
had done try his ſtudies 3 and at the age of twenty,
he appeared in the world with all the ſelf-ſuffici-
ency of a blockhead, that had heard talk of every
thing, and knew nothing.
. Jacquinot had now finiſhed his college educa-
tion; and his mother was quite ſurfeited with the
praiſes that were beſtowed upon him from every
quarter. Tis mighty 2 ſaid ſhe; ſince he has
[ 2 3 5 : ſo
[6]
ſo much learning and virtue, the church is the fit-
teſt thing for him, 'I will have him take orders.
Unhappily Jacquinot had no reliſh for an eccle-
ſiaſtic ſtate of life. He begged of his mother not
to inſiſt upon it. Why do you imagine, ſaid ſhe,
with a haughty ſevere look, that I have where-
withal to ſettle you in the world ? I woyld have
you to know that I have not. Your father did not
die ſo rich as people fancy; his fortune is barely
ſufficient to make a proper eſtabliſhment for your
elder brother. As for you, Sir, you may take your
choice, the church or the army. I can either get
the nomination to a ſmall living, or purchaſe Fe
you an enſign's commiſſion in. a marching regi-
ment, and that is all I can do for you. —
anſwered her, with great reſpect, that there were
other profeſſions in life more fit for a merchant's
ſon. At theſe words, the daughter of monſieur
Carandon was ready to faint with grief and ſhame,
to have brought into the world ſo graveling, low-
minded a ſon, ſo unworthy of her extraction, and
ordered him never to appear in her ſight again.
Young Coron was greatly troubled to have incur-
ed his mother's indignation, and retired not with-
out ſighs and tears, reſolving to try whether for-
tune would be leſs cruel to him than nature, He
heard that there was a ſhip bound to the Leeward
Iſlands juſt ready to ſail, and he was determined
to go on board. He wrote to his mother, acquaint-
ing her of his deſign, requeſting her conſent and
bleſſing, and what ſhe thought proper to give him
to begin the world with. The two firſt articles
were amply granted, but the laſt with a ſparing
Economy. | f d
Madam Coron, much pleaſed at this happy rid-
dance, would ſee him befare he embarked, and
ſhed ſome tears as ſhe took her leave of him. His
brother
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brother likewiſe vouchſafed to wiſh him a good
voyage. 'Theſe were the firſt careſſes he had ever
received from them. His tender heart was over-
come with joy; yet he durſt not preſume to aſk.
the favour of hearing from them; but he had a
ſchool- fellow that he loved, and who ſincerely
loved him; and he conjured him in the name of
friendſhip to write to him often, and: let him
know how his mother did; |
As for his mother, ſhe had now no other concern
but in what manner toeſtabliſh her dearly beloved.
He choſe the law. They obtained for him hono-
rary degrees, and he was ſoon numbered amongſt
the counſellors at the bar. Nothing was now want-
ing but an advantageous match. A rich heireſs
was propoſed, but her guardians inſiſted upon Ma-
dam Coron's making over her whole fortune to
her ſon: She had the folly to conſent to it; and
Jeft herſelf barely a maintenance, fully convinced
that her ſon's wealth would be always at her diſ-
poſal, | 4 ET. +
Mr. L'etang was now five and twenty years old,
alittle ſquat counſellor; fat and round, neglecting
his wife, taking much care of his own dear per-
ſun, and very little of what concerned the law.
As it was faſhionable to have a ſomebody that was
not his wife, L'etang thought proper to let all the
world know that he had an amour. A young per-
ſon that he ogled one evening at the play-houſe,
anſwered him in the ſame language, received him
at her lodgings with great politeneſs, and aſſured
him that he was a charming man, which he had
no manner of difficulty in believing; and in a very
ſhort time ſhe diſembarraſſed him of about ten
thouſand crowns. But as there are no everlaſting
paſſions, this ungrateful beauty left him, ere three
months were- expired, for a young Engliſh lord,
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every. whit as fooliſh, but much richer, and more
magnificent than her dupe. L'etang could not
conceive how it was poſſible for any one to quit
ſuch a man as he was. He reſolved to mortify her
pride, by taking a miſtreſs in higher vogue, and
enriching her with his preſents. His new conqueſt
procured him a multitude of rivals; and when he
conſidered: what a crowd of adorers ſigh'd in vain,
he enjoyed the pleaſure: of fancying himſelf fo
much the more. amiable, as he was happier than
they. However, the lady perceiving that he was-
not quite free from uneaſineſs, had a mind ta con-
vince him that there was nothing in the world ſhe
would not abandon for him; and propoſed at the
ſame time, in order to get rid of a ſett of impor-
tunate troubleſome viſiters, that they two ſhould
take a trip. to Paris, and there live privately and
obſcurely, and have no other pleaſure but that of
enjoying their mutual happineſs. L'etang was
charmed at this inſtance of her fondneſs, All
is prepared for the journey; they arrive at the
metropolis, and choſe. for their retreat lodgings
near the Palais Royal. Fatima, ſo his miſtreſs
was called, deſired to have a coach to take the air
in, which was readily granted. Mr. L'etang was
ſurprized at the number of friends he acquired in
that polite city; good-natured friends, who had
never ſeen him before, but upon the report of his
ſuperior. merit, came in crowds to have the ho-
nour of his acquaintance. Fatima received no
company but what he approved of, ſo that he was
ſure of her, and of her friends. Nevertheleſs this
charming woman had a foible; ſhe believed in
dreams. One-night ſhe happened to have a-dream,
which ſhe could not get out of her head. L'etang
inſiſted upon knowing what it was that took up
her attention ſo ſeriouſly. Why I dreamt, _ |
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ſhe, that I was in a moſt delightful apartment.
There was a magnificent bed of a rich damaſk of
three colours, the hangings, ſettees, and chairs
of the ſame; large pier- glaſſes, with noble frames
of burniſhed gold; emboſſed India cabinets, the
fineſt japan jars, and the prettieſt china joſſes that
ever were ſeen. All this was trifling ; there was
a toilet ſet out; methought I drew near it; ah!
what did I perceive ? My heart is ſtill in a flutter
a complete ſet of diamonds ed in a caſe: ah
and what diamond? an aigrette of the ſweeteſt pat-
tern! the moſt brilliant ear- rings of the firſt wa-
ter! a ſolitaire in the richeſt taſte, and an eſcla-
vage with an endleſs chain! I know very well,
Sir, that ſomething extraordinary will: happen to
me. 'This dream has made too ſtrong an impreſ-
ſion on my mind not to ſignify ſomething ; and
my dreams generally prove realities. 5
In vain Mr. L'etang endeavoured to perſuade
her that dreams were of no kind of moment. For
ſhe inſiſted that this laſt ſignified a great deal;
and ſhe ended by ſaying, ſhe was apprehenſive
that ſome one of his rivals would propoſe to ef-
fectuate it. He was then obliged to capitulate,
and, bating ſome articles, accompliſh it himſelf.
You may judge whether this firſt eſſay cured her:
of the habit of dreaming. She took ſuch a lik- -
ing to it, and had ſuch frequent viſions, that ho-
neſt Coron's fortune was almoſt reduced to a mere
dream likewiſe. Mr. L'etang's young wife, who
was much diſſatisfied with his journey, laid in her
claim; and petitioned to be ſeparated from a huſ-
band who had abandoned her. So that after pay-
ing her portion, which he was obliged to return,
his income was greatly diminiſhed. F291
Gamrg is the laſt reſource. > L'etang thought
himſelf an excellent player at piquet; ſome of his
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friends who went partners, always betted on his
ſide, whilſt another of them played againſt him;
every time he diſcarded, nothing could be more.
judicious, cryed one, that laid on his cards. No-
body can play better, ſaid another | to be ſure no-
body cculd play better; but then he never had
any.of the aces. Whilſt his ruin was thus hur-
Tying: on, the faithful Fatima who perceived it,
dreamed one night that ſhe had quitted him; and
the next morning ſhe did it in effect. L'etang
could not bear the thoughts of falling from his
uſual ſplendor, and was reſolved not to leſſen his
expences; ſo that in a ſhort time he was abſolute-
ly undone.
He was reduced to his laſt ſnifts, when his mo-
ther, who had been no better an œconomiſt than
himſelf of her allowance, wrote to him for ſome
money. He made anſwer that he was extremely
ſorry ; but far from being in a condition to ſend
her any, he wasin the greateſt want of ſome him-
felf. The alarm was already ſpread among his
creditors, ſo that it was who ſhould firſt ſeize up-
on the remains of his fortune, Ah] what have
I done, cry'd his afflited mother? I have ſtript
myſelf of every thing for a ſon that has ſquander-
ed it all away, |
During this time, what was become of poor
Jacquinot ? Why, Jacquinot, with a good heart,
ſound judgment, wit enough, a very handſome
' perſon, and his little venture, arrived ſafe at St.
eden "Tis well known how eaſy it is for a
Frenchman, who has good morals, and a good
perſon, to make an effabliſhment on the iſlands,
"The name of Coron, his own ſagacity and induſ-
try, ſoon acquired him the confidence ard friend-
ſhip of the inhabitants; ſo that with the helps
that were lent him, he acquired a plantation *
1
he carefully cultivated, and which ſoon grew to a
flouriſhing condition. Trade, which was then in
full vigour, enriched him in a ſhort time; for in
the ſpace of five years he was the object of the
deſires and wiſhes of all the rich and pretty widows
and maidens of the iſland. When, alas! his col-
lege companion, who till then had always ſent
him agreeable news, wrote to him that his bro-
ther was ruined, and his mother, abandoned b
all the world, was reduced to the utmoſt diftrebs
and poverty. He wet the fatal letter with his
tears. Ah! my dear mother! he cry'd, I will
fly to your relief, He would not truſt it to any
but himſelf. An accident might happen ; the
infidelity, ſtowneſs, or negligence of a ſtranger '
might either deprive her, or bring too late what
he was preparing for his mother's aſſiſtance, and
ſo let her expire in want and deſpair. Nothing
ought to with- hold a ſon, faid he to himſelf, when
a-mother's life and happineſs are at ſtike.
With theſe ſentiments young Coron immedi-
ately realiſed his effects, ſo as to carry them over
with him. He ſold his plantation, and turned e-
very thing into ready- money. Such a ſacrifice
gave him no concern; but he could not forbear
regretting a treaſure much more precious, which
he was going to leave in America. Lucella, the
young widow of a rich planter, who had left her
in exceeding great circumſtances, had caſt her
eyes on Coron with one of thoſe penetrating looks
that ſeem to dive into the heart and unfold the
ſoul; one of thoſe looks that determine the in-
clination, and whoſe ſudden and reſiſtleſs effect is
often taken for ſympathy. She thought ſhe per-
ceived in the young man every thing that was
con. lucive to make a prudent and virtuous woman
happy; and this paſſion which ſhe conceived ow
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him, did not wait, to ſhew itſelf, for ſober reflec-
tion. Coron, on his ſide, had given her in his
heart the preference before all her rivals, as the
moſt worthy to captivate an honeſt and wiſe man.
Lucella had a majeſtic moving air, the greateſt
livelineſs, and yet the greateſt modeſty in her eyes;
ber complexion not of the faireſt, but as frei
and blooming as a roſe; fine dark hair, teeth of
the moſt poliſhed white, the ſhape and gait of one
of Diana's nymphs, with the looks and ſmiles of
the graces. With all'theſe charms, Lucella was
endued with.a courageous mind, a greatneſs of
ſoul, a juſtneſs in her ideas, and that uprightneſs
of. heart, which gives us an opportunity of com-
plimenting ourſelves when we ſay ſuch a woman
has the ſoul of a man. Lucella was above diſ-
guiſing a virtuous: inclination ; ſueh a maſk was
only fit for little minds. No ſooner had Coron
owned his:paſſion;for her, but ſhe confeſſed, with-
out any heſitation, the ſame for him; and their
mutual love growing more tender and binding e-
very day by reflection, they longed for the happy
moment which was to cement their joy at the al-
tar. Some diſputes about the inheritance of
Lucella's huſband had retarded their felicity.
Thoſe diſputes were on the point of being adjuſt-
ed, when the letter of Coron's friend came to drag
him from all that was dear to him next his mo-
ther. He went to the beauteous widow and ſhew-
ed her the letter, at the ſame time aſking her ad-
vice. I flatter myſelf, ſaid ſhe, that you don't
Want any. Turn your effects into commercial
goods, fly to your mother's relief, do honour to
all and every body; at your return my fortune is
at your command. If I die before you come back,
my will is made in your favour; if I live to ſee
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know what you are entitled to. Coron, over-
come with gratitude and admiration, ſeized her
yirtuous hand, which he wet with tears of love,
expatiating on her praiſes. Let us, ſaid ſhe, have
none of theſe weakneſſes, theſe European preju-
dices, When a woman behaves as ſhe ought to
do, it is looked upon there as a wonder ; asif we
were not endued with a ſoul as well as men. What
would you think of me if I ſhould teſtify an amaze-
ment, and look upon the pure pious movement of
your filial virtuous heart as a phenomenon? O!
| pardon me, replied Coron, what elſe could I ex-
pect from your exalted goodneſs ? but whilſt I am.
enchanted with your principles, your ſentiments,
and your virtues, I may admire, though not be
ſurpriſed. Go then, ſaid ſhe, embracing him, fulfil
your duty, and haſten your return.
' Coron embarked with all his riches. The voy-
age was very favourable till they came off of the
Canaries. There they were purſued by an Alge-
rine pirate. They crouded fail in hopes of eſcap-
ing. The pirate gained faſt upon them, and the
captain of the ſhip, terrified at the danger of be-
ing boarded, was for ſtriking the colours. O! my:
poor dear mother, cried Coron, looking at the
cheſts that contained his wealth; and then tearing
his hair with grief and rage. No, ſaid he, the
barbarous African ſhall ſooner tear my heart out.
Then addreſſing himſelf to the commanding of-
ficer and to the reſt of the crew, What, my
friends, ſaid he, ſhall we tamely ſurrender ? ſhall
we ſuffer this robber to load us with irons, drag
us to a loathſome dungeon, and then expoſeus to
ſale like ſo many brute beaſts? Are we not arm-
ed? Are thoſe miſcreants then invulnerable, or
have they more covrage than we? They ſeem in-
clined to board us, let them beard, we ſhall give
them a cloſer and warmer reception. Coron's
reſolution”
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reſolution animated the whole crew, and the cap-
tain, embracing him, thanked” him for having
given ſo brave an example.
All is diſpoſed for a vigorous defence. The ſhips
| are grappled. The pirate boards. Death flies pro-
| miſcuous on both ſides, amidſt a cloud of ſmoke
and fire. The fire ceaſes, the ſmoke diſſipates,
the ſword is now employed. Coron, his ſabre in
hand, made a terrible ſlaughter :. ſoon as an Afri-
can approached, he flew upon him, crying, my
dear mother! Like the laſt effort of nature in de-
ſpair, his rage was as that of a lioneſs that defends
| her young: So that one of the moſt tender-hearted
good=natured men in the world became in a mo-
ment furious and bloody-minded. The captain
beheld him every where, his arms bathed in gore.
> It is not a man, ſaid he to his companions, tis a
god that fights for us] Such an example excited
their courage. At laſt Coron met the chief of the
| pirates, O heavens, he cried, my mother! that
was the word of command. So ſaying, he ruſhed
| upon him, and ran him through the heart. From
that inſtant the victory was decided. The few that
| remained of the Algerine crew called for quarter,
and were put in irons. The ſhip, with Coron and
Fi, their prize, arrived ſafe in France; and this wor-
ol | thy ſon;without giving himſelf a night's reſt, poſt-
| ed away with his treaſure to reſcue a dying mo-
1 ther. She was indeed almoſt expiring, in a con-
_ dition worſe than death itſelf, Deſtitute of every
4 conveniency and comfort of life, and left to the
care of a ſervant, who, not being much better
provided for herſelf, waited upon her with a kind
of indifference and ſcornful pity. She had forbid
this ſeryant, becauſe ſhe was aſhamed to be ſeen
in ſo miſerable a ſituation, to let any body in but
the prieſt and the charitable phyſician, that now
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and then called upon her. Coron came, and was
accordingly refuſed admittance.
Go and let yeur miſtreſs know, ſaid he to the
maid, that I am here. Pray, who are you? an-
ſwered the ſervant My name is Jacquinot. The
maid went in to let her miſtreſs know, that a
ſtranger deſired to ſpeak with her. —Alas! who is
the ſtranger ?—He "0 his name is Jacquinot. At
that name her heart was ſo violently moved, that
it almoſt deprived her of life. Ah! my fon, ſaid
ſhe with a feeble voice, and opening her dying
eyes, ah ! my ſon, at what a dreadful time do you
behold your mother! Your hand is come to cloſe
my eyes. How great was the grief of her tender,
pious ſon to ſee that mother, whom he had left
in wealth and proſperity, lying on a miſerable bed,
without ſcarce a rag of a curtain, the picture of
poverty and wretchedneſs. Oh! my dear mother,
he cried, throwing himfelt on the bed of woe;
his ſighs ſtopped the utterance of his voice, and
his tears, which he ſhed on his mother's boſom,
were for ſome time the only expreſſions of his love
and grief, Heaven has puniſhed me, reſumed Ma-
dam Coron, to have loved too much an unnatural
ſon, and to have—O my dear mother, interrupted
the pious young man, do but live, and all will be
well again. Fortune has heaped riches on me,
and I am come to ſhower them into the lap of na-
ture. Tis for you that they are beſtowed upon
me. O live! I have wherewithal to make life de-
ſirable. Ah! my child, if life can ever be wel-
come to me, it will be only in giving me an op-
portunity of wiping off the ſtain of my injuſtice,
and of loving a ſon whom I diſinherited, and of
whom I am not worthy to be called mother. At
theſe words ſhe covered her face, as if aſhamed to
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her in his arms, deprive me not of the fight of
my. mother. I am come from a diſtant world, and
croſſed the ſeas to ſeek and ſuccour you. As he
was thus talking, the prieſt and the phyſician arriv-
ed. Theſe gentlemen, my ſon, have been the only
comfort heaven left me; had it not been for their
charity, you had now been motherleſs. Coron
embraced them. O my friends !' ſaid he, my be-
nefaftors! under what obligations have you not
laid me? were it not for you, I had no more a
mother. Endeavour to recal her to life. I am
rich, and am come to make her happy. Redou-
ble your attention, your conſolation, and your
care; reſtore her to me, and command my grati-
tude. The phyſician very prudently conſidered,
that this agitation was too violent for his patient;
wherefore he deſired him to retire, and to depend
on their zeal; only that he would go and prepare
wholeſome and convenient lodgings, and that ſhe
ſhould be conveyed thither that evening. |
The change of air, good food, or rather that
revolution which joy had cauſed, and the calm
tranquillity that ſucceeded it, inſenſibly reſtored
her organs to their wonted functions. Profound
grief was the cauſe of her illneſs, returning com-
tort was her cure. .
Coron was informed, that his unhappy brother
had periſhed by an ignominious death. I draw the
veil over the ſhocking cataſtrophe that he but too
much deſerved. The knowledge of it was kept
from his mother, as being too weak to ſupport ſo
horrid a piece of news. However, ſhe was inform-
ed of it when her health was quite re-eſtabliſhed,
'The wounds of her heart bled afreſh, and mater-
nal tears trickled down her. cheeks. - But heaven,
in depriving her of a ſon unwortky of her affecti-
on, gave her back another who deſerved all that
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nature has: rendered moſt endearing, and virtue
moſt amiable. He communicated to his mother
all that his ſoul longed for, which was, to encircle.
together in his arms his mother and his future
ſpouſe. Madam Coron was delighted at the pro-
ofal, very glad to accompany her ſon to the Welt;
ndies, and leave a. town where her indiſcretion
and her misfortunes were known to every body,
and of courſe hateful. to her. She went on board
with joy, and the moment ſhe embarked her ſpirits
revived. Heaven, that protects virtue and piety,
gave them a favourable paſſage. Lucella received
her lover's mother as if ſhe had been her own.
2 compleated their happineſs in the bonds
of marriage. They ſtill enjoy that unalterable
bliſs, thoſe pure and uninterrupted pleaſures which
are the reward of virtue. a
CCC
THE GOOD MOTHER.
AM ORAL TALE. |
| Mother's care of her children is, of all du
AK ties, the moſt incumbent and the moſt
ſtrictly obſerved. in nature. It is an univerſal
ſentiment that ſubdues all other paſſions, and
even ſurpaſſes the love of life. It makes the moſt
t ferocious animals tame and careſſing; the moſt
15 indolent become indefatigable, and the fearful
, courageous ; none of them forſake their young,
but at the moment they can be of no farther uſe
. to them, Tis only amongſt the human ſpecies ,
987 that we find odious examples of a premature
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In an age, when vice is diſguiſed under a thou-
ſand ſeducing forms, *tis then that the moſt virtu-
ous inclinations and the ſweeteſt tempers require
a conſtant watchful eye to lead them through the _
dangerous paths of the world. The more the
rocks are hid, -the greater the danger; and how
ſhall the frail bark of innocence and happineſs
eſcape them, without the guidance of a prudent
and ſkilful pilot? What would have been, for
example, the fate of Miſs Troene, if heaven
had not formed for her ſuch a mother as is ſeldom
found? This eſtimable widow devoted the prime
of her life to the education of her only child. And
this was her way of reaſoning at the age of five
and twenty. |
I have loſt my huſband, ſaid ſhe; I have no-
thirg now to conſider of but my daughter and
myſelf, Shall I live for myſelf? Shall I live for
my daughter? Town that I have great induce-
ment to be ſtill one of the world; and 1 like it.
But if I follow my bent, I forſake my child, and
run the riſk of her happineſs and my own, Fer,
grant that a buftling, genteel life has all the
charms it is ſuppoſed to have; how 1
reaſonably expect to enjoy it? How _
of my years, which paſs ſo quick away, have I
to be courted, or taken notice of? How many
may I make a good uſe of in my retirement, ta-
king eare of my child? This vain world, that
now ſmiles upori me, will, in a ſhort time, reject
me without mercy.; and if my daughter ſhould
follow. my example, and be unhappy thro' my
neglect, how could I anſwer it to myſelf? No:
let us retire, and make our retreat as honourable
and comfortable as I can. Surely I may give
for my daughter, who is my all, a- tumultuous
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From that time, this prudent mother made it
her ſtudy to be the friend, as well as companion
of her daughter; but that was no eaſy taſk. Emi-
lia, ſo was the young lady named, had received
from nature a ſoul ſuſceptible of the moſt lively
impreſſions ;/ and her mother, who obſerved her
conſtantly, felt a doubtful joy in perceiving in her
that ſenſibility, which procures ſo much happineſs
or ſo much diſtreſs. ppy the man, ſhe would
ſay ſometimes, happy the man my daughter mar-
ries, if he proves worthy of her affeCtion ; and if,
by his eſteem and friendſhip, he can make her feel
how ſenſible he himſelf is of the tender regard ſhe
has for him. But woe to him if he lights, or _
ſtrives to mortify her. Her nice punctilio, once
hurt, would be their common plague. For even
if I ſhould happen to make her too haſtily ſome
little reproach, or perhaps find fault when ſhe
was not ſo much to blame, immediately the tears
ſtart from her eyes, and her depreſſed heart loſes
all its reſolution, Nothing ſo eaſy as to lead her;
nothing more eaſy than to make her refraQtory. +
Though the manner in which Madam Treëne
lived, was reſerved, yet it was very decent, and
ſuitable to one of her condition; quite conform-
able to her main view, of watching with a careful
eye over Emilia's conduct, and.of reflecting at
leiſure on the choice of a huſband fit for her. A
crowd of ſuitors, enamoured with the charms of
the daughter, paid, as uſual, their court to the
mother, Amongſt theſe was the marquis of Ver-
glan, who, to his great misfortune, was exceed-
ing han ſome. His looking-glaſs, and the ladies,
had told it him ſo often, that he muſt perforce
believe it. He liſtened to himſelf with great
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ecdimplaiſance, beheld: himſelf with pleaſure; and
charmed with his own ſmiles, was eternally his
own admirer. There was no fault to be found with
him in reſpect to politeneſs : But then it was ſo
cool and ſo reſerved, in compariſon of the regard
he honoured himſelf with, that it was very plain
he held the firſt place in his own eſteem. He might
have poſſeſſed without ſeeking for, all the graces.
of nature, which he ſpoiled in affecting them. As
for his underſtanding, it wanted a little more pre-
ciſion, or rather reflection. Nobody could talk
better, had he but known what he was about te
fay. But his firſt care was to be always of a diffe-
rent opinion from every body elſe. Right er wrong,
it was all the fame to him. He was ſure to dazzle,
perſuade, and ſeduce whomever he pleaſed. He
knew, by heart, all the fine ſpeeches of a lady's
dreſſing- room; thoſe pretty ſayings that mean no-
thing. He was perfectly verſed in all the little
ſcandalous anecdotes, both of court and city; who
was the lover of yeſterday, who that ef the pre-
ſent, and who would be that of to-morrow; and
how. many times in one year ſuch a lady had
changed her gallant. He was likewiſe acquaint--
ed with a ſomebody, that ſhould” be nameleſs,
who refuſed being on the liſt, though he was ſure
of ſupplanting all his rivals, had he thought it
worth his while. 3 |
This young fop was the ſon of an intimate
friend of Emilia's father; and Madam Troene-
was wont to ſpeak of him te her daughter with
concern. What a pity is it, ſaid. ſhe, that this
young man is ſo ſpoiled. He was very well en-
dowed by nature, and might have ſneceeded in
any thing. He had already but too well ſucceed-
ed in Emilia's heart. What may ſeem ridiculous
in a mother's eyes, does not always appear in the
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ſame light in thoſe of the daughter's, Youth is
ever indulgent to youth; and there are what may
be called agreeabie faults. Meet
Verglan was not inſenſible to Emilia's charms,
which were rather too ſimple, but that might
mend; and he gave himſelf very little trouble
about pleaſing; but when the out- lines are drawn,
every thing contributes to make the impreſſion
deeper. The very unſettledneſs of this wild young
man was an allurement for Emilia; ſhe perceiy-
ed the danger of loſing him; and nothing ha-
ſtens ſo much the progreſs of a growing paſſion
as jealouſy. | |
henever Verglan gave an account of himſelf
to Madam Troene, you may be ſure there was
not one in the Tad more deſerving than he.
The widow now and then, without affectation,
made him a lecture on modeſty. He proteſted,
that no one had a leſs opinion of himſelf than he
had; that he was convinced, that it was not him
that was ſought for; that birth and rank had, no
doubt, great ſway; but as for the reſt, it was
entirely owing to figure and genius, ſuch as the
were; qualifications which he had not acquired,
and therefore had no right to value himſelf on
their account. |
The more Emilia was charmed to hear and
ſee him, the more care ſhe took to conceal her
pleaſure. One word of rebuke from her mother
ene would have cut her to the ſoul; and that nice
6 and tender ſenſibility made her cautious and fear-
chis ful to an exceſs. | |
However Emilia, that touched ſo ſlightly the
el heart of Verglan, had raiſed in that of the mo-
* deſt and virtuous Belzors, tlie moſt violent, but
reſpectful love. Belzors's character was found-
| ed on the baſis of a ſound judgment, and an up-
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right heart. A good figure, a ſweet and open
countenance, that ſeemed to acquire a new degree
of force by the high idea every body had of hig
mind. One is apt to fancy we read in the phi-
ſiognomy all that we know to dwell in the heart.
Belzors, whoſe inclinations were turned to
good from his infancy, procured him that ineſti-
mable advantage, of yielding to their impulſe
without precaution or conſtraint. Decency, civi-
lity, candour, that epenneſs which gains our
confidence, that ſeverity in morals that com-
mands reſpect; all theſe appeared in him with
the unaffected eaſe of nature. Foe to vice,
and yet not proud; indulgent to the foibles of
others, without contr2Aing any; complying
with all innocent diverſions, but never ſeduced
by bad examples; he ſtemmed the torrent of
the world; beloved and reſpeCted even by thoſe
to whom his life was a cenfure, and the public
eſteem, as if to mortify their pride, was wont
- to quote him as a precedent,
Madam 'Troene, delighted with the character
of this young gentleman, had fixed upon him in
her own heart as the moſt deſerving perfon for
her daughter. She ſeized every opportunity of
ſpeaking in his praiſe, and Emilia applauded with
that reſervedneſs, that became one of her age...
Madam Troene was deceived by the unaffected,
ingenuous manner in which Emilia behaved to -
Belzors. As the eſteem ſhe had for him was un»
mixed with any other ſentiment, Emilia was
quite at her eaſe. | g
She was far from being in that tranquil ſtate,
when the dangerous Verglan was in company;
* ſo that the painful ſituation, in which his preſence
generally threw her, made her appear as if ſhe
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to his advantage, -Emilia looked down, and was
ſilent. Methinks, my dear, ſaid ſhe to her
daughter, you have no reliſh for thaſe empty,
brilliant graces that the world admires ſo much.
I don't know what they are, replied Emilia,
bluſhing. The good mother concealed her joy;
ſhe thought ſhe perceived, by her behaviour,
that the ſimple and modeſt virtue of Belzors
triumphed in her heart, over all the amiable
follies of Verglan, and of thoſe that reſembled
him. An acciden
t, very flight in appearance,
but very ſtriking for a watchful, attentive mo»
ther, diſpelled her illuſion.
One of Emilia's talents was to draw in cray-
ons; and ſhe had fixed on flower-painting, as beſt
ſuited to one of her age. What is more natural
than to Tee a new-blown roſe ſpring from the
hand of beauty? Verglan, as it happened, was
likewiſe fond of flowers, and he ſeldom appear-
ed without a pretty noſegay _ 1 1
One day, by mere chance, Madam 'Troene
took notice of Verglan's noſegay. The next
day, ſhe ſaw that Emilia was drawing, perhaps
by mere chance, alſo the very identical flowers
of which it was compoſed. It was natural enough
to Imagine, that the flowers ſhe had ſeen the
day before, were ſtill in her mind, and might
drop from her crayons without reflection. But
what was not quite ſo fimple, was the enthuſi-
aſtic look ſhe had whilſt ſhe was drawing them.
Her eyes ſparkled, with the fire of genius; her
mouth aſſumed a lovely ſmile at every ſtroke of
her hand; and a colour, more lively than the
flowers ſhe was about to paint, overſpread her
beauteous cheeks. You ſeem pleaſed, ſaid her
mother in a careleſs way, with your work! It is
not poſſible, anſwered Emilia, to repreſent na-
ture truly, except you have it before your eyes.
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2 yet ſhe had never expreſſed it more faith-
fully. 8 5 |
5 Toms days after, Verglan came with a freſh
noſegay; and Madam Troëne, without ſeeming
to do it, obſerved every particular flower; and in
Emilia's next taſk, the noſegay was fairly repre-
ſented. The good mother continued her re-
marks; and every trial A ru her ſuſpicions,
redoubled her uneaſineſs. Alas ! ſaid ſhe, I am
alarming myſelf at what, perhaps, is very inno-
eent. Let us find out whether ſhe has any fineſſe
-in it or not. i |
Emilia's ſtudies and talents were unknown to
moſt of her mother's acquaintance. As madam -
_ "Troene's deſign was only to amuſe her, and
make her paſs agreeably her leiſure hours, ſo as
to ufe her to retirement, and ſave her imagina-
tion from the danger of muſing, and her active
feeling ſoul from the tireſome yawns of idleneſs,
ſne neither prided herſelf, nor her daughter, for
"thoſe talents ſhe took ſo much care to cultivate.
But one day, as they were alone with Belzors,
and that the converſation turned on the precious
advantage of knowing howto employ one's time,
and be ſufficient for one's ſelf; My daughter,
ſaid Madam Troene, has made herſelf an amuſe-
ment that, I think, ſhe grows fonder of more
and more. You muſt ſee her drawings. Emilia
opened her book, and Belzors, quite enchanted,
never ceaſed admiring her work. How pure
how charming! he cried, are the pleaſures of
. - innocence! Vice may torment itſelf for ever in
the vain purſuit of what it never can find out,
Own, Madam, that the time we occupy, paſſes
quick away; you have fixed it; it returns, and
appears again to your eyes. Time is never loſt
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fleQions very reaſonable, bus was hot in the leaſt
moved by them. | „ ie
Some ti md efter Verglan paid them a viſit. Do
you. know, ſaid Madam Treane to him, that
Emilia has received great applauſe from Belzors.
on het talent in painting? I myſt have yaur opi-
nion of it too. Emilia bluſhed, heſitated and.
ſtammer'd that, that... ſhe had nothing finiſn-
ed, and deſired her to wait till the had dene ſome -
thing worthy to be ſhewn; : She did nat doubt,
but that it was a ſnare of her mother's to draw.
her in. Since ſhe makes a myſtery of it, there
muſt be ſomething: in it. She was afraid that
Verglan would have diſcovered his flowers, and
faund out the ſecret motive of her painting them.
My daughter is in love with the coxcomb, and
my fears were hut tao juſtly grounded. 13
As Madam Trobne was an every fide continu»
ally ſolicited for her daughter, her objection was
ſtill Emilia's youth, and the reſolution that ſne
had made, never to centrou] her in her choice.
That choice however was all her dread. Ver-
glan, thought ſhe, at leaſt in allappearance, will
have the preference, and he is poſſeſt of every,
quality, that is conducive to make a wife unhap-
py. If I declare to Emilia my wiſhes, if I do
but let her have a glimpſe of them, I know her
crupulous delicacy, ſhe will be the victim of
er duty. And can require ſo painful a ſacri-
ce? Heaven forbid | No, let her own inelinati-
dn decide it; yet I may endeavour to enlighten
and direct that inclination, and that is the anly
awful authority that I am impowered to exert.
am very ſure of the goodneſs of her heart, and
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Every time that Belzors and Verglan happened
to be of the company, Madam 'Troene turned
maxims of the world; ſhe animated the diſpute,
and, without ſeeming to ſide with either party,
gave each of them room to diſplay ' their charac-
ters, which was her ſole view. The little adven-
tures that happen every day, which furniſh idle
converſation for the tea-table, were moſtly the
ſubject of their chat. Verglan, light, lively,
and ſatirical, pleaded conſtantly in behalf of all
that is called faſhion. Belzors, with more mo-
deſty, boldly ſupported the cauſe of 'virtue and
The compromiſing the altercations of Count
Auberive and his wife, engroſſed at that time all
the talk of the town. Twas ſaid, that after 1
ſmart quarrel, and bitter complaints of their
mutual infidelity, they both agreed that they
were quit; and that their diſpute ended by laugh-
ing at each others folly, at having been jealous
without being in love. The preliminaries were,
that Auberive conſented to ſee the Chevalier du
Clang his wife's lover, and ſhe promiſed to re-
ceive in the politeſt manner the Marchioneſs of
Talba, to whom Auberive paid his addreſſes;
that all the parties met at ſupper, ratified the
preliminaries, and proclaimed peace, and that
never did two pair of lovers ſeem to agree with
more harmony. / |
At this deſcription, Verglan cry'd out, that it
was wiſely done. You talk of good old times!
ſaid he; ſhew me an example in the manners of
our forefathers, any thing comparable to this,
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Formerly, an infidelity put the whole family in a
r ferment. A wife was beat and lock'd up. If the
huſband exerted the power which he pretended to
d have, his virtuous and diſconſolate ſpouſe was
d WW obliged to devaur her grief, or give it vent in
d her diſtant apartment, as in an obſcure priſon.
ey And if ſhe ſhould chance to imitate her fickle
ys Wl huſband, what dangers did ſhe not run? No leſs.
c- vas at ſtake, than her's and her lover's life. They
n- had the folly to make a man's honourdepend on
ne WW his wife's virtue; and a huſband, who was not the
he Wl leſs eſteemed for having amours of his own, muſt
ly, de deſpiſed for thoſe of his wife! Upon my ho-
all nour, I am ſurpriſed how any one, in thoſe bar-
10- Wl barous ages, durſt venture on matrimony. The
nd ties of it were then indeed a real chain. Now-a-
days you ſee peace, compliance, and freedom
reign throughout the family. If perchance the
married couple love one another, tis mighty
well, they are happy, and don't think of parting ;
if they outlive their paſſion, why then, like ho-
bey neſt reaſonable folks, they declare it and acquit
gh- each other of their vows of fidelity, They ceaſe
lous MW to be lovers to commence friends. Now that is
ere, MW vbat I call ſweet, focial, conjugal manners, that
would almoſt tempt me to marry. What do you
» re- think it then a very natural thing for a wife to be
ſs of the confidant of her huſband's amours? And the
Mes; Mbuſband to be his wife's procurer No doubt;
| the provided it be a mutual piece of politeneſs. Is
that Many thing more natural than to repoſe one's truſt
in thoſe, who confide in us! and fo ſettle an in-
tercourſe of friendly offices! Can one have a
more intimate friend than one's wife? And can
ſhe have a nearer one than her huſband? Who
an-one be free with, if not with bone of your
bone, and fleſh of your fleſh? And when, by ſad
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miſhap, you can find no longer any amuſement
at home, what can you do better than to look for
it abroad? And each endeavour · to procure it for
themſelves, without noiſe, without jealouſy ?
Nothing can have a more ſmiling aſpect, ſaid
Belzors, than this new method of yours ; but you
and I have a great deal to go thro', before we can
perfectly enjoy it. Firſt of all you muſt know
how to renounce your own ſelf- eſteem, and that
of your wife and children; you muſt accuſtom
yourſelf to look upon your dear half, whom
you. deſpiſe ſo much, as to barter her. Pſhaw !
interrupted Verglan, foaliſh ſcruples and pre-
judices of education ! where lies the obſtacle to
mutual-eſteem, if it is decided there is no ſhame?
Decided or not decided, reply'd Belzors, all
ſociety muſt be then diſſolved. The. holy and
inviolable bands of Hymen manifeſt the ſacred ties
of nature. Remember, my good friend, that
if there be no duties impoſed by heaven on parents,
what can be expeQted from thoſe of their children?
All theſe links put together form but one chain.
The private and particular family diſturbances of
Former times, were very violent ; but they did
not affect the general. The whole maſs of morals
was ſound, take it all in all, and an accidental,
wound was ſoon healed; now 1t is a mere mou
dering heap, that a ſlow, but ſure poiſan conſumes
away; and then, my dear Verglan, we have as
yet no idea of thoſe pure and heart-felt joys,
that a virtuous and prudent couple taſte in the
ſweet receſs of their domeſtic privacy ; that
union which was the delight of their youth, and
is the comfort of their ripened years. What if
now-a-days a mather ſhould be afflicted with the
wild inconſiderate follies of her ſon? what if a
father be caſt down by ſome unforeſeen —_
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of fortune? are not they a refuge, a comfort to
each other? Or elſe they muſt ſeek for a foreign
boſom where to'depoſe their troubles, and where
very ſeldom they meet with relief.
My dear Belzors, faid Verglan, you talk like
an oracle ; but pray who told you, that it was
not much better for married people to love one
another, and be conftant if they can. All that
Taim at is, to prove, that if unhappily this mutual
love ſhould ceaſe, one ought to make one's ſelf as
eaſy as poſſible, and take other meaſures, without
being obliged to love like our fathers of yore,
except you chuſe to follow their example. - And
pray, ſaid Madam Troëne, where lies the objecti-
on? The objection, Madam? replied Belzors;
why, cuſtom, and the ruling taſte to a& without
ſhame or decency, juſt as their paſſions lead them.
I dare fav, that Verglan will own, that the pre-
ſent manner of living is very agreeable, and alittle
variety now and then not at all unacceptable; our
own. weakneſs yields to it of courſe; and who can
reſiſt the attack, if the bulwark of morals is de-
ſtroyed ? I deſtroy nothing, anſwered Verglan? 1
only ſay, that I would have every body live as they
think fit; liberty and property! and I approve
very much of the reſolution of Auberive and his
ſpouſe, to forgive reciprocally what is called fail-
ings. If they are ſatisfied, what right has any
body elſe to complain ? | EE]
As he finiſhed theſe words, the Marquis d*Au-
berive was introduced. O my dear Marquis,
ſaid Verglan, you are come quite a propos; pray
tell us if there be any truth in what is related of
you? 'tis ſaid that you and your wife are like the
two doQtors in Moliere, Wink at my rhubarb, and
PII take no notice of your ſema. Mere nonſenſe,
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Verglan, I have ſupported the argument with all
my power; but here is Bekors that condemns
you without appeal. — And why ſo? would he not
have done the ſame? My wife is young and hand-
ſome, and is an arrant coquette; that is very na-
tural. However, I believe that in the main ſhe
may be virtuous; but if ſhe was leſs fo, juſtice
ought to be done. I conceive very well that a
man of a more jealous temper than mine might
condemn me; but what ſurpriſes me is, that Bel-
zors ſhould be the firſt to diſapprove of my con-
duct] Heretofore I have been accoſted with no-
thing but praiſes. My behaviour was very natu-
ral, and every body congratulates me upon it, as if
it was a wonder that one ſhould have ſenſe enough
to act reafonably! I am quite confounded with the
compliments I daily receive. As for your gentle-
men of nice and rigorous principles, I honour
them much ; but I live for myſelf. Let every bo-
dy do the fame; the happieſt will be the wiſeſt.
Pray, interrupted Madam 'Troene, on purpoſe to
break the diſcourſe, how does Lady Auberive do ?
—Exceeding well, Madam, we ſupped together
laſt night, and I never in my life ſaw her in bet-
ter humour, I'dlay a wager, faid Verglan, that
you will come together again.—Faith, nothing
more likely; for. as we left the table, I catch'd
* myſelf ſaying tender things to her.
This firſt eſſay made a lively impreſſion on
Emilia's mind. Her mother, who perceived it,
let her reflections take their free courſe, and, to
keep them to the object, ſhe ſaid, that ſhe could
not but admire how opinions depended on charac-
ters. Here are two young men, who have both
been educated with equal care; both have been
taught the ſame principles of honour and virtue
and yet how different they are from each other;
nevertheleſs
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nevertheleſs each thinks himſelf in the right-
Emilia, in her heart, would fain have found an ex-
cuſe for Verglan's eſpouſing ſo warmly the man-
ners of the age; but how was it poſhble-? Ah!
ſaid ſhe to herſelf, with what unconcern are faith
and modeſty lighted ! How all that ought to be
the moſt ſacred in nature is ridiculed! And Ver-
glan is guilty of this indiſcretion ! Why has he
not Belzors's. mind ?
Some time after, Emilia and her mother were
at the play; Belzors and Verglan came to their
box; Madam Troene invited them to take their
ſeats. Inas was repreſented. The ſcene where
the children were introduced gave Verglan a ſub-
ject to diſplay his nice criticiſms. Belzors, with-
out giving him any attention, was all in tears at
the intereſting ſituation z and was not aſhamed to
let them be ſeen, What, ſaid Verglan, are you
really ſo weak as to be moved at the ſight of thoſe
children? What can you have more moving ? re-
plied Belzors: Yes, I own that I never hear,
Without a certain tremor, the tender names of fa-
ther and mother; I am penetrated with the pa-
thetic ties of nature. Love itſelf, even the moſt in-
tereſting love, does not touch me near ſo much.
inzs was followed by a little piece called Nanine;
and when it came to the concluſion, Oh! this is
too much, ſaid Verglan, that Dolban ſhould be in
love with the little wench, with all my heart, but
to marry her! that's out of character. It may
perhaps be a folly, replied Belzors, but I find my-
ſelf capable of doing juſt the ſame ; for where vir-
tue and beauty are united, who can anſwer for their
reaſon? Not a ſingle word of their diſcourſe eſca-
. ped Madam Troene; and Emilia, not leſs atten-
tive, bluſhed at the advantage Belzors had over his
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rival. When the tepreſentation was over, the Che-
valier d'Olcet appeared with weepers, How comes
this about, Chevalier? ſaid Verglan in his airy
manner.—” Tis only an old uncle of mine, who
has been ſo kind as to die and leave me ten thou-
ſand crowns a year. Let me embrace you. Your
uncle was a man of Hhonour. Ten thouſand crowns
a year | tis charming. Belzors ſaluted him in
his turn; Chevalier, ſaid he, I condole with you
for your. loſs. You have two good a heart to
conceive an unnatural joy for his death. Tis
true, anſwered the Chevalier, ſomewhat confoun-
ded to have ſpoken of it ſo lightly, he was to be
ſure a long time a father to me, but you know he
was very old. That was a motive for patience,
replied Belzors, and not one of comfort. A good
relation is the beſt of friends; the riches he be-
queaths you will never enable you to purchaſe
luch another. For my part, ſaid Verglan, I think
that an old uncle muſt be at beſt but a very dull
friend: And, after all, is it not natural? every one
im his turn. The young would be much to be
pitied, if the old were to be ſempiternal. Belzors
waved the diſcourſe, not to give him an unfavour-
able anſwer. At every ſtroke of this contraſt, Emi-
lia was in a painful agitation. Her mother beheld
with joy the reſpectful tender air ſhe had when ſhe
ſpoke to Belzors, and the cold indifferent manner
in which ſhe anfwered Verglan's gallantries; but,
as ſhe was reſolved to have another trial, ſhe in-
vited them both to ſpend the next evening with
her,
Accordingly they came. 'The company fat
down to cards; Verglan and Belzors took the
backgammon table. Verglan loved to play deep,
and Belzors whatever was moſt agreeable. Their
game began to grow. ſerious; Emilia was —
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the lookers on; and the good mother, though
playing her cards, caſt now and then an eye up-
on her daughter, and read in her face what
paſſed in her heart. Fortune favoured Belzors.
Emilia, tho* much diſſatisfied with Verglan's be-
haviour, was too good not to be concern'd in ſee-
ing him lofe ſo conſiderably. The unthinking
youth had no command of himſelf; he was piqued,
and doubled what they played for at firſt; and,
before ſupper was on table, twas all but playing
on his word of honour. Vexation and ill humour
had gained upon him; he endeavoured to appear
agreeable, and ſhake it off; but the alteration of -
his countenance teſtified his inward feelings. He
perceived that he was pitied, and that nobody
ſmiled at the bons mots which he attempted to hit
off. It touched him to the quick, and he was rea-
dy to ſhew marks of reſentment when they roſe
from ſupper. Belzors, on whom neither his own
good luck, nor his rival's diſcontent, had made
any impreſſion, was as mild, civil, and unconcern-
ed as uſual. At Verglan's deſire, they returned
to backgammon. Madam Troëne, who had fi-
niſhed her party, came and looked over theirs ;
very uneaſy at the conſequence of it, and hoping
it would have her deſired effect on Emilia's heart.
The ſucceſs ſurpaſſed her expectations. Verglan
loſt what was almoſt impoſſible to loſe. His trem-
bling hand, his pale oountenance, expreſſed the
trouble he fain would have hid. Belzors, with an
endleſs complaiſance, gave him as many revenges
and as many doublings as he pleaſed; and when,
by repeated doublings, Verglan had got an oppor-
tunity of recovering his loſs all to a certain mo- *
derate ſum, if you have no objection, ſaid Bel-
zors, we will leave off. I think I may with ho-
nour win as much as I intended to loſe. Such
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wiſdom and diſintereſtedneſs raiſed in the compa-
ny a buzz of approbation. Verglan alone was
inſenſible of it, and ſaid, as he roſe from play, with
an air of diſdain, it was not worth while to have
ſat ſo long at it. :
Emilia had not a wink of ſleep all night, ſo
much was ſhe agitated with what ſhe had ſeen and
heard. What a difference, ſaid ſhe, and by what
capricious fatality do I dread to be undeceived ? Is
1t not natural for the ſeduQtion to ceaſe, when you
are ſure of being ſeduced? I admire one, and 1
love the other. Whence'proceeds this miſunder-
ſtanding between one's reaſon and one's heart, that
makes us ſtill fond of what we no longer eſteem.
In the morning, according to cuſtom, Emilia
came to her mother's levee. W hat is the matter ?
ſaid ſhe to her daughter; methinks there is ſome
alteration in you,—A very great one, Mamma, I
aſſure you.—W hat, have not you ſlept well ?—
Not very well; ſhe anſwered with a ſigh.— Come,
come, pluck up your ſpirits, and put on your
good looks, for I intend to take a walk this after-
noon in the Tuilleries; all the world is to be
there. I have often been concerned to ſee the
fineſt garden in the univerſe abandoned and ne-
glected; and I am very glad to find that the mode
recals the company there again. |
. Verglan did not fail being there, and Madam
'Troene took him into her ſet. The view of thoſe
delightful ſcenes had an air of enchantment. A
thouſand beauties, in all the parade of brilliant
dreſs, ſat round that ſpacious baſon, decorated
with all the art of refined ſculpture, and the noble
walk that terminates at this baſon, was crouded
with young nymphs, who by their charms, and
their talents, attracted the eyes and deſires of the
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all, and gave a ſmile to one, to another a nod.
That, ſaid he, is Fatme, nobody is ſo very ten-
der, ſo loving as ſhe is. Cleon and ſhe live toge-
ther in all the harmony of angels; he has made
her in leſs than ſix months a preſent of a thouſand
crowns; they bill and cooe like two doves. That
there is the famous Corinna; her houſe is the
temple of luxury, her ſuppers the moſt magnifi-
cent in all Paris, and ſhe does the honours of them
herſelf with the moſt enchanting grace. Do you
ſee that fair modeſt looking beauty, who caſts her
eyes ſo languiſhingly around? She has now three
gallants, each of which flatters himſelf to be the
only happy man. Tis delightful to behold her
amidſt her adorers, how ſhe diſtributes ſmall fa-
vours, and tells them one after another, what fools
ſhe makes of his rivals. She is a perfect model of
coquetry, and no. body can poſſibly deceive with
more art and addreſs. She will go great lengths
I promiſe you. I have already prognoſticated it
to her. What! you are then her confidant, ſaid
Madam Troene.—O yes, they are all acquainted
with me, and don't pretend to give themſelves... -
any airs, they know very well that I am not to be
impoſed upon. And pray, Belzors, ſaid Madam
'Troene to that prudent young man, who had but
juſt joined them, are you. likewiſe initiated in theſe
myſteries? Not I, Madam. I am willing to be-
lieve that it is all very amuſing; but the greater
the pleaſure, ſo much the greater the danger.
Madam 'Troene took notice, that the ladies of
modeſt reputation received with a cool reſerved-
neſs, the familiar eaſy ſalutations of Verglan;
whilſt they anſwered the reſpectful one of Belzors
with a look of eſteem and friendſhip, She jeſted
with Verglan on this diſtinction; only that her
daughter might take notice of it. Tis very true,
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Madam, ſaid he, oy give themſelves thoſe airs
of indifferthce in public, but in private they make
me ample amends. TS IN
At her return with them, ſhe received a viſit
from Eleonora, a young lady of exquiſite beauty.
Eleonora could not refrain talking of her misfor-
tune in the loſs of fo eſtimable a huſband ; ſhe
' Tpoke of it with ſo much delicacy, candour, and
ſenſibility, that Madam Troene, Emilia, and Bel-
Zors liſtened to her with tears in their eyes. To
a young and handfome lady, ſaid Verglan in his
uſual ſtile, the loſs of a hufband is of little ſignifi-
cation, it being ſo eaſily repatred. It will be no
ſuch eaſy matter for me, replied the modeſt and
tender Eleonora. A huſband that honoured a wife
of my age with his confidence and eſteem, and
whoſe condeſcending goodneſs never had the fears
of jealouſy, nor the indolence of poſſeſſion, ſuch
Huſbands are not ſo eafily replaced! 1 * ſaid
Verglan, that he was very handſome No, Sir,
his beauty was in his mind. Fine beauties, in-
deed, replied Verglan with a diſdainful look, the
beauties of the mind! no doubt then but he was
young.—Far from it; he was at that age when
one ought to have diſcretion, or never will have
any,—Why then, if he was neither young nor
Handſome, I don't ſee what reaſon you can have
to act the diſconſolate. Believe me, Madam, eſ-
teem, truſt, reliance are always at an amiable
woman's command. The effential point is to be
ſorted according to age and figure, to join the
loves and graces together; in fhort, to marry a
pretty fellow, or to live ſingle and enjoy your li-
berty. Your advice, Sir, to be ſure, 1s mighty
gallant, ſaid Eleonora as ſhe roſe to take her leave,
but unhappily you have ill-timed it. As ſoon as
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be really ſtiled a handſome prude. Prudery, Sir,
anſwered Madam Tro ne, is an exaggeration of
virtue and reaſon; and I fee nothing in Eleonora,
but what is eaſy and natural. For my part, ſaid
Belzors, ſhe is in my eyes as reſpectable as ſhe is
beautiful. Reſpect, my good friend, reſpect her,
anſwered Verglan with ſome warmth; what can
hinder you? ſhe alone has a right to be offended
at it, A thought is juſt come into my head, ſaid
Madam Troene, if any body can comfort Eleo-
nora, it muft be fuch a man as Belzors, and if I
was a friend whom he would conſult, I ſhould
adviſe him to think of her. You do me great
honour, ſaid Belzors bluſhing, but Eleonora de-
ſerves a heart that is free; and, alas! mine is
not ſo. At this he retired, overwhelmed with
what he took for his diſmiſſion. For, ſaid he,
did ſhe not point it out to me to make my ad-
dreſſes to Eleonora? Is not that telling me to have
no thoughts of Emilia? How little does ſhe know
the ſituation of my heart] Verglan took it in the
ſame light, ſeemed to compaſſionate his rival,
and ſpoke of him as one of the honeſteſt men in
the world; what a pity it was, that he was ſo
very heavy and dull ! this is what they gain with
their ſtupid notions of virtue l they grow tireſome
and -are 'turned off, Madam Troene, without
explaining her meaning, aſſured him, that ſhe
had not the leaſt intention of diſobliging a perſon
for whom ſhe had the higheſt regard.
Emilia all this while had a down-caſt look, and
her bluſhes diſcovered the diforder in her ſoul.
Verglan took for granted, that her confuſion pro-
ceeded from her joy; upon which preſumption,
he took his leave, and retired with a triumphant
air, and next day he wrote her a note with the
following contents, 2
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romantic, to have for ſo long a time let my
eyes only be the interpreters of my heart ! Don't
accufe me of an unjuſt ſuſpicion; I read the bot-
tom of yours, and had I only had that to conſi-
der, I was pretty fure of my anſwer. But you
depend on a mother, and mothers are ſomelimes
© capricious 3 happily yours is fond of you, and
© her tenderneſs has gwded her choice. Belzors's
« difmiffion is a plain proof that her zeſolution is
fixed; but your owning it ought to precede hers.
© ] wait for it with the impatience of the moſt
© violent and moſt tender love.” |
Emilia opened the note, without knowing from
whom it came; and was as much offended at it
as ſhe was ſurpriſed. - She did not heſitate a mo-
ment to communicate it to her mother, I am ob-
liged to N ſaid Madam 'Troene, for this mark
of your friendſhip ; and muſt return you confi-
dence for confidence. Belzors has wrote to me;
here is his letter; read it. Emilia obeyed and read.
Madam, Ireverence virtue; I admire beauty,
and I do juſtice to Eleonora. But has heaven be-
ſtowed its favours on her alone? and when I
adore in your image the moſt charming of its
works, am I] in a condition to follow the advice
ou gave me? I will not ſay how cruelit is; my
reſpect ſtifles my complaints. If J have not the
happineſs to have the name of your ſon, I have
at leaſt the ſentiments of one, which are en-
graved in my heart with charaQers mdelible.?.
Emilia could not finiſh but with the greateſt
emotion. Her mother pretended not to perceive
it. Come, my dear, ſaid ſhe, 'tis my buſineſs to
anſwer theſe rivals, but *tis yours to diftate what
I am to write,—Mine, Mama !-—W hoſe elſe? I am
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not the perſon they deſire to marry. Is it my heart
that I am to conſult ?—Ah, dear madam! have I
any will but yours? And have not you a right to
diſpoſe of me ?—All that, my dear child, is migh-
ty well; but as your happineſs is at ſtake, it is but
juſt that you yourſelf ſhould determine it. The
young gentlemen are both of good families, their
fortunes much the ſame ; examine which of them
is beſt qualified in your mind to anſwer the notion
ou have formed of a good huſband ; let us retain
Bm, and diſmiſs the other. Emilia, penetrated
with ſo much goodneſs, kiſſed her mother's hands,
which ſhe bathed with her tears. O fill the mea-
ſure of your kindneſs, ſaid ſhe, in guiding the
choice I am to make; the more important it is,
the more I ſtand in need of your counſel. Which
ever my mother names for my huſband, will be
dear to me; my heart dares anſwer for it. —No,
my dear child, nobody loves out £7 mere duty,
and you mult know better than I, which of the
two 1s moſt worthy of making you happy. If you
ſhould prove to be otherwiſe, I will ſhare with
you your misfortune, but I will not be the occa-
ſion of it. Come, give me pen and paper, and tell
me what I am to write! Do but imagine poor
Emilia's trouble and confuſion, trembling by her
good mother, one hand over her eyes, the other
on her heart: ſhe endeavoured in vain to obey 4
her voice expired on her lips. Come, my dear, to
which ſhall I write firſt? have done, or I ſhall be
out of patience. To Verglan then if you pleaſe,
ſaid Emilia with a faultering accent.— To Verglan
let it be. What am] to ſay?
It is impoſſible, Sir, for a man attached as you
© are to the world to renounce it, and be confined
to your family; my daughter has not wherewith-
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al to make you amends for the ſacrifices that ſhe
* will undoubtedly exact. Continse, Sir, to em-
© belliſh that world for which- you are fo proper.“
Ils that all? — Ves, madam.— Now for Bel-
zors: What am I to write to him? Emilia con-
tinued to dictate with a little more reſolution.
* Sir, to have thought you worthy of a lady
© equally virtuous and beautiful, was not ſorbid-
ding you to make a choice which both pleaſes.
© and honours me; it was rather encouraging
© you to it. Your modeſty made you interpret
my meaning wrong, and you have been unjuſt
* to yourſelf as well as to me. Haſte then, and
learn to judge better of the intentions of a good
mother; my daughter's heart is at my diſpoſal, -
and there is nobody in the world that I eſteem
more than you.” FELT £
Let me embrace you, my dear child, ſaid ma-
dam 'Troene, throwing her arms about her neck,
ou complete the fond wiſhes of your mother, -
and have ſpoke the very dictates of my heart.
Belzors arrived ſpeedily tranſported with joy;
never was a marriage more happy nor more ap-
proved of. Belzors's fondneſs was divided between
the mother and the daughter; and it was a doubt,
in the world, which of the two he loved the molt, ,
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The SHEPHERDESS of the ALPS,
AMO RAIL TAL E.
F'N that part of the Alps, amidſt the high moun-
tains of Savoy, very near the road that leads
from Briangon to Modena, is a lonely valley, whoſe
folitary aſpect inſtils into the minds of all that _
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three hills, in form of an amphitheatre, on which.
ſome ſhepherds hats are ſcattered at ſeveral dif-
tances, interſperſed with clumps of lofty trees,
ſtreams tumbling down the mountains in caſcades,
and paſtures ever green, compoſe the beautiful
— of this rural ſcene.
Count Fonroſe and his lady were returning from
France to Italy, when their coach broke down,
as they were paſſing through this valley ; and, 4s
the day wus on the — they were obliged to
ſeek for ſome place of cover, where to paſs the
night. Whilſt they advanced towards one of the
huts, they perceived a flock of ſheep, drove by a
ſhepherdeſs, whoſe walk and air filled "them with
aſtoniſhment. As they drew near, their ears were
entertained with the fweet accents of her melo-
dious voice, which the echoes r in plain-
tive founds. 211 20 4
How beautiful's the Fw ths ſun }
Its daily courſe now almoſt run,
We can behold its charms 5
More pleaſing are its fainter rays, -
'Than when in full meridian blaze, -
It daz ales whilſt it warms.
Thus will it prove, ſaid ſhe, dos; oi 4
painful race, the wearied foul arrives at the wiſh-
ed for goal, and calmly drops into eternity, to re-
new its yigout 1n the pure ſource of immortality.
But, alas! how diſtant is the proſpect! how ſlow-
ly life paſſes. away ! In faying theſe words, the
ſhepherdeſs moved on ; her head declined with a
ſupineneſs in her attitude, which gave eaſe and
dignity * _ gait and mien. |
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Struck with amazement at what they ſaw, and
more at what they had heard, the count and coun-
.teſs redoubled their ſteps to overtake her. But
what was their ſurprize? when, under her coarfe
ſtraw hat and mean apparel, they met with every
beauty, every grace. Pray, child, ſaid the coun-
teſs, finding ſhe endeavoured to fhun them, be
not alarmed; we are travellers that an accident
obliges to aſk. for ſhelter, till morning, in one of
yonder cabins; be ſo kind as to be our guide. I
am very ſorry, madam, anſwered the ſnepherdeſs,
bluſhing, and caſting down her eyes, that you will
be but ill accommodated: theſe huts are the habt-
tations of very poor people. You live there, 1
. fuppoſe, replied the counteſs; and ſurely I may
put up with the inconveniences of one night,
when you undergo them conſtantly. There is 2
wide difference, faid the modeſt ſhepherdeſs; I
am brought up to it. I cannot believe that, in-
terrupted count Fonroſe, not able to hide any lon-
ger his emotion; no, no, you was not formed for
uch hardſhips. Fortune is unjuſt, or how is it
poſſible that ſo lovely a perſon ſhould be reduced
to live obſcurely, in fo low and ordinary adreſs?
Fortune, replied Adelaide (ſo was the ſhepherdeſs
named) is not to be deemed unjuſt but when ſhe
deprives us of what ſhe had given before; my
condition has its ſweets for one that knows no
other ſtate in life. Cuſtom and example create
wants for the wealthy which the poor are ignorant
of, It may he fo with thoſe that are born in this
folitude, ſaid the count; but for you, charming
unknown, you are not what you would ſeem to
be; your air, your voice, your language, all be-
tray your diſguiſe. The few words you have ſaid
diſcover a noble ſoul, and a cultivated education.
O! tell us, lovely creature, what cruel —_ of
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fate has lowered you to this condition? A man
under misfortunes, replied Adelaide, has a thou-
ſand means to extricate himſelf; but a woman,
in ſuch a caſe, has no reſource but in an honeſt
ſervitude; and in the choice of one's maſters,
methinks *tis beſt to prefer the good and virtuous.
You are going to ſee mine, — you will be de-
lighted with the innocence of their lives, and the
candour and ſimplicity. of their manners.
As ſhe was till ſpeaking, they arrived at the
hut, It was divided off by a partition from the
ſheepfold, into which the ſhepherdeſs turned her
flock, counting them o'er with the moſt ſerious
attention, heedleſs of the ſtrangers that beheld
her with admiration. The old folks, ſuch as re-
preſented Baucis and Philemon, received their
gueſts with that honeſt ſimple courteſy which re-
called the Golden Age. We have nothing to of-
fer you, faid the good woman, but clean ſtraw
for your bed, and a hearty welcome to ſuch pro-
viſions as heaven affords us; milk, fruit, and
oaten bread. In entering the cabin they were a-
mazed to ſee the order and neatneſs that appeared
every- where in fo poor an habitation. Their table
was a walnut plank, finely poliſhed by frequent
rubbing. Their earthen diſhes and dairy pans
ſhone with the niceſt cleanlineſs ; every thing pre-
ſented the image of contented poverty, happy to
have whefewithal to ſupply the real wants of na-
ture, Tis our dear daughter, ſaid the good old
woman, that manages all our little affairs. At
break of day, before ſhe leads her flocks to the
hills and dales, whilſt they are nipping about our hut
the ſweet graſs, ſtill ſurcharged with the morning
dew, ſhe employs that time in putting every thing
in the neat and orderly manner you ſee them
placed. —W hat ! ſaid the counteſs, interrupting
her,
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Her, is this ſhepherdeſs indeed your daughter?
Would to heaven ſhe was ! replied the good crea-
ture ; ſhe is the daughter of my heart, and I
Have all a mother's 'fondneſs for her; but I am
not ſo happy as to have brought ſach perfections
into the world, nor are we worthy of ſuch an
honour.— Who is ſhe, then? whence came ſhe ?
what misfortune has reduced her to ſo low a ſta-
tion? —All that is a ſecret to us. Three years
ago ſhe came here, in the habit of a villager, and
offered herſelf to tend our fleck. She would have
been welcome to ſhare our little, without takin
upon her that painful taſk ; fo much the ſweetneſs
of her perſon and behaviour engaged our hearts.
We could not believe ſhe was bred in a cottage.
Our queſtions made her uneaſy. We deſiſted
from further enquiries, as they feemed to difturb
her. As our knowledge of her good qualities en-
creaſed, ſo did our reſpet. But the more we
ſtrove to ſhew her that reſpect, the more ſhe
humbled herſelf before us. No; never had any
child for its happy parents a more tender care, a
more conſtant regard. She cannot obey, becauſe
it is impoſſible for us to command; but ſhe dives
into our hearts, and prevents our wiſhes, when
they are ſcarcely formed. She 1s an angel de-
ſcended from heaven to be the comfort of our
age. What is ſhe doing now in the ſheepfold ?
aſked the counteſs—She milks the ewes and ſhe-
goats, foſters the young kids and lambs, and gives
them freſh litter. The cheeſe ſhe makes is
thought delicious; no doubt for having been
preſſed by her neat hands. I carry it to market,
and have not near enough to ſupply all that would
be my cuſtomers. . When the dear child is tend-
ing the ſheep in the paſtures, ſhe employs herſelt
in making works of plaited ſtraw, which are _
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mired by eyery-body. I wiſh! you were toſee
with what dexterity ſhe interweaves the oſier's
plaint twigs, and mats the flender flexible ruſhes,
There is nothing, let it appear ever ſo perfect,
but what ſhe can improve upon. You fee, ma»
dam, continued the good old dame, in all about
you the image of an eaſy contented life : it e
ſhe that has procured it, 'tis ſhe, this angelic
creature, whale only ſtudy is to make us happy.
But is ſhe happy, ſaid the count? — She does all
ſhe can to make us believe ſo, replied the old
paſtor ; but I have made my dame obſerve, that
ſhe oftentimes returns from the paſtures with a
dejected look, her eyes ſtill moiſt with tears; but
as ſoon as ſhe fees us, the affects a ſmile. "Tis
eaſy to perceive that there is ſome gnawing grief,
that preys upon her heart, the cauſe of which we
dare not aſk, And then, ſaid his old goody, what
concern does ſhe not give me, when, in ſpite of
all our entreaties, the dear, dear creature will,
in the ſevereſt weather, lead abroad her bleating
care! A thouſand times I have requeſted her, in
the moſt earneſt manner, to let me now and then
relieve her; but my requeſts have never been
complied with. She riſes with the ſun, conducts
the flock, and does not return till it ſets ; often
ſhivering with cold. How is it poſſible, my dear
Parents, would ſhe ſay, with all the tenderneſs
of a loving child, how is it poſſible that I ſhould
conſent to let you leave your fire- ſide to be ex-
poſed, at your age, to the inclemency of the ſea-
ſans, which I, young as Iam, can ſcarce ſupport?
at the ſame time ſhe comes loaded with faggots,
which ſhe had gathered in the wood, and, when
he ſees that I am troubled at the fatigue ſhe will
undergo, Don't be uneaſy, ſhe ſays, my dear
mother, exerciſe keeps me warm, and labour -
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fit for my age. In ſhort, my dear lady, ſhe is
as good as ſhe is beautiful; my huſband and I ne-
ver ſpeak of her but with tears of affection. What
if you were to be deprived of her, ſaid the coun-
teſs? Why, anſwered the old ſhepherd, we
ſhould be deprived of all that is dear to us in this
world : but if ſhe is to be the happier for it, we
ſhould die content, and our misfortune would be
our comfort. Oh | may kind heaven heap bleſ-
ſings on her head; there are none ſo great but
what ſhe deſerves. I was in hopes her dear hands
would have cloſed my eyes; but I love her much
more than I do my life. Adelaide's coming put
a ſtop to the converſation. In one hand ſhe car-
ried a pan of milk, and in the other a baſket of
fruit; and, after curt'ſying with a grace peculiar
to herſelf, ſne ſet about the little houſhold affairs,
as if it was not in the leaſt taken notice of. My
dear child, ſaid the counteſs, you give yourſelf a
deal of trouble—Not at all, madam; I endea-
vour to fulfil the intention of theſe good people,
whoſe ſervant I am, to treat you in the beſt man-
ner with what their little can produce; but I
am, afraid, continued ſhe, whilſt ſhe was ſpread-
ing a coarſe table-cloth, as white as ſnow, thar
ou will make but a ſorry meal: the bread is
3 but very ſavoury, the eggs are new laid,
the milk freſh drawn, and the fruit juſt gather-
ed, ſuch as the ſeaſon affords. Diligence, atten-
tion, and modeſt deportment, in every minute
duty of hoſpitality, were conſpicuous in this won-
derſul ſhepherdeſs. After the frugal repaſt,
count Fonroſe and his amiable lady retired to reſt,
on the neat bed, tho? but of ſtraw, which Ade-
laide had prepared for them. Is not our adven-
ture ſurpriſing? Let us attempt, ſaid they, to
unravel the myſtery of this pretended ſhepherc'eſs,
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invite her to accompany us, and make her happy if
we can. 0 We | | :
At break of day, one of the count's ſervants
came to let his maſter know, that he might pro-
ceed on his journey as foon as his honour pleaſed,
for the coach was ſecurely repaired. It was or-
dered up immediately; but, before they left
theſe honeſt folks, the counteſs defired a moment's
converſation with the young perſon who ſtiled her-
ſelf their ſervant. ” Adelaide came to receive her
commands. Without deſiring, ſaid the counteſs,
to penetrate into the ſecret of your birth, or in-
to whatever is the cauſe of your diſtreſs; I feel
that I am ſenſibly intereſted in all that concerns
your welfare. Tis evident that your courage
raiſes you above your misfortunes, and that you
conform your behaviour ſuitable to your preſent
circumſtances. ?Tis true, your charms and your
virtues render your condition low as 1t is reſpec-
table, but it is not a condition deſigned for you,
It is in my power, amiable unknown, to alter it,
as the count's intentions are quite agreeable to
mine. We rank at Turin among the higheſt
quality, I want a boſom-friend, and by what I
have ſeen in you, I ſhall think myſelf poſſeſſed
of an ineſtimable treaſure, if you conſent to be
my friend and companion. Drive from your
thoughts the leaſt ſhadow of dependance ; you
were not formed for ſervitude: and, ſhould m
fond prejudice deceive me, I would much rather
lift you above your birth, than leave you below
it. In ſhort, I ſeek a real friend, one that I can
confide in; be not under any concern about theſe
good old people; I ſhall make up their Joſs, at
leaſt ſo far as to enable them to paſs the remain-
der of their days in eaſe and plenty; and from
your hands they ſhall receive my conſtant boun-
ty.
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ty. The poor old folks, who were-preſent, fell ſi
on their knees, and kiſſed the counteſs's hands te
then turning to Adelaide, they conjured her, in tl
the maſt preſſing terms, to accept of the lady's v
1 Propoſal, We cannot, at our time of v
ay, be far from the grave; and as it has been 0
your conſtant ſtudy to render our life happy, ſo b
muſt our death leave you comfortleſs in this ſoli- I
tary place. "The ſhepherdeſs, embracing: them, t
and mixing her tears with theirs, returned a thou- U
ſand thanks to their noble. gueſts, with a ſweets
neſs that encreaſed her charms: I cannot, ſaid
fhe, accept of your favour; heaven has marked
my deſtined lot, and I ſubmit to it: but I ſhall
always, with the moſt grateful heart, agknow-
. your goodneſs; and the name of Fonroſe
will never be abſent fram my memory: the only
thing I have to requeſt of you is, to bury this
adventure in eternal ſilence, and never to reveal
the fate of an unknown perſon, who is deter-
mined to live and die in oblivion. - The count and
counteſs redoubled their ſolicitations, but all in
-vain; The was unmovable, The travellers part-
ed from their virtuous hoſts, and, with great re-
luctance, left the charming ſhepherdeſs in her
1 retirement. | |
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n was taken up with this ſtrange adventure, which
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ſon, was often preſent at their converſations, and
never let a ſingle circumſtance eſcape his memory.
He was of that age when the imagination is moſt
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lively, and the heart moſt ſuſceptible of receiving
tender impreſſions; but was of the character of
thoſe who keep the feelings of their ſenſibility
within themſelves, and which are ſo much more
violently agitated when they burſt from their
confinement, as they never had been weakened
by any diſſipation. All the wonders he heard re-
lated of the charms, virtues, and misfortune of
the ſhepherdeſs of the valley of Savoy, raiſed in
his ſoul the moſt paſſionate deſire of ſeeing her;
the object which his imagination has formed is
ever in his mind. He compares it to all he ſees,
and all he ſees is loſt in the compariſon, The
more his impatience increaſed, - the more he
took care to diſguiſe it. Turin became inſup-
portable; the valley where the ineſtimable jewel
was hid, was the loadſtone that attrafted his
heart: 'tis there he places all his happineſs ; but
how to get at it! If his deſigns are found out,
_ what difficulties to ſurmount ! His parents will
never conſent to the journey he intends; *twill
not be looked upon as the mere effects of curio-
ſity, but deemed a youthful folly that might have
bad conſequences, And then the ſhepherdeſs
may be alarmed at his preſence, and ſhun his
addreſſes; if it is diſcovered, he loſes her for ever.
After three months ſtruggle, he determined to
quit all for her alone, and, under the diſguiſe of
a ſhepherd, find her out in the lonely valley;
and there remain till death, if he could not pre-
vail upon her to leave it.
He diſappeared. His father and mother miſſed
him with great conſternation, and waited his re-
turn with the utmoſt impatience. Their appre-
henſions increafed every day, more and more;
and, his abſence continuing, the whole famil
was plunged in deſolation. Their fruitleſs ſearc
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and enquiries completed their diſtreſs; till at laſt
theſe tender unfortunate parents are reduced to
lament the loſs of their only child.
Whilſt the affficted family of Fonroſe was in
this dejeQion, the youth arrived in the
which had been truly deſcribed, and, in the ha-
bit of a peaſant, preſented himſelf to ſome of
the neighbouring cottegers, and offered his ſer-
vices. His ambition is ſatisſied: he is accepted
of, and a flock is committed to his care. At firſt
he only followed the ſheep wherever they choſe
to feed; in hopes that chance would direct him to
the ſame paſtures where the ſolitary ſnepherdeſs
led her flock. The unhappy, at ſometimes,
thought he, may liſten to the voice of comfort.
If it is an averſion to the world and the deſire of a
retired quiet life that retain her here, ſhe will ex-
perience ſome tireſome tedious hours, when ſhe
will not be diſpleaſed to meet with a friendly in-
tercourſe ; nor avoid a virtuous converſation. If
I prove ſo happy as to make mine agreeable, I
mall have great hopes of ſomething more: if 1
gain her confidence, friendſhip will follow of
courſe; and friendſhip in different ſexes is near
allied to love. Whilſt he indulged himſelf with
' theſe pleaſing reflections, his eyes wandering on
the beautiful ſcenes of the valley, he heard at
ſome diſtance the very voice whoſe melody he
Had been ſo often told of; which raiſed an emo-
tion in his heart as great as if it had been an inct-
dent unexpected. She ſung the following words:
Sweet ſolitude! to which I fly,
Of every bliſs bereft;
There affliction's cup enjoy,
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der heart. Ah! whence this grief that .con-
ſumes her ! what pleaſure to afford her comfort
He durſt not as yet raiſe his hopes any higher,
It might perhaps alarm her, if he yielded to his
impatient longing to behold her: it was ſufficient
for the firſt time to have heard the ſweetneſs of
her voice, Next morning Fonroſe went out to
the paſtures, and having obſerved which way the
lovely ſnepherdeſs directed her flock, he ſat hime
ſelf at the foot of the rock, which the day be-
fore had echoed her moving ſounds, Fonroſe,
with all the graces of outward form, poſſeſſed
every talent and every endowment that the young
nobility of Italy ſtudy to attain. He played upon
the hautboy as well as Beſuzzi, of whom
he had learned; and who was at that time the
delight of all courts in Europe. Adelaide, ab-
ſorbed in melancholy, had not yet begun her
melodious ſtrains. The echoes were ſilent; when
en a ſudden that filence was interrupted by the
ſweet notes of Fonrofe's hautboy. A harmony fo
uncommon filled her with amazement mixed
with ſome emotion. Her ears had never there
been ſtruck before, but with the ſhrill ſqueak and
. buzzing hum of the ruſtick bagpipe: motionleſs, '
with deep attention, ſhe caſt her eyes around, to
find out from whence proceeded ſuch divine mu-
ſick. She perceived at fome diſtance a young
ſhepherd ſitting in the cavity of a rock, at the
foot of which his ſheep were feeding. She drew
ſomewhat nearer, that ſhe might hear him play
more diſtinctly. Behold, ſaid ſhe, the effects of
inſtin&! the ear alone has given this ſhepherd all
the fineſſes of that charming art] what purity in
the notes ! what variety in the modulations! what
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laide, for the firſt time ſince her retirement, felt
her grief in ſome meaſure ſuſpended. Fonroſe,
who ſaw her approach nearer and ſit down under
a willow, to liſten more conveniently, had given
her no room to think that he had perceived her;
he took the opportunity as ſoon as. ſhe retired, to
calculate the pace of her flock, ſo as to meet her
without affectation at the bottom of the hill,
where the roads that led to their different huts
croſſed each other. He gave her a look-in a ſeem-
angly careleſs manner, as if he was wholly taken
up with the guidance of his ſheep; but, ah!
what beauties were-gazed upon in that look] what
eyes! what a mouth! what divine features! ſo
moving in their languor, how raviſhing would
they appear if animated with love? affliction had
added paleneſs, and faded, in ſome degree, the
blooming carnation of her cheeks. But of all
ther charms:none ſtruck him with ſuch admiration
as did her elegant ſhape and air; her eaſy motion
was that of a young cedar, whoſe ſtraight and pli-
ant ſtem gently yields to the ſoft impulſe of the
Zephyrs. The charming image which love en-
aves in his heart, takes up his thought, and
fills his ſoul with unreſiſting paſſion, How faintly,
ſaid he, was ſhe deſcribed.? This lovely beauty is
unknown to the world whoſe adoration ſhe de-
ſerves; ſhe that would grace a throne, lives un-
der the thatch of a cottager, employed in the
low occupation of tending the flocks! In what
poor garments does ſhe appear? But ſhe embel-
Iiſhes every thing, and nothing can demean her.
Was ſo delicate a frame made for ſuch a laborious
life? homely food, ſtraw her bed! O heavens!
ſhe has the thorns; for whom do you preſerve
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mne attempt, and raiſe her from this abject ſtate,
ſo very unſuitable, ſo unbecoming ſuch perfection ·
Sleep put a ſtop to theſe flattering ideas, but did not
baniſn from him her lovely image. Adelaide felt
herſelf ſome what touched with Fonroſe's youth
and comelineſs: nor could ſhe help reflecting on
the capricious turns of fortune. For what ends,
thought ſhe, has: nature endowed. this young
ſhepherd with-ſuch talents, and formed him with
ſuch graces? Alas! thoſe gifts, happily uſeleſs
in his condition of life, might prove the ſource of
miſery in a higher ſtation. What is outward
form? what is beauty? wretched as I am, is it
for me to fix their value? This reflection em-
bittered the little riſing pleaſure ſhe had indulged.
She reproached herſelf for having yielded to it,
and reſolved never to give way to it again. Next
day, Fonroſe — that ſhe affected to avoid
his coming near her, he was caſt down at the
very thought. Does ſhe ſuſpect my diſguiſe?
have I diſcovered myſelf? Theſe uncertainties
perplexed his mind; his hautboy was neglected.
Adelaide was not ſo far diſtant, but ſne muſt have
heard the ſounds had he played upon it. She
could not gueſs the meaning of its ſilence, and
began to ſing in her own melancholy ſtrains; =
Ye pretty birds! whoſe penſive notes
My lamentations join,
Ah! what avail your warbling throats!
Can they ſooth woes like mine !
All ſeem around to ſhare my grief,
As if t' aſſuage my pain;
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Fonroſe, moved to his inmoſt ſoul with her com-
plainings ſo melediouſly expreſſed, could not re-
frain from taking up his hautboy. She continued,
and he accompanied her ſweet voice, Never was
an uniſ6n more harmonious. Is this an enchant-
ment, ſaid Adelaide? may I believe my ſenſes !
*tis no mean ſhepherd, *tis ſome ſupernatural be-
ing that I have been liſtening to? Nature may
give a bent, but great maſters and conſtant prac-
tice alone can raiſe to ſuch perfection. As ſhe
was thus muſing, the valley refounded with a ru-
ral, or rather divine ſymphony. Adelaide ima-
gined ſhe ſaw realized thoſe prodigies which poetry
attributes to muſick her brilliant ſiſter, Aſto-
niſhed, confuſed, ſhe could not determine whe-
ther to approach or retire; mean while, the young
ſhepherd was colleQting his flock to lead it back
to the cottage. He is not conſcious, ſaid ſhe, of
the pleafure he communicates around, nor is he
inthe leaſt vain of his perfection; he does not
expect the praiſes I owe, which are fo juſtly his
due. Such are the fweets of muſick; it is the
only talent that finds enjoyment in itſelf, all others
muſt have witneſſes or elſe partakers. Muſick
was a gift from heaven, beſtowed on man in his
Rate of innocence; *tis the pureſt of all pleaſures;
and the only one that I can yield to. I look up-
on this ſhepherd as an echo that comes to repeat
my grief. |
Fonroſe, in his turn, affected to avoid her.
Adelaide was concerned at it. Alas! ſaid ſhe, I
gave myſelf up too eaſily to the little comfort I
telt; 1 am deprived of it for my puniſhment.
One day, as =_ met as if by chance, Shepherd,
ſaid ſhe, do you lead your flock to any great diſ-
tance ? Thee words uttered from her ſweet lips,
- cauſed in Fonroſe's heart ſuch an emotion, as
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almoſt deprived him of his voice. I cannot tell,
replied he, with heſitation; it is not. I that lead
my ſheep, tis my ſheep that lead me; they are
better acquainted: than I am with theſe paſtures;
and I let them range wherever they pleaſe to go.
From whence came you? ſaid Adelaide. I was
born on the other fide of the Alps —And were you
brought up to a ſhepherd's life No doubt, ſince
Jam one, I was deſtined for it —Fhat'is what I
can ſcarce belicve,. ſhe replied, gazing on him
with fixt attention; your talents, your language,
your air, all convince me to the contrary. You
are very good, anſwered Fonroſe; but does it be-
come you io tax nature of beſtowing her favours
with a ſparing hand on thofe of our condition;
you, whom ſhe has formed rather for a queen than
a ſhepherdeſs. Adelaide bluſhed, and waving the
diſcourſe, The other day, ſaid ſhe, your hautboy
accompanied my voice with ſuch maſterly arte,. as-
mult ſeem a prodigy in one brought up to feed
the flocks. Tis your ſinging, replied Fonroſe,
that is a real one in a ſimple ſhepherdeſs —W hat, _
were you never inſtructed Like you I have no
other guide but my heart and my ear. You
ſang, I was moved. What my heart feels, my
inſtrument expreſſes; I breathe into it my very
ſoul, that is all the ſecret; nothing is more natu-
ral. This is incredible, ſaid Adelaide. I thought
ſo too, replied he, whil{tT liſtened to your voice;
and now I am convinced of it, though ſometimes
nature and love will frolickſomely beſtow their
choiceſt favours on the meaneſt objects; to ſhew
that there is no condition, be it ever ſo low, but
what they can ennoble. Whilſt they thus diſ-
courſed advancing in the valley, Fonrofe, ani-
mated by a ſmall ray of hope, began to make it
reſound wich the rapturous notes that pleaſure
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inſpires. Ah! ceaſe, cried Adelaide, ſpare me the
image of a ſentiment I never more ſhall taſte !
this ſolitude is conſecrated to grief. Theſe ec-
choes are unuſed to repeat the accents of joy ;
all here join with my lamentations. I am not
without woes, ſaid the young ſhepherd, fetching
a deep ſigh, which was follwed by a pauſe of ſi-
tence, —W hat has cauſed your afflictons? of what
do you complain? is it of mankind? is it of
fate? I really cannot tell. All that I know is,
that I am very far from being happy; pray en-
quire no further into my ſituation, Hear me,
ſaid Adelaide, heaven has made us acquainted,
to be a mutual ſupport to each other's woes : mine
are a burthen under which my heart ſinks down
even to deſpondency. Whoever you be, if you
are unhappy, you-are compaſſionate. I believe
you worthy of the confidence 1 thall repoſe in you;
but you muſt promiſe me that that configence
ſmall be reciprocal. Alas! ſaid Fonroſe, my woes
are of a nature perhaps never to be relieved.
Meet me to-morrow, ſaid Adelaide, at the foot of
this hill, under the ſpreading oak where you heard
me moan, I ſhall there reveal what will excite
your pity. They parted, * Fonroſe paſſed the
night with great inquietude, His fate depended
on v hat he was to hear, He dreaded the diſcovery
of a tender unhappy paſſion. It ſhe loves, I am
undone. | |
He ſet out betimes to the rendezyous, and the
ſair ſnepherdeſs arrived ſoon after. The morn
was overcaſt with clouds, as if nature preſaged
their ſorrowful converſation.. They ſeated them-
ſelves under the oak; when, after a profound
ſigh, Adelaide thus began the ſtory of her woes.
Beneath thoſe ſtones you ſee there, almoſt co-
vered with the creeping graſs, lie the remains __
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the moſt faithful and virtuous of men; whom my
love and- impłfudence brought to the grave. I
was born in France, of a family of high diſtinc-
tion, and too wealthy, to my misfortune. Count
Oreſtan conceived for me the moſt paſſionate,
tender love, to which my heart correſponded with
equal warmth. My parents objected to our union,
and refuſed. their conſent. Hurried on by my
paſſion, I agreed to a private marriage, ſacred to
virtuous ſouls, but diſapproved of by the laws.
Italy was then.the theatre of the war. My huſ-
band was ordered to join the corps he was to
command; and I went with him as far as Brian-
gon; there my fooliſh fondneſs prevailed upon him
to ſtay with me. two days, which he paſſed with
extreme reluctance. I ſacrifice, ſaid he, my du-
ty for you. But what had I not facrificed for
him? In ſhort, I exacted it. He afterwards ſet
out with a foreboding that terrified me. I ac-
companied him to this valley, where we took
leave of each other, and I returned to Briangon.
In a few days, the report of a battle was ſpread
about. I was not ſure that my dear Oreſtan was
there; I withed it for his honour, I feared it for
my love, when I received a letter from him,
which afforded me great comfort. It informed
me, that ſuch a day, and at ſuch an hour, I ſhould
hnd him in the valley, under the ſame oak where
we had bid farewel ; that he ſhould be there alone,
and deſired to meet me unaccompanied ; adding,
that he only lived for me. Alas! how inconſide-
rate I was! I ſaw nothing in his letter but his im-
paltence to fee me; and that impatience was to
me very flattering. I was exact to the appoint-
ment. My Oreſtan received me in the moit ten-
der manner, Ah! my dear Adelaide, ſaid he,
you would have it ſo; 1 have failed in my duty
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at the moſt important criſis of my life. What I
feared, is come to paſs, The battle was given.
My regiment charged, performed wonders of va-
lour, and I was not at its head. I am diſhonour-
ed; for ever loſt, without reſource. I have but
one ſacrifice more to make you, which I am
come to conſummate. At theſe words I preſſed
my dear huſband in my arms; I felt the blood
congeal in my ſhivering heart; I fainted dead a-
way. He took that opportunity to perpetrate his
deſign ; and I was recalled to life by the report of
the fatal piſtol that gave him his death. How
can I paint the cruel ſituation in which I was
left? it cannot be deſcribed. "Theſe tears that
muſt for ever flow, theſe ſighs which ſuffocate
my voice, give but a faint idea of my diſtreſs,
J paſſed the night over the bloody corpſe, quite
ſtupified with grief. My firſt thoughts were, as
ſoon as I was able, to bury it and my ſhame to-
gether ; theſe hands dug his grave. I don't mean
to move your compaſſionate heart; but the mo-
ment in which the earth was to ſeparate mefrom
the dear remains, was a thouſand times more
dreadful than can be that which will divide this
body from my foul, Depreſſed with grief, de-
prived of food, my feeble hands were two days
employed in performing this laſt ſad duty; and
I then formed a determined reſolution to remain
in this ſolitude till death re-united us. Gnawing
Hunger preyed upon my vitals, and I thought my-
ſelf criminal in preventing nature from ſupport-
. Ing a life more inſupportable to me than death,
I changed my dreſs for this of a ſimple ſhep-
herdeſs, and I look, upon this valley as my only
aſylum. Ever ſince, I have had no other com-
fort but that of weeping over this grave, which
foon J hope will be my own. You ſee with what
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ſincerity I open to you my inmoſt ſoul. Hence-
forth I may weep in your preſence without con-
ſtraint; a relief my over-burthened heart is much
in need of. I expect that you will put the ſame
confidence in me as that I have repoſed in you :
don't imagine that I am impoſed upon; I am cer-
tain that you are no more a ſhepherd than I
a ſhepherdeſs. You are young, perhaps in love;
for if I gueſs aright, our misfortunes flow from
the ſame ſource. The ſimilitude of our condition
will make us feel the more for each other. I look
upon you as one whom heaven, moved with my
afflictions, has ſent into this ſolitude to ſave me
from deſpair. Look upon me as a ſincere friend
capable of giving, if not ſatisfactory advice, at
leaſt a firm example of true reſignation to the di-
vine will. Ah! madam, ſaid Fonroſe, over-
whelmed with what he heard, whatever tender
— you think my heart is prone to feel,
you are far from imagining with what deep con-
cern the recital of your woes has affected me:
the impreſſion will remain as long as life. Ah!
why muſt I have a ſecret, nay even a thought,
reſerved from you? from you that have a right;
after what you have entruſted me with, to ſcruti-
nize my very ſoul, But as I told you before,
and as my foreboding heart apprehended, ſuch is
the nature of my woes, that I am doomed to
conceal them in eternal ſilence : be not offended,
charming friend, at a ſilence which is my great-
eſt torment, You are very unhappy, but I am
more unhappy ſtill, . Pll be your conſtant com-
panion; I'll endeavour to mitigate your forrows,
.and help to eaſe you in an employment too la-
borious for your delicate frame. Let me be the
partaker of your grief; and when I behold you
weeping o'er that tomb, I ſhall mix my tears
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with yours: you never will have cauſe to repent
having depoſited your ſecret in an unfortunate
heart that feels all the value of its truſt. I do
repent it already, ſaid Adelaide with ſome confu-
fion, and retired without further diſcourſe. In
her abrupt departure, ſhe ſaw in Fonroſe's coun-
tenance all the marks of an afflicted mind. Alas!
ſaid ſhe, I have renewed his ſufferings ; and oh!
what ſufferings muſt they be that can give him
E to think himſelf more unhappy than I
am!
From that day forth, farewel ſong, farewel
hautboy! No more muſick, no more converſa-
tion. They neither ſeemed to ſeek nor ſnun each
other. Looks that ſpoke their thoughts was all
their language; it was very expreſſive. When
he found her weeping over her huſband's grave,
he beheld her in mute attention, ſull of jealouſy,
grief, and pity, till her groans were echoed by
his. | p
A few days were paſt in this painful conflict,
when Adelaide took notice how the youth waſted
away ; fading like a blooming flower juſt blaſted
hy ſome maligant planet. The grief that conſum-
ed him gave her ſo much more concern, as not
being entruſted with what occaſioned his trouble,
it was out of her power to adminiſter any com-
fort. She little knew that ſhe was the cauſe of
his diftreſs. It is an obſervation founded in nature,
that when the ſoul admits of two paſſions, ti will
of courſe weaken each other. Adelaide's regrets
for the loſs of Oreſtan, grew leſs in proportion
as her pity encreaſed for the young ſhepherd. She
was very ſure that her pity proceeded from no mo-
tive but what the moſt innocent friendſhip ſug-
geſted; nor did it ever occur not to give way to
it; on the contrary, ſhe indulged it; tor "m—
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the youth plunged in ſo ſettled a melancholy, ſhe
thought it incumbent on her, after what ſhe had
profeſt for him, not to leave him any longer to
himſelf. Unhappy youth! ſhe ſaid, the firſt time
they met after her reſolve, you periſh daily, and
give me-the fruitleſs concern of beholding you
conſume away, and not be able to afford you any
comfort. If the recital of my imprudent conduct
has not altered your opinion of me, if the ſincereſt
friendſhip is dear to you, in ſhort, if you will not
make me more unhappy ſtill than I was before our
acquaintance, tell me, I conjure you, tell me the
cauſe of your affliction. Was your ſecret yet more
important than mine, you need not apprehend
that I ſhall ever divulge it. Oreſtan's death is an
eternal barrier betwixt the world and me. The
ſecret of your woes which I deſired to know, was
for your ſake, not for mine; it would have been
depoſited in my huſband's tomb, with his faithful
widow and your ſincere friend. I hope, ſaid
Fonroſe, it will be my fate to die firſt, Ah! ma-
dam, let me end my deplorable life, without
leaving you to reproach yourſelf with having
ſhortened it. O] heavens! the cried, what 1 ?
Can I have contributed to encreaſe the woes un-
der which you periſh ? ,Faſe my tortured heart,
and tell me what I have ſaid ? What have I done
to aggravate your afflictions ? Speak, I ſay; you
have revealed too much to hide yourſelf any
longer: I do infiſt upon knowing who you are,—
Since then you'will force from me ſo peremptorily
the fatal ſecret, know that lam * ** * that I am
Fonroſe, the ſon of thoſe you lately filled with
admiration and reſpect. All that I heard them
relate of your virtue and your charms, inſpired
me with the rafh deſign of ſeeing you under this
diſguiſe, I have ſeen you, and my fate is fixed.
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J have left my g's in the deepeſt diſtreſs : they
think that I am loſt for ever, they lament- my
death. I know what is your attachment here;
and J have no other hope but to die adoring you.
Forbear to give me any uſeleſs advice; my reſo-
Jution is as unmoveable as your own: if by be-
traying my confidence you divulge my ſecret, you
will only diſturb the laſt ebbings of my declining
life, and will have to impute to yourſelf a blame,
which you never ſhall] have cauſe to impute to
me. |
Adelaide, aſtoniſhed at what ſhe had heard, en-
deavoured to ſooth young Fonroſe's deſpair. I
will reſtore him, ſaid ſhe, to his afflicted parents,
and ſave their only hope from death: heaven has
procured me this opportunity to acknowledge
their goodneſs. Wheretore, far from affecting
an ill-timed rigour, ſhe employed every means
the moſt inſinuating friend could ſuggeſt to calm
and comfort him. Sweet angel, cried Fonroſe,
I ſee with what reluctance you are forced to make
any one wretched, Your heart is devoted to
him who lies in that tomb; no power on earth
can draw it away. I fee with what kind conde-
ſcenſion your virtue attempts to veil your unhap-
pineſs; 1 feel your goodneſs in its full extent; I
ſink under it; and I forgive you. Your duty is
never to love me; and mine is to adore you for
Ever. |
Adelaide, impatient to put in execution the de-
fign ſhe had formed, arrived at the hut. Father,
ſaid the, to the old paſtor, do you think yourſelf
able to undertake a journey to 'Turin? I want a
perſon that I can rely on, to give the count and
counteſs of Fonroſe intelligence of what concerns
their whole happineſs. My zeal, ſaid the old
man, to ſerve them, will give me ſtrength equal
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to my inclination. Go then, continued ſhe, you
will find them lamenting the death of their only
child. Inform them that he is living; and that it
is their poor Adelaide that will reſtore him to
their arms. But at the ſame time tell them, that
there is an indiſpenſable neceſſity of their · coming
in perſon to fetch him.
He ſet out directly, and arrived at the count's
houſe in Turin. He ſent in word, that the old
man of the valley of Savoy was come to wait on
them. Ah! cried the counteſs, perhaps ſome
misfortune has befallen our lovely ſhepherdeſs !
Bid the old man enter, ſaid the count; let us ho
for the beſt : who knows but Adelaide conſents to
come and live with us? It would be, replied the
counteſs, the only comfort I can taſte after the
loſs of my ſon. - The old man is introduced; he
embraces their knees; they raiſe him to their arms,
You weep, ſaid he, the death of your fon, and I
am come to inform you that he is alive. Tis our
dear child that has diſcovered him in the valley,
and diſpatched me to communicate to you this in-
tereſting news; but ſhe ſays, that you yourſelves 8
and only you can bring him back. Whilſt he was
ſpeaking, the counteſs fainted away, overcome
with ſurprize and joy. The count calls for aſſiſt.
ance, ſhe revives; they embrace the old ſhep-
herd by turns; and acquaint the whole famil
with the ſubje& of their tranſports. How ſhall
we ſhew our gratitude ? faid the counteſs; how
can we requite a benefaction that reſtores us to life?
They ſet out immediately on the journey, and
arrived with the greateſt expedition. They left
their equipage at ſome diſtance, and walked to
the hut through the valley which contains all that
is dear-tothem. Adelaide was tending her flock as
uſual, The old dame conducted them to the place
where
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where ſhe was. How great their ſurprize } when
they beheld their beloved ſon with the fair ſhep-
herdeſs, under the habit of a ſimple paſtor. Their
hearts diſcovered him more than their eyes: Ah |!
cruel, cruel child; cried Fonroſe's mother,
throwing her arms about his neck, what troubles
have you given us? What could induce you to
leave your affectionate parents? What is your bu-
ſineſs here? — To adore what you yourſelves fo
much admired. Madam, ſaid Adelaide, whilſt
Fonroſe embraced his father's knees, you would
not have been ſo long a prey to grief, had Þ diſ-
covered ſooner your dear ſon. Kieer the firſt ef-
fuſions of nature were over, Fonroſe relapſed in-
to his melancholy. Come, ſaid the counteſs, let
us go and repoſe ourſelves in the cabbin; and for-
get the woes this young madman has plunged us
in. Tis very true, ſaid Fonroſe to his father,
who led him by the hand; what elſe but the de-
privation of my reaſon could ſuſpend the emoti-
ons of nature, and make me forget the moſt ſa-
cred of duties? What but a madneſs? You in-
nocently gave riſe to it, and I am ſeverely puniſh-
ed for it, I love without hope, the moſt amiable
and accompliſhed perſon in the world. You have
ſeen but little of her ; you know but little of this
incomparable lady. Honour, virtue, ſenſibility !
ſhe unites all that is great and good. I doat upon
her to idolatry: I cannot be happy without her,
and ſhe never can be mine. Has the truſted you,
ſaid the count, with the ſecret of her birth? I
have learned enough, replied Fonroſe, to aſſure
you, that it is not inferior to mine. She has
renounced a conſiderable fortune in the world to
remain hid in this ſolitude. Do you know what
motive has induced her to it ?—I do; but 'tis a
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ed No; ſhe is a widow : but her heart is not
the leſs engaged; nay, it is rather bound with
ſtronger chains. Madam, faid the count to Aide-
laide, as ſoon as they entered the cabbin, you
ſee how you turn the heads as well as captivate the
hearts of all that bear the name of Fonroſe: no-
thing could have juſtified my ſon's extravagant
paſſion, but ſo virtuous, ſo deſerving an _—
My wife's utmoſt wiſhes were to have you for a
triend; my fon cannot live without you for his wife;
and it would be my greateſt happineſs to have
you for my daughter. Oh! conſider how _
that love you muſt be wretched, if you refuſe
your conſent. Ah! Sir, replied Adelaide, your
goodneſs - perplexes me. Lend me a while your
attention, and judge of my ſituation: She then
in preſence of the old folks related her ſad ſtory,
adding the name of her family, which the count
was well acquainted with; and ſhe finiſhed her
narration by taking him for witneſs of the invio-
lable fidelity ſhe owed her huſband. At theſe
words a deep conſternation appeared in all their
looks; young Fonroſe, burſting with grief, threw
himſelf into a corner of the hut, to give a looſe to
his ſorrows. His afflicted father lay down by him,
and caſting his eyes on Adelaide, Madam, ſaid
he, behold the effects of your reſolution. The
counteſs preſſing her to her boſom, Ah ! will you
then, ſaid ſhe, give us cauſe to lament a ſecond
time the death of our dear child? Why did you
reſtore him to us? The good old people penetrat-
ed with what they ſaw and heard, their eyes fix-
ed on Adelaide, waited for her determination.
Heaven knows, ſhe ſaid, I would willingly give
up my life to acknowledge all this unbounded ge-
neroſity. I own it would be the height of miſery,
if I þad it to upbraid myſelf of having been =
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gauſe of yours. I leave the deciſion of our fate
to your ſon; let me have a few minutes conver-
fation with him. Then retiring by themſelves,
Fonrofe, ſaid the, you know what ſacred ties
bind me here; if I could ceafe te lament. the lafs
of him who loved and doated on me even beyond
diſcretion, I ſhould be deſervedly deſpiſed. Friend-
ſhip, gratitude, and eſteem, is all I have left to
give; and is that a compenſation for love? The
more you have conceived for me, the more right
you have to expect a ſuitable return; and what
return can I make? The impoſſibility of per-
forming that duty is the obſtacle that prevents
my making myſelf liable to it; nevertheleſs, I be-
hold you all in a ſituation that would ſoften the
moſt obdurate heart. Mine, alas! is but too ſen-
ſible; I cannot bear the ſhocking thoughts of be-
ing the cauſe of your diſtreſs, How can 1 hear
your generous worthy parents reproach me with
their loſs ? I will therefore forget a while what I
am, and leave you to be the arbiter of my deſti-
ny. Tis yours to decide, and chuſe which is
moſt agreeable to you, either to conquer your
paſſion and ftrive to forget me, or take the hand
of one, whoſe heart, poſſeſſed of another object,
has nothing to beſtow, as I told you before, but
friendſhip and eſteem ; and what are they to ſatis-
fy a lover's ardent expectations? Tis enough, re-
plied he tenderly ; ſuch exalted friendſhip equals
love. T may, perhaps, be jealous of the tears I
ſhall ſee you fhed for a. former huſband, but the
cauſeof my jealouſy wilt only make you more ef-
timable in my eyes and dearer to my foul.
She is mine, cried Fonroſe, precipitating him-.
felf into his fond parents arms, ſhe is mine: tis
to the reſpect and gratitude ſhe has for you that [
owe my happineſs; and that is owing yu a me |
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eond being. Adelaide could not appeal from the
ſentence. .
Did ſhe confent merely through pity and gra-
titude? I will believe ſhe did; the believed it her-
felf; and I will not ceaſe to admire her. Before
ſhe left the valley, fhe would reviſit the tomb,
which the quitted with regret. O my dear Oreſ-
tan, ſhe cried, if from the manſions of the dead
you can have ſeen my ſtruggles, and read the
ottom of my heart, your ſhade will not murmur
at the ſacrifice I make to comfort a virtuous fami-
ly: my love remains with you. I go to make
others happy, without any hopes of being ſo my-
felf. *Twas with difficulty they got her away.
She infiſted to have a monument erected to the
memory of her huſband, and that the cabbin of
the good old couple, who were to accompany
them to Turin, ſhould be altered to a little neat
country houſe, as plain as it would be ſolitary ;
where ſhe intended to retire now and then, to la-
ment the errors and misfortunes of her youth.
Time, and the affiduous care that Fonroſe had
in every ref] for his dear Adelaide, joined to
the ſweet pledges, fruits of her ſecond marriage,
opened her heart to receive the impreſſions of a
new inclination ; and fhe is ſtill quoted as a model
of perfection, that claims admiration and reſpect
even in her fidelity. *
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LVUBIN ANN ET TA.
A Tzxvz Sron r.
F it is 8 to let children know every
thing, it is ſtill more dangerous not to let them
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know any thing. There are, according to the laws
eſtabliſhed, ſeveral things that are looked upon as
erimes, which are not beheld in that light by
thoſe of nature. Vou will ſee, in this true ſtory,
into what an abyſs innocence may be plunged for
want of knowing better. | |
Lubin and Annetta were the children of two
ſiſters. Thoſe near ties of conſanguinity. were
incompatible, according to the rights of the
church, with thoſe of marriage. Lubin and. An-
netta had no notion of any rights or laws, but
thoſe of ſimple nature. They were but eight
years old when they firſt began to feed their flocks
along the verdant banks of the Seine. They were
now entering into their ſixteenth year; but their
_ differed little from their childhood, except
omewhat more lively in their natural friendſhip.
Annetta tucked up, without art, her fine dark
hair under her · neat ſtrau hat; her charming blue
eyes ſparkled through the long laſhes of their
beautiful lids, and 3 = the moſt inno-
cent ſimplicity allthatan inſipid coquette attempts
. Aim oglings. Her roſy lips invited
the kiſs ; her fun-burnt complexion was enlivened
with the ſoft ſhade of purple that blooms upon
the downy peach; all'that modeſty fcreened from
open air-ſurpaſſed the lily's whiteneſs.. It ſeemed
as if the head of a brown beauty was faxed on the
neck of that of a fair one.
Lubin had a healthy open countenance, which
beſpoke a heart free and ſatisfied; his looks ex-
preſſed deſire, his ſmile was the image of plea-
ſure, and when he laughed, he diſcovered a ſet of
even teeth that ſnamed the ivory's hue; his rud-
dy cheeks called for the hand to pat them ; add
to all this a handſome prominent noſe, a dimple
in his chin, beautiful fair. locks curled by 5
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hands of nature, a good ſhape, a free and eaſy
gait, with the Rai of the golden age, that
knows not what it is to ſuſpect or bluſh. Such is
the portrait of Annetta's couſin. Tat
It is ſaid, that philoſophy approaches man to
ſimple nature, ſo it often-happens that inſtinct
draws near to reaſon. You muſt not then be ſur-
riſed if my young:ſheep-tenders ſhould appear to
have ſomething of the philoſopher, but I muſt
tell you, at the ſame time, that if they do, it is
without their knowing any thing of the matter.
As it was their conſtant practice to go to the
great city to ſeſl fruit, milk, and cheeſe, people
took great pleaſure in ſeeing them, and counte-
nanced them in their little dealings; ſo that they
had an opportunity of obſerving what paſſed in the
world, and of giving each other an account of all
they had -remarked. Ihey «compared their own
ſtate of life to that of the moſt wealthy citizens,
and concluded that they were in their poor hut
much happier and wiſer than them. Mad folks
as they are, ſaid Lubin, to ſhut themſelves up in
one quarries during the fmeſt ſeaſons of the year.
Are not you of my opinion, Annetta? don't you
think our little cabbin much preferable to thoſe
magnificent :priſons, which they call palaces?
When the green foliage that covers our hut is
ſcorched by the ſun, the next thicket affords
wherewithal to renew it ; and in leſs:than an hour,
it is as pleaſing and verdant as before. Light and
air are ours at diſcretion; a branch or two leſs
give a free paſſage to the cool 'breezes, a branch
or two more keep us from the wet, and ſcreens
us from too hot weather ; all that is not very
expenſive, is it, Annetta? No indeed, anſwer-
ed Annetta, and I cannot conceive why they do
not all come by pairs during the fine ſeaſon, and
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live two and two in a little hut as we do. Did
you take notice, Lubin, of their fine carpets of
which they are ſo proud ? are they to be compar-
ed to our velvet moſſy beds! how {ſweetly do we
ſleep! how ſweetly do we awake ! but, Annetta,
did you remark how they endeavoured to give their
_ encloſures a rural air, by hiding the walls with
-- Creeping vines and ſuch like ſhrabs. The land»
ſcapes which they attempt in vain to imitate, na-
ture has formed for us; tt is for us that the ſun
warms and enlivens it, and it is for us that the ſea-
ſons vary as providence directs. Ah! Lubin,
. you are much in the right, ſaid Annetta, for
t'other day I carried ſome ſtrawberries to a lady of
quality, and they were making what you call
muſick for her; what a ſcreeching it was! 1
thought within myſelf, why don't they come and
hear how our nightingales warble their ſweet
notes! The unhappy lady for whom this noiſe was
made, lay all along upon a kind of an open bed,
with two or three ſteps of pillows under her head,
and all the time that the fiddlers were ſcraping,
fhe yawned and gaped to ſuch a degree, that ſhe
ſet every body elſe a doing the fame. I aſked
what was the matter with madam, and they told
me ſhe had got the vapours. Lubin, do you know
what theſe ſame vapours are?—Not I, indeed;
but I fancy it. muſt be one of thoſe diſorders that
are catched in town, which take away the nſe of
one's limbs, eſpecially thoſe they call quality
and that is a very ſad thing; don't you think b.
Anetta? for now would not you be a if
any thing hindred you from running after me on
the lawn Very angry indeed, for I love to
run, eſpecially when I run after Lubin. 8
This was in ſome meaſure the ptfiloſophy of
Lubin and Annetta, Free from pride, envy, and
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ambition, they paſſed their time without care
and without trouble, During the warm ſeaſon of
the year they dwelt under a Intte verdant hut, the
maſter- piece of Lubin's architecture. At even-
ing it was their buſineſs to drive their flock back
to the village, where the fatigue and pleaſures of
the day diſpoſed them to a ſweet and ſound repoſe.
The early morn called them out to their rural em-
ployment, which they obeyed with equal joy to
accompany each other. Sleep only occupied a
few hours of abſence, as if to augment the plea-
ſure of meeting again. But alas! fo pure and
perfect a happineſs was not permanent. The
genteel fine ſhape of Annetta grew inſenfibly
thicker and rounder, She could not gueſs what
was the cauſe of it; and Lubin knew as little
about it as ſhe did. \ 1
The bailiff or chief magiſtrate of their village
was the firſt that perceived it. How do you do,
Annetta?—ſaid he one day to her: methinks you
are grown fat of late! It is very true, Sir, an-
ſwered the ſimple laſs, making a low curteſy.—
But, Annetta, by what accident has your pretty
ſhape been ſpoiled? Have not you had ſome
ſweetheart ?—Sweetheart! Sir, not that I know
of, —Ah! my dear girl, nothing is more certain;
you have liftened to ſome of our young fellows,
—To be ſure I do hiten to them when they talk;
does that ſpoil one's ſhape No not that, but
one of them has careſſed you.—Careſſed me?
that's out of the queftion, for Lubin and I do no-
thing but careſs one another from morning to
night. And ſo you have granted him every thing,
have you not? —No doubt but I have; why Lu-
bin and I cannot refuſe one another any thing.
How ! not refuſe No, nothing at all; I ſhould
be very ſorry if he reſerved any thing from me,
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and much more fo if he thought that I had any
thing that was not his. Why, are not we cou-
. fins!—O! heavens, couſins ! Ves, firſt couſins
I tell you.
judge. Do you imagine that if we had not been
couſins, that we ſhould paſs as we do our lives to-
gether under the ſame hut? That young maids
ought to be on their guard with young men; but
I never heard that one ſhould be in fear of a cou-
ſin. The magiſtrate continued to queſtion her,
and ſhe anſwered with the ſame ingenuity ; ſo that
it was plain that in a very little time Annetta would
be a mother. What be a mother! and not mar-
ried ! that was a riddle above Annetta's compre-
henſion. The judge explained it to her. What,
ſaid he, the firſt. time that this misfortune befel
-you did not the ſun hide behind a cloud? Did not
the earth tremble? No Sir, anſwered Annetta, it
was a very ſun-ſhiny day, and the earth, far from
trembling, never looked more pleaſant, nor more
covered with ſweet flowers. And do you know
what crime you have been guilty of I don't
know what a crime, is; but I affure you, whatever
we have done was all merely out of friendſhip and
good nature, without any malice. You ſay that
I am with child; I ſhould never have thought it:
but, however, I am glad of it with all my heart;
perhaps I may have a little Lubin.—No, replied
the ſtern juſtice, you will bring forth a child
that will have none that he can call father or mo-
ther; who will bluſh to have been born, and re-
proach you for having brought him into the world.
hat have you done, unhappy girl! what have
you done? O how I pity you, how I pity the
little innocent in your womb! Theſe: laſt words
frightened Annetta; Lubin found her pale, trem-
bling, and drowned in tears. O Lubin! ſaid ſhe,
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with great conſternation, do you know what we
have done? I am with child, —— Lou are with
child! and by whom pray? — By you.—You are
joking, for how can that be? — The judge has
explained the whole matter to me. — Well, and
how ?—Why when we thought that we were only
careſſing one another as friends and couſins, we
were acting like lovers and married folks. Aye!
that is comical enough, faid Lubin ! and is that the
way one comes into the world? but why do you
weep, my dear Annetta, are you ſorry for it
To be ſure I am; for the judge told me that 1
ſhould have a child that muſt diſown father and
mother, and will be angry with us to have been
born.—For what reaſon ?—becauſe that we are
couſins, and have committed a crime. Lubin,
do you know what they mean by a crime
Yes; *tis a vile thing; for example, *tis a crime
to take away any one's life ; but I never heard
that it was a crime to give life to any thing. The
judge is an old fool, and knows nothing of the
matter.—O! my dear Lubin, go to him, I deſire
you; I am till all of a trembling, he has put
notions in my head that will embitter all the plea-
ſure I have in loving you. | |
Lubin haſted to the' magiſtrate. Pray, Mr,
Judge, ſaid he, tell me how you can make it out,
that Jam not to be the father of my own child,
nor Annetta its mother? O thou wretch, an-
ſwered the juſtice, how dareſt thou appear in my
preſence after having ſeduced a poor loſt innocent
creature?—Wretch in your teeth, replied Lubin,
Annetta is neither ſeduced nor loſt ; for ſhe is now *'
waiting for me in our cabbin. No, it is you, bad
man as you. are, to have told Ber Lord knows
what that afflicts her; you ought to be aſhamed .
of ſaying or doing any thing to vex Annetta. -
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Thou young wieked imp! haſt thou the impu-
dence to talk in this manner — thou that haſt
robbed her of what ought to have been dearer to
Her than life? —Of what have I robbed her?
Of her virtue and innocence. T love her ten
times more than myſelf; and if I have done her
unwittingly any wrong, I am ready to redreſs it
to the utmoſt of my power. Let us be married;
what ſhould hinder it? we neither of us deſire
better: *Tis impoſſible! And wherefore?
the chief of the. buſineſs is already done, ſince
we are near being father and mother. And that's
your crime, exclaimed the judge; you muſt leave
one another, be ſeparated for ever.—Separated !
O, Sir, how can you have the heart to mention
ſuch a thing? And who is to take care of Annetta
and her-child? I would ſooner die than leave her.
The laws oblige you to it, ſaid the judge. A fig
for your laws, replied Lubin, clapping on his
hat; we have got a child without you and your
laws, and pleafe God we ſhall get others, and we
will continue to love one another for all your
laws —O! the inſolent varlet, that dares to fly
in the face of the laws! O! the wicked man,
the. bad heart that would have me forſake An-
netta! I will e'en go and find the parſon of our
pariſh, ſaid he to himſelf; he is, no doubt, a
Pious and good Chriſtian, The vicar was till
more ſevere and inveterate than the juſtice, and
Lubin left them, quite confounded to have of-
fended Heaven without knowing it; for in ſhort,
ſaid he, we have wronged nobody.
My dear. Annetta, faid Lubin when he came
back, every body condemns us; but let them
condemn, I never will forſake you. But I am
with child, anſwered Annetta, hiding her face in
her kands, which ſhe wet with her tears, O! 1
; am
LESS, Tit
am with child, and I cannot be your wife! O
leave me] I amrundone. I have no pleaſure now
in bekolding you. Alas! I am aſhamed of my--
ſelf; and thoſe bleſt moments which I was wont
to paſs with you, are now my confuſion and re-
proach. Curſe on that old judge, ſaid Lubin;
we were ſo happy had it not been for him!
From that time poor Annetta was in the utmoſt
affliction; ſhe could not bear the light, ſhe want-
ed to hide herſelf. If Lubin attempted to give
her comfort, it only enereaſed her grief; and ſhe
anſwered his W . by puſhing him away with
horror and affright, What ! my dear Annetta, ſaid
he, am not your poor Lubin, whom once you ſo.
dearly loyed ?—Alas! no; you are no longer the
ſame. I am all in a-tremble whenever you. come
near me; the child that ſtirs within me, and which
I ſhould have been ſo glad to feel, ſeems already to
complain of my having given him my couſin for
a father. And will you then hate my child, ſaid:
Lubin, ſobbing? no; I ſhall love it with all
my ſoul; nobody can hinder me from loving my
child; I will ſuckle it with my milk, and, if it
was neceſſary, with my very blood. But, alas
the child 1 hate its mother; the judge has ſaid
ſo. Let the old fool chatter away, ſaid Lubin,
preſſing her to his breaſt; my dear Annetta, your
child will love you, he muſt love you, for Lam its
father. |
| Lubin, almoſt diſtracted, tried all the eloquence _
of nature and love that he was maſter of, to diſ-
pel Annetta's grief and fear. Let us examine
ourſelves, ſaid he z what have we done to make
Heaven angry with us? We fed our ſheep toge-
ther in the ſame paſtures; there can be no harm -
in that. I built a little hut, and you were delight-
ed to repoſe init; there is no harm in that. Tou
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ſlept on my knees, I reſpired your breath, and,
not to loſe any, I approached my lips ſoftly to
yours; there was no harm as yet it is true, that
ſometimes awakened by my careſſes——Alas !
ſaid ſhe, ſighing, could there be any harm in
that ?
In ſhort, it was not poſſible for them to recol-
lect any one thing that paſſed in their hut, but
what was very natural and very innocent; no-
thing that any body could complain of, or offend
Heaven. That is all we have done, ſaid Lubin;
where then is the crime? Weare couſins, that's
a misfortune; but if being related does not hin-
der one from loving, why ſhould it hinder one
from marrying? Shall I be leſs the father of my
child, or you leſs the mother? Truſt to me, my
dear Annetta, and let them ſay what they will.
'You are your own miſtreſs, and T am my own
amaſter ; we belong to nobody, we can diſpoſe of
ourſelves as we pleaſe; our property is our own,
We ſhatl have a child; ſo much the better. If
it be a girl, the will be pretty and good-natured
like her mother; if it ſhould prove a boy, he
will be joyous and ſprightly, like his father. Tt
will be a treaſure for us both; we will ſtrive who
Hall love it beſt, and, ſpite of all they ſo», it
will know its father and - mother by the lender
care we will take of it. But it was in vain that
Lubin exerted all that his reaſon and affection
ſuggeſted to him. Annetta was inconſolable, and
her uneaſineſs encreaſed every day more and more.
She had not comprehended any thing of what the
Juſtice ſaid; but that obſcurity only made his
threats and reproaches ſeem more terrible to her
amagination.
Lubin, who perceived her conſume away with
Stief, ſaid to her one morning, My dear Annetta, ;
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your affliction will be my death; reſt ſatisfied I
conjure you. Laſt night a thought came into my
head that perhaps may ſucceed. The vicar told
me that if we had been rich, things would not
be half ſo bad; for with a great deal of money
couſins might eaſily get out of trouble. Let us
go to the lord of the manor; he is very rich,
and not in the leaſt proud; he is our common fa-
ther, and a ſhepherd is as much his child as ano-
ther man. I have heard them ſay in the village,
that he looked upon them all as bis children. We
will relate to him our adventure, and beg of him
to help us to repair the harm, if there be any.
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not, interrupted Lubin; the ſquire is all goodnels,
and we ſhould be the firſt unhappy folks that he
ever ſent away without relief.
Lubin and Annetta ſet out then for the man-
ſion-houfe. They deſired to ſpeak to his honour z
they were bid to come in. Annetta with down-
caſt eyes, and her hands acroſs her round plump-
belly, made a modeſt curteſy. Lubin dofft his
hat, and ſcraped his leg with all the ſimple graces
of nature. An? pleaſe. your worſhip, ſaid he, here.
is Annetta that is with child, and I am the very
perſon that has done her that wrong. Our Russ
ſays that one ought to be married to get children;
and I deſire no better than to be married to her.
But he ſays · that is not poſſible, becauſe that we
are couſins, Now I think it is very poſſible, as
Annetta is already with child; for Pen ſee
2 there ſhould be more difficulty in being a
huſband than there is in being a father. The
judge and vicar ſend us charitably to the devil;
and we come to deſire your protection. The
worthy gentleman had much ado to keep his
countenance whilſt he liſtened to Lubin's ha-
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netta could no longer reſtrain her ſobs and tears.
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rangue. Chiſdren, ſaid he, they are in the rights
and you have done wrong; but don't be caſt down,
take courage, and relate to me all that has paſt.
Annetta, who thought that Lubin's ſpeech- was
not moving enough (for nature has taught the
female ſex the way to melt and gain the hearts of
men, and Cicero would be but a ſchool-boy in
competition with:a young and pretty ſollicitreſs)
*Annetta, I ſay, took up the diſcourſe. Alas!
Sir, ſaid ſhe, nothing is more plain and natural
than what has happened to us. Lubin and I have
from our infancy fed the flocks together; we
loved and careſſed one another when children;
and when one ſees each other every day, one
.grows up inſenſibly without perceiving it. Our
parents all died whilſt we were very young, ſo
that we were left to ourſelves. If we don't love
one another, thought I, who will love us? and
Lubin thought ſo too. Leiſure, conveniency,
. . curiolity, or ſomething I- know not what, made
us ſeek every method of ſhewing our love; and
you ſee the conſequence. If I have done an ill
thing, I ſhall die with ſorrow. All that I deſire
is, that I may bring forth my child to be a com-
fort to him when I am gone. Oh! Sir, ſaid Lu-
bin, burſting into tears, don't let Annetta die;
for if ſhe does I ſhall die alſo, and that would be
a pity. If you but knew how we lived together!
You ſhould have ſeen us before that good for no-
thing old juſtice alarmed us! *twas who ſhould
be merrieſt, Look at her at preſent, all pale and
melancholy, ſhe whoſe complexion could bid de-
Hance to all the blooming beauties of the ſpring.
What is ſtill her greateſt anxiety, they threat-
en her that her child will reproach her to have
brought it into the world. At theſe words An-
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It muſt then come and reproach me on my grave:
All that I deſire of Heaven is, but to ſuffer me to
live long enough to ſuckle it; and then let me
expire the moment it can do without its mother.
So ſaying, ſhe covered her face with her apron to
hide and wipe the tears that ſtreamed down her
cheeks. 6 |
The good and virtuous gentleman whoſe relief
they implored, had too tender a heart not to be
touched at this moving ſcene. Go, my children,
ſaid he, your innocence and your love are equally
to be admired and reſpected. If you were rich,
you would have no difficulty to obtain permiſſion
to be anited together. It is unjuſt that your mis-
fortune ſhould be deemed a crime. He was ſo
good as to write to Rome for a diſpenſation in their
favour; and pope Benedict XIV. conſented with.
pleaſure that theſe two lovers might be joined in
holy matrimony. |
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An ancient ANECDOTE.
NIX 7 HATEVER legiſlator thinks of ſecuring
'Y the hearts of men, let him firſt of all lay
his plan ſo as to gain the women over to ſide with
the laws and morals of their country; let him
put virtue and fame under the protection of
beauty and the tutelage of love. If he does
not ſucceed in that point, he can depend on
nothing. 3
Such were the politics of the Samnites, that
warlike republic, which ſubdued Rome, after
having been a long time her rival. What was
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it made a Samnite the warrior, the patriot, the
man of try'd virtue? It was the care the ſtate
took to recompenſe theſe qualifications with the
{ſweeteſt reward that love can give. |
The ceremony of their marriages was cele-
brated every year in a ſpacious place deſtined for
military exerciſes. All the young people, who
were in a condition to give citizens to the repub-
lic, aſſembled together on that ſolemn anniverſa-
ry. There the bachelors choſe their wives ac-
cording to the rank their virtues and their exploits
had placed them in the records of their country.
It is eaſy to conceive what a triumph it was for
thoſe virgins who had the honour to be choſen by
the victors; and how much love and pride, thoſe
pangs of human paſſions, animated the heroes
whoſe ſucceſs depended on their exploits and their
' virtues. The ceremony of the marriages was
waited for every year with a timorous impati-
ence; for till that time the young men and young
maidens ſeldom faw one another but in the tem-
ple, under the eyes of their mothers, and thoſe
of the ſage antients, with a modeſty equally in-
violable in both ſexes, It is true this conſtraint
laid no confinement on their defires; their hearts
and eyes were at liberty to make a choice; but
it was a religious and ſacred duty amonglt the
children of the Samnites, never to own their in-
- clinations but to the authors of their being. A
ſecret of that kind divulged, covered a whole
family with ſhame, This intimate truſt of the
deareſt ſenſations of the ſoul, this tender effuſion
of their deſires, regrets, hopes and fears, which
they were not permitted to depoſit but in the re-
vered boſom of nature, gave a title to fathers
and mothers to be the friends, adviſers, and com-
forters of their children, Renown for one part,
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happineſs for the whole, linked together the hearts
of all the family with the moſt intereſting bonds
of human nature: and this intercourſe of pains
and pleaſures, cemented by cuſtom, and conſe-
crated by duty, generally laſted to the grave. It
: ſucceſs did not anſwer their wiſhes, an inclinati-
on that never had been publiſhed, gave up its
object with ſo much leſs uneaſineſs, as it was in
vain to purſueit; and that it muſt abſolutely give
give place to a new choice: for marriage was an
act of a citizen only. The legiſlator thought
very prudently that he who would not have a
wife of his own, reckoned upon thoſe of others;
and in making adultery a crime, he made marri-
age a duty. Wherefore they were obliged to
appear at the aſſembly as ſoon as they had attain-
ed the age ſpecified by the laws, and there make
a choice according to their rank of chooſing, even
though it ſhould be contrary to their particular -
way of thinking. .
Amongſt a warlike people, beauty, even in the
ſofter ſex, had ſomewhat of a noble but modeſt
boldneſs, the reſult of their manners. Hunting.
was the moſt uſual entertainment of the daughters
of the Samnites. Their dexterity. in drawing
the bow, their ſwiftneſs in the race, are talents
unknown to our age. Thoſe exerciſes gave a.
ſurpriſing eaſe to their ſhape, and a graceful air
to every action, When unarmed, modeſty ſat
pictured on their form; no ſooner was the quiver
properly placed, but their head aſſumed a warlike
attitude, and courage ſparkled in their eyes.
Beauty in the men was characterized by a ma-
jeſtic gloomineſs; and the image of combats al-
ways preſent gave their looks a haughty. gravity,
with an aſpect ftern and impoſing. Amongit
theſe warlike youths there was one diſtinguiſhed
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from the reſt by the delicacy, of his features, and
'the ſweetneſs of his air; it was Agatis, ſon of
brave Teleſpon, one of the old Samnites, who
had been moſt remarkable in fighting for liberty.
This brave man, whilſt he was preſenting his
arms to his ſon, ſaid to him, My dear child, I
ſometimes over-hear certain old folks (poor jeſters
indeed) ſay, that I ought to.dreſs you in women's
cloaths, for you would make a charming huntreſs.
Theſe fooliſh railleries afflict your father; but
he comforts himſelf with the hopes that Nature
has not made a miſtake in forming your heart.”
Never fear, my dear father, anſwered Agatis,
fired with emulation, thoſe old people may be
glad ſome day to ſee their ſons follow my example;
It gives me very little concern that they look up-
on me as a girl: the Romans ſhall find that I am
a man. Agatis kept his word, and in his firſt
campaign gave ſuch tokens of valour and intrepi-
dity, that changed their railleries to the higheſt
encomiums. His companions could not forbear
ſhewing their ſurprize how that ſuch a . ſeeming
effeminate body ſhould be endued with . ſuch
manly courage ! Fatigue, hunger, cold, nothing
checks his career; with what an indolent modeſt
air he faces dangers and death |
One day, in preſence of the enemy, Agatis
beholding with great calmneſs a ſhower of darts
falling round him, one of his companions, re-
markable for his uglineſs, ſaid to him, How is
it poſſible that you who are ſo handſome, can be
ſo brave? Whilſt he was ſpeaking, the ſignal for
the attack was given: And you, anſwered Agatis,
that are not handſome, have you a mind to try
which of us two ſhall bear off the ſtandard of that
corps we are going to charge? He ſaid; they
both ruſhed on the enemy, and in the midſt of
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Naughter and . confuſion, Agatis appeared with
the ſtandard in his hand.
Agatis now approached the time ſettled by the
laws for him to be numbered amongſt the mar-
ried men, and by the qualification of being a
father, obtain that of a citizen. The young
maids, who heard the accounts of his valour,
could not behold his perſon without emotion;
they envied each other his looks, which were al-
ways attached on one alone; it was on the beau-
tiful Cephalida. She reunited in the higheſt de-
gree that modeſty, that ſtatelineſs, thoſe noble
and attracting graces, all which characteriſed the
beautiful Samnites. The laws, as I ſaid before,
had not prohibited the language of the eyes,
which are very eloquent when love makes them
the only organ of his expreſſion. If you have
ever ſeen two lovers conſtrained by the preſence
of a rigid witneſs, you muſt have admired with
what rapidity the whole ſoul appears in one ſud-
den flaſh emitted from a certain ſtolen glance of
the eye ! One ſingle look of Agatis e the
ſituation of his mind, his deſires, his hopes, his
fears. Add to that the emulation of fame and
virtue, with which love had enflamed his heart.
Cephalida ſeemed to have forbid her eyes to
meet with thoſe of Agatis; but ſometimes her
eyes were a little negligent in obeying, and did
not look down till after they had given their an-
ſwer. One day which particularly decided the
triumph of her lover, one day her eyes, that had
been long fixed on him, remained for ſome time
motionleſs, and then turned up to heaven with
the moſt tender and ardent looks. I underſtand
them, ſaid Agatis to himſelf, yes, I underſtand
your looks and your. wiſhes, and I will accompliſh.
their deſires. O charming maid ! they flatter me
beyond
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beyond my expeCtation ; your eyes raiſed to Hea-
ven were imploring its protection to make me
worthy of the firſt choice! your prayers are
heard; I feel it by the elevation of my ſoul.
But, alas! how many rivals prepare to diſpute
the prize. A courageous and brilliant action of-
ten depends on circumſtances. If one more for-
tunate than I ſhould happen to light upon them,
he will have the honour to have the firſt choice;
and that firſt choice, charming Cephalida, will
be your lot.
Theſe ideas engroſſed his mind; nor was
Cephalida's leſs taxen up. She thought that if
Agatis obtained the right of chuſing firſt, he un-
doubtedly would chuſe her. I dare believe it,
ſaid ſhe, I have read it in his foul, his eyes are
my inſtructers. If he preſents himſelf to my
companions, or if he talks to them, it is only
with a polite indifference; but with what ſweet
eagerneſs he appears at ſight of me ! Nay, Ieven
have remarked that his voice, naturally ſoft and
tender, has ſtill a more melodious ſenſibility when
he addreſſes his diſcourſe to me. But his eyes
* ahl his eyes have ſaid more to me than
ever they did to any body elſe; and would to Hea-
ven they be the only eyes to diſtinguiſh me from
the crowd; yes, dear Agatis, it would be my
— to appear handſome in any
made between you and the other young Samnites,
u hoſe very aſpect is alarming? Whenever they
behold me, I am terrified with their ſlaughtering
mien. Agatis is valiant without ferocity, amiable
and tender under all the accoutrements of war, I
know he will perform prodigies of valour; but
ah! if fortune does not fide with love! if another
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ſhould gain the advantage * * the. very thought
. chills me with affright.
Cephalida made no ſecret of her fears and alarms
to her mother. O offer up, ſaid ſhe, your pray-
ers to Heaven, and implore the gods in favour of
Agatis; it will be in favour of your daughter. I
believe, nay J am convinced, that he loves me;
and is it poſſible not to return love for love? You
know that he is eſteemed by all our ancients, and
liked by every Samnite maiden. I ſee their confu-
ſion, their bluſhes, their emotion whenever he
approaches them; and their pride when he vouch-
fates to ſpeak. Mighty well, child, ſaid her mo-
ther ſmiling, if he likes you, he will chuſe you.
No doubt but he will, if he gains the prefer-
ence ; but my dear mother But, my dear daugh-
ter, he will have his turn. His turn, alas! what
ſignifies his turn? anſwered Cephalida, a little
diſconcerted How is this, my dear? one would
imagine by your diſcourſe, that you fancy that
every choice is fixed on you; you flatter yourſelf
too much.— I don't indeed flatter myſelf, I am
all apprehenſion; happy if I only appear agreea-
ble in his 2 alone, whom [ ſhall always love.
Agatis, the eve of the day that the campaign
was to begin, ſaid to his father whilſt he embraced
him, Adieu, dear author of my life; you ſee me
for the laſt time, or you will ſee me return the
braveſt of the ſons of.the Samnites— Well
ſpoke, my child: it is thus a ſon who has a gene-
rous ſoul ought to take leave of his father. Me-
thinks I ſee thee animated with more than com-
mon ardour ; what favourable gods have inſpired
it? What gods; my father? Nature and Love
the deſire of following your example, and of
being worthy of Cephalida.——T underftand, love
then is of the party; there is no harm in that; but
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tell me, Ithink that I myſelf have ſometimes di-
ſtinguiſhedCephalidafrom among her companions,
Ol Sir, ſhe is eaſily diſtinguiſhed, Why really
ſhe is very beautiful ——Beautiful ! ſhe is as
beautiful as Fame. —Methinks I behold her, con-
tinued the old man, who took delight in ſpurring
him on, ſhe has the ſnape and air of one of Dia-
na's nymphs. You do Diana's nymphs a great
deal of honour. An eaſy gait—and ſtill more
' noble.—Such a fine complexion !—tis the new
blown roſe ;—her beautiful long hair ſo grace-
fully braided—and her eyes! my dear father,
*twas then you ſhould have ſeen them, when af-
ter having fixed them on me, ſhe turned them
up to Heaven, as if imploring the gods to ſend
me back victorious. —You are in the right, the
is charining; but you muſt have many rivals.—
Rivals, a thouſand no doubt. Some one may
ain her from thee, ——- Gain her from me
tk apprehenſive of it; the ſons of the Sam-
nites are all valiant. Valiant as much as you
Pleaſe : that gives me no apprehenſion. Let but
an occaſion offer to deſerve Cephalida, and I war-
rant you ſhall here talk of your fon. Teleſpon,
who till then had amuſed himſelf in animating
him, could refrain no longer from tears. Ah!
what a noble preſent ſaid he, whilſt he preſſed
him in his arms, does Heaven make us when it
beſtows a tender heart? i is the fountain of all
virtues. O, my ſon, you overwhelm me with
joy. I have ſtill blood enough in my old veins to
make another campaign, and thou giveſt me a
fore- taſte of ſuch actions, that I will be thy com-
panion. PEI
The day of the departure, the whole army
-filed off before the young maidens, who were
ranged in order on: the place to animate the war-
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riors. The brave old Teleſpon walked ſide by
ſide with his ſon. Oh, oh! ſaid the other old
men, do but ſee if Teleſpon is not grown young
again; where is he going at this time of day?
'To a wedding, ſaid: the good old man; yes, to a
wedding. Agatis made his father take notice of
Cephalida, who roſe above her companions with
an angelic grace, Teleſpon | obſerved his fon as
they paſſed her by. His ſweet and ſerene coun-
tenance of a ſudden glowed with a warlike ardour;
he looked as terrible as Mars himſelf. Courage,
my boy, ſaid he, it becomes thee to be in love.
Part of the campaign paſled ' between the Ro-
mans and the Samnites in obſerving each other's
motions, without coming to a deciſive action.
The chief forces of both ſtates compoſed their
armies; and the generals, ſkilful on both ſides,
did not chuſe to hazard their troops; but the
young Samnites who were to be married, burned
with impatience to come to blows. I have do
nothing, ſaid one, as yet, that deſerves to be i
ſerted in the annals of the republic I ſhall havs
the confuſion of hearing myſelf named without
any diſtinguiſhing praiſe ! What a pity, ſaid ano-
ther, that they won't let us have an opportuni
of ſignalizing ourſelves! I ſnould have perform-
ed wonders this campaign. Our general, ſaid
moſt of them, has a mind to diſhonour us in the
eyes of our ancients, and of our ſpouſes. If he
leads us back without fighting, will it not give
them room to conclude that he durſt not truſt to
our valour ? but the prudent warrior who had
the command, heard their diſcourſes unmoved,
He promiſed himſelf two advantages by his ſlow-
neſs and delays; one was, by making the enemy
believe that he was either weak or timorous, in
order to induce them to 2
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the other was, to enereaſe the impatience of his.
ſoldiers, and raiſe their ardour to the higheſt
pitch, before he riſked a battle. They both
ſucceeded. The Roman general, haranguing his
troops, repreſented the Samnites as wavering and
ready to run away. The genius of Rome,”
ſaid he, © triumphs; that of our enemy droops,
and can never reſiſt our attack- Advance, brave
Romans, if we have not the advantage of the
ground, we have that of valour. March.” They
come, ſaid the commander of the Samnites to
his impatient youths, © let them approach till
within reach of our arrows, and then you ſhall
have full liberty to deſerve the objects of your
_ defires.”
The Romans advance; the Samnites wait for
them in a firm and reſolute poſture. Fall on,”
cry'd the Roman chief, © a body that is. motion-
leis can never ſupport the impetuoſity of a violent
ſhock.? On a fudden the Samnites themſelves
ſpring forwards with the rapidity of a courſer
that ſtarts from the barrier. The Romans ftop ;
they receive their onſet without being broke or
ſhaken; their experienced general at once
changes both the attack and the defence. They
fought a long while with incredible obſtinacy ;
to conceive it, you mult call to your mind men
whole only paſſions were love, nature, glory, li-
berty, and their country; all which intereſts
combined, were fought for in thoſe deciſive mo-
ments. In one of theſe furious attacks of the
Samnites, old Teleſpon was dangerouſly wound-
ed, as he fought by his fon's ſide ; the youth,
full of love for his father, and ſeeing the Romans
broke, and flying on all ſides, concluding the bat-
tle was gained, gave way to the unrefiſting im-
pulſe of nature, and having n his father,
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helped him to withdraw himſelf to a little dif-
tance from the field of battle. There, at the
foot of a tree, whilſt the tears trickled down his
cheeks, he drew forth the dart that had pierced
the good old venerable man, As he was binding
up the wound, he heard the confuſed noiſe of a
troop of Samnites that had been repulſed. © Where
are you going, my friends ?? he cried, abandon-
ing his father; O heavens! you fly. This is
your way;' and perceiving the left wing of the
Romans unſupported, * Come along,“ ſaid he,
© let us attack their flank; follow me, and they,
are conquered,” This rapid and unexpected
movement threw the alarm into the Roman army,
and Agatis ſeeing that they were routed, © Pur-
ſue, my friends,” ſaid he, * your advantage, the
road is open. I leave you for a moment, and fly
to my father's relief.” The battle was decided in
favour of the Samnites; and the Romans, too
much weakened by their loſſes, were obliged to
retire within their walls. rs
Teleſpon had fainted away through exceſs of
pain; his ſon's care revived him. Are they
beat ?? aſked the old man. The victory is as
good as gained? replied Agatis, their defeat is
certain,” If ſo,“ ſaid his father ſmiling, © recal
me if you can to life; it is welcome to the con-
querors; and I will fee thee married.“ He had
not ſtrength to ſay more, for the loſs of blood
had reduced him almoſt to the laſt extremity.
After the victory, the Samnites were employ-
ed all night in aſſiſting the wounded. They ſpar-
ed no pains to ſave the worthy father of Agatis;
and he recòvered, though but flowly, from the
weak ſtate to which he was reduced. |
The end of the campaign was the time fixed
for the marriages, for two reaſons; one, that the
a | reward
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reward for the ſervices rendered their country
ſhould follow. them cloſe, as their example would
have then ſtill greater force: the other was, that
during the winter, the young married people
might have more time to give life to little citi-
zens before they hazarded agair their own, As
the actions of theſe valorous youths had been more
brilliant than ever, it was reſolved to give more
pomp and ſplendor to the ceremony which was to
be their triumph.
There were few of the Samnite virgins that
had not, as well as. Cephalida, intelligence of the
ſentiments. of ſome one young man; and each
prayed in her heart for him whoſe choice ſhe
hoped to fix, if it was his fate to chooſe. The
place where the aſſembly was to meet, was a vaſt
amphitheatre, open on all ſides 1 triumphant
arches, where the ſpoils of the Romans hung
ſuſpended as trophies of their victories. The
young warriors were to appear in armour; the
young virgins with their bows:and quivers, as
well drefled as the fimplicity of a republic per-
mitted, where ſplendid ſuperfluities were un-
known. Come, daughters,“ ſaid their mothers,
eager to adorn them, you muſt appear at this
feſtival with whatever graces Heaven has been
Pleaſed to endow you. The glory of men
is to conquer, that of a woman is to pleaſe.
Happy they who ſhall deſerve the good wiſhes of
thoſe young and valiant citizens, - who ſhall be
judged worthy of giving defenders to the ſtate !
The palm of merit ſhall ſhade their habitation ;
and the public eſteem ſhall ſurround it; their
children ſhall be the eldeſt ſons of their country,
and its moſt precious hopes.” 'Thus ſaying, the
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beautiful locks of theſe young virgins, and gave
the plaits of the veils the moſt favourable turns
to ſuit the different characters of beauty. From
the knot of their ceſtus, placed under their breaſt,
fell down in waving folds an elegant drapery,
which being claſped a little above one knee, gave
their gait an eaſy and majeſtic air. They faſten-
ed their quivers to their ſhoulders, inſtructing
them how to. preſent themſelves with a graceful
appearance, leaning on their bows. This induſ-
trious care of the Samnite mothers was deemed
an act of piety; and even 'gallantry itſelf, when
employed for the triumph of virtue, aſſumed its
ſacred character. The young women looking at
themſelves in the pure cryſtal of a limpid ſtream,
no one thought ſhe was handfome enough, and
exaggerating the beauties of her rivals, durſt no
longer depend upon her own. |
But of all the wiſhes formed on that ſolemn
day, none were more ardent: than thoſe of the
charming Cephalida. * Grant heaven may hear
your prayers !* ſaid her mother, embracing her;
but, my child, you ſhould:wait; with humility
and reſignation the reſult of its will. If the
gods have beſtowed on you ſome charms, they
know what their value is. It is yours to crown
their gifts with a becoming modeſty: without
modeſty, beauty may dazzle, but it will never
move. It is the moſt attractive of graces, and
almoſt forces veneration: Let then that amiable
virtue ſerve as a veil to ſcreen your hopes, which
may, who knows, be extinguiſhed before the ſet-
ting of the ſun, and give place to a new inclina-
tion.“ * Avert.it, heaven l' cried out 1
unable to ſupport ſuch an idea without ſhedding
tears. "Thoſe tears, ſaid her mother, are un-
becoming the daughter of a Samnite; do but
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give yourſelf a moment's reflection; there is not
one of theſe young heroes. but who has ventured
his life for our defence and our liberty ; nor is
there one of them but what deſerves you, and.to
whom you ought to be proud of acquitting your
country of the debt it owes them; let that be
your meditation : dry up your tears, and follow
me.“
On the other ſide, brave old Teleſpon con-
ducted his ſon to the aſſembly. Well,” ſaid he
to him, how ſtands your heart? I was contented .
with your behaviour during the laſt campaign ;
and I flatter myſelf that it will be approved of.“
Alas!“ ſaid the tender and modeſt Agatis, © I had
but a moment for myſelf, I might have done
more, but you were wounded, and I owed you
my firſt attention; I can't reproach- myſelf to
have facrificed to you my honour; I ſhould be in-
confolable had I betrayed my country's cauſe;
I ſhould be equally inconſolable had I abandoned
my father. Heaven be praiſed, my duties were
not incompatible ; the reſt is in the hands of pro-
vidence.* I can't but admit e, ſaid the old man
ſmiling, how very devout and reſigned one is
when labouring under apprehenſions. Own that
you had more reſolution when you charged the
omans. Pluck up your courage, all will end
well. I promiſe you that you ſhall, have a pretty
one,” |
They repaired to the aſſembly, where the ci-
tizens of every ſtage of life, ranged in the am-
phitheatre, formed a moſt awful aſpect. The
whole terminated at the bottom in an oval cir-
cle. On one ſide were feen the daughters be-
low their mothers; on the other, the fathers a-
bove their ſons; at one end, the council of the
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ancients; at the other, the young 'men who had
not yet attained to the matrimonial time of life;
all placed according to their different ages. Thoſe
that were laſt married the preceding years, ſur-
rounded the centre ſpace. Silence and reſpect
reigned throughout. That filence was ſuddenly
interrupted by the ſounds of warlike inſtruments,
and immediately appeared the general of the
Samnites, accompanied by the heroes that had
fought under his command. His preſence damp-
ed a little the looks of the competitors, He
croſſed over and placed himſelf, with his atten-
dants, under. the ancient ſages.
The book where the annals of the republic are
regiſtered is opened; a herald reads aloud, ac-
cording to the times, the atteſtation and decrees
of the magiſtrates and generals relating to the
conduct of the young warriors. Whoever, '
through cowardice, or any baſe action, had made
his name opprobrious, was condemned by the
laws to the infamous puniſhment of celibacy,
till he had retrieved his honour in wiping off the
ſtain by ſome glorious action. Indeed nothing
was ſo rare as fuch examples. Probity and cou-
rage were the leaſt praiſes you could beſtow on
the young Samnites. It was a ſort of diſhonour
to have done only one's duty. Moſt of them
had given proofs of a valour and virtue which any
where elſe would have been deemed heroic, but
which were ſcarce noticed amongſt people who
had every day ſuch examples before their eyes.
Some ſeemed to riſe above their competitors by
more ſhining actions; but the judgment of the
ſpectators became leſs favourable according as
they heard of virtues more worthy of praiſe ;
and thoſe which at firſt gained their approbation,
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encomiums. The firſt campaigns of Agatis
were of that firſt number; but when they came
to relate his behaviour in this laſt battle, how he
had abandoned a wounded father to run and rally
the flying troops, and lead them back to victory
this ſacrifice of nature to his country, united e-
very voice in his favour. Tears fell from the
old men's eyes, and thoſe that were near Teleſpon
embraced him for joy; they that were further
off congratulated him with their looks; the good
man ſmiled and wept; even his ſon's rivals be-
held him with reverence, and every mother's
wiſhes were, that their daughter might prove to
be Agatis's choice. Cephalida, pale and trem-
bling, durſt not lift up her eyes; her heart, full
of joy and fear, could ſcarcely beat.; her mo-
ther, who ſupported her with her knees, durſt
not utter a word, for fear of betraying her ſe-
cret: ſhe fancied the eyes of the whole aſſembly
were fixed on them. Soon as the murmur of
univerſal applauſe was abated, the herald named
Parmenion, and related how in this ſame. Jaſt
battle this young hero ran the hazard of his life
to ſave that of his general; for ſeeing his wound-
ed horſe fall under him, and: in that defenceleſs
inſtant a Roman ſoldier, with his uplifted jave-
lin, ready to pierce him, Parmenion precipitated
himſelf over the body of his commander to in-
tercept the fatal ſtroke, by which he received a
dangerous wound. It is moſt true,“ ſaid the
general, he ſerved me for a ſhield, and if my life
is of any uſe to my country, I owe that happineſs
to Parmenion.* At theſe words the aſſembly leſs -
moved, but not leſs ſurpriſed at Parmenion's vir-
tue than at that of Agatis, gave him equal ap-
plauſe, and their votes ſeemed undetermined be-
tween the two competitors. The herald, by
com-
11 |
command of the ancients, impoſed ſilence; and
theſe venerable judges aroſe to deliberate together.
The different opinions were for a while argued
with equal force. Some faid that Agatis ought
not to have quitted his poſt, though to ſave his
father's life; and that he only made an atone-
ment for his fault, in leaving his father to rally
his flying companions, and lead them back to the
combat. But this ſentiment, ſhocking to nature,
was ſeconded only by a few. At laſt the oldeſt
of the ancients got up and ſaid, Is it not virtue
that we are to reward? what have we then to
do, but only to examine which of the two ſhews
the greateſt effort of virtue? He who from that
motive abandons a dying father, or he who ha-
zards his own life to ſave that of another? Both
of theſe young heroes have been inſtrumental to
our victory. It belongs to you, venerable citi-
zens, to decide which of the two made the great-
eſt ſacrifice: Of two examples equally: uſeful,
that which coſt the moſt, ſhould be the moſt en-
couraged.” j
Can it be believed, from the warlike genius of
theſe people, that it was unanimouſly decided,
that there was much more teal virtue in tearing
one's ſelf from the arms of a dying father, which
was in need of his aſſiſtance, than in expoſing one's
own life, even tho? death was unavoidable? All
agreed to beſtow the honour of the firſt choice on
Agatis; but the ſtruggle which enſues will ſeem ©
to have leſs probability. The deliberation of the
ancients was heard by every body; and Agatis ob-
ſeryed, that it was from a principle of generoſity _
that the balance turned in his favour. He knew
there was another motive at the bottom of his
heart; nor could he accept of the honour decreed
him without an inward reproach. It is a ſub-
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reption,* ſaid he, © I ought not to avail myſelf of
it.“ He deſired to be heard; filence enſued.
* & A triumph unmerited, ſaid he, would be the
© torment of my life, and even in the arms of
% my virtuous ſpouſe, my happineſs would be
6 embittered by the thought of having obtained
% her unjuſtly. You think you have crowned in
«© me the man that devoted himſelf the moſt in
© his country's cauſe, Virtuous Samnites, you
© have been deceived, for I muſt own that I was
* not prompted by duty alone. I love, and my
ambition was to deſerve the object of my wiſh-
& es; and if I have reaped any honour by a con-
% duct you are pleaſed to approve of, love is in-
&* titled to it as much as virtue. Let my rival
«© examine himſelf, and if he has ated from a
c more generous principle, I yield to him the
& choice.” | |
How extreme was the ſurprize which this con-
feſſion raiſed in every breaſt! If on one fide it tar-
niſhed the luſtre of this young warrior's actions;
on the other, it added to the character of his vir-
tue ſomewhat more heroic, more aſtoniſhing, and
more uncommon, than the moſt magnanimous
ſacrifice. Such an inſtance of truth and candour
produced, in regard to theſe young heroes, two
oppoſite effects. Some, with an open admiration,
ſeemed to expreſs, by a noble boldneſs, that this
example raiſed them above themſclves; others
appeared dejected and confuſed, as if depreſſed by
a load too heavy for their weakneſs to ſupport.
'The mothers and daughters, in their hearts, gave
the prize of virtue to him who had the generoſity
to declare that he was not worthy of it: And the
ancients had their eyes fixed on Parmenion, who,
with a ſedate countenance, waited till he had leave
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6] don't know, ſaid he, addreſſing himſelf to
« Agatis, I don't know to what degree men's ac-
« tions ought to be diſintereſted to be deemed
« virtuous; there is nothing, if we conſider it
« right, but what we do for our own ſatisfacti-
*« on; but what I could not have done for mine,
« js the accuſation you have made of yourſelf,
If there be any thing in my behaviour more
« magnanimous than in yours, which is far from
« being decided, the ſeverity with which you
« have judged yourſelf, raiſes you infinitely above
6« me.” |
It was then that the ancients, more perplex
than ever, were undetermined which party to ſide
with; but there was no need of deliberating where
to beſtow the prize; for it was decided, by an
univerſal acclamation, that they both deſerved it,
and that the rank of the ſecond choice was not
worthy of either. The oldeſt of the judges then
3 his opinion; Why do we retard, ſaid
e, by our irreſolution, the happineſs of theſe
young people? Their choice is already fixed in
the bottom of their hearts. Let them be permit-
ed to communicate to each other the ſecret of
their wiſhes, and if the objects are different, each
ſhall obtain, without priority, the ſpouſe he likes;
but if it happens that they ſhould be rivals, then
chance muſt decide the preference. Is there a
Samnite virgin but what ought to be proud of
comforting the leaſt happy of theſe two wartiors?ꝰ
Thus ſpoke the venerable Androgeus, and the
whole aſſembly applauded. \ |
Agatis and Pinion then advanced into-the
middle of the ſpace; they began by embraci
each other, and every ſpectator's eye was moi
with tears. Trembling and heſitating, they dare
not name the object of their deſires, for neither
* _
thought it poſſible that any one could make any
- other choice but that which each of them had
fixed on his heart. I love, ſaid Parmenion, the
moſt accompliſned maid that heaven ever form-
ed; ſhe is all that is beautiful, all that is amia-
bleP << Alas! replied Agatis, you love the very
perſon I adore; there needs no name to the pic-
ture you have drawn; the harmony of her fea-
turea, the ſweet majeſty of her looks, ſomething
inex preſſibly divine in her ſhape and air, diſtin-
guiſh her from the reſt of the Samnite virgins;
How unhappy muſt one of us two be if reduced
to another choice l' You are in the right, an-
ſwered Parmenion, for there can be no happineſs
without Eliana.” . .. Eliana, do you ſay? What,
cried Agatis, is it Eliana, the daughter of wiſe
Androgeus, that you love:?? Who elſe could 1
love. l' faid Parmenion, ſurpriſed at his rival's joy,
+ What, is it Eliana, and not Cephalida'!* reſum-
ad Agatis, quite tranſported; ah'! if it be fo, we
are both happy; let us embrace each other; you
reſtore me to life.“ It was judged by their em-
bracing, that love had ſettled the diſpute. The
ancients ordered them to approach, and tell whe-
ther they had fixed on the ſame object; if not,
to declare it aloud. At the names of Cephalida
and Eliana, the whole amphitheatre rung with
applauſe. Androgeus, Teleſpon, the brave Me-
lantes, Parmenion's father, and the wiſe Eume-
nes, that of Cephalida, congratulated each with
that melting tenderneſs which always accompa-
nies the joy of old people. © My friends, fail
Teleſpon, we have indeed fine children; with
what zeal will they not get others? When 1
think of it, I fancy myſelf again in the prime of
life; laying aſide all paternal weakneſs, the day
of the marriages ſeems my own wedding - da.
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methinks that IJ eſpouſe myſelf all the daughters
| of the republic.* So ſaying,” he almoſt leaped
for joy; and, as he was a widower; he was ad-
viſed to put himſelf again on the liſt. None of
your jeſts, ſaid he; if I was every day as young
as J fancy myſelf now, I might ſtill be talked of.
They all repaired to the temple, to conſecrate,
at the- foot of the altars, the ceremony of the
marriages. Parmenion and Agatis were led home
in triumph, and a ſolemn ſacrifice was ordered a8
a thankſgiving to the gods, for having enriched
the republic with two ſuch virtuous citizens.
| The CONNOISSEUR,
Cob. at the age of fifteen, was look
ed apon, in the country where he was born,
as a little prodigy. He compoſed the moſt agree.
able love-verſes imaginable ; there was not a
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n- retty woman in the neighbourhood that bis muſe
he had not celebrated; nor was there one but who
e- thought that there was as much wit in his eyes
ot, as in his poems. What a pity ſuch happy talents
da ſhould be buried in a little country town ! Paris
ich was the only theatre worthy of their exhibition;
le- ſo that his father reſolved to ſend him there.
ne- This father was a mighty good fort of a man;
ith he loved wit without having any, and admired -
pa- upon truſt every thing that came from the me-
ail tropolis : nay, he had ſome literary correſpon-
ith dents there, among which was a Connoiſſeur,
n 1 whoſe name was Fintac, and it was to him
of W ticularly that he recommended his ſon, |
day Fintac received the young man with a kind of
ay: patroniſing affability. - have heard you *
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of, ſaid he to Celicour, I know you have been
admired in the country; but I believe, my dear
Sir, the arts and ſciences are there, as yet, in
their cradle. Wit and genius can produce no-
thing perfect, without taſte; and taſte is to be
found no where but in Paris. Begin, then, by
fancying yourſelf juſt come into the world, and
endeavour to forget all that you have learned.
What ſhall I not forget? anſwered Celicour, caſt-
ing his eyes on a charming niece, of about 9
teen, that the Connoiſſeur had with him. Ves,
Sir, I already perceive that I now only begin to
live. I can't tell what charm one breathes in
your preſence, but I find myſelf poſſeſſed of fa-
culties unknown to me before; methinks I have
acquired other ſenſes and a new ſoul! Well ſaid,
cried out Fintac, this is enthuſiaſm ! he is a poet;
I'll warrant ſuch by that ſtroke alone. There is
no poetry in it at all, replied Celicour, tis pure
ſimple nature. 80 much the better, that is the
true talent. At what age did you find yourſelf
"animated with theſe divine tranſports ?——lI had
ſome little iparks in the country; but I never felt
before the ſudden and impetuous flame that ele-
vates me this moment beyond myſelf. I ſee tis
the air you breathe in Paris, ſaid Fintac, that al-
ready takes effect. No, Sir, replied Celicour,
tis the air which I. reſpire in your houſe; Iam in
the temple of the Muſes. The Connoiſſeur
thought the young man of a promiſing genius.
Agatha, one of the prettieſt, wittieſt, ly lit-
tle huſſies that love ever tutored, loſt not a word
of the converſation; and now and then a certain
ſtolen look, a certain half ſmile, gave Celicour
room enough to think that ſhe very well under-
| flood the double meaning of his anſwers. Your
father, added the Connoiſſeur, is much to be
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commended to have ſent you into the world at
that age, when nature is ſtill tractable and phant,
to receive good impreſſions; - but beware of thoſe
that are bad. You will find in Paris more falſe
connoiſſeurs than true judges. Dow't take ad-
vice indiſcriminately; but truſt to the deciſton of
one, who never as yet has been miftaken in his
judgment. Celicour, who did not conceive how
any one could fo bare-facedly praiſe himſelf, aſk-
ed him, with great naivets, where this infallible
perſon was to be met with. Tis I myfelf, an-
fwered Fintac, with an impoſing tone: I that
have been converfant all my life with what is moſt
refined in the arts, ſciences, and belles lettres;
I, that for theſe forty years have made it my
ſtudy to diſtinguiſh, in works of tafte and genius,
the real and laſting beauties from thoſe glitterin
flaſhes that die with the mode that produc
them: I fay it, becauſe it is agreed on by every
body; and there is no vanity in ewning a fact that
is known to all the world.
Extraordinary as this language was, Celicour ©
gave it but little attention; his thoughts were
taken up with a more intereſting object; Agatha
deigned now and then to reſt her eyes upon him,
and thoſe eyes ſeemed to ſay the moſt obliging
things in the world: But was it their natural vivac-
ty, or were they only animated by the pleaſure of
their triumph ? That was a point to be cleared;
_ wherefore Ceticour intreated the Connoiffeur to
grant him the permiſſion to viſit him: to which
Fintac made anſwer, That he himſelf deſired to
fee him whenever he thought proper to give him
that pleafure.
The ſecond viſit that Celieour made, he was
obliged to wait till the Connoifſeur was viſible;
fo that he paſſed a quarter of an hour tete à lite
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with the charming niece. She made a thouſand
apologies, and he replied there was no occaſion
for any. My uncle, Sir, ſaid Agatha, is delight-
ed with you. — Tis an advantage very flattering
for me, but there is ſtill another which would
give me infinitely more pride and pleaſure, —My
uncle, ſays ſhe, is ſure you will ſucceed in any
- thing you undertake.——] wiſh he may be a
| Prophet; and that you were of the ſame way of
thinking.—I am very often of my uncle's opini-
on.— Be ſo good, then, as to help me, to deſerve
his fayours,—I dont't find that you want any aſſiſt-
ance of mine,—Excuſe me, Madam, I am well
convinced that men of great genius have very
often their oddities, and ſometimes their foibles.
Now to find out their weak ſide, to flatter their
taſte, their opinions; in ſhort, they muſt be
known they muſt be ſtudied. Ah, charming
Agatha! were you but inclined to ſerve me, how
much is it in you, power to ſhorten that ſtudy,
And after all, what is it I requeſt? To gain your
uncle's protection; can any thing be more inno-
cent! — What, is it the faſhion then, in your
country, to wheedle the niece, the better to
cajole the uncle? Methinks 'tis no bad contri-
vance.—lI ſee nothing in it out of the way.
But if it be true, Sir, as yon fay, that my uncle
has his oddities, his foibles,, would you have mg
expoſe them to you? Why not? Do you think
I would make a wrong uſe of them }—Perhaps 1
don't; but then his niece—— Well, his niece; +
ſhould not ſhe deſire to ſee every body ſtrive to
pleaſe him? Nobody mends at his time of day:
there is nothing then to be done, but to manage
and ſoothe him properly-—You are an excellent
caſuiſt; who can better raiſe ong's ſcruples?—
Ah ! you would have no ſcruple did you but know
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me better: but no; you: are not ſincere. No,
to be ſure; the thing ſpeaks of itſelf; this is the
ſecond time I have been in your company; how
is it poſſible that I can have any ſecrets reſerved
from you ?—I own my indiſcretion, and aſk your
pardon.— Tis I, Sir, that am to blame, in let-
ting you take it in ſo grave a light: This is the
fact; my uncle is an honeſt good man, and would.
never have been any thing elfe, if it had not
been put into his head that he was maſter of uni
verſal knowledge: twas his to be the judge of
arts and letters, the guide, the appraiſer, and
arbiter of. talents. All this wrongs nobody; but
it draws here a crowd of fools that my uncle pro-
tes, and with whom he ſhares the ridiculous
title of bel eſprit. I-wiſh, for his own ſake, that
he could be perſuaded to drop this chimera z-for-
it ſeems as if the publick had taken the reſolu-
tion never to be of his opinion, which produces
every. day. ſome new. diſagreeable ſcene. —I am
ſorry to hear it —— You are now as much in-
ſtructed as myſelf in the ſecrets of our family:.-
As ſhe ended, Celicour was informed that the
Connoiſſeur was viſible, © 1% Xo
The cabinet, into which he was ſhewn, | pro-
nounced on all ſides a multiplicity of ſciences
and a crowd of knowledge. The floor was co-
vered with folios heaped pell- mell on one another,
rolls of prints, maps diſplayed, and manuferipts
ſcattered about as chance had thrown them. On
the table lay an open Tacitus, cloſe by a ſepul-
chral lamp ſurrounded with antique medals; a
little further were a mounted teleſcope, - the
ſketch of a picture on the eaſle, the model of a
baſſe relieve in wax, ſeveral ſcraps of natural hiſ-
tory ; and from the uppermoſt ſhelf to the loweſt,
books tumbled on each other in a pictureſque
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manner. The young man hardly knew how to
ſtep along, whilſt the Connoiſſeur could not re-
frain ſmiling at his embarraſs. Pray excuſe, ſaid
he, the litter you find me in; this is my ſtudy,
and I continually want all theſe things ready at
hand; but don't imagine that the ſame confuſi-
on reigns in my head; No; there every thing is
in itsdue place, and, amidſt ſuch a quantity and
variety of matter, all is methodical. 'That is
ſurprizing, anſwered Celicour, that hardly knew
what he was ſaying, ſo much his thoughts were
ſtill taken up with Agatha. O!] very ſurprizing,
reſumed Fintac; and really ſometimes I cannot
myſelf but wonder how our ideas claſs and range
themſelves as ſoon as they are formed : one would
think that there was a drawer for every ſpecies of
knowledge, For example, amongſt ſuch a mul-
titude of- things that have paſſed through the
circumvolutions of my brain, who can explain
to me how what I had formerly read concerning
the return of the comet, ſhould juſt at the nick
of time find out its trace and occur to my me-
mory; for you muſt know, that it was I that
r uſed our attronomers, — You, Sir !—Yes: they
did not ſo much as dream of it : and if it had
not been for me, the comet would have paſſed
over our horizon incognito. You may be ſure I
never boaſted of it, but I tell it you as a friend.
And why do you let others run away with
the honour of ſuch an important piece of ad-
vice Dear me, I ſhould never have done if
I was to lay claim to all that the plagiaries have
ſtolen from me. Depend upon it, my young
friend, that in general there is not a ſolution, a
diſcovery, à piece of poetry or eloquence, that
ſtrictly belongs ſo much as is imagined to the per-
ſon to whom it is attributed. What then is the
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object of a Comnoiſſeur ? 'tis to encourage ta-
lents, whilſt he enlightens them. Whether the
idea of this baſſo relievo, the diſpoſition of that
picture, the particular beauties or the all- together
of ſuch a play; whether or no, I ſay, they are
the production of the artiſt or of me, it is e-
qually the ſame for the progreſs of the art; that
is my only motive and concern. They conſult
me, I tell them what I think, they Hſten to me
and make their advantage: *tis all I defire, and I
am rewarded by their ſucceſs. Nothing can be
more noble, anſwered: Celicour; the arts muſt
look on you as their Apollo. And pray does your
niece vouchſafe to be their muſe No; my
niece is a young inconſiderate girl, that I fain
would have educated to my mind; but ſhe has
no manner of taſte for ſtudy; I once endeavoured:
to give her a reliſh for hiſtory: but ſhe returned
me my books, ſaying, that it was not worth
while to ſpend ſo much time in reading, to find
nothing in a ſucceſſion of ages but illuſtrious
madmen and bold. villains impoſing upon a. crowd
of fools. I' then had a mind to try what effect
eloquence would have; ſhe told me that Cicero,
Demoſthenes, &c. were no better than artful
mountebanks; for when one had good reaſons to
give, there was no need of ſo many words. As
or the moral part, ſhe pretends to know it all b
heart, and aſſert that old Lucas, her nurſe's bul.
band, was as wiſe as Socrates... Poetry, indeed,
ſometimes-amuſes her; but then ſhe prefers little
trifling fables to the moſt ſublime poems, and
tells you, with the greateſt- ſimplicity, that ſhe
would rather hear the chat of. la Fontaine's ani-
mals than all the fine talk of. the heroes of Ho-
mer and Virgil. paths ſhe is as: much a child
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at eighteen, as if ſne was but twelve years old;
in the midſt of the moſt ſerious and intereſting
converſation, you would be ſurprized to ſee her
amuſe herſelf with ſome bauble, and ſeem quite
fatigued if you attempted to captivate her atten-
tion. Celicour could not forbear ſmiling, and
took his leave of Fintac, who did him the fa-
vour to invite him to dinner for the next day.
Celicour was ſo delighted that he could hardly
ſleep for thinking that on the morrow he was to
dine with Agatha. What a happineſs! He came
at the appointed time, and, by his comelineſs,
his youth, and the ſerenity of his countenance,
one would have taken him for Apollo, had Fin-
tac's Parnaſſus been better compoſed. But as he
did not chuſe to have any about him but flat-
terers and paraſites, he never invited any other.
He preſented Celicour to them as a young poet
of riſing merit, and placed him at table on his
right; which was no ſooner done, but all the
eyes of envy were darted at him. Each of the
eſts fancied he uſurped his.ſeat, and reſolved
n the bottom of his heart to be revenged, in
railing at the firſt work of his that ſhould appear;
and yet at the ſame time theſe gentlemen com-
limented and careſſed Celicour, who on his ſide
ked upon them as the moſt civil and well bred
people in the world. A new-comer always ex-
Cites emulation; the beleſprit crowded all its ſails,
the republic of letters was cited to their tribunal,
and, as it was but juſt to approve as well as con-
demn, they generouſly praiſed all the dead au-
thors, and abuſed the living, excepting, as uſual,
thoſe in company. All thoſe new works which
had ſucceeded, without having had a licence from
Fintac, were ſure to have but a momentary, tri-
umph ; ſuch as were ſtamped with the ſeal of his
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approbation, muſt undoubtedly be crowned with
immortality, whatever was the deciſion of the
preſent age. They ran over all the different
ſorts of literature; and, to-give their erudition a
greater ſcope, a queſtion (to 'be ſure quite new)-
was ſtarted, to wit, Which of the two, Cors
neille or Racine, ought to have the preference?
No doubt but the arguments on all ſides pro and
con were exceeding judicious, when Agatha took +
it in her head, not having as yet uttered a ſingle -
word, to aſk which of two delicious fruits, the
orange and the peach, had the moſt exquiſite
taſte, and ought to be preferred ? The uncle
bluſhed for the ſimplicity of his niece ; and the
| ueſts over-looked ſuch a childiſh compariſon. My:
ar, ſaid Fintac, at your age you ſhould learn to
liſten and be ſilent. Agatha, with a little ſly al-
moſt imperceptible ſmile, looked at Celicour,
who underſtood her very well, and returned a-
, look which made her full amends for the little
k regard paid to her by the reſt of the company.
f I forgot to obſerve that Celicour was placed at
. table juſt over againſt Agatha: and you may eaſi-
2 ly imagine he gave little attention to what was
1 ſaid on either fide of him. But the Connoiſſeur,
5 who now and then examined his looks, perceiv-
4 ed in them a ſupernatural fire: Behold, ſaid he to
4 his learned brothers, how his genius burſts. into
5, being. Ves, anſwered one, juſt as the boiling
„ water tranſpires through the pores of the eolipile.
* Fintac, ſqueezing Celicour by the hand, ſaid to
4 him, Now there is a ſimile for you; it is poetry
l, and philoſophy melted down together; *tis thus
h that talents are amalgamated, and the muſes go
m hand in hand. Own, continued he, that you
* never were entertained with ſuch fare at your coun-
lis try dinners; and yet you have but a little fore-
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taſte of what theſe gentlemen are capable of.
There are certain days that their wit has no
bounds. How is it poſſible, faid one of the vir-
tuoſi, that we ſhould want it, when we drink at
the ſource, Et purpures bibimus ore neftar, O
purpures, replied modeſtly Fintac, you do me a
great deal of honour. Mind that, my young
friend; learn to quote property. The young
friend was much more attentive to catch the mo-
tions of Agatha's eyes, who on her ſide was not
diſpleaſed with thoſe of his.
Dinner being over, they took a walk in the
garden, where the Connoiſſeur had made a col-
lection of all the rare plants that you ſee every
where. Amongſt other curioſities of vegetation,
there was a moſt beautiful curled, ſtriped cab-
bage, which was admired by all the naturaliſts :
the diverſified harmony of its colours, its pretty
curls and foldings, were almoſt looked upon as a
phenomenon. Shew me, ſaid Fintac, any exotic
plant that nature has taken care to form with grea-
ter delicacy : it was meerly to give Europe its re-
venge in expoſing the prejudices of certain virtuoſi,
who are curious of nothing but the produce of
either Indies, that I have nurtured this beautiful
cabbage. W. tab
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this botanick wonder, Celicour and Agatha, who
were ſtrolling about, met as by chance in the next
walk. Charming Agatha, ſaid he, pointing out
to her a new-blown roſe, will you let that beau-
tiful flower die on the tree ?—— Why, where
elſe ſhould it die? Where I myſelf could
wiſh to expire. Agatha bluſhed at this reply,
and juſt in that moment- her uncle and a couple
of his brethren ſat themſelves down in a neigh-
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bouring arbour, where, without being ſeen, th
If it be true, continued Celicour, that our ſouls
paſs from one being to another, I wiſh that mine
after my death, might animate a roſe like that:
if a profane hand ſhould offer to pluck me, I
would hide myſelf amongſt the thorns ; but if
fome charming nymph ſhould happen to like me,
] would incline to her ſoft touch; 1 would un-
fold my boſom and exhale my ſweets; I would
mix them with thoſe of her breath: the deſire
of pleaſing would add brightneſs to my colours.
—— Mighty well, you make ſo many advances,
that you would be gathered ; and what would be
the conſequence? Neglected, fade, and die.—
But Agatha, do you reckon as nothing the ſu-
preme happineſs of a moment? Then looking
upon her languiſhingly, his eyes continued what
his lips had begun. For my part, ſaid Agatha,
hiding as much as ſhe could her emotion, if I
had a choice to make; I ſhould wiſh to be a dove;
it is all ſweetneſs, all innocence.— Add to that,
charming Agatha, all love and tenderneſs; ſuch a
choice is worthy of you. The dove is the bird
of Venus, and Venus would certainly diſtinguiſh
you from the reſt of the ſpecies; you would be
the chief ornament of her car. Cupid would re-
poſe on your wings, or rather he would nuſtle
you in his boſom. From his divine lips your
pretty bill ſhould peck ambroſia, your—Hold,
interrupted Agatha, you carry your fictions too
far. One word more, ſaid Celicour, a dove can-
not live without a companion; if it depended on
you to chooſe, what foul would you give it? That
of a ſincere friend, anſwered ſhe ; at theſe words
he gave her a look in which were pictured love,
reproach, and grief. e ; eee
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This is all vaſtly well, ſaid Fintac, riſing from
his ſeat ; down right fine poetry. The image
of the roſe has a bloom worthy of Vanbuyſum's
pencil; that of the dove may furniſh Boucher for
a charming, gallant, emblematical picture, Uf
pictura peefis, Courage, young man, courage I
fay ; the allegory is very well ſupported ; we
ſhall make ſomething of you. And as for you,
niece, I was ſatisfied with your dialogue; and
here is Mr. Exergue, who was as much ſurprized
at it as myſelf. It is certain, ſaid Exergue, that
| there is in the young lady's dialect ſomething very
anacreontic ; it is an impreſſion of her uncle's :
every thing that he ſays bears the mark of the
true fine antiquity. Mr. Lucid perceived in Ce-
licour's fictions, the molle atque facetum, You”
. muſt, reſuned Fintac, finiſh this little ſcene; it
will do admirably well in verſe. To finiſh it,
anſwered Celicour, I muſt have recourſe to
Agatha. By all means, they ſaid, and ſo left
them together without conſtraint, that the ſpeech-
es might be more natural and eaſy. I think, con-
tinued Celicour, that we left off at the dove,
our companion: Ah |! beautiful Agatha, is your
— then only formed for friendſhip? Is it for
that alone that love has taken ſuch pleaſure to
re- unite in you ſo many charmse Methinks, re-
plied Agatha, ſmiling, the dialogue is prettily
renewed. I have nothing to do but to anſwer,
and we ſhall make a long work on't. It is in
your power, replied Celicour, to ſhorten it. Let
us talk of ſomething elſe, faid ſhe, interrupting
him. How was you amuſed at dinner ?-—T heard
only one queſtion, full of wit and good ſenſe,
which they had the imbecility to treat as a child-
1h demand. I remember nothing more of their
diſcourſe; my ſoul was not at my ear.—$0 _ |
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the better for you. — Better indeed ! for it was
in my eyes. — If I was leſs ſincere, I might feign
not to believe, or not to underſtand you; but I
never feign at all. I think then it is very natural:
I aſk the beaux eſprits pardon, that you ſhould
take more pleaſure in ſeeing me than in hearing
them; and I own to you, that I am not ſorry to
have a perſon to conyerfe with, tho? it were only
by the eyes, if it was but to reſcue me from the
horrid fatigue they put me to. And now that we
have ſettled preliminaries, we have nothing to do
but to divert ourſelves at their expence; for, I
aſſure you, that they are all of them originals
in their kind. As for example, there is Mr,
Lucid, who fancies he ſees things that no. one
elſe ever ſaw. He would give you to underſtand, |
that nature had whiſpered her ſecret in his ear,
which every body is not to be entruſted with, He
chuſes-one of the company as a privileged confi-
dant, which is generally the perſon of moſt diſ-
tinction; he myſteriouſly leans towards him, and
communicates his thoughts in a low voice. Ag
for Mr. Exergue, he is one of the /iterati of
the firſt growth, deſpiſing in general all that is
modern, and admiring only by the number of
ages. He likes even that a young woman ſhould
have an air of antiquity, and he honours me with
bis attention, becauſe he ſays that I have the pro-
file of the empreſs Popein. In the group of
fools. at the bottom of the walk don't you ſee a
ſtiff, lender, finical thing? He compoſes little
charming nothings, which are not however to be
| heard by every body. He fixes a day to read
them, chuſes his audience, and inſiſts upon the
door being ſhut againſt all profane intruders, He
trips on tip-toe to the table, ſets himſelf down
before two wax lights, draws out myſteriouſly a
\ 2 pink.
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2 pink - coloured pocket - book, caſts about him a
gracions look, which impoſes filence, and gives
out that he is going to entertain them with a
little romance of his own compoſing, which had
the happineſs of being approved of by people of
the firſt eonſequenee. He reads with great deli-
beration to be the better reliſhed, and goes on
was endeavouring to ftifle a gape. That other
fighting creature: you behold geſticulating cloſe
by him, puts me out of all patience. Wit is to
him like a ſneeze, that ſeems a coming and never
comes. He would fain ſay pretty things, he has
them at his tongue's end, but they eſcape the
minute he wants to utter them: to be fure, he is
much to be pitied. Fhat other long dry figure
you ſee ſtalking by himſelf, is one of the moſt
abſtruſe and empty dreamers I know. Becauſe
he wears a bob-wig, and has got the vapours, he
imagines himſelt to be an Engliſtr philoſopher.
He pores over the wing of a fly; ind: is ſo dark
in his ideas, that one is ſometimes: apt to fancy
him profound. e
Whilſt Agatha thus ran on, exerciſing her lit-
tile malice on theſe extraordinary characters,
Celicour's eyes were fixed on hers: Ah! ſaid he
ſighing, your uncle that pretends to know every
thing, how little does he know the wit of his
niece? He talks of you as a child. —<It is very
true, and his Jearned brethren look upon mein
that their folly is diſplayed quite at eaſe; but
fear; but, lovely Agatha, we muſt cement our
intelligence by fomething more _— _
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to the end, without perceiving that every body
— —
the ſame light. For which reaſon they don't
in the leaſt conſtrain themſelves before me, ſo
don't you now go and betray me.—You need not
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friendſhip. Ys do friendſhip an injuſtice, re-
plied Agatha; there may be ſomewhat more a-
greeable, but nothing can be more folid.
They were interrupted by the Connoifſeur,
who, taking aſide Celicour, aſked whether the
dialogue had been continued with the ſame ſpi-
rit. It is not preciſely the thing, ſaid the young
man, but 1 ſhall endeavour to ſupply what is
wanting. I am ſorry, replied Fintac, to have
interrupted you, for nothing is ſo difficult as to
catch again the thread of nature when once one
lets it flip. I ſuppoſe that giddy girl did not
properly ſeize your idea. She does indeed now
and then ſhew ſome little ſparks of genius, but
they go out in a moment. I am in hopes that
marriage will form and ſettle her. Have you
any thoughts of diſpofing of her? ſaid Celicour
with a faultering voice. Yes, anſwered Fintac,
and I depend upon you to celebrate the ceremo- -
ny. You have ſeen Mr. Exergue; he is a man
of the moſt conſummate erudition. *Tis to him 1
propoſe giving my niece, (had Fintac obſerved
Celicour's countenance, he would. have ſeen him
turn pale at the news) a man of ſo much gravity
and application as Exergue, continued he, bas
need of ſomething light and chearful, to give
him a little diſſipation, He is rich, and has ta-
ken a fancy for the child, and is to be married to
her in about a week; but he inſiſts upon the ut-
moſt ſecrecy ; ſo that my niece herſelf knows
nothing of it as yet. As for you, my dear friend,
I muſt initiate you into the myſtery of an union
which you are to ſing; I exped of you an epi-
thalamium on the occaſion, Te Hymen, &c. you
underſtand me; *tis a fine opportunity to ſigna-
lize your genius But, Sir,—Come, none. of
your modeſty, *tis the bane of talents ——1 -_
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+ fire to be excuſed. I will admit of no excuſe,
you muſt undertake it; *tis quite the thing for
your manner, and will undoubtedly gain you
great honour, My niece is young and handſome;
animated by ſuch a ſubject, with your wit and
imagination, the verſe will flow ſpontaneouſly,
As for the huſband, I told you he was one in ten
thouſand : there is not a. greater proficient in
the knowledge of antiques ; he has a collection
of medals which he values at forty thouſand
crowns. He was to have fet out to ſee the ruins
of Herculaneum, and I don't know what it was
that prevented his undertaking a journey to Pal-
mira, Now you perceive how many ſtriking ob-
jects preſent themſelves to a poetical eye. hat
need I mention it ? I ſee that you are already in-
ſpired ; I read in your countenance that. profound
meditation which broods upon the ſeeds: of ge-
nius, and haſtens them on to fecundity. Go, my
dear friend, and ſeize the precious moments;
whilſt Lreturn and plunge into the depth of lite»
rature. 5 5
Celicour, in the utmoſt conſternation at what
be heard, burned with impatience to ſee Agatha.
Next day, under pretence of conſulting the Con»
noiſſeur, and before he was introduced into the
ſtudy, he deſired to ſpeak with his niece, Ah!
charming Agatha, you ſee a wretch in deſpair !
— Why, what's the matter.?—I am undone for
ever; you are to be married to Mr. Exergue.—
Who has put that ſtuff into your head? Why
wc uncle, Fintac, himſelf.— Really
es, and has charged me to write your epithala-
Well, and won't it be a charming
mium.
piece — How can you jeſt? Does it excite your
mirth to have Exergue for a huſband ? Till be
a very
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2 very good farce, how can I forbear laughing?
Oh! Agatha, this is no time for joking; think
of my cruel ſituation; think of him who adores
you, and muſt refign you for ever! Agatha in-
terrupted him as he was falling at her knees:
Own, faid ſhe, that theſe ſort of incidents come
very: opportunely to favour a love-declaration 3,
for as he that makes it is ſuppoſed to be in fuch
diſtraction, that he knows not what he ſays, the
that hears it, can't tell how to be offended; ſo that
what with diſorder on one ſide, what with re-
ſerve on the other, love boldly purſues its aim.
But let us not be in ſuch a hurry ; compoſe your-
ſelf, and- tell me where lies the grievance ?—lIn
your tranqui} inſenſibility. What! would
ou bave me repine at a misfortune I defy ?!——
— I not already told you that your marriage
with Exergue is: determined? Pray, how can it
be determined: without my conſent ? But if
your uncle has given his word If be has given
it, he muſt retraQ.---Oh | can you have the
courage What do you mean? The courage
not to ſay yes! A mighty great effort truly
O I am tranſported with joy Your joy is as
extravagant as your grief. Why, you ſay you
will not be united to Exergue,—Well, and
what then: You will then be mine. And
is there no medium What, whoever refuſes
his hand, muſt take up with yours? a pretty
conelufion indeed Upon my word, you talk like
a country : go and wait upon my uncle, and
don't let him perceive that you know any thing
of the matter.
Well, how goes on the epithalamium? ſaid the
Connoiſſeur, meeting him half-way, ——1 have
formed the whole plan in my head. —Let us
hear. I have taken the allegory of Time eſ-
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pouſing Truth. The notion is fine, but it is
dull; and then, you know, Time is very old.—
r. Exergue is an antiquarian. That is true:
but nobody likes to be told that he is as old as
'Time.—Would you rather I ſhould fix upon the
nuptials of Vulcan and Venus ?—Aye, Vulcan
becauſe of the medals and bronzes; but no; the
adventure of Mars is ominous. If you will but
think a little, you will find out ſome happier idea.
But apropos of Vulcan, have you a mind to ſee
this evening the eſſay of an artificer that I pro-
tect, who is to let off ſome Chineſe rockets, of
which I gave him the compoſition, and to which
indeed I made an addition, for I muſt always put
in ſomething of my own ? Celicour, who made
no doubt but that Agatha would be of the party,
accepted of the invitation with great pleaſure.
Ihe ſpectators had taken their places. Fintae
and his niece occupied a window; there was a
| little ſpace on one ſide of her, which had been
managed as if without deſign ; Celicour ſlipt in-
to it not without a tremor, which tremor ſoon
became an extacy of joy, in finding himſelf ſo
cloſe to Agatha. Fintae's eyes were wholly taken
up in purſuing the flight ef the rockets: thoſe of
Celicour were fixed on his niece. The ſtars them-
' felves might have dropped from the firmament
unnoticed by him. His hand juſt on the edge of
the window, ht on a hand fofter than the ſofteſt
down. A trembling enſued, which Agatha could
not help perceiving. The hand which he gent-
by touched, made a motion as if to withdraw, and
is made another to keep it where it was. Aga-
tha turned her eyes to him, and met with his
that ſeemed to aſk pardon. She thought it would
vex him if ſhe took it away, ſo, out of weakneſs
or pity, ſhe left it motionleſs. where it was. This
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was 4 great dead, but it was not enough; Agatha's
hand was ſhut, ſo that Celicour's could not graſp
it, Love inſpired him with the boldneſs to open
it. What was his ſurpize and joy when he felt
it yield inſenſibly to the ſweet violence? He holds
Agatha's hand in his palm, which he amo-
rouſly preſſed. Can you conceive his felicity? It
is not yet compleat. The hand he ſqueezes makes
no return; he draws it towards him; he ven-
tures to lay it to his heart, which advanced to
meet it. She attempts to take it away, he holds
it faſt where it was, and love alone can tell with
what a palpitation it bet under the timorous hand.
Twas a loadſtone for her. O triumph ! O ex-
tatic rapture! *Tis no longer Celicour that preſ-
ſes her, *tis Agatha anſwers to his throbbing
breaſt. Thoſe that have never loved, can frame
no idea of this emotion; and thoſe that have lov-
ed, have never felt it but once. Their looks were
blended together with that moving languor, the
ſweeteſt of all expreſſions, when the chief piece
of the fire-works was played off; at which Aga-
tha's hand preſſed cloſer to Celicour's breaſt; and
whilſt every body elſe was admiring the ſparkling
beauty of the rockets, our loyers, full only of
themſelves, expreſſed by their ardent ſighs the re-
gret they had to part. Such was this dumb ſcene,
worthy to be quoted as an example of eloquent ſi-
lence,
From that moment their hearts were conneQ-
ed, and they had no ſecrets reſerved from each
other. They both, for the firſt time, felt the
pleaſure of reciprocal love; and that bloom of
ſenſibility is the pureſt eſſence of the ſoul. But
love, that ſuits itſelf to different characters, was
grave and timorous in Celicour, merry, lively,
and arch in Agata. | _-
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The day was come when ſhe was to be inform-
ed of her marriage with Mr. Exergue. The an-
tiquary waited upon her, found her alone, and
made her a love-declaration grounded on her un-
cle's confent. I know very well, ſaid ſhe in a jo-
coſe manner, that you like me in profile; but I
muſt have a haſband that I like to look at in front;
and to be plain, you are not the man for me.
You have you ſay my uncle's conſent; I wiſh you
Joy of it; but you cannot marry me without
mine, and that, upon my honour, you never ſhall
have. In vain Exergue vowed and proteſted, that
ſhe reunited in his eyes more charms than has the
Venus of Medicis. Agatha wiſhed him an an-
tique Venus, aſſuring him that ſhe had not the leaſt
bit of one in her compoſition. It is in your power,
added ſhe, to lay me under the neceſſity of diſ.
pleaſing my uncle, or to ſave me that vexation. [
ſhall be obliged to you, if you will take upon you
to break off this match, as it would give me much
uneaſineſs to do it myſelf; and really, the moſt
prudent thing one can do when one is not loved,
is to endeavour not to be hated; and ſo, Sir, I am
your moſt humble ſervant.
The antiquarian was horribly chagrined at Aga»
tha's refuſal. He would have diſſembled it out
of pride; but the reproach of not being ſo good
as his word, forced him to own it. Fintac, whoſe
authority and importance were called in queſtion,
was exceſſive angry at his niece's reſiſtance; he
did all that lay in his power to make 3
but he could obtain no other anſwer than that
was not a medal; and he declared in his wrath,
that ſhe never ſhould have any other huſband.
That was not the only obſtacle to our young
ple's happineſs. Celicour had but a ſmall inheri-
tance to expect, and Agatha had no fortune _
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what her uncle would pleaſe to give her; and he
was leſs than ever diſpoſed to ſtrip himſelt for her
of any part of his wealth. At another time, he
would have taken care to provide for them; but
after Agatha's denial, nothing but a miracle could
engage him to do it, which love undertook to per-
form.
Flatter my uncle, ſaid Agatha to her lover, in-
toxicate him with praiſes, and be cautions not to
let him perceive. our intelligence. To compaſs .
this, let us avoid being ſeen together, and reſt ſa-
_ tisfied in letting me know now and then privately,
how things go on. Fintac made no myſtery to
Celicour of his diſſatisfaction with his niece's be-
haviour. Has ſhe, do you think, ſaid he, any ſe-
cret inclination? O if it was ſo—but no, ſhe is a
little thoughtleſs indolent creature, that neither
feels nor loves any thing. If ſhe reckons upon be-
| find herſelf vaſtly miſta-
ken; I. know better where to place my bounty.
Celicour, alarmed at Fintac's threats, watched an
opportunity to inform Agatha of his apprehenſi-
ons. She made a jeſt of them. — But, my dear
Agatha, he is deſperately angry with you. — That
is no matter. He ſays he will diſinherit you.
Say as he ſays; gain his friendſhip, and leave the
reſt to love and time. Celicour followed her advice.
le flattered Fintac through thick and thin, and
in every exaggerated applauſe, the Connoiſſeur
diſcovered in the young man ſome new degree of
merit. So much judgment, wit, and penetration,
ſeldom meet in one of his age, ſaid he to his bro-
ther Connoiſſeurs, he is a prodigy! in ſhort, the
high opinion he had of him was ſuch, that he
thought he might intruſt him with what he called
the ſecret of his ſoul. It was a play of his own,
which he had never read to any body, for fear of
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hazarding his reputation. After having exacted
the moſt inviolable ſecrecy, he —. a private
rendezvous to communicate it to him. Agatha
was tranſported with joy at this news z O Celi-
cour, nothing could be more fortunate, ſaid ſhe;
go and put all your wits to work, and give a dou-
ble doſe of adulation. Let the play be good or bad,
you muſt extol it as a maſter-piece ] a nonpareil.
Fintac, tete- a-tète with Celicour, after having
. double-locked the door, took the precious manu-
ſcript out of a ſecret drawer of his bureau, and
read with an enthuſiaſtic voice the moſt infipid,
dull comedy, that ever was penned. It was a
cruel torment for Celicour to bo obliged to com-
mend ſuch ſtuff: but Agatha had impoſed it on
him; he therefore went on applauding, and the
Connoiſſeur was overjoyed. Own now, ſaid he,
after he had read it, that it is really a fine piece,
— Very fine, indeed !—I muſt tell you then, why
I have pitched upon you as my intimate friend
and only confident: It has been my moſt ardent
deſire for ſome py to ſee this play appear upon
the ſtage; but I have perhaps a too timorous
over-niceneſs, and I don't chuſe to give it under
my own name, (Celicour ſhuddered at theſe words)
I have been cautious not to let any body into my
ſecret, but 1 think you worthy of this diſtinguiſh»
ed mark of my friendſhip. You ſhall offer my
work as if it was your own; all that I deſire is the
pleaſure of its ſucceſs; I leave to 7 the profits
and the honour. The very notion of impoſing up-
on the publick was enough to alarm Celicour's de-
| licacy; but to think of giving a miſerable perfor-
mance under his name, which muſt neceſſarily be
hiſſed, gave him the greateſt reluctance. He was
quite confounded at the propoſal ; but, in ſpite of
his diſguſt, he was obliged tocomply. As I have
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intruſted you, and you alone, with my ſecret, ſaid
Fintac, you are bound in honour to grant me m
requeſt. It is of no moment to the publick, whe-
ther you or I are the author; this innocent un-
truth harms nobody. My play is my property.
I make it over to you, and poſterity, even to the
lateſt ages, will never find it out: ſo that your
ſcruples are guarded on every ſide. If after all,
you refuſe to own this work, I muſt believe- that
you think it a bad one; that you have deceived
me in praiſing it; and, conſequently, you are
equally undeſerving of my friendſhip and eſteem,
What would not Agatha's lover undertake, rather
than incur her uncle's diſpleaſure | He aſſured him
that his reſervedneſs proceeded from honourable
motives, and defired he would wait till next day
for his determination. O he has read it to me,
ſaid he to Agatha. —Well, and what then
What then? Why, it is deteſtable.—I thought as
much.,—He inſiſts on my bringing it on the ſtage .
as my own—How is that ?—Why, that he will
have it paſs for mine, —Ah, Celicour, heaven be
praiſed for this lucky adventure] Have you agreed
to his propoſal ?—— No, not yet; but I am afraid
I ſhall be forced to it. So much the better.
But I tell you, that it is ſhockingly bad. —So much
the better ſtill. —It will be hiſſed. Better and
better I tell you; aquieſce in every thing he de-
ſires, It was a bitter potion 3 ſo what with anxi-
eiy, what with vexation, Celicour had not a wink
of ſleep. Next morning he went to Fintac, and
told him that he had conſidered the affair, and
that there was nothing he would not do,, rather
than forfeit his favour, It is not my deſire, ſaid
the Connoiſſeur, that you ſhould imprudently
lay yourſelf open to the criticks; tranſcribe the
play in your own hand-writing; you ſhall read j.
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66
as your own to our friends, who are all real judges;
and if they don't pronounce its ſucceſs in-
fallible, you are under no reſtraint, and I leave.
you to act as you pleaſe. One thing though I
muſt defire of you, which is, to peruſe it over
leiſurely by yourſelf, that you may be maſter of
the ſubject, and read it with greater ſpirit. This
precaution gave Celicour ſome little hope. I am
to read the play to his friends, ſaid he to Agatha;
if they don't approve of it, he diſpenſes with me
giving it to the public. —They will applaud it, at
at leaſt J hope ſo; if they condemn it, we are
unc one.— I don't underſtand you; explain your
meaning? — Go, go to your rendezvous, we muſt
not be ſeen together. What ſhe foreſaw, came
to paſs. The judges being all met, the Connoiſ-
ſeur recommended the play as a wonder, eſpeci-
ally in ſo young a poet. The young poet read
his beſt; and the audience, followed Fintac's
example, applauded every ſentence, were enrap-
tured with each ſcene, andcrowned the end with
downright acclamations. They found in it the
delicacy of Ariſtophanes, the elegance of Plau-
tus, and the comic of Terence. They were at
a loſs to determine which of Moliere's plays
might be put in competition with it. After this
trial, there was no heſitation. The actors indeed
differed in opinion from the Connoiſſeurs: but
every body knows that thoſe ſort of folks are not
famous for taſte; they were ordered to att the
play. Agatha, who was preſent at the reading,
applauded with all her might; and in ſome of the
pathetic ſcenes, ſhe pretended to be very much
moved; her ſceming vehemence of applauſe
almoſt reconciled her to her uncle. Is it poſſible,
ſaid Celicour, that you really like the play ?—O
vaſtly ! *tis an excellent one, at leaſt an excellent
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one for us; ſo ſaying, ſhe left him without fur-
ther diſcourſe. hilſt the play was in rehearſal,
Fintac went from houſe to houſe to prepoſlefs his
acquaintance in favour of a young poet, that gave
fuch promiſing hopes. The deciſive day is come;
the Connoiſſeur invites his friends to dinner.
Come, gentlemen, ſaid he, come and ſupport
your own work. You have pronounced the play
to be an admirable one, and have warranted its
ſucceſs ; your honour is at ſtake. As for me, you
know my weakneſs ; I have the bowels of a parent
for all young people that have growing talents,
and I feel with as much —— as they do
themſelves, the uneaſineſs they muſt neceſſarily
undergo in theſe terrible moments. |
After dinner, theſe very good friends tenderly
embraced Celicour, and told him they were going
to take their places in the pit, to be the witrfefles,
rather than the inſtruments of his triumph.
They did repair thither indeed. The play began,
but it never ended; and the firſt ſignal of diſguſt
was given by theſe very good friends. | |
Fintac was in the front boxes, trembling and
pale as death. During the time the performance
went on, this tender unhappy father did all that
lay in his power to encourage the audience to ſup-
port his child, till at laſt he faw it expire; and,
giving way to his grief, he crawled to his coach
abaſhed, confounded, and complained of heaven
to have brought him into the world in ſo barba-
rous an age. And where was poor Celicour all
this while? Alas! they had done him the honour
to place him in one of the pigeon-holes, where,
ſeated on a faggot of thorns, he ſaw what was
called his play, totter at the firſt act, ſtumble at
the ſecond, and fall flat at the third. Fintac promi-
led to take him home, but in his confuſion had for-
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got. What will become of him? How make his eſ-
cape from amidſt ſuch a crowd, who would cer-
tainly know him, and point at him with their fin-
ger; atlaſt, ſeeing the houſe empty and the can-
dles out, he took courage and ventured to creep
down from his hole. But the ſtair-caſe and the
paſſages were ſtill crowded. He was diſcovered by
the diſorder he was in; and he heard them ſay, it is
him to be ſure. Yes, yes, *tis him. Poor crea-
ture! Ipity him, he may do better the next time.
He perceived in one corner a group of authors,
whoſe plays had been damned, making a joke of
their hiſſed brother. He likewiſe ſaw thoſe very
ood friends of the Connoiſſeur, who were over-
Joyed at his mortification, and turned from him,
Overwhelmed with grief and confuſion, he went
to the true author, and his firſt care was to en-
quire for Agatha; he had full liberty to converſe
with her; for her uncle had ſhut himſeltup in his
ſtudy. Did 1 not foretel it, the play is damned to
all intents and purpoſes; ſhamefully damned, ſaid
Celicour, throwing himſelf into an armed chair,
So much the better, replied Agatha. What,
when your lover is covered with ſhame! when
merely to pleaſe you, he has made himfelf the
talk and ſcoff of the whole town. No, madam;
this is no time for jeſting, *tis more than I am able
to bear; I love you far above my life; but in the
horrid ſtate of humiliation to which I am redu-
ced, I am capable of renouncing life, and even you
ourſelf; I can't imagine what reſtrained me from
divulging the ſecret; it is not enough to be expol-
ed to the public ſcorn, I am abandoned by your
cruel uncle. I know him well, he will be the firſt
to bluſh at ſight of me, and what I have under-
gone to obtain your hand, perhaps, wall for ever
deprive me of that happineſs. But let him pre-
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pare nevertheleſs to give me that dear hand, or
take his play back to its true owner. There is
no other way to make me amends and oblige me.
to ſilence. Heres is my. witnefs if, next to aft
impoſlibility, the play had fucceeded, I ſhould not.
have deprived him of the honour. It is damned,
and I muſt bear the ſcandal; but it 1s the great-
eſt effort of love, for which you alone can be
the reward. It muſt be confeſſed, ſaid Agatha,
with a little ſly provoking leer, on purpoſe to
ſpur him on, that it is very diſagreeable to be
hiſſed for another's nonfenfe —Diſagreeable! it
is what I would not do again if it was for my own
father. Why to be ſure, it is very mortifying,
to ſee with what a ſupercilious air an unhappy
author, whoſe play has been hiſſed, is looked
upon as he paſſes along. Their contempt is to
be borne, it is unjuſt, and I deſpiſe it; but proud
by is intolerable.— I ſuppoſe you were in a good
lof confuſion, when you came down from the
pigeon hole; did you ſalute the ladies! 1
withed myſelf annihilated. ——Poor thing! and
how can you dare to ſhew your face again? I
twear it never ſhall be ſeen, except with the
title of your huſband; otherways, Mr. Fintac
ſhall have the humiliation of having the brat re-
turned to its natural father. — Are you then deter-
mined to reduce my uncle to the alternative ?-—
Yes, I am abſolutely determined. He muſt de-
cide it this very evening. If he refuſes his con-
fent to our union, every news-paper to morrow
thall have a paragraph, to expoſe the true author
of the damned play. That is, ſaid Agatha,
with an air of triumph, the very thing that 1
wanted you to do; that was the object of all my
fo much the betters, which put you very near out
ef patience, Go to my uncle, be ſteady in
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your reſolution, and reſt aſſured, that all will
end well. | ö
Now, Sir, ſaid Celicour to the Connoiſſeur,
what do you ſay to all this ?—My good friend, I
ſay that the publick is a ſtupid animal, and that
one ought to renounce giving one's ſelf the trou-
ble of entertaining it. But however, take com-
tort, your work does you great honour in the
opinion of men of taſte—What do you mean by
calling it my work? You know very well *tis
your own.—Speak lower, my dear child, ſpeak
lower.— O, 'tis very eaſy for you, Sir, to be mo-
derate, you that prudently eſcaped the falling of
your play on your own head; but I that am cruſh-
ed under its ruins IO my dear Celicour, don't
imagine that ſuch a fall hurts your reputation in
the leaſt; people of diſcernment, find in it the
ſeeds of genius and of talents.— No, Sir; I flat-
ter myſelt with no ſuch thing; the play is a "gy
bad one; I think that I have acquired a right to
talk freely of it, and all the world is of the ſame
opinion, Had it -been crowned with ſucceſs, I
ſhould have reſtored it to you; had it been but
indifferently received, I would have taken it on
my account; but ſuch a total diſaſter is more
than I can bear, and I muſt defire you to take the
load yourſelf, —W hat, my dear child] at my
time of day, in the decline of life to appear ridi-
culous | to forfeit in one day, a reputation built
upon forty years ſtudy and meditation, and which
is all the pleaſure and comfort of my life : Can
you have the cruelty to demand it? Have
you the barbarity to render me the victim of my
complaiſance ? You know with what reluctance
I conſente.—I know how much I am obliged to
you; but, my dear Celicour, you are young,
and have time enough to retrieve your character:
one
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tha's?
regard for you, made me conſent to every thing
5 exacted of me. What, is ſhe then in the
ſecret ?
but her indiſcretion hag—Hola, there! tell my
AN al
one brilliant ſucceſs will obliterate this misfor-
tune for ever. In the name of freindſhip ſup-
port it with courage; I conjure you to it, with
tears I conjure you:
but I am too fenſible of the conſequences of a
bad ſetting out to expoſe myſelf to the prejudices .
I conſent to your defires;
it always leaves behind, againſt another under-
taking of the like nature. I therefore renounce
the ſtage, poetry, aud belles lettre. — Lou are in
the tight; there are, for one of your age, ſo
many other objects worthy of your ambition.—
I have hut one object, Sir, and that is in your
power to beſtow.— Name it; there is nothing
that I would not do to ſerve you. What is it you
require? Your niece's hand.—W hat, Aga-
Yes, I adore her; tis ſhe, that out of
Yes, Sir, ſhe is.
Ah, no doubt,
niece I want to ſpeak with her, Sir, be under
no uneaſineſs, Agatha is lively, but far from be-
ing indiſcreet.— Oh! I am all in a tremble.
So Agatha, you are acquainted then, I find, with
all that has - paſſed, and the misfortune that has
happened. Yes, uncle.—And have you ever en-
truſted this fatal ſecret to any one ?—To no crea-
ture in the world. —May I depend upon it?
*Tis-true, upon my honour.—Well then, my
dear children, let us bury it in eternal ſilence. I
beg it of you, as I would for my life. Agatha,
Celicour is in love with you; out of friendſhip
for me, he renounces the theatre and the muſes ;
and I owe him your hand as a recompence for ſo
great a ſacrifice. O] I am over-payed, cried
Celicour, ſeizing her dear hand ! So then, ſaid
Agatha ſmiling, I am doomed to marry an unhap-
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more importance than their fortunes. Young
BS: a
py author ; but it ſhall be my ſtudy to make him
forget his misfortune. The worſt that can hap-
pen is, to deny him wit, and how many honeſt
people do without it! And now, my dear uncle,
ſince Celicour renounces the fame of being a poet,
would it not be as well for you, to renounce that
of being a Connoiſſeur? You will enjoy much
more peace and quiet. Agatha was interrupted
by the haſty intruſion of Clement, an old truſty
valet-de-chambre of Fintac's. Ah, Sir, ſaid he,
almoſt out of breath, your friends, your very
. good friends !—W hy, what of them, Clement?
Oh, Sir, I was in the pit where they fat. —l
know very well they were in the pit; they went
there on purpoſe to applaud. Applaud! O
the traitors! Had you but ſeen with what fury
they fell apon the young man to tear him to
pieces! I muſt defire to be diſmiſſed, if ever
you ſuffer thoſe wretches to darken your doors.
Oh, infamous! exclaimed Fintac. Tis done;
the illuſion is vaniſhed; I'll burn my books, and
break off all commerce with the literati. No,
keep your books for your amuſement, ſaid Aga-
tha, embracing her uncle; and as for men of
letters, have none but real friends, and you
will find ſuch as are worthy of every honeſt man's
eſteem. 8
The SCHOOL for FATHERS.
HE misfortune of a father, whoſe chief
| occupation lies in amaſling riches for his
children, is that he cannot himſelf give a watch-
ful eye over their education; a thing of much
Ti-
129
Timantes, called Mr. de Volny, was endowed
by nature with an amiable figure, an eaſy tem-
per, and good heart; but thanks to the great
care of an over-fond mother, theſe happy con-
ſtitutional parts were ſoon ſpoiPd ; and the fineft
boy at fix years old, was at fifteen a complete
coxcomb. He was inſtructed in every frivolous
amuſement, and in not one ſingle uſeful talent.
It was mighty well for one like his father, who
was obliged to mind his buſineſs, in order to en-
rich himſelf ; but he who found his fortune rea-
dy made, ought to have no other ſtudy but how
to enjoy it like a gentleman. . It had been laid
down to him as a maxim, never to keep compa-
ny with his equals; therefore he never frequent-
ed any but young people of higher birth, who
forgave his being richer than them, on condition
that he ſhould pay for their extravagances, as
well as for hisown. His father, indeed, had not
the complaiſance to furniſh a fund for his libera-
lities; but his mother did honour to them all.
She was not ignorant that, before he was twenty,
he had, according to the polite cuſtom, a retired
houſe and a pretty miſtreſs: one muſt over-look
ſome little foibles; it was fit the young man
ſhould be diverted; ſhe only required that he
would make a kind of myſtery of it, leſt Ti-
mantes, his father, who knew nothing of the
genteel world, ſhould take it in his head to find
fault with his ſon's amuſements. If now and
then, in the intervals from buſineſs, the father
expreſſed his uneaſineſs at his wild courſe of life,
the mother was always ready with an excuſe, and
was never at a loſs for a civil untruth. Ti-
mantes, had indeed the ſatisfaction of hearing
that no-body at the laſt ball had made a better
figure than his ſon. A very great comfort truly,
thought the good man, that I have ſpent ſo much
G 5 money
L000"
money to make a fine dancer! he could not con-
ceive why this lord-like ſon of his muſt have his
lackeys fo -bedizen'd, and why ſuch a brilliant
cquipage! but Madam repreſented it to be quite
neceſſary; for, to be conſidered in the world,
you mult appear on a certain footing. If he
aſked why his ſon kept ſuch odd hours, as to ſtay
out til] two or three in the morning? he was an-
ſwered, that the ladies of faſhion never went to
bed ſooner. He did not at all reliſh theſe reaſons,
buty for peace ſake, he was obliged to put up
with them, In the mean time, Volny plunged
headlong into all the follies of youth; when love
looked down with pity on him, and undertook to
bring him back to virtue.
His ſiſter Lucia, who had not yet left the con-
vent, where ſhe received her education, had the
happineſs of having there a moſt agreeable com-
panion, Angelica had lately loſt her mother,
and being too young to manage her father's houſ-
hold affairs, obtained his leave to retire into 4
convent, till he thought proper to diſpoſe of her.
The conformity of age and condition, but much
more that of their characters, ſoon joined theſe
lovely ladies in the ſtricteſt union. Lucia, in
wiping the falling tears from her friend's eyes,
ſeemed ſo ſenſible of her loſs, that Angelica
gave a free looſe to the effuſion of her grief.
I have loſt, ſaid ſhe, a mother, ſuch a mother,
as was perhaps not to be equalled. As ſoon as
knew what reaſon was, I ſaw nothing in her but
a friend, an intimate friend, which had it not
been for her virtues, and my own heart, that
put me conſtantly in mind of my own duty and
reſpect, her familiarity would have made me
forget them. It was always under the maſk of 2
pleaſing amuſement that ſhe diſguiſed her inſtruc-
tions;
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tions; and what inſtructions! thoſe of wiſdom's
ſelf. With what colours ſhe painted to my un-
experienced eyes the world in which I was to
live ! what an alluring charm did ſhe not beſtow
on a modeſt, virtuous behaviour, of which ſhe
was a living picture]! by her enchanting pencil,
all the virtues ſhe drew became graces. Thus
did this amiable daughter diſcourſe of her mo-
ther, mixing the —. moving regrets with the
moſt tender praiſes; but her mind and perfecti-
ons gave ſtill a worthier praiſe to the divine lady
who had formed them. If ſome of the young
people about her, who were not in ſuch at-
fluent circumſtances, ſtood in need of certain
little ornaments, Angelica took delight in de-
priving herſelf of them, for ſuch as could
not purchaſe them. Her only difficulty was
how to make it app2ar that thoſe trifles laid
them under no obligation; for her inward ſatis-
faction was merely to oblige. Don't you think
as I do, my dear Lucia? Much wealthier than
our companions, this inequality humbles me;
and I could almoſt bluſh for fortune, who ſo in-
diſcriminately ſcatters har favours. If any thing
can compenſate the unfortunate, it is that they
are loved and pitied; inſtead of which, our con-
dition in life raiſes envy, and we are much fa-
voured if we are not hated; wherefore, it is
very neceſſary to endeavour to make them for-
get, by our goodneſs and meek behaviour, the
dangerous advantage we have over them.
Lucia, enchanted with Angelica, would fain,
if poſſible, be tied to her by every connexion.
Ah! my dear friend, ſaid ſhe one day, who
knows but we are on the brink of being ſeparated
from one another for ever: the very thought
diſtratts me ! but I have one in my head, which,
if you ſhould approve of , . . . you muſt ſee my
bro-
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brother; there can be no objection to his parts
or figure. He is very young, replied Angelica,
and by what I have been told, very wild for one
of his age; I am-very much afraid that your
mother has been too fond of him.
Volny came to ſee his ſiſter, and ſhe perſuad-
ed her friend to accompany. her to the grate. Ah,
ſiſter ! cried out the young fop, what charms !
how can one be ſo handſome ? what features,
what ſhape, what eyes! in a convent, madam !
no, 'tis a robbery, *tis treaſon to the world. I
knew very well, brother, ſaid Lucia, that you
would be enraptured when you ſaw her; but
what are her outward beauties compared to thoſe
of her mind? My dear ſiſter, ſhe has the majeſ-
tic look of the marchioneſs. of Alcina, whom I
had laſt night the honour of handing out from
the opera; they talk of the ſhape and air of. the
counteſs of Flavel, with whom I am to paſs this
evening, but is there any compariſon to be made
between them and thoſe of this charming lady?
You know that I am intimately acquainted with
young madam le Blanc, who is now the reigning
toaſt ; but PI] lay a hurdred to one that ſhe will
be quite eclipſed whenever your amiable friend
appears in the world. "Frog BR
Whilſt Volny was thus launching forth, An-
gelica caſt upon him a ſcornful look. I ſuppoſe,
fir, ſaid ſhe, that you know very well that ſuch
praiſes are inſults; and learn from me, fir, that
the firſt ſentiment that a virtuous woman ought
to inſpire, is that of making you cautious how
you ſay any thing that may offend her modeſty;
and that it is not decent to beſtow ſuch unfounded
compliments, but on ſuch as have no modeſty at
all. There are ſome maments of . ſurprize and
admiration, replied Volny,';{omewhat daſh'd,
x | W
— —
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which we are not always maſter of reſtraining
if accompanied with any regard and reſpect they
will never break out indecently. But I fin] I give
my friend uneaſineſs in ſhewing my diſlike to ſuch
a declaration; but I ſhall endeavour to ſooth her,
and leave you at your liberty; for, whether I am
handſome or not, I ſet ſo little value on a gift
which is often the ſource of being made deſpica-
ble, that you have my full permiſſion to enlarge
on ſo fine a ſubject as much as you pleaſe; and
depend upon it, I ſhall not even have the vanity
to bluſh at any flattery you think fit to beſtow,
It is very plain, replied Volny, that one muſt
have been accuſtomed to know one's own per-
fections to talk of them with ſuch indifference.
For my part, I cannot rate beauty at ſo low a
price; but ſince you receive ſo unfavourably the
homage it demands, we muſt adore it in ſilence.
From this he turned the diſcourſe, and talked of
nothing but himſelf, his horſes, his companions,
and adventures, Lucia, whoſe eyes were fixed
on Angelica, perceived with grief, that her bro-
ther's behaviour did not plead in his behalf.
What a pity it is, ſaid Angelica, when Volny
was gone, what a great pity, to be already ſpoil-
ed at this time of day. But own, at the ſame
time, replied Lucia, that he is chatming.—Yes,
and very ridiculous, that you muſt own, my dear
friend, —Well, well he may amend. I am a-
fraid not; for it is very difficult to get the better
of a habit you take delight in.—But he has ſeen
you, he muſt of courſe be in love, and if he
loves you, he will ſoon be virtuous and wiſe,
Volny took it for, granted that he had made X
conqueſt, My foſter is in the right, ſaid he, her
companion is very beautiful, a little odd in her no-
tions, but that even adds a reliſh to her charms,
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She wants, *2deed, high birth, and my mother
will never conſent to make an alliance but with
people of quality. Nevertheleſs, ÞIl continue
. to viſit her; there is nothing like her in the world,
and it will be at leaſt an amuſement, Hereturn'd
then to ſee his fiſter, and with her he ſaw Ange-
_ lica. Ah, my dear ſiſter, ſaid he, what have I
done, that you ſhould diſturb my peace of mind ?
I enjoyed at eaſe my pleaſures before I ſaw your
lovely dangerous friend! ah, madam } how inſi-
pid is now the world, and how cold its amuſe-
ments, for a heart wholly devoted to you! who
could ever have imagined that I ſhould be jea-
lous of my fiſter ? I who am introduced into all
the moſt brilliant ſocieties, ſolicited to partake of
diverſions of every kind, who could have thought
it? but fo it is; I would renounce the world to
be in her happy ſituation ; ſhe is conſtantly with
you, and tells you conſtantly how much ſhe loves
you, and ſhe hears you profeſs for her a recipro-
cal inclination,---[t is not without reaſon, my
dear brother, that you envy my happineſs ; but
it is in your power ſtil] to be more worthy of be-
ing envied.---Oh heavens, what do I hear? I
fear I have ſaid too much. No, my dear Lucia,
interrupted Angelica, where deſigns are honour-
able, there needs no diſſimulation. Your ſiſter,
ſir, would be much pleaſed if fate had deſtined
us for one another, and I am much obliged to
her for her kind wiſhes. I tell you more, I fo
far flatter myſelf as to have the vanity to ima-
gine, that I could make an honeſt man happy ;
nor can I have any objection, but your manner
of life, to liſten to the virtuous propoſal of giv-
ing you my hand; the ſureſt way, if it is agree-
able to you to accept of it, is to reſemble your
ſiſter---If that be all, I am happy, for every body
Batters me that we are vaſtly alike,--- They flatter
8 you
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you indeed; but I that hate flattery, aſſure you,
that you have not the leaſt likeneſs of your ſiſter.
My dear Lucia is not proud of her perfections,
either of the beauties of her mind or perſon.——
O madam, I proteſt that nobody ſets upon him-
ſelf leſs value than I do, and if I appear above
the common run, it is without my knowledge —
But nothing (if you can carry on the ſimilitude)
is more innocent; no airs, no caprices; ſhe is
true nature without diſguiſe; fearch into her
whole conduct, and ſee if in her language or
behaviour you can point out any thing ſtudied or
affected. — That is me again; for to ſhun affecta-
tion, I often even neglect the advantages that na-
ture has given; I am told of it every day. Lu-
cia has no pretenſions of her own, wholly. occu-
pied to ſet her companions in the faireft light, ſhe
is herſelf the only one ſhe forgets. —W hy there
I am; for whatſoever advantages I am born with,
am I ever heard to boaſt of them, and value my-
ſelf the more? all own that J excel in every gen-
tee] perfection. I am the only one that never
mentions it. If you love myMiſter for her mo-
deſty and ſimplicity, I am ſure you will not diſ-
like me; for they are my favourite virtues, I
with they may be ſo for your ſake, replied
Angelica; but if you think of pleaſing me, I
would adviſe you to examine yourſelt a little
NEATET. |
You have given him a lefſon, ſaid Lucia,
which he never will forget. No: for he has
forgot it already. Angelica was in the right.
All that Volny retained of their interview was,
that he looked upon it as certain, that ſhe liked
him vaſtly, and would be glad to be his wife.
With how much naivety, ſaid he, ſhe as good
as confeſſed it; ſuch candour adorns: beauty |
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whether thro? vanity or love, he was really ftruck
with her perfections; but that riſing ſentiment,
if he did feel it, did not alter in the leaft his bad
cuſtoms. Intoxicated with ftattery, agreeably
| deceived by a young enchantreſs, he did not re-
| flect how dearly he paid for her officiouſneſs to
| pleaſe, and his vanity, ſootlied with every plea-
ſure, ſunk ſmiling down into a negligent fupine-
neſs. Such voluptuous indolence is the moſt dan-
gerous ſituation that a young man can fall into.
Drag him out of it, and all is painful; the ſlight-
eſt duties become burthenſome, and the ſmalleſt
decorums fatiguing and dull. He has no joy but
in that ſtate of indolence and treedom, where all
obey and none conſtrain. a
Sometimes, indeed, Angelica came into his
thoughts, but only like a dream. To be ſure ſhe
is charming, faid he, but what fhould I do with
her? There is nothing ſo troubleſome as a virtu-
ous and faithful wife to a huſband who is neither
one nor t'other. My father too would be for
enjoining me to be conſtant to my ſpouſe. What
a mixture it would be ! love, jealouſy, reproaches,
tears, oh! all that frightens me; but yet I muſt.
fee her again.
Lucia for this time came alone. Well, Gſter,
what does ſhe think of me?—Too much to your
advantage could have ſwore it.—That is in
regard to your perſon. But that advantage, ſhe
ſays, makes you neglect many qualities, a thou-
ſand times more eſtimable, which you would
want without it.—Your Angelica moralizes; it
is a great pity, Tell her that there is nothing in
life ſo dull, and that ſuch ſweet lips as hers were
never formed to talk reaſon. It is not her, re-
plied Lucia, that I would fain correct, it is you,
— Of what would you correct me? Of w—_
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pleaſure, and all that inſpire it |—Pleaſure, do
you ſay? can there be a purer one than that of
poſſeſſing the heart of a beauteous and virtuous
woman, to love her and be loved? I believe you
to be of a tender diſpoſition, and I know that
Angelica has ſenſibility; every thing that cone
cerns her is dear to me. But ſhe is ſo difficult
to pleaſe, what would you have? — Better morals.
Morals! at my age! but who has told her
that mine are bad?—I do no not know, but it is
certain, ſhe has a great prejudice againſt you,
which gives me much uneaſineſs.— I warrant you
I ſhall diſſipate it. Bring her with you, do you
mind me, fiſter, the next time. Let men be
ever ſo diſcreet, ſaid he, as he was going away,
women can never hold their tongues; for all the
cautious care I take to hide my amours, the ſe-
cret ſtill is divulged. But what harm can that do
me? If Angelica wants a huſband that never had
an affair, ſhe muſt marry a driveler or a child,
Am I obliged to be conſtant to a woman before
ſhe is mine? I ſhall convince her how ridiculous
it is to expect it. He returned to the convent.
Angelica appeared, and, he was much humbled
and confounded, when he heard her deſcant with
that ſuperior eloquence, which reaſon and virtue
inſpire, to expoſe the ſhame and danger of vice,
Can you think, ſir, ſaid ſhe, after ſhe had let
him run on, flighting as much as he thought fit,
the very principles of morality; can you think, I
lay, without confuſion, of the union of a chaſte:
and pure ſoul with one that is profaned and vili-
hed by the greateſt of paſſions? What value
would you ſet upon a heart replete with ſuch
ces as you glory in? Do you think that we are
leſs ſenſible than you of the charms of virtue,
modeſty, * and innocence? You diſpenſe with
thoſe
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thofe laws you impoſe upon us; but nature and
reafon are more equitable than you. - For my
part, I do not believe that a man dares preſume to
love me, whilſt he is taken up by every inordi-
nate deſire, and if he has the misfortune to be
unworthy of me before our acquaintance, it is by
his ſtudy to wipe off the ſtain, that I muſt judge
whether I ought to forget it. Volny wanted to
perſuade her, that in changing his ſtate, he ſhould
alter his conduct; that love, virtue, and beauty
bad ſuperior rights, and that all frivolous and
temporary amuſements, that had occupied an in-
dolent, unwary temper, muſt diſappear at ſight
of an object, created to infpire conſtancy and
adoration, And have you any faith, ſaid ſhe, in
theſe ſudden revolutions? Do you know that they
always ſuppoſe a generous, delicate, ahd a no-
ble Hind? And that there are few ſuch to be
found? And really it is giving but little hopes
of ſo great a change, when, plunged in the ſor-
did gulf of vice, you wait for the moment to
become virtuous all at once,
Volny, ſurpriſed and abaſhed at the gravity of
this diſcourſe, anſwered, that he flattered him-
ſelf ſhe did not mean any perſonal application.
Excuſe me, ſaid Angelica, I have heard a great
deal ſaid of you; beſides, I know very well what
manner of life you modiſh young gentlemen are
apt to lead. You are rich and unconſtrained ;
ſo, without a miracle, you muſt be more diſor-
derly than others. But, however, this opinion
of mine ſhould not diſcourage you. You fancy
| you. love me, I wiſh it may be ſo; for it will,
Perhaps, make you form the reſolution, and give
you power to become eſtimable. You have be-
fore your eyes an excellent example in your fa-
ther, who, without thaſe embelliſhments —
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make parade of, has acquired the higheſt reputa-
tion, by talents beneficial to his country, and to
himſelt, He is what I call a man to be admired ;
and when you prove yourſelf worthy of him, I
ſhall be proud to be worthy of you.
This diſcourſe raiſed in Volny ſome ſerious re-
flections; but his friends came and diſpell'd them.
He was invited to a delicious ſupper, and Fatme,
Doris, and Chloe were to be of the party. Joy
and petulance ſparkled on every ſide; and, if
Volny's heart did not conſent, his ſenſes had at
leaſt their full ſhare, You may very well ima-
gine, that in this decent circle, à ſerious attach-
ment was looked upon as the height of folly.
Tt is very well when fortune is in view to ſubmit
to it. But a young man born to riches | can there
be one: ſo very ſtupid or ſo very mad, as to give
himſelf a yoke? If he does not love the woman
he marries, it is a load he wantonly charges him-
telf with; and if he loves her, what a dull me-
thod of pleaſing muſt that of a huſband be? Is _
there any thing fo very ridiculous in the world as
a huſband-lover? And if it ſhould ſucceed, what
is the conſequence? To be fond of one another
for ſix months, and be quite indifferent all their
life after, My dear Velen if you think of mar-
riage, you are an undone man. Should you have
a fancy for a virtuous ſweet-heart, wait till ano-
ther weds her; ſhe'll come round at laſt, and you
may be happy in your turn. Could you ſuppoſe
that this unthinking youth believed theſe reflec
tions. very reaſonable? But however, ſaid he,
what an aſcendant muſt virtue and beauty aſ-
ſume over us, when they can make us forget the
charms of eaſe and the value of one's liberty?
He would willingly not have returned to Ange-
licaz but he could not bear with himſelf, if he
paſſed
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pts few days without ſeeing her. Neverthe-
leſs, ſuch are the attraQtions of debauchery, that
whilſt he left this charming maid, even when he
was penetrated-and raviſhed with her underſtand.
ing and beauty, eyen then would he plunge. into
all thoſe follies, of which ſhe had juſt made him
aſhamed. £76.14
Is it poſſible, that the death of a mother ſhould
prove her fon's greateſt happineſs? Volny, in lo-
{ing his, knew that the ſource, which ſupplied his
extravagancies muſt ceaſe to flow. Butit did
raiſe in him the leaſt thought of his renouncing
them. His oftly anxiety. was to find ways and
means of furniſhing what he had no longer any
funds to ſupport. The only ſon of a rich father,
who conſequently muſt be rich in” his turn, let
him be ever ſuch a ſpendthrift, finds always at
command the pernicious facility of anticipating on
his fortune. 'Timantes, now on the decline of life,
would fain have had a reſpite from buſineſs, and
engage his ſon, for his own fake, to ſhare with
him the fatigue, as the whole profit would be his.
Sir, ſaid Volny, to his father, I ſhould be quite
out of my element; I do not think I am born for
ſuch an employment. — Why, would you rather
chuſe to go into the army? I have not yet conſult-
ed my inclination on that head; nor do ſee any
reaſon why I ſhould conſider of it at all. Per-
haps you would rather make a figure at the bar ?
No, fir, I hate black gowns of all forts. —W hat
then would you be?—Why, my mother had in
view a place at court, which requires httle or no
attendance, and gives one a rank—Very well,
child, I ſhall think of it. An excellent ſcheme to
be ſure. Alas } I ſee, ſaid the good man to him-
_ ſelf, that my fon wants to lead a diſſolute, idle
life. But I will prevent it, if I can. A place at
court
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court that gives rank, and lays you under no man-
ner of conſtraint! no doubt but it is very com-
modious. Then why ſhould I ſtill toil under the
trouble of buſineſs? No: I will take my reſt, and
have no other occupation than, what perhaps I
undertake too late, to watch and dire& the con-
duct of my ſon, which affords me no proſpect at
preſent, but that of grief and vexation. For, who-
ever loves idleneſs, muſt love all the vices of
which ſhe is the mother.
But what was Timantes's affliction, when he
was convinced that his ſon, infatuated with pride,
and given up to the looſeſt pleaſures, had his miſ-
treſſes, his pimps, and his ſycophants; that he
gave grand entertainments, and gamed ſo deep, as
to run the riſk of being ruined! Ah! ſaid the
good man, it was my own fault; it was my duty
to endeavour to retrieve him. But by what means?
The habit is contracted; and vice has taken root;
how ſhall I eradicateit? If I offer at compulſion,
this incorffiderate youth would fly me; to refuſe”
paying his debts, is making him liable to be in-
ſulted, and I ſhould myſelf contribute to his ſname;
it is blaſting in his abandoned heart the remaining
buds of honour, which may, if properly cultur-
ed, ſprout forth, and flouriſh again. Confine him?
No, heaven be praiſed, he is not ſo bad as to give
"the law a power to deprive him of his natural
right of liberty. There are none but unnatural pa-
Tents that are more ſevere to their children than -
the laws. But, however, he is running head-long
to his ruin; how ſhall I ſnatch him from the pre-
cipice ? Let us, trace the ill up to the fountain's
head. It is my wealth that has made him giddy ;
had he been the ſon of one of middling fortune,
ke would, like many more, have been modeſt,
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prudent, and induſtrious. The remedy is obvious,
and my reſolution is fixed, |
Timantes began immediately to withdraw and
ſecure his effects, ſo as to have them ſafe and in-
dependent. Fxcept his eſtate of Volny, and his
houſe in town, his fortune was all contained in
his · port folio; and he had taken great care to ſet-
tle all matters with his correſpondents. Things
being thus contrived, he came home one day,
when his ſon and ſome friends were waiting for
him to dinner, with an air of dejection that ſur-
priſed them. One of the gueſts could not refrain
from enquiring what could be the cauſe of it.
You will ſoon know it, ſaid he; but pray let us
make haſte and dine, for my mind at preſent is ta-
ken up with things of the utmoſt conſequence to
me and mine. Dinner paſſed with very little con-
verſation, and as ſoon as over, Timantes took his
fon into his cloſet; Volny, ſaid he, I have very
bad news to tell you, but let us ſupport our miſ-
fortunes with courage. My deaf ſon, I am ruin-
ed. Half my fortune has been taken by the ene-
my; and half of the reſt embezzled by a falſe,
careleſs friend, that I confided in. The deſire I
had to make you rich tempted me to launch out
too much, which has been my ruin. Very hap-
pily I owe but little ; and when my affairs are ſet-
tledgrl ſuppoſe I may ſave from the wreck the eſ-
tate If Volny, which is worth about a thouſand
ayear. With that, and the little remains of my
fortune, we may ſubſiſt decently. It is a terrible
falling off; but you are young, and may find ways
to riſe again, I never made a wrong uſe of the
truſt my correſpondents repoſed in me, and I dare
ſay, my name will have credit ſtill in every part of
the world. But I am too old to begin again, it is
yours to repair the misfortunes of your father. I
began
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began buſineſs with ſmall encouragement, yet I ſuc»
ceeded. You ſet out with much greater advanta-
ges, and with probity, induſtry, and my fatherly
mſtruQtions, I do not in the leaſt doubt but that
you will ſurpaſs me in every reſpett. | 1
A . e traveller, who ſees a thunderbolt
fall almoſt upon his head, would not be near. ſo
much thunder- ſtruck as was Volny at his father's
diſcourſe, What! fir, ruined? undone without
any reſource ?—You are my ſon, the only reſource
I have left, and I have no hopes but what are
founded on you. Go and adviſe with yourſelf,
whilſt J put our affairs in ſuch order as is ſuitable
to our ſituation. | |
The news of his misfortune was ſoon the pub-
lic talk. The grand houſe in town was let; the
fine equipages were ſold ; a modeſt dwelling, a
few domeſtics, enough for what they wanted ; all
this proclaimed their ſad reverſe of fortune. It is
den to ſay that the number of Timantes's
friends diminiſhed every day. Thoſe of Volny
were concerned for his misfortune. How is this,
ſaid one, your father is, I hear, undone ?——lr is
too true. What a folly! then Iſuppoſe you don't
keep your little retired ſnug houſe Alas f no.
Jam ſorry for it, for I had laid it out to ſup with
you there to-morrow. Another accoſts him with,
Tell me how all this is come about? I am told
that your fortune is turned topſy-turvy,—lt is re-
duced to little or nothing. Thy father is the moſt
injudicious man in the world ; what the devil had
he to do in an affair of this kind? You know how
to ruin_yourſelf without his aid, I am quite af-
flicted, ſaid a third, I hear you have ſold the pretty
horſes.— I have indeed. —If I had known that you
was reſolved to part with them, I would have
bought them; but it is ſo like you, you never
think
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think of your friends when an occaſion offers
I aſſure you I was taken up with things of much
greater conſequence, —What, with your pretty
girl, I ſuppoſe, is it not ſo? You can't turniſh her
any longer; but for all that, let-me tell you, that
ſhe will always have a regard for you; for I know
ſhe loves you. Some, as they paſſed him, cried,
Adieu, Volny; and others took great care to ſhun
him.
As for his little miſtreſs, that he had enriched,
ſhe was ſo afflicted for his loſs, that ſhe could not
bear the thoughts of ſeeing him. She wrote to
him, that ſhe flattered herſelf, as he knew her
__ ſenſibility, that he would not aggravate, by
is preſence, the grief ſhe could ſcarcely bear in
his abſence. Then it was, pierced to the quick
with the cold indifference of his pretended friends,
and the baſe ingratitude of his kept miſtreſs, that
Volny found the veil removed from before his
eyes. Where have I been, ſaid he? What have I
done? What a life ſhould I have led? What re-
proaches do I not deſerve? How can I make a-
tonement for my follies? I will go and ſee my ſiſ-
ter; he durſt not ſay he would go and ſee Angelica,
Lucia was overwhelmed with grief, at the bad
news her father acquainted her with. It is not
for myſelf, ſhe ſaid, that I am concerned; Iam
very well here; for to live at eaſe, when retired
from the world, a very little ſuffices; but you,
my dear father, but my brother! It cannot
be helped, my dear child, I was not born in ſuch
affluence as you have ſeen me. If my ſon behaves
prudently, he will ſtill have enough; if he does
not, he will have too much. Lucia's affliction en-
creaſed at ſight of her brother. I have not power,
ſaid ſhe, to offer you any comfort; but I will call
to our aid Angelica, our prudent and tender friend.
—0Oh!
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— Oh! no, ſiſter, I have not deſerved that ſhe
ſhould take any intereſt in my concern. It was
when I ought to have ſacrificed my follies, that
I] ſhould have intitled myſelf to be worthy of her
pity and eſteem ; but now that all abandon me,
my repentance, whilſt it humbles me, can have no-
thing flattering for her. Thus ſaying, Angelica
came of her own accord, and with the moſt mov-
ing and compaſſionate air, aſſured him, how ſincere-
forry ſhe was for his loſs. It is a great misfortune
for your father, it is likewiſe ſo to you, dear ſiſter
but, perhaps, it may prove an advantage to. you.
It would be cruel to afflict you with reproaches,
when we ſhould endeavour to give you comfort.
But yoa may reap from the loſs of your riches .4
more precious benefit, than what thoſe riches
could beſtow. I made -an ill uſe of them, and
heaven chaſtiſes me for it; but my puniſhment is
ſurely too great, when it deprives me of the hopes
of poſſeſſing the charming object of my paſſion.
I was young, and I believe without this mortify-
ing leſſon, that time, love, and reaſon would have
got the better of my irregularities, and rendered
me leſs unworthy of your regard. I ſee you are
caſt down; it is not from preſumption now,
but from deſpondency, that you are to be preſer-
ved ; and what would have been dangerous to own
in your proſperity, is fit you ſhould know in your
adverſity. hether or not it was impoſlible for
me tothink ill of my friend's brother, or whether
I had that prepoſſeſſion in your favour, which
comes without reflection, I fancied I perceived in
you, in ſpite of all the errors and irregularities
of youth, an honeſt heart at bottom. Your paſt
follies have nothing diſgraceful in the eyes of the
world. The road to honour and virtue lies open
before you, and it is much eaſier for you now
Vor. II. H | than
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than ever to become what I would have you to
be. Your reverſe of fortune is a terrible ſtroke;
I do not pretend to make an encomium on me-
diocrity: it is very hard, very mortifying for
thoſe that have been rich, to be mo longer ſo;
but the misfortune is not without a remedy.
Conform yourſelf to your preſent fituation; rouſe
from that indolent lethargy, in which you were
ſunk; and let the love of buſineſs and application
ſucceed to idleneſs and diſſipation, Do your ut-
moſt, if you have any regard for me, to re-eſta-
bliſh that balance of fortune, which is generally
required in alliances. My father, who loves me,
will not ſuffer me to be unhappy; and I hope he
will leave me at liberty to wait for you. If, in
five years, your affairs are recovered, all obſtacles
will be removed. But if, with ceconomy, pru-
dence, and aſſiduity, you ſhould have the mis-
fortune not to ſucceed, all the wealth I ſhall then
deſire of you is, that you will have a regard for
rſelf. I am an only daughter; I have an in-
dependent fortune, I will throw myſelf at my fa-
ther's feet, I {hall obtain his permiſſion to make
an honeſt man amends for the injuſtice of fate.
Lucia could no longer refrain from embracing
Angelica. Ah! divine creature, ſhe cried, how
properly you are named ! none but a celeſtial
foul is capable of fo much virtue. Volny, full
of tenderneſs and reſpect, applied his lips to the
bar of the grate, which Angelica's hand had
touched. Ah! madam, ſaid he, you render my
misfortune dear to me, I wilt employ every
moment of my life in endeavouring to deſerve
ali this goodneſs. Permit me to come often and
learn of you that courage, virtue, and wiſdom,
which I ſtill want to be worthy of you.
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He retired, not as formerly, conceited and
proud of himſelf; but humble and confounded,
to have ſo little known the value of the moſt gene-
rous heart that heaven ever formed: he went into
his father's cloſet ; your fortune, ſaid he, is chan-
ged, but your ſon is ſtill more ſo; and I flatter
myſelf, you will ſome day thank heaven for the re-
' verſe that reſtores me to my duty and myſelf.
Vouchſafe, Sir, to be my guide and inſtructor.
Aſſiduous, docile, and laborious, I ſhall prove the
ſupport and comfort of your age; pray diſpoſe of
me as you think proper. The good old gentle-
man was tranſported at what he heard, but difſ-
guiſed his joy, and only praiſed his good reſolu-
tions. He then preſented his fon to his correſ-
pondents, and deſired their confidence and friend-
ſhip. for him. It is natural to pity, in their mis-
fortunes, thoſe we eſteem. Every body, moved
with the loſſes of this honeſt man, thought it an
honour to relieve and comfort him. 5
Volny, who re- aſſumed the name of Timantes,
had all the help poſſible to facilitate his begin-
nings. His kill, which at firſt was only his fa-
ther's, was very ſoon his own, and encreaſed his
credit every day. Thoſe moments of reſpite
from buſineſs, which his father obliged him to
take, were ſpent with Angelica, who attributing,
partly to herſelf, the ſurpriſing alteration in her
lover, enjoyed what ſhe had done with the dou-
ble fatisfaQtion of love and friendſhip. Lucia
never ceaſed admiring her, returning thanks for
her kindneſs. |
One day that her father came to ſee her, and
was ex atiating on the happineſs his ſon procured
him, Do you know, Sir, ſaid Lucia, to whom
we are obliged for his reform? To the moſt
beautiful and virtuous 3 that lives, to Alei-
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mon's only daughter, my friend and companion.
She then related to him all that had paſſed. Vou
move my very ſoul, ſaid he, I muſt be acquaint»
ed with this heavenly maid. Angelica came and
received 'Timantes's compliments, with a mo-
deſty that.added graces to her heauty, Sir, ſaid
ſhe, I am under my father's direction; I own it
he is ſo good as to let me diſpoſe of myſelf, and
if you are content with your ſon, I ſhould be
proud of being your daughter. My friendſhip
for Lucia inſpired me with the firſt deſire, my
reſpect for you has ſtrengthened it, and even your
misfortunes have only made me intereſt myſelf
the more in all that concerns your welfare; and
if the conduct of your ſon proves ſuch as you
awiſh, and as I deſire, whether he be wealthy or
not, the moſt honourable and moſt pleaſing uſe
that I can make of my fortune, will be to ſhare
it with him. At this diſcourſe, the old gentle-
man was very near letting his ſecret eſcape ; but
however, he had the prudence to conceal it ſtill.
J could not have thought, Madam, ſaid he, that
it was poſſible to encreaſe the deſire a father muſt
naturally have, to ſee his ſon virtuous and wiſe;
but you have added a new motive of concern to
that of parental love. I cannot tell how heaven
will-diſpoſe of us; but in every ſituation of life,
and to my laſt breath, you may depend upon my
eternal gratitude. nelly quieres]
When he returned. home, how comes it, ſaid
he to his ſon, that you never entruſted me with
the follies of your youth? I am not ſurpriſed you
did not, and 1 forgive you. But why have you
- concealed from me a virtuous inclination? Why
not own to your father your love for Angelica,
my old friend's daughter? Alas! ſaid young Ti-
mantes, have not you enough of your misfor-
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tunes, without my vexing you with my troubles?
But who has revealed my ſecret ?!——Your ſiſter,
Angelica herſelf; I am delighted, I am in love
with her, ſhe muſt be my daughter |
would be my fupreme happineſs; but ah!
how much is her fortune ſuperior to mine IN
matter, with time and patience, yours may come
up to it. Pay your addreſſes conſtantly to that
amiable perſon. —1 ſee, Sir, nobody elſe but her
and my ſiſter; and alt my ambition is to make
myſelf worthy of her and of you. 5
Timantes taſted the inexpreſſible ſatisfaction
of ſeeing every day the ſucceſs of the trial to
which he had put his ſon. He had the perſeve-
rance to-let him, for five years, apply himſelf in
repairing his fortune; and now, weaned from all:
public diverſions, his whole time was- ſpent be-
tween his compting-houſe and the grate of An-
geligg's convent. At length, Timantes finding
a good habit was contracted, and all the buds of
tormer follies blaſted to the very root; he paid
a viſit to Alcimon. My dear old friend, ſaid he,
I am informed that you have à moſt charming
daughter. I come to propoſe a- match for her
quite ſuitable, in reſpect to birth, and very ad-
vantageous in point of fortune: 1 am obliged to
you, replied Alcimon; but I muſt tell you before-
hand, I will have none but one of my own con-
dition, who will. not think it a diſnonour to call.
me father. I'won't have worked all my life to
give my daughter a huſband. that is-aſhamed. of
me. The man, reſumed: Timantes, that I am
to propoſe, is the very thing you want. He is
rich, well-behaved,. and, I am ſure, will always
honour and reſpect you.—Who is he?—That I
muſt not tel}, but at my own houſe, where I in-
vite you to come and. renew, glaſs in hand, a
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friendſhip of forty years. And pray grant me
the favour to bring Angelica with you; my daugh-
ter,, who is her convent companion, ſhall have
the honout to accompany her; and there you
both will- ſee the young man in queſtion,
And to lay you under no conſtraint, he ſhall
not know that I have ſpoke to you about him,
The day fixed Alcimon and Timantes went and
fetched Angelica and Lucia. They ſat down to
table, and ſent word to young Timantes, who
was buſy in the compting-houſe, that dinner
was ſerved. He knew nothing of the happineſs
that was preparing for him. He came into the
parlour, but what ſurprize ! Angelica and her
father! what muſt he believe, what could he
hope from this unexpected viſit? Why was it
made a myſtery to him? Every thing ſeemed to
torchode happineſs ; but that happineſs was not
probable. In this confuſion of thought, he al-
moſt loſt the uſe of his ſenſes; a faimmics in
kiShead dimm'd his eyes, his tongue faulter'd,
and a profound bow was the only expreſſion he
had to ſhew how much he was penetrated with
the honour his father and he received. Lucia,
who ſaw her brocher's embarraſs, ran into his
arms, .and gave him time to recover himſelf, He
embraced her tenderly; he thought he preſſed to
his boſom Angelica with his ſiſter; he could hard-
ty let her go. |
Old Timantes was ſo joyous at table, that eve-
ry body was ſurprized. Alcimon, though taken
up with the thoughts of the demand his friend
had made, and impatient to fee the young man
propoſed, yielded nevertheleſs to the pleaſure of
enjoying his old friend. He had even the good-
neſs to converſe with young Timantes. I fee,
ſaid he, that you are your father's rs
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application to buſineſs. It is the advantage of
our calling, that an honeſt and intelligent perſon,
with induſtry, can never fail of ſucceſs. Ah,
my good friend, replied Timantes, it requires
much time to raiſe a fortune, and very little to
ſquander it away. What a pity it is that I have
not mine to offer you? Inftead of propoſing a
ſtranger to efpouſe your daughter, I ſhould have
ſolicited that bleſſing for my fon. I would have
preferred him to any other, I affure you ſaid Al-
cimon,—Indeed |—Yes, indeed; I ſpeak ſin-
cerely ; but you know very well, that it is not
prudent to run the riſque of having a nume-
rous family, without a proper proviſion for
them. If that be all, faid Timantes, things are
not fo deſperate, but that they may be retrieved,
So faying, .he went out from table, and returned
immediately. Look you here, ſaid he, this is my
port folio; it is ſtill pretty well furniſhed. Per-
ceiving Alcimon's aſtoniſhment, know, my goed
friend, ſaid he, that the ſtory of my being ruin-,
ed was all a fiction. That young man there had
been ſpoil'd by the notion of being rich.
To amend him, I knew hof no ether method
| but to make and every body believe that
I was undone. This feint has ſucceeded to
my wiſh, and I am very ſure that he will never
fall again into his youthful errors. He may now
| be depended on. Yes, my dear ſon, I am as
rich as ever, nay richer, by the ſavings of five
years, beſides the fruits of your labour:.. It is
then for him, ſaid he, to his friend, that I aſk
Angelica in marriage. And if you- want any
other inducement to agree to the match, I tell
you, that he ſaw her in the convent, - where he
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love; and that it was that love, more than his
misfortunes, which has recalled him to his duties.
Whilſt Timantes' was only ſounding the diſpoſi-
tions of Angelica's father, ſhe, her friend, and
her lover, were wavering betwixt the emotions
of hope and fear; but at ſight of the happy port
folio, and that Timantes's ruin was but a fable,
and then the demand he made of Angelica for
his ſon, Lucia tranſported, and almoſt out of her-
ſelf, flew into her father's arms; young Ti-
mantes, ſtill more tranſported, fell at Alcimon's
knees; and, Angelica, pale and trembling, could
ſcarce believe her eyes. Alcimon took the young
man up in his arms, and embraced him. Then
turning to old Timantes, my good friend, faid he,
who ever has a mind to contrive an agreeable
ſurprize, muſt come and take a leſſon at your
ichool. You are indeed a good father, and your
ſon deſerves to be made happy.
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THE HAPPY DIVORCE.
A Moral TALE.
HE troubles and inconſtancies of moſt peo-
ple generally proceed from .their drawing
conſequences from wrong principles. "Too great
a prevention in favour of the pleaſures we have
in purſuit, is the cauſe of our neither taſting nor
enjoying them when once they are in our poſſeſſi-
on; the imagination diſappointed, and the heart
diſcontented, we carry our views to ſome other
object, which in a diflant perſpective charms us,
and on a nearer approach again, we find that we
are deceived. Thus from illuſion to illufion, we
paſs our life in running from one chimera to _
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ther. Tis the weakneſs of lively and delicate
ſenſation ;. even nature's ſelf ſeems deficient for
them; and from thence: proceeds the pride we
take in fixing the inclination of a pretty woman.
Lucilia,. when in the convent, had pictured to
her mind the charms of love, and-the delights of
matrimony in all: the gay colours of the imagi-
nation of a lady juſt turned of fifteen, with all
the blue on. the plum, untouched, unſullied.
She, as yet, knew nothing of. the world. but
what. ſhe had read in thoſe ingenious fictions,
which may be called the romance of human kind.
What ſo eaſy for. an author as to give love and
Hymen all the charms his- imagination ſuggeſts.
T was in that light that Lucilia, abiding by their
deſcriptions, looked upon lovers and hufbands, -
juſt as they are repreſented. in novels and fables.
Always loving,. always lovely, ſaying the ſweet-
eſt things, and whoſe only ſtudy was, how to
pleaſe either by new regards, or varied enter-
tainments. 8 |
Such were Lucilia's notions when ſhe was ta-
ken from the convent to be married to the mar-
quis of Liſiere. His perſon noble, graceful and
intereſting ſpoke in his favour, and his firſt in-
terviews with Lucilia baniſned her irreſolutions.
She did not as yet perceive that ardour of paſſion
which ſhe expected; but ſhe was modeſt enough
to think that ſhe had not all:the perfections requi-
ſite to inflame him at firſt ſight. Love ſets out
gently, to be enabled to run the race with more
ſtrength and ſwiftneſs. However, the marriage
was conſummated; and ſtill the marquis's incli-
nation was not as yet become a violent paſſion.
Solid reaſon and ſound morals were the baſis of
Liſiere's character. When he married ſo young.
a perſon, his deſign was, in order to make her
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happy, to endeavour firſt of all to gain her friend-
ſhip ; very ſure that a man of ſtrict honour may
eaſily guide a woman of good principles, if once
he gains her confidence and good opinion. For
any huſband that pretends to exert more autho-
rity than he ought, only provokes his wife to de-
ceive him, and authorizes her averſion. To
proceed, therefore, on the plan which he had
laid down, it was eſſential not to overact the lo-
ver: for paſſion knows no bounds; He had con-
ſulted his heart before he engaged it, to find
out what degree of inclination he had for Lucilia;
fully reſolved never to marry where he was deſ-
perately in love. So that Lucilia found in her
huſband nothing but a chearful, tender friend-
ſip, an attentive complaiſance that never alter-
ed that pure and tranquil pleaſure: in ſhort,
that reaſonable love, which never has either the
Hot or the cold fit. She had flattered herſelf at
firſt that it was to be a ſucceſſion of tranſports,
raptures, admiration, intoxication, and all that;
the was diſappointed; Liſiere's even temper was
always the ſame. |
Is it not very odd? thought ſhe; I am young,
they ſay that I am handſome, and yet my huſband
has no love for me! T am his wife; that's title
enough to be neglected. But why ſhould I let
him remain in this cold ſecurity ? He cannot
long for what he already poſſeſſes without any
inquietude. I muſt, to make him love, make him
jealous. How very unjuſt are moſt men! they
muſt be plagued in order to be pleaſed, Be faith-
ful, loving, obliging, they are indifferent, and
we are negletted, That ſameneſs of bliſs is to
them dull and infipid; a little coquettry and ca-
price awakes them from their lethargy. They
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the trouble it coſts to obtain. Liſiere, leſs ſure
of being loved, would be infinitely more in love.
I have followers enough to make him uneaſy, if
he be but capable of jealouſy.
Having thus ſettled this fine ſcheme, Lucilia
began to act her part. Diſſimulation, affectation,
all that coquettry has in ſtore was exerted ; eve-
ry thing was myſterious in her conduct. She
made new acquaintances, and viſited where her
huſband never did. This is what I foreſaw, ſaid
Liſiere, my wife is like other wives. We have
been married not ſix months, and ſhe is already
ſick of matrimony ! what a fine ſituation I ſhould
be in, had I been paſſionately in love with her!
Happily for me, the eſteem and inclination I
have for her, do not deprive me of my judgment.
Let us make a right uſe of it then; diſſemble,
conquer myſelf, and only employ fair means, good
nature and good uſage; that does not indeed al-
ways meet with ſucceſs, but complainings, re-
proaches and conſtraint will ſucceed much leſs.
"This great tranquillity and moderation of the mar-
quis, put Luciha out of all patience. Alas! faid
the, I find, let me do what I can, he never will
be fond of me. He is one of thoſe cold inanimate
beings, that nothing can move, nor intereſt ;
and ſo I am condemr'd to paſs my life with a
block of marble, that neither loves nor hates. O
love! thou delight of feeling ſouls! thou charm
of tender hearts! thou who raiſeſt us above the
ſkies on thy glowing wings! where are thoſe
flaming darts with which thou pierceſt happy
lovers? Where thoſe raviſhing deſires, thoſe de-
lightful tranſports that they inſpire by turns?
where are they? continued ſhe: Why in a free
and independent paſſion, in the union of two
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hearts, that give themſelves with their'own ac-
cord to each other, Why ſhould I expect the mar-
quis to be in love with me? W hat ſacrifices have
I made him? By what efforts, by what heroic
ſentiments, have I ſtirred up a ſenſibility in his
heart ? Where was the merit to have obeyed, in
accepting a huſband young, handſome, and rich,
which was choſen for me without my conſent ?
What has love to do in a marriage that is only
ſuitable? Nevertheleſs, this is the tate of a young
perſon of ſixteen, on whom, I may ſay, with-
out vanity, that nature has beſtowed a — to
pleaſe; and what is more, a heart to love. For,
in ſhort, it would be affected to pretend to be ig-
norant of either the one or the other. And then,
at the age of ſixteen, to be condemned to pine
away in cold indifference, and paſs over without
any comfort or joy, at leaſt twenty years, that
might have been ſpent in a ſucceſſion of plea-
ſures; I ſay at leaſt twenty years, for ſurely one
may be thought not burthenſome to the world be-
fore turned of forty. Cruel parents! was it for
you then that I was married? You have choſe
me an honeſt man for my huſband ; a fine pre-
ſent truly! ſo thus I am to be fatigued, and fa-
tigued all my life with an honeſt man! indeed
my caſe is much to be pitied.
Diſcontent gained upon her, and bad humour
of courſe; and Liſiere was ready to conceive
that ſhe had an averſion for him. His friends be-
came diſagreeable, and their viſits importunate.
She received them with a coolneſs, which was
next to ſaying, I don't defire to ſee you again.
The marquis could no longer put up with her
behaviour. Madam, ſaid he, the intention of
marriage is to make each other happy. Tis ver
plain that we are not ſo, and *tis uſeleſs to affe
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a conſtancy that one is weary of. Our fortunes
enable us to live ſeparate, and to reſume that li-
berty of which we imprudently made a mutual
ſacrifice. Live by yourſelf, as I intend to live by
mine; I only deſire of you, in reſpect to me,
the decency and the regard, which you owe to
yourſelf. *Tis mighty well, Sir, anſwered Lu-
cilia, with an air of diſdainful vexation. Every
thing was immediately ſettled accordingly ; Ma-
dam had her ſeparate apartment, her equipage,
her table, her ſervants; in a word, her ewn.hou-
thold. | |
Lucilia's rendezvous ſoon became the -moſt
brilliant in Paris. Her ſociety was ſought for by.
all the pretty ladies and fine gentlemen, But
Lucilia ſtill wanted a ſomebody; the difficulty
was, how to make her take the firſt ſtep ; the
reſt would follow of courſe. - However, ſhe en-
joy'd the homage of a ſplendid circle, and her
heart, unreſolved as yet, ſeemed. to ſuſpend its
choice only to render it more flattering. At laſt
it was gueſſed who was to be the happy man;
for at count Blamze's approach every competitor
lowered his tone. He was the very man with
whom a young lady ought to be moſt on her guard;
for it was an affair decided, that nobody could re-
ſilt him, therefore nobody attempted to do it. He
was exceſſive handſome, with a noble grace ful
air; ſpoke ſeldom, but well. When he talked of
little common idle things, he made them intereſt-
ing by the ſweetneſs of his voice, and his man-
ner of delivery. One could not call Blamze a
fop, there was ſo much dignity in his foppery. A
modeſt pride form'd his character. He decided
with politeneſs and great preciſion; he liſtened
to contradiction with good nature, and only an-
ſwered with a ſmile ; and if he was preſſed to — ö
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plain himſelf, he ſmiled again, remained filent,
or only repeated what he had faid before, He
never diſputed the opinions of others, nor would
give any ſatisfaction for his own: in ſhort, it was
the moſt. condeſcending politeneſs, and the moſt
peremptory 'preſumption that ever were ſeen
united in a young man of quality. "07
His aſſurance had ſomewhat impoſing that
conftituted him the oracle of taſte, and the le-
giſlator of the mode. Nobody was ſure of hav-
ing a good fancy in the choice of the colour and
trimming of their cloaths, or the varniſh of
their equipages, without a nod of Blamze's ap-
probation, Tt is mighty well, 'tis very pretty,
were words from his mouth of precious ſignifica-
tion, as his ſilence was paſſing a mortifying ſen-
tence. The deſpotiſm of his opinion extended
even to beauty, wit and talents. If in the circle
of ladies he honoured any one with a particular
attention, ſhe grew a toaſt from that inſtant.
Blamzẽ's reputation had reached Lucilia's houſe
before he made his appearance there; and the
great deference his rivals ſhewed for him doubled
the eſteem ſhe had conceived. She was ſtruck
with his comelineſs, and ſtill more ſurprized at
his modeſty. He preſented himſelf with the
moſt reſpectful air, and took the loweſt place;
but ſoon the regards of the whole company were
directed to him. His dreſs was a model of taſte,
all the young people about him ſtudied it with
the minuteſt attention. His Bruſſels, his em-
broidery, his head-dreſs, every thing was ſcruti-
niſed; they took memorandums where his mil-
liners and trades-folks were to be found. Is it
not very odd, ſaid they, that no-body has ſuch
colours and ſuch patterns as he! BlamzE modeſt-
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ly owned that it did require ſome little care. In-
Juſtry, ſaid he, is arrived to its higheſt pitch; it
only wants to be guided and enlightened. So fay-
ing, he took a pinch of ſnuft. The box was a new
object of curioſity ; *twas the work of a young ar-
tiſt that Blamze had made known to the world.
The price of every thing was inquired of; but
-he ſmiling; ſaid, that he never knew the price
of any thing. The ladies whiſpered to one ano-
ther the name of the perſon where particulars
might be had. & "a
I am quite aſhamed, Madam, faid Blamzé to
Lucilia, that theſe trifles take up an attention
which an object ſo much more intereſting ought
to engroſs. Excuſe me if I have anſwered the
frivolous queſtions of theſe giddy young folks.;
never did complaifance coſt me dearer. I hope,
added he, in a low voice, that you will be ſo good
as to give me leave to make myſelf amends in
waiting on you when leſs taken up. I ſhall be
glad to ſee you at any time, anſwered Lucilia with
a bluſh ; ſo what with her bluſhing, and Blamze's
bowing with a gracious fmile as he retired, the
company judged that an intrigue was ſettled, and
would ſoon come to a concluſion, Lucilia, who
did not know the conſequence of words whiſper-
ed in her ear by a gentleman, and who was not
| conſcious of having given a rendezvous, hardly
took notice of the inſinuating looks of the la-
dies, nor of ſome little jokes that eſcaped the men.
Inſenſibly ſhe grew thoughtful, and remained fo _
all the evening. Blamze was ſtill the ſubje& of
their converſation: every body ſpoke well of him ;
his very rivals mentioned him with eſteem, and
even Lucilia's rivals with complaiſance. 'To be
ſure nobody was more polite, gallant, reſpectful,
and all that; for of twenty ladies with ——
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had reaſon to be ſatisfied, not one of them ever
complained of bim. At theſe words, Lucilia
.rouſed from her ſupineneſs, and nothing eſcaped
her obſervation. Twenty ladies ! ſaid ſhe to her-
ſelf, that ſurely is exaggerated ! - But yet why be
| ſurpriſed! Is he not in ſearch of one that isworthy
to fix him, and capable of fixing herſelf?
Next day it was hoped that he would come be-
fore the crowd of viſiters; he is expected; but no
appearance of him; uneaſineſs of courſe; what can
be the meaning ? we begin to loſe patience, a
note is brought in, *tis read, and we are in. good
Bumour. again. He was in the greateſt anguiſh _
- imaginable to be deprived of the moments which
would have been the happieſt of his life. Some
importunate viſiters had broke in upon him; he
- fain would have eſcaped: them, but theſe impor-
tunates were. of the higheſt rank; ſothat it was
impoſſible for him to have the pleaſure of waiting
on her till next day; at the ſame time he begged
that Lucilia would admit of a morning viſit to
ſhorten the cruel minutes of abſence. The com-
pany aſſembled as uſual, and Lucilia received
them with an air of indifferenee, that ſhocked e-
very body. Blamzé is not to be here to-night,
ſaid Clariſſa with a dejected look. He ſups at
Araminta's in her little. lodge. Lucilia turned
pale, and the mirth and gaiety of the reſt of
the company augment the vexation, which ſhe
.endeavoured to conceal, Her firſt movements
were never to ſee the wretch again. But who
knew whether he was not innocent of what was
laid to his charge? and whether what Clariſſa
had ſaid, was not the effeQts of ſpite and jealouſy ?
And after all, ſhe was under no engagement, and
it was but juſtice to hear what he had to ſay be-
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She was ſtill at her toilet whenBlamze appeared,
in all the diſorder'd undreſs of a rake that had ſat
up all night. Lucilia was not alittle ſurpriſed to
ſee a gentleman, ſhe was but barely acquainted
with, take ſuch a familiar-freedom ; and had he
given her time, moſt likely would have reſented
it. But he ſaid ſo many pretty things on her
blooming complexion, on her beautiful hair, and
ſo forth, that ſhe had not the courage to find fault.
Nevertheleſs, ſne could not get Araminta out of
her head; but it was not decent for her to appear
jealous as yet; and a reproach would diſcover at
once her thoughts. She only aſked him, as by
way of talk, how he had paſſed the evening?
Paſfed it | why with very troublefome folks.
Happy are they who are unknown to the crowd,
who can live retired, and enjoy themfelves, and
thoſe they like. Take my advice, Madam, be-
ware of this whirl of company that ſurrounds
you. Farewel, reft, farewel, liberty, if you give
into it. But a propos of whirls and crowds,
what is your defign in receiving all the giddy
brain'd young fellows that attend your court?
They difpute among themſelves who ſhall have
the victory; have you deigned to make a choice ?
The very eaſy familiarity of Blamze had at firſt
aſtoniſhed Lucilia; but this queſtion confounded
her quite. I fear I am indifcreet, reſumed Blamze,
who perceived it? Not at all, anfwered Lucilia
with great ſweetneſs; as I have nothing to hide,
I need no diſſimulation, nor do I fear an inſpec-
tion. I own that I am amuſed with the little ſal-
lies of theſe volatile youths, but I do not find
one amongſt them who deſerves a ſerious attach-
ment. .Blamze fpoke of his rivals with indul-
gence; and thought Lucilia rather too ſevere.
For example, there is Cleon, ſaid he, has —_— ER
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withal-to become amiable ; indeed he knows no-
thing as yet; *tis a great pity ; for he talks well
enbugh of what he does not underſtand, and
proves plainly that with a great deal of wit, one
may do without common ſenſe. As for Clairfons,.
he is an arrant ſchool boy, and only wants an ex-
perienced female tutoreſs to be well difciplined.
The character of Pomlac pronounces a man of
fentiments, and that ſimplicity he has, which is
fo very like ſillineſs, would pleaſe me well enough
if I was a woman; ſome coquette will make ad-
vantage of him. Then that little Linval is ſo
felf-conceites, that though he was expoſed twenty
times, one would {till be ſurpriſed if it humbled
kim. None of all theſe are in the leaſt fit for
Jou, and you remain, continued Blamze, unen:
gaged and free; but what uſe do you make of
your freedom? I enjoy it, replied Lucilia. That
is childiſh, anfwered the count; one never en-
joys one's liberty, but at the moment you re-
nounce it; and one ought never to think of pre-
ſerving it, but in order to loſe it a propos. You
are young and beautiful, don't imagine that you
continue long your own miſtreſs; for if you do
not beſtow your heart, it will beſtow itſelf. But
amongſt thoſe that aſpire to the ſweet poſſeſſion,
it is of great conſequence to make a good choice.
Whether you love or do not love, you certainly
will be beloved. That is not the point that
makes me uneafy. At your age at want a lo-
ver, in whom you may find an adviſer, a guide,
a friend; one who knows the world, who can
point out the dangers, and ſhew you how to a-
void them. A man like you, I ſuppoſe, ſaid Lu-
cilia ironically, with a {mile of deriſion. Very
true; I don't fee how you can do better, anſwered
Blamzé; I am the very thing for you, if it was
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not for all theſe folks that beſiege you. But how
to get rid of them? O don't attempt it, reply*d
Lucilia; it would give caufe for too many re-
roaches, and create me too many enemies. As
r reproaches and complaints, ſaid the count,
with great coolneſs, I am uſed to hear them;
and as for enemies, who cares for them, when
you are out of their power, and have ſenſe e-
nough to live for yourſelf. At my age, ſaid Lu-
cilia ſmiling, one is as yet too timorous, if etwas
only the apprehenſion of being attaeked by an
Araminta, I tremble at the very thought. An
Araminta! replied Blamzé without any emotion,
that Araminta is, I aſſure you, a very reaſona-
ble perſon, and not at all to be: dreaded. I find
you have been told fomething about her; here
is my hiſtory in regard to that lady. Araminta is
one of thoſe has-been beauties, who finding her
charms on the decline now, not to be quite for-
got, and if poſſible to keep alive the embers of an
expiring fire, it is nece{fary to make an eclat in
the world, in order to which ſhe defired that I
would take ſome particular notice of her. I could
not ci villy refuſe her requeſt, and ſo & entered in-
to her views. To make our adventure more myſ-
terious, and conſequently more conſpicuous, ſlie
would take a retized houſe for our meetings.
*T'was in vain that I reprefented to her the fol-
ly of being at that expence, for a month or ſo,
which would be the utmoſt that I could poſſibly
devote to her. No matter; the houſe was furniſh»
ed in the moſt elegant taſte, unknown to me,
and my promiſe was exacted to come and ſpend
the evening there in a kind of a ſecret ſtolen.
manner, for that was the eſſential point; and laſt
night was the time fixed upon. Wan to
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Have it more private, had invited but five of her
intimate friends, and I was not permitted to bring
any greater number of mine. Accordingly 1
went. I aQted my part, gave myſelf all the airs.
of gallantry and pleaſure with Araminta. In
mort, the company left me there, and I did not
take my leave till a full hatf honr after they were
gone. I think that was as. much as decency and
good breeding could expect; to be ſure Araminta
took it in that light, and was vaſtly obliged to me.
Tis enough to bring her into faſhion again, and:
F may take my leave as foon as T pleaſe, without
fear of reproaches. Now, Madam, that is my
way of behaving, & woman's reputation is as
dear to me as my own; nay, Tt tell you more;
would. even make a facrifice of my vanity to
Preſerve her fame. The greateſt misfortune
that can befat a lady, that loves to have
followers, is to be forſaken ; now I never forſake
any. I oblige them to turn me off; and for their
fake Jad the inconſolable. Lhave ſometimes ſhut
myſelf up to give her all the honour of breaking
our commerce.. So that you fee, charming Lu--
cilia, that all men are not fo bad as what is ſaid,
and that ſome have both prineiples and morals.
Lucilia, who had only read old romances, was
not accuſtomed to this modern ſtile, and her ſur-
prize encreaſed at every word ſhe heard. What,
Sir, ſaid ſhe, is that what you call morals and
principles? Yes, Madam, but I confeſs that
they are but ſeldom met with; and that is the
reaſon of the fingular attention that is paid to
me; which, to be ſure, does no great honour to
moſt of our young folks. And, upon my honour,
the mere I think of it, the more I could wiſh,
for your advantage, that you would- fix upon ſuch
a one as me. I flatter myſelf, ſaid. Lucilia, that
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you would have as great a conſideration for me,
as for another; and that at leaſt I ſhould not be
in the ſituation of a forſaken miſtreſs —— All
that, Madam, is mere joke; but what is very
ſerious, is that you deſerve to have a man of ſenſe,
who is convinced of the qualifications of your
heart and mind, which I fo plainly diſcover in
you; and who knows how to value them as he
ought. Liſiere, to be ſure, is a very honeſt wor-
thy man, but he is not of a caſt to captivate a
wife; and really in general the defire of pleaſing
a huſband, is not ſo vehement, as to be at the
trouble of appearing amiable but to a certain de-
gree. Happily for you, he leaves you at your
liberty; and 'tis your fault, if you to
advantage of his judicious -behaviour, in loſing
the precious moments of your life in diſſipation
and indolence. I am not aſraid, ſaid Lucilia, to
fall into either of theſe extremes Yet you
know, Madam, that nothing is more common.
Yes, I do, Sir, and that is the very reaſon,
why I ſhould be ſo difficult in my choice, it ever
I make one; for 1 have no notion of an attach-
ment, that is not to laſt for ever What, Lucilial
at your time of day, can you think of a never-
ceaſing conſtancy ? If I really thought that you
was in earneſt, I believe that [ ſnould be capable
of committing a folly.— And what folly, pray?
— Why to be prudent, and Tettle for ever..
Do you ſerioufly think that you could have the
reſolution to do it? — Faith, Madam, if I muſt
ſpeak the truth, T am afraid I ſhould.— That is a
very odd declaration. —I own, Madam, tis odd
enough; but then I hope you will excuſe me, as
It is the firſt of that ſort I ever made in my life.
— The firſt do you ſay !—— Yes, the firſt ; for
till gow, the ladies were ſo good as to ſave me the
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trouble of making advances; but I find I grow
oldiſn.—— Well, Sir, for the rarity of the thing,
I forgive this your firſt eſſay; nay more, IL own
I am pleaſed with it.— That is happy indeed ! and
ſo, Madam, you ſuffer me to love you 5 but do
you intend to do me the honour of returning the
compliment ?—That is at preſent out of the
queſtion, Time and experience will inform me
whether you deſerve it.— Pray look at me,
Lucilia. I do look at you.——What, and
don't you laugh ?——Lavgh, at what? ——Why
at your own anſwer : Do you take me then for a
fimpleton? In what ?——In talking reaſon
to you. Was it then to talk reaſon to me that
you favoured me with this tEte-a-t&te ?——1 did
not know, Sir, that to act reaſonably, there was
any neceſſity for witneſſes. And after all, what
have I ſaid, but what you muft naturally-have
expected? I ſee that you have wit and come-
lineſs joined to an air of diſtinction. —You
are mighty condeſcending———But all that is
not ſufficient, to deſerve my confidence and fix
my inclinations. Not ſufficient, Madam!
excuſe the little J have; and pray let me know
what you would have more to be ſatisfied. A
greater knowledge of your character, and a more
certain perſuaſion of your ſentiments in regard to
me. I promiſe you nothing, nor interdict myſelf
any thing. You may hope for all, but you have
no pretenſions. Tis your bufmeſs to conſult
with yourſelf, whether this fuits you or not.
Charming Lucilia! nothing ought to ſeem hard
in ſtriving to deſerve and pleaſe you. But in
good faith, would you have me renounce all that
is agreeable in the world, to make my happineſs
depend on an uncertain hereafter? I am, you
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all France the moſt courted; whether through
_ taſte or caprice 'tis no matter. Sure it is, that
they all would fain have me, was it for ever ſo
ſhort a time. Vou are in the right, Sir, I was very
unjuſt, and your moments are too precious.
No, I honeſtly own to you, that I am tired of
being in the mode. I ſought for an object fit to
fix me. I have found one, and I attach myſelf
to it. Can any thing be more fortunate? But
then, my attachment muſt not be in vain. You
ſay you want time to conſider, I gave you four
and twenty hours; ſurely that's enough. I ne-
ver gave half fo much before. That is very ge-
nerous, reply'd Lucilia, but my reflections are
ſlow and you are too much in a hurry for us to
ſettle matters. I am young, and perhaps have
ſenſibility; but neither my youth nor my ſenſibi-
lity ſnall ever make me take an imprudent ſtep.
I have told you already, that if ever I diſpoſe of
my heart, it muſt be the conſequence of time,
experience, reflection, and the ſweet conviction
of confidence and eſteem, that muſt determine
it,—Do you really then, Madam, fancy that you
have found an amiable man ſo diſemployed as to
have leiſure to ſpin out an intrigue? And yourſelf,
do you intend to paſs your youth in confidering
whether you ſhall love or not? I can't tell, an-
ſwered Lucilia, whether I ever may be in love,
nor how much time I may take in that reſolution
but that time will be well employed, if it ſaves
me from repentance. ' I admire you, Madam,
very much admire- you, faid Blamze, as he roſe
to take his leave, but I have not the honour to
be enrolled amongſt the ancient chivalry; you
may ſeck elſewhere for a knight errant, for I
really did not wait on you fo ſoon 9
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from ſurprize to reflection. Is this, ſaid ſne, the
man ſo much in vogue? The manly excellence!
He deigns to think me pretty; and if he thought
me capable of conſtancy, he ſhould be weak
enough to love me] and yet he won't allow me
time to conſult my heart; I muſt ſeize the very
moment that he likes me, and take my reſoluti-
on in a few hours, more than he ever beſtowed on
any one before. Thus it is that women vilify
themſelves, and give the men an opportunity of
uſurping their power! By good luck he has diſ-
covered himſelf. What preſumption and ſelf-
ſufficiency were hid under that maſk of modeſty
that deceived me? Ah! I ſee that the moſt mor-
tifying misfortune that can happen to a woman,
is to be in love with a fop.
That evening, after the opera, Lucilia's ſo-
ciety being met, Plombac whiſpered to her with
myſtery, that neither Blamzẽ nor
Clairfons were to ſup with her. Tis very well,
ſaid ſhe, I don't deſire an aſſiduity from my
friends that would give them the leaſt conſtraint
there are even ſome people, whoſe aſſiduity would
be very troubleſome to me. If Blamzè is one of
that number, anſwered Plombac, with great in-
genuity, Clairfons has delivered you from him for
{ome time, —— What do you mean? Don't be
alarmed, every thing has paſſed very well. ——
What has paſſed, Sir?—Why, when the curtain
was dropped at the end of the opera, we went
on the ſtage, and, as uſual, were liſtening to
Blamze's deciſions. After having given his opi -
nion on the muſic, dancing and decorations, he
aſked whether we ſupped with the little marchio-
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neſs (L aſk : paedon, madam; but it was of you he
te). We anſwered, yes. I ſhar't be there,
aid he, for we pout ever ſince morning, I en-
quired on what occaſion. BlamzE then related
how you had given him a rendezvous, that he
had difappointed you, and that you were very an-
gry ; but that was all was cleared up this morn-
ing; that you acted very childiſhly, that he had
preſſed = to come to the point; but that you
required time to refle&, and that tired with your
buts and your ifs, he had left you where he found
you. He likewiſe ſaid that you muſt needs = \n
with a ſerious attachment; that he had almoft a
mind to it, but really that he had not ſo much
time to ſpare. For in calculating the ſtrength of
the fort, he thought it might fuſtain a ſiege, and
that for his part he was only fit for a furprize,
"Tis an exploit worthy of young folks, added he;
you are, at that time of day, when obſta-
cles are only inducements to overcome them.
But I give you warning, that virtue is her ſtrong-
hold, and ſenſibility her weak fide. I was ſure
of fuccefs, if I could but have ſubmitted to act
the paſſionate loyer. I was very fure, continued
Plombac, that what he ſaid was all invention,
But I had prudence enough not to take it up.
Clairfons, who was not ſo diſcreet, told him,
that he did not believe that there was a ſingle
word of truth in all he had faid, upon which they
went out together. I followed them; Clairfons
received a wound-—And Blamze—Blamze has
two, which are thought dangerous. Whilſt I
helped him into his chariot, if Clairfons, ſaid he,
knows how: to make a right uſe of this adventure,
Lucilia is at his · command; a woman makes but
a poor defence againſt a man -who has defend-
ed her ſo well. Tell him I diſpenſe with his
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keeping it a ſecret. Tis but juſt that ſhe
5 know how much ſhe is obliged to her
night. c
Lucilia had much ado to hide the confuſion and
Fright this deſcription threw her in. She feign-
ed. a head- ach,. and every body knows that a fine
lady's head-ach is a polite manner of bidding
the company take their leave; ſhe was left to
herſelf as ſoon as ſupper was over.
Lucilia was in the utmoſt conſternation. She
could not reconcile it to herſelf to have been the
cauſe of a. duel, which muſt neceſſarily make her
the town talk. She was much moved at the
warmth with which Clairfons had reſented her
injury; bat what an humiliation, if this adven-
ture ſhould make a noiſe, and come to her huſ-
band's knowledge! Happily the affair was kept
Jecret. Plombac and Clairfons made it a point
not to expoſe Lucilia's reputation. And when
Blamze was recovered, he took great care not to
boaſt of an imprudence for which he had been ſo
deſervedly puniſhed, It may be aſked, perhaps,
how a- man till then, ſo very diſcreet, ceaſed to
be ſo all at once? The reaſon is, that one is much
leſs tempted to reveal the favours we receive,
than to be revenged of the rigours we experi-
ence. Ibis firſt indiſcretion nearly coſt him his
life. As for Clairfons, he was ſoon cured; and
Lucilia received him with a certain tenderneſs
unknown to him before. If it be natural to have
a regard for thoſe who have expoſed their lives
for us; *tis as natural to have a regard for them
in whoſe cauſe they were expoſed; and ſuch ſer-
vices are often ſtronger motives of attachment for
thoſe who rendered them, than for thoſe who
received them. No wonder then that Clairfons
became .moſt deſperately in .love with 3
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but the more ſhe was indebted to him, the leſs
he preſumed for marks of her gratitude, He
| felt an inconceivable pleaſure, in thinking of his
generous proceeding, which he muſt renounce,
| if he took advantage of the right he had acquired
of Lucilia's acknowledgments; ſo that he was
more timorous than if he had deſerved nothing
at all. But Lucilia read in his ſoul, and the'de-
| licacy of his ſentiments, gaingd her inclination,
| But, however, the apprehenſion of not ſhewing
her gratitude, or the fear of carrying it too far,
made her diſſemble the knowledge the had, by
what Plombac had informed her of; ſo that the
regard ſhe had for Clairfons, ſeeming free and
JiFntereſied, made him the more ſenſible of it.
Their mutual inclination increaſed” every day.
They ſought for each other, converſed with in-
timacy, and liſtened with complaiſance; they
gave one another an account of what they had
done, and all this without affeQation, as if only
by way of diſcourſe; but with ſuch exactneſs,
that they knew to a minute the hour they were
to meet, again, By degrees Clairfons became
more familiar and Lucilia leſs reſerved. There
wanted nothing now but an explanation. And in
order to bring that about, there was no occaſion
for thoſe wonderful incidents that love procures
for timorous lovers. One day, as they were alone,
Lucilia dropt her fan; Clairfons took it up and
preſented it to her. She received it with a ſweet
{mile ; the ſmile gave her lover the boldneſs to kiſs
her hand, which was one of the handſomeſt in.
the world. Soon as his lips were applied to it,
the attraction was ſo great, that there was no
getting them from it. Lucilia, in her emotion,
endeavoured ſoftly to withdraw it; he oppoſed
her with a gentle W and his eyes tenderly
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fixed on thoſe of Lucilia, diſarmed her entirely.
Their looks had explained their thoughts before
their voice was of the party. So that the mutu-
al declaration of their paſſion for each other wag
afterwards made in a very few words. O let me
enjoy the thought, we love. ene another! ery'd
Clairfons, intoxicated with joy.—Yes, we love
one another, anſwered Lucilia, with a ſigh, there
is no diſowning it now; but remember that 1
am bound by the ſtricteſt ties of duty; ties that
are inviolable, and will, if you have any regard
for me, be ſacred to blu.
Luucilia's inclination was not like our modern
love, that batiiſhes all modeſty ſo ſoon as the paſ-
fon is formed; and then Clairfons reſpected her
too much to take any advantage of her weakneſs.
Delighted to be beloved, he limited his defires
at firſt, in the poſſeſſion of a heart pure, faithful,
and virtuous. How little do they love, ery'd he,
in his delirium, who are not content with the
happineſs of loving? Who was the firſt ſavage
that gave the name of rigour, to that refiſtance
Which a timorous modeſty oppoſes to a brutal
poſſion? Can there be a refuſal, charming Lu-
Cilia, that your eyes do not ſoften? Can I have
reaſon, to complain when you {mile upon me?
And have I a with to form, when my eyes catch
from yours. that heavenly voluptuouſneſs that
abſorbs my ſenſes? Far be from us thoſe tumul-
tuous pleaſures followed by regrets, which would
interrupt the ſweet ſerenity of your life. I re-
ſpect your virtue as much as you cheriſh it, and
1 ſhould never forgive myſelf to have given room
for remorſe in the of innocence. Such
Heroic ſentiments enchanted Lucilia, and Clair-
fons every day growing more tender, was _
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flne reſolutions, the banters of his friends, and ſome
ſuſpicions they raiſed concerning that virtue he ſo
much adored, embitteredhis happineſs. He became
melancholy and uneaſy; every thing importuned
him, every thing increafed his jealouſy. IL uciha
felt each day her chains grow cloſer and heavier,
each day new complaints were heard, new re-
proaches made. Every man that was received with,
any polite neſa, was a rival that muſt be baniſhed.
The firſt ſacrifices he exacted were granted
without reſiſtance. He required others, he ob-
tained them; he wanted ſtil} more, when &
laſt ſhe was tired with complying. Clairfons
thought he perceiveil clearly in Lucilia's impa-
tience, a viſible attachment: to all. thoſe connecti-:
ens to which he ſhewed his diſlike; and that love,
which was at firſt fo delicate and ſubmiſſive,
became ſavage and tyrannical. Lucilia was
alarmed at it, ſlie endeavoured to appeaſe him,
but all in vain. I fhall never believe, ſaid Clay- _
ons imperiouſly, I thall never believe that you
love me, if you do not live -for me alone, as 1
do for you. If I poſſeſs, and am 2 for
your heart, what have you to do with an unpor»
| tunate world? Why ſhould you think it hard to
turn away whatever is diſagreeable to me? Should
I be uneaſy at renouncing any thing you ſheuld
diſlike? Nay, more, is it not 4 continual violence
on myſelf, to fee any thing that is not Eucilia?
Would to heaven that I was delivered of that
2rawd which beſieges you, and that rob me every
inſtant of one of your looks or thoughts! The
folitude which ſtartles you would be my greateſt
Joy. : Are not our ſouls alike in nature? The love
| you fancy you feel, is it not the ſame. as that I
teel? You complain that I require of youtſuch
—— ſacrifices: - * from me, SY
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act ip your turn; put me to the ſevereſt, moſt
diſagreeable trials, you will ſee whether I ſhall
heſitate a moment. There is no connection 1
would not break, no effort but what I would
make, or rather I ſhould make none at all ; the
pleaſure of conforming to your defire would make
me ample amends, and be all in all to me; and
what is called deprivation would be to me en-
joyment. You fancy ſo, Clairfons, anſwered
ingenuouſly the tender Lucilia, but you deceive
yourſelf, Each particular diveſture would be of
little conſequence, but all together a very great
one. It is the continuance of them that is tire»
ſome, and you have made experience that there
is no complaiſance, let it be ever ſo great, but
what may be exhauſted. Whilſt ſhe thus argu»
ed, Clairfons's eyes ſparkling with vexation, were
by turns caſt up to heaven, or fixed on her. Be-
lieve me, continued Lucilia, the ſacrifices of
true love are made in the heart under a myſte-
rious veil; *tis ſelf-love that muſt have them
public and. ſolemn; *tis not enough to be victo-
rious, it afpires to the honour of a triumph, and
that is what you demanc. LE a:
What a cold analyſis! what a metaphyſical
deſcription ! is that the reaſoning of love? I love
you, Madam, nothing is more true, to my mis-
fortune be it ſaid, I'd facrifice a thouſand lives to
pleaſe you; and whatever that ſentiment is, that
you call Telf-love, it would detach me from the
whole univerſe to live alone for you ; but when
J give up all, I expect to poſſeſs you in the like
manner. Cleon, Linval, Plombac, all that may
make me uneaſy, and I cannot anſwer for my-
ſelf. After what 1 declare, if you love me, my
quiet muſt be dear.to you ; and though my un-
eaſineſs be a folly, tis your buſineſs to W
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id I ſay a folly? No, no, your behaviour gives
but too juſt grounds for my ſuſpicions and alarm:
And how can I poſſibly be unconcerned, when I.
ſee you concerned for all about you more than for
me ? F 85
Ahl Sir, how much am J obliged to you, ſaid
Lucilia ſighing; you open my eyes on the brink
of an abyſs, into which love was near precipi-
tating me. I am now convinced that there is no
ſlavery to be compared to that which a jealous
lover impoſes. I, Madam, enſlave you! have
not you an abſolute empire over me? and don't
vou diſpoſe o. Enough, Sir, I have ſuffered a
| long time; I had flattered myſelf, but yu have
broke the charm by which F was deluded, and no
power on earth can ever bring me back. Be my
friend, if you can, for it is the only title that you
can aſſume with me,—O cruel Lucilia! will
you. then be my death? No, all I want is to
eſtabliſh your quiet, and my own. Tou dif-
tract me, what is my crime Too, too much
love for yourſelf, and too little eſteem for me.
O, I ſwear Don't ſwear; your jealouſy is a
voice innate; *tis your nature, and nature never
alters. I know you thoroughly; and the minute
I hegin to fear, I ceaſe to love. I ſee that at pre-
ſent my frankneſs is irkſome, but of two tor-
ments I chooſe that which is the ſhorteſt; for in
depriving you of a right to be jealous, I reduce
you to the happy neceſſity of ceaſing to be ſo.
And I, reply'd Clairfons, with a ſtifled reſent-
ment, know you likewiſe ; the ſcrupulous deli-
cacy of a feeling ſoul is incompatible with the
lightneſs of ſuch a one as your's; you want a
Blamze for a lover, and I was very weak indeed
to be his hinderance. Hold, interrupted Lucilia,
1 am very ſenſible of the obligations I owe you;
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but I retire to ſave you the confuſion of having
reproached me with them.
Clairfons withdrew in a fury, fully reſolved ne-
ver to ſee again one that he had ſo tenderly
loved, and that diſmiſſed him with ſo much inhu-
manity, 5 .
Luucilia, reſtored to herſelf, found that ſhe was
eaſed of a burden, under which ſhe was ready to
ſink. But then, on one ſide, the dangers of love,
which ſhe had eſcaped, and, on the other, the
diſmal perſpective of an eternal indifference,
placed nothing in her future view but cruel un-
eaſineſs, or dull, tireſome, inſipid hours. What!
faid ſhe, did heaven beſtow upon me a heart of
ſenſibility, only to make it the ſport of a fop,
the victim of a res or the melancholy com-
panion of a kind of philoſopher, that nothing
affects, that nothing moves ! Theſe reflections
lunged her into a thoughtfulneſs ſhe could no
bw hide; and they who frequented her, be-
gan to catch her uneaſineſs. The ladies eſpecially
took the alarm. She is gone, ſaid they, if we
don't find ſome means to take her off the terrible
ſituation ſhe is in; ſhe is quite diſguſted with the
world, and nothing pleaſes her now but retire-
ment; the ſymptoms of her. melancholy grow
every day more and more alarming; and without
ſome new. agreeable paſſion to animate her, it is
10 be feared ſhe will fall again under the autho-
rity of a huſband. Do we know of nobody
that could give a turn to her young imagination ?
Even Blamze miſcarried; and as for Clairfons,
on whom we depended, he is a mere fool, that
Joves like a fool ; there is no wonder that ſhe was
tired of him. Let us ſee, ſaid Cephiſa, after
having pauſed a while, there is ſomething ro-
mantic in Lucilia's character; ſhe mult be =
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tuated by uncommon, fairy adventures; and
there is the magnificent Dorimon, who is the
very thing for our purpoſe, She will be quite
mad of him ; only let us ſtrive to engage her to
ſup at his delightful country-houſe, I'll take up-
on me to prepare him, and give him the hint;
the affair was ſettled, and Dorimon appriſed of
There was nobody in all Paris who knew bet-
ter than Dorimon, where the moſt ingenious
artiſts were to be found; nobody received them
with more politeneſs, nor rewarded them with
more generoſity; ſo that he had gained the title
eee and the reputation of a man of
taſte. | |
If it ſo chances that this tale ſhould be read in
ſome future ages, it will be thought the work of
1magination, for the place I am about to deſcribe
would certainly be taken for the enchanting pa-
lace of ſome fairy. But it is no fault of mine,
that the luxury and extravagance of our times
outdo the marvellous of all that was ever invent-
ed; and that the deſcription of our follies, though
very true, has not the appearance of truth.
the rich and ſmiling banks of the Seine, 2
riſing ground, in form of an amphitheatre,
opens to the firſt dawn of Aurora, and to the warm
beams of the ſouth. _ A beautiful grove ſcreens it
from the chilling blaſt of the north, and from the
moiſt influence of the weſt, From the top of the
hill there fell in gurgling caſcades three different
. "abundant ſources of a pure ſtream as clear as cry-
ſtal ; the hand of induſtrious art conducted them
thither in a thouſand ſerpentine revolutions on the
verdant bank. Sometimes the waters divide,
forming little iſlands, then re-unite.into ſpacious
baſons, where the ſky * pleaſed to be *
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ed; then precipitately daſh themſelves amongft
rocks and grottoes, where art has imitated the
various frolics of nature. The Seine, that winds
at the bottom of the hill, receives them in her
tranquil current; theſe falling waters put me in
mind of thoſe fabulous times, when the Naiads of
the fountain plunged into the humid palaces of
the river deities, to cool the ardors of love .and
youth. 275 oF;
An ingenious caprice ſeems to have laid ont
the gardens watered by theſe ſtreams. Every
particular part of this agreeable picture agrees
without a repetition, the ſymmetry of the whole
is charming; you carry your looks every where
without trouble, and you repoſe yourſelf with-
out being tired. A noble elegance, a magnifi.
cence without extravagance ; a bold, yet delicate
taſte, have embelliſhed thoſe delightful grounds;
you ſee nothing neglected, nothing trimmed with
too much art. The aſſemblage of natural beau-
ties is its chiefeſt ornament z-and the exact pro-
portion of the groupes, joined to the variety of
torms, produces that ſweet harmony which fo
much pleaſes the eye. Arbours adorned with
fatues, lattice-work in different ſhapes, are the
decorations of the moſt admired gardens; but
too often ſuch beauties, diſplay'd without taſte
and knowledge, only excite a momentary cold
_ applauſe. Here the order and union of all the
different parts make of a thouſand agreeable ſen-
ſations one continued delightful whole. The ſe-
cond object you diſcover, adds to the pleaſure of
the firſt, and both acquire new beauties by the
charms of another object that ſucceeds, without
ſurpaſſing them. | 7
This delicious landſkip is terminated x dy”
lace almoſt of an aerian architecture; the
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rinthian order has much leſs elegance and light-
neſs. I ſhall not attempt to deſcribe the beauties
of the edifice, nor talk of columns, architraves,
friſes, cornices, and ſo forth; ſuppoſe, as it is
true, that every, part was conſtructed with ele-
gance and propriety,
The furniture of the apartments anſwered the
magnificence of the building. *Twas the tem-
ple of arts and taſte. All that the pencil, the
chiſſe], the burin could poſſibly perform with the
utmoſt perfection; all that induſtry has invented
for. the pleaſures of life, were diſplay'd with a
well judged profuſion ; and voluptuouſneſs, daugh-
ter of wealth, pleaſed the ſoul through all the
ſenſes. | |
Lucilia was aſtoniſhed at ſo much magnifi-
cence; the firſt evening ſeemed as a dream;
it was a ſucceſſion of entertainments of all kinds,
which ſhe plainly perceived were dedicated to
her. The eagerneſs, vivacity and gallantry with
which Dorimon did the honours of this beautiful
place, the changing of the ſcenes which he pro-
duted only with a look, the abſolute empire that
he ſeemed to have over arts and pleaſures, all
theſe recalled to Lucilia's mind what fhe had read
of the moſt celebrated enchanters. She durſt not
truſt to her eyes, and thought that ſhe herſelf was
enchanted : If Dorimon had taken advantage of
her intoxication, perhaps the dream might have
ended like a modern romance. But Dorimon was
merely gallant; and all that he preſumed to deſire
was, that Lucilia would now and then, when
agreeable, do him the honour to embelliſh his
hermitage, for ſo he called his magnificent
habitation. 3
Lucilia's companions had obſerved all her mo-
tions. 'Thoſe that were the moſt knowing thought,
£ that
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that Dorimon was too much taken up with his
grandeur, and too little with his happineſs. He
ſhould have ſeized the firſt moment of her ſur-
prize ; *tis an ecſtacy that is never felt a ſecond
time. | |
Nevertheleſs Lucilia, her head full of what
ſhe had ſeen, looked upon Dorimon ina very ad-
vantageous light, So much gallantry indicated a
lively and brillant imagination, a genius cultivat»
ed, and a refined taſte, and a lover, if ever he
ſhould prove to be one, wholly employed in his
care to pleaſe. This portrait, though flattered,
was not unlike. Dorimen was ſtill young, his
figure far from diſpleafing, and his temper chear-
ful and agreeable. As for his wit, it was no-
thing but ſpurts ; his ſentiments had little warmth,
and much finefſe. Nobody ſaid more polite
things, but he had not the gift of perſuaſion ;
one liked to hear him, but nobody gave credit to
what he ſaid, He was the moſt bewitching man
in the world for a coquette, and the leaſt dange-
Tous for a woman that had any ſentiments.
Lucilia conſented to make him a ſecond viſit,
and it was again new diverſions, new entertain-
ments. But in vain Dorimon's gallantry had
aſſembled all the pleaſures imaginable that ſhe
inſpired! in vain thoſe pleaſures were varied e-
very hour with ſo much taſte and art! Lucilia
was at firſt entertained, but ſoon was ſatisfied,
and before night ſhe was convinced that one may
be fatigued in fo delightful a place. Dorimon,
who never quitted her, put all his talents at work
in hopes of pleafing ; he made her a thoufand
fine ſpeeches, and mixed them with ſomething
tender ; but ſtill that was not what ſhe had im-
agined. She expected to have met with a deity,
and Dorimon was but a mortal; the ſplendour of
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his palace grew tarniſhed, the proportions were
not obſerved; and Dorimon, whilſt he was out-
doing himſelf, was ſtill inferior to the idea that
all about him had raiſed. | "CAE Ck
He was far from imagining, tho” diſadvanta»
geaus for him, the compariſon was in Lucilia's
mind, and he only waited for a happy opportu-
nity to complete his triumph. After the concert,
and before ſupper, he led her, as if by mere
chance, into a ſolitary cloſet, where ſhe might
retire when ſhe choſe to be by herſelf. Lucilis
entered the room, and ſhe ſees her image repeat-
ed on every ſide in the brilliant walls of look-
ing-glaſs; the molt voluptuous pictures interſperſs
ed were likewiſe multiplied. 3 imagined,
as ſhe beheld herſelf, that ſhe ſaw the goddeſs
of love, At ſo charming an exhibition, a cry.
ſurprize and admiration eſcaped her; and Do-
rimon laid hold of that ſudden emotion. Be here
a queen, this is your throne, ſaid he, beving
her a ſopha, that ſome divinity had ſtrew'd witf
flowers. My throne, reply'd Lucilia, ſetting
herſelf upon it with great gaiety : I think it be-
comes me, and I reign here over a ſett of ve
pretty ſubjects; ſhe meant the little Cupids an
Graces that were repreſented in different parts,
multiplied in the pier-glaſſes. Will you deign
to admit me as one of your ſubjects? ſaid Dori-
mon, with ſome ardour, kneeling to her. *
for you, Sir, ſaidſhe, very gravely, I can't loo
upon you as one of the children I behold. Say-
ing this, ſhe was riſing from the ſopha, but he
boldly retained her ; and the ſtruggle ſhe made
to break from him, only rendered him more au-
dacious. Where am I, ſaid ſhe, with wild afs
_ fright? Leave me, I ſay, n ee
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faid ſhe, in a reſolute tone, or my crie—At
theſe words he himſelf was confounded: pardon
me, Madam, if I am guilty of ſome imprudence,
of which you are in ſome degree the cauſe. Re-
tire with me; here 74te-g-7tte indulge on that ſet-
tee. Is not that giving a hint, according to the
eſtabliſhed mode, that one would not be diſpleaſ-
ed at alittle violence ! But I find that we did not
underſtand one another, and that you are quite of
another way of thinking. —— Quite of another
way, indeed, Sir, anſwered Lucilia, bolting out
of the cloſet ; whilſt Dorimon followed, not a little
confounded at his miſtake. It was very happy that
the little time they were abſent from the com-
Pany could give no grounds for feandal. Lucilia
put on an air of ſatisfaction to hide her confuſion,
and ſaid that ſhe had been viewing a cloſet very
well worth feeing. The whole company ruſh'd
into it, and their admiration and applauſe were
only interrupted, by letting them know that ſup-
per was ſerved. 55 F —
The expenſive ſumptuoſity of this entertain-
ment ſeemed to ſurpaſs all the pleaſures they had
taſted before; but Dorimon ſtrove in vain to be
himſelf, his natural chearfulnefs was gone; and
Lucilia returned no anfwer to all the pretty things
that were ſaid to draw her from her revery, but
a forced ſmile, with which good breeding endea-
vours to diſguiſe ill humour. n
Nou this is the very man, ſaid her acquaintan-
ces to her, as they retired together, the very man
that is fit for you; with him life would he a con-
tinual enchantment. One would almoſt imagine
that the Pleaſures and Graces are ſubſervient to
him, and that at his word of command they croud
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There are ſome people, reply'd Lucika coldly,
that are not to be controul'd; deſpiſing grandeur
and wealth, know no other riches but what eve-
ry body finds in their own breaſt. Indeed, my
dear friend, ſaid Cephifa, you are too difficult to
pleaſe. Yes, Madam, 1 own I am difficult, an-
ſwered Lucilia with a ſigh ; and during the reſt
ol their journey ſhe did not utter a word. As
ſoon as they parted with her, is ſhe not, ſaid
they, a pretty agreeable might-have-been? If
her whims were entertaining, one might be a-
muſed with them; but can there be any thing
more dull and inſipid? To be ſure it was worth
while to be feparated from a huſband to be a
prude to every body elſe ! . 478
Thus ſpoke her what-you-call friends; and
Lucilia, on her fide, had other refleQions. Is
this, ſaid ſhe, what the world fo much commen-
ded and admired? I have curſorily run over all
that is looked upon as moſt agreeable. What
have I found? A fop, a jealous man, and ano-
ther, who being very rich, attributes to himſelf,
as ſo many perſonal charms, his palace, his gar-
dens, and his entertainments ; and upon that pre-
ſumption, imagines that there is no virtue, be it
ever ſo ſtrict, but what would be glad to yield.
Oh! how I hate thoſe compilers of ' romances,
that turn my brain with their fables ! My imagi-
nation full of their chimeras, made me look upon
my huſband as an inſipid, dull creature; and yet
he deſerves to be loved more, much more, than
At have ſeen. He has a natural ſimplicity. in his
temper; but is not that infinitely to be preferred
before the impertinent airs and pretenſions of a
Blamzé? He is even, conſtant, and tranquil in his
inclinations z what would be my fate, if he was
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violent and furious in his paſſion like a Clairfons.
He did not love me with great ardour, but then
he loved nobody elſe; and had I been wiſe, he
loved enough to have made me happy. I did not
taſte with him thoſe noiſy faſtuous pleaſures that
enhance at firſt, and ſoon diſguſt. But his com-
plaiſance, his goodneſs, his great attention, pro-
cured me conſtant}y more pure and ſolid joys, had
I known how to taſte them. Fool that I was! I
ran after illuſtons, and fled from happineſs itſelf ;
which reſides in the ſilence of paſhon, in the equi-
librium and quietneſs of the mind. But alas | is
it now time to confeſs my errors, when they have
deprived me of the friendſhip, the confidence,
and perhaps the eſteem of my huſband 2 Th
heaven, I have nothing to reproach myſelf with,
but the imprudences of youth. But is Liſterp :
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turn to one's duty, when once it has been forſa-
ken! But where lies the difficulty? What retains
me? Is it the fear of being humbled? Liſiere is a
worthy, honeſt man; and if he has had a regard
For me, even in my follies, will he depreſs me
when I am recovered from them ? All that I have
40 do is, to detach myſelf from a vain, pernici-
- ous ſociety, and live with ſuch friends as my huſ-
band likes and reſpects; ſuch as I may ſee without
a bluſh. So long as he has ſeen me mad after the
world, he has never approached me. But when
he ſees me retired from it, perhaps he may vouch-
Aafe to recal me to him; and if I cannot regain
- his heart, I ſhall have the comfort at leaſt of be-
ang worthy ef it; and be reconciled to myſelf,
though I have not the happineſs of being recon-
ciled to my huſband. |
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Liſiere, with great anguiſh, had never loſt
fight of her in the giddy tumult of the world in
which ſhe was engaged: he depended on her good
ſenſe, and on her uprightneſs of heart. She will
find out, ſaid he, the nothingneſs of all thoſe emp-
ty pleaſures, the folly of women, the vanity of
men, and the falſehood of them all; and if ſhe re-
turns virtuous, and I don't doubt but ſhe will,
her virtue will be ftifl more dear to her for the
hazard it has run. But has ſhe eſcaped all the
7 with which ſhe was ſurrounded, the charms
of flattery, the ſnares of ſeduction, the enchant»
ments of voluptuouſnefs? We deſpiſe the world
when we are well acquainted with it; but you
give yourſelf up to it before you know its deceit 3
and very often the heart is bewildered be fore rea-
ſon comes to its aid. O Lucilia t he ery d, look -
ing tenderly on his wife's picture, which was the
only pleaſure he taſted in his retirement, O Lu-
cilia | you were ſo worthy to be happy, and I flat<
tered myſelf that you would be fo with me}
Alas! perhaps, one of thoſe handſome deluders,
that are the ornament and bane of the world;
is now actually endeavouring to ſeduce her inno-
cence, and obſtinately ſtrives to compaſs her un-
doing, only to have the pleaſure of boaſting of
it. Ah! cruel thought, my wife's diſhonous
would ſeparate us for ever!] and I muſt no longer
hope to live with her, whom. death atone ought
to have divided me from | I have betray'd her
in leaving her to herſelf. I was choſen by heaven
to be the guide and guardian of her inconſiderate
youth; and I conſulted nothing but cuſtom, and
only was ſtruck at the frightful idea of being looks
ed upon as her tyrant. e
Whilſt Liſiere floated to and fro in this terrible
uncertainty, Lucilia was not 6
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the deſire of returning to him, and the fear of be-
ing rejected. Many a time, after having paſſed
the night in ſighs and tears, ſhe has got up, with
a full reſolution to go and wait for his rifing,
throw herſelf at his feet, and aſk his pardon, But
a certain ſhame, ſo well known to a feeling and
delicate ſoul, retained her from going. If Lifiere
did not deſpiſe her, if he had ſtill for her the leaſt
ſenſibility, the leaſt eſteem, why has he never once
vouchſated to ſee her ever ſince ſhe had broke
from her ſociety, and lived retired ? Every day as
he paſſed by her apartment, ſhe heard him en-
gs how does your Lady do? She would have Li-
ere acquainted with her repentance, and the re-
covery of herſelf ; but whom ſhall I truſt to?
ſaid ſhe ; to ſome friend? But where to find one
prudent and diſcreet enough for ſo delicate an in-
terpofition ? One may have capacity, but not zeal
enough ; another may have zeal and want capaci-
ty; and then how very hard it is to confide in
others what you have not the courage to truſt to
one's ſelf! What if I ſhould write? But what
can I ſay? And then words will have little effect,
and details are fo mozrtifying } At laſt a thought
came into her head, that ſatisfied both her delicacy
and her ſenſibility. Liſiere was gone for two days
into the country, and ſhe took the opportunity of
his abſence to put her ſcheme in execution.
Lifiere had an old domeſtic that Eucilia percei-
ved to be much concerned when ſhe and her huſ-
band parted, whoſe zeal, fidelity and diſcretion ſhe
could depend on, Ambroſe, ſaid ſhe, I have a
piece of ſervice for you to do for me. Ah! ma-
dam, anſwered the good man, order what you |
pleaſe, I am entirely at your command ; would
to God that you and my maſter loved one another
as much as [ love you both! I don't know Eu
0
1 |
of you is in the wrong, but I am ſure I pity you
both. What a delight it was to ſee you together!
I fee here nothing now but what afflidts me, fince
you and my maſter are fallen but. Perhaps, an-
ſwered Lucilia, a little abaſhed, 'tis my fault;
but, honeſt Ambroſe, I hope the ill is not with-
out a remedy ; only to do what I ſhall tell you.
You know that my picture is in your — 2
apartment? — Ves, yes, Madam, and ſo does m
maſter know it; for ſometimes he ſhuts himſelf
up with it for whole days; *tis all his comfort;
he gazes upon it, talks to it, and ſighs enouglt to
break one's heart to hear him; and Tam very fure
he had-much rather entertain himſelf with you
than with your reſemblance.——You inform me,
Ambroſe, of what gives me great comfort, Go
and privately take down the picture, and bring it
into my chamber, without any body's knowing
of it -I, Madam | what, would you have me de-
prive my maſter of all that-is dear to. him in the
world? O! rather aſk for my life. Don't be
alarm'd, nv Fo Lucilia, it is not my deſign to de-
prive him of jt. To-morrow in the evening you
ſhall take it back, and hang it up again where it
was, TI only deſire the favour of you not to men-
tion a word of it to my huſband, Well, with all
my heart, ſaid Ambroſe ; I know that you are
goodneſs itſelf, and will not in my old age let me
have the grief to have vexed my maſter.
Ihe faithful Ambroſe executed her deſire; Lu-
cilia's picture had that tender languiſhing air
which was natural to her; but her look was ſe-
rene, and her head dreſſed with flowers. She ſent
for a painter, and ordered him to alter the pic-
ture, and repreſent her with hair diſnevell'd, and
tears trickling from her eyes. As ſoon as he had ex-
-ecuted what ſhe deſired, the picture was hung in
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Lifiere's apartment, where it was before. At his
- return he look'd up 2s uſual to the beloved object.
You may eafily gueſs at his ſurprize. The di-
he vell'd hair — him at firſt fight, but on a
nearer approach he ſaw the tears falling from her
. eyes. Ah! hecry'd, ah, Lucilia! are they the
tears of repentance? Is it the grief of love? He
flies tranſported: to her apartment, and finds her in
the {ame ſituation as the was repreſented in the
portrait. Motiomleſs à while he tenderly
npon her; then ruſhing ſuddenly to her, obi l is it
really true, ſaid he, that I have found my wife
again! Yes, ſaid Lucilia, ſtill in tears, the is
Ppours, if you think her worthy of it, Can the
Have eeaſed being ſo, replied Liftere, preſſing her
to his boſom ? No, my dear Lucilia, be not on
ed; I know your very foul, and I have never
__ceaſedpitying nor. eſteeming you. You would ne+
ver ma back had the world ſeduced you
your voluntary return is a proof of your virtue.
O!] heaven be praiſed, ſaid ſhe (her heart ealed by
the tears that flowed abundantly from her eyes)
| Heaven be praiſed I have hed as — weak ·
neſs to be aſhamed of. I was giddy, but I was virtu-
dus. If I had. the leaſt doubt of it, fad Liſiere,
ſhould I hold you in my arms? And at theſe words
hut who can deſcribe the tranſports of two
tender hearts, which after having fuffered by. a
cruel ſeparation, are re- united for ever. At hear-
ing of their reconciliation, the whole family was
ina rapture of joy; and good old Ambroſe-cxy'd
out with tears in his eyes, God be praiſed, I ſhall
die content !
- From that day forward. their tender union ſers
ved for an example to all young people of their
age. Their ſeparation convinced them that there
Perc in. the; world that could a
or
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for the loſs of one another; and cherefore Ehave
1 it a f egg rg!
THE GOOD HUSBAND. »
DPEEKISOND, one of thoſe good fathers 5 a
family, who puts us in mind of the golden
ho had married his only daughter Hortenſia to
the baron of Valſain, . his niece Amelia to the
preſident of Luſane. |
Valſain, a man of gallantry and politeneſs, witho
out any great attention, ſufficiently. tender and af-
fectionate without jealouſy, too much taken up
about his own reputation and advancement, to be
very watchful over his wife, left her in full con-
fidence upon her own credit, to enjoy the diſſipa-
tion of the world, in which he mixed himſelf, and
was pleaſed to fee her make an agreeable figure.
Luſane, more conſiderate, and more aſſiduous,
liv'd only for Amelia, who had a reciprocal affee-
tion for him. The mutual deſire of pleaſing was
their whole ſtudy, and to them the moft ſacred of
duties, was the ſincereſt and ſweeteſt of plea-
ſures.
Old Felifond was delighted in the union of his
family, till the death of Amelia and Valſain put
an end to his happinefs, and overwhelm'd him in
ſorrow and mourning. Luſane, to add to his diſ-
treſs, had not even the comfort of being a father;
Valſain left Hortenſia two children, with but a.
very inconſiderable proviſion. At firſt the young
widow was wholly taken up with lamentations for
her huſband, but however we ſtrive to forgetours -
&lves, we recur thither inſenf6bl The time 2
mourning, was the time of — -”
A young
—
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A young woman at Paris, who is of a gay diſ-
Poſition, is above cenſure only while ſhe is in the
power of her huſband. We readily ſuppoſe him
to be the moſt difficult, who is the moſt intereſt-
ed, and what he approves, who has a right to
condemn ? But when left entirely to herſelf, ſhe
enters again under the inſpection of a ſevere and
jealous public, and at the age of two and twenty,
widowhood is by no means a ſtate of liberty, Hor-
tenſia ſoon ſaw, that ſhe was too young to depend
ſolely upon herſelf, and Feliſond obſerved it ſtill
ſtronger. This good father one day communica»
ted his fears to his nephew Luſane. My dear
friend, ſays he, you are much to be pitied, but I
am infinitely more ſo, I have but one daughter,
you know how I love her, and you know the dan-
gers ſhe muſt be ſubject to. The world, which
has already gain'd too much upon her, calls her
back to it, and I am afraid, old as IJ am, that I
ſhall live to bluſh with ſhame. My daughter in
herſelf is virtuous at heart, but our virtue is in
ourſelves, and our honour, our honour which we
hold ſo dear, in the opinion of others. — l un-
derſtand you, and to ſpeak freely, I partake of
your uneaſineſs. But could we not influence Hor-
tenſia to ſome new engagement ?—Alas! my
friend, how many reaſons might ſhe alledge againſt
it? two children, two children, unprovided for,
without fortunes! For you know, I am in no
great circumſtances, and their father was ruin'd.
No matter, Sir, conſult Hortenſia, I know
a man, if agreeable to her, who has a good un-
derſtanding, and a heart capable of being of ſer-
vice to her children, The good old gentleman
thought he underſtood. him. O Luſane ! ſays he,
thou who waſt the happineſs of my niece Amelia,
thou whom I love as my own ſon, Luſane, hea-
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.
ven reads In my heart. .. . But tell me, the huſ-
band whom you propoſe for her, does he know m
daughter? Is he not afraid of her youth, her le-
vity, and the gay life ſne has led in the polite
world? He knows her intimately as yourſelf,
and regards her with equal eſteem. Feliſond did
not delay ſpeaking to his daughter. Yes, Sir, I
confeſs to you, ſaid ſhe, my ſituation is delicate.
To be always obſervant over one's ſelf, to be in
continual fear, to be in the world as before our
judge, is the neceſſary lot of widows at my age;
it is indeed both painful and dangerous —— Well
then, daughter, Luſane has been talking to me of
a huſhand for you, who will perfectly fuit you.—
Luſane! Ah my father would that he could find
me one, who reſembled himſelf. Happy as I was
with Valſain, I could not help now and then en-
vying the fortune of his lady. The father, in
raptures at her anſwer, went to report it immedi-
ately to his nephew, If you don't flatter me, ſays
Lulane to him, we ſhall be all happy to-morrow.
What, my dear friend, was it you ?— Tis I
myſelf, —My heart told me as much.—Yes, Sir,
tis | who wiſh to be the comfort of your age, in
bringing back to her duty, a daughter that is wor-
thy of you. I perceive that Hortenſia, without
committing any indecent extravagancies, has ta-
ken up all the airs; all the follies of a woman of
faſhion, The lovelineſs of her temper, mere
whim, and the deſire to pleaſe and amuſe herſelf,
have involved her in the labyrinth of a noiſy and
trifling ſociety ; the buſineſs now is to extricate
her. For this purpoſe indeed, a little courage
and reſolution is neceſſary, perhaps it will coſt
me ſome tears to overcome, and that is too much
for a heart of ſuch ſenſibility as mine. Vet I will
anſwer for myſelf, but you, Sir, you are 2
ther,
'T 38
ther, and if Hortenſia comes to make her com-
plaints to you Don't fear, diſpoſe of my
daughter as you pleaſe, I rely upon your virtue,
and if the authority of a huſband is inſufficient,
take that of a parent along with it. N
Luſane was received by Hortenſia in the moſt
affectionate manner. Think, Sir, ſays ſhe to him,
that you fee in me the wite whom you have loſt.
If Ican'but replace her in your heart, I ſhall have
nothing to regret. |
When the articles were drawing up, Sir, ſays
Luſane to Feliſond, don't let us forget that we
have two little orphans. Their father's eſtate did
not ſuffer him to leave them any great fortune,
don't let us deprive them of their mother's, and
let not the birth of my children be a misfortune to
them. The old man was affected, even to tears,
with the generoſity of his nephew, whom from
that moment he called his ſon. Hortenſia was not
leſs ſenſible of her new huſband's proceedings.
A genteel, elegant equipage, the richeſt dreſſes,
the moſt valuable jewels, an houſe furniſhed with
taſte, where nothing was to be feen which did not
beſpeak ſplendour and elegance, fufficiently ſatis-
fied the young widow that ſhe had a huſband, who
was attentive to her pleaſures, but the tranſports
which ſhe felt were not of long duration.
When the tumult of the marriage had ſubſid-
ed into a calm, Luſane thought it neceſſary to ex-
plain himſelf to her upon the plan of life which
he intended to purſue. For this ſerious conver-
ſation he choſe the morning, the hour of waking,
when the ſilence of the ſenſes leaves reaſon at its
liberty, when the foul itſelf, refreſhed by the
ſweetneſs of ſleep, ſeems to ſpring again into life
with pure ideas, and poſſeſſing itſelf entirely, con-
templates itſelf, and reads its -own boſom, as one
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looks to the bottom of the clear and quiet
ſtream. |
My dear Hortenſia, ſays he, I would have you
be happy, I would have you be always ſo ; but it
will coſt you ſome trifling ſacrifices, and I had ra-
ther aſk them of you thus frankly and openly,
than draw you into them by any artifice which
might ſpeak diſtruſt, You have paſſed ſome
agreeable years with the Baron of Valſain ; made
for the world and its pleaſures, young, gay, and
diſſipated himſelf, his taſte inſenſibly formed
yours. My character is of a graver turn, and my
diſpoſition more ſevere : I cannot adopt his man-
ners, and I think it is a happineſs for you. The
path you have purſued is ſpread with flowers, and
is full of ſnares; that which we muſt walk in has
leſs charms perhaps, but leſs dangers. The plea-
ſures which encompaſſed you, would have fled
with your youth; the days of ſerene happineſs,
which I prepare for you, will be the ſame at all
times. Tis not, in the midſt of the world, that
a woman of honour finds happineſs; *tis in the
ordering of her family, in domeſtic economy z
*tis in the love of her duty, in the care of her
children, and in the intimate commerce of her
ſociety conſiſting of good people. gh
This reproof ſupriz'd Hortenſia, and the word
economy very much alarmed her ear. But, aſ-
ſuming a tone of pleaſantry, by and by perhaps,
ſays ſhe, I may be an excellent ceconomiſt; at
preſent I know nothing of it. My duty is to love
you; I fulfill jt. My children ſtand in no need
of me, and as for company, you know very well
I ſee only people of faſhion and perſons of honour.
Don't let us confound, my deareſt, your ho-
nourable people with your good, —Yes, I under-
ſtand your diſtinction; but, in acquaintances, one
Vor. II. K ought
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ought not tobe fo difficult. The world, fuch as
it is, amuſes me; and my manner of life has no-
thing in it compatible with the decency of your
profeſſion. Y ou know I don't wear the long robe,
and I can't ſee why Madam Luſane ſhould be
more obliged to make herſelf miſerable than Ma-
dam Valſain. Be then, my dear preſident, as
grave as you pleaſe; but ſuffer your wife to be a
little giddy mad-cap for ſome years longer. Eve-
ry age will bring its pleaſures. *Tis pity, an-
ſwered Luſane, you ſhould ever be made ſerious,
your raillery becomes you ſo agreeably: never-
theleſs, truth muſt be ſpoken. Do you love indiſ-
oriminately every thing which compoſes this world
Fou talk of?—No, not every thing ſeparately ;
and of itſelf; but the whole, the medley delights
me:— What, the ſlanderers and libertines ? for
example, — Even they have their agreeabilities.—
Yes, of giving a ridiculous turn to the moſt
imple things, a criminal air to the moſt innocent,
and publiſhing with exaggeration the follies and
extravagancies of thoſe whom they flatter and ca-
reſs. Tis true, at firſt ſight, one is ſhocked with
ſuch characters, but there is very little danger in
them at the bottom, When one has ſcandalized
all the world, ſcandal does no miſchief; *tis a kind
of contagion, which waſtes itſelf by ſpreading.—
And thoſe raking fellows, whoſe very looks inſult
a woman of reputation, and whoſe converſation
diſgraces them, what ſay you to them One
does mot believe them —1 will not imitate them,
in ſpeaking ill of your ſex. There are many ann-
able and reſpectable women, TI know it z but there
are ſome, even as it is with you, à mixture of
virtues and vices——Well then, but tell me,
What ſhould prevent our making a choice out of
this. mixture: One does chuſe, indeed, for our
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intimates; but in the world one lives with the
world. For my part, my dear, I am determi-
ned to live only with ſuch whoſe morals and cha-
racters entitle them to be my friends. Your
friends, Sir, your friends ! and how many do we
meet with in life A great many, when we
are worthy of them, and know how to cultivate
them. I don't ſpeak of that generous friendſhip
whoſe devotion extends even to heroiſm; I call
thoſe my friends who come to me with the deſire
of finding joy and ſatis ſaction, diſpoſed to pardon
my foibles, to conceal them from the eyes of the
public, to treat me when preſent with frankneſs,
and when abſent with decency. Such friends are
not ſo rare to be found, and 1 hope I ſhall have
many ſuch. All in good time; we'll make up our
familiar acquaintance by and by.—I will not
have two ſets of acquaintance — What, Sir,
will not your doors be open? Open to m
friends always, come when they will; to them al-
ways, I aſſure you.——No, Sir, I ſhall not ſuf-
fer you to diſguſt the public by offenſive diſtincti-
ons. We may not be in love with the world, but
we ought to pay ſome deference to it, and give
into it Oh!] pray make youſelf eaſy, my dear
that only regards me. They'll ſay, perhaps, that
I am a brute; perhaps that I am jealous : no mat-
ter; *tis of no conſequence, Alt is of conſe-
quence to me. I would have my huſband reſpec-
ted, and not have it in his power to reproach me
with making him the talk of the world. Make
up your ſociety as you pleaſe, but permit me to
cultivate my old acquaintance, and prevent both
the court and the city from railing againſt you,
Luſane admired the addreſs with which a young
woman goes about to defend het liberty. My
dear Hortenſia, ſays he, my reſolution is not ta-
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ken at random; I have well conſidered it, believe
me, and nothing in the world can alter it. Chuſe,
among your acquaintance, as many diſcreet wo-
men and worthy men as you pleaſe; my houſe
ſhall be theirs: but this choice once made, take
your leave of all the reſt. I will join my friends
to yours. A liſt of both united ſhall be commit-
ted to the hands of the porter, to be his rule for
every day; and if he exceeds it, he ſhall be diſ-
miſled immediately. This is the plan which I pro-
poſe, and which I wanted to communicate to
Jou.
1 Hortenſia was in the utmoſt confuſion, to ſee
all her fine projects vaniſhed away in a moment.
She could not believe that it was Luſane; that
complaiſant, mild-tempered Luſane, who had
been ſpeaking to her. After all, ſays ſhe, tis fine
truſting to men] What an authority he takes up-
on him! In what cool blood he dictates his will
and pleaſure to me! See none but women of vir-
tue, and men of character] a pretty thing indeed
and then the entertaining ſociety trom a circle of
reſpectable friends! Such is my plan, ſays he; as
af he need only ſpeak to be obeyed ! See how they
reſtrain us. My couſin was, no doubt, a very
good little woman, who would moap as long as
— pleaſe. She was as happy as a queen, if her
uſband did but deign to ſmile, and in tranſports
at a ſingle kiſs ; would come boaſting to me of her
divine man. He thinks, no doubt, that I ſhall
follow her example, and make it my whole-care
to pleaſe kim. He is miſtaken ; and if he thinks
to keep me in keading-ſtrings, he ſhall find that I
am no longer a child. BY.
From this moment inſtead of that lively, open
and ergaging air, which ſhe always wore in the
company of Luſane, ſhe put on a cold and _
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ved manner, which, though he plainly perceived,
he took no manner of notice of to her. She hed
taken care to communicate the news of her mar-
riage to that crowd of idle acquaintance who go
by the name of friends. They came in ſhoals to
congratulate her, and Luſane was obliged, with
her, to return theſe viſits of good breeding, but,.
even in his politeneſs, he made ſuch ſtriking diſ-
tinctions, that it was eaſy for Hortenſia to per-
ceive whom he wiſhed to return his viſits.
Olympia was not among this number, a lady
who, with a total indifference for the opinion of
the world, thinks every-thing that pleaſes mult be
right, and joins the example to the precept ; nor
yet Clymene, who does not ſee why one ſhould
make any fcruple to change our lovers, when we
are tired of the perſon we have taken, and thinks.
all timid precautions of ſecrecy infinitely below a
woman of her quality, Nor were theſe pretty
creatures the toilet hunters in the number, who car-
rying their indolent uſeleſſneſs about Paris, Sill
worms at morn,and butterflies at night,paſs half their
life in having nothing to do, and the other half in
doing nothing. Nor thoſe dangling profeſfors of
complaiſance, who having no perſonal exiſtence in
the world, attach themſelves to a pretty woman
to be ſeen in her train, and are content with be-
ing humble admirers. Hortenſia came home
thoughtful and diſturbed. She thought ſhe ſaw
the moment which would deprive her of all the
happineſs of life. Vanity, the taſte of pleaſure,
the love of liberty, all rebelled againſt the autho-
rity her huſband wiſhed to aſſume. Neverthe-
leſs, being armed with reſolution, ſhe thought
better, to diſſemble a little a longer, till a better
opportunity ſhould happen for declaring herſelf.
Net” K 3 Luſane,
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Luſane, next morning, aſked her if ſhe had
made our her liſt. No, Sir, fays ſhe, I have not,
nor do I deſign it. Here is mine, anſwered he,
without any emotion. See, if in the number of
your and my friends, I have forgot any that are
agreeable or proper for you. —I have told you, Sir,
I don't concern myſelf with your affairs, and I
beg once for all, you will not trouble yourſelf
about mine. If our acquaintance don't agree, let
us do as all the world does, let us divide them
without any inconvenience. Do you invite whom
you pleaſe to dinner, II aſk whom I like to ſup-
per.——Ah ! my dear Hortenſia, how, wide is your
propoſal from my principles; don't think of
it, ſuch a cuſtom ſhall never be eſtabliſhed in my
houſe. I'll make it as agreeable to you as poſſi-
ble, but no diſtinction, if you pleaſe, between my
friends and yours, To-night all who are contain-
ed in the lift are expected to ſup with you, receive
them well I befeech you, and prepare yourſelf ta
live in ſocicty with them. At theſe words he re-
tired, leaving the liſt in the full fight of Horten-
ſia. There, ſays ſhe, there's his written law fair-
ly penn'd, and running it ſlightly over, encou-
raged herſelf never to comply with it, when the
counteſs of Fierville, an aunt of Valfain's, came
to pay her a vifit, and found her with tears in her
es. This haughty woman had contracted a
friendſhip with Hortenfia, and as ſhe flattered her
inclination, ſhe had gained her confidence. The
young lady, whoſe heart had need of ſome com-
fort, told her the cauſe of her uneaſineſs. What,
cried out the counteſs, after you have had the
folly of marrying beneath yourſelf, will you diſ-
tonour yourſelf itil} more? You a flave ! and to
whom! a lawyer! Confider that you have had the
honour to be Madam de Valſain. Hortenſia
bluſhed
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bluſhed for her weakneſs, in having compromiſed
with her huſband. Wrong as he may be, I can-
not help reſpecting him; he is the honeſteſt man
in the world, and what he has done for my chil-
dren Honeſteſt man ! and pray who is not? it
is a virtue which walks the ſtreet, and what has
this honeſt man done fo very wonderful for your
children? he has not robbed your children of their
fortune] He made a fine uſe indeed of your father's
weakneſs. No, Madam, he has acquired no right
to talk to you in the ſtyle of a maſter. Let him
preſide upor the bench, but leave the government
at home to you, At theſe words, Luſane enter-
ed, To me, Madam, ſaid he to her; tis neither
my wife nor I whoam to govern, *tisreaſon, and
in all probability ſhe would not chuſe you for her
judge. No, Sir, replied the counteſs in a moſt
authoritative tone, it belongs not to you to lay
down laws for your lady. You have overheard me,
and I am glad of it, you know what I think of
the folly of your proceedings. If I was as much
in the wrong, —— Luſane, as your ladyſhip.
ſeems to think, hard words and reproaches would
not ſet me right. Sweetneſs and modeſty are the
arms of your ſex, and Hortenfia alone' has much
more power than from your conjunction. Leave
the care of our agreeing together to ourſelves,
ſince we are to live together. When you have
made her duty become odious to her, you cannot
give her a diſpenſation from fulfilling it. When
you have made her forfeit the confidence and eſ-
teem of her hutband, you will not be able to
make her amends. Spare your advice, which ſhe
neither will nor ought to follow : it might be dan-
gerous to any other, thank heaven, it is only uſe-
leſs to her. Hortenſia, added he, as he was go-
ing, you will not wiſh to give me pain, but let
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this be a leſſon for you. You defend yourſelf rare-
ly, ſaid Madam de Fierville to Hortenſia, who
had not even dared to lift up her eyes. Obey,
child! obey! It is the property of weak minds.
Juſt Heaven] ſaid ſhe, as ſhe was going out, Iam
the mildeſt, - moſt virtuous woman upon earth,
but if a huſband ſhould dare to treat me fo, I
would be revenged of him in good earneſt, Hor-
tenſia had ſcarce power to riſe from her ſeat to
accompany Madam de Fierville, ſhe was in ſuch
a trembling and confuſion of mind. She perceiv-
ed the advantage which her imprudence gave her
huſband ; but far from availing himſelf of it, he
did not even reproach her, and his delicacy pu-
niſhed her more feelingly, than his reſentment
could have done. 15 ; |
In the evening, the gueſts being aſſembled,
Luſane took the opportunity, when his wife was
not yet amongſt them. This, ſays he to them, is
the meeting of friendſhip, if it is aggreeable to
you, let me ſee you often, and let us paſs our lives
together, The general voice of the company
was, that they deſired nothing better. Here, ſaid
he, and preſented the good old gentleman Feli-
ſond to them, this is our worthy and affectionate
father, who will be the foul of our pleaſures. At
his age, joy has ſomething more ſenſible, more
Intereſting than in youth, and —___ more
amiable than an agreeable old man. He has a
daughter whom I love, and would make happy.
Aſſiſt me, my friends, to keep her amongſt us,
and let love, nature, and friendſhip conſpire to
make her houſe more agreeable to her every day.
She has ſome prejudices for the world, natural at
her age. But when ſhe ſhal] have taſted the plea-
ſures of virtuous ſociety, the idle world will no
longer affect her. While Luſane was Dann
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old Feliſond could not retrain dropping a tear. O
my friend, ſaid he, embracing him, happy is the
father, who at his death, can leave his daughter
in ſo good hands !
In a few moments after, Madam Lufane enter-
ed the room. 'The hearts of all the company re-
joiced at her ſight, but hers was not at eaſe. She
diſguiſed her uneaſineſs under the reſerved air of
ceremony, and her politeneſs, though ſerious and
grave, ſtill appeared amiable and affecting; fo
much the natural graces enjoy the gift of embel-
liſhing every thing. |
They played at cards; Luſane obſerved to Hor,-
tenſia, that all his company played low; it is the
means, ſays he, of preſerving harmony and joy.
High gaming pre-occupies and alienates the mind,
it hurts thoſe who loſe; and impoſes the neceſſi-
ty of being ſerious on thoſe who win, which is in-
conſiſtent with unreſerved friendſhip. The ſup-
per was elegant. Gaiety and good humour went
round the table. The mind and heart were at
eaſe. 'Their gallantry was ſuch as modeſty might
ſmile at, and neither freedom nor decency incom-
moded each other. :
Hortenſia, in any other ſituation, would have
reliſhed theſe calm delights, but the idea of con-
ſtraint, which ſhe had affixed to them, poiſoned
all their ſweetneſs.
Next day Luſane was ſurpriſed to find: her in a
more lively and gay diſpoſition; he much doubted
that ſhe had taken ſome new reſolution. What is
to be done to-day, ſaid he to her? Iam going to
the play, ſays ſhe, and I ſhall return to ſup at home.
Very well, and what ladies are you going
with?—— Two of Valſain's friends, Oly mpia and
Artenice. It is a cruel thing to me, ſaid her huſ-
band, to be continually vexing you. But, Hor-
* tenſia,
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tenſia, why would you expoſe me? Do you
think I am ſo abſurd in the principles I have laid
down, that I would conſent you ſhould be ſeen in
public with thoſe women ?——But you muſt con-
ſent for the party is fix'd, and I cannot fail.
Pardon me, Madam, but you muſt fail, that you
may not be failing to yourſelf. —Is it failing at all
to myſelf, to fee women whom all the world ſees ?
Les, it is expoſing yourſelf, to be confound-
ed with them in the opinion of the public.—The
public, Sir, is not unjuſt, and in the world every
one anſwers for themſelves —— The public, Ma-
dam, ſuppoſes with reaſon, that they who are in a
ſociety of pleaſures, are ſocial alſo in their mo-
rals; and you ought to have nothing in common
with Olympia and Artenice, If you would break
with them in decency, there is a method. Diſen-
gage yourſelf from the play, and invite them to
ſupper; my door ſhall be ſhut to all my friends,
and we will be alone with them. No, vir, ſays
ſhe, with a little acrimony, I will not abuſe your
complaiſance, and immediately wrote to excuſe
herſelf. Nothing ever coſt her ſo much as this
note. She waſhed it with the tears of anger.
Moſt aſſuredly, ſaid ſhe, I have no great value
for theſe women, the play intereſts me till leſs;
but to be contradicted in every thing, never to
have a will of one's own, to ſubmit always to
another's, to hear him dictate his laws with that
inſulting ſerenity; 'tis that which diſtracts me,
and makes me capable of every thing.
She was deceived, however, in ſuppoſing Lu-
ſane's trznquillity had the air of an inſult, for it
was eaſy to perceive what a violence he did to
himſelf. His father-in-law, who came to ſup with
him, perceived his uneaſineſs. Ah ! Sir, ſaid Lu-
ſane to him, I feel I have undertaken an engage-
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ment very painful for me to perform. He told
him all that had paſſed. Courage, my good friend,
fays the good father, don't let us give ground; if
it pleaſes heaven, you will ſtill make her worthy
your attention and love. Out of compaſſion to
me, from compaſſion to her, keep your reſolution
to the end. I will go fee her, and if ſhe com-
plains If ſhe complains, comfort her, Sir, and
ſeem ſenſible of her uneaſineſs. Her reaſon will
be more tractable, when her heart is leſs agitated;
Let her hate me at this moment, I expectit; I
am not at all ſurprized. But if the bitterneſs of
her temper alters the ſentiments of nature, if her
confidence in you grows weaker, all is loſt, The
goodneſs of her heart is my only reſource; and
*tis only by a conſtant mildneſs we can prevent the
inflaming her reſentments. After all, the trials L
put her to are grievous at her age, and it reſts
upon you to be her ſupport. N
Theſe precautions were uſeleſs; whether it was
vanity or delicacy, Hortenſia had reſolution
enough to conceal her chagrin from the-eyes of
her father. Good, ſaid Luſane; ſhe knows how.
to conquer herfelf, and weak minds only are to
de deſpaired of: the day following they dined
tete-a-tets; and in profoundſilen ce. On getting
up from table, Hortenſia ordered the horſes to be
put to, Where are you going? ſays her huſband.
To make my apology for yeſterday's unpo-
liteneſs. Go, Hortenſia, ſince you will go;
but, if you value my repoſe, take your laſt fare-
well of thoſe women. 5 5
Artenice and Olympia, to whom the counteſs
of Fierville had related the ſcene ſhe had with
Lufane, readily imagined that he had prevented
Hortenſia from going to the play with them. Yes,
ſaid they, it muſt be him; we never ſaw him =
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for a ſew moments, but we ſoon found him out.
He 1s an unfeeling, abſolute man, who will only
make you unhappy. He never ſpoke ta me hi-
therto, but in the tone of friendſhip. It is true
he has particular notions, and a manner of life,
not conformable to the cuſtom of the world, but
——But let him live by himſelf, and leave us to en-
joy our amuſements in peace. Do you aſk him to
follow you? A huſband is the man in the world
we can do the beſt without, and I don't ſee what
occaſion you have for his advice to receive whom
you like, and to viſit whomſoever you pleaſe. No,
adam, ſaid Hortenſia, it is not ſo eaſy as you
1magine, for a woman at my age to contradict a
Huſband's will, who has aCted ſo generouſly by
me. She yields; alas ſhe is quite a ſlave, replied
Artenice. Ah ! my dear, you don't know what it is
to have once given way to a man with whom we
are obliged to paſs our whole lives. Our huſ-
bands, if they are not our ſlaves, are our tyrants.
Their authority is a torrent that gathers ſtrength
at every pace; you cannot ſtop but at its ſource
and I ſpeak this with a knowledge of the cauſe.
Having had the misfortune tw:ce to pleaſe my
huſband, I hada ſix months trouble to overcome
that aſcendance which my weakneſs had given
him, and without an unheard-of effort of cou-
rage, I had been no more ſpoken of, and ſhould
have been quite an undone woman. That de-
pends on diſpoſition, ſays Hortenſia, and my huſ-
band is not one of. thoſe whom obſtinacy can have
any weight with. Undeceive yourſelf, replied
Olympia, mildneſs is loſt upon them, it is their
very obſtinacy by which we conquer them. It is
the ſhame and fear of being ridiculous which re-
ſtrains them. What are you afraid of? We have
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while they have nothing to reproach us with:
Your cauſe is the general cauſe of women, and
even the men themfelves will be of your ſide,
Hortenſia inſtanced as an exception, her own
couſin, who had made Luſane perfectly happy.
They replied, that her couſin was weak; that if
the life ſhe had led was agreeable to her, it was
that ſhe knew no better, but that a woman thrown
into the great world, who had taſted thedelights
of it, and who had been a principal ornament to
it, was not defigned to be ſhut up in the lonely
ſolitude of her own houſe, and in the narrow cir-
cle of a low acquaintance, whom nobody knows.
They talked to her then of an elegant ball, which
the dutcheſs of as to give the next day. All
the handſome women in the town are to be there,
ſaid they; if your huſband prevents your go-
ing, it will be an action which willabſolutely call
out for vengeance, and we really adviſe, as friends,
to lay hold of that opportunity to make an eclat,
and ſeparate yourſelt from him. 433
Altho' Hortenſia was very averſe to following
ſuch violent counſels, ſhe could not help being
uneaſy in her mind, that her ſituation ſhould be-
come the topic of public converſation, and that
ſhe ſhould be ſought for in vain at thoſe enter-
tainments, where ſhe had before been ſo much
taken notice of. When ſhe came home ſhe re-
ceived a card, which ſhe read with great impa-
tience, and ſighed when ſhe had gone through it,
She held it in her trembling hand when her huſ-
band came up to her. Tis only a card of invita-
on, ſaid ſhe with a negligent air, to the dutcheſs's
ball.— Very well, Madam.—Well, Sir, I ſhan't
go, you may be perfectly eaſy But why, Hor-
tenſia, ſnould you deprive yourſelf of innocent
pleaſures? Have I ever debarred you from * ?
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The honour done to vou in this invitation is equal-
ly flattering to me, as it is polite to you; go to
the ball, eclipſe every thing tha tis amiable there,
it will be a triumph to me. Hortenſia could not
conceal her joy and ſurprize, Ak]. Luſane, ſaid
fhe to him, why are you not the ſame always?
now I ſee the huſband I hoped to meet with. I re-
cover him again, but is it for a long time? Lu-
fane's company met in the evening, and Horten-
ſia was even adorable. They propoſed parties for
fupper, parties for the play; ſne engaged her-
ſelf with the beſt grace in the world. Lively with
the men, engaging with the women, ſhe charm-
ed all around her. Luſane alone durſt not yet
give a looſe to that joy her behaviour inſpired. He
foreſaw this good humour could not remain a long
time unclouded. However, he whiſpered a word
to his valet de chambre, and the next morning,
vw hen his wife called for her domino, it ſeemed
like a theatrical incident, they brought her a dreſs
for the maſquerade, on which the hand of Flora
ſeemed to have ſcattered the fineſt flowers of
ſpring. Theſe flowers, in which the art of Italy
equals even nature, and deceives the delighted
eye, theſe flowers twiſted up into garlands, bor-
dered the light weaves of a ſilk tiſſue of the
brighteſt colour. Hortenſia, in love with her dreſs,
Her huſband and herſelf, could not conceal her
joy. Her glaſs, which ſhe conſulted, promiſed her
wonderful ſucceſs, and that is an oracle never
known to deceive. In appearing at the ball, ſhe
enjoyed the flattering emotion, which ariſes from
an unanimous admiration, and that flux and re-
flux, that buzz and buſtle have ſomething in them
very agreeable to a young woman. Luſane, no
doubt, was in great favour at her return; it ſeem-
ed as if ſhe- had a mind to paint to him all the
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tranſports ſhe had inſpired. At that moment he
received her careſſes without reflection, for the
wiſeſt ſometimes forget themſelves, but when he
recovered htmſelf, a maſquerade, ſays he, a do-
mino, a dreſs, can theſe turn her young giddy
head | alas ! how much more have I to-go through:
with, before I ſhall fee her as | wiſh |: ;
Hortenſia had ſeen at the maſquerade all that
giddy acquaintance- her huſband ſo earneſtly de-
fired to break all connection with. He would do
well, ſaid they, to be a little more reaſonable, and
reſtore you to your friends. He will abſolutely
be the butt of all ridicule, and we have made a
party to plague him wherever he comes; tell him,
for his own repoſe, that he had better ſuffer us
to vifit you as uſual. If we are ſo unfortunate
as to diſpleaſe, far be it from us to incommode
him; let him ſatisfy himſelf by not being viſible,
but don't let him deſire his wife to be ſo too.
Alarmed at thefe menaces, Hortenſia intimated
to her huſband, that it was thought very ſtrange
that his doors ſhould be ſhut in that manner, and
that folks neceſſarily began to complain of it,
and propoſed, indeed, even mentioning it to
him. Let them, ſays he, I'll teach them a gcod
method to take their revenge of me; let them
each marry a pretty wife, live with her and his
friends, and ſhut the door in my face, whenever
I break in upon their happineſs.
Some days after, two of theſe young gentry,
who had been piqued at not having admittance
to Hortenſia, met Luſane at the opera, and ac-
coſted him to know the reaſon of the unpolite-
neſs of his Swiſs. Sir, ſays the Chevalier de St.
Pllacide to him, you know that the marquis of
Cerval, and myſelf, have been twice to wait up-
on you? es, gentlemen, I know you gave
yourſelf that trouble. Neither you nor _
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lady were to be ſeen. That often happens.
Vet you receive company. We ſee hardly
any but our own friends. We are the friends
of Hortenfia, and in Valſain's reign we viſited
her every day. Ah! Sir, that Valſain was a moſt -
amiable man ! to be ſure ſhe has. not loſt by the
change, but he was the honeſteſt, the moſt com-
placent huſband I know it. He now, for
example, had not the leaſt jealouſy.— How happy
he was!— You ſpeak as if you envied him, is it
true what they ſay that you are not ſo perfectly
at eaſe? Oh + gentlemen, whenever you marry,
beware of loving your wives; jealouſy is a moſt
terrible thing. —W hat! ſeriouſly then you are
ftricken ?—Yes, alas! for my fins—But Hor-
tenſia is a woman of ſuch honour ] know it very
well.—She lived with Valſain like an angel.—l
hope ſhe'l] live the ſame with me.—Why then
do you do her the injuſtice of being jealous ?—Tis
an involuntary ſenſation which I can give no ac-
count of ,—You allow then that it is a folly.
It is ſo; for I cannot ſee a man of a fine perſon,
or diftinguiſhed merit, near my wite, without my
head being turned, and for that very reaſon I ſhut
my doors againſt the moſt amiable people in the
world. — The marquis and I, ſays the chevalier,
are no dangerous people, and we hope. — Lou!
gentlemen, you would make my life miſerable.
I know you too well not to be afraid of you, and,
ſince I muſt confeſs it, I have abſolutely inſiſted
upon my wife's never ſeeing you.—But, Mr,
preſident, this compliment is rather indelicate.—
O gentlemen, it is the beſt that a jealous man can
make. Chevalier, ſaid the marquis, when Lu-
ſane had left them, we ſeem'd to have ſome notion
of humming the queer fellow. Oh! that
was what I intended. l believe upon my ſoul
that he bums us ——Egad I ſuſpeQ it, but I =
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be revenged—How——As one generally is
revenged of a huſband. 8 5 |
At ſupper with Madam de Bellune that ver
evening, they repreſented Luſane as the mo
odious man in the world; and his young wife,
ſays'my lady, has the complaiſance to ſuffer him
to contradict her! I'll teach her a better leſſon.
Madam de Bellune's houſe was the rendezvous
of all the gay, giddy people of the court and city,
and the ſecret ſhe uſed to draw them together,
was by getting all the pretty women to her rout.
Hortenſia was invited to a ball which ſhe gave,
It was neceſſary Luſane ſhould be acquainted
with it; but without the appearance of aſking
bis conſent, ſhe only juſt hinted it en paſſant. No,
my dear, ſays Luſane to Hortenſia, Madam de
Bell une's houſe is not a proper place for you. Her
ball is but a rendezvous, which you ſhould not
appear at. The public are not obliged to be-
lie ve you more infallible than another; and to a-
void all the ſuſpicion of a ſhipwreck, it 1s beſt to
avoid the rock. The young lady, more offended
at this refuſal, as ſhe little expected it, burſt forth
into complaints and reproaches.— You abuſe,
ſaid ſhe to him, the authority I have given up to
you ; but have a care of going too far. I under-
and you, Madam, anſwered Lufane, in a more
firm and ſerious tone; but as long as I have any
eſteem for you, I ſhall be under no fears, and 1
ſhall fear Ain leſs when I ceaſe to eſteem you.
Hortenſia, who had not affix'd any idea to the
words which juſt eſcaped him, bluſh'd at the
ſenſe which they ſeemed to intimate, and burſt
into tears. Luſane laid hold of that moment,
when the vivacity of her temper gave way to her
confuſion. I am become odious to you, but what
is my crime? Namely, that I would fave you
from the dangers which encompaſs you, diveſt
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you. from whatever might fix a ſtain, I don't ſay
upon your innocence, but upon your reputation,
and make you regard in time, what you ought to
regard always. Yes, Sir, your intentions are
good, but you miſtake. You would have fe
tove my duty, and you make it a ſervitude. There
may be conſequences, perhaps, in my connexions,
you may foreſee ; but the knot muſt be untied,
not broken; and you ought rather to detach me
inſenſibly from the perſons you diſlike, than make
ourſelf ridiculous by treating me as a priſoner.
hen ridicule is ill placed, anſwered Luſane, it
retorts upon the perſon who uſes it. That pri-
fon you complain of, is the refuſe and aſylum of
good morals, and fhall be that of peace and hap-
pineſs too whenever you pleafe. You reproach
me with want of conduct in regard to the world
and your ſelf. I have my reaſons. I know at
your age the contagion of faſhion; example and
habit every day make new progreſs; and unleſs
the communication 1s broken, there is no anſwer-
ing for conſequences. It coſts me much pain,
indeed, to ſpeak to you in this determined tone;
but it is my tenderneſs for you enables me to do
it; a friend, upon occafion, ought to know when
to be diſlatisfied with his friend. Be aſſured then,
that as long as I love you, I ſhall have reſolution
enough to oppoſe you ; and woe betide you if. I
forſake you.—Woe to me ! you have a very low
opinion of me, indeed, and muſt eſteem me very
lightly, if you think I am loſt from the moment
you ceaſe to keep guard over me! Go, Sir, I
know how to conduct myſelf ; and Valſain, who
always did me juſtice, had never any cauſe to re-
pent of the confidence he repoſed in me. I muſt
_ confeſs. to you, in taking a huſband, 1 did not
deſign to take a tyrant, To yield to your wilt
requires more reſolution or. weakneſs than I _
nk.
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miſtreſs of. All theſe reſtriftions you impoſe on
me are painful to me, and I ſhall never accuf<
tom myſelf to them. Sad
Luſane, left alone, could not help reproach-
ing himfelf for the tears he had made her ſhed.
What have I undertaken, ſaid he, and what a
trial is it for my ſoul! 1 her tyrant! I! who
love her better than my life, and feel my heart
- wounded at every complaint. I deſpair, though
I ſhould perfift, and if I give ground one moment,
I am certain to loſe all the fruits of my reſolution.
One ſtep into this world ſhe is ſo fond of, will ine-
vitably engage her to make another; I muſt then
maintain this character, cruel as it appears to
her, and ſtil} more cruel to myſelf. .
. Hortenfia paſſed the night in the moſt terrible
agitation, Alt the violent methods crouded upon
her imagination, but the integrity of her mind
was alarmed. Why, faid fhe, when her anger
was a litle calmed, why ſhould I make myſelt ſo
uneaſy ? This man is maſter of himfelf and me,
becauſe he does not love me, but if he ever
thould love me, I fhould triumph in my turn.
Let me employ the only arms which nature has
furniſhed me with, mildnefs- and feduCtion,
Luſane, who had not cloſed his eyes, came in
the morning, with an air of friendſhip, to aſk
bow ſhe had paſſed the night. You onght to
know, ſaid ſhe to him, you who find ſuch plea-
fure in giving me uneaſinefs. Ah Lufane, is
it for you to create my unhappineſs > who could:
have. told me I ſhould ever repent of a choice,
which I made myſelf with fuch frankneſs and ſin-
_ cerity ? In pronouncing theſe words, ſhe ſtretch-
ed out her hand to him, and the two moſt elo-
quent eyes that love ever fpoke from, reproach-
ed him with ingratitude. O thou deareſt part of
myſelf, ſaid he, embracing her, believe me, all
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my pleaſure and all my wiſhes are to make you
happy. I would have your path of life ſtrewed
over with flowers, but ſuffer me to take away
the thorns. Let your inclinations be ſuch, which
can coſt you no regret, and be aſſured they ſhall.
be complied with in my mind, as ſoon as they
are formed in yours. The only law I wifh to im-
poſe upon you, is your own will, not that of a
moment, which is only a whim, a mere caprice,
but that which ſhall ariſe from reflection and ex-
erience,that which you will bave ten years hence.
feel for you the tenderneſs of a lover, the fondneſs
of a — and the vigilant inquietude of a father.
This, this is my heart, it is worthy of you, and
if you are ſtill ſo unjuſt to me as to complain, you.
will not, you cannot be fo long. This ſpeech was
accompanied with the moſt ſtriking marks of paſ-
fionate love, and Hortenſia ſeemed ſenſible of it.
Eight days paſſed away in the moſt happy union
of mutual underſtanding, which ean poſſibly ſub-
fiſt between man and wife. Hortenſia joined the
moſt endearing carefles, which love, holding in-
telligence with duty, ſeems to ſteal from modeſty.
Thoſe are the moſt ſubtle threads which can
wind about a tender heart. But was all this ſin-
cere? Luſane believed it to be ſo, and I believe
it too, After all, ſhe would not be the firſt wo-
man whoſe inclinations have agreed with her de-
figns, and whoſe politics coincided with her plea-
ſures. |
One of thoſe days however was approaching,
- which are conſecrated to folly and mirth, and
during which we are more ridiculous indeed, but
infinitely leſs happy than our forefathers, Hor
tenſia intimated, to Luſane her'deſtre to make an
entertainment, where muſic ſhould precede the
ſupper, which ſhould be followed by a dance.
Luſane gave his conſent in the moſt agreeable
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manner in the world, but not without precaution.
He ſettled with his wife upon the choice and num-
ber of people ſhe was to invite, and cards were .
ſent about according to that liſt. |
Ihe day came, and every thing a propares
with the care of a ſplendid and magnificent lo-
ver. But that very morning, the Swiſs deſired
to ſpeak to his maſter. Beſides, the perſons
who are to come according to the liſt, my lady
inſiſts, ſaid he, that all ſnould be let in, who come
to the ball. Is that your pleaſure, Sir? Un-
doubtedly, ſaid Luſane, diſſembling his ſurprize,
and you are never to doubt my apptobation of
whatever your miſtreſs orders you to do. At that
very moment ſhe came in to him, and after he
had told her what had happened, you have ex-
poſed yourſelf, ſaid he, to the danger of being
put to the bluſh before your ſervants, you have
done more, you have hazarded what a wife can-
not be too careful of, the confidence of your huſ-
band. Is it for you, Hortenſia, to uſe ſtratagem
with me? If I was not fully perſuaded of the ho-
neſty of your mind, what idea -would you now
give me, and what would be the reſult of your.
imprudence ? The pleaſure of afflicting me for a
moment, and making me more diſtruſtful of you,
than I wiſh to be. Ak! let me eſteem you for
ever, and reſpect yourſelf, as much as I reſpect
you. TI will not humble you ſo far, as to revoke
the order you have given, but you will chagrin
me exceedingly, if you do not revoke it yourſelf,
and your to-day's conduct ſhall be the rule of all
my life. I have committed a fault ſays, ſhe, I
perceive it, I will repair it. I will go and write
this moment that I ſhall have neither concert,
nor ſupper, nor - ball, at my houſe, I will not
make a parade of joy, when death is in my. heart.
The public will know I am wretched, but or
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tired of diſſimulation. Luſane falling immedi-
ately at her feet, if I loved you leſs, ſaid he, I
ſhould yield to your reproaches, but I adore you,
I will conquer myſelf. It would kill me with
grief to be hated by my wife, but I cannot live
with the ſhame of having betrayed her by aban-
doning her. I felt a ſenſible ſatisfaction in con-
ſenting to your giving this entertainment; you
would now break it off, becaufe I exclude thoſe
only who are unworthy to approach you. In
this inſtance, you ſhew me, that a trifling world
is more dear to you, than your huſband. It is
enough; I will give orders, that the entertain-
men ſhall not ke place. Hortenſia, ſtruck to the
bottom of her heart with what ſhe had heard,
and ſtill more affected at the tears ſhe had ſeen
fall from his eyes, returned again into herſelf.
Why ſhould I be fo obſtinate, ſaid ſhe ? The peo-
ple he would alienate me from, are they m
friends? Will they ſacrifice the ſlighteſt of their
intereſt to me? And yet I deſtroy the repoſe of
my own life. I make myſelf perpetually uneaſy,
I renounce and poiſon every thing, which can
create my happineſs for them ! *Tis paſſion, *tis
vanity miſleads me. Have I ever once conſiders
ed, whether my huſband had reaſon on his fide ?
I have only been reflecting on the humiliating
circumſtance of obeying. But who is to com-
mand, if not the wiſeſt? I am a ſlave, and who
is not, or who ought not to be ſo to their duty?
I call that good man my tyrant, who conjures me,
with tears in his eyes, to be careful of my repu-
tation! where then is this haughtineſs I reproach
him with! I ſhould have perhaps much more to
complain of, if he were as weak as Iam, I afs
flict him at that very moment, when he ſhews
the moſt delicate regard for my conduct. Theſe
are his injuries, theſe are the real ones, and war
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ſuch as J attribute to him. Go, ſays ſhe, to one
of her maids, go tell your maſter, that I want to
- ſpeak to him. She had ſcarce delivered her meſ-
ſage, when The began to be in a terrible fright.
I am going then to conſent to make myſelf mi-
ſerable all the days of my life. For I muſt own
there is no amufement, but in the great world;
and all theſe good fort of people he wants me to
live amongſt, are not half ſo agreeable as Valſain's
friends uſed to be. As this reflection had altered
her diſpoſition a little, ſne contented herſelf with
telling Luſane, ſhe was willing once more to
give him his way. She ſent her excuſes to thoſe
perſons who intended coming to the ball, and
the entertainment, which was as elegant as poſ-
ſible, had all the eaſe and chearfulneſs of joy,
without any tumult or confuſion, |
Tell me, my dear, ſaid Luſane to Hortenſia,
has there been any thing wanting in our enter-
tainment ? You diſguiſe, ſays ſhe to him, ſome-
times the reſtriions you lay upon me, but all
days are not Tejoicing ones. It is in the void,
in the ſilence of the honſe, that a woman at m
age grows weary and diſſatisfied, and breathes
the poiſon of diſcontent. And if you have a de-
ſire that my youth ſhould be conſumed away by
this poiſon, you will ſoon have that pleaſure. No,
Madam, ſaid he to her, ſtung to the heart with
grief, I have not that cold cruelty you ſuſpe&
me of. If I muſt renounce my care of making
you happy, that tender, pleaſing, and affectionate
care, which ought to be the purpoſe of my whole
life, at leaſt don't let me be reproached with
having embittered, and empoiſoned all your days.
Neither I, nor the virtuous friends I have Hes 6
for you, can make you amends, it ſeems, for
what I deprive you 5 In the multitude of peo-—
ple round about us, my houſe is become a a |
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fol ſolitude to you ; you have the hardineſs to
tell me ſo to my* face. I muſt reſtore you then
to that liberty, without which you can love no-
thing. I have but one particular favour to re-
queſt of you: to-morrow I expect another ſet of
company, and if you don't think them worthy
of taking up ſome of your time, if they cannot
fill up the room of that world which you prize
ſo much; all is over, you are at your liberty,
act as you pleaſe. Hortenſia very feadily com-
ply'd with his requeſt. She was very ſure he
could offer her nothing ſo valuable as her liberty,
but it was no very dear purchaſe to undergo this
ſlender trial.
The next morning ſhe ſaw her huſband enter
the room, with a countenance which ſparkled
with love and joy. Here, ſays he, this is the
company I would propoſe to you. If you are
not content with them, I know not how to amuſe
you. Let any one imagine the ſurprize this ſen-
ſible mother was in, at the ſight of her two chil-
dren whom ſhe had had by Valſain. My. children,
ſaid Luſane, taking them up in his arms to bring
them to Hortenſia's bed, embrace your mother,
and win from her that affection, that care, that
tenderneſs for you, that ſhe may take her ſhare
with mein the education of you, Hortenſia re-
ceived them to her boſom, and bathed them with
her tears. In expeQation, continued Luſane,
that nature will bleſs me with the title of father,
love and friendſhip have made me one, and I take
a pleaſure in fulfilling thoſe duties. Come, my
dear, ſaid Hortenſia, this is the deareſt and moſt
affecting of alt your leſſons to. me. I had forgot
that I was a mother, I had almoſt forgot I was a
wife ; you recal me to my duties, and theſe bands
re-united, ſhall confirm me to you in the moſt
affectionate attachment all the days of my life.
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hey muſt be grop'd for, and be tickPd too,
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By divers Means, all which we cannot name!
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By Calves and Sheep, by Heiſers and by Rams,
By Birds and Herbs, and by the Blood of Lamb:
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The Author's Apology for his Book.
B every where fo full of all theſe Things, .
Dark Figures (Allzgor1es) yet there ſprings
From that Tame Boat, that Luſtre aad thoſe Rays
Of Light, that turns our darkeſt Nights to Days.
Come, let my Carper to his Life now look,
And find there darker Lines than in my Bat =»
He findeth any: Yea, and let him know |
That in his 5% Things there are worſe Lines too.
May we but ſtand before impartial Men,
W To his poor One, 1 dare adventure Ten, |
= That they will take my Meaning in theſe Lines,
Far better than his Lines in Silver Shrines, - . To
Come, Truth, altho' in Swadling-Clouts, I find, To
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With that which doth our Inclination pleaſe.z An
Likewiſe it tends our Troubles to appeaſe. |
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The Uſe of 'Parables; in which lay hid | Try
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Put forth my Matter in another Dreſs? | The
Or, that I had in Thoughts been more expreſs? | :
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Three Things let me propound, then I ſubrait, It ſ
I. I find not that I am deny'd the Uſe, * WI
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The Author's Apolagy for his end
n Application J but all that I may,
eek the Advance of Truth, this or that Way; 3 K
Denied, did I ay? Nay, Lhaye Leave, 1
Fxanales too, and' that from them that have 5
3 OD better pleaſed by their Words and Ways,
han any Man that breatheth now: a- days
hus to exprels my Mind, thus to declare
hings un: o thee that Excellenteſt are.
2. I find that Men (as high as Trees) will write
Dialogue- -wiſe, yet no Man doth them {light
For writing ſo: Indeed, if they abuſe
Truth, Curſed be they, and the Craft they uſe
To that Intent; — yet let Truth be free
To make her Sallies upon thee and me,
To guide our Minds and —7 2 for. 95 —
And He makes baſe Things uſher i in Divine, 25 *
3. I find that Hely Things in many Places,
Hath ſemblance with this Metbod, where the Places
Do call for one Thing to ſet forth another;
Uſe it I may then, and fo nothing. . 3
Buth's golden Beams: Nay; by this Method may: -
Make it caſt forth its Rays as bright 85 Day.
And now. before I do put u
Tü ſhew the Profit of my 188 5 and chan
Commit both thee and it unto that Hand
That pulli the ſtrong dawn, and makes weak ones Hand. 1
This BOOK it chalketh out beſpre thin Eyes 7
The Man that ſeeks the everlaſting Prize :
It ſhews you avbence, he comes, hither he.
What he leaves andere, alſo what he ders + |
It alſo ſhews you how he runs and. runs, |
Till be unto the Gate vs Soy © comes. 1555 .
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Better than He that taught us firſt to pork "4H
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"The Author 8 (Apology for * Book.
| It ſheys too, WHO let out for Liſe amain,
| © is if the laſting ' Crown they would: DAN .
Here 905 you may ſee the Reaſon wh
The lo their Labour, and like Foo 30 die.
. This BOOK will make a Traveller of Aer
II by ith Counſel thou wilt ruled be;
Te will direct thee to the Hey Land,
If thou wilt its Directions neren: os |
Yea, it will make the Slothful active be;
The Blind alſo delightful Things to ſee. N 8
Art thou for ſomething rare and profitable';
: Wouldeſt thou ſee a Truth within a Fable? .
Att thou forgetful! ?.Wouldeſt thou remember
Prom Neto-Tear's-Day to the laſt of Detember?
I ben read my Fanctes, they will ſtick like Butrs,
And may be, to the Helpleſs, Comforters,
This BO OE! is writ in ſuch a Dialect,
As may the Minds of liſtleſs Men affect: 4 He.
It ſeems a Novelty, and yet contains TILT
Nothing but ſound" and honeſt Goſpel Strains.
= Would'ithon divert thyſelf from Melancholy?
Would'ſt thou be plegſant, yet be far from Folly?
Would'ſt theu read Riddles, 5550 their Explanation E
Or elſe be drowned in thy Centemplatiun?n
Doſt thou love pieking Meat? Or would'ſt thou ſee
= A Men i the Clouds, and hear him fpeik” to thee ? -
Woulo'ſt thou be in a Dream, and yet not ſleep?
2 8 Or, would'ſt thou in a Moment laugh and toeep?
57 Or. would ſt then loſe thyſelf, ' and catch no Harm?
= And find thyſelf agalt, without a Charm! e
= Would'ſt read thy ſelf, and. read thou kboweſt not,
= And yet know Whether thou hadſt beſt or not,
Bj reading the fame Lines, Oben came hither,
. And lay CY Bool, we Head and furt together. 8
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S I walked through the Wilderneſs 1
this World, I alighted on a cettain ;, 4
Place where was || 1 Dems. and laid Tb Goal A
me down in that Place to fleep: And as I
I ger, I dreamed a Dream: 1 reamed, and 228
„ | || behold / aw a Man chathed with Rag 5, $TEIxiv.6. 3
| farding in à certain Place, with his Face from! Luke Xie,
„ Ii c- Houſe, a Book in his Hand, anda great 13» ©
aher apex bis Back. 1 looked and d 36 „
open the Book, and read therein, and as he cad 7 60 ii. Res ;
he wept and trembled, and not being able 2085 xvi. ©
longer to contain, he brok out with a lament- - 3
able Cry, ſaying, . Mb I db to beſawed ?- 4 His Our *
In this Plight therefore he went Home, and %ꝭ..
„ | refrained himſelf as long as he could, that his Acts u 147. .
* ., | Wife and Children ſhould not perceive his
n? Diſtreſs, but he could not be filent long, be-
I cauſe that his Troubles increaſed; whereſore .
ſee] at length he broke his Mind to his Wife andi k
>? Children; and thus he began to talk to them
1?" oO my dear Wife, ſaid he, and you th Children i
2 Beuel, 1 your dear Friend an in , e ee
undone, by reaſon of à Hur then r. Beth Br e
upon me + Moreover, I am certainly in nfo ormid, i
- | that this our I City will be burned with Rips 1 th
t, from Heaven, in 35 fearful Owerthrowy Warld.. - 9
I 63th myfell, with thee, my Wife, aui you,- Ry [He . *
„beet Babes, Pall miſerably come ta Ruin, pat mir Way of 3
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A chis his Relations were fore amazed ; not In »
for hat che believed what he had ſaid to N.
ahem” was true, but becauſe the thought that
dome Frenzy Diſtemper had got into his +
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uhawber, to pray for, and
Ch ity them; and
allo to condole his own Miſery: He would
Alo. walk ſolitary in the Fields, ſometimes
Neadiag, and ſometimes Praying ; and thus
dor ſome Days he ſpent his Time. 8
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= AGE cut as.he had done before, crying, + What
308, 31s. >» fall I 40 to be ſaved! . |
I faw alſo. that, he looked this Way and
bo" that Way, as if he would run; yet be flood
fill, becauſe (as I perceived} he could not tell
Which Way to go. looked then, and ſaw
2 Man named Ewvange/it, coming to him, and
ed, Hberefore tft thou cry ?
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it hat Ian not * willing to do che Faſt, nor 25. 572 5 .
is I 2% to do the Seren. Hoburnl.
Then faid E wangelif, Why "not wilting to 21, 23.
that this Burthen that 1s an my | Back avill þ 1
me hawer than tP®Grave, Alt 1 bel! 7415 o
7 Tophet. Aud, Sir, if T am nat fit” 4 goto N Wag
Priſon, I am not fit t go to judgment, and 337 „
rom thence to Execution: and = Ti ph ao of - | * X 8
belt 7 Bing. male mezo cry. "9D S 1
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vas | you ee yonder Wicket-Gate ? The Man ſaid, Z et. wy
di-. | No. Then ſaid the other, Do you "62" youder 1;
die, fince this' Life is Aten with ſo many Exc Wil. p & .
Evils ? The Man anſwered,” Becau/e 1 1 Ns
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bat || ſaid Evang8lift, Keep that Light in as Exe; and the
and go uf 6 LS 71 % Halt thiu fet Way tobins * 3 |
nd the Gate; at 2 2 when thou knockeft, it gam he _
od | fall be told unth thee what thou Hall do. 80 found
tell Ia. in my Dream that the Man began owe”
aw. run: Now: he had not run far from his 2b. e
and o Doory but his Wife and Children per- Luke
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„on ibe Lifec So he looked not behind him, “ but
ul io fled towards the Middle of the Plain. |
cone are a The Neighbours alſo came out to + ſee
dane kim run, and as he run, ſome mocked, others
tert te thethreatned,, and others cried. after him to re-
el. turn, and among thoſe that did ſo, there
I Jer. xx. were Two, that were reſolved to fetch him
10. back by Force, | The Name of the one was
I Obſti- Ob/:nate, and the Name of che other Pliable.
mate did Now by this Time the Man was got a good
- Pliable | Diſtance from them; but however, they
phie were reſolved to purſue him, which, they
| bin. did, and in a little Time they / overtook him.
_ _ Then ſaid the Man, Neighbours, Wherefore
ere you come? They ſaid, To perſuade you tof | |
o back with us; but he ſaid, That can by no
F Means be: You dwell, ſaid he, in. the City
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| one: Be, content, gaod Neighbours, and go
B eis. hg
= Tobin, . {| What, ſaid Ob/tinate, and leave our
Friends and our Comforts behind us!
Chriſtian 6 Ves, laid Chriſias, (for that was his]
Name) becauſe that 4/7 2ub:ch. you foall for-
«. * 2 Cer. Jake, is not“ worthy to be |
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little of that, that I am ſeeking to-enjoy ;
Alg if you will go along with me, and hole
it, you ſhall fare as myſelf ;' for where I go
Lake is + enough and to ſpare; come away anc
, . prove my Words. e
OH WP: 2 Obſtinate. What are the Things you ſeek
ſuce you leave all the World to find them? J v
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— unvehies, and which fadeth.got away ; and it C
1 333 up in Heaven, 4 and ſaſe, +: io be E.
at the Time appoihted, oh them efo
* dftipently ſeek it. Read it ſo, if you bou
will, in my Book, 2 P.
O4jt.. Tuſh, ſaid Obfinets, e =. your
Bock Wil you go back with us or no.
Cypbr. No, Gant becauſe I have lald mine 2
Is Hand t to the = Plough. 8 ille
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us turn back again, and go Home without
- Kim : There are a Company of theſe oo” ven!
£ Head: d: Coxcombs, that when. they Dega
Fancy þ. the End, are wiſer in their — C
On Seven Men that can rehder a von
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. Chriſtian ſays is true, the Things hy
be looks after are better than outs; my Heart
=: Inclinex to go with' my Neighbode. Ex |
55 "Ob, What | more Fools. till ? Be ruled there
- © by me, go back; who knows-whither ſuch Pr
| br 2 Brain- ck Fellow will lead you? Go back, fee;
13 0 Zo back, and be wiſe. .
b,. Nay, But do thon + come thy Ia
1 as hbour Pliable; there are ſuch ' 2 Ton
meg u to * had which I ſpoke of, and many more nov
Obffinste Glories beides; if you believe not me, read P.
= pull for here in this Book, and for the Truth of what Pour
=P wr (54 is expreſs'd thereiv, behold all is confirmed Ci
Sen by the 4 Blood of him that made it 1 th
<4 Heb ix, © P/iable, Well, Neighbour Obflinats, (aid | B.
> 17, 18.49, Pall begin to come to a Point; Iiutend . 2
20, 21. to go along with this good Man, and to calt inhat
„ Pliable-in my Lot wita him: But, my good Com- us, k
"contented. Patyen, No you know the Way to this de- ever,
to go with hired Place? | 8 Ph
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> be EVE, to ſpeed to à little Gate that is a
nem Peſore us, 1— 228 we ſhall receive kde | "4.
Pli: 8 then, good Neighbour, kit W WWW
7 Then they went both together. e
5,1. And I will go back to my Place, ſaid - Obſficat
(Pftinate ; I will be no Companion of ooh goes Tall.
illed, fantaſtical Fellows. , Ek bath. |
Now I faw in my Dream that when Ob/i-
out rate was going back, Chriftian and Phabie”
Zy- vent talking over the Plain; and thus they © * Tak br
e a Pegan their Diſcourſe : - beteborh”. 2-4
Chr. Come; Neighbour Pliable, how do Obrien 3
you do; I am glad you are perſuaded to wa 4 Plia-
Alo with me ? Had even fy irate hi if ble. ON
bat felt what I have felt of the Powers ant ©
errors of what is yet unſeen,” he would not e
thus liglitly have given us the back. | „
Pl, 'Come, We bor Chriſtian, Auer 2 N
there are none but u Two here, tell me now: 25 | Ky 2
farther what the Things are, and do to be 5
aged whither we are going. 4
br. + Cats 4
can + þetter conceive of them with,
y 5. Kling 5 ſpeak of them with my ge
Tongue: But yet fince you are deſirous A.. .
chow, I will read of them in my Book. 9 1
PH. And do you think that the Words Of.
your Book: are certainly true? ” 4? "3
ed Chr. Ve verily, for it was made by aum *
7 that cannot lie. "# Tk. 2.
aia ! Pli. Well faid : What Thin > Ire they ? IC,xlv.25.
Chr. There is an endleſs Kingdom to be Johnx.17,
inhabited, and everlaſting Life to be given 27, 29.
us, that we may inhabit the Kingdom we #
ever. 4 ox 24225868
Ph. wen ſaid And what decent
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8 Tin. Cbr. There are Crowns of Glory to b
iv. 8. given us 3 * and Garments that will mak:
Rev. us; ſhine like the Sun in the Firmament
Xii. 4. Heaven.
Matt xi. PI. This is very bini and what elſe
il * I. i. 58. Chr. There {hall be no more Cryirg + oof
= vi. Sorrow ; for he that is Owner of: the. Plac
4106, 15. ſhall wipe away all Tears from our Eyes.
ch. . + P And what Company ſhall we have there
3 br. There we fhall be with 8
8 111 vi. 2. 4 and Cherubims, Creatures that will
I Thel. iv. your Eyes to look on them: There allo 15
* 16, 17. 'thall meet with Thouſands and Ten Thou
ker v.11. ſands that have gone before us to that Place +
none of them are hurtful, but loving and and
holy; every one walking in the Sight of Ged Ha
and flanding in his Preſence with Acceptaneq x4 |
forever: Ina Word, There we fhall ſee thꝗ out
[Rev.i iv.c. | Elders with their Golden. Crowns: Therd Jon
Fc xiv. we ſhall ſee F Holy Virgins with their Golden t
„to g, Harps. There we ſhall ſee * Men that bl Co
* Jon X11. the Word were cut in Pieces, burnt in Flames pry
25. eaten of Beaſts, drowned in the Seas, ion of!
+%..;- the Love that they bare to the Lord of the
= 8 2 2 Cor. v. Place; all well and cloathed with +:1mmor
8 Fe. 34 5+ ality, as with a Garment.
= Pli. The hearing of this is enough to ravi
one's Heart. But are theſe Things to be en
Joy ed? How ſhall we get to be Sharerſthereof
* Cr. The Lord the Governor of the Coun
4 Ita: iv. try hath corded, That þ in this Book, the
12. Siubſtance of which, if we be truly willing te
| EA vi,/37, have i it, he will beſiow them upon us freely.
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Rev, xxl. 6. 1 to hear theſe Things : Come on, and let ud hir
ah xxii. mend our Pace.
Chr... I cannot go ſo faſt as I would by real thi
iv of this Burthen that is on my Back. of |
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Now Iſaw in my Dream, that juſt as they:
ad ended this "Talks they drew nigh to a
ery * Miry Slough" that was in the midſt of * The Mi
he Plain, and they being heedleſs, did both Shaugh 8
uddenly fall into the Yog The Name of Deſpond.
the Slough was De/pond, Here therefore tex
allowed for a Time, being grievouſly be-
3 Haubed with Dirt; and Cbriſtian becaute of
tbelethe Burthen that was on a Sagas to
Pon iink-in the Mire -
. li. At this ſaid Pliable, Ah! Neighbour
PL riftian, Where are you now? 2
F auf Chr. Truly, ſaid Ghriftian, Ido not know, I FIN
ace Pli. Then Pliable began to be offended, —
A and angrily ſaid to his Fellow, Is this the
Happineſs you have told me of all this while?
oy If we have: ſuch ill Speed at our firſt ſetting +3
7 Jout, what may we expect twixt this and our RE
1er Journey's End ?, + Nay,” if I get out again + 2 3+ 2
g b with my Life, you ſhall poſleſs the brave nn enough.
at DJ Country- alone for me. And with that heto-be:Plias.
eve a deſperate Struggle or two, and got out ble.
e of the Mirez on that Side of the Slough which - .-. Mo 3
was next to his own Houſe; ſo away e Cy
and Chriftian ſaw him no more. 55:44".
Wherefofe Cbriſtian was: left to tumble in ENS,
the Slough of De/pond alone; but ſtill he en:
deavouged to ſtruggle to (Het to that Side of 1
the Slough that was fartheſt 4 from bis o-˖uu 1 Gi |
Houle, and the next to the Wicket Gate z An en-
che which he did, but could not get out, be- ble felt
eauſe of the Burtken that was upon his Back i to He
But I beteld'in my Dream, that a Man came nber
to him, whoſe Name was Help, and aoked /rom hs
| him, What he did there ee,
(Sir, ſaid Cbriſtian, I was bid to g Ek 255
this Ons: by. a Man called Evangelifh eg
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. pe the Wrath to come. And as 1 was go-
8 2 «hither, 1 fell in here.
| the next Way, and fell in.
* Help Hep. Then faid he.“ Give me thy Hand:
lifts hint So he gave him his Hand, and drew him out,
out. and ſet him upon found Ground, and bid him
Pl. XI. 4. £0 bis Way.
Then I ſtepped to him chat plucked bim
w yonder Gate, is it that this Plat is not
mended, that poor Travellers might go thi-
;__ . ther with more Security? And be ſaid unto
me, This 21 re is ſuch a Place as can-
not be mended: It is the Deſcent whither the
Scum and Filth that attends Conviction: for
+ What f Sin, doth continũally run, and therefore it
males the was called the Sb 7 Dqſpend; for ſtill as
Slough - of the Sinner is awakened about his loſt Cond-
Deh ipond tion, there ariſeth in his Soul many Fears and
Doubts, and diſcouraging Apprehenſions,
which all of them get together and ſettle in
1 this Place: And this is the Reaſon of the Bad ·
neſs of the Ground.
Ire Xxxv. It is not the . Pleaſure of the Kin that this
8 4: Place ſhould remain ſo bad: His Labourers
alſo, have by the Directions of His Majeſty's
© Surveyors, been for above theſe Sixteen
Haoncdred Vears employed about this Spot of
Bround, if perhaps it nt have been
mwmended: Vea, and to 3 ſaid
he, there have been ſwallowed up at leaſt
Twenty: Thouſand Cart-logds, yea, Millions
* ne Inſtructions, that have en all
ons
e alſo to ts poſed Gate, that I might 8
2 3 out, and ſaid, Sir, Wherefore fince over this
5 Place is the Way from the City of Deſfrudion
ze Pro- Help: Rat did you not look for the Steps : ood
„. Obr. Far followed me ſo hard, that I fled
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eaſons been brought from all Places of the 5 .
Ling's Dominions (and they that can telly
ey, They are the beſt Materials to make
good Ground of the Place) if ſo it might
ave been mended; but it is the Sung of
Dgpond ſtill; and ſo will be, when they have
done what they can.
aw-ptver, certain good and ſubſtantial , miſes of
laced" even through the very midſt of this Forgive-.
- gb, but at ſuch a Time as this, this Place ne/5 and.
2 Change be ef Weather; ſo that theſe 5 Ln by
Steps are hardly! ſeen; or if they be, Men Fa;
hrough the Dizzineſs of their Heads, ſtep Chriſt.
beſide, and then they are mired to the Pur- 1 Sam. =
poſe, notwithſtanding the Steps be there; but
the Ground is good when they have got in at
the Gate.
Now I ſaw in m Dream. that by this Time Pliable is
Pliable was 5
Neighbours came to viſit him; and fome of and it vi-
them called him Wiſe Man for coming back, red by.
and ſome called him Fool ſor hazarding him - Git Neigh- 4
ſelf with Chrifian ; others again did mock Bor.
at his Cowardlineß, ſayiug. Surely fince you His Enter-
began to venture, I would not have been ſo tainment =
baſe to have given out for a few Diffleulties: y them af. .
So Pliable fat ſneaking among them, bat at his Rerarn.
laſt he gpt more Confidence, and then they
all turned their Tales, and began to deride 2 |
poor Chriſtian behind his Back. And thus :
much concerning Pliable.
Now as Chriftian was walkir Goliratily Worlaly-
by himſelf, he eſpied one afar off, croſhig Wiſeman
over the Field to meet him; ahd their meets auth
Hap was to meet, juſt as they were a
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- Wiſeman, he dwelt in the Town of Carna/- ¶ be
Policy, a very great Town, and alſo hard by my.
from whence Chriflian came: This Man then ¶ Co
meeting with Chriſtian, and having ſome i ; th
Knowledge of him (for Chriftian's Setting MW, t
forth from the City of Deſtruction was much Vor.
noiſed abroad, not only in the Town where of
be dwelt, but alſo it began to be the Towu- /.
Talk in ſome other Places) Maſter Vorlaly- Wy g.
M iſanan therefore having ſome Gueſs of re.
dim, by beholding his laborious Going, by er.
2 +. obſerving his Sigks and Groans, and the like, ere
began thus to enter into ſome Talk with ne V
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1 Tall be- World. How now, Good - fellow, whither Wt fin
mon Mr. away after this burthened Manner? Pou h
Woridly- Ch, A burthened Manner indeed, as ever ady
M”Miſeman I think, poor Creature had. And whereas [9:4
„„ Chri- or ask me, Whither away? I tell you, Sir, ginn
man. I am going to yonder Wicket-Gate before It go
1 me; for there, as I am informed, I ſball be n th
put into a Way to be rid of my heavy, Bur- PY
= 8 . then. 1 8 0 * yy neſs,
= . #or/dy. Haſt thou a Wife and Children? Þ"s,
, Chr. Yea, but I am ſo laden with this Bur- Fath,
2 then, that I cannot take that᷑ Pleaſure in them ly t
4ẽldẽs formerly: Methinks I am as if I had not. time
Mord. Wilt thou hearken to me if I give ca
4 ---- thee Counſel ? F ange
yr. If it be good, I will ; for I ſtand in C.
veed of good Counſel. | more
> * Worldly H#Forld, *: I would adviſe thee then that fich)
Wiemann stheu with all Speed get rid of thy Burthen ; are:
= Counſel to] for thon wilt never be ſettled in thy Mind: Pe I
= Clziitian, till hen: Nor can thou enjoy the Benefits F Bur
of the Bleſſings God beſtows upon thee till I.!
che pligtim's Progreſs. 3
- „. This is that which I ſeek for, even Wy
al- be rid of this heavy Burthen $ but get it ",
by myſelf I cantiot : Nor is there any Man in ys WA,
en Country that can take it off my Should.
me therefore I am. going this Way, as I told
ng I. that | may be rid of my Burthen, bY |
Verld. Who bid you go this Way to be
of your Burthen ? .
Vr. A Man that appeared to me to be a
y great and honourable Perſon, his Name, *
of remember, is Evangelift: _ ; |
by NMerld. Beſhrew him for his Counſel, * .
ce, ere is not a more dangerous and trouble- a |
e Way in the World, than is that unto Wiſeman
och he hath directed thee, and that thou nd,
ner lt find if thon wilt be ruled by his Counſel. Evange-
2ady ; for I ſee the Dirt of the Shugh of jel.
pond is upon thee ; but that S/ough is but the
ginning of the Sortows that do attend thoſe
t go on in that Way. Hear me, I am older
in thou: Thou art like to meet with in ke
a5 whick thou goeſt, Weariſomeneſs, Pain - 6
Ineſs, Hunger, Periks, Nakedneſs, Swords
n? Ppns, Dragons, Darkneſs ; and in a Won...
ur- Fath, and what not: Theſe Things are cer- *
em ply true, having been confirmed by many
ot. Fimonies; and why ſhould a Man ſo care- |
ive. J cat away himſelf, by giving heed to a ;
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obs terrible to me chan all theſe Tag NEST 6
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ind; Pe I can alſo meet with Deliver ace from, the'1 feart :
fits | Burthen. As 1
all . How cam'it thou by the Bu: Ae at ert: Cartan.
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dus not dling with Things too high for them, do fu * t
ile that, denly. fall into thy Diſtraction; which DIA.
Men jhould ſtraction doth not only unman Men (as chiſene
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Eaſe from my heavy Burthen. *
Werl. But why wilt thou ſeck for E: *
fo _ Dangers attend J:*** *
. eſpecially, ſince (hadſt thou but Patience Rok
-. hear me) I could direct thee to the obtainiſ 6,
- what thou deſireſt, without the Dangers Vip
- thou in this Way wilt run thyſelf into; ye 7
and the. Remedy is at hand. Beſides, I w 7
add, that inſtead of thoſe Dangers, thou ſh] 5.
meet with Safety, Friendſhip, and Content, '*
Chr. Sir, pray open this Secret to me. |
is named Morality) there dwells a Gentlemſto N
whoſe Name is Legality, a very judicic 0 en
Man (and a Man of a very good Name) that hf ceme
Skill to help Men of with ſuch Burthens “
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thine are, from their Shoulders; yea, to n.
Knowledge he hath done a great deal of Go
this Way. And beſides he hath Skill to cy
thoſe that are ſomewhat craz'd in their WI*,"*
with their Burthen : To him, as I ſaid, thded be
may 'ſt go, and be help d prefenily. His Hoy - 0
is not a Mile from this Place, and if he ſfiouſP* ch.
not be at Home himſelf, ho hath a pretty you (he
Man to his Son, whoſe Name is Civility, tif
can do it (to ſpeak on) as we//as the Old Gel...”
teman himſelf: There, I ſay, thou may ft ſen
eas d of thy Burthen, and if thou art not minf 4
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0 fu for thy Wife and Children to thee to this. Vil-
b Illage, where there are Houſes now ſtand empty,
nA of which thou may ſt have at a reaſonable =
v x1Rate : Proviſion is there allo cheap and good.
Y land that which will make thy Life the more
happy is, to be ſure there thou thalr live by
it [oneſt Neighbours in Credit and good Faſhion:
o * Now was Chriftian ſomething at a Stand; “ Chriſti-
Ealbut preſently concluded if this was true which an „n⁰ν
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Chr. Sir, which is my beſt Way to the Words.
honeſt Man's Houſe ? N + Mount
World: Do you lee + yonder high Hill? Sina.
Chr. Yes, very well. Chriſtian
_ H or 4. By that Hill yon muſt go, and che 455 raid that
REY rt Houſe, you come at is his. © Bs GRE
illa S8 Chriſtian turned out of his Way, to gd nai a/
to Mr. Legality's Houie for Help: But behold ,da bis
_ hen he was got now hard by the Hill, it Head.
nat hlſeemed fo high, and alſo that Side of it that Ex: xix. g.
Golſvrtber, leſt the Hill ſhould fall on his Head: 12.
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Hod Way. There came alſo } Fla
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is to take his Advice: And wich that he thus Worldlo-
as next the Way fide; did hang ſo much r Ver. 16.
pPver, that Chriflian was I afraid to venture Heb. xli.
wherefore there he ſtood ſtill, and knew not 5 4 Bone
r Wüwhat to do. Alſo. his Burthen now ſeemmm
'of Fire out EKvange7
raid that Jift ,a
vou e M0 ke ſwear Chriſtian
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©. ſhame. So Evangeliſt drew nearer and nearer,
and coming up to him, he looked upon him
with a ſevere and dreadful Countenance; andi
8. thus began to reaſon with Chriſtian
* Evan- * Ewan. What doſt thou here, Ebriftian,
geliſt res- ſaid he? At which Words Ehriftian knew
ons afreſh not what to anſwer ; wherefore at preſent he
avith Chri- ſtood ſpeechleſs before him. Then ſaid Ewan-
ſtian. gel further, Art not thou the Man that |
bound. crying without the Walls of the City
* , of Deſtruction <8 | e242
Chr. Yes, dear Sir, Jam the Man.
Evan. Did not I direct thee the Way to
the little Wicket Gate ? +
Chr. Yes, dear Sir, ſaid Chriſtian.
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. Ewan. How is it then, that thou art ſc
quickly turned aſide ? For thou art now out
of thy Way. | |
_ | "ok I met with a Gentleman ſo ſoon = I
ad cot over the Slough of De/pond, who perſua-
ded 2 that I wich in the Vantage — me,
find a Man that would take off my Burthen.
Ewan. What was he? ;
Chr. He looked like a Gentleman, and
talked much to me, and at laſt got me to yield;
ſo I came hither: But when I beheld this Hill
and how it hangs over the Way, I ſudden]
maze a Stand, left it ſhould fall on my Head
Evan, What ſaid the Gentleman to you? ;
- Chr, Why, he asked me, Whither I was |
going; and II told him. He asked me, If
had a Family; and I told him: But, ſaid J,
I am fo loaded with the Burthen that is on m _
Back, that I cannot take Pleaſure in them
formerly. |
Evan. And what ſaid he then?
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Burthen; and LI told him, It was Eaſe that
I I foxght And, faid I, I am therefore going
t vonder Gate to receive further Directions
how I might get to the Place of Deliverance.
80 he ſaid that he would ſhew me a better
Way, and ſhort, not ſo attended with Diffi-
eüulltied, as the Way, Sir, you ſet me in,
9 x; -Gentleman's Houſe that hath Skill to take off onl
tteſe Burthens: So I believed him, and turn- 3
eg ont of that Way into this, if happily [ IF
A might be ſoon, eaſed of my Burthen. But he
wen 4eametothis Place, and,beheld Things
as they are J ſtopped for fear {as I ſaid) of the
Danger: Bat now know not what to ſay.
oa, Then ſaid Evangeliſt, Stand ttill a oy
= little, that I may ſhew thee the Words of be
= «God. So he flood trembling. -: Then ſaid -,
_ © Heb, Evangeliß, See that ye refute-not him that *;
X11. 3, 5. ſpeaketh ; for if they eſcaped not -who refuſed
+ Evan- him that ſpale an Earth, + much more hall not “
geliſt con- abe eſcape, if aue turn away from bim that %
Dince, /peaketh from Heaven. He ſaid moreover, = ©*
Chriſtian. . Now the Juſt hall live by Faith, but if any Nd.
ef his Man draws back, my Soul ſhall baue no Plea- *
Error. fare in him, He alſo did thus apply them : by ih
Ch. x. Thy art the Man that art running into this i x |
4 38. Miſery : tha haſt begun to reject the C unſel of OT 8
5 moſt High, and to ara du back thy Foot from 95 0
=_ « tbe Way of Peace, even almoſt to the bazard- 17 47
_ ing of thy Salva ion IE READ Pia
= Then, Chriſtian fell down at his Foot as Het G
5 2 dead, erying, Moe is me, for I am undone ! this
b * At the Sight of which Evange/i/f caught him lein
= by the Right-hand, faying, 4/1 manner of Sins HI t.
1» . and Blaſphemics ſhall be forgiven unto. *
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be not faithliſs, but believing. Then did CB...
lian again a little revive, and fiood up tren:
bling, as at the firſt, before Evangeli/?. |
len Ewvangeli ift proceeded ſaying, Give
ore earneſt heed to the Things that I ſhall
tell thee of. I will now tell thee who it was
that deluded thee, and who it was alfo to
vhom he ſent thee. The Man that met Mr.
thee was one Yorldly-Wiſemgn, and righty Worldly-
is he ſo called, partly, becauſe he ſavoureth Wiſeman
only of the Doctrine of this World; there 4:/cribed by
fore he always goes to the Town of Morality Evangeliit 1
to Church) and partly, * becauſe he loveth * Col. vi.
that Doctrine beſt; for it ſaveth him beſt 12.
from the Croſs ; and becau'e be is of this car-
nal Temper, therefor: he ſeeketh to pervert
thy Ways, though right. I. Now there ute | Evan-
Three Things 171 this Man's Counſel that thou geliſt 4/-
mult utterly abhor. covers the
't. His turning thee out of the Way. Deceil e,
2. His labouring to render the Croſs adieu Mr.
to thee | ; Worldly- |
3 And the ſetting thy Feet that Way that e
leadeth unte the Adminiſtration of Death. |
Firfl, Thou muſt alſo abhor his turning
thee out of the Way; yea, and thine own
conſenting thereto ; becauſe this is to reject
the Counſel of God, for the Sake of the
Counſel of a Worldly- 1/eman, The Lord
lays, I Strice to enter in at, the Strait Ga. 5 1 Luke
the Gate to which I ſend thee. For St ait x" a
is the Gate that Itadelb. unto J. ifs, ard A 1
there be that find it:: From this little Wiek W
et. Gate, and from the Way thereof, aN . PIN
this wicked Man turned thee, to ther, Shes? —
bringing of thee almoit to DeftruSion 4" HERS.
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- 2dly, Thou muſt abhor bis labouring to
152 render the Croſs odious unto thee; for thou
* Heb. xi art to * prefer it before the Pleaſures in Egypt:
25, 26. Belides, the King of Glory hath told thee,
+. Merk + That he that ai ave his Life ſpall laſe it:
viii 34. And he that comes after him gnd hates not his
Jahn iii. Father and Mother, and Wife and Children,
1, 25, and Brethren and Siſſers, and his own Lift too,
Matt. x, cannot be his Diſciple. ] ſay therefore, for a
30. Man to labour to perſuade thee, that that
ox Ts 36. ſhall be thy Death, without which the Truth
16, - has ſaid thou canſi not have Eternal Life,
| that Doctrine thou muſt abhor.
zaly, Thou muſt hate his ſetting of thy
Feet in the Way that leadeth to the Mini-
firation of Death. And for this thou muft
conſider to whom he ſent thee, and alfo how
unable that Perſon was to deliver thee from
thy Burthen. N + V.-,N
_ He to whom you were ſent for Eaſe, be-
ing by Name Jgaliiy, is the Son of the
Fre Bond & Bond-awoman, which now is, and is in Bond-
B+ age with her Children, and is, in a Myſtery,
ond.
| Gal iv. this Mount || $i#ai, which thou haſt feared
v. 21, to ill fall on thy Head. Now, if ſhe with her
27. Children are in Bondage, how canſt thou
= expect by them to be made free ? This Le-
ality, therefore, is not able to ſet thee free
Foul thy Burthen. No Man was as yet ever
rid of his Burthen by him, no, nor is ever like
to be: Ye cannot be juſtified by the Works
of the Law ; for by the Deeds of the Law
no Man living can be rid of. his Burthen :
Therefore Mr. Worldly Wiſeman is an Alien;
and Mr. Legality is a Cheat: And for his Son
2 Cruility,
The Pilgrim s P2ogaeſs,
C:wility, notwithſtanding his ſimpering Looks
he is but a Hy pocrite, and cannot help thee.
Believe me, there's nothing in all this Noiſe
that thou haſt heard of theſe ſottiſu Men, but
a Deſign to beguile thee of thy Salvation,
by turning thee from the Way in which I
had ſet thee. After this, Ewangeliſt called
aloud to the Heavens for. Confirmation of
what-he had ſaid: And with that there came
Words and Fire out of the Mountain under
which poor Chriſtian ſtood; that made the
Hair of his .Flelh ſtand up: The Words
were thus pronounced: As many as are of the Gal. Ni.
Mortis of the Law, are under the Curſe ; For 10.
it is written; Curſed is every one that continu-
eth not in all Things which are written in the
Book of the Law to do them. J
Now Cbriſtian looked for nothing but
Death, and began to cry out lamentab!y ;
eren curſing the Day in which he met with
Mr. Werd) Viſeman; ſtill calling himſelf a
Thouſand Fools for hear kening to bis Coun-
ſel: He was alſo greatly aſhamed to think
that this Gentieman's Arguments, flowing,
only from the Fleſh, ſhould have the Pre -
valency. with bim, ſo as to cauſe him to for-
ſake the right Way. This done, he applied
himſelf again to Ewangeliſt in Words and
Senſe as follows: 4
Chr, Sir, * What think you? Is there
Hope! May I now.go- back, and go up to the ſtian en-
Wicket Gate? Shall I not be abandoned far guires if he
this, and ſent back from thence aſhamed 2. 1 may yet be-
am ſorry. 1 have hearkened to this Man's happy...
Counſel, but may my Sins be forgiven me?
Evan. Then ſaid Ewangeliſt ta him, Thy
Sin is very great, for by it thou haſt commit-
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tdtted two Evils, thou haſt forſaken the Way
* Evange-that.is good, to tread in forbidden Paths:
Ist c Vet the Man at the Gate will receive thee,
eu. for he has Good Will for Men; only, faid he,
= take heed that you turn not aſide again, left
_ + Pi ii. thou + peri from the Way, when his Wrath
mau Vcc, i Hale but à little. Fhen did Chriſtian
= - addreſs himſe!f to go back, and Fangeliſt
after he had kiſied him, gave him one Smile,
and bid him Gou-/peed So he went on with
Haile, neither ſpake he to any Man by the
"% Way; ner if any asked him, would he
_ : _ vouchfafe them an Anſwer. He went on like
= one that was all the while treading on forb'd-
den Ground, and could by no Means think
himielf fafe, till again he had got into the
_ - Way which he bad left to follow Mr. Wor
_— z. N iſiman's Counſel : So in profifs of Time
_ _ Chril:as got up to the Gate. Now over the
IMat. vw. Gate there was written, I Kneck, ard tt ſhall
yz te opened unto you. He knocked: therefore
more thay once or twice, ſaving.
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Rar "Net fail to ſing hii dafting Praiſe on bigh.
At laſt there came a grave Perſon to the
| ate named Gond-will. who asked, Who was
3 there, whence he came, and what he wanted? |
eat Chr. Heie is a poor burthened Sinner. I
will le come from the City of Deſt» u#/on, but am
ned going to Mount Zion, that I may be deli.
brain verea from the Wrath to come. I would,
Lraited therefors, Sir, fince J am informed that by
Singers. this Gate is the Way thither, know if you
are willing to let me in. a |
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N 9 other gave him a. Pull. The rig
I 5 What means that? The Lge 10 hi
a little Diltance from this Gate, there is
1 Stag ed a ſtrong Caſtle, of Which? e
envielſbſe Captain ; from whence, both he -and
tbat enter that are with him, thoot Arrows at thoſethat
the StFait- come *7 to this: Gate, if haply they may die
Sate. beſore they can enter in. Then ſaid Chyyftiar,
* Chinin F I rejoice and tremble. So. When he*was
=. trters the got in, the Man of ae him, ho
Cate with directed him thithèr.?
= Foy hind. | Obr. Evvangelit | bid me come 'bither and
trembling, knock (as 1 did) and he ſaid, that vod, dir,
_=_ t 744 A would tell me what I muſt do.
= FR, Siu till. An open Door is before knee
BE”. Good-willandind Man can ſhut it.
„„ Chii- Cr. Now I begin to reap the Benefits of
= Hiag. | 2 Hane
—_ _- Good. But how jade thas yen core alone?
8 f 4 r Becauſe none of my Neighbours ſaw
13 14752 their Danger as I ſaw mine.
1 Good cid. Did any of them know of you
_*— | Coming bs
_ 7 "Chr. Yes, my Wiſe and Children ſap mei at
—_ £3 "the firs, and called aſter me to turn again :
CS: Alſo ſome of my Neignabouts ſlood crying and
calling after me 10 return; but I put my F in-
Sers in my Ears, and ſo came on my Way.
Ged. But did none of them follow you
| to perſuade you to go back ?
Chr. Ves, both Ob ſinate and Pliable: But
when they ſaw they colts not prevail, OB ii.
nate went e back but Phiable came
7 8 with me a little
- Good. But 85 cid he not come thronghou!
em pithatin's Progzeks.
C.. We indetd came both er, lte
we came at the Youth » Dead, into he 4,
which we alſo faddenly fel. And then was 8
Newhboyr: Pliabl. Aiſcodr and would Tos, |
not venture farther." * Wherefore. getting * 4 Mas,
out again, on that Side next to his own Houle, may have i
he told me that I ſhould poſſes the thaw Company.” —
Country alone for him: 80 ke went his Way, auben he ©
and I came mine, He aſter ObPrnate, = and I ſeti out to
to the Gate. Wa
Go, Then ſaid Gad all, Alas, 22 et 2 5
Man ! Is the Cceleſtial Glory of fo ba
Eſteem” with him, that he Ke it not ae” * . |
worth the running the Hazard US few Dit- , ES We
genie, to obtain it DA. 4 28
Chr. Truly, ſaid Chriftian, Phive fad the N
Truth of Pheble; and if ; Dake, alſo Jay all 2.
the Truth of rayſelf, it will appeat 4 sf + CAR. |
no Diffetenct betwixt Rim and m keit. Tui an π] e, i
true, he went back to bis ow f Kedle, ut Le 34%.
turned afide to go in the Way of Death, be- fore tbe
i perſuaded thereto, by, the. carnal IE Man
. elts of one Mr. Worldly-Wi, man. * A Oi
Good:avill, Oh! did he Aight” upon
W hat, he would have had you" Yee bb ae
for — Dr Che Leg bah 40 <
are both o m heats ; ut di ou,
ng his- CO ? N | {
Gbr. Ves; as far as 1 durſt; 1 |
out Mr, Ke until that tho
Moantai chat! fands by kis *f fe” would, 2 157
have fallt Upon 85 Head,” Pheckfore there."
1 well to ein;!
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br. Why truly, I do not know.-what had
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beeome of fue there, had not Ene hap-
pill met me again as Lwas mufing in the midſt
IA of my Dumps.:. But 'twas God's Merey that
be came to me again; for elſe I had never
come hither.” But now I am come, ſu- h a
ge as I am, more fit indeed for Death by that
»M.ountajin, than thus to ſand talking with my
Lord: But Ohl what a Favour is this to me,
ttat yet I am admitted Entrance here! ., ..
EY 4 * Chri- ' Geog, will. We make no Objections
tien com- againtt, any, notwithſtanding all that they
> farted a. haye done before they come hither. + They
” gain. in no wiſe are caſt out; and therefore, good
I John Chriſlian, come a little Way with me, and I
vi. 27 Will teach thee about the Way thou muſt go,
I Chri- | Look before thee; Doſt thou ſee this nar-
ſtian direc- row Way ? THAT is the Way thou muſt ge.
it n It was caſt up by the Patriarchs, Prophets,
i Fay. Chriſt, and his Apolles, and it is as ſtrait as
2e can make it. This is the Way thou
5 he
5
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—_ . mull go. C
Cpriſtian Chr But ſaid Chriſtian, Is there no Turn-
of , #afrard of ings or Windings, by which a Stranger may
i bis loſe his Way! |
=” ay. _., Goodwill. Yes, there, are many Ways
3 |
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3 BUTT down upon thi: ; and they are crooked
+7 and wide: But thus thou mulb diltinguiſh the
night frgm the wrong; the right only being
Matt l „ = 8 i
vu. 4 hen I Taw in my Dream, * That Chri-
Cariſti-Hian asked die further, if he could not help
an weary him off with the Buithery that was upon his
e bs Bur- Back ? For ss yet he had not got rid thereof,
Wn then. ,
be
Ne e, See
He told him, as to his Burthen, Be content
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vor could he by avy Means get it off without .
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10 bear it until thou eomeſt to the Place of 3 6
Detrogrante; for there: It. will fall off from i is 1 Debs 4
Then Chriftian' to. 95 ap bis Loins, 83 the.
and to addreſs "himſelf 10 dis Journay, 80 Guile and,
the other told him, That by chat he was gone seat,
ſoms Diſtance from the Gate, he. would Sin, but
come at the Houſe of the [aterpreter, at the Death
whoſe Door he ſhould knock, and he would ard Blu
ſhew him excellent Things. Then Chriftian Dae #
took his Leave of his Friend, aud he began 25
to bid him God-ſpred. - :
Then he went en di he dime as the Houle ot.
of F the Interpreter, where he knocked over ſtian comes |
and over; at laſt one came to the Door and to the >.
asked, Who. was there? | , Houſe /
3 here is a Traveller, who was dia Inte-
an Acquaintance of the Old Man are 7 |
the Houſe, to call here for 1 would 4 ws ;
therefore ſpeak with the Maſter of the Houſe: _ |
So he calle] for the Maſter-of the Houſe, wooõ J
aſter 3 little Time came io Gbri/tian, and | |
t
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asked him, What he would Rate? well
Cbr. Sir, {aid Obriſtian, I am a Man that
am come from the City of Deftrudtion, and 5.
am going unto Mount Zian, and I was toe
by the Man that ſtands by the Gate, at te : i
Head of this Way, that if Lealleg hexe, % ñʃ (ny 5 MY
would ſhew me excelſagt Things he as 88
would be a Help to me on my Journey. _
Inter. Then,. ſaid the Irterpreter, 1 Come 1 Hy 28 9
in, 1 will ſhew.thee that Which will de pro- /ertained. |
fitable to-thee,. $a heicommanded his Man . D WW
| to light a Candle, and bid CGrifian follow matfon,””
him, aud ſo had. him into a private Room, Chriſtian =
and bid bis Man open the N the which te: abrave - ll
when be Had Heme; rifles aw ns. "i POE: 5
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8 : IH very grave Perſon hang up a int the
. N Wall, e was Preys mph .
Vin had his Eyes lifted up to Heaven; The beſt
MW C4 is of Bdoks in its Haud 4 The Law of Truch-
> {> Wes Written upon its 5 Phe World was
1,5 bevindits'Back ; tris asf ibpleaded with
33 1 Maat and a Crown of Gold 4d e
8 4 01 * * its Head.
de es 05 Then ſaid Obri fig, Went ae "Y -
* *
© Co 14, Jeter.” The Man whoſe Picture this is, is
Ex Cor, iv. One Thouſand He can beget Children,
4 2 5. travail in Birth with Obildren, and nurn
944 + them hiinfelf when they are born. 2 ;
"FGul iv. Whereas thou ſoeſt him wir his + Eyes lifced. |
1 19. up to Heaven, he beſt of Books in his Hand,
1 and, The Law of Truth wrir on his Lips 3.
Y = It is to new thee, That his Work is to know
bs and unfold dark Things 10 Sinne; even as
t The alſo thou 4 feet him Rand 32 4 he Pieds
I 3 Meaning with Men; and Whereas thou feeſt the World
4 the as caſt behind him, and that a Crown bangs
Pidure. over his Head; that is to ew thee; That:
_ fighting and ng the "Things that are
4 IE Preſent, for the Love that he hath to his
= Maſter's Service, he is fure in the World that
1 domes next, to have Glory for his Reward.
2 3 Now, ſaid the Interpreter, I. have ſhewed'thee
43 e 36 this Picture, Firſt, | Becauſe tie Man wheſe
ee bie is, is the only Man whom the
. r. Lord of the Place whither- thou ar Fe g hath
I. authorized to be thy Guide'in all 6)fficult
dies mou rlayeſt Set With 56 the Way:;
wherefore take god heed to Wat I ave.
+ + ſhewed thee, and beat well in thy Mind what
won haſſ ſeen, leſt in thy Jour ney ekou meet
woch ſeme that pretend to en, but
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thereahth 25 Nane ber fald the M. ig |
ther Water, and fprinkle the Room; ” the bs e
which Chen ſhe Ra done, it Was ſwept „„
7 Wii Peafüre 2 929» ll
the Laue; bat the that brought Water, and + ng
did i prinlele it, is the Gel. Now whereas
thou net that as ſoon as the firſt began
to Rt, the Duſt did fo fly about, tat he
Wis 34 altnoſtchoaket therewith ; this is
cover and foi bid it, for it doth not give row * Teck F | |
was cleanſed with "Pleaſure ; this is to few
8 . ts even as thou fawelt =
he Pape ane,
e took bim
the & and fed - 94 ARO! _
neh, mat was full 85
of 'Duft Pe 5 5 wept; he which af.
ter he nad vie „ litt! ite, the* Taterprt. Nek F
ter called. fora en 9 Hy Now when
be bead ſweep oi ip ok o abun- þ
re ©
terpretir to a Dane! that figbd by, Bring hi-
Then fad" Chriftian, Wiki means this?
Liter, The Interpreter Unſweted, This Pur. 1 |
Jour is the Heart bf a Man that was never
ſanclified by the ſweet Grace of the Goſp e!
The Daft is his Original Sit, and "Inward |
Corruptions, * that have defffed the Wböle
Mag, He that began to ſweep it ut firſt isn
him could not be Geariſed; but
to ſhew thee, That by the Law, inſtead of
cleanſin the Heart (by its working) from 43
Sin, “ doth revive, put 1 Strength into, and _# * Rom,
I increaſe it in the Soul, even às it doth diſ vt
er to ſubdue. N. xv. r.
Again, As thou wel the Damſel i t Rom,
kle the Room with Water, upon which Av. 20 |
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thee. That when the Gar? comes in Wien
the ſweet and precious Influences thereaf W—-
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"The pilgrim 8 baut.
& — xv. 4 Damſel lay the Duſt, by ſprinklin
3. loor with Water, ſo is Sin vanquithi Oo
Br v. 16. ſubdued, and the Soul, made clean through
Ads xi. 59, the Faith of it, and fo: conſequently -fic for
+, Rom. xvi, the King of Glory to inhabit? ©
26, 26. I ſaw moreover. in my Dream, "That
bann xy. the Interpreter took him. by the Hand; and
1. bad him into a little Room, where ſac two
* He ſbews little Children, each one in his Chair. The
© bimPaſſion Name of the eldeſt was * Paſſion, and the
Z a4, Pati- Name of the other Patience. Paſftion ſeemed
- - ence. Paſ- to be much diſcontented but- Patience was
fon / very quiet. Then Cbriſtian asked, What is
| 1 Fave his the Reaſon of the Diicontent of Paſſion ?
Ae io Finger T8 Interpreter anſwered, The Goyernor of
them would have him ftay for his beſt Things
until the Beginning of the next Year ; bur
3 1 Patience he will have all now : Þ But Patience i is. W
er to wait. |
18 D * kane I ſay that one came tot Paſn Ting
; . Patkon brought him a Bag of Treaſure, and poured
bah it down at bis Feet; the which he took up
ax - and rejoĩced therein, and withal laughed Pa-
tense to ſcorn: But I beheld but a while, and
1 Aud he had layiſhed all away, and had riothing
| quick) la. leſt but Rags.
ral! , Chr. Then ſaid Cristian to the Interpreter,
| \ = 7 Expound the Matter more fully to me.
| 3 $ The. mer, J So he. faid, Theſe two Lads are Þ"2!y :
Matter er- Figures; Paſſion of the Men of this World, L/ ti.
3 "and Parience of the Men of that which is to Pi
come; For as here thou ſeeſt, Paſſi fon will comfort
dave all now, this Year ;. that is to Cay, in ||, Ce.
_ this World; ſo arg tde Men of this Wong : ringe
They muſt have all their good Things now,
abey cannot ſtay till next Year, that 18, until
he next World for their Portion of G 55
8 5 That
are not
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t Provetb, I Bird in the Hand is. worth \ The ot 5
wo in the Buſs, im of more Authority with World 5
em than are all tke Divine Teftimomes of Man for a
e Good of the World to come. But as thou Bird in
t weft that he had quickly laviſhed all away, H. d.
4 nd had preſently, left him nothing but Rags;
0 i wink an ſuch Men at the End of
18 OT
IJ ĩ that. Park.» Pucnce
nee hag*the * beſt Waſdem, and that u
any Accounts. K. /Beekuſe he ſtays ie >
eſt Things, 2. And alſe he will ard the
E 3 "g bas nothing 8 \
zut Rags... 74
Inter „you may A een to wit. TY
heGlorv the next Morld will never wear N. |
dut ; Bat theſe are ſuddeny gone. There-
ore Paſſion had not ſd much Reaſon to laugh -
t Patience, becauſe he has bad his good Things *- 8G
cſt, as Patianet will have to laugh at Paſſion, - 72 vi |
becauſe he had his good Things la ;- for + Thing ©
Firſt muſt give place to Laſt, becauſe Laſt chat are.
muſt have its Time to come; but Laff gives. if _
place to nothin s for there is not another we aces 7
ſucceed: He fore that hath his Portion t 9
ürſt, muſt needs have a Time to ſpend it, but that are Þ
e that bath his Portion laſt, muſt have it laſt- — are E i
ingly : Theretore it is ſaid of Diam, Io rby laſting. 2
Life time thou received; thy ga Things, and Luke vi. Go
thewi/ſe Lazarus evil 7 hinge, but now 2¹ Dives 4. 4%
comforted, and thou art tormented: {5 his good.” 1
Chr. Then I perceive it i beſt noe 0-covet Tung... 55
hings that are now, but Things to come. 1 Cor iv.
Inter. You ſay Truth, fot he © Things chat 8; The 2. 4
are ſeen," are Temporal, but the Things that Things are "©
are not ſeen, Eternal: But though this 2 4
lo, * ſince Things preſent, 12 our 3
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I 5 near Neigbbours one to an Ta
ot Again, Becauſe Things to come, abi ain
we _-carkal Senſe; are ſuch Strangers one to an hut P
bother; therefore it is that the firſt of theſe M eaut
ſuddenly fall into Amity, and that mes |
ſo continually between the ſecond, - /
Then I faw in my Dream, that the Inter
| 5 preter took Chriftian by he Hand, and lei TI
im into a Place where was a Fire burning T't
13 agaiuſt 4 Wall, and one ſtanding by it al wa im
„ Eeeaſting much Water upon it, to quench it peho
8 "= did the Fire burn higher and hotter. y ©
Then (aid Chroftiam, What means this?
The Interpreter anſwered, This is tho
Work of Grace that is wrought in the Heart;
he that cafts Water upon it, to extinguiſh
= . and put it out, is the Devil ;- But in that
_ * thou' feeſt” the Fire notwithftanding burn
= digher and hotter, thou ſhalt alſo fee.” thei
RNeaſon of chat: So he had him about to the
* Back ide of che Wall, where he jaw a Man
with a Veſſel of Oil in his Hand, of the
which he did alſo ＋ caſt i
——— _ eretly) into the Pire. f
nl 4 > TOY | 2 "Then ſaid Chriflian, Winning this 2.
| 1 $I" The Znterpreter anſwered, {is is Chri/
—_ * continually with the Oil of his Grace
| maintains the Work already begun in the
FH cart, by the Means of which, - notwith
vow. x. ee wha the Devil can do, the Souls 0
9. his People prove gracious ſtill. And in that For:
„ 21 6:54, Wor ſaweff, lies” the Man ſtood behind tel cour
Wall te. maintain the Fire; chis is to teach mof
mdtdee, That it is hard for the Tempted to ſer] and
* how this Wark of Graces maintained in th tem!
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8. | Che Pilgrim's Weogzels.
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„ Ab ain by the Hand, and led hint into a plea-
to anſnt Place, where was built a ſtately. Palaee,
ele M eautiful to behold ; at the Sight of which
ace i briſliaz was greatly delighted ; he ſaw alſo
P pon the Top thereof certain Perſons walk
g. who were eloathed all in Gold.
Then ſaid Cin, May we go in thither ?
Then the Interpreter took him and led
im up to the Door of the Palace; and
dehold at the Door Rood a great Compa-
y of Men, as deſirous to go in, but durſt
ot.” 'Thefe' alſo ſat a Man at a little Di-
dance from the Door, at a Table-ſide, with
; Book” and bis Inkhorn” before him, to
ake the Names of them that mould enter
therein: He affo ſaw, that in the Door-way
Inter
d led
rn ng
wa
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3} the
eart;
guiſk
- that
burt
the
ing reſolved to do to the Men that would
Faſt, when 'evety Man ſtatted back for Fear
of the armed Men, Chriftidh ſaw a Man of
a very ftout Countenance, come up to the
had done,. he ſaw the Man draw his Sword;
and put an Helmet upon his Head, and
Men, who laid upon him wich deadly
couraged, but fell to cutting and hacking
FY tempted to keep him but, he- ent his Way
through them all, and preſſed forwards
ald into the Palace aft which there was a
ood many Men in Armour to keep it, be-
ter, whit Hurt and Miſchief they could. :
ow. was Chriftien ſomewhat in maze : At
ruſh towards the Door upon the armed 5
Forco: But the Man was not at all dil.
plæaſaut
1 alfo' ſaw that the Tr/ivprerer took him
Man that fat there to write, ſaying, „ Ser * The wa-
town my Name, Si,; the which When 1
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moſt fiercely: 80 after he kad I received 4 Adis |
and given many . Wounds to thole that at- xiv. 222.
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| pleaſant Noiſe heard from thoſe that we Chy
within, even from thoſe that walked upo Mar
the 1 of che ae, laying, | For
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"Grams is, come in,
8 278 Gy thou ſhalt yin.
So he went * and was cloathed with ſuc
Garments as they. Then Cbriſian ſmiled .
and ſaid, I think verily I know the Meaning |
of this.
Now, ſaid Chriftien, Let me go 3
Nay, ſtay. (aid the Interpreter] ti
fhewed thee a little more, and after 2 *
ſhalt go on ty: Way. So he took him by
the Hand again, and led him into a very
® Deſpair 2 16. Ro, where there ſat £ Man in an
ron-Cag
ile an Now I Man to look on ae very fad;
Tren- Cage. he fat with his Eyes looking down to the
SOround, his Hands folded together, and be
Gghed as if he would break his Heart. Then
ſaid, Chrifiian, What means this? At which
| the Ieterpreter bid him talk to the Man.
r. Then ſaid Cbriſtian to the Man, ff
50 What art thou? The Man anſwered, 1 an
what I was not once. |
Cbr. What wert thou once?
+ Lake Man. The Man faid, I was once a fair |
vili. 18. and flouriſhing Profeſfor, both in my own
Eyes, and alſo in the Eyes of others. I once
| was, as I thought, fair for the Celeſtial City,
Lot al 0 and had even then Joy at the MPA that N;
I ſhould get thither
Cbr. Wet, but what art thou now 7 |
Mas. I am now a Man of Deſpair, and am
| hat up in it, as in this Iron Cage. 1 Cannot
et gut, O! no, I cannot. Chr,
We
Che witgrti's einein
Chr. But how eam'ft thou in this Condition?
Man I left off to watch and be ſober; I
id the Reins upon the Neck of my Luls:
ſinned againſt the Light of the Word, and
je Goodneſs of God: I have grieved the
prit, and he is gone: I tempted the Devil,
dd he is come to me: I have provoked God
Anger, and he has left me; I have fo
arden d my Heart that I cannot repent.
Then lid Chriſtian to the Interpreter, But
there no Hopes for ſuch a Man as this?
* him, faid the Interpreter. *
Chr. Then ſaid Chriſtian, Is Bere no
Zope, but you muſt be put in the N
Deſpair?
Man. No, none at all.
Chr. Why ? Tie Son of the Bleſſed is
ery pitifu},
Men. I. have * cncibed him to inyſelf « Heb.
freſh, I have def piſed his Perſon, I have vi. 6.
elpiſed + his Righteouſneſs, I have counted f Luke
'F have done xix. 14.
is Blood an unholy Thing.
Deſpite || to the Spirit of Grace: Therefore
have ſhut myſelf out of all the Promiſes, x 24, wy |
ind there how remains nothing to me but
breatnings of certain Judgment, and fiery
ndignation, which ſhall devour me as on |
Ad verſary.
Chr. For what did you bring yourſelf i into
bis Condition? |
Man. For the Luſts, Pleaſures, and Pro-
ts of this World; in the Enjoyment” f
But now every one of thoſe Things
Worm.
Mas.
TR I did then promiſe myſelf mach De- > OFT
icht Wy |
allo bite me, and gnaw me; like a burning
Chr. But can'f thon not _ and turn ? ET
„ | The-piigrim's Progzels.
Man. God hath denied me Repentance,
the Word give: me no Encouragement to be-
ow, 8 himſelf hath ſhut me up in this
: Nor can all the Men in the
t! — me out. O Eternity! Eternity
How ſhall 1 grapple with the Miſery that n.
muſt meet with in Eternity !
Inter. Then ſaid the Interpreter to Chri
ian, Let this Man's Miſery be remembered
by thee, and be alſo an everlaſting Caution
to thee.
Chr. Well, ſaid Chriſtian, this is fearful Mei
prey that me to watch and be ſober ; and to
that I may ſhun the Cauſe of this Man's
Miſery. Sir, Is it not Time for me to go on
— Way now? -
Enter. Tarry until I fall ſhew thee one
| 2 more, and then thou ſhalt go on th
ay
| 4 he took Clrifian by the Hand-agai
and led him into a. Chamber, -where there
was one riſing out. of Bed; and as he put
on his "pra he ſhook and Ce
Then ſaid Chriftians Why does this Mar
thus tremble ? The 1e e th then bid hin
tell to Chriſtian the Reaſon of his doing ſo
So he began and ſaid, This Night as I was it
my Sleep, I dreamed, and be old the Hea
vens grew exceeding black: Alſo i it Thunder
1 Cor. xv. ed and Lightened in 0 dreadful manner Side.
to hid
on me
2 Theſ. iv. that Ys me into an Agony. S0 I looked Up
Jude xv. np in my Dream, and ſaw the Clouds rod Chy
John v. 28. at an unuſual rate, upon which I heard a'greaWof thi
| 17 1 8 Sound of a Trumpet, and ſaw alſo a Man ill Ma
8. * a Cloud, attended with the ThouſandWment
WT XX. of Heaven: They were all in flaming Fireit: B.
11.12, 13, Wo wy. Heavens "rg in a burning Flame
14. 5 A hear
CThePllgriur's P2ogzefs. ' 3
heard a Voice, (ſaying, 4riſe ye Dead, and. Iſa. xxvi. +
Wore 10 1 1. and with chat the Rocks 21. 3
ent, the Graves opened, and the Dead that Mich. vii.
vere. therein came forth. Some of them 16, 17.
ere exceeding glad, and looked upward, . Plal. i. 2,
nd ſome ſought to hide themſelves under 3.
he Mountains: Then I faw the Man that
at upon the Cloud. open the Book, and bid _
ie World draw near. Yet there Was, by Mal. iii.
eaſon of a ſierce Flame which iſſued and 2, 3
me before him, à convenient Piſtance be- Dan. vii.
Wixt him and hem, and betwixt the Judge 9, 10.
and the Priſoners at the Bar. I heard it alſo
proclaimed to them that attended on the Man
that ſat upon the Cloud, Gaither together * Mark
be Tares,. the Chaff and Stubble,. — caſ iii. 13.
Mem into the burning Lale: And with that xiv. 30.
the bottomleſs Pit 2 juſt whereabouts Mal. iv. 1.
ſiood : Out of the Mouth of which there |
came in an abundant manner, Smoke and f =
Coals of Fire, with hideous. Noiſes. . It was 4
Yo ſaid to the ame Perſons; f Gather my + Luke
Wheat into the Garner. And with that I — iii. 17. |
an many catched up and carried away, inco. the Thefl. vii, \
Clouds, but I was left behind. I alſo ſou 2 16, 17. |
to hide myſelf, but I could not, for the'
that ſat upon the Cloud {till kept his Eve > 3
on me: My Sins alſo came into my Mind; Rom. ii,
1 my Conſeience did ow me on der 14, 1%
ide.
Upon this I awaked "I wy Sleep.
Chr. But what was it that made hart EP
reaWof this Sight?
n 1 Mar. Why,;/I thought that the Day of Judg-
naß ment Was come, and that I was not ready for
it: But What affrighted me moſt was, that
the _— gathered up ſeveral, and ew
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behind ; alſo the Pit of Hell opened *her
too afflicted me; and as I thought the judge
| thou conſidered all theſe Thi
ee 8 bibel
Mouth juſt where I ſtood : My Conſeience
had always his Eye upon me, ſhewing Indig-
nation in his Countenan ce.
Then ſaid the Interpreter to eee 1, Hal
Cb. Ves, and they put me in ond Fear,
Int. Well, keep all Things ſo in thy Mind,
that they may be as a Goad in thy Sides, to
prick thee forward in the Way thou muſt go.
T hen Chriſtian began to gird up his Loins
and addreſs himſelf to his Journey. Then
ſaid the Interpreter, The Comforter be al.
ways with thee, good Chriſtian, to guide thee
in the Way that leads to the City. 80 Chri-
rem went on his IJ laying,
Hele Hawe 7 ſeen Things rare and vrofitable, |
Things pleaſant! dreadful $9 af to make me * R
In what I pave begun to take in Hand,
Then let me think on tbem and underfland
Wherefore they ht d me were, and let me be
7. e « ed nterpreter, to thee.
Now L faw i in my Dream, that the High-
way, up which Chriflian was to go, was
fenced on either Side with a Wall, and tha
| . F Iſaiah Wall was called“ Salvation. Up this Way
xxvi. 1. 1 therefore did burthened Chriſtion run, but not
witbout great / becuaſe of the Load
on his Back. -
He run thus till he came at/a Place ſome
what aſcending,” and upon that Place ſtooe
'a Croſs, and a little below in the Bottom
1a Sepulchfe. 80 J ſaw in my Dream, That
Ke. = Chrifian came vp to the Croſs, hi
” Buxthei
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fell fi
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eil Burthen looſed from. off bis Shoulders, and
coll fell from off his Back, and n to tumble,
ge end ſo continued to do, till it came to the
g. Mouth of the Sequlcbre,- Where It fell in, and
I (aw it no more.
i Then was Chri/fian: glad and lightſome, W466 G.
and faid with a merry Heart He Bath given releaſes us
ir. me Reft by Bis Sorrow; and Life by his Death. ofvarCG wilt
de Then he: ſtood. a while to look and won: ard Bur-
toll der: for it was very ſurprizing to bim, hen, ab-
0. J that the Sight of the Creſi ſhoald tuus eaſe are a: thoſe |
vs him of his Burthen. He looked therefore, that leap
en and looked again, even till the Springs tharior Joy.
al. vere in his Head ſent the * Water, dun Zech.
ee bis Cherie. Now, as he ſtood looking and x13. 10.
7i-Yl weeping, behold Three Shining Ones came
to him, and ſaluted him, with Peace be to _.
thee : 8 . Firtt faid to him + Thy Sins be Mat xxii
1 thee ; the Second frigt him cf his ©
% Rags, and (loathed him with 1 Charge of Þ Zech iv.
Raiment the Third alſo | 2 4 ptr imbis I F K
Forehead, and gave him a Rell, with à Seal xxviii. .
„upon it, which be bid him look en as be
ran, and that he ſhould give it in a: the Ce-
leſtiat Gate; ſo they went their May. "Then | *
h- ri/{;an gave three Leaps for Joy, andy went
vai on ſinging: F 2
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ay Thus fat did 7 come Loos with my Sin, 18 >” ar :
not Nor ci eught rafe the Grief that I ab in, an gan ng
'Till I came hither : Il hat a Place is this!” the alone
Mufti here be the Beginning of my Bliss! when Dl
Maſt here the Purthen fall from off my Bath ! doth give
ft here the Strings that bind it te me tract him.
Blelt, Croſs ! -Bleſt Sepulchre ! Bleft rather bd Joy of. hls. |
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I ſaw then in my Dream that he went on thus,
even till he e at the Bottom, where 12
ſaw a little out of the Way, three Men fat
afleep, with fe eters upon their Heels, the .
Name of the one was Simple, the other Simple,
S lech, aud the third Preſumpt ion. Sloth, and
282 then ſeeing them lie in this Caſe, Preſainp-
went. unto them, if peradventure he might don. N
awake them, and cried, Jon are like them _ -.
that (esp on the Top of a + Maſt, for the + proy.
dead Sea is under you, 4 Culyh that hath uo xxill. 45
Bottom: Aauale, therefore. and come away z
be willing alſo, and I will help gou off avith.. 73
your Irons He told them alſo, le bee
goeth abomt like, t à roaring Lian, comes bye. : b Pet. S.
u will certainly betome a Prey to his Teeth, 8. 2
Wich that they looked upon him, and began
to reply in this Sort: Sime ſaid, J fee u- PR Ts 15
Danger: Slath ſaid, Yet a litle mare Slerp.; $9 Perſuas ;
And Preſumptian faid, Every Tub muft lard ſion ,
puh 0un Bartam. And fo they lay down . if God,
to ſleep again, and cb went on his openeth not
Way. | Ave H. 8
Yet he was woub! ed to think, that Men A, fas" hl
in that Danger, ſhould fo little eftcem te 3
Kindnefs of him that ſo freely offered to tf .
help them, both by the awake ning of them, : 1 98 e
counſeling of them, and proffering to beiß s
them off With their Irons. And as de das 15
troubled thereabout, he eſpied two: Nen 2 : a *
come tumbling over the Wall on the Leſt :
hand of the narrow Way; and they made 5 75 .
up apace to him. The Name of the one HEHE 1? 2
was For mality, and the Name of the ofher
UH poecriſi. "So, as I ſaid, they drew up unto 1
ff te! who thus entered with them into Diſt. gut,
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42 Che Pilgrim's Pꝛogzets.
Chri- Cr * Gentlemen, "whence come you, In
an talleth whither go dunn di
eviththem. * Form. & Hyp. We were born in the Land
of Yain-Ghry, and we are going for Praiſe yo
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to Mount Zion. e cie
Cyber. Why came you not in at the Gate . oh
which ſtandeth at the Beginning of the Way ? Wi
+ John Know ye not that it is written, + That he *
X. 1. that cometh not in by the Door, but climbeth up hy
eme other Way, the ſame is a Thief and 4 Wi.
Robber ? SES: Ti
Form & Hyp. They ſaid, That to go to an]
the Gate of Entrance, was by all their Coun- T {
try men counted too far about; and therefore W.
their uſual: Way was to make a ſhort Cut of -
ut, and to climb over the Wall as they had. His
one. | . |
Chr. But it will be counted a Treſpaſs 2
againſt the Lord of the City whither we are 08
f bound, thus to violate his revealed Will. but
179% Form. & Hyp They told him, 4 That as wh
that come for that, he needed not trouble his Head there- 1 1
ita the about; for what they did they had Co Na
Map, but for, and could produce, if nced were, Teſti- (
not by the mony that would witneſs it, for more than a not
Door,think Thouſand Years. X Do
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that they Chr. But, ſaid Chrifian, Will it ſtand a my
can 7 Trial at Law ? AX”.
ping
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fomet Form. & Hyp. They told him, That Cuftom ſay
in Vindica- being of fo long a ſtanding as above a Thou- take
tion e ſand Years, would doubtleſs now be admit- had
heir ot ted as a Thing legal by an impartial judge: thus
Fractice And belides, /ay they, if we get into tre Way, thin
Wat matter which Way we get in ? If we Cit)
ate in, we are in: Thou art but in the Way, 200
who, as we perceive, chme in at the Gate, Ca
and we are alſo in tho Way, that came tymby he 1
2 ling
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The Pilgrim's Progreſs.
ling over the Wall; wherein now. is thy Con-
dition better than ???; ot
Chr. I walk by the Rule of my Maſter,
you walk by the rude working of your Fan-
cies. . You. are counted Thieves already by
the Lord of the Way, therefore I doubt you
will not be found true Men at the End of the
Way. You come in by yourſelves without
his Direction, and ſhall go out by yourlelves |
without his Mercy. - 222
To this they made him but little Anſwer;
anly they bid him look to himſelf. Then
I ſaw that they went on every Man in his
Way, without much Conference one with
another; ſave that theſe two Men told Chri-
ſtian, That as to Laxvs and Ordinances, they
doubted not. but they ſhould as conſcienti-
ouſly do them as he. Therefore, ſaid they,
we ſee not wherein thou differeſt trom us,
but by the Coat that is now on thy Back,
which was, as we trow, given thee by ſome _
of thy Neighbours, to hide the Shame of thy
Nakednefs.* | F SM
Cb By“ Laws and Ordinances, you will Gal i.
ä not be ſaved, ſince you came not in by the 6,
Door. And as for this + Coat, that is on f Chri-
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the Place whither I go; and that, as vf, b4..
ſay, to eover my Nakedneſs with. And a8 Lor#sCcat =_
take it, as a Token of Kindneſs to me, for Lon h75-- + Fo,
had nothing but Rags before; and belides, Bath: .and
thus I comfort myſelf as I go: Surely ir caffe
think I, when I come to the Gate of the ed here?
City, the Lord thereof will know me for zac fp - =!
good, ſince I have his Coat on my Back ©
1 have moreover 7 fo
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© - "He is com a Mark in my Forehead, of which perhaps
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ferted ade you have taken no Notice, which one of my
it : Lord's moſt intimate Affociates fixed therein
k and the Day that my Burthen fell of my Should-
tis Roll. ers. I will tell you, moreover, that J had
then given me a Roll ſealed to comfort me by
reading, as I go on the Way; I was alſo bid
to give it in at the Cœleſtial Gate, in Token
of my certain going in after it; all which I
doubt you want, and want them becauſe you
came not in at the Gate.
To thefe Things they gare him no An-
wer, only they looked upon each other and
laughed. Then I ſaw that they went on all,
fave that Chriſlian went before, who had no
Chris other Talk * but with himſelf, and that ſame
Han has times fighingly, and ſometimes comfortably :
Tait with Alſo he would often be reading in the Roi
| binjelf. that one of the Shining Ones gave him, by
.* which he was refreſhed, E
III beheli! then that they all went on till
He comes they came at the Foot of the Hill + D;F-
to the Hill cully, at the Bottom of which was a Spring.
Difficulty. There was alſo in the fame Place, two other
Mays beſides that which came firait from
the Gate; one turned to the'Left-hand, and
the other to the Right, at the Bottom of the
Hill: but the narrow Way lay right up the
Hill, and the Name of that going up the
Side of the Hill was called Dificalry Chri-
*+ Tfaiah Han went to the 1 Spring, and drank there- .
liz. 20. of to refreſh himſelf, and then began to go
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Come, plack up Hiatt, let's neithor faint nor fear;
Better, ths" difficult, the vig ht Way to go,
\ Than wrong 1h eaſy, where the End is Woe.
I ̃öũe other two alſo came to the Foot of the
Hill; but when they ſaw that the Hill was
ſleep and higb, and that there were two other
Ways to ga to it, and ſuppoſing alſo that theſe
two Ways might meet again, with that up
Vhich Chri//ian went to, on the other Side of
the Hill. therefore they were reſolved to go
thoſe Wa;s : Now the Name of one of thoſe
Ways was Danger, and the Name of the other
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*Iy ce was Destruction. So the“ one took the Way
Danger of Which is called Danger, which did lead him
EOS" 199 (7
* turning
into 3 Wood, and the other took directly
vut of the up the Way to Deſtruction, which led him into
Way.
PEP ©} he ſlumbled and ſell, and roſe no more.
I looked then after Chriſtian, to ſee him
wo obety $0 up the Hill, where 1 perceived he fell
.* ,* Jrom running to going, and from going to
- clambeting, upon his Hands and bis Knees,
becauſe of the Stecpneſs of the Place. Now
about tie Mid-way to the Top of the Hill,
T4 Arbour, m de by the Lord
of Grace. of the Hill, for the Refreſhment bf weary
Iravellers; thither therefore - Chr;ftian got,
where he alſo fat himſeif down to reſt him:
1 2 Then be pulled his Roell out of bis Boſom,
and read therein to his Comfort; he allo
mnnmow began afreſh to take a Review, of the
e Coat or Garment that was given bim as he
„ .+ .Jtood by the Croſs. Thus pleaſing him-
— - > Tf a While, he at laſt fell into a S/umber,
ER: and hence into à faſt Sleep, which detain-
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eck him in that Place until it was almoſt ©
Night; and' in his Sleep “ his Roll fell out - HH.
ol his Hand. Now, as he was flecping, bat ft,
ey. mere came One to him, and awaked him, z 4 Loſer.
ſaying, + Go erh Ant, thou Slugpard, con- +. Prov.
de der ber Ways, and be wiſe : And with that ii. 6.
as WW Chrifian ſuddenly ſtarted up; and ſped him
er Non his Way, and went apace till he came to.
ſe ue Top of the Hill. 1 25 |
Ip Now, when he was got to the Top of
f the Hill, there came Two-Men running to
'0 meet him amain, the Name of the one was
le Wt 7imorous, and the other Miftruft : To whom f Chri-
er NCorifian faid, Sirs, What's the Matter, that ſtian et.
ou run the wrong Way ? Timerous anſwer- avi Mi
m ed. That they were going to the City of flruſt and
Zion, and had got up that difficult Piace: But, Timorous.
to Miaid he, the further we go, the, more Danger
e Ewe meet with, wherefore we turned, and are
going back again. 0 | —
m Yes, ſaid Miri, for juſt before us lie a
Couple of Lions in the Way (whether ſleep-
o Ning or waking we know not) and we could:
„, not think, if we came within Reach, but
chey would preſeatl, pull us in Pieces.
l, Chr. Then ſaid" Chri/tian, You make me
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:fraid ; but whither ſtall 1 flee to be ſafe? fl
d
yY IVI go back tomy o Country, that is pre-
t, NPared for Tire and Primftone, and [ ſhall cer
* Wrcinly periſb ther FI can get to the C H.
„ His City, 7 am ſure to be in || Safety tber ; Ohri⸗
0 1 muft <venture; t5 g back is nothing but fan feultes.. 3
C Death, to g forwards is Fear of Death, and for Var: 5
e % Everlaſting beyond it: I will yet go for-, ² ᷣ on \
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- ard. So Miſtruſt- and T irmerous ran Joe
„ Ide Hill, and Chrif;an went on his Way.
at wiinking again af what he had heard *
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49 Che Pilgrim's Progreſs.
28 from the Men, he felt in his Boſom for his
Roll, that he might read therein and be com-
®*.Chr;fi. forted ; but he felt, and found ® it not. Then
an miſſes Was Christian in great Diftreſe, and knew not
is Roll, what to do, for he wanted. that which uſed
avberein he to relieve him, and that which ſhould have
be uſed to been bis Paſs into the Cceleftial City. Here
" take Com therefore he began to be much + perplexed,
Fr.. and knew not what to do; at laſt he be-
N | + He 75 thought himſelf that he had ſlept in- the
1 perplexid Arbour that is on the Side of the Hill: And
WO for bis _ falling down, upon his Knees, he asked God
Roll. Forgiveneſs for that. foliſh Fact and then
went back to look for his Rodl. But all the
Way he went back, who. can ſufficiently
jet forth the Sorrow of Chriſtian's Heart ?
Sometimes he ſighed, ſometimes he wept,
and oftentimes he chid himſelf for being fo
was erected only for a little Refreſhment for
his Wearineſs. Thus therefore he went back
carefully looking on this Side and on that, all
the Way that he went, if happliy he might
find the Roell that had been his Comfort fo
many Times m his Journey. He went thus
= till he came again in Sight of the Arbour
where he ſat and ſlept, Gon that Sight re-
2 Chriſti- newed 4 his Sorrow the more, by bringing
an beg dgain, even aireſh, his Evil of Sleeping into
. l his Mind. Thus therefore he now went on,
K flecping, bewailing his ſinful S'eep, ſaying, O wretch-
Ile ii. 2. ed Man that 1 am! that 1 ſhould ſleep in the
2 [hef. v. Day-time ! that I ſhould flee
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of Difculty ! that I ſhould ſo indulge the
Fleth as to uſe the Reft for Eaſe to my Fleſh,
which*the LORD. of the Hill hath erected
only tor the Relief of the Spirus of Pilgr ms!
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fooliſh as to fall aſleep in that Place, which
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How many Steps have I took in vain ! (thus:
it happened to _{/-ae/, for their Sins they were
lent back again by the Way of the Rea. Sea
and I am made to tread thoſe Steps with Sor-
row, which I might bave trod with Delight,
had it not been for this ſinful Sleep. "How
far might I have been on my Way by this
Time ! I am made to tread thoſe Steps thrice
over, which I needed not to have trod but.
once: Yea, now alſo I am likely to he be-
nighted, for the Day is almoſt ſpent ; O that
1 had not ſlept! Now by this Time he was
come to the Arbour again, where for a while
he ſat down and wept.; but at laſt (as Chri-
lian would have it) looking ſorrowfulty, down
under the Settle, there he * eſpied his Roll, *Chriſtian:
the which he with Trembling and Haſte oy his
catched up and put into his Boſom. But who Roll here
can tell how Joyful this Man was when he be boft it...
had gotten his Re// again ! For this Re was. |
the Aſſurance of his Life, and Acceptance at
the defired Haven: Therefore he laid it up
in his Bolom, 'gave GOD Thanks for di-
O I recting his Eye te the Place where it lay,
13 and with Joy and Tears betook himſelf again
ir | to his Journey. But, O how nimbly did he
*- | £0 up the reſt of the Hill! Vet, before he
3 | got up, the Sun went down upon Chriftian, .
O and this made him again recal the Vahity of
Ny his ſleeping to his Remembrance; and thus
de again begay to condole with himſelt : O
chou ſinful Sleep! How for thy Sake am 1
it like to be be-nighied in my Jour:ey; |
ie matt walk withont the Sun, Darkneſs myſt
alſo cover the Path of my feet, and I
ed must hear the Noiſe of the doleful Crea-
*! I tutes] becauſe of my- Gnful Sleep: Now
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alſo he remembered the Story that Mara
and Timorous told him of; how they were at-
frighted with the Sight of the Lions. Then
iaid Chriſtian again io himſelf, "Theſe Beaits
range in the Night for their Prey, and if
they ſhould, meet with me im the Dark, how
ſhould. 1 flifc them ? Row ſhould 1 eſcape
ring by them torn to Pieces? Thus he
went on; but while he was bewailing his un-
Happy Miſcarriage, ke lift up his Eyes, and
' benold there was a'flately Palace betore him,
the Name of which was Bedutiful, and it
tood by the Highway: ſide.
4
So 1 ſaw in my Dream, that he- made
Haſte and went forward, that if poſſible he
might get a Lodging there. Now before be
had gone far, he entered into à very nar-
row Paſſage, which was about a Furlong off
__ the Porter's Lodger and looking very nar-
rowly before him as he went, he eſpied two
Lions in che Way. Now, thought he, I
ſee the Danger that Miftuſt and, Timorous
were driven back by. (The Lions were
chained, but he ſaw not the Chains) Then
he was afraid, and thought alſo himſe}f to
20 back after them, for he thought nothing
tut Death was before him. But the Porter
at the Lodge, whoſe Name was Watchful,
perceiving that Chriſtian made a Halt, as if
he -would go back, cried unto bim, {aying,
* Mark ® Is thy Strength ſo ſmall ? Fear not the
Lions, for they are chained, and are placed
there for Trial of Faith, where it is, and
for Diſcovery of thoſe that have none: Keep.
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in the micſt of the Plain, and no Hurt!
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Then I ſaw he went on trembling for Fear
ff the. Lions; but taking good Herd to the
Directions of the Porter, he heard them roar,
but they did him no Harm. Then he clapt
is Hands, and went on till he came and
tiood before the Gate where the Porter was.
hen ſaid: Chri/ian to the Porter, Sir, What
Houſe is this, and; may 1 lodge here To-
night 7. The Porter anſwered, This Houſe
vas built by the. Lord of the Hill, and he
built it for the Relief and Security of Pil-⸗
grims. Then the Porter alſo asked, Whence
e was, and whither he was going ?
Chr. I am come from the City of Deftruc-
tian, and am going to Mount Zion; but be-
cauſe the Sun is now et, I deſire, it I . bo
to lodge here To- night. .
Porter. What is your Name?
Chr. My Name is now Chriftias, but my N
Name at the firſt was Graceſaſs; I came of
the Race of Japbet, whom od will pare”.
ſuade to dwell in the Tents of Shem. Vit, 27.
Porter. But how doth it happen chat you
came ſo late? The Sun is ſer.
Cb, had been here ſooner; but that, ;
wretched Man that I am! I flept in the
Arbour that ſtands on the Hill⸗ſide; nay,
] had, notwithſtanding that, been here much
ſroner, but that in my Sleep, I loſt my Evi-
dence, and, came without it to the Brow of
the Hill. and then — for it, and find-
with Sorrow of
ig it not, I. was force
Heart, to go back to the Place where I ſlept
my Slecp, where .1 found it, and now am
(Omèe.
Porter. Well, Tuin call ant one of the Vir- |
pus of * Place, who will (if ſhe like your
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Falk bring you unto the reſt of the Family,
according to the Rules of the: Houſe. 80
Watchful the Porter rang a Bell, at the Sound
of which came out of the Door of the Houle,
a grave and beautiful Damſel, named D/
cretion,” and asked, why ſhe was called.
The Porter anſwered, This Man is on a
2 from the City of Deſtruction to Mount
Zion, but being weary and be nighted, he
asked me if he might lodge here To night;
So I told him 1 would call for thee, who
after Diſcourſe had, mayeſt do as ſeemeſt
thee good, even according to the Law of the
Houle | |
Then ſhe asked him, Wbenee he was,
and Whither he was going? And he told
„ber. She asked alſo, How he got in the
Way? And he told her. Then ſhe asked
bim, What he had ſeen and met with in
the Way? And he told her. And at laſt
She asked his Name? So he ſaid, It was
. Chriftian, and I have ſo much the more a
Deſire to lodge here To-night, becauſe by
, What I perceive, this Place was built by
the Lord of the Hill, for the Relief ard
Security of Pilgrims: So ſke ſmiled, but
the Water ſtood in her Eyes: And after
a little Pauſe, ſhe faid, I will call forth two
or three more of the Family: So ſhe ran to
the Doer, and called out to Prudence, Piety,
and Charity, who after a little more Di-
courſe with him, had him into the Fa-
_- mily: And many of them meeting him at
the Threſhold of the Houfe, ſaid. Come in,
thou Blefled of the Lord; this Houſe was
built by the Lord of the Hill, on purpoſe to
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and conſented together, that until Supper was
ready, ſome of « them ſhould bave ſome parti.
cular Diſcourſeewwith. Chi an, for the better
Improyement of Time, and they appointed
Piety, Prudence, and e to diſcourſe with
, Ain. and thus they 72
pie Piety. Come, good ine ſince we have
giſcourVes "beck ſo loving to you, to receive you into our
Hum. Houſe this- Night, let. us, if perhaps we may
better ourſelves thereby, talk with you of al
12 Things that have happened to- N your
Pilgrimage.
Chr. With a very good Will : and 1 am
5 0 _ lad that yon are-lo well. diſpoſed. 5
1 Piety. What moved you at firt-to. betake
7 yourſelf to a Pligrim's Eife ff;
* How Chr. I was * driven out of my Native
S Chritian Come by a dreadful Sound that was in
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out off bi ſtruction did attend me, if I abode in that
own U oun- Place where J was.
„„ ich Bat how did it deppen bat you came
9039 out of your Country this Way?
Chr. It was as God+ would. have it; ſor
when I was, under the Fears of Deſtruction, I
* dd not know: whither to: go; but by: chance
there came à Man to me even as I was trem-
. + How bling and. weeping, whoſe Name is +, Evan-
U * 1 gel into ge'rft, and he directod me to the Wicket-
e 1 Gate, which elſe I ſhould never have found ;.
and ſo ſet mie in the Way that hath led me
directly to this Houſe.
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e Remembrance of which will flick by me
5 long as I live: 1 Three Things,
to wit, How Chriſt, In eſpite of Satan,
35
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aintains his Work of Grace in the Heart: Bearſal of
ow the Man had finhed himſelf quite out vba be
Hope of God's Mercy; and allo, The/aw in the '
Dream of Ne that thought i in his Sleep the Way.
day of Judgment was come.
Nn! by, Did you hear him tell his
Dream?
| Chr. Ya, and a dreadfal one it was, I
ht; It made my Heart ache as he was
15 of it; but Jam glad Lheard it.
Rh. Was this all you ſaw at * Houſe of
he Inter prater?
Chr. No, he took me Znid: had me where
e ſhewed me a ſtately Palace, and how the
ople were clad in Gold that were in it; and
ow there came a venturous Man and cut his
ay. through the armed Men that fto6d in the
Door to keep him out, and how hie was bid to
ume in and win eternal Glor ory. Methoug ht thoſe
hin s did raviſh my Heart: I Wn have
ayed: at the good Man's Houſe a Twelve
nonth, but x. [ knew © bad further to go.
Piety. And what ſaw you elſe in the Way?
Chr. Saw! Why, I went but a little WO
er, and I faw One, as [ thought in my. ©
ind, hang Bleeding on a T1 ee ; and the very
ght of Him made my Burthen fall off m
ack-(for I groaned under a very heavy Bur-
hen) but then it fell down from off me. Twas
irange Thing to me; for I never ſaw ſuch a
hing before. Vea, and while I ſtood locking
1 70 then Icould not forbear dene Le
ning ods came to me: One of them t
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of my Rags, and gave me this embroide
Coat which you ſee, and the Third ſet t
Mark which you ſee in my Forehead; an
gave me- this ſealed Roll, (and with that |
_ plucked it out of his Boſom.), - + - +
Flieg. But you ſaw more than this, diff}.
Puou not? wh bing:
Cbr. The Things that I have told 0
were the beſt, yet ſome other Matters I ſay
as, namely, I ſaw Three Men, Simple, Slul Mich
and Freſumption, lie aſleep-a little put of tiff;
Way as 1 came, with Irons upon their Heel; 7 4
but do you think that I could awake theme
1 faw alſo Formality and Hypocriſy. con W
tulnbling over the Wall, to go (as they pri
| tended) to Zian; but they were quickly lol.. ©
even as myſelf did tell them, but they vou
not believe. But above all, I found it ha
Work to get up this Hill, and as hard to con
by the Lions Mouth ; and truly if it had ne
been for the good Man, the Porter that fiand
at the Gate, I do not know, but that aft
all, I might have gone back again: But
\ thank God, I am here, and I thank you fc
receiving me. | |
Prudence Then Prudence thought it good to ask hifi
W Lo Queſtions, and deſired his Anſwer t
m. , them
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Prud. Do you not think ſometimes of ti
Country from whence you came?
Chri- Cbr. Ves, but with much Shame and De
ſtian's teſtation: Truly if I had been mindful «
his Native have had Opportunity to have returned: bt
Country, now I dee a better Country, chat is, 3
Heb. xiii. Heavenly One.
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Prud. Do you. not bear away with you
me of the Thibgs that then you were con-
„„ 2 (Ooty ts te a NR
Chr. Ves, but greatly againſt my Will, Chriſtian
recially my inwafd and carnal Cogitations, 4 fa fed
ith Which all my Conntrymen, as. well as % car-
Y lelf were delighted; but now all thoſe / Cops
» hings are my Grief, and might I bat chaſe inn!
Ion Things, L would “ chuſe never to Chri-
F of thoſe Things more: But when I gian';
Which is worſt is with m. ©. + Rom. i.
Prad. Do you not find ſotnetimes as if
oſe Things were vanquiſhed, which at otber
imes are your Perplexity ? | | |
Chr, Ves, but that is but ſeldom; but they $
Fe to me r Golden Hours, in which ſuch I Chriſti-
e ee e.
t ha Prud. an vou remember by what Means: Hours.
Ja find your Annoyances, at Times, as if |
ey were vanquiſhed ? 1 | |
FF Chr. Yes, * think that what I ſaw at the || How
Tross, will do it; and when I look upon Chriſtian
y embroidered Coat. that will do it; ànd gets Power
hen I look into the Roll that I carry in my again bis
dſom, that will do it; and when my Thoughts Corrupii- - x
- bor about whither I am going, that ont. 225
do If, -» | . - 2b
fl P-ud. And what is that which makes you”
of i} <<frous to go to Mount Zion?
16. Why, There I hope to ſee Him alive, H
at did hang dead on the Croſs; and there I Chriſſian
pe to be rid of all thoſe Things, that ta au %
z Day are in me an Annoyance te me; at Mount
Were they ay, there is no Death; and there Zion.
ball dwell with ſuch Company as. 1 like Ii. xvi,
Stat beſt Rev. i 4
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beſt. For to tell you the Truth, I love bi.
| becauſe I was by him eaſed of my Burtheſ .
. ..,. and I am-weary of m Awad ickneſs
| would fain be where I ſhould die no mon
2 and with the Company that ſhall continual
cry, Holy Holy ! Hey
_ « Charity Then Fad Charity to Chrifiian, bg Have ye .
diſcourſes a Family ? Are you a married Man?
"him, Cs. Thave a Wike and four ſmall Children
Che. And why did you. not bring tha
along with you?
+ Chri- Chr. Then + Chriftian wept, 154 faid, Ot
ſtian's Lowe how willingly would I have done it ! The
to his Wife were all of them utterly averſe to my goin
and Chil. on Pilgrimage.
dren... | Cha. But you ſhould have talkes to then. Py
and have endeavoured to have ſhewn ther a n
the Danger of being left behind. alto
Gen. ix. Chr.” So I did; and told them alſo win pens
I4. God had ſhewed to me of the Deſtruction off .
our City; but I ſeemed to them as one thi *
2 En and they believed i me not. & 3
e And did you pray, to God, that bf”:
1 would bleſs your Counſe] to tliem ? ry :
WY." _ Chr. Yes, and that with mach Affection der.
for you muſt think that 'my Wife and poo Wn
Children were very dear unto me. eb;
Cha. But did you tell them of your ow 2
_ Sorrow and Fear of Deſtruction? For I ſuppo
that Deſtruction was viſiblè to you.
. Chz. Ves, over and over, and over. The 8
ao. Chriſli- might alſo Tf ſee my Fears in my Counteſſſ ©
anf Fear nance, in my Tears, and alſo iff my tremblin,” th,
of periſhing under the Apprehenfiotis' of the Judgmen! th
might be that did hang over our Heads; but all w: m '
read in his not ſufficient 0 prevail with them to con 4 en
wery Coun- with me. \ 255
te gance. Ci ©
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che Billaxim's Piögzeſs. 9
1. But what could they ſay for them-
„
% ,. Why, * my Wiſe was afraid of loſing - The
mon World, and my Children were given to Cauſe why
a fooliſh Delights of Youth.: So what by bis 3/7 |
Thing, and what by another, they left and C:/- ...
to wander in this Manner alone. arenaid -
ba. But did not you, with your vain Life, not go. f
p all that you by Words uſed by, Way orf
Wiumption to bring them away with you?
br. Indeed I cannot commend my Life,
I am conſcious to myſelf of many Fail- © =
s therein: I know alſo, that a Man by his wo
nverſation may ſoon overthrow what by
gument or Perſuaſion he doth labour to
en upon others for their Good : Vet, this Chriſtian's
En ſay, I was very wary of giving them good Con-
caſion by any unſeemly Action, to make verſation
m averſe to going on Pilgrimage. Yea; before bis
this very Chas hey would tell me I was Fife and
preciſe, and that I'deny'd myſelf of TR Children.
their Sakes) in which they ſaw no Evil. |
it . I think I may fay, that if what they a
in me did hinder them, it was my great
aionffoderneſs in {inning againſt God, or ere 8 10 act
doo Wrong to my. Neighbour.” Paton. .
Pola. Indeed Cain hated bis Brother; be-+Chriſtian
e his own. Works were Evil, and his Bro- clear of
bros Righteous; and if thy Wife and Chil- Their. Blood
Pre have been offended with thee for this, / they
J thereby ſhew themſelves to be implaca- peri .
to Good, and thou haſt deliver'd thy Soul Ezek iv.
„J 11-7. EO EOR
Now I ſaw in my Dream, that thus ther
Talking together until Supper was ready.
when they had made ready, they fat down
Heat, Now the Table was furniſhed 7 3
. 5 75 10. J. —_— A 5 i
(
6 The piizrim's Wionzers.
1 bat fut Things, and with Wine that was wel
Chriſtian. refined, and all their Talk at the Table wa, 5
had to bis about the LO RD of the Hill; as namely,
Supper. about what he had done, and. wherefore he
Their did what he did, and why he had builded
Tall at that Houſe ; and by what they faid, I per.
Supper- ceived that he had been a great Warrior,
Time. and had. fought with, and flain + him tha
t Heb. ii. had the Power of Death, but not withoy
I4, 15. pond Danger to himſelf; which made hin
love him the mere.
For as they faid, and as I believe ((ail
Colin bs did it with the Loſs of much.
Blood: But that Which put Glory of Grace
into all he did, was, That he did-it out of
pure Love to his Country. And beſides, herd
were ſorts of them of the Houthold, that
ſaid they had been and ſpoke with him finee
he did die on the Croſs ; and they have at
teſted, that they had it from his own Lips
that he is ſuch a Lover of poor Pilgrims, that
the like is not to be found from the Ef? k
| ” _ "They moreover gave an Inſtance of wh}
be they affirmed, and that was, That he firip
..__- himſelf of his Glory, that he might ca th
for the Poor ; and that they heard him a
and affirm, That he would not dwell in tf
|| Chriſt Mountain of Zion alone. They ſaid more
makes cover, That he had made many Pilgrims 15
© Princes of Princes, tho' by Nature they were Beggarll
| Beggars, born, and their Original the Dunghill. -
- 1Sam.ii.8; Thus they diſcourſed- together, till Js
| Pſ. cxi. 7. at Night, and after they had committe |
=» Chriſti- themſelves to their Lord for Protectio
an', Bed. they betook themſelves to Reſt: The Pi
chamber. grims they laid in a large upper 9
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ere He ſlept till Break of Day, and then
woke und ng, Rt m_ |
ere am I now? Is this the Love and Care
JESUS,” for the Men that Pilgrims are,
5 10 provide { That Lend be forgiven? _
J devell already the next Door to Heaven.
So in the Morning they all got up, and af- |
come more Diſcourſe, they told him that-
ſai ſhould not depart; until they had ſhewed, ©
36 the Rarities of that Place. And firſt they /
ol him into the Study,“ where they ſnewed * Chri-
den Records of the greateſt Antiquity,; in flian had ©
that ich, as FPremiember in my Dream, they into the
:-ofÞ0<4 him firſt the Her, &; of the Lord of Sudh, and
Hill, that he was the Sem of the Ancient of avh..t he
ine ;; and came by that 'Eternal Generation. ſaw there.
re alſo were more fully, recorded the Acts
he Fad done, and the Names of many
FWidreds that he had taken into his Service;
bow he had placed them in ſuch Habita-
„chat could neither by Length-of Days, |
Decays of Nature, be diſſolved. 57
Then they read to him ſome of the worthy |.
that ſome of his Servants had done. as
they ſubdu d Kingdoms, wrought Righte- Heb. xi.
eſs; obtain'd Promiſes, Ropp'd the Mouths 33, 34.
Lions, quench'd the Violence of Fire,
88 ped the Edge of the Sword, out of Weak- |
[ 1.49776 made ſtrong, waxed valiant in Fight,
mittel put to Flight the Armies of the HGliem.
Kio (hen they read again in another Part of
Records of the Houſe, where it was
ied how willing the Lerd was for to
| ' receive
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reeceived into his Favour any, even any, th
p hey, pag. Time paſt offered great, A ffront
to
to his Perſon and Proceedings, Here at
were ſeveral other Hiſtories of many ather ed.
famous Things, of all which Cbriſian had 1 EAUI
View; as of Things both Ancient and Mo- T
dern, together with Prophecies, and Predicti Moy
TY ons of Things that have their certain Accom:
p:ilhment both to the Dread and Amazement”
of Enemies, and the Comfort and Salace ol
The next Day they took him, and bad
Chriſtian him into the Armory, where they -ſhewelf
had into him all manner of Furniture, Which the
the Ar- Lord had provided. for Pilgrims, as Sword
mory. Shield, Helmet, Breaſt-Piate, All Prayer
And Shoes that would not wear out. And
there was here enough of theſe to harne'f
out as many Men for the Service of theiq|
Lord, as there be Stars in Heaven for Multi
'* tude. were of Nd e (5704
They alſo ſhewed him ſome of the Eu
þ pines, with which ſome of his Servan
Chriſtian had done wonderful Things. They:ſhewec
made to ſee him Moſes's Rod, the Hammer and Nail.
ancient With: which Jae ſlew Si ſera, the Plicher
Things, Trumpets, and the Lamps too, with whic
Gideon put to Flight the Armies of Matar
Then they ſhewed him the Ox's Goad
Wherewith SHamgar ſlew Six Hundred Men
They ſhewed Him alſo the Jaw- Bone wii.
which Samp/ou did ſuch mighty Feats
they ſhewed him moreover the Sling and;
Stone with which Dawid flew Geliah 0
Gath'; and the Sword alſo with which thei
Lord will kill the Man of Sin in the Dai
that he. ſhall riſe up to the Prey. The?
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d. This done, they went to their Reſt
TE r |
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Morrow he got up to go forwards, but they
deſirec him to ſtay til the next Day alſo:
and then, ſaid they, we will (if the Day be
lear) ſhew you the Delectable Mountains ; * Chrifti-
hich, they ſaid, would yet further add to an /rwwed
his Comfort, becauſe they were nearer to the % Delec-
Jeſired Haven, than the Place where at pre- table
ſent he was. So he conſented and ſſaid. Moun. ©
hen the Morning was up, they had him tains.
* p to the Top of the Houſe, and bid him
rneſ look South: So he did, and behold at a
theilereat Diſtance he ſaw a moſt pleaſant moun-
ainous Country, beautified with Woods, 4
Vineyards, Fruits of all Sorts, Flowers alſo, Iſa. xxxii.
vith Springs and Fountains, very delectable 16, 12.
o behold. Then he asked the Name of the
ountry ? They ſaid, It is Emanze/'s Land.
and it is as common, ſaid they, as this Hill
is, to and for all the Pilgrims. And when
hou comeſt there, from thence thou mayeſt
ee to the Gate of the Cœleſtial City; as
e Shepherds that live there will make ap-
Pear. - . . rern Wr > ve 4
Now he bethouglit himſelf of ſetting for- ws
rard, + and they were willing he ſhould,” + Chriſti-
But Grit, ſaid they, let us go again into the an /t
% off ory : So they did, and when he came forauard. I
cheilkbere, they” Harneſſed him from Head to || Chrilli- , , *
Da Foot, with what was of Proof, leſt per- an ent
Theheps ke ſhould © meet with Aſſaults in the æabay
x Nay. He being, therefore, chus accoutredy armed.
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walked out with Friends to the Gate,
and there he asked the Porter, If he faw
any Pilgrim paſs by? The Porter anſwered,
Yes
Chr. Pray did you know him?
Porter. I asked his Name, and he told me
it was Faithful.
Chr. O ſaid Chri/tian, 1 know him; he is
my Townſman, my near Neighbour, becomes
from the Place where I was born: How far
do you think de may be beſore?
22 Lo Ae is got by this Time below the
HowChri- : Chr. Well, ſaid. C:rifian, Good Porter,
tian ang the Lord be with thee, and add to; all thy
te Porter Bleſſings much Increaſe, for the Kindneſſes
Fgreet at that thgu haſt ſnewed to me.
Parting. Then he began to go forward, but 57
cretion, | Piety, Charity, and Prudence would
n bim down to the Foot of the
went on together, repeating:
9 No 3 till they came to go
down. the Hill. Then ſaid Chriften, As it
was difficult coming. up, fo far as I can ſee,
id is dangerous ging down. Yes, ſaid Fra-
dence, ſo it is: For it is an bard: Matter for a
Ve Val. Man to go down into the Valley of * Humi-
. tey of Hu. ligtion, as. thou art now, and to catch no. Slip
miliation. by the Way: Therefore, ſaid they, we are
come out to accompany thee down the Hill.
Zo he began to go down, but 8 warily, yet
he caught a Slip or two.
Then I ſaw in my. Dream, That theſe
good Companions (when Chriftian was gone
down to the Bottom of the Hil}). gave bim
a Loaf of Bread, — 'of Wins, and a
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Belly came Fire and Smoke, and his. Mouth
The Pilgvim's-D2ogzeſs,
le of Ra , and then he went on his
AY. - .
But now in this Valley 7 Humilieticn,
poor Cbriian was hard to it 3 ar he
had gone but a little Way, before. ke ęſpied
a foul Fiend coming over the Field to meet
him; his Arup: y Hon.
Chriſtian. begi raid, and to caſt in
his 5 eee eee
his Ground. But he conlider'd again, That
he had no * Armour for his B and there- * Chriſti-
fore thqught tg turn back to him, might an has no
give him greater Advantage with - err
Pang him with his Darts; therefore he re- for hit
ved to venture and ſtand. his Ground: For, Bat,
thought he, + Had I no mare in my Eye + .
than the ſaving of my Life, 'rwould be the an' Re.
beſt Way to ſtand. ” n+ dution ar
So he went on, and. 4 pollen. met. hing.: the Ap-
Now, the Monſter was ——— to behald ; pro
he was cloathed with Scales like a Fiſk (and Apel an,
they are his Pride;) he had Wings like a
Dragon, Feet like: a Bear, and out of his.
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was as the Mouth of a Lion. When he was: WP
come up to Chriftian, he beheld him with a
diſdainful Countenance, and thas began to
queſtion with him:
Apoll. Whence come you * And elite:
are you bound ?
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Chr, || I am come from the City of Dec Diſs el
firuion, which is the Place. of all Evil, MO axe
am going to the City of Zia, & Chi
Hp By this I perceive thou art one of myjand 40!
Subjects z, for all that Country i is mine, 9 |
I amy the Prince and God of it. How is it...
then hat thou haſt F000 away . thy Kinzd,
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Chr. 1'was born indeed i in your Domi th
ons, but "your Service was hard, and your th,
—_ Wages was ſuch as a Man could not live on: 8
Rom. vi. For the Wages" of Sin i Death ; therefore |
When I was come to Years, did; as other *
| cotifiderite Perſons do, look out, if perhaps th:
©... -, ,T migbt/mend myſelf © © - 51
bs bly Aol. Thete is 0 Brice" that will thus
lightly loſe his Subjects, neither will T as yet che
1 -1oke thee ; but fince thou complaineſt of thy A.
3 Apt: Service and Wages, be content to go back, tha
on- Flat. and what our Country will afford, 1 do here be
tity. Promiſe to give the. |
Cr But Thave let mykifts another, even. me
9 "to the King of Princes, and how can I with —
Fnirneſs go back with thge ? * I Fro
1 05 hon haft done in this According to ſto;
4 Apohy the roverb, + Change a bad for a worſe': But fo
on 3 it is ordinary for thoſe who have profeſſed (
Hale themſelves his Servants, after a while to. thei
" Chriſt's him the Slip,” and return again to me: Do
"* Service, thou fo, and all ſhall be well. © Anc
Cr T have given Him my Faith; and .
corn my Allegiance to Him How then can But
I go back from this, and not be wirds as a mue
Traytor? Glo
Apol. Thou didſt the lame to me, and yet } thei
I am willing to paſs by all, if now thou 9 the
yet turn and go back. 4
Chr. What I 9 thee,” was in my thy
Non age, and befides, I count that echs Prince 68
under whoſe Banner I now ſtand, is able to C
abſolve me, yea; and to pardon alſo! what I F unfa
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Company and Country better | than thine,
therefore leave off to perſuade me any far- |
ther, I am his Servant, and will follow him. if
Apol. * Conſider again, when thou art in Apolly- Mi
cool Blood, what thou art like to meet with en /-ads, .
in the Way that thou goeſt. Thou knowelt the gricu—-ꝛ-—
that for the moſt Part his Servants come to 95 End ,, al
an ill End, becauſe they are Tranſgreſſors Chriftians, al
againſt me and my Ways ; how many of 4e % %jfẽ
them have been put to ſhameful. Deaths ! Chrittian _ i
And beſides thou counteſt his Service betten per-
than mine, whereas he never came yet from {Ping in
the Place where he is, to deliver any that his Ways,
ſerved, him- out of their Hands: But as for |
me, how many Times, as all the World wel
knows, have I delivered, either by Power, or
Fraud, thoſe that have faithfully ſerved me,
from him or his, tho' taken by them! Ant
ſo will I deliver thee. 8 a
_ Chr. His forbearing at preſent to deliver
them, is on purpoſe to try their Love, whe-
ther they will cleave to him to the End:
And for the ill End thou ſayeſt they come
to, that is moſt Glorious in their. Account :
But for preſent Deliverance, they do not
much expect it: For they ſtay for their
Glory, and then they ſhall have it, when
their Prince comes in His, and the Glory of
the Angels, | r
Aol. Thou haſt already been unfaithful in
thy Service to him, and how doſt thou think
to receives Wages of him? - abut
Chr. Wherein, O Apolhon { have I been
unfaithful to him ? 85 15
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Apoll. Ho. Thou diaſt faint at * firff ſetting
on pleads ;
at, when thou waſt almoſt choaked in the
Christian“: Gulph of Deſpond ; thou didſt attempt wrong
Infirmities Ways to be rid of thy Burthen, whereas thou
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thou ſhalt go no ferther : Here will 1 fpill
ſhould have fla'd till thy Prince had taken it
off. Thou didit finally fleep, and loſe thy
choice Things. Thou waſt almoſt perſuaded -
. tO 0 back at the Sight of the Lions; and
When thou talkeſt of thy, Journey, and of
what thou haſt heard and ſeen, thou art in-
weurdiy defirousof Vain-glory in all that thou
Aayeſt or doeſt. | e
Cbr. All this is true, and much more,
which thou haſt left out; but the Prince
whom 1 ſerve and honour, is merciful, and
ready to forgive: But, beſides, theſe Infirmi-
ties poſſeſſed me in thy Oountry, for there I
ſucked them in, and T have groaned under
them, being ſorry for them, and
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ina Rage er Rage, ſaying,
I am an Fnemy to this
upor Prince, I hate his Perſon, his Laws, and Peo-
ple.
thee. - | |
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am in the King's Highway, the Way of Ho-
lineſs 3 therefore take heed to yourſelf.
hos Then Atolljon ſtradled quite over the
whole Breadth of the Way, and ſaid, I am
void of Fear in this Matter. Prepare thyſelf
Den, that
Jam come out on purpoſe to withſtand
thy Soul. And with that he threw a flaming
Dart at bis Breaſt ; but Chriſtian had a Shield
in his Hand. with which he caught it, and
ſo prevented the Danger of that. 4 .
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Then did Chri/fian draw, for he a,, „ |
'twas Time 0 beſtir him; and Apollſon as
faſt made at him, throw ing Darts as thick
as 2 * by the 8 . 25
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— hon in the“ Head, in his Hand, * Chrifli- 11
and Foot: This made Chriſtian give a little an Wwoung»
back ; Apollyon therefore followed his Work #4 in his
amain, and Chri tian agam took Courage, Under-
and reſiſted as manfully as he could. This ſtanding,
ſore Combat laſted for above half a Day, Faith, and
even till Chriſtian was almoſt quite ſpent. Converſa-
For you muſt know, that Chriſlian. by rea- dion.
fon of his Wounds, muſt needs grow weaker
and weaker. The Es
Then Apcliyon, eſpying this Opportunity,
began to Sucker up cloſe to Chri/tian, and
wreitling with him, gave him a dreadful 5
+ Fall, and with that (Sriſtian's Sword flew+ Apolly-
cet of his Hand. Then ſaid Apollſen, 4 am on cafteth— +
ſure of thee now. And with that he had al- Chriltjan - ©
moſt preſt him to Death; ſo that Chrifiandown to the
„began to deſpair of Life: But, as God would Ground. |
| | have it, while Apolljon was fetching. his laſt :
Blow, thereby to make an End of this good
1 Man, , Chrifian nimbly ſtretched out his
Hand for his 5 Sword, and caught it, ſaying, 5 Chriſti-
|| Rejoice not againſt me, O mine Enemy, an'; Fife -
when I fall, I ſhall arife ; and-with that gave ry over +
him a deadly Thruſt, which made him give Apollyon.
back, as one that had received his mortal Mic. vii.
Wound. Chriſtian perceiving that, made at 8.
him again, ſaying, Nay, in all th:/e Things aue Rom. 8 9.
are more than « onquerors, throu.h him that Jam iv. 7.
loved us. And with that Apollyon ſpread forth _ : | ]
his Dragon's Wings, and Wed him away,
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Cbriſtian muſt fight ard Angel; but you ſe:
I ) be valiant Man by handling Sword and Shield,
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In chis Combat no Man can im ine, un-
leſs he had ſeen and heard, as I did, What A brief ©
Vellowing and Fideous Roaring Apolly en made Relation
all the Time of the Figbt; he ſpake like a rhe Cmbaß
Dragon: And on the other Side what Sigbs by the Spe 1
and Groans burſt from poor Chriſtiau's Heart. tl. I
I never ſaw him all the while give ſo much as =
one pleaſant Look, till he perceived he had
wounded Apollyon with his two-edped Sword.
then indeed be did ſmile, and look upwards _ © \ if
but *twas the moſt dreadful Fight dats ever 1 —_-
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So when the Battle was over, Ch-i/ian ſaid,” v0 |
+ 1 vill here give Thanks to . that hath at" FT Chri-
livered 'me out of the Mouth of the Lion, and ſtian gives if
to him that did help me 3 A pollyon. And Iv hrs |
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Great Belzebub, the Captain of is F; end,
\ Defign'd my Ken: therefore to this End
He ſent him harneſs d ext, and he %with Rage
| That belliſd was, did fiercely me egg;
| Bus bleſſed Michael helged'me,” and V, _
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Therefore let me to Him give gs ee 13 — -
And thank and bleſs his teh Name aways, EEK” hates
Then there kame te bim an Hand MIN 2 2
ſome. of the Leaves of the Tree of Life,
the which Chriſtian took and applied to the
Wounds that be had received in the Battle,
and was healed immediately. He alſo lar
down in that Place to eat Bread, and 0
drink of that Bottle that was given” Him a
little before; To being refreſhed, he oi 45
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© * Chriſti-Sword drawn in his Hand ; for he ſaid, I
an goes on know. not but ſome other Enemy may be at
© his Four- hand. But he met with no other Affront
nuch with from Apolſyon yo through the Valley,” _
a
aon in ther, called the < Faltey of the Shadow of
© bis Hand. Death, and Chriſtian mu needs go through
I The it, becauſe the Way to the Cœleſtial City lay
Fallo of through the midſt of jt : Now this. Valley is
E the ha- a very ſolitary Place. The Prophet Feremiab
© dow of thus deſcribes it: A Wridernyfs, [v. 2. 8.]
Dironght, and of the Shadew of Death, a Land
that no Man (but a Chriſtian) paſſeth through,
. . = andavhkere no Man awells.. Es 47
„ Now here Chriſtian was worſe put to it
.., than in the Fight with Apelhon; as by the
Sequel you thall ſee. Ta EN
I ſaw then in my Dream, That when
Cbriſtian was got on tue Borders of the
Shad e Death, there met him two Men,
Ide Chil- Children of them that brought up an evil
den of ibe Report of the good Land, making Halie
SJpies go io go back; to whom Chri/{ian ſpake as fol-
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Kum. uiii. Chr. Whither are you going?
EE, Men. They ſaid, Back I Back ! And we
would have you do fo too, if either Life or
Peace be prized. by you, eZ Wis p
Obr. Why What's the Matter? ſaid
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en. Matter! faid they, We were going
that Way as you are going, and went as ſar
as we durſt; and indeed, Me werg almoſt paſt
"coming back ; for had we gonk a little fur-
mer, ve had not been here to being the News
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of the Shadow' of . Death, but that by . i. Ws
Hap, we looked before us, and faw the:
ger before we came to it. wm
Chr. But what have you ſeen? {wid (i..
an. "Rn
K Men. Seen Why, the Valley itſelf, which © +.
is as dark as Pitch ; we alſo ſlaw there Hob.
goblins, Satyrs, and Dragons of the Pit;
we alſo heard in that Valley, a continual
Howling and Yelling, as of People under | 14
unutterable Miſery, who there ſat bound in 7 1
Afflictions and Irons; and over that Valley 4
hangs the diſcouraging Clouds of Confuſion, John ii HE. 55
Death alſo does always ſpread bis Wings e. x. 127
over it. In a Word. it is every whit dread- . be:
ful, being utterly. without Order. 1 4
C by. Then ſaid Chriſtian, I perceive. not * n 8.
yet, by what you have ſaid, but what this is ;
my Way to the delired Haven.
Men. Be it thy Os 2 we will not chuſe it
for ours. 1 .
So they * and Chrifin went on. his
Way, but mill with his Sword drawn in his >
Hand, for fear he ſhould be aſſaulted.
Ifaw den in my Dream, ſo ſar as thi⸗ vl. TILE 1 |
ley reached, there was on the Right hand a 4 8 1 =
very deep Ditch : Tat it is into which the |
Blind hath led the Blind in all. Ages, and iS |
bave both there miſerably periſhed. Again, pf ban by
behold on the eft-hand there was a very 105 RE.
dangerous Quag, into which, if gen a Man
falls, he Buds no 0 for „.Net n fend. "06+ i
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The Path- way was here fo OAT TEIN nar -
row, and therefore good Chriſtian was the
more put to it; for when he fought in the
Dark to ſhun the Ditch on the one. Hand,
he was ready to tip over into the Mire on
the other; alſo when he ſought to ps
- the Mire, without great Carefulneſs, ©
would be ready to fall into the Ditch: Thus
he went on, and I heard him here'figh bit-
terly ; for behdes the Danger mentioned
above, the Path-way was here ſo dark, that
oftentimes when he lift up his Foot to go for-
ward, he knew not where, nor 5 What he
ſhou!d ſet i it next.
about the Midſt of the Valley, I per:
ceived the Mouth of Hell to be, and it
* , Rood allo hard by the Way-ſide ; Now,
thought Curiſſian, What ſhall 5 do ? And
ever and anon the Flame and Smoke would
come out in ſuch Abundance, with Sparks
and hideous Noiſes, (Things that cared
not for Chri/itan's, Sword, as did A;ollyon
before) ſo that he wus forget to put up his
Sword, ard betake himſelf to another
Weapon, called Aih-Prayer > So he cned
in niy Hearin "gs O Lord, I bifeeth Thre,
Thus he went on a great
while, yet the Flames would be reach-
irg towards bim: Alſo he beard doleful
Voices, and ruſhings to and fro, ſo that
ſome Limes he thought he ſhould be tod
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Cͤbhriſtian Streets. This frightſul Sight was ſeen, and
> put 20 4 theſe dreadful Noiſes were heard by him for
Stand for ſeveral Miles together; and coming to 2
a @ awhile, Place where he thought he heard a Company
* of Fiends coming forward to meet him, he
ſttopt, began to muſe what he had beſt
to. do. Sometimes he had half a Mind to
2 back, then again he thought he might
e half Way through the Valley : He re.
membered alſo how that he had already van-
.. quiſhed many @ Danger; but that the Dan-
* ger of yoing back might be much more than
to go forward, ſo he reſolved to go on: Yet
the Fietid ſeemed to come nearer and near-
er: But when they were come even almoſt
at him, he cried out with a moſt vehement
1 Voice, I will walk in the Strength of the Lord
1 2 80 they gave back, and came no far-
One Thing I would not flip : I took No-
_ tice that now poor Chriſian was fo con-
founded, that he did not know his own
Voice: And thus I perceived it, juſt when
he was come over-againſt the Mouth of the
* durning Pit, one of the wicked Ones got be
_—— , __ - whipering, man evous Bla!Y h. a-
”. *Chriftianphemies — Um. which ke Elly thought _—_
mad be. had proceeded from his own Mind. T big back,
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it was da it, he would not have done it: But. he had tc 0
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agel to know from whence theſe Blaſphemieſſ gw t
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When Chriſtian had travelled in this diſ-
onſolate Condition ſome confiderable Time,
o 2 ſhe thought he heard the Voice of a Man as .
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any Poing before him, ſaying, Though I walked Pfal. xxiii. : : E -
he rough the Valley of the Shadow of Death, 1 „
belt ul frar no Ill; for thou art with ms.
| toll Then he was glad; and for theſe Reaſons.
re. Firf, Becapſe he gathered from thence,
van- ¶rhat ſome who feared God, were in the Val-
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ear - with them, tho' in that dark and diſmal
noſt Pate: And why not, thought he, with me ?
nent Vtho* by reaſon of the Impediment that at-
Lortftends this Place, I cannot perceive it. . | «
| 7iirdy, For that he hoped (could he over- Job ix. 10.
No- take them) to have Company by- and- by... +
own so he went on, and called to him that was
vhenBiefore 3 but be knew not what to anſwer,
' thelfl{cr that he alſo thought himſelf to be alone. Amos v 8.
be And by- and by the Day broke. Then ſaid
and Chriftian, He hath turned the Shadow of
Bla Death into the Morning. sf
agb Now * Morning being come, he looked „ Chriſſi-
I bi back, not out of Deſire to return, but to an glad ar
Ile had gone through in the Dark. 80 he Dey.
law more perſectly the Ditch that was o' n
the one Hand, and the Quag that was on
tie other ; alſo how narrow the Way WW W
which led betwixt them both; alſo gow he ,
law the Hobgoblins, and Satyrs, and Dra-
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Break of Day, they came not nigh, yet they eſor
were diſcovered to him, according to that nd
which is written, He aſl tovereth Ae, Things Powe
2 out of Darkneſs, and bringeth out ts Light the loo
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+, Deliverance from all the Dangers of his ſoli - Nhat
tary Way, which Dangers, though he feared
them more before, yet he ſaw them more
clearly now, becauſe the Light of the Day
made them more conſpicuous to him: And
about this Time the Sun was riſing, and this
Was another Mercy to Cbriſtian; for you
muſt note, That though the Firſt Part of the
Valley of the Shadow of Death was dange ·
rous, yet this Second Part, which he was yet
to go, was, if poſſible, far more dangerous:
For, from the Place where he now ſtood;
even to the End of the Valley, the Way was
all along ſet ſo full of Snares, Traps, Gins,
and Nets, here, and fo full of. Pits, Pit falls,
deep Holes, and Shelvings down there, that
- had it now been dark, as it was when heW
came the Firſt Part of the Way, had he had
a Thouſand Souls, they had in Reaſon been
caſt away; but as I ſaid, juſt now the Sun
75 was . Then ſaid he, His Candle fhinet
dn my Head, and iy his Light I go through
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In this Light therefore he came to. the
End of the Valley. Now 1 ſaw in m
Dream, that at the End of this Valley, la
Blood, Bones, Aſhes, and mangled Bodies
of Men, even of Pilgrims that had gone
this Way formerly; and while I was mutingÞ;
what fhould be the Reaſan, I efpied — 5
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hat nd Pagan dwelt in old Time; by whoſe
ing Power aud Tyranny, the Men whole Bones,
the {Wlood, Aſhes, Ge. lay there, were cruelly _
Pet to Death. But by this Place \Chriftian =
his Went without much Danger, whereat I ſome-
oli- NVhat wondered: But I have learnt fince, that
red Pagan had; been dead many a Day; and as
ore Nor the other, tho' he be yet alive, he is by
Day ſeaſon of Age, and alſo of the many ſhrewd
\nd Wruſhes that he had met with in his younger
this Pays, grown ſo crazy and ſtiff in his Joints,
you that he can do now little more than fit in the
the Nave's Mouth, grinning at Pilgrims as they
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an cver- him; ſo the Laſt was the Firſt. Then did
Wo takes Chriſtian vain-gloriouſly ſmile, - becauſe he
Faithful. had gotten the Start of his Brother; but not
| hotel; Chr. Mende cod dan Ws
&.. fogether. ther Faithful, I am glad that I have over-
" Rows an. Chrifian went pin his Way, he
6.4 tht Aſcent,, which was caſt up on
rpoſe that Pilgrims might ſee before. them
p there, therefore; Gries went, and look- WW Fait/
ing forward, he ſaw Fairhful before him upon ere w
his Journey. Then ſaid Chriſtian aloud, He, None ©
So, He / Stay, and I will be your Companion. Time
At that Faithful looked behind him: Toflown t
whom Chriſtian cried, Stay, ſtay till L come Cb.
up to you, But Faithful anſwered, No, II Tai.
am upon my kife, and the Avenger of Blood ys M
is behind me. | Chr.
At this. Chriftian was ſomewhat moved, ut you
and putting to all his Strength, he quickly
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our Pi
taking good heed to his Feet, he ſuddenly
ſtumbled and fell, and could not riſe again, Þ
until Faithful came up to him to help him.
Then I ſaw in my Dream they went very
A Chriſti. lovingly + on together, and had ſweet Dil-
an's Fal courſe of all Things that had happened to
n them in their * 7 And thus ro MI;
Faithful began:
and he go
taken yon, and that God hath ſo terapered
our Spirits, that we can walk as Companions |
in this ſo pleaſant a Path.
Faith. I thought, dear Friend, to have
| had your Company quite from our Town:
but ydu did get the Start of me: Wherefore
I was ferced to come thus much of the Way
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be Chr. How long did you ſtay in the City of
on Hr uctih, before you ſet out 1 me in
m: our Fugrime Ps |
ck. Fab, * t L could Aus lengir 1 or Fei
pon here was great Talk preſently after you were Tall about
He, None out, that our City would in a ſhort the Coun-
ien. Time with Fire from Heaven, be "burned ry f =
To flown to the Ground, * d evhence — 4
me Ch. What? did your Neighbours talk ſo? | they came. |
„I Faith.” Yes, *twas for a while in rey Yo-
ood @y's Mouth.
Chr. What! and did no more of —
ed, ut you come out to eſcape the Danger?
kly BY Faith.” Tho' there was, as T faid, a grent
run ¶ ale thereabout, yet I do not think they did
did Yrmly believe it. For in the Heat of the
he Diſcourſe," I heard ſome of them 'deridingly
not 1 of yon, und of your deſperate yu 7
nly ey (for o they called this your Pilg grimage) TH x The
ain, did believe, and do nil,” that che End ==
= f our Olty will be-with Fire 'and Beines
wy om Above; and therefore I have mare wy
i- Fcape.
| oY] Chr. Did you hear v0 Till of Neighbour
dias liable?
8 Faith. Yes cin hies, I heard that he fol Sd,
_ [ved you dil be came to the Slough of De- By
ro- Nen; where, as ſome ſay, he fell in: Bunt
yet would not be known to have o done; but 2 2
red an fore he was ſoundly bedaubed Jo that
ons Wind of Dirt.
Chr, And. what ſaid the Neighbours 0
im?
Faith." Why, he hath fivee his bats How Pla: -
n had Fudd m _— _— that blezwes a+
g all Sorts of People; ſome do mock counted of "4
1 eie him, and ſcarce will — ſet when r
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him to work. He is now ſeyen times work
chan if he had never gone out of the City.
eb Cr. But why ſhould they be ſo ſet again
Ty _ ow mob they alſo deſpiſe th e Way that ,
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Jer. xxviii, Faith. O they ſay, Hang bim, hes is 475
18, 19. coat; be is not trus te his Profeſſion 1. I think
| . God has ſtirred up his Enemies to hiſs at him
%Y and make him a Proverb, becauſe, he hat
3 forſaken the Way.
Chr. Had you no Talk with him befc
| you came out
1 Faith. I met him oncg in che Streets, 00
_ he leered away on the other Side, as ont
aſhamed of what he had done z, ſo-.1 ſpakt
not to him.
| Chr, Well, at my firſt ſetting out; I haf
Ho of that Man ; But now I fear he wi
V pet. ii periſh i in the Overthrow of the City. Fo
22, tit bas bappened to him according to the tru
The Dog Proverb, The Dog is turned to his Vomit again
and Sow. and the Soxy that was awaſhed e
| * in th Mire. _
- Faith, They are my Fears of him too, b
who can hinder that which will be,”
_ Chr. Well, Neighbour Faithful, faid Cbri
ftian,. let us leave him, and talk of Thing
Ta more immediately concern ourſelves
| me now what you have met with in th
Way as, you came: For I know: you, hav
met with ſome Things, or elſe it may ©
Written for a Wonder.
Faith, T _ the Slough that 1 percei
| you fell into, ; ot up to the Gate witho
+ Faithfal tha Danger; 9310 I met with one Who
aulted ty Name was + anton, who Rag like. to ba
en. e 3
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vol Chr. "Twas well” you: eſeaped ber Net: _ if
J %%% was hard put to it by ber, and be _
uYcaped her 2s Yor did, but it had like to Gen.
als ve col him his L. Life. Bat what did dae do vir 11%
you'? a WAL. 12, 1807 6
n Farb. Ton Angst ib wer War you, 8
2 ſometh 03-7 what 2 flattering. Lou 5 * 3
bine had ; the” lay at me hard to turn |
hat hr, Proc vg me all eee
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„ Petent of a good Conſcience. athil7 9999 F =
b Faith.” You Know that Tas Ut cart 8 =
= d fleſhly Content” n un ENTITY, cd 1. 8 11
pa. Thank God you have; eſcaped (6,094 1
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5 olly eſcape; her or no. | FT
' OY Chr. Why; | Thope you did not cvnſene to £44,
gan Deſi * . .
ol Farth. we not to defile myſelf 7 for I re-
- EEnbered an old Writing that I had ſects, ' "Y
bitch ſaid, Her Steps take hold f Hell: Ss Prov. v. 8g.
i mine Eyes, becauſe I would not be be- Job 31. 1.
hs 77:7 noted? ber Looks, Thien ſhe railed on *
, and I went my Way. _
Chr.” Did you meet with no other Affſaale, _—
Jou came x OY |
Faith. When ; to the Foot of the Hill |
led Difficulty, I met a very aged Man, * He was
Wo asked, What T was, and whither orders Fo/ſaulted 1
old him, That I was 4 Pilgrim, to y Adam 1 1
Ccleſtial City. Then faid the O 43 an, . Firſt. |
lou lookeſt like an honeſt Fellow; wilt
bu be content to dwell with me, for the
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+23 a 72 * the Town of Decl. I asker
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them if I , en J asked, How log
'Tame: he would has me. tonlive with: him
And he told me, As lang as he lived himfel!
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deeper 8 om his Ford;
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on 4 ton. Put off the Old Man with Aue.
1 „ » Cby. And how then?
Faith. Then it came buxping hat into m
Mind, that whatever he ſaid, and hawer
-hy-fluctgred, ,when, be. got me Home 0 y |
Haufe, he would ſell me for a Slave. 80 In Eg
Fo * bid him farbear to talk, for I would ho d.
**._ - comencar the Door. of his Houſe. Then
| Teviled me, and told me, That be wo
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> ſoon ad the Man overtook me; he was bag.
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hereſore he n Hai ud, Be. ?
nuſe of my "ſeeret inclihi to Al the | |
Pirſt: And with that he fhrack me another a
eadiy Blow on the Breaſt; und bent me down
clwards :; 80 T lay at bis Foot as dead; ꝶů +
Lors. Wen 1 came do myſelf ginn,!) f
yed im Mercy: But he faid, © 7#now- hſae
a Meviy : And with that he knock= 11 2 - =
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80 n End of me, bar dr doe chat came by, 1
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mae went by; T ived the Holes it Wis: - ; a
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Cr. That Man''that-.overtook/-you wa F
*TheTem- Meſer. He ſpareth none, neither know eth I chat
8 he hew to ſhew Merey to thoſe this man and
ſes. greſs his Laws Rela
Faith. I know dae we — It: was not I beca
the firſt Time that he dad met with me. and
Twas he that came to me when L dweli fore
ſecure at Home, and chat told me, Hefſſ they
would burn my Houſe over raf!
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Chr. But did you not fre. the Houle that )
"flood there on the Top of the Hill, on the
Side of Which Moſes met you? oY
Faith. Ves, and the Lions too before l
came at it but for the Lions, IL think tbe)
were aſleep, for it was about Noon; and be
cauſe I had ſo much of the Day before me, [
paſſed by the Porter, and came down the Hill.
Cbr. He told me, indeed, That he ſa
e and I wiſh you had called at the
Houſe; for they would have ſhewed you ſc
many Rarities, chat yeu would ſcarce: have
13 forgot them to the Day of your Death, But
ay tell me, Did yqu mest no body in td
alley of Humiliation? 10
L ach- Tuitb. Ves, 1 met with one N Diſcontent
fu aſſault- who _ —— ly have perſuaded me tc
ed by Diſ- go back a wick bim: His Reaſon was
content. For that the e Valley was altogether without
ä | * He told me moreover, That there
ge, was the Way to diſoblige all m
Fa as Pride, Ar» ogaticy, Self-Conceit
W'rldly-Glory,, wick others, who he knew, 2
he ſaid, would be much offended, if I madd make
ſuch a Fool of Fr as to wade through thi laid al
Valley. n Or Wi
c Well, and how did you — tem
Jill. ] Valley
q Faith Ves, 1 met with + Shame, but of + He i is
'theff all the Men L met with in my Pilgrimage, he a//aulted by
I think, bears the wrong Name; the other Shame.
Cie Düne s Progreſs.
Faith. told. him, * That altho' all theſe * Faith-
that he named might claim Kindred of me, ful's 4
aud that. rightly for indeed they were my fer to
Relations, according to the Fleſh) yet ſince 1 Diſcon-
be a Pilgrim, they had diſowned me, tent.
ind T al have rejected _— there-
fare they are no more to me now, wks if
they had never heen of my Lineage. 1 1
bins Aire „That as to this .
uite miſrepreſented- the Thing ; 27 *
925 . us Hint, and a A0 Spirit
before a Fall. erefore, ſaid I, I had ra-
ther go th rough this Valley to the Honour
that was, ſo accounted by the Wiſeſt, than
chuſe that which he eſteemed moſt worthy of
our Affections |
Chr, Mer you: with nothing elſe in that
would be ſaid nay, after a little Argumenta-
ion, and {omewhat elſe] but chat bold ac d
' do's wo 15 © aa bave dope.
hat did he ſa to you?” =
Faith. 17 [ Why he objefted againſt
Reli knee he ſaid, Twas a pitiful, ow,
neat in Bufineſs for a Man to mind Religion;
ho wid at a tender Conſcience was an un-
J” 15 Ward "Tg, al for à Man to watch over
is
7 92 Ways, ſo as to tie v bimlelf.
from that Reborn Liberty that 1 e Spirit
of the Time accuſtom themſelves tn, 95 04 x
| make him 8. Ridicule of the 7 Times,
aid alfo,, That but few of the eee IT
or We, were ever of my Opuyjon,, or any of
mem , before LP were perſuaded to
be
8
1 4 *
f f Q TIT IS. 45 ed
88 The Wilgartm's Þ:ogtefs.
1 Cor. i. be Fools, and to be of a voluntary Fondneſs
286. ch. iii. to venture the Loſs of all, for no Body knows
what He moreover objected the baſe and
ili. low Eſtate and Conditicn of thoſe that were
chiefly the Pilgrims of the Times in which
ji. they lived; allo their Ignorance, and Want
of Underſtanding in all natural Sciences.
Yea, he did hold me to it at that rate alſo,
about a great many more Things than T here
relate, as, That it was a Shame to fit
* whining and mourning under a Sermon,
* and a Shame to come ſighing and groan-
ing Home. That it was a Shame to ask
my Neighbour Forgiveneſs for petty Faults,
or to make Reſtitution where I have taken
* from any. He ſaid alſo, That Religion
made a Man grow ftrange to the Great,
* becauſe of a few Vices (which are called by
* finer Names) and make him own and re-
_ © ſped the Baſe, becauſe of the ſame Religi-
* ous Fraternity : And is not this, ſald be, a
- 'dkame?* „
Cbr. And what did you ſay to him?
Faith. Say! I could not tell what to ſay
at firſt. Vea, he put me to it, that my Blood
came up in my Face; even this Shame
fetched it up, and had almoſt beat me quite
3 off. But at laſt T began to conſider, That
Luke avi. that which i, highly efleemed among Men
is bad in Abomination with God. And |
thought again, This Shame tells me what
Men are, but it tells me nothing what God
or the Word of God is. And I thought
* moreover, That at the Day of Doom, we
mall not be doomed to Death and Fire, ac-
- cording to the hecioring Spirits of the gf»
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but according to the V iſim and Law of the
Higheff.* Therefore, thought I, what God
ſays is belt indeed, is beſt, though all the
Men in the World are againſt it: Seeing
then that God prefers his Religion, ſecing
God prefers a tender Con ſcience, ſeeing they
that make themſelves Fools for the Kingdom
of Heaven are wiſeſt; and that the Poor
Man that loveth Chrift, is Richer than the -
Richeſt Man in the World that hates him ;
Shame depart, thou art an Enemy to my
Salvation; ſhall I entertain Thee againſt my
Sovereign Lord ? How then ſhall I look him
in the Face at bis Coming ? Should I now
be aſhamed of his Ways and Servants, how
z
can I expect the Bleſſing ? But indeed Shame. Mark ini.
was A bold Villain; I could ſcarce ſhake him 38.
out of my Company; yea, he would be
hunting of me, and continually whiſpering
me in the Ear, with ſome or other of the.
nfirmities that attend Religion; but as 1
told him, *Twas in vain to attempt farther
In this Buſineſs,” for theſe Things that he
nſdained, in thoſe did T fee moſt Glory:
ind ſo at laſt 1 got paſt this importunate One.
\nd when I bad ſhaken him off, then I be-
gan to fing. S e e
The Tryals that thoſe Men do meet uit bal,
That are obedien- to the Heavenly Cal,
Are manifold, and Jujted to the He.
And come, and come, aud come again fret .
That new er ſomelims elſe, by them d rag _
Be taken, ouertome, and ca aucay. *
9 tet the Pilgrims, Yer the Pilgrim then,
Be vigilant, and quit themſelves like Men.
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rr. I am glad, my Brother, that thou i
didſt withſtand this Villain ſo bravely, for of hot
all, as thou ſayeſt, I think he has the Wrong *
Name; for he is ſo bold as to follow us in the
Streets, and to attempt to put us to Shame loof
before all Men; that is, to make us aſhamed
of all that which is Good; but if he was not 1 **
. himſelf audacious, he. would never, attempt
to do as he does; but let us till reſiſt him, 4
for notwichſtanding all his Bravadoes, he pro- ch
maoteth the Fool, and none elſe: The Wi} *
Prov. iii. ll inherit Glory, ſaith Solomon, but Shame 7
35. Joall be the Promotian of Fools. 3 of :
n "1. Faith. I think we muſt cry to him for Hep 7.
- againſt Shame, that would have us be palian .
For Truth upon the Earth. | 0
Chr. Vou ſay true: But did you meet witl
Jo Body elſe in that Valley? 20
Faith. No, not I., for I had Sun-ſhine al
the teſt of the Way through that, and ali
through the /a/ley of tbe Spade of Death.
br. Twas well for you: I'm lure it fare:
far. otherwiſe with, me: I had for a Jonj
Seaſon, as ſoon as I almoſt entered into th
Valley, a. dreadful, Combat with that fol,
5 Fiend Apoltyon ; yea, I thought verily
; would have killed me, eſpecially , when
got me down, and cruſhed me under hi
% if he wquld have cruſhed, me to Pieces peakit
| or as he threw. me, my, Sword flew out
= my Hand : nay, he told me, He was ſu
have
Ta
your
21
and I
Thing
4
of me; but 7 cried unto God, and he bea
e, and delivered me out of all my Troub
"Then 1 entered into the Valle of the Sire the
dow , Death, and had no Light, for
moſt half the Way through it. I thouM,
I ſhould have been killed there over? "IX
| hed . oy
The Ptigrim's off. 9» Þ
WW over ; but at laſt Day broke, and the Sun 8
du aroſe, and I went through that which was —
or behind with far more Eaſe and Quiet.
"2 Moreover, I ſaw in my Dream, that as
they went” on, Faithful, as he chanced to
look on one Side, ſaw a Man whoſe: Name
was Talkative; walking at a Diſtance beide
them (for in this Place there was Room enough ' _
ſor them all to walk) * He was a tall Man, Talka-
and ſomething: more comely at a Diſtance tive de-
chan at hand: To this Man Faithful ad=ferived.
dreſſed himſelf in this Manner: 7
Faith. Friend, Whither away? Are you
going to the Heavenly Country ?
Talk, I am going to the ſame Place.
Faith. That is well ; then I hope we ſhall
have your good Company.
Talk, With a very good Will, will I be
your Companion. 4
'Y Fazth. Come on then, let us go together, Faithful
and let ms. ſpend our Time in diſcourſing of and Talk-
Ihings that are profitable. ati ve inter
Jall. To talk of Things that are good, to into Diſ-
me is very acceptable, with you, or with any courſe.
other, and F am glad that I have met with |
thoſe that incline to ſo good a Work : For to "4
ſpeak the Truth, * there are but few that | * Talka- 91
care thus to ſpend their I ime (as they are on tive's di 4
Iteir Travels) but chuſe much rather to be le of bin“
ſpeaking of Things to no Profit; and this Di/cour/e.
i
KA
.
ath been a Trouble to me.
Faith. That is indeed a Thing to be lament-
ed; for what Thing ſo worthy of the Uſe of
the Tongue and Mouth of Men on Earth, as
we the Things of the God of Heaven?
Talk. I like you wonderfully well, for
Pour Say ings are fall of Convictions ;. and 1
| : | E. 3 Will.
Fl ”
tive!
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Che Pilgrim's Pzogzefs.
1 will add, What Thing is fo pleaſant, and
what ſq profitable, as to talk of the Things
of God?
What Things fo pleaſant? (that is, if a
Man hath any Delight in Things that are
wonderful) For Inſtance: If a Man doth
delight to talk of the Hiftory, or the My-
ery of Things, or if a Man doth love to
talk of Miracles, Wonders, or Signs; where
ſhall he find Things corded ſo delightfully,
and ſa ſweetly penn'd, as in the Holy Serip-
tures?
FTalka
©
Faith. That's true; but to profit by ſuch
Things in our Talk, ſhould be our chief De-
ſign.
"Talk: That is it that J ſaid ; for to talk of
ſuch Things is moſt profitable, for by ſo do-
ing a Man may get Kanon ledge of many
Thin 723, as of the Venity of Earthly Things,
and the benefit of hings Above, (thus in
ger ou but more particularl:', By this a Man
may learn the Neceſſity of the * Birth,
the 193 of our Works, the Need of
Chriſt's Righteouſneſs, Te.
Beſides, by this a Man may learn what 10
is to per t, to believe, to pray, to ſuffer, or
the like. By this a Man may learn what
are the great Promiſes and Conſolations of
the Goſpel to his own Comfort. Further by
this a Man ma learn to refute falſe Opinions,
ts windteate the Truth, and alſo ta infirus the
o77Yant.
Faith, All this is true, and glad am I to
hear theſe Things from you.
Tak. Alas! the Want of this is the Cauſe
why ſo ſew underſtand the Need of Faith,
and the Neceſlity of a Work of Grace in their
Soul,
FP
The Ptlartm's ÞP:ogteſs. .
Soul; in order to eternal Life ; but ignorant-
ly live in the Works of the Law, by the
which a Man can by no Means obtain the
Kingdom of Heaven. |
Faith, But by your Leave, Heavenly
Knowledge of theſe is the Gift of God ; no
Man attaineth to them by Human Induliry,
or only by the Talk of them. *
Talk. All that I know very well. For 4 O braut
Man can receive nothing except it be given him Talkative.
from Heaven; all is of Grace, not of Works.” *
could give you an Hundred Scriptures. for
the Confirmation of this.
Faith. Well then, ſaid Faithful, What is |
that One Thing, that we mall at this Time Y
found our Diſcourſe upon ? Yep |
Talk, What you will; I will talk of 2
Heavenly, or Thiogs Earthly, Things Moral,
or Things Evangelical. Things Sacred, or
Things Prophane, Things Paſt, or Things to
Cume, Things Foreign, or Things at Home,
Things Effen: ial. or Things Circumftantial ;
provided all be dune to cur Profit. © + -
Fait:, Now did * Faithful begin to wonder, Faithful
and ſbepping to Chriſtian (for he walked all Se,. by
this while by himſelf) he ſaid io him, but ſoftly, Talkative.
What a brave Companion bave we got! Sure y
this Man will make a very excellent Pilrim. |
Chr. At this Cbriſtian modeſtly ſmiled. ane
laid, + This Man with whom you are fo fChriſtian '
taken, will beguile with this Tongue of his, makes a
93
Twenty of them that know him not. Diſcovery
Faith. Do you know him then? of Talka-
Chr. Know him! Yes, better than he dive, gefl.
knows himſelf, TE ine Faith-
Faith. Pray what is he ? , 4 fu Who he
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doth be dwel;??? | |
SIE He is the Son of one Say well, be Birt
_ _ Uwelſs ih Pratite-Row ; and is known of all II h.
that are acquain ted with him by the Name ¶ {erv«
df Taltatid in Pratiag. Roto; and notwith- I £101
landing his fine Tongue, ke is but a ſorry Hon
Fellow. | | 1 Bi |
* Faith. Well, he ſeems to be a very pretty I Pray
5
Fellow. ad 1
| Chr. That is to them that have not a tho- than
rough Acquaintace with him, for he is 6% I and
Abroad, near Home he js ugly enough: Your I him
ſaving that he is a pretty Man, brings to my I all t
Mind what I have obſerved in the Work of I thro
the Painter, whoſe Pictures fhew belt at a Di- I that
Nance, but are vety unpleaſing at cloſe Sight. Dew;
. * Faith. Iam ready to think you did but jeſt,
15 becaufe ou filed. « Wa " X
tr. God forbid that 1 ſhodld jeſt, tho" 1 ey
ſmiled in this Matter, or that T ſhould ac- to h
' coſe any falſly; I will give you 4 farther | him,
©» © Diſcovery of him; 'This Man is for- any ff 14
Company, and for any Talk; as he talketh I %
nw with you, fo will be talk when he is on I ible,
mie Ale. bench; and the more. Drink be hath I uile
in his Crown, the more of theſe Things be I brin
- ,. hath in his Mouth ; Religion hath no Place
in his Heart, or Houſe, or Converlation ; more
and all he hath lies in his Tongue, and his nce
Religion is to make a Noife therewith. © | Foo
Faith. Say you ſo! Then I am in this emp
Man greatly dete.
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Chr.
him, ſay, Pd better deal with a Turk than
1 nnn,
C, Deceived l Von may be ſure of. it. Mat. i
Remember the e, hey Jay and do Cor. iv. ©
not 3 but the Kin of Gedi not in Ward, Tallative
but in Poaver. He talketh of Prayer, of talks but ©
Repentanee, of « Death, and. of the Neu gbes nut.
Both ; but he knows but only to talk of em. 2
1 have been in bl Family, and: haye ob-
ſerved him both. at Home and Abroad, and I -
know, what I ſay of him is the Truth. * Hig * Hi
Houſe is as empty of Religiorr as the White Houſe is
of an Egg is, of Savour. There is neitherempry of
Prayer nor Sign of Repentance for Sin: Yea, Religion.
the Brute in his Kind ſerves God far better.
than he. + He is the very Stain, Reproach, Hen
and Shame of Religion to all that know Cain to
him; it can hardly have a good. Word in Religion,
all that End of 4 Town ——— he dwells, Rom. ii.
through him. Thus ſay the common People 24, 25.
that” know him, 4 4 Saint Abroad, a? at The Pro.
Devil at His poor Family finds it . *
ſo: He is fach a Churl, ſuch a Railer at, pol
and ſo. unreaſonable with his Servants, that Bim.
they neither know how to do for, or to ſpeak.
to him. Men that have any Dealings with.
with him, for fairer Dealings I ſhall have at
his Hands. 'This Tallativs, if it be poſ- -
fible, will go beyond them, defraud, be::
zuile, and bver- reach them; belides, hes.” ; 9 85 =
brings up his Sons to follow his Steps, and. OE
if he finds in any of them a fookſh” Ti-
morouſneſs . (for ſo he calls the firſt Appear-
ance of a tender Conſcience) he calls them» _ * | .
Fools and Blockheads, and by no Means will!
employ them in much, or ſpeak to their:
Laws of Opin before. others. 1 ham anita go
am pan that he has wWi 8 =
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will be, if God prevents not, the Ruin of
many more. . ing |
_ Faith. Well, my Brother, I am bound to ing
believe you, not on'y becauſe you ſay you deed
lf a ö Ws : 4 * w% * * FYY Wo FIFTY —
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The Pügrim's P70
_ Life, cauſed many to ſtuble and fall, and
gꝛets.
knew him, but alſo becauſe like a Chriſtian, If fare
"A
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6
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:
you make your Reports of Men. For Ican- Men
not think chat you ſpeak theſe Things of Ill- IF It w
Will, but becauſe it is even ſo as you ſay. Ver
. "Chr. Had,] known him nofmore than you, | cord
13 mugs perhaps have thought of him as at I the-
. Report at their Hands only that are Enemies
the you did : Yea, had I received this tr;
to Religion, I fhould have thought it had I cept
been a Slander; A Lot that often falls from I to f
bad Mens Mouths, upon good Mens Names I Tal
and Profeſſions. But all theſe Things yet,
.and a great many more as bad, of my own F
Knowledge I can prove him guilty of. Be- e
ſlides, good Men are two, of him, and is u
they can neither call him Brother nor Friend; I the.
the very naming of him among them, makes I etb,
them bluſh, if they know him. I Th
Faith. Well, I ſee that Saying. and Dig clea
are two Things, and hereaſter I ſhall better I this
© obferve this Diſtinction |
4 The Car
eaſa of Re-
3» * Q e ver. 2
24, 25
20.
; * 2 up
Chr, They are two Things indeed, and Hor
ate as diverſe as are the Soul and the Body; | but
for as the Body without the Soul is but a Do
dead Carcaſs ; ſo Sajing, if it be alone,
is but a dead Carcaſs only. 'The Soul of C
Religion is the practical bart Pure Re- the
Oo a
m. i. 27 © ligton and undefied before God and the © will
Father, is this, o viſit the Fatberle/vand £ Me
© Widows in their Afitions,. and to keep I} ing
*/- Winlelf duſpotted from the World. This is,
Taliati ve is not aware of; he thinks that 7
| . F Hcumg
Ay 9
:
| Che Pilgrim's Bzogzels, 597
nd. Hearing and Sayivg will make a good Chri- x
| Wan; and thus * deceiveth his 4. Hear- e
ing is but as the Sowing of the Seed ; Talg.
ing is not faficient to prove that Fruit is in-
ou deed in the Heart and Life: And let us al-
an, ſure ourſelves, That at the Day of Doom
an- Men fhall be jade ET to their Fruit :
111- It will not be ſaid then, Did ven believe but,
Litre you Doers, or Ta/teri only and ac ©
ov, If cordingly they ſhall be judged.” "The End of
at the World is compared to our Harveſt, and
his you know Men at Harveſt regard nothing See Matt.
but Fruit. Not that any Thing can be ac- xiv. 25,
ad I cepted that is not of Faith; but I ſpeak this |
2m to ſhew how infignificant the. Proteſhon of
zes Talkative will be at that Day, ©
vn Faith. This brings to my Mind that of Lev. xii,
e- Moſes, by which he deſcribed the Beaſt that Deut. xxx
nd is unclean. * He i ſuch a one that parteth Faithful
d; i the Hoof and cheweth the Cud; not that part- convinced
es eth tht Hoof only, or that chewed the Cud only, of the
|. The Hare cheweth the Cud, but yet is un · Badner of ©
clean, becauſe he parteth not the Hoof. And Talkative.
er this tru'y reſembleth Ta/kativ- ; he cheweth 2 Cor. xt i.
upon the Word, but yet he divideth not the 1, 2, 3. . "i
Hoof, he parteth not the Way of Siarers ; ch. Xv. 7.
but as the Hare, he retaineth the Foot of a
a Dog or Bear, and therefore ke is Unclean.
of Chr. You have ſpoken for ought I know, . ©
e- || the true Goſpel Senſe of thoſe I ente and
he wilt .dd another Thing : Pax/ calleth ſome j
d Men, j ea, and thoſe great Taikers too, Suma + Talke- | 1
p | ing Bra, and + inkling Cymbats : I hat %, A s,
is | is, as he expounds them in another Place, Things 1ha#”
Things without Lift, giving Sound z Things ſoundwiths
Foes "NS wwithearout Lifes
—
47
ng.
—
_ avitheut Life, that is, without true Faith and
— Grate. of the Goſpel ; and conſequently;
Things ;that.ſhall never be placed in theKing-
dom of Heaven, among . thoſe that are the
Children of Life 3 tho 1505 Saund by their
: 2 * it were the Tongue or oice of
An An
oy 2 Well, oel of kis Com-
i BY at fiſt, but I am as fick of it now:
-— WhatThalliwe do to be rid of him?
br. Take my Aduwice, and do as I bid
Fou, and you ſhall find that he will ſoon be
kack of your Company too, except God-ſhall
touch his Heart and turn t.
- » Faith. What would you have me do? |
| Chr, Why, go to him, and enter into ſome
ſerious Talk about the Powers of Religion,
Aa ndack him plainly (when he has approv'd of
b it, for that he will whether this Thing be ſet
in his Heart, Houſe, or Converſation.
Faith, T den Faithful ſept forward again,
and ſaid. to Taltetiue, Come, what Chear ?
How is it now?
Tall. 1 thank you, well; 1 thought we
- +* Hhould have had a great deal of Talk by this
Time. 7
Faith. Well, if vou, will, we will fall to it
now; and, ſince you have leſt it to me to ſtate
the Queſtion, let it be this: How. doth the
Saving Grace of God diſcovericlelf, when it
is in the Heart of Man?
Tatka- . Talk. I perceive then that our Tall muſt be
tive . falſe about the Power of Things: Well, tis a very
"Diſcovery _ Queſtion, + and I ſhall be willing to an-
e
pegs,
r yon. And take my Anſwer in brief, thus:
a 2 Where the Grace of God, is in the
Heart, it cauſeth there great Outcry. "Ei
*. N p ailh
The. e üg ; 8
. Faith. N „ hold, let us canfider. one. at © /
once; L ſhould rather Tay, It ſhews..
itſelf by — the Soul to abhor its Sin.
Talk. Why, what Difference is there between
Crying out againf, and 2 of Sin?
Fauh. OI a great deal: AN
out againſt Sin in Policy, but be NN abhor ing out a-
it, but by Virtge of Godly 2 Tang 590 ba gainft 9157
1 have heard n m Sign of ©
oy Pulpit, who yet can 8 it 2 enough —
ouſe, Heart, and Converſation : Gen. 39.
05 Mifreſs cried wich a loud Voice, 'as 16.
ſhe'd been very holy; but would willingly not-
withſtanding that have committed Unclean-
nels with him. Some cry out again. Sin, as a
Mother cries out Pr. R her Child in her Lap,
when 15 calls it Slut and n Girl, and
then falls to hugging and kifling of — ee |
Tali. You he at the catch 1
25 No, not I, I am 0 for ſctt
Things right. 31 what is the AE |
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Faith. This Sign AY 1 19. ee but
firſt or laſt, it is if falſe ; for Knowledge, +} Great
great Knowledge may be obtained in the My- Knowledge
ſteries of the Goſpel, and yet no Work of #9 Sign 27
Grace in the Soul. 55 Fre if a Man have all Grace. -' -
Knowledge, he may yet be nothing; and ſo 1. Cor. 39+
conſequently he no Child of God When Chriſt
ſaid, Do you +40 all theſe Things # And the 125 1
Diſciples anſwer'd, 77; he added, "Blefſed are T'wo Sorts
ye if you do them, Hedoth not lay the bleſfing of Know = |
in the knowing af them, but in the doing ot ledge.
them. For here is a Knowledge that is not a-
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deze is a Thing- that pleaſeth"Talkers and
- Boaſters ; but to % is that which pleaſeth
: Sod: Note, That the Heart cannot be good
without Knowledge, ſor without that the
5 3 ; Heart is nonght: There are therefore two
=_— _ Sorts of Knowledge, Knowledge that reſteth
n che bare Speculation of Things, and Know.
ledge that is accompanied with the Grace of
Faith and Love; which puts a Man upon do-
ing even the Will of God from the Heart.
| The firſt of theſe will ſerve the Taller, but
. without the other the true Chriftian is not con-
® True tent. Give me Underſtanding, and 1 Gall
Knewlerge deep thy' Law 3 yea, 1 ball obſerve it with all
attended my whole Heart, Pal. xli. 19, 20.
- with Eu- Ta/k. You lie at the catch again, that is
. deavours.. nit for Edification.” CEE Ts Tongs
One good Faith, Well, if you pleaſe, propound an-
Sign of other Sign, How this Wark of Grace diſco-
* Grace. vereth itſelf where it is.
Jo. xvi. 8. 7a/k. Not I, for I fee we ſhall not agree.
From 7. 24. Faith. Will you give me Leave?
John vi. 9. Tak, You may uſe 1 our Liberty.
Mark vi. Fairb. A Work of Grace in the Soul diſ-
"26. covereth itſelf either to him that hath it, or
Pſ.xxxviii.to the Stander by. To him that hath it,
18, thus it gives him Conviction of Sin, eſpe-
Jer. 31. 9 cially the Defilement of his Nature, and the
Gal. ü 15. Sin of Unbelief, (for the Sake of which he
Actsiv. 12 is fare to be damned, if he findeth not Mer-
Mat. v. 6. ey at God's Hand, by Faith in Feſus Chrift.)
Rev. i. 6, 'I his Sight and Senſe of Things workech in
| Akim So row and Shame for Sin: He hnd-
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of the World, and the abſoläte Neceſſity of Eo ER
cloling with him for Life, at the which he
findeta Hungerings and Thiraings aftcr him;
to which” Hungerings, Oc the Promiſe” is ö
made. Now according to the Strength or 22
Weakneſs of bis Faith in his Saviour, ſo is
his joy and Peace, ſo is his Love to Holineſs,
ſo zre his Defires to know more and more,
and alſo to ſerve him in this World. But tho? _
I ſay it diſcovers itſelf thus unto him, yet it is
but ſeldom that he is able to conclude, that
this is a Work of Grace, becauſe his Corrup-
tions now, and his abuſed Reaſon makes his
Mind mif-judge in this Matter; therefore in Rom. xx.
him that bath this Work, there is required a 10.
very ſound Judgment, before he can with Stea- Ph,viii.17.
dineſs conclude, that this is a Work of Grace. Mat. v. 9.
Ta others it Ii thus diſcovered. Jo.xxiy.19 _
1. By an experimental Confeſſion of his Pſ. I. 10.
Faith in Chriſt. 2 By a Life anſwerable to John xb.
that Confeſſion, to wit, a Life of Holineſs, 5, 6.
Heart Helin, Family Holineſs, if he hath a Ezek. ix. 77
Family, and by Converſation Holinaſi in the 43;
World; which in general teacheth him in-
wardly to abhor his Sin, and himſelf, for that,
in ſecret to ſuppreſs it in his Family, and pro-
mote Holineſs in the World, not by Tait only,
as.an Hypocrite or talkative Perton may do,
but by a practical SubjeAion in Faith, and ;
Love to the Power of the Word: And now, ;
Sir, as to this brief Deſcription of the Work of
Grace, and alſo the Diſcovery of it, if you
have ought to object, object: If not, then
give me Leave to propound to you. a Second *
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Tate; Nay, my Part is not now to object.
but to heat: Lec me therefore have your
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and not in Deed. or Truth! Fray,
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© © Canſtignce, can jullify. you in: For not he
that commendeth himſelf is approved, but du
14 Lord cammendeth. es, to ſay I am
and thus, When m 1 and
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4 Talkas Ll ken + Tallative at, firſt begg to
tive net bulk but e himſelf, he thus replied :
pleaſed © ou come now to Experience, to 8 234
' with and God, and to appeal to him for re
” Faithful's tion of what is ſpo = 123 This kind of Diſ-
ion, courſe I did not 3 nor am I diff poſed to
give an Anſwer to ſach veſtions, becauſe [
Count not myſelf bound thereto, unleſs you
take upon you to be a Catechizer, and tho'
you ſhould do ſa, yet I may refuſe to make
you my Judge: But I pray, will you tell me
why you ask me ſuch Queſtions ?
. Rea- | Faith: Becauſe I ſaw you forward to talk,
' ſon why and becauſe I knew you'had ought elle bat
Faithful Notions. Beſides, to tell you all the Truth, I
put to him have heard of you, that you are a Man whoſe
{- that Que- Religion lies in Talk, that your Converſation
ion. gives your Profeſſion the Lie. They ſay you
-. © Faithful's are a Sport amongſt Chriſtians, and Religion
Plain deal- fareth the worſe for your ungodly Canveria-
ing with tion; and ſome already have ftumbled at your
r wicked Ways, a 1 that more are in Danger
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wie + ing, Fas Vain Comer or
9 Jen is Wald of 4 Whore: _
vit, That ſhe is à Shame 10 all 1 8 ſoare |
you a Shants to'all Profeſſors.” _
Talk. Since you are ready to take op Re- Talkative 3
port, and to judge ſo raff as you do, 1 can fing away al
not but ye you are ſome or me fem aith-
regel dee fe to be diſcoarſed el l.
ind ſo Adieu WE
Chr. Then came Chriftian op, and ſaid to
his Brother, I told you how it would hap *
pen, your Words and his us cduld not
agree; he had rather leave your W
than reform his Life; but be is gone, as 1
ſaid, ® let him go; he Loſs is no Man's bur 4 good
dis own; he bas fav'd us the Trou 3 Riadance.
by ee 1. _
e he will) as ke is, would have! "> x a
lot in our Company; beſides, the Apeffle |
lays, Prim fach 7 Jr dts thyſelf.
Faith; But T am glad we Rad this liel“
Diſcourſe with Kim; it may "Happen that he
will think of it again; rn have dealt
plainly wick kim, and: fo Tam clear of his
Hood if he periheth.. 8
Chy. vou ett well is talk fo phamly m —
23 you did; there is Hut little * this Rich- 8
fal Dealing with Men now-a-days, and that ©
dae, Religion Pint 6 is he eee £1
many as it Goth. ; for they ate theſe Taka.
tive Pools, whole whole Religion is only in
Words, and are debauched ne 4a wake
Converfation” ( chat being ſo much 8 IR
ted into the "Fellowſhip of the Godly)" do 8
puzzle 70 World, te Chyiſtianity, and
| grieve ©
Tho nge en Ct
. | pings: the Sincere, I wiſhthat all Men woul Eva-
eal with ſuch as you have done, then ſhould |
hey be either made more comfortable to Re!
ligion, or the Compavy, of Saints. * 6
too hot for them |
. pay did Faithful fax, 2's
. Hon Talkative at firſt lifts up his Plumes !
Hi bravely doth he ſpeak ! how he prefumu Þ
| p drive down all before him ] but fo foon
& + As Faithful za/ks of Heart work, /ike the Moon
- * That's paſt the Full into the Wane be goes:
Aud foxwill all but be that Heart work knows,
Thus they. went on talking of what they
had ſeen by the Way, and ſo made that Way
ealy, which would otherwiſe, no doubt, have
been tedious to them, for now they went
© through a Wilderneſs. |
- Now when they had almoft t quite out
ok this Wilderness, Faith/u/ to cuſi
his Eye back, and eſpied one coming after
them, and be knew Fim. Oh! d Feirhfulſpan
to his Brother, Who comes vonder Then
Cbriſtian looked and ſaid, It is my
Friend E lift. Aye, and my Friend to
id Faithful, i |
ay to the Gate. Now as Lag came
up to them, he thus ſaluted them
. Evange- Evan. Peace be with . dearly belev-
liſt ver- ed, and Peace be to your
takes them Ch, + Welcome, Li mdog, ap my good Fas- Ne.
again. geliſt, the Sight of thy Countenance an ta
I D are my Remembrance thy ancient Kindneſs, and
e e y Eternal Good. Wt 4
ot of Faith. And a N. Times welcome, re,
Som faid good Faithfy! ; thy Company, O ſweer d d,
2 { hots der is it to us * int,
Evan
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Che Pilgrim's JP:ogzefs.
ould En. Then ſaid Fee. How dank 508
farec Wich you my Friends, ſince the Time . |
four laſt parting? What have you met wit |
nd how have you behaved yourſelves? |
Then Chrif iam. and” Faithful told him of
| Things that had happened to them on the
az, and how, and with what Diff culty
bh
Evan. Right glad am I, ſaid Ewangehth, „ Hi: Ex- BE:
ot that you have met with Trials, bot that ration *
ou have been Victors z and for that you te ben.
ve (notwithſtanding many Weakneſſes )
hey ontinued in the Way to this very Day. |
ay I ſay, right glad am I of this Thing, and
aveſht for my own Sake and yours; | have
ent wed, and you have reaped, and the Day ia WM
oming, when both He that joweth, and they. .:1* x.
out What reaped Gall rejaice together; that is, if yau „ 4.
old out, for in due Time ye Hall rea, if ye
tint nor. The Crown is before-y0u, and it
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ful an i tibl One; fo run that you may:
4s ole =fanke there be that ſet out for this
rown, and after they have gone far for it,
oo, other comes in and takes it from them; | a
the Wold fu therefore thet'you have, let no Man —_—
me ike your Crown; you are not yet out of =.
ie Gun» hot of the Devil, you have not =
ited unto Blood, ſtriving againſt Sin. Let
Kingdom be always before you, and be- | + |
ve ſtedfaſtly concerning Things that are unn 8
ble. Let nothing that is on this Side the. - 5 4
ther World get within you; and above all.
ok well to your ov1n Hearts, and to the Lufts
ne, Mere, for they are deceitful abowe all Things, ©
er Nd deſperately auicked ; ſet your Faces like a
il- Flint, you have all Power in Heaven and
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106 There's Piogrels.
/ Cr. Then Chir##ian thanked him for his
band bim Exhortation, but told him withal, "That they
r bi Ex- would have him ſpeak further to chem for
_—_ #or:ation. their Help in the reſt of the Way and the
/ rather for that they well knew that He was a
Prophet; and eould tell chem of Things that
might happen unte them, and how they
Be. © might %% and werten them. To which
Regaeſt Fail. alſo conſented- S0 CG
| ee began as followeth'; 2
He ſe. Eu My Sons, you have heard in the
telleth Words of the Truth of 'the'Goſpel;-that you;
auhat Trou- muſt ga through many Tribulations to en
bles they into the Kingdem of Heaven And again,
ſhall meet That in every! City Bonds and Affliétion
3 in [abide 2 you, ce you cannot ex-
anity- pect that you ſhould go long on j our Pilgri-
Fair, . n Sort or other.
encourages You' have found ſomething of the Truth o
them unto theſe Teſtimonies upon you already, and
Stadſaſt- more will immediately follow for now :
ne/ſs, you' ſee, you are almoſt out of this Wilder-
| - nels; and therefore you will ſoon come into a
| _ Townthatyou will ſee by · and · by beſore you,
and in that Town yon will be hard beſet with
Enemies, who will ſtrain hard but they will
kill you, and be ſure that one or both of you
muſt ſeal the Teſtimony which you hold with
| Blood; but be you faithful unto Death, and
—_ the: King will give you a Crown of 'Life.
IH ubeſe #He that ſhall» die there, altho his Death
Lot it will will be unnatural, and bis Pains perhap
be there to great, yet he will have the better of bis Fel-
r, will low; not only. becauſe that he will arrive at
Fuaue the the Cceleſtial City ſooneſt, but he will eſcap
rere many Miſeries that the other will meet with
Fu Broiber. in the reſt of his Journey. But when y ou are
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gri x8 . that their Way to the City lay,
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the Germas-Rovy, where {everalehe Fair.
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ber Fairs, 125 one Commodiy | . the
Pier of al 7, fo the Ware of * . x
Na ber Merch e is greatly evade in 2
Pi. Farr, only our FT Nation, W Ie 4 2
hers haye taken a 5 15 therent. *
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they would put their in their Bars, Pſ exix. 9
and ſay, Tarn away. mire Eyes from „ _
Vanity; and look l ſignif ing. that ll
their Trade and Traffic was in Heaven. „
riages of the Men, to ſay unto chem, hat Cauſ *
5 will you buy ? But they looking gravely upon the: Hub... #
him, ſaid, 1/e bay the Thurh. At that; there bub.
the World, and that they were going to who they +
mem, and ſtop them in their Journey:
them what they would buy, they ſaid, They".
would the Truth: But they that were
was an Occaſion taken. to deſpiſe the Men
the more; ſome , ſome 1 7 hey are
ſome ſpeaking reproachfully, and ſome mockes.
ing upon others to N them, At laſt 7 Fair
Things came to an Hubbub, and. great Stir in a Hab-
was in the Fair, inſomuch that all Order 344 2 .
was confounded. Now Word was praſencly cond Fw.
t to the Great One of the Fair, w |
quietly came down and deputed {| 2 15 N
moſt trulty. Friends to take thoſe Men ino
Examination, about whom the Fair was al- 1
moſt overturned. So the Mien were brought Be
to Examination; and they that ſat upon them txamined.
asked them, Whenice they came ? . Whither, ©
they went? and, What they did there in fuch 2 1 |
an -uhuſual 'Garb/?. The Men told them
t That they were Pilgrims and Strangers in 1 Thrill
their own Country, Which was the Hea-are, and
venly Feruſalam, and that they had given & hence
no to che Men of the Town; nor they cant.
vet to the Merchandizers, . thus to abuſe
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dhe lay for ſome Time, and were made and
t Revenge, the Great One of the Fair I chat
1 m, lavghing fill st what befel them: (+ B ness
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1% Men neſs for Injuries dove, 4 ſome Men in the Bc,
ile Fair Fair that were more obſerving, ;.aod jou theſe
Fuall out a- Px Jadiced than the reſt, . began to ebeck and That
' "bout theſe blame the baſer Sort for their - conginual I cher
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= were. bruized. Thus after. divers Werds i= 4, it
nad paſſed on both Sides) the Men;bebaving Ndeſt ot
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among themſe ves, and did Harm one te ef Hi
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** Mothers,” Teſt they ſhould Peak in their B half. Chains for |
te. or join themſelves unto/t But Chriftiana Tr: or t»
e and Faithful behaved themſelves yet- more ocbers.
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ur chat was put on them, with ſo much Meek.
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what they had heard from "their faithful |
Friend 'Ewvangelift, and were the more con- * e
firmed in their Ways and Sufferin ga, by What r
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be told them would bap acorn They .*
alſo now//comforted bash other, that "arr d N 8 —
Lot it was to ſuffer, even he ſhould have tb we
teſt on't z therefore each Man ſecretly wiſhee l,
that he mi ht have the Preſerment: But com
nitting "themſelves to che All- wiſe Diſpoſal
of Him Who ruleth all Thin „ with-math
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ment was one and the ſame in Subſtance, tho' Pee
| 1 ſomewbat varying in Form 4. che Content can
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er, “ That chey were, Eormie to, and. Di. cip
"hy ian, ſturbers of their Trade: That they had made cut
| | Commotions and Diviſions in the Town, and Ch:
had won 4 Party to their own moſt danger. Vas
1 8s Qpinions, in Oy: of the. Law off not
their Prince. he d
-+ Faich- + Then Faithful degad to * That he dab!
ful's 4. had only ſet bimfelf againſt. that which had 5
Fever for ſet itſelf againſt Him that is; Higher than tie Hal
* __ Higheſt, And, ſaid be, As for Diſturbance, ] E
IK Fr I make none, being mylelf a Man of Peace:
The Parties: that were won to us, were won
by beholding our: Truth and Innocence, and
0 are only turned ftom the worſe to the
better. And as to the Kigg you talk of
| ſinee he is Belzebub, the n of our Lord
1 I defy him and all his
UTDDhen Proclamation was mate,” That the
TR had'ought to fay for their Lord the King
17 againſt the Priſoner at the Bar, ſhould for
; With appear and give in their Eridence oY he be
8 there came in Three Witneſſes, to wit, E Sa
ap picion, and Pick-thank. They. were th quain
asked, If they knew the Priſoner at the Bar to ha
=_ ” Ab what they had to Jay for their Lord th ever,
= ing ag againſt him: lent...
i t Envy en food forth I Envy, and: ſaid to th other
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in Tote: Hold give him his Oath; KA
they "ſwear 2 * Tben he laid, My 8
fore Þ Lord, If his Man, notwithſtanding his No
es ble Name, is one of the vileſt Men in ur
d. Country; he neither regatdeth Prince nor
tho' People, Law nor Cuſtom, but doth all that h
ents can to poſſeſs all Men with certain of his diſ-
i. I loyal Notions, which he in general, calls Pris
Di- ciples of Faith and] Holineſs And in Parti-
nade cular, I heard him once myſelf atm, hat
and Chriſtianity and the Cuſtoms af qur Town'of ö;
ger. Vanity, were ibn oppoſitè, and could
y of not be reconciled. By which Saying, my Lord,
| he doth Io once not lay condemn 21 our las- |
dable Do in +. but us iq the doing them.”
Fudge. * den did the] Judge ſay upto kim,
* thou any more to ſa) 7
My, Lord, I could ſay much 1 more,
any a not be tedious to the Court, N
Yet, if need be, when the other, Gentlemen
have given in their Evidence, rather han
any thing.ſhall be Ds, ter will Mean
bim, I will enlarge my Teſtimony againſt
him. So he was bid to fland by.
Then they called Super ftition, and bid him
look upon the Priſoner; they alſo asked
him, What he could fay for their Lord the -
King againſt him“ Then they RE bim; %
he began:
Super: My Lord, T have o reat Ac: # S
quaintance with. this: Man, nor do 1 deſire ſtition 8
to have ferther Knowledge of him. How lows. *
ever, this 1 know, that be is a very peſti-
- lent Fellow, from ſome Hiſcourſe chat the
o th other, Day I had with him in this Town;
M. fo then wg with him, TITUS, We. nee
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Tbat our Religion was naught, and ſuch by
_ 'which-a Man coald by no Means pleaſe God.
ee e Saying of his, my Lord, your Lord-
EO, Tp ey well knows what neceſſarily thence
Will follow ; to wit, that we ſtill do worſhip
in vain, are yet in our Sins, and finally ſhall
de 244 e And this f is that Which 1 have
. 17. ns a
1 IA den was Pic thank fworn, and did lay
what he knew in the Behalf of their Lord the
King. againſt the Priſoner at the Bar.
” Pick: Pick “ My Lord, and you Gentlemen all;
1 thank“? This Fellow I have known. of a long Time,
| THE: and have heard him ſpeak Things that ought
WK: not to be ſpoke : For he hath railed-on bur
Noble Prince Belxebub, and hath ſpoken con-
_ temptibly of his honourable Friends, whoſe
+ Sins are Names are, + the Lord G, Man, the Lord
ail Lords Carnal - Delights, the Lord Luxurious, the
and * Lord Defire of Vain Glory, my old Lord Le.
03 cbery, Sir Eaving-Greedy, with all the reſt of
© our Nobility ; and he hath ſaid moreover,
Thar if all Men were of his Mind, if _poſſi-
ble, there is not one of theſe Noblemen ſhould
have any longer a Being in this Town Be-
' fides, he hath not been afraid to rail on you,
my Lord, Who are now'appointed to be his
2 Judge, calling yon an ungo ly Villain, with
, way tber ſuch like villifying Terms, with
=, which be hath beſpatter'd moſt of the Gentry
6 of our Ton
| Wden this Pick-thank had done his Tale,
the judge ditected his Speech to the Priſoner
at the Bar, ſa) ing, I hou Renegade, Here-
tick, and Traitor, Haſt thou. heard what
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Now Faithful. play the Man, ſpeak ſor thy God:
Feur not . — Maſice, pes 3 7 N
Speak böldly, Man; the Irmh is on thy Side..
a Vie for it, and to Life in Triumph ridsg
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1 72 Fast. May L ſpeak a few. Wards in, my
"ma Defence? +
Nike Sitrah, Sirrah,, thou: deferveſt to
live. no. longer, but to be flain immediately
upon the Place: Vet that all Men may ſce
dcour Gentleneſs towards thee, Let us hear
what thou vile Renegade haſt to ſay. |
1 rack Faith,” t. I ſay then, in Ankver t to what chat
fal's De- Mr. Envy hath ſpoken, I never ſaid nou x mul
N 1 . fence of but this, That what Rule, or Laws, of Mal
5 9 fe 278 or People, were flat againſt tbe Word Was
3% f God, are diametrically oppoſite to Chrifii-
1 895 e If I have faid amiſ in this, convince The
* me of my | Error, and I am ready here be- I or
3 fore you to make my Recantation. * into
| 2, As to the 2d. to wit, Mr. Sagerſitien, alſo
and his C againſt me, I ſaid only this,
A Th bat in the Worſhip of God there is re wired ſhox
N un Divine Faith, but there can be no Divine | Sub
F without Divine Revelation of the Will not
©. of God. Therefore whatever is thruſt into I but
me Worlkip of God, that is not agreeable to ther
N Divine Revelation, cannot be done by an hu- F
man Faith, which Faith will nos be profia- upo
4 | ble to Eternal Liſe. Crit
As ta what Mr. Pick-thavk bath faig, I fay Crir
1 3 (avoidin Terms, as that I am ſaid to rail, Vu
and the like) that Prince” of this Town, and
with all the Rabblement, bis Attendants, by I deſe
Nt him Gentlemen named, are more fit for being
lia Hell, chan in this Town 8 Country; 1
4a ſo the Lard baue Mercy ub 285 wer
F Then the Judge called to the Jury, (who I} lice,
all chis while ſtood by to hear and obſerve) M..
| ES. The + Gentlemen of the Fury, You ſee this Man Mr.
Judge: | about whom ſo great an Uproar harb been plas
Speech te made in this Town : Von f heard
tit Jurys 5 | wat
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what-theſe worthy Gentlemen have efſed} © RA
againlt him: Alſo you have heard his Reply *
and Confeſſion : It heth' now. in your Breaſt
to hang him, or ſave his Life; but, yet I
think meet to inſtruct you in our Law. f
There was an Act made in the Days of
*
| Pharaoh the Great, Servant to our Prince, Exod. bt. 4 A |
that leſt, thoſe-of a contrary Religion ſhould -
multiply, and grow too ſtrong for him, their
Males ſhould be thrown into the River. . 3 2-5
was an A& alſo. made in the Days of Nebu- Dan. iii.
chadnezzar the Great, another of his Servants,
That whoſaever ſhould not fall down and
worſhip his Golden Image, ſhould be thrown.
into. the Fiery Furnace.. There was an Act
alſo made in the Days of Darizs, That whoſo-
for ſome time called upon any. God but him,
ſhould be caſt into the Lions Den. Now the
Subſtance of theſe Laws this Rebel has broken, 4
not only in Thought (which is not to be borne)
but alſo. in Word and Deed ; which muſt
therefore needs be intolerable.
For that of Pharaab, his Law 3
upon Suſpicion, to prevent Miſchief, 9
Crime yet being apparent; but here is 5 .
Crime . = the Second and Third. e '
you fee he diſpute 22 againſt our Religion, 5. CATE.) *
and for the colon be ee WOW
*lervcth ts dia the Death, [per ©
Then went the Jury out, ® Crd 8 De l |
were Mr. Blindman, My. No-gogd, Mr. Max aun their
lice, Mr. Love luſt, Mr:Live-laoſe,Mr.Heady, —_—
. High- mind, . Enmity,. Mr. -Lyar,
Mr. Cruelty, - Mr. Hate light, and Mr. Im-
placable, who every one gave in his private . 5
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5 - "afierwards unanimouſly. concluded to brin
(55. 05 5 AIM Fenz before the Judge. And fir.
Dotty among themſelves ®' Mr Blindnas the Fore-
ene pri- man, aid, I ſee clearly that this Man is an
vate ler- Heretick. Then ſaid Mr. No-Good, Away
dich, _avith' ſucb a Felluu from the Earth. Aye,
ſaid Mr. Malice. for I hate the very Looks of
bin. Then ſaid Mr. Lowe-luft, I could newer
' - | . endure him Mor J. ſaid Mr. Live- lobe, for
r would always bs condemning my Ways Hang
Bim, hang him, ſaid Mr. Heady. A ſorry
Scrub, ſaid Mr. Higb- mind. My Heart tiſeth
again bim, ſaid Me Enmity.. He isa Regue,
ſaid Mr Lyar. Hanging is too good for him,
ſaid Mr. Cruelty. Let us diſpatch him out of |
' rhe Way, faid Mr. Hate-light. Then ſaid Mr. 6
I eu lacabie, Might I baue all the World given 1
mu, I could not be reconciled to bin, therefore
F +They con- tet as forthwith bring bim in guilty of Death.+
- clude. o And ſo they did; therefore he was preſently
. bring lin condemned to be had from the Place where
in guilty of he was, to the Place from whence he came,
” Death, and there to be put to the moſt cruel Death
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1 . Xhat could de invented. oo +
E-: * - * They therefore brought him out, to do
3 Thecrne} with him according to their Law: f and firit
b ' Death of they ſpourged him, then they buffeted him, .
Faithfu], then they lanced his Fleſh with Knives, aſter A
| tthßat they floned him with Stones, then-prick-
ed him with their Swords, and laſt of all
*. ,,*»; they burnt him to Aſhes at a' Stake. Thus
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” _* Chriſti- the neareſt Way to the Caleſtial Gate. gut
- an fill as for Chriſtian, he had fome Reſpite; and
t Prijoner. was remanded back to Priſon 3 ſo there he
remained for a Space: But be that over-rules
all Things, having the Power of their Rage
in his own Hand, ſo wrought it about, that
5 Chriſtian for that Time eſcaped them, and
went his Way. N
And as he went, he ſang, ſaying,
IJ De Seng + Well, Faithful, thou haſt faithfully profaſt
58 jp Chri- Unto thy Lord, of whom en 1” 4
ſtian made When faithlęſi Ones with all their vainDelight,
e Faithful Are crying out under their Helliſb Plight :
after his Sing, Faithful, fing, and let thy Name ſurvive,
Death. For the they kill d thee, thow art Hill alive.
| Now I ſaw in my Dream that Ghriftian
went not forth alone, for there was one whoſe
1 Chri. Name was Hepeful (being ſo made . by be-
tian bas holding of Chri/tian and Faithful in their
another. Words and Behaviour, in their Sufferings at
Companion. the Fair) who joined himſelf unto him, and
| entering into a Brotherly Covenant, told him,
that he would be his Companion. Thus one
died ſor their Teſtimony of the Truth, and
Another riſes out of his Aches, to be a Com-
panion with Chriſtian in his Pilgrimage. I his
1 | There | Hopeful allo told CAriſti an,, ] hat there were
* are mor? many more ol the Men in the Fair that would
e the Men take their {1 ime and follow after...
”- in the Fair So I ſaw, that quickly after they were got
n, fol. Out of the Fair, they overtock one that was
Jow. © yoing before them, whoſe Name was $ By-
J { Thy "end: ; then they ſaid to him, What Country-
d vertale man, Sir? And how far go you this. Way ?
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He told them That he came from the Town
of Rain fprach, and he was going to the C-
leſtial Cie (but told chem not his Name.) |
"Frans Fair pech, Laid Chriftiam | Is there 8 vi.
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: Pray, Sir, What maß I all von?
faid Chriftian. - . r
By-ends. I am 2 Stranger to you, 3 By-· ends
to me; if you be going this Way, I ſhall be 47h 10 fell
glad of your Company; if not, 1 muſt Mons
content. |
(&,. The Town of: Fair ſpeech, ſaid Chri-
fian, I have heard of, and as I remember,
they ſay it ie a wealt] Phce.”/ 0
By-endi. Yes, I will aſſure you that it is, |
and I have'very many rich Kindred therme.
br. Pray, who are your Kindred there, „
if a Man may be ſo bold? . N | | 1 A
- By-onds, Almoſt the whole Town: And — *._
in particular, my Lord Turs-about, my.Lo;:d = 8
Time- ſerver, ' my Lord Fair 7 om —_—
whoſe - Aticeſtors © that Town firſt - its
Name:) Alſo Mr, Sotb-man; Mr. Facing
both-ways, Mr. Aey-thing, aud the Parſon of
our Parih, Mr. Twg-tongues, who was my
Mother's own Brother by Father's Side. And,
to tell you the Truth, I alſo am become a
Gentleman of good Quality, yet my Grand-
father was but a Waterman, N
Way and rowing another, and I got moſ ß
my Eſtate by the ſame Occupation. ]
_ Chr. Are you a married Man ? 9
By-ends. Yes, * and my Wile is a very bir. * With
tuous Woman, the Daughter of a viftuous axd Kine -
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ex, therefore ſhe came of a yery honourable
Ft Family; and is arrived to ſuch a Pitch of
' Breeding; that ſhe knows, how to Carry, it to
all, even to Prince and Peaſant. - "Tis true,
ve” ſomewhat differ in Religion from - thoſe
._- - of the\ſtriccer Sort, yet but in two {mall
Where Points. Firſt, We never ſtrive againſt Wind
By-ends and Tide. Secondly, We are always molt
#iffers in zealous when Religion goes in his Silver-
© | Retigion Slippers; we love much to walk with him in
; from the Street, if the Sun ſhines, and the People
bers. e |
Fellow Hopefu!/, ſaying, It runs in my Mind
that this is one By-ends of - Fair-/peech 3 and
if it be he, we have as very a Knave in our
Company as dwelleth in all theſe Parts.
Then ſaid Hopeful, Ask him; methinks he
ſhould not be aſhamed of his Name. 50
Cbriſtias came up with him again, and ſaid,
Sir, Vou talk as if you knew ſomething more
than all the World doth; and if I take not
2 ess 1 deem J have 1 a (oped
| of you : Is not your Name Mr. By-enas ©
3 Fair. pech? - e OY 1
1 Byendt. This is not my Name, but indeed
"tis a Nick- name that is given me by ſome.
that cannot abide me, and I muſt be content
do bear it as a Reproach, as other good Men
have borne theirs before mo. i on
Cr. But did yau never give Occaſion to
Men to call you by this Name?
By-ends. | Never, never | the worſt ebat
+. _- ever. did to give them an Occaſion io give
Ho By- me this Name was, * That I always had the
ends got Luck to jump'into my Judgment with the
; bis Name, pteſent Way of the Times, whatever it was,
N
hen Chrifian ſiept a little afide to his
* 1
ho Wei Stn
and by chance was to get thereby; but *
Things are caſt upon me, let me count tden
a Bleling: but let not the Malicious load me
therefore with Reproach.
Chr. 1 thought indeed that q ou were the
Man that I heard of; and to tell you at I
thnk, I fear this Name belongs to you more
properly than you are willing we ſhould thigh
it goth.
By-ends." Well, if you will thus tmagine,
Jcandot help it. You will find me a fair *- N.
Company-keeper, if you ſtill will admit me fire; to
your Aſſociate. — keep Com- s
Cbr. If you will go with us, you muſt 2o 3 with |:
againſt Wind and Tide, the whieh I perceive Chriſtian, |
is againſt your Opioiod : You muſt alſo own
Religion in his Rags, as well as when in bis
Silver Slippers, and ſtand by him too when
bound in Irons, as well as when he N ui
the Streets with Applauſe.
' \'By-eads. You muſt not impoſes; nor Lord
it over my Faith; leave me to wy. Libeny, .
and let me go with you.
| Chr; Not a Step farther, unleſs you wilt *
80 in what we propound: 8
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Then ſaid By: ens, I hall never ae |
old Principles, e; they are harmleſs anck
profitable. ea 8 If -{ thay not go witch you, 1+ By *
mutt do ſo as I did belore yout overtook me, av Ohri-
even go by myſelf, until ſome oertake me ian part.
that will be glad of my Company.
Now 1 faw in my Dream that Clriſlien
and Hopeful forſook ho, and kept their Di-
lance before him; but one of them —
back, ſaw three Men following Mr. By. ena,
1
and behold, as they came up with him be
3 en a "FR low a and * 0
by
3 DN Ke oh — 2 0 MP, a Ft. "ths. |
” x26 he Pilgumn's-Dogreſs.
He baralſo gave him a Compliment. . * The Men;
neu Com- Names were Mr. Hold the-H/or/d, Mr. Money-
pam. bee, and Mr. Save-all, Men that Mr. By.
. ends had farmerly been acquainted with; —
in their Minority they were Schoof Fellows,
and were taught by one Mr. Gaiſe-man, a
School - maſter in Lowe. gain, which is a Mar-
ket- Town in the County of Covering, in the
North. This School-maſter taught them the
Art of Getting, either by Violence, Cozen-
age, Flatrery, Lying, or, by putting on a
| viſe of Religion; and theſe four Gentlemen
3 had attained much of the Art of their Ma-
__ lar, ſo that they could each of them have
kept ſuch a School themſelves.
ell, when they had, as I ſaid, thus ſa-
luted one another, Mr. Money-lewe ſaid to
- Mr. By-endi, Who are they upon the Road
vo before us? For Chrifiian and Hopeful were I can
yet within ..
I By-ends Hy-ends. + They are a Couple of far Coun-
+ - _ Chara&er trymen, that after their Mode are going on
” of the Pilgrimage. £ 2
Pilgrims. Mongy-lowe. Alas! why did, they not ſtay, N and
that we might have had their good Cowpa- I profi
8 2 they, * we, and you, Sir, I hope,
© _ - are all going on Pilgrimage. _ +
Bren We ang indeed, but the Men 1
- before us are ſo rigid, and hate fo much the Hus.
Opinions of others, that let a Man be never I mat
0o Godly, yet if he jumps not with them in W good
Al Things, they thruſt him quite out of their I gine,
MIX. Save all, That's bad: We read of this
ſiome that are righteous overmuch, and ſuch I tbem
ws Mens — prevails with them for to I grew
'- . Judge and cendema all Men but EI a god
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Things.
Manner, conclude, That it is their Duty
ruſh on their Journey a/l Weathers, 224 1 1
am for waiting for 'Wind and. Tide.” They
are for hazarding ail for God at a. Clap, 4 H
1 am for taking a Advantages to ſecure -
my Life and Efate.. They are for holding
their Notions, tho all Men be agsiuſt them
but T am for Religion, in what, and ſo fax.
as the Times and my Safety will bear it.
They are ſor Religion when in Rags and
Contempty, but Tam for him when ba *
in bis Galen ern in the. Suni, and
with 3
there fill, good Mr. By end; for my Parts
I can count but a Fool, thas having the
Liberty to keep what he has, ſhall be ſo un
ale 10 ye Let us be wiſe as Serpents ;.
'tis beft ta make Hay when. the Sus ſhines 3
you ſee. how the Bee liveth in the Winter,
ind -beſtirs her only when ſhe can have
Profit with Pleaſure. God ſends: ſometimes
Rain, and ſometimes Sun- Mine: If they be
ſuch Fools to go through the firſt; yet let us
be content to Fake fals Weather along with
us. Ror my Part, I like that Religion beſt
of -Gad's
zood Bleffings, unto ua; for who-can ima-
gine, that ig ter fame ape
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this Life, but t
tdem for bis Sake. 1 — A
grew rich in Religion. And Fob lays,
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but rays what, and how * wane ths
. you differed-?.
By-ends. Why, they, after their headtrang
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muſt e 8 the Men * us, if
the be ſuch as yo have deſeribed them.
r. Save all. I think that we are all agreed
in n this Matter, and therefore chere needs no
more Words about it.
Mr Money love. No, there 20 more
Words about this Matter indeed; for be
| that believes neither Scripture nor Reaſon,
on our Side) nei-
ther knows his own Liberty, nor . his
; his own-Safety.
M By end. My Brethren,” We 1 23
you ſee, going all on Pilgrimage, und for
— yoo: that are
ive me-Leave to u un ou
w_ acer . e ket a .
* ſe a Man, a "Miniſter, ' or 1 > Trades.
| e. ' ſhould have an Advantage lie be-
fore "him, to get the good Bleflings of this
Life, yet ſo as that he can by no Means come
by them, except in Appearance at leaſt, he
becomes extraordinary zealous in ſome Points
of Religion that he meddled not with before:
May he not uſe this Means to attain his End,
| yet be a right honeſt Man? '
Mr. Money-love, I ſee the Bottom of your
Queſlion, and with theſe Gentlemens good
Leave, I will endeavour to ſhape you an
Anſwer. And firſt, To ſpeak to your Que-
ſtſon as it concerns a Miniſter himſelf : Sup-
poſe a Minifler, a worthy Man, but of
| 2 very {mall Benefice, and has in his Eye a
greater, more fat and plump by far i he has
alſo now an unity of getting it, yet
fo as by being more ſtudious, by preaching
more frequently and zealouſly, and becauic
| the OR of the People roquices it, by
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ſee no Reaſan but a Man may do this (provi-
eed N ded be bas 1 Aye, and more à great deal
$ no Nbeũdes. and yet he an honeſt Man, for why,
1. His Deſire of a greater Benefice is Taw-
ore ful (this, cahnot be. contradicted) fince tis ſet
| be before him by Providence; ſo then he may
on, get it if he can, making no Queſtion ſor Cen-
dei- e ET
his 2. Beſides, His Defire after the Benefice _
makes him more ftudious, a more zealous
as MPreacher, c. and fo makes him à better Man;
for Nyea, makes him better improve his Parts,
are which is according to the Mind of God.
ou Now, as Tor comply ing with the Tem-
3. *
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*
« ſome of his Principles, this arguet ,
be- Y 1; That be is of a ſelf-denying Temper. _
his Y 2. Of a ſweet and obliging Deportment.
me 3 And ſo more fit for a Miniſterial Function.
he 4. I conclnde then, That a Miniſter that
ints changes a ſmall Living for à great, ſhovld *
re: rot for ſo doing, be judged as covetous, but
nd, rather ſince he is improved in his Parts and
3 Pee be ps as one that pur-
dur Iſues his Call, and the Op ni t into
od Ibis Hand to do Good, At BE 27 #
an And now to tbe ſecond Part of the Queſtion,
ue- Neth concerns the I radeſman you mention d:
up- Nauppoſe ſuch a one to have but a Employ
of a the World, but by becoming Religious, he
ea Inay mend his Market, perhaps get a rich
has Mite, or more and far better Cuſtomers to his
yet op; for my Part, I ſee no Reaſon but this
ing Inay be lawfully done. For br. f
1. To- become Religious is a Virtue, (by
what Means ſoever a Man becomes ſo. + A
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. "The Pilgrim” ; ; Paogreſs.
2, Nor i is it unlawful. to es rich Wife,
or more Cuſtom to my Sho
3. Beſides, the Man that gets theſe by be-
coming Religious, gets that which is good of
them that ate good, by becomin es Ea nine
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Fan to become Religious, to get all theſe, is
good, and a prof phos,
This Geer thus made this Mr. Me-
By-end: Quettion, was high-
uded upon the whole, That it was mol
bf 9 and advantageous. And because
as they thought, No Man was able to con-
tradick N, 1 becauſe Chriſtian and Hepęful
were yet witliin Call, they jointly agreed to
aſſault them with this Queſtion. as. ſoon ai
they overtook. them, and the rather becauſe
they had oppoſed Mr. By-end: before. 80
they cl after them, and they ſtopt and
ſtood ſtill till they came up to them; but they
concluded as they went, t that not Mr. By enai,
but Old Mr. Hold. vbe- Mori ſhould Hopognd
the Queſtion to them, becauſe, as they ſup-
poſed, their Anſwer to them would be with
the Remainder of that Heat that was kindled
8 My By ends and them at their part-
ing a little before.
So they came up to each other, and after a
- ſhort. Salutation, Mr. Hold-1h+-World pro-
| ods the on to Chriſtian and his
Fellow, and them to anſwer it if they
could.
br. Then faid Chriſtian, Even a Babe
in e * anſwer Ten Tbonfand duch
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them to come at them, but by
to their Companions,
Chriſt for L
more. 4 it.
Rigs
Heabens
yes, as It i, John vi. how much
Fr to gs 'stk kitn wo
d Nor do we 1 any other k Wan
paige, this © . ee 2
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had a Mind to the Daughters and * of
Faceby and ſaw that there w ay for
2 12 Wy Cir»
cume
{ every Por us be Circumciſed as they are
rcumciſed, Gall not their Caitle and their
Subſtance, and every Beat of theirs be durs 2 ©
Their Daughters and their Cattle were that
which the oY A vght to obtain, and their Reli-
1ng- |
gion the -horſe they made uſe of tb
come at them.. Read the whole Story, Gan. 5
xxiv. 20 23, 23 3. |
[hs The if Iypocritieal Phariſtes d were alſo of
this Religion: Long Prayers were their Pre-
tence, and greater nation was heit Judg-
this Reli-
g. that he
ment from God, Lute xx. 46, 47.
3. Judas the Dex! * alſo ar
gion; he was religious for the
might be poſſeſſed of what was 8 2 wE, but
he was lot, a Caſt- away, and the er Son =
Pefdition. .
4. Simon the Witeh was "of thi ; Keßgion
too; he. would have had the Holy Gholt,
that he might bave got Money therewith, |
and this 7 Roc trom Peter's Mouth was ac-
cardingly,- 42s Aix. 20, 21, 22.
8. 2 wül k out. of my Mind, but
tnat the Man that takes up Religion ON
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Queſtions, For if it be unlawful to 9
Hy pocrites, Devil, and Witches
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_—_ the World, will throw. away Religion for the
Wt World; for fo ſurely as Judas deſigned the
* WMorld in becoming religious, ſo ferely did be
ell Religion and his Maſter for the fame To
anſwer the Queſtion therefore affirmatively, as
I perceive you have done, and to necept of,
as authentick, ſuch Anſwer, is both Heathen-
iſh, Hypocritical, and Devilih; and 'your
Reward, will be according to your Works.
Then they ſtood ſtaring one upon another, but
had not whetewith to anſwer Chriſias "Hopr-
ful alſo approved of the Soundneſs of Chri-
nian, s Anſwer, fo there was a great Silence
among them. Mr. By-exd: and his Company
allo ſtaggered and kept behind, that Chriftian
and Hopeful might out po them. Then ſaid
- Chriſtian to his Fellow, If theſe Men cannot
ſtand before the Sentence of Men, What will
they do with the Sentence of God? And if
rebuked by the Flames of a devouring Fire ?
Then Chriftian and Hopeful out-went them
t bat Pil. 6 |
grims hade Plain called Eaſe, where they met with much
' this Life. they were quickly got over it. Now on the
| Lucre farther Side of the Plain was a little * Hill,
Hill, 2 called Lucze, and in that Hill a Si/ver-Mine,
N N which ſome of them that had formerly gone
Hill. that Way, becauſe of the Rarity of it, had
turned alide to ſee ; but going too near the
Brim of the Pit, the Ground being deceitfu!
under them, broke, and the) were killed:
ſome alſo have been jamed there, and could
not to their Dying day, be their own Men
again.
2 Then
they are mute when dealt with by Veſſels of F
Clay, what will they do when they ſhall be
again, and went till they came at a delicate
Is little in Content; but that Plain was but narrow, fo f
Che-Pilgrim's:P2ogzeſs. 13
Then I ſa ia my Dream; That a little off
the Road over- 20 the Si/ver- Mine, Rood
* Dimas (Gentleman lie) to call Paſſengers Demas
to come and ſee ; Who ſaid ta Chriſtian and at the Hill
his Fellow, 1 Ho! — aſide Ne, and Lucre.
| wy: ſhew y
What a ſo deſerving as. to tunChriſtian
us _— of the Way ta ſee it? 2 Hope-
Dem Here is a Scluer-Mine, and ſome ful 7 come
digging in it for Treaſure ] if yon will come, ro him.
with a litile Pains you may richly provide
for yourſelves.
Hape. 4 Then ſaid Hopeful, Let's 80 4 f t Hopefal |
rs Not L, ſaid Chriftian; I have heard temphr ts"
of this Place before now, and how many go, Burr
here have been ſlain; and befides, that Trea-Chriſtian
fure is a Snare to thoſe that ſeek. it; for it ho/ds bim
bindereth them in their Pilgrimage. + back,
Then Chrifian called to Demas, laying, Is
not the Place. dangerous ? Hath it not hin- Hol. iv.
jered many in their = In a ſe . 18.
Demas. Not gerous, except to
ole that are — But 4 bluſbed as he
ſpake.
Chr. Then faid Chrifian to Hepefal, teen |
ot ſtir a Step, but ſtill keep on our Way.
Hope. I will warrant you, When By-ends ©
Omes up. if he hath the ſame Invitation N .
e, he will turn in thither to ſe. INE
Chr. No doubt thereof, for: his Prin |
ed him that Way, and a Hundred to
ut he dies there,
Demas. Then Demas called again, Goren,
Nat will you. come over and ſee? | Chriſti-
Chr. Then Chriftian roundly anſwered, an rowſes |
Ving, Demas, | Thou art an Enemy to the vp Demas.
ght Ways of the Lord of this Way. — 2 Tim. iv.
10.
+ He call |
Nr
134 The trums uns.
haſt deen already condemned for thine own 5
ade, by one of his Majeſty's Judges. -
And why ſeekeſt thou to bring us unte the fie
85 Condemnation? Beſides, if we at all turn K
Ka aſide, dur Lord the King wil dertainly bear this
thereof, and will there put us to Shame, when
wack ___ we'ſhould ſtand with Boldneſs before him.
TY » Demas cried again, That he alſo Was one
of their Fraternity; and that if they woul:
Y a lap be alſo himſelf RO with
I Kings v. "Chr. Then bid Chriflian, What ie th
20. Matt. Name? Is it not the ſame een have
vi. 14. called thee?
ch. xxvii Dem. Yes, my Name is Demas, I an
I, 2, 3, 4 80n of Mbrubam. |
5s 6. Chr. I know you; Shae; we pens it
| Grandfather, and Judas your Father, and yo
have trod in their Steps: It is but a Devilil
Prank chat thou uſeſt: Thy Father was hang
cd for a Traytor, and thou deſerveſt no b
ter Reward. Aſſure thyſelf, that when
come to the King, we will tell him of this tn WI.
Behaviour. Thus they went on their Way vete
By this Time 85-824; and his'Companiog fer
3 were come again within Sight; and they I pay
*% „By endedh # rt Beste went over to Demas. Noſl © 7
"FS E into the Pit b e "Sip!
the Brink thereof, or whether they went do vita
8 ds dig, er whether they were fmother'd in i vier
Bottom by the Damps that commonly ari as h
of theſe Things, I am not certain, but i do
2 4 obſerved, that they were never ſeen ag bee:
in the Way. Then {ang e thof
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57 ends and Silver Demas did warts, am
"0s calls, he other runs, that he may 6 Wit
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FS . - oe re” dn nd
ths afigelird 4 pi onzets;
A Shartr in bis Lucte, fo thi/e do
© Tak? up in this World, ond " farther ' nM
34 4 9 9
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this Plain, the Pi
flood an bd Monument hard
fide; er the Sight of Which they were both
concerned, becauſe of the Strangenęſs of the
had been a Woman trans formed into the Shape
of 1 k Pillar; here „Ie ſtood looking,
0 king upon it, but could not for à Time
H:peful eſpied written upon the Head thereof,
4 Wlttdg; in an unufu
no Scholar, Called to Ciriftian for he
ing; ſo he came. and
the Letters together, he found the ſamè tõ be
this, Remember Lot' Wife: © So he read it to
His Feltow; after which they concluded that
Fofm thereof, for it ſeemed to them as if it
Wat they mould make thereof; at lat
Hand; but he Seng
leiruet) to ſee if he could pick out che Mean-
tera little laying'of
fer dafeiy.
that Was the Pillar of Salt into which Lot's
Wiſe was turned for fooking back with, a 5
going from Sad; Gen. xix.
vetous Heart, when the was
Which ſudden and amazing Sight
gave itn Octaſiqn for this Diſcourke ; -
Chr.” Ah, my Brother, this is a nile
"Sight; it chne opportanely tous after che ſu·
vitation which Demgs gave us to come over to
view the Hill Luce; and had we. gone dver
23 he deſired us, and N thdu wait inclined to
do (my Brother) we had,” for ought 1 know;
been made like this Woman, a Spectacle fr
thoſe that ſhall come after to beheld.
Hope. Fam forry that I was ſo footih, an
am made to wonder that Tam Hot owls Lars
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it Arb ethat,, their. Hearts are grown: deſ-
"Perate; in that C: e ; and I cannot tell who
| 0 2mpare them. to ſo;ficly, as to them that
| "Packets. in- the an wg of the Judge,
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are they that. ſhall fig; in the Sight, yea, ard | =
that 100 in deſpite. of ſuch Examples, dt Ii
are. ſet. c bowl. before them, to, captign . | Wn
them to t trary, muſt be Par ers.
the ſeveral Jud; Nad * N * .
Hope. Dpubtleſs thay hat, ſaid the T =
but what a Mercy 3 is it, that neither thou, be |
eſpecially .I, am not made myſelf this Exam- | ' BY
ple. 7 miniltrethOcea on to us to'thank 1 *
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pleaſant en to r 1—
tits: Beßdes, on the Bi $ 5 this r, |
on either Side were 434 rees for All man- Trees ty | | ll
ner of Fruit, and the 1 eaves they do eat to 1% River. |
prevent Surfeits, and other Diſeaſes chat are The Fruit |
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A Mea- was alſo a Meadow curiouſly beautified with
dow in Lilies; and it was g all the Year long.
ewhich they In this Meadow they laid down and Rept; for
ließ. here they might lie down ſafely.” Then they
„ Pfal. xxiii. N Again of the Fruits of the Tees, and
Ila. xiv. i 3. drank again of the Water of the River, they
. then laid down. again r Boy they did
ſeveral Dajs and Nixe: | den they lang:
\ Behold je boo theſe Cryſtal Sum do glide,
| Jo comfort . op the e , ©
The Meadows grien, beſides, the Hgrunt Sme!!
| Yields Daintics for them: And Bt that cùn rel
What pleaſaul Friiits; yea, Leavei, theſe Tre
F uh Fa: eg}
Bll foon fell all, that z; may buy this Field.
80 e Ver diſpoſed to go on (fo
they were not as 505 at their Journey's End
they eat and dra, and departed, * *
Now T beheld in my Dream, that they bac
o val 71m journey d, faf, before the River àhd the
e for e peel. 1. en tidy ver
+ Num. Xi; not a little ſorry, yet they durſt nqt go out of
the Way: Nowthe Way. from the River was
rough, and their Feet tender by realon of the
Travels: So the Souls of the Pilgrims were
much diſcouraged becauſe of the Way; where
fore ſtill as they went on, they withed for bet
ter Way, Now, a little before them, thera:
Was on the Left hand of the Road a Meadow
By-Path- aud a Stile to go over into it, and that Mea
Meadow. dow is called-By- Path, Meaunau. Then aid
OreTemp- Chriſizan to his Feliov, If this Meadow liet
tatim along by our Way-ſide, let's g5 over jato it
makes Way Then he went to the Stile to ſee; amt behold
forancther, a Path lay along the Way on the other Side off
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Tis according to my Wiſh, ſaid Chriſti n, |
cre is the eaſieſt going; come, good Hope/ul,
d Jet u go over. F
Hope... Rut bow if this Path ſhouid-lead us
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„d Chr. That's not like, ſaid the other; look, Strong
. h it not go along by the Way-fide ? So Chriſtians
2 ieſul being perſuaded by bis Fellow, went may lead
1, iter him over the Stile. When they were wveat Ones
one over, and had got into the Path, they out of the
„end it yer; eaſy for tbeir Feet; and with- Hay.
ell they looking before them, eſpied a Man
Talking as they did (and his Name was Vain-
© {W-rfidence) fo they called after him, and asked
„ Win, Whither that Way led? He faid, To.
Nie Cœleſtial Gate: Look, ſaid. Chriflian, Cee ae bat
(focftid I not tell you ſo? So by this you may 7 7s 7
Ende we are right ; So they followed, and he ſuddenly
ent before them. But behold the Night #9 Tall in
2%e on, and it grew very dark, ſo that one ut;
cent b | vtrangers.,
ge therefore that went before (Pair Corf Iſa ix. 16.
ce by Name) not ſreing the Way befure A Pit to
Jim, fell into a deep Pic, the which was on ce the WA
urpoſe there mide by the Prince of thoſe Vain glos
rounds, to catch vain-glorious. Fools withal, Tous 3,
\ere$2d was daſhed to Pieces with his Fall. |
bet. Now Chriftian and his Feelow heard him
herd! So they called to know the Matter, but
toy Were was none to anſwer, only they i.eard a SI
ea oaning. Then ſaid Hopeful, Where arg: Reaſoning
fade now ? Theo was his Fellox filent, as he,
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| Then Hiprful 'groumed in-kimielt; laying,
Ohl that Thad kept on my Way. :
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Path would have led us out of che Way? bad,
Hape. I was afraid on't at the very fir, pore,
and therefore gave you that gentle Caution,
I would have ſpoken plainer, bat ybd are
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Chriſtian', Chr Good Brother, be not offended, I am
Repentunce ſorty I have brought thee cut of the Way
for lea ing and that I have put thee into ſuch imminent
bis Brother Danger ; pray, my Brother, forgive me; [
of the did not do it with any evil Intent.
/ Way. © Hepe. Be-'comforted, my Brother, for [ Chrt
1 forgive thee, and beheve too, that this ſhall then
be for good. ; G them
Cybr. I am glad I have met with a merciful us
Brother: But we muft not ſtand thus; let"
try to go back again. e
a Hope. But good Brother. let me go befote
Cr. No; if you pleaſe, let me go firſt
that if the:e be any Danger, I may be ft
therein; becauſe, by my Means, we are both
gone out of the Way
»* _ Hope No, faid Hopeful. thou ſhalt not oc
firſt; for your Mind being troubled, may Can
lead you out of the Way agaio. Then for Putt
their Encourageinent they heard the Voice of Seon
Jer. iii. 2. one, ſaying, Let thine Heart le towards 1
Haba; even the Way that thou aventt r!
e agcin. But by this Time the Waterslf Bit ©
were greatly riſen, by reaſon of which the} er 2
They are Way of going back was very dangerous „
in Danger Then I thought that 7 i5;cafier te go ont of th r fr
of Drown- Way when wwe are in, than going in when act
Mg as they are out. Vet they ventured to go back, but\ cauſe
se back was ſo dark, and the Flood was fo high, thay] Nat
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g. The Pflgetm's/Biogtels. 141
ying, Jin their going back they had like co have been
drowned nine or ten Times.
t thief Neither could they with all the Skill they _
bad, get again to the Stile that Night. Where
* firt I bre, at last, lighting under a little Shelter.
nion. Ithey ſat down there till the Day- break: But
Y aro being weary they fell aſleep, Now thete Was They ſleep
| not far. from the Place where they lay, aim the
Tam] Caſtle, called Daubting-Cafile, the Owner Ground of
Way | hereof was Giant Deſpair, and it was in his Giant
inent l Grounds they were no ſleeping; Wherefore Deſpair.
e; [Fe getting up in the Morning early, ane
walking up and down. the Fields, caught
for I Criftian and Hopeful aſleep in his Grounds;
chen with a grim and ſurly Vice, he bid |
them awake, and asked them, Whence they H. d
cifull were, and what they did in his Grounds ? Ven in 57
ler hey told him they were Pilgrims, and that Ground,
they had loſt their Way. Ihen ſaid the Gi- a carliet
fore. ant, You have this Night treſpaſſed on me, by hen to
irſt Ntrampling in, and lying upon my Ground, Doybting-
firſtl and therefore you mutt go along with me. 80 Caſtle.
both] they were forced to go, P he was ſtrong-
er than they, I hey alſo had but little to ſay,
for they knew themſelves in a Fault. the
Giant therefore drove them before him, and |
J put them into His Caftle, in a very dark Dun- Te-
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and underſtanding that the / were yet alive; + ut
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away with themſelves : So when the Morting.. © 04 an
was come, he comes to them in a. very ur? '-
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Now the 2 Deſpair had a Wife, and
her Name was Difidence ; ſo when he was
gone to Bed, he told his Wife what he had
done,, to wit, That he had taken a Couple of
Priſoners, and caſt them iuto his Dungeon, for
reſpaſſing on his Grounds. * Ihen be asked
ber alſn, what be had beſt to do further to
them. So ſhe asked. What they were, whence 2
they came, and whither they were bound ?
And he told ber. Then ſhe counſelled him,
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bim rever a Word of. Uiſtaſte ; N. a he Or Thaorf-
fell upon them, and beat them fearfilty, in da Giant
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themlelyes, or turn them upon the Floor. beats bis .
This done, be withdraws, and leaves them Priſoners.
there to condole their Miſery, and to mourngmn˖g - +
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0 Friday either with Knife, Halter, or Poiſon : For
Giant De- why, ſaid he, ſhould you chuſe Life, ſeeing
ſpair coun-it is attended with ſo much Bitterge's ? But
ſelt than to they defired him to let them go; with that
fill ben he-looked ugly upon them, and ruſhing to
ſeloet.
thein, had doubtleſs made an End of them
Je Gi- himſelf, but that he fell into one of his “ Fits
ant ſome- (for he ſometimes in Sun-ſhiny Weather fell
times has into Fits) and loſt for a ime the Uſe of his
Hands; wherefore he withdreve and left
them, as before, to conlider what to da.
8 Then did the Priſoners conſult between them-
ſelves, whether twas beſt to take his Counſel
or no ze and thus they began to diſcourſe :
Chriſtian Chr. Brother, ſaid-Chriftian, what ball we
begins to do? Ibe Life that we now live is miſerable!
a/pair. For my Part, I know not whether tis Leſt to
＋ Job ill Jive thus, or die out of Hand. + 19 u
15. chuſeth Strangling rather than Life, aud the
Grave is mar: eaſy to ine than is this Dungeon!
Shall we be ruled by the Gian: ?
Hoe. Indeed our preſent Condition is dread-
ful, and Peath would be far more welcome
to me than thus for ever to abide : But yet let
us cunfider, the Lord of the Country to Which
we are going, hath faid, Thou ſbalt do no
ur der, no, not to another Man's Perſon ;
much more then are we forbidden to take
_ © this Couaſel to kill ourſelves. Beſides,” he
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upon his Body: But for one to kill himſelf,
| Sto kill Bod) and Soul st och. Add more-
over, my Brother, thou talkeſt of Eaſe in the
Grave, but thou halt forgotten the Hell,
. __ Whither for certain the Murderers go For
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And let us confider again, That all the * *
1s Law is not in the Hands of Giant Dear
ut Others, ſo far as I can underſtand, have ben
at taken by him as well as we; and yet have
to elcaped out of his Hauds. Who knows, bat
m i God that made the Wofld, may cauſe that
its Giant 4 646-7 Gre or that at ſome Time
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eſt Fits before us, and may loſe the Uſe of his 4 ql”
o. I Limbs? And if ever that ſhould come to paſs —_
i- again, for my Part, I am reſolved. to pluck 9 | *
el ap the Heart of a Mau, and to try my ut- +4
moſt to get from under his Hands, I was a .
e Fool that I did not try to do it before, but BY
| however, my- Brother, let's be content, and — fl }
to F endure a While; the Time may come that _
4 may give us a Releaſe ; But let us not be our _—
be | own Murderers, Wich theſe Words Hepefi/ A #
at preſent did moderate the Mind of his Bro- CK
ther ; ſa they continued together {in the Dark) _ =
1. chat Pay, in a ſad and doleful Condition. 8
f- Well, towards the Eyenipg the Giant goes = 1 |
et down into the Dungeon àgsin, to fee if bis .
n Priſopers Had taken his Counſel; but when he © 1
„ came there he found them alive, and truly. _ 9
Alive was all For now, what for Want of | 1
* Bread and Water. and by reaſon of the Wounds | *
e beg received when he beat them, they. could * ol
do little but breathe ; but I f. he ſound. them
, | alive; at which he fell into a grievous Rage, . ** al
- || and told them, That ſceing they had diſ- bl
obeyed his Counſel, it ſhould be worle with | .
chem than if they had never been born. 1
At th's they both tremble d, greatly, and IF = jo 8
" think chat Chri/lian fell into a Swoon ;.but , _— þl
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need their Diſcourſe about the Giant's Coun-
| ſel; and whether. yet they had beſt take it or
* Chriti- no; Now. Chri/tian again ſeemed to be f. r
an till de- doing it, but Ropefu/ made this ſecond Reply
acted, © * as foloweth : 2 <8
+ Ropeſul Hoge. + My Brother, ſaid he, femembereſt
: comforts ou now valiant thou haſt been beretofore ?
him again Apall;on could not cruſh, thee, nor could all
Hy caiijug tuat thou diet bear or ſee, or feel in the Val.
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*ears? Thou ſeeſt that J am- in the Dungeon
with thee; a far weaker Man þy Nature than
thou art: Alſo, the Giant has wcurided'ime as
well as thee ; and hath alſo cur of the Bread
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and Water from my Moth, and that I movrn'
withoät the Lipl.t': But let us exerciſe a litile
more Patience. Remember how thou playd'ſt
the Man at Fanity Fair, and was neither afraid
af the Chain or Cage; not yer of bloody
Death: Wherefor let us (at feaſt avoid tbe
Sdame that becomes not a Chriſtian io be found
in) bear up With Patience as well as we can,
Now Night being come again, and the
Giant and bis Wife bejag a bed, ſte asked
Bim coneerhing the Priſoners, and if they
- , had taken his Counſe? > T's which be replied,
The» are flurdy Rogues, they chuſe rather to
dear al Hardſhips. than to mike away with
themſelves. Then faid ſhe, Take them into
' ©. the Caft'e. Yard To morrow, and ſhe them
, © _ " the Bones and Skulls of thoſe that thou haſt
____abead»y. diipatcked, and make them believe
e'era Week comes to an Erd, thou alſo wilt
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So hen the Morning was come, the Giant
gocs to them again, aud takes them into tne _.
Caſtie-Yard, and ſhews the i as his Wiſe had
bidden him. Theſe, ſaid he, were Pilgrims,
as j Ou were once, and t..cy ueſpaſſed on my
Grounds, as you, have cone, and when {1
thought fit,” | | |
within a few. Days I will do you; get you day hb
dowrfato your, Den agli: And with that Gant
he beat them all the Way thither, They lay :breatned
therefore all Day on Saturday in a lamentable hem chat
Caſe, as before. Now when Night was come, Gortly be
and when Mrs. D:ifidence and her Husband, word pu
e Giant, were got to Bed, they began 10 chen in
tens v tlleir Diſcourſe of their Priſcne;s 3 and Pieces.
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withal the Giant wondered that he could nei-
ther by his Blows, nor Counſel, bring them
to an End: And with that bis Wife replied,
I fear, ſaid; ihe, that they ve in Hopes that
ſome will come to relieve them, or that they
bave Pick-Jocks about them, by the Means of
which they hope to eſcape. And fay'it thou
ſo, my Dear, ſaid the Giant, I will therefore
{earch them in the Murning
| Well, on Saturday about Midnight they
Le.an © pray, and continued in Prayer dil
almoſt Break of Day. .
Chriftian, as one half amazcd, | broke out in Chrif in-
dis paſſionate Speech: What a Fool, quoth Bo/om call- |
he, am I thus to live in a flinking Dungeon, edPromile,
when I may as well walk at Liberty! 1 have opens any |
a Key. in my Boſom, called-Promife, that will, Lock in
| am perſuaded, open am Lock in Doubting- Troubting-
Cofile,” Then faid Hopeful, That's N News, Caſtle.
ro Re, then pluck it out of thy Boſlom, -
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Then Chriftian pulled it out of his Boſom,
and began to try at the Dungeon - Dor, whoſe
Bolt (as he turned to the Key) gave back, and
the Door flew open with Eaſe, and Chriſtian
and Hoeſul both came out, T ben he went to
the outward Door, that leads into the Caſtle-
Yard and witk his Key opened that Door
alſo. After he went to the Iron Gate, for
that muſt be opened too, but that eg, went
very hard, yet the Key did open it: Then
2 chruſt open the Gate to make their
Eſcape with Speed; but that Gate as it open-
ed, 8 ſuch a Creeking, that it awaked
Giant Deſpair, who baſtily riſing to purſue
his Priſoners, felt his Limbs to fail, for his
Fits took him again, ſo that they went on; and
came to the King's Highway, and fo were
fate, becauſe they were out of his Juriſdiftion,
Now, when they were gone over the Stile,
they began to contrive with themſelves, what
they ſhould do at the Stile to prevent thoſe
that ſhould! come after,” from ſalling into the
Hands of Glant Deſpair. So the conſented
4 pillar to ereftthere-* a Pillar, and to, engraye upon
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the Side thereof this Sentence, Over this Stile
Giant Deſpair, a deſpiſeth the King of tht
Fr | nit yer" to 4% tþ boly
Pilsrims. Many therefore that followed after,
Fe what was written, and eſcaped. the Dan-
This done, they ſang 4s alen 3s
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The Pilgrim's Pidgrtts. 149
Then they went till they, came to the De- The D..
|-2able Mountains, which Mountains belong /-4able !?!
to the Lord of the Hill, of which we have Mountaiuu.
ſroken before; ſo they went up to the Moun- þ
tains, to behold the Gardens and Orchards, |
the Vineyards, the Fountains of Water, where
alſo they drank and waſhed themſelves, and 7
did reely eat of the Vineyards. Now there rere 2
was on the Tops of theſe Mountains Shey- the Moun-
herds feeding their Flocks, and they ſtood 4
by the Fighway-fide. , The Pilgrims there:
fore went to. them, and leaning upon their ©
Staves (as it is common with weary Pilgrims
when they Rand to talk with any in the Way)
they asked, Whoſe Drlectable Mountains are They talk
theſe ? And whoſe be the Shecp that feed with the
upon them? Por tet |
Sbep. The Modataio: are Emanuel's Land,”
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Ar. Is this ae Way ee the Corel, oe: be: |
City? . |
Sbep. You! are jaſt in the Way.” * oh
Chr, How far is it thither 7 * :
Sbep., Joo far for any but thoſe this ben
get thither' indeed. 2
Cbr. bs the Way ſafe or dangerous, *
Shep- Safe ſor thoſe to whom it is'to le |
lafe,” but 1 ranſgreſſors ſhall fal} thetein. .
G Is chere in this Place any Relief ee;
puer s that are weary und Ar i
ay? .
Shep. The 'kord of theſe SOFA bath
given us Charge, not to be forgetful to en- Hed. |
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Mountains delectable, they nom aſcend,
Where Shepherds be. which to em do commend
Ahlaring Taings, and Things that Cautions, are.
Pilgrims are fleady kept, by Faith and Fear.
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Law, alſo in 925 Dream, That when the i i#
Shepherds: perceived that they were Way- 1
farin? Men, they alſo put Queſtions to them,
0 which, they 2 Anfwer as in. other
Places), as, HERES COMP hop? And, How -
got you into th e W 75 And „By what Means |
have you ſevere: chere For but few of
them that begin to come hither, do ſhew their
Faces'on this Mountain. But when the Shep- Shepherds (
herds heard. their 5 being pleaſed. welcome
therewith, they” looked very 5 50 upon hem.
them, and ſai Welcome to the Delectable |
Mountains.
The eros, lay, whoſe Names were Shepherds
Krogbled e, Experiente, Watchful, and Sincere, Names.
took them by the Hand, and bad them to =
their Tents, 6h; made them partake of hat
which was ready at preſent They faid, mor- 8
over, We would that you ſhould ſtay. here a.
while to be acquainted with us, and yet more |
to ſolace 3 ourſelves with the Good-of theſe
Delefable Meoun ains.
Then they told them, that thes were con-
tent to ſtay ; ſo they went to their Reſt that
Night, becauſe it was very Jate. ner 85 *
{hen I aw in my Dream, That in the ä
Morning: the Shepherds called up Chrifian
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and ' Hopeful. 2 walk wich them upon tze ©: ll
M. untains: So they went forth with them. _
ard walked awhile, having a pleaſant Proſpect 2 i
oa eyery Side. Then ſail the Shepherdaone. =
to another, Shall we ſhew theſe Pilgrinis. ſome = =_—_
Wonders? So when they kad concluded * They |
to do it, they had them firſt. to the Top of are fbewn
an Hill called Error, which was very, ffeep Wonders. |
on the furtheſt Side, and they bid them look The Men-
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Pobked dbwn, and'faw at the Bottoin ſeveral
Men dathed all to Pieces by a'Fall that they
5 Had from the Pop. Then ſaid Chriſtian,
What meaneth this? The Shepherds anſwer:
ed, Have you not heard of them chat were
_ * Tim. ii made to err by hearkening to“ Hymentits and
of
- ..+_ -» ſurretion of the Body; They anfivered; Yes,
._ Then faid the Shepherds, Thoſe that'you ſee
lie dafhed'to' Piecer at the Bottom of this
Mountain, are they ; and they Rave conti-
ned to this Day unburied as you Tee, for Ex-
ample to others, to take heed how they clam-
ber too High, or hv they come too near the
Brink of this Mountain.
„Ther Ffaw that they had them tb the Top
Hof another Mountain, and the Name of that
1 Mount is + Cation, and. then bid them lock afar
tion. off; which when they did, ther perteived.
as they. thought, ſeveral Men walking up and
down among the Tombs that were there, and
they perceived, that the Men were blind, be ·
cauſe they ſtumbled ſometimes upon the
Tombs, and becauſe they cauld not get out
from among them. Then ſaid Chriſtian,
What means this ? TEN DE, 52 |
The Shepherds then anſwered; Did you
not ſee a little below theſe Mountains, à Stile
that leads into a Meadow on the Left hand
of this Way? They anſwered; Yes. Then
ſaid the Shepherds, From that Stile there
goes a Path that leads directly to Doub7/irg-
Cale, which is kept by one Giant De-
_ ſpair, and thoſe Men (pointing to them
among the Tombs) came once on Pilgri-
mage as you do now, even till they came
do that ſame Stile. And ' becauſe the right
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eral ¶ Way ſermell to be f6 rang in thut face the |
they I choſe to go out of it into that Meadow," and
lan, ¶ there werd taken by Giant Dfair, and caſt
ver. into Doub:ing-Ca/Ne 5 where aftor they had a
vere ¶ while been kept in che Dungeon, ke at laſt
and I did put out their Eyes, and led them among
Re- IN thoſe Tombs where he had left them to wan-
Yes, ¶ der to this very Day: that che Sayibg of the + -
ſee Y Wiſe Man mighe Oe fulfilled, - He ln , Prov. i.
this I veer out of tbe Way of | Underfibdding, Halli 16.
ati- remain ia the Congregation of the Dead: Then
E- Chriftan and Hf looked one upon ano-
im: ther, with Tegrs guſhing out; bur yet faid +
the nothing to the Shepherds s?
Then I ſaw/ in my Dream, that the Shep-
OP I herds had them to anotiier Place in the Bot-
hat tom, where was a Door in the Side of a Hill,
far and they opened the Door, and bid them look
ed. in: They lobked therefore, and ſaw/ that
d within' it was very dark and ſmoaky; they
nd alfo thought — heard there a rumbliing
e || Noiſe as of Fire, and a 1 4 ſome torment-·
he ed. and that they ſmelt the Scent of Brim-
ut} fone. Then ſaid:Chriftiany What means this? :
*The Shepherds told them, This is a Zy-way A By. way
| to Hell, a Way that Hypocrites go in at 37. Hell.
oF namely, ſuch as fell their Birth right with.
le E/au ; ſuch as ſell their Maſter with Jada,
nd ſuch as blaſpeme the Goſpel with Altæander;
en and that lie and diſſemble with Ananias and
re Saphire his Wie.
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F hen ſaid Hepefud, I. perceive that theſe | 85 11 5
bad on them, even every one a Snew of Fil.
m grimage as we have ; had they not?:
Sb. Yea; and held it a long Time too gy)
ne Hope How fan might they go on Pilgrimage
ht in their Days, ſince they notwichfanting
were thus miſerably caſt away? Sbep.
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' Shep: Same farther, and ſome not ſo far
4 the Mountains. IIS
Then ſaid the Pilgrims one to andther, We
have heed. to ery to the Strong for Strength.
.Shep Aye, and you will Dave need to uſe
it, = you-have it too.
* this Time the Pilgrims had a Defire to
rwards, and the Shepherds a Defire they
+ ſhould z 40 they walked together towards the
End of the Mountains. [Then faid the Sbep-
herds one to another, Lec us here ſhew. the
Pilgrims the Gates of the 'Catleſtial City, if
®* The Shep- they have Skill ta 1o»k through our?“ Per-
Berdi Per- ſpedlire. Glaſs The Pilgrims then lovingly
ſpective- accepted the Motion: So they had them to
Glas the Top of an high Hill, called + Clear, and
+ The Hill gave how a Gl ts: look.” ©
Clear. Then they tried to look, but the Remem-
bratice-of the laſt T hing that the Shepherds
had ſhewed them, made their Hands ſhake ;
I The Fruitr by means of which Impediment, they could
+. Cf ſervile not look feadil; thro the Glaſs, yet thought
Fear. ther ſaw ſomething like the Gate, and alſo
ſome of the Glory of the Place: Ihen **
went away, and ſung this Song:
Thus by the Shepherds Secrets are reveal'd,
Mich from all other Men are kept tonceaÞ d.
Come te the Shepher1s then, if you will ſee
Things deep, Things hid,an/that myſterious be,
When they were about to depart,, one of
the Shepherds gave them a Note of the Way,
Another of them bid them, Begvare F ibe
. A twofold Flatterer. The Third bid them, Take bred
| _ Caution. that they ſlept not upon the Inchanted G Poe
And the Fourth bid them, God-/peed,
awoke from Dream. /
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the ſame two Pilgrims going down the Moan-
tains along the Highway towards the Cutz,
and his: Name was Ignor an Jo. Chriſtian trance.
asked him, From: what Part he came, and
whither he was going? e iN 20
lieck off there. Jittle on the Leſt hand, ant. |
U the Ocęloſtial Count). -
q As other good People do, fajd he. rance have
- -Chr, But thou cameſt got in at the Wicket- Hope.
| cameſt in hither through that ſame crooked
'Lanep and -thirefbre; I: fear, however thou
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The Pilgrim's Pzagtets.” 155
And I ſlept, and dreamed ngain, and ſaw
Now a little below the Mountains on theLett- _
Hand lieth the Cduntry of Cenmit, from The Coun-
which Country cqmes therein to che Wayrin e Con- |
which the Pilgrims walked, à listhe: crooked ceit, ou: of
Lane: Here therefore they met with a very which 5
brisk Lad, that came out of that Country, came Igno-
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thow do you think to get; in at, the Chriſzan
Gate, for you may ſind ſome Difficulties.there? and Igno-
b. But what haye you to ſhew at he Gate, /ome Talk.
that may cauſe that Gate to be open d to you? + _
In. 1know-mg' Lord's Will, and haye been The
a good Liver I pax every Man.his.own.zyI Ground of
pray, faſt, pay Tiches, and give Alms, and Igno-
have leftimy Country for whither I am going · rance's
Gate; that is at the Head of this Way ; thou
mayeſt think of thyſelf, when the Reckoning
Day ſfiall come, thou, wilt have laid to thy
Charge. that thou art a Thief and a Robber,
inſtead of getting A dmittancę into the Ci.
| ſen. Gentlemen, ';Ye be utter Strangers 40 He telli
me, I now yon not: Pe content t9-ipllaw. eqery one
the Religion of ypur; Country, and I will fol- 5e il but a
low'the Religion of mine: I hope all will be F.
well. Aud as| fox the Gate that you = Irs
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ass CThbypndigrim's Wedgzeſs,”
_ off MttheiWotldaknows that it is great
F | our-Country -;” I tannot think that
SA it all our Parts did foimuch as know
ae it; nor iced they matter whether
** dd er no; fino wr have as you Hee; a
Re, fine pleahnt green Lanes that comes down nig
0 _ fromvbarCountry the nent Maylinto the Way.
580 ehen 2 that the Man was wile
dt hn Cönceit, be ſaid to Haperd -whil.
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or R Add ſaid mnojecver;' When he that Pack
: Tan is 4 Fool wallerh by nb Ways his n ſum
54 11, an hb fs-every ont, that he
. . Feel What; fall we walle-fartber:with
8 him, or. 6ut-go him ut pteſent und ſo leay
im to think on Wliatche diath ' already,ſbouts
1>f 4 wr N again for dimm taftermands, and atth,
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£24001. S1ust; os fguor ds nodiid. at om Bþ
v0 Ele; He further added y dt is not good,
"think; to ſay 10 Hm Ul stone; let us pal
Vic by, if yok Wil, and tale 10 him anon]
even Abe is Able to bear it, i 587
co Mag xii -** $0 *they Both went ng and orance be:
Uebine' Aſter. Now when "they - «Paſlec ey C
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22. dark Lane, where they met a Man chan 7 .
en ee Devils had bound with” ſeven fironſfad t
Lodz, and 'v were cartying him back 2 — ud F
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her PPevils led away the Man, Chriftias |
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ban II loaked. after ar im, And. epd
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id Cara/tien; to his; Fellow. No 1 call to celleth bis
emengbrange that which, has ld me, of & Companion
bouts, The Name: lady 46 Little
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ed leſt this good Man to mift for himſelf 1
0 : oe Setting up, md ſhift to ſeramble en lu dee
| n e This Was che. Story. zee Jou
Os " His Bur did th "Ie from him's Veh .
D 1 ev er he Had 20 em ner for
»Little- Car: No + The hee whore: his: = edo
Faith % were, they never raa(Mkody 15 thoſe he ke Th
wt bis bet ſtill. But as LW tefal ans good Man wil |}
| Things. Huch afflicte for Fis Loſb. for the Thier but
mot of his 8 ding r money. That whi 0
1 Pet. ns ey got not, as 'faf@ were his Jewels; ; al itn
18. «HE had a little odd Money; but ſcarce enough} uſet
a s bring him to bie Journey's End hay, and
Tam got mifim formed) be was forced tô bY 2 y
Little, "ar he went,” to keep Yimſelf al, ve) for i He:
Fah for- Jewels he might not ſell) but beg, and & the
ed to bay What he could, be went, as we fay, wiel ang
% — 1 Feng. the moſt Part of the relt tool
Fourn "190 ', OA8. 08.7 he X
28 But i is it not a Wonder. the ht wh
ha hira his Certificate, by nes] be wa
to receive dis Alnſtiance" at oy 'Coieli of»
Gate? l 4 17 — 7; | 5 7
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| The anten P:ogzets, * 5
Chr. Tis a Wonder; but they got ant He * nf
that, tho' they miſs'd it not throu 71 not his
Cunning of his, for he being di 5 h*
their coming upon him, had neither Power i: cu.
nor Skill to hide any thing; ſo it is more by Cumming. |
good Providence, than by his Endeavour, 2 Tim. i.
that they miſs'd of that good L—_
Hape But it muſt needs be a debe i. 9.
him that they got not his Jewels from him. e
Cbr. It 2 have been a great Comfc
to him, had he uſed it as he ſhonld : ;
they. that told 'me the Story, ſaid, That be
made but little Ufe of it all the reft of the
Way ; and that becauſe of the Difmay that
de had 3 in the taking away his Money: In-
on u deed, he forgot #'great Part of the reſt of his
Journey; "ind belldes, when at any Time it |
V thall came into his Mid, and he be gan to be com-
forted therewirh. then would freſn Thoughts -
of his Loſs come again upon bim, and thoſe
Thoughts wonld ſwallow up all.
Hope Alas, poor Man This could not 1
but be a Grief to him! pitged by.
Chr. Grief! Aye, a Grief indeed: Would 56%.
it not have been ſo to any of us, had we been
uſed 48 he, to be robbed and wounded too, 1
and that in a ſtrange Place, as he was? Tis
2 Wonder he did not die with Grief, pe
Heart, I was told that he ſcatter'd'almoit all
the reſt of the Way with nothing but dolefel
and bitter Complaints. Telling all that'over-
took him, or that he overtook in the Way 4
he went, where he was robbed, and how, and
who they were that did it; and what he lot:
how he was wounded, and that hearty
efcaped with his Life,
ol But tis a . chat his Nee ny”
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ea ba . $6 ppt bim updn fling or pawnſng fone
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+ Jewels, that he might have wherewith-
A, to reſjeve hitaſelf in his Journey.
. Srl
ubs bis "Head is is the Shell to this very Day: For what
Fellow for ſhould he pawn them? or, To whom ſhould
i, he ſell vg ? In all that Country where he
ſpeaking. © Was robbed, his Jewels. were. not agcqunted
of nor did he want the Relief which could
from thence be adminiftred to him. Befides,
had his Jewels, been miſſing 2 the Gate of
the” al City, he had (a d that he knew
Al ough). been excluded. from an Inheri-
tance 4 and that would have been worſe
to him 1 c the Appearance. and Villapy of
"Ten Flo Ugg ſand Thieves.
Heb. xi. He hy art thou ſo tart,. my Brother
36. 7 his Birtb-right,, and that for a Me
' Pottage, and that Birgh-right -was his
9 ae Jewel; and. if he, why might not
Little. Faith do lo too? "Ss
Dic: Chr. "E/au did fell his Birth-right, indeed,
abeut Eſau and yſo do many beſidet, and by ſo doing,
_ and Little- . :themſeives from "the chief Bleſſing
Faith. that Caitiff did; but you muſt put
A Difference betwixt \E/au and Litle- Faith,
209 25 be ixt their Eſtates. £/au's Birth-
je MA: Typical, but Little-Faith s Jewels
ere n Laus Belly was bis God, but
e abs Belly was not ſo. Eſaus Want
22 7 15 Appetite. Little- Faith's did
:Beſides, 725 could ſee no farther
Eau WARS =-_ to * fulfilling his Luſts.; For 1 am at
ruled by the. to die, ſaid he; and. — Good will
bis Luft. 7055 irt h right do me? But Litkle- Faith, tho'
Gen. xxiii. it was his Lot to have but a Little-Faith, Was
» by bis Little Faich kept from ſuch Extrava-
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ne guneies, and made to ſee and prize the Jew-
h- ch monz than to ſell them, as, Eſau did his
Birch age Von read not any where. that
Eſan had Faith, no not fo. much as a little ; Eſau never
therefore no marvel, if where the Fleſh only bag Faith.
bears Sway (as it will in 1 og. where no :
\ Faith is — if be ſells his | Birrb-rright
neee the e,
ah eee .
le in ecafion cane be turned aqvay. Jer. i. 2
Whin their Minds are ſet upon their heir Eads, * af
Far- ce eee but 24 1
« 1 was of anocher Temper, his Mind Lace. 4
apon Things Divide his Lavelyhood was Faith 1 |
\ Things that are Spiritual and Above ; not Len
| == to: what End -hould:he. that is. of on Efau's
ſuch a. Temper, ſell his Jewels (had there Pat: agt.
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7: rote Ones can ſor carnal-Luſt pawn or he Tunis
ing mortgage, or ſell what they have; and e
put ſelves ontright to boot ;. . that have
ith, Faith, Sauing Faiths tho but a little of-it, Pug *
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ant vere Reflection had almoſt made me angry. *
did Cbr. Why, L did but compare :thee to
ther ſome of the Birds that are of the brüsker
n at Sort, who will run to and fro in uutrodden
will - Paths with the Shell upon their Heads: But
tho' — by that, and confider the Matter under
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162 The Þilgrtm's Þ:og:eſs.
Hope. But, Chriſtian, | theſe three Fellows,
I am perſuaded in my Heart, are but a Com-
pany of Cowards, would they have run elſe,
> think you, as they did, at the Noiſe of one
+ Hopeful that was coming on the Road t Why did not
feaggers. Little-Faith — up a greater Heart? He
might, methinks, have ſtood one Bruſh with
them, and have yielded when there had been
NV Great Chr, That they are Cowards; many have
Heart for ſaid, but few have found it ſo in the Time of
Cod when Trial: As for a Great Heart, Lirtle-Faith had
| © there is but none; and T'perceive by thee, ' my Brother,
Little hadſt thou been the Man concern d, thou art
Faith. only for a Braſh, and then to yield. And ve-
' We: have rily, ſince this is the Height of thy Stomach,
more Cou- now they are at a Diſtance from us, ſhould.
rage when they appezr to thee as they did to him, they
out, than might put thee to ſecond Thoughts.
_ avben abe ut conſider again, they are but Journeymen
Arte in. Thieves, they Ko under the King of the
1 7 "Bottomleſs Pit, who if need be; will come to
. their Aid himſelf, and his Voice is as the Roar-
Pfal. 3. 8. % of a Lyon: I myſelf have been- engaged as
_ Chwiſtian this Lit/le-Farth was, and I found it a terrible
tali bis Thing. "Theſe three Villains ſet upon me,
own Exp. and I beginning like a Chriſtian to reſiſt, they
rience in gave a Call, and in came their Maſter; I
#his Caſe. would (as the Saying is) have given my Life
for a Penny; but as God would have it, I
was cloathed with Armour of Proof. Aye,
and yet tho' I was ſo harneſs d, I found it hard
Work to quit myſelf like a Man; no Man
Lan tell + by in that Combat attends us, but
be that hath been in that Battle himſelf. _
Hope. Well, bat they ran as you ſee, when
they did but ſuppoſe that one Grea/-Grace
was in the Way. | Chr.
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and their Matter, when Grear-Grace hath ap-
peared, and no marvel, for he is the King's The King's
Champion : But, I tro', you will put ſome Dif- Champion.
ference between Little-Faith and the King's
Champion / All the King's Subjects are not
his Champions, nor can they when tried, do
ſuch Feats of War as he. Is it meet to think
that a little Child ſhould handle Go/ab as
David did? Or, that there ſhould be the
Strength of an Ox in a Men Some are
ſtrong, ſome are weak ; ſome have great
Faith, ſome have little; this Man was one of
the Weak, and therefore went to the Wall.
Hope. ' I would have been Great - Grace for
Ins Sake. i om; bens
Chr. If it had been he, he might have
had his Hands full; for I muſt tell you, That
though Great-Grace is excellent good at his
Weapons, and has, and can, ſo long as be
keeps them at Sword's Point, do well enough
with them; yet if they get within him, even
Faint. heart, Mifirufl, or the other, it will go
hard, but they will throw up his Heels. And
when a Man is down, you know, what can
he dots, 1 | „1 e 3;
Whoſo looks well upon Great-Grace's Face,
ſhall ſee thoſe Scars and Cuts there, that ſhall
eaſily give Demonſtration of what I ſay.
Yes, once I heard, that he ſhould ſay (and
that when he was in the Combat) He deſpair-
ed even of Life. How did theſe ſturdy Rogues
and their Fellows make David groan, mourn,
and roar? Vea, Haman and Hezetiab too,
Champions in their Days, were forced to be-
ſtir them, when by theſe aſſaulted ; and yet,
notwithſtanding they had their Coats ſoundly
„„ H 3 | bruſhed *
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| 164 ße Pfigttir's widgets
files; they handled him ſo, "that-
. him at laſt aſraid of a ſorry Girl.
26 js never out of Henring; "and if at any time
Leriathan they be put to the worſt. he, if poſſible, comes
| #is Stur di- in to help them. And of him it is ſaid,
| eſs. The Sword of him that layeth at him, can -
not hold; the Spear, the Dart, nor the
Habergeon ; be eſteemeth Iron as Straw,
and Braſs as rotten Wood. Fhe Arrow
„ cannot make him fly; Sling Stones are
turned with him into Stubble; Darts are
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19. Ooorage to ride him, he might do notable
cellent Me- Thunder; he will not be afraid as the
tal ibat is Grasshopper; the Glory of his Noſtrils is
and is not affrigkted, neither 'turveth he
ainſt him, the glittering Spear, and the
„that it is the Sound of the Trumpet. He
Thunder of the Captains and the Shouting.“
Zut for ſuch Footmen as thee and I are,
ler us never deſire to meet with ag Eneniy,
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bruſhed by them. Peter upon à Lime, would
20 kry what he could do? but the fome do
3 day of him, That he is the een aps
they made
Job xli. Beſides, their King is at their Whiſtle, he
* counted as Stubble ; he laugbsth at the
z © ffiaking of a Spear. What can à Man do
ins chis Daſe Vis true, if he could at every
Job xxxix. Turn have Job's Horſe, and had. Skill and
» The ex- Things, For his Neck is cloathed with
job“ terrible 1 be paweth in the Valley, and re-
Horſe. joiceth in bis Strength he goeth on to.
5 meet the armed Men; he mocketh at Fear,
back from the Swosd. The Quiver ratleth *
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9 Spiel He fwalloweth the Ground with
« Fierceneſs and Rage, neither believeth he
fſayetk among the Trumpeters, Ha! Ha!
and he ſmelleth the Battle afar off, the
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nor vaunt as if we could do better whey we
hear of «< hers hat they have been foil'd
be tickled at the \ Thoughts of our bn N Fg
hood, for ſuch commonly come by the worſt
when try'd Peter, of whom I made mention
before, he would ſwagger, Aye, be would ; -
he would, as his vain Mind prompted him t9
ſas, Do better, and ſtand more for his Ma--
ter, than all Men; but, who fo foit'd, and
run down by thoſe” Villains as he? +
When therefore we hear that ſuch Robbe ·
ries are done in the King's Highway, two
Things become us to do: Firſt, To Fe out
harneſſed, and be ſure to take a Shie
us; for "twas for want of that, that he Vho
laid fo luſtily at Leviathan, could not make
him yield; and indeed, if that be wanting,
he fears not at all. Therefore he that Hat
Skill hath ſaid, Above all, take the Shield of 72 5 3.
Faith, auhereworth ye ſhall be able to | quench all
the fiery Darts of the. Wicked. | 0
Tis alſo good that we defire of the Kit Ti 1850
a Conyoy, that he will go with us birafelf. = have a
This made Dawd rejoice when in the Yallgy Coney.
of the. Shadow: of Death ; and Moſes was ra- Ex. xxxii.
ther for dying bers he flood, than to go one 15- 5
Step without bis God. O! my Brother: ifP fal iii 2 ++
he will but go along with us, what need we 778.
be afraid of Ten T Fouſand that ſhall ſer them xxvii. 1
ſelves againſt vs? But without him he proad |
Helpers hall fall under the Hain.
I for my Part have fallen in the Fray be- Iſa. x. +
fore now, and tho” (through the Goodneſs of |
Him that is beft) 1 am, as you fee, alive.
yet I cannot boaſt of my Manhood ; glad
ſhall T be, if I meet wich no more ſuch
Brunts: Tho' I fear we are not got be-
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yond all Danger: However, fince the Lion and
the Bear hath not as yet devoured me, I hope
God. will deliver us from the next uncircum-
ciled Philiſſines. Then ſang Chrafian : *
Poer Litt'e-Faith ! Haſ been among theThiewe:?
Na rebb'd?* Remember this, N. boſo believer,
Aud gets more Faith, then ſhall you Viftors be,
Over Ten Thouſand, elſe ſcarce ever Three.
So they went on, and /gnorance fallowed.
They went then 'till they came to a Place,
May where they ſaw a Way put itſelf into heir Way,
and a ay. and ſeemed withal to lay as trait as the Way
which they ſhould go; and here they knew
not which of the Two to take, for both ſeemed
ſtrait before them; therefore here they ſtood
. ill to conſider. And as they were thinking
The Flat- about the Way, behold a Man of Black F leſh,
terer fads but covered with a very Light Robe, came to
ther. them, and asked them, Why they ſtood there?
IT y)bhey anſwered, They were going to the Cœ-
leſtial City, but knew not which of theſe
Ways to take : Follow me, ſays the Man, it
1s thither that I am going. So they followed
him in the Way, but when they came into a
Road, which by Degrees turned, and turned
- Chriſtian them ſo from the City that they defired to go
and his to, that in a little Time their Faces' were
Fillow de- turned away from it, yet they followed him.
ludel. But by-and-by, before they were aware, he
They areled them within the Compaſs of a Net, in
taten in Which they were both intangled that they
the Net. knew not what to do; and with that the
White Robe fell off the Black Man's Back:
Then they ſaw where they were Wherefore
there they lay crying for ſome Time, for they
could not get themſelves out. Or.
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The pilgztm's Progreſs. 167
5 | Chr. Then ſaid Criſtias to his Fellow, They be-
1 Now do I ſee myſelf in an Error. Did not avail abeir
the Shepherds bid us beware of the Flat- Condition.
terer? As is the Saying of the Wiſe Man,
* ſo we have found this Day; 4 Man that
flattereth his Neighbour, ſpreadeth a, Net for
bis Feet. | Ne
Hope. They alſo gave us a Note of Di-
rection about the Way, for our more certain
F finding thereof; but herein we have alſo
e, forgotien to read, and have not kept our-
* ſelves from the Paths of the Deſtroyer.
7 Here David was wiſer than we, for faith he,
bo concerning the Works of Men, By the Ward Prov. xxix.
d of thy Lips 1 have kept me from the Paths. of 25S
1 the Deſtroyer. Thus they lay bewailing them. _.
8 ſelves in the Net. At laſt they eſpy'd a S hin- Pf. xlvii.
b ing One coming towards them with a Whip A Shining
to of ſmall Cord in his Hand. When he was One comes
e? come to the Place where they were, he asked to them
5 them, Whence they came, and what they did wvith a 1
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ſe there? They told him, That they were poor ip in
i Pilgrims going to Zion, but were led out of bis Hand.
d their Way by a Blick Man cloathed in White, rk
1 who bid us, ſaid they, follow him, for he
d was going thither too. Then ſaid he with |
10 the Whip, 1: i à Flatterer, @ falſe Apoſtle, Prov. xxix.
re bat hath transformed himſelf into an Angel 4.
" of "Light. So he rent the Net, and let the Dan. xi.
bo en out. Then ſaid he to them, Follow me, 32. :
* that I may ſet you in the rieht Way again; 1 Col. xt.
ſo he led theq; back to the Way which they 13, 14.
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0 had left to follow the Fatttrer. Then he They are
asked them faying,. Where did you lie the examned,
0 laſt Night? They ſata With the Shepherds and con-
y upon the Delt#able Mountains, He asked wifed of |
of them then, If they had not a Note of Di- Forgerful-
Hs rection 2. ;
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168 The Ptigrim s Piögzets.
__ - . reftion for the Way? They anſwered, Ves.
| But did you, faid he, when you were at a
Stand, pluck.out and read your Note ? They
anſwered, No. He asked them, Why ?
They ſaid, They forgot. He asked, more-
| over, If the Shepherds did not bid them be-
Deceivers.ware of the*Flatterer ? They anſwered, Yes.
fe ſpoſen. But we did not imagine, faid they, that this
Rom. xvi. fine ſpoken Man had been ne.
I1. Then I ſaw in my Dream, that he com-
manded them to lie down; which when they
Dan. xxv. did, he chaſtized them ſore, to teach them
30 I the good Way. wherein they ſhould walk ;
2 Chr. vi. and as he chaſtized them, he ſaid, A. many
26, 27. as I lowe, I rebuke and chaſten: Be zealoys
Rev. ili. 7herefore and repent. This done, he bid them
39.” _ go on their Way, and take good Heed to the
They are other Directions of the Shepherds. So they
ſent on
their Way. ſoftly along the right Way, ſinging,
Cone bither you that walk along the Way,
See hat the Pilgrims fare s go aſiray :
They catched are in an intabglea Net,
| *Cauſe they good Counſel highly did forget:
. Tis true they.reſcued were, but yet you fee
Now after a while they perceived afar of
one coming fofily along, all along the High-
3 way to meet them, I hen ſaid Chr//tian to his
— Fellow. Vonder is a Man w#h his Back to-
Wards Zion, and. he is coming to meet us.
Hope. Tec him, let s gake heed to ourſelves
now, leſt he ſhould; prove-a Fharrerer allo So
dee drew nearer, ang at laſt came up to them.
Atheiſt His Name was Aebi, and he asked them,
meets them, Whither they were going? Chr.
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thanked him for all his Kindneſs, and went
They're ſcour d to boot. Let this your Caution be.
1 ſet out. a
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The pilgrim bo 20gzeſs... 165
Chr. We are going to Mount Zian. He laughs
Then Atheiſt tell into a very great Laugh- at them.
ter,
Ch, What” s the Meaning of your Laughter? ?
Athei/t. 1 laugh to ſee what ignorant Per-
ſons you are, to take upon you ſo ridiculous
a Journey ; and vet are like to have nothing
but your Travel for your Pains.
Chr. Why, Man, do you think we ſhall Tbey rra-
not be received? - fon to
Atheift. Received! There is no ſuch Place her.
as you dream of in all the World.
Chr. But there is in the World to come.
Atbeiſt. When I was at Home in mine
own Country, I heard as you now affirm,
and from-that hearing went out to ſeek, and
have been ſeeking that City Twenty Years,
but find no more of it than I did the firſt Day
Chr. We have both heard, and believe Jar: xxii.
that there is ſuch a Place to be found. 15. |
Atheiſt. Had not I, when at Home believed, Atheiſt
1 had not come thus far to ſeek ; but finding takes a
none, (and yet I ſhould, had there been ſuch bis Conte
a Place to be found, ſor I have gone to ſeek in ibis
it fagther than you) I am going back again, World.
and will ſeek to refreth myſelf with the Things
that I have caſt away, for Hopes of that which
I ſee 18 not.
Chr. Then ſaid Chriftian to Hopeful his Chriſtian |
Companion, Is it true which this Man hath proveketh
aid? Mi Brotber.
Hope. Take hank he is one of the Flat. Hopeful?
terers : Remember what it hach coſt us once gracious
already for eur hearkening to ſuch kind of 4ufacer.
Fellows. What! No Mount Zion? Did we 2 Cor. v 7
not ſeo from the Deleftable Mount. 1, the
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Gate of the City ? Alſo we are not now to
. '* Remem- walk by Faith? Let us go on, ſald Hope-
brance of ful, leſt the Man with the Whip overtake us
former again. e log.
Chafliſe- You ſhould have taught me that Leſſon,
which I will round you in the Ears withal,
Ceaſe, my Son, to hear "the Inſtructionms that
cauſeth to err the Ways of Knowledge : I
Tempta- Tay, my Brother, ceaſe to hear him, and let
tion., us believe to the ſaving of the Soul.
Prov.xxix. Chr. My Brother, I did not put the Queſti-
22. on to thee, for that I doubted of the I ruth
Heb. x. 30. of-your Belief myſelf, but to prove thee, and
The Fruits to fetch from thee a Fruit of the Honefly of
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Heart, is blinded by the God of this World. Let
1 John ji. thee and I go on, knowing that we have Be-
11. 9 the Truth, and no Lie is of the Truth,
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e. Now | do rejoice in the Hope of the
Glory of God: So they, turned away from
the Man: And he laughing at them, went
his Way. N nds
They come I faw then in my Dream, they went until
#0 the En. they came into a certain Country, whoſe Air
chanted naturally tended to make Men drowſy, if they
Ground. Came Strangers into it. And here Hopeful
Hopetul began to be very dull and heavy of Sleep,
Begins to ze Wherefore he ſaid unto Chriftiaen, I now be-
' drowſy, gin to grow fo drowly, that I can fearcely
Chriſtian hold up my Eyes: Let us lay down here, and
beeps him take one Nap. | ELIT,
anl. Cb. By no Means (ſaid the other) left
eping we never awake more,
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Hope Why, my Brother r Sleep is feveet to
the labouring Man; we may be refreſhed if
wie take a Nap. M n
Cbr. Do you not remember, that ene of the
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Shepherds bid us beware F ibe Enchanted | |
Ground. He meant by that, that we ſhould 1 Th. v. 6.
beware of ſleeping ; wherefore let us notleep -
as others do, but let us watch and be ſober. TY
Hope. I acknowledge myſelf in a, Fault, He is wery
and had I been here alone, I bad by ſleep · thankful.
ing run the Danger of Death. I ſee it is true ©
what the Wiſe Man ſaith, Tawo 7s better than Eccl. vi. 2.
One. Hitherto hath thy Company been my |
Mercy: And thou ſhalt have a good Reward
for thy Labour... 1 :
Chr, Now then, ſaid Chriſtian, to prevent To prevent
Drowſineſs in this Place, let us fall into good Drowſfineſs
Diteborſe. | thy fall
Hape. With all my Heart, ſaid the other. good Di/-
Chr, Where ſhall we begin? courſe.
Hupe. Where God began with us; but do Good Diff.
you begin if you pleaſe. courſe pr.
Chr. I will fing you the firſt song. — wenteth. Vu
by Dru, il
And hear how theſe two Pilgrims talk together: The
Tea, let them learn of them in any wiſe, Dr came? Ts
Thus to keep ope their drowſy Alainb ring Eyes; Note.
Saints Fellowſhip, I it be manag'd well, © _
Keeps them awake, and that in Spite of Hell.
Chr. Then Chriftian begin and bad, I will They begin Ge ;
ask you a Queſtion : How came you to think 4 3. L. :
at firſt of doing what 3 ou do now? © _ ginning of —
Hope. Do you mean, low came I at firſt Heir 2
to look after the Good of my Saul? Lern. |
Chr. Yes, that is my Meanings?
Hope. I continued a great while in th
Delight of | thoſe Things which were ſeen
and fold at our Fair; Things which I believe
now would have, had J continued in _
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21,22, 23. in Vanity- Fair.
Ejph. v. 6. are Death, And that for thoſe Things Sake
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The Pilgrim's Pꝛogzets:
WS xg. drowned me. in No me N
Chr. What Things are they ?
He. All the Treaſures, — Riches of the
World. Alfo I delighted much in Riot;
Revelling, Drinking, Swearing, Lying, Us
cleanneſs, Sabbath-breaking, and what not,
that tend to the deſtroying of the Soul. But
I found-at laſt, by hearing and confidering of
Things that are Divine, which indeed 1 heard
> of you, as alſo the beloved Faithful, that was
Rom. vi. put to Death _— Faith and good Living
at the End of theſe Things
5 the Wrath of God cometh upan the Children of
; Diſobedience.
Chr. And did you preſently. fall under the
Power of this Conviction?
: Hopeful Hope. /No, I was not willing preſently to
=_ Dos know the Evil of Sin, nor the Damnation
En his that follows upon the Confeſion of it: But I
Tee endeavoured, when my Mind at firſt began to
— the be alen with the Word, to fout _ Eyes
- againſt the Light thereof.
Chr. But 33 th Cauſe of your car-
ry ing of it thus at the f ft Workings of God's
| bleſſed Spirit unto you?
"Reaſons a- Hops. The Cauſes were, 1. I was igno-
.gainſt re- rant _ this was the Work of God upon
wel Bling the me :
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never thought that by Awakening
from Age God at firſt begins the Converſion
of a Sinner 21: Sin was very ſweet to my
Fleſh, and Iwas loth to leave it. 3. I could
kibt'"tell how to part with my old Compa-
9 8 nion their Preſence and Adtions were ſo
deſtrable unto me. 4. The Hours in which
; nn were upon me, & ere ſuch trouble-
MY ee an
lief of your Trouble?
ſelf, that I mult quickly come to ulgment.
hold of my Conſcience, and then if I did %, ws ©:
but think of going back to Sin (tho® my Mind longer ſhake
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ſome, and ſuch Hearsaffrighting Hours; that
I could not bear ſo much as the - Unto
of them upon my Heart.
Cbr. Then it ſeems ſontetimes you got Re
Hope. Yes, verily, but it would come into
my Mind again; and then I would be as bad,
nay, worle than I was before. A
Chr. Why, what was i. that brought your
Sins to Mit again ?
N Many Things; as, =
* If 1 did bat meet a quod Man in the * Whew be ©
ods or, | - bad bit his ö
2. if I have beard any read 7 in the Bible; Senſe of
of, Sin, what +
3. If mine Head did begin to ach ; or, —_—_ ic
4. If I were told that ſome of my Neigh- Dan,
bours were fk ; or, an
5. If I heard che Bell toll for ſome that .
were dead; or, N
6. If I thought of Dying mylalf; or, 29
7- If T heard that laude: Death happened 4
to others,
8. But eſpecially when I thought with my-
Chr: And could you at any Time wit
Faſe get off the Guilt of Sins, When by any
of thefe Ways it came upon ou? 3
Hope. No, not 1, for then they got faſter wh 5
was turned Ain it) it would be double Tor- , FLi;Guile
ment to, me. "= by fafud _ |
Chr: And how aid you then Caries, bo. kt
Hope, 1 thought I muſt; endeavonr to mend fi be 7e
my Life, or 1985 r 1 was n to de nend. ("FS
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thought my Trouble came running u me- again,
bimſel, and that over the Neck o all my Refarma-
„ee e
Chr. How came that about, ſince you were
tion at laſt it upon me, eſpecially ſuch Sayings as theſe;
could not Al] our Righteouſneſs are as filtby Rags; by the
Help, and Works of the Law no Man ſhall be juſtified:
3
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_ bythe Law that ſhall pay for all that he ſhall fetch, ye
* troubled if this old Debt ſtands ſtill in the Book un-
bin. croſs'd, even for that the Shop- keeper ma
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BY „Ves, and fled, from, not only my .
- Sins, but ſinful Company too, and betook, me
to religious Duties, as Praying, Reading,
Weeping for Sin, Speaking Truth to my...
Neighbour, &:c. Theſe, Things did I, with C
many. others, too much here to relate J on
| Ch. And did you think yourſelf well then? F ,
Then he. He, Yes; for a while, but at the laſt 4
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now Reformed ?. .. «17 1
| Reforma- Hope. There were ſeveral Thoughts brought
I ben you have all Things, ſay, We are unpro-
Ila. buv. table Servants ; with many more ſuch like..
65. From whence I began to reaſon with myſelf}
Gal. ii. 6. thus: If al/ my Righteouſneſſes are as filthy
10. can, be juſtified, and if when wWe have done
All, we are unprofitable, then *tis but a Folly
„ „ do think of Heaven by the Law. I further z
His being thought thus : If a Man ron's a Hundr
@ Debtor Pounds in a Shop-keeper's Debt, and aftel
_ ſue him, and caſt him into Priſon till he ſhal
pay the Deb. | |
Clhr.. Well, and how did you apply this te
yourſelf ? 75 | be fe
ue Why, Ithought with myſelf, I hh;
: by my, Sin, run a great Way into GOD x:
©he Pilgrim 8 —
ook, and that my now reforming will dot IRR,
pay off that Score: Therefore 1 thould fit | | |
1 under all my preſent Amendments : But mY **
ow mall I be from that Damnation 28.
hat T brought myſelf in Danger of by my
+ Nermer Tranfgrefſions-? |
2 Poe A very good Application ; ; bat pray
n;! 5 Another Thing that hach troubled Hirefping
lat ne Ih ſince my late Amendment is, That bad Things .
All, Bf I look narrowly into the beft of what I do i bis 271
mn ow, I fill ſee Sin, new Sin, mixing itſelf Duties *
* Withathe beſt that 1 do ; fo that now I amrreabled
ere ſorced to condude, That notwithſlanding my bim.
Mer fond Conceits of myſelf and Duties,
. have committed Sin enough in one Day to
„nd me to Hell, though my former Life had
% Peen faultleſs, = |
nh Chr. And what did you do then ?
64 pe. Do! I could nor tell what to do un- This nad
c . il | broke my Mind to Faithſul, ſor he and bim break 2M
iy were well acquainted.” And he told me, his Mind
y /FThat unleſs I could obtain the Righteouſneſs Faithful,
"$f a Man that never had ſinned, neither my vb rold -
5 dwn, nor all the ee in the World him the
'þ YFould ſave me. Way to be
ith (r. And did you think he ſpake true ? Jed. 2
Hope Had he told me ſo when I was pleaſed
ad called him Fool for his Pains 3 but now
ince I fee my Infirmity, and the Sin which ©
ea ves to my beſt . — I ve been |
rrced to be of his Opinion- , 8
Chr. But did you think when at firſt he
vp>eſted'it to you, that there was ſuch a Man
0 be found, of whom it might July be ſaid,
8 bat by never committed Sin. | "
Hepe. |
Ind ſatisfed with my own Amendments, J!
lebe iris Num ww 7,
nt mike my Supplication, 10 Minn; And Ex. 25. 12.
ald, nn 38.
„beat, Where be Gus all the
je Raron and Forgiveneſs to them that Heb. 4
I told- ae 2t Lknew nat what to |
when Leanne. And he bid me to ay Ei l
dis Effect: © God be merciful tame. a Sin- fo ate.”
er, and make me to know an belieye in
ſus Chriſt ; ſor 1 ſee, that if his Righte - |
nels bid; not been, or L have not Faith in
What Ri anlnth, 1 ee col anay': 5
ord; Thavecheard/that thou art a;mergiful,
od, and bach ordained. that, thy Son Jeſus |.
hiſt ſhould Betthe Saviour of
Ind, maregver;othai-thou art willpg to be-
ow him upon {ach poor Sinners as Lam,
dan Sinner indeed) Lord, ore,
Pere ſare this Opportunity, and m prays,
Y race in the Salfaten of wy Soul, t Ea
| Son Jeſus Chriſt.”
| And did you do aa you mon bid?
Bl Ves, over and over. r
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r. Had you no Thought of leaving off He thought /
mg Pe \ "IT leave off
75 Yes, an Hundred times twice, told. 2 prayin
5. And what was the Reaſon y ou durſt not? wn, xa
10 + believ'd that that was true which. {cave pray-
een told me, to wit, That without ig. pale
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n * this came into my Mind, Fu.
Dai for it, becauſe it will fire come, 4
will not tarry. So 1 continued: until the , 4
tber Thewed, me his Son. 7
O. And how was he ended you
pe. I did not ſee him with my Bull
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Eg. 5 | 240 but with he He, of my ads .
13, 19 ES us it was: One Day I was very ſad, kae
| Chritt B ink ſadder than at any one Time of fach
revealed to Liſe; and. this Sadneſs was through a fr
bim, and Sight of the Greatneſs and Vileneſs of n
how, Sins. And as I was then looking for nothin” way
but Hell, and the everlaſting N er
my Soul, ſuddenly, as I thought, I ſaw u 7
" Land! Jeſus look down from Heaven upon nf? © *
and ſaying, Believe on the Lord Jaſu Chri po
and thou alt be ſa ved. Tres
Bat I replied; © Lord, e aw
Ac xvi. great dinner: And he anfwered, My Gr; tat f
30, 31. #1 ſafficient for thee. Then I ſaid; But, Lor |
. ephat is believing ? And then I faw from th.
John vi. Saying, [He that comerh to me ſhall neuf;
; 5. hunger, and he that believeth on me ſhaſf
never thirſt] that believing and coming
all one; and he that came, that is, run of ,
in his Heart and Affection after Salvation | really
. Chriſt, he indeed believed in Chriſt. The
the Water ftood in mine Eyes, and I aske "Th
further, But, Lord, "may fuch a great Sim **
as J am, be indeed accepted of Thee, _ ewed
John vi. ved by thee ? And I heard him ſay, 4 |
16. him that cometh to me fhall in no wiſe
e out,” Then I ſaid, But how, Lord, m 8
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ſaid, Chrift came into the World to fav 25. |
ners? He 3s the End of the Law for-Righte- Rom. x. 4.
12 refs to cry one. that believes, He died for Heb. 11
27 Hint, and roſe again for aur Juſtification c 24, 25.
Nen , vi from aur Sins in
Bld, He is the Mediator beef God
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4 From all which I gathered, bat L muſt
. for Righteouſneſs in, his Perſon, and for
Faction for my Sins by bis B He
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ich he did, in; Obedience to his Faber:
and in ſubmitting to the Penalty there.
thi was not for himſelf, but fox him that will
on rept it for his Salvation, and be thankful.
2d now was my Heart full of Joy, mine
ane full of, Tears, and my AffeCtions ten-
„g over with Love to the, Name, People,
d Ways of Got. =
8 Chr, This was, a Revelation of Chriſt to
Cour Soul indeed; But tell me .
Le, at Effect had this ya Jour „
\ ih Hope, It made me lee that all the World,
otwithſtanding all the Righteouſneſs thereof,
ha in a State of Condemnation. It made me
that God the Father, tho he be juſt, can
tly Juſtify the ch Sinner: It made me
eatly aſhamed of the Vileneß of my former
The ite, and confounded me with the Senſe of i
«ine own Ignorance ; for there never cam
Thought mto' my Heart before now, that
ewed me ſo the Beauty of Jeſus Chrift. It
ade me love a Holy Life, and long to do
42 W the Honour and Glory of tbe
eſu
ord Jeſus : Ves, I thought that had I now a
1; bouſand Gallons of - Blood in my Body, 1
uld ſpill all for the Sake of the Lord I . |
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EK Did not T ten 2 not for our C
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3 Aliet us talk away the Time in this ſolit
RE Place. Then direcking bis Dicourſe-to
"rence, he” ſaid, Cone how to 7
ſtands it between Jod and y now
| Ignorance |. Ii. "I hope well, for 1 Sa fol x
bis Hope; Motions that. cometh into. my Minded |
| NY fort me as T walk. |
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1 . Why, 1 think of Ged and Heaver
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What 1 85 Chr. Such as apfee with the Word of God ]
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Us of a Man it prone to Evil, Tout conting of (
"ally. And again 7 ht 1, ination & "Man'® ter
Haar n evil from the Dub. Now tha in
when we think uk of oualvei? bots ſelx
Senſe thereof, chen are our Though 74 Th
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| Thoaght concerning thy ſelf in thy |
kt ee But ** _ go on, 1 the Word paſſeth as
"Th il. . Judgm our Ways, and When thy Or
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| Judgment which the Word givell
= then are both good, a dl M:
N Make out your Meaning.” lief
. Why, the Word of God ſaith, TT
— Ways are crooked Ways, not good, bY Ch
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ite good Way; that they have not known In
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The eee eee
* Word of God.
8 Ion. What are good Thoghts conceming
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Chr. Even bas
ſelves} hen our I houghts of God do agree
with what the Word ſaith of him; and that is,
when we think of his Being and Attributes as
the Word hath taught {of which I cannot now
of God; when we think that he
ay, when he doth ſenſibly, and with Hearts . 5
umfliation thin think, chan hath he good -
Thoughts - of his ooẽ¹n Ways, bean” his”
Thoughts now agree wic the Jodgwweur of
I have ſaid converting Gur.
diſcourſe at large; but to ſpeak of ooh in re-
ference to us; then we baye __ boughts
us bet-
fidence, even in our beſt Performances. EC ode,
it ten. Do you think that I am ſuch a Foot © |
ſeth as to think GOD can ſee no farther than 1?
n U8 Or that I would not come to GOD in che
agre _ — my Performances? 8
giwet Why, how ed thou think in this
agre\ Many .
Ion. Why, bear; [think] moſtbe- |
lerz in Chr for Juſtificatio
Th Chr. Bow! Think thou muſt believe in 2
d, bY Chrift when thou ſeeſt not the need' of him:
on Thou neither ſeeſt thy original or attuat .
MY 7 firmities,” but haſt ſuch an Opinion of thy-
Wa felt of what: thou- TI. as Plamly readers
ter than we know ourſelves, and can ſee Sin
in us when and where we can {ee none in ours
ſelyes; when we think he knows our inmoſt
Thoughts, and that our Heart with all is
Depths, is always open to his Eyes: Alſo when
we think that all our Righteouſneſs ſliuks in
his Noſtris, and, that therefore he cannot
abide to ſee us ſtand before him, in any Con-
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of Chriſt's Perſonal Righteouineſs to juſtity
_ "thee before GOD, How then doſt thou fay
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s. [ believe well enough for all that.
8 (br. How doſt thou believe?
„ Faith {8* | believe that Chrilt died for Sinners,
"Ay . N—— and that I ſhall be juſtiied before God from
3 $9" the Corſe, through his gracious Acceptance
-, Tancee. of my Obedience to the Laws. Or thus, Chrilt
makes my Duties that are religious acceptable
to his Father by Virtue of his Merits, and ſo
ſhall I be juſtified. A N
Cbr. Let us giye an Anſwer to this Con-
ſeſſion of thy Faith. - 1. Thou believeſt with
a fantaſtical Faitn, for this Faith is no where
deſcribed in -tze Word. 2. Thou believeſt
with a falſe Faith, becauſe. thou takeſt Juſti-
fication from tbe Perſonal Righteouſneſs of
Chriſt, and applieſt it to ty own. 3. This
Fnitu maketh not Chriſt. a Juſlifier of thy
Perſon, but of thy Actions; and of thy Per-
ſon for thy Actions ſake, which is falſe.
4. Therefore this Faith is deceitful, even ſuch
as will leave thee under Wrath in the Day
of God Almighty : For true Juſtifying Faith
puts the Soul (as ſenſible of its loſt Condition
| by the Law) upon flying for Refuge unto
_ Civiſt's Righteouſneſs, (which Rigł teouſneſs
of his is not an Act of Grace, by which be
maketh for Juſtification, thy Obedience ac-
cepted by God ; but this Perſonal Obedience
to the Law, in doing and ſuffering for us
. what is required at our Hands) that Righte-
ouſneſs, I ſay, truę Faith, is accepted, under
tte Skirt of which the Soul being ſhrouded,
and by it preſented as ſpotleſs before God,
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what Chriſt in his o Pecſon hath done with -
out us? This Conceit would looſen the Rein?
of our Luft, and tolerate us to live as we
lit ; For, what Matter how we live, if we
may be juſtified from all by Chriſt's perſonal =
Righteouſneſs, believing. |
Chr. Ignorance is thy Name, nd as thy
Name is, ſo art thou; even this thy Anſwer
demonſtrateth what I ay, Ignorant thou, art
of what Tu/lifying Righteouſneſs is, and as
jenorant how to ſecure thy Soul through th:
Faith of it, from the heavy Wrath of GOD.
Yea, thou art alſo ignorant of the true Effects
of ſaving Faith in this Righteouſneſs of Chriſt,
which is to bow and win over the Heart to
GOD in Chriſt, to love his Name, his Word,
Ways, and People, and not as thou ignorantly |
imagineſt.
Hope. Ask him if ever be had Chriſt te-
vealed to him from Heaven.
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tion ? I do believe that what boch you and all / ane.
the reſt of you ſay about that Matter, is bat with
tie Fruits of diſlracted Brains.
Hope. Why, Man ! Chrift is ſo hid in God
from the natural Apprehenſions of the Fleſh,
that he cannot by any Man be favingly
— unleſs 60 the Father deen him
to mm,
Hopeful.
1gn. That is 8 Faith, but not mine; vet Hs Pak.
mine, I doubt 1 as good as yours, tho I repreach-
have not in m Lad fo many Wbimfſes. * Fully of
' Chr. Give 5 Leave to put in a Ward : auhat be
You a not to PFs fo 2 0 e 4g uo xu n.
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2 way xi. ter, for Wr boldly ulirm Mara
MY You 10 faſt * ede Pace with
__ 5 go on before, I muſt tay a while
ehind.
„Tuben they ſaid, .
Well th gnorance, wilt thou yet t fooliſh be,
To fig e od Counſel, ten Times given thee ?
And if 2 yet refuſe it, thou Kalt Ano
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5 „ Counſel taken well, faves ; therefore Bear;
Bait if thou yet all flight it, thou ſhalt he,
| 0 $5 The fer, es, II warrant thee.
IS © Chriflian aidreſied himſelf thus to
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aw in my Dream, that they went on
fore, and Ignorance came bobbling
en ſald to his Companion,
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1 There are Abundance i in our
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Eph i. 18, layeth Al u Chtiſt (if” be right) mult
NEE be wrbu tit by the exceeding Greatneſs of his
mighty Power ; the wotking of which Faich,
I perceive poor "Jgvratice, thou art ignorant
of : Be awakened then, ſee 13 o yu icked-
Tam mach grieved for this poor Man : "Twill
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od Town in this Condition, whole Families, yea,
hole Streets, and that of Pilgrims too; and
a- if there be ſo many in our Parts, how many
ul think you muſt there be in the Place where he.
at Was born?
his Cor. Indeed, dhe Word faith, He hath
h, Nlinded their Eyes, left they ſhould fee, 5
nt But now we are by ourſelves, what do you
d- Ichink of ſuch Men ? Have they at no Time,
is think you, Convictions of Sin, and ſo conſe -
of Neuently fear that their State is dangerous?
be Hope: Nay, do you anſwer that Queſtion
Pourſehf, for you are the older Man.
ith , Cr. Then I ſay, ſometimes (as I think)
ile Ney may, but they being naturally ignorant,
PFaderſtand not that ſuch — tend to
heir Good; and therefore they do deſpe-
ately ſeek to fliſle them, and preſumptuouſiy PA
> Pedntinue to flatter themſelves 1 eee
| heir own Heart.
Hope. I do believe as you "hy that Fear 'r
ends much to Mens Good, and makes them Uſe.of
ght at their beginning to go on Pilgrimage. Fear.
Chr. Without all doubt it doth; if it be
ght; for ſo ſays the Word. The Fear 75 the Job.
Weird is the Beginning of Mi. . cxi. 10. 3
to Hope. How will z ou deſeribe 1 Fear 2 Prov. xvii. , «|
Chr, True, or right e „ ** 75 ix. &.
hree Things: 8 50 RigheFqan 2
By its Riſe. le is 4200 by Grid: -
cn rifle: for Sin. 1
2. It driveth the Soul 0 wy fa hold of
hriſt for Salvation. |
3. It "begetteth and conduncds: in the
oul a great Reverence of God, his Word,
id Ways, keeping 12 tender, aud making
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nour GQD, break his Peace, grieve the Spirit
or cauſe his Enemy to ſpeak reproachfally.
the Trath. Are we now almoſt gone pa
it afraid to turn from them, to the Right hand
or to the Left, to any thing that may diſho
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Hope. Well Said, I believe you bave ſaic
the Inchanted Ground? i | leſs
Cb. Why, art thou weary of this-Diſcourſe ¶ anc
Hape. No, verily, but that I would knoy| -
where we are. , wit
Cr. We have not now above two Mil ene
farther to go thereon. But let us return i Sig
* Why ig- our Matter, Now the Ignorant know q due
. worant that ſuch Convictions as tend to put them ii. #
Perjens do Fear, are for their Good, and therefore tief hot
Fil: Con. ſtrive to ftifle them. 1 wou
viz2101; in Hope. How do they ſtrive to ſtifle them? ¶ man
general. Cbr. 1. They think that thoſe. Fears a was
I Parti- wrought by the Devil (tho indeed they i one
- . tu/ars, wrought of GOD) and thinking ſo they 7 Lora
kart; ſiſt them, as Things that directly tend to the] C
Overthrow. 2. They alſo think that theſf ſolve
Fears tend to the ſpoiling of their Faith, wi; but :
alas for them, poor Men that they are! the one
have none at all, and therefore they hard to m
their Hearts againſt them. 3. They preſun] H.
they ought not to ſear, and therefore in deſpiſ let u
of them wax ptuouſly conſident 4 Thꝗq ſudde
ſiee that theſe Fears tend to take away fro C
them their pitiſul old Self-holineſs, and ther H.
fore they reſiſt them with all their Might. I ment,
Hope. I know ſomething of this myſeii 1.
©. © before I knew myſelf, it was ſo with me. Fare a
_ Neighbour Ignorance by himſelf, and fall u
Chr, Well, we will leave at this Time officiang
oa another profitable Queſtion.
The pilgrim's'B2og2efs.
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1 55 Well then, Did you know about Ten Tall about
Years ago, one Tem/orary i in your Parts, who on Tem-
was a forward May in Religion then? potary,
Hope. Know him! Yes, ne dwelt in Grace aubere b
ls, a Town about Two Miles from Honcſiy, dwells.
and he _ next Door to one Turn. lack.
Chr. Right, he dwelt under the ſame Roof He avag
with him. Well, that Man was much awak- towardly
ened once; I believe that then he had ſome once.
Sight of his Sins, and of the Wages —_ were
due thereto.
Hope. 1 am of your Mind, for 1 Houſe
hor being above Three Miles from him} ke
would often times come to me, and that with
many Tears. Truly, I pitied the Man, and
was not altogether without Hope of him; but
one may ſee it is not every one that cries
Lord! Lord !
Chr, He told me once, That he was re- =
ſolved to go on Pilgrimage, as we go now, 3 po
but all on a ſudden he grew acquainted wititn
the one one and chen ne became's Strange? | -—-
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eſa Hope. Now, fince we are talking about him,
deſpiſ let us a little enquire-into the Reaſon of tue
Tic ſudden backſliding of him, and {ach otaers.
y fro Ch It may be profitable, but do you begin.
then] Hope, Well teen, there are in my 3 1 4
bt. now Four Reaſons for it. :
ay ſel . Though the Conſciences of ſuch Men e
me. Hare 1 yet their Minds are not why e-
me oflchanged: Trerefore woen tue Power of wardly
fall u Cuilt weareth away, that which provoleett orcs back. 1
them to be Religious ceaſeth: | Mhereſore irt.
H. they, naturally return to their own Courſe
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gain; even as we ſee the Dog that is ſick cf
What he has eaten, ſo long as his Sickneſs
_ © prevails, he caſts and vomits up all: Not that
be doth this of, free Mind (it. we may ſay a
Dog bas a Mind) but becauſe it troubleth his
Stomach; but now, when his Sickneſs is over,
aud ſo his Stomack eaſed, his Deſites being
not at all alienated from bis Vomit, be turns
bis Vomit again. Thus, I ſay, bei
him round about and licks up all; and ſo it
is true which is written, 7% Dog 1s turned to
both for
Heaven, by Virtue only of the Senſe and
Fears of the Torments of Hell; as that
Seaſe of Hell and Fear of Damnation chills
and cools, ſo their Defire for Heaven and
Salvation cools alſo So then it comes to
paſs, that when their Guilt and Fear is gone,
their Deſires for Heaven and Happi
and they return to their Courſe again.
2. Another Reaſon is, They. have laviſh
s die,
Fears that do over-maſter them; I ſpeak naw
Prox. xxix of the Fears that they have of Men: For the
Fear of Men bringeth a Snare
So then, tno'
they teem, to be hot for Heaven, ſo long as
the Flames of Hell are about their Ears, yet
_ when the Terror is a little over, they betake
themſelves to ſecond Thoughts, namely, That
"tis good to be wiſe, and not to run (for they
know not what) the Hazard of. loſing all, or
at leaſt of bringing themſelyes into unavoid-
able and unneceſſary Troubles, and ſo they
- fall in with the World again.
3. The Shame that attends Religion lies
+ Blſoas a Block in their Way; they are proud
and haughty, end Religion in their ,
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low and contem pubis: Theidord when they
_ loſt. their Nee of Hell, and Wrath to
at they return again to their former: v
A Courts.
1s 4. , Guilt, and to meditate on Terror, are
r, grievous to them; they like not to fee their
's Il Miſery before they come to it, tho perhaps
ns the Sight of it firſt, .if they loved that Sight,
it FF might: make them fly whither the Righteous
to I fly and are ſaſe 3, but becauſe they do, as [
or FF hinted keg even ſhun the Thoughts of
nd Wl Guilt and Tetror ; therefore, when once
at WF they are rid of their Awakenings about the
Ils Terror and Wrath of God, they harden
nd their Hearts gladly, and chuſe ſuch Ways as
0 Y will harden them more and more.
le, Chr. You are pretty near the Buſineſs, ſor
che Bottom of all this is for want of a Change ==
. © in their Mind and Will And therefore they 2
in are but like the Felon that ſlandeth before _
the judge; he quakes and trembles, and.
ſeems to repent moſt heartily ; but the Bot-
"0 | tom of all is, the Fear of the Halter; not
Vat be hath any Deteſtation of the Offence,
as it is evident, becauſe, let but this Man
bave his Liberty, and he will be a Thief,
and ſo a Rogue: fill; whereas if his Mind
was changed, he would. be others ve. *
Heye. Now I have ſhewed you the Roaſons
of their going back, do "ou ſhew me the
der Manner thereof. *
Chr. So I will willingly. +
1: They draw off their Thonghts all hat
they may, from the Remembrance of God,
oud Death as the Judgmeys de edme.
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2, Then they caſt off by Degrees, private
Duties, and-Cloſet- Prayer, curbing their Luſt,
Watching, Sqrfow for Sin, Ge.
3. Then they ſhun the Company of lively
and warm Chriſtians.
4. Aſter that they grow cold to publick
Duty, as Hearing, Reading, Godly Confe-
rence, aidthe e.
5. Then they begin to pick Holes, as we
' Tay, in the Coats of lome of the Godly, and
that deviliſhly, that they may bave'a ſeeming
Colour to throw Religion (for the ſake of
ſome Infirmities they have eſpied in them)
behind their Backs.
6. Then they begin to adhere to, and aſs
ſociste themſelves with carnal, looſe, and
wanton Men.
7. Then they give way to carnal and wan-
ton Diſcourſe in ſecret, and glad are they if
they can fee ſuch Things in any that are
counted diſhoneſt, that they may the more
boldly do it through their Example. |
8. After this, they begin to play with lit-
tle Sins openly. | d R
'9. And then, being harden'd, they ſhew
themſelves as they are: Thus being launched
again into the Gulph of Miſery, unleſs a Mi-
racle of Grace prevent it, they everlaſtingly
_ periſh: in their own Deceivings.
© Now I ſaw in my Dream, That by this
Time the Pilgrims were got over the Jychant-
=> ed Greaund, and entering into the Country
Ia. x.
FE: <f Cant. ii. they ſolaced themſelves there for a Sea-
10, 11,12. fon. Yes, here they heard continually, the
Singing of the Birds, and ſaw every Day the
of * Beulah, whoſe Air was very ſweet and
pleaſant, the Way I ing directly through it,
Flowers
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Flowers appear in 'the Earth, and heard —
Voice of the Turtle in the Land. In the
Country the Sun ſhineth Night and Day:
wherefore this was beyond — Valley of * 2
Shadow of Death, and alſo out of the Reach
of Giant Deſpair, neither could they from
this: Place ſo much as ſee Doubting-Caftle,
Here they were within Sight of the City they
were going to, alſo here met them ſome of
the Inhabitants thereof: For in this Land
the Shining Ones commonly walked, becauſe Autel.
it was upon the Borders of Heaven. Iu this |
Land the Contract between the Bride and
the Bridegroom was renewed :- Yea, here, as
the Bridegroom rejciceth over the Bride, ſo Ala. li. 6
their Gol rejoice over them. Here they had no. ©
Want of Corn or Wine; for in this Place they Ver. 8.
met Abundance of what they had ſought for
in their Pilgrimage. Here they heard Voices |
from out of the City, lond Voices, ſaying, ..—-
Say ye tothe eee Bebold thy del. Ver. 11-
vation cometh! Behold his' Reward is with |
him ! Here all the Inhabitants of the Coun-
try called them, The holy People, the Rodiemeu Ver. 22.
of tbe Lord: And Ibou ſhalt br called, fought + |
out, 4 City not forfaken. , {. 7
Now as they walked in the Land, they bad N =
more rejoicing than in Parts more remote from
the Kingdom to which they were bound; and
drawing near to the City, they had yet a more
perfect View thereof; it was built of Pearls
and precious Stones; alſo the Streets amo FOE wa
were paved with Gold; ſo that by reaſon © 0 I 0808
the natural Glory of the City, and the Re- 49
ſtexion of the Sun-beams upon it, Chriſſia ng
with Deſire fell fick; Hopeful allo bad a n 2
or two of the ſame Diſeale : Wherefore, here
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"Bot being a little Bren! othened, and better
Wo able-to bear their Sicknels; they walked on
their Way, and came yet nearer and nearer,
where were Orchards, Vine) ads, and Gar-
dens; and their Gates opened into the High-
| behold the- Gardener ſtoad in the Way, to
whom the Pilgrims ſaid, Whoſe goodly Vine-
Deut. xxiii yards and Gardens are theſe ? He aniwered,
24. They are the King's, and are pl anted here
LF for. his own Delight, and allo for the Solace
of Pilprims. So the Gardener had them into
the Vineyards, and bid them refreth them-
ſelves with the Dainties; he alſo ſhewed them
there the King's Walks and Arbours, where
he delighted to be: And here they tarried
and ſlept.
Now 1 beheld ; in my Dream, chat they
talked more in their Sleep at this Time, than
ee.er they did in all their ſourney and being
in a Muſe thereabout, the Gardener ſaid even
do me. Wherefore muſeſt thou at this Matter ?
It is the: Natuse of the Fruit of the Grapes
of-theſe Vineyards to ga down ſo ſweetly,
as to cauſe che Lips of them that are aſleep
N to ſpeak.
4 Ateſſed themſelves to go up to the City,
Wo 25. was ſo extreamly Glorious, that th Id
Cor. iii. not as yet with open Face behold Ai hut
18. through-an Inſtrument made for that Puy-
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way. Now as they came up to theſe Places,
80.1 H- that when they awoke, they ad-
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o What met them, You have but two Difficulties | |
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e Rc Men togoalong with them; 1o they told 1
o Nea they would : But, ſaid they, you mult 5 1
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e hey came within Sight of the Gate |
d Now further ſaw, that detwixt them Death iy.
nd the Gate was a River, but there was no 0. Wwel- _.
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to go over, and the River was very come to Na-
n ffeepz at che Sight therefore of this River, ture, bo
g De Pilgrims were much ſtunned, but the by that we
n Men that went with them ſaid, You muſt paſs our of
r? % rough, or you cannot come at the 7% World
88 ate. W e. 2 into Glory.
7, | The Pilgrims began to enquire,” If there 1 Cor. i.
p as no other Way to the Gate; to which 51, 62.
Jey anſwered, Ves, but there hath not any, Angelulea l
d- Pre Two, to wit, Enoch and Elijab, been per- us aut com-
y. Fitted to tread that Path, fince the Founda-/ortably
p- Pon of the World, nor ſhall until the laſt Brongbb
d), rumpet ſhall ſound. The Pilgrims then Death,
Id Bbecially Cbriſlian] began to deſpond in
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. ay, but ao Way could be found by them,
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were all fa. Depth? They ſaid, No, yet
they could not help them in — Caſe: For,
ſaid they, you ſhall find it deeper or ſhallower,
as you beliete in the KING of the Place.
Then they ddreſſed tnemſelves to the Wa- 4
ter, and entering, Chriſtian began to ſink, ane ; 4
crying.out to his good Friend Hopefol, „
int in deep Waters, ibe Billuus go over my
| Head, all the Waters go over me. Selak. |
| Then ſaid the other, Be of good Chear, m
. Brother, 1 feel the Bottom, and it is
bea faid Chrifian, Ah , my. Friend, TbecChriſian- 8
Sortgs of. Death hath campaſſed: me _ Conduct at
'N 1 all not. fee the Land that flowith with the Howr-
: Milk and Hapey.. And with, that a gone. Death: /
Darkneſs and Horror fell. upon Chriſfian,
that he could not ſee before him. Alſo
he in a great Meaſure. loſt his Senſes, ſo
that he could neither remember, nor order- =
ly talk of any of thoſe ſweet Refreſhments _
that he had met with in the Way of his
Pilgrimage. But all the Words that he
ſpake ſti tended to diſcover that he hall
Horror of Mind, and Heart Fears that"he--
mould die in that River, and never obtan
Entrance in at the Gate. Here alſo, aas
they that ſtood by petceived, he was 8 e
in the troubleſome Thought df the Sins © +. þ
that he had committed, both fincs and > ES
fore he began to be a Pilgrim. Tas
obſerved, that he was 1 3 7
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| ſaying, Brother, I ſee the Gate, and Men Phinit
3 ſtanding by to redeive us; but Chriſtian would em
= anſwer, Tis you, tis you they wait for; you River
1 have been Hopeful ever fince I knew you. Mini
3 And ſo have you, ſaid he to Chriſtian. Ah!
1 | Brother, ſaid he, ſurely if I was right, he
= would now rife to help me, but for my Sins
BY he hath brought me into the Snare, and hath i
lleſt me. I Ren faid Hopeful, My other, .
vpou have quite forgot the Text, where it i
- ſaid of the Wicked; There is n Bands in
their Death, but their Strength is firm, they
ara not troubled as other Men, neither are they
— #acued like other Mein. Thoſe Troubles 'and
Dittrefſes that yon go through in theſe Wa-
ters, ar&ho Sign that God hath forſaken you,
bat are ſent to try you, whether you will call
to Mind that which heretofore you have re-
ceived of his Good neſs, and rely upon him
in your Diſtreſſes. e |
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Chubriſtian Then I ſaw in my Dream that Chri/tian
= . d:{wired was in a Muſe a while, to whom alſo Hope- was
| from his ful added theſe Words, Be of good Chear, iſ
Fears in Jelus Chriſt maketh whole: And with
Death. that Chriſtian brake out with a loud Voice,
q Ialah xl, Oh! J ſee him again, and he tells me, I hen
= uon paſſiſt through the Waters Twill be with
| "of bee and throuph © Rivers, they fall not
oer eau thee. - Then they both took Con-
rage, and the Enemy was after that as ſtill
as a Stone, until they were gone over, Cbri.
Fan therefore preſently found Ground for
10 ſtand upon, and ſo it followed, hs
de reſt of the River was but ſhallow: But
ead, Nuus they got over. Now the Bank of
him, Nhe River on the other Side they ſaw the two
Men Phining Men again, Who there waited for 6
ould bem : Wbereſore, being come out of the 55
you River, they ſaluted them, ſaying, We are Angeli
y ou. Miniſtring Spirits ſent forth to miniſter to wait for
Ah! Fhoſe that ſhall be Heirs of Salvation. Thus hem ſo
he they went along towards the Gate. Now you /oon as
Sins Þnvſt note that the City. ſtood on a mighty they are
lth high Hill, but the Pilgrims went up the Hill paſed out
her, Svith Eaſe; becauſe they bad theſe two Men of this
it i Yo lead them up by the Arms; they had like- World.
> M-iſe leſt their mortal Garments behind them
em, they came out without them. They put off -
and Speed, tho". the Foundation upon which
he City was framed, was higher than the
clouds: They therefore went up through the
re- Region of the Air, ſweetly —— as they
dim fſwent, being comforted, beeauſe they ſafely
got over the Riyer, and had two Glori-
ous Companions. to attend hem.
tian The Talk they had with the Shining Ones
pe- (vas about the Glory of the Place, who tod
ear, hem, That the Beauty and Glory of it was
vith ſnexpreflible. I here, ſaid they, is Mount Heb. xii.
ice, Lian, the Heavenly Jeruſalem, the innumera- 22,23,24.
pen le Company of Angels, and the Spirits of juſt Rev. ii. 7,
ci:h Nen made perfect. Vou are going now, ſaid and iii. 4.
not they, to the Paradiſe of „wherein you”
ou- hall ſee the Tree of Life, and taſte of the
ſtill Neve; fading} Fruits thereof; and when you
Bi · Nome there, you ſhall have White Robes given
for Nou, and your Walk and Talk ſhall be every
that Day with the KING, even all the oy”
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. ſuch Things as you ſaw when you were in the
Ia. vii. lower Region upon the Earth, to wit, Sor
18, 2, and row, Sickneſs, Affliction, and Death, for the
6. 12. former Things are paſſed away. You are
going now to Abrabam, Jſaac, and Jacob,
and to the Prophets, Men that GOD hat
taten away from the Evil to come, and are
nao reſting upon their Beds, each one walk
ing in his Righteouſneſs. e
SIG > Men then asked, What muſt we do inf
+ the Holy Palace? To whom it was anſweredf
Ton muſt there receive the Comforts of a
vi 26 you muſt reap what you have ſown, even the
Gal. vi. 7. Fruit of all your Prayers and Tears and Suf
ferings for the King of the Way. In that Place
you ſhall wear Lt of Gold, and enjoy
the perpe
ONE, for there you ſhall ſee Him as He is.
3 John ., There alſo you ſhall ſerve. Him continual-
i. I, with Praiſe, with Shouting and Thank.
one, whom you defire to ſerve in this
orld, tho' with much Difficulty, becauſe
of the Infirmity of your Fleſh. |
There your Eyes ſhall be delighted. with
ſeeing, and your Ears with hearing the Voice
of the Mizhty One. 2
There you ſhall enjoy your Friends again,
that are gone thither before you, and there q ou
. ſhall witn Joy receive even every one that fol-
Mows into the Holy Place after you. There
alſo you ſhall be cloathed with Glory and Ma-
jeſty, and put into an Equipage fit to.rids out
with the KING of Glory. When he ſhall come
with Sound of Trumpets in the Clouds, as up-
on the Wings of the Ii ind. you ſhall' come with
RE Fn es ol i . him
your Toil, and have Joy for all your Sorrow i
tual Sight and Viſion of the HOLY
The Pilgrim's Pzogreks. 20
bim ; and when he ſhalf fit upon the Throne 1 Theſ. ir.
of Judgment, you ſhall fit by him; yea, and 13,14, 15.
when he ſhall paſs Sentence upon all the Jude xiv.
the Workers of Iniquity, let them be Angels or Dan vii.
are Men, you ſhall alſo have a Voice in chat 9, 10.
acob, Judgment, becauſe: they were his and your 1 Cor. vi.
Enemies. Alſo when he ſhall return again
27 3.
to the City, you ſhall go too, with Sound of
Trumpet, and be ever with bim.
Now while they were thus drawing towards
it was ſaid by the other Two Shining Ones,
FTheſe are the Men that have loved our Lord
i the Gate, behold the Company of the Hea-
venly Hoſt came out to meet them toom
when they were in the World, and that have
left all for his Holy Name, and he hath ſent
us to fetch them, r. we have ht them
thus far on their defired Journey, that they
b may go in and look their Redeemer in the
: Face with Joy. Then the Heavenly' Hoſt
mal; gave a Shout, ſaying,” Bleed are they that Rev. xix.
oki-Y are called to the Marriage-Supper of the Lamb. 25
this There came out alſo 2 this Time to meet
uſe} them, ſeveral of the King's: Trumpeters,
; cloathed in white and ſhining Raiment,. who,
with with melodious Noiſes a:*} loud,; made even
ciceF the Heavens to eccho with their Sound. Theſe
Trumpeters ſaluted Chriſtian and his Fellow
ain, with fen Thouſand. Welcomes from the
vou World; and. this they did wich Shoubing and
fol- Sound of Trumpets.
here This done, they encoitpatied them round
Ma- on every Side, ſome went before, ſome: be-
out hind, and ſome on the Right-hand.” fome
ome on the Left, (as twere to guard them through
up- the Upper Region) continually ſounding as
vith mop: went, in inclodious Noiſe; in Notes on
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could behold i it, as if Heaven itſelf was come .
down to meet them. Thus therefore they
— walked en _ ard as they walked, ever
and anon th Trumpeters, even with joy ful
| Sounds, — be mixing their Muſick with
Looks and Geſtures, to fignify to Chriſtian
and his Brother, how welcome they were un-
to their Company, and with what Gladneſs
they came to meet them: And now were
theſe two Men as it were in Heaven before Rut
they-came at it, being ſwallowed up with the
Sight of the Angels, and with hearing theinff
2 Notes. Here alſo they had th
City itſelf in View, and they thought they
heard all the Bells therein to ring, to welcome
them thereunto: But above all, the warm
and joyſul Thoughts that they had about their
. own dwelling there with ſuch Company, and
+ . - that fot ever and ever: Oh ! by what Tongue
or Pen can that glorious Joy be expreſſed
Thus they came up to the Gate,
Now, when they were come to the
Gate, there was written over it in Leiters of
er v. Bold, Bleſſed are they that do his Command-
* 14. ments, that. the) lay have 2 Title to the
| 2 of Li. and enter in theough the Gates
ie City.
5 ream that the Shini
| | Mobs them call at the Gate 3 the whic
. when they did; ſome from above looked over
. the Gate, to wit, Enoch, Moſes, and Elias, to
whom it was ſaid, Theſe Pilgrims are come
from the City of Deftru Aron through the Love
they bear to the KING of this Place; then © N
the Pilgrims gave in unto them each Man rhi
i denke, which, they had wo. aw
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dme
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em, faid, Whew are the Men ? To whom
Ver Jo anſwered, are ſtanding without
„ful ſhe Gate. The King? then commanded to
N pen the . — * Po * Nation, If. nakas
ian id he, e Truth, may enter in.
un- Now 1 4 ˖ Dream, that theſe two
neſs „
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ore | lumen on Mo ſhone like Gold.
the {ſha alſo that met em with:
1cirfffnd gave em to them, the to
the Tia, and the Crowns in Token of Honour:
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me Yn the City rang again 9
rm aid, Enter" ye. inte a ths Yor of
eir { heard the Men tas ves, that they fung
and Byith a loud Voice, ſaying, Bla. Seas.
lory and Power, bt to bim that fattetÞ upon the
[brone," and te the Lamb for ever and vir.
Now, juſt as the Gates were opened to let
1 the Men, I looked after them, and behbld
ie City ſhone like the Sun, atd the Streets
tes Heads, Palms 3 in theit Hands, and Golden
* ing Praiſes withal.
105 were alſo. of them chat had Wing
ich land they anfwered one another, wichoat Inter
ver
miſhon, ſayi
Lord. - And
that they ſhut up
mong them
I who when ho bed rend ;
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io were Gaved with Gold, and in them
alked many Men with Crowus on their
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Ignorance but he ſoon got over, and that without half
che Þflgrim's. Progzeſs..
comes up tothe Difficulty which the other two Men met
the River, with. 'For it happen'd there'was then in that
and Vain- Place one Yain-Hope, a Ferry man, that with
hope Fer- his Boat helped him over; ſo be, as the other,
ries him
er.
ſhould have been qui
I ſaw, did aſcend the Hill to come up to the
Sate; only he came alone, neither did any
Man meet him with the leaſt Encouragement.
When he was come up to the Gate, he looked
up to the Writing that was above, and then
began to knock, ſuppoſing that Entrance
wi y admmilter'd to him:
But he was asked by the Man that looked
over the Top of the Gate, Whence come
yoa? And, What would you have? He an-
ſwered, I have eat and drank in the Preſence
of the King, and he has taught in our Streets,
Then they asked him for his Certificate, that
they might go in and ſhew it to the King: So
he fumbled in his Boſom for one, and found
none Then ſaid they, You have none; but
the Man anſwered never a Word. So they
told the King, but he would not come down
to ſee him, but commanded the Tavo Shining
Ones that conducted Chriſtian and Hopeful to
the City, to go out and take Jg ance, and
bind him Hand and Foot, and have him
away: Then they took him up, and carried
him through the Air to the Door that I ſaw
in'the Side of the Hill, and put him in there,
Then Lſaw that there was a Way to Hell,
even from the Gates of Heaven, as well as
from the City of Deftru#iom, 80 I awoke,
and behold it was a DRE AM.
Th
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The Pilgrim s Pzogzeſs. 20
| e CONCLUSION.
ith OV, Reader, I have told my Dream to Thee,
| | Spe if thou can Interpret it to Me, 1
r to Thyſelf, or Neighbours, but take heed 1
7 Miſ-interpeting ; for that inflead
doing Good, wii but thyſelf abuſe
yy Miſ-interpreting, Evil enſues.
ale heed alfa That thou be not extream
nce I. playing 2vith the Outſide of my Dream ; *
im: {Wor der m Figure or Similitude |
ked Wet thee into a Laughter or a Feud ;
ave this 27 Boys and Fools ; but as for Thee,
Thon the Subſtance of my Matter /ce,
ut by the Curtains, hook within my Vail;
wn up my Metaphors, and do not fail;
here, 15 thou Jeekeft them, ſuch Things thou'lt find
; avill be ho * to an r 5 ä
hat of thou there, be
red Hop. to „ but 4 the Gold.
bat if my Gold be wrapped up in Ore ?
me throws away the Apple for the Core ;
tif Thou ſhalt caſt all away as vain,”
tnow not but 'twill make me. Dream again.
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HE ATRICAL Entertainments chave eyer | been num-
bered among the Favourite Auen of the politeſt
% Ane
Per and Nations. As they have ty powerful Influence in
forming the Manners, Morals * and Politics of the People, the
wiſeſt Legiſlators have Fought them worthy of their beſt Care and
Attention. In a well: governed 1 Theatre, Vibe is 18 preſented to us in
its own native/Turpitude, and Deformity, w while Virti ue is not only
ſhewn in her lovelieſt, natural Form, but, if poſſible, rendered
more , amiable, more deſirable, by the Charms of Poetry, and
the warmeſt Colourings of the Imagination. The Paſſions, that
ſeem to have been placed by Nature in Oppoſition to Reaſon, are
here engaged in its Defence, The Senſes, too generally the dan-
gerous Deceivers, Betrayers and Seducers of the, human Heart,
here impreſs upon it the pleaſing and powerful Ideas of Virtae.
Here Wiſdom, Courage and Magnanimity are taught by Examples,
oO...
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121
for has the Patriot, who fought, and bled, and died * his Coun-
try (a Conſummatian, devoutly to be wiſhed) is raiſed from his Tomb
to act the glorious Part ain. and then conſigned to Immorta-
lity.
USES Os
Impoſlible, but an Audience muſt feel the Paſſions, which ſuch
a Scene inſpires. They mult ardently wiſh. to emulate the Virtue
they applaud; or in | the Language of our laft Poet, ,
Who ſees him act, but envies every Deed?
| Who Hears him n and does not wiſh to bleed?
10 92112111814. 89:
Yet not even from, this Inſtance wil acknowledge the FIC W
Utility of the tragick to the comick Drama. In general, its boaſt-
ed Superiority is founded rather on that Sptendour of Sentiments,
that Sublimity o of Language, and that Agitation of the Paſſions, un-
known to every other Kind of dramatick erties than- -upon any
ſuperior Uſefulneſs tc to the State, for which it ſhould principally be
encouraged by the Wiſdom of Legiſlature, In proof of this Aſſer-
tion, Ariſtophanes did more Service to the Athenian Commonwealth
by bunging a a mock Patriot, a factious Demagogue, and a Leader
of Oppoſition upon the stage, than ever it received from all the
8 pathetick Scenes of Euripides, Or the Sublimity of Sentiments and
Language, with which Sophocles repreſented his Heroes,
The Opinion of Plato ſhould be deciſive upon this Queſtion.
He ſent a Copy of Ariſtophanes his Plays to Dionyſius, the Tyrant,
and-
[3]
and defired him to read them with Attention, if he wiſhed to un-
derſtand the Conſtitution, and know the Affairs of the Athenian
Commonwealth. The Poet himſelf informs us, that the King of
Perſia, after the firſt Queſtion of Ceremony, which he aſked the
Grecian Ambaſſadors, made honourable Inquiry' concerning Ariſto-
phanes, and aflured them, that if the Athenians would take him
into their Councils, they would ſoon be victorious over their Ene-
mies.
- - Surely theſe Proofs are ſufficient to evince the great Utility of
Comedy to the political Intereſts of the State. But while we honour
our Poet, as a Stateſman, we muſt applaud the Intrepidity of his
Spirit, both as an Author, and an Actor, in bringing, like another
Hercules, the Cerberus of Athens, according to his own Compari-
ſon, upon the Stage: Cleon, the Perſon, who is preſented to us
under this Image, was unqueſtionably a Man of Parts and Genius;
.of Artifice and Intrigue; but neither Experience, nor Application
could render him a Man of Buſineſs, or capable of governing the
Commonwealth. The Vivacity of his Imagination, and the natu-
ral Impetuoſity of his Temper, too impatient to wait for the ſlow
Deciſions of Judgment, entered with Violence into his Politicks.
His Eloquence was not ill-ſuited to the Underſtanding of a po-
pular Aſſembly. It was amuſing, plauſible and ſpecious; but was
neither perſuaſive, convincing, nor commanding. It was all Pre-
miſſes, without any Concluſion, and not one ſingle ergo in a thou-
fand
ſand Sentences. His happieſt 'orataxicsl Talents .copfifteg. in_yehe=
ment profeſſions of Zeal for the Welfare and Glory of the: Repub-
lick, which he repeated with many a ſolemn Appeal to, the Gods
in Atteſtation of his Sincerity. Theſe Profeſſions had; ſuch an In
Auence upon the People, that merely by their: Faun; dhe was in-
truſted with the ſole Conduct of the War againſt the iacedemenians,
which from thence was 1 and jetty Ryled, eps War.
From this Time, he was perpetually exerciſing and indulging his
Genius in forming military Plans, Projects, Enterpriaes and Ex-
peditions, to which he ſacrificed the general Interefts of the War,
and upon which, by exerting an inſolent Authority over: a weale,
ſuperannuated, timid Lord of che Treaſury, he laviſhed away ithe
Revenues of the State, with a moſt ruinous Prodigality. When
he had unexpeQedly ſucceeded in one of theſe Expeditions, (a
Attempt upon a little Iſland, called SphaBteria): he was ſo elated
with his Succeſs, Which, in the Pride of his Heart, he uſed fre-
quently to call THE IMPORTANT CONQUEST of Spha#eria, that
| when Sparta ſent Deputies to Athens to ſolicite a Peace, upon the
moſt equitable and honourable Conditions, he rejected them with
Diſdain, and treated the Ambaffadore with all his natural Infolence
of Temper, |
,
In repreſenting the Conduct of bis Generals, for h1s they were, as he
alone nominated and appointed them, he had a peculiar Art of magni-
fying a Skirmiſh into a Battle, and an undecided Battle into a Victory,
4 5 e for
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bor! which: he ordered a general Sacrifice to Fortune, his Goddeſs
and his Patroneſs. Then would he carry a few tattered Enſigns,
a Parcel of bruiſed Helmets, broken Drums and cracked Trum-
pets, taken from the Enemy, in triumphal Proceſſion through the
City to the Temple of Fame. Or if the native Intrepidity, and
ready Diſcipline of the national Troops, although almoſt totally
deſerted by their Allies, had changed a Surpriſe into a Victory,
he covered his General's Want of Intelligence with a Profuſion of
Praiſes, and applauded him for a Battle he had won, without
knowing any Thing of the Matter. Had he been alive in this
Country ſome few Years ago, he would have boldly aſſerted in the
Senate, - that the Battle of Minden Was: 9 i le eſs _— to Britain,
than the Victory 77 Blenheim. "
If another of bis Gebe ardent to perform thoſe Services to
his Country, which the expected from his Abilities; if animated
by Dangers, and catching an additional Ardour to conquer from a
Situation, in which any other Commander would have ſunk into
Deſpair ; if by one nobleſt effort of Courage and Conduct united,
he gained a complete, deciſive Conqueſt, and gloriouſly for his own
Reputation, though unhappily for his Country, died in the Arms
of Victory, our Cleon modeſtly claimed a Part in his Succeſs, and
received the Sennen of his Creatures for having called tim
Forth fo this Expedition.” Then was it aſſerted in the Senate, that
the General was made "for the S tateſman; and the Stateſman was
made 2 the General. Amazing, that he could ſuffer himſelf to be
C thus
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thus bedawbed by his vile Panegyriſt with Flattery, as groſs and
fulſome, as the Moloſſes of a Jauaica 3 Nec Hinge |
donatus munere erubuit. | |
However, he l 2 Monument to be erected, at the public
Expence, to the Memory of the deceaſed Hero, and aſſumed to
— himſelf the Glory of pronouncing his funeral Oration, as if he
were moſt nearly related to him in Reputation, Friendſhip or Al-
Lance. . But, alas! how unaffecting, how inanimate and feeble !
As if he were conſcious, that every ſingle Member in the Aſſem-
bly knew the faithleſs Promiſes of Succour and Support, by which
his Country's Soldier, her preſent Pride and future Wee
was betrayed to Deſtruction.
Such was the Character of Om. when Ariſtophanes exhibited
| * on the Stage. But ſo formidable had he made himſelf to the
Liberty of the Stage, as dear to Athens, as the Liberty of the Preſs
to Britain, that no Actor would dare to play the Part; nor could
our Author find an Artiſt, bold enough to make a Maſk for it. He
therefore daubed his Face with the Lees of Wine, and played it
himſelf.
1 know the preſent Taſte is paſſionately fond of ſeeing extra-
ordinary Characters brought upon the Stage, and therefore, I pre-
ſume that Con will be ſoon exhibited at one, or perhaps both
of our Theatres. Let me then implore our judicious and ſaga-
cious
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cious theatrical Criticks to determine, whether ſo valuable a Cha-
tacter ſhould be the Property of Tragedy or Comedy. The Athe-
nians haye been juſtly called a laughing People. Laughter and'a
Love of News, were their national Characteriſticks. Their Re-
' Tigion and its Gods; their Politicks, and the Perſons, who directed
their Affairs; even their own Follies and Vices were the favourite
Subjects of their Merriment. Ariſtophanes poſſeſſed all the Ta-
lents of Ridicule, neceſſary to gratify this popular Taſte. Vet
might we not naturally expect to ſee ſuch a Character, as that of
| Cleon, whoſe Love of his Country was an arrogant Ambition to
govern it, and whoſe private Reſentment was his public Virtue,
_ exhibited rather on the Stage of Tragedy, than Comedy ? Are they,
who put on the Semblance of Patriotiſm, and the Maſk of Pro-
þity, to act the Parts of Avarice and Ambition; who employ their
Talents, Abilities, and Intereſts to perplex the public Councils;
are theſe Men to be repreſented as Objects of Laughter only, and
| Ridicule? No. They ſhould be ſhewn amidſt the Terrors of Tra-
gedy, ſtarting in their Dreams, like Richard in the Agonies of con.
ſcious Guilt, and agitated by the honeft upbraidings of their own
Hearts, even amidſt the Succeſs of their — and the Applauſes
of their Party.
Or if we are compelled to pay an unwilling Homage to theſe
| heroic Spirits, who have boldly claimed, and ſucceſsfully gained a
Superiority over their Fellow- Subjects: if we are obliged by the
Rules of Criticiſm to _— that theſe important Characters have a
right
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right to appear on the great Scene of Tragedy, yet in what Species
of the Drama ſhall we place the Actors, who are to play the Mob
of Paction, the Simpletons of party, and the Dupes of Oppoſition ?
Where ſhould we have exhibited thoſe profound Admirers of a
Chon's Eloquence and Abilities, who profeſſed to believe, or per-
haps, honeſt Simpletons! really believed his Profeſſions of diſin-
tereſted Zeal for the Republic? Such Characters would debaſe the
Dignity of Tragedy, or outrage the natural Manners of Comedy.
| Letthem therefore be conſigned hereafter to the extravagant Plea-
ſantries of Farce, and to that Contempt, which is always mixed
with immoderate Laughter.
Many a ſleepleſs, reſtleſs, Night had I meditated on this Sub-
ject, and for the Good of my Country, for I too am a Patriot, en-
deavoured to reconcile theſe Difficulties. I had long obſerved with
infinite Anxiety, and at laſt with abſolute Deſpair, that the three
great Species of the Drama, Tragedy, Comedy and Farce, were
rendered, by therr being ſeparately exhibited to the Public, almoſt 2
incapable of thoſe important Services, which their being united in |
one Piece would certainly produce. I ſaw the Neceſlity of uniting
them, that their different characters might be brought upon the
Scene together. 1 was convinced, with how much mutual Advan-
tage they would appear, when contraſted with each other.
collected, that Sophocles, Euripides, and even Plato, had written
a great Number of Pieces, in which Gods and Heroes; Cowards
PDrunkards, Peaſants and Buffoons, are mingled together in the 1
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bigkeſ tedgical Pong of Sentiments and Language, mixed with the
loweſt Ribaldry of comick Humour. Theſe dramatick Pieces were
called SATYRs, and my-learned Readers will ſee by the Motto of
theſe Papers, which, for the ſake of my unlearned Readers, I ſhall
tranſlate, that Horace recommended them to the Roman Writers |
for the Stage, although probably without Succeſs. The Romans
had neither that Sublimity of Genius, nor that tragical Dignity of
Expreſſion, nor that vis comica, fo abſolutely neceſſary to carry
this nobleſt Species of dramatick Writing to its Perfection. But
5 our illuſtrious Moderns, ſo eminently knowing in all theatrical Arts,
in the Coups de theatre and ſonorous Diction of Tragedy; in the
Jeu de theatre and politer Dialogue of Comedy, will undoubtedly
execute with ſucceſs, what the Romans attempted in vain,
While I deſpaired of ever ſeeing a Set of Actors fit for this great
Drama, with what Rapture, what Tranſport did J hear, my Readers
too ſhall be rapt; like me ſhall be tranſported, when they hear,
that there is, at this Moment, a Company of Comedians, actually
formed. upon this Plan of the ancient Satyrick Drama, and prepar-
ing to exhibit themſelves to the Publick. There are not indeed,
any Gods or Heroes among them, as in the ancient Satyrs, but
they have this peculiar Happineſs, that many of them have played
| thoſe very Parts in real Life, which they now intend to perform
upon the Stage. They have been Miniſters of State; Secretaries
of State, and of War; Lords of the Treaſury, Admiralty, Trade,
and the Bed- chamber. They have ben Cabinet and Privy -
Db | Coun-
1
3 Chancellors of the Exchequer, with a thanked: &c.
They are therefore always ready in their Parts, and humbly willing
to appear again in the Characters, they played ſo long, whenever
the people, whoſe ſervants they call themſelves, ſhall give them
their royal Licence for acting, as they do not greatly like the uſual
Style of our Play- bills, By HIS MA JESTY's COMMAND.
Never was there ſuch an illuſtrious Sey. 150 Now was an
Actor, and played the Fiddle to the burning of Rome. But as it
is cuſtomary to give the dramatis perſona of a new Play, I ſhall
here attempt the Characters of the principal Comedians, who are
going to make their Appearance in our new Theatre, Let me only
be allowed one general Remark, that every one of them, by pure
Force of Genius, ſuperior to the mere mechanical Powers of Na-
ture, is able, upon the quickeſt Change of the Scene, to play the
molt oppoſite Parts, while Garrick, that ſervile Imitator of Nature,
| muſt have at leaſt four and twenty Hours between the honourable
Murderer Othello, and the exceeding Honeſty of Jago; between the
gallant Villainy of Pierre, and the Lover's Tenderneſs of Jaffier;
between the genteel Vivacity of Archer, and the low Buffoonery of
Scrub. But now to my Promiſe.
The oldeſt Actor in the Company has held, for many Years, an
unaccountable Influence over all the Perſons, who are to make their
Appearance in our new Theatre, though they have however pru-
dently reſerved to — at preſent, a Right of exhibiting their
: Ialents
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Talents on any other ſtage, which the Fate of Politicks, 2
at preſent moſt unlikely, may poſſibly erect hereafter. He has
long been bacłnied in the Tricks of the Stage, and no Man better
knows the mere Mechaniſm of a political Play. Then he can tell,
by Experience, rather than any peculiar Sagacity, the Merit, and
RD conſequently the Price, of every Creature belonging to a Theatre,
from a principal Performer down to a Candle-ſnuffer, or lower
ſtill, to him, who humbly moves to light them; from the Actor of
a long and capital Part to the Speaker of a ſingle Monoſyllable.
Never did Manager more eminently poſſeſs that important Art of
filling the Pit, Boxes and Galleries with Orders; from whence he
could determine the Fate of a new Play, by a ſingle Glance of his
Eye into the Houſe. He was indeed an excellent Prompter, and
had a peculiar Manner, a curieſa felicitas, when an Actor heſitated,
or forgot his Part, of giving him his Cue, and the proper Tone for
entering again into his Character: He never played any conſider-
able Character himſelf, except in the TRAGEDY or MINORC A, in
thoſe Scenes eſpecially, in which an Admiral was facrificed to the
Honour of Adminiſtration, and a General, almoſt as old, | and quite
28 poor as Belizarius, was ſent a begging, untill he was relieved by
the Compaſſion and Bounty of his Sovereign. Still paſſionately
fond of the Tumults, the Clappings and Hiſſings, which were once
the Delight and Exerciſe of his Youth, our ſuperannuated Player
appears, as often as he can, upon the Stage, and rejoices to act the
little Parts, allotted to him by the Pity and Indulgence of the Ma-
| nager, now ſuited to the Decay of his Abilities, and the total Loſs of
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his Memory. Poor Man! He has even forgotten the theatrical
Vanity of conteſting for the principal Characters, and is contented.
to play any ſecond-rate Part to an Actor, with whom, a few Years,
ago, he would have ſcorned to appear upon the Stage.
Thus the laſt Scene of his eventful Hiſtory
Is ſecond Childiſhneſs, and mere Oblivion,
Sans Teeth, ſans Eyes, fans Taſte, fans every thing.
Oh! Quin, how do 1 revere thy Wiſdom! th. quitted the *
in full Poſſeſſion of all your theatrical Powers, when you were
equally capable of charming the Many, as deſerving, what you. rather
choſe, the Approbation of the Few. You retired, wiſely deter-
mined, according to your own humorous Expreſſion, never 10
whiſtle the King's Engliſb upon the Stage.
I have already given, in the Character of Cleon, ſome Features
of a very ſtrong Reſemblance between Him, and another Actor in
the Company; ſo nearly are the Scenes in real Life allied to thoſe
upon the Stage. This Perſon was originally a ſtrolling Player, wan-
dering, till very lately, from Theatre to Theatre, for a better Salary.
However ardent his Inclination to acting, and particularly to appear- BY
ing in ſome favourite, popular Character, yet he publickly declared
his Intention of playing any Part the Manager pleaſed to appoint
for him, if he were made Pay-maſter general to the Company.
This Employment was always thought rather an Obje& of Profit
than Ambition, and therefore not very Honourable, The Manager
refuſed
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| refuſed. to give it him, and, from the Moment of the Refuſal,
experienced every kind of Oppoſition to his Meaſures for the Gold
of the Company, which our Actor's natural Turbulence of Spirit,
his diſappointed Hopes, and implacable Reſentment, could imagine
or deviſe. The ſucceeding Manager gratified his Deſire, - and from
thence held him for many Years, either'a Mute, or a Speaker, as
be thought fitting. | |
Our Actor, it is generally acknowledged, was once a capital Per-
former, and although not in the full Vigour of his Faculties at pre-
ſent; yet the Decay of his Powers is not very perceptible, and is
totally denied by his Admirers. However, as he has often played
all the various Characters, that enter into the political Drama, from
| the Solemnity of Tragedy to the Buffoonery of Farce, he is as
excellent at inſtructing our young Actors to ſpeak, as Mr. Hart at
teaching grown Gentlemen to dance. It is almoſt impoſſible to
conceive, how ſoon he forms them to pronounce, with ſomething
like an Air of Dignity, thoſe important Words, ConTENT or Nor
ConTENT, which occur in almoſt every Scene; or to repeat, with
proper Emphaſis, and Vociferation, thoſe two far more important
Monoſyllables, Ay or No. As no Player better knows the Value
of a ſteady, and inflexible Countenance in Scenes of ſtrong Aſſer-
tion and Affirmation, ſo he recommends it with Vehemence to
his Pupils. Such are thoſe Scenes, in which an Actor is obliged by
the Poet to appeal to Heaven, I confeſs, a little too irreligiouſly,
for the Sincerity of his Heart, when he profeſſes the fixed, unal-
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terable Principles of Truth and Honour, upon which he acts, amidſt
a thouſand Variations of Character and Diſguiſe. A
But ERIE we be e 6
Actor, yet when the Scene changes, or the Incidents vary, he
ſhould have a ready Command of every Feature in. his Face. He
_ ſhould be able to expreſs in every Look, and even in Silence, et
claufis faucibus loquente geſtu, thoſe nobleſt of all the human Paſ-
fions, the Love of Liberty and our Country, with which, he would
appear to be ſtrongly agitated himſelf, and which he would imprefG
upon his Audience.
He. ſhould l be cautious by feeling thefe Paſſions too ſen-
| ſibly, for certainly too much Senſibility will ar bis Counter feiting.
Even in the very Torrent, Tempeſt, and (as I may ſay) Whirlwind of
Paſſion, he ſhould remember, he is only playing a Part. 1 have
heard, that Broughton has often declared, he was indebted for many
a ſharp Victory to the conſtant Recollection, that he was fighting
a Prize, and therefore ſhould never waſte his Strength in Anger
and Reſentment. for the. many hard Knocks he received? Who
does not honour and admire in our Bruiſer the manly Fortitude, and
philoſophical Command of his Temper, i in ſo ſevere a Scene, Let
me be forgiven, if I doubt whether there be more than one Actor
in our illuſtrious Company, who. could ſuſtain his Character, and ;
temperately endure the Buffetings of ſo rude a Part, Vet, in ge-
neral, an Actor, who would command the Paſſions of his Au-
| | dience,
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dience, | ſhould be an abſolute Maſter of his own. To the due
| Obſervance of this Precept, the Player i in Hamlet was indebted for
his Excellence,
Who in a Fiction, in a Dream of Paſſion,
Could force his Soul fo to his own Conceit,
That from her working all his Viſage warm' d,
Tears in his Eyes, Diſtraction in his Aſpect,
A broken Voice and his whole Function ſuiting
With Forms to his Conceit, and all for NoTHING.
I * the Application of theſe Lines to the Sagacity of our ar Player,
and ſhall only make one Remark. upon them, that Actors and
Oraters, as well as Poets, ſucceed beſt in Fiction. But, perhaps,
I have wronged the Gentleman, by imputing to him theſe Feelings and
Senfibility of Heart. He may think them a Difhonour to his Un-
derſtanding, and to that ſtoical Apathy, which ſeems to be the
Perfection of pure and unmixed Reaſon: Let us acknowledge,
hat he really holds a ſtrong Command over the Paſſions, that in
general moſt violently agitate the human Heart. I mean the Paſ-
ſions of Anger and Reſentment. Is he, to- day accuſed of Perfidy
and Infincerity ; of /acrilegioufly teariug out the Bowels of bis Mo»
ther C.untry, yet he ſhall to-morrow take his Acculer to his Bofom,
and cordially receive him into the ſame theatrical Intereſts. He
temperately tes ollects, that he himſelf had often. uſed the ſame free
Expreſſion of his Sen.iments, when he was. obliged to play what-
ever Part the Manager thought fit, for the Stipend he received.
| | But
But I find, I am enlarging. theſe Characters, as if they, were in-
tended for future Hiſtory, not merely for Anecdotes of the preſent
Day. TI ſhall therefore imitate hereafter our divine Milton in his
Deſcription of the Pandemonium. . He has contracted his yulger
Devils to a Cnc le fs than the ſmall: Dwarfs,
While the great Land. and Cherubim af Hell,
All in their own Dimenſions, like themſelves, |
In cle Receſs, and 1 ſecret Conclave fat ng
Within h' infernal Court.
Ia Imitation of this Paſſage, I ſhall give the Characters, or Pictures
rather, of ſome few of our principal Actors, in their own Dimenſions,
like themſelves, large as the Life, and fit for the Honour of being hung
up in the Guild Hall of London, the Chamber-of Exeter, and the
Common-Council Room of Dublin, each of them- with a gold-
Box of Freedom in his Hand. I ſhall hang them round with Por-
traits of our ſmaller Players in Miniature, yet will I not deſpair, and
without” being thought too much a Flatterer, of preſerving a Like-
neſs, even in their Littleneſs, I do not preſume to cry out with
Correggio in his Rapture.——T too am a Painter but I hope, I may
with Modeſty pretend to taking a Likeneſs, as it is the meaneſt
Excellence in the whole Art of Painting. The wooden Portraits,
hung up by his Grace's Butler at Clermont, or by the Coachman
of a certain right honourable at Hayes, in Gratitude for his not
* his Sett of Horſes, are as ſtrong Reſemblances of thoſe il-
luſtrious
Col
luſtrious Perſonages, as ever were given to the Public by Ramſay
or Reynolds.
Shall I be forgiven a little Vanity? I flatter myſelf, I have ſome |
Judgment in placing the Picture of a great Man in that certain
Point of Light, in which it may be ſcen to greateſt Advantage ; or
of hanging it at its proper Height for exciting the Wonder and
Admiration of the Multitude. Neither the Picture, nor the Ori-
ginal, ſhould be approached too nearly. Thoſe Tins, which ap-
| pear ſoft and level to the Eye at a due Diſtance, if we view them
too cloſely, will be found a mere Heap of Colours, injudiciouſly and
even rudely thrown from the Pencil. The conſtant Smile of Af.
fability and Condeſcenſion. becomes a broad, Sardonick, Diſtortion
of all the riſible Muſcles ; and that Air of Dignity, a at a
proper Diſtance, juſtly demanded my Reſpect, upon a nearer View
is not a Conſciouſneſs of ſuperior Abilities, which I was willing |
to acknowledge, but an Inſolence, that very frankly calls me his
Inferior. Laſtly, the Colours of inflexible Patriotiſm, and rigid
Juſtice, when. taken down from their Height, will be found the
ſtrong, TOs of n Faction and Popularity.
I now return . this 1 my firſt Digreſſion, and (hall make my
Reader ſome Recompence for my Wandering by the next Charac-
ter in my Dramatis Perſone. This Actor is poſſeſſed of all the
great Talents, neceſſary for the Stage. His Deportment is truly
theatrical; his Actic n various and animated; his Elocution rapid
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and vehement, yet always clear and diſtinct. With ſuch Talents,
which might naturally render him worth any Salary to 2 Manager,
he is become abſolutely uſeleſs, and, ſtrange to ſay, almoſt con-
tewptible. From the natural Levity and Inconſtancy of his Tem-
per, the Curtain is often drawn up, and the Play begun, before he
has determined what Part he ſhall act. As an inordinate and inſa-
tiable Appetite for Applauſe i is the Paſſion of his Life; as he wiſhes: |
to be admired, no matter for Approbation, he would willingly ſpeak: |
every Speech i in the Play himſelf, to convince bis Audience, O w
capable he is of ſhining in all its Characters. When he is on the
| Stage, he is perpetually looking round the Houſe for Applauſe, and-
if he ſees a Woman ef Quality in the Gallery, what prodigious Ef-
forts does he not exert to purchaſe the favourable Opinion of ſuch
a Critic ? Then ſuch a Profuſion of Tropes and Figures and Flaſhes
of Rhetoric; ſuch ſplendid Sentiments, violent Antitheſes, with
all of wandering, ranting, flouriſhing, dectairning and * Jon
Quitting Bufineſs for a ſhew of Parts. |
et perhaps her Ladyſhip knows nothing of RY a .
upon which he pours forth his ſpecioſa miracula. But Women, of.
Quality muſt be every where, and a 98 is a On mm it
were at Church. |
There is yet another of our illuſtrious Dramatiſts, well worth:
_ deſcribing, although I am obliged, unwillingly, to confeſs, that
his theatrical Powers are not extraordinary. His Wali in Tragedy:
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is mch donfned, and; Truth to ſay,” his Features have no Reliſh
in them of comic Humour and Pleaſantry. His Genius was wholly
militaty, and. ſuch” were the ſtrong Tendencies even of his Infancy
to martial Glory, and to Feats of Arms, "that his __ Heart was
charmed, ike Deſdemona- „ with Tales, l 159% lh 5. edu
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Of hair-breadth Scapes in thy i imminent deadly Breach. EY g
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In his riper Years; he Jed no; 1 miſtake he ad not + head
the Britiſh Cavalry at the Battle -of I forgat the Name——in
Baycs's' Rehearſal, | Elated by the ' Succeſs, in this Battle, with
which he charged the Enemy, he: reſolved to buy Dimmock's
Horſe, and throw bis Gauntlet at every theatrical Coronation,
as Champion of bis Bondy s Crown and Dignity. - All his
Thoughts, Word ords $ and Actions are War. He eats, drinks, ſleeps
and dreams, Uke a Soldier, of cutting foreign Threats, of: Breacbes,
Ambaſeadves, Spaniſh Blades: He kiſſes the Hilts of a Man of Hon-
our, who loves fighting for fighting's Sake. Fighting's to him Religion
and hi Laws: Then the big Voice of War, and the Thunder of the
Cannon are in his Mouth, when he gives the Word ob: n.
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Sand all the hfty Tofiruments of Wa ar.
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He i is himſelf no mean Performer upon twoiof: theſe wartiah 1
ments, the Drum and Fife. He plays Nancy Dawſon, and the
Roſt-Beef of Old England, to à Miracle; but, ſtrange and un-
accountable | he never could touch a Note'of the Black Joke, to
which
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which our Regiments of Guards dance their Exerciſe with ſo much
Vigour and Alacrity. However, in his too fervent Paſſion for |
Hleroiſm and Heroics, he once unfortunately attempted a capital
military Character, in which he was ſo unmercifully hiſſed by the
whole Audience, that he has never ſince appeared, nor indeed
ever can appear again upon the Stage, with any common De-
cency. Yet he has lately reconciled himſelf to the principal Actor
in the Company, who once held him in utter Averſion and Con-
tempt, but has now taken a huge Liking to him. By this Perſon's
Intereſt he ſti l indulges his Paſſion for War, and leads the dreadful
Van of Battle-behiad the Scenes, with eminent Courage © and Con-
duct. ach bs me Part, |
I believe, I may PL 3 ER ee FRO Proofs, torely =
upon the Judgment of our theatrical Critics, with Regard to the
public Utility of that Species of the Drama, which is now fortu-
nately recovered. from Antiquity, and which I here recommend to
their Patronage and Protection. Nor can 1 doubt of its Succeſs |
upon the Stage, when ſupported by four ſuch Players, to whom all
the Theatres: in Europe are incapable, of adding a fifth of equal
Merit in all the different Characters of their Profeſſion. Let not
my Readers however imagine, that there are not other Actors of
great Abilities in this new Company. For inſtance, Mr. —— al-
ways opens his Orations in that vehement Style. and Spirit of oratori-
cal: Interrogations, which once were thought peculiar to. the Elo-
mm of Demoſthenes.
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Immortaliz d the Greek and Roman Name 7
Where do the Demoſthenick Thunders roll?
What Tullys ſoft Perſuaſion charms the Soul?
What Cato vindicates his Country's Cauſe?
What Brutus now the Sword of Freedom draws?
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Our Otter, from: his « own a Fite, not in ſervite Ftittaion of
Demoſthenes, would himſelf have anſwered theſe vehement Queſ- |
tions, with the ſame Rapidity, with which he had aſked them.
How unhappy, that he was interrupted I | his Enthuſiaſm by an in-
| ſipid; lifeleſs matter of Fact, which no one ever doubted. Beſides,
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there i is a cold proſaick Flatneſs in the Anſwer, that makes it a per-
n WN to the 1 rn of the Queſtions
Voll gad hom al, Sir, at the Corxxir.
Now r jſes up our Orator of Monoſyllables and Adverbs, for Ad-
| verbs are all the Parts of Speech | in his oratorical Grammar. They
are his Nouns, | Pronouns, Verbs, Patticiples, Acjeftives and
Conjunctions. |
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On theſe dere Things, Sir, when 1e a Speech,
I know not, nor I care not, which is which;
But that here Friend of mine is wiſe and great;
And, Sir, in theſe here Times, 'tis HE muſt i the State. '
Theſe two Speeches will u give an ample Idea both of 4 lofty, and
the low Sublime. They are the very Top and Bottom of all hu-
man Eloquence, and conſequently muſt include all the middling
Degrees, if Oratory will allow that Mediocrity, which Poetry diſj-
claims. My Readers, therefore, will acknowledge, that it is ab.
ſolutely upnecefiary to give them any more Speeches; and I have
only to Eire them, in their great Candour, to believe, though per-
haps it may be difficult to believe, that all the h of all our
other Actors arBequally.
ent.
Here we ſhould acknowledge, that our younger Players ies |
given ſome hopeful Specimens of very pretty Abilities. They are
the Spring of our theatrical Year, whoſe budding and bloſſoming,
thus early, give Hopes and Promiſe of a fruitful Autumn. With
many natural Endowments, ſuch as ſtrong Lungs, and a good- Me-
mory, they have nothing of Art to unlearn; no malus puder, no
French mauvaiſe honte, no Engliſh | Baſhfulneſs. There i is not ®
youth among them, who, in the Conſciouſneſs of his own Abi-
lities, does not think himſelf, even at this Moment, perfectly qua-
jified to play a Secretary of State, a Lord of Admiralty or Trade ;
2 Lord High Chancellor, or a * of Canterbury.
How-
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| However, the Gentleman, who i is at. preſent inſtructing them l in
his own graceful Action of keeping one Hand in his Pocket, and
ſawing the Air with the other; whoſe Cares are em ployed i in form-
ing their Elocution upon other Principles, than ever were known
to the Ancients, and particularly in teaching them to pronounce
thoſe important Monoſyllables, I mentioned, with ſuch a forceful
Articulation, that two and two ſhall appear as loud, as twenty :
this Gentleman, I ſay, has aſſured them, that they are fit to ſuc-
ceed either himſelf, or any other great Actor in the Company,
whenever they ſhall think proper to quit the Stage.
This able Performer, to whoſe Direction his Pupils have reſigned
their beſt Underſtandings, their Delicacy of Sentiments with re-
| gard to Honour and Reputation, had 'p to open the Houſe
laſt November; the Month, in which our "political "Theatres are
generally opened. But whether he had not yet determined, what
part he ſhould himſelf play; whether he expected, that ſome Pro-
poſals would be made him, of more Advantage and a better Sa-
lary, by another Company; ; whether the principal Actors, who had
often played with him, and therefore, knowing his natural Diſ-
pokition, ſuſpected him of ſuch a Deſign; whether theſe Actors,
now] grown more ſenſible of their own Abilities, demanded the
Honour of playing ſome capital Characters, which he, well know-
ing the ſpecial Ridiculouſneſs of their attempting ach Characters,
abſolutely cum; them whether 975 or all of theſe Cauſes con-
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It is at preſent in a moſt miſerable Condition; as dirty, as tho
Augean Stable, and will require another Herculean Labour to
make it- tolerably clean. In very Truth, ſa dirty, at 4 Man of
any Cleanlineſs of Ideas could ſcarce endure to put his Head into
it. But it will be opened with all poſfible Splendour, and a SA TRV
of infinite Promiſe and Expectation, called THe New RR VoI U-
TION, will be exhibited with all theatrical Pomp and Decorations,
Many of the Scenes are to be. painted i in the Taſte of a Chineſe
Landſcape, as wild, groteſque and whimſical ; as charmingly ridi-
culous, and as unnalwhak. + The Figures in them, like thpſe; in a
Chineſe Picture, are to be all principaliz- atIto., come, equally for |
ward out of the Canvas, without 3 grouping, kebias
pe : Lic eee
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| Theſe are, 1 _ "LY for, thoſe. of puer are more
correct in the drawing, and not leſs highly finiſned in the Colour- |
ing, They are all taken. either from preſent; real Life, or from
Hiſtory. Such is the Scene of an Election for the. Borough of ——
not like that of a paltry Mayor. of Garret, though exhibited with |
ſo much Succeſs laſt Summer by the facetious Mr. Foote. No;
here we ſee a truly great Man, in the Humility of his Ambition,
kiffiog a preazy Purcher, for his Vote, or hugging a Black-ſmith, |
* | ſmoking
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ſmoking from his Forge,, 1 bs ws Vulcan, though not the
| Hoſband, of a Venus, That might be an Excuſe for ſuch Ca-
refles ; ; or at leaſt a Pretence for rcansferring them to an Object
11 1m Viv Oft! Uke Ok eit
more amiable. e next Scene riſes in Dignity, and repreſents the
Levee' of. a He Dake, with all the proper Decorations of Bows
and Thankfulnefs, of Promiſes and F avour. Yet thoſe are called
A
Gratitade, and thele are Obligations. The third Scene is a trium-
,
| Phal, "aptimbnarchical Proceſſion t to a Dinner at Guitd-hall, amidſt
the hired Xpplauſes, and Shouts of the Mob, in which the great
Mais throws himſclf half out of his Chariot-Window, in humble
Acknowledgraent of their Grace and Favour. | T bis | is : 2 capital
Scene, in \ which the Hero of th he Tiece enjoys his on kidoc, |
and like the pious Kineas, « gucgue 5 pulcherrima widi, & Ents
pars magna far.
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55 "As 1 the Characters, according to Cuſtom immemorial, are to
Be new dreſſed, the Reader will eaſily conceive the Splendour and
Riches of their Wardrobe, with the variety of Dreſſes, neceſſary
for repreſenting all the Nations upon Earth, or, at leaſt, their Re-
preſentatives, who ſhall come to fue for Peace, or implore Forgiye-
neſs and Protection. Theſe Dreſſes every meaneſt Actor upon the
Stage can change with as much Dexterity and Expedition, as Har-
lequin, when he turns himſelf into a Dog, a Lion, an old Womas,
or a Wheel-barrow, for his Colombine. Our People, who *
equal Wonder and Delight have ſeen theſe Transformations in our
Pantomimes, will they not with Rapture, with my behold an
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Actor, who /ately ſhone conſpicuous in a blue ribbon, conſpeftus nuper
in otro, now heading a Mob, and huzzaing the Patriot, the Cham-
pion of Liberty, home to his Lodgings ? Will they not weary their
Hands with Clapping, and pour out their Hearts i in Applauſe, when
the Scene opens and ſhews a Player, who acts the Part of a vener-
able Magiftrate, ſurrounded with the ſacred Enſigns of Juſtice,
and explaining the Laws of the Land with Abilities, Equity and
Impartiality. The Scene changes. He doffs his Robes of Ermin,
that Emblem of unſtained and unſtainable Integrity; puts on a
party- coloured Coat of the right Exeter Manufacture; throws away
his Noſegay, as tall as an Agyptian Pyramid, and with a ſtrong |
Hand graſps the Staff of Liberty. Then, whips off the huge So-
lemnity of his Perriwig; claps me on the Cap of Freedom, and
— Huzza, Boys, huzza; WILKEs and LIBERTY, and PRIvI-
LEGE, for ever. Away, my Lads, away to the Royal. Exchange,
and hinder Fack Ketch from Haring our Libel. Ai. Sugite, |
guatite, Satyri.
Wurn I ANY OE» the Wardrobe of our i Theatre, I forgot the
mighty Apparatus for their new Play. A louder Peal of Thunder
never rolled from the deep Moftard- bowl. Such Lightnings never
before flaſhed from Reſin. Vet they have other, metaphorical, |
Thunders and Lightnings, fit for a Storm of Patriot Eloquence, or
a Declamation in Praiſe of Liberty. Their regalia, or Enfigns 'of |
Royalty, are indeed but indifferent: a Throne raiſed a little, very
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little, above the Floor; a pageant Sceptre; a rattle of a. Ghbe to
play withal; and ſomewhat like, in Milton's Language, the Likeneſs
of a kingly Crown. How truly great muſt be the native Dignity,
the Powers and Abilities of the Actor, who can ſuſtain this nobleſt
Character of the Drama, under ſuch Diſcouragements and Indig-
nities. But as the general Argument of theſe Papers was intended
15 to evince the political Utility of the Stage, 1 think, it may be not
meanly proved, according to the Rule of Contraries, by the Miſ-
chiefs it may produce. Surely then, it may be moſt dangerous to
a a monarchical State, to expoſe this ſacred Character to the Eyes of
the mere Vulgar under ſuch Ideas of Impotence and Weakneſs.
But I return to our Actors and their Wardrobe, They hawg
Charcoal and Rouge in Abundance to mark the Lines and Features
of their Characters, yet I would adviſe them not to lay them on too
heavily, becauſe, although they appear like Gods and Heroes upon
the Stage, yet behind the Scenes, where we ſhall ſee them without
their falſe Lights and Luſtres, they will look like a parcel of Fiends.
Whoever has been in a Green-room will inſtantly recollect, that
he hath ſeen the beauteous Heroine of Tragedy look like one of
the Furies, and the fine Gentleman of Comedy, like a Hobgoblin.
Then they have provided, as they will probably be wanted in their
new. Play, a Number of Stilettoes, Daggers and Poniards, Vizor-
| Maſks, dark Lanthorns, Pocket-piſtols, and a Quantity of white
Powder. | |
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11 it dual be neceſſary to feem to repreſent. the twelve Judges,
a have indeed, at preſent, only one Robe, and one great Perri-
wig. But they can eafily make eleven more by this Pattern, when-
ever they can get Actors to play the Parts. In the) fame Manner,
they have only one Pair of Lawn Sleeves for 'the-whote'Bencly ef
Biſhops, but the Gentlemen of the Winchelſea Manufacture Have
engaged to ſupply them with Lawn, for * wn of beine
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11 is inltotned; that the Houſe will be very full the firſt Night,
for the Members of the Chamber of Exeter, the:Common:Councit-
men of London, and thoſe exquiſite Criticks in theatrical Politicks,
Ve Guild-hall of Dublin, Have taken all the front Boxes; and three
or four Dukes will be obliged to get Places in the upper Gallery,
uns they did at Othello ſome Years ago. Let us however be thank -
full to theſe dry li Politicians, who generowſly forget their na-
tive Slavery and Poverty, according to their own Accounts, at
home, and ſend theit 1 Wee * n ones: and "ONE ww.
the Wan of Britain, are
But the Theatre i in which: our ARurs ng to An (for
the Houſe: where they hold their Meetings at preſent is only a kind
of Rehearſal«robm): is an enormous Pile of Building in the Gothick
Taſte of Architecture. It riſes high into the Air, and the Roof,
that ſpreads over it, like a Cloud, ſtands upon Pillars, that appear
weak, even ſrom their Height, and hardly able to ſupport it. The
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W of its Parts gives. the Spectator an Idea of Variety, and
its Vaſtneſs a falſe Appearance of Greatneſs. The Eye, ſtruck with
ſome monſtrous Diſproportion in the Parts, forms from thence a
Computation of the Whole, and impoſes it upon the Imagination.
The Windows ſhed à dim, though not religious, Light, and their
painted Darkneſs, if T may venture the Expreſſion, gives them an
Air of Awefulneſs and Solemnity. The Ornaments are wrought
by Faney and Caprice, without Art or Deſign, and are neither diſ-
poſed with Jud gement, Taſte, or Uſe.
Here let me A the Promiſe I made of tranſlating the
Lines in Horace's Art of Poetry.—I aſk the learned and ſagacious
Mr. H——d4's Pardon, I ſhould have ſaid, hrs State of. the Roman
Stage. —which I have choſen for the Motto of theſe Papers. I did
not forget my Promiſe, but I was a little at a loſs, where to intro=
duce my Tranſlation to beſt Advantage. If my Criticks, for I hope
to be honoured with their Remarks, ſhall think I have here placed it
injudiciouſly or unfortunately, I do now authoriſe any two of them,
who can agree in Opinion, to alter the Situation of it, in all future
Editions, to any other Part of my Work, according to their better
Judgement. Having therefore ſettled this important Affair to my
own, and I doubt not, the perfect Satisfaction of my Readers, I
"ſhall. only obſerve that the Drama, for which Horace gave the Ro-
man Authors the following Rules, and which I would earneſtly re-
commend to our modern Play-wrights, was called Satyr, becauſe
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thoſe extraordinary Beings, the Satyrs, played ite principal Cha-
| raters i in it. Our Poet thus deſcribes them. |
: Though: i in duch "FEY, | theſe 1 1 F olk
May. change the ſerious Mood to Mirth and Joke, |
ret Gops and HEROES, late in ROYAL Gold,
And Po RTE Robes, all gorgeous to behold,
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1 In theſe Lines we ſee ſome of the many peculiar Excellencies of
1 the ſatyrical Drama. It exhibits, in one View, not only all the
| different Species of Tragedy, Comedy, Farce and Pantomime, but
has the ſingular Advantage of employing the ſame Actor (we
muſt ſuppoſe him a capital Performer) in playing all its different
Characters. Then, if he has unhappily failed in a tragical Part of
Patriotiſm, he may recover his Honour, and charm his Audience
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What theatrical Wonders therefore may we not expect from the
Genius and Abilities of the Shakeſpears and Otways of the preſent
Age; how ſoon ſhall they revive and improve this nobleſt Species
of the Drama, when they have ſuch Actors to give their Works
to the Public? But ſhall ſuch Actors, the living Repreſenta-
tives of all the Patriots of Greek and Roman Antiquity ; they,
who
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who ſo ſenſibly feel, and fo powerfully expreſs the Sentiments of
Liberty and public Virtue; ſhall they be deemed by the Laws of
the Land a ſet of Vagrants and Vagabonds ? Shall they be called
the Servants of the Crown, and held in vile Dependence on its
Authority ? Shall the Plays, in which they promiſe to ſhew the
various Excellencies of their Profeſſion, be ſubjected, O tempora,
O muſe ! to the Ignorance of a Lord Chamberlain, or the Ca-
price of his Deputy, or forbidden to be acted by a deſpotic Preroga-
tive, aſſumed by the Crown ? 7 * 2D
The Liberty of the Preſs is by all Parties, when they are out of
Power, and become Patriots, acknowledged to be 15550 and in-
violable. Even its Exceſſes and Licentiouſneſs are not only par- |
donable, but held in Reverence, as they prove the general, na-
tional Liberty. In Right of theſe Privileges, an Author, who
has, happily for his Country, turned his Genius to writing Poli-
| ticks, breaks into your Heart, as a Secretary of State's Warrant
into your Houſe ;" rummages your moſt ſecret Thoughts; ran-
ſacks not only your political, but your private Life ; brings from the
Depths and Darkneſs of the Grave the Infamy of your Father,
from whom you inherit your Eſtate, and the Levity of your Mo-
ther, by which you are honoured with the Alliance of Kings.
Such is the Liberty of the Britiſh Preſs.
There is another Proof of our national Freedom, upon which
1 ſhall congratulate this Land of Liberty. To ſuch a Degree of
Per-
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Perfection, even beyond the Genius and inventive Spirit of the
Dutch, have we carried that moſt liberal Branch of the Art of
Painting, called Caricatura, that a great Man can hardly call his
Face his own. It is hung up to Sale in every Print-ſhop. Or if
he hide his Face from theſe Artiſts, yet any graceful Peculiarities in
his Perſon, his Dreſs or Deportment ſhall enable them to give him
to the Publick. For Inſtance, a Pair of unpaired Legs, is a ſtrik-
ing Reſemblance of a certain Earl. A double-knotted Perriwig, a
blue Ribbon, and a reaſonable Breadth of Shoulders, a little bend-
ing with Age, will give the perfect Portrait of a noble Duke. The
fierce- cocked Hat of a Serjeant of the Guards, raiſing Recruits, and
beating up for Volunteers but I fear it may be thought an im-
pertinent Suſpicion of my Reader's Diſcernment to have mentioned
even theſe few Inſtances. A thouſand more might be given. Yet
while the Preſs enjoys that Liberty, which is indiſputably founded |
in the Conſtitution, and confirmed by the Laws of the Land, ac-
_ cording to a late glorious Determination in a Court of Juſtice;
while our Painters preſume to hang up ſuch illuſtrious Perſonages
to be familiarly gazed at by the Populace, ſtill the Stage is enſlaved®
to mere arbitrary Will and Pleaſure: the Stage, upon which theſe
illuſtrious Perſonages would not only look like themſelves, but
think, and talk and act like themſelves — for the Good of their
Country:
But our Actors are reproached with violating the Precept of
Horace, and difttopouring their own. Greatneſs, * ſculling to an
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obfeure” Tn avern, obſeuras ah What! Can there be the leaſt
poſſible Obſcurity in a Street, lighted up by the Title of a great
Lord in Oppoſition,” and conſequently the Friend and Patron of
Liberty? Does it not throw a Splendour round it, capable of
piercing through the moſt palpable, and viſible Darkneſs? The only
Apprehenſion then of Obſcurity much proceed from an Exceſs of
"4 a but fo Lane and cigſe our Eyes in m_
Let wheo Hare recounts Fr Steeple that Wine, when taken
in larger Potation, is capable of performing; when he tells us, it
can puſh the Coward into the Battle, ad prælia trudit inertem—Oh!
that ſomebody had taken his Morning's Draught before the Battle
of Minden—or when he aſſures us, that a deeper Beverege will
make an Orator 7a/k- better Eloquence, guem non fecere diſertum, an
Effect of infinite Importance to our Actors, is it imaginable, if he
were now alive, that he could forbid them to go to a Tavern, where
Wine and Eloquence will always be vended in equal Purity, un-
mixed and unadulterated? Would he forbid them to go to Arthur's
or Almack's, why. then to Wi.pMan's? No, certainly. Our
Poet full well knew, that Plays can no more be acted with Spirit
upon, a, Draught of cold Element, than good V Verſes can be written
| by mere agu potoribus. |
Yet to ſhew more * frengly the Abſurdity of this impertinent
Objection, . when our Author forbids the Gods and Heroes of his
Satyrs to ſculk to an obſcure Tavern, does not this very Forbid-
* __ "..._ qenices:
te}
dence, in all fair Rekfoning, permit them to go Taverns of Honour
and Reputation, ſuch as Mr. WILD MAN s, and eſpecially where no
5 naughty Women are admitted? Wine, however, and in Abundance
not too ſober, is of the very Eſſence of the ſatyrical Drama. Poly-
phemus, the Hero of the Cyclops, and Silenus, and all the Satyrs
are moſt jovially drunk. In another Sar vx of Euripides, for I
muſt aſk Pardon of the Learned, who tell us, the Cyclops is the
only Play of this Kind, remaining to us from Antiquity, Hercules
is moſt comical and facetious in praiſe of the clinking of Cannekins.
From whence our Company have probably taken his Image for
their great Seal of Office: Hercules * or multivibus reeling un-
der a World of Wine.
ZAM * * Objection thrown out againſt our Actors, yet
ſo very trivial, that I am almoſt aſhamed to mention it. We are
told, that they declaim and makes Speeches in low, vulgar Lan-
guage, the humiii ſermone, forbidden by Horace, Merely to men-
tion the Subjects of their Declamations, ſuch as their Love of
their Country, the Rights of the People, their own Privileges,
the Liberty of the Preſs, will ſufficiently demonſtrate, that the
Sentiments, ariſing in the Mind upon ſuch Subjects, can only
be expreſſed in the ſublimeſt Language. Even their Toaſts are
of peculiar Sublimity; W s and Liberty ; T——e, and
Friendſhip; P—t and Privilege, for ever. Let me, however,
acknowledge in that perfe& Candour, which I have hitherto pre-
ſerved in theſe Papers, that the Word Cor ERIE is never uſed gue
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dans I. ile le plus bas. Beſides, the Compliment paid to the French
Tongue, is, I confeſs, a little out of Character. Why was not
Britain honoured with giving a Title to this auguſt Aſſembly of its
own Worthies? The Greek and Roman Authors ſhould have been
conſulted on ſuch a momentous Occaſion. But impoſlible to give an
adequate Idea of them by all the Power of Words. He, who ſaw
the Roman Senate look like Gods, never ſaw any Beings like them.
Perhaps, the following Story, which I believe has not yet ap-
peared in Engliſh, may give us 2 better Likeneſs of this illuſtrious
Company. When Duke d'Alba was fent Ambaſſador from Spain
to Portugal, he aſked the Portugueſe Nobleman, who was appoint-
ed to receive him, whether the Court of his moſt Faithful Majeſty
was very ſplendid and magnificent. Yes, my Lord, replied the Portu-
gueſe, beyond all other Courts in the World: we have an hundred
Men like you; fifty like me; five and twenty like your Maſter;
five like God; and there is beſides my Lord, the King.
I have now finiſhed the Taſk, I propoſed to myſelf, when I fat
down to write. Whether I have in any Meaſure ſucceeded in my
Deſign, I know not, but certainly in a Manner very unequal to
the firſt Ideas I had formed of my Plan, But here I may poflibly
be told by ſome of my Readers more diſcerning and ſagacious than
ordinary, that I myſelf am an Actor; that I too have been playing
a Part in my own fantaſtick Drama. I confeſs the Charge, and
here throw of the Maſk, which I am heartily tired of wearing.
Happy for this Nation, if ſome certain Perſons would as honeſtly
ac-
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acknowledge, chat they too have long been . a Part, ans
would now throw away the Maſk.
But quit this nr of Alluſion and Diſguiſe. If the Pub-
Hck therefore ſhall imagine, that the theatrical Characters I have
preſented to them, have any Reſemblance to thoſe in real Life upon
our political Stage, I ſhall applaud my own Talents in Painting. If
not, let the Pictures I have drawn be merely deemed the Works of
an idle Imagination, But if there are indeed ſuch Characters
among us; if there are any Perſons, who ſet up my Liberty and
my Property; nor mine alone, but thoſe of Millions, with all their
_ Poſterity, as Prizes to be given to the beſt Declamation, ſhould
they not be perfectly ſatisfled with che little Kelentment of my
laughing myſelf and making the Publick laugh at only tlie ridi-
culous Parts of ſuch Characters? Shall three or four Dukes, Ga
dozen of Earls, as many Lords, with their one Biſhop, aſſure us,
"OA ey are a great Majority of the Houſe of Peers, and ſhall I be
forbidden to laugh at them, and their Aſſurances? If there were
among them all the Abilities, Integrity, Virtue of a ſingle Burleigh,
a Southampton, or a Clarendon, theſe Papers had never been
written, and never ſhould be publiſhed. Yet theſe Perſons, by the
Courteſy of England, call themſelves great Men. They demand
Reſpect, and Reverence and Homage. For myſelf, I frankly de-
clare, I never will acknowledge any Man my Superior, I ſpeak not
of the common Forms of Life, except the Man, to whom I- owe
| ſome
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tel.
bete api Obligation, or who — his —_— promoting
the publick Happineſs, „1 fog; };
dg to return to my göbheck. If Cwaldiee be 2 | notara? Cold-
Ved dak ro. verty of Blood, 1 can pity the miſcrable Being, wh
is oppreſſed by it, as 1 woutd in any other Diſtemperature of his
Conſtitution. But when 1 confi der; that Courage i is a Virtue ariſing
Phan Seiltirtient' and Senſe of Duty; ; ftomi a Love of our Country,
and a Paſſion, one of tlie nobleſt, that Nature hath implanted in 5
the human Heart, for Fame and Reputation, I confeſs, I can no
longer laugh, when I look upon the Daſtard, who has in the moſt
abject Manner ſunk under the Trial of that Courage he boaſted, and
even till boaſts. But when he afterwards inſults my Underſtand-
ing by prating of his Zeal for the Conſtitution, for Liberty, and
his Country; when he makes many an impertinent Profeſſion of his
Senſe of Honour, his regard to Reputation, and publick Eſteem, I
cannot look upon him without Indignation and Reſentment, as
much, at leaſt, as can be mixed with the moſt cordial Contempt.
| Is there a Man of boundleſs Ambition, who attempts to draw to
himſelf, from its natural Centre, every Authority and Power in the
State; who has long been practiſed, even from his earlieſt Youth,
in all the Arts of forming, conducting and managing a Party; who
has impoſed upon the Populace by Shews of Virtue and ardent Pro-
feſſions of Patriotiſm let the Reader permit me to tell him the _
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as the Adminiſtration of Phocion, once aſked him with an Air of
Triumph upon the Sueceſs of one of his Orations, « Have I not
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BRITISH Nriborz
=_ To
= Caledonian Poiſon:
Contains Twenty-five of the moſt humorous Satiricaly
— Potitical Prints for the Nears 1762 and 63, Viz. .
256 The Bagſhot Frolick 38 The Fiſhermen
27 The Congreſs - 39 Sawney in Office
28 N75 R eng Pacifica - 40 The Times
| | 41 The Good Ship, Old Engl.
42 The Scotch Cradle
| | 43 Provifion for the Convent
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29 Tie H Highland Seer
30 The Laird of the Boot
31 The Coach over-turn'd 44 The Evacuation
32 Scotch Hurdy- | 4 A Hieroglyphic Letter
_* _ Gurdp.. 46 The Aſſes of Great-Brit,
3 Gizbal and Bathſheba | 4 The Mountebank' - |
9 We are all Come | "| 48 The Scotch Idol -
- $ Boot put to Flight OY off Blocks for Hogarth's Wigs
Without | 1 50 Lyon in Boots
1 Within |
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The Pride and Glory of thy ScoT1a's Plains, .
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The Dull laborious PACKHORSE of the STATE.
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EXPLANATION,
Plate 3. Shows Ffaste and Heis in Combinagion,
artfully contriving to choak poor Britan-
ma with a 7. hiftle, who in that dangerous Situation is g |
| e eee her darling Patriot Pit: to
r a
ſave from Deſtruction.
2. An exa& Repreſentation of ſeveral noble and
;ignoble Perſonages playing at See-Saw, a very juſt
Emblem. of the Ballance of Scorch Power i "Litke-
ritain. | |
Ran
through the b
City by a Welch Nanny Goat and 'a Scorch
Grey, who are bearing him haſtily to the Tbiſtle Inn,
Scotland Yard.
4. A wap of droll Caricatures going to receive.
the Reward due to their Merit; but who they are, or
Where they are going, or for what they are going,
we don't think ſo convenient to explain at preſent, as
we have no great Inclination to pop our Heads through
a certain wooden Machine, invented by a Set of arbi-
trary Men, to-puniſh all thoſe who are ſo unfortunate
as to be wiſer than themſelves.
ST "EY
-
hews us, that Pride muſt one Day or other have à Fall,
to
5. Is a Proof of the Inſtability of human ature, _ 1
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how ſoon that happy Period will happen, is impoſſible
to prognoſticate-as Affairs ſtand at nt ; but if the
Author of this Plate is ſo lucky as to be bleſt with the
Spirit of Divination; we may naturally hope the Ole.
den Hero is now etideavouring. with all his Might to
dring about ſo glorious and wilt'd for a Criſis.
6. When Princes ſufter themſelves to be thrown.
intd' an inglorious Letha by the Arts of deſig e
Face it is à certain Sig the D—=m is plac'
upon 4 weak Foundation.
7. Scatch Oztohomy, or Ways a nd Mitins for Vigins
off the National Debt, by Stuart Fitz ry
5 jeftor, at the 7. albot-Inn, in O7 Palact Ta linſlty.
8. G=t B—n is * 4 4 et
Boot, in which ſome gr Folks — dancing
Scotch Vagaries, while Go Bagh are oblig d to 2
the Piper.
9. This Plate is z melancholy Inſtanc — *
great Power of a ſhort-Hiy'd Favourite, his
able Poſts, thou gh their bonn) Patron
the Tirhe riding oft to che Devil.
10. Gib 44 Barbſbela fidin
of Nova Scotia iti a triumpllant Car made in the Fo
of a Boot, and drawn by 4 Getman Horſe, an Ard.
bian Zebra, and an Zaglis fur.
rt. Gratt Kick'd out of Doors to malte room for
Poverty, Pride, Ambition, and a long Trait of, &c.
Ac. &c. Kc. &c.
12. Britannia is here ref preſetted revetxiag berteif
upon the Enemies of her — by bringing them
10
175 3
are here ſeen ea . vaulting into the mo F
7 is hithſelf All
through the Streets
95 Og gs YopEPH Ee We 82228
——
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C833
| Place, © from whence no Traveller return.
n miſt be lock d on as a kind of Political
Juſtice ; and the Cataſtrophe of the Scorch Farce can-
not fail of giving real Pleaſure to every Well-wiſher
to his Country.
The preſent State of 6— 3-2, a Scotch In-
* * blowing up the Fire of Faction, and a true
En my Cock endeavouring to quench it. |
14 The famous Madam Aprice riding the Zebra,
2 ber Favours to the Scotch, and bidding
the Enpliſh kiſs her 4/5.
15. Lapland poſlefled with 2 bad Conflitution, hes
Enemies recommend a Caledonian S— Quack to re-
ſtore her Health, but with Indignation refuſes to take
his Medicines, traly knowing, that when the Body un-
fortunately falls into bad Hands, the Remedy always
proves worſe than the Diſeaſe.
16. A once eminent Painter e on a Scaffold
white waſhing the Boot, This Plate may with as
much Propriety be called, Labour in Vain, or an At-
tempt to make the Black-a-moor White.
17. From barren Caledonian Lands,
Where Famine uncontroul'd commands,
The half-ſtarv'd Clans in Search of Prey,
Come over the Hills and far away.
18. Its Companion. Both very p to adorn
the Apartments of every Scotchman on this Side Aan
Tweed.
19. The Black Joke, White Joke, Broeches un-
| | buton's,
* 4 Sl
| baight Nei e looſe; the Devil. of a Dance or
| —_ what you will,
20. This Plate is a ſufficient Euplanetion of ieſelf.
21. His Fi»galian Lairdſhip Booted and Spur'd,: rid-
ing upon a Lyon, appears to his Countrymen as Ju-
owl did of old to Dn in a Shower of Gold. \
| John Bull blind to his own Intereſt, ſupported
. Gl s Staff led by a Fer and Gor/ſe, bending be-
neath the Weight of his Siſter: Peg, who is accepting
the Pledge of Peace from our moſt moderate Enemies,
- he whole of this Plate i is a true Emblem of ee
—tt.
23 Love in a Tent.
24. This Plate ſhews you how firangely 2-4 is
Seauiteb'd by a C altas nian Sorcerer, who by his helliſh
Spells has thrown the whole Nation into ſuch Confu-
ion, that unleſs ſome ſupernatural Power kindly con-
deſcer ds to break the Charm, we muſt expect to be
| _ ever a miſerable and undone People.
. And Nebuchadnezzar the K ing Tet up an Image
ood, and commanded all the Princes, © Governors,
7 Prieſts, Counſellors, Captains, &c. to fall
down and Worſhip the Idol which he had erected.
But, O my Countrymen! let us rather ſubmit to be
throw into the Fiery Furnace, than yield to ſuch Im-
piety ;_ and pray that the Time may ſoon come, that
this abominable Piece of Preſumption ſhall meet with a
Puniſhment it deſeryes, I H. Block to Blacl.
156. A full and particular Account of a ſharp” "and
bloody Duel that was fought on Bagſhot Heath, between
Coloni F.tatine and Lord Dripping, about the "_—
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"5 2
ſtill loving the Sm
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of Kitchen Stuff. The old Proverb is here aptly veri-
yd, The Pott calls the Kettle Black.“
27. A certain Wooden Peer is here repreſented; ſet-
ting out on a very important Embaſſy of 4 praceable
Nature, but wiſely conje&uring that Things _
not turn out ſo well as they ſhould” do, leaves hi
Head behind him, thereby thinking to Humbug'Fark -
Catch in the Execution of his Office, as they have al-
ready Humbug'd the Nation. r
28. «. We have left undone thoſe Things which we
« ought to have done, and we have done thoſe Thivgs
«© which we ought not to have done,” ,,
29. My Lord and my Lady at the old Trade of
Basket-making, interrupted at their Work by ſeveral
unmannerly Apparitions of former Times. For a
more clear Explanation, Vide Smollett's impartial Hiſ-
tory of England. | 8 1 p
30. The old State Coach turn'd into a H one,
No. 1762, an elderly Welch Lady remarkable for her
ack of the Whip, driving a Crown
Fare thro' thick and thin from Stuart, Rents to
n * 8
31- By Heavens twas bravely done,
Firſt to attempt the Chariot of the Sun,
And then to fall like Phaeton. e
- i RocnesrTER.
. Shews how eaſily this fooliſh Nn is play'd up-
on
y bungling Pretenders. The Figures on each Side
repreſent my Laird and my Lady ' Showing "ſeveral
. worthy and loyal Perſonages out” of their Places, be-
cauſe they would not conſent to ſuch Meaſures they
„ | thought
.
* - Places
270
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chan Vers prjdical to the Intereſts of their
83+, That our Readers may conceive a Hertep 3 *
ea C4 refer hg Maga F „ ,
, per le; that ould n
e e 5 75 refer zem to a Book ſeldom
7 2 fam'd $608 of Kebron leave their 25
1 to come and warm n by our C
ch fee, Standard of their Country i *
fore em, * ich they 2-4 Praif e to, by
585 2 ut PE +4 1255 0! Ke
o Ha wn
e of' Engle
len |
„gli Exports and Scote Im rts. |
37. "Th # Export ord £4 Þ * 59 and Bri-
ton F — on the Waters of Sedition, for Penſions and
38. 9 4 melancholy Emblem of the preſent Scotch
Pe an ** ſeen pol 2 of two
Flages ip wo public © |
. H—th beth IX or, the Times are all -.
40. 115 ſhews you how Im progent it is to truſt
your Veſſel to the Hands of an um kilful Pilot, he ſees
— the Shelves and Quick ſands tha t fl hid, but im-
Sores where Rum lurks, ay plitting | upon a
don r a ARTE 170 to the me ileſs Billows.
der. 7
One
| 1. Jo to Slew by his Scotch
at — V. f 85 that Hah Bid with more
_ ſe his Play-Things to the bet
a
4 de of dhe Siſterhobcf of che Cad Order,
b * a fivoutite Bob, to their Convent. og”
43. The A, id the Lyon's Skin, Subbling te |
of Ed. Pr. Sesli, eig Bt Pub,
Wie Mr. Nessi che A; 9 3 a 4 .
*
Vick,
ter, that obliges Ber to'thirbW up her N
Monffeur Baboon is e carching in # Dor ap.
pointed: for that Purpoſe. „ 2
. Tis whitnſicaf er is che Headpiete to
ous Medley, called the Pence Botchers, Which:
Reader will find, if he will take ce Troublers thfir
back to the beginning of this Volume. |
45- The Characters delineaved in this Plate are hu-
morouſly explained in a Song, called, The Ajts of
Great-Britain, inſerted at the Beginning this
Volume. „„
46. A Mountebank Stage erected. Dr. Me Farce,
on the noted Scotch Empyrick diſtribateing his Tinc-
ture of Olive to the People of E—d, Madam ap
Wagftaff, the famous Tumbler, performing ſeveral
Feats of Activity; the Wand/worrh Trumpeter; the
Devil turn'd Fiſherman, Cum Multis Al's qua nune
preſcribere longum eſt.
47. And the Lord ſaid unto Meſes, thy People ha ve
corrupted themſelves, they have turn'd aſide, quickly
ont of the way, which I commanded them ; they have
made them a Molten Ca/f, and worſhipped it; there-
fore let me alone; that my Wrath may wax hot a-
gainſt them, and that I may conſume them : and I
will make of thee a great Nation, Ted, 32. Chap.
7. 8, and 10 Verſe, |
| : Several
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8. Several curious Blocks of a modern Date, very
» Qriking Likeneſſes. If the Reader has not Penetra-
tion enough to find em out, I ſhall think his own
only wanting to make the Group compleat.
=
Boats, but never now beheld the Britiſ Lyon, ſo
ridiculouſly accoutred ' as this Plate repreſents. him,
'Booted, Blinded, Fockyed ; and as Jago ſays in the
Play, At cahily led by the Neſe at Aſſes are.” O
Tempora O Mores! ö
49. The Reader I imagine has often in his Rambles
through een een the Sign of the Car in
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The Congreſs Or, A Device to lower
1 the Land-Tax.
To the Tune of, Doodle, Doodle," De, &c.
Olin truncus eram ficulnus, inutile lignum;
Cum faber incertus ſcamnum, faceretne Priapum,
Maluit e Deum: Deus inde ego, furum
Hor. Sar. viii. Lib. 1.
1. |
E RE you may ſee the happy Concrsss,
All now is done with ſuch a Bon- grace,
No EncLisx Wienhr can ſurely grumble,
Or cry, our Tx—rTxY Mates fumble, |
\ | | Doodle, Doocale, Do, &c.
IT.
Who would not for a P— cx like this,
Replete with every kind of Bliſs,
Give all our C-q—1t, all our Gain-a,
And glory in the HicuLand THA NE-a,
e | Doodle, &c.
B III.
U
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| III.
Our Manners now we all will change. a,
Talk Exsz and get the Sc— TT sRH Mange-a,
On Oatmeal Haggiſe, we will feed-a, |
And SM1THFIELD Beaſts no more ſhall bleed-a.
p . Doodle, &c:
| IV,
A TarTan PAD each Chield ſhall wear-a,
With Bonnets blue we'll deck our Hair. a,
And make an AQ, that no one may put
A Felt, or Beaver, on his Caput.
V.
Then ftrut with CALEDONIAN Pride,
SHAKESPEAR and MiL ro fling aſide,
On Bag- pipes play, and learn to Sing all,
Th' Atchievements of the mighty FIx AL.
*
Doodle, &e.
„
In Gratitude all this we owe-a,
For ſaving us from beaten Foe a,
, And is the leaſt we ſurely can do,
For to regain loſt NEwFOUNDL—DO. 3
| Doodle, æe.
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The Peace-Botchers : A New, h Saty-
rical, Political Medley.
Being a PARADY on the Celebrated one of Mac li-.
heath's, in the Beggar's Opera.
By a diſconſolate ENGLISHMAN.
Of with his Head, ſo much for B=——,
Richard III.
AIX I. Happy Groves.
Cruel, cruel, cruel Caſe ! |
| Muſt we ſuffer this Diſgrace ? |
AIR II. Of allthe Girls that are ſo ſmart.
Since Fortune has, for three Years paſt,
Made GEORGE's Arms victorious,
O. let us not thoſe Laurels blaſt,
And make a Peace inglorious.
AIR III. Britons flrike home.
. Britons be bold,
Exert the Strength,
You once did boaſt ; -
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AIR Tv. Chewy Chace, |
But, ah! I fear 'tis all in vain,
Proud Sæuney rules the Roaſt.
AIR V. Old Sir "£14 the King.
For let us ſtill unſheath the Sword,
In Spite of dull horſe-whip'd-R——,
Who wanting more Gold to Roar,
For Peace is making a Buſtle.
AIR VI. FJ: to Great Cæſar.
Like a M——y he'll prate,
Of Affairs of the S——,
A IR VII. There was an old Woman. &c.
Let PITT again govern the Helm, by brave Hearts
of Oak,
I warrant Monfieur will ſoon find v we're not playing the
Joke. .
AIR vin. Did you nder bear of a gallant Sailer,
But poor Britannia's Fame expires,
While her baſe Sons prove Tr—y- rs all.
AIR IX. Their Eyes, their Lips, &c.
Her D—s, ber L—ds, her Sq—es,
. Corrupted are, and we mult fall. x
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AIR X. Cre Sheven,
Tuben ſince Old Eygland has Laws in Store, :
To puniſh the Rich as well as Poor, .
For a H Fair, let's cry Encore, |
No ſooner State-Phyficians have found,
The Body has got a Limb unſound, --
But they chop it off before it gains Ground,
Upon — r Hill.
MV CFE EOF OF DEEDS DS:
The Evacuations : Or, An Emetic for
Old England's Glories.
Tune, Derry Down.
0 Country Or D Eu IAN appears very ill,
O mo Sick at Heart, ſince ſhe took a Scotch
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Behold her Blindfolded, the Quack is upon her,
And Apmin1sTERs, what makes her give up her
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Derry Down, &c,
O Honour
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' © Honour—oh Gzxact—oh Diſgrace view our Trea-
| ſures, =
Our Conqueſts thrown up, and fall into French Mr a.
SURES | |
Brother Gambler the F—, that the Doze ſhould not fail,
To looſe her Back Settlements, takes her Intail.
Derry, &c,
Here's a Pracz of the Puff-maſter'sWiſdom—a Bubbl:,
*
An empty Exchange for Men, Money and Trouble,
Aloft the Dutch Boar, and the French Ape are grinning,
They laugh at our Loſſes, and what they are winning.
Derry, &c,
Obſerve, oh, obſerve, pray, the Bubbler's Intention,
See the Mountebank's Mob, how they catch'd at each
*
Penſion; |
The Baboon ope's a Shop for our Neufundland Fiſh,
And a Scorch Cook has dreſs'd us this Peace of a Diſh.
Der, &c.
Martinico, Guadal,upe, the Hawannah, ALL gone,
What 2 Grog ious been doing, IxoLOoRIOus un-
From her Patriot Stateſman, her CULLOPEN ChIEx,
Britannia diſconſolate begs for Relief, PB
N Derry, &c.
Behold on her Shoulders a Mantle of PL A1 D,
As a Pall (for they'll bury Old ExGHANp] 'tis laid,
- Mourn,
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Mourn, Mourn ob ye Britons, for what ſhe has loft,
They 2 make her give up, till ſhe gives up the
HOST. |
On the Enfigns of LizzzTY ſomebody treads,
And we fear that he Somebody wrong-headed leads,
And confident Brays, Dinna heed aw this Fuſs,
We are not fra Kings (Gued Troth) Kings are fra us.
Fo Der ry &c.
Inn fniſ my Song—if you ask why I chuſe,
Such an old faſhion'd Tune, to a new faſhion'd Muſe, -
Among Friends (but be Mum) and the Secret I'll own,
The Chorus my Countrymen fit us we're done.
' Derry Down,
The Motto to a certain Arms. 26S
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Tune, The Ai in the Cbaplet.
RMrr me good People ( 2 whimſical Bard)
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To prove that each BRITON' s an Aſs,
Firſt view HARRY "eh, 4 that Scribling fat Wight,
With Forehead well cover'd with Braſs ;
A Dinner is wanting, then fits down to write,
And to the whole Town ſhows his A—,
At the beſt Poſt in Barg, ſee Lanny now Plac'd
Who thought it wou'd er'e come to pals,
When the Lyon ſhould thus be ſo vilely diſgrac'd,
And led by the like an —,
An Ass we are told, found a Lyon's rough Hide, |
And fain for grim Lzo wou'd paſs ;
But when like the Bx rox, to frighten he try'd,
His Braying diſcover'd the Ass,
The AvpirTos alſo attempted to roar,
In Billingſgate Wit did ſurpaſs
The NoxTH BaIToR came, a good Cudge! he bore,
And ſmartly corrected the Ass.
Old SayLock the Jew, who in Change Alley ſtrives,
The Wealth of the Land to amaſs ;
While into your Pockets he openly dives,
Of each BULL and BEAR makes an Ass.
Let ly canting SquinTUM, that ſanctify'd Prig,
But once take a Peep in the Glals ; |
Inſtead
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Inſtead of a Saint with the Spirit grown big
, Hell there ſee the Form of an Ass.
When MA ſally d forth the fair Sex to relieve,
Like Quixorz or Sir Hunisk ass,
But now finds himſelf a dull Ass.
.
To ſome unkind Love-inflam'd Laſs,
+ Jacx Caren will ſoon prove him an Ass.
This ſing Song; ſatyrical Farce,
And if you dont
Tbe AuTazoR will look like an Ass.
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That Faxxy was ſcratching, as Truth did believe,
Blind Jus r 1cE who owes the ſad Lofs of his Si
May boaſt he can plainly diſcern Wrong from Right,
But now to conclude, Sirs, I think it high Time,
t kindly. encourage his Rhyme, |
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PROPHECY of FAMINE.
SCOTS PASTORAL.
V Natore's Charms (inglorious Truth 1) ſubdyed,.
However plain her Drefs, and Haviour rude ;
To Northern Climes my happier Courſe I ſteer,
Climes where the Goddeſs reigns throughout the Year,
Where undiſturb'd by Art's rebellious Plan,
She rules the I Laird, and faithful Clan.
To that rare Soil; where Virtues cluſt'ring grow,
What mighty Bleſſings doth not Ex LAND. owe,
What Waggon-l:ads of Courage, Wealth and Senſe,
Doth each revolving Day import from thence?
To us ſhe gives, diſintereſted Friend,
Faith without Fraud, and STUaRTs without End.
When we Proſperity's rich Trappings wear,
Come not her gen'rous Sons, and take a Share,
And if, by ſome diſaſtrous Turn of Fate,
Change ſkould enſue, and Ruin ſieze our State,
; | Shall
Cl -
Shall we not find, ſafe in that hallow'd Ground,
Such Refuge, as the Hol Y MarTY® found ?
In ſimple manner utter ſimple Lays,
And take with ſimple Penſions, fimple Praiſe.
Waft me ſome Muſe to Twzzv's inſpiring Stream,
| Where all the little Loves and Graces dream, 3
Where ſlowly winding tbe dull Waters. creep,
And ſeem themſelves to own. the Power of Sleep, q
Where on the Surface lead, like Feathers, ſwims ;
There let me bathe my yet unhallow'd Limbs,
As once a SY RIAN bath'd in JoxDan's Flood,
Waſh off my native Stains, correct that Blood
Which mutinies at Call of Euglib Pride. LIE
And, deaf to Prudence, rolls 4 Patriot Tide.
From ſolemn Thought, which overhangs the Brow
Of Patriot Care, when Tings are—God knows how;
At Frienaſbip's Summons will my *WILKEs retreat,
And ſee, once ſeen before, that anti:nt Seat,
That antient Seat, where Majeſty diſplay'd -
Her Enſigns, long before the World was made ?
Oft have I heard thee mourn the wretched Lot
Of the poor, mean, deſpis'd, jnſulted Scor,
Who, might calm Reaſon credit idle Tales,
By Rancour forg'd where Prejudice prevails ;
Or ſtarves at home, or praQtiſes, thro' Fear
Of Starving, Arts which damn all Conſcience here.
When Scribblers, to the Charge by int'reſt led,
The fierce North-Briton foaming at their Head, ?
n „*— 798 "ng
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7 | C2. | _ "The
* JoHN Wir kks, Eſq; Member for Ay—b=—y, the ſup-
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The Scots are poor, cries ſurly Engliſh nde, tag
True is the Charge, nor by themſelves deny'd.
Into our Places, States, aud Beds they creep;
They ve Senſe to get what we want Senſe to keep.
Two Boys, whoſe Birth beyond all Queſtion prings
From g eat and glorious, tho' forgotten, Kin We
Shepherds of Scortzh Lineage, born and br
On the ſame bleak and barren Mountain's Head,
By niggar'd Nature doom'd on the ſame Rocks
To ſpin. opt Life, and ſtarve themſelves and Flocks,
Freſh as the. Morning, which, enrob'd in Miſt,
The Mountain-top with uſual Dulneſs kiſs'd, ©
Jockey and SawneEy to their Labours roſe ;
Soon clad I ween, where Nature needs no Cloaths;
Where, from their Youth enur'd to winter Skies,
Dreſs, and her vaip Refinements, they deſpiſe. ©
JocxEr, whoſe, manly high-bon'd "Checks te erden
With freckles ſpotted, flam'd the golden Down,
With mickle Art, could on the Ba pipes play,
E'en from the riſing to the ſetting 5. 57
SawNnEY as long, without Remi Soars bawl _
Howe's Madrigals, ard Ditties from Fr NGAL,
Oft at his Strains, all natural, tho" rude, gs
The High!ang Lab forgot her want of Food een
And, whilſt ſhe r-z<4'd her Lover into reſt, |
Sunk pleas'd, tho' hungry, on her Nax Bread.
Far as the Eye could reach, no Tree was ſeen,
Earth, clad in Ruſſet, ſcorn'd the lively Green;
The Plague of Locuſts they, ſecure, "defy,
For in three Toure a wennn 2 die.
No
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No living Thing, whate'er its Food, feaſts there,
But the Chamelipn, who can feaſt on Air.
No Birds, except. as Birds of Paſſage, flew,
No Bee was known to hum, no Dove to coo. |
No Streams as Amber ſmooth, as Amber clear,
Were ſeen to glide, or heard to warble here:
Rebellion's Spring, which thro' the Country ran,
Furniſh'd, with bitter Draughts, the ſteady Clan.
No Flowers embalm'd the Air, but one white Roſe,
Which, on the 'Tenth of June, by Inſtinct blow;
By Inftin& blows, at Morn, and when the Shades
Of-drizly Eve prevail, by Inſtin& fades.
One, and but one, poor ſolitary Cave,
Too ſparing of her Favours, Nature gave;
That one alone (hard tax on Scottiſh Pride) 1
Shelter at once for Man and Beaſt ſupply d. |
Their Snares without entangling Briers ſpread, |
And Thiftles, arm'd againſt th' Invader's Head, |
Stood in cloſe Ranks all Entrance to oppoſe,
Thiſtles now held more precious than the Roſe.
And FamiNE, by her Children always known,
4 as por, here fix d her native Throne.
ere, for the ſullen Sky was over - caſt.
And Summer ſhir unk beneath a wintry Blaſt,
A native Blaſt, which arm'd with Hail and Rain
Beat unrelenting on the naked Swain, ae
The Boys for Shelter made; behind the Sheep,
Of which thoſe Shepherds ev'ry Day take Keep. |
Sickly crept on, and, with Complainings rude, | |
On Nature ſeem'd to call, and bleat for Food. |
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JOCKEY.
Sith to this Cave, by Tempeſt, we're config!
And within en our 12 under the Wind, %
Safe from the Pelting of this perilous Storm,
Are __—_ emong yer by Sher and warm,
What, nee if s Arts we *
To mock the Rigonr (hy — cruel Sky ?
What if we tune ſome merry Roundelay ?
Well ne thou ling, nor ill doth Jockey play.
SAWNEY.
Ah, Jockey, ill adviſeſt thou, I' «vis,
To think of ongs at ſuch a Time as this.
Sooner ſhall Herbage crown theſe barren Flocks,
Sooner ſhall Fleeces cloath theſe ragged Rocks,
Sooner ſhall Want ſeize Shepherds of the South,
And we forget to live from Hand to Mouth,
Than Sawney, out of Seaſon, ſhall impart
- The Songs of Gladneſs with an aching Heart.
JOCKEY.
Still have I known thee for à filly Swain;
Of Things paſt Help, what boots it to complain?
Nothing but Mirth can-conquer Fortune's Spite ;
No Sky is heavy, if the Heart be light ; |
Patience is Sorrow's Salve; what can't be cur'd,
$0 Donald "_R areeds, muſt be endur d.
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Full filly Swain, I wot, is Jockey now;
How did N thou bear thy Maccx's Falſhood ? how,
When with a foreign Loon ſhe ſtole away,
Did'ſt thou forſwear thy Pipe, and Shep erd's Lay
Where was thy boaſted Wiſdom then, when I *+
. thoſe Proverbs, which you now apply ?
4 0 CIE-F. 35
O ſhe was b3z»y ! all the Highlands round
Was there a Rival to my Macoy found
More precious (tho that precious is to all)
Than the rare Medicine, which we Brimſtone call,
Or that choice Plant, ſo grateful to the Noſe,
Which in, I know not what, far Country grows,
Was Maccy unto me; dear do I rue,
A Laſs ſo fair ſhould ever prove untrue.
| SAWNEY..
Whether with Pipe or Song to charm the Ear, | | S
Thro' all the Land did Jau find a Peer ? | 9
Curs'd be that Year by ev'ry honeſt Scot, IEG 1
And in the Shepherd's Calendar forgor, 4
That fatal Year, when Jams, hapleſs Swain, ;
In evil Hour forſook the peaceful 5 :
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AMIE, when our youn Hane diſcr
as ſeiz'd, and hang'd till he was d
JOCKE Y.
Full forely may we all lament that Day ,
or all wore Loſers Er Fray.
fed,
dead, dead.
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Five Brothers had I on the Scottiſh Plains,
Well doſt thou know were none more hopeful Swains ;
Five Brothers there I loſt, in Manhood's Pride,
Two in the Field, and three on Gibbets died ;
Ah ! filly Swains, to follow War's Alarms,
A what hath Shepherd's Life to do with Arms?
e SAW NE V. peut
Mention it not there ſaw I Strangers clad
In all the Honours of our raviſh'd Plaid,
Saw the FsrRana too, our Nation's Pride,
Unwilling grace the aukward Victor's Side.
There fell our choiceſt Youth, and from that Day
Mor never Sawney tune the merry Lax
Bleſs'd thoſe which fell ! curs'd thoſe which ſtill ſur.
vie, -. a 3 %:t ig? |
To mourn ffteen renew'd in forty-fub-êtt.
Thus r the Boys, Lak from her Throne of
With Boils emboſs'd,. and overgrown with Scurf,
Vile Humours, which, in Life's corrupted Well
Mix'd at the Birth, not Abſtinence could quell,
Pale Famine rear'd the Head; her eager Eyes,
Were Hunger e'en to. Madneſs ſeem'd to riſe.
Ceaſe, cried the Goddeſs, ceaſe, deſpairing Swains,
And from a Parent hear what Jove ordains !
- Pent in this barren Corner of the Iſle,
Where partial Fortune never deign'd to ſmile !
- Like Nature's Baſtards, reaping for our Share,
What was rejected dy the lawful Heir;
Unknown amongſt the Nations of the Earth, |
Or only known to raiſe Contempt and Mirth ; *
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Long free, becauſe the Race of Roman eaves. 236
Thought n their while to make ee
by that Nation brought.
vainly ſought, mn,
Whom. An c ende . view, and gill, A
The Pow'r of Miſchief loſt, retain the Will; 1
Conſider'd as the Refuſe of Mankind,
A Maſs till the laſt Moment left behind. erf N
Which frugal Nature doubted, as it lay, ies 1 -
Whether to ſtamp with Life, or throw away
Which, ſorm d in haſte, was planted in this Nook,
But never enter'd in Creation's Book;
Branded/as Traitors, who, for Love of Gold, | —
1 ſell their God, as once their King they ſold *
1 have we borne this mighty Weight of IIl,
e vile injurious Taunts, and bear them ſtill,
Bur Times of happier Note are now at Hand,
And the full Promiſe of a 3 .
There, like the Son e Jrael, havin
For the fix d Term of Years — foop by God, -
A barren Deſart, we ſhall ſeize rich Plains, -
Where Milk wich H flows, and Plenty reigns. 8
With ſome few Natives join'd, ſome Plant few, + =
Who worſhip Int'reſt, and one Track ar | "
There ſhall we, tho? the wretched le grieve, 1
at large, nor ask the Owner's Leave.
ava
The ſail of Couugzes for our Uſe unfurl'd,
Shallwaft the Treaſures of each diſtant World ;
For us, ſublimer Heights ſhall-Science reach, 1
mw us, their * *
heir
3 (626)
Their nobleſt Limbs of Counſel we'll disjoint,
And, niocking, new ones of our own appoints '
Devouring Wax, impriſon'd in the North, 4
Shall, at our Call, in horrid Pomp break forth,
Shall, at our bidding, quit his lawful Prey,
And to meek, gentle, gen'rous Peace give Way.
Think not, my Sons, that this ſo bleſs'd Eftate
Stands at a PiſtZice on the Roll of Fate;
Already big with Hopes of future Sway,
F'en from this Cave I ſcent my deſtin'd Prey. -
Think not, that this Dominion o'er a Race,
Whoſe former Deeds ſhall Time's laſt Annals grace,
In the rough Face of Peril muſt be ſought,
And with the Lives of Thouſands dearly bought;
No- Fool'd by Cunning, by that happy Art, 5
Which laughs to Scorn the blund'ring Hero's Heart,
Into the Snare ſhall our kind Neighbours fall |
With open Eyes, and fondly give us all.
Bleſs'd with that Faith, which Mountains can remove,
Firſt they ſhall Dupes, next Saints, laſt Martyrs prove. ,
Already is this Game of Fate |
Under the Saction of my darling Son,
That Son, whoſe Nature Royal as his Name,
Is deſtin'd to redeem our Race from Shame. 4
His boundleſs Pow'r, beyond Example great, _
Shall _ vo rough Way ſmooth, the crooked
| ftr mh, I,
Shall ras Eaſe the raging Floods reſtrain,
And ſink the Mountain level to the Plain.
Discoxb, whom in a Cavern under Ground,
With maſſy Fetters their late Patriot bound,
. FA * ; Where
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Where her own Fleſh the furious Hag might Tear,
And vent her Curſes to the vacant Air,
+ Where, that ſhe never might be heard of more,
He planted Lo AL rv to guard the Door,
For better Purpoſe ſhall Our Chief releaſe,
Diſguiſe her for a Time, and call her PLACE.
We have juſt given an Extract from this beſt of Mr.
Churchil's Performances, to whom it wou'd be the
higheſt Injuſtice not to mention to the Reader, that
what is here ſelected, is not the ſo much the beſt Part
of the Poem; as that it was ſo well adapted to che
Subject of the Britih Antidote ; that we could not
forbear tranſcribing ſome Paſſages in it, which Li-
berty we ſhou'd not have taken, had it not been done
before in ſeveral Monthly Performances. Amongſt the
many Beauties with which it abounds ; the Deſcription
of the Cave and Perſon of Famine, carries great
Force in the Paintings, the Satire is manly and ſtrong ;
* the Paſtoral Part contains great Humour, and is the Con-
traſt to that of the flinſy Kind, where pure Deſcription
holds the Place of Senſe ; the greateſt Part of which
we were oblig'd to omit ; but every Perſon that wou'd
be poſſeſſed of one of the beſt Paſtorals or Satires in
the Ang/ib Language, may have the Original at G.
Kearſley's, in Ludgate-Street . | |
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bim_eighteenth-century_the-works-of-alexander-p_pope-alexander_1764_6_0 | WORKS
O F
Alexander Pope, Eſq.
VOLUME VI.
BEING THE
SECOND of his LETTERS.
LOND ON,
Printed for A. M1LLas, J. and R. Towson, C. Ba-
'THURST, H. WoopFaLL, R. BALDpwWiIx, W. Joans-
ron, T. CasLon, T. LoxcMan, B. Law, T. Fisio,
R. Witay, and M. RAR Ds ou.
M DCC LXIV.
„
5 . 1
7 * *
as 4&7 4
A
$,
Ic O N TE N no 8
OF T H E |
SIXTH VOLUME.
LETTERS to and from Mr. G AY, etc... .
From 1712 to 1732. pP. 1.
LTT TEA
I. 1 E uber, opinion of Mr. Gay s merit and
modeſty.
II. His defire to do him ſervice, and advice as ts the
. fludy of poetry.
in. I, CRETE painting ; Mr. Gay 7 poem Mt the
IV. 7 Mr. Gay on bis return from — after the
Queen i death, Advice about politics.
V. Mer the death of the anthor's father, and the
fale of his eflate. Mr. Gay poem to Mr.
Lowndes, and his expettations at court.
VI. From Mr. Gay at Hatb on the remarkable death
of two lovers by lightning, with their epitaph.
VII. To Mr. Gay at Bath; the commitment of the
Biſhop of Rocheſter to the Tower. 5
VIII. Of di/appointments from great men: Friends com-
memorated.
IX. Aſurances of remembrance in abſence,
X. XI. XII. To Mr. Gay in. a dangerous ficingſt.
XIII. On bis — and Mr. Congreve's death,
XIV. To the Hon. Mrs. —
XV. Excuſe for not auriti Of Mr. Fenton't death.
XVI. A congratulation t „ Mr Gay, on the end of bis.
expectationt at court, The innocence M a private
life, and the happineſs 75 of independency.
XVII. From Mr. Gay in the country. Thoughts of tba
ins a farm, and about the Dunciad,
XVIII. To Mr, Gay in the country. Miſbes to.ſerve him.
A 2
TONNTZIzMNT' Ss
LETTER
XIX. Complaints of his abſence, and ſome envy at
| * bis ſitua tion.
XX. The author more and more inclined to retire-
ment.
XXI. More of the ae. Concer for bis friend's
"+ __— ray to his perſon, and wiſhes for
Happ.
XXI. Deferts him to return to town and reſume the
Rludj of poetry, The fiate of auit at that time.
XXIII. Of- the 123 00 th The death of Wilks ths
oof Verſes on the hermitaze at Richmond,
XXIV. N Mr. Gay. His ill fate of health, His
opinion of writing panegyric. ©
XXV. From Mr. Cleland to Mr. Gay,
XXVI. Mr. Pope to the Earl of Burlington. |
XXVII. The Author's bad health, complaints of ab-
». fence, and. ſome advice to his friend, .
XXVIII. On the death of Mr. Gay, bis mother's Hneſ?,
« and other melancholy incidents.
XXIX. To Hugh Bethel, Eſq; praiſe of humanity and
good- nature. T1 he benefits of equality in friend -
XXX. To's the ſame. ' On the death of the Earl of
XXXI. On his mother”, recovery: the melancholy officer
e friends. A proſpett of the town upon the
death of the King.
XXXII. On the publiſhing his Letters. The ftuation of
the author, his pleaſures and bis *
XXXIII. To the Earl of Feterborow. His love of
| ming. Reflections on Titles, Dearth of
XXXIV. Fro — «the Earl of Peterborow, Stowe -gardens :
._\ Temper of women : His love of lazineſi, rag
the reaſon.
XXXV. Anſwer to the former.
XXXVI. From the Earl of Peterborow. His di like of
, coming to town : The Charitable Corporation;
more concerning women.
XXXVII. From the Earl of Peterborow from bit gar-
den : his idea of the Golden age, and * ing
eſt to come to tun.
9 CONTENT S.
[Lerrzx OR”
XXXVIII. From the fame. Defire to fre Dr. Swift.
Alteration in his paſſions, and from whence,
XXXIX. From Dr. Swift to the Earl of Peterborow.
XL. A conſultation about deſigning a garden: Va-
rious opinions, and ſome general reflettions.
XLI. To Mr. C= expoſtulatory on the *
done an unhappy * c. wy
XLII. To Mr. Richard/on.
XLIII. 55 pr wg wack er Mrs. Pope's death.
. XUV. ſame.
XLV. To Mr. B. concerning the E ſay on Man, et
X LVI.. Concern for the igſt of friends.
XLVII. From Dr, Ar f in-his laſt fickneft. 2
| 22. g requeſt to the . .
XL vill. he anſwer
The Charadter — Katharine, late Duck of. Backinghawe
ire and Normanb | fk.) p. 7 Fo |
4 Letter to a Noble Lord, on occaſon of ſome libels writ-
ten and propagated at f Court, in the * 1732. 3. Þ- 80.
8 — "OI r * * — A.
—
— ” —
Lrrzas to 5 from Dr. JonaTaan Swirr, etc.
* the Year 1714 to $733 p. ior,
Swift. Retired from Court ome months
1 ere Coy nem Death,
II. From Dr. Swift at Dublin. How little he cares
tot England : Concern at the violence of part
be {ef ootume of Mr Pope's tonfation of Ho-
1 nor. A FI Japon, — 2 in 42” 7; Tn
r. Pope's love and memory r. Swift he
Calunmies and Slanders upon him om account of 2
ligion, turned into raillery.
wv. Dr, Swift's anſwer. His enquiry concerning Wy,
"II worry Poets generatly follow the Court.
illery on the ſubject of his enemies, and bit Re-
ligion, A Duaker-paſtoral, and a Newgate-paſtoral,
propgſed as 1 vr Mr. __
V. Dr. Swift to ope : An apology for 17 conduc?
; 8 and writings after the Ducen' s . With an as
| 71 count of his principles in politics.
VI. Dr. Swift to Mr. Gay.
Im
17
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CONTENTS T
LETTER MES 1.71.
VII. Mr. Pope to Dr. Swift, occaſioned by the former x
An account of his conduct and maxims in general,
VIII. From the L. Bolingbroke, a poſtſcript to the fre.
- . - » going leiter, with ſome account of his own en..
imm and ſituation in private life. 2
IX. De. 7 ˙7 anſwer. kw}. 4-4 N 0 1
X. From Mr. Pope to Dr. Suit. An invitation tos
England. nee nn 2
XI. From Dr. Suit: of Gullivet”s Travels, and hi?
— of i/anthropy:. Concerning 4 lady at
5 oth 7 25 ; 872. a —_— 2
XII. To Dr. . radter of ſome of his friends =
Iv England; with farther 41 A | =
XIII. Dr. Swifts anſwer. Death of Lord Oxford's
Son : ſomething concerning PH,: More of his ©
ianthropy.
Character of low enemies and Wetraftors ; with
xpedations of Dr. $wift's journey to England.
avhat temper they are tu be borne. The amuſes
ments of his friends in England. Lord B's p .
0 cript on the ſame occaſian. _
XV. From Dr. Swift, preparing to leave England again.
XVI. Anfever from Mr. Pope. The regret of his. de-
- 41 1 partures remembrance of the ſatisfation paſt,
wiſhes for bis welfare, —
1
XVII, Defires yr bis return, and ſettlement in Eng-
| _ * the various ſchemes of bis other as,
>: 5453, vi his MYY ; 5 f
XVIII. From Mr. Gay and Mr. Pope. An account of
85 the reception of Gulliver's Travels in England.
XIX. On the fame Jubjett, from Mr. Pope. Advice
+ againſt party writing. _ E
KL; Rom Dr. Swift. About Gulliver, and of a
' ſecond journey to England. dor
XXI. From the. fame. Concerning party, and depen-
dency: And of the projet of a. joint volume of
©. Miyfcellanies, | 198 N
XXII. The anſwer. On the ſame ſubjects.
XXIII. On Dr. Swift's ſecond departure for Ireland.
XXIV. From Dr. Swift : His reuſont for departing.
XXV. From Dr. Swift. His remembrance of Mr. P.“
= friendſhip; with ſome tonſideration of bis cir-
| cumſtances. | | of 3
XXVI. From Mr. Gay. Raillery : What employment
u offered him at Court, and why he refuſed it.
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XXVII. Dr. Swift to Mr; Gay." On the refuſal af /bat
employment, and his quitting the Court, Of
the Beggars Opera. a
XXVIII. From Lord Bolingbroke and Mr. Pope. Of
the Dunciad: Advice to the Dean inthe nan-
ner of Montaigne. "Of courtiers, and of the
he Onerr...
XXIX. Of a trae' Jonathan Gulliver in New-FEng-
land: The Dunciad, and the Treatiſe of the
Bathos. Raflectiont on mortality and decay:
] bat is defirable in the decline of lifes *
XXX. From Dr. Swift. Anſwer to the former: His
ſituation in Ireland.
XXXI. From the ſame. His own. and Mr. Pope.
| temper. 5750 |
XXXII. Lord Belingbroke's life in the country. More
about the Dunciad. 3
XXXIII. From Dr. Swift. Advice how to publiſh the
Dunciad: Concerning Lord B. and Mr. Gay.
XXXIV. From Bath. The pleaſure of being abu/:d in
\ company with worthy men.
XXXV. From Dr. Swift. His manner of living with
a friend in the country. The death of Mr.
Congreve, Character 75 an indolent friend.
XXXVI. Dr. Swift to Lord Bolingbrote. Exbortation
to him to aurite hiſtory. The Dean's temper,
his preſent anuſements and diſpoſition,
XXXVII, From the ſame on the ſame ſubjedts, and con
cerning oeconomy ; his ſentiments on the times,
and his manner C e — of the love of fame
and diſtinction. s friendſhip for Mr. Pope.
XXXVIII. From the ſame. His condition: The flate of
Ireland: Character of Mrs. Pope: Refleftions
| on Mr. Pope's and Mr. Gay's pe 908.24
XXXIX. Mr. Pope's anſwer : His ſituation and contents
ment: An account of his other” friends. _
XL. Lord Bolingbroke to Dr. Swift : A review 27
his life, his thoughts of oeconomy, and concern
| ing fame.
XLI. Dr. Swif?”s anſwer, The misfortunes attend-
ing rea talents : Concerning fame, and the
8 re Mit. | 1 1
XLII. Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope. Concerning the Dune
ciad, and of his fatuation of life. *
e hehun TE N T s.
LETT?R
2 * Frem Lord B. 7 hat the fenſe of Friendſhip
. increaſer-with increaſe of years. Concernin
a 2 of bis own times, and Mr. P. “s mora
XLIV.. Of the 751 ef bis Letters, of — condition of
n . = pal 2 ip, — e of 22 pri,
ons and prefer ment
XLV. Of Sram, s diſſertations on Fob, Poſt
ſfeript by Lord B. on the pleaſure we take in
2 letters, _
XI Vr From Lord B. to Dr. Swift. Inuit ing him to
vil England, and concerning reformation of mans-
ners by auriting.
XLII. From the N The temper proper to men in
on i An account of his own. The charac»
wich my bis lady. - Poſtſcript by Mr. P
mother, and the _ of the tender ng
Xin Pa the ſamie. 4 his fludies, particularly
a metaphyfical work. Of 1 * and ex-
_ercifſe. — Poſi/cript by Mr. P. His wiſh that
_ their fludies were united in ſome work uſeful
10 manners, and his diſlaſte ef all party aurit-
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XLIX. Canon the Ducheſs if Hig; Perſian
Jo 0econgamy. .
L. On the, fame ſußecti.
II. A leiter of raillery.
III. In the Jame Jpls ts to Mr. Gay and the Ducheſ/+,
Lil. A range end of a lawſuit. His away of life,
etc. Poſiſcript to the Ducheſs,
IIV. Two new pieces of the Dean's : Anſwer to his in-
vitatiou into England. Advice to writ e, etc.
LV. More on the ſame ſubjetts, A happy unjon againſt
extra pen... Po! {ſcript to the Dyke of 2, and to
Ihe
LI. Mr. Gay to Dr. Swift. His account of himſelf:
his laſt fables : His ceconomy. = PA ſcript by Mn.
Pepe, of their common _—_— and oeconomy 3
CONTENT 8.
I
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io = and againft party ſdirit in writing, Þ
k LVII. From Dr. Swift to Mr. Gay. Congretulethn
5 on Mr. Gay's leaving the Court; Lord Corn-
a 2 refuſal of a penſron : Character of Mr,
ae. Tg —
£ LVVIII, From the ſame. Concerning the awriling of
- fables : Advice about oeronomy,” and proviſion
9. for 7 age ; of inattention, etc. Poſiſcript to
: F e Ace. | :
1 7 LIX. From the ſame to Mr. Gay, and a poſtſcript to
5 1 _ the Ducheſs, on various ſubjects. ;
= LX. From the ſame, concerning the opening of letters
1 at the poſt-office. The encouragement given to
„ Bad awriters. Reaſons for his not living in Eng-
- = land. Poſtſcript to the Ducheſs ; her character ;
„ raillery on the ſubject of Mr. Gay himſelf.
ws LXI. From Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope. An account of
< ſeveral little pieces or tratts publiſhed as his:
2 | ewhich were or were not genuine. | .
at LXII. From Mr. Pope and Dr. Arbuthnot to Dr.
1 4% Swift : On the ſudden death of Mr. Gay.
* LXIII. From Dr. Swift, On the ſame ſubject, O
| Mr, Pope's epifiter, and particularly that on th
ESI © OE *
5 ILXIV. From Mr. Pope, on Mr. Gay: His care
his memory and writings; concerning the Dean's
3. and his own ; and of ſeveral other things. .
LXV. More of Mr. Gay, his papers, and epitaph.
Of the fate of his own writings, and the pur-
T: poſe of them. Invitation of the Dean to Eng-
and,
LXVI. From Dr. Swift. Of the 8 called The
Liſe and character of Dr. Swift. Of Mr.
F, Gay, and the care of his papers. Of a liòel
A againſt Mr. bg Of the edition of the
| ean's works in Ireland, how printed,
7 LXVII. Of the Dean Verſes, called a Libel on Dr. D.
4
9 e ſpurious character of him : Lord Bol.*s
7 9 writings : The indolence of great men in years.
o LXVIII. From Dr. Swift. On Mrs, Pope's death: In-
Io vitation to Dublin, His own ſituation there,
and temper, |
LXIX. Anfever to the former, His temper of wind
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finee his mother's death. The union of ſen-
timents in all hit acquaintance.
Concern. for his abſence, Of a libel againſt
* Reflections on the behaviour of a worth-
7 man.
LXXI. Melanch circumſtances of the ſeparation of
Friends. Impertinence of falſe pretender: 15
. Publiſhers of /light papers.
1
the Dean's works. — Poſtſeript by Lord Bo-
lingbroke, concerning his metaphyſical work,
LXXII. From Dr. Swift, The * . Of bis ouin
IXXII.
LXXIV.
amiſſementi, the Eſſay on
an, and Lord B.'s
writings.
Of the pleaſures of bit converſation : Of Dr.
1 7707 of health : 7 the nature f
moral and philoſophical writi
ngs. -
From Dr. Swift, On the death of friends.
LXXV. From the ſame. On the offence taken at their
LXXVII.
ur tings, '
LXXVI.
ILXXVI.
Of Mr. Pope's Letters. Cha-
rader of Dr. Rundle, Biſhop of Derry.
Concerning the Karl of Peterborow, and his
death at Liſbon. Charities of Dr. Swift.
From Dr. Swift. Of writing letters : Se-
veral of the ancients writ them to publiſh, Of
his. own letters, The care he ſhall take of
Mr. Pope's, to prevent their being printed.
From Dr. Swift. On the death: of friends.
Nhat fort of popularity he has in Ireland,
Againſt the general corruption.
LXXIx. From the ſame, His kindneſs for Mr. P.
IXXX.
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and his own infirm condition.
Mr. Pope to Dr. Swift. His plan for the
Second book of Ethic Epiſtles, of the extent and
limits of human reaſon and ſcience ; and what
| retarded the execution of it. Lord B.“
LXXXI,
writings, New invitations to England.
From Dr. Swift, His reſolution to preſerve
lr, Pope's Letters, and leave them to his
diſpoſal after his death, His deſire to be
mentioned in the Ethic Epiſiles,, Of the loſs
of friends, and decays of age.
XII. What fort of letters. he now writes, and the
contraction of his correſpondence, Of the hu-
e Eſſay on Man, and of the collection of © 4
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th. of Lord B _— and Dr. , Swift as wri-
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'4 hs Ei 2
. LA. e — of friends, — Ons e the
:of © beſt c _—_— old age. ==
Bo- ters copied in Ireland, and 2 — Of
A. Lord Bolingbroke's retirement.
n new friends, and of what fort are,
3. / LXXV. The preſent circu on of bis life and his
2 * , companions. Withes t fund the laſt part of
)- = 2 da . might ether.
-of M. Err. ge, = that ahſtruct
- BM y bis coming Deſires. to be ro-
; 1 ; — — 2 . IG 7E let. Mam +
jp Sy. © .. - A Y ters ta him and by what
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1 n From, Dr. Swift, Mention. again of the
ii: chaſm in the „ | Oljedion.s in Ire
A and to ſome þ paige: Me. Pope's letters
0. Publiſhe eben land. The Dean's own
Of i inton of them.
Avi. From Dr. Swift, Of his declinin
* 3 e health. | His opinion of Mr. ng ia-
1. gue, intitled, One Thouſand Seven Hun-
11. dred and Thirty Eight. The intire colleſtion
4 of bit and Mr. Pope's letters, for lauen m"—_
Pp. . years and wards, found, and in the ba
'Y 5 of a lady, a worthy and Judicious relation
the _- of the Dean . This a miſtake; not in
nd hers ; but | in ſome other "ſafe hands.
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iy 8 | Lv 0 aun Ano Eſq.
+ L Of the aftf piece end ealavare, beth hr gipi
bi; and religious purpoſes p. 320
be ll. Of a newedition ju 2 and the uſe of them zar
»/; = Of the cultivation of his own gardens 424
IV 1 e own
the : 1 8 442 v1
u- V. On the Aueen death © | an
CONTENT Ss.
LETTER
= man failings of great | my, and the ak
vi Concerning an object of their common chgri
VII. His ſolicitude for bis frieuds _ 1 325
CONTENT 8s.
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Vir 4 Kae of of bis ill fate of health i in ; bis **
"LETTERS to Mt, WARBURTON, W
* Hir acceptance f the Commentary on the E884av
- + on Man © e 930 if
| u. 82 ern 332
III. On the ſame 333
IV. On the ſame. 334
v. On the ſame e 3383
* VI. His expectation of ſeeing him in town - 336
VII. Hir opinion of the Divine Legation ; and his dere
10 have the E884av on Man thought ar, favourable
to the intereſts of religion as of virtue $7 -Y
vm Hut prei ec of 2 be a proſe — of bie.
E ſſai into Latin, an bis approbation of a ſpecimen =
nt to him of it © | 339 BY
| M. His chagrine on ſomebody's having printed a wow 7
volume of bis Letters in Irela |
X. His ſatigſaction in the preſpect of meeting his friend 43
in town” 342 =
XI. e him with his obligations to a noble .
. 343 =
XII. An account of his Projett for adding a fourth
: book to the Did 344 6
XIII. Irrites his friend to Bath 345 1
XIV. On the ſame ſubject | 347 5
XV, Relating to the pr mn rive his Works 343 1
XVI. On the fame, and . e fourth book the Dunciad 349 :.
XVII. 85 the fame 3 |
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XIX. 2 ay 5 their common K — bis .
anuſements in his garden, and ſolicitude for tbe
groe@ededition 352 ll
XX. Defires bir friend to correct the Eſay on Homer 333 AM
XXI. Thanks him for having done it 355
XXII. Account Y the publication of the Duxciap 356
XXII. Of his il-flate of Bealthß - The edition of his
arte -- The laureat and the clergy ib
XXIV. The increaſe of his a and the foreſight of .
I.. conſequences _ 358
XXV. O the favie. 1 5 359 Wl
The laſi Will if Mr. Pope 315,145 ot
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Binfield, Nov. 13, 1712.
O U writ me a very kind Letter ſome months ago,
1 and told me you were then upon the point of
taking a journey into Devonſhire. That hindered my
anſwering you, and I have ſince ſeveral times inquired
of you, without any ſatisfaction; for ſo I call the know-
= ledge of your welfare, or of any thing that concerns
= you. I paſt two nonths 1 in Suſſex, and fince my return
WT bare been again very ill. I writ to Lintot in hopes of
hearing of you, but had no anſwer to that point. Our
friend Mr. Cromwell too has: been ſilent all this year;
l believe he has been diſpleaſed at ſome or other of my
"Xf freedoms , which I very innocently take, and moſt with
= thoſe I think moſt my friends. But this I know nothing
of; perhaps he may have opened to you : and if I k no
Wes ſee by the Letters to Mr. Ss. that Mr, er Þ: was
Y ſed to rally him on his turn for trifling and pedantic critici * So
he loſt his two early friends, Cromwell and Wycherley, ef his -
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you right, you are of a temper to cement friendſhips,
and not to divide them. I really much love Mr. Crom-
well, and have a true affection for yourſelf, which, if J
had any intereſt in the world, or power with thoſe who
have, I ſhould not be long without manifeſting to you.
I deſire you will not, either out of modeſty, or a vicious
diſtruſt of another's value for you (thoſe two eternal
foes to merit) imagine that your letters and converſa-
tion are not always welcome to me, There is no man
more entirely fond of good-nature or ingenuity than my-
ſelf, and I have ſeen too much of thoſe qualities in you
Your, etc.
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Dec. 24, 1721.
1* has been my good fortune within this month paſt,
to hear more things that have pleaſed me than (I |
think) almoſt in all my time beſide. But nothing upon
my word has been ſo home-felt a ſatisfaction as the
news you, tell me of yourſelf: and you are not in the
leaſt miſtaken, when you congratulate me upon your
own; good ſucceſs : for I have more people out of whom
to be happy, than any ill-natured man can boaſt of,
I may. with honeſty affirm to you, that, notwithſtanding 1
the many inconveniencies and diſadvantages they com-
monly talk of in the Res anguſfi domi, I have never
found any other, than the inability of giving people of
merit the only certain proof of our value for them, in
doing them ſome real ſervice, For after all, if we could
provided for; *s * but the circumſtantials,
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Ind the apparatus or equipage of human life, chat coſts
Jo much the furniſhing. Only what a luxurious man
Wants for horſes, and footmen, a good-natured man
Wants for his friends, or the indigent.
I ſhall ſee you this winter with much greater pleaſure
chan I could the laſt; and, I hope, as much of your
time, as your attendance on the Ducheſs * will allow
1 you to ſpare to any friend, will not be thought loſt upon
one who is as much ſo as any man. I muſt alſo put you
in mind, though you are now ſecretary to this Lady,
that you are likewiſe ſecretary to nine other Ladies, and
are to write ſometimes for them too. He who is forced
to live wholly upon thoſe Ladies favours, is indeed in
as precarious a condition as any He who does what
® Chaucer ſays for ſuſtenance ; but they are very agree-
Table companions, like other Ladies, when a man only
= paſs a night or ſo with them at his leiſure, and away.
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Aug. 23, 1713.
*X T UST as I received yours, I was ſet down to write
A to you, with ſome ſhame that I had ſo long deferred
it. But I can hardly repent my neglect, when it gives
. me the knowledge how little you inſiſt upon ceremony,
and how much a greater ſhare in your memory I have,
Ethan I deſerve. I have been near a week in London,
where I am like to remain, till I become, by Mr. Jer-
Svas's help, Elgans formarum ſpectator. I begin to diſ-
w Avid of Monmouth, to whom he was juſt then made Se-
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cover beauties that were till now imperceptible to me-.
Every corner of an eye, or turn of a noſe or ear, the
ſmalleſt degree of light or ſhade on a cheek, or in a
dimple, have charms to diſtract me. I no longer look ,
upon Lord Plauſible as ridiculous, for admiring a Lady's
fine tip of an ear and pretty elbow (as the Plain Dealer |
has it) but am in ſome danger even from the ugly and 1 4
diſagreeable, ſince they may have their retired beauties,
in one trait or other about them. You may gueſs in
how uneaſy a ſtate I am, when every day the perfor-
mances of others appear more beautiful and excellent,
and my own more deſpicable. I have thrown away
three Dr. Swifts, each of which was once my vanity,
two Lady Bridgwaters, a Ducheſs of Montague, beſide;
half a dozen Earls, and one Knight of the garter, I 5 Is
have crucified Chriſt over again in effigy, and made a
Madona as old as her mother St. Anne, Nay, what is
yet more miraculous, I have rivalled St. Luke himſelf
in painting, and as, tis ſaid, an angel came and finiſhed
his piece, ſo, you would ſwear, a devil put the laſt
hand to mine, tis ſo begrim'd and ſmutted. However,
I comfort myſelf with a Chriſtian reflection, that I have
not broken the commandment, for my pictures are not 4
the likeneſs of any thing in heaven above, or in earth *
below, or in the water under the earth. Neither will ij
any body adore or. worſhip them, except the Indians
ſhould 2 a fight of them, who, they tell us, worſhip 1
certain idols purely for their uglineſs.
IT am very much recreated and refreſhed with the news
of the advancement of the Fax *, which, I doubt not,
will delight the eye and ſenſe of tlie Fair, as long as that
agreeable machine ſhall play in the hands of poſterity, © 1
I: am glad your fan is mounted ſo ſoon, but I would |
* A Pocm of Mr, Cay” s, fo intitled,
a o n Ma. GAY. 5
3 have you varniſh and glaze it at your leiſure, and poliſh
he ſticks as much as you can. You may then cauſe it
to be borne in the hands of both ſexes, no leſs in Britain
TE than it is in China; where it is ordinary for a Manda-
rine to fan himſelf cool after a debate, and a Stateſman
to hide his face with it when he tells a grave lie.
2 | | J am, etc.
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Dear Mx. Gar, Sept. 23, 1714-
19 6 to your native ſoil!ꝰ welcome to your
. friends! thrice welcome to me ! whether return-
ed in glory, bleſt with court- intereſt, the love and fami-
liiarity of the great, and filled with agreeable hopes;
or melancholy with dejeQtion, contemplative of the
changes of fortune, and doubtful for the future : Whe-
ther return'd a triumphant Whig, or a deſponding Tory,
3 equally all hail! equally beloved and welcome to me
If happy, I am to partake in your elevation; if unhap-
PY, you have ſtill a warm corner in my heart, and a re-
treat at Binfield ia the worſt of times at your ſervice,
If you are a Tory, or thought ſo. by any man, I know
it can proceed from nothing but your gratitude to a few
1 people who endeavoured to ſerve you, and whoſe poli-
tics were never your concern. If you are a Whig, as I
rather hope, and, as I think, your principles and mine
as brother poets) had ever a bias to the ſide of Liberty,
I Enow you will be an honeſt man, and an inoffenſive
one. Upon the whole, I know, you are incapable of
| * In the beginning of this year Mr. Gay went over to Hano-
ver with the Earl of Clarendon, who was ſent thither by Q. Anne.
On her death they returned to England: and it was on this occa-
fon that Mr, Pope met him with this friendly welcome,
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being ſo much of either party as to be good for nothing 1
Therefore once more, whatever you are, or in whatever
ſtate you are, all hail!
One or two of your old friends complain'd they had L 4
heard nothing from you ſince the Queen's death; 1
told them no man living lay'd Mr. Gay better than I,
yet I had not once written to him in all his voyage. 1
This I thought a convincing proof, how truly one may
be a friend to another without telling him ſo every "i
month. But they had reaſons to themſelves to allege 7
in your excuſe; as men who really value one another,
will never want ſuch as make their friends and themſelves
eaſy. The late univerſal concern in public affairs, threw 3
us all into a hurry of ſpirits: even I, who am more a
Philoſopher than to expect any thing from any Reign,
was borne away with the current, and full of the expect- 4
ation of the Succeſſor, During your journeys I kne ,
not whither to aim a letter after you ; that was a ſort of 4 3
ſhooting flying : add to this the demand Homer had
upon me, to write fifty yerſes a day, beſides learned
notes, all which are at a concluſion for this year. Re-
joice with me, O my friend, that my labour is over;
come and make merry with me in much feaſting : We
will feed among the lilies (by the lilies 1 mean the La-
dies.) Are not the Roſalindas of Britain as charming
as the Blouſalindas of the Hague? or have the two great
Paltoral poets of our nation renounced love at the ſame
time? for Philips, immortal Philips, hath deſerted, yea,
and in a ruſtic manner kicked, his Roſalind. Dr. Par-
nell and I have been inſeparable ever fince you went.
We arg now at the Bath, where (if you are not, as [I
heartily hope, better engaged) your coming would be
the greateſt pleaſure to us in the world. Talk not 6f
expences: Homer ſhall ſopport his children, I beg a
1 4 1 ine from you directed to the Poſt-houſe in Bath.
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Poor
Parnell is in an ill ſtate of health.
pardon me if I add a word of advice in the poetical
way. Write ſomething on the King, or Prince, or Prin-
ceſs, On whatſoever foot you way be with the court,
this can do no harm.— I ſhall never know where to end,
1 and am confounded in the many things I have to ſay to
vou, though they all amount but to this, that I am en-
tirely, as ever,
Your, etc.
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London, Nov. 8, 1717.
1 1 Am extremely glad to find by a Letter of yours to
Mr. Forteſcue, that you have received one from me;
and I beg you to keep, as the greateſt of curioſities, that
letter of mine which you received, and I never writ.
But the truth is, that we were made here to expect
vou in a ſhort time, that I was upon the ramble moſt
part of the Summer, and have concluded the ſeaſon in
grief, for the death of my poor father.
I ſhall not enter into a detail of my concerns and
troubles, for two reaſons ; becauſe I am really aflited
and need no airs of grief, and becauſe they are not
the concerns and troubles of any but myſelf, But I
"2X think you (without too great a compliment) enough my
friend, to be pleaſed to know he died eafily, without a
"XX groan, or the ſickneſs of two minutes; in a word, as
2X filently and peacefully as he lived.
Sic mihi contingat wivere, ficque mori!
Jam not in the humour to ſay gay things, nor in the
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government, to which we contribute nothing ourſelves,
[ ſhould not forget to acknowledge your letter ſeut
from Aix; you told me then that writing was not good
with the waters, and, I find ſince, you are of my opinion,
that 'tis as bad without the waters. But, I fancy, it is
not writing but thinking, that is ſo bad with the waters;
and then you might write without any manner of pre-
judice, if you writ like our brother Poets of theſe days.
The Ducheſs, Lord Warwick, Lord Stanhope, Mrs.
Beilenden, Mrs. Lepell, and J can't tell who elſe, had
your letters: Dr. Arbuthnot and I expect to be treated 1
ke friends, I would ſend my ſervices to Mr. Pul-
teney, tut that he is out of favour at court; and make
ſome compliment to Mrs. Pulteney, if ſhe were not a
Whigs. My Lord Burlington tells me ſhe has much
out-ſhined all the French ladies, as ſhe did the Engliſh
before : I am ſorry for it, becauſe it will be detrimental
to our holy religion, if heretical women ſhould - eclipſe
thoſe Nuns and orthodox Beauties, in whoſe ey:s alone
lie all the hopes we can have, of gaining ſuch fine
_ gentlemen as you to our church,
Yours, etc.
T wiſh you joy of the birth of the young prince, be-
cauſe he is the only prince we have from whom you have
had no expectations and no diſappointments.
* A Poem intituled, To my ingenious and worthy friend V. Townes,
Eſq; Author of that celebrated treatiſe in Folio, called the LAN TAX
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tertain either Mr. Pulteney or you, as you have done
both my Lord Burlington and me, by your letter to
Mr. Lowndes . I am only forry you have no greater
quarrel to Mr, Lowndes, and wiſh you paid ſome
hundreds a year to the land-tax. That gentleman is
lately become an inoffenfive perſon to me too; ſo that we
may join heartily in our addreſſes to him, and (like true
patriots) rejoice in all that gocd done to the nation and
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FROM Ms. GAY. 9
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From Mr. Gar to Mr. F—,
0 Stanton-Harcourt, Aug, 9s 1718. *
* E only news that you can expect to have from
me here, is news from heaven, for J am quite out
of the world, and there is ſcarce any thing can reach me
9 except the noiſe of thunder, which undoubtedly yon
have heard too. We have read in old authors of high
towers levell'd by it to the ground, while the humble
valleys have eſcap'd : the only thing that is proof againſt
it is the laurel, which, however, I take to be no great
; WT ſecugity to the brains of modern authors. But to let you
ſiee that the contrary to this often happens, I muſt ac-
1 quaint you, that the higheſt and molt extravagant heap of
towers in the univerſe, which is in this neighbourhood,
tand fill undefaced, while a cock of barley in our next
field has been conſumed to aſhes, Would to God that
this heap of barley had been all that had periſhed ! for
2X unhappily beneath this little ſhelter fat two much more
conſtant Lovers than ever were found in Romance under
the ſhade of a beech tree. John Hewet was a well-
X ſet man of about five and twenty, Sarah Drew might
be rather called comely than beautiful, and was about
the ſame age. They had paſs'd through the various la-
bours of ihe year together, with the greateſt ſatisfaction;
it ſhe milk'd, 'twas his morning and evening care, to
; $ bring the cows to her hand; it was but laſt fair that
he bought her a preſent of green filk for her ſtraw hat,
and the poſie on her ſilver ring was of his chuſing.
Their love was the talk of the whole neigbbournoud ;
or ſcandal never affirmed, that they had any other views
1 than the lawful poſſeſſion of each other in marriage. It
1 was that very morning that he had obtain'd the conſent
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of her parents, and it was, but till the next week that
they were to wait to be happy. Perhaps in the inter-
vals of their work they were now talking of the wedding
cloaths, and John was ſuiting ſeveral ſorts of poppies and * 2
field flowers to her complexion, to chuſe her a knot for
the wedding -day. While they were thus buſied (it was on 4 *
the laſt of July between two and three, in the afternoon)
the clouds grew black, and ſuch a ſtorm of lightning and,
thunder enſued, that all. the labourers made the beſt of
their way to what ſhelter, the trees and hedges. afforded,
Sarah was frighted, and fell down in. a ſwoon, on a. heap!
of barley. John, who never ſeparated from her, ſat.
down by her fide, having raked together two or three
heaps, the better to ſecure her from the ſtorm. Immedi- 3
ately there was heard ſo loud a crack, as if heaven. had
ſplit aſunder ; every one was now folicitous for the ſafety,
of his neighbour, and called to one another throughout
the field : No anſwer being returned to thoſe who called
to our Lovers, they ſlept to the place where they lay;
they perceived the barley all in a ſmoke, and then ſpied
this faithful pair: John with one arm about Sarah's neck,
and the other held over. her, as to ſkreen her from the
lightning. They were ſtruck dead, and ſtiſfen'd in this
tender poſture. Sarah's left. eye · brow was ſing d, and
there appeared a black ſpot on her breaſt: her lover was
all over black, but not the leaſt ſigns of life were found
in either. Attended by their melancholy companions,
they were convey'd to the town, and the next day were
interr'd in Stanton- Harcourt Church-yard, My. Lord
Harcourt, at Mr. Pope's and my requeſt, has cauſed a
ſtone to be placed over them, upon condition that owe
furniſh'd the Epitaph, which is as follows; =
When Eaftern lovers feed the Pre fire,
On the Jame pile the faithful pair expire 8
FRO MYM. GAY. 18
Here pitying Heav'n that virtue mutual found,
And blaſted bath, that it might neither æwonnd.
Hearts ſo fincere thi Almighty ſawv well plea;d,
Sent his own lightning, and the vidimt ſeix d.
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Put my Lord is apprehenſive the country people will not
aderſtand this, and Mr. Pope ſays he'll make one with
omething of Scripture in it, and with as little of poetry
Hopkins and Ster nhold “. | |
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LST.T-S 2; IL
Dear Gar, Sept. 11, 1722.
3 Thank you for remembering me; I would do my beſt
to forget myſelf, but that, I find, your idea is ſo cloſe-
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Near this place lie the bodies of
Jon x HZw IT and Mary Dazw,
an induſtrious young Man
and Virtuous Maiden of this Pariſh;
Who being at Harveſt Work
(with ſeveral others)
were in one inftant killed by Lightning'
the laſt day of July 1718.
Think not, by rig'rous Judgment ſeiz'd,
A Pair ſo faithful could expire
Victims ſo pure Heav'n ſaw well pleas'd,
And ſnatch'd them in celeftial fire,
Live well, and fear no ſudden fate;
When God calls Virtue to the grave,
Alike *tis Juſtice ſoon or late,
Mercy alike to kill or ſave,
Virtue unmoy'd can hear the call,
And face the flaſh that melts the ball,
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neither. I am ſorry I could not have a glyopſe either 1
of you, or of the Sun (your father) before you went for
Bath : But now it pleaſes me to ſee him, and hear of you-
Pray put Mr. Congreve in mind that he has one on this © |
fide of the world who loves him; and that there are more
men and women in the univerſe than Mr. Gay and my
Lady Ducheſs. There are ladies in and about Rich-
mond, that pretend to value him and yourſelf; and
one of them at leaſt may be thought to do it without af- I
fectation, namely Mrs. Howard.
Pray conſult with Dr. Arbuthnot and Dr. Chene, to
what exact pitch your belly may be ſuffer'd to ſwell, not
to outgrow theirs, Who are, yet, your betters. Tell Dr. f
Arbuthnot that even pigeon pies and hogs puddings are
thought dangerous by our governors; for thoſe that have
been ſent to the Biſhop of Rocheſter are open'd and pro-
phanely pry'd into at the Tower: *Tis the firſt time ©
dead pigeons have been ſuſpeQed of carrying intelli-
gence. To be ſerious, you and Mr. Congreve and the
Doctor will be ſenſible of my concern and ſurprize at his
eommitment, whoſe welfare is as much my concern as
any friend's I have. I think myſelf a moſt unfortunate
wretch: I no ſooner love, and, upon knowledge, fix
my eſteem to any man; but he either dies, like Mr.
Craggs, or is {ent to impriſonment, like the Biſhop.
God ſend him as well as ! wiſh him, manifeſt him to be
as innocent as I believe him, and make all his enemies
know him as well as I do, that they may think of him
as well!
. If you apprehend this period to be of any danger in
being addreſſed to you, tell Mr, Congreve or the Doctor,
it is writ to them. lam
Your, etc.
FROM Ms. GAY. 13
LETTER VII.
July 13, 1722.
4 ] Was very much pleas'd, not to ſay obliged, by your
kind letter, which ſufficiently warm'd my heart to
have anſwered it ſooner, had I not been deceived (a way
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one often is deceived) by hearkening to women;
who told me that both Lady Burlington and yourſelf
were immediately to return from Tunbridge, and that my
4 1 Lord was gone to bring you back, The world furniſhes
aus with too many examples of what you complain of in
yours, and, I aſſure you, none of them touch and grieve
me ſo much as what relates to you, I think your ſenti-
ments upon it are the very ſame I ſhould entertain: I
7 wiſh thoſe we call great men had the ſame notions, but
they are really the moſt little creatures in the world;
2X and the molt intereſted, in all but one point; which is,
that they want judgment ꝰ to know their greateſt intereſt,
to encourage and chuſe honeſt men for their friends. _
I have not once ſeen the perſon you complain of,
= whom [| have of late thought to be, as the Apoſtle ad-
moniſheth, one fleſh with his wife. |
Pray make my fincere compliments to Lord Burling-
ton, whom I have long known to have a ſtronger bent
of mind to be all that is good and honourable, than al-
moſt any one of his rank.
I have not forgot yours to Lord Bo'ingbroke, tho?
0 1 I hope to have ſpeedily a fuller opportunity, he returning
for Flanders and France next month.
Mrs. Howard has writ you ſomething or other in a
JF letter, which, the ſays, the repents. She has as much
"3X good-nature as if ſhe had never ſeen any ill- nature, and
Inſtead of — that they want judgment, propriety of expreſtion
1 5 1 requires he ſhould have ſaid === ber where they Want Judge
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had been bred among lambs and turtle-doves, inſtead of
Princes and court-ladies.
© By the end of this week, Mr, Forteſcue will paſs a
few days with me: we ſhall remember you in our po-
tations, and wiſſi you a fiſher with us, on my graſs- plat.
In the mean time we wiſh you ſucceſs as a fiſher of wo-
men at the Wells, a rejoicer of the comfortleſs and
widow, and a play - fellow of the maiden, I am
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LETTER IX.
Sept. 11, 1722.
Think: it obliging in you io deſire an account of my
health. The truth is, I have never been in a worſe
fate in my life, and find whatever I have try'd as a re-
medy ſo ineffectual, that I gave myſelf intirely over.
I wiſh: your health may be ſet perfectly right by the
waters; and, be aſſured, I not only wiſh that, and every
thing elſe for you, as common friends wiſh, but with a
zeal not uſual among thoſe we call fo. I am always
glad to hear of, and from you; always glad to ſee you, f
whatever aecidents or amuſements have interven'd to
make me do either leſs than uſual. I not only fre-
quently think of you, but conſtantly do my beſt to make
others do it, by mentioning you to all your acquaintance.
I deſire you to do the ſame for me to thoſe you are now
with: do me what you think juſtice in regard to thoſe
who are my friends, and if there are any, whom I have
unwillingly deſerved ſo little of as to be my enemies, I
don't defire you to forfeit their opinion, or your own
judgment in any caſe. Let time convince: thoſe who
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oo me not, that I am an inoffenſive perſon 3. tho”'(to#
truth) I don't care how little I am indebted to Time,
1 or the world is hardly worth living in, at leaſt to ones
hat is never to have health a week together. I have
een made to expect Dr. Arbuthnot in town this fort-
Wight, or elſe I had written to him. If he, by never
vuriting to me, ſeems to forget me, I conſider I do the
ſame ſeemingly to him, and yet I don't believe he has a
more ſincere friend in the world than I am : therefore I
will think him mine, I am his, Mr. Congreve's,
Your, etc.
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Faithfully aſſure you in the midſt of that melancholy |
with which I have been ſo long encompaſſed, in an
2X hourly expeRation almoſt of my Mother's death; there
was no circumſtance that render'd it more inſupportable
to me, than that I could not leave her to ſee you. Your
con preſent eſcape from ſo imminent danger, I pray God
may prove leſs. precarious than my poor Mother's can
be; whoſe life at beſt can be but a ſhort Reprieve, or a
longer dying. But I fear, even that is more than God
will pleaſe to grant me; for, theſe two days paſt, her
molt dangerous ſymptoms. are returned upon her;
3 and, unleſs there be a ſudden change, I muſt in;
2 few. days, if not in a few. hours, be deprived;
Xx of: her. In the afflicting proſpect before me, I know:
nothing that can ſo much alleviate it as the view now
given me (Heaven grant it may ãnereaſe ]) of your re-
a A covery. In the ſincerity. of my heart, I am exceſſively
concern'd not to be able to pay you, dear Gay, any part
or the debt, I very gratefully. remember, I owe you on a-
like ſad occaſion, when you was here comfortivg-me in.
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I fear hers muſt decline: I believe that would be very fat
— may the life that is added to you be paſt in good for-
tune and tranquillity, rather of your own giving to your.
ſelf, than from any expectations or truſt in others. May
you and I live together, without wiſhing more felicity or
acquiſitions than Friendſhip can give ant receive without
obligations to Greatneſs. God keep you, and three os
four more of thoſe | have known as long, that I may,
have ſomething worth the ſurviving my Mother, Adieu. 'T
de y, and believe me (while you live and while I
live) |
Your, etc.
As I told you in my laſt letter, I repeat it in this: Do
not think of writing tome. The Doctor, Mrs. Howard,
and Mrs. Blount give me daily accounts of you,
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Sunday Night.
125 rejoiced to fee your hand- writing, though I
feared the trouble it might give you. I wiſh I had
not known that you are {till ſo exceſſively weak. Every
day for a week paſt I had hopes of being able in a day
or two more to ſee you. But my Mother advances not
at ail, gains no ſtrength, and ſeems bat upon the whole
to wait for the next cold day to throw her into a Diar-
rhœa, that muſt, if it return, carry her off. This being
daily to be feared, makes me not dare to go a
day from her, leſt that ſhould prove to be her laſt. God
ſend you a ſpeedy. recovery, and ſuch a total one as,
at your time of life, may be expected. You need not
Call the few words I writ to you eicher kind or good;
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lt was, and is, nothing. But whatever I have in my
lature of kindneſs, I really have for you, and whatever
od for. Cod 1 could do, I would, among the very firſt, be glad
> your- lo do to you. In your circumſtance the old Roman
MY 1 4 arewell is proper, Vive memor naſtri.
city or Your, etc.
ithout 7
ree or © 4 I ſend you a very kind letter of Mr, Digby, between
may hom and me two letters have paſs'd concerning you.
\dieu, 4 , 3 *
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EB Ne words can tell you the great concern I feel for
Do you; I aſſure you it was not, and i is not leſſened,
yard, 45 the immediate apprehenſion I have now every day
lain under of loſing my mother, Be aſſured no duty
- leſs than that ſhould have kept me one day from attend-
ing your condition: I would come and take a room by
vou at Hampſtead, to be with you daily, were ſhe not
ill in danger of death. I have conſtantly had particu-
lar accounts of you from the Doctor, which have not
q 4 ceaſed to alarm me yet. God preſerve your life, and
reſtore your health, I really beg it for my own ſake,
bor I feel I love you more than | thought in health, tho”.
always loved you a great deal. If I am ſo unſortu-
nate as to bury my poor mother, and yet have the good
fortune to have my prayers heard for you, I hope we
may live moſt of our remaining days together. If, as I
believe, the air of a better clime, as the Southern part
of France, may be thought uſeful for your recovery, thi-
ther I would go with you infallibly; and it is very pro-
bable we might get the Dean with us, who is in that
abandoned ſtate already in which I ſhall ſhortly be, as to
We ©ther cares and duties, Dear Gay, be as chearful as
13 LET TIRES TO AiAnHD
your ſufferings will permit: God is a better friend than
a Court; even any honeſt man is a better. I promiſe |
you my entire friendſhip in all events, heartily praying
for your recovery. . Your, etc.
Do not write, if you are ever ſo able : the DoQor tell
me all.
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LETTER XIII.
1 Am glad to hear of the progreſs of your recovery,
and the oftner I hear it, the beiter, when it becomes
eaſy to you to give it me. I ſo well remember the con-
ſolation you were to me in my Mother's former illneſs,
that it doubleg my concern at this time not to be able
to be with you, or you able to be with me. Had I loſt
her, I would have been no where elſe but with you
during your confinement. 1 have now paſt five weeks =
without once going from home, and without any com-
Pany but for three or four of the days. Friends rarely
ſtretch their kindneſs ſo far as ten miles. My Lord
Bolingbroke and Mr. Bethel have not forgotten to viſit
me : the reſt (except Mrs. Blount once) were contented
to ſend meſſages. I never paſſed ſo melancholy a time,
and now Mr. Congreve's death touches me nearly. It
was twenty years and more that I have known him:
Every year carries away fomething dear with it, till we
outlive all tenderneſſes, and become wretched indivi-
duals again as we begun. Adieu! This is my birth» |
day, and this is my reflection upon it.
With added days if life gi ve nothing new,
But, like a fieve, let ev'ry Pleaſure thro ;
Some Joy till loft, as each wain year runs ver,
Aud all we gain, ſome ſad Ręffrctios more /
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FROM Mx. GAY, 19
I this a Birth-day ? — J alas! too clear,
*Tis but the Fur ral of the former Tear.
Your, etc.
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LETTER XIV.
To the Honourable Mrs.
June 20.
E cannot omit taking this occaſion to congratulate
you upon the increaſe of your family, for your
. g cow! is this morning very happily delivered of the bet-
5 er ſort, I mean a female calf; ſhe is as like her mother
Jas ſhe can ſtare. All Knights Errants Palfreys were diſ-
een by lofty names: we ſee no reaſon why a
Paſtoral Lady's ſheep and calves ſhould want names of
7 he ſofter ſound ; we have therefore given her the name
of Czſar's wife, Calfurnia: imagining, that as Romu-
3 us and Remus were ſuckled by a wolf, this Roman-lady
as ſuckled by a cow, from whence ſhe took that name.
= order to celebrate this birth-day, we had a cold din-
4 ner at Marble-hill . Mrs, Suſan offered us wine upon
me occaſion, and upon ſuch an occaſion we could not
© refuſe it, Our entertainment conſiſted of fleſh and fiſh,
We have
© ſome thoughts of dining there to-morrow, to cele-
brate the day after the birth-day, and on Friday to ce-
| iebrate the day after that, where we intend to entertain
Dean Swift; becauſe we think your hall the moſt delight-
* ful room in the world except that where you are. If it
was not for you, we would forſwear all courts ; and
really it is the moſt mortifying thing in nature, that we
3 Pran neither get into the court to live with yoo, nor you
* Mrs. Howard's houſe.
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get into the country to live with us; fo we will take vp
with what we can get that belongs to you, and make
ourſelves 2s happy as we can, in your houſe,
1 hope we ſhall be brought i into no worſe company, L 4
when you all come to Richmond : for whatever our friend
Gay may wiſh as to getting into Court, I diſclaim it,
and deſire to ſee nothing of the court out yourſelf, be 4
ing wholly and ſolely
Your, etc.
_—_—
2
LETTER XV.
July 21,
O U have the ſame ſhare in my memory that good
things generally have; I always know (whenever !
reflect) that you ſhould be in my mind; only I reflect
too ſeldom. However, you ought to allow me the in
dulgence I allow all my friends (and if I did not, they
would take it) in conſideration that they have other
avocations, which may prevent the proofs of their re- F
. membring me, though they preſerve for me all the
friendſhip and good-will which I deſerve f:om them,
In like manner expect from you, that my paſt life of
twenty years may be ſet againk the omiſſion of (perhaps)
one month: and if you complain of this to any other,
*tis you are in the ſpleen, and not I in the wrong, If
you think this letter ſplenetic, conſider I have juſt We.
received the news of the death of a friend, whom Il
-eſteemed almoſt as many years as you; poor Fenton.
He died at Faſthamſtead, of indolence and inaQtivity ;
Jet it not be your fate, but uſe exerciſe. I hope the
Ducheſs will take care of you in this reſpect, and
Of Queenſberry.
AY s I ever was, and juſt as I ever ſhall be,
© Dear SIR,
FROM Ms. GAY. 21
Sher make you gallop after her, or teize you enough
home to ſerve inſtead of exerciſe abroad, Mrs. Ho-
nd is ſo concerned about you, and fo angry at me for
r writing to you, and at Mrs. Blount for not doing
e came, that I am piqu'd with jealouſy and envy at
"A du, and hate you as much as if you had a great place
court; which you will confeſs a proper cauſe of envy
Ind hatred, in any Poet militant or unpenſioned. But
Fo ſet matters even, I own I love you; and own, I am,
Your, etc.
LETTER XVI.
| Oct. 6, 1727.
Have many years ago magnify'd, in my own mind,
and repeated to you, a ninth Beatitude, added to
Ine eight in the Scripture ; . Bleſſed is he who expects
X nothing, for he thall never be diſappointed.” 1
could ind! in my heart to congratulate you on this happy
Aiſmiſſion from all Court-dependance ; I dare ſay I ſhall
find you the better and the honeſter man for it, many
ears hence: very probably the healthfuller, and the
7 hearfuller into the bargain.
3 many curſed ceremonies, as well as of many ill, and
You are happily rid of
ricious habits, of which few or no men eſcape the in-
| Pectoa, who are hackney'd and tramelled in the ways
of a court. Princes indeed, and Peers (the lackies of
Princes) and Ladies (the fools of Peers) will ſmile on you
2B ue leſs ; but men of worth and real friends will look
Jon you the beiter.
There is a thing, the only thing
which Kings and Queens cannot give you (for they have
it not to give) Liberty, and which is worth all they
: bee; which, as yet, I thank God, Engliſhmen need
3 0
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mot aſk from their hands. You will enjoy that, and
your own integrity, and the ſatisfactory conſciouſneſs of
having not merited ſuch graces from courts as are be.
ſtowed only on the mean, ſervile, flattering, intereſted,
and undeſerving. The only ſteps to the favour of the
Great are ſuch complacencies, ſuch compliances, ſuck
diſtant decorums, as delude them in their vanities, or
engage them in their paſſions. He is their greateſt fa.
vourite, who is the falſeſt: and when a man, by ſuch
vile gradations, arrives at the height of grandeur and
power, he is then at beſt but in a circumſtance to be
hated, and in a condition to be hanged, for ſerving
their ends: ſo many a miniſter has found it!
I believe you did not want advice, in the letter you
ſent by my Lord Grantham ; I preſume you writ it not,
without: and you could not have better, if I gueſs right
at the perſon who agreed to your doing it, in reſpect to
any decency you ought to obſerve: for I take that per-
ſon to be a perfect judge of decencies and forms. I am
not without fears even on that perſon's account: I think
it a bad omen: but what have Ito de with Court- ©
omens? — Dear Gay, adieu. I can only add a plain
uncourtly ſpeech: While you are no body's ſervant,
you may be any one's friend; and as ſuch 1 embrace
you, in all conditions of life, While I have a ſhilling,
you ſhall have fix-pence, nay eight-pence, if I can
cantrive to live upon a groat. I am faithfully
Your, etc,
FROM Mz. GAY. 23
„ LETTER XVII.
>
N From Mr. Gay to Mr. Pore.
:ſted, Bl + | Aug. 2, 1728,
F the * AS two or three weeks ago that I writ you
ſuch a letter; I might indeed have done it ſooner; I 1
> — hought of you every poſt- day upon that account, and
very other day upon ſome account or other, I muſt
beg you to give Mrs. B. my ſincere thanks for her kind
vay of thinking of me, which I have heard of more than
nce from our friend at court, who ſeem'd in the letter
he writ to be in high health and ſpirits. Conſidering
e multiplicity of pleaſures and delights that one is
you ver-run with in thoſe places, I wonder how any body
not, Math health and ſpirits enough to ſapport them: I am
right eartily glad ſhe has, and whenever I hear ſo, I find ĩt
ontributes to mine. You ſee I am not free from de-
Per- pendance, tho' I have leſs attendance than I had former-
= y; for a great deal of my own welfare ſtill depends upon
gers. Is the widow's houſe to be diſpos'd of yet? I have
ot given up my pretenſions tothe Dean; if it was to be
parted with, I wiſh one of us had it; I hope you wiſh
o too, and that Mrs. Blount and Mrs. Howard wiſh the
ume, and for the very ſame reaſon that I wiſh it. All I
ould hear of you of late hath been by advertiſements in
ews-papers, by which one would think the race of Curls
as multiplied ; and, by the indignation ſuch fellows
how againſt you, that you have more merit than any
dody alive could have. Homer himſelf hath not been
orſe us'd by the French, I am to tell you that the
Ducheſs makes you her compliments, and is always in-
in'd to like any thing you do; that Mr. Congreve
Umires, with me, your fortitude : and loves, not envies
our performance, for we are not Dunces. Adieu.
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LETTER XVII. -
April 18, 1730. WW vi
IF my friendſhip were as effectual as it is ſincere
you would be one of thoſe people who would be
vaſtly advantaged and enrich'd by it. I ever honor
thoſe Popes who were moſt famous for Nepotiſm ; 'tis
ſign that the old fellows loved Somebody, which is nor
uſual in ſuch advanced years. And I now honour Sire
Robert Walpole for his extenſive bounty and goodneſ
to his private friends and relations. - But it vexes me tc
the heart when I reflect, that my friendſhip is ſo much
leſs effectual than theirs; nay ſo utterly uſeleſs that it
cannot give you any thing, not even a dinner at this
diſtance, nor help the General whom I greatly love, ta
catch one fiſh, My only conſolation is to think you
happier than myſelf, and to begin to envy you, whicl
is next to hating you (an excellent remedy for love
How comes it that Providence has been fo unkind 1
me (who am a greater object of compaſſion than any fat
man alive) that I am forced to drink wine, while you riot
in water, prepar'd with oranges by the hand of the
Ducheſs of Queenſberry? that I am condemn'd to live
by a highway fide, like an old Patriarch, receiving allf
gueſts, where my portico (as Virgil has it)
Mane ſalutantum totis womit aedibus undam,
while you are wrapt in the Idalian groves, ſprinkle
with roſe-water, and live in burrage, balm, and burnelif
up to the chin, with the Ducheſs of Queenſberry lf
that I am doom'd to the drudgery of dining at coutt wid
the ladies in waiting at Windſor, while you are happil] 1
baniſh'd with the Ducheſs of Queenſberry ? So partial if
Fortune in her diſpenſations! for I deſerved ten time
'FROM M. GAY. 2
ore to be baniſh'd than you, and I know ſome Ladies
ho merit it better than even her Grace. After this I
uſt not name any, who dare do ſo much for you as to
nd you their ſervices. But one there 15, who exhorts
e often to write to you, I ſuppoſe, to prevent or
cuſe her not doing it herſelf; ſhe ſeems: (for that is
1730,
incere
ald De
our'd ö
tis a8! | |! ſay for a courtier) to wiſh you mighty well. Ano-
is no Per, who is no courtier, frequently mentions you, and
Yar dr es certainly wiſh you well. — I fancy, after all,
dey both do fo.
zodneſ; | |
I writ to Mr, Forteſcue, and told him the pains you
me te
muci ok to ſee him. The Dean is well; I have had many
that counts of him from Iriſh evidence, but only two letters
eſe four months, in both which you are mentioned
ndly: he is in the north of Ireland, doing I know not
hat, with I know not whom. Mr. Cleland always
eaks of you: he is at Tunbridge, wondering at the
perior carnivoracity of our friend: he plays now
ith the old Ducheſs, nay dines with her, after ſhe has
on all his money. Other news I know not, but that
punſellor Bickford has hurt himſelf, and has the
ongeſt walking-ſtaff I ever faw. He intends ſpeedily
make you a viſit with it at Ameſbury. I am my Lord
uke's, my Lady. Ducheſs $9. My. Dormer' 8.
ormer's, and
at this
ve, tolf
nk you
which
love
ind tf
any fat
you riot
of the
to live
ing allf
Your, etc.
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rinkled 3 es |
barnet 5 LE-T.T.E R XIX.
(berry ! | |
tt with © Sept. 11, 1730.
May with great N return your eek, that I think
of you daily; oftner indeed than is conſiſtent with the
ar acter of a reaſonable man, who is rather to make
nſelf eaſy with the things and men that ate about hiſi,
Vor. VI. C
happily 1
artial! ui | 3
2 time
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than uneaſy for thoſe which he wants. And you, whoſe
abſence is in a manner perpetual to me, ought rather tl
be remembered as a good man gone, than breathed after
as one living. You are taken from us here, to be laid
up in a more bleſſed ſtate with ſpirits of a higher kind; |
ſuch I reckon his Grace and her Grace, ſince their baniſh.
ment from an earthly court to a heavenly one, in each
other and their friends; for, I conclude, none but true
friends will conſort or aſſociate with them afterwards
I can't but look upon myſelf (ſo unworthy as a man of
Twitnam ſeems, to be rank'd with ſuch rectify'd and
ſublimated beings as you) as a ſeparated ſpirit too from
Courts and courtly fopperies. But, I own, not altogethe;
ſo diveſted of terrene matter, nor altogether ſo ſpiritua.
Lzed, as to be worthy admiſſion to your depths of retire-
ment and contentment. I am tugg'd back to the world
and its regards too often; and no wonder, when my re-
treat is but ten miles from the capital. I am within
ear-ſhot of reports, within the vortex of lies and cenſures,
I hear ſometimes of the lampooners of beauty, the ca-
lumniators of virtue, the jokers at reaſon and religion,
J preſume theſe are creatures and things as unknown to
you, as we of this dirty orb are to the inhabitants of
the planet jupiter; except a few fervent prayers reach
| you on the wings of the poſt, from two or three of your
zealous votaries at this diſtance : as one Mrs, H. who
lifts up her heart now and then to you, from the midſt
of the Colluvies and fink of human greatneſs at W=r ;
one Mrs. B. that fancies you may remember her while
you liv'd in your mortal and too tranſitory ſtate at
Peterſham ; one Lord B. who admir'd the Ducheſs before
ſhe grew a Goddeſs ; and a few others,
To deſcend now to tell you what are our wants, out
complaints, and our miſeries here; I mult ſeriouſly fay,
the loſs of any one good woman is too great to be borne
I
ani
th
de
be
fri«
FROM Ma. GAY. 27
whole Bi eaftly: and poor Mrs. Rollinſon, tho' a private woman,
her 10 vas ſuch. Her huſband is gone into Oxfordſhire very
after melancholy, and thence to the Bath, to live on, for
7557 ſuch is our fate, and duty. Adieu. Write to me as often
ind:
| as you will, and (to encourage you) I will write as ſel-
aniſt. WF dom as if you did not. Believe me
| Each Your, etc.
t true
vards 25 | * om
an of LETTER XX.
d and
; I'M Dear Sir, Octob. 1, 1730.
zether | Am ſomething like the ſun at this ſeaſon, with-draws
ritua. ing from the world, but meaning it mighty well,
etire · ¶ and reſolving to ſhine whenever I can again. But I fear
world the clouds of a long winter will overcome me to ſuch a
1y re- degree, that any body will take a farthing candle for a
within better guide, and more ſerviceable companion. My
ſures, friends may remember my brighter days, but will think
1e ca- (like the Iriſhman) that the moon is a better thing when
igion, once I am gone. I don't ſay this with any alluſion to
wn tomy poetical capacity as a ſon of Apollo, but in my com-
nts of panionable one (if you'll ſuffer me to uſe a phraſe of the
reach WW Ear! of Clarendon's), for I ſhall fee or be ſeen of few
your this winter. I am grown too faint to do any good,
who Nor to give any pleaſure. 1 not only, as Dryden finely
midi Ways, feel my notes decay as a poet, but feel my ſpirits
r; flag as a companion, and ſhall return again to where 1
while fürſt began, my books. I have been putting my library in
ate at order, and enlarging the chimney in it, with equal inten-
before tion to warm my mind and body (if I can) to ſome life.
A friend (a woman friend, God help me!) with whom I
3, our have ſpent three or four hours a day theſe fifteen years,
ly ſay, adviſed me to paſs more time in my ſtudies : I reflected,
borne WY he muſt have found ſome reaſon for this admonition,
2
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and concluded ſhe would complete all her kindneſles tg
me by returning me to the employment I am fitteſt ſor;
converſation with the dead, the old, and the worm:
ea'en,
judge therefore if I might not treat you as a beatify'{
ſpirit, comparing your life with my ſtupid ſtate. Fel
as to my living at Windſor with the ladies, etc. it is al
a dream; I was there but two nights, and all the day
out of that company. I ſhall certainly make as little
court to others as they do to me; and that will be none
at all. My Fair-weather friends of the ſummer an
going away for London, and I ſhall ſee them and the|
butterflies together, if I live till next year; Which
would not deſire to do, if it were only for their ſakes,
But we that are writers, ought to love poſterity, that
poſterity may love us; and I would willingly live to ſeeſ
the children of the preſent race, merely in hope theyff
may be a little wiſer than their Parents.
I am, etc.
—
LETTER XXI.
I T is true that I write to you very ſeldom, and have
= no pretence of writing which ſatisfies me, becauſe |
have nothing to ſay that can give you much pleaſure
only merely that I am in being, which in truth is of littll
conſequence to one from whoſe converſation I am cut off
by ſuch accidents or engagements as ſeparate us, I conf 8
tinue, and ever ſhall, to wiſh you all good and happineſs
I wiſh that ſome lucky event might ſet you in a ſtate of
eaſe and independency all at once! and that I might liv 1
to ſee you as happy, as this filly world and fortune cal
. ;
make any one, Are we never to live together more, ui 1
*
FROM Ma. G A v. 29
nce we did? I find my life ebbing apace, and my
ffections ſtrengthening as my age increaſes; not that
am worſe, but better, in my health than laſt winter;
dut my mind finds no amendment nor improvement,
1 zor ſupport to lean upon, from thoſe about me:
Wor ind ſo 1 feel myſelf leaving the world, as faſt 2%
ie dafl t leaves me. Companions I have enough, friends
lie and thoſe too warm in the concerns of the world,
or me to bear pace with; or elſe fo divided from me,
* hat they are but like the dead whoſe remembrance 1
old in honour. Nature, temper, and habit from my
outh made me have but one ſtrong deſire ; all other am-
ditions, my perſon, education; conſtitution, religion, eic.
onſpired to remove far from-me. That dehre was to ſix
nd preſerve a few laſting dependable friendſhips ; and
he accidents which have diſappointed me in it, have
put a period to all my aims. So J am ſunk into an idie-
neſs, which makes me neither care nor labour to bo
oticed by the reſt of mankind; I purpoſe no rewards
o myſelf, and why ſhould I take any ſort of pains ? here
fit and ſleep, and probably here I ſhall fleep till I ſleep
or ever, like the old man of Verona. I hear of what
paſſes in the buſy world with ſo little attention, that I
ad thel
/hich I
ſakes,
7, that
to ſeeſ
e they
etc.
—1 N. —
d have orget it the next day: and as to the learned world, there
cauſe s nothing paſſes in it. I have no more to add, but that
afure am with the ſame truth as ever, |
pf little | Your, etc,
cut off
I con l r
— LETTER XXI.
ſtate i
ht lie Oct. 23z 1730.
ne call OUR letter is a very kind one, but I can't fay ſo
=>
=
ore, ul pleaſing to me as many of yours have been, thre'
he account you give of the dejection of your ſpirits.
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» LJLETTEAAS TO AND
I wiſh the too conſtant uſe of water does not contributeiiſo ©
to it; I find Dr. Arbuthnot and another very knowing ich
phyſician of that opinion. I alſo wiſh you were not (Vii:
totally immerſed in the country; I hope your retun Um
to town will be -a prevalent remedy againſt the evil offWatic
too much recollection. I wiſh it partly for my own ſake. Con
We have lived little together of late, and we want t R
be phyſicians for one another. It is a remedy that agreeiſ
very well with us both, for many years, and I fancy
our conſtitutions would mend upon the old medicine rie.
Studiorum fimilitudo, etc, I believe we both of us wan o
whetting ; there are ſeveral here who will do you tha
good office, merely for the love of wit, which ſeems
to be bidding the town a long and laſt adieu. I can
tell you of not one thing worth reading, or ſeeing; thee:
whole age ſeems reſolved to juſtify the Dunciad, and i
may ftand for a public Epitaph or monumental Inſerip-
tion like that at Thermopylae, on a whole people periſb ul
There may indeed be a Wooden image or two of Poet!
ſet up, to preſerve the memory that there once were
bards in Britain; and (like the Giants at Guildhall) ſhow
the bulk and bad taſte of our anceſtors : At preſent the]
poor Laureate * and Stephen Duck ſerve ſor this purpoſe;
a drunken fot of a Parſon holds forth the emblem of
Tnſpiratien, and an honeſt induſtrious Thre/er not unapt -
ly repreſents Pains and Lab:ur. I hope this Phznome4 }
non of Wiltſhire has appeared at Ameſbury, or tbe e!
Ducheſs will be thought inſenſible to all bright qualities
and exalted geniuſes, in court and country alike. Buffs
be is a harmleſs man, and therefore I am glad.
This is all the news talk d of at court, but it will
pleaſe you better to hear that Mrs, Howard talks of you 3
though not in the ſame breath with the Threſher, as they
F Buſden,
FROM MR. GAV. 3
o of me. By the way, have you ſeen or convers'd
ith Mr. Chubb, who is a wonderful Phænomenon of
ithire ? I have read thro' his whole volume with
dmiration of the writer; tho' not always with appro»
ation of the doctrine. I have paſt juſt three days in
Jondon in four months, two at Windſor, half an one
t Richmond, and have not taken one excurſion into
ny other country. Judge now whether I can live in
iy library. Adieu. Live mindful of one of your firſt
iends, who will be fo till the laſt. Mrs, Blount deſerves
our remembrance, for ſhe never forgets you, w_
ants nothing of being a friend f.
I beg the Duke's and her Grace's acceptance of my
ervices: the contentment you expreſs in their company
leaſes me, tho? it be the bar to my own, in 3
ou from us. I am ever very truly
tribute
owingl
not {8
return
evil off
| ſake
ant to
agreed
fancy
ine of
want
a that
ſeems
I can
: the
ind if
ſcrip- Your, etc. .
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Were y
ſhovil OQ. 2, 1732.
nt thei
poſe;
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3
r thei
alitici
Buff
IR Clem. Cotterel tells me you will ſhortly come to
town, We begin to want comfort in a few friends
about us, while the winds whiſtle, and the waters roar.
This was his quarto Volume, written before he had given
ny ſigns of thoſe extravagancies, which have fince rendered him
o famous. As the Court ſet up Mr, Duck for the rival of Mr.
Pope, the City at the ſame time conſidered Chubb, as one who
ould eclipſe Locke. The modeſty of the court Poet kept him
ober in a very intoxicating ſituation, while the vanity of this new-
aſhion'd Philoſopher aſſiſted his ſage admirers in turning his
head,
z
FT Alluding to thoſe lines in the Epiſt. on the charaFers of
Nomen.
, wil |
7 ow 1
5 they
With ev'ry pleaſing, ev'ry prudent part,
© Say what can Che want? — She wants a heart.“
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The ſun gives us a parting look, but 'is a cold one;
we are ready to. Change thoſe diſtant favours: of |
lofty beauty, for a groſs material fire that warms and
comforts more. I wiſh, you could be here till you
family come to town: you'll live more innocently, and}
kill fewer harmleſs creatures, nay. none, except by youl|
proper deputy, the. butcher. It is fit for conſcience
ſake, that you ſhould come to town, and that the Du-l
.cheſs ſhould ſtay in the country, where no innocents of
another ſpecies may ſuffer by her, I hope ſhe neve:
goes to church: the Duke ſhould lock you both uy,
and leſs harm would be done. I adviſe you to make
man your game, hunt and beat about here for coxcombs,
and truſs up Rogues in Satire: I fancy they'll turn to
a good account, if you can produce them freſh, or make
them keep: and their relations will come, and buy
their bodies of you.
_ The death of Wilks leaves Cibber without a collegue,
abſolute and perpetual dictator of the ſtage, tho” indeed
while he lived he was but as Bibulus to Cæſar. How:
ever, ambition finds ſomething to be gratify'd with in a
mere name; or elſe, God have mercy upon poor ambi-
tion! Here is a dead vacation at preſent, no politic]
at court, no trade in town, nothing ſtirring but poetry,
Every man, and every boy, is writing verſes on the
Royal Hermitage: I hear the Queen is at a loſs which
to prefer ; but for my own part, I like none ſo well as
Mr. Poyntz's in Latin. You would oblige my Lady
. Suffolk if you tried your Muſe on this occaſion. 1 am
ſure I would do as much for the Ducheſs of Queenſberry,
if the deſired it. Several of your friends aſſure me it h
expecled from you: one ſhould not bear in mind, all
one's life, any little indignity one receives from a Court; |
and therefore I am in hopes, neither her Grace will
bindet you, nor you decline it.
AJ
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Mis wh Wis wy . © — wy — bay
FROM Ma. GAY. 33
Id one; The volume of Miſcellanies is juſt publiſh'd, which
s of concludes ail our fooleries of that kind. All your
ms andi friends remember you, and, I aſſure you, no one more
II youll than
Your, etc.
ne
ly, andf
ö y yourſ
Iſcience
he Du-
ents of
e never
2th up,
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turn toß
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LETTER XXIV.
From Mr. Gay to Mr. Pore. |
OR. 7, 1732.
1 Am at laſt returned from my Somerſetſhire expedition,
but ſince my return I cannot ſo much boaſt of my
health as before I went, for I am frequently out of or-
der with my colical complaints, ſo as to make me un-
eafy and diſpirited, tho* not to any violent degree. Fhe
reception we met with, and the little excurſions we
made, were every way agreeable. I think the country
llegue,
abounds with beautiful proſpects. Sir William Wynd-
indeed
Ho- ham is at preſent amuſing himſelf with ſome real im-
th in a provements, and a great many vitionary caſtles. We
- ambi- WM were often entertained with ſea-views and ſea · fiſn, and
politic WY were at ſome places in the neighbourhood, among which,
Poetry, L was mightily pleaſed with Dunſtar-Caſtle near Mine-
on the head. It ſtands upon a great eminence, and hath a
which proſpect of that town, with an extenſive view of the
well as Briſtol Channel, in which are ſeen two ſmall iſlands -
Lady cail'd the Steep Holmes and Flat Holmes, and on
1 am WW t other fide we could plainly diftinguiſh the diviſions of
berry, WY #145 on the Welch coaſt. All this journey I perform'd
e it is on horſeback, and am very much diſappointed that at
d, all preſent I feel myſelf fo little the better for it. J have
2ourt; indeed followed riding and exerciſe for three months
> will WY fucceffively, and really think I was as well without it ;
to that 1 begin to fear the illneſs 1 have ſo long and ſo
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34 LETTERS TO AND
often complain'd of, is inherent in my conſtitution, and
that I have nothing for it but patience *., =
As to your advice about writing Panegyric, 'tis what
J have not frequently done. I have indeed done it
ſometimes againſt my judgment and inclinations, and J
heartily repent of it. And at preſent, as I have no de.
fire of reward, and ſee no juſt reaſon of praiſe, I think H;
J had better let it alone. There are flatterers good
enough to be found, and I would not interfere in any} »
Gentleman's profeſſion. I have ſeen no verſes on theſe 1
ſublime occaſions; fo that I have no emulation: Let =:
the patrons enjoy the authors, and the authors their px c
trons, -for I know myſelf unworthy.
| I am, etc. Wl
N
— — — = ec
LETTER XXV. ;
Mr. CLE LAND to Mr, Gar +,
Decemb. 16, 1731.
Am aftoniſh'd at the complaints occaſioned by a late} |
Epiſtle to the Earl of Burlington; and ſhould be
afflicted were there the leaſt juſt ground for them.
Had the writer attacked Vice, at a time when it is no
only tolerated but triumphant, and ſo far from being
conceal'd as a Defect, that it is proclaimed with oſtenta-
tion as a Merit; I ſhould have been apprehenſive of the
conſequence : Had he ſatirized Gameſters of a hundred
thouſand pounds fortune, acquir'd by ſuch methods a
are in daily practice, and almoſt univerſally encouraged;
had he over-warmly defended the Religion of his coun-
Mr. Gay died the November following at the Duke off
Queenſberry's houſe in London, aged 46 years.
+ This was written by the ſame hand that wrote the Letter u
the Publiſher, prefixed to the Dunciad.
FROM Mz. GAY. 8
ry, againſt ſuch books as come from every preſs, are
pablicly vended in every ſhop, and greedily bought by
is wha lmoſt every rank of men; or had he called our —
done „ent weekly writers by the fame names which they openly
_— beſtow on the greateſt men in the Miniſtry, and out of the
| e Miniſtry, for which they are all unpuniſhed, and moſt
** rewarded : In any of theſe caſes, indeed, I might have
| —_— judged him too preſumptuous, and perhaps have trembled
* for his raſhneſs.
IY J could not but hope better for this ſmall and modeſt
n theſe : ;
n: Let Epiſle, which attacks no one Vice whatſoever ; which
m_ deals only in Folly, and not Folly in general, but a
rd. fingle ſpecies of it; that only branch, for the oppoſite
excellency to which, the Noble Lord to whom it is
written muſt neceſſarily be celebrated. I fancied it might
eſcape cenſure, eſpecially ſeeing how tenderly theſe-fol-
lies are treated, and really leſs accuſed than apologized
for,
Yet hence the Poor are cloath'd, the Hungry fed,
Health to himſelf, and to his hand B m
The Lab' rer bears.
Is this ſach a crime, that to FEA it to a man muft
be a grievous offence? *Tis an innocent Folly, and
much more beneficent than the want of it; for ill Taſte
on, and
etc.
1731.
a late .
uld be
them.
14 not employs more hands, and diffuſes expence more than a
6 ing good one. Is it a moral defect? No, it is but a natur al
* one; a want of taſte, It is what the beſt good man
living may be liable to. The worthieſt Peer may live
ndred i exemplarily in an ill-favour'd houſe, and the beſt reput-
ods a ed citizen be pleaſed with a vile garden. I thought (I
aged; ſay) the author had the common liberty to obſerve a
ou. defect, and to compliment a friend for a quality that
diſtinguiſhes him: which I know not how any quality
mould do, if we were not to remark that it was Wanting
in others.
uke of
elter u
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36 LETTERS TQ: AND
But, they ſay, the fatire is perſonal, I thought i
could not be ſo, becauſe all its reflections are on things,
His reflections are not on the man, but his houſe, gar
den, etc. Nay, he reſpects (as one may ſay) the Per
ſons of the Gladiator, the Nile, and the Triton: he i
only ſorry to ſee them (as he might be to ſee any of hi}
friends) ridiculous by being in the wrong place, and in
bad company. Some fancy, that to ſay, a thing is Per.
ſonal, is the ſame as to ſay, it is Injuſt, not conſider.
ing, that nothing can be juſt that is not perſonal. I an}
afraid that all writings and diſcourſes as touch no he
„ man, will mend no man.” The good-natured, in-
deed, are apt to be alarmed at any thing like ſatire ; Ma.
and the guilty readily concur with the weak for a plain
reaſon, becauſe the vicious look upon folly as their
frontier +
Jam proximus ardet
Ucalegon.
No wonder thoſe who know ridicule belongs to them,
find an inward conſolation in removing it from them-
{elves as far as they can; and it is never ſo far, as when
they can get it fixed on the beſt characters. No won-
der thoſe who are Food for Satiriſts ſhould rail at them
as creatures of prey; every beaſt born for our uſe
would be ready to call a man fo.
I know no remedy, unleſs people in our age would as
little frequent the theatres, as they begin to do the
churches ; unleſs comedy were forſaken, ſatire filent, and
every man left to do what ſeems good in his own eyes,
as if there were no King, no Prieſt, no Poet, in Iſrael.
But I find myſelf obliged to touch a point, on which I
muſt be more ſerious; it well deſerves I ſhould: I mean the
malicious application of the character of Timon, which,
T wall boldly fay, they would impute to the perſon the
F ROM Ma. GAY, 37
zoft different in the world from a Man-hater, to the
perſon whole taſte and encouragement of wit have often
deen ſhewn in the righteſt place. The author of that
he Per piſtle matt certainly think ſo, if he has the ſame opi-
: he ü ion of his own merit as authors generally have; for he
y of buß as been diſtinguiſhed by this very perſon.
Why, in God's name, muſt a Portrait, apparently
is Per. rollected from twenty different men, be applied to one
nfider. only? Has it his eye? no, it is very unlike. Has it
I an WW: is noſe or mouth? no, they are totally differing. What
ach n0 When, I beſeech you? Why, it has the mole on his chin.
ed, in ery well; but muſt the picture therefore be his, and
ſatir 91 as no other man that blemiſh ? |
| plain Could there be a more melancholy inſtance how much
he taſte of the public is vitiated, and turns the moſt
alutary and ſeaſonable phyſic into poiſon, than if amidſt
he blaze of a thouſand bright qualities in a great man,
ey ſhould only remark there is a ſhadow about him;
as what eminence is without? I am confident the author
as incapable of imputing any ſuch to one, whoſe Whole
ife (to uſe his own expreſſion in print of him) is a cen-
inued ſeries of good and generous actions.
I know no man who would be more concerned, if he
pave the leaſt pain or offence to any innocent perſon ; and
zone who would be leſs concerned, if the ſatire were chal-
enged by any one at whom he would really aim at. If
oer that happens, I dare engage, he will own it, with all
He freedom of one whoſe cenſures are juſt, and who ſets
is name to them.
SF UIETTEIARYT TO AND
ART'T ER XVI.
To the Earl of BuxtincTtoNn.
Mr Load, | March 7, 1731.
HE clamour rais'd about my Epiſtle to you, could
not give me ſo much pain, as I receiv'd pleaſure in}
ſeeing the general zeal of the world in the cauſe of 2
Great man who is beneficent, and the particular warmthl
of your Lordſhip in that of a private man who is in-
>nocent. |
It was not the Poem that deſerv'd this from you; for
as I had the honour to be your Friend, I could not treat!
you quite like a Poet: but ſure the writer deſerved more|
candor, even from thoſe who knew him not, than t
promote a report, which in regard to that noble perſon}
was impertinent; in regard to me, villainous, Yet |
had no great cauſe to wonder, that a character belonging
to twenty ſhould be applied to one; ſince, by that means,
nineteen would eſcape the ridicule.
I was too well content with my knowledge of that
noble perſon's opinion in this affair, to trouble the
public about it. But ſince Malice and Miſtake are ſo
long a dying, I have taken the opportunity of a third
edition to declare his belief, not only of my innocence,
but of their malignity ; of the former of which my ownl
heart is as conſcious, as, I fear, ſome of theirs muſt be off
the latter. His humanity feels a concern for the injury
done to me, while his greatneſs of mind can bear wif
indifference the inſult offer'd to himſelf “.
However, my Lord, I own that critics of this ſort can
intimidate me, nay half incline me to write no more:
o Alludes to the letter the Duke of Ch# wrote to Mr. Pope off
this occaſion,
FROM SEVERAL PERSONS. 39
hat would be making the Town a compliment which,
think, it deſerves ; and which ſome, I am ſure, would
ake very kindly, This way of Satire is dangerous, ag
dng as ſlander rais'd by fools of the loweſt rank, can
nd any countenance from thoſe of a higher. Even from
e conduct ſhewn on this occaſion, I have learnt there
re ſome who would rather be wicked than ridiculous ;
nd therefore it may be ſafer to attack Vices than Follies,
will therefore leave my betters in the quiet poſſeſſion
f their Idols, their Groves and their High places; and
hange my ſubject from their pride to their meanneſs,
1731.
„ Could
aſure iu
iſe of 2.
warmthi
o is in-
ou; for: om their vanities to their miſeries; and, as the only
1ot treaſgertain way to avoid miſconſtructions, to leſſen offence,
hour: ind not to multiply ill-natured applications, I may
than to
probably, in my next, make uſe of real names inſtead of
actitious ones. I am,
My Lord,
Your moſt affectionate, etc.
perſon}
Yet |
longing
t means,
ä
—
—
— „
of that LETTER XXVII.
ble the
e are {0
a third
jocence,
my owa
Cirenceſter,
T is a true ſaying, that misfortunes alone prove one's.
friendſhips ; they ſhow us not only that of other
people for us, but our own for them, We hardly know
aſt be ofurlelves any otherwiſe. I feel my being forced to this
e injury Bath- journey as a misfortune; and to follow my o- n
-ar wih welfare preferably to thoſe I love, is indeed a new thing
o me: my health has not uſually got the better of my
tenderneſſes and affections. I ſet out with a heavy heart,
iſhing | had done this thing the laſt ſeaſon; for every day
I defer it, the more 1 am in danger of that accident which
I dread the moſt, my Mother's death (eſpecially ſhould it
® To Mrs, B.
ſort can
more:
Pope anf
more than I can walk with a ſtronger man. I won-
a degree as to have their indulgence to my weakneſſes, [
40 LETTERS. TO AND
happen while I am away.) And another Reflection h
pains me, that I have never, ſince I knew you, been {WH
long ſeparated from you, as I now muſt be. Methinks iſ:
we live to be more and more ſtrangers, and every yea
tzaches you to live without me: This abſence may, I fear, if
make my return leſs welcome and leſs wanted to you,
than once it ſeem'd, even after but a fortnight. Time
ought not in reaſon to diminiſh friendſhip, when it con- {Win
firms the truth of it by experience, =o!
The journey has a good deal diſorder'd me, not- le
withſtanding my reſting-place at Lord Bathurſt's. My WS
Lord is too much for me, he walks, and is in ſpirits all
day long: I rejoice to ſee him ſo, It is a right diſtinc. r.
tion, that I am happier in ſeeng my friends ſo many Wt:
degrees above me, be it in fortune, health, or pleaſures, Wt
than I can be in ſharing either with them: for in theſe Wt
ſort of enjoyments I cannot keep pace with them, any
der to find I am a companion for none but old men, and
forget that I am not a young fellow myſelf. The worſt
is, that reading and writing, which I have ſtill the greateſt
reliſh for, are growing painful to my eyes. But if I can }
preſerve the good opinion of one or two friends, to ſuch |
will not complain of liſe: And if I could live to fee you
conſult your eaſe and quiet, by becoming independent
on thoſe who will never help you to either, I doubt not |
of finding the latter part of my life pleaſanter than the |
former, or preſent. My uneaſineſſes of body I can bear;
my chief uneaſineſs of mind is in your regard. You have
a temper that would make you eafy and beloved (which
is all the happineſs one needs to wiſh in this world) and
content with moderate things, All your point is not ta
loſe that temper by ſacrificing yourſelf to others, out of
ms tes | ca aw oa wGews wot
a miſtaken tenderneſs, which hurts you, and profits not |
FROM SEVERAL PERSONS. 41
them. And this you muſt do ſoon, or it will be too late ;
labit will make it as hard for you to live independent,
as for . to live out of a Court. |
You muſt excuſe me for obſerving what I think any
fleftion 1
been vl
ethinksff f
ry year
I fear, aefect in you: You grow too indolent, and give things
to you, Mup too eaſily: which would be otherwiſe, when you
Time found and felt yourſelf your own : Spirits would come
. b in, as ill-uſage went out. While you live under a kind
Hof perpetual dejection and oppreſſion, nothing at all be-
, not- longs to you, not your own Aumour, nor your own
My L er ſe.
rits all WY You can't conceive how much you would find reſolution
liſtinc. riſe, and chearfulneſs grow upon you, if you'd once try
many to live independent for two or three months. I never
aſures, WY think tenderly of you but this comes acroſs me, and
1 theſe WY therefore excuſe, my repeating it, for whenever I do not,
1, any I diſlemble half that I think of you: Adieu, pray write,
won. and be particular about your health.
n, and FE
worlt r nnn
eee LETTER XXVII.
I can | |
o ſuch YOUR letter, dated at nine o'clock on Tueſday (night,
ſſes, [ as I ſuppoſe) has ſunk me quite. Yeſterday I
e you hoped ; and yeſterday I ſent you a line or two for our
ndent poor Friend Gay, inclos'd in a few words to you; about
Xt not ¶ twelve or one o'clock you ſhould have had it. I am
n the ¶ troubled about that, tho the preſent cauſe of our trouble
bear; be ſo much greater +. Indeed I want a friend, to hel?
have me to bear it better. We want each other. I bear a
vbich hearty ſhare with Mrs, Howard, who has loſt a man of
and
Ot ta
ut of
8 nat
* To the ſame,
+ Mr, Gay's death, which happen'd in Nov, 21732, at the Duke
e Queenſherry's houſe in London, aged 46.
42 LETTERS TO AND
a moſt honeſt heart; ſo honeſt an one, that I wiſh her
Maſter had none leſs honeſt about him. The world aftelf J
all is a little pitiful thing; not performing any one pro
miſe it makes us, for the future, and every day taking
away and annulling the joys of the paſt, Let ur 1
comfort one another, and, if poſſible, ſtudy to add a
much more friendſhip to each other, as death has depriveilf
us of in him. I promiſe you more and more of mine,
which wiil be the way to deſerve more and more of
yours. | |
I purpoſely avoid ſaying more. The ſubject is be.
yond writing upon, beyond cure or cafe by reaſon orfi
reflection, beyond all but one — that it is the
will of God.
So will the death of my Mother be! which now [|
tremble at, now reſign to, now bring cloſe to me, now
ſet farther off: Every day alters, turns me about, and
confuſes my whole frame of mind. Her dangerous diſ.
temper is again return'd, her feyer coming onward i
again, tho' leſs in pain; for which laſt however I thank if
God,
I am foci tired of the world, and receive no-
thing to be called a Pleaſure in it, equivalent to coun-
tervail either the death of one I have fo long lived with,
or of one I have ſo long lived for, I have nothing left |
but to turn my thoughts to one comfort; the laſt we
uſually think of, tho' the only one we ſhould in wiſdom |
depend upon, in ſuch a difappointing place as this. I}
fit in her room, and ſhe is always preſent before me, |
but when I ſleep. I wonder 1 am ſo well: I have ſhed
many tears, but now I weep at nothing. I would above
all things ſee you, and think it would comfort you to}
ſee me ſo equal-temper'd and fo quiet. But pray dine |
here; you may, and ſhe know nothing of it, for ſhe |
dozes much, and we tell her of no earthly thing, left
FROM SEVERAL PERSONS. - 43
vin bei kun in her mind, which often trifles have done. If
rid aſte ir. Bethel had time, I wiſh he were your companion
ne pro ither. Be as much as you can with each other: Be aſ-
| taking rd I love you both, and be farther afſur'd, that friend-
pr ut 1 ip will increaſe as I live on. |
add aff
eprived :
f mine,
nore off
= \ —
* 1 3
LETTER WAK.
To Hucu BETHEL, Eſq;
he 2
is be. July 12, 1723.
aon * Aſſure you unfeignedly any memorial of your good-
is the
nature and friendlineſs is moſt welcome to me, who
now thoſe tenders of affection from you are not like
he common traffic of compliments and profeſſions,
yhich moſt people only give that they may receive;
nd is at beſt a commerce of Vanity, if not of Falſe-
ood. I am happy in not immediately wanting the
ort of good offices you offer: but if I did want them,
ſhould not think myſelf unhappy in receiving them
it your hands : this really is ſome compliment, for I
ould rather moſt men did me a ſmall injury, than a
indneſs. I know your humanity, and, allow me to
now I
&, now
it, and
us dil.
nward
thank
ve no-
coun |
= l ay, I love and value you for it: Tis a much better
* eit ground of love and value, than all the qualities I ſee
a * e world fo fond of: They generally admire in the
rong place, and generally moſt admire the things they
don't comprehend, or the things they can never be the
better for. Very few can receive pleaſure or advantage
from wit which they ſeldom taſte, or learning which
they ſeldom underſtand: much leſs from the quality,
is. I}
e me,
e ſhed
above if
3 high birth, or ſhining circumſtances of thoſe to whom
he ſhe | they profeſs eſteem, and who will always remember how
p, lei much they are their Inferiors. But humanity and ſoci-
A
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and ſtill wants more the longer he lives, and moſt thi
very moment he dies. It is ill travelling either in
ditch or on a terras; we ſhould walk in the comma
way, where others are continually paſſing on the ſan
level, to make the j Journey of life ſupportable by bearing
one another company in the fame circumſtances, — Le
me know how I may convey over the Odyſſeys for you
amuſement in your journey, that you may compare you
own travels with thoſe of Ulyſſes; I am ſure yours an
undertaken upon a more diſintereſted, and therefore
more heroic motive. Far be the omen from you, off
returning as he did, alone, without ſaving a friend,
There is lately printed a book * wherein all human
virtue is reduced to one teſt, that of Truth, and branch'lſf
out in every inſtance of our duty to God and man, 1
you have not ſeen it, you muſt, and I will ſend it toge-
ther with the Odyſſey. The very women read it, and
pretend to be charmed with that beauty which they ge.
nerally think the leaſt of. They make as much ade
about truth, ſince this book appear'd, as they did aboui'*
health when Dr. Cheyne's came out; and will doubtle
be as conſtant in the purſuit of one, as of the other,
Adieu. |
p— ——
LETTER XXX
To the ſame.
Aug. 9, 1726.
Never am unmindful of thoſe I think ſo well of a 5
yourſelf; their number is not ſo great as to confound
one's memory. Nor ought you to decline writing to
* Mr, Wollaſton's book of the Religion of. Nature delineated.
The Queen was fond of it, and that made the reading, and the
talking of it, faſhionable,
2
FROM SEVERAL PERSONS. 4;
oft oe, upon an imagination, that I am much employed
Wy other people. For though my houſe is like the houſe |
ole: fa Patriarch of old, ſtanding by the highway-fide and
ommali
ne ſandEceiving all travellers, nevertheleſs I ſeldom go to bed
bearin Without the reflection, that one's chief buſineſs is to be
OR" * ally at home: and I agree with you in your opinion
f company, amuſements, and all the filly things which
ankind would fain make pleaſures of, when in truth
hey are labour and ſorrow.
I condole with you on the death of your Relation,
he E of C. as on the fate of a mortal man: Eſteem I
ever had for him, but concern. and humanity I had:
he latter was due to the infirmity of his laſt period, tho?
he former was not due to the triumphant and vain part
f his courſe. He certainly knew himſelf beſt at laſt,
nd knew beſt the little value of others, whoſe negle&
f him, whom they ſo groſsly follow'd and flatter'd in
he former ſcene of his life, ſhew'd them as worthleſs
s they could imagine him to be, were he all that his
vorſt enemies believ'd of him: For my own part, I am
orry for his death, and wiſh he had lived long enough
o ſee ſo much of the faithleſſneſs of the world, as to
ave been above the mad ambition of governing ſuch
vretches as he muſt have found it to be compos'd of.
Tho? you could have no great value for this Great
man, yet acquaintance itſelf, the cuſtom of ſeeing the
face, or entering under the roof, of one that walks
along with us in the common way of the world, is
enough to create a wiſh at leaſt for his being above
ground, and a degree of uneaſineſs at his removal.
'Tis the loſs of an object familiar to us: I ſhould hard-
ly care to have an old poſt pull'd up, that I remember d
ver ſince I was a child. And add to this the reflection (in
the caſe of ſuch as were not the belt of their Species) what
teir condition in another life may be, it is yet a more
or youll
re youſſ
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efore 1
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46 LETTERS TO AND
important motive for our concern and compaſſion. Toſi
ſay the truth, either in the caſe of death or life, almel]
every body and every thing is a cauſe or object for hu ·
manity, even proſperity itſelf, and health itſelf ; ſo mam
weak pitiful incidentals attend on them. |
I am ſorry any relation of yours is ill, whoever it be,
for you don't name the perſon. But I conclude it ii
one of thoſe to whoſe houſes, you tell me, you are go -
ing, for I know no invitation with you is fo ſtrong 1
when any one is in diſtreſs, or in want of your aſſiſtance:
The ſtrongeſt proof in the world of this, was your a.
tendance on the late Earl. |
I have been very melancholy for the loſs of Mr. Blount,
| Whoever has any portion of good-nature will ſuffer on if
theſe occaſions ; but a good mind rewards its own ſuf.
ferings. I hope to trouble you as little as poſſible, if it i
be my fate to go before you. I am of old Ennius's
mind, Nemo me decoret lachrymis — I am but a Lodger
here: this is not an abiding city, I am only to ſtay out
my leaſe: for what has Perpetuity and mortal man to
do with each other? But I could be glad you would
take up with an Inn at Twitenham, as long as I am
' Hoſt of it: if not, I would take up freely with any i
Inn of yours. — Adieu, dear Sir: Let us while away
this life : and (if we can) meet in another.
Mt. a. —
„ITI
To the ſame.
| June 24, 1727.
OU are too humane and conſiderate (things few
people can be charged with.) Do not ſay you will
not expect letters from me; upon my word I can no
more forbear writing ſometimes to you, than thinking
= of you.
FROM SEVERAL PERSONS. 47
I know the world too well, not to value
you who are an example of acting, living, and think-
ing, above it, and contrary to it.
[ thank God for my Mother's unexpected recovery,
tho' my hope can riſe no higher than from reprieve
to reprieve, the ſmall addition of a few days to the many
ſhe has already ſeen, Vet ſo ſnort ang tranſitory as this
light is, it is all I have to warm or ſhine upon me; and
when it is out, there is nothing elſe that will live for me,
or conſume itſelf in my ſervice, But I would have you
think this is not the chief motive of my concern about
her: Gratitude is a cheap virtue, one may pay it very
punQually, for it coſts us nothing, but our memory of
the good done. And I owe het more good, than ever
[ can pay, or ſhe at this age receive, if I could. I do
: 5 not think the tranquillity of the mind ought to be
diſturbed for many things in this world: but thoſe
offices that are neceſſary duties either to our friends or
ourſelves, will hardly prove any breach of it; and as
much as they take away from our indolence and eaſe of
body, will contribute to our peace and quiet of mind by
the content they give. They often afford the higheſt
pleaſure; and thoſe who do not feel that, will hardly
ever find another to match it, let them love themſelves
ever ſo dearly, At the ſame time it muſt be own'd, one
meets with cruel diſappointments in ſeeng fo often the
beſt endeavours ineffectual to make others happy, and
very often (what is moſt cruel of all) thro' their own
means . But {till I affirm, thoſe very diſappointments
of a virtuous man are greater pleaſures, than the utmoſt
gratifications and ſucceſſes of a mere ſelf- lover.
The great and ſudden event which has juſt now hap-
pened +, puts the whole world (I mean this whole world)
* See Letter xxv1r, from Cirenceſter.
* The death of K. George the Firſt, which N the Iith
of June, 1727,
.
488 LETTERS TO AND
into a new ſtate: The only uſe I have, ſhall, or wiſh as
make of it, is to obſerve the diſparity of men from then ;
ſelves in a week's time; the deſultory leaping and 1
catching of new motions, new modes, new meaſures Md
and that ſtrange ſpirit and life, with which men broken Ho.
and diſappointed reſume their hopes, their ſolicitations,
their ambitions! It would be worth your while as ;
7
Philoſopher, to be buſy in theſe obſervations, and to come I
hither to ſee the fury and buſile of the Bees this hat A
ſeaſon, without coming ſo near as to de Kang 5
them. ke i
ee EY Your, etc,
| 1 „* LF 0
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LETTER XXXII. *
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To the ſame. un
| June 17, 1928.
Fter the publiſhing of my Boyiſh Letters to Me
Cromwell, you will not wonder if I ſhould forſwea
writing a letter again while I live; ſince I do not cor-
reſpond with a friend upon the terms of any, other
free ſubject of this kingdom. But to you I can never bel
filent, or reſerved ; and, I am ſure, my opinion of your
heart is ſuch, that I could open mine to you in no man-
ner which I could fear the whole wor'd ſhould know.]
I could publiſh my own heart too, I will venture to ſay:
for any miſchief or malice there is in it; but a Lok |
too much folly or weakneſs might (I fear) appear, to
make ſuch a ſpeQacle either inſtructive or agreeable to
others.
I am reduced to beg of all my acquaintance to ſecure
me from the like uſage for the future, by returning me
any letters of mine which they may have preſerved |
that I may not be No after my death, by that which
= *
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FROM SEVERAL PERSONS. 49
as the happiceſs of my life, their partiality and affection
U me.
wiſh u
them.
ig ani I have nothing of myſelf to tell you, only that I have
aſures Mad but indifferent health. I have not made a viſit to
broken ondon: Curiofity and the love of Diſſipation die apace
tation i me. I am not glad nor ſorry for it, but I am very
le as 1
o come
this hot
ung by
r, etc,
ry for thoſe who have nothing elſe to live on.
1 read much, but wtit no more, I have ſmall
pes of doing good, no vanity in writing, and little am-
tion to pleaſe a world not very candid or deſerving. If I
in preſerve the good opinion of a few friends, it is all
can expect, conſidering how little good I can do
en to them to merit it. Few people have your
indcur, or are fo willing to think well of another from
hom they receive no benefit, and gratify no vanity.
ut of all the ſoft ſenſations, the greateſt pleaſure is to
ve and receive mutual Truſt, It is by Belief and firm
mw ope, that men are made happy in this life, as well as
to Mr. the o her. My confidence in your good opinion, and
ſorſwea ependance upon that of one or two more, is the chief
not cor. prdial drop 1 taſte, amidſt the Inſipid, the Difagreeable,
y other + Cloying, or the Dead-ſweet, which are the common
never be aughts of life. Some pleaſures are too pert, as well as
of your Wi hers too flat, to be reliſh'd long: and vivacity in ſome |
10 mam fes is worſe than dulneſs. Therefore indeed for many
89 ers | have not choſen my companions for any of che
alities in faſhion, but almoſt entirely for that which is
oſt out-of- faſhion, ſincerity. Before I am aware of it, I
making your panegyric, and perhaps my own too,
rnext to poſſeſſing the beſt of qualities is the eſteeming
d diſtinguiſhing thoſe who poſſeſs it, I truly love and
Aue you, and fo I ſtop ſhort,
t a little
pear, to
eable to
o ſecure
ning me
eſerved |
at which
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1 preſume you may before this time ene from
the contemplation of many Beauties, animal and ve-
getable, in Gardens; and poſſibly ſome. rational, inf
Ladies; to the better enjoyment of your town at Bevis-
Mount. 1 hope, and believe, all you have ſeen will!
only contribute to it. I am not ſo fond of making com ·
pliments to Ladies as I was twenty years. ago, or I would
ſay there are ſome very reaſonable, and one in particular
there. I think you happy, my Lord, in being at leaſt
half the year almoſt as much your own maſter-as I am]
mine the whole year: and with all the diſad vantageous
incumbrances of quality, parts, and honour, as mere al
gardener, loiterer, and labourer, as he who never had
Titles, or from whom they are taken. I have an eye
in the laſt of theſe glorious appellations to the ſtyle of a
Lord degraded or attainted : methinks they give him 2
better title than they deprive him of, in calling hin}
Labourer : Agricultura, ſays Tully, proxima Sapientiat,
which is more than can be ſaid, by moſt modern Nobility
of Grace or Right Honourable, which are often proxima
Stultitiae, The Great Turk, you know, is often a Gar-|
dener, or of a meaner trade: and are there not (my
Lord) ſome circumſtances in which you would reſemble]
the Great Turk? The two Paradiſes are not ill connected,
of Gardens and Gallantry ; and ſome there are (not to
name my Lord B.) who pretend they are both to be had,
even in this life, without turning Muſſelmen.
We have as little politics here within a few miles of
the Court (nay perhaps at the Court) as you at South-
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FROM SEVERAL PERSONS. 51
zmpton 3 and our Miniſters, I dare ſay, have leſs to do.
Dur weekly hiſtories are only full of the feaſts given to
he Queen and Royal Family by their ſervants, and the
ong and laborious walks her Majeſty takes every morn-
Wng. Yet if the praver Hiſtorians hereafter ſhall be
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1728,
,- from{Wilent of this year's events, the amorous and anecdotical
and ve · N nay make poſterity ſome amends, by being furniſhed
nal, in vith the gallantries of the Great at home; and 'tis ſome
Bevis. Fomfort, that if the Men of the next age do not read of |
s, the Women may. at
From the time you have been abſent, I've not been
o wait on a certain great man, thro* modeſty, thro' idle.
eſs, and thro' reſpect. But ſor my comfort 1 fancy,
hat any great man will as ſoon forget one that does him
0 harm, as he can one that has done * any good.
believe me, * Lord, "YOu
en will
8 com -
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mere 2
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ng him
pientiae,
Nobility:
Muſt confeſs that in 10480 to Lord Cobham's, I was. .
not led by curioſity. I went-thither:to ſee what L
jad ſeen, and what I was ſure to like. ;
* * Thad the idea of thoſe gardens ſo fix d in my imagi-
not (y ation by many deſcriptions, that nothing ſurpriſed me;
:eſemblel mmenſity and Van Brugh appear in the whole, and in
very part. Your joining in your letter avimal and
egetable beauty, makes me uſe this expreſſion: I con-
ſs the ſtately Sachariſſa at Stow, but am content with
y little Amoret.
[ thought you indeed more knowing upon the ſubjeR,
nd wonder at your miſtake ; why will you imagine
omen inſenſible to Praiſe, much leſs to yours ? I have
D 2
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e (not to
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ſeen them more fp once turn from their Lover to the
Flatterer. I am ſure the Farmereſsat Bevis in her high.
eſt mortifications, in the middle of her Lent*, would
feel emotions of vanity, if ſhe knew you gave ber the
character of a reaſonable woman.
You have been guilty again of another ae „lich
bindet d me ſhewing your letter to a friend; When you
join two ladies in the ſame compliment, tho? you gave
to both the beauty of Venus and the wit of Minerva, you
would pleaſe neither,
If you had put me into the Dunciad, I could not have
been more diſpoſed to criticiſe your letter. What, Sir,
do you bring it in as a reproach, or as a thing uncommon
to a Court, to be without politics ? With politics. indeed
the Richlieu's and ſuch folks have brought about great
things in former days; but what are they, Sir, who,
without Pa: in our times, can make ten Treaties |
in a year, an ſecure everlalting Peace?
I can no longer diſagree with you, tho” in jeſt. Oh
how heartily 1 join with you in your contempt for Ex-
cellency and Grace, and. in your eſteem of that moſt
noble title, Loiterer. If I were a man of many plums,
and a good heathen, I would dedicate a Temple to
Lazineſs: No man fure could blame my choice of ſuch |
a Deity, who conſiders, that, when I have been fool
enough to take pains, I always met with ſome wiſe
man able-to undo 1 labours.
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AY eK kn —_
U were n 2 very polemic hymour when, you did
' tis thehonour to A my laſt. 1 always, under-
ſtood, like a true controvertiſt, that to anſwer is only to
cavil and quarrel : however, I forgive you ; you did it
(as alt Polemics do) to ſhew your parts. Elſe was it
not very vexatious, to deny me to commend two wo-
men at a time? It is true, my Lord, you know women
as ae as men: but ſince you certainly love them het-
ter, why are you ſo uncharitable in your opinion of
them ? Surely one Lady may allow another to have the
ching ſhe herſelf jeaſt values, Reaſon, when Beauty is
unconteſted, Venus herſelf could allow Minerva to be
Goddeſs of Wit, when Paris gave her the apple (as the
fool herſelf thought) on a better account. I do ſay, that
Lady Pe is a reaſonable woman; and, I think, ſhe will
not take it amiſs, if I ſhould inſiſt upon eſteeming her,
inſtead of Toaſting her, like a filly thing I could name,
who is the Venus of theſe days. I ſee you had forgot
my letter, 'or would not let her know how much I
thought of her in this reaſonable way: but I have been
kinder to you, and have ſhewn your letter to one who
will take it candidly,
But, for God's ſake, what have you ſaid about Poli-
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pou repoſed in my prudence, or what miſchief might
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have made, had one that we know puff d againſt Zolus,
or (like Xerxes) whippꝰd the ſeas ? They had dialogued
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dutiful affection brings you to town: I fear it will.
celebrating a Royal work *, which your own partialinſ
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PI give him flaſh for flaſh — E
1 give him dafp for daſh, — .
no
But all now is ſafe; the Poets are preparing ſongzs e
joy, and Halcyon- days are the word.
J hope, my Lord, it will not be long before your
little raiſe your envy, ta find all the Muſes employed inf
will think inferior to. Bevis-Mount. But if you have
any inclination to be even with them, you need but putif
three or four Wits into any hole in your Garden, audi
they will out- rbyme all Eaton and Weſtminſter, I think, a 1
Swift, Gay, and I could undertake it, if you don't thin b
2 1
our Heads too expenſive: but the ſame hand that did}
the others, will do them as cheap. If all elſe ſhouldMfſti
fail, you are ſure at leaſt of the head, hand; and hean tt
of your ſervant. p.
Why ſhould you fear any difagreeable news to. reach ye
us at Mount-Bevis? Do as I do even within ten mithin
of London, let no news whatever come near you. Ae.
40 public affairs we. nen er knew a deader ſeaſon : "viſa
all ſilent, deep tranquillity. , Indeed, they ſay, d
ſometimes ſo juſt, before an Earthquake. But Whatever:
happens, cannot we obſerve the wiſe-neutrality; of the
Dutch, and let all about us fall by the ears 7. Or if you Sc
my Lord, ſhould be prick'd on by any old- faſhion'd uo·
tions of Honour and Romance, and think it neceſlar/ e
for the General of the Marines to be in action, when
E
our Fleets are in motion; meet them at Spithead, and
take me along with you. I decline no danger where
the glory of Great-Britain is concern'd; and will con -b
tibute to empty the largeſt bowl 4 e og be!
* The Hermitags,
FROM SEVERAL PERSONS. gg
igg'd out on ſuch an occaſion. Adieu, my Lord, and
88
ay as many Years attend you, as may be happy and
honourable * Mags 3-1 ts Mp 2
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From the Earl of PETE OAO, 4
vo muſt receive my letters with a juſt impartiality,
but pul and give grains of allowance for & gloomy or rainy
en, a5 day; I fink grievouſly with the weather -glaſs, and am
[ think {Weuite ſpiritleſs when oppreſs'd _ the an 575 of a
't think Bir. day or a Return.
hat did
> ſhould]
id heath
Dutiful affection was een me to town, but undu-
tiful lazineſs, and being much oat of order, keep me in
the country; however, if alive, -I muſt make my ap-
Wpearance at the Birth-day. Where you ſhowed one letter
you may ſnew the other; ſhe that never was wanting
in any good office in her power, will make a propereex-
cuſe, where a fin of Omen, P fear, is not reckoned:
as a venial fin.
o reach
en mile;
. An
on : tief
ay, 1 U conſent you ſhall-call me polemic, or aſſociate me
vhateverWto any ſect or Corporation, provided you do not join
of theme to the Charitable Rogues, or to the Pacific Politi-
if youeians of the preſent age. I have read over Barkley in.
on'd no-
1eceſlary
ain, and find, aſter a ſtroke given on the left, I cannot.
offer the right cheek for another blow: all I can bring
„ Wheuſ my ſelf to, is to bear mortification- from the fair ſex with,
ad, and patience,
r her You ſeem to thiak it vexatious 40 I ſhall allow you.
vill cos but one woman at à time, either to praiſe, or love,
; hall be f 1 diſpute with you upon this point, I doubt every»
<4: jury will give a verdi& againſt me. So, Sir, with a:
# Barkley's Apology for the Quakers
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56 LET TI RS OAND. #
Mahometan indulgence, I allow you pluralities u the fi O
vobrite privilege of pur church. Is bi +125 nic
1 ind. you. da, pot mend upan correttian 3 g¹ ure
tell you, you, maſt ngt think of wqmen. in, a rgaſonakly hy
way; yoy know, we always make. of thohhnd
we adore upon earth; and do not ute —— men 0 g hat
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proſe 17 may rr t9 meet with at Weſtminſter. 1
ſhould, have been glad of any thing of Swift's; prey rin
when you write to him next, tell him I expect him Will ' or
impatience, in a place as odd and as much out of thy
way, as himſelf,
ny : 10 - -Yours:”
LE T TE R XXXVII.
It | A
From the ſame. 4
Wiener you apply as a good Papiſt to your ir fernabl .
Mediatrix, you are ſure of ſacceſs ; but there if | LY
not a full aſſurance of your entire ſubmiſſion to Mother A
church, and that abates a little of your authority. Howl oc
ever, if you will accept of country letters, ſhe will cor 3 ch
reſpond from the hay- cock, and I will write to you upoi f ib
the fide of my wheelbarrow /: ſurely neh leuers mig bm
eſcape examination. im.
Pour idea of the Golden Age is, * every ſhephert r.
might pipe where he pleaſed. | As I have lived longer
I am more moderate in my wiſhes, and would be con
tent with the liberty of not piping where I am nol
pleaſed,
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Oh how I wiſh, to myſelf and my friends, a freedom.
hich Fate ſeldom allows, 'and which, we often refuſe
gain urſelves! why is our Shepherdefs “ in voluntary ſlavery ?
nabe woſt our Dean ſubmit to die Colour bf his coat,
, nou 14 live abſent from us? and'why are you ET to
hat you cannot relieve? © vic
I ſeldom venture to: give accounts. of my- journeys beg
Wrhand, becauſe I take reſolutions of going to Lon-
o, and keep them no better than quarrelling lovers
Wo theirs. But che devil will drive me thirher about the
idle of next month, and L will call upon you, to be
Pr @riokled with holy water, before I enter the place of
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Am under the ned. impatience to-ſee Dr. Swift at:
Bevis-Mount, and mult ſignify my mind to him by
other band, it nat. being permitted me to hold cor-
dere with the ſaid. Dean, the no letter of mine:
a come to Ris hands. my
And whereas it is apparent, in this Proteſtant, land,
od eſpecially under the care of divine providence, that
ing can ſucceed or come to a happy iſſue but by
* ridery ;. therefore let me know what he expeAs to-
ply with my deſires, and it. ſhall be remitted unto»:
im.
For thot 1 would not corrupt any man for the whole:
orld, yet a benevolence may. be given without any/
tence to conſcience; ; every one muſt confeſb, chat gra-
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tifica:ion and corruption are two diſtin& terms; nay ad
worſt many good men hold, that for a good end, ſome
very naughty meaſures; may be made ule of.
But, Sir, I muſt'give you ſome good news in relation |
to myſelf, becauſe, I know; you wiſſi me well; I am
cur'd of ſome diſeaſes in my old age, which tormentel |
me very much in my youth.
I was poſſeſſed with violent and uneaſy paſſions, ſuch
as a peeviſh concern for Truth, and a fancy love for WW wc
my Country, ſar
When a Chriſtian Prieſt preached "gain the Spirit to
of the Goſpel, when an Engliſh- Judge determined yo
againſt Magna Charta, when the Miniſter acted Þ qu
Common Senſe, I uſed to fret. th
Now, Sir, let what will happen, I keep myſelf i in yo
temper: As I have no flattering hopes, ſo I baniſh all h.
uſeleſs fears; but as to the things of this world, I find tit
myſelf in a condition beyond expectation; it being ev
evident from a late Parliamentary inquiry, that I have 25
much ready money, as much in the funds, ey when great
a perſonal eſtate, as Sir Robert 8-tt n. a
If the Tranſlator of Homer find fault with this un-
heroic diſpoſition; or (what J more fear) if the Draper of
Ireland accuſe the Engliſhman of want of ſpirit: I filence
you both with one line out of your own Horace. aid
te exempta juvat ſpinis e pluribus una? For I take the
whole to be ſo corrupted, chat a Cure in any part wok
| * of Intle avail.” |
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Never knew or bead af; any 1 e ſo- volatile, and!
ſo fix d as your Lordſhip: Vou, while your imagi-
nation is carrying you through every corner of the
world, where you. have. or have not been, can at the
ſame time remember to do offices of favour and kindneſs-
to the meaneſt of your friends; and in all the ſcenes»
you have paſſed, have not been able to attain-that one
quality peculiar to a great man, of forgetting every-
thing but injuries. Of this Jam a living witneſs againſt
you; for being the moſt inſignificant of all your old
humble ſervants, you were ſo cruel as never to give me
time to aſk a favour, but prevented me in doing what-
ever you. thought I deſired, or could be for my credit:
or advantage. |
I have often admired at the capriciouſneſs of Fortune
in regard to your Lordſhip, She hath forced Courts to
act againſt their oldeft, and moſt conſtant! maxims; to-
make you a General becauſe you had courage and con-
duct; an Ambaſſador, becauſe you had wiſdom and
knowledge in the intereſts of Europe ; and an Admiral:
on account of your: ſkill. in maritime affairs: whereas,
according to the. uſual method of Court-proceedings, L.
ſhould have been at the head of the Army, and you-of-
the Church, or: rather a Cantos ae the Dean-of Sts.
Patrick's.
The Archbiſnop of Dublin ck that he did not
ſee your Lordſhip till he was juſt upon the point oft
leaving the Bath: 1 pray God you: may have foupdi
ſucceſs. in. that Journey,.elſe. I ſhall: continue, to think
there: is. a fatality in wy Lord{hip's undertakings,
1 LET TE RSA HO AND
which only terminate in your, own honour; and the good
of the public; without the leaſt adyantage to your health
or fortune. d Yor we, n sien denon ho
remember Lord Oxford's: Miniftrycus'd tootell-me,
that not knowing where to-write to you, they: Were
forced to write at you. It is ſo wh me, for you are
in one thing an Evangelical man; chat you know not
where to lay your head, and. I think,
houſe. Pray, my Lord, write to me, that I may have the
pleaſure in this ſcoundrel country, of going abqut, and
ſhewing my depending Parſons ee the 5 4 |
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bebe! 13.
Believe you are by this time immers d! in your vat
Wood; and one may addreſs to you as to a very
abſtracted perſon, like Alexander Selkirk, or the * Sell.
taught Philoſopher. I ſhould be very curious to. know
what fort of contemplations employ you. 1 zemember
the latter of thoſe I mentioned, gave himſelf. up. to 3 |
devout exerciſe of making his head giddy with various
circucurotations, to imitate the motions of the celeſtial
bodies. 1 don't think it at all impoſſible that Mr. L“
may be far advanced in that exerciſe, by frequent turns
towards the ſeveral aſpects of the heavens, to which you
may have been pleaſed to direct him in ſearch of pro-
ſpecis and new, avenues. He will be tractable in time,
4 Lord Bathurſt.
he title of an Arabic Treatiſe of che Life of Hai Ebn Yocktant
you have no
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as birds are tamed by being whirl'd about; and douby-
leſs come not to deſpiſe the meaneſt ſhrubs or coppice
wood, though naturally he ſeems more inclined to ad-
mire God, in his greater works, the tall timber : for,
as Virgil has it, Non omnes arbuſta juvant, humile/que
rica. I wiſh myſelf with you both, whether you are
in peace or at war, in violent argumentation or ſmooth
conſent, over Gazettes in the morning, or over Plans in
the evening. In that laſt article, I am of opinion your
Lordſhip has aloſsof me; for generally after the de-
bate of a whole day, we acquieſced at night in the beſt
concluſion of which human Reaſon ſeems capable in all
great matters, to fall faſt aſleep ! And ſo we ended,
unleſs immediate Revelation (which ever muſt overcome
human reaſon) ſuggeſted ſome new lights to us, by a
Viſion in bed. But laying aſide Theory, I am tolc
you are going directly to Practice. Alas, what a F
will that be? A new Building is like a new Church ; 5
when once it is ſet up, you mult maintain it in all the
forms, and with all the i inconveniencies ; then ceaſe t
pleaſant luminous days 'of inſpiration, and there 1 1s an
end of miracles at once !
That this Letter may be all of a piece, I'll fill the
reſt with an account of a conſultation lately held in my
neighbourhood about deſigning a princely garden, Se-
veral Critics were of ſeveral opinions : One declared be
would not have too much Art in it ; for my notion (aid
he) of gardenin is, that it is only ſweeping naturg 2
Another told them that Gravel walks were nat of a.
75 taſte, for all che knelt abroad were of looſe ſands.
A third advis'd peremptorily there ſhould not. be one.
# Lyme-tree in the whole plantation: A fourth made the
ame excluſive clauſe extend to Horſe. cheſnuts, which
4.
An Expreſſion of Sir T. H.
& LETTERS TO AND
he affirmed not to be Trees, but Weeds: Dutch Eli
were condemn'd by a fifth; and thus about half tif
trees were proſcribed, contrary to the Paradiſe of God
own planting, which is expreſsly faid to be planted wit
all trees. There were ſome who could not bear Ever
*
greens, and call'd them Never. greens; ſome,” W
were angry at them only when cut into ſhapes, a *
gave the modern Gardeners the name of Ert e o by
Taylors; ſome, who had no diſſike to Cones and Cub
but would have them cut in Fi oreſt. trees and —
were in a paſſion againſt any thing in ſhape, even again
elipt hedges, which they call'd green walls, Theſe (of
Lord) are our Men of Taſte, who pretend to proveil
by taſting little. or nothing. Sure ſuch: a..taſte is lik 1
ſuch a ſtomach, not a good one, but a weak one. va
have the ſame ſort of Critics, in poetry; one is fond io a
nothing but Heroics, another cannot reliſh Tragedieff 4
another hates Paſtorals, all little Wits delight in Epi et
grams. Will you give me leave to add, there are rf
ſame in Divinity; where. many leading Critics are _
rooting up more than they plant, and would leave tt .
Lord's Vineyard either very thinly ee or vw Ong
* trimm'd, hard
Thave lately been with my Lord“, =p is a zealous as
yet a charitable Planter; and has ſo bad a Taſte, as on
Tike all that is good, He has a diſpoſition to wait of |
you in his way to the Bath, and, if he can go and ie ;
turn to London in eight or ten days, I am not withouf
à hope of ſeeing your Lordſhip with the delight I alway th,
ſee you; Eyery where I think of you, and every When
Lwiſh for you..
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ure you Tam glad of your letter, and have long:
wanted nothing but the permiſſion you now give me,
o be plain and unreſerved upon this head. I wrote to
you concerning it long ſince; but a friend of yours and
ine was of opinion, it was taking too much upon me,
nd more than I could be entitled to by the mere merit
f long acquaintance,” and good will. I have not a
hing in my heart relating to any friend, which I would
ot, in my own nature, declare to all mankind. The
Nrnth is what you gueſs; I could not eſteem your conduct,
Wo an object of miſery ſo near you as Mrs., and
o — 4
1
ediei¶ have often hintedãt to yourſelf: The truttris, I cannot
n Epi et eſteem it for any reaſon E am able to ſee; © But this
re the { | promiſe, I acquit you as far as your own mind acquits-
we fu ou. I have now no further cauſe of complaint, for the
ve teu happy Lady gives me now no furtheripain-: ſhe is no
ven Nonger an object either of yours or my compaſſion; the
Ne ire done her, are lodg'd in the hands of God, nor
as any man more to do in them, Were P
cc — in occaſioning them. |
4s for the interruption of our Corelpondetes, I am-
lorry you ſeem to put the Teſt of -my-friendſhip upon
at, becauſe it is what I am diſqualified from toward my.
ether acquaintance, . with whom I cannot hold any fre-
Wc commerce. I'll name you the obſtacles which I
can't ſurmount: want ofchealth, want of time, want of!
good eyes; and one yet ſtronger than them all, I write
not upon the terms of other men. For however glad?
J. might be, of expreſſing my reſpect, opening my.
mind, or venting my concerns, to my private friends 5;
6 LETTERS TO AND
I hardly dare while there are Curls in che world. If yoolh
pleaſe to reſſett either on the impettinence of werk
admirers, the malice of lo enemies, the avariee of mer. |
cenary Bookſellers, or the. filly .eariohity-of people in
general; yowl confeſs I have {mall 'reaſonto indulge
correſpongdengies : in Which to I want materials, a8 1
livg altogether out of town, and have abſtracted my mind]
(1. hops) to better things than common news. - I wid
my friends would ſend me hack thoſe forfeitures of my
diſcretion, commit to, my juſtice, what L waſted. only uf
Heir indulgence, and retara, me at the. year's end tho
trifling letters, which can be to them but a day's amuſe. ſi
ment, but to me may prove a diſcredit as laſting and ex-
tenſive, as the afate ſaid weak admirers, mean; enemies,
mercenary ſeriblers, or curious ſimpletons, can make it.
I came no- 0 a particular you complain oß my
not anſweting your queſlion about ſome Party-papers, |
and their authots. This indeed I could not tell you, M nce
hecaufe. I never was, or will be. privy to ſuch papers:
And if by accident, thro' my acquaintance with any off dt
the writers, Ic had known a thing they concea'd; Li n tl
urid cennigly.nexar be de E bi. [16 24] e
For my waiting ou you at your country-houſe, - I have DX; |
alten wiſ/d/it4- it was my compliance to a ſuperior gen
duty that hinder'd me, and one&/which-yoa are too good
a, Chriſtian to wiſh I ſhoold have broken, having never | |
ventar'd to leave my mother (at her great age) for 1
„ere ew eee ſe]
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| Vegan the whole, Z-onſtachait.aplalf a agen ot late
thought, d prejudice to the regard I owe you, as ſo long
and obliging an acquaintance and correſpondent. I |
am (ure I have all the good wiſhes for yourſelf and |
your family, that become a. friend: There is 10
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ccident that can happen to your advantage, and no
aioa that cam redeund to yaur credit, which I ſhould
ot be ready to te extol;>or to- rejoice ĩ in. And: therefore
beg you to be aſſared, I am in diſpoftion and will,
Wbo' nat ſo, much 38. 1 el * in teſtimonies, or
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1 Have . -got my | Mother ſo well, as to allow my-
= {elf to be abſent from her for three days. Ae Sun-
Way is one of them, I do not know whether I may propoſe
o you to empley it in the manner you mentioned to me
nce. | Sir Godfrey call d imploying the: d ta.
pf {erving God, by the talent he gave him. Lam, —
n this inſtance, it is ſerving. your friend; and, you know,
e are allowed ta do that (nay even to help a neighbour's
n or aſs) on the Sabbath: which tho" it may ſeem a
eneral precept, yet in one ſenſe particularly applies h
1 you, who have help'd many a human ox. aud many a
human aſs, to the likeneſs of man, not to ſa of Ged.
= Bclieve me, dear Sir, with all good wiſhes far ou,
( ſelf and your family (the happineſs of which tyes I
Wknow by experience, and have learn'd to value from the
Mate danger of * ee
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A 1 know, you and I mutually deſire to ſee o
another, I hoped that this day our wiſhes wolf
have met, and brought you hithe -. And this for til
very reaſon which poſſibly might hinder your coming
that my poor Mother is dead *, I thank God, her deat
was as eaſy, as her life was innocent; and as it eoſt h
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not a groan, or even a ſigh, chere is yet upon her cou?
tenance ſuch an expreſſion of Tranquillity, nay; alm *
at
of Pleaſure, that it is even amiable to behold it.
would afford the fineſt Image of a Saint expir'd, that ex
Painting drew ; and it would be the greateſt obligat
which even that obliging Art could ever beſtow onf
friend, if you could come and. ſketch it for me. I
ſure, if there be no very prevalent. obſtacle, you will
leave any common buſineſs to do this: and I hopet
ſee you this evening as late as you will, or to-morroi
morning as early, before this winter-flower is faded,
will defer her interment tilt to-morrow night. I Kno
you love me, or I could not have written this — I coul
not (at this time) have written. at all—Adieu | May y
die as happily !
Your, etc,
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PT is katdly poſſible to tell you the joy your pencil gary
me, in giving me another friend, ſo much the ſame!
and which (alas for mortality!) will out-laſt the other
& Mrs, Pope died the ſeventh of June, 1733, aged 3.
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ſterity will, thro? yo means, ſee the man whom it
Il for ages honour “, vindicate, and applaud, when
vy is no more, and when (as Thave already ſaid in the
fay to which you are ſo partial)
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es wou 95 | |
for That Eſſay has many faults, but the poem you ſent
comin de has but one, and that I can eaſily forgive. Yet I
er dea ould not have it printed for the world, and yet I would
coſt Mt have it kept unprinted neither — but all in good time.
er coul n glad you publiſh your Milton. B—ly will be angry
- alm you, and at me too ſhortly for what I could not help,
it. atyrical Poem on Verbal Criticiſm by Mr. Mallet,
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ſee Ul
hat ei ich he has inſcribed to me, but the Poem itſelf is good
ligati nother cauſe of anger to any Critic.) As for myſelf,
eſolve to go on in my quiet, calm, moral courſe,
king no fort of notice 'of man's anger, or woman's
andal, with Vittue in my eyes, and Truth upon my
A dogue, Adieu.
ow ons
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LETTER XLV.
To Mr. BER T REI.
Aug. 9, 1733.
O might well think me negligent or forgetful
of you, if true friendſhip and fincere eſteem were
d be meaſured by common forms and compliments.
he truth is, I could not write then, without ſaying
mething of my own condition, and of my loſs of fo old.
d ſo deſerving a parent, which really would have
oubled you; or I muſt have kept. a ſilence upon that
dad, which would not have ſuited that freedom and.
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ſincere opening of the heart which is due to you fo
me. I am now pret well; but my home is uneaſy;
me ſtill, and I am t 2 w-andering about all th
ſummer. I was but four days at Twickenham ſince i
occaſion that made it fo melancholy. I have been
fortnight in Effex, and am now. at Dawley. {whoſe mak
is your ſervant). and going to Cirenceſter. to Lord 3
thurſt. 1 ſhall Il alſo. Toe Southampton with Lord Peu. G:
borow, - The Court and Tit nam I. ſhall forlaſhe i
together. * wild. of 9, not leaye our friend ?, y ite |
deſerves more quiet, and more health and happine the
than can be found in ſuch A family. The get of ier
acquaintance are Mecably happy, in their various wan I've
of life, whether, court, country, or town; and chin
Cleland j is as well in the Park, as if he were in Parade in
1 heartily hope, Yorkſhire is the ſame to you; and ter i
no evil, moral or phyſical, may come near u.
Ibave now but too much melancholy Eber 060 |
other care but to finiſh my Eſſay on Man: there will h
in it one line that may offend you (I fear) and yet I wilno
not alter or omit it, unleſs you come to town and x 8
me before I print it, which will be in a fortnight in ai
probability. In plain truth, I will not deny myſelf pe.
greateſt pleaſure I am capable of receiving, becaule
another may have the modeſty not to ſhare it. It is r
a poor poet can do, to bear teſtimony to the virtue he
cannot reach: beſides, that, in this age, I ſee too e
good Examples not to lay hold on any I can find, Yau
ſee what an intereſted man I am. Adieu.
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ob JanorthlaC hw: melancholy this place makes
me; every patt of this wood pars, into my mind poor |
Gay, with whom I paſt once a great deal of pleaſant,
| e in it) and apother friend ho is near dead,
Wite loſt to us, Dr, Swift, I feally can find no enjoyment
the place; the fame ſort of uneaſineſs as, I find at
irnam, whenever I paſs n near my Mother's bow.
WI I've not yet writts Mis. . I think I ſhould, but have
Wihing to ſay that will anſwer: the character they conſider
eu, as a Wit; beſides, my eyes grow very. bad what,
Wer is the cauſe of it) I'll put them out for nobody but 1
friend ; and, I Proteſt, it brings tears into them almaſt
WI write to you, when I think. of your ſtate and mine. „15
e to write to Swift, but cannot. The greateſt pain
Now, is to tay things ſo very ſhort of one's meaning,
een the heart is full.
| ſeel the going out of liſe faſt enough, to have little
petite left to make compliments, at beſt uſeleſs, and
r the molt part unfelt, ſpeeches. "Tis but in a very
tro circle that Friendſhip walks in this world, and I
re not to trade out of it more than I needs muſt;
owing well, it is but to to or three (if quite ſo many)
at any man's welfare or memory can be of conſequence:
he reſt, I believe, I may forget, and be pretty certain
ey are already even, if not befoxe-hand with me.
Life, after the firſt warm heats are over, is all down-
|: and one almoſt wiſhes the journeys end, provided
e were ſure but to lie down eaſy, whenever the Night
overtake us.
T Mrs. B.
**
r
and not ſeem tos good, for fear of being thought atfeQe!
— DR RS ES M —
70 LETTERS: TO AND.
I dream'd all laſt night of —. She las dwelt A Hal les
more than perhaps is right) upon iny Jpirtts : I rede
very deſerving gentleman in my travels, who has formerly wy
qu
I have heard, had much the fame misfortune : and (wil
all his good breeding and ſenſe) ſtill bears a cloud and
melancholy caſt, that never can quite clear up, ih all M
behaviour and conveffation. 1 Know y another, Who,
believe, could promiſe, and eafily keep his word, neve |
to laugh in his life. But one muſt do one's beſt, not!
be uſed by the world as that poor lady was by her file
or whimſical.
It is a real truth, that to the laſt of my moments, 1
thought of you, and the beſt of my wiſhes for you, will
attend you, told or untold ; I could wiſh you had ond
the conſtancy and reſolution to act for yourſelf, whethe
before, or after I leave you (the only way I ever ſhall
leave you) you muſt determine; but refle&, that the firl
would make me. as well as yourſelf, happier ; * latte
could make you only ſo. Adieu.
fe CE IIINY
—
LETTER XILVn.
From Dr. ARBUTHNOT.
| Hampſtead, July 17, 1734
7 Little doubt of your kind concern for me, nor of tht
* of the Lady you mention. I have nothing to rep
my friends with at prefent, but prayers and good wiſhes
I have the ſatisfaction to find that Fam as officioul)
ſerv'd by my friends, as he that has thouſands to leave
in legacies ; - beſides. the aſſurance of their fincerit)»
God Almighty has made my bodily diſtreſs as eaſy as 1
thing of that nature can be, I have found ſome relief
The
nu
FROM, SEVERAL PERSONS: „*
leaſt ſome times, from the air of this place. My
abs are bad, but many poor creatures haue worſe, *
, for you, my good friend, I think, fince-our firſt
WF quaintance, there have not been any of thoſe little
bpicions or jealouſies that often affect the ſincereſt
MScndſtips ;, I, am ſore, not on my fide. © I muſt be ſo
cere as to own, that though I could not help valuing
u for thoſe Talents which the world prizes, yet they
re not the foundation of my friendſhips; they were
ite of another ſort; nor ſhall Lat preſent offend you
enumerating them: And I make it my Laſt Requeſt,
it you will continue that Noble Diſdain and Abhor-
Nee of Vice, which you ſeem. naturally endued with ;
It ſtill with a due regard to your own ſafety ; and Kudy
„ bre to reform than chaſtiſe, tho' the one cannot be ef-
fied without the other.
Lord Bathurſt I have always honour'd, for every good
u that a perſon of his rank ought to have: Pray,
e my reſpects and kindeſt wiſhes to the family. My
"Biſon ſtomach is gone, but | have thoſe about me, and
ten with me, who will be very glad of his preſent.
it is left at my houſe, it will be tranſmitted ſafe to
A recovery in my caſe, and at my age, is impoſlible ;
e kindeſt wiſh of my friends is Euthanaſia. Living or
Ing, I ſhall always be
17% | Yours, etc.
of thi
—
——
10 * LETTER XLVIII.
es
i To Dr. enen.
to leave July 26, 1734.
incerity e Thank you for your inet which has all thoſe ge-
aſy as nuine marks of a good mind by which T have ever
ie relief tinguiſh'd yours, and for which I have fo long loved
72 LETTERS TO AND
you. Our friendſhip has been'conſtant ; becauſe it wa
grounded on good principles, aud therefore not only
uninterrupted by any Diſtruſt, but by any Vanity, mud
leſs any Intereſt.
What you recommend to me with the ſolemnity of
Laſt Requeſt, ſhall have its doe weight with me. That
diſdain and indignation agzinft Vice, is (I thank" God
the only diſdain and indignation I have: It is fincere,
and it will be a laſting one. But ſure it is as impoſſibl
to have a juſt abhorrence of Vice, without hating the
Vicious, as to bear a true love for Virtue, without loving
the Good. To reform and not to chaſtiſe, I am afraid
is impoſſible; and that the beſt Precepts, as well as the
beſt Laws, would prove of ſmall uſe, if there were u
Examples to enforce them. To attack Vices in the ab.
ſtract, without touching Perſons, may be ſafe fighting
indeed; but it is fighting with Shadows, General pro-
poſitions are obſcure, miſty, and uncertain, comparli
with plain, full, and home examples : Precepts only
apply to our Reaſon, which in moſt men is but weak
Examples are pittures, and firike the Senſes, nay rail
the Paſſions, and call in thoſe (the ſtrongeſt and mot
general of all motives) to the aid of reformation. Every
vicious man makes the caſe his own; and that is the
only way by which ſach men can be affefted, much leſ
deterr d. So that to chaſliſe is to reform; The only
ſign by which J found my writings ever did any good,
or had any weight, has been that they rais'd the ange
of bad men. And my greateſt comfort, and encourage-
ment to proceed, has been to ſee, that thoſe who have
no ſhame, and no fear of any thing elſe, have appear
touch'd by my Satires.
As to your kind concern for my Safety, I can gueſ⸗
what occaſions it at this time. Some Characters I have
* The Character of Sporus in the Epiſtle to Dr, Arbuth not.
FROM SE VERAL PERSONS. 73.
drawn are ſuch, that if there be any who deſerve them,
tis evidently a" ſervice to mabkind to point thoſe men
ut; yet ſuch asg if all the world gave chem, none, I
bink, will own they take to themſelves. But if they
ould,” thoſe of whom all the world think in ſuch a
anner, muſt be men I cannot fear. Such in particular
5 have the meanneſs to do nuſchiefs in the dark, have
dom the courage to juſtify them ia the face of day;
he talents that make a Cheat or à Whiſperer, are not
he ſame that qualify a man for an Inſulter; and as to
rivate villany, it ãs not ſo- ſafe to join in an Aſſaſſina-
ion, as in a Libel “. I will conſult my ſaſety ſo far as
think becomes a prudent man: but not ſo far as to
dmit any thing which I think becomes an honeſt one.
\; to perſonal attacks beyond the law, every man is
iable to them: as for danger within the law, I am not
puilty enough to fear any. For the good opinion of all
he world, I know, it is not to be had: for that of
orthy men, I hope, I ſhall not forfeit it: for that of
he Great, or thoſe in power, I may wiſh I had it.; but
f thro? miſrepreſentations (too common about perſons in
hat ſtation) I have it not, I ſhall be ſorry, but not mi-
erable in the want of it.
It is certain, much freer Satiriſts than I, have enjoy'd
the encouragement and protection of the Princes under
hom they lived. Auguſtus and Mæcenas made Horace
their companion, though he had been in arms on the
de of Brutus; and, allow me to remark, it was out
of the ſuffering Party too, that they favour d and diſtin-
puiſh'd Virgil. Vou will not ſuſpect me of comparing
myſelf with Wirgil and Horace, nor even with another
Court-fayourite, Boileau +, I have always been too
® See the following Letter to a noble Lord.
4 See Letter ein. to Mr, Warburton,
Vor. VI, | E
74 LETTERS, etc.
modeſt to imagine my Panegyrics were Incenſe wort!
of a Court; and that, I hope, will be thought th
true reaſon why I have never offer'd any. I would on
have obſerv'd, that it was under the greateſt Princes an C
beſt Miniſters, that moral Satiriſts were moſt encouraged
and that then Poets exerciſed the ſame juriſdiction on
the Follies, az Hiſtorians did over the Vices of me: « fo
It may alſo be worth conſidering, whether Auguſt: f
himſelf makes the greater figure in the writings of wi -
former, or of the latter? and whether Nero and Done
tian do not appear as ridiculous for their falſe Taſte an *
Affectation, in Perſius and Juvenal, as odious for tha feier
bad Government in Tacitus and Suetonias ? In the f ..
of theſe reigns it was, that Horace was protected an
careſs'd; and in the latter that Lucan was put to deat
and Juvenal baniſh'd. | 4
I would not have ſaid ſo much, but to ſhew you n k
whole heart on this ſubje& ; and to convince you, I a
deliberately bent to perform that Requeſt which yr
make your laſt to me, and to perform it with Tempe
Juſtice, and Reſolution, As your Approbation (being
the Teſtimony of a ſound head and an honeſt heart) do
greatly confirm me herein, I wiſh you may live to
the effect it may hereafter have upon me, in ſomethin H
more deſerving of that approbation. But if it bet th
Will of God, (which, I know, will alſo be yours) Hit)
we muſt ſeparate, I hope it will be better for You tm
it can be for me. You are fitter to live, or to die, u to
any man I know. Adieu, my dear friend! and anb)
God preſerve your life eaſy, or make your death happy” Fe
| 7 ol
* This excellent perſon died Feb, 27, 1734-5» val @
rom
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[1.9861
We find by Letter xix, to Dr. Atterbury, that the Ducheſs of
uckinghamſhire would have had Mr. Pope to draw her huſband's
haracter. But though he refuſed this office, yet in his Epiſtle on
be Characters of Women, thele lines,
To heirs unknown deſcends th* unguardet ſtore,
n oy Or wanders, beau u- directed, to the poor,
m e ſuppoſed to mark her out in ſuch a manner as not to be miſta-
en for another; and having ſaid of himſelf, that he held a lie in
oſe and werſe to be the ſame : All this together gave a handle to his
emies, ſince his death, to publiſh the following Paper (intitled
be Character of Katharine, etc.) as written by him, To which
Jn vindication of the deceaſed Poet) we have ſubjoined a Letter to
friend, that will let the Reader fully into the hiſtory of the wri-
and publication of this extraordinary CHaracTER.]
The CHARACTER of |
ue K A T H A R I N E,
a, I; |
ch y( T 5
yr = Ducheſs of Buckinghamſhire and Normanby,
rt) dof By the late Mr. POPE.
meth H E was the daughter of James the ſecond, and of
the Counteſs of Dorcheſter, who inherited the Inte-
urs) Mity and Virtue of her father with happier fortune. She
ou tui Nas married firſt to James Earl of Angleſey; and ſecond-
, to John Sheffield duke of Buckinghamſhire and Nor-
aby; with the former ſhe. exerciſed the virtues of
happy Vence and Sufferzng,.as long as there. was any hopes
doing good by either; with the latter all other Con-
gal virtues, The man of fineſt ſenſe and ſharpeſt diſ-
rnment, ſhe had the happineſs to pleaſe ; and in that,
und her only pleaſure. When he died, it ſeemed as if
s ſpirit was only breathed into her, to fulfil what he had
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begun, to perform what he had concerted, and to pre
ſerve and watch over what he had left, bis only fon; in
the care of whoſe health, the forming of whoſe mind
and the improvement of whoſe fortune, ſhe acted with
the conduct and ſenſe of the Father, ſoſten'd, but nd
overcome, with the tenderneſs of the Mother. He
Underſtanding was ſuch as muſt have made a figure, hal
it been in a man; but the modeſty of her ſex threw
veil over its luſtre, which nevertheleſs ſuppreſs'd onh
the expreſſion, not the exertion of it ; for her ſenſe wa
not ſuperior to her Reſolution, which, when once ſte
was in the right, preſerv'd her from making it only
tranſition to the wrong, the frequent: weakneſs even ol
the beſt women. She often followed wiſe counſel, but
Hmetimes went before it, always with ſucceſs. She wa
poſſeſſed of a ſpirit, which aſſiſted her to get the betts
of thoſe accidents which admitted of any redreſs, an
enabled her to ſupport outwardly, with decency ant
dignity, thoſe which admitted of none; yet melted it
wardly, through almoſt her whole life, at a ſucceſſion d
melancholy and affeding objects, the loſs of all bd
Children, the misfortunes of Relations and Friends, |
lic and private, and the death of thoſe who were de-
eſt to her. Her heart was as compaſſionate as it
great: her Affections warm even to folicitude : It
Friendſhip not violent or jealous, but rational and pe
ſevering : her Gratitude equal and conſtant to the living
to the dead boundleſs and heroical. What perſon ſoewt
mne found worthy of her eſteem, ſhe would not give d
for any power on earth; and the greateſt on earth wh
ſhe could not efteem, obtam'd from her no farther
bute than Decency. Her Good-will was wholly dire
ed by merit, not by accident; not meaſured by the
gard they profeſo'd for her own deſert, but by her i«
of theirs : And as there was no merit which ſhe-was 3
8
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able to imitate, there was none which ſhe could envy :
to pre: therefore her Converſation was as free from detraction,
ſor ; as her Opinions from prejudice or prepoſſeſſion. As
mind her Thoughts were her own, ſo were her Words; and
ad with ſhe was as ſincere in uttering her judgment, as impar-
tial in forming it. She was a ſafe Companion, many
He were ſerv'd, none ever ſuffer d by her acquaintance : in-
offenſive, when unprovoked; when provoked, not ſtu-
threw i pid: But the moment her enemy ceaſed to be hurtful,
ſhe could ceaſe to act as an enemy. She was therefore
not a bitter but conſiſtent enemy: (tho* indeed, when
forced to be ſo, the more a finiſh'd one for having been
long a making.) And her proceeding with ill people:
was more in a calm and ſteady courſe, like-Juſtice, than
nce il
only
even 0l
ſel, bu in quick and paſſionate onſets, like Revenge. As for
he wu thoſe of whom the only thought ill, ſhe conſidered them
e bett not ſo much as once to wiſh them ill; of ſuch, her Con-
ſs, a tempt was great enough to put a ſtop to all other paſ-
cy ui ions that could hurt them. Her Love and Averſion,
lted u her Gratitude and Reſentment, her Eſteem and Neglect,
ſion o were equally open and ſtrong, and alterable only from
all h the alteration of the perſons who created them. Her
nds, |
re de:
It
le: bt
ind pe
living
n ſoer
honeſt to ſtand in need of it; ſo that ſhe never ſound:
cauſe to repent her conduct either to a friend or an ene-
my. There remains only to ſpeak of her Perſon, which
was moſt amiably majeſtic ; the niceſt eye could find no
fault in the outward lineaments of her Face or propor-
tion of her Body; it was ſuch, as pleas'd wherever ſhe
give had a defire it ſhould ; yet ſhe never envied that of any
h who other, which might better pleaſe in general : In the ſame
ther manner, as being content that her merits were elteemed.
dire where ſhe deſired they ſhould, ſhe never depreciated
5 275 thoſe of any other that were eſteemed or preferred elſe-
rk? where, For ſhe aimed not at a general love or a general
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Mind was too noble to be inſincere, and her Heart too.
«
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A AAS ACHE GI NIGRA EIS — . ͤ——
ba
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eſteem where ſhe was not known; it was enough to h
poſſeſs'd of both wherever ſhe was. Having lived to the
age of Sixty-two years; not courting Regard, but
ceiving it from all who knew her; not loving Bufineſz
| but diſcharging it fully-whereſoever duty or friendly
engaged her in it ; not following Greatneſs, but not de
clining to pay reſpect, as far as was due from indepen.
dency and diſintereſt; having honourably abſolv'd al
the parts of life, ſhe forſook this World, where ſhe half
left no act of duty or virtue undone, for that when
alone ſuch acts are rewarded, on the 13th Day of Mara
1742-3 *,
— 1
Mr. Porz to AMES Mors of Beverly, Eig.
DAR 878, Bath, July 11, 1743.
1 * always glad to hear of you, and where [ can, |
1 always erquire of you, But why have you omittel
to tell me one word of your own health? The accouni
of cur Friend's + is truly melancholy, added to the cv
cumſtance of his being detained (I fear, without mud
hope) in a foreign country, from the comfort of ſeeing
, (what a good man moſt deſires and beſt deſerves to kl
to the laſt hour) his Friends about him. The public
news f indeed gives every Engliſhman a reaſonable joy
and ] truly feel it with you, as a national joy, not a patty
one; nay as a general joy, to all nations where bloodſhed
and miſery muſt have been introduced, had the n
and perfidy of — prevail d.
* « The above Character was written by Mr. Pope ſome yeas
6 before her Grace's Death.“ So the printed Edition,
+ Mr. Bethel.
+ The Vitoy at Dettingen.
1
I come now to anſwer your friend's queſtion, The
hole of what he has heard of my writing the Character
f the old Duke of Buckingham i is untrue. I do not
emember ever to have ſeen it in MS, nor have I ever
een the pedigree he mentions, otherwiſe than after the
endlliy Ducheſs had printed it with the Will, and ſent one to me,
not de s. I fi uppoſe, ſhe did to all her acquaintance. ] do not
depen onder it ſhould be reported I writ that Character, after
Iv'd al W ftory which I will tell you in your ear, and to yourſelf
he 2 Wnly. There was another Character written of her
w hen
race by herſelf (with what help, I know not) but ſhe
hewed it me in her blots, and preſſed me, by all the
xdjurations of Friendſhip, to give her my ſincere opinion
pf it. 1 acted honeſtly and did ſo. She ſeemed to take
t patiently, and upon many exceptions which I made,
ngaped me to take the whole, and to ſelect out of it juſt
as much as I judged might ſtand, and return her the
opy. I did ſo, Immediately ſhe picked a quarrel
vith me, and we never ſaw each other in five or fix years.
In the mean time, ſhe ſhewed this Character (as much
as was extracted of it in my hand- writing) as 2 compo-
ition of my own in her praiſe. And very probably it
is now in the hands of Lord Harvg. Dear Sir, I fin-
1q.
743.
can,
mittel
.ccoun
the ci
mucl
ſceing | cerely win you, and yuuf vndie family 6 hoſe welfare is
to ſei co cloſely connected) the beſt health and trueſt happineſo;
publigand am (as is alſo the Maſter of this place)
le joy | Your, etc.
a paſt)
odſhec He ſays the old Duke, B he wrote a very fine Epitaph for
nbitio the Son,
ne yen
r 1
A LETTER To 4 NOBLE LORB
On. oceaſion of ſome Libels written and propagatedho d
at Court, in the Year 1732-3. eno
Mr Loan, Nov. 30, 1733,
Y OUR Lordſhip's * Epiſtle has been publiſh" d ſome
days, but I had not the pleaſure and pain of ſeeing
it till yeſterday: Pain, to think your Lordſhip ſhould reſt
attack me at all; Pleafure, to find that you can attack un
me ſo weakly. As I want not the humility, to think
myſelf in every way but one your inferiour, it ſeems buffet
reaſonable that I ſhould take the only method either of
ſ-lf-defence or retaliation, that is left me, againſt a perſon
of your quality and power: And as by your choice d
this weapon, your pen, you generouſly (and modeſtly
too, no doubt) meant to put yourſelf upon a level with
me ;- I will as ſoon believe that your Lordſhip would
give a wound to a man unarm'd, as that you would deny
me the uſe of it in my own defence.
I preſume you. will allow me to take the fame liberty,
in my anſwer to {0 candid, polite, and ingenious a Noble»
man, which your Lordſhip took in yours, to fo grave,
religious, and re/petable a Clergyman +: As you an-
ſwered his Latin in Engliſs, permit me to anſwer your WW!
Verſe in Proſe. And tho? your Lordſhip's reaſon for not t
writing in Latin, might be ſtronger than mine for not
writing in Verſe, yet I may plead Tao good ones, for this WW!
conduct: the one that I want the Talent of ſpinning a
* Entitled, Ar Epiſtle to a Doctor of Divinity from a Nobleman at
Hampton - Court, Aug. 28, 1733, and printed the November follow»
ing for J. Roberts. Fol.
Dr. S.
,, tink th cn hes.
A LETTER, etc. 91
zou ſand lines in a Day * (which, I think, is as much Time
this ſubje& deſerves) and the other, that I take your
ordſhip's Verſe to be as much Pro/z as this letter. But
o doubt it was your choice, in writing to a friend, to
enounce all the Pomp of Poetry, and give us this excel-
ent model of the familiar.
733. When J conſider the great difference betwixt the rank
ſome our Loraſbip holds in the World, and the rank which.
eeing or writings are like to hold in the earned world, L
reſume that diſtinction of ſtyle is but neceſſary, which
ttack ou will ſee obſerv'd thro' this letter. When I ſpeak of
chin Wis, my Lord, it will be with all the deference due to
1s bur © inequality which Fortune has made between you.
er aud myſelf: but when I ſpeak of your wrizings, my:
\erſon 0rd, I muſt, I can do nothing burt'trifle,
ce I ſhould be oblig'd indeed to leſſen this Re/ped, if all
ze Nobility (and eſpecially the elder brothers) are but:
many hereditary fools F, if the privilege of Lords be-
want brains 7, if noblemen can hardly write or read ,
err employment in court to tell lies, flatter in public,
erty, ander in private, be falſe to each other, and follow no-
ſoble⸗ ing but ſelf-intereſt ®*®, Bleſs me, my Lord, what an.
rave, 4d Pope with juftice of ſuch lines may ſay,
a an- His Lordſhip 2. 2 in a 8 6.
T That 10 good blood by old preſcripti ve rules
Gives right bereditary to be Fools.
r not t Nor wonder that my Brain no more affords,
Ir not But recolle& the privilege of Lords..
Ir this | And when you ſee me fairly worite my name; ,
For England's ſake wiſh all could do the ſame. 8
Wiiſt all our bus neſs is to dreſs and vote. ibid. 8
Courts are only larger families, |
The growth of each, few truths, and many lies :
in private ſatyrize, in public flatter,
Fe to each other, all to one point true;
Mich one I ſhan't, vor need explain, Adiou, p. ulk.
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all their buſineſs is but to dreſs and vote 4, and all“
. — + *
ou. _ CO OE —
w_ _—_— as, —
5 N rel "x we - *
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82 A LETTER TO
account is this you give of them? and what would han
been ſaid of me, had I immolated, in this manner, theWuty
whole body of the Nobility, at the ſtall of a well- e 1
Prebendary ? a F.
Were it the mere Exce/5 of your Lordſhip's Vit, tu bor
carried you thus triumphantly over all the bounds MW
| decency, I might conſider your Lordſhip on your Pegaſu yet
as a ſprightly hunter on a mettled horſe ; and while ya by
were trampling down all our works, patiently ſuffer the. +.
injury, in pure admiration of the Noble Sport. Bu
ſhould the caſe be quite otherwiſe, ſhould your Lord
{hip be only like a Boy that is run away with ; and mw
away with by a Very Foal; really common charity, a
well as reſpect for a noble family, would oblige m
to ſtop your career, and to he/p you down from th
Pegaſus,
Surely the little praiſe of a Writer ſhould be a thiny
below your ambition: You, who were no ſooner bon
bdut in the lap of the Graces ; no ſooner at ſchool, bi A
in the arms of the Muſes; no ſooner in the World, but yi had
practis'd all the ſkill of it; no ſooner in the Court, by 5
you poſſeſs d all the art of it! Unrivall'd as you are, Med
making a figure, and in making a ſpeech, methinkl =
my Lord, you may well give up the poor talent of tun cha
ing a Diſtich. And why this fondneſs for Poetry? Po the.
admits of the two excellencies you moſt admire, Piciaſ re
and Fiction: It admits of the talents you chiefly pol
ſeſs, a moſt fertile invention, and moſt florid expreſſiu 1
it is with proſe, nay the plaineſt proſe, that you beſt cou and
teach our nobility to vote, which, you Jultly obſerve, i reſe
half at leaſt of their buſineſs “: And, give me leave Mint
propheſy, it is to your talent 'M proſe, and not in ver but
to your ſpeaking, not your writing, to your art at ce .
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1 Ml their ban nefs is to dreſs and vote.
A N OBLE LORD. $83
not your art of poetry, that your Lordſhip muſt owe your
Id han
er, me future figure in the world. |
vell-fed My Lord, whatever you imagine, this is the advice of
a Friend, and one who remembers he formerly had the
konour of ſome profeſſion of Friendſhip from you:
Whatever was his real Gare in it, whether ſmall or great,
it, tha
inds 0
"egaſu, yet as your Lordſhip could never have had the leaſt Lo/
ile ya by continuing it, or the leaſt Intereſt by withdrawing it;
= the misfortune of loſing it, I fear, muſt have been owing
f, Dll
o his own deficiency or neglect. But as to any actual fault
hich deſerved to forfeit it in ſuch a degree, he proteſts
he is to this day guiltleſs and ignorant. It could at moſt
be but a fault of omiſſion; but indeed by omiſſions, men
of your Lordſhip's uncommon merit may ſometimes
think themſelves ſo injur'd, as to be capable of an incli-
nation to injure another; who, tho” very much below.
their quality, may be above the injury.
I never heard of the leaſt diſpleaſure you had con-
ceived againſt me, till I was told that an imitation I
had made of.* Horace had offended ſome perſons, and.
among them your Lordſhip. I could not have apprehend-
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: = chariot, etc. that theſe, I ſay, ſhould be ever applied as:
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they have been, by any malice but that which is the
greateſt in the world, the Malice of ill. people to them-
elves.. |
Your Lordſhip- ſo well knows (and the whole Court
and town thro” your means ſo well know) how far the
reſeatment was carried upon that imagination, not only
in the Nature of the Libel + you propagated againit me,
but in the extraordinary manner, place, and preſence in
The firſt Satire of the ſecond Book, printed in 1732.
oF * to the Imitator of Horace, afterwards printed by J. Roberts,
38. Fol. wel |
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which" it was propagated ®; that I ſhall only ſay, ii ac
ſeem'd to me to exceed the bounds of juſtice, comma -r:
ſenſe, and decency. a f
T'wonder yet more, how-a Lady, of great wit, beauty, bor
and fame for her poetry, (between whom and your Lori fo
ſhip there is a natural, a juſt, and a well grounaed- tern 0
could be prevail'd upon to take a part in that proceedingę P*!
Your reſentments againſt me indeed might be equal, vil 'Y
my offence. to you both was the ſame ; for neither had n
the leaſt miſunderſtanding with that Lady, till after I wu ©
the Author of my own misfortune in diſcontinuing her ©*
acquaintance. I may venture to ow a truth, which cas. <*
not be unpleaſing to either of you; I aſſure you m lat
reaſon for ſo doing, was merely that you had both wi
much uit for me ; and that I-could not do, with min, Ca
many things which you could with yours. The injury O,
done you in withdrawing myſelf could be but ſmall, if -*
the value you had for me was no greater than you have a
been pleas'd fince to profeſs. But ſurely, my Lord, one we
may ſay, neither the Revenge, nor the Language you wy
held, bore any proporticn to the pretended offence ; The 10
appellations of f Foe to human kind, an Enemy like the J
Devil to all that have Being; ungrateful, unjuſt, deſerving 5
to be wwhipt, blarketed, kicked, nay killed ; a Monſter, an N
A//affn, whoſe converſation every man ought to Hun, 7
and againſt whom all dior, ſhould be ſhut ; I beſeech *
you, my Lord, had you the leaſt right to give, or to en- :
courage or juſtify any other in giving ſuch language as i
this to me? Could I be treated in terms more ſtrong ot N
more atrocious, if, during my acquaintance with you, 1 oF
© It was for this reaſen that this Letter, as ſoon as it was printed” ]
was communicated to the
Once, and but once, his heedleſs youth + was bit, . L
And lik'd that dang'rous thing a female Wit, w.
See the Letter to Dr. Arbuthnot among ft the Variations. 90
1 See the I" Verſes to the Iuitator of Herace.
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A NOBLE LORD. 95
Had been a Betrayer, a Backbiter, a Whiſferer, an Ever--
dropper, or an Informer? Did ] in all chat time ever throw
a falſe Dye, or palm a foul Card upon you? Did I ever
borrow, fleal, or accept, either Money, Mit, or Advice
from you? Had I ever the honour to join with either of-
you in one Ballad, Satire, Pamphlet, or Epigram, on any
perſon /iving.or dead ? Did I ever do you ſo great an
injury as to put off my own Verſes for yours, eſpecially,
on thoſe Perſons whom they might moſt fend I am
confident you cannot anſwer in the affirmative ; and I can
truly affirm, that, ever ſmce I loſt the happineſs of your.
converſation, I have not publiſhed or written, one ſyl-
lable of, or to either of you; never hitch'd your names.
in a Verſe, or trifled with your good names in company.
Can I be honeſtly charged with any other crime but an
Omiſſion (for the word Negled, which I us'd before, {lip'd-
my pen unguardedly) to continue my admiration of you
all my life, and ſtill to contemplate, face to face, your.
many excellencies and perfections? I am perſuaded you.
can reproach me truly with no great Faults, except my
natural ones, which I. am as ready to own, as to do all
Juſtice to the contrary Beauties in you. lt is true, my
Lord, I am ſhort, not well ſhap'd, generally ill-dreſs'd,
if not ſometimes dirty: Your Lordſhip and Ladyſhip are
ſtill in bloom; your Figures ſuch, as rival the A4polls of
Belvedere, and the Venus of Medicis; and your faces ſo
finiſh'd, that neither ſickneſs or paſſion can deprive them
of Colour; I will allow your own in particular to be the
fineſt that ever Man was bleſt with: preſerve it, my-
Lord, and reflect, that to be a Critic, would coſt it too»
many frowns, and to be Stateſman, too many wrinkles 7.
I further confeſs, I am now ſomewhat old; but ſo your
Lordſhip and this excellent Lady, with all your beauty,
will (1 hope) one day be. I know your Genius and hers
to perfectly ally, that you cannot but join in admiring.
36 - A LETTER TO
each other, and by conſequence in the contempt of alj
ſuch as myſelf. You have both, in my regard, been
like—(your Lordſhip, I know, loves a Simile, and it
will be one ſuitable to your Quality) you have been like
'Tavo Princes, and I like a poor Animal ſacrificed between
them to cement a laſting League :. I hope I have not bled
in vain; but that ſuch an amity may endure for ever,
For tho' it be what common «nder/tandings would hardly
concieve,, Two Hits however may be perſuaded, that it
is in Friendſhip as in Enmity, 'The more danger, the
more honour.
Give me the liberty, my Lord, to tell-you, why [
never replied. to thoſe Verſes on the Imitator of Horace!
They regarded nothing but my. Figure, which 1 ſet no
value upon ; and my. Morals, which, I knew, needed no
defence: Any honeſt man has the pleaſure to be con-
ſcious, that it is out of the power of the Vittieſt, nay the i
Greateſt Per/on in the Kingdom, to leſſen him bat
way, but at the expence of his own. Truth, Honeur, or
uff ice.
1 tho' I declined to explain myſelf juſt at the time
when. I. was ſillily threaten'd, I ſhall. now give your
Lordſhip a frank account. of the offence. you imagined
to be meant to you. Fanny (my Lord) is the plain En»
gliſh of Fannius, a real perſon, who was a. fooliſh Critic,
and an enemy of Horace: perhaps a. Noble one, for ſo
(if your Latin be gone in earneſt “) I muſt acquaint
you, the word Beatus may be. conſtrued.
Beatus Fannius ! ultro
Delatis ca;fi; et imagine.
ail I learn'd from Dr. Freind at ſchool,
Has. quite deſerted this poor Jobn Trot. bead,
Ad left plain native Engliſh in its flcad, Epiſt. p. 24.
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A NOBLE LORD. 87
This Fannius was, it ſeems, extremely fond both of
his Poetry and his Perſon, which appears by the pictures
and Statues he cauſed to be made of himſelf, and by his
great diligence to propagate bad Verſes at Court, and get.
them admitted into the library of Auguſtus, He was.
moreover of a delicate or effeminate complexion, and con-
ſtant at the Aſſemblies and Operas of thoſe days,
where he took it into his head to ſander poor Hoe
race. |
bn
Fannius, Hermogenis laedat convi va Tigelli.
till it provoked him at laſt juſt to name him, give him
a /aſo, and ſend him whimpering to the Ladies.
Diſcipularum inter jubeo plorare cathedras.
So much for Fanny, my Lord. The word /pins (as Dr.
Freind, or even Dr. Sherwin could aſſure you) was the.
literal tranſlation of deduci; a metaphor taken from.
a Silk-worm, my Lord, to ſignify any //ight, filken, or.
(as your Lordſhip and the Ladies call it) fimzy piece.
of work. I preſume your. Lordſhip has enough of this,
to convince you there was nothing perſonal. hut to that
Fanrius, who (with all his fine accompliſhments) had ne-
ver been heard of, but for that Horace he injur'd.
In regard to the right honourable Lady, your Lord.
ſhip's friend, L was far from deſigning a perſon of her-
condition by a name ſo de rogatory to her, as that of Sap.
240; a name proſtituted to every infamous Creature that
ever wrote Verſe or Novels. I proteſt I never apphy'd-
that name to her in any verſe of mine, public or private z.
and (I firmly believe) not in any Letter or Converſation.
Whoever could invent a Falſehood to ſupport an accu-
ation, I pity ; and whoever can believe ſuch a Character:
®. Meal texture of bis flimzy brain, p. 6.
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to be theirs, I pity ſtill more. God forbid the Court or
Town ſhould have the complaiſance to join in that opi
nion] Certainly I meant it only of ſuch modern Sapphe,
as imitate much more the Lewfaneſi than the Genius of
the ancient one; and upon whom their wretched bre-
thren frequently beſlow both the Name and the Qualificas
non there mentioned “.
There was another reaſon why J was filent as to that
paper — [I took it for a Lady's (on the printer's word in
the title-page) and thought it too preſuming, as well az
indecent, to contend with one of that Sex in altercation:
For I never was ſo mean a creature as to commit my
Anger againſt a Lady to paper, tho? but in a private Lei.
ter. But ſoon. after, her denial of it was brought to
me by a Noble perſon of real Honour and Truth. Your
Lordſhip indeed ſaid you had it from a Lady, and the
Lady faid it was your Lordſhip's; ſome thought the
beautiful by-blow had Two Fathers, or (if one of them
will hardly be allow'd a man) Two Mothers; indeed J
think Borb Sexes had a ſhare in it, but which was z pper-
moſt, I know not: I pretend not to determine the exact
method of this Vitiy Fornication and, if I call it Yours,
my Lord, tis only becauſe, whoever: got it, you reg
it forth.
Here, my Lord, allow me to obſerve the different
proceeding of the Ignoble Poet, and his Noble Enemies.
What he has written of Fanny, Adonis, Sappho, or whe
you will, he own'd, he publiſh'd, he ſet his name to:
What they have publifbd of him, they have deny'd to
have written ;. and what they have auritten of him, they
have denied to have % One of theſe was the
caſe in the paſt Libel, and the other in the preſent. For
tho the parent has owned it to a few choice triends, it
From furious Sappho ſcarce a milder fate,
Pox'd by her love, or libell'd by her hate.
1 Sat, B. ii, Hons
4 NOBLE LORD. 89
; ſach as he has been obliged to deny in the moſt parti-
alar terms, to the great Perſon whoſe opinion concern 4
bim moſt. ul | |
Yet, my Lord, this Epiſtle. was a piece not written
in haſte, or in a paſſion, but many months after all pre-
ended provocation; when you was at full leiſurs at
ampton-Court, and I the object /ingled, like a Deer out
Seaſon, for ſo ill-timed, and ill-placed a diverſion.
Wt was a de/iberate work, directed to a Reverend Perſon „
ff the moſt /erious and /acred character, with whom you
re known. to cultivate a fri correſpondence, and to
hom it will not be doubted, but you open your ſecret
Fentiments, and deliver your real judgment of men and
kings. This, I ſay, my Lord, with ſubmiſſion, could
Woot but awaken all my Reflection and Attention. Your
Lordſhip's opinion of me as a Poet, I cannot help; it
s yours, my Lord, and that were enough to mortify 2
poor man; but it is not yours alone, you mult be con-
ent to ſhare it with the Gentlemen of the Dunciad, and (it
may be) with many more innocent and ingenious men. If
our Lordſhip deſtroys my poetical character, they will
aim their part in the glory; but, give me leave to lays.
{ my moral character be ruin'd,. it muſt be <vbolly the
ork of your Lord/bip 3 and will be hard even for you to
lo, unleſs I my/elF co-operate.
How can you talk (my moſt worthy Lord) of all Pope's
orks as ſo many Libels, affirm, that he' has no inven-
on but in Defamation t, and charge him with /elling
other man's. labours printed with his own-name 1 Fye,
ny Lord, you forget yourſelf. He printed not his name
efore a line of the perſon's you mention; that perſon.
Dr, 8.
F to bis eternal ſhame,
Prov'd be can ne'er invent but to defame.
I And fold Broom's labyurs printed with Pope's Name, p. To
90 A LETTER TO
himſelf has told you and all the world in the book
itſelf, what part he had in it, as may be feen at th
conclufion of his notes to the Odyſſey. I can only ſup
poſe your Lordſhip (not having at that time erg
your Greek) deſpis'd to look upon the Tran/lation ; ant
ever ſince entertam'd too mean an Opinion of the Trans
ſlator to caſt an eye upon it. Beſides, my Lord, whe
you ſaid he /o/ another man's works, you ought in jul
tice to have added that he bought them, which very mud
alters the Caſe, What he gave him was five hunde
pounds: his receipt can be produced to your Lordſhip
I dare not affirm he was as well paid as /ome Writnf
(much his inferiors) have been fince ; but your Lordſhip
will reflect that I am no man of Quality, either to
er ell ſcribling ſo high: and that I have neither Pla
Penſion, nor Power to reward for fecret Services, It cat
not be, that one of your rank can have the leaſt Fry
to ſuch an author as I; but were that poſible, it wen
much better gratify'd by employing not your owwn, bi
ſome of the/e low and ignoble pens to do you this mea
office. I dare engage you'll have them for leſs than
gave Mr. Broom, if your friends have not rais'd tht
market: Let them drive the bargain for you, my Lord;
and you may depend on ſeeing, every day in the week
as many (and now and then as pretty) Verſes, as the
of your Lordſhip,
And would it not be full as well, that my poor peria
ſhould be abus'd by them, as by one of your rank ail
quality? Cannot Curl do the ſame ? nay has he nd
done it before your Lordſhip, in the ſame kind of Lat
guage, and almoſt the /ame words? I cannot but think
the worthy and diſcreet Clerg yman himſelf will Agree,
is improper, nay unchriſtian, to expoſe the perſonal de
fects of our brother: that both ſuch perfect forms ®
yours, and ſuch unfortunate ones as mine, proceed fro
A NOBLE LORD. 91
e hand of the ſame Maler; who fafbioneth his Veſſels
he pleaſeth, and that it is not from their ape we
an tell whether they were made for honour or diſhonour,
na word, he would teach you Charity to your greateſt
nemies ; of which number, my Lord, I cannot be rec-
on'd, ſince, tho' a Poet, I was never your flatterer,
Next, my Lord, as to the O*/curity ® of my Birth, (a
fletion copy'd alſo from Mr. Curl and his brethren)
am ſorry to be obliged to ſuch a preſumption as to
ame my Family in the ſame leaf with your Lordſhip's :
ut my Father had the honour in one inſtance to reſemble
ou, for he was a younger Brother. He did not indeed
ak it a Happineſs to bury his elder Brother, tho* he
ad one, who wanted ſome of thoſe good qualities which
Wu: poſſelt, How ſincerely glad could I be, to pay to
at young Nobleman's memory the debt I owed to his
iendſhip, whoſe early death depriv'd your family of
much Wit and Honour as he leſt behind him in any
ranch of it, But as to my Father, I could aſſure you,
ny Lord, that he was no Mechanig (neither a batter,
or, which might pleaſe your Lordſhip yet better, a Cob-
t) but in truth, of a very tolerable family: And my
other of an ancient one, as well born and educated as
at Lady, whom your Lordſhip made choice of to be
e Mother of your own Children; whoſe merit, beauty,
nd vivacity (if tranſmitted to your poſterity). will be a
per er pre/ent than even the noble blood they derive! only
nk mom you. A Mother, on whom I was never oblig' d
he m far to reflect, as to ſay, ſhe /poiled me +, And a Fa-
f La ber, who never found himſelf obliged to ſay of me,
= at he di/approv'd my Conduct. In a word, my Lord,
re, |
nal de ® Hard as thy Heart, and as thy Birth obſcure.
rms 3 + A noble Father's heir ſpoil'd by bis Mother..
d fron His Lordſhip's account of himſelf, p. 7.
gs ALETTER TO
T think it enough, that my Parents, ſuch as they we
never coſt me a Bluſh ; a6 thar clave Son, land a8 K
is, never coſt them a Tear. -
I have purpoſely omitted to cnnkiley your Lan,
Criticiſms on my Poetry. As they are exactly the fan
with thoſe of the /orementioned Authors, I appreha
they would juſtly charge me with partiality, if I gay
to you. what belongs to them; or paid more diſtindin
to the /ame things when they are in your mouth, thy
when they were in theirs. | It will be ſhewing bal
them and you (my Lord) a more particular reſſ ect, tod
ferve how much they are honour'd by your Imitation
#hem, which indeed is carried thro' your whole Epil
I have read ſomewhere at School (tho I make it no oP
nity to have forgot where) that Tully naturalized a .
phraſes at the inſtance of ſome of his friends. e
Lordſhip has done more in honour of theſe Gentlemei ha
you have authoriz'd not only their A ertiont, but M
Syyle. For example, 4 Flow that wants {kill to rg
its ardour, — a Dictionary that gives us nothing at its o a
expence.— 4s luxuriant branches bear but little fruit, >y
Fit unprun'd is but raw fruit — While you rehearſe ig n
rance, you fill know enough to doit in Le — Witsi bar
but glittering ignorance. — The account of how aue '
aur time — and, The : weight on Sir R. W——"$ br you
You can ever receive from no head more than ſuch a hid
(as no head) Sat ie give: Your Lordſhip would bay
Aid never receive inſtead of ever, and any bead infteai Ya
of no head : but all this is perfectly news and has grealy '0!
enrich'd our language. Ire
You are merry, my Lord, when you ſay, Latin 1
Greek P
Have quite arferted your poor John Trot-head,
And left plain native Engliſh in their flead.
A NOBLE LORD, 97
jr (to do you juſtice) this is nothing leſs than plain Eng-
þ, And as for your Fohn Trot-head, I can't conceive
hy you ſhould give it that name; for by ſome ® papers
have ſeen ſign'd with that name, it is certainly a head
ery different from that of your Lordſhip's.
Your Lordſhip ſeems determined to fall out with every
bing you have learn'd at ſchool: you complain next af
dull Dictionary,
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But a few modern words for ancient Senſe,
Your Lordſhip. is the firſt man that ever carried the love
ff Wit ſo far, as to expect a witty Dictianary. A Dicti-
dnary that gives us any thing but words, muſt not only
de an expenſive, but a very extravagant Dictionary. But
Jemen hat does your Lordſhip mean by its giving us but 2
\t we modern wwords for ancient Senſe? If by Senſe (as T
22 uſpect) you mean wordt (a miflake not uniſual) I muſt
lo the Dictionary the juſtice to ſay, that it gives us f
man) modern avordi as ancient onen. Indeed, my Lord,
its om
ruit, |
ſe ig ou have more need to complain of a bad Grammar,
Wits han of a dull Dictionary.
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Doctor Freind, I date anſwer for him, never taught
you to talk
F Sapphic, Lyric, and Tambic Odes.
Your Lordſhip might as well bid your preſent Tutor,
your Taylor, make you a Coat, Suit of Cloath:, and
Breechei.; for you muſt have forgot your Logic, as well
as Grammar, not to know, that Sapphic and Iambic are
both ineluded in Lyric: that being the Genus, and thoſe
the Species.
See ſome Treatiſes printed in the Appendix to the Craftſman,
about that time,
94 4 LETTER TO
For all cannot invent who can tranſlate, d adl
No more than thoſe who cloathe us, can create, Uf
Here your Lordſhip ſeems in labour for a meaning. l gh
it that you would have Tranſlations, Original? for 'ti
the common opinion, that the bufineſs of a Tranſlata
is to tranſlate, and not to invent, and of a Taylor u
loathe, and not to create. But why ſhould you, ny
Lord, of all mankind, abuſe a Taylor? not-to ſq
blaſpheme him; if he can (as ſome think) at leaſt g
halves with God Almighty in the formation of a Beau,
Might not Doctor Sherwin rebuke you for this, and bil
you Remember your Creator in the days of your Youth ?
From a Taylor, your Lordſhip proceeds (by a beauti
ful gradation) to a Sin.
Thus P—pe we find
The gaudy Hinchcliff of a beauteous mind.
Here too is ſome ambiguity. Does your Lordſhip uſe
Hinchcliff as a proper name or, as the Ladies fay, 1
Hincheliꝶ or a Colmar, for a Silk or a Fan? I will ven.
ture to affirm, no Critic can have a perfect taſte of your
Lordſhip's works, who does not underſtand both your
Male Phraſe and your Female Phraſe.
Your Lordſhip, to finiſh your Climax, advances up
*1 a Hatter; a Mechanic, whoſe Em ployment, you in-
form us, is not (as was generally imagined) to cover
people's beads, but to dre/5 their brains v. A moſt uſetul
Mechanic indeed! I can't help wiſhing to have been
one for ſome people's ſake. — But this too may be only
another Lad-Phraſe : Your Lordſhip and the Ladies iN,
may take a Head-are/5 for a Head, and underſtand, that
For this Mechanic's, like the Hatter's pains,
Are but for dreſſing other people's brains, E *
A NOBLE LORD 95,
> adore the Head is the ſame thing as to dre/5 the Brains,
e. Upon the whole, I may thank your Lordſhap for this
igh Panegyric : For if I have but dre/i'd up Homer, as
_ Taylor, Silkman, and Hatter have equipp'd your
e, I muſt be own'd to have dreſs'd him marvel-
ore, y indeed, and no wonder if he is admir d by the
ier ,. | | |
, BG After all, my Lord, I really wiſh you would learn your
* nnr. What if you put yourſelf awhile under the
* ation of your Friend V May not I with all re-
N 415 pect ſay to you, what was ſaid to another Noble Poet
„ . Cowley, Pray, Mr. Howard , if you did read
ear i” Grammar, what harm would it do yyu ? You yourſelf
on ih all Lords would learn to write ; tho' I don't ſee of
hat uſe it could be, if their whole buſineſs is to give their
Poe; ||: It could only be ſerviceable in fgning their Pro-
. Yet ſurely this ſmall portion of learning might be
ndulged to your Lordſhip, without any Breach of that
ip uſe F/11vilege + you fo generouſly aſſert to all thoſe of your
ay, 1 ank, or too great an Infringement of that Righe *®* which
l ven- oa claim as Hereditary, and for which, no doubt, your
f your noble Father will thank you. Surely, my Lord, no man
your Vs ever ſo bent upon depreciating himſelf!
All your readers have obſerved the following Lines;
we, How oft we hear ſome Witling pert and dull,
3 By faſhion Coxcomb, and by nature Fool,
wy With hackney Maxims, in dogmatic flrain,
1 Scoffiing Religion and the Marriage chain?
been
only * by Girls admir'd. p. 6. |
,adies + The Honourable Mr. Edward Howard, celebrated for his
poetry,
that ] And when you ſee me fairly write my name,
| For England's ſake wiſh all Lords did the ſame,
Al our bus'neſs is to dreſs and vote. p. 4.
+ The ant of brains, ibid.
** To be fools, ibid,
<H6 A LETTER TO:
. Then from his Common-place-book be repeats,
The Lawyers all are rogues, and Parſons cheat,
That Vice and Virtues nothing but à jeſt,
And all Morality Deceit wwell-dreft ;
That Life itſelf is like a wrangling game, etc,
The whole Town and Court (my good Lord) han
Heard this Witling; who is ſo much every body's ac-
quaintance but his own, that I'll engage hey all nam
the /ame Per/on. But to hear you ſay, that this is only=
of whipt Cream a frothy Store, is a ſufficient proof, that
neyer mortal was endued with ſo humble an opinion bot
of himſelf and his own Wit, .as your Lordfhip : For, |
do aſſure you, theſe are by much the beſt Verſes in you
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How unhappy is it for me, that a Perſon of yon app
- -Lordſhip's Modefly and Virtue, who manifeſts ſo tende I.
A regard to Religion, Matrimony, .and Mor ality ; who, hins
tho” an Ornament to the Court, - cultivate an exemplary Mit e
Correſpondence with the Clergy ; nay, who diſdain no have
charitably to converſe with, and even aſſiſt, ſome of e of m
very worſt of Writers (ſo far as to caſt a few Conceits, dt tan
drop a few Antithe/es even among the Dear Joys of the Hatter
Courant. that you, I ſay, ſhould look upon Me alot Le,
as reprobate and unamendable! Reflect what 7 4 the
and what I am. I am even annibilated by your Anger: er
For in theſe Verſes you have robbed me of all power Wirre(i
think *, and, in your others, of the very zame of a M va!
Nay,” to ſhew that this is wholly your own doing, v quel
have told us that before I wrote my Ia Epi/tles (that iv WW a
before I unluckily mention'd Fanny and Adonis, whom, Wl you
I proteſt, I knew not to be your Lordſhip's Relations
I might have lived and died in glory +. i
Pe, : ho ne er ceu'd think. p. 7. 8
4+ 1s glory then be might bave liw'd and dy'd, ibid.
A'NOBLE LORD. 97
What would I not do to be well with your Lordſhip?
1 Tbo', you obſerve, I am a mere Imitator of Homer,
grace, Boileau, Garth, &c. (which 1 have the leſs
zuſe to be aſham'd of, fince they-were Imitators of one
te. not her yet what if T ſhould ſolemnly engage never to
| mitate your Lordſhip? May it not be one ſtep towards
hare kn accommodation, that while you remark my [gnorance
. Gr::4, you are ſo good as to ſay, yau have forgot
non... vn? What if I ſhould confeſs I tranſlated
-en ier? That ſurely could not but oblige your
„ tu eramip, who are known to prefer French to all the
boa rn Languages. But allowing that in the ſpace of
For, de heart acquaintance with Homer, I might unhap-
| your ih contract as much Greek, as your Lordſhip did in
[wo at the Univerſity, why may I not forget 1 it again, as
yo WW-2ppily ?
ender Till-ſach a reconciliation take effect, I have but one
Who, hing to intreat of your Lordſhip. It is that you will
plan ot decide of my Principles on the fame grounds as you
n no have done of my Learning: Nor give the ſame account
of tie or my Want of Grace, after you have loſt all acquain-
h 0 ance with my Perſon, as you do of my Want of Greek,
of theater you have confeſſedly loſt all acquaintance with the
alone Language, You are too generous, my Lord, to follow
an the Gentlemen of the Dunciad quite fo far, as to ſeek my
nger: ter Perdition : as Nero once did Lucan's, merely for -
wer 1 preſuming to be a Poet, while one of ſo much greater
M ic uality was a Mriter. I therefore make this humble re-
» Jag queſt to your Lordſhip, that the next time you pleaſe
hat i a0 ite of me, ſpeak of me, or even whiſper of me *,
hom you will recollect it is fall eight Years ſince I had the
tion
The whiſper, that, to greatneſs ſtill teo near,
Perhaps yet v —_— on his ono gn's ear.
"yr to Pr. ard trot
Vor. VI, E
93 A LETTER To:
honour of any converſation or correſpondence with you
Lordſhip, except ju/t half an hour in a Lady's Lodging
at Court, and then I had the happineſs of her bein
preſent all the time. It would therefore be difficult eve
for your Lordſhip's penetration to tell, to what, or fron
what Principles, Parties, or Sentiments, Moral, Politicl
or Theological, I may have been converted, or perver.
ed, in all that time. I beſeech your Lordſhip to con-
ſider, the Injury a Man of your high Rank and Crei
may do to a private Perſon, under Penal Laws and maty
other diſadvantages, not for want of honeſty or conſeien
but merely perhaps for having too weak a bead, or tw
tender a heart . It is by theſe alone I have hithem
liv'd excluded from all pos of Profit or Truft: As | a
. Interfere with the Views of no man, do not deny me, ny
Lord, all that is left, a little Praz/e, or the comma
Encouragement due, if not to my Genius, at leaſt to ny
Induſtry. | 8 8261 |
Above all, your Lordſhip will be careful not to wrong
my Moral Character, with Thosz + under whoſe Pri
tection I live, and thro* whoſe Lenity alone I can live
with Comfort. Your Lordſhip, I am confident, upon
conſideration will think, you inadvertently went a littl
too far when you recommended to THEIR peruſal, and
ſtrengthened by the weight of your Approbation,
Libel, mean in its reflections upon my poor figure, and
ſcandalous in thoſe on my Honour and Integrity: wherell
I was repreſented as an Enemy to Human Race, 1
« Muraerer of Reputations, and a Monfler marked by
« God like Cain, deſerving to wander accurs'd thi
6 the World,” |
A ſtrange Picture of a Man, who had the good for
tune to enjoy many friends, who will be always remem
* See Letters to Biſhop Auerbury, Lett, ive
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A NOBLE LORD. . 99
ber d as the firſt Ornaments of their Age and Country;
and no Enemies that ever contriv'd to be heard of, ex-
cept Mr. John Dennis, and your Lordſhip: A Man, who
never wrote a Line in which the Religion or Government
of his Country, the Royal Family, or their Miniftry,
were diſreſpectfully mentioned; the Animoſity of any
one Party gratify'd at the expence of another ; or any
Cenſure paſt, but upon known Vice, acknowledg'd Folly,
or aggreſſing Impertinence. It is with infinite pleaſure he
finds, that ſome Men who ſeem a/ham'd and afraid of
nothing elſe, are ſo very ſenſible of hit Ridicul: : And
'tis for that very reaſon he reſolves (by the grace of God,
and your Lordſhip's good leave)
That, while he breathes, no rich or noble knave
Shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
This, he thinks, is rendering the beſt Service he can to
the Public, and even to the good Government of his
Country; and for this, at leaſt, he may deſerve ſome
Countenance, even from the GrearTesT PERSONS in
it, Your Lordſhip knows or wou I ſpeak, Their
Nauks I ſhould be as ſorry, and as much aſham'd, to
place near yours, on ſuch an occaſion, as I ſhould be to
ſee You, my Lord, placed fo near heir Per SONS, if you
could ever make ſo ill an Uſe of their Ear“ as to aſpetſe
or miſrepreſent any one innocent Man.
This is all I ſhall ever aſk of your Lordſhip, except
your pardon for this tedious Letter. I have the honour
to be, with equal Re/þe# and Concern, |
My Lord,
Your truly devoted Servant,
A. Port,
, Cloſe at the ear of Eve. — Ep. to Dr, Arbuthnot,
F 2
LET Tr 8
TO AND FROM
Dr. JONATHAN SWI r, etc.
From the Year 1714 to 1737.
E E
TO AND FROM
Dr. JONATHAN SWIFT, etc.
From the Year 1714 to 1737.
LETTER 1.
Mr. PoE to Dr, S wirr.
June 18, 1714.
HATEVER Apologies it might become me
W to make at any other time for writing to you, I
ſhall uſe none now, to a man who has own'd
himſelf as ſplenetic as a Cat in the Country, In that
circumſiance, I know by experience a letter is a very
uſ:ful, as well as amuſing thing: If you are too buſied
in State affairs to read it, yet you may find entertainment
1a folding it into divers figures, either doubling it into a
pyramidical, or twiſting it into a ſerpentine form : or, if
your diſpoſition ſhould not be ſo mathematical, in taking
it with you to that place where men of ſtudious minds are
apt to fit longer than ordinary; where, after an abrupt
diviſion of the paper, it may not be unpleaſant to try to
lit and rejoin the broken lines together. All theſe amuſe-
ments I am no ſtranger to in the Country, and doubt not
but (by this time) you begin to reliſh them, in your pre-
(ent contemplative ſituation.
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F remember a man, who was thought to have fon
knowledge in the world, uſed to affirm, that no peo to c
in town ever complained they were forgotten by thej
Friends in the country; bat my increaſing experiend progr
eonvinces me he was miſtaken, for I find a great mayWvitho
here grievouſly complaining of you, upon this ſcore, Moo,
am told further, that you treat the few you corre ſponi
with in a very arrogant ſtyle, and tell them you adm out
at their inſolence in diſturbing your meditations, or eva
enquiring of your“ retreat: but this I will not poſitiveh
aſſert, becauſe | never received any ſuch inſulting Epi
from you. My Lord Oxford fays you have not write
wo him once ſince you went: but this perhaps may ht
only policy, in him or you; and I, who am half;
Whig, muſt not intirely credit any thing he afftrms, A
Button's it is reported you are gone to Hanover, aut
that Gay goes only on an Embaſſy to you, Othen
apprehend ſome dangerous State treatiſe from your 1t-
tirement; and a Wit, who affeRts to imitate Balſac, ſay;
that the Miniſtry now are like thoſe Heathens of old,
who received their Oracles from the Woods. Th
Gentlemen cf the Roman Catholic perſuaſion are nt
unwilling to credit me, when I whiſper, that you an
gone to meet ſome Jeſuits commiſſioned from the Court
of Rome, in order to fertle the moſt convenient methods
to be taken for the coming of the Pretender. Dr. at
buthnot is fingular in his opinion, and imagines yo
only deſign is to attend at full leiſure to the life and ad-
ventures of Scriblerus- This indeed muſt be granted d
greater importance than all the reſt ; and I wiſh I could
„Some time before the Death of Queen Anre, when her miniſter
were quarrelling, and the Dean could not reconcile them, he te-
tired to a Friend's Houſe in Berkſhire, and never ſaw then
after, .
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promiſe ſo well of you. The top of my own ambition
is to contribute to that great work, and I ſhall tranſlate
omer by the by, Mr. Gay has acquainted you what
progreſs J have made in it, I can't name Mr. Gay,
without all the acknowledgments which I ſhall ever owe
you, on his account, If I writ this in verſe, I would
ell you, you are like the ſun, and while men imagine
you to be retir'd or abſent, are hourly exerting your in-
Julgence, and bringing things to maturity for their ad-
antage, Of all the world, you are the man (without
lattery) who ſerve your friends with the leaſt oſtentation;
it is almoſt ingratitude to thank you, conſidering your
W-mper; and this is the period of all my letter which I
ear you will think the moſt impertinent. I am, with
he trueſt affection,
Yours, etc.
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From Dr. Swir to Mr. Pops,
Dublin, June 28, 1715.
Y * Lord Biſhop of Clogher gave me your kind
letter full of reproaches for my not writing. I
im naturally no very exact correſpondent, and when I 1
a country without probability of returning, I think
Is ſeldom as I can of what I loved or eſteemed in it, to
void the Defiderium which of all things makes life moſt
nealy. But you mult give me leave to add one thing,
hat you talk at your eaſe, being wholly unconcerned in
public events: For; if your friends the Whigs continue,
*
* Dr, St. George Aſp, formerly a fellow of Trinity-College, Dublin,
io whom the Dean was a- Pupil) afterwards Biſhop bf Clogher, and
nullated to the See of Derry in 1716-17,
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15 LETTERS TO AND
you my hope for ſome favour ; if the Tories return, you
are at leaſt ſure of quiet. You know how well I loved
both Lord Oxford and Bolingbroke, and how dear the
Duke of Ormond is to me: Do you imagine I en
be eaſy while their enemies are endeavouring to take of
their heads? I nunc, et verſus tecum meditare canoru-
Do you imagine I can be eaſy; when I think of the pro-
bable conſequences of theſe proceedings, perhaps upd
the yery peace of the nation, but certainly of the mind
of ſo many hundred thouſand good ſubjects? Upon the
whole, you may truly attribute my filence to the Eclipſe
but it was that Eclipſe which happened on the firſt q
Auguſt.
I borrowed your Homer from the Biſhop (mine is nd
yet landed) and read it out in two evenings. If it pleaſeth
others as well as me, you have got your end in prot
and reputation: Yet I am angry at ſome bad Rhymes au
Triplets, and pray in your next do not let me have ft
many unjuſtifiable Rhymes to var and gods, I tell you
all the faults I know, only in one or two places you ar
a little obſcure ; but I expected you to be ſo in one!
two and twenty. I have. heard no foul talk of it hey,
for indeed it is not come over ; nor do we very mucl
abound in Judges, at leaſt I have not the honour to be
acquainted with them. Your notes are perfectly good
and ſo are your Preface and Eſſay. You were pret!
bold in mentioning Lord Bolingbroke in that Preface. |
ſaw the Key to the Lock bat yeſterday : I think you bag
changed it a good deal, to adapt it to the preſen
times “.
put heſe two laſt obſervations together, and it will appear thi
Mr. Pope was neither wanting to his friends for fear of party, t
would inſult a miniftry to humour his friends. He ſaid of himfel,
and 1 believe he ſaid truly, that be never bote a line to gratify ti
animeſity of any one ft arty at the expence of another. See the unn
4 noble lord,
God be thanked I have yet no Parliamentary buſineſs,
d if they have none with me, I ſhall never ſeek theie
quaintance. TI have not been very fond of them for
me years paſt, not when I thought them tolerably good,
d therefore if I can get leave to be abſent, I ſhall be
uch inclined to be on that fide, when there is a parlia.
Tn, you
[ loved
ear the
Jen
ake of
OY ent on this; but truly I muſt be a little eaſy in my
2 X ind before I can think of Seriblerus.
| 54 You are to underſtand that I live in the corner of a
000 f alt unfurniſhed houſe ; my family conſiſts of a ſteward,
groom, a helper in the ſtable, a footman, and an old
aid, who are all at board-wages, and when I do not
ine abroad, or make an entertainment (which laſt is very
re) I eat a mutton-pye, and drink half a pint of wine:
y amuſements are defending my ſmall dominiong
iclipk,
firſt of
is not
"= geinſt the Archbiſhop, and endeavouring to reduce my
| proj bellious Choir. Perditur hacc inter miſero lux. I
es and
Jave (0
ell you
ou are
one u
chre you will preſent my humble ſervice to Mr. Ad-
lion, Mr. Congreve, and Mr. Rowe, and Gay. I am,
id will be always, extremely yours, etc.
: ”
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ol Mr. Poys to Dr. SWI v.
* June 20, 1716.
ce. |
Cannot ſuffer a friend to croſs the Iriſh ſeas without
bearing a teſtimony from me of the conſtant eſteem
End affection I am both obliged and inclined to have for
au. It is better he ſhould tell you than I, how often
ou are in our thoughts and in our cups, and how I learn
to ſleep leſs and drink more, whenever you are named
among us, I look upon a friend in Ireland as upon a
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friend i in the other world, whom (popiſhly ſpeaking)
believe conſtantly well-diſpoled towards me, and ready
to do me all the good he can, in that ſtate of ſeparation,
though] hear nothing from him, and make addreſſes u
him but very rarely. A Proteſtant divine cannot takeit
amiſs that I treat him in a the lame manner with my patron
Saint.
{ can tell you no news, but what you will not {af
_ fictently wonder at, that I ſuffer many things as an auther
. militant : whereof, in your days of probation, you hare
been a ſharer, or you had not arrived to that triumphant
ſtate you now deſervedly enjoy in the Church, As for me,
] have not the leaſt hopes of the Cardinalate, tho! I ſuffer
for my Religion in almoſt every weekly paper. I hare
begun to take a pique at the Pſalms of David (if the
wicked may be credited, who have printed a ſcandalo
one * in my name.) This report I dare not diſcourage
too much, in a proſpect I have at preſent of a poſt under
the Marquis de Langallerie , wherein if I can but do
ſome ſignal ſervice againſt the Pope, I may be conſider-
ably advanced by the Turks, the only religious people!
dare confide in. If it ſhould happen hereafter that!
mould write for the holy law of Mahomet, I hope it may
make no breach between you and me; every one mu
live, and I beg you will not be the man to manage the con-
troverſy againſt me. The Church of Rome I judge (from
many modern ſymptoms, as well as ancient prophecies)
to be in a declining condition: that of England will ina
ſhort time be ſcarce able to maintain her own family : ©
Churches ſink as generally as Banks in Europe, and for
the ſame reaſon; that Religion and Trade, which at
* In Curl's Collection.
+ One who made a noiſe then 7 a> Count Donnival has dene
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krſt were open and free, have been reduced into the
Management of Companies, and the Roguery of Di-
roctors.
I don't know why I tell you all this, but that I always
loved to talk to you; but this i is not a time for any man
to talk to the purpoſe. Truth is a kind of contraband
commodity, which I would not venture to export, and
therefore the only thing tending that dangerous way
which [I ſhall ſay, is, that I am, and always wall be, with
the utmoſt ſincerity,
Yours, etc.
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Aug. 30, 1716.
| Had the favour of yours by Mr. F. of whom before
any other queſtion relating to your health or fortune,
or ſucceſs as a Poet, I enquired your principles in the
common form, Is he a Whig or a Tory?” I am ſorry to
find they are not ſo well tallied to the preſent juncture
as I could wiſh. I always thought the terms of Fa#o
and Jure had been introduced by the Poets, and that
Poſſeſſion of any ſort in Kings was held an unexception-
able title in the courts of Parnaſſus, If you do not grow
a perfe& good ſubjeR in all its preſent latitudes, I ſhall
conclude you are become rich, and able to live without
dedications to men in power, whereby one great inconve-
nience will follow, that you and the world and poſterity
will be utterly ignorant of their Virtues, For, either
your brethren have miſerably deceived us theſe hundred
years paſt, or Power confers Virtue, as naturally as five -
of your Popiſh ſacraments do Grace. —You ſleep leſs and
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drink more.—But your maſter Horace was Vini ſomnique
benignus : and, as I take it, both are proper for your trade,
As to mine, there are a thouſand poetical texts to confirm
the one; and as to the other, I know it was anciently the
cuſtom to ſleep in temples for thoſe who would conſult
the Oracles, Who dictates to me ſlumbering,“ * etc,
You are an ill Catholic, or a worſe Geographer, for 1
can aſſure you, Ireland is not Paradiſe, and I appeal even
to any Spaniſh divine, whether Addreſſes were ever made
to a friend in Hell, or Purgatory ? And who are all theſe
enemies you hint at? I canonly think of Curl, Gildon,
Squire Burnet, Blackmore, and a few others whoſe fame
I have forgot ; 3 Tools, in my opinion, as neceſſary for a
good writer, as pen, ink, and paper. And beſides, I
would fain know whether every Draper doth not ſhew
you three or four damn'd pieces of ſtuff to ſet off his
good one? However, I will grant, that one thorough
Bookſelling-Rogue is better qualified to vex an author,
than all his cotemporary ſcriblers in Critic or Satire, not
only by ſtolen Copies of what was incorrect or unfit for
the public, but by downright laying other mens dulneſs
at your door. I had a long deſign upon the Ears of that
Curl, when I was in credit, but the Rogue would never
allow me a fair ſtroke at them, although my penknife was
ready drawn and ſharp. I can hardly believe the relation
of his being poiſoned, although the Hiſtorian pretends to
have been an eye-witneſs : But I beg pardon, Sack might
do it, although Rats-bane would not. I never ſaw the
thing you mention as falſely imputed to you; but I
think the frolicks of merry hours, even when we are
* guilty, ſhould not be left to the mercy of our belt
friends, until Curl and his reſemblers are hang d.
With ſubmiſſion to the better judgment of you and
your friends, I take your project of an employment Unger
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the Turks to be idle and unneceſſary, Have a little
patience, and you will find more merit and encouragement
at home by the ſame methods, You are ungrateful to
your country; quit but your own Religion, and ridicule
ours, and that wall allow you a free choice for any other,
or for none at all, and pay you well into the bargain,
Therefore pray do not run and diſgrace us among the
Turks, by telling them you were forced to leave your
native home, becauſe we would oblige you to be a
Chriſtian ; whereas we will make it appear to all the
world, that we only compelled you to be a Whig.
There is a young ingenions Quaker in this town who
writes verſes to his miſtreſs, not very correct, bat in a ſtrain
purely what a poetical Quaker ſhould do, commending
her look and habit, etc. It gave me a hint that a fet of
Quaker paſtorals might ſacceed, if our friend Gay ꝰ could
fancy it, and I think it a fruitful ſubje& ; pray hear what
he ſays, I believe further, the paſtoral ridicule is not yet
exhauſted ; and that a porter, footman F, or chairman's
paſtoral might do well. Or what think you of a New-
gate paſtoral, among the whores and thieves there ?
Laſtly, to conclude, I love you never the worſe for ſel-
dom writing to you. I am in an obſcure ſcene, where
you krow neither thing nor perſon. I can only anſwer
yours, which I promiſe to do after a fort whenever you
think fit to employ me. But I can aſſure you, the ſcene
and the times have depreſſed me wonderfully, for I will
impute no defect to thoſe two paltry years which have
ſlipt by ſince I had the happineſs to ſee you. I am,
with the trueſt eſteem, 1
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Works.
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*LETTER V.
From Dr. S Ir r to Mr. POP B.
Dublin, Jan. 10, 1721.
A Thouſand things have vexed me of late years, upon
which I am determined to lay open my mind to you,
I rather chuſe to appeal to you than to my Lord Chief
Juſtice Whitſhed, under the ſituation I am in. For, |
take this cauſe properly to lie before you : You are a
much fitter Judge of what concerns the credit of a Wii.
ter, the injuries that are done him, and the reparations
he ought to receive. Beſides, I doubt whether the Ar.
guments I could ſuggeſt to prove my own innocence
would be of much weight from the gentlemen of the
Long-robe to thoſe in Furs, upon whoſe deciſion about
the difference of Style or Sentiments, I ſhould be very
unwilling to leave the merits of my Cauſe,
Give me leave then to put you in mind (although you
cannot eaſily forget it) that about ten weeks before the
Queen's death, I left the town, upon occaſion of that
incurable breach among the great men at Court, and
went down to Berkſhire, where you may remember that
you gave me the favour of a viſit, While I was in that
retirement, I writ a Diſcourſe which I thought might be
uſeful in ſuch a juncture of affairs, and ſent it up to
London ; but, upon ſome difference in opinion between
me and a certain great miniſter now abroad, the publiſh-
ing of it was deferred ſo long that the Queen died, and
I recalled my copy, which hath been ever fince in ſaſe
hands. In a few weeks after the loſs of that excellent
Princeſs, I came to my ſtation here; where I have con-
tinued ever ſince in the greateſt privacy, and utter igno-
* This Letter Mr, Pope never received, nor did he believe it
was ever ſent.
FROM Dr. SWIFT, et. 113
xance of thoſe events, which are moſt commonly talked
of in the world. 1 neither know the names nor-num-
ber of the Royal Family which now reigns, further than
the Prayer book informs me. I cannot tell who is
Chancellor, who are Secretaries, nor with what nations
we are in peace or war. And this manner of life was
not taken up out of any ſort of Affectation, but merely
to avoid giving offence, and for fear of provoking Party-
zeal,
I had indeed written ſome Memorials of the four laſt
years of the Queen's reign, with ſome other informa-
tions, which I received, as neceſſary materials to qualify
me for doing ſomething in an employment then defign'd
me“: But, as it was at the diſpoſal of a perſon, who
had not the ſmalleſt ſhare of Readineſs or ſincerity, I
diſdain'd to accept it.
Theſe papers, at my few hours of health and leiſure,
I have been digeſting + into order by one ſheet at a
time, for I dare not venture any further, leſt the humour
of ſearching and ſeizing papers ſhould revive ; not that
I am in pain of any danger to myſelf (for they contain
nothing of preſent Times or Perſons, upon which I ſhall
never loſe a thought while there is a Cat or a Spaniel in
* Hiſtoriographer,
+ Theſe papers ſome years after were brought finiſhed by the
Dean into England, with an intention to publiſh them. But a
friend on whoſe judgment he relied: (the ſame I ſuppoſe whom he
mentions above, as being abroad at the time of writing this letter)
diſtuaded him from that deſign. He told the Dean there were ſe-
veral facts he knew to be falſe, and that the whole was ſo much
in the ſpirit of party-writing, that, though it might have made
a ſeaſonable pamphlet in the time of their adminiſtration, it was a
Uſhonour to juſt hiſtory, The Dean would do nothing againſt his
Friend's judgment, yet it extremely chagrined him, And be told
a common friend, that ſince ® * did not approve his hiſtory, he
would caſt it into the fire, though it was the beſt work he had ever
written, However it did not undergo this fate, and is faid ta be
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the houſe) but to preſerve them from being loſt among
Meſſengers and Clerks.
T have written in this kingdom, a * diſcourſe to per-
ſuade the wretched people to wear their own Many.
factures inſtead of thoſe from England. This Treatiſe
ſoon ſpread very faſt, being agreeable to the ſentiment
of the whole nation, except of thoſe gentlemen who
had employments, or were Expectants. Upon which x
perſon in great office here immediately took the alarm:
he ſent in haſte for the Chief Juſtice, and informed him
of a ſeditious, factious, and virulent Pamphlet, lately
Publiſhed with a deſign of ſetting the two kingdoms at
variance; directing at the ſame time that the Printer
ſhould be proſecuted with the utmoſt rigour of Jay,
The Chief Juſtice had ſo quick an underſtanding, that
he relolved, if poſſible, to out-do his orders. The
Grand- Juries of the county and city were pradtiſed effec.
tually with to repreſent the ſaid Pamphlet with all ag-
gravating Epithets, for which they had thanks ſent them
from England, and their Preſentments publiſhed for ſe-
veral weeks in all the news-papers. The Printer was
ſeized, and forced to give great bail: after his trial the
Jury brought him ip Not Guilty, although they had
been culled with the utmoſt induſtry : The Chief Juſlice
ſent them back nine times, and kept them eleven hour,
until being perfectly tired out, they were forced to leave
the matter to the mercy of the Judge, by what they call
a ſpecial Verdict. During the trial, the Chief Juſtice,
among other ſingularities, laid his hand on his breall,
and proteſted ſolemnly that the Author's deſign was to
bring in the Pretender; although there was not a ſingle
ſyllable of party in the whole Treatiſe, and although it
was known that the moſt eminent of thoſe who proſeſ-
* A Propoſal for the univerſal Uſe of Iriſh ManufaQures,
FROM Ds. SWIFT, et. ug
ef his own principles, publickly difallowed his pro-
ecdings. But the cauſe being ſo very odious and im-
popular, the trial of the Verdict was deferred from one
Term to another, until upon the Duke of G—ft-n
he Lord Lieutenant's arrival, his Grace, after mature
alriee, and permiſſion from England, was pleaſed to
who grant a nol; proſequi,
th a This is the more remarkable, becauſe it is ſaid that
wk the man is no ill decider in common caſes of property,
him here party is out of the queſtion ; but when that in-
tely ervenes, with ambition at heels to puſh it forward, it
$ at uſt needs confound any man of little ſpirit, and low
birth, who hath no other endowment than that ſort of
Knowledge, which, however poſſeſſed in the higheſt de-
gree, can poſſibly give no one good quality to the mind,
It is true, I have been much concerned, for ſeveral
years paſt, upon account of the public as well as for
myſelf, to ſee how ill a taſte for wit and ſenſe prevails
in the world, which Politics, and South-ſea, and Party,
and Operas, and Maſquerades have introduced. For,
belides many inſipid papers which the malice of ſome
have entitled me to, there are many perſons appearing
to wiſh me well, and pretending to be judges of my
ſtyle and manner, who have yet aſcribed ſome writings
to me, of which any man of common ſenſe and litera-
ture would be heartily aſhamed. | cannot forbear in-
ſtancing a Treatiſe called a Dedication upon Dedications,
wich many would have to be mine, although it be as
empty, dry, and ſervile a compoſition, as I remember
at any time to have read. But, above all, there is one
Circumſtance which makes it impoſſible for me to have
been author of a Treatiſe, wherein there are ſeveral
pages containing a Panegyric on King George, of whoſe
character and perſon I am utterly ignorant, nor ever had
once the curioſity to enquire into either, living at ſo
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great a- diſtance as I do, and having long done vil
whatever can relate to public matters,
Indeed I have formerly delivered my thoughts ven
freely, whether I were aſked or no; but never affect
to be a Counſellor, to which I had no manner of cal
I was humbled enough to ſee myſelf ſo far out-done by
the Earl of Oxford in my own trade as a Scholar, an
too good a Courtier not to diſcover his contempt of thoſ
who would be men of importance out of their ſphere,
Beſides, to ſay the truth, although I have known may
great Miniſters ready enough to hear Opinions, yet!
have hardly ſeen one that would ever deſcend to take
Advice; and this pedantry ariſeth from a Maxim then.
ſelves do not believe at the ſame time they practiſe by
it, that there is ſomething profound in Politics, which
men of plain honeſt ſenſe cannot arrive to,
I only wiſh my endeavours had ſucceeded better i
the great point [ had at heart, which was that of recon
ciling the Miniſters to each other. This might have ben
done, if others, who had more concern and more inf
ence, would have acted their parts; and, if this hu
ſucceeded, the public intereſt both of Church and Stat
would not have been the worſe, nor the Proteſtant du
ceſſion endangered.
But, whatever opportunities a conſtant attendanced
four years might have given me for endeavouring to d
good offices to particular perſons, I deſerve at leaſt i
find tolerable quarter from thoſe of the other Party; fot
many of which I was a conſtant advocate with the Eal
of Oxford, and for this 1 appeal to his Lordſhip: tle
knows how often I preſſed him in favour of Mr. Add
ſon, Mr, Congreve, Mr. Rowe, and Mr. Steel; althougl
I freely confeſs that his Lordſhip's kindneſs to them vn
altogether owing to his generous notions, and the eſteen
be had for their wit and parts, of which I could oi
FROM Da. SWIFT, etc. 117
retend to be a remembrancer. For I can never forget
e with
| e anſwer he gave to the late Lord Hallifax, who upon
ven e firſt change of the Miniſtry interceded with him to
edle are Mr. Congreve: It was by repeating theſe two lines
of call (Virgil, ; |
lone by
ar, and Non obtuſa adeo geſtamus pectora Poeni, |
of thoſ Nec tam averſus equos Tyria Sol jungit ab urbe,
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urſaant to which, he always treated Mr. Congreve with
he greateſt perſonal civilities, aſſuring him of his con-
ant favour and protection, and adding that he would
udy to do ſomething better for him.
| remember it was in thoſe times a uſual ſubje& of
killery towards me among the Miniſters, that I never
ame to them without a Whig in my ſleeve; which I do
ot ſay with any view towards making my Court: For,
e new Principles “ fixed to thoſe of that denomina-
on, I did then, and do now from my heart abhor, de-
|, and abjure, as wholly degenerate from their pre-
eceſſors. I have converſed in ſome freedom with more
ziniſters of State of all parties than uſually happens to
n of my level, and, I confeſs, in their capacity as
Iniſters, I look upon them as a race of people whoſe
quaintance no man would court, otherwiſe than upon
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hall favour, I was under no neceffity of being a ſlave
men in power, but choſe my friends by their perſonal
nit, without examining how far their notions agreed
th the politics then in vogue. I frequently converſed
ith Mr. Addiſon, and the others I named (except Mr,
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Steel) during all my Lord Oxford's Miniſtry, and M.
Addiſon's friendſhip to me continued inviolable, wit
as much kindneſs as when we uſed to meet at my Lov
Sommers, or Hallifax, who were leaders of the. oppo.
ſite Party. |
I would infer from all this, that it is with great in.
juſtice I have theſe. many years. been pelted by you
Pamphleteers, merely upon account of ſome. regard
which the Queen's laſt Miniſters were pleaſed to han
for me: and yet in my conſcience I think I am a par
taker in every ill deſign they had againſt the Proteſtant
Succeſſion, or the Liberties and Religion of their Coun-
try; and can ſay with Cicero, “that I ſhould be proul
& to be included with them in all their actions 7anquan
& in equo Trojan.” But if I have never diſcovered by
my words, writings, or actions, any Party virulence,
or dangerous deſigns againſt the preſent powers; if ay
friendſhip and converſation were equally ſhewn amony
thoſe who liked or diſapproved the proceedings then it
Court, and that I was known to be a common Friend
of all deſerving perſons of the latter ſort, when they
«were in diſtreſs; I cannot but think it hard, that I an
not ſuffered to run quietly among the common herd a
people, whoſe opinions unfortunately differ from thok
which lead to favour and preferment,
I ought to let you know, that the Thing we calleda
Whig in England is a creature altogether different fron
thoſe of the ſame denomination here ; at leaſt it ws
ſo during the reign of her late Majeſty, Whether thoſ
on your fide have changed or no, it hath not been m
buſineſs to enquire. I remember my excellent friead
Mr, Addiſon, when he firſt came over. hither Secreta!)
* Lord Sommers had very warmly aa Dr. Swift to
the favour of Lord Wharton, when he went the Queen's Lieuts
Rant into Ireland in the year 1709. |
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to the Earl of Wharton then Lord Lieutenant, was ex-
tremely offended at the conduct and diſcourſe of the
Chief Managers here: He told me they were a ſort of
people who ſeemed to think, that the principles of a
Whig conſiſted in nothing elſe but damning the Church,
reviling the Clergy, abetting the Diſſenters, and ſpeaking
contemptibly of revealed Religion,
was diſcourling ſome years ago with a certain Miniſter
about that whiggiſh or fanatical Genius, fo prevalent
among the Engliſh of this kingdom; his Lordſhip ac-
counted for it by that number of Cromwell's Soldiers,
adventurers eſtabliſhed here, who were all of the ſoureſt
even, and the meaneſt birth, and whoſe poſterity are now
in poſſeſſion of their lands and their principles. However,
it muſt be confeſſed, that of late ſome people in this
country are grown weary of quarreling, becauſe intereſt,
the great motive of quarreling, is at an end; for, it is
hardly worth contending who ſhall be an Exciſeman, a
Country-Vicar, a Cryer in the Courts, or an Under-
Clerk. |
You will perhaps be inclined to think, that a perſon
ſo ill treated as I have been, muſt at ſome time or other
have diſcovered very dangerous opinions in government;
in anſwer to which, I will tell you what my political
principles were in the time of her late glorious Majeſty,
which I never contradicted by any adtion, writing, or
diſcourſe, ; |
Firſt, I always declared myſelf againſt a Popiſh Suc-
ceſſor to the crown, whatever title he. might have by
the proximity of blood: Neither did I ever regard the
Tight line, except upon two accounts: firſt, as it was
eltabliſhed by law; and ſecondly, as it hath much weight
in the opinions of the people. For neceſſity may abo-
lik any law, but cannot alter the ſentiments of the vul« -
bar; right of inheritance being perhaps the moſt popular
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of all topics : and therefore in great changes when that
is broke, there will remain much heart-burning and dif.
content among the meaner people ; which (ander a weak
Prince and corrupt adminiſtration) may have the work
conſequences upon the peace of any ſtate,
As to what is called a Revolution principle, my oi.
nion was this; That whenever thoſe evils, which uſually
attend and follow a violent change of Government, were
not in probability ſo pernicious as the grievance we ſuffer
under a preſent power, then the public good will juſt
ſach a Revolution, And this I took to have been the
caſe in the Prince of Orange's expedition, although in the
conſequences it produced ſome very bad effects, which
are likely to ſtick long enough by us.
I had likewiſe in thoſe days a mortal antipathy apainf
Standing Armies in times of Peace: Becauſe I alway;
took Standing Armies to be only ſervants hired by the
Maſter of the family for keeping his own children in
flavery; and becauſe I conceived, that a Prince who
could not think himſelf ſeeure without Mercenary
Troops, muſt needs have a ſeparate intereſt from that of
his Subjects. Athough I am not ignorant of thoſe arts
ficial Neceſſities which a corrupted Miniſtry can create,
for keeping up Forces to ſupport a Faction againſt the
publick Intereſt.
As to Parliaments, I adored the wiſdom of that Gothic
inſtitution, which made them annual: and I was confi-
dent our Liberty could never be placed upon a firm foun-
dation until that ancient law were reſtored among us.
For, who ſees not, that, while ſuch Aſſemblies are per-
mitted to have a longer duration, there grows up f
commerce of corruption between the Miniſtry and the
Deputies, wherein they both find their accounts, to the
manifeſt danger of Liberty ? which Traffic would neither
FROM D. SWIFT, et, 121
anſwer the deſign nor expence, if Parliaments met once
a year,
" ever abominated that ſcheme of Politics (now Fa
thirty years old), of ſetting up a monied Intereſt in op-
poſition to the landed, For I conceived, there could
not be a truer maxim in our Government than this, That
the Poſſeſſors of the ſoil are the beſt judges of what is
for the advantage of the kingdom. If others had
thought the ſame way, Funds of Credit and South-ſea
Projects would neither have been felt nor heard of,
I could never diſcover the neceſſity of ſuſpending any
Law upon which the Liberty of the moſt innocent Per-
ſons depended ; neither do I think this Practice hath
made the taſte of Arbitrary Power ſo agreeable, as that
gain we ſhould deſire to ſee it repeated. Every Rebellion
Iways ſubdued and Plot diſcovered, contribute to the firmer
by the eſtabliſhment of the Prince: In the latter caſe, the knot
en in ef Conſpirators is entirely broke, and they are to begin
; "who their work anew under a thouſand diſadvantages ; fo
-enary that thoſe diligent enquiries into remote and problema-
that of tical guilt, with a new power of enforcing them by
L arti- chains and dungeons to every perſon whoſe face a Mini-
create, ſer thinks fit to diſlike, are not only oppoſite to that
ſt the Maxim, which declareth it better that ten guilty men
ſhould eſcape, than one innocent ſuffer ; but likewiſe
Zothie leave a gate wide open to the whole Tribe of Informers,
conf- the molt accurſed, and proſtitute, and abandoned race,
\ ſoul- that God ever permitted to plague mankind.
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office of Dictator became perpetual in the perſons of the
Cæſars and their Succeſſors, the moſt infamous Tyrant
that have any where appeared in ſtory.
Theſe are ſome of the ſentiments I had, relating to
public affairs, while I was in the world : what they are
at preſent, is of little importance either to that or my.
ſelf; neither can I truly ſay I have any at all, or, if!
had, I dare not venture to publiſh them : For however
orthodox they may be while I am now writing, they
may become criminal enough to bring me into trouble
before Midſummer. And indeed I have often wiſhed
for ſome time paſt, that a political Catechiſm might be
publiſhed by authority four times a year, in order to
inſtru us how we are to ſpeak, write, and act during
the current quarter. I have by experience felt the want
of ſuch an inſtructor: For, intending to make my coun
to ſome people on the prevailing fide, by advancing
certain old whiggiſh principles, which, it ſeems, had
been exploded about a month before, I have paſſed for
a diſſaffected perſon. I am not ignorant how idle a
thing it is, for a man in obſcurity to attempt defending
his reputation as a Writer, while the ſpirit of Faction
hath ſo univerſally poſſeſſed the minds of men, that they
are not at leiſure to attend to any thing elſe. They
will juſt give themſelves time to libel and accuſe me,
but cannot ſpare a minute to hear my defence. So in
a plot-difcovering age, I have often known an innocent
man ſeized and impriſoned, and forced to lie ſeveral
months in chains, while the Miniſters were not at leiſure
to hear his petition, until they had proſecuted and hang-
ed the number they propoſed.
All I can reaſonably hope for by this letter, is to con-
vince my friends, and others who are pleaſed to wiſh
me well, that I have neither been ſo ill a Subject nor ſo
ſtupid an Author, as I have been repreſented by the vi-
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ralence of Libellers, whoſe malice hath taken the ſame
train in both, by fathering dangerous Principles in go-
vernment upon me, which I never maintained, and in-
fipid Prodactions which 1 am not capable of writings
For, however I may have been ſoured by perſonal ill-
treatment, or by melancholy proſpects for the public,
] am too much a poktician to expoſe my own ſafety by
offenſive words. And, if my genius and ſpirit be ſunk
by encreaſing years, I have at leaſt enough diſcretion
left, not ta miſtake the meaſure of my own abilities, by
attempting ſubjects where thoſe Talents are neceſſary,
which perhaps I may have loſt with my youth, |
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LETTER VI.
Dr. Sw Ir to Mr. Gar.
Dublin, Jan. 8, 1722-3,
COmiog home after a ſhort Chriſtmas ramble, I found
a letter upon my table, and little expected when
| opened it to read your name at the bottom. The beſt
and greateſt part of my life, until theſe laſt eight years,
I peat in England; there I made my friendihips, and
there I left my defires. 1 am condemned for ever to an-
other country; what is in prudence to be done? I
think to be oblitu/que meorum, obliviſcendas et illis, What
can be the deſign of your letter but malice, to wake me
out of a ſcurvy ſleep, which however is better than none?
[am towards nine years older ſince I left you, yet that
15 the leaſt of my alterations; my buſineſs, my diver-
lions, my eonverſations, are all entirely changed for
the worſe, and ſo are my ſtudies and my amuſements in-
writing ; yet, after all, this humdrum way of life might
de paſſable enough, if you would let me alone. I ſhall
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not be able to reliſh my wine, my parſons, my horſes,
nor my garden for three months, until the ſpirit you
have raiſed ſhall be diſpoſſeſſed. I have ſometimes won-
-dered that I have not viſited you, but ] have been ſtopt
by too many reaſons, beſides years and lazineſs, and
yet theſe are very good ones. Upon my return after
half a year amongſt you, there would be to me De/ideris
nec pudor nec modus. I was three years reconciling my-
ſelf to the ſcene, and the buſineſs, to which fortune
Hath condemned me, and ſtupidity was what I had te-
courſe to. Beſides, what a figure ſhould I make in Lon-
don, while my friends are in poverty, exile, diſtreſs, or
impriſonment, and my enemies with rods of iron? Yet
I often threaten myſelf with the journey, and am every
ſummer practiſing to get health to bear it: The only
inconvenience is, that I grow old in the experiment,
Although I care not to talk to you as a Divine, yet!
hope you have not been author of your colic : do you
drink. bad wine, or keep bad company ? Are you not
as many years older as |? it will not be always Ft tibi
guos mihi dempſerit Apponet annos. I am heartily ſorry
you have any dealings with that ugly diſtemper, and [
believe our friend Arbuthnot will recommend you to
temperance and exerciſe, I wiſh they could have as good
an effect upon the giddineſs I am ſubject to, and which
this moment I am not free from, 1 ſhould have been
glad if you had lengthened your letter by telling me
the preſcnt condition of many of my old acquaintance,
Congreve, Arbuthnot, Lewis, etc. but you mention
only Mr, Pope, who I believe is lazy, or elſe he
might have added three lines of his own. I am ex-
tremely glad he is not in your caſe of needing great
mens favour, and could heartily wiſh that you were in his,
I have been conſidering why Poets have ſuch ill ſucceſs
in making their Court, ſince they are allowed to be the
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greateſt and beſt of all flatterers: The defect is, that they
flatter only in print or in writing, but not by word of
mouth: They will give things under their hand which
they make a conſcience of ſpeaking. Beſides, they are
too hbertine to haunt anti-. chambers, too poor to bribe
porters and footmen, and too proud to eringe to ſecond-
hand favourites in a great family. Tell me, are you not
under Original fin by the dedication of your Eclogues
to Lord Bolingbroke? I am an ill judge at chis diſtance ;
and befides am, for my eaſe, utterly ignorant of the
commoneſt things that paſs in the world ; but if all
Courts have a ſameneſs in them (as the Parſons phraſe it)
things may be as they were in my time, when all em-
ployments went to Parliament-mens Friends, who had
been uſeful in Elections, and there was always a huge
Liſt. of names in arrears at the Treaſury, which would
at leaſt take up your ſeven years expedient to diſcharge
even one half. I am of opinion, if you will not be of-
fended, that the ſureſt courſe would be to get your
Friend who lodgeth in your houſe to recommend you to
the next chief Governor who comes over here for a good
civil employment, or to be one of his Secretaries, which
your Parliament-men are fond enough of, when there is
no room at home. The wine is good and reaſonable;
you may dine twice a week at the Deanry-houſe ; there
Is a ſet of company in this town ſufficient for one man;
folks will 'admire you, becauſe they have read you; and
read-of you ; and a good employment will make you
live tolerably in London, or ſamptuouſly here ; or if
E divide between both places, it will be for your
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I with I could do more than ſay I love you. I leſt
you in a good way both for the late Court, and the ſuc-
ceſſors; and by the force of too much honeſty, or too
little ſublunary wiſdom, you fell between two ſtools.
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Take care of your health and money; be leſs modeſt
and more aQtive ; or elſe turn Parſon and get a Biſhopric
here: Would to God they would ſend us as good ones
from your fide !
I am ever, etc,
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LETTER VII.
Mr. Por to Dr. S wWIr r.
Jan. 12, 1723.
1 Find a rebuke in a late letter of yours, that both ſlings
and pleaſeth me extremely. Your ſaying that I ought
to have writ a Poſtſcript to my friend Gay, makes ms
not content to write leſs than a whole Letter ; and your
ſeeming to take his kindly, gives me hopes you will
look upon this as a ſincere effect of Friendſhip. Indeed
as I cannot but own the Lazineſs with which you tax
me, and with which I may equally charge you, for both
of us have had (and one of us hath both had and given“
8 Surfeit of writing; fo I really thought you would know
yourſelf to be ſo certainly intitled to my Friendſhip,
that it was a poſſeſſion you could not imagine ſtood in
need of any further Deeds or Writings to aſſure you of
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Whatever you ſeem to think of your withdrawn and
ſeparate ſtate at this diſtance, and in this Abſence, Dean
Swift lives ſtill in England, in every place and company
where he would chuſe to live, and I find him in all the
Converſations I keep, and in all the Hearts in which
I defire any ſhate.
We have never met theſe many years ideas mention
of you. Beſides my old Acquaintance, I have found
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that all my friends of a later date are ſach as wang yours |
refore : Lord Oxford, Lord Harcourt, and Lord Harley
may look upon me as one entailed upon them by yow:
Lord Bolingbroke is now returned (as I hope) to take
me with all his other Hereditary Rights : and, indeed,
he ſeems grown ſo much a Philoſopher, as to ſet his
heart upon ſome of them as little, as upon the Poet you
gave him. It is ſure my ill fate, that all thoſe I moſt
loved, and with whom J moſt lived, muſt be baniſhed :
After both of you left England, my conſtant Hoſt was
the Biſhop of * Rocheſter. Sure this is a nation that is
curſedly afraid of being over-run with too much Politeneſs,
and cannot regain one great Genius, but at the expence
of another, I tremble for my Lord Peterborow (whom
I now lodge with) he has too much Wit, as well as
Courage, to make a ſolid General: and if he eſcapes
being baniſhed by others, I fear he will baniſh bimſelf.
This leads me to give you ſome account of the manner
of my life and Converſation, which has been infinitely
more various. and diſſipated, than when you knew me
and cared far me; and among all Sexes, Parties, and
Profeflions, A Glut of Study and Retirement in the
firſt part of my life caſt me into this; and this, I begin
to ſee, will throw me again into Study and Retie-
ment,
The civilities I have met with from oppoſite Setts of
people, have hinder'd me from being violent or ſour to
any Party ; but at the ſame time the Obſervations and
Experiences 1 cannot but have collected, have made me
leſs fond of, and leſs ſurprized at, any: I am therefore
the more afflifted and the more angry at the Violences
and Hardſhips 1 ſee practiſed by either. The merry
Vein you knew me in, is ſunk into a Turn of Refleftion,
Dr. Atterbury.
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that has made the world pretty indifferent to me; and
yet I have acquired a Quietneſs of mind which by fit
improves into a certain degree of Chearfulneſs, enough
to make me juſt ſo good humoured as to wiſh that world
well. My Friendſhips are increaſed by new ones, yet
no part of the warmth I felt for the old is diminiſled,
Averſions I have none, but to Knaves (for Fools I have
learned to bear with) and ſuch I cannot be commonly
civil to; for I think thoſe men are next to Knaves who
converſe with them. The greateſt Man in power of
this ſort ſhall hardly make me bow to him, unleſs I had
a perſonal obligation, and that I will take care not to
have. The top pleaſure of my life is one I learned from
you both how to gain and how to uſe; the Freedom of
Friendſhip with men, much my Superiors. To have
pleaſed great men, according to Horace, is a praiſe ; but
not to have flattered them and yet not have diſpleaſed
them, is a greater. I have carefully avoided all Inter-
courſe with Poets and Scriblers, unleſs where by great
chance I have found a modeſt one. By theſe means!
have had no quarrels with any perſonally ; none have
been Enemies, but who were alſo Strangers to me; and
as there is no great need of an Eclairciſſement with ſuch,
whatever they writ or ſaid I never retaliated, not only
never ſeeming to know, but often really never knowing,
any thing of the matter, There are very few things that
give me the Anxiety of a Wiſh; the ſtrongeſt I have would
be to paſs my days with you, and a few ſuch as you:
But Fate has diſperſed them all about the world; and!
find to wiſh it is as vain, as to wiſh to ſee the Millennium
and the Kingdom of the Juſt upon earth.
If I have ſinned in my long ſilence, conſider there 1s
one to whom you yourſelf have been as great a ſinner.
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Lord BoLINGBRO EE to Dr, S WITT.
Am not ſo lazy as Pope, and therefore you muſt not
expect from me the ſame indulgence to Lazineſs; in
defending his own cauſe he pleads yours, and becomes
your Advocate while he appeals to you as his Judge:
You will do the ſame on your part; and I, and the reſt
of your common Friends, ſhall have great Juſtice to ex-
pet from two ſuch righteous Tribunals : You reſemble -
perfectly the two Alehouſe-keepers in Holland, Who
were at the ſame time Burgomaſters of the Town, and
taxed one another's Bills alternately. I declare before
hand I will not ſtand to the award; my Title to your
Friendſhip is good, and wants neither Deeds nor Wri-
tings to confirm it: but annual Acknowledgments at
leaſt are neceſſary to preſerve it: and I begin to ſuſpe&
by your defrauding me of them, that you hope in time
to diſpute it, and to urge Preſcription againſt me,
I would not ſay one word to you about myſelf (ſince it
15 a ſubje& on which you appear to have no curioſity) :
was it not to try how far the contraſt between Pope's -
fortune and manner of life, and mine, may be carried.
I have been, then, infinitely more uniform and leſs .
diſſipated than when you knew me and cared for me.
That Love which I uſed to ſcatter with ſome profuſion |
among the female kind, has been theſe many years
devoted to one object. A great many misfortunes (for
ſo they are called, though ſometimes very improperly)
and a retirement from the world, have made that ſt .
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- and nice diſcrimination between my Acquaintance and my
Friends, which we have ſeldom ſagacity enough to make
for ourſelves; thoſe inſects of various hues, which uſed
to hum and buz about me, while I ſtood in the ſan-ſhine,
have diſappeared ſince I lived in the ſhade. No may
comes to a Hermitage but for the ſake of the Hermit,
a few philoſophical Friends come often to mine, and
they are ſuch as you would be glad to live with, if a dull
climate and duller company have not altered you ex
tremely from what you was nine years ago. |
The“ hoarſe voice of Party was never heard in thi
quiet place ; Gazettes and Pamphlets are baniſhed from
it, and if the Lucubrations of Iſaac Bickerſtaff be admit-
ted, this diſtinction is owing to ſome ſtrokes by which it
is judged that this illuſtrious Philoſopher had (like the
Indian Fohu, the Grecian Phythagoras, the Perkin
Zoroaſter, and others his Precurſors among the Zabians,
Magians, and the Egyptian Seers) both his outward and
his inward Doctrine, and that he was of no ſide at the
bottom. When I am there, I forget I ever was of ary
party myſelf; nay I am often fo happily abſorbed by the
abſtracted reaſon of things, that I am ready to imagine
there never was any ſuch monſter as Party. Alas, I an
ſoon awakened from that pleaſing dream by the Greek
and Roman Hiſtorians, by Guicciardine, by Machiavel,
and Thuanus ; for 1 have vowed to read no Hiſtory
of our own country, till that budy of it which you
promiſe to finiſh appears,
I am under no apprehenſion that a glut of Study and
Retirement ſhould caſt me back into the hurry of the
world; on the contrary, the ſingle regret which I eve
feel, is that I fell ſo late into this courſe of life; my
Philoſophy grows confirmed by habit, and if you and!
meet again, I will extort this approbation from you:
Jam non conſilio bonus, ſed more eo perductus, ut non taniun
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FROM Ds. SWIFT, ec 131
rele facere pofſim, ſed nift rate fucere nom pam. The
litle incivilities I have met with from oppoſite ſetts of
people, have been ſo far from rendering me violent or
four to any, that I think myſelf obliged to them all; ſome
have cured me of my fears, by ſhewing me how impo-
tent the malice of the world is; others have cure# me of
my hopes, by ſhewing how precarious popular friendſhipꝭ
are; all have cured me of ſurprize: In driving me out
of party, they have driven me out of curſed company;
and in ſtripping me of Titles and Rank, and Eſtate, and
ſuch trinkets, which every man that will may ſpare, they.
have given me that which no man can be happy
without.
Reflection and habit have rendered the world ſo indif--
ferent to me, that I am neither affficted nor rejoiced,
angry nor pleaſed at what happens in it, any further than:
perſonal friendſhips intereſt me in the effairs of it, and
this principle extends my cares but a little way. Perfect.
Tranquillity is the general tenour of my life: good di-
geſtions, ſerene weather, and ſome other mechanic ſprings, .
wind me above it now and then, but I never fall below-
it; I am ſometimes gay, but I am never ſad. 1 have
gained new friends, and have loſt ſome old ones;
acquiſitions of this kind give me a good deal of pleaſure,
becauſe they have not been made lightly : I know no
vows fo ſolemn as thoſe of friendſhip, and therefore a
pretty long noviciate of acquaintance ſhould methinks-
precede them: My loſſes of this kind give me but little
trouble, I contributed nothing to them, and a friend Who
breaks with me unjuſtly, is not worth preſerving. As ſoon-
4 I leave this Town (which will be in a few days) I ſhall:
fall back into that courſe of life, which keeps knaves»
and fools at a great diſtance from me: I have an aver-
lion to them both, but in the ordinary courſe of life I.
think I can bear the — better than the fool.
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One muſt indeed with the former be in ſome or other
of the attitudes of thoſe wooden men whom [ have ſeen
before a ſword-cutler's ſhop in Germany; but even in
theſe conſtrained poſtures the witty Raſcal will divert me;
and he that diverts me does me a great deal of good,
and lays me under an obligation to him, which [
am not obliged to pay him in another coin: The Fool
ebliges me to be almoſt as much upon my guard as the
knave, and he makes me no amends; he numbs me like
the Torpor, or he teazes me like the Fly. This is the Pie-
ture of an old Friend, and more like him than that will be
which you once aſked, and which he will ſend you, if
you continue ſtill to defire it.— Adieu, dear Swift, wih
all thy faults I love thee intirely; make an effort, and
love me on with all mine.
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From Dr. SWI r.
Dublin, Sept. 20, 1723.
NR Ewning from a ſummer expedition of four months
on account of my health, I found a letter from you,
with an appendix longer than yours from Lord Boling-
broke. I believe there is not a more miſerable malady
than an unwillingneſs to write letters to our belt friends,
and a man might be philoſopher enough in finding out
reaſons for it. One thing is clear, that it hews a mighty
difference betwixt Friendſhip and Love, for a lover (as
J have heard) is always ſcribling to his miſtreſs. If I
could permit myſelf to believe what your civility makes
you ſay, that I am ſtill remembered by my friends in
England, I am in the right to keep myſelf here Non. ſun
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year does more execution than three at yours, to which
if you add the dulneſs of the air, and of the people, it
will make a terrible ſum. I have no very ſtrong faith
in you pretenders to Retirement; you are not of an age
for it, nor have gone through either good or bad fortune
enough to go into a corner, and form concluſions de con-
temptu mundi & fuga ſaeculi, unleſs a Poet grows weary
of too much applauſe, as Miniſters do of too much
weight of buſineſs. | 10
Vour happineſs is greater than your merit, in chuſing
your favourites ſo indifferently among either Party: this
you owe partly io your Education, and partly to your.
Genius employing you in an Art in which Faction has
nothing to do, for I ſuppoſe Virgil and Horace are equally.
read by Whigs and Tories. You have no more to do
with the Conſtitution of Church and State, than a
Chriſtian at Conſtantinople ; and you are ſo much the
wiſer and the happier, becauſe both Parties will ap-
prove your Poetry as long as you are known to be of
neither,
Your notions of friendſhip are new to me: I believe
every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give
to one without robbing another. I very well know to
whom | would give the firſt places in my Friendſhip, but
they are not in the way: I am condemned to another
ſcene, and therefore I diſtribute it in Pennyworths to
thoſe about me, and who diſpleaſe me leaſt ; and ſhould
do the ſame to my fellow priſoners if I were con-
demned to jail. I can likewiſe tolerate Knaves much
better than Fools, becauſe their knavery does me no
hurt in the commerce I have with them, which however
I own is more dangerous, tho' not fo troubleſome, as
that of Fools. I have often endeavoured to eſtabliſh a
Friendſhip among all Men of Genius, and would fain
have it done: they are ſeldom above three or fous -
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Contemporaries, and if they could be united, would drive
the worid before them. I. think it was ſo among the
Yoets in the time of Auguſtus: but Envy and Party,
and Pride, have hindered it among us. Ido not include
the Subalterns; of which you. ate ſeldom without a loge
Tribe. Under the name of Poets and Scriblers ſuppoſe
you mean the Fools you are content to ſee ſome imes,
when they happen to be modeſt ; which was not t frequent
among them while I was in the world:
F would deſcribe to you my way of living, if any me-
thod could be called ſo in this Country. I chuſe my
companions among thoſe of. leaſt conſequence and moſt
compliance: I read the moſt trifling Books 1 can find,
and whenever I write, it is upon the moſt trifling ſubjects:
But riding, walking, and ſleeping take up eigh een
of the twenty-four hours. I procraſtinate more than
I did twenty years ago, and have ſeveral things to finiſh
which I put off to twenty years: hence; {acc eff wita
Solutorum, c. I ſend you the compliments of a friend
of yours, who hath paſſed four months this ſummer with
two grave acquaintance at his country-houſe,. without
ever once going to Dublin, which is but eight miles dif-
tant; yet when he returns to London, I will engage you
ſhall find him as deep in the court of Requeſts, the Park»
the Operas and the Coffee-houſe, as any man there. I
am now with him for a few days.
You muſt remember me with great affection to Dr.
Arbuthnot, Mr. Congreve, and Gay. — I think there
are no more codem teriio's between you and me, except
Mr. Jervas, to whoſe houſe I addreſs this, for want of
knowing where you live: for it was not clear from your
laſt whether you lodge with Lord Peterborow, or he
with you,
J am ever, etc.
175
FROM Da. s WIT T. et. 125
LETTER xX.
Sept. 14. 1725.
12 not tell you, with what real delight I ſhould:
have done any thing you delired, and in particular 9
any good offices tn my power towards the bearer of your 1
Letter, who is this day gone for France. Perhaps tis 1
with Poets as with Prophets, they are ſo much better
liked in another country than their own, that your
Gentleman, upon arriving in England, loſt his curiofity. |
concerning me. However, had he try'd, he had found me. |
his friend; I mean he had found me yours. I am diſap-
pointed at not knowing better a man whom you eſteem,
and comfort myſelf only with having got a Letter from
you, with which (after all) 1 fix down a gainer; fince to
my great pleaſure it confirms my hope of once more
ſeeing you. After ſo many diſperſions and to many 4
diviſions, two or three of us may yet be gathered together: 1
not to plot, not to contrive filly ichemes of ambition, 1
or to vex our own or others hearts with buly vanities q
(ſuch as perhaps at one time of life or other take their
Tour in every man) but to divert ourſelves, and the world v
too if it pleaſes; or at worſt, to laugh at others as in-
nocently and as unhurtfully as at ourſelves, Your
Travels“ 1 hear much of; my own, I promiſe you, ſhall
never more be in a ſtrange land, but a diligent, I hope I
n/eful, inveſtigation of my own Territories f. 1 mean
no more Tranſlations, but ſomething domettic, fit for ##
my own country, and for my own time. |
If you come to us, U Il find you e derly Ladies enough j |
that can halloo, and two that can nurſe, and they are ;
too old and feeble to make too much noiſe; as you will [ f
® Gulliver, +. The Eſſay on Man,
136 LETTERS TO AND.
gueſs, when I tell you they are my own mother, and my
own nurſe, I can alſo help you to a Lady who is as deaf,
tho' not ſo old as yourſelf ; you'll be pleaſed with one ano.
ther I'll engage, tho you don't hear one another; you'll
converſe like ſpirits by intuition. What you'll moſt won.
der at is, ſhe is conſiderable at Court, yet no Party.
woman, and lives in Court, yet would be eaſy, and make
you eaſy. |
One of thoſe you mention (and I dare ſay alway;
will remember) Dr. Arbuthnot, is at this time ill of x
very dangerous diſtemper, an impoſthume in the bowels,
which is broke, but the event is very uncertain. What.
ever that be, he bids me tell you, (and 1 write this by
him) he lives or dies your faithful friend; and one reaſon
he has to deſire a little longer life, is the wiſh to ſee you
once more. | :
He isgay enough in this circumſtance to tell you, he
would give you (if he cou'd) ſuch advice as might cure
your deafneſs, but he would not-adviſe you, if you were
cured, to quit the pretence of it ; becauſe you-may by
that means hear as much as you will, and anſwer as little
as you pleaſe. Believe me
Yours, etc,
— 1
_—
ENT FBR XL
From Dr. SwWIy r.
Sept. 29, 1725.
1 Am now returning to the noble ſcene of Dublin, into
the grand Monde, for fear of burying my parts:
to ſignalize myſelf among Curates and Vicars, and cor-
rect all corruptions crept in relating to the weight of
/
bread
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FROM D. SWIFT, etc. 137
bread and butter, through thoſe dominions where I go-
vern, I have employed my time (beſides ditching) in
fniſhing, correcting, amending, and tranſcribing my
* Travels, in four parts compleat, newly augmented,
ind intended for the preſs when the world ſhall deſerve
them, or rather when a Printer ſhall be found brave
enough to venture his ears. I like the ſcheme of our
meeting after diſtreſſes and diſperſions; but the chief end
| propoſe to myſelf in all my labours, is to vex the
world, rather than divert it; and if I could com-
paſs that deſign without hurting my own perſon or for-
tune, I would be the moſt indefatigable writer you have
ever ſeen, without reading. I am exceedingly pleaſed
that you have done with Tranſlations ; Lord Treaſurer
Oxford often lamented that a raſcally world ſhould lay
you under a neceſſity of miſemploying your genius for
ſo long a time. But ſince you will now be ſo much bet-
ter employed, when you think of the world, give it
one laſh the more at my requeſt, I have ever hated all
Nations, Profeſſions, and Communities; and all my
Tribe of Lawyers, but I love Counſellor ſuch a one,
and Judge ſuch a one: Tis fo with Phyſicians, (L will
not ſpeak of my on Trade) Soldiers, Engliſh, Scotch,
French, and the reſt. But principally I hate and deteſt
that animal called Man, although. I heartily love John,
Peter, Thomas, and ſo forth. This is the ſyſtem upon
which I have govern'd myſelf many- years (but do not
tell) and ſo I ſhall go on till I have done with them.
| have got materials towards a Treatiſe, proving the
falſity of that definition Animal rationale, and to ſhew it
ſhould be only rationis capax. Upon this great founda-
* Gulliver's Travels,
love is towards Individuals : for inſtance, I hate the
tion of Miſanthropy (though not in 'Timon's manner)
the whole building of my Travels is erected; and I
133 LETTERS TO AND
never will have peace of mind, till all honeſt men are
of my opinion: By conſequence you are to embrace it
immediately, and precure that all who deſerve my eſteen
may do ſo too. The matter is ſo clear, that it will ad.
mit of no diſpute; nay, I will hold a hundred pound
that you and I agree in the point.
I did not know your Odyſſey was finiſhed, being yet
in the country, which I ſhall leave in three days, |
thank you kindly for the preſent, but ſhall like it three
fourths the leſs, for the mixture you mention of other
hands; however, I am glad you ſav'd yourſelf fo much
drudgery — ] have been long told by Mr. Ford of your
great atchievements in building and planting, and eſpe
cially of your ſubterranean paſſage to your garden,
whereby you turn'd a Blunder into a Beauty, which 4
piece of Ari Poetica.
I have almoſt done with Harridans, and ſhall ſom
become old enough to fall in love with girls of fourteen,
The Lady whom you deſcribe to live at Court, to be
deaf and no party-woman, I take to be Mythology,
but know not how to moralize it. She cannot be Mes
ey, for Mercy is neither deaf, nor lives at Court: Juſtice
| is blind, and perhaps deaf, but neither is ſhe a Coutt
lady: Fortune is both blind and deaf, and a Court-lady
but then ſhe is a moſt damnable Party-woman, and wil
never make me eaſy, as you promiſe, It mult be Riches,
which anſwers all your deſcription : I am glad ſhe vis
you, but my voice is ſo weak, that I doubt ſhe wil
never hear me. |
Mr. Lewis ſent me an account of Dr. Arbuthnot'
illneſs, which is a very ſenſible affliction to me, who bj
living ſo long out of the world, have loſt that hardueh
of heart contraſted by years and general converſation
I am daily loſing friends, and neither ſeeking nor ge-
| ting others, Oh if the world had but a dozen of A.
FROM Da. SWI T. et. 139
huthnots in it, I would burn my Travels! But however
are
ce it Ile is not without fault: There is a paſſage in Bede,
een Whighly commending the piety and learning of the Iriſh
in that age, where after abundance of praiſes he over-
throws them all, by lamenting that, alas! they kept
Eaſter at a wrong time of the year. So our Doctor has
every quality and virtue that can make a man amiable
or uſeful ; but alas, he hath a fort of ſlouch in his walk !
pray God protect him, for he is an excellent Chriſtian,
though not a Catholic,
nuch [ hear nothing of aur Friend Gay, but I find the Court
vont Wkeeps him at hard meat. I adviſed him to come over
eſpe» ¶ bere with a Lord Lieutenant. Philips writes little Flams
rden, tes Lord Leiceſter call'd thoſe fort of verſes) on Miſs
Carteret, A Dublia Blackſmith, a great Poet, hath
imitated his manner in a poem to the ſame Miſs. Philips
u a complainer, and on this occaſion I told Lord Carte-
jet, that Complainers never ſucceeded at Court, tho?
lers do. ;
Are you altogether a country gentleman ? that I muſt
addreſs to you out of London, to the hazard of your
loſing this precious letter, which I will now conclude,
altho' fo much paper is left. I have an ill Name, and
Qierefore ſhall not ſubſcribe it, but you will gueſs it
omes from one who eſteems and loves you about half
@ much as you deſerve, I mean as much as he can.
I am in great concern, at what I am juſt told is in
me of the news papers, that Lord Bolingbroke is much
burt by a fall in hunting. I am glad he has ſo much
hnot's outh and vigour left (of which he hath not been thrifty}
ho by eut I wonder he has no more Diſcretion.
rdnels |
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of Al-
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LETTER, XII.
| | Od. 15, 172;,
1 Am wonderfully pleaſed with the ſuddenneſs of you
kind anſwer. It makes me hope you are coming
towards us, and that you incline more and more to you
old friends, in proportion as you draw nearer to then;
and are getting into our Vortex. Here is One, wh
was once a powerful planet, but has now (aſter long ex.
perience of all that comes. of ſhining) learned to be con.
tent, with returning to his firſt point, without the thought
or ambition of ſhining at all. Here is Another, who
thinks one of the greateſt glories of his Father was ty
have diſtinguiſhed and loved you, and who loves you
hereditarily. Here is Arbuthnot, recovered from thg
Jaws of death, and more pleaſed with the hope of ſeeing
you again, than of reviewing a world every part of which
he has long deſpis'd, but what is made up of a fey
men like yourſelf. He goes abroad again, and is more
chearful than even health can make a man, for he has
good conſcience into the bargain (which is the moſt Ce
tholic of all remedies, tho? not the moſt Univerſal.) 1
knew-it would be a pleaſure to you to hear this, and u
truth that made me write ſo ſoon to you.
Pm ſorry poor P. is not promoted in this age; it
certainly if his reward be of the next, he is of all Poen
the moſt miſerable. I'm alſo ſo;ry for another realonj
if they don't promote him, they'll ſpoil the concluſion
of one of my Satires, where, having endeavoured 18
correct the Taſte of the Town in wit and criticiſm, [
end thus,
But what awvails o lay down rules for ſenſe ?
1: 's Reign theſe fruitleſs lines were aurit,
When Ambroſe Philips was preferr'd for Wit!
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Then you ſhall have no reaſon to complain of me, ſa Wl and
want of a generous diſdain of this world, though | hav Ta
not loſt my Ears in yours and their ſervice. Lord O. you
ford too (whom I have now the third time mentioned in pro}
this Letter, and he deſerves ta be always mentioned in
every thing that is addreſs'd to you, or comes from ya
expects you: That ought to be enough to bring you
hither ; tis a better reaſon than if the nation expee
you, For I really enter as fully as you can defire, int
your Principle of Love of Individuals : and I think the
way to have a public ſpirit is firſt to have a private one;
for who can believe (ſaid a friend of mine) that any max
can care for a hundred thouſand people, who never cared
for one? No il-humoured man can ever be a Patriot
any more than a Friend,
I defigned to have left the following page for D.
Arbuthnot to fill, but he is ſo touch'd with the periol
in yours to me concerning him, that he intends to anſver
it by a whole letter. He too is buſy about a book,
which I gueſs he will tell you of. So adieu — what re
mains worth telling you? Dean Berkley is well, and I wo
happy in the proſecution of his Scheme. Lord Oxforl
and Lord Bolingbroke in health, Duke Difny ſo al6; MM” |
Sir William Wyndham better, Lord Bathurſt well and |
Theſe and ſome others, preſerve their ancient honour t ©
and ancient friendſhip. Thoſe who do neither, if
they were d——d, what is it to a Proteſtant Priel,
who has nothing to do with the dead? I anſwer for
my own part as a Papiſt, I would not pray them org”
of Purgatory. - bol
gatory
My name is as bad an one as yours, and hated . vxfor
all bad Poets, from Hopkins and Sternhold to Gif die
mec
chiefly occaſioned by the Dean's fondneſs for Rechefeucault, wholt each
Aaxims are founded on the principle of an univerſal ſelfiſncls ug ide
nature.
or tl
{ have Turk; and a modern Imitator of theirs (whom I leave
d Or. WY you to find out) has added the Chriſtian to'em, with
ned in WY proper definitions of each in this manner,
od The Pope's the Whore of Babylon,
n you ' The Tark be is a Tow:
Jo The Chriflian is an Infidel
i _ That fateth in a Pew.
nk the WW Cm _ 4 TIED
e One;
y mat LETTER XIII.
r cared
0 D. Nov. 26, 1729
perio ] Should ſooner have acknowledged yours, if a fe-
veriſh diſorder and the relicks of it had not diſabled
ne for a fortnight, I now begin to make excuſes,
decauſe J hope I am pretty near ſeeing you, and therefore
I would cultivate an acquaintance ; becauſe if you do not
ho me when we meet, you need only keep one of
My letters, and compare it with my face, for my face
ad letters are counterparts of my heart. I fear I have
not expreſs'd that right, but I mean well, and I hate
blots : I look in your letter, and in my conſcience you
the ſame thing, but in a better manner. Pray tell my
ord Bolingbroke that I wiſh he were baniſhed again,
r then [ ſhould hear from him, when he was full of
anſwer
book,
hat re
U, and
Oxford
0 alſo;
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honour
her, i
Priel,
wer fot
em ou
mloſophy, and talk'd 4 contemplu mundi. My Lord
ated d Vxford was ſo extremely kind as to write to me im-
Gilda ediately an account of his ſon's birth; which I
am-diately acknowledg'd, but before my letter could
ach him, I wiſhed it in the ſea: I hope I was more
ated chan his Lordſhip, *Tis hard that Parſons and
t, whole
5 (hneſs i
FROM Da. SWIFT, ec. 243
and Cibber, The firſt prayed againſt me with the
144 LETTERS TO AND
beggars ſhould be over-run with brats,” while fo grest
and good a family wants an heir to continue it. I have
receiv d his Father's picture, but I lament {/ub ficilh
conft/ſionis ) that it is not ſo true a reſemblance as I could
wiſh. Drown the world ! I am not content with deſpiſ.
ing it, but I would anger it, if I could with ſafety, 1
wiſh there were an Hoſpital built for its Deſpiſers, where
one might act with ſafety, and it need not be a large build.
ing, only I would have it well endow'd. P& * is fort
chancellant whether he ſhall turn Parſon or no, But al
employments here are engaged, or in reverſion. Caf
Wits and caſt Beaux have a proper ſanctuary in the
church : yet we think it a ſevere judgment, that a fine
gentleman, and ſo much the finer for hating Eccleſiaflicy
ſhould be a domeſtic humble retainer to an Iriſh Prelate,
He is neither Secretary nor Gentleman-uſher, yet ſerves
in both capacities. He hath publiſhed ſeveral reaſons
why he never came to ſee me, but the beſt is, that!
have not waited on his Lordſhip. We have had a Poem
ſent from London in imitation of that on Miſs Carteret.
It is on Miſs Harvey of a day old; and we ſay and
think it is yours. I wiſh it were not, becauſe I an
againſt monopolies, — You might have ſpared me a fev
more lines of your Satire, but I hope in a few months t0
ſee it all. To hear boys, like you, talk of Millenniums
and tranquillity ! I am older by thirty years, Lord Boling
broke by twenty, and you but by ten, than when we lal
were together; and we ſhould differ more than ever, yol
coquetting a maid of honour, my Lord looking on to ſe
how the gameſters play, and I railing at you both. |
deſire you and all my friends will take a ſpecial care thi
my Diſaffection to the world may not be imputed to u
Age, for I have credible witneſſes ready to depoſe, thi
it hath never varied from the twenty-firſt to the f—.
eighth year of my life (pray fill that blank charitably/
aſlics,
elate,
ſerves
eaſonz
that!
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[tell you afterall, that I do not hate mankind; it is wous
autres who hate them, becauſe you would have them
caſonable Animals, and are angry at being diſappointed: '
| have always rejected that defigition, and made another
of my own, I am no more angry with — than I was with
the Kite that laſt week flew away with one of my chic- '
kens; and yet I was pleaſed when one of my ſervants ſhot
him two days after. This I fay, becauſe you are fo
hardy as to tell me of your intentions to write Maxims
in oppoſition to Rochefoucault, who is my favourite, be -
cauſe I found my whole character in him; however I
vill read him again, becauſe it is poſſible 1 may have
ice undergone ſome alterations. — Take care the bad
Poets do not out-wit you, as they have ſerved the good
ones in every age, whom they have provoked to tranſ-
nit their names to poſterity, Meevius is as well known
z Virgil, and Gildon will be as well known as you, if
bis name gets into your Verſes : and as to the difference
between good and bad fame, tis a perfect trifle. I aſk
athouſand pardons, and ſo leave you for this time, and
vill write again without concerning myſelf whether you
vie or no.
Jam, etc.
——
LETTER XIV.
Decemb. 10% 1726.
] Find myſelf the better acquainted with you for a long
— —
abſence, as men are with themſelves for a long
Affliction: Abſence does but hold off a Friend, to
make one ſee him the more truly, I am infinitely more
pleas d to hear you are coming near us, than at any thing
you ſeem to think in my favour ; an opinion which has
perhaps been aggrandized by the diſtance or dulneſs of
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Ireland, as objects look larger through a medium of
fogs: and yet I am infinitely pleas'd with that too.
am much the happier for finding (a better thing than our
Wits) our Judgments jump, in the notion that all Scrib.
lers ſhould be paſt by in ſilence. To vindicate one
ſelf againſt ſuch naſty ſlander, is much as wiſe as it wa;
in your countryman, when the people imputed a flink
to him, to prove the contrary by ſhewing his backſide,
So let Gildon and Philips reſt in peace ! what Virgil had
to do with Mcevius, that he ſhould wear him upon his
ſleeve to all eternity, I don't know. Pye been the
longer upon this, that I my prepare you for the reception
both you and your works may poſſibly meet in England,
We your true acquaintance, will look upon you as a
good man, and love you; others will look upon you as
Wit, and hate you. So you know the worſt ; unlef
you are as vindicative as Virgil, or the aforeſaid Hiber-
nals, | TT
I wiſh as warmly as you for an Hoſpital in which to
lodge the Deſpiſers of the world; only I fear it would be
filled wholly like Chelſea, with maimed Soldiers, and
ſuch as had been diſabled in its ſervice. I would rather
have thoſe, ; that, out of ſuch generous principles as you
and I, deſpiſe it, fly in its face, than retire from it. Net
that I have much anger againſt the Great, my ſpleen is
at the little rogues of it; it would vex one more to be
knock d on the head with a Piſs-pot, than by a Thunder-
bolt. As to great Oppreſſors, they are like Kites or
Eagles, one expects miſchief from them; but to be
ſquirted to death (as poor Wycherley ſaid to me on his
death · bed) by Apothecaries Apprentices, by the under-
ſtrappers of under- ſecretaries to ſecretaries who were 10
ſecretaries —this wou'd provoke as dull a dog as Ph—;
himſelf. N
80 much for enemies, now for friends. Mr. L-
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FROM Ds, SWIPT, etc. 147
thinks all this indiſcreet : The Dr. not ſoz he loves
miſchief the beſt of any good-natur'd'man in England,
Lord B. is above trifling : when he-writes of any thing
in this world, he is more than mortal; ever he zrifles, it
nuft be when he turns a Divine. \Gay'\s writing Tales for
Prince William: I ſuppoſe Mr. Philips will take this
very ill, for two reaſons; one that he thinks all childiſh
things belong to him, and the other becauſe he'll take
it ill to be taught that one may write things to a child
without being childiſh, -: What have I more to add? but
that Lord Oxford defires earneſtly to fee you: and that
many others whom you do not think the worſt of, will
be gratified by it: none more, be aſſured, than
Yours, etc,
p. 8. Pope and you a are very great Wits, and I think
very indifferent Philoſophers ; If you deſpiſed the world
a much as you pretend, and perhaps believe, you would
not be ſo angry with it. The founder of your ſect, that
noble Original whom you think it ſo great an honour to
reſemble *, was a ſlave to the worſt part of the world, to
the Court; and all his big words were the language of
2 ſlighted Lover, who deſired nothing ſo much as a
reconciliation, and feared nothing ſo much as a rup-
ture, I believe the world hath uſed me as feurvily as
molt people, and yet | could never find in my heart to be
thoroughly angry with the ſimple, falſe, capricious thing.
I ihould bluſh alike, to be diſcover'd-fond of the world,
or piqued at it, Your definition of Azimal Rationis
afax, inſtead of the common one Animal Rationale, will
not bear examination: define but Reaſon, and you will
ſee why your diſtinction is no better than that of the -
Pontiff Cotta; between mala ratio, and bona ratios But
euough of this ; make us a viſit, and III fubſcribe to any
Seneca.
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fide of theſe important queſtions which you pleaſe. We
differ leſs than you imagine, perhaps, when you wiſh'd
me baniſh'd again: but I am not leſs true to you and to \
Ee in England, than I was in France. a
Yours, etc. B. Fe
W.
— —-¼- — n
LETTER XV. \
From Dr. S WIr Tr. ot
to
London, May 4, 1726. dc
1 Had 4 live in forty Irelands than under the fre- h:
quent diſquiets of hearing you are out of order, I m
always apprehend it moſt after a great dinner; for the pl
leaſt Tranſgreſſion of yours, if it be only two bits h;
and one ſup more than your ſtint, is a great debauch; of
for which you certainly pay more than thoſe ſots who ſe
are carried dead drunk to bed. My Lord Peterborow he
ſpoiled every body's dinner, but eſpecially mine, with
telling us that you were detained by ſickneſs. Pray let
me have three lines under any hand or pot-hook that
will give me a better account of your health; which
concerns me more than others, becauſe I love and eſteem m
you for reaſons that moſt others have little to do with, fl
and would be the ſame although you had never touched ye
a pen, further than with writing to me. nc
I am gathering up my luggage, and preparing for ar
my journey; I will endeavour to think of you as little g
as I can, and when l write to you, I will ſtrive not to ol
think of you: This I intend to return to your kindneſs; th
and further, I know no body has dealt with me fo cruelly d
as you, the conſequences of which uſage I fear will lat WW. y:
as long as my life, for ſo long ſhall I be (in ſpite of my
heart) entirely yours,
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FROM Da. SWIFT, etc. 149
LETTER XVI.
Aug. 22, 1726.
N a ſhort ſigh you colt me the day I left you,
and many more you will coſt me, till the day you
return, I really walk'd about like a man baniſhed, and
when | came home found it no home, Iis a ſenſation
like that of a limb lopp'd off, one is trying every minute
rnavwares to uſe it, and finds it is not, I may ſay you
have uſed me more cruelly than you have done any
other man; you have made it more impoſſible for me
to live at eaſe without you: Habitude itſelf would have
done that, if I had leſs friendſhip in my nature than I
have. Deſides my natural memory of you, you have
made a local one, which preſents you to me in every
place I frequent ; I ſhall never more think of Lord Cob.
ham's, the woods of Ciceter, or the pleaſing proſpect
of Byberry, but your Idea muſt be joined with 'em ; nor
le? one ſeat in my own garden, or one room in my own
houſe, without a Phantom of you, ſitting or walking
before me. I travelled with you to Cheſter, I felt the
extreme heat of the weather, the inns, the roads, the
confinement and cloſeneſs of the uneaſy coach, and wiſh-
ed a hundred times I had either a Deanry or a horſe in
my gift, In real truth, I have felt my ſoul peeviſh ever
lince with all about me, from a warm uneaſy deſire after
you, I am gone out of myſelf to no purpoſe, and can-
not catch you. Iabiat in pedes was not more properly
applied to a poor dog after a hare, than to me with re-
gard to your departure. I wiſh I could think no more
of it, but lie down and ſleep till we meet again, and let
that day (how far ſoever off it be) be the morrggr.
dince [ cannot, may it be my amends that every thing
. You wiſh may attend you where you are, and that you
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may find every friend you have there, in the fate yoy
wiſh him, or her; ſo that your viſits to us may have no
other effect, than the progreſs of a rich man to x
remote eſtate, which he finds greater than he expected;
Which knowledge only ſerves to make bim live happier
where he is, with no diſagreeable proſpect if ever be
ſhould chuſe to remove. May this be yonr ſtate till it
become what I wiſh, But indeed I cannot expreſs the
warmth, with which I wiſh. you all things, and myſelf
you. Indeed you are jngraved elſewhere. than on the
Cups you ſent me, (with ſo kind an inſcription) and!
might throw them into the Thames without injury to
the giver. I am not pleay'd with them, but take then
very kindly too: And had I ſuſpected any ſuch uſage
from you, 1 ſhould have enjoyed your company leſi an
I really did, for at this rate I may ſay
Nee recum uin vier, nee fine * = 1 1.
1 will wing you over juſt ſuch 1 preſent; ba
I. go. to the Leanry of St. Pati ick s which 1 promiſe
you to do, if ever] am enabled to return your kindneſs,
Denarem Puteray, etc, Till then I'll drink (or Gay ſhall
drink). daily healths to you, and V1l add to yuur inſerip-
tion the old Roman Vow for years to come, VOTIS X.
VOTIS XX. My Mother's ige gives me * to
hope it for yours. Adieu.
A
vey WIE 5 * 9 — 5 —— — — a.. „ INIT
LETTER XVII.
Sept. 3, 1726.
7 Ours to Mr. Gay gave me greater ſatisſaction than
that to me (tho' that gave a great deal) for to hear
you were ſafe at your journey's end, exteeds the account
FROM Da. SWIFT, etc 151
of your fatigues while in the way to it: otherwiſe believe
me, every tittle of each is important to me, which ſets
ay one thing before my eyes that happens to you. 1
writ you a long letter, which. T gueſs reach d you the
day after your arrival.” Since then I had a confererice
with Sir - who expreſs d his defire of having ſeen
you again before you leſt us. He Taid he obſerved a
willingneſs in you to live among us; "which J did not
deny; but at the ſame time told him, you had no ſuch
deſign in your coming this time, which was merely to
ſee a few of thoſe you loved: but that indeed all thoſe
who wiſhed you loved Ireland leſs, had you any reaſon
to love England more. I ſaid nothing but what I think
would induce any man to be as fond of you as I, plain
Truth, did they know either it, or you. I can't help
thinking (when I conſider the whole ſhort Liſt of our
Nie friends) that none of them except you and I are quali-
yhen fy'd for the Mountains of Wales. The Dr. goes to
miſe Cards, Gay to Court; one loſes money, one loſes his
neſs, time: Another of our friends labours to be unambitious,
ſhall but he labours in an. unwilling foil. One Lady you like
crip- has too much of France to be fit for Wales: Another is
Þ * doo much a/ſubje to Princes and Potentates, to reliſh
y t0 that wild Taſte: of liberty and poverty. Mr. Congreve
15 too fick to bear a thin air; and ſhe that leads him too
rich to enjoy any thing. Lord Peterborow can go to
any climate, but never ſtay in any, Lord Bathurſt is
too great an huſbandman to like barren hills, except they
are his own to improve. Mr. Bethel indeed is too good
6. and too honeſt to live in the world, but yet 'tis fit, for
than in example, he ſhould. We are left to ourſelves in my
hear opinion, and may live where we pleaſe, in Wales,
Jun Dublin, or Bermudas: And for me, I aſſure you I love
the world ſo well, and it loves me ſo well, that I care
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not in what part of it I paſs the reſt of my days. I fte
no ſunſhine but in the face of a-friend.
J had a glympſe of a letter of yours lately, by which
I find you. are (like the vulgar) apter to think well of
people out of power, than of people in power; Perhaps
tis a miſtake, but howeyer there's ſomething in it ye
nerous. Mr, ®* * takes it extreme kindly, I can perceive,
and he has a great mind to thank you for that good
opinion, for which I believe he is only to thank his ill.
fortune: for if I am not in an error, he would rather be
in power than out.
To ſhew you how fit I am to live in the mountains,
will wich great truth apply to myſelf an old ſentence;
Thoſe that are in, may abide in; and thoſe that ar
* out, may abide out: yet to me, thoſe that are in
« ſhall be as thoſe that are Gy, and thoſe that are out
„ ſhall be as thoſe that are in.“
I am indifferent as to all thoſe matters, buel miſs you
as much as I did the firſt day, when (with a ſhort figh)
J parted. Wherever you are (or on che mountains of
Wales, or on the coaſt of Dublin, ©
Tu mi bi, ſeu magni ſuperas j jam faxa 3
Lide cram Ihrici legis aeguoris —)
I am; and ever ſhall be Yours, etc;
—
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IL. ET TER XVII.
Mr. Gay to Dr. SWI r.
Nov. 17, 1726.
Ares: ten 4% 290 a Book was publiſh'd here of the
Travels of one Gulliver, which hath been the con-
verſation of the whole town ever ſince: The whole im-
preſſi
than
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faid t
ſeller
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FROM Ds. SWIFT, etc. 153
preſion old in a week ; and nothing is more diverting
than to hear the different opmions' people give of it,
though all agree in liking it extremely. Tis generally
faid that you are the Author; but J am told, the Books
{eller declares he knows not from what hand it came.
From the higheſt to the loweſt it is univerſally read,
from the Cabinet- couneil to the Nurſery.” The Politi-
cians to a man agree, that it is free from particular re-
lections, but that the Satire on general ſocieties of men
is too ſevere. Not but we now and then meet with
people of greater perſpicuity, who are in ſearch for par-
ticular applications in every leaf; and "tis highly pro-
bable we ſhall have keys publiſh'd to give light into
Gulliver's deſign. Lord —— is the perſon who leaſt
zpproves it, blaming it as a deſign of evil conſequence
to depreciate human nature, at which it cannot be won-
dered that he takes moſt offence, being himſelf the
moſt accompliſh'd of his ſpecies, and ſo lofing' more
than any other of that praiſe which is due both to the
dignity and virtug of a man . © Your friend, my Lord
Harcourt, commends it very much, though he thinks in
lome places the matter too far carried. The Ducheſs
Dowager of Marlborough i is in raptures at it; ſhe ſays
ſhe can dream of nothing elſe ſince ſhe read it: ſhe de-
clares, that ſhe hath now found out, that her whole life
hath been loſt in careſſing the worlt part of mankind,
and treating the belt as her foes ; and that if ſhe knew
Gulliver, tho” he had been the worſt enemy ſhe ever
had, ſhe would give up her preſent acquaintance for
us friendſhip, You may ſee by this, that you are. not
* It is no wonder a man of worth ſhould condemn a ſatire on
his ſpecies 3 as it injures Virtue and violates Truth : And, as wn.
that a corrupt man ſhould approve it, becauſe it juſtifies his prin-
ples, and tends to excuſe his practice.
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much injur'd by being ſuppos'd the Author of this piece,
If you are, you have diſoblig*d us, and two or three
of your beſt friends, in not giving us the leaſt hint of
it while you were with us; and in particular Dr, Ar,
buthnot, who ſays it is ten thouſand pities he had not
known it, he could have added ſuch abundance of things
upon every ſubjet. Among Lady-critics, ſome have
found out that Mr. Gulliver had a particular malice to
Maids of honour. Thoſe of them who frequent the
Church, ſay, his deſign is impious, and that it is depre.
ciating the works of the Creator. Notwithſtanding, [
am told the Princeſs hath read it with great pleaſure.
As to other Critics, they think the flying iſland is the
leaſt entertaining; and ſo great an opinion the town
have of the impoſlibility of Gulliver's writing at al
below himſelf, tis agreed that part was not writ by the
ſame hand, tho* this hath its defenders too. It hath
paſs'd Lords and Commons, aemine contradicente; and
the whols town, men, women, and children are quite
full of it.
Perhaps 1 may all this time be tafking to you of :
Book you have never ſeen, and which hath not yet
reached Ireland; if it hath not, I believe what we have
ſaid will be ſufficient to-recommend it to your reading,
and that you will order me to ſend it to you,
But it will be much better to come over yourſelf, and
read it here, where you will have the pleaſure of
variety of Commentators, to explain the difficult paſſages
to you. N
We all rejoice that you have fix'd the preciſe time of
your coming to be cum hirundine prima; which we mo-
dern naturaliſts pronounce, ought to be reckon'd, contrary
t Pliny, in this northern latitude of fifty-two degrees,
from the end of February, Styl. Greg. at fartheſt, But
to us your friends, the coming of ſuck a black fallow
diſab
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2; you, will make a ſummer in the worſt of ſeaſons, We
are no leſs glad at your mention of Twickenham and
Dawley ; and in town you know you have a lodging at
Court.
The Princeſs is cloath'd in Iriſh filk ; pray give our
ſervice to the Weavers. We are ſtrangely ſurpriz d to
hear that the bells in Ireland fing without your money.
| hope you do not write the thing that is not. We are
afraid that B— hath been guilty of that crime, that you
(ke Honynhnm) have treated bim as a Yahoo, and
carded him your ſervice. I fear you do not underſtand
tieſe modiſh terms, which every creature now under-
lands but yourſelf, ©
You tell us your Wine is bad, and tht thi Clergy do
tology. The beſt advice we can give you is, to make
them a preſent or your Wine, and come away to
better.
You fancy we envy you, but you art miſtaken ; we
envy thoſe you are with, for we canndt t envy the man
ve love. Ae 182 ©
ä
LETTER X.
* 03 f . Nerz 9 1726
Tlie teile to chk: time ; and in ſpice of all miſ-
fortunes and demurs, Which ſickneſs, lameneſs, or
ſiſability of any kind can throw in my way, to write you
(a intervals) a Tong letter. My two leaft fingers of one
hand hang impediments to the others, like uſeleſs depen-
Gents, who only take up room, and never are active or
[ſtant to our wants: I ſhall never be much the better
for em—1 congratulate you firſt upon what you call your
coul wonderful Book, which is publics trita manu as
not frequent your houſe, which we look upon to be tau-
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preſent, and [ propheſy will be hereafter the admiratin
of all men. That countenance with which it is received
by ſome ſtateſmen, is delightful; I wiſh I could tell you
how every ſingle man looks upon it, to obſerve which ha
been my whole diverſion this fortnight. I've never been
a night in London ſince you left me, till now for thy
very end, and indeed it has fully anſwered my expett
tions.
I find no conſiderable man very angry at the bock:
ſome indeed think it rather too bold, and too general
"Satire : but none, that I hear of, accuſe it of particular
reflections (I mean no perſons of conſequence, or good
judgment; the mob of Critics, you know, always at
defirous to apply Satire to thoſe they envy for being
above them) ſo that you needed not to have been ſo ſecnt
upon this head. Motte received the cbpy (he tells me)
he knew not from whence, nor from whom, dropp'd a
his houſe in the dark, from a Hackney-coach : by con-
puting the time, I found it was after you left England
1o, for my part, I ſuſpend my judgment.
IJ. am pleas'd with the nature and quality of jou
Preſent to the Princeſs. The Iriſh ſtuff you ſent to Mr,
H. her R. H. laid hold of, and has made up for her out
uſe. Are you determined to be National in every thing
even in your civilities? you are the greateſt Politician i
Europe at this rate; but as you are a rational Politica
there's no great fear of you, you will never ſucceed.
Another thing, in which you have pleas'd me, v
what you ſay to Mr, P. by which it ſeems to meth
you value no man's civility above your own dignity,
your own reaſon, Surely, without flattery, you are u0#
above all parties of men, and it is high time to be ft
after twenty or thirty * obſervation of the gie
| world.
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I queſtion not, many men would be of your intimacy,
that you might be of their intereſt : But God forbid an
honeſt or witty man ſhould be of any, but that of bis
country, They have ſcoundrels enough to write. for
their paſſions and their deſigns : let us write for truth,
for honour, and for poſterity, If you muſt needs write
about Politics at all (but perhaps tis full as wiſe to play
the fool any other way) ſurely it ought to be ſo as to
preſerve the dignity and integrity of your character with
thoſe times to come, which will moſt impartially Judge
of you.
i wiſh you had writ to Lord Peterborow, no man is
more affectionate toward you. Don't fancy none but
Tories are your friends ; for at that rate I muſt be, at
moſt, but half your friend, and fincerely I am wholly fo,
Adieu, write often, and come foon, for many wiſh you
well, and all would be glad of your company.
—
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LETTER XX.
—
From Dr. Swiyr.
Dublin, Nov. 1 -, 1726.
12 juſt come from anſwering a Letter of Mrs. H—'
writ in ſuch myſtical terms, that I ſhould never have
found out the meaning, if a Book had not been ſent me
called Gulli ver's Travels, of which you fay ſo much in
yours. I read the Book over, and in the ſecond volume
obſerve ſeveral paſſages, which appear to be patch'd and
al:er'd “, and the ſtyle of a different ſort (unleſs I am
much miſtaken) Dr. Arbuthnot likes the Projectors leaſt +;
* This was the fact, which i is complained of and redreſſed in
the Dublin Edition of the Dean's works.
+ Becauſe he underſtood it to be intended as a. ſatire on the
Real Society,
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Others, . you tell me, the Flying iſland; ſome think it
wrong to be ſo hard upon whole bodies or Corporations,
yet the general opinion is, that reflections on particular
perſons are moſt to be blam'd: ſo that in theſe caſes, [
think the beſt method is to let cenſure and opinion take
their courſe. A Biſhop here ſaid, that book was full of
improbable lies, and for his part, he hardly believed a
word of it; and fo much for Gulliver.
Going to England is a very good thing, if it were not
attended with an ugly circumſtance of returning to Ire.
land. It is a ſhame you do not perſuade your Miniſters
to keep me on that fide, if it were but by a court ex-
pedient of keeping me in Priſon for a Plotter ; but at the
ſame time I muſt tell you, that ſuch journeys very much
ſhorten my life, for a month here is longer than fix at
. Twickenham.
How comes friend Gay ts be ſo tedious ? another man
can publiſh fifty thouſand Lies ſooner than he can fiſty
Fables.
- Tam, juſt going to perform a very good office, it is to
aſſiſt with the Archbiſhop, in degrading a Parſon who
couples all our beggars, by which I ſhall make one happy
man; and decide the great queſtion of an indelible cha-
racer in favour of the Principles in faſhion: this I hope
you will repreſent to the Miniftry in 1 —— as a point
of merit; ſo farewell till I retuu n.
l am come back, and have deprived the pd who by
a law here is to be hanged the next couple he marries:
he declared to us that he reſolved to be hanged, only
deſired that when he was to go to the gallows, the Arch-
biſhop would take off his Excommuniecation. Is not hea
good Catholic? and yet he is but a Scotchman. This
is the only Iriſh event I ever troubled you with, and I
think it deſerves notice. — Let me add, that, if I were
Gulliver's friend, I would. defire all my acquaintance to
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FROM Da. s WI T. etc. 159
zire out that his copy was baſely mangled, and abuſed,
and added to, and blotted out by the Printer; for ſo to
me it ſeems, in the ſecond volume particularly.
Adieu.
LETTER XXI.
From Dr. Swiy r.
December 5, 1726,
Believe the hurt in your hand affects me more than it
does yourſelf, and with reaſon, becauſe I may pro-
bably be a greater loſer by it. What have Accidents to
do with thoſe who are neither jockeys, nor fox-hunters,
nor bullies, nor drunkards? And yet a raſcally Groom
ſhall gallop a foundered horſe ten miles upon a cauſeway,
aud get home fafe.
I am very much pleas'd that you approve what was
ſent, becauſe I remember to have heard a great man
fay, that nothing required more judgment than making
a preſent ; which, when it is done to thoſe of high rank,
ought to be of ſomething that is not readily got for mo-
ney. You oblige me, and at the ſame time do me juſtice
in what you obſerve as to Mr, P. Beſides, it is too late
in life for me to act otherwiſe, and therefore I follow a
very eaſy road to virtue, and purchaſe it cheap. If you
will give me teave to join us, is not your life and mine
a ſtate of power, and dependance a ſtate of ſlavery ? We
care not three pence whether a Prince or Miniſter will
lee us or no: We are not afraid of having ill offices done
us, nor at the trouble of guarding our words for fear of
giving offence. | I do agree that Riches are Liberty, but
then we are to put into the balance how long our ap-
prenticeſhip is to laſt in acquiring them.
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166 LETTERS TO AND
Since you have receiv'd the verſes, I moſt eameſtly
intreat you to burn thoſe which you do not approve,
and in thoſe few where you may not diſlike ſome parts,
blot out the reit, and ſometimes (tho' it be againſt the
lazineſs of your nature) be ſo kind to make a few cor.
rections, if the matter will bear them. I have ſome fey
of thoſe things J call Thoughts moral and diverting; if
you pleaſe, I will ſend the belt I can pick from them, to
add to the new volume. I have reafon to chuſe the
method you mention of mixing the ſeveral verſes, and [
hope thereby among the bad Critics to be entitled to
more merit than is my due. :
This moment I am ſo happy to have a letter from my
Lord Peterborow, for which I intreat you will preſent
him with my humble reſpects and thanks, tho he all. to-
be-Gullivers me by very ſtrong inſinuations. Though
you deſpiſe Riddles, I am firongly tempted to ſend a
parcel to be printed by themſelves, and make a nine-
penny jobb for the bookſeller, There are ſome of my
own, wherein I exceed mankind, Mira Poemata! the
molt, ſolemn that were ever ſeen; and ſome . writ by
others, admirable indeed, but far inferior to mine; but!
will not praiſe myſelf. You approve that writer who
laughs and makes others laugh ; but why ſhould I who
hate the world, or you who do not love it, make it ſo
happy? therefore I reſolve from henceforth to handle
only ſerious ſubjects, 21% guid tu, docte Trebati, di.
<entis, 4 4
Yours, etc»
FROM Ds. SWIFT, ete. 161
LETTER XXII.
March 8, 1726-7.
Me. Stopford will be the bearer of this letter, for
whoſe acquaintance I am, among many other fa-
yours, obliged to you: and I think the acquaintance of ſo
valuable, ingenious, and unaffected a man, to be none of
the leaſt obligations,
Our Miſcellany is now quite printed, I am prodigi-
cally pleaſed with this joint- volume, in which methinks
we look like friends, fide by fide, ſerjous and merry by
turns, converſing interchangeably, and walking down
hand in hand to poſterity : not in the ſtiff forms of
learned Authors, flattering each other, and ſetting the
reſt of mankind at nought ; but in a free, unimportanf,
natural, eaſy manner; diverting others juſt as we diverted
ourſelves. The third volume conſiſts of Verſes, but
I would chuſe to print none but ſuch as have ſome pecu-
larity, and may be diſtinguiſh'd for ours, from other
writeis, There's no end of making Books, Solomon
ſaid, and above all of making Miſcellanies, which al
men can make. For unleſs there be a character in every
piece, like the mark of the ele, I ſhould not care to be
one of the Twelve · thouſand ſigned, _
You receiv'd,.I hope, ſome commendatory verſes from
a Horſe and a Lilliputian, to Gulliver; and an heroic
Epiſtle of Mrs. Gulliver. The bookſeller would fain have
printed em before the ſecond Edition of the Book, but
| would not permit it without your approbation: nor da
Imuch like them. You ſee how much like a Poet Iwrite,
and yet if you were with us, you'd be deep in Politics,
feople are very warm, and very angry, very little to the
purpoſe, but therefore the more warm and the more an-
Wy: Nen 1 rum eft, Tantas componere ſiles. 1 ſtay at
162 LETTERS TO AND
Twitnam, without ſo much as reading news-paper,
votes, or any other paltry Pamphlets : Mr. Stopforg
will carry you a whole parcel of them, which are fen
for your diverſion, but not imitation. For my oy
part, methinks I am at Glubdubdrib with none but an.
cients and ſpirits about me.
I am rather better than J uſe to be at this ſeaſon, but d he
my hand (though, as you ſee, it has not loſt its cunning) I ries
is frequently in very aukward ſenſations, rather than pain, Wl er
But to convince you it is pretty well, it has done fone ine
miſchief already, and juſt been ſtrong enough to cut the Wi ive,
other hand, while it was aiming to prune a fruit: an'
tree. the |
Lady Bolingbroke has writ you a long, lively letter, be,
which will attend this ; ſhe has very bad health, he very nac
good. Lord Peterborow has writ twice to you; we fancy unt!
ſome letters have been intercepted, or loſt by accident. far
About ten thouſand things I want to tell you; I i land
you were as impatient to hear them, for if ſo, you would, er
you muſt come early this ſpring. Adieu. Let me have aut
a line from you. I am vex'd at loſing Mr. Stopford a bett
' ſoon as I knew him: but I thank God I have know Wn:
him no longer. If every man one begins to value mult i
ſettle in Ireland, pray make me know no more of en, n
and I forgive you this one. | jou 1
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LETTER XX.
oy 2 jog, 5d Ot. 2, 1727
JT is bete role to me to write 10 yoo and yu
kind letter left for me at Mr. Gay's affected me ©
much, that it made me like a girl. I can't tell what
ſay to you; I only feel that I wiſh you well in ev
FROM Da. SWIFT, etc, 18;
rcumſtance of life; that tis almoſt as good to be hated
to be loved, conſidering the pain it is to minds of
uy tender turn, to find themſelves ſo utterly impotent
to do any good, or give any eaſe to thoſe who deſerve
noſt from us. I would very fain know, as ſoon as you
recover your complaints, or any part of them. Would
to God I could eaſe any of them, or had been able even
to have alleviated any! I found I was not, and truly it
nieved me. I was forty to find you could think your-
{lf eaſier in any houſe than in mine, tho? at the ſame
ine | can allow for a"tendernefs in your way of think-
ut the ag; even when it ſeem'd to want that tenderneſs. I
fruit UM can't explain my meaving, perhaps you know it: But
tte beſt way of convincing you of my indulgence, will
letter, b, if I live, to viſit you in Ireland, and act there as
e ven Inch in my own way as you did here in yours, I will
wt leave your roof, if I am ill. To your bad health I
cident. bar there was added ſome diſagreeable news from Ire-
I with Bind, which might occaſion your fo ſudden departure:
would, or the laſt time I faw you, you aſſured me you would
je have t leave us this whole winter, unleſs your health grew
better, and I don't find it did ſo. I neyer comply d fo
uwnillingly in my life with any friend as with you, in
lying ſo entirely from you: nor could I have had the
altancy to do it, if you had not promiſed that before
jou went, we ſhould meet, and you would ſend. to us
lto come, I have given your remembrances to. thoſe
Ju mention in yours: we are quite ſorry for you, I
dean for ourſelves. , I hope, as you do, that we ſhall
det in a more durable and more ſatisfactory ſtate; but
e leſs ſure I am of that, the more I would indulge it in
Is. We are to belieye, we ſhall have ſomething bet-
ft than even a friend, there, but certainly here we have
Ming ſo good. Adieu for this e may you find
whe |} | 10 4
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every friend you go to as pleas'd and happy, as erey
friend you went from is ſorry and troubled.
| 42 Yours, etc,
*
1 "= "WP" T _ 1 4 * DO *
_— Wy 2 —— —
LETTER XXIV,
ty
From Dr. Swir r.
, Dublin, OR. 12, 1727,
I Have been long reaſoning with myſelf upon the cot-
dition I am in, and in concluſion have thought it
beſt to return to what fortune hath made my home;
have there a large houſe; and ſervants and convenienci
about me. I may be worſe than I am, and I have 6
where to retire. I therefore thought it beſt to return tt
Ireland, rather than go to any diſtant place in England
Here is my maintenance, and here my convenience
If it pleaſes God to reſtore me to my health, I ſhall
readily make a third journey; if not, we muſt part a
all human creatures have parted, You are the belt ant
kindeſt friend in the world, and I know nobody alivg
or dead to whom I am ſo much obliged; and if era
you made me angry, it was for your too much cat
about me. I have often wiſhed that God Aimigh
would be ſo eaſy to the weakneſs of mankind, as to |
old friends be acquainted in another ſtate; and if
were to wiite an Utopia for heaven, that would d
one of my ſchemes, This wildneſs you mult allow for
becauſe I am giddy and deaf,
I find it more convenient to be ſick here, witho
the vexation of making my friends uneaſy ; yet u
giddineſs alone would not have done, if that unſociab
comfortleſs deafneſs had not quite tired me. And I
lieve I ſhould have returned from the Inn, if J had v
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feared it was only a ſhort intermiſſion, and the year was
ate, and my licence expiring. Surely beſides all other
faults, I ſhould be a very ill judge, to doubt your
fiendſhip and kindneſs. But it hath pleaſed God that
you are not in a' ſtate of health, to be mortified with
the care and ſickneſs of a friend. Two fick friends
never did well together; ſuch an office is fitter for ſer-
rants and humble companions, to whom it is wholly
ndiferent whether we give them trouble or no. The
ak would be quite otherwiſe if you were with me;
you could refuſe to ſee any body, and here is a large
houſe, where we need not hear each other if we were
both fick. I have a-race of orderly elderly people of
do ſexes at command, who are of no conſequence, -
ud have gifts propet for attending us; who can bawl
ven I am deaf, and tread ſoftly when I am only giddy
ad would ſleep. |
| had another reaſon for my haſte hither, which was
canging my Agent, the old one having terribly involved
ly little affairs: to which however I am grown ſo in-
lferent, that I believe I ſhall loſe two or three hundred
pounds rather than plague myſelf with accounts ; fo
lat I am very well qualified to be a Lord, and put into
ter Walter's hands.
Pray God continue and increaſe Mr. Congreve's
mendment, though he does not deſerve it like you,
Paving been too laviſh of that health which Nature gave
in fora |
| hope my Whitehall-landlord is nearer to a place
* when I left him; as the Preacher ſaid, © the day
4 Judgment was nearer, than ever it had been be-
ore.“
: ray God ſend you health, det ſalutem, det ofes ;
"man aequam tibi ipſe parabis. You ſee Horace wiſh-
« for money, as well as health ; and I would hold a
166 LETTERS TO AND
erown he kept a coach ; and I ſhall never be a friend ta
the Court, till you do ſo too.
| Yours, etc,
— _——_—
LETTER XXV.
—
nn.
From Dr. S wirr.
| OA. 3o, 172).
HE firſt letter I writ after my landing was to Mr,
Gay ; but it would have been wiſer to dire& it
to Tonſon or Lintot, to whom I believe his lodgings
are better known than to the runners of the Poſt-office,
In that letter you will find what a quick change I made
in ſeven days from London to the Deanry, thro! many
nations and languages unknown to the civilized world,
And I have often reflected in how few hours, with a
ſwift horſe or a ſtrong gale, a man may come among a
people as unknown to him as the Antipodes. If I did
not know you more by your converſation and kindneſs
than by your letter, I might be baſe enough to ſuſpeſt,
that in point of friendſhip you acted like ſome Philo-
ſophers who writ much better upon Virtue than they
practiſed it. In anſwer, I can only ſwear that you
have taught me to dream, which I had not done in
twelve years further than by inexpreſſible nonſenſe;
but now I can every night diſtinctly ſee Twickenham,
and the Grotto, and Dawley, and many other et cetera“,
and it is but three nights ſince I beat Mrs. Pope. |!
muſt needs confeſs, that the pleaſure I take in thinking
of you is very much leſſened by the pain I am in about
your health : You pay dearly for the great talents God
hath given you; and for the conſequences of them in
the eſteem and diſtinction you receive from mankind,
FROM Da. SWIFT, etc. 167
inleſs you can provide a tolerable ſtock of health; in
vhich purfuit I cannot much commend your conduct,
hat rather intreat you would mend it by following the
ta
. rice of my Lord Bolingbroke and your other Phyſi-
cans, When you talk'd to me of Cups and Impreſſions,
— Wi came into my head to imitate you in quoting Scrip-
ure, not to your advantage; I mean what was ſaid to
David by one of his brothers: © I knew thy pride and
" the naughtineſs of thy heart;” I remember when it ©
rived your ſoul to ſee me pay a penny more than my
27. dub at an inn, when you had maintained me three
> Mr. N anche at bed and board ; for which if I had dealt with
rect it BW in the Smithfield way, it would have coſt me a
gn lundred pounds, for I live worſe here upon more. Did
nal, YE conſider that I am for life almoſt twice as rich
8 you, and pay no rent, and drink French wine twice
1 v cheap as you do Port, and have neither Coach, Chair,
= or Mother? As to the world, I think you ought to
* lay to it with St. Paul, IF Te have fown unto you fpiri=
＋* a tul things, is it a great thing if we ſhall reap your car-
* ul thing? This is more proper ſtill, if you conſider
falpe, e French word Spiritual, in which ſenſe the world
| Phill- uoht to pay you better than they do. If you made
* they de a preſent of a thouſand pounds I would not allow
ind yl: to be in your debt; and if I made you a preſent
* No, I would not allow myſelf to be out of it. But
N lave not half your pride : witneſs what Mr. Gay ſays
ubm, tis letter, that I was cenſured for begging Preſents,
m Woh I limited them to ten ſhillings. I ſee no rea-
News. u, (at leaſt my friendſhip and vanity ſee none) why
hinking au ſhould not give me a viſit, when you ſhall happen
. de diſengaged : I will ſend a perſon to Cheſter to take
ats Gol il © of you, and you ſhall be uſed, by the beſt folks we
hem in” here, as well as civility and good-nature can con-
ankind, Ne; I believe local motion will be no ill phyſic, and
166 LETTERS TO AND:
I will have your coming inſcribed on my Tomb, and
recorded in never-dying verſe.
I thank Mrs, Pope for her prayers, but 1 know the
myſtery. A perſon of my acquaintance, who uſed to
correſpond with the laſt Great Duke of Tuſcany, ſhey-
ing one of the Duke's letters to a friend, and profeſſing
great ſenſe of his Highneſs's friendſhip, read this pal-
ſage out of the letters, I would give one of my fingers u
procure your real good, The perſon to whom this was
read, and who knew the Duke well, ſaid, the mean-
ing of rea/ good was only that the other might turn a
good Catholic. Pray aſk Mrs. Pope whether this flory
is applicable to her and me? I pray God bleſs her,
for I am ſure ſhe is a good Chriſtian, and (which is al-
moſt as rare) a good Woman.
Adieu.
—
LETTER XXVI.
Mr. GA x to Dr. S wir r.
Oct. 22, 1727.
ern Queen's family i is at laſt ſettled, and in the lil
I was appointed — to the Princes
Lauiſa, the youngeſt Princeſs; which, upon account that
I am ſo far advanced in life, I have declin'd accepting;
and have endeavour'd, in the beſt manner I cou! d
make my excuſes by a letter to her Majeſty. So now al
my expectations are vaniſh'd ; and I have no proſpe,
but in depending wholly upon myſelf, and my o
conduct. As I am us'd to diſappointments, I can veil
them; but as I can have no more hopes, I can 10
more be diſappointed, ſo that I am in a bleſſed condition
— You remember you were adviſing me to go ind
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Newgate to finiſh my ſcenes the more correctly — I now
think I hall, for I have no attendance to hinder me;
bat my Opera is already finiſh'd. I leave the reſt of
this paper to Mr. Pope. n e
Gay is a Free-man, and I writ him a long Cone
tory Letter upon it. Do you the ſame : It will mend
hin, and make him a better man than a Court could do.
Horace might keep his coach in Auguſtus's time, if he
pleas'd ; but I won't in the time of our Auguſtus, My
Poem (which it grieves me that I dare not ſend you a
copy of, for fear of the Curls and Dennis's of Ireland,
and ftill more for fear of the worſt of Traytors, our
Friends and Admirers) my Poem, I ſay, will ew what
diſtinguiſhing age we lived in: Your name is in it,
with ſome others, under a mark of ſuch ignominy as
you will not much grieve to wear in that company.
Adicu, and God bleſs you, and give you health and
ſpirits,
Whether thou chuſe Cervantes ſerious air,
Or laugh and ſhake in Rab'laisr eaſy chair,
Or in the graver Gown inſtruct mankind,
Or, filent, let thy morals tell thy mind.
Theſe two verſes are over and above what I've aid of
jou in the Poem. Adieu.
Vor. VI. 1
170 LETTERS TO AND
LETTER XXVII..
Dr. SWIFT to Mr. Gay.
Dublin, Nov, 23, 1729,
1 Entirely approve your refuſal of that employment, and
your writing to the Queen. I am perfectly confident
you have a keen enemy in the Miniſtry. God forgive hin,
but not till he puts himſelf in a ſtate to be forgiven. U pot
reaſoning with myſelf, I ſhould hope they are gone too
far to diſcard you quite, and that they will give you fone-
thing; which, although much leſs than they ought, vil
be (as far as it is worth) better circumſtantiated: And
ſince you already juſt live, a middling help will make
you juſt tolerable. Your lateneſs in life (as you fo ſoon
call it) might be improper to begin the world with, but
almoſt the eldeſt men may hope to ſee Changes in 1
Court. A Miniſter is always ſeventy : You are thirty
| years younger; and conſider, Cromwell himſelf did nd
begin to appear till he was older than you, I beg you
will be thrifty, and learn to value a ſhilling, which Dr.
Birch ſaid was a ſerious thing. Get a ſtronger fence
about your 1000 l. and throw the inner fence into tie
heap, and be adviſed by your Twickenham landlord
and me about an annuity. You are the moſt refraQtory
honeſt, good-natur'd man I ever have known; I could
argue out this paper — I am very glad your Opera»
finiſhed, and hope your friends will join the readier t
make it ſucceed, becauſe you are ill-uſed by others.
I have known Courts theſe thirty-ſix years, and ko-
they differ ; but in ſome things they are extremely cos
ſtant: Firſt, in the trite old maxim of a miniſter's nete
forgiving thoſe he hath injured: Secondly, i in the inſit
cerity of thoſe who would be thought the beſt friends:
Thirdly, in the love of fawning, cringing, and tb
FROM Di. SWIFT, ete. 171
wearing : Fourthly, in ſacrificing thoſe whom we really
wiſh well, to a point of intereſt, or intrigue : Fifthly,
in keeping every thing worth taking, for thoſe who can
o ſervice or diſ-ſervice. | 11
Now why does not Pope publiſh his Dulneſs? the
ozues he marks will die of themſelves in peace, and
go will his friends, and ſo there will be neither puniſh -
nent nor reward. — Pray enquire how my Lord St.
ſokn does? there's no man's health in England I am
more concerned about than his. — I wonder whether
you begin to taſte the pleaſure of independency ? or
whether you do not ſometimes leer upon the Court,
ule retorto ? Will you not think of an Annuity, when
you are two years older, and have doubled your purchaſe-
noney? Have you dedicated your Opera, and got the
dual dedication-fee of twenty guineas ? How is the
Doctor? does he not chide that you never called upon
lim for hints? Is my Lord Bolingbroke at the moment
[am writing, a planter, a philoſopher, or a writer? Ts
Mr, Pultney in expectation of a ſon, or my Lord Oxford
«a new old Manuſcript ? |
bought your Opera to-day for ſix-pence, a curſed
print, I find there is neither dedication nor preface,
doth which wants I approve ; it is in the grand gout,
We are as full of it pro modulo noſtro as London can be
continually acting, and houſes cramm'd, and the Lord
Lieutenant ſeveral times there laughing his heart out.
did not underſtand that the ſcene of Lockit and
Frachum's quarrel was an imitation of one between
Brutus and Caſſius, till I was told it. I wiſh Mac-
teath, when he was going to be hang'd, had imitated
Alexander the Great when he was dying : I would have
bad his fellow-rogues defire his commands about a Suc-
ceſſor, and he to anſwer, Let it be the moſt worthy,
eie. We hear a million of ſtories about the Opera, of
L 2
1758 LETTERS TO AND
the applauſe at the ſong, That was levell'd at me, when
two great Miniſters were in a box together, and all the
world ſtaring at them. I am heartily glad your Oper;
hath mended your purſe, though perhaps it may ſpoil 0
your court. | | |
Will you deſire my Lord Bolingbroke, Mr. Pultney, vin k
and Mr, Pope, to command you to buy an annuity with Wl befor
two thouſand pounds? that you may laugh at courts, at D.
and bid Miniſters —— ; fouri
Ever preſerve ſome ſpice of the Alderman, and pre- + no
pare againſt Age, and Dulneſs, and Sickneſs, and Cold. WM fnile;
neſs or Death of Friends. A Whore has a reſource left, WM vill :
that ſhe can turn bawd ; but an old decay'd Poet is a piece
creature abandon'd, and at mercy, when he can find Ih
none. Get me likewiſe Polly's Meſſotinto. Lord, how WW whic
the ſchool-boys at Weſtminſter , and Univerſity-lads your
adore you at this junfture! Have you made as many WE Dub]
men laugh, as Miniſters can make weep ? give
Il will excuſe Sir — the trouble of a letter: When dete
Ambaſſadors came from Troy to condole with Tiberius WM ig
upon the death of his Nephew, -after two years; the
Emperor anſwered, that he likewiſe condoled with them WW evil)
for the untimely death of Hector. I always loved and mm.
reſpected him very much, and do ſtill as much as ever ; WW 4eve
and it is a return ſufficient, if he pleaſes to accept-tlc dawn
offers of my moſt humble ſervice, - |
The Beggar's Opera hath knock'd down Gulliver; 1 word
hope to ſee Pope's Dulneſs knock down the Beggars WW farm
Opera, but not till it hath fully done its jobd. have
Io expoſe vice, and make people laugh with inno- Phra
. cence, does more public ſervice than all the Miniſters WW it an
of ſtate from Adam to Walpole, and ſo adieu. me þ
FROM Da. SWI F T, ets 173
L ET T. B N AMI.
Lord Bo LIN GBROEKEH to Dr. S wirr.
OP E charges himſelf with this letter; he has been
here two days, he is now hurrying to London, he
will hurry back to Twickenham in two days more, and
defore the end of the week he will be, for ought I know,
at Dublin. In the mean time his Dulne grows and
flouriſhes as if he was there already. It will indeed be
a noble work : the many will ſtare at it, the few will
ſmile, and all his Patrons from BickerſtaF to Gulliver
will rejoice, to ſee themſelves adorn'd in that immortal
piece. X | |
I hear that you have had ſome return of your illneſs
which carried you fo ſuddenly from us (if indeed it was
your own illneſs which made you in fuch haſte to be at
Dublin.) Dear Swift, take care of your health, I'It
give you a receipt for it, à la Montagne, or which is
better, a la Bruyere. Nourifſer bien witre corps; ne le
faliguer jamais: laifſer rouiller Piſprit, meuble inutil, voire
outtl dangereux : Laifſer ſonner vos cloches le matin pour
eveiller les chanoines, et pour faire dormir le Doyen d'un
fommeil doux et profond, gus Iny procure de beaux ſonges :
lever vous tard, et aller & I Egliſe, pour vous faire payer
d avvir bien dormi et bien dejunte. As to myſelf (a perſon
about whom I coneern myſelf very little) I muſt ſay a
word or two out of complaiſance to you. I am in my
farm, and here I ſhoot ſtrong and tenacious roots; I
have caught hold of the earth (to uſe a Gardener's
phraſe) and neither my enemies nor my friends will find
t an eaſy matter to tranſplant me again. Adieu. Let
me hear from you, at leaſt of you: I love you for 2
* The Dunciad..
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thouſand things, for none more than for the juſt eſteen
and love which you have for all the fons of Adam,
membe
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thither,
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P. 8. According to Lord Bolingbroke's account I ſhal
be at Dublin in three days. I cannot help adding
word, to deſire you to expect my ſoul there with you by
that time; but as for the jade of a body that is tack'
to it, I fear there will be no dragging it after. I aſſux
you I have few friends here to detain me, and no powers
ful one at Court abſolutely to forbid my journey. In
told the Gynocracy are of opinion, that they want ng Mr.
better writers than Cibber and the Britiſh journaliſt; aunnin
that we may live at quiet, and apply ourſelves to out $0 he
more abſtruſe ſtudies. The only Courtiers I know, he'll {
have the honour to call my friends, are John Gay and Shall r
Mr, Bowry ; the former is at preſent ſo employed i live? |
the elevated airs of his Opera, and the latter in the en this fic
altation of his high dignity (that of her Majeſty's Wat, This!
man) that I can ſcarce obtain a categorical. anſwer, fron bitiou
either to any thing I ſay to em. But the Opera ſucceeq they \
extremely, to yours and my extreme ſatis faction, d books
which he promiſes this poſt to give you a full account, Let, [
I have been in a worſe condition of health than eres Court
and think my immo tality i is very near out of my enjoj- Scribl
ment: ſo it muſt be in you, and. in poſterity, to male Dulne
me what amends you can for dying young. Adler by a 1
While I am, 1 am yours. Pray love me, and take cat neſt o
of yourſelf. | when
At
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LETTER XXIX. —
our P
March 23, 17278. rable
I Send you a very odd thing, a paper printed in Boſton al :
in New-England, Wherein you'll find a real perſon, a
FROM Da. SWIFT, etc, 175
wember of their Parliament, of the name of Jonathan
»alliver. If the fame of that Traveller has travelPd
thither, it has travell'd very quick, to have folks
\riſten'd already by the name of the ſuppoſed Author.
But if you object, that no child ſo lately chriſten'd
could be arrived at years of maturity to be elected into
Parliament, I reply (to ſolve the Riddle) that the perſon
is an Anabaptiſt, and not chriſten'd till full age, which
1
e all right. However it be, the accident is very fingu-
In lar, that theſe two names ſhould be united.
Mr. Gay's Opera has been acted near forty days
i raning, and will certainly continue the whole ſeaſon.
ono he has more than a fence about his thouſand pound:
„ bell ſoon be thinking of a fence about his two thouſand,
„ sball no one of us live as we would with each other to
ed a lire? Shall he have no annuity, you no ſettlement on
» ex. this fide, and I no proſpect of getting to you on the other?
ater, This world is made for Cæſar —as Cato ſaid, for am-
fron WY ditions, falſe, or flattering people to domineer in: Nay
deen they would not, by their good will, leave us our very
5, 0 books, thoughts, or words, in quiet. I deſpiſe the world
un, et, I affure you, more than either Gay or you, and the
eren Court more than all the reſt of the world. As for thoſe
njoy deriblers for whom you apprehend I would ſuppreſs my
nat BY DIV (which by the way, for the future, you are to call
den by a more pompous name, The Dunciad) how much that
can Welt of Hornets are my regard, will eaſily appear to you
when you read the Treatiſe of the Bathos,
At all adventures, yours and my name ſhall ſtand link.
ed as friends to poſterity, both in verſe and proſe, and (as
Tully calls it) in conſuetudine Studiorum. Would to God
our Perſons could but as well, and as ſurely be inſepa-
g. rable! I find my other Tyes dropping from me: ſome
ton Worn off, ſome torn off, others relaxing daily: My
o, af £*=telt, both by duty, gratitude, and humanity, Time is
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ſhaking every moment, and it now hangs but by a thread!
I am many years the older, for living ſo much with ons
Jo old; much the more helpleſs, for having been ſo los
help'd and tended by her; much the more confideray
and tender, for a daily commerce with one who requir{
me juſtly to be both to her; and. conſequently the mon
melancholy and thoughtful; and the leſs fit for other,
who want only in a companion or a friend, to be amuſe
or entertained, My conſtitution too has had its ſhare of
decay, as well as my ſpirits, and I am as much in the
decline at forty as you at ſixty. I believe we ſhall be it
to live together, cou'd I get a little more health, which
might make me not quite inſupportable : Your Deafnel
wou'd agree with my Dulneſs ; you would not want me
to ſpeak when you could not hear. But God forbid jc
ſhou'd be as deſtitute of the ſocial comforts of life, u!
muſt when J loſe my mother; or that ever you ſhou'dlok
your more uſeful acquaintance ſo utterly, as to turn your
thoughts to ſuch a broken reed as I am, who could ſo il
ſupply your wants, I am extremely troubled at the
returns of your deafneſs ; you cannot be too particular in
the accounts of your health to me; every thing you c
or ſay in this kind obliges me, nay, delights me, to ſee
the juſtice you do me in thinking me concern d in al
your concerns ; ſo that though the pleaſantelt thing you
can tell me be that you are better or eaſier ; next to that
it pleaſes me, that you make me the perſon you would
. complain to.
As the obtaining the love of valuable men 1s the hap-
pieſt end I know of this life, ſo the next felicity is to g
rid of fools and ſcoundrels ; which I can't but own to you
was one part of my deſign in falling upon theſe Authors,
whoſe incapacity is not greater than their ipfincerity,
and of whom ] have always found (if I may quote mi.
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That each bad Author is as bad a Friend.
This Poem will rid me of thoſe inſeRs,
Cedite, Romani Scriptores, erdite, Graii;
Neſcio quid majus naſcitur Iliadt.
I mean than wy ad; and Leal it Noce quid, which is
a degree of modeſty ; but however if it filence theſe
fellows ®, it: muſt. be ſomething. greater than any Lad in
Chriſtendom.
Adieu.
*
LITT [IL
From Dr. Swirr.
Dablin; May 10, 1728.
Have witk great pleaſure ſhewn the New-England
News-paper with the two names Jonathan Gulliver,
and I remember Mr, Forteſcue ſent you an account from
the aſſizes, of one Lemuel Gulliver who had a Cauſe
there, and loſt it on his ill reputation of being a liar.
Theſe are not the only obſervations I have made upon
odd ſtrange accidents in trifles, which in things of great
importance would have been matter for hiſtorians, Mr.
Gay's Opera hath been acted here twenty times, and my
Lord Lieutenant tells me, it is very well perfornyd ; he-
hath ſeen it often, and approves it much.
You give a moſt melancholy account of yourſelf, and
which 1 do not approve. I reckon that a man ſubjeR.
like us to bodily infirmities, ſhould only occaſionally
converſe with great people, notwithſtanding all their good
n did in a little time, effectually ſilence them.
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qualities; eaſineſſes, and kindneſſes. There is another
race which I prefer before them, as Beef and Mutton for
conſtant diet before Partridges: I mean a middle kind
both for underſtanding and fortune, who are perfect)
eaſy, never imperiinent, complying in every thing, ready
to do a hundred little offices that you and I may often want,
who dine and fit with me five times for once that I go
to them, and whom I can tell without offence, that I am
otherwiſe engaged at preſent. This you cannot exped
from any of thoſe that either you or I or both are ac-
quainted with on your fide ; who are only fit for our
healthy ſeaſons, and have much buſineſs of their own,
Gad forbid I ſhould condemn you to Ireland Duanquan |
O) and for England I deſpair; and indeed a change
of affairs would come too late at my ſeaſon of life, and Or
might probably produce nothing on my. behalf. You
have kept Mrs. Pope longer, and have had her care be. thi
yond what from nature you could expect; not but her aff
loſs will be very ſenſible, whenever it ſhall happen. (0
ſay one thing, that both ſummers and winters are milder W
here than with you; all things for life in general better thi
fox a middling fortune: you will have an abſolute com- m.
mand of your company, with whatever obſequiouſneh oa
or freedom you may expect or allow. I have an elderly {er
houſe-keeper, who hath been my W-/-/e above thirty of
- years, whenever I liv'd in this kingdom. I have the W
command of one or two villas near this town : You have ra
a warm apartment in this houſe, and two gardens for di
amuſement. I have ſaid enough, yet not half. Except fr
abſence from friends, I confeſs freely that I have no dil. at
content at living here; beſides what arifes from a filly tc
ſpirit of Liberty, which as it neither ſours my drink, not 10
hurts my meat, nor ſpoils my ſtomach farther than in v
imagination, fo I reſolve to throw it off. L
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You talk of this Dunciad, but I am impatient to have
it vo/are per ara there is now a vacancy for fame; the
Beggar's Opera hath done its talk, diſcedit uti convive
ah Adieu.
K **
LETTER XXXI.
From Dr. SWIy r.
June 1, 1728.
Look upon my Lord Bolibgbroke and us two, as a
culiar Triumvirate, who have nothing to expect, or
to fear; and ſo far fitteſt to converſe with one another:
Only he and I are a little ſubje c to-ſchemes, and one of
us (1 won't ſay which) upon very weak appearances, and
this you have nothing to do with. I do profeſs without
affectation, that your kind opinion of me as a Patriot
(fince you call it ſo) is what I do not deſerve; becauſe
what I do is owing to perfect rage and reſentment, and
the mortifyiag fight of ſlavery, folly and baſeneſs about
me, among which I'm forc'd to live. And Iwill take my
oath that you have more Virtue in an hour, than I in
ſeven years; for you deſpiſe the follies, and hate the vices
ef mankind, without the leaſt ill effect on your temper ;
with regard to particular men, you are inclined always
rather to think the better, whereas with me it is always
directly contrary, I hope however, this is not in you
from a ſuperior principle of virtue, but from your ſitu-
ation, which hath made all parties and intereſts indifferent
to you, who can be under no concern about high and
low-Charch, Whig and Tory, or who is firſt Miniſter —
Your long letter was the laſt I received till this by Dr.
Delany, although you mention another ſince. The Dn.
1 &
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told me your ſecret about the Dunciad, which does not
pleaſe me, becauſe it defers gratifying my vanity in the
moſt tender point, and perhaps may wholly difappoint it,
As to one of your enquiries, I am eaſy enough in great
matters, and have a thouſand paltry vexations in my little
ſtation, and the more contemptible, the more vexatious.
There might be a Lutrin writ upon the tricks uſed by my
Chapter to teize me. I do not converſe with one creature
of Station or Title, but I have a ſet of eaſy people whom
I entertain when I have a mind; I have formerly deſcrib'd
them to you, but, when you come, you ſhall have the
honours of the country as much as you pleaſe, and I ſhall
on that account make a better figure as long as I live,
Pray God preſerve Mrs. Pope for your ſake and eaſe; [
love and efteem her too much to wiſh it for her own: If
I were five and twenty, I would wiſh to be of her age,
to be as ſecure as ſhe is of a better life. Mrs. P. B. has
writ to me, and is one of the beſt Letter-writers I know;
very good ſenſe, civility and friendſtup, without any ftiff-
neſs or conſtraint. The Dunciad has taken wind here,
but if it had not, you are as much known here as in
England, and the Univerſity-lads will crowd to kiſs the
hem of your garment. I am griev'd to hear that my
Lord Bolingbroke” s ill health forc'd him to the Bath,
Tell me, is not Temperance a neceſſary virtue for great
men, ſince it is the parent of Eaſe and Liberty ? ſo neceſ-
fary for the uſe and improvement of the mind, and which
Philoſophy allows to be the greateſt felicities of life ? I
believe, had health been given ſo liberally to you, it
would have been better huſbanded without ſhame to
your parts,
FROM Ds. SWIFT, ec. 181
LETTER XXXIL
Dawley, June 28, 1728.
[ Now hold the pen for my Lord Bolingbroke, who is
reading your Letter between two Hay-cocks ; but his
attention is ſomewhat diverted by caſting his eyes on the
clouds, not in admiration of what you ſay, but for fear
of a ſhower. He is pleaſed with your placing him in
the Triumvirate, between yourſelf and me; tho? he ſays
that he doubts he ſhall fare like Lepidus, while one of
us runs away with all the power like Auguſtus, and ano+
ther with all the pleaſures like Anthony. It is upon a
forefight of this, that he has fitted up his farm, and you.
will agree, that this ſcheme of retreat at leaſt is not found -
ed upon weak appearances. Upon his return from the
Bath, all peccant humours, he finds, are purg'd out of
him; and his great Temperance and Oeconomy are fo
ſignal, that the firft is fit for my conſtitution, and the lat-
er would enable you to lay up ſo much money as to buy
2 Biſhoprick in England. As to the return of his health
and vigour, were you here, you might enquire of his
Hay-makers; but as to his temperance, 1 can anſwer
that (for one whole day) we have had nothing for dinner
but mutton-broth, beans and bacon, aad a barn-door
fowl. 1 2 |
Now his Lordſhip is run after his Cart, I have a mo-
ment left to myſelf to tell you, that I over-heard him
yeſterday agree with a painter for 200 J. to paint his
country-hall with Trophies of rakes, ſpades, prongs, etc.
and otner ornaments merely to countenance his calling
this place a farm—now turn over a new leaf —
He bids me aſſure you, he ſhould be ſorry not to have
more ſchemes of kindneſs for his friends, than of ambi-
tion for himſelf : There, tho' his ſchemes may be weak,
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the motives at leaſt are frong ; and he ſays further, if you
could bear as great a fall, and decreaſe of your revenues,
as-he knows by experience he can, you wouls not live
in Ireland an hour.
The Dunciad is going to be printed in al pomp, with
the inſcription, which makes me proudeſt. It will be
attended with Proeme, Prolegomena, Teftimonia Scrijtormn,
Index Authorum and Notes Variorum. As to the latter, |
deſire you to read over the Text, and make a few in any
way you like beſt *, whether dry raillery, upon the ſtyle,
and way of commenting of trivial critics; or humourous,
upon the authors in the poem ; or hiſtorical, of perſons,
places, times; or explanatory; or collecting the parallel
ages of the Ancients. Adieu. I am pretty well, ny
Mother not ill, Dr. Arbuthnot vex'd with his fever by
intervals; I am afraid he declines, and we ſhall loſe 3
CT man: I am troubled about him very much,
. am, etc,
—
23 *
LET TER Al.
From Dr. SwIy r.
July 16, oh
Have yl run over the Dunciad in an Iriſh edition
(I ſuppoſe full of faults) which. a gentleman ſent me,
The notes I could wiſh to be very large, in what relates
to the perſons concerned; for I have long obſerv'd that
twenty miles from London no body underſtands hints,
initial letters, or town-fa&ts and paſſages ; and in a few
years not even thoſe who live in London. I would have
a names of thoſe ſcriblers. printed indexically at the
Dr. Swift did ſo,
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FROM D. SWI T. etc. 183
beginning or end of the Poem, with an account of their
works, for the reader to refer to. I would have all the
Parodies (as they are call'd) referred to the author they
imitate — When I began this long paper, I thought 1
ſhould have fill'd it with ſetting down the ſeveral paſſages
had mark'd in the edition I had; but I find it unneceſ-
ary, ſo many of them falling under the fame rule. After
twenty times reading the whole, I never in my opinion
av ſo much good ſatire, or more good ſenſe, in ſo many
lines How it paſſes in Dublin I know not yet; but £
am ſure it will be a great diſadvantage to the poem, that
the perſons and facts will not be underſtood, till an ex-
planation comes out, and a very full one. I imagine it
15 not to be publiſhed till towards winter, when folks be-
gin to gather in town. Again, I inſiſt, you muſt have
your Aſteriſks filled up with ſome real names of real
Dunces.
| am now reading your preceding letter, of June 28,
and find that all I have advis'd above is mention'd there.
I would be glad to know whether the quarto edition is to
come out anonymouſly, as publiſhed by the Commen-
ator, with all his pomp of prefaces, etc. and among
many complaints of ſpurious editions? I am thinking
whether the Editor ſhould not follow the old ſtyle of,
This excellent author, etc. and refine in many places
when you meant no refinement; and into the bargain
take all the load of naming the dunces, their qualities,
hiſtories, and performances ?
As to yourſelf, I doubt you want a ſpurrer-on to ex-
erciſe and to amuſements ; but to talk of decay at your
ſeaſon of life is a jeſt, But you are not fo regular as I,
You are the moſt temperate man God-ward, and the moſt
intemperate yourſelf-ward, of moſt I have known, I
ſuppoſe Mr, Gay will return from the Bath with twenty
pounds more fleſh, and two hundred leſs in money:
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Providence never deſigned him to be above two and
twenty, by his thoughtleſſneſs and Cullibility. He hath
as little foreſight. of age, ſickneſs, poverty, or loſs of ad.
mirers, as a girl at fifteen. By. the way, I mult obſerve,
that my Lord Bolingbroke (from the effects of his kind.
nels to me) argues moſt ſophiſtically : The fall from z
million to a. hundred thouſand pounds is not ſo great,
as from eight hundred pounds a year to one : Beſides,
he is a controller of Fortune, and Poverty dares not look
a great Miniſter, in the face, under his loweſt declenſion,
I never knew him live ſo great and expenſively as he
hath done ſince his return from Exile; ſuch mortals have
reſources that others are not able to comprehend. But
God bleſs you, whoſe great genius has not ſo tranſport.
ed you as to leave you to the courteſy of mankind; ſor
wealth is liberty, and liberty is a bleſſing fitteſt for a philo-
ſopher—and Gay is a ſlave juſt by two thouſand pounds
too little. And Horace was of my mind, and let my
Lord contradict him, if he dares, ——
— *
„
IL ET TER XXXIV.
Bath, Nov. 12, 1728.
1 Have paſt fix weeks in queſt of health, and found it
not; but I found the folly of ſolicitude about it in
a hundred inſtances; the contrariety of opinions and
practices, the inability of phyſicians, the blind obedi-
ence of ſome patients, and as blind rebellion of others,
I believe at a certain time of life, men are either fools,
or phyſicians for themſelves, and zealots, or divines for
themſelves, |
It was much in my hopes that you intended us a win-
ter's viſit, but laſt, week I repented that wiſh, having
been alarmed with a report. of your lying ill on the
FROM Da. SWIFT, etc. 18;
road from Ireland; from which I am juft relieved by an
aſſurance that you are ſtill at Sir A—'s planting and
building; two things that I envy you for, beſides a
third, which is the ſociety of a valuable Lady. I con-
clude (tho? I know nothing of it) that you quarrel with
her, and abuſe her every day, if ſhe is ſo. I wonder
[ hear of no Lampoons upon her, either made by your-
ſelf, or by others, becauſe you eſteem her. I think it
a vaſt pleaſure that whenever two people of merit regard
one another, ſo many ſcoundrels envy and are angry at
them: *tis bearing teſtimony to a merit they cannot
reach ; and if you knew the infinite content I have re-
ceiv'd of late, at the finding yours and my name con-
ſtantly united in any filly ſcandal, I think you would go
near to ſing Je Triumphe! and celebrate my happineſs
in verſe; and, I believe, if you won't, 1 ſhall. The
inſcription to the Dunciad is now printed and inſerted
in the Poem. Do you care I ſhould ſa any thing far-
ther how much that poem is yours? ſince certainly
without you it had never been. Would to God we were
together for the reſt of our lives ! The whole weight of
Scriblers would juſt ſerve to find us amuſement, and
not more, I hope you are too well employed to mind
them : every ſtick you plant, and every ſtone you lay,
is to ſome purpoſe; but the buſineſs of ſuch lives as
theirs is but to die daily, to labour, and raiſe nothing,
I only wiſh we could comfort each other under our bo-
dily infirmities, and let thoſe who have ſo great a mind
to have more Wit than we, win it and wear it. Give
us but eaſe, health, peace, and fair weather! I think,
it is the beſt wiſh in the world, and you know whoſe
it was. If I liv'd in Ireland, I fear the wet climate
would endanger more than my life; my humour, and
health; I am fo atmoſpherical a creature.
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I muſt not omit acquainting you, that what you head
of the words ſpoken of you in the Drawing-room, was
not true, The ſayings of Princes are generally as il
related as the ſayings of Wits, To ſuch reports little
of our regard ſhould be given, and leis of our condud
influenced by them. | |
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LETTER XXXV.
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From Dr. Swir r.
: Dublin, Feb. 13, 1728,
1 Lived very eaſily in the country: Sir A. is a man of
ſenſe, and a ſcholar, has a good voice, and my lady
a better; ſhe is perfectly well-bred, and deſires to im-
prove her underſtanding, which is very good, but cult:
vated too much like a fine lady. She was my pupil
there, and ſeverely chid when ſhe read wrong ; with
that, and walking, and making twenty little amuſing ther
improvements, and writing family-verſes of mirth b/ thar
way of libels on my Lady, my time paſt very well and wit!
in very great order; infinitely better than here where! was
ſee no creature but my ſervants and my old Preſbyterian to0,
houſe-keeper, denying myſelf to every body, till I ſhall WF will
recover my ears. | | for
The account of another Lord Lieutenant was only in Id
a common news-paper, when I was in the country; and nat
if it ſhould have happened to be true, I would have de- me
ſired to have had acceſs to him, as the ſituation 1 am in to
requires. But this renews the grief for the death of our f
friend Mr. Congreve, whom I loved from my youth,
and who ſurely, beſides his other talents, was a ver)
agreeable companion. He had the misfortune to ſquan-
der away a very good conſtitution in his younger days;
FROM /Dz. SWI T, etc. 187
and I think a man of ſenſe and merit like him, is bound
in conſcience to preſexve his health for the ſake of his
friends, as well as of himſelf, Upon his own ac-
count I could not much deſire the continuance of his
life, under fo much pain, and ſo many infirmities,
Years have not yet hatdened me; and I have an addi-
tion of weight on my ſpirits fince we loſt him; tho? I
aw him ſo ſeldom, and poſſibly, if he had liv'd on,
ſhould never have ſeen him more. I do not only wiſh
as you aſk me, that I was unacquainted with any de-
ſerving perſon, but almoſt that I never had a friend:
Here is an ingenious good-humour'd Phyſician, a fine
gentleman, an excellent ſcholar, eaſy in his fortunes,
kind to every body, hath abundance of friends, enter-
tains them often and- liberally,” they paſs the evening
with him at cards, with plenty of good meat and wine,
eight or a dozen together; he loves them all, and they
him, He has twenty of theſe at command; if one of
them dies, it is no more than poor Tom! he gets ano-
ther, or takes up with the reſt, and is no more-moy'd
than at the loſs of his cat; he offends nobody, is eaſy
with every body — Is not this the true happy man? I
was deſcribing him to my Lady A—, who knows him
too, but ſhe hates him mortally by my character, and
will not drink his health: I would give half my fortune
for the ſame temper, and yet I cannot ſay I love it, for
do not love my Lord who is much of the Doctors
nature, I hear Mr. Gay's ſecond Opera, which you
mention, is forbid z and then he will be once more fit
to be adviſed, and reject your advice. Adieu.
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LETTER XXXVI.
Dr. Swi rr to Lord Bol 1NGBROKE,
FF Dublin, March 21, 1729,
you tell me you baye not quitted the deſign of col.
lecting, writing, etc. This is the anfwer of every
Romer who defers his repentance, I wiſh Mr. Pope
were as great an urger as I, who long for nothing more
than to ſee truth under your hands, laying all detraQion
in the duſt —— I find myſelf diſpoſed every year, or
rather every month, to be more angry and revengeful;
and my rage is ſo ignoble, that it deſcends even to r.
ſent the folly and baſeneſs of the enſlaved people among
whom I live. I knew an old Lord in Leiceſterſhire,
who amuſed himſelf with mending pitchforks and ſpades
for his Tenants gratis. Yet I have higher ideas left, if
J were nearer to objects on which I might employ them;
and contemning my private fortune, would gladly croſs
the channel and ſtand by, while my betters were dr:
ving the Boars out of the garden, if there be any pro-
bable expectation of ſuch an endeavour. When I wa
of your age I often thought of death, but now after 4
dozen years more, it is never out of my mind, and ttr-
riſies me leſs. I conclude that Providence hath order'd
our fears to decreaſe with our ſpirits; and yet l love {a
bagatelle better than ever: for finding it troubleſome to
read at night, and the company here growing taſtelels
I am always writing bad proſe, or worſe verſes, either
of rage or raillery, whereof ſome few eſcape to give
offence or mirth, and the reſt are burnt.
They print ſome Iriſh traſh in London, and charge
it on me, which you will clear me of to my friends, for
all are ſpurious except one paper, for which Mr, Pope
very lately chid me. I remember your Lordſhip'us'd to
ay, that a few good ſpeakers would in time carry any
point that was right; and that the common method of
2 majority, by calling, To the queſtion, would never
hold long when reaſon was on the other fide. Whether
politics do not change like gaming by the invention of
new tricks, I am ignorant; but I believe in your time
you would never, as a Miniſter, have ſaffer'd an act
to paſs thro? the H. of C——5, only becauſe you were
ſure of a majority in the H. of L——ds to throw it out;
becauſe it would be unpopular, and conſequently a loſs
of reputation. Yet this we are told hath been the
caſe in the qualification - bill relating to Penſioners. . It
hould ſeem to me that Corruption, like avarice, hath
no bounds. I had opportunities to know the proceed-
ings of your miniſtry better than any other man of my
rank; and having not much to do, I have often com-
par d it with theſe laſt ſixteen years of a profound peace
all over Europe, and we running ſeven millions in debt.
I am forc'd to play at ſmall game, to ſet the beaſts here
a madding, merely for want of better game, Tentanda
via et qua me quoque poſſim, etc, — The D take
thoſe politics, where a Dunce might govern for a dozen
years together. I will come in perſon to England, if
am provok'd, and ſend for the Dictator from the
plough. I diſdain to ſay, O mibi prazteritos —— but
cruda deo wiridiſque ſeuectus. Pray, my Lord, how are
the Gardens? Have you taken down the mount, and
remoy'd the yew hedges? Have you not bad weather
for the ſpring corn? Has Mr. Pope gone farther in his
Ethic Poems? and is the head-land ſown with wheat?
and what ſays Polybius ? and how does my Lord St.
* Entituled, A Libel on Dr, Delany, and a certain great Lord,
190 LETTERS TO AND
John ? which laſt queſtion is very material to me, be.
cauſe I love Burgundy, and riding between Twicken.
ham and Dawley. — I built a wall five years ago,
and when the maſons play'd the knaves, nothing de.
lighted me ſo much as to, ſtand by, while my ſervants
threw down what was amiſs: I have likewiſe ſeen 3
Monkey overthrow all the diſhes and plates in a kitchen,
merely for the pleaſure of ſeeing them tumble, and
hearing the clatter they made in their fall. I wiſh you
would invite me to ſuch another entertainment ; but you
'think, as I ought to think, that it is time for me to
have done with the world, and ſo I would if I could
get into a better before I was called into the beſt, and
not die here in a rage, like a poiſon'd rat in a hole,
I wonder you are not aſhamed to let me pine away in
this kingdom while you are out of power.
I come from looking over the Melange above - written,
and declare it to be a true copy of my preſent diſpoſi-
tion, which muſt needs pleaſe you, fince nothing was
ever more diſpleaſing to myſelf, I deſire you to preſent
my moſt humble reſpects to my Lady.
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LETTER XXXVIL
Dr. Swirr to Lord Bol INCRROR E.
| | Dublin, April 5, 1729.
Do not think it could be poſſible for me to hear bet-
ter news than that of your getting over your ſcurvy
ſait, which always hung as a dead weight on my heart;
I hated it in all its circumſtances, as it affected your
fortune and quiet, and in a ſituation of life that mul
make it every way vexatious. And as I am infinitely
obliged to you for the juſtice you do me, in ſuppoſing
,
FROM Da. SWIFT, etc. 191
your affairs do at leaſt concern me as much as my own ;
ſo I would never have pardoned your omitting it. But
before I go on, I cannot forbear mentioning what I read
laſt ſummer in a news-paper, that you were writing the
hiſtory of your own times. I ſuppoſe ſuch a report might
ariſe from what was not ſecret among your friends,
of your intention to write another kind of hiſtory ;
which you often promis'd Mr. Pope and me todo; I
you know he defires it very much, and I am ſure I deſire
you WW nothing more, for the honour and love I bear you, and
e to the perfect knowledge I have of your public virtue. My
ould Lord, I have no other notion of Oeconomy than that
and WW it is the parent of Liberty and Eaſe, and I am not the
ole, only friend you have who have chid you in his heart for
y in the negle& of it, though not with his mouth, as I have
done, For there is a filly error in the world, even
ten, among friends otherwiſe very good, not to intermeddle
poſi- with mens affairs in ſuch nice matters. And, my Lord,
= I have made a maxim, that ſhould be writ in letters of
nt
diamonds, That a wiſe man ought to have Money in his
head, but not in his heart. Pray, my Lord, enquire whe-
ther your prototype, my Lord Digby, after the Reſtoration
when he was at Briſtol, did not take ſome care of his for-
tune, notwithſtanding that quotation I once ſent you out
of his ſpeech to the H. of Commons? In my conſcience,
[ believe Fortune, like other drabbs, values a man gradu-
ally leſs for every year he lives. I have demonſtration
729. for it; becauſe if I play at piquet for ſixpence with a
x bet- man or a woman two years younger than myſelf, 1
curl} always loſe; and there is a young girl of twenty, Who
art; never fails of winning my money at Backgammon, tho?
JOU" he is a bungler, and the game be Eccleſiaſtic. As
_— to the public, I confeſs nothing could cure my itch of
nite
meddling with it but theſe frequent returns of deafneſs,
w2 LETTERS TO AND
which have hindered me from paſling laſt winter i
London; yet I cannot but conſider the perfidiouſneſs of
ſome people, who I thought when I was laſt there,
upon a change that happened, were the moſt impudent
in forgetting their profeſſions that I have ever known,
Pray, will you pleaſe to take your pen, and blot me out
that political maxim from whatever book it is in, that
Res nolunt diu male admixiſtrari; the commonneſs makes this
me not know who is the Author, but ſure he muſt be g
ſome Modern. whe
I am ſorry for Lady Bolingbroke's ill health; but! .
proteſt, I never knew a very deſerving perſon of that Wau
ſex, who had not too much reaſon to complain of ill in tl
health. I never wake without finding life a more inſig- nick
nificant thing than it was the day before: which is one 7
great advantage I get by living in this country, where i
there is nothing I ſhall be ſorry to loſe. But my greatel |
miſery is recollecting the ſcene of twenty years paſt, and 1
then all on a ſudden dropping into the preſent, In:...
member, when I was a little boy, I felt a great fiſh at the in t
end of my line, which I drew up almoſt on the ground, ay
but it dropt in, and the diſappointment vexes me to this 1 ,
very day, and I believe, it was the type of all my future *
diſappointments. I ſhould be aſhamed to ſay this to you, £ |
if you had not a ſpirit fitter to bear your own misfor- .
tunes, than I have to think of them. Is there patience *
left to reflect, by what qualities wealth and greatnels be ;
are got, and by what qualities they are loſt? I have By. f
read my friend Congreug's verſes to Lord Cobham,
which end with a vile and falſe moral, and I remember
is not in Horace to Tibullus, which he imitates, ** that
« all times are equally virtuous and vicious,” wherein
he differs from all Poets, Philoſophers, and Chriſtians
that ever writ, It is more probable that there may be o
FROM Dr. SWIFT, etc 193
u equal quantity of virtue always in the world, but
ſometimes there may be a peck of it in Aſia, and hardly
2 thimble- full in Europe. But if there be no virtue,
there is abundance of ſincerity; for I will venture all J
am worth, that there is not one human creature in power,
who will not he modeſt enough to confeſs that he pro-
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> Out * a
that ceeds wholly upon a principle of Corruption. I ſay
* this, becauſe I have a ſcheme, in ſpite of your notions,
to govern England upon the principles of Virtue; and
when the nation 1s ripe for it, I defire you will ſend for
| be
bu! re. I have learned this by living like a Hermit, by
an lich Jam got backwards about nineteen hundred years
of ill in the aera of the world, and begin to wonder at the
ny wickedneſs of men. I dine alone upon half a diſh of
_— Oo mix Water with my wine, walk ten miles a day,
1 and read Baronius. Hic explicit Epiſtola ad Dom. Boling-
= broke, et incipit ad amicum Pope.
t, and
Having finiſhed my Letter to Ariſtippus, I now be-
In. :
a the en to you. I was in great pain about Mrs. Pope, ha-
round, ns heard from others that ſhe was in a very dangerous
o ü, which made me think it unſeaſonable to trouble
| jou, I am aſhamed to tell you, that when I was very
* joung | had more deſire to be famous than ever ſince;
271 ad fame, like all things elſe in this life, grows with
= * ne every day more a trifle, But you who are ſo much
went: anger, alchough you want that health you deſerve,
Jet your ſpirits are as vigorous as if your body were
I have |
Hoe under, I hate a crowd, where I have not an eaſy
. ace to ſee and be ſeen. A great Library always makes
Fo hat e melancholy, where the beſt Author is as much ſqueez-
ed, and as obſcure, as a Porter at a Coronation. In
dy own little library, I value the compilements of Græ-
nus and Gronovius, which make thirty-one volumes in
folio (and were given me by my Lord Bolingbroke)
Vor. VL K
herein
\riſtians
may be
94 LETTERS TO AND
more than all my books beſides ; becauſe whoever comes
mto my cloſet, cafts his eyes immediately ugon them, 8
and will not vouchſafe to look upon Plato or Xenophon, ire
I tell you it is almoſt incredible how Opinions change dit
by the decline or decay of ſpirits, and I will further tel of
you, that all my endeavours, from a boy, to diſtinguiſh thi
myſelf, were only for want of a great Title and ortune, co
that I might be uſed like a Lerd by thoſe who have an to
opinion of my parts ; whether right or wrong, it is no to
great matter; and ſo the reputation of wit or great learn. fo
ing does the office of a blue ribband, or of a coach and by
fx horſes. To be remember'd for ever on the account he
of our friend{kip, is what would exceedingly pleaſe me; of
but yet I never lov'd to make a viſit, or be ſeen walk. pe
ing with my betters, becauſe they get all the eyes and pri
Civilities from me. I no ſooner writ this than I correct. ma
ed myſelf, and remember'd Sir Fulk Grevil's Epitaph, WW ab:
« Here lies, etc. who was friend to Sir Philip Sidney,” wo
And therefore I meſt heartily thank you for your defire WW kin
that I would record our friendſhip in verſe, which if! oft
can ſucceed in, I will never deſire to write one more |
line in poetry while I live. You muſt preſent my hum ni
ble ſervice to Mrs. Pope, and let her know I pray for Wl an.
her continuance in the world, for her own reaſon, tit WM cor
{he may live to take care of you. h per
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LETTER XXXVIII.
From Dr. Swir r. ner
Aug. 11, 172% Wl (ie
1 AM very ſenſible that in a former letter ] talked vej i fhe
weakly of my own affairs, and of my imperſect wie log
and deſires, which however I find with ſome comfort o 1 K.
FROM Da. SWIFT, ets. 195
nes row daily decline, very ſuitable to my ſtate of health for
em, ſome months paſt. For my head is never perfectly free
on. from giddineſs, and eſpecially towards night. Yet my
not diſorder is very moderate, and I have been without a fit
tell of deafneſs this half year ; ſo I am like a horſe, which,
uiſh though off his mettle, can trot on tolerably ; and this
une, compariſon puts me in mind to add, that I am returned
e an to be a rider, wherein I wiſh you would imitate me. As
8 0 to this country, there have been three terrible years
earn dearth of corn, and every place ſtrowed with beggars:;
and but dearths are common in better climates, and our evils
count here lie much deeper. Imagine a nation the two thirds
> me; of whoſe revenues are ſpent out of it, and who are not
walk- permitted to trade with the other third, and where the
s and pride of women will not ſuffer them to wear their own
red manufactures, even where they exeel what come from
itaph, abroad: This is the true ſtate of Ireland in a very few
dney. words, Theſe evils operate more every day, and the
- Gefire kingdom is abſolutely undone, as I have beeg telling
ch if | MW often in print theſe ten years paſt,
e more What I have ſaid requires forgiveneſs, but I had a
y hum mind for once to let you know the ſtete of our affairs,
Tray for WW ind my reafon for being more moved than perhaps be-
n, comes a Clergyman, and a piece of a philoſopher: and
perhaps the increaſe of years and diſorders may hope for
lome allowance to complaints, eſpecially when J may
call myſelf a ſtranger in a ſtrange land. As to poor Mrs.
Pope (if ſhe be ſtill alive) J heartily pity you and
pity her: her great piety and virtue will infallibly make
ner happy in a better life, and her great age hath made
her fully ripe for heaven and the grave, and her belt
„ 172% friends will moſt wiſh her eaſed of her labours, when
Iked VC BY fie hath fo many good works to follow them. The
ect wills
loſs you will feel by the want of her care and kindneſs,
»mfort OM Kno very well ; but ſhe has amply done her part, as
Ki 3:7
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you have yours. One reaſon why I would have you in
Ireland when you ſhall be at your own diſpoſal, is that
you may be maſter of two or three years revenues, pro-
wiſae frugis in annos copia, ſo as not to be pinch'd in
the leaſt when years increaſe, and perhaps your health
impairs: And when this kingdom is utterly at an end,
you may ſupport me for the few years I ſhall happen to
live; and who knows but you may pay me exorbitant
intereſt for the ſpoonful of wine, and ſcraps of a chicken
it will coſt me to feed you? I am confident you have
too much reaſon to complain of ingratitude ; for I never
yet knew any perſon, one tenth part, ſo heartily diſpo-
ſed as you are, to do good offices to others, without the
leaſt private view.
Was it a gaſconade to pleaſe me, that you faid your
fortune was increaſed 100 J. a year ſince I left you? you
| ſhould have told me how. Thoſe /ub/idia ſenectuti ate
extremely deſirable, if they could be got with juſtice,
and without avarice; of which vice tho' I cannot
charge myſelf yet, nor feel any approaches towards it
yet no uſurer more wiſhes to be richer (or rather to be
ſurer of his rents.) But I am not half ſo moderate a
you, for I declare I cannot live eaſily under double to
what you are ſatisfied with, |;
I hope Mr. Gay will keep his 3000 /. and live on the
intereſt without decreaſing the principal one penny ; but
I do not like your ſeldom ſeeing him. I hope he 1s
rown more diſengaged from his intentneſs on his own
affairs, which I ever diſliked, and is quite the reverie
to you, unleſs you are a very dextrous diſguiſer. I de-
fire my humble ſervice to Lord Oxford, Lord Bathurl,
and particularly to Mrs, B—, but to no Lady at Cour.
God bleſs you for being a greater Dupe than I : 1 love
that character too myſelf, but I want your charity.
Adieu.
s OWN
everie
I de-
thurlt,
Court.
1 love
.
dieu.
FROM Da. SWIFT, etc 197
LETTER XXXIX.
Oct. 9, 1729.
17 pleaſes me that you received my books at laſt: but
you have never once told me if you approve the
whole, or diſapprove not of ſome parts of the Commen-
tary, ete. It was my principal aim in the entire work
to perpetuate the friendſhip between us, and to ſhew that
the friends or the enemies of the one were the friends or
enemies of the other: If in any particular, any thing
be ſtated or mentioned in a different manner from war
you like, f pray tell me freely, that the new editions now
coming out here may have it rectify d. You'll find the
octavo rather more correct than the quarto, with ſome
additions to the Notes and Epigrams caſt in, which I
wiſh had been increas'd by your acquaintance in Ire-
land, I rejoice in hearing that Drapiers-Hill 1s to emu-
late Parnaſſus; I fear the country about it is as much
impoveriſhed. I truly ſhare in all that troubles you, and
wiſh you remov'd from a ſcene of diſtreſs, which I know
works your compaſſionate temper too ſtrongly, But if
we are not to ſee you here, I believe I ſhall once in my
life ſee you there. You think more for me, and about
me, than any friend I have, and you think better for
me. Perhaps you'll not be contented, tho' I am, that
the additional 100 /. a year is only for my life. My
mother is yet living, and I thank God for it: ſhe will
never be troubleſome to me, if ſhe be not ſo to herſelf:
but a melancholy obje& it is, to obſerve the gradual
decays both of body and mind, in a perſon to whom one
is tied by the links of both. 1 can't tell whether her
death itſelf would be fo afflicting.
You are too careful of my worldly affairs ; I am rich
enough, and I can afford to give away a 100 J. a year,
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Don't be angry: I will not live to be very old; I have
Revelations to the contrary, I would net crawl upon
the earth without doing a little good when I have a mind
to do it: I will enjoy the pleaſure of what I give, by
giving it, alive, and ſeeing another enjoy it. When
1 die I ſhould be aſham'd to leave enough to build me
a monument, if there were a wanting friend above
ground. |
Mr. Gay aſſures me his 3000 J. is kept entire and
facred ; he ſeems to languiſh after a line from you, and
complains tenderly. Lord Bolingbroke has told me ten
tunes over he was going to write to you. Has he, 6
not? The Dr. is unalterable, both in friendſhip and
Quadcille : his wife has been very near death laſt week:
his two brothers buried their wives within theſe fix
weeks. Gay is ſixty miles off, and has been ſo all this
ſummer with the Duke and Ducheſs of Queenſbury, He
is the fame man: So is every one here that you-know:
mankind is unamendable. Optimus ille gui minimus ur-
giiur — Poor Mrs.“ is like the reſt, ſhe cries at the
thorn in her foot, but will ſuffer nobody to pull it out,
The Court-lady I have a good opinion of, yet I have
treated her more negligently than you wou'd do, be-
cauſe you like to ſee the inſide of a court, which I do
not. I have ſeen her but twice. You have a deſperate
hand at daſhing out a character by great ſtrokes, and at
the ſame time a delicate one at fine touches. God for-
pid you ſhould draw mine, if I were conſcious of any
guilt: But if I were conſcious only of folly, God ſend
it! for as nobody can detect a great fault ſo well as you,
nobody would ſo well hide a ſmall one. But after all,
that Lady means to do good, and does no harm, which
is a vaſt deal for a Courtier. I can aſſure you that Lord
Peterborow always ſpeaks kindly of you, and certainly
has as great a mind to be your friend as any one. 1
FROM Da SWIFT, etc. 199
nut throw away my pen; it cannot, it will never tell
you, what I inwardly am to you, Luod nequco monſtrare,
et jentio tantum.
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Lord BOLINGBROKE to Dr. SwIy r.
Bruſſels, Sept. 27, 1729.
Lv brought your French acquaintance thus far on
her way into her own country, and confiderably bet-
ter in health than ſhe was when ſhe went to Aix. I
begin to entertain hopes that ſhe will recover ſuch a de-
oree of health as may render old age ſupportable. Both
of us have cloſed the tenth Luſtre, and it is high time to
determine how we ſhall play the laſt act of the Farce,
Might not my life be entituled much more properly a
What-d'ye-call-it than a Farce? ſome Comedy, a great
deal of Tragedy, and the whole interſperſed with ſcenes
of Harlequin, Scaramouch, and Dr. Baloardo, the proto-
type of your Hero. ] uſed to think ſometimes formerly
of old age and of death; enough to prepare my mind;
not enough to anticipate ſorrow, to\dath the joys of youth,
and to be all my life a dying. te the benefit of this
practice now, and find it more as I proceed on my jour-
ney : little regret when I look backwards, little apprehen-
lion when I look forward, You complain grievouſly of
your ſituation in Ireland: I would complain of mine too
in England: but I will not, nay, I ought not; for I find
by long experience that I can be unfortunate, without
being unhappy. I do not approve your joining together
the fzure of living, and the pleaſure of giving, though
your old prating friend Montagne does ſomething like
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you ſhall find that I can live frugally without growling
has appointed to eat my bread, inſtead of appointing me
would be to write an Eſſay, and I ſhall hardly have time
to wrife a Letter; but if you will come over, and lire
with Pope and me, I'll ſhew you in an inſtant why thoſe
two things ſhould not aller de pair, and that forced re.
trenchments on both may be made, without making us
even unealy. You know that J am too expenſive, and
all mankind knows that I have been cruelly plundered,
and yet I feel in my mind the power of deſcending with-
out anxiety two or three ſtages more. In ſhort (Mr,
Dean) if you will come to a certain farm in Middleſex,
at the world, or being peeviſh with thoſe whom fortune
to eat theirs : and yet I have naturally as little diſpoſition
to frugality as any man alive, You ſay you are no philo-
fopher, and I thiak you are in the right to diſlike a word
which is ſo often abuſed ; but I am ſure you like to fol.
low reaſon, not cuſtom, (which is ſometimes the reaſon
and oftner the caprice of others, of the mob of the world.)
Now to be ſure of doing this, you muſt wear your phio-
ſophical ſpectacles as conſtantly as the Spaniards uſed to
wear theirs, You muſt make them part of your dreß,
and ſooner part with your broad-brimm'd beaver, your
gown, your ſcarf,. or even that emblematical veſtment
your ſurplice, Thro' this medium you will ſee few things
to be vexed at, few perſons to be angry at: and yet there
will frequently be things which we ought to wiſh altered,
and perſons whom we ought to wiſh hanged.
In your letter to Pope, you agree that a regard for
Fame becomes a man more towards his Exit, than at his
entrance into life; and yet you confeſs, that the longer you
live, the more you grow indifferent about it. Your ſen-
timent is true and natural ; your reaſoning, I am afraid,
is not ſo upon this occaſion. Prudence will make us de-
fire Fame, becauſe it gives us many real and great
FROM Da. SWIFT, et. 201
advantages in all the affairs of life, Fame is the wiſe
— man's means; his ends ate his own good, and the good of
toe bociety. You Poetsband Orators have inverted this or-
Im der ; you propoſe Fame as the end; and good, or at leaſt
ng us great actions, as the means. You go further: You teach
our ſelf-love to anticipate the applauſe which we ſuppoſe
will be paid by poſterity to our names; and with idle
notions of immortality you turn other heads beſides your
own: I am afraid this may have done ſome harm in the
world. |
Fame is an object which men purſue ſucceſsfully by
various and even contrary courſes. Your doctrine leads
them to look on this end as eſſential, and on the means
23 indifferent; ſo that Fabricius and Craſſus, Cato and
Czfar preſſed forward to the ſame goal. After all
perhaps it may appear, from a conſideration of the depra-
vity of mankind, that you could do no better, nor keep
up virtue in the world without calling this paſſion or this
direction of ſelf-love, in to your aid: Tacitus has crowded
this excuſe 'for you, according to his manner, into a
maxim, Contemptu famae, contemni wirtutes, But now
whether we conſider Fame as an uſeful inſtrument in all
the occurrences of private and public life, or whether we
conſider it as the cauſe-of that pleaſure which our ſelf-
ment
ne ove is ſo fond of; methinks our entrance into life, or
there (eo {peak more properly) our youth, not our old age, is
ered, the ſeaſon when we ought to deſire it moſt, and therefore
when it is moſt becoming to defire it with ardor. If it
1 for ls uſeful, it is to be deſired moſt when we have, or may
it his hope to have a long ſcene of action open before us:
Towards our exit, this ſcene of action is or ſhould be
1 cloſed; and then, methinks, it is unbecoming to grow
raid, fonder of a thing which we have no longer occaſion for,
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early in life it may tickle us on till old age; but when it
is acquired late, the ſenſation of pleaſure will be more
faint, and mingled. with thg regret of our not having
taſted it ſooner,
From my Farm, Oct. 5.
Jam here; I have ſeen Pope, and one of my firſt ex.
quiries was after you. He tells me a thing I am forry
to hear: You are building, it ſeems, on a piece of land
you have acquired for that purpoſe, .in ſome county of
Ireland. Tho' I have built in a part of the world, which
J prefer very little to that where you have been thrown
and confined by our ill- fortune and yours, yet I am for
you do the ſame thing. T have repented a thouſand times
of my reſolution, and I hope you will repent of yours
before it is executed. Adieu, my old and worthy
friend; may the phyſical evils of life fall as eaſily upon
you, as ever they did on any man who lived to be old;
and may the moral evils which ſurround us, make as little
impreſſion on you, as they ought- to make on one who
bas ſuch ſuperior ſenſe to eſtimate things by, and ſo much
virtue to wrap himſelf up in.
My wife deſires not to be forgotten by you; ſke's
faithfully your ſervant, and zealouſly your admirer. She
will be concerned and diſappointed not to find you in
this iſland at her return, which hope doth ſhe and I has
been made to entertain before I went abroad.
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Dr. Sw1FT to Lord BoLinGBROKE,
Dublin, OR. 31, 1729.
Receiv'd yourLordſhip's travelling letter of ſeveral dates,
at ſeveral ſtages, and from different nations, languages,
and religions. Neither could any thing be more oblig-
ing than your kind remembrance of me in ſo many places.
As to your ten Luſtres, I remember, when 1 complained
in a Letter to Prior, that J was fifty years old, he was
half angry in jeſt, and anſwered me out of Terence, ia
commemoratio eff quaſi exprobratio. How then ought I
to rattle you, when I have a dozen years more to anſwer
for, all monaſtically paſſed in this Country of liberty and
delight, and money, and good company ! I go on an-
ſwering your letter; It is you were my Hero, but the
other“ never was; yet if he were, it was your own fault,
who taught me to love him, and often vindicated him,
in the beginning of your miniſtry, from my accuſations.
But | granted he had the greateſt inequalities of any
man alive, and his whole ſcene was fifty times more a
What-d'ye-call-it, than yours: for, I declare, yours was
vie, and I wiſh you would fo order it, that the world
may be as wiſe as I upon that article: Mr. Pope wiſhes it
too, and I believe there is not a more honeſt man in
England, even without wit. But you regard us not.—
l was + forty-ſeven years old when I began to think of
death, and the refledtions upon it now begin when I wake
in the morning, and end when I am going to ſleep.—
Iwrit to Mr. Pope, and not to you. My birth, al-
tzough from a family not undiſtinguiſhed in its name,
® L. Or.
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is many degrees inferior to yours; all my pretenſions vol
from perſon and parts infinitely ſo; I a younger ſon of {or
younger ſons ; you born to a great fortune: yet J ſee you T!
with all your advantages ſunk to a degree that you could ſpi
never have been without them: But yet I ſee you 2 th
much eſteemed, as much beloved, as much dreaded, and or
perhaps more (though it be almoſt impoflible) than ever Li
you were in your higheſt exaltation — only I grieve like an
an Alderman that you are not ſo rich. And yet, my th
Lord, I pretend to value money as little as you, and! pt
will call five hundred witneſſes (if you will take Irif
witneſſes) to prove it. I renounce your whole philoſo-
phy, becauſe it is not your practice. By the figure if
living, (if I uſed that expreſſion to Mr. Pope) I do not
mean the parade, but a ſuitableneſs to your mind; and
as for the pleaſure of giving, I know your ſou! ſuffers
when you are debarr'd of it. Could you, when your own
generoſity and contempt of outward things (be not
offended, it is no Eccleſiaſtical but an E pictetian phraſe)
could you, when theſe have brought you to it, come
over and live with Mr, Pope and me at the Deanry ? |
could almoſt wiſh the experiment were tried —No, God
forbid, that ever ſuch a ſcoundrel as Want ſhould dare to
approach you. But, in the mean time, do not brag,
Retrenchments are not your talent, But, as old Wey-
mouth ſaid to me in his lordly Latin, Phileſapha werba,
ignava opera; I wiſh you could learn Arithmetic, that
three and two make five, and will never make more.
My philoſophical ſpectacles which you adviſe me to, vil
tell me that I can live on 50 l. a year (wine excluded,
which my bad health forces me to) but I cannot endure
that Ofium ſhould be fine dignitate. — My Lord, what!
would have ſaid of Fame is meant of fame which a man
enjoys in his life; becauſeT cannot be a great Lord, 1
would acquire what is a kind of /ab/idium, I would endes.
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your that my betters ſhould ſeek me by the merit of
ſomething diſtinguiſhable, inſtead of my ſeeking of them.
The defire of enjoying it in aſter-times is owing to the
ſpirit and folly of youth: but with age we learn to know
the houſe is ſo full, that there is no room for above one
or two at moſt in an age, through the whole world. My
Lord, I hate and love to write to you, it gives me pleaſure,
and kills me with melancholy. The D= take ſtupidity,
that it will not come to ſupply the want of philoſo-
phy.
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L E T TER XLE.
From Dr. SwIy r.
OR. 31, 1729.
* OV were ſo careful of ſending me the Dunciad, that
L have received five of them, and have pleaſed four
friends, I am one of every body who approve every
part of it, Text and Comment; but am one abſtracted
from every body, in the happineſs of being recorded your
trend, while wit, and humour, and politeneſs ſhall have
any memorial among us. As for your octavo edition, we
know nothing of it, for we have an octavo of our own,
which hath ſold wonderfully, conſidering our poverty,
and dulneſs the conſequence of it.
[ writ this poſt to Lord B. and tell him in my letter,
that, with a great deal of loſs for a frolick, I will fly as
ſoon as build; I have neither years, nor ſpirits, nor
money, nor patience for ſuch amuſements. The frolick
is gone off, and I am only 100 J. the poorer. But this
kingdom is grown ſo exceſſively poor, that we wiſe men
muſt think of nothing but getting a little ready money.
It is thought there are not two hundred thouſand pounds
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of ſpecie in the whole iſland; for we return thrice as much
to our abſentees, as we get by trade, and fo are all ineyi.
tably undone; which I have been telling them in print
theſe ten years, to as little purpoſe as if it came from the
Pulpit. And this is enough for Iriſh politics, which [
only mention, becauſe it ſo nearly touches myſelf, I mu
repeat what, I believe, I have ſaid before, that I pity you
much more than Mrs. Pope. Such a parent and friend
hourly declining before your eyes is an object very un-
fit for your health, and duty, and tender diſpoſition; and
I pray God it may not affect you too much. I am as
much ſatisfied that your additional 1004. per Annun is
for your life as if it were for ever. You have enough to
leave your friends: I would not have them glad to be rid of
you ; and I ſhall take care that none but my enemies will
be glad to get rid of me. You have embroiled me with
Lord B — about the figure of living, and the pleaſure of
giving. I am under the neceſſity of ſome little paultry
figure in the ſtation I am; but I make it as little as poſ-
fible. As to the other part you are baſe, becauſe |
thought myſelf as great a giver as ever was of my ability;
and yet in proportion you exceed, and have kept it
till now a ſecret even from me, when I wondered
how you were able to live with your whole little
revenue. :
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Lord BoiinGBROKE to Dr. Swi rr.
Nov. 19, 1729.
1 Find that you have laid aſide your project of building
in Ireland, and that we ſhall ſee you in this iſland cun
zephyris, et hirundine prima. 1 know not whether the .
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tove of fame increaſes as we advance in age; ſure I am
that the force of friendſhip does. I lov'd you almoſt
twenty years ago, I thought of you as well as I do now,
better was beyond the power of conception, or, to avoid.
an equivoque, beyond the extent of my ideas. Whether
you are more obliged to me for loving you as well when
I knew you leſs, or for loving you as well after loving
you ſo many years, I ſhall not determine. What I would
fay is this: whilſt my mind grows daily more independent
of the world, and feels leſs need of leaning on external
objects, the ideas of friendſhip return oftner, they buſy
me, they warm me more : Is it that we grow more ten»
der as the moment of our great ſeparation approaches ?
or is it that they who are to live together in another ſtate,
(for vera amicitia non niſi inter bonos ) begin to feel more
ſtrongly that divine ſympathy which is to be the great
band of their future ſociety ? There is no one thought
which ſooths my mind like this: I encourage my imagi-
nation to purſue it, and am heartily afflicted when another
faculty * of the intelle& comes boiſterouſly in, and wakes
me from ſo pleaſing a dream, if it be a dream. 1 will
dwell no more on Oeconomicks than J have done in my
former letter. Thus much only I will ſay, that otium
cum dignitate is to he had with 500 J. a year as well as
with 5000: the difference will be found in the value of
the man, and not in that of the eſtate. I do aſſure you,
| * Viz, Neaſen. Tully (or, what is much the ſame, his Diſ-
eiple) oblerves ſomething like this on the like occaſion, where,
ſpeaking of Plato's famous Book of the Soul, he ſays, Neſcio gue»
modo, dum lego, adſentior : cum = librum, et mecum ipſe de immortali-
tate animorum ccepi cegitare, adſenſio illa omnis elabitur. Cicero ſeems
to have had but a confuſed notion of the cauſe, which the Letier-
writer has here explained, namely, that the imaginaticr is always
ready to indulge ſo flattering an idea, but ſeverer reaſon corrects and
diclaims it. As to REL1610N, that is out of the queſtion; for
Tully wrote to his few philoſophic friends,
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that T have never quitted the deſign of collecting, reviſing,
improving. and extending ſeveral materials which are ill
m my power; and I hope ihat the time of ſetting myſelf
about this laſt work of my life is not far off. Many pa.
pers of much curioſity and importance are loſt, and ſome
of them in a manner which would ſurprize and anger you,
However I ſhall be able to convey ſeveral great truths to
poſterity, fo clearly and fo authentically, that the Burnets
and the Oldmixons of another age may rail, but not be
able to deceive. Adieu, my friend. I have taken up
more of this paper than belongs to me, ſince Pope is to
write to you; no matter, for, upon recolleCtion, the rule:
of proportion are not broken; he will ſay as much to you
in one page, as I have ſaid in three. Bid him talk to
you of the work he is about, I hope in good earneſt; it
is a fine one; and will be, in his hands, an original“.
His ſole complaint is, that he finds it too eaſy in the ex-
ecution. This flatters his lazineſs, it flatters my judy-
ment, who always thought that (univerſal as his talents
are) this is eminently and peculiarly his, above all
the writers J know living or dead; I do not except
Horace.
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many years ago ſince I wrote as a Wit. How
many occurrences or informations muſt one omit, if one
determin'd to ſay nothing that one could not ſay prettily!
I lately received from the widow of one dead correſpon-
* F/ay'on Man,
FROM Da. SWIFT, etc. 209
lent, and the father of another, ſeveral of ty own letters
of about fifteen and twenty years old ; and it was not
anentertaining to myſelf to obſerve, how and by what de-
rrees | ceas'd to be a witty writer; as either my experi-
ence grew ON the one hand, or my affection to my correſ-
pondents on the other. Now as I love you better than moſt
| have ever met with in the World, and eſteem you too
the more, the longer I have compar'd you with the reſt
of the world ; ſo inevitably I write to you more negli-
ently, that is, more openly, and what all but ſuch as love
ode another will call writing worſe. I ſmile to think
how Curl would be bit, were our Epiſtles to fall into his
hands, and how gloriouſly they would fall ſhort of every
ingenious reader's expectations? |
You can't imagine what a vanity it is to me, to have
fmething to rebuke you for in the way of Oeconomy-
love the man that builds a houſe /ubito ingenio, and
makes a wall for a horſe : then cries, © We wiſe men muſt
ink of nothing but getting ready money.” I am glad
you approve my annuity ; all we have in this world is no
more than an annuity, as to our own enjoyment : but Þ
will increaſe your regard for my wiſdom, and tell you,
that this annuity includes alſo the life of another *, whoſe
concern ought to be as near me as my own, and with
om my whole proſpects ought to finiſh, I throw my
Jazclin of Hope no farther, Cur brevi fortes jaculamur
4 - etc.
The ſecond (as it is call'd, but indeed the eighth)
edition of the Dunciad, with ſome additional notes and
epigrams, ſhall be ſent you, if I know any opportunity:
if they repriut it with you, let them by all means fol-
bw that octavo edition. The Drapier's letters are
again printed here, very laudably as to. paper, print,
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etc. for you know I diſapprove Iriſh politics, (as u. v
Commentator tells you) being a ſtrong and jealous (vb.
of mir
Je of England. The Lady you mention, you oug tor
not to complain of for not acknowledging your preſem; Murs
ſhe having lately received a much richer preſent from M. N ackin
Knight of the S. Sea; and you are ſenſible ſhe cant dam
ever return it to one in the condition of an out-law, I; hat i:
certain, as he can never expect any favour *, his motive Wilfitey |
muſt be wholly diſintereſted. Will not this reflection WWeily
make you bluſh? Your continual deplorings of Ireland, Make:
make me wyh you were here long enough to forget WMW(encii
thoſe ſcenes that ſo afflict you: I am only in fear if you sr an
were, you would grow ſuch a patriot here too, as not of th
to be quite at eaſe, for your love of old England, — It Wu!
is very poſſible, your journey, in the time I compute, der.
might exactly tally with my intended one to you; at,
if you muſt ſoon again go back, you would not be un» Wirth
attended. For the poor woman decays percepib nn e:
every week; and the winter may too probably put der
end to a very long, and a very irreproachable life. My WW! do
conſtant attendance on her does indeed affect my mind ver!
very much, and leſſen extremely my deſires of long life; ¶ vit.
fince I ſee the beſt that can come of it is a miſerable kene
benediction. I look upon myſelf to be many years older WW orc
in two years ſince you ſaw me: The natural imbecillity ef!
of my body, join'd now to this acquir'd old age of tie Wi ran
mind, makes me at leaſt as old as you, and we are tit Wh:
fitter to crawl down the hill together: I only deſire | Win t
may be able to keep pace with you. My firſt friendſby
at ſixteen, was contracted with a man of ſeventy, and!
found him not grave enough or conſiſtent enough for
me, tho' we lived well to his death. I ſpeak of 0d
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M. Wycherley ; ſome letters of whom (by the by) and
o mine, the Bookſellers have got and printed, not
vithout the concurrence of a noble friend of mine and-
yours *, I don't much approve of it; though there is
thing for me to be aſham'd of, becauſe I will not be
iham'd of any thing 1 do not do myſelf, or ef any thing
that is not immoral but merely dull (as for inſtance, if
they printed this letter I am now writing, which they
ajly may, if the underlings at the Poſt-office pleaſe tb
uke a copy of it.) I admire on this conſideration, your
ſending your laſt to me quite open, without a ſeal, water,
or any cloſer whatever, manifeſting the utter openneſs
of the writer. L would do the ſame by this, but fear it
would look like affectation to ſend two letters ſo toge-
ther, — I will fully repreſent to our friend (and, I doubt
rot, it will touch his heart) what you ſo feelingly ſet
forth as to the badneſs of your Burgundy, etc. He is
n extreme honeſt man, and indeed ought to be ſo, con-
dering how. very indiſcreet and unreſerved he is: But
do not approve this part of his character, and will ne-
er join with him in any of his idleneſſes in the way of
it, You know my maxim to keep as clear of all of-
fence, as I am clear of all intereſt in either party. I was
once diſpleaſed before at you, for complaining to Mr, —
af my not having a penſion, and am fo again at your
taming it to a certain Lord, I have given proof in the
wrle of my whole life, (from the time when I was
in the friendſhip of Lord Bolingbroke and Mr. Craggs,
even to this when I am civilly treated by Sir R. Wal pole}.
that I never thought myſelf ſo warm in any Party's
auſe as to deſerve their money; and therefore would.
derer have accepted it: But give me leave to tell you,
* See the occaſion, in the ſecond and third Paragraphs of the
Freface to the firſt Volume of Letters,
212 SEE ERAS TOAMND
that of all mankind the two perſons I would leaft hijo
accepted any favour from, are thoſe very two, to whon Wl may
you have unluckily ſpoken of it. I defire you to tate WM edifi
off any impreſſions which that dialogue may have Et ker
on his Lordſhip's mind, as if I ever had any thought of WW man
being beholden to him, or any other, in that way, Wi you
And yet, you know I am no enemy to the preſent fu
Conſtitution ; I believe, as fincere a well-wiſher to it, no
nay, even to the church eftabliſh'd, as any Miniſter in, WM tio
or out of employment whatever; or any Biſhop of V
England or Ireland. Yet am I of the Religion of EH. g
mus, a Catholic; ſo I live, fo I ſhall die; and hope Wi ne!
one day to meet you, Biſhop Atterbury, the younger WW dan
Craggs, Dr. Garth, Dean Berkeley, and Mr. Hutchen-
fon, in that place, To which God of his infinite mercy P
bring us, and every body.
Lord B's anſwer to your letter I have just received,
and join it to this packet. The work he fpeaks of with
fuch, abundant partiality, is a ſyſtem of Ethics in the
Horatian way,
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LETTER XLV.
| April 14, 1730
W Gn is A letter extraordinary, to do and ſay nothing
but to recommend eo you (as a Clergyman, and
charitable one) a pious and a good work, and for, a good
and honeſt man : Moreover he is above ſeventy, and
poor, which you might think included in the worl
honeſt, I ſhall think it a kindneſs done myſelf, if you
can propagate Mr. Weſtley's ſubſcription for his Com-
mentary on Job, among your Divines, (Biſhops excep'-
ed, of whom there is no hope) and among ſuch as 2 BY loy
believers, or readers of Scripture, Even the curious une
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FROM Da. SWIFT, etc, 213
nay find ſomething to pleaſe them, if they ſcorn to be
elißed. It has been the labour of eight years of this
Larned man's life; I call him what he is, a learned
man, and I engage you will approve his proſe more than
you formerly could his poetry. Lord Bolingbroke is a
fvourer of it, and allows you to do your beſt to ſerve
an old Tory, and a ſufferer for the Church of England,
tho' you are a Whig, as I am.
We have here ſome verſes in your name, which I am
agry at. Sure you wou'd not uſe me ſo ill as to flatter
me? I therefore think it is ſome other weak Iriſh-
nan.
p. S. I did not take the pen out of Pope's hands, I
proteſt to you. But ſince he will not fill the remainder
of the page, I think I may without offence. I ſeek no
tpitolary fame, but am a good deal pleaſed to think that
it will be known hereafter that you and I lived in the
moſt friendly intimacy together. — Pliny writ his letters
for the public, ſo did Seneca, ſo did Balſac, Voiture,
eic. Tully did not, and therefore theſe give us more
pleaſure than any which have come down to us from
attiquity, When we read them, we pry into a ſecret
which was intended to be kept from us, That is a
pleaſure, We ſee Cato, and Brutus, and Pompey, and
others, ſuch as they really were, and not ſuch as the
gaping multitude of their own age took them to be, or
4 Hiſtorians and Poets have repreſented them to ours.
That is another pleaſure. I remember to have ſeen a
proceſſion at Aix-la-Chapelle, wherein an image of
Charlemagne is carried on the ſhoulders of a man,
who is hid by the long robe of the imperial Saint. Fol-
low him into the veſtry, you ſee the bearer flip from
under the robe, and the gigantic figure dwindles into an
image of the ordinary ſize, and is ſet by among other
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lumber — I agree much with Pope, that our climate;
rather better than that you are in, and perhaps you
public ſpirit would be leſs grieved, or oftner comfoned
here than there. Come to us therefore on a viſit at leat
It will not be the fault of ſeveral perſons here, if you do
not come to live with us. But great good-will and
little power produce ſuch flow and feeble effects as can
be acceptable to Heaven alone, and heavenly men, =
I know you will be angry with me, if I ſay nothing Wi wh
to you of a poor woman, who is ſtill on the other fide WI
of the water in a moſt languiſhing ſtate of health. H cor
ſhe regains ſtrength enough to come over (and ſhe is WM hat
better within a few weeks) I ſhall nurſe her in this fam if!
with all the care and tenderneſs poſſible. If ſhe does 2
not, I muſt pay her the laſt duty of friendſhip wherever do
ſhe is, tho” I break thro? the whole plan of life which I
have form'd in my mind. Adieu. I am moſt faithfully WW au
and affectionately yours. m
Pu
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Lord B. to Dr. SWI r.
| Jan. 1730*31-
| 1 Begin my letter by telling you that my wife has been
returned from abroad about a month, and that het
health, though feeble and precarious, is better than i
has been theſe two years. She is much your ſervant,
and as ſhe has been her own phyfician with ſome ſucce's
imagines ſhe could be yours with the ſame. Would t0 a
God you was within her reach. She would, I believe, WM
preſcribe a great deal of the medicina animi, without l
having recourſe to the Books of Triſmegiſtus. Pope and i
I ſhould be her principal apothecaries in the courſe af 5
FRO M Da. SWI F T, etc. 215
mate z the cure; and though our beſt Batanifts complain, that
s von be of the herbs and ſimples which go to the compo-
one, ſtion of cheſe remedies, are to be found at preſent in our
it lea bil, yet there are more of them here than in Ireland;
you 0 beſides, by the help of a little chemiſtry the moſt noxi-
ill ados juices may become ſalubrious, and rank poiſon a
as cn ſpecific. — Pope is now in my library with me, and
nen, — WY writes to the world, to the preſent and to future ages,
nothing WW whilſt I begin this letter which he is to finiſh to you.
her ſide What good he will do to mankind I know not; this
th. comfort he may be ſure of, he cannot do leſs than you
d ſhe is WY have done before him. I have ſometimes thought, that
is farm if preachers, hangmen, and moral- writers keep vice at
he does WW 2 ſtand, or ſo much as retard the progreſs of it, they
herever do as much as human nature admits : a real reformation
which is not to be brought about by ordinary means; it re-
atk fully WW quires thoſe extraordinary means which become puniſh=
ments as well as leſſons: National corruption muſt be
purged by national calamities, — Let us hear from you.
We deſerve this attention becauſe we deſire it, and be-
auſe we believe that you deſire to hear from us.
.
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LETTER XLVII.
30·31.
as been Lord B. to Dr. SwIy r.
that he! |
than it March 29.
ſervant, ] Have delayed ſeveral poſts anſwering your letter of
ſacces, January laſt, in hopes of being able to ſpeak to you
ould to WY about a project which concerns us both, but me the
moſt, ſince the ſucceſs of it would bring us together.
It has been a good while in my head, and at my heart;
if it can be ſet agoing, you ſhall hear more of it. I was
in the beginning of the winter for near a week, but
8
believe,
without
ope and
Jurſe of
216 LETTERS TO AN
in no danger either from the nature of my diſtemper, d
from the attendance of three phyſicians. Since that
bilious intermitting fever, I have had, as I had before,
better health than the regard I have payed to health de.
ſerves. We are both in the decline of life, my dear
Dean, and have been ſome years going down the hill;
let us make the paſſage as ſmooth as we can, Let us
fence againſt phyſical evil by care, and the uſe of thoſe
means which experience muſt have pointed out to us:
Let us fence againſt moral evil by philoſophy. I renounce
the alternative you propoſe. But we may, nay (if we
will follow nature, and do not work up imagination
againſt her plaineſt dictates) we ſhall of courſe grow
every year more indifferent to life, and to the affair
and intereſts of a ſyſtem out of which we are ſoon to 80.
This is much better than ſtupidity. The decay of pa.
ſion ſtrengthens philoſophy, for paſſion may decay, an
ſtupidity not ſucceed, Paſſigns avs Pope, our Divine,
as you will ſee one time or other) are the Gates of life:
Let us not complain that they do not blow a ſtorm.
What hurt does age do us, in ſubdyipg what we toil to
ſubdue all our lives? It is now fix in the morning: I r
call the time (and am glad it is over) when about this
hour I uſed to be going to bed, ſurfeited with pleaſure,
or jaded with buſineſs : my head often full of ſchemes,
and my heart as often full of anxiety, Is it a misfor-
tune, think you, that I riſe at this hour, refreſhed, {:
rene, and calm? that the paſt, and even the preſent il.
fairs of life ſtand like objects at a diſtance from me,
where I can keep off the diſagreeable ſo as not to be
ſtrongly affected by them, and from whence I can draw
the others nearer to me? Paſſions in their force, would
bring all theſe, nay even future contingencies, about my
ears at once, and Reaſon would but ill defend me in the
ſcuffle.
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FROM Ds SWIFT, ete. 217
| leave Pope to ſpeak for himſelf, but I muſt tell you
how much my Wife is obliged to you, She ſays, ſhe
would find ſtrength enough to nurſe you, if you was
here, and yet, God knows, ſhe 1s extremely weak :
The ſlow fever works under, and mines the conſtitution ;
we keep it off ſometimes, but ſtill it returns, and makes
new breaches before nature can repair the old ones. I
am not aſhamed to ſay to you, that I admire her more
every hour of my life: Death is not to her the King of
Terrors ; ſhe beholds him without the leaſt, When ſhe
ſuffers much, ſhe wiſhes for him as a deliverer from
pain; when life is tolerable, ſhe looks on him with diſ-
like, becauſe he is to ſeparate her from thoſe friends to
whom ſhe is more attached than to life itſelf. — You
ſhall not ſtay for my next, as long as you have for this
letter; and in every one, Pope ſhall write ſomething
much better than the ſcraps of old Philoſophers, which
vere the preſents, Munuſcula, that Stoical Fop Seneca
uſed to ſend in every Epiſtle to his friend Lucilius.
P. S. My Lord has ſpoken juſtly of his Lady: why
ot I of my Mother? Yeſterday was her birth-day, now
entering on the ninety-firſt year of her age; her memory
much diminiſh'd, but her ſenſes very little hurt, her
light and hearing good; ſhe ſleeps not ill, eats mode-
ately, drinks water, ſays her prayers; this is all ſhe
does, I have reaſon to thank God for continuing ſo
long to me a very good and tender parent, and for al-
owing me to exerciſe for ſome years, thoſe cares which
re now as neceſſary to her, as hers have been to me.
An object of this ſort daily before one's eyes very much
ſoftens the mind, but perhaps may hinder it from the
willingneſs of contraQing other tyes of the like domeſtic
nature, when one finds how painful it is even to enjoy
hc tender pleaſures. J have formerly made ſome ſtrong
Vol. VI. *
218 LETTERS TO AND
efforts to get and to deſerve a friend : perhaps it were
wiſer neverto attempt it, but live extempore, and look
upon the world only as a place to paſs thro', juſt pay your
hoſts their due, diſperſe a little charity, and hurry on,
Yet I am juſt now writing (or rather planning) a book,
to make mankind look upon this life with comfort and
pleaſure, and put morality in good humour. — And juſt
now too, I am going to ſee one I love very tenderly;
and to-morrow to entertain ſeveral civil people, whom
if we call friends, it is by the Courteſy of England, —
Sic, fic juvat ire ſub umbras, While we do live, we
muſt make the beſt of life,
Cantantes /zicet u/que minus via laedet) eamus,
as the ſhepherd ſaid in Virgil, when the road was long
and heavy. I am yours.
—
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—
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Lord BolincBRoke to Dr. Swirr.
O U may aſſure yourſelf, that if you come over this
ſpring, you will find me not only got back into the
habits of ſtudy, but devoted to that hiſtorical taſk, which
you have ſet me theſe many years. I am in hopes of
ſome materials which will enable me to work in the
whole extent of the plan I propoſe to myſelf. If they
are not to be had, I muſt accommodate my plan to this
deficiency, In the mean time Pope has given me more
trouble than he or I thought of; and you will be ſurpriſed
to find that I have been partly drawn by him and pattly
by myſelf, to write a pretty large volume upon a very
grave and very important ſubject; that I have ventur'd
40 pay no regard whatever to any authority except ſacred
FROM Ds. s WI T. etc. 219
uthority, and that I have ventured to fart a thought,
which muſt, if it is puſh'd as ſucceſsfully as I think it is,
render all your Metaphyſical Theology both ridiculous
and abominable. There is an expreſſion in one of your
letters to me, which makes me believe you will come
into my way of thinking on this ſubject; and yet I am
perſuaded that Divines and Freethinkers would both be
clamorous againſt it, if it was to be ſubmitted to their cen-
ſure, as I do not intend that it ſhall. The paſſage I mean,
b that where you ſay that you told Dr. — the Grand
points of Chrittianity ought to be taken as infallible
Revelations ®, etc. |
It has happened, that, whilſt I was writing this to you,
the Dr. came to make me a viſit from London, where I
heard he was arrived ſome time ago: He was in haſte
to return, and is, I perceive, in great haſte to print.
He left with me eight Diſſertations , a ſmall part, as I
underſtand, of his work, and defired me to peruſe, con-
ler, and obſerve upon them againſt Monday next,
whea he will come down again. By what I have read
of the two firſt, I find myſelf unable to ſerve him. The
er this WW principles he reaſons upon are begged in a diſputation
ro the of this ſort, and the manner of reaſoning is by no means
which Wi coſe and conclufive. The ſole advice I could give him
pes of in conſcience would be that which he would take ill,
in the ad not follow, I will get rid of this taſk as well as I
f they an, for I eſteem the man, and ſhould be ſorry to diſ-
to this oblige him where I cannot ſerve him,
e more As to retirement, and exerciſe, your notions are true :
. The firſt ſhould not be indulged ſo much as to render
art .
| : = In this maxim all bigotted Divines and free=thinking Politi-
4 ans agree; the one, for fear of diſturbing the eſtabliſn' d Reli-
7entur ton; the other, leſt that diſturbagce ſhould prove injurious te
t ſacred Wii adminiſtration of government,
T Reviddation examined with candour,
L 2
220 LETTERS TO AND
- Qs ſavage, nor the laſt neglected ſo as to impair health.
But I know men, who for fear of being ſavage
live with all who will live with chem; and who, 6
- preſerve their health, ſaunter away half their time,
Adieu : :Pope calls for the paper.
P. S. T hope what goes before will be a ſtrong mo-
tive to your coming. God knows if ever I ſhall ſee
Treland ; I ſhall never defire it, if you can be got hither,
or kept here. Yet I think I ſhall be, too ſoon, a Free-
man. Your recommendations I conſtantly give to thoſe
vou mention; tho? ſome of them I ſee but ſeldom, and
am every day more retired, I am leſs fond of the world,
and leſs curious about it: yet no way out of humour,
: diſappointed or angry: tho' in my way I receive as
many injuries as my betters, but I don't feel them,
therefore I ought not to vex other people, nor even to
return injuries. I paſs almoſt all my time at Dawley
and at home; my Lord (of which I partly take the me-
rit to myſelf) is as much eſtranged from politics as [
am. Let Philoſophy be ever ſo vain, it is leſs vain now
than Politics, and not quite fo vain at preſent as Divi-
nity: I know nothing that moves ſtrongly but Satire,
and thoſe who are aſham'd of nothing elſe, are ſo of
being ridiculous. I fancy, if we three were together
but for three years, ſome good might be done even up-
on this Age.
I know you'll deſire ſome account of my health: It
is as uſual, but my ſpirits rather worſe. I write little or
nothing. You know, I never had either a taſte or ta-
lent for politics, and the world minds nothing elle. [
have perſonal obligations which I will ever preſerve, to
men of different ſides, and 1 wiſh nothing fo much #
public quiet, except it be my own quiet, I think ite
merit, if I can take off any man from grating or ſau
ealth,
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FROM Da. S WI F. T, etc. 221
eal ſubjects, merely on the ſcore of Party: and it is the
greateſt vanity of my life that Ive contributed to turn
ny Lord Bolingbroke to ſubjects moral, uſeful, and
more worthy his pen. Dr. 's Book is what I.
can't commend ſo much as-Dean Berkley's -, tho? it has
many things ingenious in it, and is not deficient in the
writing part: but the whole book, tho? he meant it 24
Populum is, I think, purely ad Clerum. Adieu. |
* Call'd Toe Minute Phile/ophers
1 222 }
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Dr. 8 WI F T to Mr. GAY,
From the Year 1729 to 1732 #,
— —_— 1 —
LETTER XLIX.
Dublin, March 19, 1729.
Deny it, I do write to you according to the old fi-
pulation, for, when you kept your old company,
when I writ to one I writ to all. But I am ready to
enter into a new bargain ſince you are got into a new
world, and will anſwer all your letters, You are fir
to preſent my moit humble reſpects to the Duchels of
Queenſberry, and let her know that I never dine without
thinking of her, although it be with ſome difficulty
that I can obey her when I dine with forks that have
but two prongs, and when the ſauce is not very con-
fitent. You muſt likewiſe tell her Grace that ſhe is a
genera] toaſt among all honeſt folks here, and particu-
larly at the Deanry, even in the face of my Whig ſub-
jects.— I will leave my money in Lord Bathurſt's hands,
and the management of it (for want of better) in yours:
* Found among Mr, Gay's papers, and teturn'd to Dr, Swift
dy the Duke of Queenſberry and Mr, Pope,
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729.
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and pray keep the intereſt- money in a bag wrapt up and
ſealed by itſelf, for fear of your own fingers under
your careleſſneſs. Mr. Pope talks of you as a per-
ſect ſtranger; but the different purſuits and man-
ners and intereſts of life, as fortune hath pleaſed to diſ-
poſe them, will never ſuffer thoſe to live together, who
by their inclinations ought never to part. 1 hope when
you are rich enough, you will have ſome little oeco-
nomy of your own in town or country, and be able
to give your friend a pint of Port; for the domeſtic
ſeaſon of life will come on. I had never much hopes of
your vampt Play, although Mr. Pope ſeem'd to have,
and although it were ever ſo good : But you ſhould have
done like the Parſons, and changed your Text, I mean
the Title, and the names of the perſons. After all, it
was an effe& of idleneſs, for you are in the prime of
life, when invention and judgment go together, I wiſh
you had 100 J. a year more for horſes — I ride and walk
whenever good weather invites, and am feputed the
belt walker in this town and fives miles round. I writ
lately to Mr, Pope : I wiſh you had a little Villakin in
his neighbourhood 3 but you are yet too volatile, and
any Lady with a coach and fix horſes would carry you
to Japan,
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Dublin, Nov. 10, 1730,
W HEN my Lord Peterborow in the Queen's time
went abroad upon his Ambaſſies, the Miniſtry
told me, that he was ſuch a vagrant, they were forced to
wri'e at him by gueſs, becauſe they knew not where to
write to him. This is my caſe with you; ſometimes in
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Scotland, ſometimes at Hamwalks, ſometimes God know!
where. You are a man of buſineſs, and not at leiſure
for inſignificant correſpondence. It was 1 got you the
employment of being my Lord Duke's premier Miniſtre:
for his Grace having heard how good a manager you
were of my revenue, thought you fit to be entruſted
with ten talents. I have had twenty times a ſtrong in.
clination to ſpend a ſummer near Saliſbury-downs, ha-
ving rode over them more than once, and with a young
parſon of Sailſbury reckoned twice the ſtones of Stone-
henge, which are either ninety-two or ninety-three, |
deſire to preſent my moſt humble acknowledgments to
my Lady Ducheſs in return of her civility. I hear an
iI thing, that ſhe is matre pulchra filia pulchrior : I never
{aw her ſince ſhe was a girl, and would be angry ſle
ſliould excel her mother, who was long my principal
Goddeſs, I defire you will tell her Grace, that the ill
management of forks is not to be help'd when they are
only bidential, which happens in all poor houſes, eſpe-
cially thoſe of Poets; upon which account a knife wa
abſolutely neceſſary at Mr. Pope's, where it was morally
impoſſible with a bidential fork to convey a morſel of bee
with the incumbrance of muſtard and turnips, into your
mouth at once. And her Grace hath coſt me thin
pounds to provide Tridents for fear of offending bes
which ſum J deſire ſhe will pleaſe to return me. — I an
ſick enough to go to the Bath, but have not heard it wil
be good for my diſorder. I have a ſtrong mind to ſpend
my 200 l. next ſummer in France: I am glad I have
it, for there is hardly twice that ſum left in this Kingdom.
Yau want no ſettlement (I call the family where you
live, and the foot you are upon, a ſettlement) til you
increaſe your fortune to what will ſupport you with eale
and plenty, a good houſe and a garden. 'The want of
this | much dread for you: For I have often known ©
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She-couſin of a good family and ſmall fortune, paſling
months among all her relations, living in plenty, and
taking her circles, till ſhe grew an old Maid, and every -
| body weary of her, Mr, Pope complains of ſeldom
ſeeing you; but the evil is unavoidable, for different cir-
cumſtances of life have always ſeparated thoſe whom
friendſhip would join: God hath taken care of this, to
prevent any progreſs towards real happineſs here, which
would make life more defirable, and death too dreadful. :
I hope you have now one advantage that you always
wanted before, and the want of which made your friends
as uneaſy as it did yourſelf; I mean the removal of that
ſolicitude about your own affairs, which perpetually fill'd
your thoughts and diſturb'd your converſation, For if it
be true what Mr. Pope ſeriouſly tells me, you will have
opportunity of ſaving every groat of the intereſt you re- :
ceive; and ſo by the time he and you grow weary of each
other, you will be able to paſs the reſt of your wineleſs
life, in eaſe and plenty, with the additional triumphal
comfort of never having receiv'd a penny from thoſe
alileſs ungrateful people from whom you deſerved ſo
much, and who deſerve no better Geniuſes than thoſe
by whom they are celebrated. — If you ſee Mr. Ceſar,
preſent my humble ſervice to him, and let him know
that the ſcrub Libel printed againſt me here, and re-
printed in London, for which he ſhewed a kind concern
to a friend of us both, was written by myſelf, and ſent
oa Whig- printer: It was in the ſtyle and genius of ſuch
ſcoundre!s, when the humour of libelling fan in this
ivain againſt a friend of mine whom you know, — But
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LETTER II.
Dublin, Nov. 19, 1730,
1 Writ to you a long letter about a fortnight paſt, con.
cluding you were in London, from whence I under.
ſtood one of your former was dated: Nor did I imagine
you were gone back to Aimſbnry ſo late in the year, a
which ſeaſon I take the Country to be only a ſcene for
thoſe who have been ill uſed by a Court on account of
their Virtues ; which is a ſtate of happineſs the more yz,
luable, becauſe it is not accompanied by Envy, although
nothing deſerves it more. I would gladly ſell a Duke
dom to loſe favour in the manner their Graces have done
I believe my Lord Carteret, fince he is no longer Lien.
tenant, may not wiſh me ill, and I have told him often
that I only hated him as Lieutenant: I confeſs he hal
a genteeler manner of binding the chains of this kingdon
than moſt of his predeceſſors, and I confeſs at the ſame
time that he had, fix times, a regard to my recommen:
dation by preferring ſo many of my friends in tht
church; the two laſt acts of his favour were to add to
the dignities of Dr. Delany and Mr Stopford, the laſt of
whom was by you and Mr. Pope put into Mr. Pultney!
hands. I told you in my laſt, that a continuance of gil.
dineſs (though not in a violent degree) prevented ny
thoughts of England at preſent. For in my caſe a domelic
life is neceſſary, where I can with the Centurion ſay to
my ſervant, Go, and he goeth, and Do this, and he doth
it. I now hate all people whom I cannot commend,
and conſequently a Ducheſs is at this time the hatefullcl
Lady in the world to me, one only excepted, and | bey
her Grace's pardon for that exception, for, in the wa
J miean, her Grace is ten thouſand times more hateful
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money, becauſe J hope you never leſs wanted it; and if
you go on with ſucceſs for two years longer, I fear 1 ſhail
not have a farthing of it left. The Doctor hath ill-
informed me, who ſays that Mr. Pope is at preſent the
chief Poetical Favourite, yet Mr. Pope himſelf talks like
a Philoſopher and one wholly retir d. But the vogue of
our few honeſt folks here is, that Duck is abſolutely to
ſucceed Euſden in the laurel, the contention being be-
tween Concannen or Theobald, or ſome other Hero of
the Dunciad. I never charged you for not talking, but
the dubious ſtate of your affairs in thoſe days was too
much the ſubject, and I wiſh the Ducheſs had been the
voucher of your amendment. Nothing ſo much contri-
buted to my eaſe as the turn of affairs after the Queen's
death; by which all my hopes being cut off, I could
have no ambition left, unleſs I would have been a
greater raſcal. than happened to ſuit with my tem-
per, I therefore ſat down quietly at my morſel, adding
only thereto a principle of hatred to all ſucceeding Mea-
ſures and Miniſtries by way of ſauce to reliſh my meat:
And I confeſs one point of conduct in my Lady Ducheſs's
life hath added much poignancy to it. There is a good
Iſh practical bull towards the end of your letter, where
you ſpend a dozen lines in telling me you muſt leave off,
that you may give my Lady Ducheſs room to write, and
lo you proceed to within two or three lines of the bottom;
though I would have remitted you my 200/. to have
leſt place for as many more.
To the Ducheſs.
Madam,
My beginning thus low is meant as a mark of reſpect,
like receiving your Grace at the bottom of the ſtairs. I
am glad you know your duty; for it hath been a known
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and eftabliſh'd rule above twenty years in England, that
the firſt advances hath been conſtantly made me by al
Ladies who aſpir'd to my acquaintance, and the greater
their quality, the greater were their advances. Yet, |
know not by what weakneſs, I have condeſcended gra.
ciouſly to diſpenſe with you upon this important article,
Though Mr. Gay will tell you that a nameleſs perſon
ſent me eleven meſſages before I would yield to a viſt;
I mean a perſon to whom he is infinitely obliged, for
being the occaſion of the happineſs he now enjoys under
the protection and favour of my Lord Duke and your
Grace. At the ſame time, I cannot forbear telling you,
Madam, that you are a little imperious in your manner
of making your advances. You ſay, perhaps you ſhall
not like me; I affirm you are miſtaken, which I can
plainly demonftrate : for T have certain intelligence, that
another perſon diſlikes me of late, with whoſe likings
yours have not for ſome time paſt gone together, How.
ever, if I ſhall once have the honour to attend your Grace,
I will out of fear and prudence appear as vain as I can,
that I may not know your thoughts of me. This 1s your
own direction, but it was needleſs: For Diogenes hin-
ſelf would be vain, to have received the honour of
being one moment of his life in the thoughts of your
Grace,
LETTER III.
Dublin, April 13, 1731.
* OUR ſituation is an odd one; the Ducheſs is your
Treaſurer, and Mr. Pope tells me you are the
Fuke's. And I had gone a good way in ſome Verſes
on that occaſion, preſcribing leſſons to direct your con-
duct, in a negative way, not to do ſo and ſo, etc. like
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other Treaſurers; how to deal with Servants, Tenants,
or neighbouring Squires, which 1 take to be Courtiers,
Parliaments, and Princes in alliance, and fo the parallel
goes on, but grows too long to pleaſe me : I prove that
Poets are the fitteſt perſons to be treaſurers and mana-
gers to great perſons, from their virtue, and contempt
of money, etc. — Pray, why did you not get a new
heel to your ſhoe? unleſs you would make your court
at St. James's by affecting to imitate the Prince of Lilli-
put. But the reſt of your letter being wholly taken up
in a very bad character of the Ducheſs, I ſhall ſay no
more to you, but apply myſelf to TY Grace,
Madam, fince Mr. Gay affirms that you love to have
your own way, and fince I have the ſame perfection; I
will ſettle that matter immediately, to prevent thoſe il]
conſequences he apprehends. Your Grace ſhall have
your own way, in all places except your own houſe,
and the domains about it. There and there only, I ex-
pect to have mine, ſo that you have all the world to
reign in, bating only two or three hundred acres, and
two or three houſes in town and country, I will like-
wiſe, out of my ſpecial grace, certain knowledge, and
mere motion, allow you to be 1n the right againit all
human kind, except myſelf, and to be never in the
wrong but when you differ from me. You ſhall have
a greater privilege in the third article of ſpeaking your
mind; which 1 ſhall graciouſly allow you now and then
to do even to mylelf, and only rebuke you when it does
not pleaſe me.
Madam, I am now got as far as your Grace's letter,
which having not read this tortnight (having been out
of town, and not daring to truſt my leif with the car-
nage of it) the preſumptuous manner in wkich you
begin had flipt out of my memory, But I forgive you
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to the ſeventeenth line, where you begin to baniſh me
for ever, by demanding me to anſwer all the good cha.
raGier ſome partial friends have given me. Madam, |
have lived ſixteen years in Ireland, with only an inter.
miſſion of two ſummers in England; and conſequently
am fifty years older than I was at the Queen's death,
and fifty thouſand times duller, and fifty million times
more peevilh, perverſe, and moroſe ; ſo that under theſe
diſadvantages I can only pretend to excel all your other
acquaintance about ſome twenty bars length, Pray,
Madam, have you a clear voice? and will you let me
fit at your left hand at leaſt within three of you, for of
two bad ears, my right is the beſt? My Groom tell
me. that he likes your park, but your houſe is too little,
Can the parſon of the pariſh play at backgammon, and
hold his tongue? is any one of your Women a good
nurſe, if J ſhould fancy myſelf ſick for four and twenty
hours? how many days will you maintain me and my
equipage ? When thele preliminaries are ſettled, I muſt
be very poor, very ſick, or dead, or to the laſt degree
unfortunate, if I do not attend you at Aimſbury, For
I profeſs you are the firſt lady that ever I deſired to ſee,
ſince the firſt of Auguſt 1714, and I have forgot the
date when that deſire grew ſtrong upon me, but I know
J was not then in England, elſe I would have gone on
foot for that happineſs as far as to your houſe in Scot-
land. But I can ſoon recollect the time, by aſking ſome
Ladies here the month, the day, and the hour when |
began to endure their company? which however I think
was a ſign of my ill-judgment, for I do not perceive
they mend in any thing but envying or admiring your
Grace. I diſlike nothing in your letter but an af
feed apology for bad writing, bad ſpelling, and a bad
pen, which you pretend Mr. Gay found fault with,
wherein you affront Mr, Gay, you affront me, and you
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afront yourſelf. Falſe ſpelling is only excuſable in a
Chambermaid, for I would not pardon it in any of your
Waiting-women. — Pray God preſerve your Grace and
family, and give me leave to expect that you will be
ſo juſt to remember me among thoſe who have the
gteateſt regard for virtue, goodneis, prudence, courage,
and generoſity ; after which you muſt conclude that
| am with the greateſt reſpect and gratitude, Madam,
your Grace's moſt obedient and molt humble ſervant, etc ·
To Mr. Gx.
I have juſt got yours of February 24, with a poſtſcript
by Mr. Pope. I am in great concern for him: I find
Mr, Pope dictated to you the firſt part, and with great
dificulty ſome days after added the reſt. I ſee his weak-
neſs by his hand- writing. How much does his philoſo-
phy exceed mine? I could not bear to ſee him: I will
write to him ſoon.
LET I.E KK IL
Dublin, June 29, 1731.
RV E R ſince I received your letter I have been upon
a balance about going to England, and landing at
Briſtol, to paſs a month at Aimfbury, as the Ducheſs
hath given me leave. But many difficulties have inter-
tered ; firſt, I thought I had done with my Iaw-ſuit, and
lo did all my lawyers, but my adverſary, after being in
appearance a Proteſtant theſe twenty years, hath decla-
red he was always a Papiſt, and conſequently by the
law here, cannot buy nor (I think) ſell; fo that J am
at ſea again, for almoſt all I am worth. But I have ſtill
a worle evil; for the giddineſs I was ſubject to, inſtead
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of coming ſeldom and violent, now conſtantly attends
me more or leſs, tho* in a more peaceable manner, yet
ſuch as will not qualify me to live among the young
and healthy : And the Duchels, in all her youth, ſpirit,
and grandeur, will make a very ill nurſe, and her wo-
men not much better. Valetudinarians muſtt live where
they can command, and ſcold ; I muſt have horſes to
ride, I muſt go to bed and rife when J pleaſe, and live
where all 'mortals are ſubſervient to me. I muſt talk
nonſenſe when I pleaſe, and all who are preſent muſt
commend it. I muſt ride thrice a week, and walk three
or four miles beſides, every day.
F always told you Mr. — was good for nothing but
to be a rank Courtier. I care not whether he ever
writes to me or no. He and you may tell this to the
Ducheſs, And I hate to ſee you ſo charitable, and ſuch
a Cully; and yet I love you for it, becauſe I am one
myſelf. |
Vou are the ſillieſt lover in Chriſtendom : If you like
Mrs. — why do you not command her to take you!
if ſhe does not, ſhe is not worth purſuing ; you do her
too much honour ; ſhe hath neither ſenſe nor taſte, if ſe
dares to refuſe you, though ſhe had ten thouſand pounds.
I do not remember to have told you of thanks that you
have not given, nor do I underſtand your meaning,
and I am ſure I had never the leaſt thoughts of any my*
ſelf. If I am your friend, it is for my own reputation,
and from a principle of ſelf-love, and I do ſometimes
reproach you for not honouring me by letting the woild
know we are friends,
I ſee very well how matters go with the Ducheſs in
regard to me. I heard her ſay, Mr. Gay, fill your letter
to the Dean, that there may be no room for me, the
frolic is gone far enough, I have writ thrice, I will do
no more; if the man has a mind to come, let him
FROM Dr. SWIFT, etc. 233
come; what a clutter is here? poſitively I will not
write a ſyllable more. She is an ungrateful Ducheſs
conſidering how many adorers I have procured her
here, over and above the thouſands ſhe had before.
[cannot allow you rich enough till you are worth 7000 {.
which will bring you 300 per annum, and this will main-
ain you, with the perquiſite of ſpunging while you are
young, and when you are old will afford you a pint of
port at night, two ſervants, and an old maid, a little
rarden, and pen and ink — provided you live in the
country —— Have you no ſcheme either in verſe or
proſe ? The Ducheſs ſhould keep you at hard meat,
and by that means force you to write; and fo I have
done with you,
Madam,
Since I began to grow old, I have found all ladies
become inconſtant, without any reproach from their
conſcience, If I wait on you, I declare that one of
your women (which ever it is that has deſigns upon a
Chaplain) muſt be my nurſe, if I happen to be ſick or
peeviſh at your houſe, and in that caſe you mult ſuſ-
ds. pend your domineering Claim till I recover. Your
ou omitting the uſual appendix to Mr. Gay's letters hath
ng, done me infinite miſchief here; for while you continued
** them, you would wonder how civil the Ladies here were
on, eme. and how much they have altered ſince. I dare not
nes confeſs that I have deſcended ſo low as to write to your
ald brace, after the abominable negle& you have been
pulty ot; for if they but ſuſpected it, I ſhould loſe them
in al, One of them, who had an inklin of the matter
ter (your Grace will hardly believe it) refuſed to beg my
the pardon upon her knees, for once neglecting to make my
nce-milk, — Pray, conſider this, and do your duty, or
im dread the conſequence, I promiſe you ſhall have your
234 LETTERS TO AND
will fix minutes every hour at Aimſbury, and ſeven in
London, while I am in health: but if I happen to be
ſick, I muſt govern to a ſecond. Yet properly ſpeaking,
there is no man alive with ſo much truth and reſpec
your Grace's moſt obedient and devoted ſervant.
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* O U and the Ducheſs uſe me very ill, for, I proſeſ,
I cannot diſtinguiſh the ſtyle or the hand- writigg
of either. I think her Grace writes more like you than
herſelf, and that you write more like her Grace than
yourſelf, I would ſwear the beginning of your letter
writ by the Ducheſs, though it is to paſs for your;
becauſe there is a curſed lie in it, that ſhe is neither Madat
young nor healthy, and beſides it perfectly reſembia , upon
the part ſhe owns. I will likewiſe ſwear, that what 1 fpirit i
muſt ſuppoſe is written by the Ducheſs, is your hand Grace
and thus I am puzzled and;perplexed between you, du cerns
I will go on in the innocency of my own heart, 1 anW:lf N
got eight miles from our famous metropolis, to i we
country Parſon's, to whom I lately gave a City-living 8M hath |
ſuch as an Engliſh Chaplain would leap at. I retire under
hither for the public good, having two great works lies!
hand: One to reduce the whole politeneſs, wit, humou t atte
and ſtyle of England, into a ſhort ſyſtem, for the uſe MAH oug
all perſons of quality, and particularly the maids d vniun
honour . The other is of almoſt equal importance; Wh; yo
I may call it the whole duty of ſervants, in about wen mia!
ſeveral ſtations, from the ſteward and waiting-womil
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FROM DR. SWIFT, et. 235
down to the ſcullion and pantry-boy ® — I believe no
b nortal had ever ſuch fair invitations, as to be happy in
the beſt company of England, I wiſh I had liberty to
* print your letter with my own comments upon it. There
was a fellow in Ireland, who from a ſhoe-boy grew to
be ſeveral times one of the chief governors, wholly illi-
terate, and with hardly common ſenſe : A Lord Lieu-
tenant told the firſt King George, that he was the
greateſt ſubje he had in both kingdoms; and truly this
character was gotten and preſerved by his never appear-
31. ng in England, which was the only wiſe thing he ever
fels, did, except purchaſing ſixteen thouſand pounds a year—
ting Why, you need not ſtare : it is eaſily apply'd : I muft
than WY be abſent, in order to preſerve my credit with her Grace
than - Lo here comes in the Ducheſs again (I know her by
letter her dd's ; but am a fool for diſcovering my Art) to de-
un fend herſelf againſt my conjecture of what ſhe ſaid —
iter e Madam, I will imitate your Grace and write to you
dle upon the ſame line. I own it is a baſe un- romantic
hat I pirit in me, to ſuſpend the honour of waiting at your
and; Grace's feet, till I can finiſh a paultry law-ſuit. It con-
„ bai cerns indeed almoſt my whole fortune; it is equal to
I er Mr. Pope's, and two thirds of Mr. Gay's, and about
to 4
lx weeks rent of your Grace's. This curſed accident
bath drill'd away the whole ſummer. But, Madam,
underſtand one thing, that I take all your ironical civi-
ities in a literal ſenſe, and whenever I have the honour
o attend you, ſhall expect them to be literally perform'd :
tough perhaps I ſhall find it hard to prove your hand-
Witinp in a Court of juſtice ; but that will not be much
for your credit. How miſerably hath your Grace been
miſtaken ia thinking to avoid Envy by running inta
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exile, where it haunts you more than ever it did even x
Court? Non te civitas, non regia domus in exilium mil.
runt, ſed tu utraſque. So ſays Cicero (as your Grace
knows) or fo he might have ſaid.
I am told that the Craftſman in one of his papers iz
offended with the publiſhers of (I ſuppoſe) the laft edi.
tion of the Dunciad ; and I was aſked whether you and
Mr. Pope were as good friends to the new diſgraced
perſon as formerly? This I knew nothing of, but ſup.
poſe it was the conſequence of ſome miſtake, As tg
writing, J look on you juſt in the prime of life for it,
the very ſeaſon when judgment and invention draw to-
gether. But ſchemes are perfectly accidental; ſome
will appear barren of hints and matter, but prove to be
fruitful ; and others the contrary : And what you lay,
is paſt doubt, that every one can beſt find hints for him.
ſelf : though it is poſſible that ſometimes a friend mij
give you a lucky one juſt ſaited to your. own imagine
tion. But all this is almoſt paſt with me: my invention
and judgment are perpetually at fiſty-cuffs, till they hare
quite diſabled each other: and the meereſt trifles I ever
wrote are ſerious philoſophical lucubrations, in compa»
riſon to what I now. buſy myſelf about; as (to ſpeak
in the author's phraſe) the world may one day ſee *,
* His ludicrous prediction was, ſince his death, and very much
to his diſhonour, ſeriouſly fulfilled, in collecting together, and
publiſhing every folly that fell from his pen, in this diſabled fat
of his wit, as he himſelf repreſents it to be; and which, tit
productions of it amply verify, This treatment of ſo great a Ge-
nius for a little paultry lucre, well deſerves the indignation of thi
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LETTER LV.
Sept. 10, 1731. \
I your ramble was on horſeback, I am glad of it on
account of your health ; but I know your arts of
patching up a journey between ſtage-coaches and friends
coaches : for you are as arrant a cockney as any hoſier
in Cheapſide. One, clean ſhirt with two cravats, and as
many handkerchiefs, make up your equipage ; and as
for a night-gown, it is clear from Homer, that Aga-
memnon roſe without one. I have often had it in my
head to put it into yours, that you ought to have ſome
great work in ſcheme, which may take up ſeven years
to finiſh, beſides two or three under ones, that may add
mother thouſand pound to your ſtock ; and then I ſhall
be in leſs pain about you. I know you can find dinners,
but you love twelve-penny coaches too well, without
conſidering that the intereſt of a whole thouſand pounds
brings you but half a crown a day. I find a greater
longing than ever to come amongſt you; and reaſon
good, when I am teazed with Dukes and Ducheſſes for
a viſit, all my demands comply'd with, and all excuſes
cut of, You remember, O happy Don Quixote!
* Queens held his horſe, and Ducheſſes pulled off his
* armour,” or ſomething to that purpoſe. He was a
mean-fpirited fellow; I can ſay ten times more; O
happy, etc. ſuch a Ducheſs was deſigned to attend him,
and ſuch a Duke invited him to command his Palace,
Nam iftos reges ceteros memorare nolo, hominum mendicabula*
20 read your Plautus, and obſerve Strobilus vaporing
after he had found the pot of gold. -I will have no-
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enough to make her eſteem'd ; but not one grain of
feeling. I only wiſh ſhe were a fool. — J have been
ſeveral months writing near five hundred lines on a plea-
ſant ſabje&, only to tell what my friends and enemies
will ſay on me after I am dead“. I ſhall finiſh it foon,
for I add two lines every week, and blot out four, and
alter eight. I have brought in you and my other friend,
as well as enemies and detractors.— It is a great comfort
to ſee how corruption and ill- conduct are inſtrumental in
quite th
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church, as ſoon as they are left to think freely, all join- Mme
ing in opinion. If this be diſaffection, pray God fend Wiſe... |
me always among the diſaffected! and I heartily wih d inder.
you joy of your ſcurvy treatment at Court, which hath woe,
given you leiſure to cultivate both public and private Wh: the
Virtue, neither of them likely to be ſoon met with ea be
within the walls of St. James's or Weſtminſter, — But! WF...
muſt here diſmiſs you, that I may pay my acknowledg. WF...
ments to the Duke for the great honour he hath done rat a
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My Lord, ty
I could have ſworn that my Pride would be always
able to preſerve me from Vanity; of which I have been M;
in great danger to be guilty for ſome months paſt, firſt by Ilhan
the conduct of my Lady Ducheſs, and now by that of .
your Grace, which had like to finiſh the work: and! be 6h
fhould have certainly gone about ſhewing my letters un. Wl Gr
der the charge of ſecreſy to every blab of my acquain- fuer, b
tance; if I could have the leaſt hope of prevailing on | Cop 6
any of them to believe that a man in ſo obſcure a come ei, .
erſon 0
* This has been publiſhed, and is amongft the beſt of bi
Poems,
FROM Da. SWIFT, etc. 239
quite thrown out of the preſent world, and within a few
eps of the next, ſhould receive ſuch condeſcending in-
ſtations, from two ſuch perſons, to whom he is an utter
franger, and who know no more of him than what they
zwe heard by the partial repreſentations of a friend.
But in the mean time, I muſt defire your Grace not to
fatter yourſelf, that I waited for Your Conſent to accept
de invitation. I muſt be ignorant indeed not to know,
that the Ducheſs, ever ſince you met, hath been moſt
witicly employed in increaſing thoſe forces, and
harpning thoſe arms with which ſhe ſubdued you at firſt,
and to which, the braver and the wiſer you grow, you
jill more and more ſubmit. 'Thus I knew myſelf on the
cure ſide, and it was a mere piece of good manners
inſert that clauſe, of which you have taken the advan-
ge. But as I cannot forbear informing your Grace
hat the Ducheſs's great ſecret in her art of government
uh been to reduce both your wills into one; ſo I am
ntent, in due obſervance to the forms of the world, to
um my moſt humble thanks to your Grace for ſo
heat a favour as you are pleaſed to offer me, and which
thing but impoſſibilities ſhall prevent me from receiy-
tz, ſince I am, with the greateſt reaſon, truth, and
thect, my Lord, your Grace's moſt obedient, etc.
ways
been Madam,
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4 0 [have conſulted all the learned in occult ſciences of my
and lantance, and have fat up eleven nights to diſ-
he ver the meaning of thoſe two hieroglyphical lines in
ur Grace's hand at the bottom of the laſt Aimſbury
— tter, but all in vain, Only tis agreed, that the language
* Coptic, and a very profound Behmiſt aſſures me, the
Je ls poetic, containing an invitation from a very great
Frlon of the female ſex to a ſtrange kind of man whom
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ſhe never ſaw; and this is all I can find, which after ſ
many former invitations, will ever confirm me in that un
reſpect, wherewith I am, Madam, your Grace's molt WW ich
obedient, etc. Ko
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Mr. Ga x to Dr. SWI r. in h
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Decemb. 1, 1741, are n
OU us'd to complain that Mr. Pope and I would not 4
let you ſpeak: you may now be even with me, aud 3
take it out in writing. If you don't ſend to me noy obs
and then, the poſt-office will think me of no conſequence, g f
for I have no correſpondent but you. You may keep a 4 |
far from us as you pleaſe, you cannot be forgotten by E
thoſe who ever knew you, and therefore pleaſe me by K 85
ſometimes ſhewing that J am not forgot by you. I hare .
nothing to take me off from my friendſhip to you:! 5 1
ſeek no new accquaintance, and court no favour; | ſpend ne
no ſhillings in coaches or chairs to levees or great vit BW , ;
and, as I don't want the aſſiſtance of ſome that I formetly o”
converſed with, Iwill not ſo much as ſeem to ſeek to Yo
be a dependant, As to my ſtudies, 1 have not bern , |
entirely idle, though I cannot ſay that I have yet per 4s
fected any thing. What I have done is ſomething in .
the way of thoſe fables I have already publiſhed. A , g
the money I get is by ſaving, ſo that by habit there mi |
be ſome hopes (if I grow richer) of my becoming f von
miſer. All miſers have their excuſes ; the motive kein,
my parſimony is independance. If I were to be rep e -
ſented by the Ducheſs (ſhe is ſach a downright nigge#1
for me) this character might not be allow'd me; but!
really think I am covetous enough for any who lives * N Ci; c
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FROM Da. SWIFT, etc. 241
Th the court end of the town, and who is as poor as
that WW myſelf: for I don't pretend that I am equally ſaving
nolt with S——k. Mr. Lewis deſired you might be told
that he hath five pounds of yours in his hands, which
he fancies you may have forgot, for he will hardly al-
low that a Verfe-man can have a juſt knowledge of his
own affairs, When you got rid of your law-ſuit, I was
in hopes that you had got your own, and was free from
every vexation of the law ; but Mr. Pope tells me you
ue not entirely out of your perplexity, tho? you have
the ſecurity now in your own poſſeſſion 3 but ſtill your
caſe is not ſo bad as Captain Gulliver's, who was ruined
by having a decree for him with coſts. I have had an
injunction for me againſt pirating bookſellers, which I
"OY em fare to get nothing by, and will, I fear, in the end,
* drain me of ſome money. When I began this proſecu-
p r tion, I fancy'd there would be ſome end of it; but the
K 1 goes on, and 'tis probable I ſhall ſome time or
"I other ſee an Attorney's bill as long as the Book, Poor
ſpend Duke Diſney is dead, and hath left what he had among
viſe WY dis friends, among whom are Lord Bolingbroke 500 J.
* Mr. Pelham 500 J. Sir William Wyndham's youngeſt
lon 500 J. Gen, Hill 500 J. Lord Maſſam's fon 500 J.
You have the good wiſhes of thoſe I converſe with;
hey know they gratify me, when they remember you;
vut I really think they do it purely for your own ſake,
lam ſatisfied with the love and friendſhip of good men,
and envy not the demerits of thoſe who are moſt conſpi-
cuoully diſtinguiſh'd. Therefore as I ſet a juſt value
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is what ſhould be its excuſe, that I write in an head. Wl prob:
ach which has laſted three days. I am never ill but! aorn
think of your ailments, and repine that they mutually Tl
hinder our being together: tho? in one point I am apt I nigh
to differ from you, for you ſhun your friends when you ous
are in thoſe circumſtances, and I deſire them; your way have
is the more generous, mine the more tender, Lady — too m
took your letter very kindly, for I had prepared her v9 Wl chara
expect no anſwer under a twelve-month; but kindne cc re
perhaps is a word not applicable to courtiers. However popul
the is an extraordinary woman there, who will do you and
common juſtice, For God's fake, why all this ſcruple be co
about Lord B 's keeping your horſes, who has a mike
park; or about my keeping you on a pint of wine a Wl ! ud
day? We are infinitely richer than you imagine: John eh.
Gay ſhall help me to entertain yon, tho' you come like go.
King Lear with fifty knights — Tho' ſuch proſpetis as me, 2
I wiſh, cannot now be formed for fixing you with uz, creas'
time may provide better before you part again: the old ery x
Lord may die, the benefice may drop, or, at worſt, you now c
may carry me into Ireland. You will fee a work of WW = b.
Lord B——'s and one of mine: which, with a juſt ne- WW gre
glect of the preſent age, conſult only poſterity ; and, ſervan
with a noble ſcorn of politics, aſpire to philoſophy. Ide, a
am glad you reſolve to meddle no more with the b Natur
concerns and intereſts of Parties, even of Countries (ior Wi 1% vv
Countries are but larger parties) Quid verum atque dem Wi ©*'fly
curare, et rogare, neſtrum fit. I am much pleaſed wi Wh > | »
your deſign upon Rochefoucault's maxim, pray finiſh it". Wl *
I am happy whenever you join our names together: #0
would Dr. Arbuthnot be, but at this time he can be
pleaſed with nothing; for his darling ſon is dying in al
* The Poem on his own death, formed upon a maxim of Roche-
foucault. It is one of the beſt of his Performances: But vel
characteriſt:c,
FROM Da. SWIPT, etc. 243
"A probability, by the melancaoly account I received this
t l morning.
U The paper you aſ me about is of little value. It
apt night have been a ſeaſonable ſatire upon the ſcanda-
ou bos language and paſſion with which men of condition
be ſtoop'd to treat one another: ſurely they ſacrifice
hn too much to the people, when they ſacrifice their own
r t9 characters, families, etc. to the diverſion of that rabble
ck of readers. I agree with you in my contempt of molt
ver popularity, fame, etc. even as a writer I am cool in it,
you nd whenever you ſee what I am now writing, you'll
ple be convinced I would pleaſe but a few, and (if I could)
mike mankind leſs admirers, and greater Reaſoners *.
| udy much more to render my own portion of Being
ealy, and to keep this peeviſh frame of the human body
n good humour. Infirmities have not quite unmann'd
me, and it will delight you to hear they are not in-
vos, creas'd, tho* not diminiſh'd. I thank God, I do not
» old ey much want people to attend me, tho' my Mother
you now cannot, When I am fick, I he down: when 1
ck of n better, I riſe up: I am uſed to the head-ach, etc.
re : greater pains arrive (ſuch as my late rheumatiſm) the
and, ſervants bathe and plaſter me, or the ſurgeon ſcariſies
V. | ne, and J bear it, becauſe I muſt. This is the evil of
e low WAR \\ ature, not of Fortune, I am juſt now as well as when
s (for bn was here: I pray God you were no worſe, I fin-
diem eerely wiſh my life were paſt near you, and, ſuch as it
5, I would not repine at it. — All you mention remem-
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Dr, SwirT to Mr. Ga x.
Dublin, May 4, 1732
1 Am now as lame as when you writ your letter, and
almoſt as lame as your letter ivſelf, for want of that
limb from my Lady Ducheſs, which you promis'd, and
without which I wonder how it could limp hither, I an
not in a condition to make a true ſtep even on Aimſbury
Downs, and I declare that a corporeal falſe ſtep is work
than a political one; nay worſe than a thouſand pol.
tical ones, for which I appeal to Courts and Miniſter,
who hobble on and proſper, without the ſenſe of feel.
ing. To talk of riding and walking is inſulting me,
for I can as ſoon fly as do either. It is your pride or
lazineſs, more than chair-hire, that makes the town ex-
penſive. No honour is loſt by walking in the dark;
and in the day, you may beckon a black-guard-boy ur
der a gate, near your viſiting-place, (experto cred: ) ſue
eleven-pence, and get half a crown's worth of health,
The worſt of my preſent misfortune is, that I eat and
drink, and can digeſt neither for want of exerciſe; and, 1
to encreaſe my miſery, the knaves are ſure to find me n
at home, and make huge void ſpaces in my cellars. | Up
congratulate with you for loſing your Great acquaite *
tance ; in ſuch a caſe, philoſophy teaches that we mul chef:
ſubmit, and be content with Good ones. I like Lom
Cornbury's refuſing his penſion, but I demur at his f »
ing elected for Oxford; which, I conceive, is wholly 0
changed; and entirely devoted to new principles; {6 iry
appeared to me the two laſt times I was there, of «
I find by the whole caſt of your letter, that you at iT
as giddy and as volatile as ever, juſt the reverſe of Mt
Pope, who kath always loved a domeſtic life from n
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youth, I was going to wiſh you had ſome little place
that you could call your own, but, I profeſs, I do not
know you well enough to contrive any one ſyſtem of
life that would pleaſe you. You pretend to preach up
iding and walking to the Ducheſs, yet, from my know-
ledge of you after twenty years, you always joined a
violent defire of perpetually ſhifting places and com-
pany, with a rooted lazineſs, and an utter impatience
of fatigue, A coach and fix horſes is the utmoſt exer-
ciſe you can bear, and this only when you can fill it
with ſuch company as is beſt ſuited to your taſte, and
how glad would you be if it could waft you in the air
to avoid jolting ? while I, who am ſo much later in life,
can, or at leaſt could, ride 500 miles on a trotting
horſe, You mortally hate writing, only becauſe it is
the thing you chiefly ought to do; as well to keep up
the vogue you have in the world, as to make you eaſy
in your fortune: You are merciful to every thing but
money, your beſt friend, whom you treat with inhuma-
nity, Be aſſured, I will hire people to watch all your
motions, and to return me a faithful account, Tell me,
bare you cured your Abſence of mind ? can you attend
w trifles ? can you at Aimſbury write domeſtic libels to
dirert the family and neighbouring ſquires for five miles
round? or venture ſo far on horſeback, without appre-
tending a ſtumble at every ſtep ? can you ſet the foot-
men a- laughing as they wait at dinner? and do the Du-
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at back-gammon ? have the farmers found out that you
cannot diſtinguiſh rye from barley, or an oak from a
crab- tree? You are ſenſible that I know the full extent
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T love to do you good offices with your friends, and
therefore deſire you will ſhow this letter to the Duchef,
to improve her Grace's good opinion of your qualificy
tions, and convince her how uſeful you are like to be h
the family. Her Grace ſhall have the honour of my
correſpondence again when ſhe goes to Aimſbury. Heat
a piece of Iriſh news, I buried the famous Genen
Meredith's father laſt night in my Cathedral, he wa
ninety-ſix years old: fo that Mrs. Pope may live ſeven
years longer. You ſaw Mr. Pope in health, pray js he
generally more healthy than when I was amongſt you?!
would know how your own health is, and how much
wine you drink in a day? My ſtiat in company is a
pint at noon, and half as much at night, but I often
dine at home like a hermit, and then I drink little or
none at all. Yet I differ from you, for I would have ſo-
ciety, if I could get what I like, people of middle un.
derſtanding, and middle rank. Adieu.
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Dublin, July 10, 1732.
I Had your letter by Mr. Ryves a long time after tie
date, for I ſuppoſe he ſtayed Jong in the way, Ian
glad you determine upon ſomething ; there is no writing
1 efteem more than Fables, nor any thing ſo difficult to
ſucceed in, which however you have done excellently
well, and I have often admir'd your happineſs in ſuch
kind of performances, which I have frequently ence»
vour'd at in vain. I remember I acted as you ſeem to
hint ; I found a Moral firſt and ſtudied for a Fable, but
could do nothing that pleaſed me, and fo left off tha
ſcheme for ever. I remember one, which was to repre-
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wherein I ſuppos'd the Lion was engag'd, and having
ol all his animals of worth, at laſt Serjeant Hog came
to be Brigadier, -and Corporal Aſs a Colonel, etc. I
zoree with you likewiſe about getting ſomething by the
lage, which, when it ſucceeds, is the beſt crop for poe-
tryin England: But, pray, take ſome new ſcheme,
quite different from any thing you have already touched.
The preſent humour of the players, who hardly (as I
was told in London) regard any new play, and your
preſent ſituation at the Court, are the difficulties to be
overcome ; but thoſe circumſtances may have altered (at
leaſt the former) ſince I left you. My ſcheme was to
ra a month at Aimſbury, and then go to Twicken-
bam, and live a winter between that and Dawley, and
lmetimes at Riſkins, without going to London, where
| now can have no occaſional lodgings : But I am not
yet in any condition for ſuch removals. I would fain
have you get enough againſt you grow old, to have two
or three ſervants about you and a convenient houſe, It
ls hard to want thoſe /ub/idia ſenectuli, when a man
grows hard to pleaſe, and few people care whether he
be pleaſed or no. I have a large houſe, yet 1 ſhould
hardly prevail to find one viſiter, if 1 were not able to
lire him with a bottle of wine : ſo that, when I am not
abroad on horſeback, J generally dine alone, and am
taankful, if a friend will paſs the evening with me, I
am now with the remainder of my pint before me, and
lo here's your health — and the ſecond and chief is to
my Tunbridge acquaintance, my Lady Ducheſs — and
| tell you that I fear my Lord Bolingbroke and Mr. Pope
(a couple of Philoſophers) would ſtarve me, for even of
port wine I ſhould require half a pint a day, and as
much at night, and you are growing as bad, unleſs your
Duke and Ducheſs have mended you. Your cholic is
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eat without care, and if you drink leſs than I, you drink
too little. But your inattention I cannot pardon, be.
cauſe I imagined the cauſe was removed, for I thought
it lay in your forty millions of ſchemes by Court-hopes
and Court-fears. Yet Mr. Pope has the ſame defect
and it is of all others the moſt mortal to converſation ;
neither is my Lord Bolingbroke untinged with it: al
for want of my rule, Vive la bagatelle / but the Doftor
is the King of inatten'ion, What a vexatious life ſhould
1 lead among you? If the Ducheſs be a reveu/e, 1 will
never come to Aimſbury ; or, if I do, I will run a9)
from you both, to one of her women, and the ſteward
and chaplain.
Madam,
I mention'd ſomething to Mr. Gay of a Tunbridge
acquaintance, whom we forget of courſe when we return
to town, and yet I am aſſured that if they meet again
next ſummer, they have a better title to reſume their
commerce. Thus I look on my right of correſponding
with your Grace to be better eltablith'd upon your re-
turn to Aimſbury ; and I ſhall at this time deſcend to
forget, or at leaſt ſuſpend my reſentments of your ne-
glect all the time you were in London. I ſtill keep in
my heart, that Mr. Gay had no ſooner turned his back,
than you left the place in his letter void which he had
commanded you to fill : though your guilt confounded
you ſo far, that you wanted preſence of mind to bio
out the laſt line, where that command ſtared you in the
face. But it is my misfortune to quarrel with all u
acquaintance, and always come by the worſt ; and For
tune is ever againſt me, but never ſo much as by pur:
ſuing me out of mefe partiality to your Grace, for which
you are to anſwer. By your connivance, ſhe hath pleaſed,
by one ſtumble on the ſtairs, to give me a lamenes tha
FROM Da. SWIFT, et, 249
ink fx months have not been able perfectly to cure: and
be- thus I am prevented from revenging my ſelf by continuing
Abt z month at Aimſbury, and breeding confuſion in your
pes Grace's family. No diſappointment through my whole
life hath been ſo vexatious by many degrees; and God
knows whether 1 ſhall ever live to ſee the inviſible Lady
to whom I was obliged for ſo many favours, and whom I
dor never beheld ſince ſhe was a bratt in hanging- ſleeves.
old Jam, and ſhall, be ever, with the greateſt reſpect and
will gratitude, Madam, your Grace's moiſt obedient, and
moſt humble, etc.
LETTER LE.
idpe Dublin, Aug. 12, 1732.
uy Know not what to ſay to the account of your ſteward-
2 ſhip, and it is monſtrous to me that the South - ſea
ſhould pay half their debts at one clap. But I will ſend
for the money when you put me into the way, for I ſhall
want it here, my affairs being in a bad condition by the
miſeries of the kingdom, and my own private fortune
being wholly embroiled, and worſe than ever; ſo that
| ſhall ſoon petition the Ducheſs, as an object of charity,
to lend me three or four thouſand pounds to keep up
bs my dignity. My one hundred pound will buy me ſix
nded :
bopſheads of wine, which will ſupport me a year;
) blot f 2 .
* troviſæ frugis in annum Copia. Horace deſired no more;
for I will conſtrue frugis to be wine. You are young
enough to get ſome lucky hint, which muſt come by
chance, and it ſhall be a thing of importance, quod et
bune in annum vi vat et in plures, and you ſhall not
ſniſn it in haſte, and it ſhall be diverting, and uſefully
ſatirical, and the Ducheſs ſhall be your Critic ; and be-
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twixt you and me, I do not find ſhe will grow wer
of you till this time ſeven years. I had lately an offer
to change for an Engliſh living, which is juſt too ſhort
by 3001. a year; and that muſt be made up out of the
Ducheſs's pin-money before 1 can conſent. I want to be
Miniſter of Aimſbury, Dawley, Twickenham, Riſkins,
and Prebendary of Weſtminſter, elſe I will not ſtir a
ſep, but content myſelf with making the Ducheſs mi.
ſerable three months next ſummer. But I keep ill com-
pany : I mean the Ducheſs and you, who are both out
of favour; and ſo I find am I, by a few verſes wherein
Pope and you have your parts. You hear Dr. Dy has
got a wife with 1600 J. a year; I, who am his governor,
cannot take one under two thouſand ; I wiſh you would
enquire of ſuch a one in your neighbourhood. See what
It is to write godly books! I profeſs I envy you aboye
all men in England; you want nothing but three thou-
{and pounds more, to keep you in plenty when your
friends grow weary of you. To prevent which laſ
evil at Aimſbury, you muſt learn to domineer and be
peeviſh, to find fault with their victuals and drink, to
chide and direct the ſervants, with ſome other leſſons,
which I ſhall teach you, and always practiſed myſeli
with ſucceſs. I believe I formerly deſired to know
whether the Vicar of Aimſbury can play at back-gam-
mon? pray aſk him the queſtion, and give him my
ſervice,
To the Ducheſs.
Madam,
I was the moſt unwary creature in the world, when,
againlt my old maxims, I writ firſt to you upon you!
return to Tunbridge. I beg that this condeſcenio!
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end to make a precedent of it. I never knew any man
cured of any inattention, although the pretended cauſes
were removed. When I was with Mr, Gay laſt in Lon-
don, talking with him on ſome poetical ſubjects, he
would anſwer 3 “ Well, I am determined not to accept
« the employment of Gentleman-uſher ;” and of the
ame diſpoſition were all my poetical friends, and if you
cannot cure him, I utterly deſpair. — As to yourſelf,
[ will ſay to you (though compariſons be odious) what
| faid to the ——, that your quality ſhould be never any
motive of eſteem to me: My compliment was then loſt,
but it will not be ſo to you. For I know you more by
any one of your letters than I could by fix months con-
verſing, Your pen is always more natural and ſincere
and unaffected than your tongue; in writing you are
too lazy to give yourſelf the trouble of acting a part,
and have indeed acted ſo indifcreetly that I have you at
mercy : and although you ſhould arrive to ſuch a height
of immorality as to deny your hand, yet, whenever J
produce it, the world will unite in ſwearing this mutt-
come from you only,
| will anſwer your queſtion, Mr. Gay is not difcreet
enough to live alone, but he 15 too difcreet to live alone ;.
and yet (unleſs you mend him) he will live alone even
in your Grace's company. Your quarrelling with each
other upon the ſubje& of bread and butter, is the moſt
uſual thing in the world; Parliaments, Courts, Cities,
and Kingdoms quarrel for no other cauſe ; from hence,
and from hence only, ariſe all the quarrels between
Whig and Tory; between thoſe who are in the Miniſtry, .
and tnoſe who are out; between all pretenders to em-
ployment in the Church, the Law, and the Army: even
tie common proverb tcaches you this, when we ſay, It:
13 none of my bread and butter, meaning it is no buſi-
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neſs of mine, Therefore I deſpair of any reconcilement
between you till the affair of bread and butter be adjuſted,
wherein I would gladly be a mediator. If Mahomet
ſhould come to the mountain, how happy would an ex.
cellent lady be, who lives a few miles from this town!
As I was telling of Mr. Gay's way of living at Aimſbury,
he offered fifty guineas to have you both at her houſe
for one hour over a bottle of Burgundy, which we were
then drinking. To your queſtion I anſwer, that your
Grace ſhould pull me by the fleeve till you tore it of,
and when you ſaid you were weary of me, I would
pretend to be deaf, and think (according to another
proverb) that you tore my cloaths to keep me from
going. I never will believe one word you ſay of my
Lord Duke, unleſs I ſee three or four lines in his own
hand at the bottom of yours. I have a concern in the
whole family, and Mr. Gay muſt give me a particular
account of every branch, for I am not aſhamed of you
tho* you be Duke and Ducheſs, tho* I have been ot
others who are, etc. and J do not doubt but even your
own ſervants love you, even down to your poſtilions;
and when I come to Aimſbury, before I ſee your Grace
I will have an hour's converſation with the Vicar, who
will tell me how familiarly you talk to Goody Dobſon
and all the neighbours, as if you were their equal, and
that you were godmother to her ſon Jacky.
J am, and ſhall be ever, with the greateſt reſpec,
your Grace's moſt obedient, etc.
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FROM Ds. SWIFT, etc 28g
LETTER LX.
Dublin, OR. 3, 1731.
| Vinally write to friends after a pauſe of a few weeks,
that I may not interrupt them in better company,
better thoughts, and better diverſions. I believe I
have told you of a great Man, who ſaid to me, that
he never once in his life receiv'd a good letter from
Ireland : for which there are reaſons enough without
affronting our underſtandings, For there is not one
perſon out of this country, who regards any events that
paſs here, unleſs he hath an eſtate or employment, — I
cannot tell that you or I ever gave the leaſt provocation
to the preſent Miniſtry, and much lefs to the Court;
and yet I am ten times more out of favour than you.
For my own part, I do not ſee the politic of opening
common letters, directed to perſons generally known ;
for a man's underſtanding would be very weak to convey
ſecrets by the poſt, if he knew any, which, I declare, I
do not: and beſides I think the world is already fo. well
informed by plain events, that I queſtion whether the
Miniſters have any ſecrets at all. Neither would I be
under any apprehenſion if a letter ſhould be ſent me full
of treaſon ; becauſe I cannot hinder people from writing
what they pleaſe, nor ſending it to me; and altho' it
ſhould be diſcover'd to have been open'd before it came
tomy hand, I would only burn it and think no further,
| approve of the ſcheme you have to grow ſomewhat
cher, though, I agree, you will meet with diſcourage-
ments; and it is reaſonable you ſhould, conſidering what
rind of pens are at this time only employed and en-
couraged. For you mult allow that the bad painter
was in the right, who, having painted a cock, drove
Way all the cocks and hens, and even the chickens, for
254 LETTERS TO AND
fear thoſe who paſſed by his ſhop might make a com.
pariſon with his work. And I will ſay one thing in ſpite
of the Poſt-officers, that ſince Wit and Learning began
to be made uſe of in our kingdoms, they were never
profeſſedly thrown afide, contemned, and puniſhed, til!
within your own memory; nor Dulneſs and Ignorance
ever ſo openly encouraged and promoted. In anſwer to
what you ſay of my living among you, if I could do it
to my eaſe ; perhaps you have heard of a ſcheme for an
exchange in Berkſhire propoſed by two of our friends;
but, beſides the difficulty of adjuſting certain circum.
ſtances, it would not anſwer. I am ata time of life that
ſeeks eaſe and independence; you'll hear my reaſons
when. you ſee thoſe friends, and I concluded them with
faying ; That I would rather be a freeman among ſlaves,
than a ſlave among freemen. The dignity of my pre-
ſent ſtation damps the pertneſs of inferior puppies and
ſquires, which, without plenty and eaſe on your fide the
channel, would break my heart in a month;
Madam,
See what it is to live where I do. I am utterly igro-
rant of that ſame Strado del Poe; and yet, if that Author
be againft lending or giving money, I cannot but think
him a good Courtier ; which, I am ſure, your. Grace 1s
not, no not ſo much as to be a Maid of honour, For!
am certainly informed, that you are neither a free-thinker,
nor can ſell bargains; that you can neither ſpell, nor talk,
nor write, nor think like a Courtier ;. that you pretend
to be reſpected for qualities which have been out of
faſhion ever ſince you were almoſt in your cradle; that
your contempt for a fine petticoat 15 an infallible mark of
diſaffection; which is further confirmed by your ill-taſle
for Wit, in preſerring two old-faſhion'd poets beſole
FROM Da. SWIFT, et. 255
Duck or Cibber. Beſides, you ſpell in ſuch a manner
25 no court- lady can read, and write in ſuch an old-
faſhion'd ſtyle as none of them can underſtand. — You
need not be in pain about Mr. Gay's ſtock of health.
| promiſe you he will ſpend it all upon lazineſs, and run
deep in debt by a winter's repoſe in town ; therefore L
entreat your Grace will order him to move his chops
leſs and his legs more the ſix cold months, elſe he will
ſpend all his money in phyſic and coach-hire. I am in
much perplexity about your Grace's declaration, of the
manner in which you diſpoſe what you call your love
and reſpect, which, you ſay, are not paid to Merit but to
your own Humour. Now, Madam, my misfortune is, that
[ have nothing to plead but abundance of Merit, and
there goes an ugly obſervation, that the Humour of
ladies is apt to change. Now, Madam, if I ſhould go
to Aimſbury with a great load of Merit, and your Grace
happen to be out of humour, and will not purchaſe my
merchandize at the price of your reſpect, the goods may
be damaged, and nobody elſe will take them off my
hands. Beſides, you have declared Mr. Gay to hold
the firſt part, and J but the ſecond ; which is hard treat-
ment, ſince I ſhall be the neweſt acquaintance by ſome
years; and I will appeal to all the reſt of your ſex,
whether ſuch an innovation ought to be allowed ? I
ſhould be ready to ſay in the common forms, that I was
much oblig'd to the Lady who wiſh'd ſhe could give the
beſt living, etc. if I did not vehemently ſuſpect it was the
very ſame Lady who ſpoke many things to me in the
lame ſtyle, and alſo with regard to the gentleman at your
elbow when you writ, whoſe Dupe he was as well as of
her Waiting-woman ; but they were both arrant knaves,
as I told him and a third friend, though they will not
believe it to this day. I defire to preſent my moſt hum-
ble reſpects to my Lord Duke, and with my heartieſt
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prayer for the proſperity of the whole family, remain
your Grace's, etc.
LETTER LXI.
To Mr. Po x.
Dublin, June 12, 1731,
J Poubt, habit hath little power to reconcile us with
ſickneſs attended by pain. With me, the lowneſs of
ſpirits hath a moſt unhappy effect; I am grown le;
patient with ſolitude, and harder to be pleas'd with
company; which I could formerly better digeſt, when
I could be eaſier without it than at preſent. As to ſend-
ing you any thing that I have written ſince I left you |
(either verſe or proſe) I can only ſay, that I have order'd
by my Will, that all my Papers of any kind ſhall be
deliver'd you to diſpoſe of as you pleaſe. I have ſeveral
things that I have had ſchemes to finiſh, or to attempt,
but I very fooliſhly put off the trouble, as finners do
their repentance : for I grow every day more averſe from
writing, which is very natural, and, when I take a
pen, ſay to myſelf a thouſand times, on eff tanti. As to
thoſe papers of four or five years paſt, that you at
pleas'd to require ſoon ; they conſiſt of little accidental
things writ in the country ; family amuſements, never
intended further than to divert ourſelves and fome neigh-
bours: or ſome effects of anger on Public Grievances
here, which would be inſignificant out of this kingdom.
Two or three of us had a fancy, three years ago, t0
write a Weekly paper, and call it an Intelligencer. But
it continued not long; for the whole Volume (it was re-
printed in London, and, I find, you have ſeen it) wa
the work only of two, myſelf and Dr. Sheridan. If we
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could have got ſome ingenious young man to have been
the manager, who ſhould have publiſhed all that might
de ſent to him, it might have continued longer, for there
were hints enough. But the Printer here could not
afford ſuch a young man one ſarthing for his trouble, the
{ale being ſo ſmall, and the price one halfpenny ; and
ſo it dropt. In the Volume you ſaw (to anſwer your
queſtions) the 1, 3, 5, 7, were mine, Of the Sth I
wit only the Verſes, (very uncorrect, but againſt a
fellow we all hated) the gth mine, the 1oth only the
Verſes, and of thoſe not the four laſt ſlovenly lines ; the
1;th is a Pamphlet of mine printed before with Dr.
Sh—'s Preface, merely for lazineſs not to diſappoint the
town; and ſo was the 19th, which contains only a parcel
of facts relating purely to the miſeries of Ireland, and
wholly uſeleſs and unentertaining, As to other things
of mine fince I left you; there are in proſe a View of
the State of Ireland; a Project for eating Children; and
a Defence of Lord Carteret; in verſe, a Libel on Dr.
D- and Lord Carteret; a Letter to Dr. D— on the
the Libels writ againſt him; the Barrack (a ſtolen Copy ;)
the Lady's Journal; the Lady's Dreſſing-· room (a ſtolen
Copy ;) the Plea of the Damn'd ( a ſtolen Copy; ) all
tneſe have been printed in London, (I forgot to tell
you that the Tale of Sir Ralph was ſent from England.)
beſides theſe there are five or ſix (perhaps more) Papers
of Verſes writ in the North, but perfect Family-things,
tuo or three of which may be tolerabie ; the reſt but in-
afferent, and the humour only local, and ſome that
vould give offence to the times. Such as they are, I
will bring them, tolerable or bad, if I recover this lame-
tels, and live long enough to ſee you either here or there.
| forget again to tell you, that the Scheme of paying
Debts by a Tax on Vices, is not one ſyllable mine, but
of a young Clergyman whom 1 countenance ; he told
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me it was built upon a paſſage in Gulliver, where a Pro.
jector hath ſomething upon the ſame thought, This
young man 1s the moſt hopeful we have : a book of his
Poems was printed in London; Dr. D— is one of his
patrons : he is marry'd and has children, and makes up
about 100 J. a year, on which he lives decently, The
utmoſt ſtretch of his ambition is, to gather up as much
ſuperfluous money, as will give him a ſight of you, and
half an hour of your preſence ; after which he will re.
turn home in full ſatisfaction, and in proper time die in
peace.
My poetical fountain is drain'd, and I profeſs, I grow
gradually ſo dry, that a Rhime with me is almoſt as hard
to find as a Guinea; and even Proſe ſpeculations tire ne
almoſt as much. Yet I have a thing in proſe begun
about twenty-eight years ago, and almoſt finiſhed, It
will make a four ſhilling Volume, and is ſuch a perfection
of folly, that you ſhall never hear of it till it is printed,
and then you ſhall be left to gueſs *. Nay I have ano-
ther of the ſame age, which will require a long time t9
perfect, and is worſe than the former, in which I wil
ſerve you the ſime way. I heard lately from Mr. —,
who promiſes to be leſs lazy in order to mend his fortune.
But women who live by their beauty, and men by their
wit, are ſeldom provident enough to conſider that both
Wit and Beauty will go off with years, and there
no living upon the credit of what is paſt.
I am in great concern to hear of my Lady Boling:
broke's ill health returned upon her, and, I doubt, my
Lord will find Dawley too ſolitary without her, In thi,
neither he nor you are companions young enough fit
me, and, I believe, the belt part of the reaſon why men
are ſaid to grow children when they are old, is becauic
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they cannot entertain themſelves with thinking; which
is the very caſe of little boys and girls, who love to be
noiſy among their play-fellows. I am told Mrs. Pope
is without pain, and I have not heard of a more gentle
decay, without uneaſineſs to herſelf or friends; yet 1
cannot but pity you, who are ten times the greater
ſufferer, by having the perſon you moſt love, ſo long be-
fore you, and dying daily; and I pray God it may not
affect your mind or your health.
EET FACS
Mr. Por E to Dr. SWI r.
Dec. 5, 1732.
T is not a time to complain that you have not an-
ſwered me two letters ( in the laſt of which I was im-
patient under ſome fears:) It is not now indeed a time
to think of myſelf, when one of the neareſt and longeſt
ties I have ever had, is broken all on a ſudden, by the un-
expected death of poor Mr, Gay. An inflammatory
fever hurried him out of this life in three days. He died
laſt night at nine o'clock, not depriv'd of his ſenſes en-
trely at laſt, and poſſeſling them perfectly till within five
hours. He afked of you a few hours before, when in acute
torment by the inflammation in his bowels and breaſt,
His effects are in the Duke of Queenſbury's cuſtody,
His fiſters, we ſuppoſe, will be his heirs, who are two
widows; as yet it is not known whether or no he
left a will. Good God! how often are we to die before
,* © On my dear friend Mr, Gay's death: Received December
4 18, but not read till the zoth, by an Impulſe, foreboding ſome
Misfortune. [ This note is indors'd on the original letter in
Dr. Swift's hand. J
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260 LETTERS TO AND
we go quite off this ſtage? In every friend we loſe a part
of ourſelves, and the beſt part. God keep thoſe we |
have left! few are worth praying for, and one's ſelf the
leaſt of all. |
I ſhall never ſee you now, I believe; one of Your
principal calls to England is at an end. Indeed he wa
the moſt amiable by far, his qualities were the gentleſt;
but I love you as well and as firmly. Would to God
the man we have loſt had not been ſo amiable, nor ſo
good! but that's a wiſh for our own ſakes, not for his,
Sure if Innocence and Integrity can deſerve Happineſs,
it muſt be his. Adieu, [ can add nothing to what you will
feel, and diminiſh nothing from it, Yet write to me,
and ſoon. Believe no man now living loves you better,
I believe no man ever did, than
A, Pops,
Dr. Arbuthnot, whoſe humanity you know, heartily
commends himſelf to you. All poſſible diligence and
affection has been ſhown, and continued attendance on
this melancholy occaſion. Once more adieu, and write
to one who is truly diſconſolate.
Dear Sir,
I am ſorry that the renewal of our correſpondenc:
ſhould be upon ſuch a melancholy occaſion, Poor Mr.
Gay died of an inflammation, and, I believe, at laſt
mortiſication of the bowels ; it was the moſt precipitate
caſe I ever knew, having cut him off in three days, He
was attended by two Phyficians beſides myſelf, I be.
lieved the diſtemper mortal from the beginning. I have
not had the pleaſure of a line from you theſe tw
years; I wrote one about your health, to which | has
no anſwer. I wiſh you all health and happineſs, being
with great affection and reſpect, Sir, Your, etc.
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LETTER; MH.
Dublin, 1732-3.
en yours with a few lines from the Doctor, and
the account of our loſing Mr. Gay, upon which event
[ ſhall ſay nothing. I am only concern'd that long-
living hath not harden'd me: for even in this kingdom,
and in a few days paſt, two perſons of great merit, whom
[ loved very well, have dicd in the prime of their years,
but a little above thirty. I would endeavour to comfort
myſelf upon the loſs of friends, as I do upon the loſs of
money; by turning to my account-book, and ſeeing
whether I have enough left for my ſupport; but in the
former caſe I find I have not, any more than in the other;
and I know not any man who is in a greater likelyhood
than myſelf to die poor and friendleſs. You are a much
greater loſer than me by his death, as being a more
intimate friend, and often his companion; which
latter I could never hope to be, except perhaps once
more in my life for a piece of a ſummer. I hope he hath
left you the care of any writings he may have left, and
| wiſh, that, with thoſe already extant, they could all be
publiſhed in a fair edition under your inſpection. Your
Poem on the Uſe of Riches hath been juſt printed here,
and we have no objection but the obſcurity of ſeveral
paſſages by our ignorance in facts and perſons, which
makes us loſe abundance of the Satire, Had the printer
given me notice, I would have honeſtly printed the
names at length, where I happened to know them; and
writ explanatory notes, which however would have
been but few, for my long abſence hath made me igno-
rant of what paſſes out of the ſcene where I am. I never
had the leaſt hint from you about this work, any more
than of your former, upon Taſte. We are told here,
lat you are preparing other pieces of the ſame bulk to
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be inſcribed to other friends, one (for inſtance) to my
Lord Bolingbroke, another to Lord Oxford, and ſo
on. — Doctor Delany preſents you his moſt humble
ſervice : he behaves himſelf very commendably, con.
verſes only with his former friends, makes no parade, but
entertains them conſtantly at an elegant plentiful table,
walks the ſtreets as uſual, by day-light, does many acts of
charity and generoſity, cultivates a country-houſe two
miles diſtant, and is one of thoſe very few within my
knowledge, on whom a great acceſs of fortune hath made
no manner of change. And particularly he is often
without money, as he was before, We have got my
Lord Orrery among us, being forced to continue here
on the ill condition of his eſtate by the knavery of an
Agent; he is a moſt worthy Gentleman, whom, I hope,
you will be acquainted with. I am very much oblig-
ed by your favour to Mr. ÞP —, which, I deſire, may
continue no longer than he ſhall deſerve by his Mo-
deſty, a virtue I never knew him to want, but is
hard for young men to keep, without abundance of
ballaſt, If you are acquainted with the Ducheſs of
Queenſbury, I defire you would preſent her my moſ
humble ſervice: I think ſhe is a greater loſer by the
death of a friend than either of us. She ſeems a Lady
of excellent ſenſe and ſpirit. I had often poltfcripts from
her in our friend's letters to me, and her part was ſome-
times longer than his, and they made up great part of the
little happineſs I could have here. This was the more
generous, becauſe [ never ſaw her ſince ſhe was a girl of
five years old, nor did I envy poor Mr. Gay for aty
thing ſo much as being a domeſtic friend to ſuch a Lady.
I defire you will never fail to ſend me a particular ac:
count of your health, I dare hardly enquire about Mrs.
Pope, who, I am told, is but juſt among the living, and
conſequently a continual grief to you: ſhe is ſenſible af
FROM Da. SWIFT, etc. 263
voor tenderneſs, which robs her of the only happineſs
ſhe is capable of enjoying. And yet I pity you more
than her; you cannot lengthen her days, and I beg ſhe
may not ſhorten yours.
—_
— —
LETTER LXIV.
Feb. 16, 1732-3.
Ir is indeed impoſſible to ſpeak on ſuch a ſubject as
the loſs of Mr. Gay, to me an irreparable one. But
[ ſend you what I intend for the inſcription on his tomb,
which the Duke of Queenſbury will ſet up at Weltmin-
ler. As to his writings, he left no Will, nor ſpoke a
word of them, or any thing elſe, during his ſhort and
precipitate illneſs, in which I attended him to his laſt
breath, The Duke has acted more than the part of a
brother to him, and it will be ſtrange if the ſiſters do not
leave his papers totally to his diſpoſal, who will do the
fame that I would do with them. He has managed the
Comedy (which our poor friend gave to the playhouſe
tie week before his death) to the utmoſt advantage for
his relations; and propoſes to do the ſame with ſome
Fables he left finiſhed.
There is nothing of late which I think of more than
Mortality, and what you mention, of collecting the beſt
mouuments we can of our friends, their own images in
their writings : (for thoſe are the beſt, when their minds
ae ſuch as Mr. Gay's was, and as yours is.) I am pre-
paing alſo for my own, and having nothing ſo much
at heart, as to ſhew the filly world that men of Wit, or
eren Poets, may be the moſt moral of mankind. A few
looſe things ſometimes fall from them, by which cenſo-
nous tools judge as ill of them as poſlivly they can, for
cir own comfort: and indeed, when ſuch unguarded
ad trifling Jeux d Eſprit have once got abroad, all that
264 LETTERS TO AND
prudence or repentance can do, fince they cannot be
denied, is to put them fairly upon that foot ; and teach
the public (as we have done in the preface to the four
volumes of Miſcellanies) to diſtinguiſh betwixt our
ſtudies and our idleneſſes, our works and our weakneſſes,
That was the whole end of the laſt Vol. of Miſcellanies,
without which our former declaration in that preface,
46 That theſe volumes contained all that we have ever
« offended that way, would have been diſcredited, [t
went indeed to my heart, to omit what you called the
Libel on Dr. D—, and the beſt Panegyric on myſelf,
that either my own times or any other could have afford-
ed, or will ever afford to me. The book, as you ob-
ſerve, was printed in great haſte; the cauſe whereof
was, that the bookſellers here were doing the ſame, in
collecting your pieces, the corn with the chaff; I don't
mean that any thing of yours is chaff, but with other wit
of Ireland which was ſo, and the whole in your name,
J meant principally to oblige them to ſeparate what you
writ ſeriouſly from what you writ careleſsly ; and thought
my own weeds might paſs for a ſort of wild flowers,
when bundled up with them.
It was I that ſent you thoſe books into Ireland, and
fo I did my Fpiſtle to Lord Bathurſt even before it vis
publiſh'd, and another thing of mine, which is a Pa-
rody from Horace, writ in two mornings. I never took
more care in my life of any thing than of the former
theſe, nor leſs than of the latter: yet every friend has
forced me to print it, tho” in truth my own fingle mo.
tive was about twenty lines towards the latter end,
which you will find out.
I have declined opening to you by letters the whole
ſcheme of my preſent Work, expecting ſtill to do it i
® Sat, i, Lib, its
FROM Da. SWIFT,
be better manner in perſon : but you will ſee pretty ſoon,
ach that the letter to Lord Bathurſt is a part of it, and you
our WY vill find a plain connection between them, if you read
our WM them in the order juſt contrary to that they were pu-
es. WY bliſh'd in. I imitate thoſe cunning tradeſmen, who
ies, WH Gow their beſt filks laſt; or (to give you a truer idea,
ace, WW tho' it ſounds too proudly) my works will in one reſpect
ever be like the works of Nature, much more to be liked
. It and underſtood when conſider'd in the relation they
etc, 263
the bear with each other, than when ignorantly look'd up-
yſelf, on one by one; and often, thoſe parts which attract
ford- MY moſt at firſt fight, will appear to be not the moſt, but
a ob · de leaſt conſiderable.
ereof am pleas'd and flatter'd by your expreſſion of Orna
e, in *. The chief pleaſure this work can give me is, that
don't can in it, with propriety, decency, and juſtice, inſert
er wit de name and character of every friend I have, and every
name. man that deſerves to be lov'd or adorn'd, But I ſmile
at you at your applying that phraſe to my viſiting you in
ought Ireland ; a place where 1 might have ſome apprehen-
Wers, bon (from their extraordinary paſſion for Poetry, and
iter boundleſs Hoſpitality) of being adorned to death,
. and ad buried under the weight of garlands, like one I
It 43 e read of ſomewhere or other. My Mother lives
2 1 (which is an anſwer to that point) and, I thank God,
er tod N tho! her memory be in a manner gone, is yet awake and
mer a enable to me, though ſcarce to any thing elſe; which
ud ba ble, the reaſon of my attendance, and at the ſame
le ” lime ſweetens it. I wiſh (beyond any other wiſh) you
«ha: cou'd paſs a ſummer here; I might (too probably) return
4 wird you, unleſs you preferr'd to ſee France firſt, to
Ws ich country, I think, you would have a ſtrong invi -
aon. Lord Peterborow has narrowly eſcaped death,
ad yet keeps his chamber: he is perpetually ſpeaking
ln the moſt affectionate manner of you: he has written
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voa two letters, which you never received, and by th;
has been diſcouraged from writing more. I can ye
believe the poſt-office may do this, when ſome lette
of his to me have met the ſame fate, and two of min
to him. Yet let not this diſcourage you from writing
to me, or to him, inclos'd in the common way, 2
do to you: Innocent men need fear no deteRtion «
their thoughts; and for my part, I would give em fie
leave to ſend all I write to Curl, if moſt of what I vm #
was not too filly, *
I defire my ſincere ſervices to Dr. Delany, who,
Agree with you, is a man every way eſteemable; m. *
Lord Orrery is a moſt virtuous and good. natur d Noe *
man, whom J ſhould be happy to know. Lord B. u 7
ceiv'd your letter thro' my hands; it is not to be tol *
you how much he wiſhes for you: the whole liſt of per "A
ſons, to whom you ſent your ſervices, return you their 75
with proper ſenſe of the diſtinction — Your Lady-frien *
is Semper Eadem, and I have written an Epillle 0 be *
on that qualification in a female character; which *
thought by my chief Critic in your abſence to be n or
Chef d Oeuvre but it cannot be printed perfecth, in .
age ſo ſore of Satire, and ſo willing to miſapply cha 1
racters. *
As to my own health, it is as good as uſual, Thar C
lain ill ſeven days of a flight fever (the complaint her .
but resoyer d by gentle ſweats, and the care of Dr. A *
buthnot. The play Mr. Gay left ſucceeds very well in;
it is another original in its kind. Adieu. God preſen le fo
your life, your health, your limbs, your ſpins, & boo
your friendſhips ! and x
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April 2, 1733.
Y O U fay truly, that death is only terrible to us as
it ſeparates us from thoſe we love, but I really
think thoſe have the worſt of it who are left by us, if
we are true friends, I have felt more (I fancy) in the
bf of Mr. Gay, than I ſhall ſuffer in the thought of
ring away myſelf into a ſtate that can feel none of this
fort of loſſes. I wiſh'd vehemently to have ſeen him in
f condition of living independent, and to have lived in
perfect indolence the reſt of our days together, the two
noſt idle, moſt innocent, undeſigning Poets of our age.
| now as vehemently wiſh you and I might walk into
the grave together, by as ſlow ſteps as you pleaſe, but
contentedly and chearfully : Whether that ever can be,
or in what country, I know no more, than into what
country we ſhall walk out of the grave. But it ſuf-
ces me to know it will be exactly what region or ſtate
our Maker appoints, and that whatever I, is Right.
Our poor friend's papers are partly in my hands, and
for as much as is fo, I will take care to ſuppreſs things
unworthy of him. As to the Epitaph, Pm ſorry you
pre a copy, for it will certainly by that means come
Into print, and I would correct it more; unleſs you will
do it for me (and that I ſhall like as well:) Upon the
whole, I earneſtly wiſh your coming over hither, for
this reaſon among many others, that your influence may
te join d with mine to ſuppreſs whatever we may judge
proper of his papers. To be plunged in my Neighbour's
ind my papers, will be your jnevitable fate as ſoon as
You come. That I am an author whoſe characters arg
laought of ſome weight, appears from the great noiſe
ad buſtle chat the Court and Town make about any [
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give: and I will not render them leſs important, o bete
leſs intereſting, by ſparing Vice and Folly, or by be.
traying the cauſe of Truth and Virtue. I will take exe af
they ſhall be ſuch, as no man can be angry at but the of th
perſons I would have angry. You are ſenſible with
what decency and juſtice I paid homage to the Royal
Family, at the ſame time that I ſatirized falſe Courie MW baut
and Spies, etc. about 'em. I have not the courage you
however to be ſuch a Satiriſt as you, but I would be a mar,
much or more a Philoſopher. You call your ſatire, Part:
Libels ; I would rather call my ſatires, Epiſtles: They de 2
will conſiſt more of Morality than of Wit, and gr :: +:
graver, which you will call duller, I ſhall leave it w poli
my Antagoniſts to be witty (if they can) and content King
myſelf to be uſeful, and in the right. Tell me your im 1
Opinion as to Lady — s or Lord ——s performance? fear
they are certainly the Top-wits of the Court, and youll her 1
may judge by that ſingle piece what can be done again bad
me; for it was labour'd, corrected, præ-commended then
and poſt-diſapprov'd, ſo far as to be diſown'd by then th
ſelves, after each had highly cry*d it up for the others both
I have met with ſome complaints, and heard at a db a thi
tance of ſome threats, occaſion'd by my verſes : I ſeal Hour
fair meſſages to acquaint them where I was to be found
in town, and to offer to call at their houſes to ſatis
them, and ſo it dropp'd. It is very poor in any on
to rail and threaten at a diſtance, and have nothing tt
fay to you when they ſee you. I am glad you peilil
and abide by ſo good a thing as that Poem +, in whid
I am immortal for my Morality ; I never took z0
praiſe ſo kindly, and yet, I think, I deſerve that praie
„See the Epiſtle written on this occaſion, p. 90, etc. of l.
Volume, |
I The ironical libel on Dr, Delany,
FROM Da. SWI F T, etc. 269
nt, or i better than I do any other. When does your collec-
y de. ton come out, and what will it conſiſt of? I have but
e care at week finithed another of my Epiſtles, in the order
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of the ſyſtem ; and this week exercitandi gratia) I have
tranſlated (or rather parody'd) another of Horace's, in
which I introduce you adviſing me about my expences,
touſe-keeping, etc, But theſe things ſhall lie by, till
you come to carp at 'em, and alter rhymes, and gram-
mar, and triplets, and cacophonies of all kinds. Our
Parliament will fit till Midſummer, which, I hope, may
be a motive to bring you rather in ſummer than ſo late
3 autumn: you us'd to love what J hate, a hurry of
politics, etc, Courts I ſee not, Courtiers I know not,
Kings J adore not, Queens I compliment not; ſo I
am never like to be in faſhion, nor in dependance. I
keartily join with you in pitying our poor Lady for
id jau ber unhappineſs, and ſhould only pity her mare, if ſhe
gant bd more of what they at Court call Happineſs, Come
ended then, and perhaps we may go all together into France
_ at the end of the ſeaſon, and compare the Liberties of
ers doch kingdoms, Adieu. Believe me, dear Sir, (with
a (i : thouſand warm wiſhes, mix'd with ſhort ſighs) ever
] fent yours,
found
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* LETTER LXVI.
lit
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k an 1
yh Dublin, May 1, 1733.
Anſwer your Letter the ſooner becauſe I have a par-
ticular reaſon for doing ſo. Some weeks ago 25
over a Poem call'd, The Life and Character of Dr.
written by himſelf. It was re-printed here, and is 5
dicated to you. It is grounded upon a Maxim in
N 3
2 VETTERS TO CND
Rocheſoucault, and the dedication, after a formal low
ſays, that my manner of writing is to be found! ;
1 y y g ound in even
ine. I believe I have told you, that I writ a year or
two ago near five hundred lines upon the fame Maxin
of Rochefoucault, and was a long time about it, as that
Impoſtor ſays in his Dedication, with many circumſtar-
ces, all pure invention. I defire you to believe, and to
tell my friends, that in this ſpurious piece there is nota |
fingle line, or bit of a line, or thought, any way re.
ſembling the genuine Copy, any more than it does
Virgil's Æneis; for I never gave a Copy of mine, nor
lent it out of my ſight. And although I ſhew'd it to all
common acquaintance indifferently, and ſome of them
(eſpecially one or two females) had got many lines by
heart, here and there, and repeated them often ; yet it
| happens that not one ſingle line or thought is contained
in this Impoſture, although it appears that they who
counterfeited me, had heard of the true one. But even
this trick ſhall not provoke me to print the true one,
which indeed is not proper to be ſeen, till I can be ſeen 50
more: I therefore deſire you will undeceive my friends
and I will order an Advertiſement to be printed here,
and tranſmit it to England, that every body may know
be delufion, and acquit me, as, I am ſure, you wok
have done yourſelf, if you have read any part of it, which
is mean, and trivial, and full of that Cant that I moſt
deſpiſe: I would fink to be a Vicar in Norfolk rather
than be charged with ſuch a performance. Now I come
to your letter. |
When I was of your age, I thought every day of
death, but now every minute : and a continual giddy
diſorder more or leſs is a greater addition than that of my
years. I cannot affirm that I pity our friend Gay, but
J pity his friends, I pity you, and would at leaſt equally
pity myſelf, if ] lid, amongft you; becauſe I ſhould have
FROM Da. SWIFT, etc. 271
{en him oftner than you did, who are a kind of Hermit,
how great a noiſe ſoever you make by your IIl- nature
ſlves in this world, which is their only happineſs, and
terrifying them with another. I ſhould have added in
ny libel, that of all men living you are the moſt happy
in your Enemies and your Friends: and I will ſwear you
ave fifty times more Charity for mankind than I could
ner pretend to. Whether the production you mention
ame from the Lady or the Lord, I did not imagine that
they were at leaſt ſo bad verſifyers. Therefore facit
dipnatio verſus, is only to be apply'd when the indig-
W nation is againſt general Villainy, and never operates
when ſome ſort of people write to defend themſelves. I
be ſatisfy'd, fince you are ſo dull, why are they fo
ug)? Give me a ſhilling, and I will enſure you, that
polterity ſhall never know that you had one ſingle
th excepting thoſe whoſe memory you have pre-
d.
I am ſorry for the ſituation of Mr. Gay's papers.
You do not exert yourſelf as much as I could wiſh in
this affair. I had rather the two ſiſters were hang'd than
ttemſelves, thoſe which ought not to be ſeen burn'd
immediately, and the others that have gone abroad,
prted ſeparately like opuſcula, or rather be ſtifled and
forgotten. I thought your Epitaph was immediately to
be ingrav d, and therefore I made leſs ſcruple to give a
Copy to Lord Orrery, who earneſtly defir'd it, but to no
body elſe ; and, he tells me, he gave only two, which he
"Ill recall. I have a ſhort Epigram of his upon it,
I vill ſend it you (with his permiſſion.) I have nothing
| N 4
innot letting the honeſt Villains of the times enjoy thems '
bye to hear them reproach you for dulneſs; only I would
ſe his works ſwell'd by any loſs of cred to his memory.
would be glad to ſee the moſt valuable printed by
wherein I would correct a line or two at moſt, and then
298. LETTERS TO AND
againſt yours, but the laſt line, S:riking their aching; the
two participles, as they are ſo near, ſeem to ſound to
like. I ſhall write to the Ducheſs, who hath lately
honoured me with a very friendly letter, and 1 will tel
her my opinion freely about our friend's papers, 1
want health, and my affairs are enlarged: but I vil
break thro' the latter, if the other mends. I can uſe ;
courſe of medicines, lame and giddy. My chief deſig,
next to ſeeing you, is to be a ſevere Critic on you and
your neighbour ; but firſt kill his father, that he may he
able to maintain me in my own way of living, and par-
ticularly my horſes. It coſt me near 600 l. for a wall to
keep mine, and I never ride without two ſervants for fear
of accidents; Hic wivimus ambitio/a panper tate. Youre
both too poor for my acquaintance, but he much the
poorer, With you I will find graſs and wine, and ſer-
vants, but with him not. — The collection you ſpeak of
is this, A Printer came to me to deſire he might print
my works (as he call'd them) in four volumes, by ſub-
ſcription, I ſaid I would give no leave, and ſhould be
ſorry to ſee them printed here. He ſaid they could not
be printed in London, I anſwer d, They could, if the
Partners agreed. He ſaid © he would be glad of my pes 4.
«*« mifſlion, but as he could print them without it, and was *
« advis'd that it could do me no harm, and having been Jen
* aſſur'd of numerous ſubſcriptions, he hoped 1 would * 7
«« not be angry at purſuing his own intereſt, etc.“ Much . -
of this diſcourſe paſt, and he goes on with the matter, X
wherein I determine not to intermeddle, though it be i 0
much to my diſcontent; and I wiſh it could be done in - k
England rather than here, although I am grown pretty ;
indifferent in every thing of that kind. This is the pu
truth of the ſtory. 1
My Vanity turns at preſent on being perſonated in *
your Quae Virtus, etc, You will obſerve in this letter J
FROM Da. SWIFT, etc. 273
many marks of an ill head and a low ſpirit ; but a Heart
wholly turned to Jove you with the greateſt Earneltne(s
and Truth.
LETTER LXVI.
|
— —
May 28, 1733.
[Here begun two or three letters to you by ſnatches,
and been prevented from finiſhing them by a thou-
{nd avocations and diſſipations. I muſt firſt acknow-
ledge the honour done me by Lord Orrery, whoſe
raiſes are that precious ointment Solomon ſpeaks of,
which can be given only by men of Virtue: all other
praiſe, whether from Poets or Peers, is contemptible
alike: and I am old enough and experienced enough to
know, that the only praiſes worth having, are thoſe be-
towed by Virtue for Virtue, My Poetry I abandon to
the critics, my Morals I commit to the teſtimony of
thoſe who know me; and therefore I was more pleas'd
with your Libel, than with any Verſes I ever receiy'd,
l wiſh ſuch a collection of your writings could be print-
ed here, as you mention going on in Ireland, I was
ſurpriz d to receive from the Printer that ſpurious piece,
call'd The Life and Character of Dr. Swift, with a letter
telling me the perſon, who publiſt'd it, had aſſur'd
* him the Dedication to me was what I would not take
* ill, or elſe he would not have printed it.“ I can't tell
who the man is, who took ſo far upon him as to anſwer
for my way of thinking; tho', had the thing been ge-
nuine, I ſhould have been greatly diſpleas'd at the
publiſher's part, in doing it without your knowledge,
lam as earneſt as you can be, in doing my beſt to
prevent the publiſhing of any thing unworthy of Mr.
Gay; but I fear his friends partiality. I wiſh you
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would come over. All the myſteries of my philoſophical
work ſhall then be clear'd to you, and you will not think
that I am not merry enough, nor angry enough: It will
not want for Satire, but as for Anger I know it not; or
at leaſt only that ſort of which the Apoſtle ſpeaks, * Be
% ye angry and fin not.”
My Neighbour's writings have been metaphyſical,
and will next be hiſtorical, It is certainly from him only
that a valuable Hiſtory of Europe in theſe latter times
can be expected. Come, and quicken him; for age, in
dolence, and contempt of the world, grow upon men
apace, and may often make the wiſeſt indifferent whether
Foſterity be any wiſer than we. To a man in year,
Health and Quiet become ſuch rarities, and conſequently
ſo valuable, that he is apt to think of nothing more than
of enjoying them whenever he can, for the remainderof
Fife; and this, I doubt not, has caus'd ſo many great men
to die without leaving a ſcrap to poſterity.
IJ am ſincerely troubled for the bad account you gue
me of your own health. I wiſh every day to hear a
better, as much as J do to enjoy my own, I faithfully
allure you.
LETTER LEASE
From Dr. SwirT.
Dublin, July 8, 1733.
J Muſt condole with you for the loſs of Mrs. Pope, oſ
1 whoſe death the papers have been full. But! would
rather rejoice with you, becauſe, if any circumſtances
can make the death of a dear Parent and Friend a ſubjec
for joy, you have them all. She died in an extreme old
age, without pain, under the care of the moſt dutiful don
FROM Dl. s WI PI. etc, 275
that I have ever known or heard of, which is a felicity
dot happening to one in a million. The wort effect of
her death falls upon me, and ſo much the worſe, becauſe
expected aliguis damno uſus in illo, that it would be
fllowed by making me and this kingdom happy with
your preſence. But I am told, to my great misfortune,
that a very convenient offer happening, you waved the
invitation preſſed on you, alledging the fear you had of
being killed here with eating and drinking. By which
ind that you have given ſome credit to a notion of our
rreat plenty and hoſpitality. It is true, our meat and
wine is cheaper here, as it is always in the pooreſt coun.
tries, becauſe there is no money to pay for them: I
telieve there are not in this whole city three Gentlemen
out of Employment, who are able to give entertainments
once a month. Thoſe who are in Employment of
church or ſtate, are three parts in four from England,
ad amount to little more than a dozen : Thoſe indeed
may once or twice invite their friends, or any perſon of
ditinftion that makes a voyage hither. All my acquain-
unce tell me, they know not above three families where
tiey can occaſionally dine in a whole year: Dr. Delany is
the only gentleman I know, who keeps one certain day
in the week to entertain ſeven or eight friends at dinner,
and to paſs the evening, where there is nothing of ex-
ceſs, eicher in eating or drinking. Our old friend
Southern (who hath juſt left us) was invited to dinner
once or twice by a judge, a biſhop, or a commiſſioner of
lie revenues, but moſt frequented a few particular friends,
and chiefly the Doctor, who is eaſy in his fortune, and
ery hoſpitable. The conveniencies of taking the air,
winter or ſummer, do far exceed thoſe in London. For
lhe two large ſtrands juſt at two ends of the town are as
iim and dry in winter as in ſummer. There are at leaſt
k or eight gentlemen of ſenſe, learning, good humou
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276 LET ERAS TOA
and taſte, able and deſirous to pleaſe you; and order!
females, ſome of the better ſort, to take care of * be
Theſe were the motives that I have frequently made uſe li
of to entice you hither, And there would be no faillite
among the beit people here, of any honours that could
be done you. As to myſelf, I declare, my health is %
uncertain that | dare not venture amongſt you at preſent,
J hate the thoughts of London, where I am not rich
enough to live otherwiſe than by ſhifting, which is noy
too late. Neither can | have conveniencies in the coun.
try for three horſes and two ſervants, and many others,
which I have here at hand. I am one of the governors
of all the hackney-coaches, carts, and carriages round
this town, who dare not inſult me, like your raſcally
waggoners or Coachmen, but give me the way; nor is
there one Lord or Squire for a hundred of yours, to tura
me out of the road, or run over me with their coaches
and ſix. Thus, I make ſome advantage of the public
poverty, and give you the 1eaſons for what J once vrt,
why J chuſe to be a freeman among ſlaves, rather than
a ſlave among freemen, Then, I walk the ſtreets in
peace without being juſtled, nor ever without a thouſand
bleſſings from my friends the vulgar. 1 am Lord Mayor
of 120 houſes, I am abſolute Lord of the greateſt Cathe-
dral in the kingdom, am at peace with the neighbouring
Princes, tne Lord Mayor of the city, and the Archbiſtop
of Dublin, only the latter, like the K. of France, ſome.
times attempts encroachments on my dominions, as 0id
Lewis did upon Lorrain. In the midſt of this raillery, |
can tell you with ſeriouſneſs, that theſe advantages con-
tribute to my eaſe, and therefore I value them. And in
one part of your letter relating to my Lord B— and yout-
ſelf, you agree with me entirely, about the indifferences
the love of quiet, the care of health, etc, that grow upon
men in years. And if you diſcover thoſe inclinations in
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FROM Da SWIFT, etc 277
Lord and yourſelf, what can you expect from me, whoſe
health is ſo precarious? and yet at your or his time of
life, I could have leap'd over the moon.
LETTER LXIX.
Sept. 1, 1733.
Have every day wiſh'd to write to you, to ſay a thou-
ſand things; and yet, I think, I ſhould not have writ
to you now, if I was not ſick of writing any thing, fick
of myſelf, and (what is worſe) ſick of my friends too.
The world is become too buſy for me; every body is
ſo concerned for the public, that all private enjoyments
are loſt, or diſ-reliſh'd. I write more to ſhow you I am
tired of this life, than to tell you any thing relating to
it, 11ive as I did, I think as I did, I love you as I
did; but all theſe are to no purpoſe : the world will not
live, think, or love, as I do. I am troubled for, and
vexed at, all my friends by turns. Here are ſome whom
you love, and who love you : yet they receive no proofs
of that affection from you, and they give none of it to
you. There is a great gulph between. In earneſt, I
would go a thouſand miles by land to ſee you, but the
ſea | dread, My ailments are ſuch, that I really be-
lieve a ſea· ſickneſs (conſidering the oppreſſion of colical
pains, and the great weakneſs of my breaſt) would kill
me: and if I did not die of that, 1 muſt of the exceſſive
eating and drinking of your hoſpitable town, and the
exceſſive flattery of your moſt poetical country, I hate
to be cramm'd, eicher way. Let your hungry Poets, and
your rhyming Poets digeſt it, I cannot. I like much
better to be abuſed and half ftarved, than to be ſo over-
praiſed and over-ted, Drown Ireland! for having
278 LETTERS TO AND
caught you, and for having kept you : I only reſerye
a little charity for her, for knowing your value, and
eſteeming you: You are the only Patriot I know, who
is not hated for ſerving his country. The man who
drew your Character and printed it here, was not much
in the wrong in many things he ſaid of you: yet he was
a very impertinent fellow, for ſaying them in words
quite different from thoſe you had yourſelf employed
before on the ſame ſubject: for ſurely to alter your
words is to prejudice them; and I have been told, that
a man himſelf can hardly ſay the ſame thing twice over
with equal happineſs ; Nature is ſo much a better thing
than artifice.
L have written nothing this year: It is no affeQation
to tell you, my Mother's loſs has turned my frame of
thinking, The habit of a whole life is a ſtronger thing
than all the reaſon in the world. I know I ought to
be eaſy, and to be free; but I am dejected, I am con-
fined : my whole amuſement is in reviewing my paſt
life, not in laying plans for my future. I wiſh you
cared as little for popular applauſe as I ; as little for
any nation, in contradiſtinction to others, as I: and
then I fancy, you that are not afraid of the ſea, you that
are a ſtronger man at ſixty than ever I was at twenty,
would come and ſee ſeveral people who are (at laſt) like
the primitive Chriſtians, of one ſoul and of one mind,
The day is come, which I have often wiſhed, but never
thought to ſee ; when every mortal, that J eftcem, is of
the ſame ſentiment in Politics «nd in Religion. |
Adieu. All you love, are yours; but all are buſy,
except (dear Sir) your ſincere friend.
od
FROM Ds. SWIFT, etc. 279
SS & - *
Jan. 6, 1734.
Never think of you and can never write to you, now,
without drawing many of thoſe ſhort ſighs of which
we have formerly talk'd: The reflection both of the
friends we have been depriv'd of by Death, and of thoſe
from whom we are ſeparated almoſt as eternally by Ab-
ſence, checks me to that degree that it takes away in a
manner the pleaſure (which yet I feel very ſenſibly too)
of thinking I am now converſing with you, You have
been ſilent to me as to your Works; whether thoſe
printed here are, or are not genuine? but one, I am
ſure, is yours, and your method of concealing yourſelf
puts me in mind of the Indian bird I have read of, who
hides his head in a hole, while all his feathers and tail
ſtick out. You'll have immediately by ſeveral franks
(even before 'tis here publiſhed) my Epiſtle to Lord
Cobham, part of my Opus Magnum, and the laſt Eſſay
on Man, both which, I conclude, will be grateful to
your bookſeller, on whom you pleafe to beſtow them
ſo early, There is a woman's war declar'd againſt me
by a certain Lord ; his weapons are the ſame which wo-
men and children uſe, a pin to ſcratch, and a ſquirt to
beſpatter : I writ a fort of anſwer, but was aſhamed to
enter the liſts with him, and after ſhewing it to ſome
people, ſuppreſs'd it: otherwiſe it was ſuch as was wor-
thy of him and worthy of me. I was three weeks
this autumn with Lord Peterborow, who rejoices in your
doings, and always ſpeaks with the greateſt affection of
you. I need not tell you who elfe do the ſame; you
may be ſure almoſt all thoſe whom 1 ever ſee, or deſire
to ſee, I wonder not that B-— paid you no ſort of
civility while he was in Ireland: he is too much a half-
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wit to love a true wit, and too much half. honeſt, to
eſteem any entire merit. I hope and think he hates me
too, and I will do my beſt to make him: he is ſo in.
ſupportably inſolent in his civility to me when he meets
me at one third place, that I muſt affront him to be rid
of it. That ſtrict neutrality as to public parties, which
I have conſtantly obſerv'd in all my writings, I think
gives me the more title to attack ſuch men, as ſlander
and belye my character in private, to thoſe who know
me not, Yet even this is a liberty I will never take,
unleſs at the ſame time they are Peſts of private ſociety,
or miſchievous members of the public, that is to fay,
unleſs they are enemies to all men as well as to me, —
Pray write to me when you can: If ever I can come to
you, I will: if not, may Providence be our friend and
our guard through this ſimple world, where nothing 1s
valuable but ſenſe and friendſhip. Adieu, dear vir,
may health attend your years, and then may many years
be added to you, apt
P. S. I am juſt now told, a very curious Lady intends
to write to you to pump you about ſome poems ſaid to
be yours. Pray tell her, that you have not anſwered
me on the ſame queſtion, and that I ſhall take it as a
thing. never to be forgiven from you, if you tell another
what you have conceal'd from me,
e
LETTER 1 os
Sept. Ig, 1734.
I Have ever thought you as ſenſible as any man I knew,
of all the delicacies of friendſhip, and yet I fear (from
what Lord B. tells me you ſaid in your laſt letter) that
FROM Os. SW FFT, etc. 281
you did not quite underſtand the reaſon of my late filence.
| affure you it proceeded wholly from the tender kindaefs
[| bear you. When the heart is full, it is angry at all
words that cannot come up to it ; and you are now the
man in all the world I am moſt troubled to write to, for
you are the friend I have left whom I am moſt grieved
about. Death hath not done worſe to me in ſeparating
poor Gay, or any other, than diſeaſe and abſenſe in
dividing us. I am afraid to know how you do, fince
moſt accounts I have, give me pain for you, and I am
unwilling to tell you the condition of my own health.
If it were good, I would ſee you; and yet if I found
you in that very condition of deafneſs, which made you
fly from us while we were together, what comfort could
we derive from it? In writing often I ſhould find great
relief, could we write freely: and yet when I have
done ſo, you ſcem by not anſweriog in a very long time,
to fee] either the ſame uneaſineſs as I do, or to abſtain, -
from ſome prudential reaſon. Yet I am ſure, nothing
that you and I wou'd ſay to each other, (tho? our own.
nds ſouls were to be laid open to the clerks of the poſt-
| to office) could hurt either of us ſo much, in the opinion
ood of any honeſt man or good ſubjeQ, as the intervening,
as 2 oficious, impertinence of thoſe Goers between us, who
ther in England pretend to intimacies with you, and in Ire-
land to intimacies with me. 1 cannot but receive any
that call upon me in your name, and in truth they take
— it in vain too often. I take all opportunities of juſtify-
ing you againſt theſe Friends, eſpecially thoſe who know
l you think and write, and repeat your lighter ver-
ſes. It is generally on ſuch little ſcraps that Witlings
34- feed, and 'tis hard the world ſhould judge of our houle-
new, keeping from what we fling to our dogs, yet this is often
* the conſequence; But they treat you {till worſe, mix
icir own with yours, print them to get money, and lay
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them at your door. This I am ſatisfied was the caſe iu
the Epiſtle to a Lady ; it was juſt the ſame hand (if [
have any judgment in ſtyle) which printed your Life and
Character before, which you ſo ftrongly diſavow'd in
your letters to Lord Carteret, myſelf, and others. I way
very well informed of another fact, which convinced me
yet more; the ſame perſon who gave this to be printed,
offer d to a bookſeller a piece in proſe as yours, and
as commiſtioned by you, which has ſince appear'd, and
been own'd to be his own. I think (I ſay once more)
that I know your hand, tho' you did not mine in the
Eſſay on Man. I beg your pardon for not telling you,
as.I ſhould, had you been in England : but no ſecret
can croſs your Iriſh Sea, and every clerk in the poſt.
office had known it. I fancy, tho' yoa loſt ſight of me
in the firſt of thoſe Eſſays, you ſaw me in the ſecond.
The deſign of concealing myſelf was good, and had its
full effect; I was thought a Divine, a Philoſopher, and
what not; and my doctrine had a ſanction I could not
have given to it. Whether I can proceed in the ſame
grave march like Lucretius, or muſt deſcend to the
gayeties of Horace, I know not, or whether I can do
either? but be the future as it will, I ſhall collect all
the paſt in one fair quarto this winter, and ſend it you,
where you will find frequent mention of yourſelf. I was
glad you ſuffer'd your writings to be collected more com-
pletely than hitherto, in the volumes I daily expect from
Ireland; I wiſh'd it had been in more pomp, but that
will be done by others: yours are beauties, that can
never be too finely dreſt, for they will ever be young.
I have only one piece of mercy to beg of you; do not
laugh at my gravity, but permit me to wear the beard
of a Philoſopher, till I pull it off, and make a jeſt of
it myſelf,” Tis juſt what my Lord B. is doing wich Me.
taphyſics, I hope, you will live to ſee, and flare at
FROM Da. S WI F T, ec. 283
the learned figure he will make, on the ſame ſhelf with
Locke and Malbranche.
You ſee how I talk to you (for this is not writing) if
vou like I ſhould do ſo, why not tell me ſo ? if it be the
lealt pleaſure to you, I will write once a week. molt
gladly; but can you abſtract the letters from the perſon
who writes them, ſo far, as not to feel more vexation
in the thought of our ſeparation, and thoſe misfortunes
which occaſion it, than ſatisfaction in the Nothings he
can expreſs? If you can, really and from my heart I
cannot, 1 return again to melancholy. Pray, however,
tell me, is it a fatisfation? that will make it one to
ne; and we will think alike, as friends ought, and you
ſhall hear from me punctually juſt when you will.
P. S. Our friend, who is juſt returned from a progreſs -
of three months, and is ſetting out in three days with
me for the Bath, where he will ſtay till towards the
middle of October, left this letter with me yeſterday,
and | cannot ſeal and diſpatel it till I have ſcribbled
the remainder of this page full. - He talks very pom-
poully of my Metaphyſics,” and places them in a very
honourable lation, It is true, I have writ ſix letters
and an half to him on ſubjects of that kind, and I pro-
poſe a letter and an half more, which would fell the
whole up to a conſiderable volume. But he thinks me
fonder of the Name of an Author than I am. When he
and you, and one or two other friends have ſeen them,
alis magnum Theatrum mihi eſtis, 1 ſhall not have the itch
of making them more public *. I know how little
regard you pay to Writings of this kind, But I ima-
* His Lordſhip, as appears by his laſt will, altered his mind;
ind they have been fince given to the world, to the admiration and
aloniſhment of all the learned and the pious,
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gine that if you can like any ſuch, it muſt be thoſe that
ſtrip Metaphyſics of all their bombaſt, keep within the
ſight of every well conſtituted Eye, and never bewilde;
themſelves whilſt they pretend to guide the reaſon of
others. I writ to you a long letter ſome time ago, and
ſent it by the poſt, Did it come to your hands? or did
the inſpectors of private correſpondence ſtop it, to je-
venge themſelves of the ill ſaid of them in it? Va «
me ama.
*
—
1— 1 * —
LETTER IXXII.
From Dr. SwWIy r.
*
| | Nov. 1, 1734.
1 Have yours with my Lord B 's Poſtſcript of
September 15: it was long on its way, and fur ſome
weeks after the date I was very ill with my two invete-
rate diſorders, giddineſs and deafneſs, The latter 18
pretty well off; but the other makes me totter towards
evenings, and much diſpirits me. But I continue to
ride and walk, both of which, although they be no
cures, are at leaſt amuſements, I did never imagine
you to be either inconſtant, or to want right notions of
friendſhip, but I apprehend your want of health ; and
it hath been a frequent wonder to me how you have
been able to entertain the world, ſo long, ſo frequently,
ſo happily, under ſo many bodily diſorders, My Lord
B ſays you have been three months rambling, which
is the belt thing you can poſſibly do in a ſummer ſealon ;
and when the winter recalls you, we will, for our on
intereſts, leave you to your ſpeculations. God be
thanked, I have done with every thing, and of every
kind that requires writing, except now and then a lei-
FROM Da. SWIFT, etc. 285
ter, or, like a true old man, ſeribling trifles only fit for
children or ſchool-boys of the loweſt claſs at beſt,
which three or four of us read and laugh at to- day,
and burn to-morrow. Yet, what is ſingular, I never
am without fome great work in view, enough to take
up forty years of the moſt vigorous healthy man : al-
though I am convinced that I ſhall never be able to finiſh
three Treatiſes, that have lain by me ſeveral years, and
want nothing but correction. My Lord B. faid in his
poltſcript, that you would go to Bath in three days : we
bnce heard that you were dangeroully ill there, and that
the news-mongers gave you over, But a gentleman of
this kingdom, on his return from Bath, aſſured me he
left you well, and fo did ſome others whom I have for-
got. I am ſorry at my heart that you are peſtered with
people who come in my name, and I profeſs to you,
it is without my knowledge, I am confident I ſhall
hardly ever have occaſion again to recommend, for my
friends here are very few, and fixed to the freehold,
from whence nothing but death will remove them.
durely I never doubted about your Eſſay on Man; and
| would lay any odds, that I would never fail to
diſcover you in fix lines, unleſs you had a mind to
write below or beſide yourſeif on purpoſe. I confeſs I
did never imagine you were ſo deep in Morals, or that
ſo many new and excellent rules could be produced
ſo advantageouſly and agreeably in that ſcience, from
any one head, I confeſs in ſome few places I was ſorced
to read twice, I believe I told you before what the
Duke of D— ſaid to me on that occaſion, How a judge
here, who knows you, told him that on the firſt reading
thoſe Eflays, he was much pleaſed, hut found ſome
lines a little dark : On the ſecond moſt of them cleared
up, and his pleaſure increaſed : On the third he had no
doubt remained, and then he admired the whole. My
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Lord B-—' attempt of reducing Metaphyſics to in.
tellipible ſenſe and uſefulneſs, will be a glorious under.
taking, and as I never knew him fail in any thing he
attempted, if he had the ſole management, ſo I am con-
fident he will ſacceed in this. I deſire you will alloy
that'I write to you both at preſent, and fo I ſhall while
T live : It faves your money, and my time; and he be.
ing your Genius, no matter to which it is addreſſed, [
am happy that what you write is printed in large letters;
otherwiſe between the weakneſs of my eyes, and the
thickneſs of my hearing, I ſhould loſe the greateſt plea.
ſure that is left me. Pray command my Lord 5B
to follow that example, if I live to read his Metaphyſics,
Pray God bleſs you both, I had a melancholy account
from the Doctor of his health. I will anſwer his letter
as ſoon as I can, I am ever entirely yours,
LETTER LXXIII.
—
Twickenham, Dec. 19, 1734.
] Am truly ſorry for any complaint you have, and it i
in regard to the weakneſs of your eyes that I wite
(as well as print) in folio. You'll think (I know you will
for you have all the candour of a good underſtanding)
that the thing which men of our age feel the moſt, is the
\ friendſhip of our equals; and that therefore whatever al-
fects thoſe who are ſtept a few years before us, cannot but
ſenſibly affect us who are to follow. It troubles me to hear
you complain of your memory, and if I am in any pit
of my conſtitution younger than you, it will be in m
remembering every thing that has pleaſed me in you
longer than perhaps you will. The two ſummers we
paſs'd together dwell always on my mind, like a viſion
which gave me a glympſe of a better life and betta
FROM Ds. SWIFT, ett, 2&
company, than this world otherwiſe afforded, I am now
an individual, upon whom no other depends; and may
go where I will, if the wretched carcaſe I am annex'd to
did not hinder me. I rambled by very eaſy journeys this
year to Lord Bathurſt and Lord Peterborow, who upon
every occaſion commemorate, love, and wiſh for you. I
now paſs my days between Dawley, London, and this
place, not ſtudious, nor idle, rather poliſhing old works
than hewing out new. I redeem now and then a paper
that hath been abandon'd ſeveral years; and of this ſort
you'll ſoon ſee one, which J inſcribe to our old frie
Arbuthnot.
Thus far I had written, and thinking to finiſh my letter
the ſame evening, was prevented by company, and the
next morning found myſelf in a fever, highly diſorder'd,
and ſo continued in bed for five days, and in my chamber
till now; but ſo well recover'd as to hope to go abroad
to-morrow, even by the advice of Dr. Arbuthnot. He
himſelf, poor man, is much broke, tho” not worſe than
for theſe two laſt months he has been, He took ex-
tremely kind your letter, I wiſh to God we could once
meet again, before that ſeparation, which yet, I would
be glad to believe, ſhall re- unite us: But he who made
us, not for ours, but his purpoſes, knows only whether it
be for the better or the worſe, that the affections of this
life ſhould, or ſhould not continue into the other: and
coubtleſs it is as it ſhould be, Yet I am ſure that while
lam here, and the thing that I am, I ſhall be imperfe&
without the communication of ſuch friends as you; you
are to me like a limb loſt, and buried in another country;
tho we ſeem quite divided, every accident makes me
feel you were once a part of me. I always conſider you
ſo much as a friend, that I forget you are an author,
perhaps too much, but *tis as much as I would deſire you
would do to me, However, if I could inſpirit you to be-
'
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ſtow correction upon thoſe three Treatiſes, which you ſzy
are ſo near compleated, I ſhould think it a hetter work
than any I can pretend to of my oun. I am almoſt at
the end of my Morals, as I've been, long ago, of my
Wit; my ſyſlem is a ſhort one, and my circle narrow,
Imagination has no limits, and that is a ſphere in which
you may move on to eternity ; but where one is confined
to Truth (or to ſpeak more like a human creature, to the
appearances of Truth) we ſoon find the ſhortneſs of our
Tether. Indeed by the help of a metaphyſical chain of
Ideas, one may extend the circulation, go round and
round for ever, without making any progreſs beyond the
point to which providence has pinn'd us: But this does
not ſatisfy me, who would rather ſay a little to no pur-
poſe, than a great deal. Lord B. is voluminous, but le
is voluminous only to deſtroy volumes. I ſhall not live,
I fear, to ſee that work printed; he is fo taken up fill
(in ſpite of the monitory hint given in the firſt line of ny
Efiay) with particular Men, that he neglects mankind
and is ſtill a creature of this World, not of the Unixeiſe:
This World, which is a name we give to Europe, to
England, to Ireland, to London, to Dablin, to the Court,
to the Caſtle, and ſo diminiſhing till it comes to our own
affairs, and to our own perſons. When you write (either
to him or to me, for we accept it all as one) rebuke hin
for it, as a Divine if you like it, or as a Badineur, if you
think that more effeRual.
What 1 write will ſhow you that my head is yet weak,
T had written to you by that gentleman from the Bat)
but I did not know him, and every body that comes from
Ireland pretends to be a friend of the Dean's. I am d.
ways glad to fee any that are truly ſo, and therefore co
not miſtake any thing I ſaid, ſo as to diſcourage you
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From Dr. Sw 1+tT.
May 12, 1735.
K7OUR letter was ſent me yeſterday by Mr. Stopford,
1 who landed the ſame day, but I have not yet feen
tim, As to my ſilence, Ged knows it 15 my great miſ-
fortune. My little domeſtic affairs are in great confuſion,
by the villainy of agents, and the miſeries of this king-
dom, where there is no money to be had: nor am [
uaconcetn'd to ſee all things tending towards abſolute
power, in. both nations“ (it is here in perfection already)
athough I ſhall not live to ſee it eſtabliſhed. This con-
dition of things, both publie and perſonal to myſelf, hath
given me ſuch a kind of deſpondency, that I am-almoſt
unqualified for any company, diverſion, or amuſement.
The death of Mr. Gay and the Doctor, hath been terrible
wounds near my heart. Their living would have been
a great comfort to me, although I ſhould never have ſeen
them; like a ſum of money in a bank, from which I
ſhould receive at leaſt annual intereſt, as I do from you,
and have done from my Lord Bolingbroke. To ſhew in
bow much ignorance I live, it is hardly a fortnight ſince
heard of the death of my Lady Maſham, my conſtant
friend in all changes of times, God forbid that I ſhould
expect you to make a voyage that would in the leaſt af-
ſect your health: but in the mean time how unhappy am
. that my belt friend ſhould have perhaps the only kind
or diforder for which a ſea-voyage is not in ſome degree
aremedy ? The old Duke of Ormond ſaid, he would
tot change his dead ſon (Offory) for the beſt living ſon
. * The Dean was frequently troubled, he tells uo, witk. a giddireſi
An his head.
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in Europe. Neither would 1 change you my abſery
friend for the beſt preſent friend round the Globe,
I have lately read a book imputed to Lord B. called
a Diſſertation on Parties. I think it very maſtery
written, |
Pray God reward you for your kind prayers: [
believe your prayers will do me more good than thoſe
of all the Prelates in both kingdoms, or any Prelates in
Europe, except the Biſhop of Marſeilles *®. And God
preſerve you for contributing more to mend the world,
than the whole pack of (modern) Parſons in a lump.
I am ever intirely yours,
A
—
LETTER LXXV.
From Dr. Sw Ir.
Sept. 3, 1735;
HIS letter will be delivered to you by Faulkner
the printer, who goes over on his private affairs,
This is an anſwer to-yours of two months ago, which
complains of that profligate fellow Curl. I heartily wil
you were what they call diſaffected, as I am, I may la
as David did, I have finned greatly, but what have thele
ſheep done? You have given no offence to the Miniſtry
nor to the Lords, nor Commons, nor Queen, nor the neat
in power. For you are a man of virtue, and therelore
muſt abhor vice and all corruption, although your diser
tion holds the reins. ** You need not fear any cone.
„ quence in the commerce that hath ſo long palie
between us; although I never deſtroy d one of you
* Who continued there with his flock all the time a dreadful
peſtilence deſolated that city,
FROM Da. SWIFT, etc. 291
« letters. But my Executors are men of honour and
virtue, who have ſtrict orders in my will to burn every
alled « letter left behind me. Neither did our letters con-
fer tain any Turns of Wit, or Fancy, or Politics, or Satire,
but mere innocent Friendſhip: yet J am loth that any
rs: | letters, from you and a very few other friends, ſhould
thoſe die before me; I believe we neither of us ever leaned
tes in cur head upon our left hand to ſtudy what we ſhould
| God write next ; yet we have held a conſtant intercourſe from
ap your youth and my middle age, and from your middle
age it malt be continued till my death, which my bad
ſtate of health makes me expect every month. I have
the ambition, and it is very earneſt as well as in haſte, to
have one Epiſtle inſcribed to me while I am alive, and
you jult in the time when wit and wiſdom are in the
height, I -muſt once more repeat Cicero's deſire to a
friend; Orna me. A month ago were ſent me over
by a friend of mine, the works of John Hughes, Eſq.
They are in verſe and proſe. I never heard of the man
in my life, yet, I find your name as a ſubſcriber too,
He is too grave a Poet for me, and, I think, among the
nediac ibu in proſe as well as verſe, I have the honour
to know Dr. Rundle ; he is indeed worth all the reſt you
ever ſent us, but that is ſaying nothing, for he anſwers
your character; I have dined thrice in his company, He
brought over a worthy clergyman of this kingdom as his
Chaplain, which was a very wiſe and popular action.
His only fault, is, that he drinks no wine, and I drink
nothing elſe.
Thi: kingdom is now abſolutely ſtarving, by the
means of every oppreſſion that can be inflited on man-
kind —Shall 1 not viſit for theſe things? ſaith the Lord.
You adviſe me right, not to trouble myſelf about the
world: But, oppreſſion tortures me, and I cannot live
Without meat and drink, nor get either without money;
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and money is not to be had, except they will make me z
Biſhop, or a Judge, or a Colonel, or a Commiſſioner of
the Revenues. Adieu.
LETTER LXXVI.
2 anſwer your queſtion as to Mr. Hughes, what
he wanted as to genius he made up as an honeſt
man: but he was of the claſs you think him,
I am glad you think of Dr. Rundle as I do, He
will be an honour to the Biſhops and a diſgrace to one
Biſhop, two things you will like: But what you will
like more particularly, he will be a friend and benefactor
even to your un-friended, un-benefited Nation ; he will
be a friend to human race, wherever he goes, Pray
tell him my beſt wiſhes for his health and long life: 1
wiſh you and he came over together, or that I were
with you. I never ſaw a man fo ſeldom whom I liked
ſo much as Dr. Rundle.
Lord Peterborow I went to take a laſt leave of at his
ſetting fail for Liſbon: No Body can be more waſted,
no Soul can be more alive, Immediately after the ſeverelt
operation of being cut into the bladder for a ſuppreſſion
of urine, he took coach, and got from Briſtol to South-
ampton. This is a man that will neither live nor die like
any other mortal.
Poor Lo:d Peterborow ! there is another ſtring loſt,
that wou'd have help'd to draw you hither! He order's
on his death-bed his Watch to be given me (that which
had accompanied him in all his travels) with this reaſon,
4% That I might have ſomething to put me every day in
<4 mind of him.” It was a preſent to him from the King
of Sicily, whoſe arms and n/ignia are graved on the
inner caſe; on the outer, I have put this inſcription
er of
FROM Ds. SWIFT, ett. 29
Naur Amadeus, Rex Siciliae, Dux Sabaudiae, etc. etc.
Carols Mordaunt, Comiti de Peterborow, D. D. Car.
Mor. Com de Pet, Alexandro Pope moriens legavit, 1735.
Pray write to me a little oftner: and if there be a thing
teft in the world that pleaſes you, tell it one who will
partake of it. I hear with. approbation and pleaſure,
that your preſent care is to relieve the moſt helpleſs
of this world, thoſe objects“ which moſt want our com-
paſion, tho* generally made the ſcorn of their fellow-
creatures, ſuch as are leſs innocent than they, You
always think generouſly ; and of all charities, this is the
noſt difintereſted, and leaſt vain- glorious, done to ſuch
as never will thank you, or can praiſe you. for it.
God bleſs you with eaſe, if not with pleaſure ; with a
tolerable ſtate of health, if not with its full enjoyment ;
with a reſign'd temper of mind, if not a very chearful
one, It is upon theſe terms I live myſelf, tho? younger
than you, and I repine not at my lot, could but che
preſence of a few that I love be added to theſe. Adieu.
— ——
8 — ä
LETTER LEAXVIL
From Dr. Swir r.
Oct. 21, 1735.
Anſwer'd your letter relating to Curl, etc. I believe
my letters have eſcap'd being publiſh'd, becauſe
| writ nothing but Nature and Friendſhip, and particu-
lar incidents which could make no figure in writing. I
have obſerv d that not only Voiture, but likewiſe 1'ully
and Pliny writ their letters for the public view, more
tan for the ſake of their correſpondents ;. and | am glad
„ Idiots.
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of it, on account of the Entertainment they have given
me. Balſac did the fame thing, but with more ſtiffaeſß,
and conſequently leſs diverting: Now I muſt tell you,
that you are to look upon me as one going very faſt out
of the world; but my fleſh and bones are to be carried
to Holy-head, for I will not lie in a Country of ſlaves.
It pleaſeth me to find that you begin to diſlike things
in ſpite of your Philoſophy ; your Muſe cannot forbear
her hints to that purpoſe. I cannot travel to ſee you;
otherwiſe, I ſolemnly proteſt I would do it. I have an
Intention to paſs this winter in the country with a Friend
forty miles off, and to ride only ten miles a day ; yet is
my health ſo uncertain, that I fear it will not be in my
power, I often ride a dozen miles, but 1 come tomy
own bed at night: My beſt way would be to marry,
for in that caſe any bed would be better than my own,
I found you a very young man, and I left you
a middle-aged one; you knew me a middle- aged
man, and now I am an old one, Where is my
Lord ——? methinks I am enquiring after a Tulip cf
Jaſt year. — © You need not apprehend any Curls med-
„ dling with your letters to me; I will not deſtroy
„them, but have order'd my Executors to do that
office.“ I have a thouſand things more to ſay, /on-
gertitas eſt garrula, but I muſt remember I have other
letters to write if I have time, which I ſpend to tell you
ſo, I am ever, deareſt Sir,
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LETTER LXXVIII.
From Dr. SwIy r.
Feb. 9, 1735-6.
1 properly call you my beſt ſriend, becauſe [
have not another left who deſerves the name, ſuch.
z havock have Time, Death, Exile, and Oblivion made.
Perhaps you would have fewer complaints of my ill
health and lowneſs of ſpirits, if they were not ſome ex-
eaſe ſor my delay of writing even to you. It is perfectly
right what you ſay of the indifference in common friends,
whether we are ſick or well, happy or miſerable. The
very maid-fervants in a family have the ſame notion: I
have heard them often ſay, Oh, I am very fick, if any.
body cared for it! I am vexed when my viſitors come
with the compliment uſual here, Mr. Dean, I hope you
ae very well, My popularity that you mention, is wholly:
conhned to the common people, who are more conſtant
than thoſe we miſ- call their betters. 1 walk the {treets;:
an! ſo do my lower friends, from whom, and from
whom alone, I have a thouſand hats and bleſſings upon
old ſcores, which thoſe we call the Gentry have forgot.
gut I have not the love, or hardly the civility, of any
one man in power or ſtation 3 and I can boaſt that I rei-
ther viſit nor am acquainted with any Lord, Temporal
or Spiritual, in the whole kingdom; nor am able to do
the leaſt good office to the moſt deſerving man, except
what I can diſpoſe of in my own Cathedral upon a va-
Gncy. What hath ſunk my ſpirits more than even years:
and ſickneſs, is reflecting on the moſt execrable Corrup-
ions than run through every branch of public manage-
ment,
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admirable light; but however, I am ſo partial, as to be⸗
more delighted with thoſe which are to do me the
greateſt honour I ſhall ever receive from poſterity, and
will outweigh the malignity of ten thouſand enemies,
I never ſaw them before, by which it is plain that the
letter you ſent-me miſcarry'd. — I do not doubt that you
have choice of new acquaintance, and ſome of them
may be deſerving : For youth is the ſeaſon of Virtue;
Corruptions-grow with years, and I believe the oldel
rogue in England is the greateſt, You. have years enough
before you to watch whether theſe new acquaintance
will keep their Virtue, when they leave you and go
into the world; how long will their ſpirit of indepen
dency laſt againſt the temptations of future Miniſters,
and future Kings. — As to the new Lord Lieutenant,
F never knew any of the family; ſo that J ſhall not be
able to pet any Jobb done by him for any deſerving
fend.
LST TER LAXIE.
From Dr. SwirrT.
Feb. 7, 1735-*
T is ſome time ſince I dined at the Biſhop of Derry's,
where Mr. Secretary Cary told me with great cor-
cern, that you were taken very ill. I have heard nothing
ſince, only I have continued in great pain of mind, yet
for my own ſake and. the wortd's more than for yours;
becauſe I well know how little you value life both as a
philoſopher and a Chriſtian, particularly the latter,
wherein hardly, one in a million of us heretics can
equal you. If you are well recover d, you ought to bs
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revroached for not putting me eſpecially out of pain,
who could not bear the loſs of you; although we muſt
be for ever diſtant as much as if I were in the grave, for
which my years and continual indiſpoſition are preparing,
me every ſeaſon. I have ſtaid too long from preſſing
you to give me ſome eaſe by an account of your health;
pray do not uſe me ſo ill any more. I look upon you
25 an eſtate from which I receive my beſt annual reats,
although I am never to ſee it. Mr. Tickel was at the
lame meeting under the ſame real concern; and ſo were
a hundred others of this town who had never ſeen you.
I rcad to the Biſhop of Derry the paragraph in your
ſetter which concern'd him, and his Lordſhip expreſs'd
bis thankfulneſs in a manner that became him, He is.
etteemed here as a perſon of learning and converſation,
and humanity, but he is beloved by all people.
have nobody now left but you: Pray be ſo kind to
out-live me, and then die as ſoon as you pleaſe, but
without pain; and let us. meet in a better place, if my
Religion will permit, but rather my Virtue, altho* much
unequal to yours, Pray, let my Lord Bathurſt know
how much I love him; I till infiſt on his remembering
me, although he is too much in the world to honour
an abſent friend with his letters, My ſtate of health is
not to boaſt of; my giddineſs is more or leſs too con-
tant: I ſleep ill, and have a poor appetite. I can as
eally write a Poem in the Chineſe-language as my own:
] am as fit for Matrimony as invention; and yet I have
daily ſchemes for innumerable Eſſays in proſe, and pro-
ceed ſometimes to no leſs than half a dozen lines, which
the next morning become waſte paper. What w exes
me molt is, that my female ſriends, who could bear
me very well a dozen years ago, have now forſaken
me, altho' I am not ſo old in proportion to them, as I
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then I was double their age, which now I am not. Pray,
put me out of fear as ſoon as you can, about that uoly
report of your illneſs; and let me know who this Cheſel.
den is, that hath ſo lately ſprung up in your favour?
Give me alſo ſome account of your neighbour who writ
to me from Bath: I hear he reſolves to be ſtrenuous for
taking off the Teſt ; which grieves me extremely, from
all the unprejudiced Reaſons I ever was able to form,
and en the maxims of all wiſe Chriſtian govern.
ments *, which always had ſome eſtabliſh'd Religion,
leaving at beſt a toleration to others.
Farewel, my deareſt friend! ever, and upon every
account that can create friendſhip and eſteem.
*
LETTER LXXX
March 25, 1736.
1 ever I write more Epiſtles in Verſe, one of them ſhall
be addreſs'd to you. I have long concerted it, and be-
gun it, but I would make what bears your name as finiſh-
ed as my laſt work ought to be, that is to ſay, more finilh-
ed than any of the reſt. The ſubje& is large, and will
divide into four Epiſtles, which naturally follow the Eſay
on Man, wiz. 1. Of the Extent and Limits of Human
Reaſon and Science. ' 2. A view of the uſeful and there-
fore attainable, and of the un- uſeful and therefore un-
attainable Arts. 3. Of the Nature, Ends, Application,
and Uſe of different Capacities. 4. Of the Ule af
Learning, of the Science of the World, and of Wit. It
will conclude with a Satire againſt the miſ-applicaton
* The Author of the Di/ertation on Parties appears to have been
of the ſame Opinion; But the Author of the Book of Fragen
4s of another mind,
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of all theſe, exemplify'd by pictures, characters, and
examples.
But alas! the taſk is great, and non ſum qualis eram!
My underſtanding indeed, ſuch as it is, is extended ra-
ther than diminiſh'd : I fee things more in the whole,
more conſiſtent, and more clearly deduced from, and
related to, each other. But what I gain on the fide of
philoſophy, 1 loſe on the fide of poetry : the flowers are
cone, when the fruits begin to ripen, and the fruits
perhaps will never ripen. perfectly. The climate (under
our Heaven of a Court) is but-cold and uncertain ; the”
winds rife, and the winter comes on. I find myſelf but
little diſpoſed to build a new houſe ; I have nothing left
but to gather up the reliques of a wreck, and look about
me to ſee how few friends I have left. Pray, wife
eleem or admiration ſhould I.defire now to procure by
ny writings ? whole friendſhip or converſation to obtain
by them? Iam a man of deſperate fortunes, that is,
2 man whoſe friends are dead: for I never aim'd at any
other fortune than in friends. As ſoon as I had ſent-
my laſt letter, I receiv'd a moſt kind one from you,
expreſſing great pain for my late illneſs at Mr, Cheſel-
den's. 1 conclude you was eaſed of that friendly ap-
prehenſion in a few days after you had diſpatched yours,
tor mine muſt have reached you then, IWondered a
tile at your quære, who Cheſelden was? It ſhews that
the truelt merit does not travel fo far-any way as on the
wings of Poetry; he is the moſt noted, and moſt deſerv-
ang man, in the whole profeſſion of Chirurgery ; and
has fav'd the lives of thouſands by his manner of cutting:
for the ſtone, — I am now well, or what I muſt call fo.”
[ have lately ſeen ſome writings of Lord B. 's fince he
went to France, Nothing can depreſs his Genius:
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Every. man.you know or care for here, enquires of,
you, and pays you the only devoir he can, that of
drinking your health. I wiſh you had any motive to ſee
this kingdom. I could keep you, for I am rich, that
is, I have more than I want. I can. afford room for
yourſelf and two ſervants; I have indeed room enough,
nothing but myſelf at home; the kind and hearty houſe.
wife is dead! the agreeable and inſtructive neighbour is
gone; yet my. houſe is inlarg'd, and the gardens extend
and flouriſh, as knowing nothing of the. gueſts they have
loſt. I have more fruit-trees and kitchen-garden than
you have any thought of; nay I have good Melons and
Pine-apples of my own growth. I am as much a better
Gardener, as I am a worſe Poet, than when you ſaw me:
But Gardening is near a-kin to Philoſophy, for Tully
ſays, Agricultura proxima ſapientiae. For God's fake,
why ſhould nat you (that are a ſtep higher than a Philo-
ſopher, a Divine, yet. have toe much grace and wit
to be a Biſhop) e'en give all you have to the Poor of
lieland (for whom you have already done every thing
elſe) ſo quit the place, and live and die with me? And
let. Tales animat concordes be our Motto and our Epitaph.
oc ——.
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From Dr. Sw Ir.
Dublin, April 22, 1736.
M* common illneſs. is of that kind which utterly dil-
qualifies me for all converſation; I mean my Deat-
neſs ; r indeed it is that only which diſcourageth me
from all thoughts of coming to England; becauſe 1 am
never ſure — it may not return in a week. If it wele
a good honeſt Gout, I could catch an interval, to taks
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2 voyage, and in a warm lodging get an eaſy chair, and:
be able to hear and roar among my friends. As to
« what you ſay of your Letters, ſince you have many
« years of life more than I, my. reſolution is to direct
« my Executors to ſend you all your letters, well ſealed.
« and pacqueted, along with ſome legacies mentioned
« in my will, and leave them entirely to your diſpoſal :.
© Thoſe things are all tied up, endors'd and locked in
© a cabinet, and I have not one ſervant who can pro-
„ perly be ſaid to write or read: No mortal ſhall copy,
them, but you ſhall ſurely have them when I am no
© more.” I have a little repined at my being hitherto
flipped by you in your Epiſtles, not from any other am-
bition than the Title of a Friend, and ia that ſenſe I
expect you ſhall perform your promiſe, if your health
and leiſure and inclination will. permit. I deny your
loſing on the fide of poetry; I could reaſon-againſt you
a little from experience; you are, and will be ſome
years to come, at the age when Invention ſtill keeps its
ground, and Judgment: is at full maturity ; but your
ſubjects are much more difficult when confin'd to Verſe.
1 am amazed to ſee you exhauſt the whole ſcience of
Morality in ſo maſterly a manner. Sir W. Temple ſaid,
that the loſs of Friends was a Tax upon long life: It
need not be very long, fince you have had ſo great a
ſhare, but I have not above one left : and in this Coun»
try I have only a few general companions of good-
nature and middling underſtandings. How ſhould I
know Cheſelden? On your fide, men of fame ſtart up
and die before we here (at leaſt I), know any thing of
the matter, I am a little comforted: with what you ſay
of Lord B.'s Genius ſtill keeping up, and preparing to-
appear by effects worthy of the author, and uſeful to
the world. — Common reports have made me very un-
ealy about your neighbour Mr. P. It is affirmed thay
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he hath been very near death: I love him for being a
Patriot in. moſt. corrupted times, and highly efteem his
excellent underſtanding. Nothing but the perverſe na.
ture of my diforders, as I have above deſcribed them,
and which are abſolute diſqualifications for converſe,
could hinder me from waiting on you at Twickenham,
and nurſing you to Paris. In ſhort, my ailments amount
to a prohibition, although I am, as you deſcribe yourſelf,
what I muſt. call well, yet I have not ſpirits left to ride
out, which (excepting walking) was my only diverſion,
And I muſt expect to decline every month, like one who
lives upon his principal ſum which mult leſſen every day;
and indeed I am likewiſe literally almoſt in the fame
cafe, while every body owes me, and no-body pays me.
Inſtead of a young race of Patriots on your fide, which
gives me ſome glympſe of joy, here we have the direct
contrary, a race of young Dunces and Atheiſts, or old
Villains and Monſters, whereof four fifths are more
wicked and ſtupid than Chartres. Vour wants are ſo
few, that you need not be rich to ſupply them; and
my. wants are ſo many, that a King's ſeven millions of
guineas would not ſupport me.
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LETTER LXXXIL
Aug. 17, 1736.
I Find, tho I have leſs experience than you, the truth of
what you told me ſome time ago, that increaſe of yezr
makes men more talkative but leſs writative : to that de-
gree, that | now write no letters but of plain buſiue's,
or plain how.d'ye's, ro thoſe few I am forced to cot-
reſpond with, either out of neceflity, or love: Aud!
grow Laconic even beyond Laconiciſme ; for ſometimes
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| return only Yes, or No, to queſtionary or petitionary
Epiſtles of half a: yard long. You and Lord Boling-
broke are the only men to whom Lwrite, and always in
folio. You are indeed almoſt the only men I know,
who either can write in this age, or whoſe writings will
reach the next: Others are mere mortals. Whatever
failings ſuch men may havo, a reſpect is due to them,
as Luminaries whoſe exaltation renders their motion a.
tle irregular, or rather cauſes it to ſeem ſo to others.
[am afraid to cenſure any thing I hear of Dean Swift,
becauſe I hear it only from mortals, blind and dull:
And you ſhould be cautious of cenſuring any action or
motion of Lord B. becauſe you hear it only from ſhal-
low, envious, or malicious reporters. What you writ
to me about him I find to my great ſcandal repeated in
one of yours to ——, Whatever you might hint to
me, was this for the prophane ? the thing, if true,
ſhould be concealed ; but it is, I aſſure you, abſolutely
untrue, in every ci cumſtance. He has fixed in a very
z2reeable retirement near Fontainbleau, and makes it
lis whole buſineſs vacare literis. But tell me the truth,
were you cot angry at his omitting to write to you ſo
long? 1 may, for J hear from him ſeldomer than from
joa, that is twice or thrice a year at moſt, Can you
poſably think he can negle& you, or diiregard you ?
If you caich yourſelf at thinking ſuch noalenſe, your
parts are decay'd: For, believe me, great Geniuſes muſt
and do eſteem one another, and I queſtion if any others
can eſteem or comprehend uncommon merit, Others
01-y gvels at that merit, or ſee glimmerings of their
minds: A genius has the intuitive faculty: Therefore,
magine wat you will, you cannot be ſo ſure of any
man's efteem as of his. If I can think that neither he
nor you deſpiſe me, it is a greater honour to me by far,
and will be thought { by poſterity, than if all the Houſe
3% LETTERS TO AND
of Lords writ Commendatory Verſes upon me, tlie
Commons order'd me to print my Works, the Univerſ.
ties gave me public thanks, and the King, Queen, and
Prince crown'd me with Laurel. You are a very igro-
rant man; you don't know the figure his name and
yours will make hereafter; I do, and will preſerve all
the memorials I can, that I was of your intimacy;
tengo, ſed proximus, zntervallo, I will not quarrel with
the preſent age; it has done enough for me, in making
and keeping you two my friends, Do not you be too
angry at it, and let not him be too angry at it; it has
done and can do neither of you any manner of harm,
as long as it has not, and cannot burn your works;
while thoſe ſubſift, you'll both appear the greateſt men
of the time, in ſpite of Princes and Miniſters; and the
wiſeſt, in ſpite of all the little Errors you may pleaſe to
comnut.
Adieu. May better health attend you, than, I fear,
you poſſeſs ; may but as good health attend you always
as mine is at preſent, tolerable, when an eaſy mind is
join'd with it.
— 3
LETTER LXXXIII.
From Dr. SwIFE T.
Dec. 2, 1736.
- I Think you owe me a letter, but whether you do or not,
have not been in a condition to write. Years and
Infirmities have quite broke me; I mean that odious
contiaual diſorder in my head. I neither read, not
write, nor remember, nor converſe. All I have left is
to walk and ride; the firſt I can do tolerably ; but the
latter, for want of good weather at this ſeaſon, is ſeldom
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n my power; and having not an ounce of fleſh about
ne, my ſkin comes off in ten miles riding, becauſe my
kin and bone cannot agree together. But I am angry,
becauſe you will not ſuppoſe me as ſick as I am, and
write to me out of perfect charity, although I ſhould not
he able to anſwer, I have too many vexations by my
tation and the impertinence of people, to be able to
dear the mortification of not hearing from a very fe
diſtant friends that are left; and, conſidering how time
and fortune have ordered matters, I have hardly one !
friend left but yourſelf, What Horace ſays, Singula de- 1
ubiñ anni pracdantur, I feel every month, at fartheſt; 10 8
and by this computation, if I hold out two years, I Td 4
ſhall think it a miracle. My comfort is, you begun to [ 0 8
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gieve, Addiſon, Parnel, etc. and in ſpite of your heart. 9 104
you have owned me a Cotemporary. Not to mention li
Lords Oxford, Bolingbroke, Harcourt, Peterborow: In ITE) | |
ſhort, I was t'other day recollecting twenty-ſeven great 11
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dead, and all of my acquaintance, within twenty years th 11
paſt; neither have I the grace to be ſorry, that the pre- 1.2 Bi
ſent times are drawn to the dregs as well as my own FI ||
lie. — May my friends be happy in this. and a better 140
life, but I value not what becomes of Poſterity when I.
conſider from what Monſters they are to ſpring.— My
Lord Orrery writes to you to-morrow, and you fee I ſend
this under his cover, or at leaſt franked by him. He
as 3000 J. a year about Cork, and the neighbourhood,
and has more than three years rent unpaid : This is our:
condition, in theſe bleſſed times. I writ to your neigh»
bour about a month ago, and ſubſcribed my name: I
kx he hath not received my letter, and wiſh you would.
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alk him; but perhaps he is ſtill a rambling ; for we hes
of him at Newmarket, and that Boerhaave bath reſto: d
his health. — How my ſervices are leſſened of late with
the number of my friends on your fide ! yet, my Lord
Bathurſt and Lord Maſham and Mr, Lewis remain, aud
being your acquaintance I deſire when you fee them
to deliver my compliments; but chiefly to Mrs, P. 8, 4
and let me know whether ſhe be as young and agreeable = *
as when I ſaw her laſt? Have you got a ſupply of new 3 ks
friends to make up for thoſe who are gone ? and are they a 1 5
equal to the firſt? I am afraid it is with friends as wid Mf, ,
times; and that the /audator temporis acti /e puero, is 1 .
equally applicable to both. I am leſs grieved for living . _
here, becauſe it is a perfect retirement, and conſequently " kh i
fitteſt for thoſe who are grown good for nothing: ſor mon A
this town and kingdom are as much out of the world a WL
North-Wales, — My head is fo ill that I cannot write a what (tis
Paper full as I uſed to do; and yet I will not forgive a pe have
blank of half an inch from you. — I had reaſon to ex- bonn the
pect from ſome of your letters, that we were to hope for Young
more Epilies of Morality ; and, I aſſure you, my w t 2. 50
quaintance reſent that they have not ſeen my name at "Wk B
the head of one. The ſubjects of ſuch Epiſtles are kf, you
more uſeful to the public, by your manner of handling wople w
them, than any of all your writings: and although, in
ſo profligate a world as ours, they may poſſibly not much
mend our manners, yet poſterity will enjoy the bene,
whenever a Court happens to have the leaſt reliſh for
Virtue and Religion.
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LETTER LXXXIV.
To Dr. SI v.
Decemb. 30, 1736.
Nou very kind letter has made me more melancho-
ly, than almoſt any thing in this world now can do.
For | can bear every thing in it, bad as it is, better than
he complaints of my friends. Tho? others tell me you
nr in pretty good health, and in good ſpirits, I find the
wutrary when you open your mind to me: And indeed
x is but a prudent part, to ſeem not ſo concern'd about
thers, nor ſo crazy ourſelves as we really are: for we
hall neither be beloved nor eſteemed the more, by our
ommon acquaintance, for any affliction or any infirmity.
Int to our true friend we may, we muſt complain,. of
wat (tis a thouſand to one) he complains with us; for
ye have known him long, he is old, and if he has
own the world Jong, he is out of humour at it. If
ju have but as much more health than others at your
ge, as you have more wit and good temper, you ſhall
tot have much of my Pity : But if you ever live to have
ef, you ſhall not have leſs of my Affection. A whole
Kople will rejoice at every year that ſhall be added to
ſou, of which you have had a late inſtance in the public
pieings on your birth-day. I can aſſure you ſome-
ling better and greater than high birth and quality muſt
Ptoward acquiring thoſe demonſtrations of public eſteem
ad love, I have ſeen a royal birth-day uncelebrated,
bat by one vile Ode, and one hired bonefire. Whatever
ſears may take away from you, they will not take away
be general eſteem, for your Senſe, Virtue, and Charity.
The moſt melancholy effect of years is that you
mnton, the catalogue of thoſe we loy'd and have lot
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perpetually increaſing. How much that Reflection ſtruei e could
me, you'll ſee from the Motto I have perfix d to n But as whe
Book of Letters, which ſo much againſt my inclination or flower
has been drawn from me. It is from Catullys ; their room
Quo defiderio veteres revocamus Amores, v it depriv
Atque olim amiſſas flemus Amicitias | wat il
45, gives v
I detain this letter till I can find ſome ſafe conveyance; u. bas Ib
nocent as it is, and as all letters of mine mult be, of uu ence- a0.
thing to offend my ſuperiors, except the reverence i þ the paſt
bear to true merit and virtue: But I have much real” have
* to fear, thoſe which you have too partially kept in cauſe they
* your hands will get out in ſome very diſagreeable ave loſt,
« ſhape, in caſe of our mortality: and the more ran dinguiſt
& to fear it, ſince this laſt month Curl has obtain'd from in a very
Ireland two letters, (one of Lord Bolingbroke and one heir aſſer
of mine, to you, which we wrote in the year 1723 ruption,
& and he has printed them, to the beſt of my memo, © dhe fam
« rightly, except one paſſage concerning Dawley, which Jeu,
* muſt have been ſince inſerted, ſince my Lord had not poetic
< that place at that time. Your anſwer to that letter kore, an
« he has not got; it has never been out of my cuſtody; Gut | fin
for whatever is lent is loſt {Wit as well as Money) to preſtions ;
* theſe needy poetical Readers.” | jeterday-
The world will certainly be the better for bis change ent) e
of life. He ſeems in the whole turn of his letters, to bea be daily.
ſettled and principled Philoſopher, thanking Fortune for me in all
the Tranquillity he has been led into by her averſion, fether,
like a wan driven by a violent wind, from the ſea into v know
a calm harbour. You aſk me, if I have got any ſupply
of new Friends to make up for thoſe that are gone? * Ther
think that impoſlible, for not our friends only, but {o e
much of ourſelves is gone by the mere flux and courle 1 wi |
ment in t
years,, that, were the ſame Friends to be reſtored to us,
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ge could not be reſtored to ourſelves, to enjoy them.
But as when the continual waſhing of a river takes away
dur flowers and plants, it throws weeds and ſedges in
their room “; ſo the courſe of time brings us ſomething,
vit deprives us of a great deal; and inſtead of leaving us
what we Cultivated, and expected to flouriſh and adorn
ws, gives us only what is of ſome little uſe, by accident.
Thus I have acquired, without my ſeeking, a few
chance-acquaintance, of young men, who look rather
to the paſt age than the preſent, and therefore the future
my have ſome hopes of them. If I love them, it is be-
auſe they honour ſome of thoſe whom J, and the world,
have loſt, or are loſing. Two or three of them have
iitinguiſh'd themſelves in Parliament, and you will own
in a very uncommon manner, when [I tell you it is by
tdeir aſſerting of Independency, and contempt of Cor-
ruption, One or two are link'd to me by their love
of the fame ſtudies and the ſame authors: but I will own
WT you, my moral capacity has got ſo much the better of
u poetical, that I have few acquaintance on the latter
tore, and none without a caſting weight on the former.
but I find my heart harden'd and blunt to new im-
a preflions; it will ſcarce receive or retain affections of
jelterday; and thoſe friends who have been dead theſe
= "enty years, are more preſent to me now, than theſe I
e daily. You, dear Sir, are one of the former fort to
ee in all reſpects, but that we can, yet, correſpond to-
gether. I don't know whether 'tis not more vexatious,
WT © know we are both in one wofld, without any further
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There are ſome ſtrokes in this letter, which can be accounted
\ WT © fo otherwiſe than by the Author's extreme compaſſion and ten-
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intercourſe, Adieu, I can ſay no more, I feel ſo much
Let me drop into common things. — Lord Maſham h.
Juſt married his ſon. Mr. Lewis has juſt buried his wir
Lord Oxford wept over your letter in pure kindnel
Mrs. B. fighs more for you than the loſs of youth, 8
ſays, ſhe will be agreeable many years hence, for ſhe be
learn'd that ſecret from ſome receipts of your writing,
Adieu,
—
LETTER LXXXV.
March 23, 1736-7,
RHOUGH you were never to write to me, 50
what you deſired in your laſt, that I would writ
often to you, would be a very eaſy taſk ; for every da
I talk with you, and of you, in my heart; and I need
only ſet down what that is thinking of. The neare
I find myſelf verging to that period of life which!
to be labour and ſorrow, the more I prop myſzi
upon thoſe few ſupports that are left me. Peopt
in this ſtate are like props indeed, they cannot ſtand
alone, but two or more of them can ftand, lean
ing and bearing upon one another. I wiſh you and
J might paſs this part of life together. My on)
neceſſary care is at an end. I am now my own maſt
too much; my houſe is too-large ; my gardens furnil
too much wood and proviſion for my uſe. My ſer-
vants are ſenſible and tender of me; they have inter
married, and are become rather low friends than ſer-
vants: and to all thoſe that I ſee here with pleaſure
they take a pleaſure in being uſeful. I conclude this 5
your caſe too in your domeſtic life, and ] ſometimes think
of your old houſe-keeper as my nurſe ; tho' I tremble a
the ſea, which only divides us. As your fears are not 8
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great as mine, and, I firmly hope, your ſtrength ſtill much
greater, is it utterly impoſſible, it might once more be
ſome pleaſure to you to ſee England? My ſole motive in
propoſing France to meet in, was the narrownels of the
vaſage by ſea from hence, the Phyſicians having told
me the weakneſs of my breaſt, etc. is ſuch, as a ſea-
ſickneſs might endanger my life. Tho? one or two of
our friends are gone, ſince you ſaw your native country,
there remain a few more who will laſt ſo till death, and
who, I cannot but hope, have an attractive power to draw
you back to a Country, which cannot quite be ſunk or
enſlaved, while ſuch ſpirits remain. And let me tell you
there are a few more of the ſame ſpirit, who would
awaken all your old Ideas, and revive your hopes of her
future recovery and Virtue. Theſe look up to you with
reverence, and would be animated by the ſight of him
at whoſe ſoul they have taken fire, in his writings, and
deriv'd from thence as much love of their ſpecies as is
conſiſtent with a contempt for the knaves of it.
could never be weary, except at the eyes, of writing
to you; but my real reaſon (and a ſtrong one it is) for
doing it ſo ſeldom, is Fear; Fear of a very great and ex-
perienc'd evil, that of my letters being kept by the par-
tiality of friends, and paſſing into the hands, and malice
of enemies; who publih them with all their Imper-
fections on their head; ſo that I write not on the com-
non terms of honeſt men.
Would to God you would come over with Lord Or-
ry, whoſe care of you in the voyage I could ſo certain-
ly depend on; and bring with you your old houſe-
keeper, and two or three ſervants. I have room for all,
a heart for all, and (think what you will) a fortune for
all, We could, were we together, contrive to make
Ur laſt days eaſy, and leave ſome fort of Monument,
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what Friends two Wits could be in ſpite of all the fods
in the world. Adieu.
LETTER IU.
From Dr. Swir r.
Dublin, May zi, 1757,
| JTis true I owe you ſome letters, but it has pleaſed
God, that I have not been in a condition to pay you,
When you ſhall be at my age, perhaps you may lie un-
der the ſame diſability to your preſent or future friends,
But my age is not my diſability, for I can walk fix or
ſeven miles, and ride a dozen. But I am deaf for two
months together; this deafneſs unqualifies me for all
company, except a few friends with counter- tenor voices,
whom I can call names, if they do not ſpeak loud enough
for my ears. It is this evil that hath hindered me from
venturing to the Bath, and to Twickenham; for deat-
neſs being not a frequent diſorder, hath no allowance
given it; and the ſcurvy figure a man affected that way
makes in company, is utterly inſupportable.
It was I began with the petition to you of Orna ne,
and now you come like an unfair merchant, to charge
me with being in your debt; which by your way of
reckoning I muſt always be, for yours are always gul-
neas, and mine farthings; and yet I have a pretence i0
quarrel with you, becaaſe I am not at the head of any one
of your epiſtles. I am often wondering how you come
to excel all mortals on the ſubje& of Morality, even in
the poetical way ; and ſhould have wondered more, 5
Nature and Education had not made you a profeſſor :
it from your infancy. * All the letters I can _
« yours, I have faſtened in a folio cover, and the re
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« in bundles endors'd : But, by reading their dates, I
« find a chaſm of ſix years, of which I can find no co-
« pies ; and yet I keep them with all poſſible care : But,
« have been forced, on three or four occaſions, to ſend
« all my papers to ſome friends ; yer thoſe papers were
« all ſent ſealed in bundles, to ſome faithful friends;
« however, what I have are not much above ſixty.”
found nothing in any one of them to be left out: None
of them have any thing to do with Party, of which you
are the cleareſt of all men by your Religion, and the
whole tenour of your life; while I am raging every mo-
ment againſt the Corruption of both kingdoms, eſpecially
of this; ſuch is my weakneſs, |
[ have read your Epiitle of Horace to Auguſtus: it was
ſent me in the Engliſh Edition, as ſoon as it could come,
They are printing it in a ſmall octavo. The curious are
booking out, ſome for Flattery, ſome for [ronies in it;
the ſour folks think they have found out ſome : But your
ulmirers here, I mean every man of taſte, affect to be
certain, that the profeſſion of friendſhip to Me in the
lame poem, will not ſuffer you to be thought a Flatterer,
My happineſs is that you are too far engaged, and in
ſpite of you the ages to come will celebrate me, and
know you were a friend who loved and eſteemed me,
although I died the object of Court and Party hatred,
Pray, who is that Mr. Glover, who writ the Epic
Poem call'd Leonidas, which is reprinting here, and
hath great vogue? We have frequently good Poems
of late from London, I have juſt read one upon Con-
rerlation, and two or three others. But the croud do
not incumber you, who, like the Orator or Preacher,
tand aloft, and are ſeen above the reſt, more than the
whole aſſembly belo p. | =D
am able to write no more; and this is my third en-
learour, which is too weak to finiſh the paper. I am,
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LETTER LXXXVII.
From Dr. SwI rr.
Dublin, July 23, 1737.
Sent a letter to you ſome weeks ago, which my Lord
Orrery incloſed in one of his, to which I receiv'd as
yet no anſwer, but it will be time enough when bit
Lordſhip goes over, which will be, as he hopes, in .
bout ten days, and then he will take with him * all the
« [etters I preſerved of yours, which are not above
*« twenty-five. I find there is a great chaſm of ſome
« years, but the dates are more early than my two la
« journeys to England, which makes me imagine, that
4 jn cne of thoſe journeys | carried over another cargo.”
But I cannot truſt my memory half an hour; and my
diſorders of deafneſs and giddineſs increaſe daily. 90
that 1 am declining as faſt as it is caſily poſlibie for me,
if I were a dozen years older.
We have had your volume of letters, which, J am
40ld, are to be printed here: Some of taoſe who highty
eſteem you, and a few who know you perſonally, are
grieved to find you make no diſtinction between the
Engliſh Gentry of this Kingdom, and the favage old
Triſh (who are only the vulgar, and fome Gentlemen who
live in the Iriſh parts. of the kingdom) but the Englita
Colonies, who are three parts in four, are much more
civilized than many Counties in England, and ſpeak ber
ter Engliſh, and are much better bred. And they tbink
it very bard, that an American who is of the fiſth gens
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tion from England, ſhould be allowed to preſerve that
ide, only becauſe we have been teld by ſame of them
that their names are entered in ſome pariſh in London.
| have three or four Couſins here who were born in,
Portugal, whoſe parents took the ſame care, and they
ve all of them Londoners. Dr. Delany, who, as I take
i is of an Iriſh family, came to viſit me three days ago,
on purpoſe to complain of thoſe paſſages in your Letters
je will not allow ſuch a difference between the two cli-
mates, but will aſſert that North-Wales, Northumber-
nd, Yorkſhire, and the other Northern Shires, have a
nore cloudy ungenial air than any part of Ireland, In
ſhort, I am afraid your friends and admirers here will
farce you to make a Palinody.
As for the other parts of your volume of Letters, my
opinion is, that there might be collected from them the
belt Syſtem that ever was wrote for the Conduct of hu-
nan life, at leaſt to ſhame all reaſonable men out of their
Follies and Vices. It is ſome recommendation of this
Kingdom, and of the taſte of the people, that you are
tt leaſt as highly celebrated here as you are at home.
[f you will blame us for Slavery, Corruption, Atheiſm,
and ſuch trifles, do it freely, but include England; only
wth an addition of every other Vice. — I wiſh you
would pive orders againſt the corruption of Engliſh by
noſe Scriblers, who ſend us over their traſh in Proſe
nd Verſe, with abominable curtailings and quaint mo-
Emiſms, — [am now daily expecting an end of life
| ave loft all ſpirit, and every ſcrap of health; I ſome-
mes recover a little of my hearing, but my head is
ee out of order. While I have any ability to hold a
emmerce with yoo, I will never be filent, and this
Mancing to be a day that 1 can hold a pen, I will drag
ts long as I am able. Pray let my Lord Orrery lee
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tell him what I ſay, if he viſits you. I have now dee bret a
for it is evening, and my head prows worſe, May Got bat.
always protect you, and preſerve you long for a pattern It 1
of Piety and Virtue. better |
Farewel, my deareſt and almoſt only conſtant friend. Vith Pc
I am ever, at leaſt in my eſteem, honour and affe&ion Wl tines 1
to you, what I hope you expe@ me to be, reject y
; Yours, etc. pliment
you late
— > — writ; 2
am ign
LET TE R:. LXXXVIII, ſame,
From Dr. SwIr r. ＋ f
; have
My dear Friend, Dublin, Aug. 8, 1738. U are
1 Have yours of July 25, and firſt I deſire you will lock © a ve
upon me as a man worn with years, and ſunk ty WW mine
public as well as perſonal vexations, I have entirely « 411 |
loſt my memory, uncapable of converſation by a cruel « upon
deafneſs, which has laſted almoſt a year, and ] deſpair My 1
of any cure. I ſay not this to increaſe your compaſſion WM her eſta
(of which you have already too great a part) but a underft
an excuſe for my not being regular in my letters to you, WW leave to
and ſome few other friends. I have an ill name in the in the 1
Poſt-office of both Kingdoms, which makes the letter:
addreſſed to me not ſeldom miſcarry, or be opened ard I,
read, and then ſealed in a bungling manner before they 1
come to my hands. Our Friend Mrs. B. is very often dor of
in my thoughts, and high in my eſteem; I deſire, jou do here
will be the meſſenger of my humble thanks and ſet- Ladthi
vice to her. That ſuperior univerſal Genius you de. c:iveg |
ſcribe, whoſe hand-writing I know towards the end of Nate »
your Letter, hath made me both proud and happy 3 but lending
by what he writes J fear he will be too ſoon gone to 7 de n K.
FROM DR. S8WIF T,. et. 317
foreſt abroad. He began in the Queen's time to be
oy Patron, and then deſcended to be my Friend.
It is a great favour of Heaven, that your health grows
better by the addition of years. I have abſolutely done
with Poetry for ſeveral years paſt, and even at my beſt
tmes I could produce nothing but trifles: I therefore
jet your compliments on that ſcore, and it is no com-
piment in me; for I take your ſecond Dialogue that
you lately ſent me, to equal almoſt any thing you ever
writz although I live ſo moch out of the world, that I
m ignorant of the facts and perſons, which, I pre-
ſane, are very well known from Temple- bar to St.
ſ:mes's : (1 mean the Court excluſive,)
« I can faithfully aſſure you, that every Tetter you
© hive favour'd me with, theſe twenty years and more,
are ſealed up in bundles, and delivered to Mrs. W—,
% very worthy, rational, and judicious Couſin of
„mine, and the only relation whoſe viſits I can ſuffer :
All theſe Letters ſhe is directed to ſend ſafely ta you
upon my deceaſe.” |
My Lord Orrery is gone with his Lady to a part of
her eſtate in the North: She is a perſon of very good
underſtanding as any 1 know of her ſex. Give me
leave to write here a ſhort anſwer to my Lord B's letter
the WY in the laſt page of yours,
ters
ard My dear Lord,
* Lam infinitely obliged to your Lordſhip for the ho-
1 nour of your letter, and kind remembrance of me. I
here confeſs, that I have more obligations to your
Lordſhip than to all the world beſides. You never de-
* __ me, even when you were a great Miniſter of
3 date: and yet I love you Kill more, for your conde-
ſeending to write to me, when you had the honour to
be an Exile, I can hardly hope to live till you publiſh
338 LETTERS FO AND
your Hiſtory, and am vain enough to wiſh that my
name could be ſqueez'd in among the few Subalterny
guorum pars parva fui : If not, I will be revenged, *
contrive ſome way to be known to futurity, that I had
the honour to have your Lordſhip for my beft Patron
and I will live and die, with the higheſt veneration ad
_ gratitude, your moſt obedient, etc,
P. S. I will here in a Poſtſcript correct (if it be pol.
fible) the blunders I have made in my letter. I ſhewed
my Coulin the above letter, and ſhe aſſures me, that a
our me,
great Collection of * = letters to you, e put uf
and ſealed, and in ſome very fafe hand f. I am, ny
zoſt dear and honoured Friend, entirely yours,
J. SWIFT,
It is now Aug. 24,
1738,
* *Tis written juſt thus in the Original, The Book that is now
printed ſeems to be part of the Collection here ſpoken of, as it con»
tains not only the Letters of Mr. Pope but of Dr, Swift, both to
him and Mr. Gay, which were return'd him after Mr. Gay's death:
tho” any mention made by Mr, P. of the Return or Exchange of
Letters has been induftriouſly ſuppreſt in the Publication, anc only
appears by ſome of the Anſwers,
+ The Earl of OaREZR VJ to Mr, Pore,
SIR, ,
Jan more and mere convinced | fear, whoever has them is lis tt
that your /eiters are neither lift | nacgous of then to a7 auler
nor Burnt 3 but 4ubo the Dean | they lie. ** Mrs. M did oft
means by a ſaſe hand in Ireland, | ** me ſhe bad net one of then, ord
is beyond my power of gueſſing,
tho" F am particularly acquainted
with meſt, if not all, of his friends.
As T knew you bad the recovery of
thoſe Letters at Feart, I took more
than ordinary pains, to find out
qobere they were : but my enqui-
ries were to ne purpoſe, and, I
© ſeem'd ta be under great uncafie
© neſs that ycu ſhould imagine thy
« ewere left avith ber. Sbe lite
ec ewiſe told me ſhe had fop's the
«* Dean's letter which gave qu
«© that information; but believed
6 be would write ſuch rothe
t ang therefore defir'd me ia d
« fare q
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FROM Da. SWIFT, etc. 319
« u, from her, that ſbe | *© you: ſo I would do all in my
= —— Where & of — to make you entirely eaſy _
« dere. « in that point.
You may male what uſe you This is the firfl time I have.
pleaſe, either to the Dean or any | put pen to paper fince my late
ther perſon, of what I bawe told | misfortune, and I ſhould jay ( as
yu. Tam ready to teſtiſy it; and | an excuſe for this letter ) chat if
] think it ought to be known, | has ciſt me ſome pain, did it net
© That the Dean ſays they are | allow me an opportunity to aſſure
« deliver d into a ſafe hand, and | you, that I am, .
« # Mrs, W— declares ſpe has
u them not. The Conſoguence of Dear Sir,
" their being hereafter publiſh"d
c may give uneaſineſs ta ſome of With the trueft ecm,
k your Friends, and of courſe to
Your very faithful and ebedient Servant,
Marton, Oct. 4, 1738. Oa AER.
* This Lady fince gave Mr. Pepe the ſtrongeſt Aſſurances that
de had uſed her utmoſt Endeavours to prevent the Publication;
ny, went ſo far as to ſerrrte the Book, till it was commanded from
her, and delivered to the Dublin Printer : Whereupon her Son-in-
hu, D. Swift, Eſqz inſiſted upon writing a Preface, to juſtify Mr,
. from having any Knowledge of it, and to lay it upon the cor-
rot Practices of the Printers in London; but this he would not
dee to, as not knowing the Truth of the Fa,
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Mr. Por x to Mr. AL LEX.
| 5 Twitnam, Apnil zo, 1736,
Saw Mr. M. yeſterday, who has readily allowed Mr,
V. to copy the Picture. I have enquired for the belt
Originals of thoſe two ſubjects, which, I found, were
favourite ones with you, and well deſerve to be ſo, the
Diſcovery of Joſeph to his Brethren, and the Reſigna-
tion of the Captive by Scipio, Of the latter, my Lord
Burlington has a fine one done by Ricci, and I am pro-
miſed the other in a good Print from one of the chief
Italian Painters. That of Scipio is of the exact ſize one
would wiſh for a Baſſo Relievo, in which manner, in my
opinion, you would beſt ornament your Hall, done 1
Chĩaro oſcuro. ä
A man not only ſhews his Taſte, but his Virtue, in
the choice of ſuch ornaments : And whatever example
moſt ſirikes us, we may reaſonably imagine, may have
an influence upon others. So that the Hiſtory itſelf, !
well choſen, upon a rich man's walls, is very often a
better leſſon than any he could teach by his convertaticn.
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In this ſenſe, the Stones may be ſaid to ſpeak when
Men cannot, or will not. I can't help thinking (and
I know you'll join with me, you. who have been making
an Altar-piece) that the zeal of the firſt reformers was ill.
placed, in removing Pictures (that is to ſay, examples)
out of Churches; and yet ſuffering Epiraphs (that is to
ay, flatteries and falſe hiſtory) to be the burthen of
Church-walls, and the ſhame, as well as deriſion, of
all honeſt men.
[ have heard little yet of the ſubſcription . I intend
to make a viſit for a fortnight from home to Lady Pe-
terborow at Southampton, about the middle of May.
After my return I will enquire what has been done;
and I really believe, what 1 told you will prove true,
and I ſhall be honourably acquitted of a taſk I am not
ſond of T. I have run out my leaf, and will only add
my fincere wiſhes for vue happineſs of all kinds, I
am, etc.
1
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Mr. Pop E to Mr. ALLEN.
5 Southampton, June 5, 1736.
] Need not ſay I thank you for a Letter, which proves
ſo much friendſhip for me. I have much more to
ſay upon it than I can, till we meet. But, in a word, I
think your notion of the value of thoſe things g is greatly
too high, as to any ſervice they can do to the public;
and, as to any advantage they may do to my own
* For his own Edit. of the 1ſt Vol. of his Letters ; ; undertaken.
« Mr, Allen's requeſt,
The printing his Letters by Subſcription,
I His Letters,
P5
322 EETTFTERS TO
character, I ought to be content with what they have
done already. I aſſure you I do not think it the leaſ
of thoſe advantages that they have occaſioned me the
good-will (in fo great a degree) of ſo worthy a man “.
I fear (as I muſt rather retrench than add to their num ·
ber, unleſs I would publiſh my own commendations) that
the common run of Subſcribers would think themſelves
injured by not having every thing, which diſcretion mut
ſuppreſs ; and this, they (without any other conſideration
than as buyers of a book) would call giving them an in-
perfect collection; whereas the only uſe to my own
character, as an Author, of ſuch a publication, would be
the ſuppreſſion of many things: and as to my character
as a Man, it would be bat juſt where it is; unleſs I could
be fo- vain, for it could not be virtuous, to add more
and more honeſt ſentiments; which, when done 1 be
printed, would ſurely be wrong and weak alſo.
J do grant it would be ſome pleaſure to me to expunge
ſeveral idle paſſages, which will otferwiſe, if not go down
to the next age, paſs at leaſt, in this, for mine; al-
though many of them were not, and, God knows, none
of them are my preſent ſentiments, but, on the contrary,
wholly diſapproved by me.
And I do not flatter you when I ſay, that pleaſure
would be increaſed to me, in knowing I ſhould do what
would pleaſe y But I cannot perſuade myſelf io let
the whole burden, even tho? it were a public good, lie
upon you, much leſs to ſerve my private fame entirely
at another's expence +,
But, underfland me rightiy: Did I believe half fo wel
of them as you do, I would not ſcruple your affſtance;
* Mr. Allen's friendſhip with the Author was contracted en
the reading bis Vel. of Leiters, which gave the former the high
opinion of the other's general benevolence and goodneſs of heat,
4 Mr. A, effered to print the Letters at his own expence.
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becauſe I am ſure, that to occaſion you to contribute to
a real good would be the greateſt benefit I could oblige:
you in. And 1 hereby promiſe you, if ever I am ſo
happy as to find any juſt occaſion where your generoſity
and goodneſs may unite- for ſuch a worthy end, I will
not ſcruple to draw upon you. for any ſum to effect
it.
As to the preſent affair; that you may be convinced:
what weight your opinion and your deſires have with:
me, I will do what I have not yet done: I will tell my-
Friends I am as willing to publiſh. this book as to let:
it alone. And, rather than ſuffer you to be taxed at:
your own rate, will pabliſh, in the News, next winter,
the Propoſals, etc.
| tell you all theſe particulars to ſhew you how willing
| am to follow your advice, nay, to accept your aſſiſtance
in any moderate degree. But I think. you ſhould re-
ſerve ſo great. a proof of. your benevolence to a better
occafion,
Since I wrote laft, I have found, on further inquiry,
that there is another fine picture on the ſubject of Scipio
and the Captive, by Pietro da. Cortona, which Sir Pauli
Methuen has a ſketch af: and, I believe, is more ex-
prefive than that of Ricci, as Pietro is famous for
expreſion. I have alſo met with a fine Print of the:
Gicovery of Jofeph to his Brethren, a deſign, which, L
farc), is of La Suear, and will do perfeRly well.
Lam, etc.
| F 6
1324 _ LETTERS TO
LETTER II.
Mr. Pop E to Mr. AL LEA.
Nov. 6, 1736,
Do not write too often to you for many reaſons ; but
one, which I think a good one, is, that Friends ſhould
be left to think of one another for certain intervals with.
out too frequent memorandums : it is an exerciſe of their
friendſhip, and a trial of their memory: and moreover
to be perpetually repeating aſſurances, is both a needle;
and ſuſpicious kind of treatment with ſuch as are ſincere:
not to add the tautology one muſt be guilty of, who can
make out ſo many idle words as to fill pages with ſaying
one thing. Fo or all is ſaid in this word, I an trah
yours,
I am now .as buſy in planting for myſelf as I was
lately in planting for another. And I thank God fur
every wet Day and for every Fog, that gives me the head-
ach, but proſpers my works. They will indeed outlive
me (if they do not die in their Travels from place to
place; for my Garden, like my Life, ſeems, to me, every
day to want correction, I hope, at leaſt, for the better)
but I am pleaſed to think my T'rees will afford ſhade and
truit to others, when I ſhall want them no more, And
it is no ſort of grief to me, that thoſe others will not be
Things of my own poor body: But it is enough, they are
Creatures of the ſame Species, and made by the ſame
hand that made me. I wiſh (if a wiſh would tranſport
me) to ſee you in the ſame employment: and it is 10
partiality even to you, to lay it would be as pleaſing to
the full to me, if I could improves your works as TJ
own.
Ma. ALLEN. 324
Talking of works, mine in proſe: ate above three
quarters printed, and will be a book of fifty and more
ſheets in quarto. As I find, what I imagined, the flow-
neſs of ſubſcribers, I will do'all I can to diſappoint you
in particular, and intend - to publiſh in January, when
the Town fills, an Advertiſement, that the book will be
delivered by Lady-day, to oblige all that will ſubſeribe,
to do it. In the mean time, I have printed Receipts,
which put an end to any perſon's delaying upon pretence
of doubt, by determining that time. I fend you a few
that you may ſee I am in earneſt, endeavouring all I can
to ſave your money, at the ſame time that nothing can
leſſen the obligation to me.
thank God for your health atid for my own, which is
better than uſual.
J am, etc,
LETTER IV |
Mr. Por E to Mr. ALLE,
June 8, 1737.
1 very * to hear how much concern your huma-
nity and friendſhip betrayed you into upon the falſe
report which occaſioned your grief. I am now ſo well,
that I ought not to conceal it from you, as the juſt reward
of your goodneſs which made you ſuffer for me. Per-
haps when a Friend is really dead (if he knows our con-
cern for him) he knows us to be as much miſtaken in
our ſorrow as you now were: ſo that, what we think a
real evil is, to ſuch ſpirits as ſee things truly, no more of
moment than a mere imaginary one. It is equally as
God pleaſes; let us think or call it good or evil.
I wiſh the world would let me give myſelf more to
—
326 LETTERS TO
ſach people in it as I like, and diſcharge me of half the
honours which perſons of higher rank beſtow on me;
and for which one generally pays a little too much of
what they cannot beſtow, Time and Life. Were I ar.
rived to that happier circumſtance, you would ſee me at
Widcombe, and not at Bath. But whether it will be a;
much in my power as in my wiſh, God knows. I can
only ſay, I think of it with the pleaſure and ſincerity be.
W one who is, etc.
1—
— —ů 1
run .
Mr. Por E to Mr. ALL Ex.
Nov. 24, 1737,
"HE event“ of this week or fortnight has filled every
body's mind, and mine fo much that I could not get
done what you deſired as to Dr, P. but as ſoon as I can
get home, where my books lie, I will ſend them to Mr. K.
The death of great perſons is ſuch a ſort of ſurpriſe to all,
as every one's death is to himſelf, tho* both ſhould
equally be expected and prepared for. We begin to
eſteem and commend our ſuperiors, at the time that we
pity, them, becauſe then they ſeem not above ourſeives,
The Queen ſhewed, by the confeſſion of all about. her,
the utmoſt firmneſs and temper to her laſt moments, and
thro? the courſe of great torments. What character hiſto-
rians will allow her, I do not know; but all her do-
meſtic ſervants, and thoſe neareſt her, give her the beſt
teſtimony, that of ſincere tears. But the public is always
hard; rigid at beſt, even when juſt, in its opinion of any
one. The only pleaſure which any one, either of high
or low rank, muit depend upon receiving, is in the
The Queen's drath,
Ma. ALLEN, 337
eendour or partiality of friends, and that ſmall circle we
are converſant in: and it is therefore the greateſt ſatis-
faction to ſuch as wiſh us well, to know we enjoy that.
therefore thank you particularly for telling me of the
continuance, or rather increaſe of thoſe bleſſings which
make your domeſtic life happy, I have nothing ſo good
to add, as to aſſure you I pray for it, and am always
faithfully and affectionately, etc,
ä
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Mr. Port to Mr. ALLEN,
Twickenham, April 28, 1738,
T is a pain to me to hear your old complaint ſo
troubleſome to you; and the ſhare I have borne and
{ill bear too often, in the ſame complaint, gives me a
very feeling ſenſe of it. I hope we agree in every other
ſenſation beſides this; for your heart is always right,
whatever your body may be. I will venture too to ſay,
my body is the worſt part of me, or God have mercy on
my ſoul, I can't help telling you the rapture you acci-
dentally gave the poor woman (for whom you left a
Guinea, on what | told you of my finding her at the end
of my garden) I had no notion of her want being fo-
great, as I then told you, when I gave her half a one,
But I find I have a pleaſure to come, for 1 will allow her
ſomething yearly, and that may be but one year, for, I
think, by her looks, ſhe is not leſs than eighty, I am.
determined to take this charity out of your hands, Which,
8 you'll think hard upon you, but fo it ſhall
Pray tell me if you have any objection to my putting,
J9ur name imo a poem of mine (incidentally, not at all.
-gst LETTRRSITO
going out of the way for it) provided I ſay ſomething of
vou, which moſt people would take ill, for example, that
. you are no man of high birth or quality? You muſt be
perfectly free with me on this, as on any, nay, on every
other occaſion. |
I have nothing to add but my wiſhes for your health:
every other enjoyment you will provide for yourſelf
which becomes a reaſonable man. Adieu. |
E fag EMS Is am, etc,
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.
LETTER VI.
3 Mr. PoE to Mr. ALIEN.
Jan. 20.
1 Ought ſooner to have acknowledged yours; but! have
been ſeverely handled by my aſthma, and, at the
ſame time, hurried by buſineſs that gave an increaſe to
it by catching cold. I am truly ſorry to find that neither
yours nor Mrs. A's diſorder is totally removed: but
God forbid your pain ſhould continue to return every
day, which is worſe by much than expected to hear,
I hope your next will give me a better account. Poor T!
Mr. Bethel too is very ill in Yorkſhire. And, I do af ſh
ſure you, there are no two men I wiſh better to, I have coulc
known and eſteemed him for every moral virtue theſe and
twenty years and more. He has all the charity, with- matt
out any of the weakneſs of ; and, I firmly believe, vern
never ſaid a thing he did not think, nor did a thing be oute
could not tell. I am concerned he is in fo cold and re- no y
mote a place, as in the Wolds of Yorkſhi:e, at a hunt- com
ing-ſeat. If he lives till ſpring, he talks of returning to T
London, and, if I poſſibly can, I would get him to lie ear,
Ma. ALLEN.“ 329
out of it at Twickenham, tho' we went backward and
forward every day in a warm coach, which would be
the propereſt exerciſe for both of ue, ſince he is become
ſo weak as to be deprived of riding a horſe.
L. Bolingbroke ſtays a month yet, and I hope Mr.
Warburton will come to town before he goes. They
will both be pleaſed to meet each other; and nothing
in all my life, has been fo great a pleaſure to my nature,
as to bring deſerving and knowing men together. It is
the greateſt favour that can be done, either to great
geniuſes or uſeful men, I wiſh too, he were a while in
town, if it were only to lie a little in the way of ſome
proud and powerful perſons, to ſee if they have any of
the beſt ſort of pride left, namely, to ſerve learning and
merit, and by that means diſtinguiſh themſelves from
their predeceſſors.
LETTER VII.
Mr. Pop E to i. 4
, March 6.
] Thank you very kindly for yours, I am ſure we
ſhall meet with the ſame hearts we ever met; and F
could wiſh it were at Twickenham, tho* only to ſee you
and Mrs, Allen twice there inſtead of once. But, as
matters have turned out, a decent obedience to the go-
vernment has ſince obliged me to reſide here, ten miles
out of the capital; and therefore I muſt ſee you here or
no where, Let that be an additional reaſon for your
coming and ſtaying what time you can.
The utmoſt I can do, I will venture to tell you in your
ear, I may ſlide along the Surrey fide (where no Mid-
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dlefex juſtice can pretend any cognizance) to Batterſea,
and thence croſs the water for an hour or two, in a cloſe
Chair, to dine with you or fo, But to be in town, I fear,
will be imprudent, and thought inſolent. At leaf,
hitherto, all comply with the proclamation “.
I write thus early, that you may let me know if your
day continues, and I will have every room in my houſe
as warm for you as the owner always would be. It may-
poſſibly. be that I ſhall be taking the ſecret flight I ſpeak
of to Batterſea, before you come, with Mr. Warburton,
whom J have promiſed to make known to the only great
man in Europe, who knows as much as He, And from
thence we may return the 16th, or any day, hither, and
meet you, without fail, if you fix your day.
I would not make ill health come into the ſcale, as to
keeping me here (tho', in truth, it now bears very hard
upon me again, and the leaſt accident of cold, or motion
almoſt, throws me into a very dangerous and ſufferiag
condition.) God ſend you long life, and an eaſier en-
joyment of your breath than I now can expect, I fear,
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LETTER I.
April 11, 1739.
] Hare juſt received from Mr, R. two more of your
Letters *, It is in the greateſt hurry imaginable that
| write this, but I cannot help thanking you in particular
for your Third Letter, which is ſo extremely clear, ſhort,
and full, that I think Mr. Crouzaz + ought never to
have another anſwer, and deſerved not ſo good an one.
I can only ſay, you do him too much honour, and me
too much right, ſo odd as the expreſſion ſeems, for you
have made my ſyſtem as clear as I ought to have done
and could not. It is indeed the ſame ſyſtem as mine,
but illuſtrated with a ray of your_own, as they ſay our
natural body is the ſame till when it is glorified, I am
* Commentaries on the Eſuy en Man.
T A German profeſſor, who wrote remarks upon the philoſophy
of that Eſ/jay.
332 LETTERS TO
fure I like it better than I did before, and ſo will ever
man elſe. I know I meant juſt what you explain, bu:
I did not explain my own meaning ſo well as you, in
You underſtand me as well as I do myſelf, but you rity,
expreſs me better than I could expreſs myſelf. Pray prief]
accept the ſincereſt acknowledgments. I cannot but A 5
wiſh theſe letters were put together in one book, and :
intend (with your leave) to procure a tranſlation of pat, —
at leaſt, or of all of them, into French“; but I ſhall not
proceed a ſtep without your conſent and opinion, etc,
— = — — ——
LETTER II.
May 26, 1739.
HE diſſipation in which I am obliged to live through
many degrees of civil obligation, which ought not
to rob a man of himſelf who paſles for an independent
one, and yet make me every body's ſervant more than
my own: This, Sir, is the occaſion of my ſilence to
you, to whom I really have more obligation than to
almoſt any man. By writing, indeed, 1 propoſed no
more than to tell you my ſenſe of it: As to any correc-
tions of your Letters I could make none, but what re-
ſulted from inverting the Order of them, and thoſe ex-
preſſions relating to myſelf which I thought exaggerated,
I could not find a word to alter in the laſt letter, which
J returned immediately to the bookſeller. | muſt part-
cularly thank you for the mention you have made of me
in your Poſtſcript to the laſt Edition of the Legation of
Maſes. I am much more pleaſed with a compliment
ihat links me to a virtuous Man, and by the beſt ſi mili-
* They were all tranſlated into that language by a F rench gen ·
tleman of condition, who is now in an eminent ſtation in his ow?
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tude, that of a good mind (even a better and ftronger
tye than the ſimilitade of ſtudies) than I could be proud
of any other whatſoever. May that independency, cha-
rity, and competency attend you, which ſets a good
prieſt above a biſhop, and truly makes his Fortune ; that
is, his happineſs in this life as well as in the other.
ect, |
LETTER III.
| Twitenham, Sept. 20, 1739.
[ Received with great pleaſure the paper you ſent me;
and yet with greater, the proſpect you give me of a
nearer acquaintance with you when you come to Town,
I ſhall hope what part of your time you can afford me,
amongſt the number of thoſe who eſteem you, will be
paſt rather in this place than in London; ſince it is here
only I live as I ought, ibi et amicis. I therefore de-
dend on your promiſe; and ſo much as my conſtitution
ſufers by the winter, I yet aſſure you ſuch an acquiſi-
tion will make the ſpring much the more welcome to
me, when it is to bring you hither, cum zephyris et hirun-
ane prima,
As ſoon as Mr. R. can tranſmit to me an entire copy
of your Letters, I wiſh he had your leave ſo to do; that
| may put the book into the hands of a French gentle -
man to tranſlate, who, I hope, will not ſubje& your
work to as much ill- grounded criticiſm, as my French
tranſlator * has ſubjected mine. In earneſt, I am ex-
tremely obliged to you, for thus eſpouſing the cauſe of a
ranger whom you judged to be injured ; but my part,
11 this ſentiment, is the leaſt. The generoſity of your
* Reſnct, on whoſe very faulty and abſurd tranſlation Crouzaz
icunded his only plauſible objections. a
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conduct deſerves. eſteem, your zeal. for truth deſerves gf.
fection from every candid mſn: And as ſuch, were [
wholly out of the caſe, I ſheuld eſteem and love you fer
it. I will not therefore uſe you ſo ill as to write in the
general ſtyle of compliment; it is helow the dignity of
the occaſion : and I can only ſay (which I fay with fir.
cerity and warmth) that you have made me, etc.
mm
LETTER IV.
Jan. 4, 1739
T is a real truth that I ſhould have written to you
oftener, if I had not a great reſpeCt for you, and owed
not a great debt to you. But it may be no unneceſſary
thing to let you know that moſt of my friends alſo pay
you their thanks ; and ſome of the moſt knowing, as
well as moſt candid judges think me as much beholden
to you as I think myſelf. Your Letters * meet from
ſach with the Approbation they merit, and I have been
able to find but two or three very ſlight Inaccuracies in
the whole book, which I have, upon their obſer-
vation, altered in an exemplar which I keep againſt
a ſecond Edition. My very uncertain ſtate of health,
which is ſhaken more and more every winter, drove me
to Bath and Briſtol two months ſince ; and J ſhall not
return towards London till February. But I have re-
ceived nine or ten Letters from thence on the ſuccels
of your book +, which they are earneſt to have tranſlat-
ed. One of them is begun in France. A French gen-
tleman, about Monſieur Cambis the Ambaſſador, hath
done the greateſt part of it here. But I will retard the
Impreſſion till I have your directions, or till I can hae
2 On the F/ay on Mas.
+ The Commentary on the Eſſay en Man,
6
Me. WARBURTON. 335
a pleaſure I earneſfly wiſh for, to meet you in town,
where you gave me ſome hopes you ſometimes paſs d
a part of the ſpring, for the belt reaſon, I know, of ever
viiting it, the converſation of a few Friends. Pray,
ſuſfer me to be what you have made me, one of them,
and let my houſe have its ſhare of you; or, if I
can any way be inſtrumental in accommodating you in
town during your ſtay, I have lodgings. and a library
or two in my diſpoſal ; which, I believe, I need not of-
ſer to a man to whom all libraries ought to be open,
or to one who wants them ſo little, but that tis poſſible
jou may be as much a ſtranger to this town, as I wiſh
with all my heart I was. I ſee by certain ſquibs in the
Viſeellanies * that you have as much of the uncha-
ritable ſpirit pour'd out upon you, as the Author you
defended from Crouzaz. I only wiſh you gave them
no other anſwer than that of the ſun to the ſrogs, ſhining
out, in your ſecond book, and the completion of your
argument, No man is, as he ought to be, more, or ſo
much a friend to your merit and character, as, Sir,
Your, etc,
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Jan. 17, 1739-40.
e T I writ to you two poſts ago, I ought to ac-
knowledge now a new and unexpected favour of
the Remarks on the fourth epiſtle T; which (though I
knd by yours, attending them, they were ſent laſt month)
| received but this morning. This was occaſioned by
no fault of Mr. R. but the neglect, I believe, of the
* The Weekly Miſcellany, by Dr. Webſter, Dr. Waterland,
Dr, Stebbing, Mr. Venn, and others.
Of the Ehay on Man,
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perſon to whoſe care he conſigned them. I have been
full three months about Bath and Briſtol, endeavouring
to amend a complaint which more or leſs has troubled
me all my life: I hope the regimen this has obliged me
to, 'will make the remainder of it more philoſophical,
and improve my refignation to part with it at laſt, Iam
preparing to return home, and ſhall then reviſe what
wy French gentleman has done, and add is to it.
He is the ſame perſon who tranſlated the Eſay into
_ Proſe, which Mr. Crouzaz ſhould have profited by, who,
T am really afraid, when I lay the circumſtances all to-
gether, was moved to his proceeding in ſo very unrea-
ſonable a way, by ſome malice either of his own, or
ſome other's : tho' I was very willing, at firſt, to impute
it to ignorance or prejudice. I ſee nothing to be added
to your work; only ſome commendatory Deviations
from the Argument itſelf, in my favour, 1 ought to
think might be omitted.
- * I muſt repeat my urgent deſire to be previouſly ac.
quainted with the preciſe time of your viſit to London
that I may have the pleaſure to meet a man in the man-
ner I would, Whom I muſt eſteem one of the greatel
of my Benefactors. I am, with the moſt grateful and
affectionate regard, etc. |
—
LETTER VI.
{ ade t| April 16, 1740.
V OU could not give me more pleaſure than by you!
ſhort letter, which acquaints me we may hope to
ſee you ſo ſoon. Let us meet like men who have been
many years acquainted with each other, and whoſe
- friendſhip is not to begin, but continue. All forms ſhould
be paſt, when people know each other's mind ſo well: |
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fatter myſelf you are a man after my own heart, who
feks content only from within, and ſays to greatneſs,
Tuas habeto tibi res, egomet habebs meas. But as it is but
juſt your other friends ſhould have ſome part of you, I
init on my making you the firſt viſit in London; and
thence, after a few days, to carry you to Twitenham, for
45 many as you can afford me. If the preſs be to take
up any part of your time, the ſheets may be brought you
kourly thither by my waterman: and you will have more
leiſure to attend to any thing of that ſort than in towns
] believe alſo I have moſt of the Books you can want,
or can eaſily borrow them. I earneſtly deſire a line may
be left at Mr. R's, where and when I ſhall call upon
you, which I will daily enquire for, whether I chance to
be here, or in the country. Believe me, Sir, with the
trueſl regard, and the ſincereſt wiſh to deſerve
Yours, etc.
— SQ.
LETTER VII.
Twitenham, June 24, 1740.
Tis true that Jam a very unpunctual correſpondent,
tho* no unpunctual agent or friend; and that in the
commerce of words, I am both poor and lazy. Civility
and Compliment generally are the goods that letter-
writers exchange, which, with honeſt men, ſeems a kind
of illicit trade, by having been, for the moſt part, carried
on, and carried furtheſt by deſigning men. I am therefore
reduced to plain enquiries, how my friend does, and
what he does? and to repetitions, which I am afraid to
tire him with, how much I love him. Your two kind
letters gave me real ſatisfaction, in hearing you were
lafe and well; and in ſhewing me you took kindly my
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unaffected endeavours to prove my eſteem for you,
and delight in your converſation. Indeed my lan-
guid ſtate of health, and frequent deficiency of ſpirits
together with a number of diſſipations, et aliena negriia
centum, all conſpire to throw a faintneſs and cool ap.
pearance over my conduct to thoſe I beſt love; which l
perpetually feel, and grieve at : But in earneſt, no man
is more deeply touched with merit in general, or with
particular merit towards me, in any one. You ought
therefore in both views to hold yourſelf what you are to
me in my opinion and affection; ſo high in each, that
I may perhaps ſeldom attempt to tell it you. The great-
eſt Juſtice, and favour too that you can do me, is to
take it for granted. |
Do not therefore commend my talents, but inſtrudt
me by your own, I am not really learned enough to be
a judge in works of the nature and depth of yours. But
1 travel thro' your book as thro' an amazing ſcene of
ancient Egypt or Greece; firuck with veneration and
wonder; but at every ſtep wanting an inctructor to tell
me all I wiſh to know. Such you prove to me in the
walks of antiquity ; and ſuch you will prove to all man.
kind: but with this additional character, more than any
other ſearcher into antiquities, that of a genius equal to
your pains, and of a taſte equal to your learning.
I am obliged greatly to you, for what you have pro-
jected at Cambridge, in relation to my Eflay *; but
more for the motive which did originally, and does con-
ſequentially in a manner, animate all your goodneß to
me, the opinion you entertain of my honeſt intention
in that piece, and your zeal to demonſtrate me no irreli-
gious man, I was very ſincere with you in what | told
* Mr, Pope deſired the editor to procure a good tranflation of
the Efay on Man into Latin proſe.
Ma. WARBURTON. 339
you of my own opinion of my own character as a poet *,
and, I think I may conſcientiouſly ſay, I ſhall die in it.
| have nothing to add, but that I hope ſometimes to
hear you are well, as you certainly ſhall now and then,
hear the beſt I can tell you of myſelf.
—
LETTER VIII.
OR. 27, 1740,
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it | Am grown ſo bad a correſpondent, partly thro' the
t weakneſs of my eyes, which has much increaſed of
0 late, and partly thro” other diſagreeable accidents (almoſt
peculiar to me) that my oldeſt as well as bet friends are
a reaſonable enough to excuſe me. I know you are of the
be number who deſerve all the teſtimonies of any ſort,
ct which I can give you of eſteem and friendſhip; and I
of confide in you, as a man of candour enough, to know it
cannot be otherwiſe, if I am an honeſt one. So I will
ſay no more on this head, but proceed to thank you for
your conſtant memory of whatever may be ſerviceable or
reputable to me, The tranſlation F you are a much
better judge of than I, not only becauſe you underſtand
my work better than I do myſelf, but as your continued
familiarity 'with the learned languages, makes you in-
hnitely more a maſter of them, I would only recom.
mend that the Tranſlator's attention to Tully's Latinity .
may not preclude his uſage of fome Terms which may be
more preciſe in modern philoſophy than ſuch as he could
ſerve himſelf of, eſpecially in matters metaphyſical. I
think this ſpecimen cloſe enough, and clear alſo, as far
a3 the claflical phraſes allow; from which yet I would
See his Life.
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340 LETTERS TO
rather he ſometimes deviated, than ſuffered the ſenſe to be
either dubious or clouded too much. You know my
mind perfectly as to the intent of ſuch a verſion, and [
would have it accompanied with your own remarks tranſ.
lated, ſuch only I mean as are general, or explanatory
of thoſe paſſages, which are conciſe to any degree of ob.
ſcurity, or which demand perhaps too minute an attention
In the reader.
I have been unable to make the Journey I deſigned to
Oxford, and Lord Bathurſt's, where I hoped to haye
made you of the party. I am going to Bath for near
two months. Yet pray let nothing hinder me ſometimes
from hearing you are well. I have had that content-
ment from time to time from Mr, G.
Scriblerus * will or will not be publiſhed, according to
the event of ſome other papers coming, or not coming
out, which it will be my utmoſt endeavour to hinder f.
I will not give you the pain of acquainting you what
they are. You ſimile of B. and his nephew, would
make an excellent epigram. But all Satire is become ſo
ineffectual (when the laſt Rep that Virtue can ſtand upon,
ſhame, is taken away) that Epigram muſt expect to do
nothing even in its own little province, and upon 1ts
own little ſubjects. Adieu. Believe I wiſh you nearer
us; the only power I wiſh is that of attaching, and at
the ſame time ſupporting, - ſuch congenial bodies as you
are to, dear Sir,
| Your, etc,
* The Memoirs of Scriblerus,
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DET EER:1E
Bath, Feb. 4, 1740-1.
F I had not been made by many accidents ſo ſick of
letter-writing, as to be almoſt afraid of the ſhadow
of my own pen, you would be the perſon I ſhould often-
eſt pour myſelf out to: indeed for a good reaſon, for you
have given me the ſtrongeſt proofs of underſtanding, and
accepting my meaning in the beſt manner; and of the
candour of your heart, as well as the clearneſs of your
head. My vexations I would not trouble you with, but
I muſt juſt mention the two greateſt I now have. They
have printed in Ireland, my letters to Dr. Swift, and
(which is the ſtrangeſt circumſtance) by his own conſent
and direction, without acquainting me till it was done.
The other is one that will continue with me till ſome proſ-
perous event to your ſervice ſhall bring us nearer to each
other, I am not content with thoſe glympſes of you,
which a ſhort ſpring vifit affords ; and from which you
carry nothing away with you but my ſighs and wiſhes,
without any real benefit.
I am heartily glad of the advancement of your ſecond
Volume; and particularly of the Digre/ſions, for they
are ſo much more of you ; and I can truſt your judgment
enough to depend upon their being pertinent, You
will, I queſtion not, verify the good proverb, that the
furtheſt way about, is the neareſt way home: and much
better than plunging thro” thick and thin more Tbeologo-
rum; and perfiſting in the ſame old track, where ſo
many have either broken their necks, or come off very
lamely,
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This leads me to thank you for that very entertainin
and, I think, inſtructive ſtory of Dr. Were, gþo 5
in this, the image of , who never admit of any A
medy from a hand they diſlike. But I am ſorry he had
ſo much of the modern Chriſtian rancour, as, ] believe,
he may be convinced by this time, that the I" of
Heaven is not for ſuch.
I am juſt returning to London, 104 mall che more im-
patiently expect your book's appearance, as I hope you
will follow it; and that I may have as happy a month
thro' _— means 21 had the laſt W 0
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wid you:find me in an etror. Such, I own; is the in-
ſtanee given of Nu oe me much friendſhip of this
latter ſort, having been tco profuſe of the ſormer .
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next month: "When; I expe, you will contrise to be
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much time as you can : every day of which-it will be
be in ſale if H us won make of ſome uſe to me, a8. well a
This is all I have: to tell you, and, be aſſed,
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LETTER XI.
Twitenham, Aup. 12, 174 *
T HE general indiſpoſition I have to writing, unleſs
upon a belief of the neceflity or uſe of it, muſt
plead my excuſe in not doing it to you. I ku it is not
([ feel it is not) needfal to repeat aſſurances of the true
and conſtant friendſhip and eſteem I bear you. Honeſt
and ingenuous, minds are ſure of each other's; the tye is
mutual and ſolid; The uſe of writing letters reſolves
wholly into the gratification given and received in the
knowledge of each other's welfare; unleſs I ever ſhoyld
be ſo fortunate (and rare fortune it would be). to be
able to procure, and acquaint you. af, ſome real, bg-
mefit done you by my means. But fortune-ſeldam ſuſſess
one diũntereſted man to ſerve ggother, Tis too much —— >
an inſalt upqn her d let zwo ofthoſe. who, molt, deſpite |
her-fayours, he happy in them, 3: the fame dme, and in
, the ſeme inſtange. I. V ihr nothing ſo, much at her
hunde as that ſhe would permit ſome great perſan r
.Ahex to remane v nearer thabanks.of: the Thames: - IM!
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Ithank yon heartyy:for-your:hints,! and am afraid
iL bad more of / them, not on: this only, but on other
ſubjects, I: ſhould break my reſoluuũon, and become an
author a- ne w.: nay a new author, and a better than
J yet have been; or God forbid 2 go on Jinglivg
'only the ſame bells e
[ have received ſome chagrin at the delay of your
Degree at Oxon. As for mine, I will die before I re-
ceive one, in an art I am ignorant of, at a place where
there remains any ſcruple of beſtowing one on you, in a
kience of which you are fo great a maſter. In ſhort, 1
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will be doctor'd with you, or not at all. I am fire,
wherever honour is not conferred on the deſerving, there
can be none given to the undeſerving ; no more from
the hands of Prieſts than of Princes. Adieu. God
give you all true bleſings,
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LETTER XII.
Sept. 20, 1741,
1 T is not my friendſhip, but the diſcernment of that
nobleman * I mentioned, which you are to thank
for his intention to ſerve you. And his judgment is fo
uncontroverted, that it would really be a pleaſure to you
to owe him any thing ; inftead of a ſhame, which is of-
ten the caſe in the favours of men of that rank. I am
ſorry T can only wiſh you well, and not do myſelf honour
jn doing you any good. But I comfort myſelf when l
reflect, few men could make you happier, none more
deſerving than you have made yourſelf, |
I don't know how I have been betray'd into a para-
graph of this kind. I aſk your pardon, though it be truth,
for ſaying ſo much — |
If I can prevail on myſelf to complete + the Dunciad,
It will be publiſhed at the ſame time with a general
edition of all my Verſes (for Poems I will not call them)
and, I hope, your Friendſhip to me will be then as well
known, as my being an Author; and go down together
to Poſterity. I mean to as much of Poſterity as poor mo-
derns can reach to; where the Commentator (as uſual)
will lend a crutch to the weak Poet to help him to limp
a little further, than he could on his own feet. We ſhall
® Lord Cheſterfield, E
+ He had then communicated his intention to the Editor,
of adding a fourth book to it, in purſuance of the Editor a6
Vice. 5 |
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take our degree together in Fame, whatever we do at the
Univerſity : And I tell you once more, I will not have ie
there without you.—
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LETTER AI.
Bath, Nov. 12, 1741.
Jan always naturally ſparing of my letters to my
Friends; for a reaſon I think a great one; that it is
needleſs after experience, to repeat aſſurances of Friend-
ſhip; and no leſs irkſome to be ſearching for words, to
expreſs it over and over. But I have more calls than
one for this letter. Firſt, to expreſs a ſatisfaction at your
reſolution not to keep up the ball of diſpute with Dr.
M. tho”, I am ſatisfied, you could have done it; and to
tell you that Mr, L. is pleaſed at it too, who writes me
word upon this occafion, that he muſt infinitely eſteem a
Divine, and an Author, who loves Peace better than
Victory. Secondly, I am to recommend to you as an au-
thor, a bookſeller in the room of the honeſt one you
have loſt, Mr. G. and I know none who is fo worthy,
and has ſo good a title ia that character to ſucceed him
as Mr, Knapton. But my third motive of now troubling
you is my own proper intereſt and pleaſure; I am here
in more leiſure than I can poſſibly enjoy even in my own
houſe, vacare /iteris, It is at this place, that your ex-
hortations may be moſt effectual, to make me reſume the
ſtudies I have almoſt laid aſide, by perpetual avocations
and diſſipations. If it were practicable for you to paſs
a month or ſix weeks from home, it is here I could wiſh
to be with you: And if you would attend to the eonti-
nuatron of your own noble work, or unbend to the idle
amuſement of commenting upon a poet, who has no
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other merit, than that of aiming by his moral itokes tb
*merit ſome regard from ſuch men as advance Truth and
Virtue in a more effectual way; in either caſe, thi
place and this. houſe would be an inviolable aſylum to
you, from all you would defire to avoid, in ſo public a
ſcene as Bath. The worthy man, who is the maſter of it,
invites you in the ſtrongeſt terms ; and is one who would
treat you with love and veneration, rather than what the
world calls . civility and regard. He is. ſincerer and
Plainer than almoſt any man now in this world, antiquis
meribus. If the wal ers of the Bath may be ſerviceable to
vour complaints (as I believe from what you have told me
of them) no opportunity can ever be better. It is juſt the
"belt ſeaſon, We are told the Biſhop of Saliſbury is ex-
* peRted here daily, who I know is your friend: at leaf,
tho a Biſhop is too much a man of learning to be your
enemy. You ſee I omit nothing to add to the weight
in the balance, in which, however, I will not think my+
ſelf light, ſince I have known your partiality. You will
want no ſervant here, Your room will be next to mine,
and one man will ſerve us. Here is a Library and a
Gallery ninety feet long to walk in, and a coach when-
ever you would take the air with me. Mr. ALLs tells
me, you might on horſeback be here in three days; it i
leſs than 100 miles from Newarke, the road through
Leiceſter, Stow in the Wolde in Glouceſterſhire, and
Cirenceſter by Lord Bathurſt's, I could engage to carry
you to London from hence, and I would accommodate
my time and journey to your conveniency.
Is all this a dream? or can you make it a reality? can
you give ear to me?
Audiſiin' ? an me ludit amabilis
Inſantia?
Dear Sir, adieu; and give me a line to Mr, Allen“ at
Bath. God preſerve you ever.
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OURS is very full and very kind, it is a friendly.
and ſatisfactory anſwer, and all I can defire, Do-
but inſtantly fulfil it. — Only L hope this will find you:
before you ſet out. For I think (on all conſiderations):
your beſt way will be to take London in your way, It.
will ſecure you from accidents of weather to travel in the
coach, both thither and from thence hither. . But in par-
ticular, L think you ſhould take ſome care as to Mr. G. “s
executors. And I am of opinion, no man will be more
ſerviceable in ſettling any ſuch accounts than Mr, Knap-
ton, who ſo well knows the trade, and is of fo acknow-
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ledged a credit in it. If you can ſtay but a few days
pur there, I ſhould be glad; tho' 1 would not have you
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4 omit any neceſſary thing to yourſelf, I with too you
N would juſt ſee *, though when you have paſs d a.
month here, it will be time enough, for all we have to
do in town, and they will be leis buſy, probably, than:
juſt before the Seſſion opens, to think of men of letters.
" When you are in London I beg a line from yoo, in
which pray tell us what day you thall arrive at Bath by
\ the coach, that we may ſend to meet you, and bring:
> you hither. | |
You will owe me a real obligation by being made ac-
* quainted with the maſter of this houſe; and by ſharing
with me, what L think one of the chief ſatisfactions of
my life, his Friendſhip. But whether I ſhall owe you;
an __ 4 ;
any in contributing to make me a. ſcribler again *, I. 1
know not. 1
He had concerted the plan of the fourth book of the Dunciad.
at with the Editor the ſummer before; and had now written a great.
part of it; which he was willing the Editor ſhould ſees. | 1
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LETTER XV.
April 23, 1742.
M V letters are ſo ſhort, partly becauſe T could by no
length of writings (not even by ſuch as lawyers
write) convey to you more than you have already of my
heart and eſteem; and partly becauſe I want time and
eyes. I can't ſufficiently tell you both my pleaſure and
my gratefulneſs, in and for your two laſt letters, which
ſhew your zeal ſo ſtrong for that piece of my idleneſs,
which was literally written only to keep me from ſleep-
ing in a dull winter, and perhaps to make others fleep
unleſs awaken'd by my Commentator ; no uncommon
caſe among the learned. I am every day in expeQation
of Lord Boliogbroke's arrival: with whom I fhall ſeize
all the hours I can; for his ſtay (I fear by what he
writes) will be very ſhort. — I do not think it impoſlible
but he may go to Bath for a few weeks, to ſee (if he be
then alive, as yet he is) his old ſervant, — In that cafe I
think to go with him, ard if it ſhould be at a ſeaſon when
the waters are beneficial (which agree particularly with
him too) would it be an impoſſibility to meet you at Mr,
Allen's? whoſe houſe, you know, and heart are yours.
Though this is a mere chance, I ſhould not be ſorry you
ſaw ſo great a genius, though he and you were never
to meet again. — Adieu. The world is not what !
wiſh it; but I will not repent being in it while two or
three live.
De 1 am, etc.
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LETTER XVI.
Bath, Nov, 27, 1742.
r will ſtew you I am till with our friend, but it
is the laſt day ; and I would rather you heard of me
pleaſed, as yet I am, than chagrin'd as I ſhall be in a
few hours, We are both pretty well. I wiſh you had
been more explicit if your leg be quite well. You ſay
no more than that you got home well. I expect a more
particular account of you when you have repoſed your-
ſelf awhile at your own fire-ſide. I ſhall inquire as ſoon
25 I am in London, which of my friends have ſeen. you?
There are two or three who know how to value you: I
wiſh I were as ſure they would ſtudy to ſerve you.— A
project has ariſen in my head to make you, in ſome
meaſure, the Editor of this new edition of the Dunciad ,
if you have no ſcruple of owning ſome of the graver notes,
which are now added # to thoſe of Dr. Arbuthnot. I
mean it as a kind of prelude, or advertiſement to the
public, of your Commentaries on the E/ays on Man, and
on Critici/m, which I propoſe to print next in another
volume proportioned to this. I only doubt whether an
avowal of. theſe notes to ſo ludicrous a poem be ſuitable
to a character ſo eſtabliſhed as yours for more ſerious
ſtudies, It was a ſudden thought ſince we parted ; and
I would have you treat it as no more; and tell me if it is
not better to be ſuppreſs d; freely and friendlily. I have
a particular reaſon to make you intereſt yourſelf in me and
my writings. It will cauſe both them and me to make
the better figure to poſterity, A very mediocre poet, one
® That is, of the four books complete,
＋ Added in the three fixſt books, and diſtinguiſhed in this edition .
& his works,
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Drayton, is yet taken ſome notice of, becauſe Selden
writ a few notes on onè of his poems.
Adieu. May every domeſtic happineſs make you un.
willing to remove from home; and may every friend you
do that kindneſs for, treat you ſo as to make you forget «
you are not at home,
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Dec. 28, 1742,
1 Have always ſo many things to take kindly of you,
that I don't know. which to begin to thank you for,
I was willing to conclude our whole account of the Dun-
_ eiad, at leaſt, and therefore ſtaid till it was finiſhed.
The encouragement you gave me to add the fourth
book firſt determined me to do ſo; and the approbation.
you ſeem'd to give it was what ſingly determined me to
print it. Since that, your Notes and your Diſcourſe in the
name of Arifiarchus have given its laſt finiſhings and or-
naments.—1 am glad you will refreſh the memory of ſuch
readers as have no other faculty to be readers, eſpecially
of ſuch works as the Divine Legation. But I hope you
will not take too much notice of another and duller ſort;
thoſe who become writers thro' malice, and muſt die
whenever you pleaſe to ſhine out in the completion of
the Work ; which I wiſh were now your only anfwer
to any of them ; except you will make uſe of that ſhort
and excellent one you gave me in the ſtory of the read.
ing-glaſs.
The world here grows very buſy. About what time
3s it you think of being amongſt us ? My health, I fear,
will confine me, whether in town or here, ſo that I may
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expect more of your company as one good e
of evil.
I write, you know, very laconically. 1 have but one
formula which ſays every thing to a Friend, I am
yours, and beg you to continue mine. Let me not
be ignorant (you can prevent my being fo of. any things
but firſt and principally) of your health and well being ;
and depend on my ſenſe of all the Linduęſi over and
above all the Juſtice you ſhall ever do me.
I never read a thing with more pleaſure than an ad.
ditional ſheet to “ Jervas's preface to Don Quixote.
Before I got over two paragraphs I cried out, Aut Eraſ-
mus aut diabolus! I knew you as certainly as the ancients
did the Gods by the firſt pace and the very gait. I
have not a moment to expreſs myſelf in, but could not
omit this which delighted me torgreatly. -
My Law-ſuitwith L. is at an end. — Adieu! Believe
no man can be more yours, Call me by any title you
will but a Doctor of Oxford ; Sit tibi cura mei, fit =
cura tui.
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LETTER XVIII.
Jan. 18, 1742.
] am forced to grow every day more laconic in my
letters, for my eye ſight grows every day ſhorter and
dimmer, Forgive me then that I anſwer you ſummarily.
I can even leſs bear an equal part in a correſpondence
than in a converfation with you. But be aſſured once
for all, the more I read of you, as the more I hear from
you, the better I am inſtructed and pleaſed. And:
this misfortune of my own dulneſs, and my own abſence,
On the origin of the books of Chivalry,
mw. LETTERS TO
only quickens my ardent wiſh that ſome good fortune
would draw you nearer, and enable me to enjoy both,
for a greater part of our lives in this neighbourhood ;
and in ſuch a ſituation as might make more beneficial
friends, than I, eſteem and enjoy you equally, —T have
again heard from Lord — and another hand, that the
Lord * I writ to you of, declares an intention to ſerve you,
My anſwer (which they related to him) was, that he
would be ſure of your acquaintance for life, if once he
ſerved or obliged you ; but that, I was certain, you
would never trouble him with your expectation tho he
would never get rid of your gratitude. — Dear Sir, adien
and let me be ſometimes certified of your health, My
own is as uſual ; and my affection the ſame, always yours,
LBSTTER ANC
Twitenham, March 24, 1743.
1 Write to you amongſt the very few I now deſire to
> have my Friends, merely, Si waleas, wako, 'Tis in
effect all I ſay, but it is very literally true, for I place
all that makes my life defirable in their welfare. I may
truly affirm, that vanity or intereſt have not the leaſt
. ſhare in any friendſhip I have; or cauſe me now to cul-
tivate that of any one man by any one letter, Butif
any motive ſhould draw me to flatter a great man, it
would be to ſave the friend I would have him ſerve from
doing it. Rather than lay a deſerving perſon under the
neceſſity of it, I would hazard my own character and
keep his in dignity. Tho', in truth, I live in a time
when no meaſures of conduct influence the ſucceſs of one's
applications, and the beſt thing to truſt to is chance and
opportunity.
0 L. Cranvilte,
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T only meant to tell you, I am wholly yours, how few
words ſo ever I make of it. — A greater pleaſure to me
is, that I chanc'd to make Mr. Allen fo, who is not only
worth more than — intrinſically ; but, 1 foreſee, will be
effectually more a comfort and glory to you every year
you live, My confidence in any man leſs truly great
than an honeſt one is but ſmall. +520
have lived much by myſelf of late, partly thro? ill
health, and partly to amuſe myſelf with little improve-
ments in my garden and houſe, to which poſſibly I ſhall
(if I live) be ſoon more confined. When the Dunciad
may be publiſhed I know not. I am more defirous of
carrying on the beſt, that is, your edition of the reſt of the
Epiſtles and Eſſay on Criticiſm, etc. I know it is there _
ſhall be ſeen moſt to advantage. But I inſiſt on one con»
dition, that you never think of this when you can
employ yourſelf in finiſhing that noble work of the
Divine Legation (which is what, above all, iterum, iter-
umque monebo) or any other uſeful ſcheme of your own,
It would be a ſatisfaction to me at preſent only to hear
that you have ſupported your health among theſe epide-
mical diſorders, which, tho' not mortal to any of my
friends, have afflicted almoſt every one.
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June 58.
| Wich that, inſtead of writing to you once in two
months, I could do you ſome ſervice as often ; for I am
arrived to an age when I am as ſparing of words as moſt
old men are of money, though I daily find leſs occaſion
for any. But I live in a time when benefits are not in the
power of an honeſt man to beſtow ; nor indeed of an
honeſt man to receive, conſidering on what terms they
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ere generally to be had. It is certain you bave à fall
right to any I could do you, who not only monthly, bat
weekly of late have loaded me with favours of chat kind,
which are moſt acceptable to veteran Authors; tho
garlands which a'Commentator weaves to hang about his
Poet, and which are flowers both of his own gathering
and painting woos not bloſſoms ſpringing from the dry
Author. |
It is very e after this, to give you a ſecond
trouble in reviſing the E/ay- on Homer. But I look
upon you as one ſworn to ſuffer no errors in me: and
ho the common way with @ Coinmentator be to ere
abem into beauties, the beſt office: of a Critic is to.cone&
Aud amend chem. There being a new edition comitg
= N would willingly render it a litle-lefs de-
Aectire, and the bookſeller. vill notallow me ume 10 do
_domyſelfone Stn, 358 en af MH woy yolgwd
"ay Lond. H. erbse 40 Francs wir erf, and it is poſ
2 L pray go for three mee gr 4 month to MI. Allens
Ache ſummer 5-of which Lil ur Tall 10-adyertife you,
| fit due vour convenieney 00 om and drink ihe
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Forgive my ſczibling ſo bay and w il. Mere
25 my head : and it Id. with my heart
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LETTER XXI. Oo
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a V OU may wel expect letters from me of Mac but
the kind attention you ſhew to every thing that
concerns me is ſo manifeſt, and ſo repeated, that you
cannot but tell yourſelf how neceſſarily I muſt pay them
in my heart, Which makes it almoſt impertinent to ſay
ſo. Your alterations to the Preface and Eſſay ateJult ;
and none more obliging to me than where you” prove
jour concern that my notions in my firſt writings ſhoufd
not be repugnant to thoſe in my laſt. And you willhave
the charity to think when T'was then in an error, it Was
not ſo much tkat I thought wrong or perverſely, as that L
thad not thought ſüffcientty. What I could correct a
the diſipated life I atn forced to lend here, I have: *#ild- _ _-
ſome thete are Which ſtiſt ant ydur help to be made sse
they mould be. == Mr? Allen depends dn 0h ir the HHG
of the nert mouth or in Seftediber, umd Ti Jin n
43 ſoon as 1 can veturn from the uber patty: *Tdeligte 4
(dear Sir) for-wtiting to-you u but juſt like an attorn ey or — (|
agent, I am more concerned; for your Finances + has Ii
your Fame 3 hecauſe the firſt, 1 fear; you wall never be. .
„ed about yourſelf ; the ſecond ju ene to you
bead, and (whether You” will or not) Vill fade
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| bare never ſaid dne word to you of the public. T have
r LOTS STH5S © > aAMFkM VweoO
known the greater world too long to be very ſang ditie.
hut accidents and oceaſlons may do what virtue would nut;
and, God ſent they may! Adieu. Whatever becomes |
of public Virtue, let us preferve our own poor ſhare 667
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r His debt from the Executor of Mr, Q.
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the private. Be aſſured, if I have any, I am with a true
ſenſe of your merit and friendſhip, etc.
0 | m:yy
LETTER AMET,
Octob. ).
In thank you for yours, from which J learn'd
your ſafe arrival. And that you found all yours in
health, was a kind addition to the account; as! truly
am intereſted in whatever is, and deſerves to be dear to
you, and to make a part of your happineſs. I have
many reaſons and experiences to convince me, how much
_ you wiſh health to me, as well as long life to my writ-
ings. Could you make as much a better man of me as
you can make a better author, I were ſecure of Immor-
tality both here and hereafter by your means. The
Dunciad I have ordered to be advertiſed in quarto,
Pray order as many of them as you will ; and know that
whatever is mine is yours.
nns
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p | Ian. 12, 1743.
| AN unwillingeſs to write nothing to you, whom |
reſpe& ; and worſe: than nothing (which would al.
flict you) to one who wiſhes me ſo well, has hitherto kept
me filent, Of the Public I can tell you nothing worthy
the reflection of a reaſonable man; and of myſelf only a
account that would give you pain; for my althma has in-
creaſed every week ſince you laſt heard from me, to the de»
gree of confining me totally to the fire-fide ; ſo that J have
hardly ſeen any of my friends but two, who happen i
be divided from the world as much as myſelf, and ale
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conſtantly retired at Batterſea, There I have paſt moſt
of my time, and often wiſh'd you of the company, as
1 the beſt I know to make me not regret the loſs of all
others, and to prepare me for a nobler ſcene than any
mortal greatneſs can open to us. I fear by the account
„ you gave me of the time you deſign to come this way,
8 one of them (whom I much wiſh you had a glympſe ot)
oy will be gone again, unleſs you paſs ſome weeks in London
before Mr. Allen arrives there in March. My preſent
indiſpoſition takes up almoſt all my hours, to render a
very few of them ſupportable : yet I go on ſoftly to pre-
(ch pare the great Edition of my Things with your Notes,
and as faſt as I receive any from you, I add others in
order—
Lam told the Laureat is going to publiſh a very abuſive
he pamphlet. That is all I can defire ; it is enough, if it
be abuſive and if it be his. He threatens you; but, I
think, you will not fear or love him fo much as to an-
ſwer him, though you have anſwered one or two as dull,
He will be more to me than a doſe of hartſhorn : and as a
ſtink revives one who has been oppreſſed with perfumes,
his railing will cure me of a courſe of flatteries.
I am much more concerned to hear that ſome of your
Clergy are offended at a verſe or two of mine ꝰ, becauſe
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81 | have a reſpect for your Clergy, (though the verſes are
d f. barder upon ours.) But if they do not blame you for defend»
kept ing thoſe verſes, I will wrap myſelf up in the layman's
orthy cloak, and ſleep under your ſhield.
ly an | am ſorry to find by a letter two poſts ſince from Mr.
** Allen, that he is not quite recovered yet of all remains of
* his indiſpoſition, nor Mrs, Allen quite well. Don't be dif
have BY oouraged from telling me how you are; for no man is
more yours than, etc.
® Ver, 355 to 358. ſecond Book of the Dunciad, .
wt. LETTERS: Fo
LETTER XXIV,
FF I was not aſhamed to be ſo behind hand with you,
> that I can ever pretend to fetch it up (any more than
I could in my preſent ſtate to overtake you in a race) [
would particularize which of your letters I ſhould have
anſwered firſt. It muſt ſuffice to ſay I have received them
all ; and whatever very little reſpites I have had, from
the daily care of my malady, have been employed in re-
viſing the papers on the uſe of Riches, which I would have
ready for your laſt reviſe, againſt you come to town, that
they may- be begun with while you are here, —I own,
the late encroachments upon my conſtitution make me
willing to ſee the end of all further care about me or my
works. I would reſt for the one, in a full reſignation
of my being to be diſpoſed of by the Father of all mercy
and for the other (though indeed a trifle, yet a trifle may
be ſome example) I would commit them to the candour
of a ſenſible and reflecting judge, rather than to the
malice of every ſhort-ſighted and malevolent critic, or in-
advertent and cenſorious reader. And no hand can ſet
them in ſo good a light, or ſo well turn their beſt fide to
the day as your own. This obliges me to confeſs I have
for ſome months thought myſelf going, and that not
lowly, down the hill, The rather as every attempt of the
phyficians, and ſtill the laſt medicines more forceable in
their nature, have utterly fail'd to ſerve me. I was at laſt,
about ſeven days ago, taken with fo violent a fit at Bat-
terſea, that my friends Lord M. and Lord B. fent for
reſent help to the ſurgeon ; whoſe bleeding me, | am
perſuaded, ſaved my life, by the inſtantaneous effect it
had; and which has continued ſo much to amend me,
that I have paſs'd five days without oppreſſion, and reco-
vered, what I have three months wanted, ſome degree
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of expectoration, and ſome hours together of ſleep. I am
now got to Twitenham, to try if the air will not take ſome,
part in reviving me, if I can avoid colds; and between
that place and Batterſea with my Lord B. I will paſs
what I have of life, while he ſtays (which I can tell youg
to my great ſatisfaction, will be this fortnight or three
weeks yet.) What if you came before Mr. Allen, and
ſtaid till then, inſtead of poſtponing your journey longer?
Pray, if you write, juſt tell him how ill I have been, or I
had wrote again to him: But that I will do, the firſt day
I find myſelf alone with pen, ink, and paper, which I can
hardly be even here, or in any ſpirits yet to hold a pen.
You ſee I ſay nothing, and yet this writing is labour to
me.
I am, etc.
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2
LETTER Xxxv.
,
i os | April 1744«
J4m ſorry to meet you with ſo bad an account of my-
ſelf, who would otherwiſe with joy have flown to the
interview. Iam too ill to be in town ; and within this
week ſo much worſe, as to make my journey thither, at
preſent, impraRicable, even if therew as no Proclamation
In my way, I left the Town in a decent compliance to
that; but this additional prohibition from the higheſt of all
powers I muſt bow to without murmuring. I with to ſee
you here, Mr. Allen comes not till the 16th, and you
will probably chuſe to be in town chiefly while he is theres
received yours juſt now, and I writ to hinder — from
printing the Comment on the U/e of Riches too haſtily,
lice what you write me, intending to have forwarded it
dtterwiſe, that you might reviſe it during your ſay,
260 LETTERS, etc.
Indeed my preſent weakneſs will make me leſs and lef
capable of any thing. I hope at leaſt, now at firſt, to
ſee you for a day or two here at Twitenham, and concert
meaſures how to enjoy for the future what I can of your
friendſhip ®,
| I am, etc,
* He died May 30. following,
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ALEXANDER POPE,
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ALEXANDER POP E, Eſq.
NTHE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. 1
Alexander Pope, of Twickenham, in the coùnty of
Middleſex, make this my laſt Will and Teſtament. I
reſign my Soul to its Creator in all humble hope of its
future happineſs, as in the diſpoſal of a Being infinitely
good. As to my Body, my will is, that it be buried
near the monument of my dear Parents at Twickenham,
with the addition, after the words #/ius fecit — of theſe
only, et Abi: Qui obiit anno 17 — actatis — and that it be
carried to the grave by ſix of the pooreſt men of the pariſh,
to each of whom I order a ſuit of grey coarſe cloth, as
mourning, If I happen to die at any inconvenient diſ-
tance, let the ſame be done in any other pariſh, and the
laſcription be added on the monument at Twickenham.
| hereby make and appoint my particular friends, Allen
Lord Bathurſt, Hugh Earl of Marchmont, the honourable. '
William Murray his Majeſty's ſolicitor general, and
George Arbuthnot, of the court of Exchequer, Efqz the
ſurvivors or ſurvivor of them, Executors of this my laſt
Will and Teſtament. (43535444 Bel
But all the manuſcript and unprinted papers which I
ſhall leave at my deceaſe, I deſire may be delivered to;
my noble Friend, Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to
whoſe ſole care and judgment I commit them, either ta
be preſerved or deſtroyed; or, in caſe he ſhall not ſurvive
me, to the aboveſaid Earl of Marchmont. Theſe, who.
in the courſe of my life have done me all other good
offices, will not refuſe me this laſt after my death: I.
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leave them therefore this trouble, as a mark of my truſt
Aad friendſhip ;. only defiring them each to accept of
fome ſmall memorial of me: That my Lord Boling-
broke will add to his library all the volumes of my
Works and Tranſlations of Homer, - bound in red Mo.
rocco, and the eleven volumes of thoſe of Eraſmus;
That my Lord Marchmont will take the large paper edi.
won of Thuanus, by Buckley, and that portrait of Lord
Bolingbroke, by Richardſon, which he ſhall prefer :
That my Lord Bathurſt will find a place for the three
ſtatues of the Hercules of Farneſe, the Venus of Medici:,
and the Apollo in chiaro oſcuro, done by Kneller: That
Mr. Murray will accept of the mazble head of Homer,
by Bernini; and of Sir Iſaac Newton, by Guelfi; and
that Mr. Arbuthnot will take the Watch 1 commonly
wore, which the King of Sardinia gave to the late Earl
of Peterborow, and he to me on his death-bed z together
with one of the pictures of Lord Bolingbroke. |
lem, I defire Mr. Lyttelton to accept of the buſts of
Spencer; Shakeſpear, Milton, and Dryden, in marble,
which his royal maſter the Prince was pleaſed to give me.
I-give and deviſe my library of printed books to Ralph
Allen of Widcombe, Eſqz and to the Reverend Mr.
William Warburton, or to the ſurvivor of them (when
thoſe belonging to Lord Bolingbroke are taken out, and
when Mrs. Martha Blount has choſen Threeſcore out of
the number.) [ alſo give and bequeath to the faid Mr.
Warburton, the property of all ſuch of my Works already
printed, as he hath written, or ſhall write Commentaries
or Notes upon, and which I have not otherwiſe dif-
| poſed of, or alienated ; and all the profits which ſhall
ariſe after my death from ſuch editions as he ſhall pub-
liſh without future alterations.
Item, In caſe Ralph Allen, Eſq; aboveſaid ſhall ſut-
vive me, I order my Executors to pay him the ſum o
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One hundred and fifty pounds, being, to the beſt of my
calculation, the account'of what I have received from
him; partly for my own, and partly for - charitable uſes,
If he refuſe to take this himſelf, I defire bim to employ
it in a way, I am perſuaded, he will not diſlike, to the
benefit of the Bath-hoſpital.
I give and deviſe to my fiſter-in-law, Mrs. Magdalen
Racket, the ſam of Three hundred pounds; and to her
ſons, Henry, and Robett Racket, One hundred pounds
each, I alſo releafe, and give to her all my right and
intereſt in and upon a bond of Five hundred pounds due
to me from her ſon Michael. I alfo give ber the family
pictures of my Father, Mother, and Aunts, and the dia-
mond ring my Mother wore, and her golden watch. I
give to Eraſmus Lewis, Gilbert Weſt, Sir Clement Cotte-
rel, William Rollinſon, Nathaniel Hook, Eſqrs. and to
Mrs. Anne Arbuthnot; to each the ſum of Five pounds, to
be laid out in a ring, or any memorial of me; and to my
ſervant, John Searl, who has faithfully and ably ſerved me
many years, I give and deviſe the ſum of One hundred
pounds over and above a year's wages to himſelf, and
his wife ; and to the Poor of the pariſh of Twickenham,
Twenty pounds, to be divided among them by the ſaid
John Searl: And it is my Will, if the ſaid John Searl
die before me, that the ſaid ſum of One hundred pounds
$0 to his wife or children. . |
Item, I give and deviſe to Mrs. Martha Blount,
younger daughter of Mrs. Martha Blount, late of Wel-
beck-Street, Cavendiſh-Square, the ſum of One thouſand
pounds immediately on my deceaſe: and all the furniture
of my grotto, urns in my garden, houſehold goods, chat-
tels, plate, or whatever is not otherwiſe diſpoſed of in
this my Will, I give and deviſe to the ſaid Mrs. Martha
Blount, out of a ſincere regard, and long friendſhip for
her. And it is my will, that my aboveſaid Executors,
36 THE LAST WILL
the ſurvivors or ſurvivor of them, ſhall take an account
of all my eſtate, money, or bonds, ete. and; after paying
my debts and legacies, ſhall place out all the refidue upon
government, or other ſecurities, according to their beſt
judgment ; and pay the produce thereof, half-yearly, to
the ſaid Mrs. Martha Blount, during her natural life:
and after her deceaſe, I give the ſum of One thouſand
pounds to Mrs. Magdalen Racket, and her ſons Robert,
Henry, and John, to be divided equally among them,
or to the ſurvivors or ſurvivor of them; and after the de-
ceaſe of the faid Mrs. Martha Blount, I give the ſum of
Two hundred pounds to the aboveſaid Gilbert Weſt;
Two hundred to Mr. George Arbuthnot ; Two hundred
to his fiſter, Mrs. Anne Arbuthnot; and One hundred to
my ſervant, John Searl, to which ſoever of theſe ſhall be
then living: and all the reſidue and remainder to be con-
ſidered as undiſpoſed of, and go to my next of kin.
This is my laſt Will and Teſtament, written with my
own Hand, and ſealed with my Seal, this Twelfth day of
December, in the year of our Lord, One thouſand, ſeven
re and forty- three.
Signed, Sealed, and Declared -
by the Teſtator, as his laſt
Will and Teſtament, in Pre-
- ſence of us,
RADNOR. 40 K
Sr HEN HAL ES, Miniſter of Teddington. 110
Jos zr SPENCE, . of Hiſtory | in the Univerſity |
of Oxford. & 7 | |
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HEREAS Our Truſty and Well-beloved Michal
Maittaire, Gent, hath humbly repreſented unto Us,
That he bath with great Labour and Expence prepared
for the Preſs a complete Callaction of all the Greek and
Latin Authors in Twelves, with complete Indexes, and has thete-
fore humbly beſought Us to grant him our Royal Privilege and Li-
cence for the ſole Printing and Publiſhing thereof for the Term of
Fourteen Years: We being willing to give all due Encouragement
to Works of this Nature, which tend to the Advancement of
Learning, are Graciouſly pleaſed to condefcend to his Requeſt ; and
do therefore, by theſe Preſents, grant unto him the ſaid Michael
Maittaire, his Executors, Adminiſtrators, and Aſſigns, Our Royal
Licence for the ſole Printing and Publiſhing the complete Collection
of all the Greek and Latin Authors in 'Twelves, with complete In-
dexes aforeſaid, for the Term of Fourteen Years, from the Date
hereof, ſtriftly forbidding all Our Subjects within Our Kingdoms
and Dominions to Reprint the ſame, eirher in the like, or in any
other Volume or Volumes whatſoever; or to Import, Buy, Vend,
Utter, or Diſtribute any Coples thereof Reprinted beyond the Seas,
during the aforeſaid Term of Fourteen Years, without the Conſent
er Approbation of the ſaid Michael Maittaire, his Heirs, Executors,
and Aſſigns, under his or their Hands and Seals firſt had and ob-
tained; as they will Anſwer the Contrary at their Peril. Whercof
the Commiſſioners and other Officers of Our Cuſtoms, the Matter,
Wardens, and Company of Statieners are to take Notice, That the
ſame may be entered in the Regiſter of the ſaid Company, and that
due Obedience be rendered thereunto. Given at Our Court at St.
James's, the fourth Day of April, 1713. In the Twelfth Year of
Our Reign.
By Iler Majeſty's Command,
Ag
IIluſtriſſimo Prrincier
FOHANNT.
Duci ARGATHELIE, &c.
Nobiliſimi Periſcelidis - Ordinis Equitl
Ik
M1CHaAtL MAITTAIR E.
UUM parvulas haſce Authorum
editiones præſidio deſtitui nolue-
rim, ferè omnibus nomina nobi-
lia, generoſa, & docta præpoſui. Poſt
multos ex Anglis viros compellatos mihi
meritò cœpi ſuccenſere, quòd Scotos hac-
tenus præterierim; quorum gentem &
armis & literis nulli cedere inter omnes
A 4 utriuf-
— ws.
—
DEDICATIO.
utriuſque Palladis alumnos jamdiu com-
pertum eſt & exploratum. Id mecum
cogitanti ſuccurrunt commodè Cæſaris
de ſuis rebus Commentari : illis quidem
agendis, his ſcribendis par erat nulla
preterquam Imperatoris manus; hos jam
in publicum prodeuntes afferere & tueri
nulla dignior, quam quæ poſſit illas ge-
rere. Prior Londinenſis horum Com-
mentariorum editio Characterum & Ta-
bularum pompa celeberrima ſub, Angli
Archiſtrategi auſpiciis aſpexit lucem.
Poſterior hæc mole quidem minor, ma-
teria tamen eadem, typorum elegantia
(neque enim parvis ſua abeſt gratia) mi-
nime. aſpernanda, æmulà quadam ardet
ambitione, & aut dignum Czfre aut
nullum ambit Patrocinium. In tuam
izitur, Dux ILLUsTR1sS1ME, clientelam
& fidem ſe commendat. Te ſuum vin-
dicem & aſſertorem implorat Cæſar. Te
inter Tuos Scotos animi viribus & mag-
nitadine principem; quem ſi tantum vi-
dimus in vitæ carceribus, qualem quan-
tum exſpectabimus in meta! Cæſarem
tua authoritate protege; Principem tui
quam fimillimum, victorias parare, &
paratis uti ſcientem ; hoſtium vires armis
in-
DEDICATIO.
infringentem, animos elementis emolli-
entem. Major certe eſt triumphus do-
mare corda quam corpora; eo quod hic
ſxpe a fortuna, que domina eſt campi z
ille ab indole victoris, qui dominus eſt
ſai, pendeat. Animi tui fortitudo, licèt
ſupra alios aſſurgat, tibi tamen cum pau-
cis alis communis eſt: mite autem inge-
nium adeò tibi proprium inhæret, ut in
Te, uti in ipſo Numine, Clementia, pri-
maria illa & divina Imperatoris virtus,
reliquas omnes ornet & ſuperemineat.
Perge modo, PRINCEPs CLARISSIME 3
his mace virtutibus, hoſtium Patriz &
Tuorum victor; nec niſi poſt vitam lon-
giſſimam feliciſſimàmque, ſerum ac diu-
—— Tui relinquas deſiderium.
—
1716. 5. Id. Jun.
De C. FULIOCASARE.
FULII CASARIS vitam Plutanchus & Sne-
. ton tus fu? & copies? ſcripſerunt; inde Lector petab,
guicguid hic fuerit pretermiſſum, Meum fruit propo-
tum, tanti hujus viri imaginem ab illis, aliiſque plurimis
Aut beribus expreſſam, repræſentare, quam breviter licuit.
Neque profetto facile eft ad compendium verba conferre, ubi
res tot geſiee, tot ſcript occurrunt, ut majorne fit Imperator,
an Orator, an Hiftoricus, ambigatur : in quo vitia non ad-
modum multa, plures cert? wirtutes elucent ; imprimis mira
etiam erga perduelles clementia. Cujus neci cauſam prebuit
comes wirtutis invidia magis quam dominationis-affeatio z
non tam Monarchie odium, quam Tyrannidis defiderium :
cum conflat omnium ætatum experientia, nullum eſſe Tyran-
num peffilentiorem quam plures Tyrannos.
a Caius Cæſar ille perpetuus Dictator, Cn. Pompeii
focer, a quo familia & appellatio Cæſarum deinceps
ropagata fait; 6 natus eſt Rome, C. Mario & L.
Valerio Flacco Coss. ad IIII. idus Quintiles; edu-
catus apud Aureliam matrem C. Cottæ filiam, & Ju-
ham amitam Marii. conjugem: edoctus literas Latinas
Græcaſque & præcepta dicendi a M. Antonio Gni-
phone homine Gallo. Fuit admirabili docilitate, & ad
dicendi facultatem appoſitus; à vir ingenii præcellentis,
ſermonis præter alios ſuæ ztatis caſtiſſimi, c excellen-
tis prudentiæ, 4 peracris judicii; e gravis lingua Lati-
nz arctor; F artis Grammaticæ doctiſſimus; g ſummis
oratoribus æmulus; * auctorum ſummus; i quem ſtudia
certandi, dictandi, lectitandique ſibi mutuò vindica-
vere. 4 Ille omnium ferè Oratorum Latinè locutus
eſt elegantifime; nec id ſolùm domeſtica conſuetu-
a A, Gell. I. 19. c. 8. 6 Supplement, Vivis ad Sueton, Vit.
C. Cf. c A. Geil. I. 1, cap. 10. fprovidentia, Macrob. Saturnol.
lib. 1. cap. 5. 4 Cicer. I. 9. ad Familiar. Epiſt. 16. e A, Cell.
L 4. c. 16. F Priſcian ex Edit. Puiſch, col. 545. g Tacit. An-
nal. lib. 13. pag, 213. Edit, Lipſ. 1697. 5 Id. de morib. German.
pag. 445- i Apoliinar. 1. 8. Epiſt. 6, 4 Cicer. Brut. pag. 242,
& 243 Edit. Car. Stephi. a
dine,
DR C. JurioC@Asare.
dine, ſed ut eſſet perfecta illa bene loquendi laus,
multis litteris, & 11s quidem reconditis & exquiſitis,
ſumm6que fludio & diligentia eſt conſecutus. Ratio-
nem adhibens, conſuetudinem vitioſam & corruptam
Puri & incorrupta conſuetudine emendat. Itaque cùm
ad hanc elegantiam verborum Latinorum adjungit illa
oratoria ornamenta dicendi, tum videtur tanquam ta-
bulas bene pictas collocare in bono lumine. / Czfar
ft tantim foro vacaſſet, non alius è noſtris contra Ci-
ceronem nominaretur. Tanta in eo vis eſt, id acumen,
ea concitatio, ut lum eodem animo dixiſſe, quo bel-
lavit, appareat, Exornat tamen hæc omnia mira ſer-
monis, cujus proprie ſtudioſus fuit, elegantia, m Ani-
mi vigore erat præſtantiſſimus. Nec virtutem conſtan-
tiamque nunc commemoro, nec ſublimitatem omnium
capacem, quz cœlo continentur: ſed proprium vigo-
rem celeritatemque quodam 1gne volucrem. Scribere
& legere ſimul, dictare & audire ſolitus : epiſtolas
verd tantarum rerum quaternas pariter librariis dicta-
re; aut, fi nihil aliud ageret, ſeptenas. » Annum
agens XVI. patrem amifit; ſequentibuſque Coss. fla-
men dialis deſtinatus, dimiſsa Cofſutia, Corneliam
Cinnz filiam uxorem duxit. „ Stipendia prima in Aſia
fecit, Marci Thermi prætoris contubernio. þ Meruit
& ſub Servilio Iſaurico in Cilicia, Compoſità ſedi-
tione civili Cornelium Dolabellam conſularem & tri-
umphalem virum repetundarum poſtulavit r uno & vi-
ceſimo ætatis anno. / Tribunus militum, Lucio Cinnæ
uxoris fratri reditum in civitatem rogatione Plotia con-
fecit, habuitque & ipſe ſuper ea re concionem. 7 Quæ-
ſtor, luliam amitam uxoremque Corneliam defunctas
laudavit è more pro roſtris; ſed in amitæ quidem
laudatione de ejus ac patris ſui utraque origine fic
refert. Auutæ mae Julia maternum genus ab regious er-
1 Quintilian. Inſtitut. lib. 10. cap. 1 & 2. & Ib. 12. cap, 10. 1
Plin. Hiſt, lib. 7. cap. 25. * Sueton. Vit, Caeſ. cap. 1. o cap. 2.
p cap. 3. 5 cap. 4. Val. Max. lib, 8. cap. 9. = Author Dialog.
de Orator, ex Edit. Lipſ. 1607. pag. 487. ubt. Lipfivs dybitat,
anon corrigendum fit Fige/mo quarto, I Sueton, Vit, Cal. cap, 5.
t cap, 6.
mum
*
Dx. C JVULIOCKSARI.
tum, paternum cum Dis immortalibus conjunftum el. Nam
ab Anco Martio ſunt Martii reges, quo nomine fuit mater;
a Venere Iulii, cujus gentis familia eft noflra. Eft ergo in
genere & ſanctitas regum, qui plurimum inter homines pol-
lent; & cerimonia Deorum, quorum ipſi in poteſtate ſunt
reges. In Corneliz autem locum Pompeiam duxit Qu.
Pompeii filiam, L. Syllæ neptem; cum qua deinde di-
vortium fecit, adulteratam a Publio Clodio opinatus.
1 Animadversa Gadibus apud Herculis templum Mag-
ni Alexandri imagine, ingemuit; quaſi pertæſus ignavi-
am ſuam, quod nihildum a ſe memorabile actum eſſet
in tate, qua jam Alexander orbem terrarum ſub-
egiſſet x Ante paucos dies quam ædilitatem iniret,
venit in ſuſpicionem conſpiraſſe cum M. Craſſo, Pub.
Sylla, & L. Autronio. y Zdilis, Capitolium porticibus
ornavit. æ Pontificatum maximum petiit; quamque
mane ad comitia deſcenderet, prædixiſſe matri oſcu-
lanti fertur, domum ſe non niſi pontificem reverſurum.
a Prætor creatus, deteRa conjuratione Catilinæ, ſena-
tique univerſo in ſocios facinoris ultimam ſtatuente
pœnam, ſolus municipatim dividendos cuſtodiendoſque
publicatis bonis cenſuit. 7
6 Inter ſocios Catilinæ nominatus, imploravit Ci-
ceronis teſtimonium. c Ex pretura ulteriorem ſorti-
tus eſt Hiſpaniam. 4 Cum Bibulo Conſul creatus,
unus omnia in Republica & ad arbitrium adminiftra-
vit. e Calpurniam L. Piſonis filiam duxit' uxorem.
F Ex omni provinciarum copia Gallias potiſſimùm
elegit; initio ciſalpinam accepit, mox comatam ; quo
gaudio elatus non temperavit, quin jactaret invitis ad-
verſariis adeptum ſe, quz concupiſſet; proinde ex eo
inſultaturum omnium capitibus: ac negante quodam
per contumeliam, Facile hoe ulli famine fore, reſpondit
quaſi alludens, i=» Mrid quogue regnafſe Semiramin,
magnamgue Aſiæ partem Amazones quondam tenuiſſe.
g Novem annis, quibus in imperio fait, Galliam in
provinciæ formam redegit; Germanos maximis affecit
1 Suet. Vit. Cf. cap. 7. x cap. 9. y cap. 10. cap. 13.
cap. 14. & cap. 17. c cap. 1%, & Cap, 19. & 20. c cap. 21.
F cap. 22. g cap. 25. \
cladibus
DE C. JourioCumzsSsart.
cladibus; aggreſtus eſt & & Britannos. + Aſinius Pollio-
refert eum Pharſalica acie cæſos profligatõſque adver-
ſarios proſpicientem dixiſſe; Hæc woluerunt ; tantis rebus
geftis C. Ceſar condemnatus em, niſi ab exercitu auxilium
petiiſem. Captum imperii conſuetudine-exiſtimaſſe vi-
debatur Cicero ſcribens de Officiis tertio libro, ſemper
Czſarem in ore habuifle i Euripidis verſus, quos fic ipſe
convertit, Nam i wiolandum eft jus, imperii gratia
Violandum eft ; aliis rebus pietatem colas.,
1 Conſecutus cohortes ad Rubiconem, Etiam nunc, in-
quit, regredi pofſumus ; quod ſi ponticulum tranfierimus, om-
via armis agenda erunt. Quumque cunctanti oſtentum
factum eſſet, Zatur, inquit, quo deorum oftenta & inimico-
rum iniquitas vocat; jacta ef alea, I Validiſſimas Pom-
peii copias invaſit, profeſſus ante inter ſuos, ire /e ad
exercitum fins duce, & inde reverſurum ad ducem fine ex-
ercitu. Pompeium ad extremum fudit ; confectiſque
bellis quinquies triumphavit. Pontico triumpho inter
pompz fercula trium verborum prætulit titulum, Veni,
Vidi, Vici. n Idem fignis eollatis: quinquagies dimi-
cavit; ſolus M. Marcellum tranſgreſius, qui undequa-
dragies dimicaverat. Nam præter civiles victorias, un-
decies C. & XCII. M. hominum. occiſa preliis' ab eo,
non equidem in gloria poſuerim, tantam etiam -coac-
tam humani generis injuriam; quod ita eſſe confeſſus
elt ipſe, bellorum civilium ſtragem non prodendo.
Hujus proprium eſt & peculiare clementiæ inſigne, qua
uſque ad pœnitentiam omnes ſuperavit. IIla fuit ve-
ra & incomparabilis invicti animi ſublimitas; captis
apud Pharſaliam Pompei Magni ſeriniis epiſtolarum,
iterümque apud Thapſum Scipionis, concremaſſe ea
optima fide, atque non legiſſe: „ elementer, manſue-
te, juſte, moderate, ſapienter agere; animum vincere,
iracundiam cohibere; adverſarium nobilitate, ingenio,
virtute præſtantem non modo extollere jacentem, ſed
etiam ejus priſtinam dignitatem amplificare. p Nemo
Cæſare acrior in rebus gerendis, nemo in victoria
b cap. 30. i Phœniſ. verſ. 527. & Suet. Vit. Caf. cap. 31 & 32.
I cap, 34. m cap. 35 & 37. 1 Plin. Hiſt. lib, 7. cap. 25. o Cicers
pro Marcel, p Cicer, Epiſt. ad. Famil. lib, 8, Col. ad Cicer.
tem-
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> —C
De C. JUL IO CESAR RE.
temperatior, Converſus ad ordinandum Reip. ſta-
tum, faſtos correxit, jampridem vitio-pontificum per
intercalandi licentiam turbatos: ſenatum ſupplevit:
jus laborioſiſſimè ac ſeveriſſimè dixit. Deſtinabat Bibli-
othecas Græcas & Latinas, quas maximas poſſet, pub-
licare, data M. Varroni cura comparandaram ac di-
rigendarum. # Fuiſſe traditur excelſa ftatura, colore
candido, teretibus membris, ore paulo pleniore, nigris
vegetiſque oculis, valetudine proſpera ; niſi quod tem-
re extremo repentè animo linqui, atque etiam per
omnium exterreri ſolebat. Comitiali morbo bis inter
res gerendas correptus eſt. / Pudicitiæ ejus famam
nihil quidem præter Nicomedis contubernium leſt.
Pronum & ſumptuoſum in libidines fuiſſe conſtans
opinio eſt,” plurimaſque & illuſtres fœminas corrupiſſe,
neque provincialibus matrimoniis abſtinuiſſe; Euncen-
que Mauram Bogudis regis uxorem dilexiſſe. Vini par-
eiſimum ne inimici quidem negaverunt. Abſtinenti-
am neque in imperiis neque in magiſtratibus præſtitit.
# Eloquentia militari, qua re aut æquavit præſtantiſ-
ſimorum gloriam, aut exceſſit, poſt accuſationem Do-
labellæ, haud dubie principibus patronis annumeratus
eſt, Certe « Cicero ad Brutum oratores enumerans,
negat ſe videre, cui Cæſar debeat cedere; aitque eum
elegantem, ſplendidam quoque ac etiam magnificam
ac generoſam quodammodo rationem dicendi tenere.
Et ad Cornelium Nepotem de eodem ita ſcripſit;
uid? Oratorum quem hutc antepones eorum gui nihil aliud
egerunt? Quis ſententiis aut acutior aut crebrior? Quis ven-
| bis aut ornatior aut elegantior ? Genus eloquentiæ dun-
taxat adoleſcens adhuc Strabonis Cæſaris ſecutus vide-
tur, cujus etiam ex oratione, quæ inſcribitur pro Sar-
4, ad verbum nonnulla tranſtulit in Divinationem
ſuam. Pronuntiaiſe autem dicitur voce acuta, ardenti
motu, geltique non fine venuſtate. Orationes aliquas
reliquit, inter quas temere quædam feruntur pro Q.
Metello; quam non immerito Auguſtus exiſtimat mags
g Sueton. Vit, Cæſ. cap. 40, 41; 43, 44 cap. 45.
Karben 51, 52, 53, 54+ f cap. 55 pag. 243. Edit.
ar, Reph.
ab
De C. Julio CÆKSAR E. |
ab actuariis exceptam, male ſubſequentibus verba di-
centis, quam ab 1pſo editam. Apud milites quoque in
Hiſpania, idem — — orationem eſſe vix ipſius pu-
tat, quæ tamen duplex fertur; una quaſi priore habita
prcelio ; altera poſteriore, quo Aſinius Pollio ne tempus
quidem concionandi habuiſſe eum dicit, ſubita hoſtium
incurſione. Neſcio, an huc referenda ſit Cæſaris pro
Decio Samnite oratio, cujus mentionem facit Author
Dialog. de Orator. pag. 480. edit. Lipſ. 1607, Certe
orationem pro Sextilio, quæ in Londinenfi Ceſar. Com-
ment. editione anno 1710, inter fragmenta pag. 488,
memoratur, nequaquam eſſe C. Jul. Cæſaris conſtabit
ex Valer. Maxim. lib, 5. cap. 3. ubi Sextilius dicitur
Mum C. Cæſarem ſuum patronum Cinnanæ proſerip-
tionis tempore profugum trueulento victori jugulandum
tradidiſſe. Is forſan fuit C. Cæſar Strabo, a Vell. Pa-
terculo (1. 2. c. 9.) laudatus.] x Volumina 'Awo@9:yua-
roy eonfecit; libros y Auguralium; æ Auſpiciorum,
quorum i Gum me morat Macrobius; & a Ephemeridem, in
qua dicit, quum dimicaret in Gallia, & ab hoſte raptus,
equo ejus portaretur armatus, occurriſſe quendam ex
hoſtibus, qui eum nôſſet; & inſultantem*clamaſſe ; Cæ-
Jar, quod Gallorum lingua mitte ſignificat; & ita fac-
tum eſſe, ut dimitteretur. & Siderum motus, de quibus
non indoctos libros reliquit, ab Egyptiis diſciplinis
hauſit. De hac arte paucos ſeripſit verſus, & ipſos
tamen de alieno opere mutuatus. e Ejus carminibus
præcipuè jociſque ' militaribus- celebratum eſt olus ſyl-
veſtre trium foliorum; alternis quippe verſibus expro-
bravere lapſana ſe vixiſſe apud Dyrrhachium, premio-
rum parſimoniam cavillantes. 4 Reliquit & rerum ſua-
rum Commentarios, Gallict eiviliſque belli Pompeiani
valde quidem, (ut e Cicero refert,) probaudes; nudi enim
ſunt, recti & cyenuſt;, omni ornatu orationis tanguam weſte
z Cicer, lib. g. ad. Famil. Epiſt. 16. y Priſeian. Col. 719. Edit.
Putſch. = Macrob. Saturnal. IIb. 1. cap. 16. a Servius in lib.
11. Eneid. v. 743, Symmach. lib. 4. Epift. 18: Lege Voſſ. Hiſt,
Lat. &6& Macrob. Saturnal. lib, 1. cap. 16. Lege & Plin. Hiſtor.
lib, 18. cap. 25, 26, 27, 28, Jul. Firmic, Matern. Matheſ. lib. 2.
Pref, cPlin. Hiſt. lib, 19. cap. 8. Lege & Suet. Vit. Caf. cap.
6B, 4 Cap. 56. e Cicer, Brut, pag. 243- Edit, Car. Steph.
detractd :
DE C. JvilioCEaSAaRE.
Aetrafta:; 10 , ſed dum woluit alios habere, paratam unde ſume-
rent, gui wellent ſcribere hifloriam, ineptis gratum fortaſe
fecit, qui illa wolunt calamiſiris inurere; Janos quidem ho-
aui nes a ſcribendo deterruit. Adeo probaxtur ommium judicio
(ita prædicat / Hirtius.) ut prerepta, non prepita | facultas
ſeriptoribus pidtatur, Sc. Pollio Aſinius parùm dili-
genter, parùmque integra g veritate compoſitos putat ;
quum Czfar pleraque & quz per alios erant geſta, te-
mere crediderit; & quz per ſe, vel conſulto vel etiam
memoria lapſas, perperam ediderit: exiſtimatque. re-
ſcripturum & correcturum fuiſſe. Reliquit & & de
Analogia libros duos; & I Anti-Catones totidem; ac
preterea Poema, quod inſcribitur Iter. Quorum libro-
rum primos in tranſitu Alpium, quum ex citeriore Gal-
lia conventibus peractis ad exercitum rediret; ſequene
tes ſub tempus Mundenfis prœlii fecit; noviſimum,
dum ab urbe in Hiſpaniam ulteriorem 24“. die perve-
nit, Feruntur & à puero & ab adoleſcentulo quædam
ſeripta; ut Laudes Herculis, Tragœdia Oedipi: item
Dicta Colleftanea : quos omnes libellos vetuit Auguſtus
publicari. E piſtolæ quoque ejus ad & Senatum extant ;
quas / primùm videtur ad paginas & formam memori-
alis libri convertiſſe, quum antea conſules & duces
nonniſi tranſversa chartà literas mitterent. Extant &
ad m Ciceronem : Item ad familiares domeſticis de re-
bus: in quibus ſiqua occultiùs perferenda erant, per
notas ſcripſit, id eſt, ſic ſtructo literarum ordine, ut nul-
lum verbum effici poſſet: quæ fiquis inveſtigare & per-
ſequi vellet, quartam elementorum literam, id eſt, 4
pro a, & perinde reliquas commutet. 1 Libri ſunt hu-
F Pag. 161. hujus noſtræ Editionis. 2 Lege Gerard: Joan.
Voſſ. de Hiſtor. Lat. lib. x, cap. 13. +& De quibus Quintilian, lib,
T, cap. 13. i De quibus Cicer, ad Attic. lib. 12. pag. 392. 394.
& lib. 13. pag · 409. & Topic. pag. 207. Edit. Car. Steph. & Ta-
cit. Annal. lib, 4. pag. 120. Edit. Lipſ. 1607, Quintilian. lib, 3.
cap. 9. Martian Capell. pag. 152. Edit. Plantin. & Juvenal. Satir.
6. verſ. 337. ubi lege Veter. Scholiaſt. Plutarch. Vit. Cæſar. pag.
223. & Cicer. pag. 880. Edit. Pariſ. 1624. & Appian. pag. 4905
Edit. H. Steph. & Dio Caſſ. pag. 219. Edit. Han. I De quibu
Cicer, ad Famil. lib. 16. pag. 193. Edit, Car. Steph. / Plutarch.
Vit. Cæſ. pag. 716, Edit. Pariſ. 4 m pag. 413. hujus noſttæ
aditlonis .x A, Gel. bb, 25 cap. 10.
juſmodꝭ
DE C. JL IO CaASARE.
juſmodi epiſtolarum ad C. Oppium & Balbum Corne-
liam, qui res ejus abſentis curabant. In his epiſtolis,
quibuſdam in locis, inveniuntur literæ ſingulariæ ſine
coagmentis ſyllabarum, quas tu putes paſitas incondite,
&c, Eft adeò Probi grammatici coramentarius ſatis
curiose factus de occulta literarum fignificatione epiſto-
larum C. Cæſaris ſcriptarum. o Czſar equitandi peri-
tiſſimus erat, laboris ultra fidem patiens ; in obeundis
expeditionibys, dubium cautiorne an audentior: ne re-
ligione quidem ulla a quoquam incepto abſterritus un-
quam, vel retardatus. Prolapſus in egreſſu navis, verſo
ad melius omine, Teneo te, inquit, Africa! p Alexandriz
in ſcapham pluribus eodem præcipitantibus cam deſiliſ-
ſet in mare, nando per 200 paſſus evaſit ad proximam
navem, elata lzvi, ne libelli, quos tenebat, madehE-
rent, paludamentam mordicus trahens, ne ſpolio poti-
retur hoſtis. Simultates contra nullos tam graves
excepit unquam, ut non occaſione oblata libens depone-
ret; in ulciſcendo natura leniſſimus. Moderationem ele-
mentiamque tum adminiſtratione, tum in victoria betti
civilis admirabilem exhibuit. Acie Pharſalica proclama-
vit, ut civibus parceretur,” r Prægravant tamen cætera
facta dictaque ejus, ut & abuſus dominatione, & jure
cæſus exiſtimetur. Propalam edebat, aibil amplius Remp.
N, appellationem modo fine corpore ac fpecie. Syllam
neſeifſe literas, qui Dictaturam depaſuerit. Debere homines
confrderatius jam loqui ſecum, ac pro ligibus habere que
dicat. E6que arrogantiz progreſſus eſt, ' ut haruſpice
triſtia & ſine corde exta ſacro quodam nuntiante, futura
diceret, /ztiora, quum wellet ; nec pro offtento ducendum, ff
pecudi cor defuifſet., Triumphanti fibi Pontium Aquilam
non aſſurrexiſſe adeò indignatus eſt, ut proclamaverit,
Repete ergo d me, Aquila, Remp. tribunus; nec deſtite-
rit per continuos dies cuiquam niſi ſub exceptione polli-
ceri, ſ tamen per Pontium Aquilam licuerit, Plebi regem
ſe ſalutanti, Cæſarem ſe, non regem e reſpondit. Quum
percrebuiſſet fama L. Cottam XV. virum ſententiam
dicturum, ut quoniam libris fatalibus contineretur, Par-
thos niſi a rege non poſſe vinci, Cæſar rex appellaretur;
o Sveton. Vit, Caf. cap. 57, 58, 59. p cap. 64. 4 cap. 73,
742 75 r _—_ 76, 772 78, 79s 8a, 81, 82. 88.
cauſa
Dy . — ——Ü—ä
hs p
— =
— r
DE A HizT1o.
cauſa conjuratis fuit maturandi deſtinata negotia, ne aſ-
ſentiri neceſſe eſſet. Conſpiratum eſt in eum a LX am-
plius, C. Caſſio, Marcoque & Decimo Bruto principibus
conſpirationis. Immolantem aruſpex Spurina monuit,
caveret periculum, quod non ultra Martias Id. proferre-
tur. Dein introiit curiam ſpreta religione, Spurinamque
ut falſum arguens, gudd ſinò ulld noxd Idus Martiæ adeſſent,
quanquam is veniſſi quidem eas diceret, fed non præteriſſe.
Aſſidentem conſpirati ſpecie officii circumſteterunt, Ut
animadvertit undique fe ſtrictis pugionibus peti, roga
caput obvolvit, atque ita 23 plagis confoſſus eſt, Tra-
diderunt quidam M. Bruto irruenti dixiſſe, x«} ov Tixv0r,
Anno ztatis quinquagefimo ſexto perit.
= — — —
r
DE 4. HIRT IO.
A Hixrius Jul. Cæſaris notarius a a Lupo Abbate
@ Ferrarienſi vocatur. 6 Gallici belli noviſſimum
imperfectümque librum ſupplevit. e Imperfecta ab re-
bus geſlis Alexandriz confecit, uſque ad exitum non
quidem Civilis diſſenſionis, ſed vitæ Cæſaris. Huic non
accidit, ut Alexandrino atque Africano bello intereſſet;
quz bells cx parte ei Cæſaris ſermone erant nota, &c.
Videtur 1taque bellum Alexandrinum & Africanum ſcrip-
ſiſſe. „ Sneronio tamen fi fides habeatur, belli Alexan-
drini \tric1que & Hiſpanienſis incertus author eſt; alii
enim Oppium putant, alii Hirtium. 4 Jo. Alb. Fabri-
cius vir clariſſ. dudum obſervavit in quibuſdam editioni-
bus inepte appellari A. Hirtium Panſam, cum notum fit
e Hirtium fuiſſe in conſulatu Panſæ collegam.
' F Quad ad Fragmentum Belli Hiſpanienſis attinet,
alii ex Julii Celſi de Julii Cæſaris vita Commentariis
anno 1473 editis deſumptum putant; nonnulli Oppium
hujus auctorem exiſtimant.
2 Epiſtol. 37. 5 Sueton. Vit. Caeſ. cab, 56. c Praefat, lib. 8, Gal-
lic, bell. d Biblioth. Latin, e Author. Dialog. de Orator. pag. 478.
Edit. Lipſ. 1607. flege .Gerrard. Joh, Voſſ. de Hiſtor, Lat. pag. 65,
66, 67, 68. & Joh. Albert. Fabric, Biblioth, Latin, cap, 1p. VI.
| | Variantes
*
Variantes Lectiones ex Londinenſis Editionis
margine excerptæ.
Pag. Lin. |
5. 12. faQtis alii 3 alii, vadis
14. 13. prima noctis vigilia, 41.
prima noctis hora
33. millia XII, Rhenum
2, commeatu atque moli-
mento, in
22, flumen Adduaſdubis, ut
Ult, mitt. magnum pe-
riculum miſerebantur ;
»
quod
22. 3. amplius quinquaginta
| circuitu
23. 13. honore auctiores velit
20, hominum numero
9. Ceſarem hoſtem equi-
tatu perſequentem
13. & inita ætate in vite-
riorem Galliam
30. 26. Menapios, VII millia :
28. totidem : Catuacos, XIX
millia: f
31. 27. ſubſidium ſubmittatur,
32. 36. commeatuque noſtros
prohiberent.
35+ 15. elangueſcere
31. centuriones præmittit,
37. 18. brevitas & ſucceſſus &
incurſus hoſtium,
imperium exſpectabant;
diverſis legionibus alii
alis |
in fugam conjecerunt.
fremituſque exaudieba-
tur: |
pulſos ſeparatõſque;
deberent; auſi ſunt
ſuperarant, confilio, le-
gat os
leviter acelivis
cuſtodiam ex ſuis ac
præſidium,
præſidia deducturos, aut
defenderet captum oppi-
dum nemo z
omttt, itinere
”
*
Pag. Lin.
44. 2. Gallis ad hyemandum
conceſſit; — cohortibus
attr uit;
45. 4. lapidesteliquein vallum
46. 19. frumenti commeatiſque
petendi
30. Velanii, & ſiquos inter-
cipere potuerunt; quod
48. 8. Belgat arceat, atque.
23. lingulis promontoriiſque
49. 20, minus incommodè ſco-
+ pulis
31. naves eorum potiſſimæ,
atque .
3+ ad malos diſtinebant, al.
detinebant,
52+ 14+ hoſtium inſcitia
38. provinciæ finitime) ex
his regionibus 8
53. 25. oppidi Adeantuannus,
55. 11, eductis his cohortibus,
16. his prorutis
57+ 5 · domi manſerint, ſe atque
illos alunt: hi
58. 10. infirmioreſque reddide -
runt 8
50.
59. 39. ſe Ubiis imperaturum,
64, 3. pro ariete ſubjectæ,
37. perfectum
66. 13. circiter 880 onerariig
14. ad ſuas legiones 0
68. 12. in adverſos tela
28. ad eos oratoris modo
Cæſaris
69. 30. ad Cæſarem convenerant
70. 38. atque ita currus collo-
cant,
navigation
ſubeundam
6. Ad celeritatem onerariis
ſubductiores, paullõque
facit humiliores, quam
quibus in reliquis utimur
maribus; |
10. magis magnos
73.
_
74»
. 79. 3»
VARIANTES LECTIONES.
Pag. Lin.
pag. Lin.
74. 27. & auctoritate Cingeto-
73 +3
77. 15.
78. 1.
7
21.
38.
$0.
82. 38.
83. 3
23
84. 19. impuſfiong
N
35. 3.
8 0 1.
18.
90. 8.
Ole 21.
23.
92. 19.
21
27.
1
93. To
2. cum CCC obfidibus
rigis
cognoſcit LX naves,
quæ in Meldis facte
omitt. timore
tripartito milite equites
in |
funeſque ſuſtinerent ;
aut taleis al, aut laminis
ferreis
ſubjectæ inſulæ
horridiores ſunt
,prelium
duce Lugotorige,
quum conſlituiſſet hye-
mare in motus; neque
ſummam tranguillita-
tem conſecutus |
ad caſtra oppugnatum al.
ad caſtra oppugnanda
ante, juſſu Ceſlaris IP '
inter eos Ex his tot cauſis
orta eſt
tantà cum contentione
noſt ra vs
37»
98. 9*
44.
99+ 4+
102. 6,
10.
103. 1.
105. 14.
20.
108. 29.
8
109. 17.
110. 13.
111. 20.
113. 11.
114. 20.
cogere, exercere, 4
finitimis equos
convenire conſueve-
runt; &, qui
content ione
reponſo, ubiĩ viſum eſt,
ſub
poſitis ab eis millibus
cum XV cohortibus
hoſtes impeditos inique
veteribuſque clientibus
adæquari
pro captu Gallorum
ſancitum;
parvis renum tegumen-
3
derogatur
acclinatæ & 25. accli-
naverint;
proximi Oeeano
Nec loca
116. „ I, quam legionarius miles,
17.
118. 11.
Huc quoque accedit,
manibus, ferculiſque, 119. 3.
terram 120, 32s
X millium paſſuum cir-
cuitu munitionem pe-
dum XV perfecerunt. 124. 14
locum tuæ pro laude 125. 23.
virtutis 5 37.
procedit extra munitio- 127. .
nes, & guz pars hoſtium 28.
protegunt, in hoſlem | 1294 17.
univerſi. 22.
utrumque ſervavit, | 33
23. 9 unus inter Nervios,, - |
37. veritus ut, fi---ſuſtinere 130. 10.
poſſet 5 28
94. 16. abjiciat. > 131. 18.
238. tantulis copiis 12949.
95. 31. ſcindere, alii |
97. 18.
tantãmque omnium vo-
luntatis commutationem |
perielitaretur; 938
pons erat perfectus,
fidem non haberent ad-
106 5 eile &
20. peomnine quidem caſui
locum
perpaullum
per pagos region ſque
Ult. ab civitate erat
interdictus:
contingebat
equitibus deripi Lolk.
diſtrahi ;
6, nunquam incepta re
gregatimque diſtributi
guum diftinuerant
contexerant.
locantur; ere vinciun-
tur extrorſus,
turbarenturz ad. terre-
rentur; al.tenerentur;
naturæ & virium
perſtare in ſententiam
25 erectiſque al. perfectiſ-
que
31. conſenſul
133.7
7. 24. erat attributus, ad
VARIANTES LECTIONES,
Pag. Lin. |
133. 11. atque eas bonis pollici-
tationibus alliciebat.
14. emitt, capi
7. detrimento ſuo eſſe
13. pgeoccurrendum
25- intromiſſis ex Crec.
Interpr.
demptis quibuſdam co-
hortibus,
legionibũſque & caſtris
loco idoneo |
25. de oppugnatione non
prius agendum
38. ſuorum, pet ſpiceret.
Erat
2. prohibere hoſtes
3. non minus firmo —
: Tamen filentio
15. Cum iis primùm com-
municatz '
23. diſceptaturi, quam
30. ſimilem caſum ex-
ſpectare.
5. ferramenta detrahi;
4. qua tum erat comitatus,
ſigna
23. Avarici cenſibus præ-
miiſque
4. abjuncto Labieno ——
vehementer timebat,
11. reſtringeret,
3. perſpectà palude, al,
protecti palude
21. diſtrahebat,
39. opprimuntur: equitatus
peditatuſque,
20. locum XV legio
22. XL millia
1, omnibus jusjurandum
adactis; al. ad jusju-
randum
35. delibratis
3. ad ſummum faſtigio:
7. pedes tres terra occulta-
buntur.
11
*
—
.
3. 20. Romanorum — am
fine cauſa
2. Ferix al. ferrets) ſcruribus
25. libralibus
N 174. 24. Confligit aud acids
ö
Pag. Lin.
158. 29. egreditur ; dcaſtris (al.
raſtros) lengurios,
6, Iniquum loci
23. cratibus foſſas explent :
34. uni de ſexaginta
2, ſuperioribus ac declivi-
bus & devexis
4. omiſſis
16. noviſſimũmque imper |
fectum
21. me medium
2 expeditionum munus
4. caſtris in ſylva excel-
ſum, impedita circum-
datum
24. veteranas legiones
10, muniri; loriculam pro
hic ratione
15. ut ab hoſtibus duplici
foſsa duplici propugna-
torum ordine defende-
rentur; al. ut hoſtis à
duplici foſs3 duplici
propugnatorum ordine
defenderetur
28. noſtri aut auxilia
Ult. barbari nitebantur.
6. pudore coacti
9. ſecundis nimiiſque re-
bus —adverſis medio-
cribuſque
14. conſpectu extulit Ro-
manorum ;
23- intrare ſummum ju-
gum & flammam
39. equitatũmque, quã con ·
ſuetudine pabulatoribus
mittere præſidio con-
ſveverat.
6. hunc infidiis circume
dederunt,
16. delectos tranſdidit
27. conſpectum fic & alibi.
31. ex agris effugere, ad
præſens perieulum evi-
tandum; *
39. legionemque IV, que
2, de incurfione a
26.
f Pag. Lin. ö
26. agmine, ſubſiſtentibus
equitibus
5. eo prelio conficiunt.
12, Civitatum aſcitis, re-
ceptis latrociniis, al.
civitatum receptis, *
trociniis
24+ accitas
Ut. nec tam libere vagandi
latrociniorũmque fa-
Ciendorum facultatem
habere, conſtituunt ſe
in finibusCadurcorum,
177. 16. forte infœlicitatis
22. unam intra caſtra
26. Germanos equites &
31. Germani equites
38. timore antea dividere
præſidia,
178. $5. conſiliorum ad capien-
dum bellum facultas
8. quorum conſilio in ei-
vitate,
179. 24+ cuniculos, crates & vi-
neas al. ad aggerem &
vineas agunt, & ad
27. pedum IX:
36. ſeindulis |
180. 20. perennis exarujt, tan-
tamque
29. plures conſilia iniflent
exemplo
181. 25. in Treviris ad fines
182. 21. per fidem interpoſitam
| al, perfidiã interpoſita
28. converſis equis
30- quod malum
31. evitavit : ac fic prælio
ſecundo graviter ab eo
vulneratus i
183. 11. nulli ſpeciem aut cauſam
23. commendaverat
238. quum hi—valviſſent,
184. 26+ rem remorando,
185. 14 adverſariorum ſe expo-
liari nemini
15. & ſuo nomine quartam,
175.
4
786.
5. ut vero iis de litteris
Completururbs, Adjus
Pag.
188,
VARIANTES LECTIONES.
Lin,
20. raptim
23. intercefſionem
27. duodecimo denique
menſe .
32. quique conſulares
Uit, leviſſimis
189. 38. qui nedum amiſſa re-
190.
ſtituiſſe videatur dona,
etiam quæ
11, legionis IV,
Ult. quod pro beneficio ſibi
contumelia
25 · de ſalute ſuũ agit atque
obſecrat,
38. ex tectis ignibus ſigni-
ficabant; 5
10. maximè pertigebat.
coactis
1. illi ſe oneri (al. honori)
non defuturum,
28. Maſſilienſes, domi no-
biles |
20, deducunt; earum clavis
26. adhue optimi generis
hominum mille ex
18, ulteriore parte
25. interruptus pens erat
11. circiter LXXX
33- montibus nix proluit,
z. maximi commeatus, qui
in hybernis erant,
1. uſu ſuperiorum tempo-
rum f
24 in latitudinem
25. quibus parte aliqua Si-
corem
30. ſubfiſtereextremum ag-
men atque interrumpi
alas; inferri
33. milites conturbart &
187. 29.
| comitiorum tribunos
dolere,
34+ bellum non neceſſario
11. VI ad iter addito ad
vyadum circuitu magni-
que fluminis
23. ordines; tribunos, in
Tribunitium
2. plureſque ſuſtine-
bant. |
30.
a
VARIANTES-
Pag. Lin. |
39. Cæſar relictis munitio-
nibus ſubſequitur
222, 14. His eos ſuppliciis male
haberi
2, & tertia in ſubſidiis
locum alariz cohortis
obtinebat.
ille, ut---impediret,
pens ut feminas cir-
cummunitos
egreſſu:
abjectiſſimè
in conſpectum fic 241,
223.
Qs
28.
28.
32.
19.
33.
38. .
9. perjudicaturus non ſum,
9. ab ſpe
23. XV millia
22, paſtoribũſque ſuis
16, appellatur Palæſte
259- 15. Compſam
266. 4. paſſuum III,
297, 15. multiſque colligans fu-
nibus.
263, 35. causa, Q. Titium &
L. Canuleium
273. 29+ ad duo millia al. ad
duorum millium nu-
merum
Ult. foramina CXX,
279. 16. paſſibus CCC aberant.
280. 21. prorutis vel perruptis
munitionibus
282. 28. qua facilitate
287. 39. judicandum de ii: non
inter fuiſſent;
288. 31. 3 — Allobro-
gem,
290. 24. millia. LN
25» Circiter duo millia, quæ
--- diſperſerat. -
291. 37. aciẽſque diſcinderetur ;
293. 36. licuit trichilas ſtructas,
magnum
296. 10, XXroſtratæ ſc301.40.
300. 35. vulnere obſopitus, per
ſuos
375+ 27. directis pluteis,
357. 13. neque fallaces eſſent,
239.
240.
242.
246.
249-
2.50,
261 *
318. 15.
1.
neque veteratorii;
LECTIONES.
Pag, Lin-
315+ 12, aut incitati
35. dexteram amplexus eſt
adulti jam ztate pueri,
At regius
ipſi ſe tutabantur, Ita-
que
prudentia conſtantiã-
que militem, conſue-
tudine
objectum
oppugnationibus
neque veteratam aucto-
ritatem, |
itinere pedeſtri
jus poteſtatemque ten-
taret.
tanquam amicorum
greges; ſin
ratione mediæ colloca-
bantur acies,
quam ſæpe
locis tyronum & mili-
tum
parem eſſe fortuitæ di-
micationi - commit
tere noluit, p
dicrota a/, dieres
pro prætore
33+ centena fic 330. 6.
5- ſpecioſa exempla largi-
tionum
27, onerantur impenſis ;
7. poſt meridiano tempore,
22, betones al. barones
21, coactus; iifdem crucia-
tibus affecit. A L.
Mergilio Squillo
quum Leptim (al. Ili-
pam) ad oppidum
& V legio,
confligere,
. Cardonem al. Bardo-
nem.
. direptam
ambitione atque indul-
gentia Tribunorum
defenſionem ejus
acerbitate bellorum
- polliceretur, re præſta-
turus : 40»
316. 35.
317. 32.
319. 15
1.
6.
21.
©;
322. 38.
323+ 12
32 5.
326.
29.
15.
327+ 20.
328. 7.
24.
329.
330.
331.
332.
364. 18. amplius XVI annis
— — — — ——3 —
o. gui non fui ſſent
- d Maat Alen pe-
rutile Pharnaci --- ne
vinceretur ea, quam ſibi
Dii al. Per id ipſum -
officium utile |
40. 28. XII in acie
39 · motus; inopinantes im-
paratõſque oppreſſos,
eodem
+ petere Paconiam, que
* 7 2 millia abeſt ,
347+ 3. ut (fieri poſſet necne)
locum nullum
351. 25. generis militibus, am-
plius XII. Hac
27, Germaniſque DCCC,
38. citroque commeatus
auxiliaque
35. 30. alteras al. ad ternas
355. 18. pecus diripi, homines
trucidari,
232. ſe miſeris ſuimque
359. 26. annonæque levata ſol-
| licitudine (a/. animo
%
atque levata ſollicitu-
dine) deponit legiones;
30. cum eo eſſent, commi-
| rari
261. 9. apud quos ultimum
præ ſidium
365+ 28, corriiſque al, ſtoreĩſque
contectis protegeban-
tur.
38. magna ſuſpenſione ani- |
a s mi 3
367. 37. proſpectum offendiſſet:
368. 3. Curiani,
369. 3. fingulos non amplins
ſingulis al. ſingulis non
ampliùs ſingulos addi-
tos ſervos in
33. ad Scipionem referret;
ſe reſtare
370. 12. ad alium ſeſe veſtitum
371. 21, circa ipſum d extrum
cornu,
21, longiores pactiones | |
VARIANTES LECTIONES,
bag.
372.
377»
378.
379.
380.
383.
384.
385.
386.
388.
390.
391.
400.
404 ·
bk.
409.
410.
412.
|
23. medium regionem
*
*
Lin. *
39 · in oppidum
20. in Italiam
26, conſuetudine captarum
14. de corum voluntate
4. procul ſubſequi non
deſtitit.
14. atque aquz inopi2 *
32. ſagittarizque CC;
35« ſed aquarum capi
15. umbilici tenus ingreſii
33+ quos fautores appella-
bant
1. impunitatis ſpe propter
15. in regnum Jubz
32. indicturum
15. que ſibi ſuĩſque
16. majores cogebantur
copiæ : $72
13. neque ut ipſe voluit,
40. recepti pedites equitẽſ-
que nocte.— &, diſ-
poſitis partibus oppida-
ni eruptionem
9. in conſpectum
35. pugna inita z
4+ ideo ab Ulia retraxerat,
14» pedeſtres copiæ
I. ſuo loco perterritus eft,
5. complures ex equis
27. extulerunt culcitas
6. cum Catope Luſitano
18. petimũſque ut c/tmenti-
am, quam victis gentibus
prebuifyi, calamitgſis ci-
. nous tuis non deneges,
Cui Ceæſar, ſe non acer-
biorem in cives futur um.
35. reſponſo
402. 27. iniquiore loco
32. currebat ad extremum
17. cohortes, & VIII millia
40. quos equites, quod pe-
cuniæ ſecum habuit,
27. acceſſus loci difficilis;
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q JULII CAESARTS
COMMENTARIORUM
DE BELLO GALLICO
LIBER I.
J. ALL eſt omnis diviſa in partes tres: qua-
8 rum unam incolunt Belgæ; aliam, Aquitani:
tertiam, qui ipſorum lingua Celtæ, nottra
Galli appellantur. Hi omnes lingua, inſtitutis, legibus
inter ſe differunt. Gallos ab Aquitanis Garumna flu-
men, à Belgis Matrona & Sequana dividit. Horum
omnium fortiſſimi ſunt Belgæ: propterea quod a cultu
atque humanitate Provinciæ longiſſimè abſunt; mini-
meque ad eos mercatores ſæpè commeant, atque ea,
quæ ad effeminandos animos pertinent, important;
proximique ſunt Germanis, qui trans Rhepum incolunt,
quibuſcum continenter bellum gerunt. Qua de causa
Helvetii quoque reliquos Gallos virtute precedunt ;
quod fere quotidianis prœliis cum Germanis contendunt,
quum aut ſuis finibus eos prohibent, aut ipſi in eorum
hnibus bellum gerunt. Eorum una pars, quam Gallos
obtinere diflum eſt, initium capit a flumine Rhodano :
continetur Garumna flumine, Oceano, finibus Belga-
rum;
3
-
of :
: L
1
l J
5
477 C. JULI Ca$SARIS
rum: attingit etiam a Sequanis & Helvetiis flamen
Rhenum: vergit ad Septemtriones. Belgæ ab extremis
Galliz finibus oriuntur: pertinent ad inferiorem partem
fluminis Rheni ; ſpectant in Septemtriones, & orientem
ſolem. Aquitania a Garumna flumine ad Pyrenæos
montes & eam partem Oceani, quz ad Hiſpaniam per-
tinet, ſpectat inter occaſum Solis & Septemtriones.
II. Apud Helvetios longe nobiliſſimus & ditiſſimus
fuit Orgetorix. Is, M. Meſſala & M. Piſone Coss.
regni cupiditate inductus, conjurationem nobilitatis
fecit; & civitati perſuaſit, ut de finibus ſuis cum omni-
bus copiis exirent : perfacile efſe, quum wirtute omnibus
pre/tarent, totius Galliæ imperio potiri. Id hoc- faci-
liàs eis perſuaſit, quod undique loci natura Helvetii
continentur; una ex parte, flumine Rheno latiſſimo
atque altiflimo, qui agrom Helvetium à Germanis
dividit; altera ex parte, monte Jura altiſſimo, qui eſt
inter Sequanos & Helvetios ; tertia, lacu Lemano, &
flumine Rhodano, qui provinciam noſtram ab Helve-
tiis dividit. His rebus ficbat, ut & minds late vaga-
rentur, & mints facile finitimis bellum inferre poſſent.
Qua de causa homines bellandi cupidi magno dolore
afficiebantur. Pro multitudine autem hominum, &
pro gloria belli atque fortitudinis, anguſtos fe fines
habere arbitrabantur; qui in longitudinem millia paſ-
ſuum coxr, in latitudinem xxx patebanr.
III. His rebus adducti, & auctoritate Orgetorigis
permoti, conſtituerunt ea, quæ ad proficiſcendum per-
tinerent, comparare; jumentorum & carrorum quam
maximum numerum coemere ; ſementes quam maximas
facere, ut in itinere copia frumenti ſuppeteret; cum
proximis civitatibus pacem & amicitiam confirmare.
Ad eas res conficiendas, biennium fibi ſatis eſſe duxe-
runt; in tertium annum profectionem lege confirmant.
Ad eas res conficiendas, Orgetorix deligitur. Is 601
legationem ad civitates ſuſcepit. In eo itinere per-
ſuadet Caſtico, Catamantaledis filio, Sequano ; cujus
pater regnum in Sequanis multos annos obtinuerat, &
@ S. P. Q. R. amicus appellatus erat; ut regnum in
Ee: | 1 civitate
K 0% 3: wh. 4.
pet Berto GALLIcO Lis, I. 2
ciritate ſua occuparet, quod pater ante habuerat. It&m-
que Dumnorigi Æduo, fratri Divitiaci, qui eo tem-
pore principatum in civitate ſua obtinebat, ac maximè
plebi acceptus erat, ut idem conaretur, perſuadet : ei-
que filiam ſuam in matrimonium dat. Perfacile fudtu
N illis probat, conata perficere ; propterea guòd ipſe ſue
civitatis imperium obtenturus efſet. Non efſe dubium, quin
totius Gallie plurimum Helwetii peſſent. Se ſuis copiis,
ſuoque exercitu, illis regna conciliaturum, confirmat, Hac
oratione adducti, inter ſe fidem & jusjurandum dant ;
&, regno occupato, per tres potentiſſimos ac firmiſſi-
mos populos, totius Galliæ ſeſe potiri poſſe ſperant.
Ea res ut eft Helvetiis per indicium enunciata, mori-
bus ſuis Orgetorigem ex vinculis cauſam dicere coe-
gerunt, Damnatum pœnam ſequi oportebat, ut igni
cremaretur. Die conſtituta cauiz dictionis, Orgetorix
ad judicium omnem ſuam familiam, ad hominum mil-
lia decem, undique coëgit: & omnes clientes obzra-
toſque ſuos, quorum magnum numerum habebat, eo-
dem conduxit: per eos, ne cauſam diceret, ſe erjpuit.
Quum civitas, ob eam rem incitata, armis jus ſuum
exſequi conaretur, multitudinemque hominum ex agris
magiſtratus cogerent; Orgetorix mortuus eſt : neque
abeſt ſuſpicio, ut Helvetii arbitrantur, quin ipſe ſibi
mortem conſciverit. /
IV. Poſt ejus mortem nihilo minds Helvetit id, quod
conſtituerant, facere conantur, ut è finibus ſuis exeant.
Ubi jam ſe ad eam rem paratos eſſe arbitrati ſunt
Oppida ſua omnia numero ad duodecim, vicos ad qua-
dringentos, reliqua privata zdificia incendunt ; frumen-
tum omne, præter quod ſecum portaturi erant, com-
burunt ; ut, domum reditionis ſpe ſublata, paratiores
ad omnia pericula ſubeunda eſſent: trium menſium
molita cibaria ſibi quemque domo afferre jubent. Per-
ſuadent Rauracis, & Tulingis, & Latobrigis finitimis,
uti, eodem uſi conſilio, oppidis ſuis viciſque exullis,
und cum iis proficiſcantur: Bojoſque, qui trans Rhe-
num incoluerant, & in agrum Noricum tranſierant, No-
retamque oppugnarant, receptos ad ſe ſocios ſibi adſciſ-
cunt, f
B 2 V. Erant
4 . ui Canktls
V. Erant omnino itinera duo, quibus itineribus dome
exire poſſent: unum per Sequanos, anguſtum & difficile,
inter montem juram & flumen Rhodanum, quo vix
ſingoli carri ducerentur ; mons autem altiſſimus impen-
debat, ut facile perpauci prohibere poſſent: alterum
per prov inciam noſtram, multo facilius atque expediti-
us.; propterea quod Helvetiorum inter fines & Allobro.
um, qui nuper P. R. pacati erant, Rhodanus fluit;
iſgue nonnullis locis vado tranſitur. Extremum oppi-
dum Allobrog um eſt, proximumque Helvetiorum fini-
bus. Genera: ex co oppido pons ad Helvetios perti-
net. Allobrogibus feſe vel perſuaſuros, quod nondum
bono animo in populum R. viderentur, exiſtimabant;
vel vi coacturos, ut per ſuos fines eos ire paterentur.
Omnibus rebus ad profectionem comparatis, diem di-
cunt, qua die ad ripam Rhodani omnes conveniant,
Is dies erat, ad v- kal. Apr. L. Piſone, A Gabinio Cos,
VI. Cæſari quum id nunciatum eſlet, eos per Pro-
vinciam noſtram iter facere conari; maturat ab Urbe
roficiici ; & quam maximis itineribus poteſt, in Gal-
liam ulteriorem contendit; & ad Genevam pervenit,
Provinciæ toti quam maximum militum numerum im-
perat. Erat omnino in Gallia ulteriore legio una. -Pon-
tem, qui erat ad Genevam, jubet reſcindi, Ubi de
cjos adventu Helvetii certiores facti ſunt, legatos ad
cum mittunt nabiliſſimos civitatis; cujus legationis Nu-
meius & Verodoctius principem locum obtinebant; qui
dicerent, b e in animo, fine allo maltficio iter per Pro-
vincjam facere, propterea quod aliud iter haberent nullum:
rogare, ut jus woluntate id fabi face liceat. Caiar,
quod memor!ia tenebat L. Caſſium Conſulem occiſum,
exercitamque ejus ab Helvetiis pulſum & ſub jugum
miſſum; concedendum non putabat. Neque homines
inimico animo, data facultate per Provinciam itineris
faciundi, temperaturos ab injuria & maleficio exiſtima-
bat. Tamen, ut ſpatium intercedere poſſet, dum mi-
lites, quos imperaverat, convenitent: legatis reſpondit,
dem fe ad deliberandum ſumpturum ; ſi quid wellent, a. d.
[tus Apr. reverterentur. luterea ea legione, quam ſe—
cum habebat, militibuſque, qui ex Provincia convene-
rant,
— . — C
ve BELITIO Gattico Lin, I. 5
tant, à lacu Lemano, quem flumen Rhodanum influits
ad montem Juram, qui fines Sequanorum ab Helvetis
dividit, millia paſſuum decem & novem, murum in
altitudinem pedum ſexdecim, fofſamque perducit. Eo
opere perfecto, præſidia diſponit, caſtella communit:
quo faciliùs, ſi ſe invito tranfire conarentur, prohibert
poſſent. Ubi ea dies, quam conttituerat cum legatis,
venit; & legati ad eum reverterunt; negat ſe more &
exemplo populi Romani poſſe iter ulli per Provinciam
dare. Et, & vim facere conentur, prohibiturum oſtendit.
Vil. Helvetii ea ſpe dejecti, navibus junctis, ratibuſ-
que compluribus factis; alii, vadis Rhodani, qua mi-
nima altitudo tiuminis erat, nonnunquam iaterdiu, ſæœ-
piùs nou, fi perrumpere poſſent, conati; operis muni-
tione & militum concurſu & telis repulſi, hoc. conatu
deſtiterunt. Relinquebatur una per Sequanos via: qua,
Sequanis invitis, propter angultias ire non poterant.
lis quum ſua ſponte perſuadere non poſlent : legatos
ad Dumnorizem Æduum mittunt, ut eo deprecatore A .
Sequanis hoc impetrarent. Dumnorix gratia & largi-
tjone apud Sequanos plurimum poterat ; & Helvetiis
erat amicus, quod ex ea civitate Orgetorigis filiam in
mainmonium daxerat; &, Cupidit»te regni adductus,
novis rebus ſtudebat; & quamplurimas civitates ſuo ſibi
1 beneficio habere obſtrictas volebat. Itaque rem ſuſcipit;
ii & a dequanis impetrat, ut per fines ſuos Helvetios Ire
5 patiantur; obſideique uti inter ſeſe dent, perficit : Se-
1 quani, ne itinere telvetios prohibeant; Helvetii, ut
r, ſize malefcio & injuria tranſeant.
n, VIII. Cæſari nunciatur, Helvetiis eſſe in animo per
m "agrum Sequanorum & AÆAduorum iter in Santonum.
es fines facere, qui non longe a Toloſatium finibus ab-
ris ſunt; quz civitas eſt in Provincia. Id ſi heret, intel-
la- ligebat magno cum Provinciz periculo futurum, ut
11s homines bellicoſos, populi Romani inimicos, locis pa-
it, tentibus maximeque frumentariis finitimos haberet. Ob
by eas Cauſas ei munitioni, quam feccrat, T. Labienom
(e- legatum præfecit. Ipſe in Italiam magnis itineribus
Gs contendit, duaſque ibi legiones conſcribit; & tres, qum
eircum Aquileiam hyemabant, ex hybernis educit; &,
B 3 qua
-
6 111 CaSARLS
qua proximum iter in ulteriorem Galliam per Alpes
erat, cum his quinque legionibus ire contendit. Ibi
Centrones, & Graioceli, & Caturiges, locis ſuperiori-
bus occupatis, itinere exercitum prohibere conantur.
Compluribus his prœliis pulſis; ab Ocelo, quod eſt
citerioris provinciæ extremum, in fines Vocontiorum
ulterioris provinciæ die ſeptimo pervenit; indè in Al-
lobrogum fines : ab Allobrogibus in Seguſianos exerci-
tum ducit : hi ſunt extra Provinciam trans Rhodanum
Primi.
IX. Helvetii jam per anguſtias, & fines Sequano-
rum, ſuas copias tranſduxerant; & in Æduorum fines
pervenerant, eorumque agros populabantur. Adui,
quum fe ſuaque ab his defendere non poſſent, legatos
ad Cæſarem mittunt, rogatum auxilium : 4/4 /e omni
ſempore de populo Romano meritos , ut, penè in conſpectu
exercitis noftri, agri vaſtari, liberi eorum in ſerwitutem
abduci, oppida expugnari, non debuerint, Eodem tempore
quo ÆEdui, Ambarri quoque, neceſſarii & conſanguinei
Aduorum, Cæſarem certiorem faciunt, /e/e depopulatis
agris, non facile ab oppidis vim bhoſtium prohibere, Item
Allobroges, qui trans Rhodanum vicos poſſeſſioneſve ha-
bebant, fuga ſe ad Cæſarem recipiunt ; & demonſtrant,
fibi, præter agri ſolum, nihil effe religui. Quibus rebus
adductus Cæſar, non expectandum fibi ſtatuit, dum,
omnibus fortunis ſociorum conſumptis, in Santones
Helvetii pervenirent,
X Flumen eſt Arar, quod per fines Eduorum &
Sequanorum in Rhodanum influit, incredibili lenitate;
ita ut oculis, in utram partem fluat, judicari non pol-
fit; id Helvetii ratibus ac lintribas junctis tranſibant.
Ubi per exploratores Cæſar certior factus eſt, tres jam
copiarum partes Helvetios id flumen tranſduxiſſe, quar-
tam vero partem citra flumen Ararim reliquam elle ;
de tertia vigilia cum legionibus tribus è caſtris pro-
fetus, ad cam partem pervenit, quæ nondum flumen
tranſierat. Eos impeditos & inopinantes aggreſſus,
magnam partem concidit; reliqui ſeſe fugæ mandarunt,
atque in proximas ſylvas abdiderunt. Is pagus appel-
labatur Tigurinus. Nam omnis civitas Helvetia in
quatuor
or BeLLo GaLLico Lis, I. 7
quatuor pagos diviſa. eſt. Hic pagus unus, quum do-
mo exiſſet, patrum noſtrorum memoria L. Caſſium
conſulem interfecerat, & ejus exercitum ſub jugum mi-
ſerat. . Ita, five caſu, five confilio Deorum immortali-
um, qoæ pars Civitatis Helvetiz infignem calamitatem
op. Rom. intulerat, ea princeps pœnas perſolvit. Qua
in re Cæſar non ſolùm publicas, ſed etiam privatas
injurias ultus eſt ; quod ejus ſoceri L. Pifonis avum L.
Piſonem legatum Tigurini eodem prœlio, quo Caſſium,
interfecerant.
XI. Hoe prœlio facto, reliquas copias Helvetiorum
ut conſequi poſſet, pontem in Arare faciendum curat,
atque ita exercitum tranſducit. Helvetii, repentino
ejus adventu commoti ; quum id, quod ip diebus xx
ægerrimè confecerant, ut flumen tranſirent, illum uno
die feciſſe intelligerent; legatos ad eum mittunt: cujus
legationis Divico princeps fuit, qui bello Caſſiano dux
Helvetiorum fuerat. Is ita cum Cæſare agit : Si pacem
populus Romanus cum Helvetiis faceret ; in eam partem
ituros, atque ibi futuros Helwetios ubi Cæſar confſituiſſet,
argue eſſe woluijjet : fin bello perſegui perſeveraret ; remi-
niſceretur & weteris; incommadi populi Romani, & priſtine
virtulis Helwetiorum. Quòd improwisò unum pagum adortus
Het, quum it, qui flumen transiſſent, ſuis auxilium ferre.
non pefjent 3 ne, ob eam rem, aut ſuæ magnopere virtuti
tribueret, aut ipſos deſpiceret. Se ita à patribus majoribuſ-
gue ſuis didiciſſe, ut magis virtule, quam dolo, contenderent,
.aut infidits niterentur. Quare, ne committeret, ut is locus,
abi conflitifjent, ex calamitate pop. Rom. & internecione
exercitus nomen caperet, ac memoriam proderet.
XII. His Cæſar ita reſpondit: Zo fibi minus dubitatio-
nis dari, quod eas res, quas legati Helvetii commemordſjent,
memoria teneret ; atque eo gravizs ferre, guo minis merito
pep. Rom. accidiſſent. Qui fi alicujus injuriæ fibi cenſcius
fuiffet, non fuiſſe difficile cavere : ſeq eo deceptum, quod ne-
gue commiſſum a /e intelligeret, quare timeret; neque fine
cau;a timendum putaret. Quòd fi weteris contumeiie obli-
diſci wellet + num ettam recentium injuriarum ; quod, eo in-
vito, iber per Prowinciam per vim tentajjent ; quod AEduog,
quod Ambarrot, quod —— wvexaſient ; memoriam de po-
a 3 ver e
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8 C. JI II CASARIS
nere fofſe ® Duod ſua victoriã tam inſolenter gloriarentur
quodgue tam diu ſe impune tuliffe injurias admirarenſur;
eodem pertinere : conju#fſe enim Deos immortales, quo gravius
hamines ex commutatione rerum doleant, quos pro ſeelere so-
ram ultiſei velint, his ſecundiores interdum res 65 diuturni-
orem impunitatem concedere. Quum ea ita fint : tamen, ſi
ob/ides ab tis fibi dentur, ut? ea, que polliceantur, facturos
tntelligat; & fi Aiduis de injurits, quas if fis faciifque corum
mtulerint, item fi Allabrogibus, Jatisfaciant ; ſeſe cum iis
pacem efje facturum. Divico reſpondit : Ita Helueties a
majeribus juis inſtitutos efſe, ui ebfides accipere, non dare,
conſueverint : equs rei pip. Rom. efſe teſlem. Hoc reſponſo
dato, diſceſſit. |
XIII. Poſtero die caſtra ex eo loco movent. Idem
facit Cæſar; equitatumque omnem, ad numerum qua-
tuor millium, quem ex omni Provincia, & AEguis, at-
que eorum ſoclis coactum habebat, præmittit; qui vi-
deant, quas in partes hoſtes iter faciant. Qui cupi-
dius noviſſimum agmen inſecuti, alieno loco cum equi-
tatu Helvetiorum prelium committunt ; & pauci de
noftris cadunt, Quo prœlio ſublati Helvetii, quod
quingentis equitibus tantam multitadinem equitum
propulerant; audaciùs ſubſiſtere, nonnunquam ex no-
viſſimo agmine prœlio noſtros laceſſere cœperunt. Cæ-
far ſuos a prœlio continebat; ac ſatis habebat in præ-
ſentia, hoſtem rapinis, pabulationibus, populationibuſ-
que prohibere. Ita dies circiter quindecim iter fece-
runt. uti inter noviſſinum hoſtium agmen, & noſtrum
primum, non amplius quinis aut ſenis millibus paſſuum
intereſſet.
XIV Interim quotidie Cæſar Æduos frumemum,
quod eſſent publice polliciti, flagitare. Nam propter
rigora; quod Gallia ſub Septemtrionibus, ut ante
dictum eit, poſita eſt; non modo frumenta in agris
matura non erant, ſed ne pabuli quidem ſatis magna
copia ſuppetebat. Eo autem frumento, quod flumine
Arare navibus ſubvexerat, propterea minus uti poterat,
quod iter ab Arare Helvetii averterant; à quibus dif-
- cedere nolebat. Diem ex die ducere Ædui; conferri,
comportari, adeſſe dicere. Ubi ſe diutius duci intel-
lexit;
pz BELLO GaLLtico Lis. I. 9
lexit; & diem inftare, quo die frumentum militibus
metiri oportergt : convocatis eorum principibus, quo-
rum magnam copiam in caſtris habebat; in his Divi-
tiaco, & Liſco qui ſummo magiſtratui præerat; (quem
Vergobretum appellant AÆdui, qui creatur annuus, &
vitæ neciſque in ſuos habet poteſtatem) graviter eos
accuſat; quod, quum negue emi negue ex agrts ſumi past,
tam neceſſario tempore, tam propinguis hoſtlibas, ab its non
ublevetur ; præſertim quum magna ex parte cor um precibus
adduttus, bellum Jujceperit ; multo etiam graviùs, quod /it
deſtitutus, queritur. 2
XV. Tum demum Liſcus, oratione Ca ſaris adductus
quod antea tacuerat, proponit: Ee nonnullos, guorum
auctoritas apud plebem plurimùm waleat, gui privati plus
point quam ipſi magiſtratus : hos ſeditiosa aique improbd
oraticone mullitudintm deterrere, ne frumentum conferant ;
gd preflare dicant, /i jam principatum Galliz ebtinere
non poffint, Gallorum quam Remanorum imperia perferre ©
neque dubitars debtant, quin, fi Helwertios ſuperaverint Ro-
mani, una cum reliqud Gallia Aduis libertatem fut erep=
turi. Ab iiſdem no/tra confilia, quatque in caftris ger antur,
heflibus enunciari : hs & fe coercert non pee. Quin etiam,
quod meceſſario rem Ce/ari enunciarit, inteliigere fes,
quanta id cum periculo fecerit; & u cam cauſam, quem
diu potuerit, tacuifſe. Cæſar hac oratione Liſci, Dumno-
rigem Divitia citratrem deſignari ſentiebat: fed, quod
pluribus præſentibus eas res jactari nolebat, celeriter
concilium dimittit ; Liſcum retinet. Quærit ex ſolo ea,
quæ in conventu dixerat ; dicit liberiti-, atque audacius,
Eadem ſecretò ab aliis quærit: reperit effe vera ; /p/um
ee Dumnorigem ſumma audacia, magnd apud plebem prop-
ler liberalitatem gratid, cupidum rerum nevarums: cons
plures annos portoria, religuague omnia Mducrum vectig a-
lia, parœo pretio redempia habere; prepterea gud, ills li-
cente, contra liceri audeat nemo. Hrs rebus & ſuam rem
{aniliarem auxifſe, & facuitates ad largiendum mag nas
cmparaſſe : maguum numeram equitaiis que ſumptu ſemper
alere, & circum ſe habere. Neque ſolum demi, ſed etiam
cpu finitimas ci vitates, largiter p'fſe : atque hujus poten-
te causa, matrem in Biturigibus, homini illic nobilihm⁰
B 5 ac
to C. JULI CESAARIS
ac potertiſſimo, collecdſſe : ipſum ex Helvetiis uxorem ha-
bere : farorem ex matre, & propinquas ſuas, nuptum in
alias civitates collocaſſe : favere & cupere Helwetiis, prop-
ter eam affinitatem : odifſe etiam ſuo nomine Cæſarem, &
Rema nos guod eorum adventu potentia ejus diminuta, &
Divitiacus frater in antiquum locum gratiæ atque honorts
fit reflitutus. Si guid accidat Romanit, ſummam in ſpem
regni per Helvelios obtinendi venire ; imperio pepuli Rom.
non modo de regno, ſed etiam de ed, quam habeat, gratia
deſperare. Reperiebat etiam Cæſar inquirendo ; quod
preelivm equeſtre adverſum, paucis ante diebus, eſſet fac-
tum, initium ejus fugæ a Dumnorige atque ejus equit!-
bus factum eſſe; (nam equitatui, quem auxilio Czar
dui miſerant, Dumnorix præerat) eoramque fuga re-
liquum eſſe equitatem perterritum. +
XVI. Quibus rebus cognitis : quum ad has ſuſpicio-
nes certiſſimæ res accederent ; quod per fines Sequa-
norum Helvetios tranſduxiſſet; quòd obſides inter eos
dandos curaſſet ; quod ea omnia non modò injuſſu ſuo
& civitatis, ſed etiam inſcientibus ipfis, feciſſet; quod
a magiſtratu Aduorum accuſaretur : ſatis eſſe cauſe
arbitrabatur, quare in eum aut ipſe animadverteret,
aut civitatem animadvertere juberet. His omnibus
unum repugnabat, quad Divitiaci fratris ſummum in
populum R. ftudium, ſummam in ſe voluntatem,
egregiam fidem, juſtitiam, temperantiam cognoverat:
nam, ne ejus ſupplicio Divitiaci animum offenderet,
verebatur. Itaque priùs quam quidquam conaretur,
Divitiacum ad ſe vocari jubet; &, quotidianis interpre-
tibus remotis, per C. Valerium Procillum, principem
Gall:z provinciz, familiarem ſuum, cui ſummam re-
rum omnium fidem habebat, cum eo colloquitur : fi-
mul commoneſecit, quz ipſo præſente in concilio Gal-
lorum de Dumnorige ſint dicta; & oſtendit, quæ ſe pa-
ratim quiſque de eo apud ſe dixerit. Petit atque hor-
; wa ut, fine ejus offenfione animi, vel ipſe de eo,
Eausa cognita, flatuat; vel civitatem ſtatuere jubeat.
Divitiacus multis cum lacrymis Cæſarem complexus ob-
ſecrare cœpit, ne quid gravius in fratrem flatueret : ſcire
, illa effe vera: nec quenquam ex eo plus, quam ſe, doloris
capere;
. WRT
r
DE BeLLo: GALLIITICO Lis. I. 11
capere; propterea quod ( quum ipſe gratiã plurimum domi
atque in religud Gallta, ille minimum propter adoleſcentiam
pofſet ) per Je creviſfſet : quibus opibus ac nervis, non ſclum
ad minuendam gratiam, ſed penè ad perniciem ſuam utes e-
tur; ſeſe tamen & amore fraterno & exiſtimatione wulei
comm. u eri. Quòd fi quid" ei a Ceſare gravius accidiſſet,
cum ipſe eum locum amicitiæ apud eum teneret, neminem
exiſtimaturum non /ud woluntate factum; quã ex re futu-
rum, ul totins Galliæ animi a ſe averterentur Hæc quum
pluribus verbis flens a Cæſare peteret, Cæſar ejus dex-
teram prehendit: conſolatus, rogat finem orandi faciat :
tanti ejus apud ſe gratiam eſſe oſtendit, uti & Reipubl,
injuriam, & ſuum dolorem, ejus voluntati ac precibus
condonet Dumnorigem ad ſe vocat : fratrem adhibet:
quæ in eo reprehendat, oſtendit: quæ ipſe intelligat,
quæ civitas queratur, proponit: monet, ut in reliquum
tempus omnes ſuſpiciones vitet. Præterita ſe Divitiaco
fratri condonare dicit: Dumnorigi cuſtodes ponit; ut,
quæ agat, quibuſcum loquatur, ſcire poſſit
XVII. Eodem die ab exploratoribus certior factus
hoſtes ſub montem conſediſſe, millia paſſuum ab ipſins
caſtris octo; qualis eſſet natura montis, & qualis in
circuity aſcenſus, qui Ls part” miſit. Renuncia-
tum eſt, facilem eſſe. De tertia vigilia T. Labienum
legatum pro Prætore cum duabus legionibus, & iiſdem
ducibus, qui iter cognoverant, ſummum jugum montis
aſcendere jubet : quid ſui confilii fit, oſtendit. Ipſe
de quarta vigilia eodem itinere, quo holes ierant,
ad eos contendit'; equitatumque omnem ante mittit,
P. Confidius, qui rei militaris peritiſſimus habebatur,-&.
in exercitu L. Sullæ, & poſtea in M. Craſſi fuerat, cum
exploratoribus præmittitur.
XVIII. Prima luce, quum ſummos mons a T. Labi-
eno teneretur ; ipſe ab hoſtium caſtris non longius mille
& quingentis paſſibus abeſſet; neque, ut poſtea ex cap-
tivis comperit, aut ipſius adventus, aut Labieni, cognitus
eſſet; Conſidius, equo admiſſo, ad eum accurrit : dicit
montem, quem a Labieno occupari volverit, ab hoſti-
bus teneri: id ſe ex Gallicis armis atque inſignibus cog-
noviſſe. Cæſar ſuas copias in proximum collem ſubdu-
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Cæſare, ne prœlium committeret, niſi ipfius copiz prope
hoſtium caſtra viſæ efſent, ut undique uno tempore in
hoſtes impetus ſieret; monte occupato, noftros exſpecta-
bat, prœlioque abſtinebat. Multo denique die per ex-
ploratores cognovit Cæſar, & montem a fais teneri, &
hoſtes caſtra moviſſe; & Conſidium timore perterritum,
quod non vidiſſet, pro viſo ſibi renunciàſſe. Eo die, quo
conſuerat intervallo, hoſtes ſequitur; & millia paſſuum
tria ab corum caſtris caſtra ponit.
XIX. Poſtridie ejus diei ; quod omnino biduum ſuper-
erat quum exercitut fromentum metiri oporteret; &
quod a Bibrate, oppido Æduorum longe maximo ac
copioſiſſimo, non amplius millibus paſſuum xv1r1 abe-
rat; rei frumentariz profpiciendum exiſtimavit: & iter
ab Helvetiis avertit, ac Bibracte ire contendit. Ea res
per fugitivos L. Emilii, Decurionis equitum Gallorum,
hoſt bus nunciatur. Helvetii, ſeu quod timore pertergi-
tos Romanos diſcedere exiſtimarent, eo magis, quod
pridie, ſaperioribus locis occupatis, prelium non com-
miſiſſent; fre quod re frumentaria intercludi poſſe con-
fiderent; commurato conſilio, atque itinere converſo,
noſtros a noviſimo agmine inſequi ac laceſſere cœpe-
runt. Poſtquam id animadvertit, copias ſuas Cæſar
in proximum collem ſubducit; equitatümque, qui ſuf-
tine ret hoſſium impetum, miſit. Ipſe interim in colle
medio triplicem aciem inftruxit legionum quatuor ve-
teranarum ; ita, ut ſupra te in ſummo jugo duas ſegi-
ones, quas in Galla citeriore proxime conſcripſerat, &
omnia auxilia, collocaret; ac totum montem homini-
bus compleret, Interea {arcinas in unum locum con-
ferri, & com ab 1is, qui in ſuperiore acie conſtiterant,
muniri juiit, Hiclvetii cum omnibus ſuis carris ſecuti,
impec imenta in unum locum contulerunt. Ipſi, confer-
tiſſimã acie, rejecto noſtro equitatu, phalange factà, ſub
primam noſtram aciem ſucceſſerunt.
XX Caſar, pr mam ſuo, deinde omnium, è con-
ſpectu remotis equis, ut, æquato periculo, ſpem fugæ
tolleret; cohortatus ſuos, prœlium commiſit. Milites,
e loco ſuperiore pilis miſſis, facile hoſtium phalangem
. per-
1
vs: BeLLo GaLLico Lis. I. 13
perfregerunt. Ea disjecta, gladiis diſtriftis, in. eos im-
petum fecerunt. Gallis magno ad pugnam erat impedi-
mento, quod, pluribus eorum ſcutis uno ictu pilorum
transfixis & colligatis, quum ferrum ſe inflexiſſet, neque
evellere, neque, ſiniſtrà impedita, ſatis commodè pug-
nare poterant: multi ut, diu jactato brachio, præopta-
rent ſcutum manu emittere, & nudo corpore pugnare;
tandem, vulneribus defeſſi, & pedem referre, &, quod
mons ſuberat circiter mille paſſuum, eo ſe recipere cœ-
perunt. Capto monte, & ſuccedentibus noſtris; Boil
& Tulingi, qui hominum millibus circiter xv agmen
hoſtium claudebant, & noviſſimis præſidio erant, ex iti-
nere noſtros latere aperto aggreſſi, circumvenire ; & id
conſpicati Helvetii, qui in montem ſeſe receperant, rur-
ſus inſtare, & prœlium redinteg rare cœperunt. Romani
converſa ſigna tripartitd intulerunt: prima ac ſecunda
acies, ut victis ac ſubmotis reſiſteret: tertia, ut venien-
tes exciperet. Ita, ancipiti prœlio, diu atque acriter
pugnatum eſt. Diutius quum noſtrorum impetum ſuſ-
tinere non poſſent; alteri fe. ut cœperant, in montem
receperunt; alteri ad impedimenta & carros ſuos ſe
contulerunt. Nam hoc toto pœlio, quum ab hora ſep-
tima ad veſperam pugnatum fit, adverſum hoſtem videre
nemo potoit. Ad multam noctem etiam ad impedi-
menta pugnatum eſt; propterea quòd pro vallo carros
objecerant, & è loco ſuperiore in noſtros venientes te-
la conjiciebant, & nonnulli inter carros rotãſque mata-
ras ac tragulas ſubjiciebant, noſtröſque vulnerabant.
Dig quum effet pugnatum, impedimentis caſtriſque noſ-
tii potiti ſunt, Ibi Orgetorigis filia, atque unus è filiis
captus eſt. Ex eo prœlio circiter. millia hominum xxx
ſaperfuerunt: eaque toia nocte continenter jerunt : nul-
lam partem noctis itinere intermiſſo, in fines Lingonum
die 1v pervenerunt ; quum & propter vulnera militum,
& propter ſepalturam occiforum, noſtri triduum morati,
eos ſequi non potuiſſent. Cæſar ad Lingones litteras
nuncioſque miſit, ne eos framento, neve- alia re, juva-
rent: qui ſi juviſſent, ſe eodem loco illos, quo Helvetios,
habiturum. Ipſe, triduo intermiſſo, cum omnibus copiis
eos ſequi cœpit. | |
XXI.
14 C. Juli CZSAAN IS
XXI. Helvetii, omnium rerum inopia adducti, legatos
de deditione ad eum miſerunt. Qui quum eum in itinere
conveniſſent; ſèque ad pedes projeciſſent; ſuppliciterque
locuti, flentes pacem petiſient ; atque eos in eo loco,
quo tum eſſent, ſuum adventum exſpectare juſſiſſet; pa»
tuerunt. Ed poſtquam Cæſar pervenit; obſides, arma,
ſervos, qui ad eo perfugiſſent, popoſcit. Dum ea con-
- Quiruntur, & conſeruntur: nocte intermiſſa, circiter ho-
minum millia vi ejus pagi, qui Urbigenus appellatur;
ſive timore perterriti, ne, armis traditis, ſupplicio affice-
rentur; ſive ſpe ſalutis inducti, q òd, in tanta multitu-
dine dedititiorum, ſuam fugam aut occultan, aut omuino
ignorari poſſe exiſtimarent; prima nocte ex caſtris Hel-
vetiorum egreſſi, ad Rhenum fine{que Germanorum con-
tenderunt. Quod ubi Cæſar reſcivit; quorum per fines
ierant, his uti conquirerent & reducerent, fi ſibi purgati
eſſe vellent, imperavit; reductos, in hoſtium numero
habuit. Reliquos omnes, obſidibus, armis, perfugis tra-
ditis, in deditionem accepit. Helvetios, T ulingos, La-
tobrigos, in fines ſuos, unde erant profecti, reverti juſũt;
& quòd, omnibus frugibus amiſſis, domi nihil erat, quo
famem tolerarent, Allobrogibus imperavit ut his Bo
menti copiam facerent: ipſos oppida vicoſque, quos in-
cenderant, reſtituere juſſit. Id ea maxime ratione fecit,
quòd noluit eum locum, unde Helvetii diſceſſerant,
vacare; ne propter bonitatem agrorum, Germani, qui
trans Rhenum incolunt, e ſuis Faibus in Helvetiorum
- fines tranſirent, & finitimi Galliz provinciz Allobrogi-
baſque efſent. Boios, petentibus AÆduis (quod egregia
virtute erant cogniti) ut in finibus ſuis collocarent, con-
ceſſit: quibus illi agros dederunt; quoſque poſtea in pa-
rem juris libertatiſque conditionem, atque ipſi erant,
receperunt. In caſtris Helvetiorum, tabulæ repertæ ſunt
litteris Græcis confeclæ, & ad Cæſarem perlatæ; quibus
in tabulis nominatim ratio confecta erat, qui numerus
domo exiſſet eorum, qui arma ferre poſſent; & item ſe-
patatim pueri, ſenes, muliereſque. Quarum omnium
terum ſumma erat, capitum Helyetiorum millia ccLx111.
Tulingorum, millia xxxvi; Latobrigorum, xiv; Rau-
Tacorum xx in; Boiorum xxx11, Ex his, qui arma ferre
c poſſent,
ve BELLO Gaitico LIBE. I. 15
poſſent, ad millia xc+1. Summa omnium fuerat ad millia
cccLxviit, Eorum, qui domum redierunt, cenſu habito,
ut Cæſar imperaverat, repertus eſt numerus, millium cx.
XXII. Bello Helvetiorum confecto; totius ferè Galliz
legati, principes civitatum, ad Cæſarem gratulatum con-
venerunt. ntelligere ſeſe. tameiſi pro veteribus Helwetio-
rum injuriis Populus R. ab its penas bello repetiſſet, tamen
eam rem non minis ex uſu terræ Galliæ quam” populi R.
accidifſe : propterea quod eo confilio florentiſſimis rebus domos
Juas Helwetii religuiſſent; ut toti Gallia bellum inferrent,
imperiogue potirentur 3 lockmgue demicilio ex magnd copia
deligerent, quem ex omni Gallia opportuniſſimum ac frucuo-
fiffomum judicaſſent : reliquaſque civitates flipendiarias ba-
b:rent, Petierunt, uti ibi confilrum tetius Galli in diem
certam indicere, idque Cæſaris woluntate facere, liceret;
feſe habere qua/dam res, quas & communi conſenſu ab eo pe-
tere vellent. Ea re permifſa, diem concilio conſtituerunt;
& jurejurando, ne quis enunciarer, niſi quibus communi.
conſilio mandatum eſſet, inter ſe ſanxerunt.
XXIII. Eo concilio dimiſſo, idem principes civitatum,
qui ante fuerant, ad Cæſarem reverterunt; petieruntque,.
uti fibi ſecrets de ſua omniùmque ſalute cum eo agere
liceret. Ea re impetrata, ſeſe omnes flentes Cæſari ad
pedes projecerunt : Non minus /e id contendere & labora-
re, ne ea que dixifſent enunciarentur, quam uti ea gue vel»
lent, impetrarent ; propterea quod, ſi enunciatum get, ſum-
mum in cruciatum /e ventures widerent. Locutus eſt pro
his Diviciacus Aduus : Galliæ totius factiones ee duas :
harum alterius principatum tenere duos, alterius Arver-
nos. Hi quum tantepere de potentatu inter ſe multos annos
contenderent, fatium eſſe, u ab Arvernts Sequani/que Ger-
mani mercede accerſerentur. Horum primo circiter millia &
Rhenum transiſſe : poſicaquam agros, & cultum, & cepias
Gallorum homines feri ac barbari adamaſfſent, tranſductos
plures : nunc ee in Gallia ad c & xx millium numerum ©.
cum his & duos, eorumgue clientes, ſemel atque iterum armis
contendiſJe ; magnam calamitatem pulſos accepiſſe: omnem n
bilitatem, omnem Senatum, omnem equitatem amiſiſſẽ. Yui»
bus preliis calamitatibu que fractos, qui & ſud wirtute &
Fopali R. hoſpitio atque amicitia plurimum ante in Gallid:
16 C. JuLir Casaris
potuifſent, ccactus efſe Sequanis obſides dare nob:l;/imor ciwi-
tatis, & jurejurando civitatem obftringere, ſeſe neque ob fart
repetituros, negue auxilium a populo R. implorutures, neque
recu/aturos, guo minus perperuò ſub illorum ditione atque im-
perio effent. Unum je c ex omni civitate Aduorum, qui
adduci non potuerit, ut juraret, aus ſuos liberus objides daret.
Ob cam rem ſe ex civitate profugiſſe, & Romam ad Senatum
verifſe, auxiitum poſtulatum ; quod ſolus neque jurejurando,
neque obſraibas teneretur. Sed Ppejus victoribus Sequanis,
quam AEduis victis accidifſe: propterea gudd Arioviſtus Rex
Germanorum in eorum finibus cenſedifſet ; tertiamgue partem
agri Sequani, qui efſet eptimus toitus Galli, occupa viſſet;
nunc de alter parte tertia Sequanos decedere juberet,
propterea quod, paucis merfibus ante, Harudum millia homi-
num xxiv ad eum wvenifjent, quibus locus ac ſedes pararentur..
Futurum efſe paucis anms, uti omnes Galliæ finibus pelle-
rentur, atque omnes Germani herum tranfirent : neque enim
conferendum ee Gallicum cum Germanorum agro, negue hanc
conſuetudinem victus cum illa compar andam. Arivviſtum
autem, ut ſemel Gallerum copias prœiio vicerit, guod præœli-
un fadtum fit Amagetobrie, juperbe & crudeliter imperare,
cb ſides nobiliſſimi cujuſque liberos prſ ere, & in eos omnia
exempla cructatus edere, fr qua res non ad nulum aut ad vo-
luntatem tjus facta fit. Hominem ( e barbarum, iracundum,
temerarium: nen paſſe ejus imperia diulius ſuſtineri. Nif
quid in Ca ſare pepuiogue R. fit auxilii; omnibus Gallis idem
effe facrendum, 4 Hetwerii fecerunt, ut demo emigrent :
aliua domicilium, alias ſedes, remotas a Germanis, fetant;
- fortunamgue, gue cus gue accidat, experiantur. Har fi enun-
ciata Ariomiſio firit, uon dubitare, quin de omnibus ebfrdibus
qui apud cum fant, graviſſimum ſupplicium Jumet. Caſfarem,
wel aucteritale jad atgie exercitits, wel recenti vitoria, wel
nomine pepali R. dererrere poſſe, ne major muſtitudo Ger ma-
norum Rhenum iran/ducatur ; Galliùm que omnem ab Aricyi/l;
injuria pe arfendere. ONE
XXIV. Hac oratione a Divitiaco habità; omnes, qui
aderant, mag no fletu auxilium a Cæſare petere capes
runt. Animacve: tit Cæſar, unos ex omnibus SEQ uanos
nihil earum rerum facere, quas cæteri facerent; ſed
= trittes capite demiſſo, terram intueri. Ejus rei = |
| | cau |
DE BeLLo GaLLico Lis. I. 17
cauſa eſſet, miratus, ex ipſis quæſivit. Nihil Sequani
reſpondere, fed in eadem triftitia taciti permanere.
Quun ab iis ſæpiùs quæreret, neque ullam omnina vo-
cem exprimere poſſet; idem Divitiacus /Eduus reſpon-
dit; Hoc effe miſeriorem gravioremgue fortunam Seguanorum,
quam reliquorum; gudd ſolt nec in occuito quidem queri, nec
auxilium implorare auderent ;. abſentiſque Arioviſti crudelita-
tem, velut fi coram adeſſet, borrerent; propterea quod reliquis
tamen fugæ facultas daretur; Sequanis vero, gui intra fines
furs Arioviſlum recepiſſent, quorum oppida omnia in poteſtate
ejus effent, omnes cruciatus efſent perferendi. His rebus
cognitis, Cæſar Gallorum animos verbis confirmavit :
pollicituſque eſt, bi eam rem cure futuram : magnam /e
hbabere ſpem, & beneficio ſuo, & auctoritate adduttum Ario-
viſlum fi nem injurits facturum.
XXV. Hac oratione habita, concilium dimiſit. Et
ſecundum ea multz res eum hortabantur, quare fibi
eam rem cogitandam & ſuſcipiendam putaret : impri-
mis, quòd uos, fratres conſanguineoſque ſæpenumero
ab Senatu appellatos, in ſervitute atque in ditione vide-
bat Germanorum teneri ; eoramque obſides eſſe apud
Arioviſtum ac Sequanos intelligebat; quod, in tanto
imperio populi Romani, turpiſſimum ſibi & Reipublice
eſſe arbitrabatur. Paullatim autem Germanos conſueſ-
cere Rhenum *tranfire, & in Galliam magnam eorum
multitudinem venire, populo Romano periculoſum vi-
debat. Neque ſibi homines feros ac barbaros tempera-
turos exiſtimabat, quin, quum omnem Galliam occu-
paſſent, ut ante Cimbri Teutonique feciſſent, in Provin-
ciam exirent, atque inde in Italiam contenderent: præ-
ſertim quum Sequanos a provincia noſtrà Rhodanus di-
videret. Quibus rebus quàm maturrimè occurrendum
putabat. Ipſe autem Arioviſtus tantos ſibi ſpiritus, tan-
tam arrogantiam ſumpſerat, ut ferendus non videretur.
XXVI. Quamobrem placuit ei, ut ad Arioviſtum le-
gatos mitterct, qui ab eo poſtalarent, ut aliguem locum
medium utriuſque colloguio deligeret; welle jeje de Rep. et ſums
mis utriuſgue rebus cum eo agere. Ei legationi Arioviſtus
reſpondit: &. quid ih, Cayjare 6pus eſſet, ſeſe ad cum ven-
turum fuiſſe; ft quid le je velit, illum ad fe venire oportere,'
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= audere, guas Ce/ar peſſideret; nggue exercitum, fink mag no
"eommeatu_aique emolumento, in unum locum contrabere 7 6
Sibi autem mirum videri, guid in ſud Galli, guam bello vi-
ciſſet, aut Ceſari, aut omnino populo Romano, negotii «et.
His reſponſis ad Cæſarem relatis, iterum ad eum Cæſar
legatos cum his mandatis mittit : Quoniam, tanto ſus po-
' = — puligue Romani beneficio affitus, {quum in confulatu ſuo rex
algue amicus a Senaiu appellatus effet ) hanc fibi populogue
Romano gratiam referret, ut in colloguium wenire invitatus
gravaretur, negue de communi re dicendum ſibi & cognaſcen-
dum Pprutaret ; bt Me, S ab £0 poſiularet 3 primum, 14
guam multitudinem hominum ampliùs trans Rhenum in Gal-
Gam tranſduceret : dtinde obfeaes, quos haberet ab /Eduis,
redgeret ; Sequaniſque permitteret, ut, guosiili haberent, vo-
luntate ej us reddere illis liceret: nie Aiduos injurid laceſſt-
ret; neve his, ſoctiſbe eorum, bellum inferret. Si id feciſſet;
fabi populigue Rom. perpetuam gratiam atque amicitiam cum
ee futurum : fi non impetraret; guoniam, M. Masala, M.
Pijone, Coss. Senatus cenſuiſſet, utt quicungue Galliam pro ·
Dinciam obtineret, quod cammodo Reipublice facere poſſet,
LE dues cartero/que amicos populi Romani defenderet ; Je A.
duorum injurias non negleturum. * = 1
XXVII. Ad hac Arioviſtus reſpondit: Jus e belli,
ut, qui viciſſent, iis, quos viciſſent, guemadmodum wellent,
imperarent : itidem populum Romanum wietis non ad aiterius
preſecriptum, ſed ad ſuum arbitrium, imperare conſutfſe. Si
ipſe populo Rom. non pra ſcriberet, quemadmodum fuo jure ute.
retur; non oportere ſe à populo Romano in ſuo jure impediri.
LE duos fibi, guoniam belli fortunam tentäſſent, armis con-
greſſi ac ſuperati efjent, ſtipendiaros eg facts. Magnam
Cæſarem injuriam facere, qui ſuo adwentu vectigalia ſibi de-
teriora faceret. /Eduis ſe abſides redditurum non effe : negut
115, negue eorum jociis, injuria bellum illaturum; ſi in eo ma-
nerent, quod conventfſet, flipendiumgue guotannis penderent :
i id non fecifſent ; longe ab bis fraternum namen populi Ro-
mani abfuturum. Yudd fibi Ceſar denunciaret, ſe A duo-
rum injurias non neglecturum; neminem ſecum fine ſua per-
nicie contendifſe. Quum vellet, congrederetur < intelledurur
guid invitt; German, exercitatiſſimi in armii, qui intra
annos-xiv tectum non ſubiſſent, virtute poſſent, |
| | 415, I.
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XXVIII. Hæc eodem tempore Cæſati mandata refe-
rebantur; & legati ab ZEduis & Treviris veniebant:
Adui, queſtum, quod Harudes, qui nuper in Galliam
tranſportati ent, fines eorum popularentur; ſeſe, ne obfedi»
bus quidem datis pacem Arioviſti redimere potuiſſe: Treviri
autem, pagos centum Suevorum ad ripam Rheni conſediſſez
| gui Rhenum tranſire conarentur ; iis preefſe Naſuam &
Cimberium fratres. Quibus rebus Cæſar vehementer
commotus, maturandum fibi exiſtimavit, ne, ſt nova
manus Suevorum cum veteribus copiis Arioviſti ſeſe
conjunxiſſet, minus facile reſiſti poſſet. Itaque, re fru-
mentaria quam celerrimè potuit comparati, magnis itt»
neribus ad Arioviſtum contendit.
XXIX. Quum tridui viam proceſſiſſet; nunciatum eſt
ei, Arioviſtum cum ſuis omnibus copiis ad occupandum
Velontionem, quod eſt oppidum maximum Sequanorum,
contendere; triduĩque viam a ſuis finibus proceſſiſſe. Id
ne accideret, magnopere præcavendum fibi Cæſar exiſti-
mabat. Namque omnium rerum, quz ad bellum uſui
erant, ſumma erat in eo oppido facultas: idque natura
loci fic muniebatur, ut magnam ad ducendum bellum
daret facultatem; propterea quod flumen Dubis, ut eir-
cino circumductum, penè totum oppidum cingit ; reli-
quum ſpatium, quod non eſt amplius pedum vc, qua
flumen intermittit, mons continet magna. altitudine, ita
ut radices ejus montis ex utraque parte ripe fluminis
contingant; hunc murus circumdatus arcem- efficit,” &
cum oppido conjungit. Hue Cæſar magnis d1urnis noc- [
turniſque itineribus contendit ; occupatõque oppido, ibi ©
præſidium collocat., 4 4%
XXX. Dum paucos dies ad Veſontionem, rei frumen-
tariæ commeatuſque cauſa, moratur : ex percunctatione
noſtrorum, vocibuſque Gallorum ac mereatorum, (qui
ingenti magnitudine corporum Germanos, incredibili wirtute
al que exercitatione in armis eſſe prædicabant; /@penumers
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occupavit, ut non mediocriter omnium mentes animoſ-
que perturbaret. Hie primum ortus eſt timor a tribunis
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cauſa, Cæſarem ſecuti, magnum periculum miſeraban-
tur; quod non magnum in re militari uſum habebant.
Quorum alius, alia cauſa illata, quam ſibi ad proficiſ-
cendum neceſſariam eſſe diceret; petebat, ut ejus volun-
tate diſcedere liceret: nonnulli, pudore adducti, ut ti-
moris ſuſpicionem vitarent, remanebant. Hi neque vul-
tum fingere, neque interdum lacry mas tenere poterant :
abditi in tabernaculis, aut ſuum fatum querebantur, aut
cum familiaribus ſuis commune periculum miſerabantur.
Vulgo totis caſtris teſtamenta obſignabantur. Horum
yocibus ac timore, paullatim etiam ii, qui magnum in
caſtris uſum habebant, milites centurioneſque, quique
- equitatui preerant, perturbabantur, Qui fe ex his mi-
nus timidos exiſtimare volebant, non ſe hoſtem vercri,
ſed anguſtias itineris, & magnitudinem ſylvarum, que
inter eos atque Arioviſtum intercederent ; aut rem fru-
mentariam, ut ſatis commode ſupportari poſſet, timere
dicebant. Nonnulli etiam Cæſari renunciabant ; cam
caſtra moveri ac ſigna ferri juſſiſſet, non fore dicto au-
dientes milites, neque, propter timorem, figna laturos.
— XXXL Hzc quum animadvertifſet Cæſar; convocato
concilio, omniùmque ordinum ad id concilium,adhibins
centurionibus, vehementer eos incuſavit: Primam, quoa,
aut quam in partem, aut quo confilio ducerentur, ſibi guæ-
rendum aut cogitandum putarent. Arioviſium, je Conſule,
cupidiſfime populi Romani amicitiam appetiſſe. Cur bunc tam
temere quiſquam' ab officio diſceſſurum judicaret ? Sibi guiden
och , Cognitis ſuts poflulatis, atque æguitate conditionum
perſpecta, eum negue ſuam, neque populi Romani gratiam re-
pudiaturum. Quo fr, furore atque amentid impulſut, bellum
entuliffet ; quid tandem vererentur f aut cur de ſud wirtute,
aut de iffius diligentid, deſperarent ? Factum ejus hoſtis pe-
riculum patrum noſtrorum memoria, quum, Cimbris & Teu-
fonis à C. Mario pulfis, non minorem laudem exercitus, quan
ap/e imperator, meritus videbatur. Factum etiam nuper in
Italia, ſervili tumultu; quos tamen aliquts jus ac diſciplina
guam à nobis accepiſſent, ſublevaret : ex quo judicari paſſit,
guantum haberet in ſe boni conſlantia; propterea quod, quos
aliquamaiu inermes fin? cauſa timuiſſent, hos pefica armatcs
ac vidtores ſuptraſent, Denique Germanas hos ¶ e eojdem,
| quibuſcum
DE. BeLLo GALLIcO L1s, I. 21
quibuſcum ſx penumero Helwetii congreſſi, non ſalum in ſuit,
ſed etiam in illorum finibus, plerumgue ſuperãſſent; gui tamen
pares t noftro exercitui non potuerint. Si guos adverſum
prœlium, & fuga Gallorum, commoveret ; hos, ſi guærerent,
reperire poſſe, diuturnitate Þelli defatigatis Gallis, Ario viſ-
tum, quum multos menſes caftris ac paludibus ſe continuiſſet,
neque ſui poteſtatem fecifſet, deſperantes jam de pugnã & diſ
perſos ſubitò adortum, mags ratione ac conſilia quam wirtute
wiciſſe ;' cut rationi contra homines b »rbaros atque imperitos
locus fuifſet, hac ne ipſum quidem /perare neſtros exercitus
capi poſſe, Qui ſuum timorem in rei frumentariæ fimulatio-
nem, anguſiiaſque itinerum, conferrent ; facere arreganter 2
q um aut de officio Imperatoris diſperare, aut ei præicribere,
v.derentur. Hlæc fibi eſſe cure: frumentum Sequanos, Leu-
cos, Lingones ſubminiſtrare : gamque i in agris frumenta
matura. De itinere, ipſos brevi tempore judicaturos. Quòd
non fore ditto auaientes milites, negue ſig na laturi dicantur ;
100 fe ea re commoveri: ſcire enim, guibuſcumque exercitus
dico audiens non fuerit ; aut, male re gefia, fortunam de-
fuiſſe ; aut, aliquo facinore comperto, avaritiam eſſe conVice
tame ſuim innacentiam, perpetud vita; felicitatem, Helve-
tiorum bello ee perſpettam, Itague ſe, quod in longiorem
diem collaturus effet, repreſentaturum; & proxima nocte, as
quartd wigilia, caſtra moturum : ut quamprimiun intelligere
paſſet, utrum apud eos pudor atque officiam, an timar, plus
valtret. Quid fi preterea nemo ſeguatur, tamen je cum folg
decima legione iturum, de qua non dubitaret; fabigue eam
Pretoriam cobortem futuram. Huic legioni & Cæſar in-
dulſerat præcipuè, & propter virtutem conũdebat max-
ime, -
XXXII. Hac oratione habita, mirum in modum
converſe ſunt omnium mentes, ſummaQue alacritas &
cupiditas belli gerendi innata eſt: princepique decima
legio per tribunos militum ei gratias egit, quod de ſe op-
timum judicium feciſſet; ſeque eſſe ad bellum gerendum
paratiſlimam confirmavit: inde reliquæ legiones per tri»
bunos militum & primorum ordinum centuriones ege-
rant, uti Czſari ſatisfacerent: Se negue unguam dubitaſt,
neque timuiſſe ; neque de ſumma belli ſuam judicium, ſed Im-
peratoris e, exi/iimaviye. Eorum ſatis factione accepta;
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& itinere exquiſito per Divitiacum, (quòd ex aliis Gal.
lis ei maximam fidem habebat) ut millium amplius- \
quadraginta circuitu locis apertis exercitum duceret; de
quarta vigilia, uti dixerat, profectus eſt, *Septimo die,
uum iter non intermitteret, ab exploratoribus certior
factus eſt, Arioviſti copias a noſtris, millibus paſſuum
iv & xx abeſſe.
XXXIII. Cognito Cæſaris adventu, Arioviſtus legatos
ad eum mittit: uod antra de colloguio poſſulaſſet, id per ſe
Feri licere ; quoniam propiùs accgſſilſet. ſeque id fine periculo
Facere poſſe exiſlimaret. Non reſpuit conditionem Cæſar:
jamque eum ad ſanitatem reverti arbitrabatur, quum id,
quod antea petenti denegàſſet, ultro polliceretur: mag-
namque in ſpem veniebat, pro ſuis tantis populique
Romani in eum beneficiis, cognitis ſuis poſtulatis, fore,
uti pertinacia_deliſteret. Dies colloquio dictus eſt, ex
eo die quintus. Interim, quum ſzpe ultro citr6que le-
gati inter eos mitterentur, Arioviſtus poſtulavit, ne quem
peditem ad colloguium Ceſar adauceret > wereri ſe, ne per
inſidias ab eo circumveniretur : uterque cum equitatu vent-
ret: alid ratione ſe non «ſe venturum. Cziar, quod ne-
ue colloquiom, interpoſita cauſa, tolli volebat ; neque
Autem ſuam Gallorum equitatui committere audebat ;
commodifihmum eſſe ſtatuit, omnibus equis Gallis equi-
tibus detractis, legionarios eo milites legionis decimæ,
cui maximè confide bat, imponere; ut præſidium quam
amiciſſimum, ſi quid opus facto eſſet, haberet. Quod
cam fieret, non urridicule quidam ex militibus decimæ
legionis dixit; Plus, quam pollicitus efſet, Cæſarem facere :
pollicitum, in cohortis prætoriæ loco dtcimam legionem habi-
| ur um; nunc, ad equum reſcribere. |
— _XXXIV. Planicies erat magna, & in ei tumulus ter-
| reus ſatis grandis, Hic locus æquo ferè ſpatio ab caſtris
utriſque aberat. | Eo, ut erat dictum, ad colloquium /
venerunt. Legionem Cæſar, quam equis devexerat, |
paſſibus cc ab eo tumulo conſtituit: item equites Ario- |
viſti parti intervallo conſtiterunt. Arioviſtus, ut ex equis
colloquerentur. &, præter ſe, denos ut ad colloquium $
? adducerent, poſtulavit. Ubi ed ventum efl ; Cæſar, in- /
_ tio orationis, ſua Senatuſque in eum beneficia comme-
| - moravit ,
bs Bello GALLIco LII. I. 23
moravit; quod rex appellatus effet d Senatu, gudd amicus ;
dd munera ampliſſima miſ/a * quam rem & paucis contigifſe,
5a Romanis pro maximis homi num offictts conſueviſte tribui
docebat ; illum; guum neque aditum neque cauſam poſtulandi
juſtam haberet ; beneficio ac liberalitate ſud ac Senatiis, ea
præmia conſecutum. Docebat etiam, quam weteres quams
| gue juſtæ cauſæ necęſſitudinis ipfis cum Mduis intercederent;
gue Senatũs conſulta, quoties, quamgue honorifi-a, in eos
fafta ent: ut, omni tempore, totius Galli principatum
Lui tenuifſent, prius etiam quam naſtram amicitiam appe-
tifſent ; Populi Romani hanc eſſe. conſuetudinem, ut ſocios at-
que amicos non modo nihil ſai deperaere, ſed gratia, dignitate,
honore auttos velit efſe. Quod verò ad amicitiam populi
Romani attulifjent, id iis eripi quis puti poſſet ? Poſtulavit
deinde eadem, quæ legatis in mandatis dederat ; ne aut
AEduis, aut corum ſociis, bellum inferret ; ob/ades redderet ;
fi nullam partem Germanorum domum remittere poſt, at ne
guos amplins Rhenum tranfire paleretur.
XXXV. Arioviſtus ad poſtulata Czfaris pauca reſpon-
dit; de ſuis virtutibus multa prædicavit: Trantiſe Rhe-
num ſeſe non ſud /ponte, ſed rogatum & accerſitum a Gallis:
non fine mag nã pe, magni/que pramiis, domun propingusſque
reliquifſe : ſedes habere in Gallia, ab ipſi conceſſas 5. obfides,
ip/orum woluntate datos; ſtipendium, jure belli, quad wviftores
victis imponere conſugverint: non ſeſe Gallis, ſed Gallos fibi,
bellum intulifſe : omnes Galliæ civitates ad ſe oppugnandum
wvenifſe, ac contra /e caſtra habuifſe ; eas ommes copias, uno
abs je prœlio fuſas ac ſuperatas efſe. Si iterum experiri
welint ; paratum je aecertare : fin pace uli malint ; iniquum -
e de flipendio recuſare, quod ſud woluntate ad id tempus
pependerint. Amicitiam populi Romani fibi ornaments &
pre ſidio, non detrimento, effe oportere : idque ſe ea ſpe pelifſe.
S/ per populum Romanum ſlipendium remittatur, & dedititii
Subtrabantur ; non minus libenter ſeſe recuſaturum populi
Remant amicitiam, quam apptiierit,. Budd multitudinem
Germanorum in Galliam tranſducat ; id Je ſui muniendi, non
Galliz impugnandæ, cauſa facere: tjus rei teſſimonium eſſe,
quad, niſi rogatus, non venerit; & quia bellum non'intalerit,
Jed defenderit, Se prius in Galliam wenifſe, quam populum
Romanum,
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Remanum, Nunquam ante hoc tempus exercitum populi Ra-
mani 'Gallie prowinciæ fines egreſſum. Quid fibi wellet,
cur in ſuas poſjeſſiones veniret Prewinciam ſuam eſe hanc
Galliam ficuti illam noſtram. Ut fibi concedi non eforteret,
| in uaſtros fines impetum faceret; fic iterum nos efſe iniquos,
gudd in Juo jure fe interpellaremu?, ' Qudd ex S. C. A duc,
appellatos amicos diceret; naw tam barbarum ſe, neque tam
imperitum eie rerum, ut non ſciret, neque bello Allobrogum
pr om duo Romanis auxilium twlfje, neque ipſos in his
content:onibus, guas dui ſecum &f cum Sequanis habui/-
ſent, auxilio populi Romani wſos efje, Debere Je ſuſpic asi,
fimulata Cæſarem amicitid, quod exercitum in Gallid ha-
beat, ſui opprimendi cauſa habere, Judd nifi decedat, at-
gue exercitum deducat ex his regionibus ; ſeſe illum non pro
amico, ſed pro beſte habiturum : qued fi eum interfecerit ;
multis ſeſe nobilibus, jrincipibuſque pepuli Romani, gratum
e fatlurum.
habere ; quorum omirium gratiam atque amiciriam ejus mor te
redimere paſſet. Quòd ſi diſcaſſiſet, ac liberam 2 pefſeſſi-
onem Galliæ tradrdifſet ; magno /e illum pr emio remuneratu-
rum, &, quarcunque bella geri vellet, find ullo ejus labore &
riculo confecturmm. |
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XXXVI. Multa a. Cæſare in eam ſententiam dicta
ſunt, quare-negotio de/iftere non fofſet ; & negue ſuam neque
populi Romani conjuttudinem pati, ult optime meritos ſocio:
deſerertt ; neque je judicare Galliam potius ( Arioviſii,
quam populi Remani. Bello ſuperatos effe Arvernos &
Rutenes 4 2 Fabia Maximo; quibus populus Romanus
ignowiſſet, neque in provinctam redegiſſet, neque fiipendium
impoſuifjet. Quod fi antiguiſſimum quodpue tempus ſpectari
'oporteret ; populi Romani juftifſimum eſſe in Gallid imperium :
i judicium Senatis ſerwari oporteret ; liberam debere (
Galliam {quam bello vittam ſuis legibus uti voluiſjet. |
XXXVII. Dum hæc in colloquio geruntur; Cæſari
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nunciatum eſt, equites Arioviſti propiùs tumulum ac- |
cedere, & ad noſtros adequitare; lapides telaque in
noſtros conjicere. Cæſar loquendi finem fecit, ſeque
ad ſuos rece pit; ſuiſque imperavit, ne quod omnino
tclum in hoites rejicerent. Nam etſi fine ullo periculo
e | | legionis
Id je ab ipſis per eorum nuncios compertum
br BiiLo Galtico Las. I. 25
kegionis delectæ cum equitata prœlium fore videbat;
tamen committendum non putabat, ut, pulſis hoſtibus,
dici poſſet eos à ſe per fidem in colloquio circumven-
tos. Poſteaquam in vulgus militum elatum eſt, qua.
arrogantia in colloquio Arioviſtus uſus, omni Gallia |
Romanis interdixiſſet; impetùmque in noſtros ejus equi-
tes feciſſent; eaque res colloquium diremiſlet: multo
major alacritas, ſtudiùmque pugnandi majus exercitui
injectum eſt.
XXX VIII. Biduo pdf}; Arioviſtus legatos ad Cæſarem
mittit ; velle ſe de his rebus, quæ inter eos agi cœptæ, ne-
gue perfectæ nt, agere cum ce ut} aut ilcrum colleguio
diem conflituerit ; aut, fi id minys vellet, ex ſuis legatis
aliguem ad ſe mitteret. Colloquendi cauſa Cæſari viſa
non eſt; & ed magis, quod, pridie ejus diet, Germani
retineri non potuerant, quin in noſtros tela conjicerent,
Legatum ex ſuis fele magno cum periculo ad eum
miſſurum, & hominibus feris, cbjeturum, exiſtimabat.
Commodiſſimum viſum eſt, C Valerium Procillum, C.
Valerii Caburi filium, ſumma virtute & humanitate
adoleſcentem, (cujus pater a C. Valerio Flacco civitate
donatus erat) & propter ſidem & propter linguæ Gal-
lice ſcientiam, qua multa jam Arioviſtus longinqua
conſuetudine utebatur; &, quod in eo peccandi Ger-
manis cauſa non eſlet; ad eum mittere: & M. Met-
tium, qui hoſpitio Arioviſti aſus erat. His mandavit,
ut, quæ diceret Arioviſtus, cognoſcerent, & ad ſe re-
ferrent. Quos quum apud fe in caſtris Arioviitus con-
ſpexiſſet ; exercitu ſuo præſente, conclamavit: Quid ad
e genirent; an ſpeculandi cauſa ? Conautes dicere pro-
hibuit, & in catenas conjecit. | _—
XXXIX. Eodem die caſtra promovit, & millibus paſ-
fſuum vi a Cæſaris caſtris ſub monte conſedit. Poſtridie
Jejus diei præter caſtra Cæſaris ſuas copias tranſduxit,
& millibus paſſuum 11 ultra eum caftra fecit; eo
conſilio, uti frumento commeatiique, qui ex Sequanis
& Aduis ſupportaretur, Cæſarem intercluderet. Ex eo
die, dies continuos v Cæſar pro caſtris ſuas copias pro-
duxit, & aciem inſtructam habuit; ut, ſi vellet Arioviſ-
tus prœlio contendere, ei poteſtas non deeſſet. Ario-
C viſtus
26 . C. Julii CEASsanrnis
viſtus his omnibus diebus exercitum caſtris continvit +
equeſtri preelio quotidie contendit. Genus hoc erat
pugnæ. quo ſe Germani exercuerant. Equitum millia
erant vi: totidem numero pedites velociſſimi ac for-
tiſſimi, quos ex omni copia finguli ſingulos, ſuæ ſalutis
cauſa, delegerant. Cum his, in prœliis verſabantur:
ad hos, ſe equites recipiebant: hi, ſi quid erat durius,
concurrebant; ſi qui, pay vulnere accepto, equo
deciderant; circumſiſtebant: fi quo erat longids prode-
undum, aut celeriùs recipiendum; tanta erat horum, ex-
ercitatione, celeritas, ut, jubis equorum ſublevati, cur-
ſum adæquarent.
XL. Ubi eum caſtris ſeſe tenere Cæſar intellexit; ne
diutius commeatu prohiberetur, ultra eum locum, quo
in loco Germani conſederant, circiter paſſus pc ab
eis, caſtris idoneum locum delegit; acicque triplici in-
ſtructa, ad eum locum venit. Primam & ſecundam
aciem in armis eſſe, tertiam caſtra munire juſſit. Hic
locus ab hoſte circiter paſſus ſexcentos, uu dictum. ett,
aberat. Ed circiter hominum numerum xv millia
expedita, cum omni equitatu, Arioviſtus miſit; quæ
copiæ noſtros perterrerent, & munitione prohiberent,
Nihilo ſecius Cæſar, ut ante conſtituerat, duas acies
hoſtem propulſare; tertiam, opus perficere juſſit. Mu-
minis caftris ; duas ibi Tegiones reliquit, & partem auxi-
liorum : quatuor reliquas in caſtra majora reduxit.
Proximo die, iuſtitato ſuo Cæſar ex caltris utriſque co-
pias ſuas eduxit; paulluumque a mzjoribus prog reſſus,
aciem inſtruxit; hoſtibuſque pugnandi poteſtatem fecit.
Voi ne tum guidem eos prodire intellexit, circiier me-
ridiem exercitum in caftia reduxit. Tum demum Ario-
viſtus partem ſuarum copiarum, quæ caſtra minora op-
pugnarer, miſi t. Acriter utrimque, uſque ad veſperum,
pugnatum eſt. Solis occaſu ſuas copias Arioviſtus,
multis & illatis & acceptis vulneribus, in caſtra reduxit.
Quum ex captivis quæreret Cæſar, quamobrem Ario-
viſtus prœlio non decertaret, hanc reperiebat cauſam:
quod apud Germanos ea conſuetudo eſſet, ut mattes
familias ſortibus & vaticinationibus declararent, utrum
prœelium committi ex uſu eſſet, necne: eas ita *
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ps BETITIO GALTIIco Lis. I. 27
Non fe fas Germanos ſuperare, fi ante novam Lunam præ-
lio contendiſſent. |
XLI. Foftridie ejus diei Cæſar, præſidio utriſque
caſtris quod ſatis eſſe viſum eſt relicto, omnes alarios
in conſpectu hoſtium pro caſtris minoribus conſtituit;
(quod minus multitudine militum legionariorum, pro
hoſtium numero, valebat) ut ad ſpeciem alariis utere-
tur: ipſe, triplici inſtructà acie, uſque ad caſtra hoſti-
um acceſſit. Tum demum neceſſario Germani ſuas
copias è caſtris eduxerunt, generatimque conſtituerunt;
paribuſque intervallis Harudes, Marcomanos, Triboc-
cos, Vangiones, Nemetes, Seducios, Suevos: omnem-
que aciem ſuam rhedis & carris circumdederunt, ne
qua ſpes in fuga relinqueretur. Eo mulieres impoſue-
runt ; quæ ir. prœlium proficiſcentes milites paſlis cri-
nibus flentes implorabant, ne ſe in ſerritutem Ro-
manis traderent. Cæſar ſingulis legionibus fingulos
legatos, & quæſtorem præfecit; uti eos teſtes ſuæ quiſ-
que virtutis haberet. Ipſe a dextro cornu, quod eam
partem minime firmam hoſtium eſſe animadverterat,
prœlium commiſit. Ita noſtri acriter in hoſtes, ſigno
| dato, impetum fecerunt: itaque hoſtes repente celeriter-
8 que procurrerunt, ut ſpatium pila in hoſtes conjiciendi
non daretur. Rejectis pilis, cominus gladiis pugnatum
eſt. At Germani celeriter, ex conſuetudine ſua, pha-
lange facta, impetus gladiorum exceperunt. Reperti
ſunt complures noſtri milites, qui in phalangas inſili-
rent, & ſcuta manibus revellerent, & deſuper vulnera-
rent, * Quum hoſtium acies a ſiniſtro cornu pulſa, at-
e· que in fugam converſa eſſet: a dextro cornu vehemen-
o- ter, multitudine ſuorum, noſtram aciem premebant.
p- Id quum animadvertiſſet P. Craſſus adoleſcens, qui
m, equitatui præerat; quod expeditior erat, quam hi, qui
inter aciem verſabantur; tertiam aciem laborantibus
noſttis ſubſidio miſit. Ita prœlium reſtitutum ell, at-
que omnes hoſtes terga verterunt ; neque prids fugere
Ceſtiterunt, quit ad flumen Rhenum millia paſſuum
* eo loco ciffiiter quinquaginta pervenerunt. Ibi
perpauei, aut viribus confiſi tranſnatare contenderunt ;
ut, lintribus tyentis, ſalutem fibi petierunt. In his
= C2 | fuit
42
28 C. JuLir CESARIS
fuit Arioviſtus; qui naviculam deligatam ad ripam
nactus, ea profugit : Reliquos omnes, equites conſecuti
noſtri interfecerunt. Duæ fuerunt Arioviſti uxores ;
una Sueva natione, quam domo ſecum adduxerat ; al-
tera Nor ica, regis Vocionis ſoror, quam in Gallia dux-
erat, à fratre miſſam : utraque in ea fuga periit. Duæ
filiz harum ; altera occiſa, altera capta eſt. C. Vale.
rius Procillus, quum a cuſtodibus in fuga trinis catenis
vinctus traheretur, in ipſum Cæſarem hoſtium equita-
tum perſequentem jncidit. Quæ quidem res Cæſari non
minorem, quam ipſa victoria, voluptatem attulit : quod
hominem honeſtiſſimum provinciæ Galliz, ſuum fami-
Jiarem & hoſpitem, ereptum e manibus hoſtium, ſibi
reſlitutum videbat; neque ejus calamitate, de tanta
voluptate & gratulatione quidquam fortuna diminuerat,
Is, ſe præſente, de fe ter ſortibus conſultum dicebat,
trum igni flatim necaretur, an in aliud tempus re-
ſervaretur ; ſortium beneficio eſſe ſe incolumem. Item
M Mettius repertus, & ad eum reductus eſt.
XLII. Hoc preelio trans Rhenum nunciato; Suecvi,
qui ad ripas Rheni venerant, domum revert cœperunt:
quos Ubii, qui proxime Rhenum incolunt, perterritos
inſecuti, magnum ex his numerum occiderunt, Cz{ar
una æſtate duobus maximis bellis confectis, maturius
paullo, quàm tempus anni poſtulabat, in hyberna in
Sequanos exercitum deduxit: hybernis Labienum pre-
poluirt : ipſe in citeriorem Galliam, ad conventus agen-
dos, profectus ell.
I. I E R I..
I. UUM eſſet Cæſar in citeriore Gallia in hybernis
() ita uti ſupra demon{iravimus, crebri ad eum
rumores afferebantur; literiſque . item Labieni
certior ficbat, omnes Belgas, quam tertiam eſſe Gal
liz partem dixcramus, contra populum R. conjuratef
oblidéſque inter ſe dare; conjurandi has efle canis
; primudh
pe BtLLo Gartico Lis, IT. 29
primum, quod vererenter, ne, omni pacata Gallia,
ad eos exercitus noſter adduceretur: deinde, quod ab
nounullis Gallis follicitarentur; partim qui, ut Ger-
manos diutins in Gallia verſari noluerant, ita populi
R. exercitum hyemare atque inveteraſcere in Gallia
moleſtè ferebant; partim qui mobilitate & levitate
animi, novis imperiis ſtudebant: ab nonnullis etiam,
quod in Gallia A potentioribus, atque 11s, qui ad con-
ducendos homines facultates habebant, vulgo regna oc-
copabantur ;z qui minis fagile eam rem imperio noſtro
conſequi poterant.
II. lis nunciis literiſque commotus Cæſar, duas le-
giones in citeriore Gallià novas conſcripſit; & incunte
æ tate, in interiorem Galliam qui deduceret, Q Pedium
legatum miſit. Ipſe, quum primùm pabuli copia eſſe
inciperet, ad exercitum venit : dat negotium Senonibus,
reliquiſque Gallis, qui finitimi Belgis erant; uti ea,
quz apud eos geruntur, cognoſcant ; ſeque de his rebus
certiorem faciant. Hi conitarter» omnes nunciaverunt ;
manus cogi, exercitum in unum locum conduci. Tum
verò dubitandum non exiſtimavit, quin ad eos proficit-
ceretur. Re frumentaria proviſà, caſtra movet, die buſ-
que circiter xv ad fines Belgarum pervenit.
III. Eo quum de improviſo, celeriaſque omnium
opinione veniſſet: Rhemi, qui proximi Gailiz ex Belgis
ſunt, ad eum legatos Iccium & Antebrogium, primos
'Civitaus ſuæ, miſerunt: qui dicerent, / Judque emnia in
fidem Wque poteflatem populi R. permittere 3 neque Je cum
reliquis Belgis conſenfifſe, neque contra populum R. omnino
er urafſe ; paratoſque ee & obfides dare, & imperata fa-
cere, of pidis recipere, & frumento cateriſque rebus juva-
re; reliquos emnes Belgas in armis efje : Germancſque, qui
tus Rhenum incolunt, ſeſe cum his conjunxiſſe : tautimgn?
N ecrum omnium furorem, ut ne Sueſfiones guidem frates |
um con angui ueiſ ue uss, qui eodem jure, iiſdam legibus utaniur ; \
eni nun imnperium, unumqae magi/tratum cum ifi baveant ; |
zal: acterrere potuerint, quin cum his conſentirent. |
re; IV. Quum ab his quæreret, quæ civitates, quantæ-
255 que in armis eſſent, & quid in bello poſſent; fic reperie-
05
bat: pleroſque Belgas eſſe ortos a Germanis ; Rhenũ a-
C 3 que
30 C. JULI CaASARIS .
que antiquitds tranſductos, propter loci fertilitatem ibi
conſedifle ; Gall6ſque, qui ea loca incolerent, expuliſſe;
foloſque eſſe, qui patrom noſtrorum memoria, omni
Gallia vexata, Teutones Cimbroſque intra fines ſuos ³
ingredi prohibuerint : Qua ex re fieri, uti earum rerum
memoria magnam ſibi auctoritatem, magnoſque ſpiritus
in re militari ſumerent. De numero eorum omnia
ſe habere explorata Rhemi dicebant; propterea quòd
propinquitatibus affinitatibuſque conjuncti, quantam
quiſque multitudinem in communi Belgarum concilio
ad id bellum pollicitus ſit, cognoverint. Plurimum
inter eos, Bellovacos & virtute, & auctoritate, & homi-
num numero valere ; hos poſſe conficere armata millia
centum; pollicitos ex eo numero lecta millia Lx;
rotiaſque- belli imperium fibi poſtulare. Sueſſiones,
ſuos eſſe finitimos; latiſſimos, feracilim6ſque- agros
poſſidere: apud eos fuiſſe regem noſtra etiam memoria
Divitiacum, totius Galliz potentiſſimum; qui cam
mapnz partis harum regionum, tum etiam Biitanniz,
imperium obtinuerit: nunc eſſe regem, Galbam; ad
hunc, propter juſtitiam prudentiamque, ſummam totius
belli, omnium voluntate, deferri; oppida habere nu-
mero x11: polliceri millia armata quinquaginta ; toti-
dem, Nervios ; qui maxime feri inger ipſos habeantur,
long iſſimẽque abiint : xv millia, Attgbates : Ambiangs
x millia ; Morinos, xx millia : Menapios, 1x mills:
Caletes, x millia; Velocaſſes & Veromanduos, wal
Atuaticos, xxix millia: Condruſos, Eburaneslf
ſos, Pæmanos, qui uno nomine Germani ap
arbitrari ad XL millia. is A
V. Cæſar Rhemos cohortatus, liberaliterg
proſecutus ; omnem ſenatum ad ſe conven p
pùmque liberos obſides ad fe adduci juſlit liz om-
nia ab his diligenter ad diem faQta ſunt. Ipſe Divitia-
cum /£duum magnopere cohortatus, docet quantopere
Rejpub. cummuniſque ſalutis interſit, manus hoſtium
diſtineri, ne cum tantd multitudine uno tempore con-
Rigendum fit. Id fieri poſſe, fi ſuas copias ÆEdui in
fines Bellovacorum g ucerint, & eorum agros po-
pulari cœperint, His mandatis, eum ab fe dimittit.
>
VI. Poſt-
* Y f
— —
Qum ß nem oppugnandi nox feciſſet; Iccius Rhemus,
tatur, ge diutius ſuſtinere non p eſſt.
magno impetu, Be'gæ oppupnare cœperunt. Ægre eo
die ſuſtentatum eſt. Gallorum eadem, atque Belgarum,
/ oppugnatio eſt, Hi, (ubi, circumjectà multitudine ho-
minum totis mœnibus, undique in murum lapides jaci
; ceepti ſunt, murùſque defenſoribus nudatus eſt) teſtudine
pe Bfito Garrico Lis, II. 31
VI. Poſtquam omnes Belgarum copias in unum co-
aclas ad fe venire, neque jam longè abeſſe, ab his quos
miſerat exploratoribus & ab Rhemis cog novit; flamen
Axonam, quod eſt in extremis Rhe morum finibus, ex-
ercitum tranſducere maturavit; atque ibi caſtra poſuit.
Quz res, & latus unum caſtrorum ripis fluminis munie-
bat; & poſt ea quæ erant, tuta ab hoſtibus reddebat z
&, commeatus ab Rhemis, reliquiſque civitatibus, ut
ſine periculo ad eum portari poſſet, efficiebat. In eo
fumine pons erat; ibi præſidium ponit: & in altera
parte fluminis, Q. Titurium Sabinum legatum cum v1
cohortibus relinquit. Caſtra in altitudinem pedum x11
vallo, foſtaque duodeviginti pedum, munire jubet.
VII. Ab ipſis caſtris oppidum Rhemorum, nomine
Bibrax, aberat millia paſſuum viii. Id ex itinere,
faQta, portis ſuccedunt, murimque ſubruunt. Quod
tum facile fiebat; nam tanta multitudo lapides ac tela
conjiciebant, ut in muro conſiſtendi poteſtas eſſet nulli.
ſumma nobilitate & gratia inter ſuos; qui tum oppido
pizerat; unus ex 115, qui legati de pace ad Cælarem
venerant; nuncios ad eum mittit, 2% fub/iaium iti mite
VIII. Eo de media note Cæſar, jiſdem ducibus uſus,
qu! nuncii ab Iccio venerant, Numidas & Cretas ſagit= i
tarios, & funditores Baleares, ſubſidio oppidanis mittitz
quorum adventu, & Rhemis cum ſpe CefenCons ſtudi-
_ propugnandi acceſſit, & hoſtibus eadem de cauſa
pes pottundi oppidi diſceſſit, que bud
oppidum np. agrofque ROW Grim epopali Um-
ribus vicis edificuſque, quo adire poterant, , 4
ad caſtra Cæſaris cum orfinibus copiis contender nn FER_
& a millibus paſſü dus cottra poſuerunt,; qua
caſtra, ut fomo "Wl |
n:bus paſſuum viii Wh tc bant.
32 C. JULI Caxsanris
IX. Cæſar primò, & propter multitudinem hoſtizm,
& propter eximiam opinionem virtutis, prœlio ſuper-
ſedere ſtatuit; quotidie tamen equeſtribus prœliis, quid
hoſtis virtute poſſet, & quid noſtri auderent, periclita-
batur. Ubi noſtros non eſſe inferiores intellexit: loco
pro caſtris ad aciem inſtruendam natura. oppertund
atque idoneo; quod is collis, ubi caſtra poſita erant,
paululùm ex planicie editus, tantum adverſus in latitu-
; dinem patebat, quantum loci acies inſtructa occupare
| poterat ; atque ex utraque parte, lateris dejectus habe-
bat; & in fronte leviter faſtigiatus, paulatim ad plani-
ciem redibat : ab utroque Jatere ejus collis, tranſver-
ſam foſſam obduxit circiter paſſuum co: & ad extie-
mas foſſas caſtella conſtituit, ibique tormenta colloca-
vit: ne, quum aciem inſtruxiſſet, hoſtis (quod tantum
multitudine poterant) a lateribus ſuos pugnantes cir-
cumvenire poſſent. Hoc facto: duabus legionibus,
quas proximè conſcripſerat, in caſtris relictis; ut ſi quid
opus eſſet, ſubſidio duei poſſent: reliquas ſex legiones
pro caſtris in acie conſtituit. Hoſtes item ſuas copias
ex caſtris eductas inſtruxerant.
X. Palus erat, non magna, inter noſtrum atque hoſ-
tium exercitum. Hanc fi noſtri tranſirent, hoſtes ex-
ſpectabant: noſtri autem, ſi ab illis initium tranſeundi
keret ; ut impeditos aggrederentur, parati in armis erant.
Interim prœlio equeſtri inter duas acies contendebatur.
Ubi neutri tranſeundi initium faciunt; ſecundiore equi-
tum noſtrorum prœlio, Cæſar ſuos in caſtra reduxit.
Hoſtes protinus ex eo loco ad flumen Axonam conten-
derunt, quod eſſe poſt noſtra caſtra gemonſtratum eſt:
ibi vadis repertis, partem ſuarem copiarum tranſducere
conati ſunt ; eo conſilio, ut, fi poſſent, caſtellum gui
piZerat Q Titurius legatus, expugnarent, pontemque
interſcinderent: fin minùs; agros Rhemorum popula-
rentur, qui magno nobis uſui ad bellum gerendum
.erant,. commeatuſque noſtros ſuſtinebant.
— XI. Cæſar certior factus a Titurio ; omnem equita-
tum, & levis armaturæ Numidas, funditores, fagittari-
ofque pontem tranſducit; atque ad eos contendit. Acri-
ter in eo loco pugnatum eſt, Hoſtes impeditos noſ—
Ty
DE Brrro GaLtico Lis. II. 33
tri in flamine aggrefſi, magnum eorum numerum oc.”
ciderunt; per corum corpora reliquos audaciſſimè tranſ-
ire conantes, mu'titudine telorum repulerunt: primos,
ai tranſierant, equitatu circumventos interfecerunt-
Hoſtes, ubi & de expugnando oppido, & de flamine
tranſeundo ſpem fe fetellifſe intellexerunt; neque noſ-
tros in locum iniquiorem progredi, pugnandi cauf3,
viderunt; atque eos res frumentaria deficere cœpit:
concilio convocato, conſtituerunt optimum eſſe, do-
mum ſuam quemque reverti; & quorum in fines pri-
mum Romani exercitum introduxiſſent, ad eos de-
fendendos undique convenire; ut potius in ſuis, quam
alienis finibus decertarent: & domeſticis copiis rei fru-
mentariæ uterentur, Ad eam ſententiam, cum reliquis
cauſis, hæc quoque ratio eos deduxit; quòd Divitia-
cum atque /Eduos finibus Bellovagorum appropinquare
cognoverant. His perſuaderi, ut diutius morarentur,
ne ſuis auxilium ferrent, non poterat,
XII. Ea re conſtitutà; ſecunda vigilia, magno cum
ſtrepitu ac tumultu caſtris egreſſi, nullo certo ordine
neque imperio, quum ſibi quifque primum itineris lo-
cum peteret, & domum pervenire properaret; fece-
runt, ut conſimilis fugæ profectio videretur, Hic re
ſtatim Cæſar per ſpeculatores cognita, inſidias veritos ;
quod qua de cauſa diſcederent, nondum perſpexerat ;
exercitum, equitatamque caſtris continuit. Prima luce,
confirmata re ab exploratoribus, omnem equitatum,
qui noviſſimum agmen moraretur, præmiſit; etque Q.
Pedium, & L. Aurunculeium Cottam, legatos prefecit.
T. Labienum legatum, cum legionibus tribus, ſubſequi
juflit. Hi noviſſimos adorti, & multa millia paſſuom
proſecuti, magnam multitudinem eorum fugientium
conciderunt. Quum ab extremo agmine hi, ad quos
ventum erat, conſiſterent, fortiterque impetum noſtro-
rum militum ſuſtinerent; priores, (quod abeſſe à peri-
culo viderentur) neque ulla neceſſitate, neque imperio
continerentur z exaudito clamore, perturbatis ordinibus,
omnes in fuga ſibi præſidium poſuerunt. Ita ſine ullo:
periculo tantam eorum multitudinem noſtri interfece-
runt, quantum fuit diei ſpatium; ſub occaſimque So-
C5 lis,
*
34 C. JULI CASARLS
lis, ſequi deſtiterunt: ſeque in caſtra, uti erat impera-
tum, receperunt.
XII. Poſtridie ejus diei Cæſar, prids quam ſe hoſtes
ex terrore ac fuga reciperent; in fines Sueſſionum, qui
proximi Rhemis erant, exercitum duxit; &, magno iti-
nere confecto, ad oppidum Noviodunum contendit. Id
ex itinere N conatus, quod vacuum ab defenſo-
ribus eſſe audie bat; propter latitudinem foſſæ, murique
altitudinem, paucis defendentibus, expugnare non po-
tuit. Caſtris munitis, vineas agere; quæque ad oppug-
* nandum uſui erant, comparare cœpit. Interim omnis
ex fuva Sueſſionum multitudo in oppidum proxima note
convenit. Celeriter vineis ad oppidum actis, aggere
jacto, turribuſque conſtitutis; magnitudine operum, quæ
neque viderant ante Galli neque audierant, & celeritate
Romanorum permoti, legatos ad Cæſarem de deditione
mittunt; &, petentibus Rhemis, ut conſervarentur, im-
petrant.
8 XIV. Cæſar, obſidibus acceptis, primis civitatis, at-
que ipſius Galbæ regis duobus filiis; armiſque omnibus
ex oppido traditis; in deditionem Sueſſiones accepit:
exercitumque in Bellovacos duxit. Qui quum ſe, ſoa-
que omnia in oppidum Bratuſpantium contuliſſent; at-
que ab eo oppido Cæſar cum exercitu circiter millia
paſſuum v abeſſet; omnes majores natu ex oppido
egreſſi, manus ad Cæſarem tendere, & voce ſtgnificare
cœperunt, ſeſe in ejus fidem ac poteſtatem venire; ne-
que contra populum Rom. armis contendere. Item
quum ad oppidum acceſfiſſet, caſtraque ibi poneret ;
pueri mulierẽſque ex muro, paſſis manibus, ſao more,
pacem a Romanis petierunt. |
XV. Pro his Divitiacus (nam poſt diſceſſum Belga-
rum, dimiſſis AÆduorum copiis, ad eum reverterat, facit
verba. Bellowvacos omni tempore in fide atgue amicitid civi-
ta is Æaduæ fuiſſe : impulſes Þ ſuis principibus, qui dicerent
LE duos, a Cæſare in ſervitutem reda tos, omnes indignitates
contumel:aſque perferre; & ab AEduis defecige, & populo
R. bellum intuliſſh. Qui hujus conſilii principes fiiſſint;
quod inteliigerent, quantam calamitatem ci. vitali intulifſent,
in Britanniam profugift. Petere non /o/um Bellawaces, fed
cia
pe Berto Gartico Lis. II. 35
etiam pro his Adu, ut ſud clementid ac manſuctudine in
eos utatur. Quod fi fecerit ; AEducrum auctoritatem apud
omnes Belgas ampliſicaturum; quorum auxiliis atque opibus,
fi qua bella inciderint, ſuflentare conſurverint. Cæſar,
honoris Divitiaci atque /Eduorum causa, /e/e eos in fidem
recepturum, & conſervaturum, dixit; &, quòd erat civitas
magna, & inter Belgas auctoritate ac hominum multi-
tudine præſtabat, vc obſides popoſcit. |
XVI. His traditis, omnibuſque armis ex oppido col-
latis; ab eo locc, in fines Ambianorum pervenit; qui
ſe, ſuaque omnia, fine mora, dediderunt. Eorum fines
Nervii attingebant; quorum de natura moribuiſque
Cæſar quum quereret, ſic reperiebat : Nullum aditum
efle ad eos mercatoribus: nihil pati vini, rehquarumque
rerum ad luxuriam pertinentium, inferri; quod his
rebus relangueſcere animos, eoramque remitti virtutem
exiſtimarent: eſſe homines feros, magnæque virtutis: in-
crepitare atque incuſare reliquos Belgas, qui ſe populo
R. dedidiſſent, & patriam virtutem projeeiſſent: confir-
mare ſeſe, neque legatos mulſuros, neque ullam condi-
tionem pacis accepturos. Quum per eorum fines trid uo
iter feciſſet; inveniebat ex captivis, Sabin flumen ab
caſtris ſuis non amplius millia paſſuum x abeſſe: trans
id flumen omnes Nervios conſediſſe; adventümque ibi
Romanorum exſpectare, una cum Atrebatibus & Vero-
manduis finitimis ſuis; nam his utriſque perſuaſerart,
ut eandem belli fortunam experirentur: exſpeQari
etiam ab his Atuaticorum copias, atque eſſe in itinere :
mulieres, quique per ætatem ad pugnam imutiles vide-
rentur, in eum locum conjeciſſe, quo propter paludes
exercitui aditus non eſſet. —
XVII. Cæſar, his rebus cognitis, exploratores centu-
rioneſque præmittit, qui locum caſtris idoneum deli-
gant, Quumque ex dedititiis Belgis, reliquiſque Gallis,
complures Cæſarem ſecuti, una iter facerent; quidam
ex his, (ut poſtea ex captivis cognitum eſt) eorum die-
rum conſuetudine itineris noſtri exercitũs perſpectad,
nocte ad Nervios pervenerunt; atque his demonſtra-
runt; inter ſingulas legiones, impedimentorum magnum
numerum intercedere; neque eſſe quid quam negotii,
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cùm prima legio in caſtra veniſſet, reliquæque legiones
magnum ſpatium abeſſent, hanc ſub ſarcinis adoriri :
qua pulla, impedimentiſque direptis, futurum ut reli-
quz contra conſiſtere non auderent. Adjuvabat etiam
eorum conſilium, qui rem deferebant; quod Nervii
antiquitus, quum equitatu nihil poſſent, (neque enim
ad hoc tempus ei rei ſtudent, ſed, quidquid poſſunt,
pedeſtribus valent copiis) quo faciliùs finitimorum eqvi—
tatum, fi prædandi causa ad eos veniſſet, impedirent;
teneris arboribus inciſis atque inflexis, crebriſque in la-
titudinem ramis enatis, & rubis ſentibiaſque interjectis,
effecerant, ut, inſtar muri, hz ſepes munimenta præ be-
rent: quo non modd intrari, ſed ne perſpici quidem
poſſet. lis rebus quum iter agminis noſtri impediretur,
non omit endum ſibi conſilium Nervii exiſtimaverunt.
XVIII. Loci natura erat hæc, quem naſtri callris
delegerant, Collis ab ſummo æqualiter declivis, ad
lumen Sabin, quod ſupra nominavimus, vergebat: ab
eo flumine, pari acclivitate, collis naſcebatur adverſus
huic & contrarius, paſſus circiter cc ; infimus, apertus ;
ab ſuperiore parte, ſylveſtris; ut non facile introrſus
perſpici poſſer, Intra eas ſylvas, hoſtes in occulto ſeſe
continebant: in aperto loco, ſecundum flumen, paucæ
ſtationes equitum videbantur. Fluminis erat altitudo,
circiter pedum 111. a
XIX. Cæſar, equitatu præmiſſo, ſubſequebatur om-
nibus copiis. Sed ratio ordoque agminis aliter fe habe-
bat, ac Belge ad Nervios detulerant. Nam, quod ho{-
tis appropinquabat, conſuetudine ſua Cæſar vi legiones
Expeditas ducebat; poſt eas, totius exercitùs impedi-
menta collocabat; inde duæ legiones, quæ proxime
conicriptz erant, totum agmen claudebant, prefdioque
impedimentis erant. Equites noſtri cum funditoribus
ſagittariiſque flumen tranſgreſſi, cum hoſtium equitatu
prœlium committunt. Quum fe illi identidem in 95 l-
vas ad ſuos reciperent, ac rurſus è ſylva in noſtros im—
petum facerent; neque noftii longiùs, quam quem ad
nem porrecta ac loca aperta pertinebant, cedente
inſequi- auderent; interim legianes ſex, quæ prime
venerant, opere dimenſo, caſlra munire cœperunt. Ubi
: | prima
pe BELLo GaLLrco Lis, II. 27
prima impedimenta noftri exercitùs ab iis, qui in ſylvis
abditi latebant, viſa ſunt ; quod tempus inter eos com-
mittendi prœlii convenerat; ut intra filvam aciem ordi-
neſque conſtituerant, atque ipſr ſeſe confirmaverant;
ſubiro omnibus copiis provolaverunt, impetimque in
noſtros equites fecerunt. His facile pulſis ac protur-
batis, incredibili celeritate ad flumen decurrerunt; ut
pene uns tempore & ad ſylvas, & in flumine, & jam in
manibus nolins hoſtes viderentur. Eadem autem cele-
ritate adverſo colle ad noſtra caftra, atque eos, qui in
opere occupati erant, contenderunt.
XX. Cæſari omnia uno tempore erant agenda: vexil-
lum proponendum; quod erat inſigne, quum ad arma
concurri oporteret: ſignum tuba dandum; ah opere
revocandi milites: qui paulo longiùs, aggeris petendi
causa, proceſſerant, accerſendi: acies inſtruenda: mi-
lites cohortandi: ſignum dandum. Quarum rerum
magnam partem te mporis brevitas, & incurſus hoſlium,
impediebat. lis difficultatibus duæ res erant ſubſidio:
ſcientia atque uſus militum; quod ſuperioribus prœliis
exercitati, quid fieri oporteret, non minus commodè
ipſi ſibi præſcribere. quam ab aliis doceri, poterant: &
quòd ab opere ſinguliſque legionibus ſingulos legatos
Cæſar diſcedere, niſi munitis caſtris, vetuerat. Hi,
propter celeritatem & propinquitatein hoftium, nihit -
jam Cæſaris imperium ſpectabant; ſed per ſe, quæ vi-
debantur, ad miniſtrabant. A
XXI. Cæſar, neceſſariis rebus imperatis, ad cohor-
tandos milites, quam in partem fors obtulit, decucur-
tit: & ad legionem decimam devenit. Milites non
tongiore oratione eſt cohortatus, quam uti ſuæ priſtina
virtutis memoriam retinerent; neu perturbarentur ani.
mo; hottiamque impetum ſortiter ſuſtinerent. Et,
quod non longiùs hoſtes aberant, quam quò telum ad-
jici poſſet; prœlii committendi ſignum dedit. Atque
item in alteram partem cohoitandi cauſa profectus,
pugnantibus occurrit. Temporis tanta fuit exiguitas,
holtiumque tam paratus ad dimicandum ariftnus, ut
non modò ad inſignia aecommodanda, ſed etiam
galeas induendas, ſcutiſque tegmenta detrahenda, tem“
pus
38 C. JULI CSASA NIE
s defuerit. Quam quiſque in partem ab opere caſu
evenit, quæque prima ſigna conſpexit; ad hacconſti-
tit: ne, in quærendis ſuis, pugnandi tempus dimitteret.
XXII. Inſtructo exercitu, magis ut loci natura, de-
jectuſque collis, & neceſſitas temporis, quam ut rei mi-
litaris ratio atque ordo poſtulabat : quum diverſis locis
—
legiones aliæ alia in parte hoſtibus reſiſterent; ſepi-
baſque denſiſſimis, ut ante demonſtravimus, interjectis,
proſpectus impediretur: neque certa ſubſidia collocari:
neque quid in quaque parte opus eflet, provideri; ne-
que ab uno omnia imperia adminiſtrari, poterant. Ita-
que in tanta rerum iniquitate, fortunz quoque eventus
varii ſequebantur. -
XXIIL Legionis nonæ & decimz milites, ut in ſiniſ-
tra parte aciei conſtiterant; pilis emiſſis, curſu ac laſſi-
tudine exanimatos vulneribuſque confeftos Atrebates
(nam his ea pars obvenerat) celeriter ex loco ſuperiore
in flumen compulerunt; & tranfire conantes inſecuti
gladiis, magnam partem eorum impeditam interfece-
runt. Ipfi tranſire flumen non dubitaverunt; & in lo-
cum iniquum progreſſi, rurſus regreſſos ac reſiſtentes
hoſtes, redintegrato preelio, in fugam dederunt. Item
alia in parte, diverſz duæ legiones, undecima & octava,
profligatis Veromanduis, quibuſcum erant congreſſi, ex
loco ſuperiore in ipſis fluminis ripis prœliabantur.
XXIV. At totis fere a fronte & a Anita parte nudatis
caſtris: quum in dextro cornu legio duodecima, &, non
magno ab ea intervallo, ſeptima conſtitiſſet; omnes
Nervii confertiſſimo agmine, duce Boduognato, qui
ſummam imperii tenebat, ad eum locum contenderunt:
quorum pars aperto latere legiones circumvenire, pars
ſummum locum caſtrorum petere cœpit. Eodem tem-
pore equites noſtri, leviſque armaturæ pedites, qui cum
his unà fuerant, quos primo hoſtium impetu pulſos
dixeram, quum fe in caſtra reciperent, adverſis hoſubus
occurrebant ; ac rurſus aliam in partem fugam pete-
bant: & calones, qui a Decumana porta ac ſummo jug®
collis ros vidtores flumen tranfire conſpexerapt,
Fa- bee egreſſi; quum reſpexiſſent, & hoftes in
{tris caſtris verſari vidident, præcipites ſeſe fugz
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ve BeiLo Gaitrco Lis. II. 39
mandWant: fimul eorum, qui cum impedimentis venie-
bant,gctamor fremituſque oriebatur ; aliique aliam in
partem perterriti ferebantur. Quibus omnibus rebus
permoti equites Treviri, quorum inter Gallos virtutis
opinio eſt ſingularis; qui, auxihi cauſa a civitate miſſi,
ad Cæſarem venerant: quum multitudini hoſtium caſtra
noſtra compleri, legiones premi, & pene circumventas
teneri; calones, equites, 3 Numidas, diverſos
diſſipat6ſque in omnes partes fugere vidiſſent; deſpera-
tis noſtris rebus, domum contenderunt. Romanos pul-
ſos ſuperatõſque; caſtris impedimentiſque eorum hoſes
potitos ; civitati renunciaverunt,
XXV. Cæſar ab decimz legionis cohortatione ad
dextrum cornu profectus: ubi ſuos urgeri ; ſigniſque in
unum locum collatis, duodecimæ legionis milites con-
fertos ſibi ipſis ad pugnam eſſe impedimento; quartz
cohortis omnibus centurionibus occiſis, figniferoque in»
terfecto, ſigno amiſſo; reliquarum cohortium omnibus
fere centurionibus aut vulneratis, aut occiſis; in his,
pri mopilo P. Sextio Baculo fortiſſimo viro, multis gra-
vibiiique vulneribus confecto, ut jam fe ſuſtinere non
poſſet; reliquos eſſe tardiores; & nonnullos a noviſſimis
deſertos prœlio excedere, ac tela vitare; hoſtes neque A
fronte ex inferiore loco ſubeuntes intermittere, & ab
utroque latere inſtare, & rem eſſe in anguſto vidit; ne-
que ullum eſſe ſubſdium, quod ſubmitti poſſet: ſeuto
ab noviſſimis uni militi detracto, (quod ipſe ed fine
ſeuto venerat) in primam aciem procefſit ; centurioni-
buſque nominatim appellatis, reliquos cohortatus, mili-
tes {igna interre, & manipulos laxare juſſit, quo facilids
gladiis uti poſſent. Hujus adventu _ illata militibus,
ac redintegrato animo; quum pro fe quiſque in con-
ſpectu [mperatoris, etiam in extremis ſuis rebus, operam
navare cuperet; paullùm hoſtium impetus tardatus eſt.
XXVI. Cæſar, quum ſeptimam legionem, = juxtà
conſtiterat, item urgeri ab hoſle vidiſſet; Tribunos
mil. monuit, ut paullatim ſeſe legiones conjungerent,
& converſa ſigna in hoſtes inferrent. Quo fad v cùm
alis alii ſubſidium ferrent ; neque timerent, ne avexſi
ab hoſe circumvenirentur; audacius reſiſtere, ac fortt-
de
—
40 C. JULI CESAAIS
as pugnare cœperunt. Interim milites legionum dua-
rum, quz in noviſſimo agmine præſidio impediment;
fuerant: prcelio nunciato, curſu incitato, in ſummo
eolle ab hoſtibus conſpiciebantur : & I'. Labienus, caſ-
tris hoſtium potitus; & ex loco ſuperiore, quz res in
noſtris caſtris gererentur, conſpicatus: decimam le-
gionem ſubſidio noſtris miſit: qui quum ex equitum
& calonum fuga, quo in loco res eſſet, quantoque in
periculo et caſtra & legiones & Imperator verſaretur,
cognoviſſent; nihil ad celeritatem {bi reliqui fecerunt.
XXVII. Horum adventu tanta rerum commutatio eſt
facta, ut noſtri, etiam qui vulneribus confecti procubu-
iſſent, ſcutis innixi, prœlium redintegrarent; tum calo-
nes, perterritos hoſtes conſpicati, etiam inermes armatis.
occurrerent. Equites verò, ut turpitudinem fuge virtute
delerent, omnibus in locis pugnabant, quo ſe legionariis
militibus præferrent. At holtes, etiam in extrema ſpe
falutis, tantam virtutem preſtiterunt, ut, quum primi
eorum cecidiſfent, proximi jacentibus inſiſterent, atque
ex eorum corporibus pugnarent: his dejectis, & coacer-
vatis cadaveribus; qui Ede, ut ex tumulo, tela
in noſtros conjicerent, pilaque intercepta remitterent.
Ut non nequidquam tantz virtutis homines judicari
deberet, autos efle tranſire latiſſimum flumen, aſcendere
altiſſimas ripas, ſubire iniquiſſimum locum: quæ facilia
ex difficillimis animi magnitudo redegerat.
XXVII. Hoc preelio facto, & prope ad internecio-
nem gente ac nomine Nerviorum redacto: majores
natu, quos una cum pueris mulieribuſque in æſtuaria ac
paludes collectos dixeramus; hac pugna nunciata ;
quum victoribus nihil impeditum, victis nihil tutum ar-
bitrarentur; omnium, qui ſupererant, conſenſu, legatos
ad Cæſarem miſerunt, ſeque ei dediderunt: & in com-
memoranda civitatis calamitate; ex De, ad 111 ſenato-
res; ex hominum millibus Lx, vix ad o, qui arma ferre
poſſent, ſeſe redactos eſſe dixerunt; quos Cæſar, ut in
miſeros ac ſupplices uſus miſericordia videretur, Cilt-
gentiffime conſervavit: ſuiſque finibus atque oppidis ut
jufr; & finitimis imperavit, ut ab injurid & maleficio
ſe ſuòſque prohiberent. 6
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XXIX. Atuatici, de quibus ſupra ſcripfimus ; quum
omnibus copiis auxilio Nerviis venirent; hac pugna
nunciata, ex itinere domum reverterunt: cunctis oppidis
caſtelliſque deſertis, ſua omnia in unum oppid um egre-
giè natura munitum contulerunt: quod quum ex omni-
bus in circuitu partibus altiſſimas rupes deſpectuſque
haberet ; una ex parte leniter acclivis aditus, in latitu-
cinem non amplius cc pedum, relinquebatur ; quem
locum duplici altiſſimo muro munierant; tum magni
ponderis ſaxa, & præacutas trabes in muro collocarant.
Iph crant ex Cimbris Teutoniſque prognati: qui, quum
iter in provinciam noſtram, atque Italiam facerent ; his
impedimentis, quæ ſecum agere ac portare non pote-
rant, citra flumen Rhenum depoſitis; cuſtodiz ex ſuis
ac prœſidio, vi millia hominum una reliquerunt. Hi,
poit eorum obitum, multos annos a finitimis exagitati;
guum alias bellum inferrent, alias illatum defenderent ;
conſenſu eorum omnium pace fa&a, hunc ſibi domicilio
locum delegerunt.
XXX. Ac, primo adventu exercitus noſtri, crebras ex
oppido excurſiones faciebant: parvuliſque prœliis cum.
noſtris contendebant. Poſtea, vallo pedum x1, in
circuitu x v millium, crebriſque caſtellis circummuniti;
opp:do ſeſe continebant. Ubi, vineis actis, aggere ex-
ſtructo, turrim conſtitui procul viderunt ; primùm irri-
dere ex muro, atque increpitare vocibus; quo tanta
machinatio ab tanto ſpatio inſtrueretur! quibuſnam ma-
nibus aut quibus viribus, præſertim homines tantulz
ſlaturæ (nam pleriſque hominibus Gallis, præ magnitu-
dine corporum ſuorum, brevitas noſtra contemptui eſt)
tant! oneris turrim in muros ſeſe collocare confiderent !
XXXI. Ubi vero moveri, & appropinquare mœnibus
vicerunt; nova atque inufitata ſpecie commoti, legatos
ad Cæſarem de pace miſerunt: Qui ad hunc modum
locuti: Nan /+ exiſtimare Romanos fin ate Deorum bellum
gerere 3 qui tantæ aliitudinis machinationes tanta celeritate
promovere, Q ex propinguitate pugnare paſſent. Se, ſudgue
emma, eorum poteſtati permittere dixerunt. Unum petere,
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wvandos; ne ſe armis deſpoliaret. Sibi omnes fere finiting;
efje inimicos, ac ſuæ virtuti invidere ; d quibus Je defend:re,
rraditis armis, non poſſent. Sibi præſtare, f in tum caſum
deducerentur, quamwVis fortunam a populo R. pati, quam ab
his per eruciatum tnterfici, inter quos dominari conſjucſent,
XXXII. Ad hæe Cæſar reſpondit : Se mag?s conſuctu-
dine ſud, quam merito eorum, civitatem conſervaturum ; .f
Prius, quam aries murum att'gifſit, ſe dedidifſent : ſed di-
ditionis nullam eſſe cbnditionem, niſi armis traditis, St id,
quod in Nerwios fecifſit, facturum; finitimi/que imperaturum,
we guam dedititiis popult R. irjuriam inferrent, Re nunci-
ata ad ſuos; illi ſe, quæ imperarentur, facere dixerunt.
Armorum magna multitudine de muro in fofſam, quz
erat ante oppidum, jaQa ; fic, ut prope ſummam muri
aggeriſqoe altitudinem acervi armorum adzquarent;
& tamen circiter parte tertia (ut poſtea perſpectum eſt)
celata, atque in oppido retenta : portis patefactis, eo
die pace ſunt uſi.
XXXIII. Sub veſperum Cæſar portas claudi, militef-
que ex oppido exire juſſit; ne quam noctu oppidani à
militibus injuriam acciperent. Illi, ante inito (ut intel-
lectum eſt) conſilio; quod, deditione factà, noſtros præ-
ſidia non inducturos, aut denique indiligentiùs ſervatu-
ros crediderant, partim cum his, quæ retinuerant &
celaverant, armis; partim, ſcutis ex cortice factis, aut
viminibus intextis, quæ ſubito (ut temporis exiguitas
poſtulabat) pellibus induxerant: tertia _ qua mi-
nime arduus ad noſtras munitiones aſcenſus videbatur,
omnibus copiis repente ex oppido eruptionem fecerunt,
XXXIV. Celeriter, ut ante Cæſar imperaverat, igni-
bus fignificatione factà; ex proximis caſtehis cò con-
curſum eſt: pvgnatimque ab hoſtibus ita acriter; ut 4
viris fortibus, in extrema fpe ſalutis, iniquo loco, con-
tra eos, qui ex vallo turribuſque tela jacerent, pugnarl
debuit, quum in una virtute omnis ſpes ſalutis conſiſſe-
ret. Occiſis ad hominum millibus 1v, reliqui in oppi—
dum rejecti ſunt. Poſtridie ejus diei, refractis portis,
quum jam defenderet nemo; atque intromiſſis militibus
noſtris; ſectionem ejus oppidi univerſam Cæſar vend!- |
dit. Ab his, qui emerant, capitum numerus ad cum
relatus eſt millium L111. | XXX)-
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DE BtrLo GATLIco Lis, III. 43
XXXV. Eodem tempore 2 P. Craffo, quem cum le-
gione una miſerat ad Venetos, Unellos, Okſmios, Cu-
rioſolitas, Seſuvios, Aulercos, Rhedones; quæ ſunt ma-
ritimæ civitates, oceanamque attingunt; certior factus
eſt, omnes eas civitates in ditionem poteſtatẽèmque po-
puli Rom. eſſe redactas. |
XXXVI. His rebus geſtis, omni Gallia pacata, tanta
hujus belli ad Barbaros opinio perlata eſt, ut ab natio-
nibus, quz trans Rhenum incolerent, mitterentur legatt
ad Cæſarem, quz ſe obſides daturas, imperata facturas,
pollicerentur : quas legationes Cæſar, quòd in Italiam
Illyrich@mque properabat, inita proxima æſtate ad ſe
reverti juſiit. Ipſe, in Carnutes, Andes, Turones, quæ
civitates propinquæ his locis erant ubi bellum geſſerat,
legionibus in hy berna deductis, in Italiam profectus eſt.
Ob eas res, ex literis Cæſaris, dies xy ſupplicatio de-
creta eſt, Quod ante id tempus acciderat null.
8
L IB EX u.
J. UM in Italiam proficiſceretur Cæſar; Ser.
Galbam cum legione duodecima & parte
equitatis, in Nantuates, Veragros, Sedundl-
que miſit; qui a finibus Allobrogum, & lacu Lema-
no, & flumine Rhodano, ad ſummas, Alpes, pertinent.
Cauſa mittendi fuit; quod iter per Alpes, quo itinere
magno cum periculo magniſque portoriis mercatores
ire conſueverant, patefieri volebat. Huic permiſit, ſi
opus eſſe arbitraretur, uti in iis locis legionem, hye-
mandi causa, collocaret. Galba, ſecundis aliquot prœ-
lis factis, caſtelliſque compluribus eorum expugnatis z
miſſis ad eum undique legatis, obfidibuſque datis, &
pace faa; conſtituit cohortes duas in Nantuatibus
collocare: ipſe com reliquis ejus legionis cohortibus in
vico Veragrorum, qui appellatur Octodurus, hyemare:
qui vicus poſitus in valle, non magna adjectà planicie,
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vici Gallis conceſſit; alteram, vacuam ab illis relictam,
cohortibus ad hy emandum attribuit. Eum locum vallo
foſsäque munivit.
II. Quum dies hy bernorum complures transiſſent,
frumentümque eo comportari- jufiiſfet : ſubito per ex-
ploratores certior factus eft, ex ea parte vici, quam
Gallis conceilerat, omnes noctu diſceſſifſe ; monteique,
qui impenderent, a maxima multitudine Sedunorum &
Veragrorum teneri. Id aliquot de cauſis acciderat, ut
ſubitò Galli belli renovandi legiontſque opprimendæ
conſilium caperent. Primùm, quod legionem, neque
eam pleniſimam; detractis cohortibus duabus; & com-
pluribus ſigillatim, qui commeatus petendi causa miſſi
crant, abſentibus; propter paucitatem deſpiciebant:
tum etiam, quod, propter iniquitatem loci; quum ipſi
ex montibus in vallem decurrerent, & tela conjicerent;
ne primum quidem poſſe impetum ſuſtinere exiſtima-
bant. Accedebat, quod ſuos ab ſe liberos abſtractos
ohſidum nomine dolebant: & Romanos, non ſolùm
itineris causa, ſed etiam perpetuæ poſſeſſionis, culmina
Alpium occupare conari, & ea loca finitimæ Provinciæ
adjungere, ſibi perſuaſum habebant. 8
III. His nunciis acceptis, Galba; quum neque opus
hybernorum, munitiencſque plenè eſſent perfectæ; ne-
que de frumento, reliquòque commeatu, ſatis eſſet pro-
viſum; quod, deditione ſadtà, obſidibüſque acceptis,
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convocato, ſententias exquirere cœpit. Quo in con- a
cilio, quum tantum repentini periculi præter opinionem i
accidiſſet; ac jam omnia ferè ſuperiora loca multitudine :
armatorum completa conſpicerentur; neque ſubſidio ;
veniri, neque commeatus ſupportari, intercluſi- itinert- 0
bus, poſſet; prope jam deſperatà ſalute; non nullæ bo- a
juſmodi ſententiæ dicebartur: vt, impedimentis relichis, £
eruptione fa&a, iiſdem itineribus, quibus eo perveni!- P
ſent, ad ſalutem contenderent. Majori tamen parti n
placuit, h6c reſervato ad extremum conſilio, interim tei :
eventum experiri, & caſtra defendere.
IV.
pz BELLO GaLLico L1B, III. 45
IV. Brevi ſpatio interjecto; vix ut his rebus, quas
conſtituiſſent, collocandis atque adminiſtrandis tempus
daretur: hoſtes ex omnibus partibus, ſigno dato, de-
currere; lapides gzſaque in vallum conjicere. Noſtri,
primò integris viribus fortiter repugnare, nèque ullum
fruſtra telum ex loco ſuperiore mittere : ut quzque pars
caſtrorum nudata defenſoribus premi videbatur, eò oc-
currere & auxilium ferre: ſed hoc ſuperari, quod diu-
turnitate pugnæ hoſtes defeſſi prœlio excedebant, alii
integris viribus ſuccedebant. þ Quarum rerum a noſtris,
propter paucitatem, fieri nihil poterat; ac non modo
defeſſo, ex pugna excedenci: fed ne ſaucio quidem,
cjus loci ubi conſtiterat relinquendi, ac ſai recipiendi,
facultas dabatur.
V. Quum jam ampliùs horis vi continenter pugna-
retur: ac non ſolùm vires, ſed etiam tela noſtris defi-
cerent: atque hoſtes acrius inſtarent; languidioribüſ-
que noſtris, vallum ſcindere, & folias complere cœ piſ-
ſent; reſque. eſſet jam ad extremum deducta caſum:
P. Sextius Baculus, primipili centurio, quem Nervico
prœlio compluribus confectum vulneribus diximus ; &
item C. Voluſenus tribunus militum, vir & conſilii
magni & virtutis, ad Galbam accurrunt, atque unam
eſſe ſpem ſalutis docent, fi, eruptione fatia, extremum
auxilium experirentur. Itaque, convocatis centuriont-
bus, celeriter milites certiores facit, pauliſper intermit-
terent *preelium, ac tantummodo tela miſſa exciperent,
ſeque ex labore reficerent; poſt, ſigno dato, e caſtris
erumperent, atque omnem ipem ſalutis in virtute pone-
rent. Quod juſſi ſunt, faciunt: ac ſubitò omnibus por-
tis eruptione factà; neque cognoſcendi quid fieret, ne-
que ſui colligendi, hoſtibus facultatem relinquunt. Ita
commutata fortunà; eos, qui in ſpem potiendorum
caſtrorum venerant, undique circumventos interficjunt ;
& ex hominum millibus amplius xxx. (quem nume-
rum Barbarorum ad caſtra veniſſe conſtabat) plus tertia
parte inteifeAa, reliquos perterritos in fugam conjici-
unt: ac ne in locis quidem ſuperioribus conſiſtere pa-
tuntur, Sie omnibus hoſtium copiis fuſis, armiſque
exutis; ſe in caſtra munitionèſque ſuas recipiunt,
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VL Quo preelio facto; quod ſæpius ſortunam ten.
tare Galba nolebat, atque alio ſeſe in hyberna conſilis
veniſſe meminerat, aliis occurriſſe rebus videbat ; max
- ime, frumenti commeatuſque inopia permotus : poſters
die, omnibus ejus vici ædificiis incenſis, in Provinciam
reverti contendit. Ac nullo hoſte prohibente, aut iter
demorante; incolumem legionem in Nantuates, ind in
Allobrogas, perduxit: ibique hyemavit.
VII. His rebus geſtis : quum omnibus de cauſis Cæ-
ſar pacatam Galliam exiſtimaret ; ſuperatis Belgis, ex-
pultis Germanis, victis in Alpibus Sedunis: atque ita,
inità hyeme, in Illyricum profectus eſſet; quod eas
quoque nationes adire, & regiones cognoſcere volebat:
ſubitum bellum in Gallia coortum eſt. Ejus belli hæc
fuit cauſa, P. Craſſus adoleſcens cum legione vit
roximus mare Oceanum in Andibus hyemabat. Is,
quod in his locis inopia frumenti erat, præfectos tri-
bunoſque militum complures in finitimas civitates, fru-
menti petendi causa, dimiſit: quo in numero erat T.
Terraſidius, miſſus in Euſubios; M. Trebius Gallus, in
Curioſolitas; Q Velanius, cum T. Silio, in Venetos.
VIII. Hujus civitatis eſt longè ampliſſima auctoritas
omnis oræ maritime regionum earum: quod & naves
habent Veneti plurimas, quibus in Britanniam navi-
gare conſueverunt: & ſcientia atque uſu nauticarum
rerum cæteros antecedunt: & in magno impetu maris,
_— aperto; paucis portubus interjectis, quos tenent
ipſi; omnes ferè, qui eodem mari uti conſueverunt,
habent vectigales. Ab 1is fit initium retinendi Silii at-
que Velanii; quod per eos, ſuos fe obſides, quos Crailo
dediſſent, recuperaturos exiſtimabant. Horum aucdo-
ritate finitimi adducti, (ut ſunt Gallorum ſubita & re-
pentina conſilia) cadem de causa Trebium Terraſidi-
amque retinent; & celeriter miſſis legatis, per ſuos
principes inter ſe conjurant; nihil, niſi communi con-
filio, acdturos: eundemque omnis fortunæ exitum eſſe
laturos, reliquaſque civitates ſollicitant, ut in ea liber-
tate, quam a majoribus acceperant, permanere, quum
Romanorum ſervitutem perferre, mallent. Omni c
maritima celeriter ad ſuam ſententiam perdu&ta ; com-
munem
pe BELTO GaLLico Lis. III. 47
munem legationem ad P. Craſſum mittunt; A welit /uss
recipere, obfides ſibi remittat. _
IX. Quibus de rebus Cæſar a Craſſo certior factus;
quod ipſe aberat longius: naves interim longas ædiſi-
cari in flumine Ligeri, quod influit Oceanum ; remiges
ex Provincia inſtitui, nautas gubernatoreſque compara-
ri, jubet. His rebus celeriter adminiſtratis; ipſe, quam
primiim per anni tempus potuit, ad exercitum conten-
dit, Veneti, reliquæque item civitates, cognito Cæſaris
adventu; ſimul quod, quantum in fe facinus admiſiſ-
ſent, intelligebant; legatos, quod nomen apud omnes
nationes ſanctum inviolatumque ſemper fuiſſet, retentos
abs ſe & in vincula conjectos: pro magnitudine peri-
culi bellum parare, & maxime ea, quæ ad uſum na-
viom pertinerent, providere inſtituunt; hoc majore ſpe,
quod multum natura Joci confidebant. Pedeſtria eſſe
itinera conciſa æſtuariis; navigationem impeditam
propter inſcientiam locorum paucitatemque portuum
ſciebant ; neque noſtros exercitus, propter frumenti in-
opiam, diutius apud ſe morari poſſe conſidebant: ac
jam, ut omnia contra opinionem acciderent, tamen ſe
plurimum navibus poſle. Romanos, neque ullam fa-
cultatem habere navium; neque eorum locorum, ubi
bellum geituri eſſent, vada, portus, inſulas noviſle ;* ac
longè aliam eſſe navigationem in concluſo mari, atque
in valtifimo atque apertiſſimo Oceano, perſpiciebant,
His initis conſiliis; oppida muniunt, frumenta ex agris
in oppida comportant; naves in Venetiam, ubi Cæſa-
rem primum bellum geſturum conſtabat, quam plurimas
poitunt, cogunt. Socios fibi ad id bellum Oliſmios,
Lexobios, Nannetes, Ambianos, Morinos, Diablintes,
Menapios adſciſcunt; auxilia ex Britannia, quæ contra
eas repiones poſita eſt, accerſunt.
: X. Erant hæ difficultates belli gerendi, quas ſupra
oltendimus, Sed tamen multa Cæſarem ad id bellum
incitabant: injuriæ retentorum equitum Romanorum :
revellio facta poſt deditionem : defeCtio, datis obũdi-
bos: tot civitatum conjuratio : in primis, ne, hac parte
negletia, reliquæ nationes idem ſbi licere arbitraren-
ur, Itaque quum intelligeret, omnes ferè Gallos novis
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rebus fludere, & ad bellum mobiliter celeriterque exci-
tari; omnes autem homines natura libertati ſtudere, &
conditionem ſervitutis odiſſe: priùs quam plures civita-
tes conſpirarent, partiendum fibi ac latiùs diſtribuendum
exercitum putavit.
XI. Itaque T. Labienum legatum in Treviros, qui
roximi Rheno flumini ſunt, cum equitatu mittit. Hujc
mandat: Rhemos reliquo/que Belgas adeat, atque in officis
contineat : Germanoſque, qui auxilio a Belgis accerſiti dice
bantur, ft per vim navibus flumen tranfire conentur, proj.
beat, P. Craſſum cum cohortibus legionariis x11, &
magno numero equitatis, in Aquitaniam proficiſci ju-
bet; ne ex his nationibus auxilia in Galliam mittan-
tur, ac tantæ nationes conjungantur. eee Sa-
binum legatum cum legionibus 111, in Unellos, Curio.
folitas, Lexobiõſque mittit; qui eam manum diſtinen-
dam curet. D. Brutum adoleſcentem, claſſi Galliciſ-
que navibus, quas ex Pictonibus Santoniſque & reli
quis pacatis regionibus convenire juſſerat, præficit: &,
quum primum poſſet, in Venetos proficiſci jubet. Ipſe
eò pedeſtribus copiis contendit.
XII. Erant ejuſmodi fere ſitus oppidorum, ut poſita
in extremis linguis promontoriiſque, neque pedibus
aditum haberent, quum ex alto ſe æſtus incitaviſſet,
quod bis ſemper accidit horarum x11 ſpatio; neque
navibus, quod rurſus minuente æſtu naves in vadis
afflictarentur. Ita utraque re oppidorum oppugnat'
impediebatur. Ac, fi quando mag nitudine operis forts
ſuperati; extruſo mari aggere ac molibus, atque his
ferme mcenibus adæquatis; ſuis fortunis deſperare cœ-
perant; magno numero navium appulſo, cujus rei ſum-
mam facultatem habebant, ſua deportabant omnia;
ſeque in proxima oppida recipiebant: ibi ſe rurſus i-
dem opportunitatibus loci defendebant. Hoc eo faci-
las magnam partem æſtatis faciebantz quod noſtrz
naves tempeſtatibus Cetinebantur ; ſummaque erat vallo
atque aperto mari, magnis æſtibus, raris ac prope nullls
portubus, difficultas navigandi.
XIII. Namque ipſorum naves ad hunc modum fact
armatæque crant. Carinz aliquanto planiores, *
noſtra-
DE BELTO GaLrtico Lis. III. 49
noſtrarum naviam, quo facilius vada ac deceſſum
æſtũs excipere poſſent: proræ admodum erectæ; atque
item puppes ad magnitudinem fluctuum tempeſtatäm-
que accommodatæ: naves totæ fadæ ex robore, ad
quamvis vim & contumeliam perterendam : tranſtra ex
pedalibus in latitudinem trabibus, confixa clavis ferreis,
digiti pollicis craſſitudine; anchorz. pro funibus, ca-
tenis ferreis revinctæ: pelles pro velis, alutæque tenui-
ter confectæ; five propter lint iaopiam, atque ejus usũs
inſcientiam; ſive, quod eſt magis veriſimile, quod tan-
tas tempeſtates Oceani, tantoique impetus ventorum
ſuſtineri, ac tanta onera navium regi velis, non ſatis
commode poſſe arbitrabantur. Cum his navibus, noi-
trz claſh ejuſmodi congreſſus erat; ut una celeritate,
& pulſu remorum præſtaret; reliqua, pro loci natura.
pro vi tempeſtatum, illis eſſent aptiora & accommo-
datiora: neque enim his noſtræ roſtro nocere pote-
rant; (tanta in his erat firmitudo) neque, propter alti-
tudinem, facile telum adjiciebatur; & eadem de cau 4
minis commode ſcopulis continebantur. Accedebat,
ut, quum ſævire ventus ccepiſiet, & ſe vento dediſlent,
& tempeltatem ferrent faciliùs, & in vadis conſiſterent
tutius &, ab zftu derelictæ, nihil ſaxa & cautes ti-
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50 intellexit fruſtra tantum laborem ſumi, neque hoſtium
. tugam captis oppidis reprimi, neque his noceri poſſe;
ſtatuit ex pectandam claſſem. Quæ ubi convenit, ac
primum ab hoſtibus viſa eſt; circiter ccxx naves eo-
rum paratiſſimæ, atque omni genere armorum ornatii-
limz, è portu profectæ, noſtris adverſæ conſtiterunt.
Neque ſatis Bruto, qui claſſi præerat; neque tribunis
militum centurionibuſque, quibus ſingulæ naves erant
attributæ, conſtabat, quid agerent, aut quam rationem
Pugrz inſiſterent. Roſtro enim noceri non poſſe cog-
noverant, Turribus autem excitatis; tamen has alti-
udo puppium ex barbaxis navibus ſuperabat, ut neque
ex inſeriore loco ſatis commodè tela adjici poſſent, &
la a Gallis graviùs acciderent, Una erat magne
uſui
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uſui res præparata à noſtris; falces præacutæ, inſertæ
affi x que longuriis, non abſimili forma muralium fal-
cium. His quum funes, qui antennas ad malos deſti-
nabant, comprehenſi adductique erant; navigio remis
incitato, prerumpebantur: quibus abſciſſis, antennæ
neceſſario concidebant: ut, quum omnis Gallicis navi-
bus ſpes in velis armamentiſque conſiſteret, his ereptis,
omnis uſus navium uno tempore eriperetur. Reliquum
erat certamen poſitum in virtute; qua noſtri milites
facilè ſuperabant; atque eò magis, quòd in conſpectu
Cæſaris atque omnis exercitùs res gerebatur; ut nul-
lum paullo fortius factum latere poſſet: omnes enim
colles, & loca ſuperiora, unde erat propinquus deſpec-
tus in mare, ab exercitu tenebantur.
XV. Disjectis, ut diximus, antennis: quum ſingulas
binæ aut ternæ naves circumſiſterent; milites ſumma
vi tranſcendere in hoſtium naves contendebant. Quod
poſtquam barbari fieri animadverterunt; expugnatis
compluribus navibus; Quum ei rei nullum reperiretur
auxilium ; fuga ſalutem petere contenderunt. Ac, jam
converſis in eam partem navibus, quo ventus ferebat;
tanta ſubito malacia ac tranquillitas exſtitit, ut ſe lo-
co movere non poſſent. Quz quidem res ad nego-
tium conſiciendum maximè ſuit opportuna: nam
ſingulas noſtri conſectati, expugnaverunt; ut perpaucæ
ex omni numero noctis interventu ad terram perve-
nerint, quum ab hora 1v uſque ad ſolis occaſum pug-
naretur. Vs
XVI. Quo prœlio bellum Venetorum totiuſque orz
maritime confectum eſt. Nam quum omnis juventus,
omnes etiam gravieris ætatis, in quibus aliquid con-
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quod ubique fuerat, unum in locum coegerant. Qui-
bus amiſſis; reliqui neque quò ſe reciperent, neque
quemadmodum oppida defenderent, habebant. Itaque
ſe, ſuaque omnia, Cæſari dediderunt. In quos eo gra
vits Cæſar vindicandum ſtatuit, quo diligentiùs in e- ad]
liquum tempus a barbaris jus legatorum conſervaretur. rum
Itaque, omni ſenatu necato, reliquos ſub corona ven- cj.
didit. ; ſam ö
XVII.
pe BeLLo GaLLico Lis. III. 57
XVII. Dum hc in Venetis geruntur; Q. Titurius
Sabinus eum his copiis, quas a Cæſare acceperat, in
fines Unellorum pervenit. His præerat Viridovix; ac
ſummam imperii tenebat earum omnium civitatum,
quz defecerant ; ex quibus exercitum magnaſque co-
pias coegerat, Atque his paucis diebus, Aulerci, Ebu-
rovices, Lexoviique, ſenatu ſuo interfecto, quod auc-
tores belli efle nolebant, portas clauſerunt, ieque cum
Viridovice conjunxerunt: magnaque præterea multitudo
convenerat ; quos ſpes prædandi, ftudiamque bellandi,
ab agricultura & quotidiano labore revocabat. |
XVIII. Sabinus idoneo omnibus rebus loco caſtris
ſeſe tenebat; quum Viridovix contra eum duùm milli-
um ſpatio conſediſſet, quotidieque productis copiis
pugnandi poteſtatem faceret : ut jam non ſolùm hoſti-
bus in contemptionem Sabinus veniret, ſed etiam noſ-
troram militum vocibus nonnihil carperetur; tantim-
que opinionem timoris przebuit, ut jam ad vallum caſ-
trorum hoſtes accedere auderent. Id ea cauſa facie-
bat, quod cum tanta multitudine hoſtium, præſertim eo
abſente, qui ſummam imperii teneret, niſi æquo loco,
aut opportunitate aliqua data, legato dimicandum non
exiſtimabat. |
2 XIX. Hac confirmata opinione timoris; idoneum
e· quendam hominem & callidum delegit Gallum ex iis,
g quos auxilii causa ſecum habebat. Huic magnis præ-
mis pollicitationibuſque perſuadet, uti ad hoſtes tranſ-
eat: quid fieri velit, edocet, Qui ubi pro perfuga ad
eos venit, timorem Romanorum proponit ; quibus an-
guſtiis ipſe Cæſar a Venetis prematur, docet: neque
longius abeſſe, quin proximà noGe Sabinus clam ex
caſtris exercitum educat, & ad Cæſarem, auxilii feren-
di causa, proficiſcatur. Qaod ubi auditum eſt; con-
clamant omnes, occaſionem negotii bene gerendi amit-
tendam non eſſe: ad caſtra iri oportere. Multæ res
ad hoc conſilium Gallos hortabantur: ſuperiorum die-
rum Sabini cunctatio; perfugæ confirmatio; inopia
eibariorum, cui rei parum diligenter ab his erat provi -
ſum; ſpes Venetici belli; & quod ferè libenter id, quod
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volunt homines, credunt. lis rebus adducti, non pris
Viridovicem reliquoſ{que duces ex concilio dimittunt,
quam ab his fit conceſſum, arma uti capiant, & ad caſ-
tra contendant. Qua re conceſſa : læti, velut explorati
victoria ; ſarmentis virgultiſque collectis, quibus foſlas
Romanorum compleant ; ad caſtra pergunt.
XX. Locus erat caſtrorum editus, & paullatim ab
imo acclivis, circiter paſſus M. Hue magno curſu con-
tenderunt, ut quam minimum ſpatii ad ſe colligendos
armandoſque Romanis daretur; exanimatique perve-
nerunt, Sabinus ſuos hortatus, cupientibus ſignum dat.
Impeditis hoſtibus propter ea, quæ ferebant onera;
ſubitò duabus portis eruptionem fieri jubet. Factum
eſt opportunitate loci, hoſtium inſcientia ac defatigati-
one, virtute militum, ac ſuperiorum pugnarum exerci-
tatione; ut ne unum quidem noſtrorum impetum fer-
rent; ac ſtatim terga verterent: quos impeditos, in-
tegris viribus milites noſtri conſecuti ; magnum nume-
rum eorum occiderunt: reliquos, equites conſectati;
Paucos, qui ex fuga evaſerant, reliquerunt. Sic, uno
tempore, & de navali pugna Sabinus, & de Sabini vic-
toria Cæſar certior factus eſt; civitateſque omnes ſe
ſtatim Titurio dediderunt. Nam ut ad bella ſuſcipien-
da Gallorum alacer & promptus eſt animus ; fic mollis
ac minime reſiſtens ad calamitates perferendas mens
eorum eſt.
XXI. Eodem ferè tempore P. Craſſus, quum in Aqui-
| | taniam perveniſſet; quæ pars, ut ante dictum eſt,
'F & regionam- latitudine, & multitudine hominum, ex
rertia parte Galliz eſt æſtimanda: quum intelligeret
in illis locis ſibi bellum gerendum, ubi paucis ante
annis L. Valerius Præconinus legatus, exercitu pulio,
interfectus efſet ; atque unde L. Manilius Proconlul,
impedimentis amiſſis, profugiſſet: non mediocrem vl
diligentiam adhibendam intelligebat. Itaque, re fro—
mentaria proviia; auxiliis, equitatüque com parato;
multis præterea viris fortibus Tolosa, Carcaſone, &
Narbone, (quæ ſunt civitates Gallie Provincia f nid
mz his regionibus) nominatim evocatis ; in Sotiatium
fines exercitum introduxit, Cujus adventu cognito:
Sotiates .
\. pe BeLLo GALLico Lis. III. 53
Sotiates, magnis copiis coactis, equitatique, quo plu-
rimum valebant, in itinere agmen noſtrum adorti ;
primim equeſtre prœlium commiſerunt: deinde, equi-
tatu ſuo pulſo, atque inſequentibus noſtris; ſubitò pe-
deſtres copias, quas in convalle in inſidiis collocave-
rant, oſtenderunt. Hi, noſtros disjectos adorti, prœlium
renovarunt,
XXII. Pugnatum eſt diu, atque acriter ; quum Sotia-
tes, ſuperioribus victoriis freti, in ſua virtute totius Aqui-
taniæ ſalutem poſitam putarent; noſtri autem, quid
fine Imperatore, & ſine reliquis legionibus, adoleſcen-
tulo duce, efficere poſſent, perſpici cuperent. Tandem
tamen confecti vulneridus hoſtes terga vertere. Quorum
magno numero interfecto, Craſſus ex itinere oppidum
Sotiatium oppugnare cœpit; quibus fortiter refiſtenti-
bus, vineas turreſque egit. Illi, alias eruptione tentata,
alias cuniculis, ad aggerem vineaſque actis; cujus rei
ſunt longe peritiſſimi Aquitani, propterea quod multis
Jocis apud eds ærariæ ſecturæ ſunt: ubi, diligentia
noſtrorum, nihil his rebus profici poſſe intellexerunt:
legatos ad Craſſum mittunt; ſeque in deditionem ut
__— petunt. Qua re impetrata, arma tradere juſſi,
actunt. g
XXIII. Atque in ea re omnium noſtrorum intentis
animis: alia ex parte oppidi Adiatomus, qui ſummam
imperit tenebat; cum pe devotis (quos illi Soldurios
appellant : quorum hc eſt conditio, ut omnibus in vita
commodis una cum his fruantur, quorum fe amicitiz
dediderint: ſi quid iis per vim accidat; aut eundem
caſum una ferant, aut ſibi mortem conſciſcant : neque
adhuc hominum memoria repertus eſt quiſquam, qui,
eo interfecto cujus ſe amicitiz devoviſſet, mort recuſaret)
cum 1is Adiatomus ervptionem facere conatus, Clamore
ab ea parte munitionis ſublato, quum ad arma milites
concurriſſent, vehementerque ibi pugnatum eſſet repulſus
in oppidum eſt: ati tamen eadem deditionis conditione
uteretur. a Craſſo impetravit.
XXIV. Armis oblidibaſque acceptis; Craſſus in fines
Vocatium & Taruſatium profectus eſt. Tum verò bar-
commoti; quod oppidum & natura loci & manu
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munitum, paucis diebus, quibus eo ventum fuerat, ex
pugnatum cognoverant: legatos quoquoverſus dimitte-
re, conjurare, obſides inter ſe dare, copias parare cœ-
perunt. Mittuntur etiam ad eas civitates legati, quæ
ſunt citerioris Hiſpaniz, finitimæ Aquitaniæ, inde au-
xilia duceſque accerſuntur: quorum adventu, magna
cum auctoritate & magna cum hominum multitudine
bellum gerere conantur. Duces vers ii deliguntur, qui
una cum Q Sertorio omnes annos fuerant, ſummamque
ſcientiam rei militaris habere exiſtimabantur. Ii, con-
ſuetudine populi Romani, loca capere, caſtra munire,
commeatibus noſtros intercludere inſtituunt. Quod ubi
Craſſus animadvertit; ſuas copias propter exiguitatem
non facile diduci; hoftem & vagari, & vias obſidere,
& caſtris ſatis præſidii relinquere; ob eam cauſam minds
commodè frumentum commeatumque fibi ſupportari;
in dies hoſtium numerum augeri: non cunctandum exiſ-
timavit, quin pugna decertaret, Hac re ad concilium
delata; ubi omnes idem ſentire intellexit, poſterum diem
Pugnz conſtituit. |
XXV. Prima luce, productis omnibus copiis, duplici
acie inſtructà, auxiliiſque in mediam aciem conjectis;
quid hoſtes conſilii caperent, exſpectabat. IIli, etſi prop-
ter multitudinem, & veterem belli gloriam, paucita-
temque noſtrorum, ſe tutò dimicaturos exiſtimabant;
tamen tutius eſſe arbitrabantur, obſeſſis viis, commea-
tu intercluſo, fine ullo vulnere victoria potiri: & fi,
propter inopiam rei frumentariz, Romani ſeſe recipere
cœpiſſent; impeditos agmine, & ſub ſarcinis inferiores
animo, adoriri cogitabant. Hoc conſilio probato ab
ducibus; productis Romanorum copiis, ſeſe caſtris te-
nebant. 6
XXVI. Hac re perſpectà, Craſſus; quum ſua cuntta-
tio atque opinio timidiores hoſtes, noltros milites ala-
criores ad pugnandum effeciſſet; atque omnium voces
audirentur, exſpeCtari diutius non oportere, quin ad
caſtra iretur ; cohortatus ſuos, omnibus cupientibus, ad
hoſtium caſtra contendit. Ibi, quum alii foſſas com-
plerent; alii, multis telis conjectis, defenſores vallo mu-
nam
pe BEIIO GaLLtico Lis. III. 55
nam non multum Craſſus confidebat, lapidibus teliſque
ſubminiſtrandis, & ad aggerem ceſpitibus com portan-
dis, ſpeciem atque opinionem pugnantium præberent;
quum item ab hoſlibus conſtanter, ac non timidè, pug-
naretur; telaque ex loco ſuperiore miſſa, non fruſtra
acciderent; equites, circumitis hoſtium caſtris, Craſſo
renunciaverunt, nor eadem e diligentid ab Decuman&
rtã caſtra munita, facilemque aditum habere.
XXVII. Craſſus, equitum præfectos cohortatus, ut
magnis præmiis pollicitationibaſque ſuos excitarent;
quid fieri velit, oſtendit. Illi, ut erat imperatum, eductis
quatuor cohortibus, quæ, præſidio callris relictæ, inte-
græ ab labore erant; & longiore itinere circumductis,
ne ex hoſtium caſtris conſpiel poſſent; omnium oculis
mentibuſque ad pugnam intentis celeriter ad eas,
quas diximus, munitiones pervenerunt: atque his pro-
ruptis, priùs in hoſtium caſtris conſtiterunt, quam pla-
ne ab his videri, aut, quid rei gereretur, cognoſci poſ-
ſet. Tum verd, clamore ab ea parte audito; noſtri,
redintegratis viribus, quod plerumque in ſpe victoriæ
accidere conſuevit, acriùs impugnare cœperunt. Hol-
tes undique circumventi, deſperatis omnibus rebus, ſe
per munitiones dejicere, & tuga ſalutem petere con-
tenderunt. Quos equitatus apertiſſimis campis conſecta-
tus: ex millium L. numero, quz ex Aquitania Canta-
briſque veniſſe conſlabat, vix quarta parte relicta; multa
nocte ſe in caſtra recepit. |
XX VIII. Hac audita pugna ; maxima pars Aquitaniæ
ſeſe Craſſo dedidit, obfideſque ult:o mifit. Quo in nu-
mero fuerunt Tarbelli, Bigerriones, Preciani, Vocates,
Taruſates, Eluſates, Garites, Auſci, Garumni, Sibur-
zates, Cocoſateſque. - Paucæ ultimæ nationes, anni
tempore conſiſæ, quòd hyems ſuberat, id facere neg-
lexerunt.
XXIX. Eodem ferè tempore Cæſar, etſi propè exacta
Jam æſtas erat; tamen quod, omni Gallia pacata,
Morini Menapiique ſupererant, qui in armis eſſent, ne-
que ad eum umquam legatos de pace miſiſſent; arbi-
tratus id bellum celeriter confici poſſe, eo exercitum
adduxit, Qui longs alia ratione, ac reliqui Galli. bel-
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lum agere inſtituerunt. Nam, quod intelligebant max-
imas nationes quæ prcœlio contendiſſent, pulſas ſuper?-
taſque eſſe: continentẽſque ſylvas ac paludes habebant:
ed ſe, ſuaque omnia contulerunt. Ad quarum initium
ſylvarum quum perveniſſet Cæſar, eaſtraque munire in-
ſtituiſſet: neque hollis interim viſus eſſet: diſperſis in
opere noſtris, ſubitò ex omnibus partibus ſylvæ evola-
verunt, & in noſtros impetum fecerunt. Noſtri celeriter
arma ceperunt, eoſque in ſylvas repulerunt; &, com-
pluribus interfectis, longius impeditioribus locis ſecuti,
paucos ex ſuis deperdiderunt. |
XXX, Reliquis deinceps diebus, Cæſar ſylvas cædere
inſtituit: & ne quis inermibus imprudentibuſque mi-
litibus ab latere impetus fieri poſſet; omnem eam ma-
teriam, quz erat cæſa, converſam ad hoſtem collo-
cabat, & pro vallo ad utrumque latus exſtruebat. In-
credibili celeritate, magno ſpatio paucis diebus con-
fecto: quum jam pecus atque extrema impedimenta
ab noſtris tenerentur; ipſi denſiores ſylvas peterent;
ejuſmodi tempeſtates ſunt conſecutæ, uti opus neceſſa-
rid intermitteretur; & continuatione imbrium, diutius
ſub pellibus milites contineri non poſſent. Itaque, vaſ-
tatis omnibus eorum agris, vicis ædificiiſque ineenſis,
Cæſar exercitum reduxit; & in Aulercis Lexoviiſque,
reliquis item civitatibus, quæ proxime bellum fecerant,
in hy bernis collocavit.
.
J. E“ quæ ſecuta eſt, hyeme ; qui fuit annus Cn.
Pompeio, M. Craſſo Coſſ. Uſipetes Germani,
& item Tenchtheri, magna cum multitudine
hominum, flumen Rhenum tranſierunt; non longe
a mari, quo Rhenus influit, Cauſa tranſeundi fuit;
quod ab Suevis complures annos exagitati, bello pre-
mebantur, & agriculturà prohibebantur, 1
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pe BzLLo GaLLtico Lis. IV. 57
II. Suevorum gens eſt longe maxima & bellicoſiſſima
Germanorum omnium, Ji centum pagos habere dicun-
tur: ex quibus quotannis ſingula millia armatorum,
bellandi causa, fais ex finibus educunt; reliqui, qui
domi manent, pro ſe atque illis colunt: hi rurſus 1n-
vicem anno pdſt, in armis ſunt; illi domi remanent.
Sic neque agricultura, neque ratio atque uſus belli in-
termittitur. Sed privati ac ſeparati agri apud eos nihil
eſt: neque longiùs anno remanere uno in loco, eolen-
di causa, licet: neque multum frumento, ſed maximam
partem lacte atque pecore vivunt; multümque ſunt in
venationibus: que res & cibi genere, & quotidiana
exercitatione, & libertate vitz, (quod a pueris nullo
officio aut diſciplina aſſuefacti, nihil omnino contra vo-
luntatem faciant) & vires alit, & immani corporum
magnitudine eſficit. Atque in eam ſe conſuetadinem
adduxerunt, ut locis frigidiſſimis neque veſtitus, præter
pelles, habeant quidquam ; quarum propter exiguitatem,
magna eſt corporis pars aperta, & laventur in flumi-
nibus, Mercatoribus eſt ad eos aditus; mapis eò, ut,
quæ bello ceper:nt, quibus vendant, habeant; quam
quo ullam rem ad ſe 1mportart deſiderent. Quin etiam
jamentis, quibus maxime Galli delectantur, quzque
impenſo parant pretio; Germani importatis non utun-
tur; ſed, quæ ſunt apud eos nata prava atque defor-
mia, hzc quotidiana exercitatione, ſummi ut ſint labo-
Ms, ethciunt. Equeſtribus prœliis ſæpe ex equis deſi-
liunt, ac pedibus prœliantur; eoſque eodem remanere
veſtigio afſuefaciunt; ad quos ſe celeriter, quum uſus
tit, recipiunt: neque eorum moribus turpius quidquam,
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quemvis numerum ephippiatorum equitum, quamvis
pauci, adire audent. Vinum ad fe omnino importari
bon ſinunt; quod ea re ad laborem ferendum remolle-
ſcere homines, atque effeminari- arbitrantur. Publics
maximam putant eſſe laudem, quam latiſſimè a ſuis
nuibus vacare agros. Fac re fignificari ; magnum nu-
merum civitatum ſuam vim ſuſtinere non potuiſſe; Ita-
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III. Ad alteram partem ſuccedunt Ubii: quorum fuit
civitas ampla atque florens, ut eſt captus Germanorum;
& qui paullo ſunt ejuſdem generis etiam cæteris huma-
niores; propterea quòd Rhenum attingunt, multamque
ad eos mercatores ventitant, & ipſt propter propin-
quitatem Gallicis ſunt moribus aſſuefacti. Hos quum
Suevi, multis ſæpe bellis experti, propter amplitudinem
gravitatemque civitatis, finibus expellere non potuiſſent ;
tamen vectigales ſibi fecerunt, ac multo humiliores in-
firmiorẽſque redegerunt.
IV. In eadem causa fuerunt Uſipetes & Tenchtheri,
quos ſupra diximus: qui complures annos Suevorum
vim ſuſtinuerunt; ad extremum tamen agris expulſi, &
multis locis Germaniæ triennium vagati, ad Rhenum
pervenerunt: quas regiones Menapii incolebant; &, ad
utramque ripam fluminis, agros, ædificia, vicoſque ha-
bebant; ſed tantæ multitudinis adventu perterriti, ex
his ædificiis, quæ trans flumen habuerant, demigrave-
runt; & cis Rhenum diſpoſitis præſidiis, Germanos tranſ-
ire prohibebant. Illi, omnia experti: quum neque vi
contendere, propter inopiam navium; neque clam
tranſire, propter cuſtodias Menapiorum poſſent; revert
ſe in ſuas ſedes regioneſque ſimulaverunt; &, tridui
viam progreſſi, rurſus reverterunt; atque omni hoc itinere
una node equitatu confecto, inſcios inopinanteſque Me-
napios oppreſſerunt; = de Germanorum diſceſſu per
exploratores certiores facti, ſine metu trans Rhenum in
ſuos vicos remigraverant. His interfectis, navibuſque
eorum occupatis: priuſquam ea pars Menapiorum, quz
citra Rhenum erat, certior fieret ; flumen tranſierunt:
atque, omnibus eorum ædificiis occupatis, reliquam
partem hyemis ſe eorum-copiis aluerunt. |
V. His de rebus Cæſar certior factus, & infirmitatem
Gallorum veritus; quod ſunt in conſiliis capiendis mo-
biles, & novis plerumque rebus ſludent; nibil his
committendum exiſtimavit. Eſt autem hoc Gallicz
conſuetudinis; ut & viatores, etiam invitos, conſiltere
cogant; & quod quiſque eorum de quaque re audierit,
aut cognoverit, quærant: & mercatores in oppidis vul-
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que ibi res cognoverint, pronunciare cogant. His ru-
moribus atque auditionibus permoti, de ſummis ſæpe
rebus conſilia ineunt: quorum eos è veſtigio peenitere
neceſſe eſt; quum incertis rumoribus ſerviant; & pleri-
que ad volantatem eorum ficta reſpondeant. Qua con-
ſuetudine cognita, Cæſar, ne graviori bello occurreret ;
maturiùs quam conſueverat, ad exercitum proficiſcitur.
Ed quum veniſſet; ea, quæ fore ſuſpicatus erat, facta
cognovit: miſſas legationes a nonnullis civitatibus ad
Germanos; invitatoſque eos, uti ab Rheno diſcederent ;
omniaque, quæ poſtulaſſent, ab ſe fore parata. Qua ſpe
adducti Germani, latiùs jam vagabantur; & in fines
Eburonum & Condruſonum, qui Ge Trevirorum clien-
tes, pervenerant. Principibus Galliz evocatis; Cæſar ea,
quæ cognoverat, diſſimulanda fibi exiſtimavit: eorumque
animis permulſis & confirmatis, equitatiaque imperato,
bellum cum Germanis gerere conſtituit.
VI. Re frumentaria comparata, equitibuſque delectis;
iter in ea loca facere cœpit, quibus in locis Germa-
nos efſe audiebat: a quibus quum paucorum dierum
iter abeſſet; legati ad eum venerunt, quorum hc fuit
oratio; Germanos neque priores populo R. bellum inferre :
neque tamen recuſare, f laceſſantur, quit armis contendant ;
quod Germanorum conſuttudo hc fit a majoribus tradita ;
quicumque bellum inferant, reſiſtere, neque deprecari : hoc
tamen dicere; ven'fſe invitos, cjectos domo. Si ſuam pratiam
Romani welint, peſſe eis utiles efſe amicos. Vel fibi agros at-
tribuant ; vel patiantur tenere eos, qurs armis pofſederint,
Seſe unis Suevis concedere, quibus ne dit quidem immortales
fares eſſe paint religuum quidem in terris eſſe neminem,
quem non ſuperare poſ/int. Ad hæe Cæſar, que viſum eſt,
reſpondit. Sed exitus fuit crationis : bi nullam cum his
amicitiam , paſje, ſi in Gallia remanerent : neque verum
ee, gui fuos fines tueri non potuerint, alienos occupare r ne.
gue ullos in Gallid vacare agros, qui dari tantæ præſertim
multitudini fine injurid poſſint : ſed licere, ſi velint, in Ubi-
orum finibus con ſid re; quorum fint legati apud ſe, & de
due worum injuriis gucrantur, & a je auxilium petant : hoc
fe ab Ubiis impetraturum. Legati hzc ſe ad ſuos relatu-
ros dixerunt ; &, re deliberata, poſt diem tertium ad
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Cæſarem reverſuros: interea ne propiùs ſe caſtra move-
ret, petierunt. Ne id quidem Cæſar ab ſe impetrari
poſle dixit: cognoverat enim magnam partem equita-
tus ab 1is aliquot diebus ante, prædandi frumentandique
causa, ad Ambivaritos trans Moſam miſſam: hos ex-
ſpectari equites, atque ejus rei causa moram interponi,
arbitrabatur.
VII. Moſa profluit ex monte Vogeſo, qui eſt in finibus
Lingonum ; & parte quadam Rheni recepta, quæ ap-
pellatur Vhalis, inſulam efficit Batavorum ; neque lon-
giùs ab eo milibus paſſuum Lxxx in Oceanum tranſit.
Rhenus autem oritur ex Lepontiis, qui Alpes incolunt ;
& longo ſpatio per fines Nantuatium., Helvetiorum,
Sequanorum, Mediomatricorum, Tribocorum, Treviro-
rümque citatus fertur: &, ubi Oceano appropinquat,
in plures difluit partes, multis ingentibaſque inſulis
effectis, quarum pars magna a feris barbariſque natio-
nibus colitur, (ex quibus ſunt, qui piſcibus, atque ovis
_ avium vivere exiſtimantur) — capitibus in Ocea-
num influit..
VIII. Cæſar quum ab hoſte non amplius paſſuum x11
millibus abeſſet; ut erat conſtitutum, ad eum legati re-
vertuntur: qui in itinere congreſſi, magnopere, ne /ongius
pregrederetur, orabant. Quum id non impetraſſent: pete-
bant, ali ad eos equiles, qui agmen anteceſſifſent, pramitte-
ret; ec/que pugna prohiberet : fabique uti poteſtatem factret,
in Ubios legates mittendi : quorum fi principes ac ſenatus fibi
Jurejurando fidem feciſſent; ed conditione, que a Ca/art
ferretur, ſe uſuros eftendebant ad has res conficiendasy jib:
tridui ſpatium daret. Hæc omnia Ceſar eodem illo per-
tinere arbitrabatur, ut, trid ui mora jnterpoſff. equites
eorum, qui abeſſent, reverterentur. Tamen /e/e non lin-
gius millibus paſſuum Iv, aguationis causd, procefſurum es
die dixit: Luc peſtero die quam frequentif/imi corvenirent, ut
die eorum paſtulatis cognoſceret. Interim ad præfectos, qui
cum omni equitatu anteceſſerant, mittit qui nunciarent
ne hoſtes prœlio laceſſerent; &, ſi ipſi laceſſerentur, ſuſ-
tinerent, quoad ipſe eum exercitu propius acceſſiſſet.
IX. At hoſtes, ubi primùm noſtros equites conſpexe-
runt, quorum v millium erat numerus; quum ipfi non
| | ; * amplius
pz BerLo GaTIIco Lis, IV. 62
amplius pccc equites haberent: quod ii, qui fiumen-
tandi causa ierant trans Moſam, nondum redierant
nihil noſtris timentibus, qudd legati eorum paulld ant&
à Cæſare diſceſſerant, atque is dies induciis erat ab is
petitus ; impetu facto, celeriter noſtros perturbaverunt:
rurſus reſiſtentibus noſtris ; conſuetudine ſua, ad pedes
deſilierunt: ſuffoſsiſque equis, compluribuſque noftris
dejectis, reliquos in fugam conjecerunt; atque ita per-
territos egerunt, ut non priùs fuga deſiſterent quam in
conſpectum agminis noſtri veniſſent. In eo prœlio, ex
equitibus noftris interficiuntur wv & LxX: in his vir
fortiſſimus Piſo Aquitanus, ampliſſimo genere natus,
cujus avus in civitate ſua regnum obtinuerat, amicus
ab ſenatu noſtro appellatus. Hie, quum fratri inter-
cluſo ab hoſtibus auxilium ferret, illum ex periculo eri-
puit; ipſe, equo vulnerato, dejectus, quoad potuit, for-
tifime reſtitit. Quum circumventus, multis vulneribus
acceptis, cecidiſſet: atque id frater, qui jam prælio
exceſſerat, procul animadvertifſet; incitato equo, ſeſe
hoſtibus obtulit, atque interfectus eſt. |
X. Hoc prelio facto; Cæſar neque jam fibi legatos
audiendos, neque conditiones accipiendas arbitrabatur
ab iis, qui, per dolum atque inſidias petità pace, ultro
bellum intuliſſent. Exſpectare verò dum hoſtium copiæ
augerentur, equitatuſque reverteretur; ſummæ dementiæ
elle judicabat: &, cognita Gallorum infirmitate ; quan-
tum jam, apud eos, hoſtes uno prœlio auctoritatis eſſent
conſecuti, ſentiebat: quibus, ad conhlia capienda, nihil
ſpatii dandum exiſtimabat. His conſtitutis rebus; & con-
ſlio cum Jegatis & quæſtore communicato, ne quem diem
pugnæ infermitteret : opportuniſſima res accidit ; qudd
poltridie ejus diei mane, eadem & perfidiz & fimula-
tione uſi Germani, frequentes, omnibus principibus ma-
pribaſque natu adhibitis, ad eum in caftra venerunt ;
fimul, ut dicebatur, ſui purgandi caus#, quod, contra
atque eſſet diftum, & ipſi petĩſſent, prœlium pridie com-
miſiſſent; ſimul, ut, fi quid poſſent, de induciis fallendo
impetrarent. Quos ſibi Cæſar oblatos gaviſus, retineri
juſſit: ipſe omnes copias caſtris eduxit; equitatum, quod
recenti prœlio perterritum eſſe exiſtimabat, agmen ſub-
ſequi juſſit. | XI.
. Jar c 454118
XI. Acie triplici inſtructà, & celeriter viii millium
itinere confecto; priùs ad hoſtium caſtra pervenit, quam,
quid ageretur, Germani ſentire poſſent: qui, omnibus
rebus ſubitò perterriti, & celeritate adventũs noſtri, &
diſceſſu ſuorum; neque conſilii habendi, neque arma
capiendi ſpatio dato; perturbantur, copiaſne adversùs
hoſtem educere, an caſtra defendere, an fuga ſalutem
petere, præſtaret. Quorum timor quum fremitu & con-
eurſu fignificaretur ; milites noſtri, priſtini diei perfidia
incitati, in caſtra irruperunt; quo in loco qui celeriter
arma capere potuerunt, paulliſper noſtris reſtiterunt,
atque inter carros impedimentaque prœlium commiſe-
runt: at reliqua multitudo puerorum mulieramque,
(nam cum omnibus ſuis domo exceſſerant, Rhenumque
tranſierant) paſſim fugere ccœpit: ad quos conſectandos,
Czſar equitatum miſit. |
XII. Germani, poſt tergum clamore audito; quum
ſuos interfici viderent; armis abjectis, ſigniſque mili-
taribus relictis, ſe ex caſtris ejecerunt: & quum ad
confluentem Moſæ & Rheni perveniſſent; reliqua fugi
deſperata, magno numero interfecto, reliqui ſe in fu-
men præcipitaverunt: atque ibi timore, Jaſſitudine, &
vi fluminis oppreſſi, perierunt. Noſtri ad unum omnes
incolumes, perpaucis vulneratis, ex tanti belli timore,
uum hoſtium numerus capitum ccc e xxx millium fuiſ-
t, ſe in caſtra receperunt. Cæſar iis, quos in caſtris re-
tinuerat, diſcedendi poteſtatem fecit. Illi ſupplicia cruci-
ataſque Gallorum veriti, quorum agros. vexaverant; re-
manere ſe apud eum velle dixerunt. lis Cæſar liberta-
tem conceſſit.
XIII. Germanico bello confecto, multis de cauſis Cæ-
ſar ſtatuit ſibi Rhenum eſſe tranſeundum; quarum illa
fuit juſtiſſima; quod, quum videret Germanos tam facile
impelli, ut in Galliam venirent ; ſuis quoque rebus eos
timere voluit, quum intelligerent & poſſe & andere po-
puli R. exercitum Rhenum tranſire. Acceflit etiam quod
illa pars equitatũs Ufipetum & Tenchtherorum, quam
ſupra commemoravi prædandi frumentandique caut
Moſam transiſſe, neque prœlio interfuiſſe; poſt fogam
ſuorum ſe trans Rhenum in fines Sigambrorum 1
eque
pz. BELLO GALLIcO Lis. IV. 63
ſeque cum iis conjunxerat. Ad quos quum Cæſar nun-
cios miſiſſet, qui poſtularent, eos gui fibi Galliægue bel-
lum intuliſſent, uti fibi dederent; reſponderunt: Populi
Romani imperium, Rhenum finire : fi, ſe invito, Germano:
in Galliam tranfire non a&quum exiſlimaret ; cur ſui quids
uam efſe imperii aut poteſlatis trans Rhenum poſtularet ?
XVI. Ubii autem; qui uni ex tranſrhenanis ad Cæſa-
rem legatos miſerant, amicitiam fecerant, obſides dede-
rant; magnopere orabant : Ut fbi auxilium ferret, quod
graviter ab Suevis premerentur ; vel fi id facere occupatio-
nibus Reipubl. prohiberetur, exercitum modo Rhenum tranſ-
portaret : id fibi ad anxilium, ſpemgue reliqui temporis, ſatis
futurum: tantum efſe nomen atque opinionem exercitũt Ro-
mani, Arioviſlo pulſo, & hic noviſſimo prelio facto, etiam
ad ultimas Germanorum nationes ; uti opinione & amicitia
populi Romani tuti efſe prfſint. Navium mag nam copiam
ad tranſportandum exercitum pollicebantur, 8
XV. Cæſar his de cauſis, quas commemoravi, Rhenum
tranſire decreverat. Sed navibus tranſire neque ſatis tu-
tum eſſe arbitrabatur, neque ſuæ neque populi Romani
dignitatis eſſe ſtatuebat. Itaque, etſi ſumma difficultas
faciundi pontis proponebatur, propter latitudinem, rapi-
ditatem, altitudinemque fluminis; tamen 1d fibi conten-
dendum, aut aliter non tranſducendum exercitum, exiſti-
mabat. Rationem pontis igitur hanc inſtituit. Tigna
bina ſeſquipedalia, paullum ab imo præacuta, dimenſa
ad altitudinem fluminis, intervallo pedum duorum inter
ſe jungebat. Hæc cum machinationibus demiſſa in flu-
men defixerat, fiſtuciſque adegerat; non, ſublicæ modo,
directa ad perpendiculum; ſed prona, ac faſtigiata, ut
ſecundùm naturam fluminis procumberent. His item
contraria duo ad eundem modum juncta, intervallo pe-
dum quadragenùm, ab inferiore parte contra vim atque
impetum fluminis converſa ſtatuebat. Hzc utraque
bipedalibus trabibus immiſis quantum eorum tignorum
junctura diſtabat, binis utrimque, fibulis ab extrema parte
diſtinebantur : quibus diſcluſis, atque in contrariam par-
tem revinctis; tanta erat operis firmitudo, atque ea re-
rum natura; ut, quo major vis aquz ſe incitaviſſet, hoc
arctis illigata tenerentur. Hæc direaa materia injeQa
contexe -
64 \C.Forrit CASA1 187
contexebantur, ac longuriis cratibaſque confternebantur:
Ac nihilo ſecius ſublicæ ad inferiorem partem fluminis
oblique adigebantur; quæ, pro pariere ſubjectæ, & cum
omni opere eonjunctæ, vim fluminis exciperent, Et aliæ
item ſupra pontem, medioeri ſpatio: ut, fi arborum trun-
ci, ſive naves, dejiciendi operis causa, eſſent a barbaris
miſſz ; his defenſoribus earum vis minueretur, neu ponti
nocerent. 8 8 |
XVI. Diebus x, quibus materia ccepta erat compor-
tari, omni opere effecto, exercitus tranſducitur. Cæſar,
ad utramque partem pontis firmo præſidio relicto, in
fines Sigambrorum contendit. Interim Aa compluribus
civititibus ad eum legati veniunt; quibus pacem atque
amicitiam petentibus, liberaliter reſpondit, obfideſque
ad ſe adduci jubet. Sigambri ex eo tempore, quo pons
inſtitui ccoptus eſt, - fuga comparatà; hortantibus iis,
uos ex Tenchtheris atque Uſipetibus apud ſe habebant;
Anibus ſuis exceſſerant, ſuaque omnia ex portaverant, (c-
que in ſolitudinem ac ſylvas abdidetant. |
XVII. Czfar paucos dies in eorum -finibus moratus ;
omnibus vicis ædificiiſque incenſis, frumentiſque ſucci-
fis, ſe in fines Ubiorum recepit : atque his auxilium
ſuum pollieitus, fi à Suevis premerentur; hæc ab iis
cognovit 7 Suevos, poſtquam per exploratores pontem
fieri eomperiſſent, more ſuo, confilio habito, nuncios
in omnes partes miſiſſe; uti de oppidis demigrarent ;
liberos, uxores, ſuaque omnia in ſylvis deponerent ; at-
que omnes, qui arma ferre poſſent, unum in locum
convenirent: hunc eſſe delectum medium ferè regionum
earum, quas Suevi obtinerent: ibi Roni#horum adven-
tum exſpectate, atque ibi decertare &nfiituilſe. Quod
ubi Czar comperit: omnibus his rebus confectis, qua-
rum rerum causa exercitum tranſduce re conſtituerat ; ut
Germanis metum injiceret, * Sigambros ulciſceretur,
ut Ubios obſidione liberaret ; Tiebus omnino xv 111 trans
Rhenum conſumptis, fa!is'& ad laadem & ad- utilitatem
profectum arbitratus, ſe in Galliam. recepit, pontẽmque
reſcidit ry DOT r
XVIII. Exigua' parte æſtatis reliqua, Cæſar; etſi in
is locis, qudd omnis Gallia ad Szptemtrionem vergit,
matur#
ve Bello GaLLico Lis. IV. 65
maturæ ſant hyemes; tamen in Britanniam proficiſci
contendit 3 quòd omnibus ferè Gallicis bellis, hoſtibus
noſtris inde ſubminiſtrata auxillia intelligebat: &, fi
tempus anni ad bellum gerendum deficeret ; tamen
magno ſibi uſui fore arbitrabatur, fi modò inſulam ad
iſſet; genus hominum perſpexiſſet; loca, portus, adi-
tus cognoviſſet; quæ omnia ferè Gallis erant incogni-
ta: neque enim temere, præter mercatores, illò adit
quiſquam; neque iis ipſis quidquam, præter oram ma-
ritimam, atque eas regiones, quæ ſunt contra Galliam,
notum eſt. Itaque, convocatis ad ſe undique mercatori-
bus; neque quanta eſſet inſulæ magnitudo; —— ure,
aut quantæ nationes incolerent; neque quem uſum belli
haberent, aut quibus inſtitutis uterentur; neque qui eſſent
ad majorum navium multitudinem idonei portus; reperi-
re poterat. Ad hæc copnoſcenda, priùs quam periculum
faceret, idoneum eſſe arbitratus, C. Voluſenum cum na-
vi longa præmittit. Huic mandat, ut, exploratis omni-
bus rebus, ad ſe quam primam revertatur, Ipſe, cum
omnibus copiis, in Morinos proficiſcitur ; qudd inde
erat breviſſimus in Britanniam transjectus: Lud naves
undique ex finitimis regionibus, & quam ſuperiore
æſtate ad Veneticum bellum fecerat claſſem, jubet con-
venire. 8
XIX. Interim, conſilio ejus cognito, & per mercatores
perlato ad Britannos; à compluribus ejus inſulæ civitati ·
bus ad eum legati veniunt, qui polliceantur, obſides dare,
atque imperio populi R. obtemperare. Quibus auditis;
liberaliter polliciggs, hortatũſque, ut in ea ſententia per-
manerent, eos domum remiſit: & cum his unà Comium,
quem ipſe, Atrebatibus ſuperatis, regem ibi conſtituerat;
cujus & virtutem & conſilium probabat, & quem ſibi fi-
delem arbitrabatur, cujuſque auctoritas in his regionibus
magna habebatur; mittit. Huic imperat; quas poſlit,
adeat civitates; horteturque, ut populi R. fidem ſequan-
tur: ſeque celeriter ed venturum nunciet. Voluſenus,
perſpectis regionibus; quantum ei facultatis dari potuit,
qui navi egredi ac ſe barbaris committere non auderet;
v die ad Cæſarem revertitur; quæque ibi perſpexiſſet,
tenunciat. |
XX,
66 C. Jutirt Ca$SARIS
XX. Dum in his locis Cæſar, navium parandarum
causa, moratur; ex magna parte. Morinorum legati ad
eum venerunt, qui fe de ſuperioris temporis confilio
excuſarent; quod homines barbari, & noſtræ conſuetu-
dinis imperiti, bellum populo Rom. feciſſent: ſeque
ea, quz imperaſſet, facturos pollicerentur. Hoc ſibi
ſatis opportune Cæſar accidiſſe arbitratus; quod ne-
que polt tergum hoſtem relinquere volebat; neque
belli gerendi, propter anni tempus, facultatem habe-
bat; neque has tantularum rerum occupationes ſibi
Britanniæ anteponendas judicabat; magnum his no-
merum obfidum imperat : quibus adductis, eos in f-
dem recepit. Navibus circuer IXxxx onerariis coactis
contractiſque, quod ſatis eſſe ad duas legiones tranſ-
portandas exiſtimabat ; quidquid præterea navium lon-
habebat, quæſtori, legatis, præfectiſque diſtribuit,
uc accedebant xvii: onerariæ naves; quæ ex eo
loco millibus paſſuum viii vento tenebantur, qud mi-
nus in eundem portum pervenire poſſent. Has equi-
tibus diſtribuit; reliquum exercitum Q. Titurio Sabino
& L. Aurunculeio Cottæ legatis, in Menapios, atque in
eos pagos Morinorum, ab quibus ad eum legati non
venerant, deducendum dedit. P. Sulpicium Rufum le-
gatum cum eo præſidio, quod fatis eſſe arbitrabatur,
portum tenere juſſit. ; :
XXI. His conſtitutis rebus, nactus idoneam ad nav
gandum tempeſtatem, tertia fere vigilia ſolvit; equi-
I teſque in ulteriorem portum progredi, & naves con-
5 ſcendere, ac ſe ſequi, juſſit: ab quibus quum id paul-
if Id tardids eſſet adminiſtratum, ipſe hora circiter diei
Ml Iv cum primis navibus Britanniam attigit; atque di
in omnibus collibus expoſitas hoſtium copias armatas
conſpexit. Cujus loci hæc erat natura! adeo monti-
bus anguſtis mare continebatur, uti ex locis ſuperior'-
bus in littus telum adjici poſſet. Hunc ad egredien-
dum locum nequaquam idoneum arbitratus: dum reli-
naves ed convenirent, ad horam 1x in anchor
exſpectavit. Interim legatis tribuniſque militum con.
vocatis; & quæ ex Voluſeno cognoviſſet, & quæ her!
vellet, oſtendit: monuitque, (ut rei militaris 2
HOT max
F b
*
pz BI Lo GaLLico Lis, IV. 67
maxime ut res maritime poſtularent, ut quæ celerem
atque inſtabilem motum haberent) ad nutum & ad
tempus omnes res ab iis adminiſtrarentur. His dimii-
ſis; & ventum & æſtum uno tempore naRus ſecundum z ,
dato ſigno, & ſublatis anchoris, circiter millia paſſuum
v111 ab eo loco progreſſus, aperto ac plano littore naves
conſtituit.
XXII. At barbari, conſilio Romanorum copnito z
præmiſſo equitatu & eſſedariis, quo plerumque genere
in prœliis uti conſuerunt ; reliquis copiis ſubſecuti, no-
ſtros navibus egredi prohibebant. Erat ob has cauſas
ſumma difficultas; qudd naves propter magnitudinem,
niſi in alto conſtitui non poterant; militibus autem,
ignotis locis, impeditis manibus, magno & gravi onere
armorum preſſis, ſimu] & de navibus defiliendum, &
flactibus confiſtendum, & cum hoſtibus erat pugnan-
dum; quum illi aut ex arido, aut paullulum in —
progreſſi, omnibus membris expediti, notiſſimis locis,
rela audacter conjicerent, & equos inſuefactos incita -
rent, Quibus rebus noſtri perterriti; atque hujus om-
nino 22 pugnæ imperiti; non eadem alacritate
ac ſtudio, quo in pedeſtribus uti preeliis conſueverant,
utebantur, |
| XXIII. Quod ubi Cæſar animadvertit; naves longas,
quarum & ſpecies erat barbaris inufitatior, & motus
ad uſum expeditior, paullulim removeri ab onerariis
, navibus, & remis incitari, & ad latus apertum hoſti-
- um conſtitui; atque inde: fundis, tormentis, ſagittis,
. hoſtes propelli ac ſubmoveri, juſſit. Que res magno
uſui noſtris fuit : nam & navium figura, & remorum
motu, & inuſitato genere tormentorum, permoti bar-
bari; conſtiterunt; ac paullùm modò pedem retulerunt.
Atque, noſtris militibus cunctantibus, maxime propter
altitudinem maris: qui x legionis aquilam ferebat, con-
teſtatus deos, ut ea res legioni feliciter eveniret; de+
lite, inquit, milites, niſi vullis aquilam hoſlibus prodere ;
ego certè meum Reipub. atque Imperatori officium preeflite«
70. Hoc quum magna voce dixiſſet; ſe ex navi proje-
cit, atque in hoſtes aquilam ferre cœpit. Tum noſtri
cohortati inter ſe, ne tantum dedecus admitteretur 3
univerſi
68 C. Jutirt CaSARIS
univerſi ex navi defilierunt: hos item alii ex proximis
primis navibus, quum conſpexiſſent, ſubſecuti ; hoſtibus
appropinquarunt. | |
XXIV. Pugnatum eſt ab utriſque acriter. Noſtri ta-
men; quòd neque ordines ſervare, neque firmiter in-
fiſtere, neque ſigna ſubſequi poterant; atque alius alis
ex navi, quibuſcumque ſignis occurrerat, fe aggrega-
bat; magnopere perturbabantur. Hoſtes vero notis
omnibus vadis: b ex littore aliquos ſingulares ex
navi egredientes conſpexerant; incitatis equis, impe-
ditos adoriebantur: plures paucos circumſtabant : alii
ab latere aperto, in univerſos tela conjiciebant. Quod
quum animadvertiſſet Cæſar; ſcaphas longarum navi-
um, item ſpeculatoria navigia, militibus compleri juſſit:
&, quos laborantes conſpexerat, its ſubfidia ſubmitte-
bat. Noſtri, ſimul in arido conſtiterunt, ſuis omnibus
conſecutis, in hoſtes impetum fecerunt; atque eos in
fugam dederunt ; neque longius proſequi potuerunt,
quod equites curſum tenere atque inſulam capere non
potuerant. Hoc unum ad priſtinam fortunam Czar
defuit. KC .
XXV. Hoſtes preelio ſuperati, ſimul atque ſe ex fuga
receperunt, ſtatim ad Cæſarem legatos Fa pace mije-
runt : Obfides daturos; quegue imperafet, ſeſe fatturcs,
polliciti ſunt, Una cum his legatis Comius Atrebas
venit, quem ſupra demonſtraveram a Czfare in Britan-
niam præmiſſum. 'Hunc illi è navi egreſſum, quum ad
eos Imperatoris mandata deferret, comprehenderant,
atque in vincula conjecerant : tune, facto preelio, re-
miſerunt; &, in petenda pace, ejus rei culpam in mul-
titudinem contulerunt; &, propter imprudentiam, ut
ignoſceretur, petiverunt. Cæſar queſtus, quòd, quum
ultro in continentem legatis miſſis pacem a ſe petil-
ſent, bellum fine causa intuliſſent; ignoſcere impru-
dentiæ dixit, obſideſque imperavit : quorum illi partem
ſtatim dederunt, partem ex longinquioribus locis ac-
cerfitam paucis diebus ſeſe daturos dixerunt. Intefea
ſuos remigrare in agros juſſerunt ; -principeſque undi.
que convenere, & ſe civitateſque ſuas Cæſari com
mendarunt. | |
XXVI.
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l
ve BgLLo GaLtico Lis, IV. 69
XXVI. His rebus pace firmata ; poſt diem ry, 2
eſt in Britanniam ventum, naves XV111, de quibus fupra
demonſtratum eſt, quæ equites ſuſtulerant, ex ſuperi-
ore portu leni vento ſolverunt : quæ quum appropin-
quarent Britanniæ, & ex caſtris viderentur; tanta tem-
peſtas ſubitò coorta eſt, ut nulla earum curſum tenere
poſſet ; ſed aliæ eodem, unde erant profectæ, refer -
rentur ; aliz ad inferiorem partem inſulæ, quz eſt pro-
pits Solis occaſum, magno ſui cum periculo dejice-
rentur. Que tamen, anchoris jactis cam fluctibus com-
plerentur, neceſſario, adversa nocte in altum provectæ,
continentem petiverunt. Eadem nocte accidit, ut eſſet
luna plena; quæ dies maritimos æſtus maximos in
Oceano efficere conſuevit; noſtriſque id erat incognitum.
Ita uno tempore & longas naves, quibus Cæſar exer-
citum tranſportandum curaverat, quaſque' in aridum
ſubduxerat, æſtus complebat; & onerarias, quæ ad
anchoras erant deligatæ, tempeſtas afflitabat ; neque
ulla noſtris facultas aut adminiſtrandi, aut auxiliandi
dabatur. Compluribus navibus fractis; reliquæ quum
eſſent, funibus, anchoris, reliquiſque armamentis amiſſis,
ad navigandum inutiles; magna, id quod neceſſe
erat accidere, totius exercitis perturbatio facta eſt.
Neque enim naves erant aliæ, quibus reportari poſſent;
& omnia deerant, quæ ad reficiendas naves eſſent uſui;
&, quod omnibus conſtabat hyemare in Gallia opor-
tere, frumentum his in locis in hyemem proviſum non
erat, |
XXVII. Quibus rebus cognitis ; principes Britanniz,
qui poſt prœlium ad ea quæ juſlerat Cæſar facienda con-
venerant, inter ſe collocuti; quum equites, & naves, &
frumentum Romanis deeſſe intelligerent; & paucitatem
militum ex caſtrorum exiguitate cog noſcerent; quæ hoc
erant etiam anguſtiora, quòd ſine impedimentis Cæſar
legiones tranſportaverat: optimum factu eſſe duxerun?,
rebellione factà, frumento commeatuque noſtros prohi-
bere, & rem in hyemem producere; qudd, his ſuperatis,
aut reditu intereluſis, neminem poltea belli inferendi
causa in Britanniam tranſiturum confidebant. Itaque,
rurſus conjuratione facta, paullatim ex caſtris diſcedere,
ac
70 C. JULI Ca$SAaRis
ac ſuos clam ex agris deducere cœperunt. At Cæſar,
etſi nondum eorum conſilia cognoverat; tamen & ex
eventu navium ſuarum, & ex eo quòd obſides dare in-
termiſerant, fore id, quod accidit, ſuſpicabatur. Itaque
ad omnes caſus ſubſidia comparabat: nam & frumentum
ex agris in caſtra quotidie conferebat; &, quæ graviſſimè
afflictæ erant naves, earum materia atque zre ad reli-
quas reficiendas utebatur ; &, quæ ad eas res erant uſui,
ex continenti comportari jubebat. Itaque, quum id
ſummo ſtudio a militibus adminiftraretur ; x11 navibus
amiſſis, reliquis ut navigari commode poſſet, effecit.
XX VII. Dum ea geruntur ; legione, ex conſuetudine,
una frumentatum miſsa, quæ appellabatur vil, neque
ulla ad id tempus belli ſuſpicione interpoſita ; quum
pars hominum in agris remaneret, pars etiam in ca-
{tra ventitaret : ii, qui pro portis caſtrorum in ſtatione
erant, Cæſari renunciaverunt; pulverem majorem, quam
conſuetudo ferret, in ea parte videri, quam in partem
legio iter feciſſet. Cæſar, id quod erat, ſuſpicatus ali-
quid novi a barbaris initum conſilii;* cohortes, quæ
in ſtationibus erant, ſecum in eam partem proficilci ;
duas, in flationem ſuccedere; reliquas armari, & con-
feſtim ſe ſubſequi, juſſit. Quum paullò longiùs à ca-
ſtris proceſſiſſet; ſuos ab hoſtibus premi, atque ægte
ſuſtinere, & conferta legione ex omnibus parubus tela
conjici animadvertit. Nam quod omni ex reliquis
partibus demeſſo frumento, una pars erat reliqua ; ſuſ-
picati hoſtes huc noſtros eſſe venturos, noctu in ſylvis
delituerant : tum diſperſos, depoſitis armis, in metendo
occupatos ſubito adorti ; paucis interfectis, reliquos in-
certis ordinibus perturbaverant: ſimul, equitatu atque
eſſedis circumdederan:.
XXIX. Genus hoc eſt ex eſſedis pugnz : primo per
omnes partes perequitant, & tela conjiciunt; atque ip-
ſo terrore equorum, & ſtrepitu rotarum, ordines ple-
rumque perturbant: & quum ſe inter equitum turmas
inſinuavere: ex eſſedis deſiliunt, & pedibus prœliantul.
Aurigæ interim paullùm è prœlio excedunt, atque ita ſe
collocant, ut, fi illi a multitudine hoſtium premantur,
expeditum ad ſuos receptum habeant. Ita, mob!lita-
tem
4
vs BELILO Garrico Lis, IV. 71
tem equitum, ſtabilitatem peditum, in preeliis præſtant 3
ac tantum uſu quotidiano & exercitatione efficiunt, ut
in declivi ac przcipiti loco incitatos equos ſuſtinere, &
brevi moderari ac flectere, & per temonem percurrere,
& in jugo inſiſtere, & inde ſe in currus citiſſimè recipere,
conſueverint.
XXX. Quibus rebus, perturbatis noſtros novitate pug-
nz, tempore opportuniſimo Cæſar auxilium tulit ; nam-
ve ejus adventu hoſtes conſtiterunt, noſtri ex timore
22 Quo facto: ad laceſſendum hoſtem, &
committendum prœlium, alienum eſſe tempus arbitra-
tus; ſuo ſe loco continuit: &, brevi tempore intermiſ-
ſo, in caſtra legiones reduxit. Dum hc geruntur :
noſtris omnibus occupatis; qui erant in agris reliqui,
diſceſſerunt. Secutæ ſunt, continuos dies complures,
tempeſtates ; quæ & noſtros in caſtris continerent, &
hoſtem a pugnã prohiberent. Interim barbari nuncios
in omnes partes dimiſerunt; paucitatemque noſtrorum
militum ſuis predicaverunt ; &, quanta prædæ facien-
dz atque in perpetuum ſui liberandi facultas daretur,
fi Romanos caſtris expuliſſent, demonſtraverunt. His
rebus celeriter magna multitudine peditatũs equitatũſque
coactà, ad caſtra venerunt.
XXXI. Cæſar, etſi idem, quod ſuperioribus diebus
acciderat, fore videbat; ut, ſi eſſent hoſtes pulſi, celeri-
tate periculum effugerent; tamen nactus equites circi-
ter xxx, quos Comius Atrebas, de quo antè dictum
eſt, ſecum tranſportaverat; legiones in acie pro caſtris
conſtituit. Commiſſo prœlio, diutius noſtrorum mili-
tum impetum hoſtes ferre non potuerunt, ac terga ver-
terunt: quos tanto ſpatio ſecuti, quantum curſu & viri-
bus efficere potuerunt,; complures ex 1is occiderunt; de-
inde, omnibus longe latẽque ædificiis adflictis incensiſ-
que, ſe in caſtra receperunt.
XXXII. Eodem die legati ab hoſtibus miſſi ad Cæ-
farem de pace venerunt. His Cæſar numerum obſi-
dum quem antea imperaverat, duplicavit; eoſque in
continentem adduci juſſit; quòd, propinqua die æqui-
noctii, infirmis navibus, hyemi navigationem ſubjicien-
Km non exiſtimabat. Ipſe idoneam tempeftatem
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nactus, paullò poſt mediam noctem naves ſolvit; qua:
omnes incolumes ad continentem pervenerunt: ex his
onerariz 11 eoſdem portus, quos reliquæ, capere non
potuerunt ; ſed paullo infra delatæ ſunt.
XXXIII. Quibus ex navibus quum eſſent expoſiti mi-
lites circiter ccc, atque in caſtra contenderent; Morini,
quos Cæſar in Britanniam proficiſcens pacatos relique-
rat, ſpe prædæ adducti, primo non ita magno ſuorum
numero circumſteterunt; ac, ſi ſeſe interfici nollent,
arma ponere juſſerunt. Quum illi, orbe facto, ſeſe
defenderent; celeriter ad clamorem hominum circiter
millia vi convenerunt. Qua re nunciata, Cæſar om-
nem ex caſtris equitatum ſuis auxilio miſit. Interim
noſtri milites impetum hoſtium ſuſtinuerunt ; atque ho-
ris ampliùs 1v fortiſime pugnaverunt; &, paucis vul-
neribus acceptis, complures ex 1is occiderunt. Poſtea
verò quam equitatus noſter in conſpectum venit ; ho-
ſtes, abjectis armis, terga verterunt; magnũſque eorum
numerus eſt occiſus.
XXXIV. Cæſar poſtero die T. Labienum legatum
cum iis legionibus quas ex Britannia reduxerat, in |
Morinos, qui rebellionem fecerant, mifit : qui quum
66.699 ſiccitates paludum, quo ſe reciperent, non ha- i
erent; quo perfugio ſuperiore anno fuerant uſi; om- t
nes ferè in poteſtatem Labieni venerunt. At Q. li- c
turius & L. Cotta legati, qui in Menapiorum fines te
legiones duxerant; omnibus eorum agris vaſtatis, fru- ju
mentis ſucciſis, ædificiiſque incenſis, quod Menapi ty
omnes ſe in denſiſſimas ſylvas abdiderant; ad Czla- 2
rem ſe receperunt. Cæſar in Belgis omnium legionum by
hyberna conſtituit. Eo duæ omnino civitates ex Britan- C:
na obſdes miſerunt; reliquz neglexerunt. His revus Jul
geſtis, ex litteris Cæſaris, dierum xx ſupplicatio a ſe- tur
ver
natu decreta ck,
LIBER
pz BELLo GaLLico Lis. V. 73
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1. IBR Vs!
I. T UCIO Domitio, Ap. Claudio Coſſ. diſcedens
ab hybernis Czſar in Italiam, ut quotannis
facere inſtituerat; legatis imperat, quos legi-
onibus prefecerat, ut quam plurimas poſſent hyeme
naves ædificandas, vetereſque reficiendas curarent. Ea-
rum modum, formamque demonſtrat. Ad celeritatem
onerandi ſubduQtioneſque, paullò facit humiliores,
quam quibus in noſtro mari uti conſuevimus; atque id
ed magls, quòd . crebras commutationes æſtuum
minus magnos ibi fluctus fieri cognoverat ; ad onera,
& ad multitudinem jumentorum tranſportandam paulld
latiores, quam quibus in reliquis utimur maribus. Has
omnes, aQtuarias imperat fier1 : quam ad rem multum
humilitas adjuvat. Ea, quez ſunt ufui ad armandas
naves, ex Hiſpania apportari jubet. Ipſe, conventi-
bus citerioris Galliæ peractis, in Illyricum proficiſci-
tur; quòd à Piruſtis finitimam partem Provinciæ in-
« curſionibus vaſtari audiebat. Fd quum veniſlet, civi-
5 tatibus milites imperat; certumque in locum convenire
1 jubet. Qua re nunciata ; Piruſtæ legatos ad eum mit-
11 tunt, qui doceant; nibil earum rerum publico fattum
confilio ; ſestque paratos ee demonſtrant, omnibus rationi-
m bus de injuriis ſatisfacere. Accepti oratione corum,
ag Cæſar obſides imperat, eoſque ad certam diem adduci
ns jubet: nifi ita fecerint, ſeks bello civitatem perſecu-
(a. trum demonſtrat. Jis ad diem adductis, ut impera-
verat; arbitros inter civitates dat, qui litem æſtiment,
pznamque conſtituant. |
II. Es confectis rebus, conventibũſque peractis; in
citeriorem Galliam revertitur, atque inde ad exercitum
profciſcitur. Ed quum veniſtet: circuitis omnibus hy-
dernis; ſingulari militum ſtudio, in ſummũ rerum om-
mum inopia, circiter ve ejus generis, cujus ſupra de-
| monhravimus,
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74 C. JULI CASARTS
monſtravimus, naves, & longas xxv11t invenit con-
ſtructas; neque multum abeſſe ab eo, quin paucis die,
bus deduci poſſent. Collaudatis militibus, atque iis
qui negotio præfuerant; quid fieri velit, oſtendit: at-
que omnes ad portum Itium - convenire jubet : quo ex
portu commodiſſimum in Britanniam transjectum efſe
cognoverat, circiter millium paſſuum xxx à continent,
Huic rei quod ſatis eſſe viſum eſt militum, relinquit:
ipſe cum legionibus expeditis iv, & equitibus pccc,
in fines Trevirorum proficiſcitur : quòd hi neque ad
concilia veniebant, neque imperio parebant; Germanòſ-
que tranſrhenanos ſollicitare dicebantur,
III. Hac civitas longe plurimum totius Galliz
equitatu valet ; magnaſque habet copias peditum ;
Rhenümque, ut ſupra demonſtravimus, tangit. In ea
Civitate duo de principatu inter ſe contendebant, Indu-
tiomarus & Cingetorix. Ex quibus alter, ſimul atque
de Cæſaris 3 adventu cognitum eſt, ad eum
venit ; ſe ſuo
que omnes in officio futuros, neque ab
amicitia populi R. defecturos, confirmavit ; quæque in
Treviris gererentur, oſtendit. At Indutiomarus equi-
tatum peditatumque cogere; . iique, qui per æta—
tem in armis eſſe non poterant, in ſylvam Arduen-
nam abditis, quz ingenti magnitudine per medics
fines Trevirorum a flumine Rheno ad initium Rhemo-
rum pertinet; bellum parare inſtituit. Sed poſtea
guam nonnulli principes ex ea civitate, & familiari-
tate Cingetorigis adducti, & adventu noſtri exercitus
perterriti, ad Cæſarem venerunt; & de ſuis privatim
rehus ab eo petere cœperunt, quoniam civitati conſu-
lere non poſſent: veritus, ne ab omnibus deſereretur,
Indutiomarus, legatos ad Cæſarem mittit; /e/e idcirc
& ſuis diſcedere, atque ad eum venire noluifſe, gud facilius
ervitatem in officio contineret; ne, omnis nobilitatis diſceſſ,
plebs propter imprudentiam laberetur ; itague civitatem in
fud poteſiate effe: 56qae, /i Ceſar permitteret, ad eu in
caſtra wenturum, & ſuas civitati/que fortunas ejus feli
permiſſurum.
Cæſar, etſi intelligebat, qua de causa ea
dicerentur, quæque eum res ab inſtituto conſilio de-
terreret; tamen, ne æſtatem in Treviris conſu
mere C0-
ger etur,
pe Beito Garrtico Lis. V. 73
geretur, omnibus rebus ad Britannicum bellum com-
aratis, Indutiomarum ad fe cum cc obſidibus venire
juſſit. His adductis, & in 11s filio propinquiſque ejus
omnibus, quos nominatim evocaverat : conſolatus In-
dutiomarum, hortataſque eſt, uti in officio permane-
ret. Nihilo tamen ſecius principibus Trevirorum ad
ſe convocatis, eos figillatim Cingetorigi conciliavit :
quod cam merito ejus a ſe fieri intelligebat ; tum
magni intereſſe arbitrabatur, ejus auctoritatem inter
ſuos quam plurimum valere, cujus tam egregiam in ſe
voluntatem perſpexiſſet. Id tulit factum graviter In-
dutiomarus, ſuam gratiam inter ſuos minui: &, qui jam
ante inimico in nos animo fuiſſet, multo gravins hoc
dolore exarſit.
IV. lis rebus conſtitutis, Cæſar ad portum Itium cum
legionibus pervenit. Ibi cognoſcit xL naves, que in
Belgis factæ erant, tempeſtate rejectas, curſum tenere
non potuiſſe; atque eodem, unde erant profectæ, rela-
tas: reliquas paratas ad navigandum, atque omnibus
rebus inſtructas invenit. Eodem equitatus totius Galliæ
convenit, numero millium 1v : principeſ{que ex omnibus
civitatibus: ex quibus perpaucos, quorum in ſe kdem
perſpexerat, relinquere in Gallia : reliquos, obſidum lo-
co, ſecum ducere decreverat ; quod, quum ipſe abeſiet,
motum Galliz verebatur.
V. Erat una cum cæteris Dumnorix Æduus, de quo
à nobis antea dictum eſt. Hunc ſecum ducete in pri-
mis conſtituerat; quod eum cupidum rerum novarum,
cupidum imperii, magni animi, magnæ inter Gallos
auctoritatis, cognoverat. Accedebat huc, quod jam in
concillo Æduorum Dumnorix dixerat, /ib: 4 Cæſare
regnum civitatis deferri; Quod dictum Adui graviter
ferebant; neque recuſandi, neque deprecandi causa, le-
gatos ad Cæſarem mittere audebant : id factum, ex ſuis
boſpitibus Cæſar cognoverat. Ille primo omnibus pre-
cibus petere contendit, ut in Gallia relinqueretur ; par-
Um, quod inſuetus navigandi, mare timeret ; pattim,
quod religionibus ſeſe diceret impediri. Poſteaquam
id obſtinate ſibi negari vidit; omni ſpe impetrandi
adempta principes Galliz ſollicitare, ſevocare ſingulos,
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76 C. Jv: CASARIS,
hortarique ccepit, ut in continenti remanerent ; metu
territare, non ſine causd fieri, ut Gallia omni nobilitate
ſpeltaratur ; id eſſe conſilium Cefaris, ut puos in conſpectu
Galliz interficere vereretur, hos omnes in Britanniam tranſ-
ductos necaret : Fidem reliquis interponere; jusjurandum
poſcere; ut, quod eſſe ex uſu Galliz intellexiſſent,
communi conſilio adminiſtrarent.
VI. Hzc a compluribus ad Cæſarem deferebantur,
Qua re cognità; Cæſar, quod tantum civitati Æduæ
dignitatis tribuebat, coercendum atque deterrendom,
quibuſcumque rebus poſſet, Dumnorigem ſtatuebat;
quod longiùs ejus amentiam progredi videbat, proſpi-
ciendum, ne quid ſibi ac Reipubl. nocere poſſet. Ita-
que dies circiter xxv in eo loco commoratus, quod
Corus ventus navigationem impediebat, qui magnam
partem omnis temporis in his locis flare conſuevit ;
dabat operam, ut Dumnorigem in officio contineret ;
nihilo tamen ſecius, omnia ejus conſilia cognoſceret :
tandem idoneam tempeſtatem nactus, milites equitẽſque
conſcendere in naves jubet. Atque impeditis omhium
animis, Dumnorix cum equitibus Æduorum a caſtris,
inſciente Cæſare, domum diſcedere cœpit. Qui re
nunciatà; Cæſar, intermiſsa profectione, atque omni-
bus rebus poſtpoſitis, magnam partem equitatis ad
eum inſequendum mittit, retrahique imperat: fi vim
faciat, neque pareat ; interfici jubet : nihil hunc, ſe
abſente, pro ſano facturum arbitratus, qui præſentis
imperium neglexiſſet. Ille autem revocatus, reſiſſere,
ac fe manu defendere; ſuoramque fidem implorare cœ-
pit; ſæpe clamitans, Liberum Je, libereque civitatis tf,
Illi, ut erat imperatum, circumſiſtunt, hominemque
interſiciunt; at Adui cquites ad Cæſarem omnes re-
vertuntur. Ebay
VII. His rebus geſtis; Labieno in continente cum
111 legionibus & N e millibus 11 relicto, ut portus
tueretur, & rem frumentariam provideret, quæque in
Gallia gererentur, cognoſceret, & conſilium pro tem.
pore & pro re caperet ; ipſe cum legionibus v, & pa"!
numero equitum, quem in continente reliquerat, 4
Solis occaſum naves ſolvit; & leni Africo pore
; media
DE BeLLoO GatLico Lis, V. 77
media circiter nocte vento intermiſſo, curſum non te-
nuit; & longids delatus æſtu, orta luce, ſub ſiniſtrà Bri-
tanniam relictam conſpexit. Tum rurſus æſtũs com-
mutationem ſecutus, remis contendit, ut eam partem
inſulæ caperet, qua optimum eſſe egreſſum ſuperiore
ſtate cognoverat. Qua in re admodum fuit militum
virtus Jaudanda qui vectoriis gravibũſque navigiis, non
intermiſſo remigandi labore, longarum navium curſum
adæquaverunt. Acceſſum eſt ad Britanniam omnibus
navibus, meridiano ferè tempore: neque in eo loco
hoſtis eſt viſus: ſed, ut poſtea Cæſar ex captivis com-
perit; quum magnæ manus eo conveniſſent; multitu-
dine navium perterritæ, quæ cum annotinis privatiſque,
quas ſui quiſque commodi causa fecerat, amplius pccc
una erant viſe; timore a littore diſceflerant, ac ſe in
ſuperiora loca abdiderant. |
VIII. Cæſar, expoſito exercitu, ac loco caſtris idoneo
capto; ubi ex captivis cognovit, quo in loco hoſtium
copiæ conſediſſent; . x ad mare relictis, &
equitibus cc, qui præſidio navibus eſſent: de 111
vigilix ad hoſtes contendit: ed minùs veritus navibus,
qudd in littore molli atque aperto deligatas ad anchoras
relinquebat: & præſidio navibas Q. Atrium præfecit.
Ipſe noctu progreſſus millia paſſuum circiter x11, hoſti-
| um copias conſpieatus eſt, Illi equitatu atque effedis
| ad flumen progreſſi, ex loco ſuperiore noſtros prohibere,
& prœlium committere cœperunt. Repulſi ab equitatu,
ſe in ſylvas abdiderunt; locum nacti, egregiè & natura
& opere munitum : quem, domeſtici belli, ut videbator,
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. fucciſis, omnes introitus erant præcluſi. Ipſi ex ſylvis 1
rari propugnabant, noſtroſque intra munitiones ingredi 4
m prohibebant. At milites legiones vir, teſtudine facta, t
us & aggere ad munitiones adjecto, locum ceperunt; e6{- Tt
in 2 ex ſylvis expulerunt, paucis vulneribus acceptis: 14 ;
1 ed eos fugientes longiùs Cæſar perſequi vetuit; & 725
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78 C. JI CaSAR1S
IX. Poſtridie ejus diei, manè, tripartitò milites equi-
tẽſque in expeditionem miſit; ut eos, qui fugerant,
perſequerentur. lis aliquantum itineris progreſſis, quum
jam extremi eſſent in proſpectu, equites a Q. Atrio
ad Cæſarem venerunt, qui nunciarent, /uperiori node,
maxima coorid tempeſtate, props omnes naves affiiftas, al-
que in littore cjedtas c; quod negue enchore funt/gue ſub-
Sifterent ; neque nautæ, gubernatort/que, vim tempeſiatis
pati pefſent. Itaque ex eo concurſu nauium, magnum tft
incommodum acceptum. His rebus cognitis : Cæſar le-
giones equitatumque revocari, atque itinere deſiſtere ju-
bet : ipſe ad naves revertitur: eadem fere, quæ ex litetis
nunciiſque cognoverat, coram perſpicit; ſic, ut, amiſſis
circiter x1, navibus, reliquæ tamen refici poſſe magno
negotio viderentur. Itaque ex legionibus fabros de-
ligit, & ex continenti 55 accerſiri jubet: Labieno
ſcribit, ut, quam plurimas poſſet, iis legionibus quæ
ſunt apud eum, naves tnſtituat, Ipſe, etſi res erat
multæ operz ac laboris, tamen commodiſſimum eſſe
ſtatuit, omnes naves ſubduci, & cum caſtris unz mu-
nitione conjungi. In his rebus circiter dies x conſu-
mit, ne nocturnis quidem temporibus ad laborem mi-
litum intermiſſis. Subductis navibus, caſtriſque egregic
munitis; eaſdem copias, quas ante, præſidio navibus
relinquit : ipſe eodem, unde redierat, proficiſcitur. E6
quum venifſet ; majores jam undique in eum locum
copiz Britannorum convenerant : ſumma imperii belli-
que adminiſtrandi, communi conſilio, permiſſ3 eſt Caſſi-
vellauno; cujus fines à maritimis civitatibus flumen
dividit, quod appellatur Tameſis, à mari circiter millia
paſſuum Lxxx. Huic, ſuperiori tempore, cum reliquis
civitatibus continentia bella interceſſerant. Sed noſtro
adventu permoti Britanui, hunc toti bello imperioque
præ fecerant. | |
X. Britanniæ pars interior ab iis incolitur, quos na-
tos in inſula ipla, memoria proditum dicunt : maritl-
ma pars ib iis, qui, prædæ ac belli inferendi causä,
ex Belgis tranſierant ; qui omnes ferè iis nominibus
civitatum appellantur, quibus orti ex civitatibus &
pervenerunt, & bello illato ibi remanſerunt, atque
pz Bello GaLLico Lis.V. 79
apros colere cceperunt. - Hominum eſt infinita multitu-
do, creberrimaque zdificia fere Gallicis conſimilia:
pecoris magnus numerus. Utuntur aut zre, aut annu-
lis ferreis ad certum pondus examinatis, pro nummo.
Naſcitur ibi plumbum album in mediterraneis regio-
nibus, in maritimis ferrum ; ſed ejus exigua eſt copia:
zre utuntur importato, Materia cujuſque generis, ut
in Gallia, eſt; præter fagum atque abietem. Leporem,
& gallinam, & anſerem guſtare fas non putant: hæc
tamen alunt, animi voluptatiſque causa. Loca ſunt
temperatiora, quam in Gallia ; remiſſioribus frigoribus.
Inſula naturi triquetra; cujus unum latus eſt contra
Galliam. Hujus lateris alter angulus, qui eſt ad Can-
tium, quo fere ex Gallia naves appelluntur ; ad ori-
entem Solem : inferior, ad Meridiem ſpectat. Hoc
latus tenet circiter millia paſſuum 5. Alterum vergit
ad Hiſpaniam, atque occidentem Solem : qus ex parte
eſt Hibernia; dimidio minor, ut exiſtimatur, quam
Britannia: ſed pari ſpatio tranſmiſſus, atque ex Gallia
eſt in Britanniam. In h6c medio curſu eſt inſula, quæ
appellatur Mona. Complures præterea minores objec-
tz inſulz exiſtimantur ; de quibus inſulis nonnulli ſerip-
ferunt, dies continuos xxx ſub bruma eſſe noctem;
nos nihil de eo percunctationibus reperiebamus, niſt,
certis ex aqua menſuris, breviores eſſe noctes, quam
in continente, videbamus. Hujus eſt longitudo late-
ris, ut fert illorum opinio, pcc millium paſſuum. Ter-
tium eſt contra Septentrionem: cui parti nulla eſt ob-
jecta terra; ſed ejus lateris angulus maxime ad Ger-
maniam ſpectat. Huic millia paſſuum pccc in longi-
tudinem eſſe exiſtimatur. Ita omnis inſula eſt in cir-
cuitu, vicies centena millia paſſuum. Ex his omnibus,
longe ſunt humaniſſimi, qui Cantium incolunt: que
regio eſt maritima omnis; neque multùm a Gallic&
differunt conſuetudine. Interiores plerique frumenta
non ſerunt, ſed lacte & carne vivunt: pellibaſque ſunt
veſtiti. Omnes verò ſe Britanni vitro inficiunt, qudd
czruleum efficit colorem; atque hoc horribiliore ſunt
in pugna adſpectu: capilloque ſuat promiſſo; atque
omn! parte corporis rasa, præter caput & labrum ſu-
E 4 perius.
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perius. Uxores habent deni duodenique inter ſe com-
munes; & maxime fratres cum fratribus, & parentes
cum liberis: fed fi qui ſunt ex his nati, eorum habentur
liberi, a quibus plurimam virgines quæque ductæ ſunt.
XI. Equites hoſtium eſſedariique acriter piœlio cum
equitatu noſtro in tinere conflixerunt ; tamen, ut noſtri
omnibus partibus ſuperiores fuerint, atque eos in ſylvas
colleſque compulerint: ſed, compluribus interfectis,
eupidiùs inſecuti, nonnullos ex ſuis amiſerunt. At illi,
intermiſſo ſpatio, imprudentibus noſtris, atque occupatis
in munitione caſtrorum, ſubitò ſe ex ſylvis ejecerunt:
2mpetuque in eos facto, qui erant in ſtatione pro caſtris
collocati; acriter pugnaverunt: duabuſque miſſis ſub-
ſidio cohortibus a Cæſare, atque his primis legionum
duarum; quum he, intermiſſo perexiguo loci ſpatio
inter ſe, conſtitiſſent; novo genere pugnæ perterritis
noſtris; per medios audaciſſimè proruperunt, ſeque inde
incolumes receperunt. Eo die Q. Laberius Durus tri-
bunus mil. interficitur. Illi, pluribus ſubmiſſis cohorti-
bus, repelluntur. .
XII. Toto hoc in genere pugnz, quum ſub oculis
omnium ac pro caſtris dimicaretur, intellectum eſt not-
tros, propter gravitatem armorum ; qudd neque inſequi
cedentes poſſent, neque ab ſignis diſcedere auderent ;
minis aptos eſſe ad hujus generis hoſtem: equites au-
tem magno cum periculo dimicare; propterea quod
illi etiam conſultò plerumque cederent; &, quum paul-
lulùm ab legionibus noſtros removiſſent, ex eſſedis deſi-
lerent, & ped bus diſpari prœlio contenderent. Equeftris
autem pra] ratio, & cedentibus & inſequentibus, par
atque idem periculum inferebat. Accedebat huc, ut
nunquam conferti, ſed rari, magniſque intervallis, prœ-
liarentur; ſtationeſque diſpoſitas haberent; atque alios
ali deinceps exciperent, integrique & recentes defatt-
_ gatis ſuccederent, | | |
XIII. Poſtero die, procul à caftris holes in collibu3
conftiterunt: rarique ſe oſtendere; & lentiùs, quam
pridie, noſtros equites preelio laceſſere cœperunt. Sed
meridie, quum Cæſar pabulandi causa 111 legiones,
atque omnem equitatum, cum C. Trebonio gpg.
Inet;
DDr
DE Bello Garrico LIE. V. 8r
ſiſſet; repente ex omnibus partibus ad pabulatores ad-
volaverunt, fic, uti ab ſignis legionibuſque non abſiſte-
rent. Noſtri, acriter in eos 1mpetu facto, repulerunt;
neque finem inſequendi fecerunt, quoad ſubſidio conßſi
equites, quum poſt ſe legiones viderent, præcipites hoſ-
tes egerunt; magnoque eorum numero interfecto, neque
{ui collizendi, neque conſiſtendi, aut ex eſſedis deſilien-
di, facultatem dederunt. Ex bac fuga protinus, que
undique convenerant, auxilia diſceſſerunt: neque poſt
id tempas unquam ſummis nobiſcum copiis hoſtes con-
tenderunt. |
XIV. Czfar, cog nito eorum conſilio, ad lumen Ta-
meſin, in fines Caſſivellauni, exercitum duxit ; quod
flumen uno omnino loco pedibus, atque hoc ægte,
tranſiri poteſt. Eò quum veniſſet; animum advertit,
ad alteram fluminis 11pam magnas eſſe copias hoſtium
iuſtructas: ripa autem erat acutis ſudibus præſtxis mu-
nita; ejuſdemque geueris ſub aqua defixæ ſudes, flumine
tezebantur. lis rebus cognitis a captivis peifugiique ;
Cæſar, præmiſſo equitatu, confeſtim legiones ſubſequi
Juflit. - Sed ea celeritate atque impetu milites jerunt,
quum capite ſolo ex aqua exſtarent; ut hoſtes impetum
legionum atque equitum ſuſtinere non poſlent, ripaſque
dimitterent, ac ſſe fugæ mandarent, |
XV. Caflivellaunus, ut ſupra demonſtravimus, omni
depofita ſpe contentionis, dimiſſis amplioribus copiis ;
millibus circiter 1v eſſedariorum relictis, itinera noſtra
ſervabat ; pavlulymque ex via excedebat, lociſque im-
peditis atque ſylveſtribus ſeſe occultabat; atque iis re-
gionibus, quibus nos iter facturos cognoverat, pecora
atque homines ex agris in ſylvas compellebat: &, quum
equitatus noſter liberiùs, vaſtandi prædandique causa,
ſe in agros effunderet; omnibus vlis notis ſemitiſque,
eſſedarios ex ſylvis emittebat ; &, magno cum periculo-
noſtrorum equitum, cum iis confligebat; atque hoc me-
tu, latiùs vagari prohibebat. Relinquebatur, ut neque:
longiùs ab agmine legionum diſcedi Cæſar pateretur:
& tantum in agris vaſtandis, incendiiſque faciendis,
boſtibus noceretur ; quantum labore, atque itinere, le
Zionarü milites efficere poterant. £
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XVI. Interim Trinobantes, propè firmiſſima earum
regionum civitas; ex qua Mandubratius adoleſcens,
Cæſaris fidem ſecutus, ad eum in continentem Galliam
venerat; (cujus pater Imanuentius in eà civitate reg-
num obtinuerat, interfetuſque erat a. Caſſivellauno;
ipſe fuga mortem vitaverat) legatos ad Cæſarem mit-
tunt: pollicentùrque ſeſe ei dedituros, & imperata factu-
ros: petunt, ut Mandubratium ab injuria Caſſivellauni
defendat ; atque in civitatem mittat, qui præſit, im-
periamque obtineat. His Cæſar imperat obſides xi,
frumentùmque exercitui; Mandubratiumque ad eos
mittit. Illi imperata celeriter fecerunt; obſides ad nu-
merum, frumentumque miſerunt. | |
XVII. Trinobantibus defenſis, atque ab omni mili-
tum injuria. prohibitis; e MH Segontiaci, Anca-
lites, Bibroci, Caſſi, legationibus miſſis, ſeſe Cæſari
dediderunt. Ab his ws. "gy non longe ex eo loco
eppidum Caſſivellauni abeſſe, ſylvis paludibuſque mu-
nitum, quo ſatis magnus hominum pecoriſque numerus.
convenerit. Oppidum autem Britanni vocant, quum
ſylvas impeditas vallo. atque foſsa munierunt, quo, in-
curfionis hoſtium vitandæ causa, convenire conſueverunt.
Eo proficiſcitur cum legionibus: locum reperit egregie
natura atque opere munitum: tamen hune duahus ex
partibus oppugnare contendit: Hoſtes paulliſper mora-
ti, militum noſtrorum impetum non tulerunt; ſe ſẽque
ex alia parte oppidi ejecerunt, Magnus ibi numerus
pecoris repertus; multique in fugi ſunt comprehenſi,
atque interfecti. | | 12]
XVIII. Dam hc in his locis geruntur: Caſſiyellau-
nus ad Cantium, quod eſſe ad mare ſuprà demon-
ſtravimus; quibus 4 pcm IV reges præerant, Cin-
getorix, Carnilius, Taximagulus, Segonax; nuncios
mittit ; atque his imperat, ut, coactis omnibus copiis,
caſtra navalia de improviſo adoriantur 'atque oppug-
nent, Hi quum ad caſtra veniſſent; noſtri, eruptione
fat, multis eorum interfeRis, capto etiam nobili duce
Cingetorige, ſuos incolumes reduxerunt. Caſſivellaunus,
hoc prœlio nunciato, tot detrimentis acceptis, vaſtatis
kaibus, maxime etiam permotus defectione civitatum;
; | legatos
-
pe BELLO Garrrco LIE. V. 87
legatos per Atrebatem Comium de deditione ad Czſa-
rem mittit.
XIX. Cæſar, quum ſtatuiſſet hyemem in continenti
propter repentinos Galliz motus agere; neque multum
æſtatis ſupereſſet; atque id facilè extrahi poſſe intelli-
geret; obſides imperat: &, quid in annos ſingulos
vectigalis populo R. Britannia penderet, conſtituit:
interdicit atque imperat Caſſivellauno, ne Mandubra-
tio, neu Trinobantibus, noceat. Obſidibus acceptis, ex-
ercitum reducit ad mare; naves invenit reſectas. His
deductis: quod & captivorum magnum numerum ha-
bebat, & nonnullæ tempeſtate deperierant naves; duo-
dus commeatibus exercitum reportare conſtituit, Ac
fic accidit, ut, ex tanto navium numero, tot naviga-
tionibus, neque hoc neque ſuperiore anno ulla omnino
navis, quæ milites portaret, deſideraretur: at ex iis,
qua inanes ex continente ad eum remitterentur; &
prioris commgatus expoſitis militibus, & quas poſtea
Labienus faciendas curaverat numero Lx; perpaucæ
locum caperent, reliquæ ferè omnes rejicerentur. Quas
quum aliquandiu Cæ tar fruſtra exſpeCtaſſet : ne anni
tempore navigatione excluderetur, quod æquinoctium
ſfuberat; neceſſariò anguſtiùs milites collocavit: ac ſum-
ma tranquillitate conſecuta, fecunda inita quum ſolviſſet
vigilia, prima. luce terram attigit, omneſque incolumes:
naves perduxit.
XX. Subductis navibus, concilieque Gallorum Sama-
. robrivz peracto: quod eo anno frumentum in Gallia,,
propter ſiccitates, anguſtiùs provenerat; coactus eſt ali-
ter, ac ſuperioribus annis, exercitum in hybernis col-
locare; legioneſque in plures civitates diſtribuere. Ex
quibus unam in Morinos ducendam, C. Fabio legato-
dedit: alteram in Nervio:, Q. Ciceroni: tertiam in
Æduos, L. Roſcio: quartam in Rhemis cum T. La-
bieno, in confinio Trevirorum hyemare juſſit: tres in
Belgio collocavit; his M. Craſſum quæſtorem, & L.
Munatium Plancum, & C. Trebonium legatos præfe-
cit: unam legionem, quam proxime trans Padum con-
ſcripſerat, & cohortes », in Eburones, quorum pars:
maxima eſt inter Moſam & Rhenym, qui ſub imperio
Ambiorigis
84 C. JurirCasanrs
Ambiorigis & Cativulci erant, miſit : his militibus Q.
Titurium Sabinum, & L. Arunculeium Cottam, lega-
tos præeſſe juſſit. Ad hunc modum diſtributis legio-
nibus, facillimè inopiæ frumentariæ ſeſe mederi poſſe
exiſtimavit. Atque harum tamen omnium legionum
hyberna, (præ er eam, quam L. Roſcio in pacatiſſimam
& quietiſſimam partem ducendam dederat) millibus
paſſuum c continebantur. Ipſe interea, quoad legiones
collocatas munitaque hyberna cognoviſſet, in Gallia
morari conſtituit.
XXI. Erat in Carnutibus ſummo loco natus Taſgetius;
cujus majores in ſua civitate regnum obtinuerant. Huic
Czſar, pro ejus virtute atque in ſe benevolentia, quod
in omnibus bellis ſingulari ejus opera fuerat aſus, majo-
rum locum reſtituerat. Tertium hunc jam annum reg-
nantem inimicr palam, multis etiam ex civitate auctori-
bus, interfecerant. Defertur ea res ad Cæſarem. Ile
veritus, quod ad plures res pertinebat, ne civitas eorum
impulſu deficeret; L. Plancum cum legione ex Belgio
celeriter in Carnutes proficiſci jubet, ;blque hyemare;
quorumque opera cognoverit TRI interfectum,
hos comprehenſos ad ſe mittere. Interim ab omnibus
legatis quæſtoribüſque, quibus legiones tranſdiderat,
certior factus eſt; in hy berna perventum, locùmque hy-
: bervis eſſe munitum.
XXII. Diebus circiter xv, quibus in hyberna ven-
tum eſt; initium repentini tumultũs ac defectionis or-
tum eſt ab Ambiorige & Cativulco: qui, quum ad
- fines regni ſui Sabino Cottæque preſto fuiſſent, fru-
mentuͤmque in hyberna comportaviſſent ; Indutiomati
Treviri nunciis impulſi, ſuos concitaverunt : ſubitoque
oppreſſis lignatoribus,, magna. manu caſtra oppugnatun
venerunt. Quum celeriter noſtri arma cepiſſent, val-
lamque adſcendiſſent; atque una ex parte Hiſpanis
equitibus emiflis, equeſtri prœlio ſuperiores fuiſſent;
deſperatà re, hoſtes ſuos ab oppugnatione reduxeront.
Tam ſuo more conclamaverunt, uti. aliqui ex noſtiis
ad colloquium prodirent: habere ſeſe, guæ de re con-
muni dicere vellent; quibus rebus controverfias minui poſt
| ts p
mom” XXIII.
pt Belto GALLIco Lis, V. 85
XXIII. Mittitur ad eos, colloquendi causa, C. Ar-
pinius, eques Romanus, familiariis Q. Titurii; & Q.
Junius ex Hiſpania quidam, qui jam ante, miſſu Cæſa-
ris, ad Ambiorigem ventitare conſueverat. Apud quos
Ambiorix in hunc modum locutus eſt. Se/e, pro Cæſa-
ris in je beneficiis, plurimum ei confiteri debere: quod ejus
operd flipendio liberatus efſet, quod Atuaticis finitimis ſuis
endere conſutfſet ; guddgue ei & filius & fratris filius a6
Cæſare remiſſi efſent, guos Atuatici obſidum numero miſſes
apud ſe in ſervitute & catenis tenuifſent : neque id, quod
fecerit de oppugnatione caſtrorum, aut judicio aut woluntate
| fad feciſſe: fed coaftu civitatis, ſuaque effe tjuſmodi impe-
ria, ut non minus haberet juris in /e mullitudo, quam ipſẽ
in multitudinem : civitati porrò hanc fuiſſe belli cauſam;
quod repentinæ Gallorum conjurationi refijtere non potuerit :
id ſe facile ex humilitate ſud prabars pofſt; quod non adeo
fit imperitus rerum, ut ſuis copiis populum R. ſe ſuperare
poſſe confidat, ſed «ſe Gailia commune conſilium omnibus
bybernis Cæſaris oppugnandis, hunc eſſe dictum diem; ne qua
legio alteri legioni ſubfidio wenire paſſet. Non facile Gallos
Gallis negare potuifſe ; preſertim cum de recuperandd com-
muni libertate conſilium initum viderctur: quibus quoniam
pro pietate ſatisfecerit, habere ſe nunc rationem officti ; pro
beneficiis Cæſurem monere, orare Titurium pro hoſpitio, ut
ſue ac militum ſaluti conſulat. Magnam matum Germa-
norum conductam, Rhenum transiſſe: hanc affore biduo :
ipſorum eſſe conſilium, velintne, prius quam finitimi ſentiant,
eductos ex hybernis milites aut ad Ciceronem aut ad La-
bienum deducere ; quorum alter millia paſſuum circiter L,
alter paullo amplius abfit. Illud fo polliceri, & jurejurando
confirmare; tutum ſe iter per fines ſuos daturum: quod
guum faciat ; & civitati ſe/e confulere, quad hybernis la-
vetur; & Cæſari pro ejus merilis gratiam referre, Hac
oratione habita diſcedit Ambiorix. -
XXIV. C. Arpinius & Junius, quæ audierant, ad
legatos deferunt, Illi repentina re perturbati, etſi ab
holte ea dicebantur, non tamen negligenda exiſtimabant;
maximeque hac re permovebantur, quod, civitatem ig-
nobilem atque humilem Eburonum ſua ſponte — 4
Rom, bellum facere auſam, vix erat eredendum. Ita-
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que ad concilium rem deferunt ; magnaque inter eo:
exſtitit controverſia. L. Aurunculeius, complureſque
tribuni mil. & primorum ordinum centuriones, ibi te-
mere agtndum, neque ex hybernis injuſſu Cæſaris diſceden.
aum exiſtimabant : Quantafois magnas copias etiam Ger-
manorum ſuſtinere poſſe, munitis hybernis, docebant : Rem
e teflimonio ; quod primum hoſftium impetum, multis ultro
eulneribus illatis, fortifſim? ſuſtinuerint re frumentarid
non premi: interea & ex proximis hybernis, & d Cæſare
conventura ſubſidia : poſtremò guid efſe levius aut turpius,
uam autfore boſte, de ſummis rebus capere confilium ?
-ontra ea Titurius, /ero facturos, clamitabat, guum ma-
jorer manus hoſtium, adjunqtis Germanis, conveniſſent ; aut
guum aliguid calamitatis in proximis hybernis efſet accep-
tum: brevem conſulendi efſe occaſfonem: Cæſarem arbitrari
prefectum in Italiam. Megue aliter Carnutes, interficiendi
Taſetii conſilium fuiſſe capturos; neque Eburones, ff ille ad-
eſſer, tantd cum contemptione nofiri ad caſtra wenturos efje.
Non hoftem auctorem, ſed rem, ſpeftare : ſubeſſe Rhenum ;
magno eſe Germanis dolori Arioviſti mortem, & ſuperiores
noffras wiftorias : ardere Galliam, tot contumeliis acceptis
Jub populi R imperium redactam; ſuperiore gloria rei mi-
litaris extinctã. Poſtremò, quis hoc fibi perſuaderet ; ſine
eerta re, Ambiorigem ad ęjuſmodi confilium deftgndiſſs?
Suam ſententiam in utramgque partem eſſe tutam*:*fi nil fit
durius, nullo cum perieulo ad proximam legionem perven-
turos : i Gallia omnis cum Germanis conſentiat, unam (e
in celeritate poſitam ſalutem : Cotte quidem, atque eorun
qui diffentirent, confilium quem haberet exitum? in quo |
non prefens periculum, at certè longinguã obfidione fames
Het pertimeſcenda. © Hac in utramque partem habita diſ-
putatione: quum à Cotta, primiſque ordinibus, acriter
reſiſteretur; Fincite, inquit, / ita wwultis, Sabinus: & id
clariore voce, ut magna pars militum exaudiret : Neg:
is fum, inquit, gui graviſimè ex vobis mortis periculs
terrear : hi ſapient; &, fi gravius quid acciderit, abs te
rationem depoſcent qui, ſi per te liceat, perendino die cum
proximis hybernis conjuncti, communem cum reliquis coſun
Juſtineant ; nec reear & relegati longe ab cæleris, aut
ferro ant fame interrant.
XIV.
pz HRT IO GAITLIcO Lig. V. 9
XXV. Conſurgitur ex concilio: comprehendunt
utrumque, & orant; ne /ud diſſenſions & pertinacid rem
in ſummum periculum deducant: facilem eſſe rem; ſeu ma-
neant, ſeu proficiſcantur ; fi modo unum omnes ſentiant, ac
probent : contra, in difſenfione nullam ſe ſalutem perſpicere.
Res diſputatione ad mediam noctem perducitur. Tan-
dem ah manus Cotta permotus : ſuperat ſententia Sa-
bini. Pronunciatur, prima luce ituros. Conſumitur
vigiliis reliqua pars noctis; quum ſua quiſque miles
circumſpiceret, quid ſecum portare poſſet, quid ex in-
firumento hybernorum relinquere cogeretur. Omnia
excogitantur, quare nec ſine periculo maneatur; & lan-
vore militum, & vigiliis, periculum augeatur. Prima:
fach ſic ex caſtris ut quibus eſſet perſua-
ſum, non ab hoſte, ſed ab homine amiciſſimo Ambiorige
conſilium datum; longiſſimo agmine, magniſque impe-
dimentis. n |
XXVI. At hoſtes poſtea qudm- ex nocturno fremitu,
vigiliiſque, de profectione eorum ſenſerunt; collocatis
inſidiis bipartitò in ſylvis, opportuno atque occulto loco
a millibus paſſuum circiter 11 Romanorum adveatum ex-
ſpectabant: &, quum ſe major pars agminis in magnam
convallem demiſiſſet, ex utrãque parte ejus vallis ſubits.
ſeſe oſtenderunt: noviſlim6ſque premere, & primos pro-
hibere adſcenſu, atque iniquiſſimo noſtris loco prœlium
committere cœperunt. 75 f |
XXVII. Tum demum Titurius, uti qui nihil ante
providiſſet, , trepidare, concurſare, cohorteſque» diſpo-
nere: hæc tamen ipſa timidè, atque ut eum omnia de-
ere viderentur: quod plerumque iis aceidere conſue-
yit, qui in ipſo negotio conſilium capere eoguntur. At
| Cotta, qui cogitafſet hzc poſſe in itinere accidere, at-
| que ob eam cauſam profeQionis autor non fuiſſet;
nulla in re communi Aluti deerat: &, in appellandis
cobortandiſque militibus, imperatoris; &, in pugna,
nilitis officia præſtabat. Quamque, propter longitudi-
dem agminis, minds facile per ſe omnia obire, &, quid
Wque loco faciendum eſſet, providere poſſent; juſſe-
unt pronunciari, ut impedimenta relinquerent, atque
u abem conſiſterent. Quod confiliom; etſi in ejuſmodi
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caſu reprehendendum non eſt, tamen incommodè ac-
cidit: nam & noſtris militibus ſpem minuit, & hoſtes ad
pugnandum alacriores effecit; quòd non fine ſummo
timore & de ſperatione id factum videbatur. Præterea
accidit, quod fieri neceſſe erat, ut vulgò milites ab ſignis
diſcederent; quæque quiſque eorum cariſſima haberet,
ab impedimentis petete atque arripere properaret; &
clamore ac fletu omnia complerentur., ' ,
- XX VII. At barbaris conſilium non defuit. Nam dy-
ces eorum tota acie pronunciari juſſerunt, xe guis ab loco
diſcederet ; illorum efje prædam, atque illis reſervari que.
cumque Romani religuiſſent; proinde omnia in victorid po-
ta exiſtimarent. Exant & virtute, & numero, pugnando
pares noſtri: tametſi a duce, & a. fortuna deſerebantur;
tamen omnem ſpem ſalutis in virtute ponebant; &,
quoties quæque cohors procurreret, ab ea parte magnus
hoſlium numerus cadebat. Qua re animadversa; Am-
biorix pronunciari- jubet, ut procul tela conjiciant, neu
propiùs accedant : &, quam in partem Romani impetum fe-
cerint, cedant; levitate armorum, & quotidiand exercita-
tione, nihil its neceri- poſſe: rurſus ſe ad figna recipientes
inſeguantur. Quo præcepto ab iis diligentiſſimè obſer-
vato; quum quæpiam cohors ex orbe exceſſerat atque
impetum fecerat, hoſtes velociſſimè refugiebant; interim
ea parte nudari neceſſe erat, & ab latere aperto tela re-
cipi. Rurſus, quum in eum locum, unde erant egreſſi,
reverti cœperant; & ab iis qui ceſſerant, & ab 1s qui
proximi fleterant, circumveniebantur. Sin autem locum
tenere vellent; neque viituti locus rehnquebatur, neque
a tantã multitudine con jecta tela conferti vitare poterant.
Tamen tot incommodis conflictati, multis vulneribus
acceptis, reſiſlebant; & magna parte diei conſumpti,
quum a prima luce ad horam vii pugnaretur, 'nibil,
quod ipſis eſſet indignum, committebant. Tum TJ. Bal-
ventio, qui ſuperiore anno primum pilum dvxerat, vito
forti. & magnæ auctoritatis, utrumque femur tragu/a
transjicitur. Q. Lucanius, ejuſdem ordinis, ſortiſſinie
ugnäns, dum circumvento filio ſubvenit, interficitur,
I. Cotta legatus, omnes cohortes ordintſque adhortans,
in adverſum os fund; vulnerator,
28 XXIX.
.
Q.
DE BerLo GALLIcO Lis. V. 89
XXIX. His rebus permotus Q. Titurius; quum pro-
eul Ambiorigem ſuos cohortantem conſpexiſſet, inter-
pretem ſuum Cn. Pompeium ad eum mittit, rogatum,
xt /ibi militibuſgue parcat. Ille appellatus, reſpondit: Si
velit ſecum colloqui, liefre ; ſperare a multitudine impetrari
fofſe, quod ad militum ſalutem pertineat; ipſi vero nihil
nocitum iri ; inque eam rem ſe ſuam fidem interponere. Ille
cum Cotta ſaucio communicat; i wideatur, pugna ut ex-
cedant, & cum Ambiorige una colloguantur ; ſperare ſe, ab
eo de ſud ac militum /alute impetrari poſſe. Cotta ſe ad
armatum hoſtem iturum negat, atque in eo perſeverat.
Sabinus quos in preſentia tribunos mil. circum ſe ha-
bebat, &, primorum ordinum centuriones, ſe ſequi ju-
bet: &, quum propius Ambiorigem acceſſiſſet, juſſus
arma abjicere, imperatum facit; ſuiſque, ut idem faci-
ant, imperat. Interim, dum de conditionibus inter ſe
agunt, longiorque conſulto ab Ambiorige inſlituitur
ſermo; paullatim circumventus, interficitur. Tum vero,
ſuo more, victoriam conclamant, atque ululatum tollunt;
impetuque in noſtros facto, ordines perturbant. Ibi
L. Cotta pugnans interficitur, cum maxima parte mili-
tum; reliqui ſe in caſtra recipiunt, unde erant egreſſi:
ex quibus L. Petroſidius aquilifer, quum magna multi-
tudine hoſtium premeretur, aquilam intra vallum proje-
cit; ipſe pro caſtris fortiſſimè pugnans, occiditur. IIli
ægre ad noctem oppugnationem ſuſtinent; noctu ad
unum omnes deſperata ſalute, ſe ipſi interficiunt, Pauei
ex prœlio elapſi, incertis itineribus per ſylvas ad T.
Labienum legatum in hyberna perveniunt; atque eum
de rebus geſtis certiorem faciunt. L
XXX. Hac viRoria ſublatus Ambiorix, ſtatim cum
equitatu in Atuaticos, qui erant ejus regno finitimi, pro-
feiſcitur; neque diem, neque noctem intermittit : pe-
ditatümque ſe ſubſequi jubet. Re demonſtrata, Atua-
ticiſque concitatis; poſtero die in Nervios pervenit ;
hortatürque, ne ſui in per petuum liberandi, atque ulciſcendi
omanos pro iis, quas acceperint, injuriis, occaſionem dimit-
"ant e interfectos eſſe legatos duos, magnamgque partem exer-
atis interiſſe demonſtrat : Nihil e negotii, ſubitd oppre/-
Jam legionem, que cum Cicerone hyemet, interfici: je ad
eam
90 C. JL II CæSARIS
eam rem profitetur adjuterem. Facilè hac oratione Ner-
viis perſuadet. 4
XXXI. Itaque, confeſtim dimiſſis nunciis ad Centro.
nes, Grudios, Levacos, Pleumoſios, Gordunos ; qui
omnes ſub eorum imperio ſunt; quam maximas manus
poſſunt, cogunt: & de improviſo ad Ciceronis hyberna
advolant, nondum ad eum fama de Titurii morte per-
lata, Hic quoque accidit, quod fuit neceſſe, ut non-
nulli milites, qui lignationis munitioniſque causa in
ſylvas diſceſſiſſent, repentino equitum adventa interci-
perentur. His circumventis: magna manu Eburones,
Atuatici, Nervii, atque horum omnium ſocii & clientes,
legionem oppugnare incipiunt. Noſtri celeriter ad arma
concurrunt; vallum — Egre is dies ſuſten-
tatur: quòd omnem ſpem hoſtes in celeritate ponebant;
atque hanc adepti victoriam, in perpetuum fe fore vie-
tores confidebant.
XXXII. Mittuntur ad Cæſarem confeſtim a Cicerone
litteræ; magnis propoſitis præmiis, ſi pertuliſſent. Ob-
ſeſſis omnibus vis, miſſi intercipiuntur. Noctu ex ea
materia, quam munitionis causa comportaverant, tur-
res ——.— xx excitantur incredibili celeritate:
quz deeſſe operi videbantur, perficiuntur. Hoſles poſ-
tero die, multo majoribus copiis coactis, caftra oppug-
nant; foſſam complent. A noftris eadem ratione, qua
1 reſiſtitur: hoc idem deinceps reliquis fit die-
us. Nulla pars neQturni temporis ad laborem inter-
mittitur; non ægris, non vulneratis, facultas quietis
datur. Quæcumque ad proximi diei oppugnationem
opus ſunt, noctu comparantur: multæ præuſtæ ſudes,
magnus muralium pilorum numerus inſtituitur: turres.
contabulantur: pinnæ, loricæque, ex cratibus attexun-
tur. Ipſe Cicero, quum tenuiſſimà valetudine eſſet, ne
nocturnum quidem ſibi ad quietem tempus relinquebat:
ut ultro militum concurſu, ac vocibus, ſibi parcere co-
geretur. :
XXXIII. Tunc duces principeſque Nerviorum ; qu
aliquem ſermonis aditum, causamque amicitiz cum
Cicerone habebant ; colloqui ſeſe velle dicunt. Facis
poteſtate; eadem, quz Ambiorix cum Titurio _
vt BeiLo GartLico LIB. V. 91
eommemorant: Omnem efſe in armis Galliam: Germanos
Rhenum transifſe : Cæſaris, reliquorumgue, hyberna oppug-
nari. Addunt etiam de Sabini morte. Ambiorigem
ollentant, fidei faciundæ causa. Errare eos dicunt, /
quidquam ab iis prefidii ſperent, qui ſuis rebus diffidant :
feſe tamen hic eſſe in Ciceronem populumque R. animo, ut
wibil nifi hyberna recuſent, atque hanc inveteraſcere con-
ſurtudinem nolint : licere illis incolumibus per ſe ex hybernis
diſcedere 3 S, in guaſcumgue partes velint, fine metu profi-
ciſci, Cicero ad hæc unum modo reſpondit: Non g
conſuetudinem populi Rom. accipere ab boſte armato condi-
tionem, Si ab armis diſcedere welint ; ſe adjutore utantur,
legats/que ad Cæſarem mittant . ſperare ſe, pro ejus juſlitid,
que petierint, tmpetraturos, |
XXXIV. Ab hac ſpe repulſi Nervii, vallo pedum xi,
& foſsa pedum xv, hyberna cingunt. Hæc & ſuperio-
rum annorum conſuetudine, à noſtris cognoverant; &
quoſdam de exereitu nacti captivos, ab his docebantur.
Sed nulla his ferramentorum copia, quæ eſſet ad hunc
uſum idonea ; gladiis ceſpitem circumcidere z manibus,
ſaguliſque, terram exhaurire cogebantur. Qui quidem
ex re, hominum multitudo cognoſci potuit: nam minus
horis tribus, millium paſſuum xv in circuity munitio-
nem perfecerunt. Reliquiſque diebus, turres ad altitu-
dinem valli; falces teſtudineſque, quas iidem captivi
docuerant; parare ac facere cœperunt.
XXXV. Septimo oppugnationis die, maximo coorto
vento: ferventes fuſili ex argilla glandes, fundis; &
ferrefacta jacula; in caſas, quæ more Gallico ſtramen-
tis erant tectæ, jacere cœperunt. He celeriter ignem
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_ Wh <efrorum locum diſtulerunt. Holtes, maximo clamore
4 inſecuti, quaſi parta jam atque explorata victoria; tur-
b res teltudineſque agere, & ſcalis vallum aſcendere
* cæperunt. At tanta militum virtus, atque ea præſentia
animi fuit; ut, quum undique flamma torrerentur, max-
maque telorum multitudine premerentur, ſuaque om-
ua impedimenta atque omnes fortunas conflagrare in-
telligerent ; non modò demigrandi causa de vallo dece-
&ret nemo, ſed penè ne reſpiceret quidem quiſquam;
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ac tum omnes acerrimè fortiſſimèque pugnarent. Hic
habuit eventum, ut eo die maximus numerus hoſtium
vulneraretur atque interficeretur; ut ſe ſub ipſo vallo
conſtipaverant, receſsimque primis ultimi non dabant,
Paulluldm-quidem intermiſ:a flamma ; & quodam loco
turri adaQta, & contingente vallum; tertiæ cohortis
centuriones, ex eo, quo ſtabant, loco receſſerunt, ſud.
que omnes removerunt; nutu vocibuſque hoſtes, / in-
traire vellent, vocare cœperunt: quorum progredi auſus |
eſt nemo. Tum ex omni parte lapidibus conjectis de- |
turbati, turriſque ſuccenſa eſt. 1
XXX VI: Erant in ea legione fortiflimi viri centuriones, l
qui jam primis ordinibus appropinquarent, F. Pulfio & a
L. Varenus. li perpetuas controverſias inter ſe habebant, 0
uter alteri anteferretur; omnibaſque annis, de loco, ſum-
mis ſimultatibus contendebant. Ex iis Palfio, quum acer- 0
rimè ad munirfones pugnaretur,-2uid dubitas, inquit, Va- t
rene aut quem locum probande wirtutis tuæ exſpeclas! Hit f
dies, bic\dits de noftris' controverfiis judicabit. Hæc quum if
dixiſſet, procedit ex caſtris ; munitionemque, qua parte t
hoſtium'confſettifiima viſa eſt; erumpit. Nec Varenus qui- fi
dem tum vallo ſeſe continet: fed omnium veritus exiſi- I
miationem; ſubſequitur; mediocri ſpatio relicto. Pulfo A
pilum in hoſtes mittit, atque unum ex multitadine procur- ql
rentem transjicit: quo pereuſſo & exanimato, hunc {cutis E.
protegunt hoſtes, & in illum univerft tela conjiciunt;
neque dant regrediendi facultatem. Transfigitur ſcutum 2
Pulfioni, & verutum in balteo-defigitur.. Avertit hic caſus pr
vaginam, & gladium edutere conantis dextram moratut qu
manum; impeditùmque hoſtes circumfiſtunt. Succurnt 10
inimicus illi Varenus, & laboranti ſubvenit. Ad hune qu
ſe confeſtim a Pulfione omnis multitudo convertit: il. ba
lum veruto 'transfixem arbitrantur; Mic vers occurſat *
ocyùs gladio, cominuſque rem gerit Varenus: atque, fit
uno inter fecto, reliquos paullum propellit: dum cupidius ad
inſtat, in locum inferiorem dejectus concidit. Huic rut. by!
ſus circumvento! fert ſubſidium Pulſio: atque ambo i. im
columes, compluribus interfectis, ſummà cum laude ſeſe vict
intra munitiones recipiunt, Sic fortuna in contention
ve BeLLo Gariico LIS. V. 93
& certamine utrumque verſavit, ut alter alteri inimicus
auxilio ſalutique eſſet; neque dijudicari poſſet, uter utri
virtute anteferendus videretur. |
XXXVII. Quanto erat in dies gravior atque aſperior
oppugnatio; & maxime, quod, magna parte militum
confectà valneribus, res ad paucitatem defenſorum per-
venerat: tanto crebriores litteræ nunciique ad Cæſarem
mitte bantur. Quorum pars 3 in conſpectu
noſtrorum militum cum cruciatu necabatur. Erat unus
intus Nervius, nomine Vertico, loco natus honeſto; qui
à prima obſidione ad Ciceronem profugerat, ſuamque ei
fdem præſtiterat. Hie ſervo, ſpe libertatis, magniſque
perſuadet præmiis, ut litteras ad Cæſarem deferat. Has
ille in jaculo illigatas affert; & Gallus inter Gallos fine
ulla ſuſpicione verſatus, ad Cæſarem pervenit. Ab eo
de periculo Ciceronis legioniſque cognoſcit. ü
XXXVIII. Cæſar, acceptis litteris circiter hora x1
diei, ſtatim nuncium in Bellovacos ad M. Craſſum quæſ-
torem mittit; cujus hyberna aberant ab eo millia paſ-
ſuum xxv: jubet media nocte legionem proficiſci, ce-
leriterque ad ſe venire: exiit cum nuncio Craſſus. Al
terum ad C. Fabium legatum mittit, ut in Atrebatium
fines legionem adducat, qua ſibi iter faciendum. Scribit
Labieno, ſi Reip. commodo facere poſſit, cum legione
ad fines Nerviorum veniat. Reliquam partem exercitus,
quod paulld aberat longiùs, non putat exſpectandam.
Equites circiter D ex proximis hybernis egit.
XXXIX. Hora circiter 111, ab antecurſoribus de Crafli
adventu certior eſt factus: eo die millia paſſuum xx
progreditur. Craſſum Samarobnvz præficit: legionẽm-
que ei attribuit; quod ibi impedimenta exercitüs, ob-
des civitatum, litteras publicas, fromentiimque omne,
quod eo tolerandæ hyemis causa devexerat, relinque-
bat. Fabius, ut imperatum erat, non ita multum mo-
ratus, in itinere cum legione occurrit. Labienus, inte-
ntu Sabini, & cæde cohortum cognita; quum omnes
ad eum Trevirorum copiz veniſſont; veritus ne, fi ex
hybernis fugæ ſimilem profectionem feciſſet, hoſtium
impetum ſuitinere non poſſet; præſertim quos recenti
victoria efferri ſciret: litteras Cæſari dimittit, quanta
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cum periculo legionem ex hy bernis educturus eſſet;
rem geſtam in Eburonibus EEE : docet omnes
ditatüs equitataſque copias Trevirorum 111 millia pa.
ſuum longe ab ſuis caſttis conſediſſe.
XL, Cæſar, conſilio ejus probato ; etſi, opinione 111
legionum dejectus, ad 11 redierat; tamen unum com-
munis ſalutis auxilium in celeritate ponebat. Veit
magnis itingribus in Nerviorum fines. Ibi ex captivis
cognoſcit, quæ apud Ciceronem gerantur : quant6que
in periculo res fit- Tum cuidam ex equitibus Gallis
magnis præmiis 1 uti ad Ciceronem epiſtolam
deferat. Hanc Græcis conſcriptam litteris mittit; ne,
intercepta epiſtola, noſtra ab hoſtibus conſilia cognoſ-
cantur. Si adire non | mh monet, ut tragulam, cum
epiſtola ad amentum deligata, intra munitiones caſtro-
rum adjiciat, In litteris ſcribit, /e cum legionibus profic-
tum celeriter affore ; hortatur, ut priſtinam wirtutem reli-
neat, Gallus, periculum veritus ; ut erat præceptum,
tragulam mittit, Hæc caſu ad turrim adhæſit; neque
ab noſtris biduo animadverſa: tertio die, a quodam
milite conſpicitur; dempta, ad Ciceronem defertur,
Ille perlectam in conventu militum recitat, maximaque
omnes lætitià afficit. Tum fumi incendiorum procul
videbantur: quæ res omnem dubitationem adventus
legionum expulit.
XLI. Galli, re cognita per exploratores, obſidionem
relinquunt; ad Cæſarem omnibus copiis contendunt.
Ex erant, armatorum circiter millia x. Cicero, data
facultate, Gallum ab eodem Verticone, quem ſupra
demonſtravimus, repetit; qui litteras ad Cæſarem de-
ferat ; hunc admonet, iter caute diligenterque faciat.
Perſcribit in litteris ; hoes ab ſe diſcelſiſe, omnemgue ad
eum multitudinem convertifſe. Quibus litteris circiter me-
dia nocte Cæſar allatis, ſuos facit certiores ; eofque ad
dimicandum animo confirmat. Poftero die, luce prima,
movet caſtra; & circiter millia paſſuum iv progrellus;
trans vallem magnam & rivum, hoſtium multitudinem
conſpicatur. Erat magni periculi res, cum tantis copus
iniquo loco dimicare. Tum quoniam liberatum obſ-
dione Ciceronem ſciebat, edgque omnino an
e
vr Bello Gatiico Lis, V. 95
de celeritate exiſtimabat ; conſedit : &, quam æquiſſimo
loco poteſt, caſtra commumit. Atque hæc, etſi erant
exigua per ſe, vix hominam millium vit, præſertim
nullis cum impedimentis; tamen anguſtiis viarum,
quàm maximè poteſt, contrahit; eo conſilio, ut in ſum-
mam contemptionem hoſtibus veniat. Interim ſpecu-
latoribus in omnes partes dimiſſis, explorat, quo com-
modMims itinere vallem tranſire poſſit.
XLII. Eo die, parvulis equeſtribus prœliis ad aquam
factis, utrique ſeſe ſuo loco continent: Galli; quod
ampliores copias, quæ nondum convenerant, exſpecta-
bant: Czfar; ſi forte timoris ſimulatione hoſtes in ſuum
locum elicere poſlet, ut citra vallem pro caſtris prœlio
contenderet; ſi id efficere non poſſet, ut, exploratis
itineribus, minore cum periculo vallem rivùmque tranſ-
iret, Prima luce hoſtium equitatus ad caſtra accedit,
prœliümque cum noſtris equitibus committit. Cæſar
conſultò equites cedere, ſeque in caſtra recipere : ſi-
mul, ex omnibus partibus caſtra altiore vallo muniri,
portaſque obſtrui; atque in 1is adminiſtrandis rebus
quam maximè concurſari, & cum fimulatione agi ti-
moris jubet. Quibus omnibus rebus hoſtes invitati,
copias tranſducunt, aciemque iniquo loco conſtituunt,
Noſtris vero etiam de vallo deduQis, propids accedunt ;
& tela intra munitionem ex omnibus partibus conjici-
unt: przconibuſque circummiſſis, pronunciari jubent ;
ſeu quis Gallus, ſeu Romanus, velit ante horam tertiam ad
ſe tranſire; fine periculo licere : pofl id tempus, non fore po-
teſtatem : Ac ſic noſtros 3 ut, obſtructis in
lpeciem portis ſingulis ordinibus ceſpitum; qudd ea
non poſſe introrumpere videbantur; alii vallum manu
ſcandere, alii foſſas complere, inciperent. Tune Cæſar,
omnibus portis eruptione factà, equitatique emiſſo, ce-
leriter hoſtes dat in fugam ; fic, ut omnino pugnandi
causa refiſteret nemo: magnümque ex his numerum
occidit, atque omnes armis exuit. |
ALI. Longids proſequi veritus; quòd ſylvæ palu-
deſque intercedebant; neque etiam parvulo detrimento
illum locum relinqui videbat; omnibus ſuis incolumi-
us Copits, eodem die ad Ciceronem pervenit, Infti-
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tutas turres, teſtudines, -munitioneſque hoſtium admira.
quemque relictum militum ſine vulnere. Ex his omni.
bus judicat rebus, quanto cum periculo, & quanta vir-
tute, ſint res adminiſtratæ: Ciceronem pro ejus metito,
legionẽmque collaudat: Centuriones ſigillatim, tribund.*
que militum appellat; quorum egregiam fuiſſe virtutem,
teſtimonio Ciceronis cognoverat. De caſu Sabini &
Cottæ, certiùs ex captivis cognoſcit. Poſtero die, con-
eione habita, rem geſtam proponit; milites con ſolatur,
& confirmat. Quod detrimentum culpà & temetitate
legati fit acceptum, hoc æquiore animo ferendum docet:
quod, beneficio deorum im mortalium, & virtute eorum,
expiato incommodo; neque hoſlibus diutina Izxtatio,
neque ipſis longior dolor relinquatur.
XLIV. Interim ad Labienum per Rhemos, incredibili
celeritate de victorià Cæſaris fama perfertur ; ut, quum
ab hybernis Ciceronis millia paſſuum . abeſſet, eoque
poſt horam 1x diei Cæſar perveniflet ; ante mediam
nocte m ad 3 caſtrorum clamor oriretur: quo cla.
more £.nihcatio victoriæ, gratulatioque ab Rhemis
Labieno fieret. Hac fama ad Treviros perlata ; Indu-
tiomarus, qui poſtero die caſtra Labjeni oppugnare de-
creverat, noctu profugit, copiaſque omnes in Treviros
reducit, Cæſar Fabium cum legione, in ſua remittit
hyberna : ipſe cum 111 Jegionibus circum Samarobri-
vam trinis hybernis hyemare conſtituit; &, quod tanti
motus Galliz exftiterant, totam byemem ipſe ad exer-
citum manere decrevit. Nam, illo incommodo de Sa-
bini morte perlato, omnes fere Galli civitates de bello
conſultabant; nuncios legationeſque in omnes partes
dimittebant; &, quid reliqui, conſilii caperent, atque
unde initium belli fieret, explorabant; nocturnaque
in locis deſertis concilia habebant: neque ullum fete
totius hyemis tempus fire ſollicitudine Czfaris inter-
ceſſit, quin aliquem de conciliis & motu Gallorum
nuncium acciperet. In his, ab L. Roſcio legato, quem
legioni x111 præſecerat, certior eſt factus; mag nas Cal.
- lorum copias earum civitatum, que Armorice affellartar,
oppugnandi ſui cauid, converige; neque longius ST
a N 41
' pe-BxLto GaLLico Lis, V. 97
aum vllt, ab hybernis ſuis abfurfſe ; ſed, nuncio allato de
vichorid Cæſaris, difeeſſifſe 3 adtò ut fuge femilis dijſceſſus
videretur. |
XLV. At Cæſar, principibus cujuſque civitatis ad ſe
vocatis; alias territando, quum fe icire, quæ fierent,
denunciaret ; alias cohortando ; magnam partem Galliz
in officio tenuit. Tamen Senones, quz eſt civitas in
primis firma, & magnæ inter Gallos auctoritatis; Cava-
rinum, quem Cæſar apud eos regem conſtituerat; (cujus
ftater Moritaſgus, adventu in Galliam Cæſaris, cujuſque
majores regnum abtinuerant) interficere publico conſilio
conati: cum ille præſenſiſſet, ac profugiſſet ; uſque ad
fines inſecuti, regno dom6que expulerunt: &, miſſis ad
Cæſatem ſatisfaciundi causa legatis; quum is omnem
ad ſe ſenatum venire juſſiſſet, dicto audientes non fue-
rant. Tantümque apud homines barbaros valuit, eſſe
repertos aliquos principes belli inferendi; tantamque
omnibus voluntatum commutationem attulit; ut, præ-
ter Æduos & Rhemos, (quos præcipuo ſemper honore
Cæſar habuit; alteros, pio vetere ac perpetua erga
populum R. fide ; alteros, pro recentibus belli Gallici
officiis) nulla ferè fuerit civitas non ſuſpecta nobis.
Idque adeò haud ſcio mirandũmne fir; cum complu-
nbus aliis de cauſis; tum maxime, qudd, qui virtute
belli omnibus gentibus præferebantur, tantum ſe ejus
opinionis deperdidiſſe, ut populi R. imperia perferrent,
graviſſimè dolebant. |
XLVI. Treviri verd atque Indutiomarus, totius hye-
mis nullum tempus intermiſerunt, quin trans Rhenum
legatos mitterent ; civitates ſollicitarent; pecunias polli-
cerentur ; magna parte exercitũs noſtri interfectà, multo
ninorem ſupereſſe dicetent partem. Neque tamen ulli
cleitati Germanorum perſuaderi potuit, ut Rhenum
tranſiret: quum % bis expertos dicerent, Ariowiſti bello,
& Tenchtherorum tranſitu; non eg fortunam ampliùs ten-
taturos, Hac ſpe lapſus Indutiomarus ; nihilo minis
copias cogere, exigere A finitimis, equos parare, exules
damnat6{que tori Gallia magnis præmiis ad ſe allicere
cœpit: ac tantam ſibi jam iis rebus in Gallia auctori-
mem comparaverat, ut undique ad eum legationes
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XLVII. Ubi intellexit, ultro ad ſe veniri; alters ex
parte Senones Carnuteſque, conſcientia facinoris inſti.
gatos; altera, Nervios Atuaticoſque bellum Romanis
parare; neque fibi voluntariorum copias defore, ſi ex
fnibus ſuis progredi cœpiſſet: armatum concilium in-
dicit. Hoc, more Gallorum, eſt initium belli; quo,
lege communi, omnes puberes armati convenire co-
guntur; &, qui ex 1is noviſſimus venit, in conſpectu
multitudinis omnibus cruciatibus affectus necatur. In
eo concilio Cingetorigem, alterius principem factionis,
generum ſuum; quem ſupra demonſtravimus Cæſaris
ſecutum fidem, ab eo non diſceſſiſſe; hoſtem judicat,
bonaque ejus publicat. His rebus confectis; in concilio
pronunciat, accerſitum ſe à Senonibus & Carnutibus,
aliiſque complu!ibus Galliz civitatibus ; huc iter ſaclu-
rum per fines Rhemorum; eorümque ap ros populatu-
rum; ac prints, quam id faciat, caitra Labieni oppug-
naturum. Quxzque her1 velit, præcipit.
XLVIII. Labienus, quum & loci natura & manu
munitiſſimis caſtris ſeſe contiyeret; de ſuo ac legions
riculo nihil timebat: ſed, ne quam occaſionem rei
— gerendæ dimitterit, co itabat. Itaque a Cinge-
torige atque ejus propinquis oratione Indutiomari cog-
nita, quam in conciho habuerat; nuncios mittit ad fiu-
timas civitates, equiteſque und ique convocat : iis cer-
tam diem conveniendi dicit. Inte im prope quotidie
cum omni equitatu Indutiomarus ſub caſtris ejus vaga-
batur; alias, ut ſitum caſtrorum cognoſceret; alias, col-
loquendi aut ter: itandi causa: equites plerumque om-
nes tela intra vallum conjiciebant. Labienus ſuos in-
tra munitiones continebat ; timoriſque opinionem, qut-
buſcumque poterat rebus, augebat. ;
XLIX. Quum majore in dies contemptione Indutio-
marus ad caſtra accederet : note una, intromiſſis equi
tibus omnium finitimarum civitatum, quos accerſendos
curaverat, tanta dilizentia omnes ſuos cuſtodiis intra
caſtra continuit, ut nulla ratione ea res enunciar!, aut
ad Trevicos perferri poſſet. Interim, ex conſuetudine
quo-
Fl
ye BeLLoO GaLLico Lis, VI. 99
guotidiana, Indutiomarus ad caftra accedit ; atque ibi
magoam partem diei conſumit; equites tela conjiciunt,
& magna contumelia verborum noſtros ad pugnam
evocant. Nullo a noſtris dato reſponſo, ſub veſperum
diſperſi ac diſſipati diſcedunt. Subitd Labienus duabus
portis omnem equitatum emittit : præcipit atque inter-
dicit, perterritis hoſtibus atque in fugam conjectis;
quod fore, ſicut accidit, videbat; omnes unum peterent
Indutiomarum: neu quis quemquam pris vulneraret,
quam illum interfectum videret: quod, mora reliquo-
rum, illum, ſpatium nactum, effugere nolebat. Magna
proponit iis, qui occide1iat, premia: ſummittit cohortes
equitibus ſubſidio. Comprobat hominis conſilium For-
tuna 3 &, quum unum omnes peterent, in ipſo fluminis
vado deprehenſus Indutiomarus interficitur; capùtque
ejus refertur in caſtra: redeuntes equites, quos poſſunt
conſectantur, atque occidunt. Hac re cognita ; omnes
Eburonum & Nerviorum, quæ convenerant, copiæ diſ-
cedunt; paullõque habuit poſt id factum Cæſar quieti-
orem Galliam.
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motum expectans; per M. Silanum, C. An-
tiſiiam Reginum, T. Sextium, legatos, delec-
tum habere inſtituit. Simul ab Cn. Pompeio procon-
ſole petit; quoniam jipſe ad urbem cum imperio, Rei-
publ. causa, maneret : quos ex Cifalpina Gallia con ſu-
lis ſacramento rogaviſſet, ad ſigna convenire & ad ſe
prohiciſci juberet : magni intereſſe, etiam in reliquum
tempus, ad opinionem Galliz exiſtimans; tantas videri
Italiz facultates, ut, fi quid effet in bello detrimenti
*ceptum, non modo id brevi tempore reſarciri, ſed
tem majoribus adaugeri copiis poſſet. Quod quum
ompetus, & Reipubl. & amicitiz tribuiſſet : celeriter
coufecto per ſuos delectu; tribus ante exactam hye-
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100 C. Jutt1 Cxs$SaRIS
mem & conſtitutis & adductis legionibus; duplicat6gque
earum cohortium numero, quas cum Q. Titurio amiſe-
rat: & celeritate & copiis docuit, quid populi Romani
diſciplina atque opes poſſent.
II. Interfecto indutiomaro, ut docuimus; ad ejas
propinquos à Treviris imperium defertur. IIli finitimos
Germanos ſollicitare, & pecuniam polliceri, non de-
ſiſtunt. Quum ab proximis impetrare non poſſent,
ulteriores tentant. Inventis nonnullis; civitates jureju-
rando inter ſe confirmant, obſidibuſque de pecunia ca-
vent: Ambiorigem ſibi ſocietate & fœdere adjungunt,
Quibus rebus cognitis, Cæſar, quum undique bellum
parari videret; Nervios, Atuaticos, ac Menapios, ad-
junctis Ciſrhenanis omnibus Germanis, eſſe in armis;
Senones ad imperatum non venire, & cum Carnutibus
finitimiſque civitatibus conſilia communicare; a Trevi-
Tis Germanos crebris legationibus ſollicitari: maturids
bi de bello cogitandum putavit. Itaque, nondum
hyeme confe&fa, proximis iv legionibus coactis, de im-
proviſo in hnes Nerviorum contendit: &, priùs quam
illi aut convenire aut profugere poſſent, magno pecoris
atque hominum numero capio, atque ea prada militi-
bus concef:a, vaſtatiſque agris; in deditionem venire,
atque obſides ſibi dare coegit. Eo celeriter coufecto
negotio, rurſus legiones in hyberna reduxit.
III. Concilio Galliæ primo vere, ut inſtituerat, in-
dicto: quum reliqut, przter Senones, Carnutes, Trevi—
roſque, veniſſent ; initium belli ac defectionis hoc elle
arbitratus; ut omnia poſtponere videretur, conci'jum in
Lotetiam Parifiorum transfert. Confines erant hi Se—
nonibus, civitatemque patrum memoria conjunxerant;
fed ab hoc conſilio abfuiſſe exiſtimabantur. Hac re pro
ſaggeitu pronunciata ; eodem die cum legionibus in
denones proficiſcitur, magniſque itineribus c pervenit.
Cognito ejus adventu; Aceo, qui princeps ejus conciht
fuerat, jubet in oppida multitudinem convenire. Co—
nantibus ; prius, quam id efſici poſſet, adeſſe Romanos
nunciatur. Necetlario ſententia deſiſtunt; legatöſque
de ptecandi causa ad Cæſarem mittunt : adeunt per &
- duos, quorum antiquitus erat in tide civitas. 1
a dl;
ye Betto GaLlLtico Lis. VI. 101
Ceſar, petentibus Æduis, dat veniam : excuſationm-
que accipit: quod æſtivum tempus inſtantis belli, non
quæſtionis, efle arbitrabatur. Obſidibus imperatis cen-
tum, hos ZEduts cuſtodiendos tradit. E6dem Carnutes
lopatos obſideſque mittunt ; uſi deprecatoribus Rhemie,
quorum erant in clientela : eadem ferunt reſponſa.
Peragit concilium Cæſar, equiteſque imperat civitati-
bus. |
IV. Hac parte Galliz pacata, totus & mente. &
an'n,0 in bellum Trevirorum & Ambiorigis infiftit.
Cav. tig un cum equitatu Senonum ſecum proficiſci
jubet; ne quis aut ex hujus iracundia, aut ex eo quod
meruerat odio, civitatis motus oriretur, His rebus
conſtitutis ; quod pro explorato habebat Ambiorigem
prœlio non eſſe certaturum, reliqua ejus conſilia ammo
circumſpiciebat.
V. Erant Menapii propinqui Eburonum finibus, per-
petuis paludibus ſylviſque muniti ; qui uni ex Gallia
de pace ad Cæſarem legatos numquam miſerant. Cum
üs eſſe hoſpitium Ambiorigi ſciebat ; item per Trevi-
ros veniſſe Germanis in amicitiam cognoverat. Hzc
priùs illi detrahenda auxilia exiſtimabat, quam ipſum
llo laceſſeret: ne, deſperata ſalute, aut fe in Mena-
pios abderet; aut cum Tranſrhenanis congredi coge-
retur, Hoc inito conſilio; totius exercitũs impedi-
menta ad Labienum in Treviros mittit, duaſque legi-
ones ad eum proficiſci jubet : ipſe cum legionibus ex-
peditis v in Menapios proficiſcitur. Illi, nulla coata
manu, loci præſidio freti, in ſylvas pal udeique confugi-
unt; ſuaque eodem conferunt. Cæſar, -partitis copiis
cum C. Fabio legato & M. Craſſo quæſtore: celeritér-
que effectis pontibus; adiit tripartito : ædificia vicoſque
incendit; magno pecoris atque hominum numero po-
titur, Quibus rebus coacti Menapii, legatos ad eum,
E petendæ causa, mittunt. Ille, obſidibus acceptis,
atium ſe habiturum numero confirmat, fi aut Ambi-
origem, aut ejus legatos, fimibus ſuis recepiſſent. His
confirmatis rebus; Comium Atrebatem cum equitatu,
cultodis loco, in Menapiis relinquit; ipſe in Treviros
proficiſcitur. f
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VI. Dum hec a Czfare geruntur; Treviri, mapnis
coactis peditatũs equitataſque copiis, Labienum cum
una legione, quæ in eorum finibus hyemaverat, adoriri
parabant : jamque ab eo non longius bidui via aberant,
quum duas veniſſe legiones miſſu Czfaris cognoſcunt,
Poſitis caſtris a millibus paſſuum xv, auxilia Germano-
rum exſpectare conſtituunt. Labienus, cognito hoſtium
conſilio, ſperans temeritate eorum fore aliquam dimi-
candi facultatem ; præſidio v cohortium impedimentis
relicto, cum xx cohortibus magnoque equitatu contra
hoſtem proficiſcitur, &, mille paſſuum intermiſlo ſpatio,
caltra communit. N |
VII. Erat inter Labienum atque hoſtem difficili tran-
ſitu flumen, ripiſque preruptis. Hoc neque ipſe tranfire
habebat in animo, neque hoſtes tranſituros exiſtimabat,
Augebatur quotidie auxiliorum ſpes. Loquitur in con-
cilio palam ; queniam Germani appropinguare dicantur,
feſe quas exerciti/que fortunas in dubium non devocaturum :
& poſtero die primd luce caſira moturum, Celeriter hæc
ad hoſtes deferuntur, ut ex magno Gallorum equita-
tis numero nonnullos Gallicis rebus favere natura
cogebat. Labienus, nou tribunis militum primiſque
ordinibus coactis; quid ſui conſilii fit, proponit : &,
gud facilius hoſtibus timoris det ſuſpicionem; majore
ftrepitu & tumultu, quam populi Romani fert conſue-
tudo, caſtra moveri jubet, His rebus foge ſimilem
profectionem efficit. Hæc quoque per exploratores
ante lucem, ip tania propinquitate caſtrorum, ad hoſtes
deferuntur. |
VIII. Vix agmen noviſſimum extra munitiones pro-
ceſſerat; cum Galli, cohortati inter ſe, ne /peratam præ-
dam ex manibus dimitterent ; longum «fe, perterritis Rona-
nts, Germanorum auxilia exſpectare; neque ſuam pal i dig-
nitatem, ut tantis copiis tam exiguam manum, praſertin
fugientem atque impeditam, aderiri non audeant ; flumen
tranſire, & iniquo loco prœlium committere non dubi-
tant. Quæ fore ſuſpicatus Labienus, ut omnes citra
aumen eliceret; eadem uſus ſimulatione itineris, pla-
cide progrediebatur. Tum præmiſſis paullùm impedi—-
mentis, atque in tumulo quodam collocatis; Habeli,
| inquit,
=
pe Brito GaLtico Lis, VI. 103
inquit, milites, quam periftis, facultatem : hoftem impedito
atque iniguo loco tenetis : præiſtate eandem nobis ducibus
virtutem, quam ſepenumero {mperatori preaftitiſi's; eum
adeſfſe, & bæc coram cernere, eæiſtimate. Simul. ſigna ad
hoſtem converti, aciemque dirigi jubet; &, paucis
turmis præſidio ad impedimenta dimiſſis, reliquos
equites ad latera diſponit. Celeriter noſtri, clamore
ſublato, pila in hoſtes jaciunt. Illi, vbi præter ſpem,
quos fugere credebant, infeſtis ſignis ad ſe ire vide-
runt; impetum modò ferre non potuerunt ; ac primo
concurſu in fugam conjecti, proximas ſylvas petive ·
runt : quos Labienus equitatu conſectatus; magno na-
mero interfecto, compluribus captis ; paucis polt die-
bus civitatem recepit. Nam Germani, qui auxilio ve-
niebant; præceptà Trevirorum fuga, ſeſe domum con-
tulerunt. Cum iis propinqui Indutiomari, qui defec-
tionis auctores fuerant, comitati eos ex civitate ex-
ceſſere. Cingetorigi, quem ab initio permanſiſſe in
officio demonſtravimus, principatus, atque imperium eit
traditum.
IX. Cæſar, poſtquam ex Menapiis in Treviros ve-
nit, duabus de cauſis Rhenum tranſiſe conſtituit. Qua-
rum erat altera, quod [Germani] auxilia contra ſe
Treviris miſerant ; altera, ne Ambiorix receptum ad
eos haberet, His conſtitutis rebus ; paullùm ſupra eum
locum. quo antea exercitum tranſduxerat, facere pon-
tem inſtituit. Nota atque inſtituta ratione; magno
militum ſtudio, paucis diebus, opus efficitur. Firmo
in Treviris præſidio ad pontem relicto, ne quis ab iis
ſubitd motus oriretur; reliquas copias, equitatumque
tranſducit, Ubii, qui ante obſides dederant, atque in
deditionem venerant ; purgandi ſui cauca ad eum lega-
tos mittunt ; qui doceant, neque ex ſud civitate auxilia
in Treviros miſſa, negue ab ſe fidem /z/am: petunt atque
orant, ut fibi parcat ; ne communi odio Germanarum, inno-
centes pro nocentibus parnas pendant: fi anplius abſidum
velit, dare pollicentur. Cognita Cæſar causa reperit,
ab Suevis auxilia miſſa eſſe: Ubiorum ſatisfactionem
aecipit : aditus viaſque in Suevos perquitit.
F 4 X,
104 C. Juitii CaSaRIsS
X. Interim, paucis peſt diebus, fit ab Ubiis certior,
SueEvos omnes in unum locum copias cogere; atque lis
nationihus, que ſub eorum ſunt imperio, denunciare,
ut auxilia peditaths equitataſque mittant. His cognitis
rebus ; rem frumentariam providet, caſtris idoneum lo-
cum deligit: Ubiis imperat, ut pecora deducant, ſuaque
omnia ex agris in oppida conferant ; ſperans, barbaros,
atque imperitos homines, inopia cibariorum adduQos,
ad iniquam pugnandi conditionem poſſe deduci: man-
dat, ut crebros exploratores in Suevos mittant; quæque
apud Cos gerantur, cognoſcant. Illi imperata faciunt ;
&, paucis diebus inte miſſis, referunt : Sueves omnes,
pofleaguam certiores nuncit de exercitu Romanorum wvene-
rant; cum omnibus ſuis ſoctorumgue copits, guas cccgiſent,
peritus ad extremos fines ſiſe recep!ifje e fylwam M ibi infi-
nitee magnitudinis, gue appellatur Bacenis : hanc linge
introrſus pertinere ; C, pro native muro objettam, Cher/-
tet @ Sutvis, Suevd/que à Cheruſcis injuriis incurfionibu/+
gue probibere : ad ejui initium fylve, Suevos adventum
KRomanorum expect are conflituiſſt.
XI. Quoniam ad hunc locum perventum eſt; non
alienum eſſe videtur, de Galliæ Germanizque mori-
bus, & quo modo differant ez nationes inter ſeſe,
proponere. In Gallia, non ſolùm in omnibus civita-
tibus, atque in omnibus pagis partibuſque z ſed pene
etiam in ſingulis domibus, faQtiones ſunt : eariimque
factionem ſunt principes, qui ſummam auctoritatem
eorum judicio habere exiſtimantur; quorum ad arbi-
trium judiciùmque ſumma omnium rerum confiliorum-
que redeat. Idque ejus rei causa antiquitus inſtitutum
videtur, ne quis ex plebe contra potentiorem auxilii
egeret: ſuos enim opprimi quiſque, & circumveniri non
patitur; neque, aliter fi faciat, ullam inter ſuos habeat
auctoritatem. Hac eadem ratio eſt in ſummä totius
Galliz 3 namque omnes civitates in partes diviſa ſunt
duas. |
XII. Quum Cæſar in Galliam venit; alterius factio-
nis principes erant Ædui; alterius, Sequani. li, quum
per ie minis valerent, quod ſumma auctoritas antiquitos
erat
pz Bello GarLico Lis. VI. 105g
erat in ZAduis, magnzque eorum erant clientelæ; Ger-
manos atque Arioviſtum ſibi adjunxerant ; eòſque ad fe
mag nis jaQuris pollicitationibiuſque perduxerant. Prœ-
lis verò compluribus factis ſecundis, atque omni nobi-
litate ÆEduorum interfectà; tantàm potentia anteceſ-
ſerant, ut magnam partem clientiom ab Æduis ad ſe
tranſducerent ; obſideſque ab iis principum filios ace
ciperent ; & publice jurare cogerent, nihil ſe contra
Sequanos conſilii inituros ; & partem finitimi agri per
vim occupatam poſſiderent; Galliæque totius principa-
tum obtinerent : qua neceſſitate adductus Divitiacus,
auxilii petendi causa Romam ad Senatum profectus,
infectà re redierat. Adventu Cæſaris factà commuta-
tione rerum; obfidibus Æduis redditis, veteribus clien-
telis reſtitutis, novis per Cæſarem comparatis ; (quod
ii, qui ſe ad eorum amieitiam aggregaverant, meliore
conditione atque æquiore imperio ſe uti videbant) re-
liquis rebus, eorum gratia dignitateque amplificatà;
Sequani principatum dimiſerant. In eorum locum
Rhemi ſucceſſerant: quos quod adæquare apud Cæſa-
rem gratia intelligebatur: ii, qui propter veteres inimi-
citias nullo modo cum ZAEduis conjungi poterant, ſe
Rhemis in clientelam dicabant : hos illi diligenter tue-
bantur : ita & novam & repente collectam auctoritatem
tenebant. Eo tom ſtatu res erat; ut longe principes
haberentur ZEdui; ſecundum locum dignitatis Rhemi
obtinerent. | |
XIII. In omni Gallia, eorum hominum, qui aliquo
ſunt numero atque honore, genera ſunt duo: nam plebs
pene ſervorum habetur loco; quæ per ſe nib il audet,
& nulli adhibetur concilio. Plerique, quum aut zre
aljeno, aut magnitudine tributorum, aut 1njuria po-
tentiorum premuntur; ſeſe in ſervitutem dicant nobi-
libus: in hos eadem omnia ſunt jura, quæ dominis in
ſervos, Sed de his duobus generibus, alterum eſt Drui-
dum, alterum Equitum. IIli rebus divinis interſunt,
ſacrifcia publica ac privata procurant, religiones in-
terpretantur, Ad hos magnus adoleſcentium numerus,
diſcipline causà, concurrit: magn6que hi ſunt apud
eos honore ; nam fere de omnibus controverſiis, pub-
F 5 licis
106 C. JULI CESARIS
licis privatiſque, conſtituunt: &, ſi quod eſt admiſſum
facinus; ft cædes facta; ſi de hæreditate, ſi de fini-
bus controverſia eſt ; iidem decernunt: præmia pœnal-
quæ conſtituunt. Si quis aut privatus aut publicus eo-
rum decreto non ſteterit; ſacrihciis interdicunt. Hzc
pœna apud eos eſt graviſſima: quibus ita eſt interdic-
tum, 11 numero impiorum ac ſceleratorum habentur;
lis omnes decedunt, aditum eorum ſermonëmque
defugiunt, ne quid ex contagione incommodi accipiant:
neque iis petentibus jus redditur, neque honos ullus
communicatur, His autem omnibus Druidibus pracſ
unus. qui ſummam inter eos habet auctoritatem. Hoc
mortuo ; fi quis ex reliquis excellit dignitate, ſucce-
dit: at, f ſunt plurgs pares, ſuffragio Druidum adle-
gitur; nonnunquam etiam de principatu armis con-
tendunt. li certo anni tempore in finibus Carnutum,
uz regio totius Galliæ media habetur, conſidunt;
in loco conſecrato. Huc omnes undique, qui contro-
verfias habent, conveniunt; eorümque judiciis decre-
riſque parent. Diſcigtina in Britannia reperta, atque
inde in Galliam tranſlata eſſe exiſtimatur : & nunc,
qui diligentius eam rem cognoſcere volunt, plerum-
gue iilo diſcendi cau:a proficiſcuntur. Druides a bello
abeſſe conſueverunt ; neque tributa una cum reliquis
endunt; militiæ vacationem, omniumque rerum ha-
ent immunitatem Tantis excitati præmiis, & ſua
ſponte multi in diſciplinam conveniunt, & à parenti-
bus propinquiſque mittuntur. Magnum ibi numerum
verſuum ediſcere dicuntur: itaque nonnulli annos vi-
cenos in diſciplins permanent: neque fas eſſe exiſli-
mant, ea litteris mandare; quum in reliquis ferè rebus
publicis, privatiique rationibus, Græcis litteris utantur.
Id mihi duabus de cauſis inſtituiſſe videntur; quod
neque in vulgus diſciplinam eff-rri velint z neque eos,
qui diſcunt, litteris conſiſos, minds memoriæ ſtudere:
quod fere pleriſque accidit, ut, præſidio litterarum, di-
ligentiam in perdiſcendo, ae memoriam remittant. In
primis hoc volunt perſuadere; non interire animas,
ſed ab aliis poſt mortem tranſire ad alios; atque hoc
maxime ad vututem excitar putant, metu mortis rd
; | 0,
DE BELLo GATLICO Lis. VI. 107
jecto. Multa præterea de ſideribus atque eorum motu,
de mundi ac terrarum magnitudine, de rerum natura,
de Deorum immortalium vi ac poteſtate diſputant; &
juventuti tranſdunt.
XIV. Alterum genus eſt Equitum, li, quum eſt
uſus, atque aliquod bellum incidit; (quod ante Cæſaris
adventum ferè quotannis. accidere ſolebat, uti aut ipſi
injurias inferrent, aut illatas propulſarent) omnes in
bello verſantur: atque eorum ut qui que eſt genere co-
piiſque ampliſſimus, ita plurimos circum fe ambactos
clienteſque habet. Hanc unam gratiam potentiamque
noverunt.
XV. Natio eſt omnis Gallorum admodum dedita
religionibus. Atque ob eam cauſam, qui ſunt affecti
ravioribus morbis, quique in prœliis periculiſque ver-
= aut pro victimis homines immolant, aut ſe
immolaturos vovent; adminiſtriſque ad ea ſacrificia
Druidibus utuntur: quod, pro vita hominis niſi vita
hominis reddatur, non poſle aliter Deorum immorta-
lium numen placari arbitrantur: publiceque <zuſdem
generis habent inſtituta ſacrificia. Alu immani mag-
nitùdine ſimulacra habent: quorum contexta viminibus
membra vivis hominibus complent; quibus ſuccenſis,
circumventi flamma exanimantur homines. Supplicia
eorum, qui in furto, aut latrocinio, aut aliqua noxa
ſint comprehenſi; gratiora Diis immortalibus eſſe ar-
ditrantur: ſed, quum ejus generis copia deficit, etiam
ad innocentiam ſupplicia deſcendunt. Deum maximè
Mercurium colunt : hujus ſunt plurima ſimulacra: hunc
omnium inventorem artium ferunt : hunc, viarum at-
que itinerum ducem : hunc, ad quæſtus pecuniz mer-
caturaſque habere vim maximam arbitrantur. Poſt
kunc; Apollinem, & Martem, & Jovem, & Minervam.
De his. eandem fere, quam reliquz gentes, habent
opiuionem; Apollinem, morbos de pellere; Minervam,
operum atque artificiorum initia tranſdere; Jovem,
imperium cœleſtium tenere; Martem, bella regere.
Huic, quum prelio dimicare conſtituerunt, ea, que
bello ceperint, plerumque devovent. Quz ſuperave-
nit; animalia capta immolant; religuas res in an
ocum
108 C. Jouori1 CxsSanmns
locum conferunt. Multis in civitatibus, harum rerum
exſtructos tumulos locis conſecratis conſpicari licet:
neque æpè accidit, ut, neglectà quiſpiam religione,
aut capta apud fe occultare, aut p ſita tollere auderet:
graviſimamque ei rei ſupplicium cum cruciatu conſtitu-
tum eſt. |
XVI. Gaili ſe omnes ab Dite patre prognatos præ-
dicant: dq e ab Druidibus proditum dicunt. Ob eam
caviam ſpatia omnis temporis, non numero dierum, ſed
noctium, finiunt; & dies natales, & menſium & anno-
rum initia fic obſervant, ut noctem dies ſubſequatur.
In reliquis vitæ iuftitutis, hoc fei ab reliquĩs differunt;
quot ſuos liberos, niſi quum adoleverint, ut munus
miſitiæ ſuilirere poſſint, palam ad ſe adire non patiantur;
filunique puerili ztate, in publico, in conſpeQu patris
aſſiite:e, turpe ducunt.
XVII. Viri quantas pecunias ab uxoribus, dotis no-
mine, accepervnt: tanias ex ſuis bonis, æſtimatione
fata, cum dotibus communicant. Hujus omnis pecu-
niæ co junctim ratio habetur, fructùſque ſervantur.
Uter eorum vita ſuperarit; ad eum pars utriuſque,
cum fructibus ſuperiorum temporum, pervenit. Viri
in uxore*, ſicuti in libero, vitæ neciſque habent po-
teſtatem: & quum paterfamiliàs illuſtriore loco natus
deceſſit; (jus propinqui conveniunt ; & de morte, fi ies
in ſuſpicionem venit, de uxoribus in ſervilem modum
quæſtionem habent; &, fi compertum eſt, igni atque
omnibus tor mentis excruciatas inter ficiunt. Funera tunt,
pro cuſtu Gallorum, magnifica & ſumptuoſa: omnia-
que, quæ vivis cordi fuiſſe arbitrantur, in ignem inſe-
runt; etiam animalia: ac, paullò ſupra hanc memoriam
ſervi & clientes, quos ab iis dilectos eſſe conſtabat;
zuſtis funeribu: confectis, una cremabantur.
XVII. Quæ civitates commodins ſuam Rempubl.
adminiſtrare exiſtimantur, habent legibus ſanctum; fi
quis guid de Rep. a finitimis rumore aut fama acce-
perit, ui ad mag iſtratum deferat; nẽve cum quo alio
communicet : quod ſœpè homines temerarios atque im-
ritos falſis rumoribus terreri, & ad facinus impelli, &
de ſummis rebus conſilium capere cognitum eſt. Ma-
| | giſtratus,
DE B20 GALLICO Lis. VI. 109
giſtratus, quæ viſa ſunt, occultant ; nn eſſe ex uſu
judicaverint, multitudini produnt. De Rep. niſi per
concilium loqui non conceditur.
XIX. Germani multàm ab hac conſuetudine diffe-
runt, Nam neque Druides habent, qui rebus divinis
præſint; neque focriicii ſtudent, Deorum numero eos
ſolos ducunt, quos cernunt, & quorum opibus apertè
juvantur; Solem, & Vulcanum, & Lunam : reliquos ne
fami quidem acceperunt. Vita omnis in venationibus,
atque in ſtudiis rei militaris conſiſtit: ab parvulis, labori
ac. duritiæ ſtudent. Qui diutiſſime impuberes perman-
ſerunt, maximam inter ſuos ferunt laudem : hoc ali
ſtaturam, ali vires, nervoſque confirmari putant. Intra
annum vero xx feminæ notitiam habuiſſe, in turpiſſimis
habent rebus: cujus rei nulla eſt occultatio; quod &
promiſcuè in fluminibus perluuntur; & pellibus, aut
parvis rhenonum tegumentis utuntur; magna corporis
parte nuda, n
XX, Agriculturæ non ſtudent; majorque pars victùs
eorum in lacte, & caſeo, & carne conſiſtit. Neque quiſ-
quam agri modum certum, aut fines proprios habet: ſed
magiſtratus ac principes, in annos ſingulos, gentibus
cognationibiiſque hominum, qui una coierunt, quantum
& quo loco viſum eſt, agri attribuunt ; atque anno pdſt
alio tranfire cogunt. Ejus rei multas afferunt cauſas:
ne afſidua conſuetudine capti, ſtudium belli gerendi
ꝛgriculturà commutent : ne latos fines parare ſtudeant,
- potentioreſque humiliores poſſeſhonibus expellant : ne
accuratiùs, ad frigora atque æſtus vitandos, ædificent:
ne qua oriatur pecuniæ cupiditas, qua ex re factiones
diſſenſionèſque naſcuntur : ut animi æquitate plebem
contineant, quum ſuas quiſque opes æquari cum poten-
tiſimis videat. f
XXI. Civitatibus maxima laus eft, quam latiſſimas
circum ſe vaſtatis finibus ſolitudines habere. Hoe
proprium virtutis exiſtimant; expulſos agris finitimos
cedere, neque quemquam prope ſe audere conſiſtere:
mul h&c ſe fore tutiores arbitrantur, repentinæ in-
curſionis timore ſublato. Quum bellum civitas aut il
latum defendit, aut infert; magiſtratus, qui ei bella
præſint,
110 C. JULI CaesAR1s
præſint, ut vitæ neciſque habeant poteſtatem, deligun-
tur. In pace, nullus eſt communis magiſtratus; ſed
principes regionum atque pagorum inter ſuos jus dicunt,
controverhaique minuunt. Latrocinia nullam habent
infamiam, quæ extra fines cujuſque civitatis fiunt; atque
ea juventutis exercendæ, ac deſidiæ minuendæ causa
fieri prædicant. Atque, ubi quis ex principibus in con-
cilio /e dixit ducem fore; qui ſegui velint, profiteantur ;
conſurgunt ii, qui & cauſam & hominem probant, ſuum-
que auxilium pollicentur ; atque ab multitudine collau-
dantur: qui ex 1is ſecuti non ſunt, in deſertorum ac pro-
ditorum numero ducuntur; omniumque 1is rerum poſtea
fides abrogatur. Hoſpites violare, fas non putant: qui,
vaque de causa, ad eos veverunt; ab injuria prohibent,
ſanQoſque habent; 11s omnium domus patent, victaique
communicatur, |
XXII. Ac fuit antea tempus, quum Germanos Galli
virtute ſuperarent, & ultro bella inferrent; ac, propter
honſinum multitudinem, agrique inopiam, trans Rhenum
colonias mitterent. Itaque ca, quæ fertiliſſima ſunt,
Germaniz loca; circa Hercyniam ſylvam, quam Era-
toliheni & quibuſdam Græcis fama notam eſſe video,
quam illi Orcinjam appellant : Voice Tectoſages occu-
aront, atque ibi conſederunt. Quz gens ad hoc tem-
pus iis ſedibus ſe continet, ſummamque habet juſtitiz
& bellicæ laudis opinionem; nuncque in eadem inopia,
egeſtate, patientia, qua Germani, permanent; eodem
victu, & cultu corporis, utuntur. Gallis autem, Pro-
vinciæ propinquitas, & tranimarinarum rerum notitia,
multa ad copi: m atque uſus largitur: paullatim aſſue-
facti ſuperari, multiique prœliis victi, ne ſe quidem ipſi
cum illis virtute comparant. 5
XXIII. Hujus Hercyniz ſylvæ, quæ ſupra demon-
ſtrata eſt, latitudo 1x dierum iter expedito patet. Non
enim aliter finiri poteſt; neque menſuras itinerum no-
verunt. Oritur ab Helvetiorum, & Nemetum, & Kau-
racorum finibus ; reAaque fluminis Danubii regione,
rtinet ad fines Dacorum & Anartium-; hinc ſe flectit
finiitrorſum, diverſis a flumine regionibus ; Tm: 1tarum-
que gentium fines propter magnitudinem ati git: ne-
| abs
vx Bello GAL LIcO Lis. VI. 111
que quiſquam eſt hujos Germaniz, qui ſe aut adiſſe ad
initium ejus ſy lvyæ dicat, quum dierum iter Lx proceſſe-
rit; aut quo ex loco oriatur, acceperit. Multa in ea
genera ferarum naſci conſtat, quæ reliquis in locis viſa
non fint: ex quibus quz maxime differant ab cæteris,
& memoriz prodenda videantur, hæc ſunt. |
XXIV. Eſt bos, cervi figura : cujus a media fronte
inter aures unum cornu exiſtit excelhus, magiſque di-
rectum his, quæ nobis nota ſunt, cornibus. Ab ejus
ſummo, ſicut palmæ, rami late diffunduntur. Eadem
eſt feminæ marifque natura; eadem forma magnitudo-
que cornuum.
XXV. Sunt item, quæ appellantur Alces. Harum eſt
conſimilis capreis figura, & varietas pellium; ſed mag-
nitudine paullò antecedunt ; mutilæquæ ſunt cornibus,
& crura fine nodis articuliſque habent; neque quietis
causa procumbunt ; neque, fi quo afflictæ caſu conci-
derunt, erigere ſeſe aut ſublevare poſſunt. His ſunt
arbores pro cubilibus: ad eas ſe applicant; atque ita
paullùm modò reclinatz quietem capiunt. Quarum ex
veſtigiis quum eſt animadverſum à venatoribus, quò ſe
recipere conſueverint; omnes eo loco aut a radicibus
ſubruunt, aut accidunt arbores tantùm, ut ſumma ſpecies
earum ſtantium relinquatur. Huc cum ſe ex conſue-
tudine reclinaverint; infirmas arbores pondere affligunt,
atque una ipſæ concidunt.
XXVI. Tertium eſt genus eorum, qui Uri appellan-
tur. li ſunt magnitudine, paulld infra elephantos ;
ſpecie, & colore, & figurà tauri. Magna vis eorum eſt,
& magna velocitas; neque homini, neque feræ, quam
conſpexerint, parcunt. Hos ſtudiosè foveis, captos in-
terficiunt. Hoc ſe labore durant adoleſcentes, atque
hoc genere venationis exercentz &, qui plurimos ex his
interfecerunt; relatis in publicum cornibus, quæ ſint
teſtimonio; magnam ferunt laudem. Sed aſſueſcere ad
homines, & manſuefieri, ne parvuli quidem excepti
poſſunt. Amplitudo cornuum, & figura, & ſpecies mul-
tum a noſtrorum boum cornibus differt. Hzc ſtudiosè
conquilita, ab. labris argento circumcludunt, atque in
ampliſſimis epulis pro poculis utuntur.
112 C. JULI CaSARrls
XXVII. Cæſar, poſtquam per Ubios exploratores
comperit, Suevos ſeſe in ſylvas recepiſſe; inopiam fru-
menti veritus, quod, ut ſupra demonſtravimus, minimè
omnes Germani agriculturz ſtudent; conflituit non
progredi longius: ſed, ne omnino metum reditũs ſui
barbaris tolleret; atque ut eorum auxilia tardaret;
reduo exercitu, partem ultimam pontis, quæ ripam
Ubiorum contingebat, in longitudinem pedum cc re-
ſcindit; atque in extremo ponte turrim tabulatorum
iv conſtituit, præſidiùmque cohoruum x11 pontis tuen-
di causà ponit; magniſque eum locum munitionibus
firmat. Ei loco præſidiõque C. Volcatium Tullum
adoleſcentem præfecit: ipſe, quum matureſcere fru-
menta inciperent, ad bellum Ambiorigis profectus;
per Arduennam ſylvam, quæ eſt totius Galliæ maxima,
atque ab ripis Rheni finibaſque Trevirorum ad Ner-
vios pertinet, millibuſque amplius Þ in longitudinem
patet; L. Minucium Baſilum cum omni equitatu præ-
mittit, fi quid celeritate itineris atque opportunitate
temporis proficere poſſit: monet, ut ignes in caſtris
fieri prohibeat, ne qua ejus adventis procul ſignifi-
catio fiat; ſeſe confeſtim ſubſequi dicx Bafilus, ut
imperatum eſt, facit; celeriter, contiaque omnium
opinionem confecto itinere, multos in agris inopinantes
deprehendit: eorum indicio ad ipſum Ambiorigem
contendit, quo in loco cum paueis equitibus eſſe dice-
batpr.
— Multum, cùm in omnibus rebus, tum in
re militari, poteſt Fortuna. Nam ſicut magno accidit
caſu, ut in ipſum incautum atque imparatum incideret;
priùſque ejus adventus ab hominibus videretur, quam
fama ac nunciis afferretur; fic magnz fuit fortunz;
omni militari inſtrumento, quod circum ſe habebat,
erepto; rhedis, equiſque comprehenſis; ipſum effugere
mortem. Sed hoc eo factum eft,- quòd, ædificio cit-
cumdato ſylvia, (ut ſunt ferè domicilia Gallorum, qui,
vitandi æſtus causa, plerumque ſylvarum ac fluminum
petunt propinquitates) comites familiareſque ejus an-
gufio in loco paulliſper equitum noſtrorum vim ſuſti-
nuerunt. lis pugnantibus, illum in —
, us
pz Beto Garxico Lis. VI. 113
ſuis intulit: fogientem ſylvæ texerunt. Sic & ad ſub-
eundum periculum, & ad vitandum, multum fortuna
valuit. ;
XXIX. Ambiorix copias ſuas judicione non condux-
erit, quod prœlio dimicandum non exiſtimaverit: an
tempore excluſus, & repentino equitum adventu pro-
hibitus fuerit, quum reliquum exercitum ſubſequi cre-
deret; dubium eſt. Sed certe, clam dimiſſis per agros
nunciis, fibi quemque conſulere juſlit ; quorum pars in
Arduennam ſylvam, pars in continentes paludes profu-
git. Qui proximi Oceanum fuerunt; ii in inſulis ſeſe
occultaverunt, quas æſtus eſſicere conſuèrunt: multi, ex
ſuis finibus egreſſi, ſe ſuaque omnia alieniſümis credi-
derunt. Cativulcus rex dimidiz partis Eburonum, qui
vna cum Ambiorige confilium inierat; ætate jam con-
fetus, quum laborem aut belli aut fuge ferre non poſ-
ſet; omnibus precibus deteſtatus Ambiorigem, qui ejus
confilii auctor fuiſſet; taxo, cujus magna in Gallia Ger-
maniaque copia eſt, ſe exanimavit. Segni Condrusique,
ex gente & numero Germanorum, qui ſunt inter Ebu-
rones Trevir6ſque ; legatos ad Cæſarem miſerunt, ora-
tum, ne /e in hoſlium numero duceret ; neve omnium Ger-
manorum, qui efſent citra Rhennm, unam eſe cauſam judi-
caret : nihil ſe de bello cogitafſe ; nulla Ambiorigi auxilia
m/e. Ceſar, explorata re quæſtione captivorum; ſi
qu ad eos Eburones ex fuga conveniſſent, ad ſe ut re-
ucerentur, imperavit: ſi ita feciſſent, fines eorum fe
violaturum negavit. N
XXX. Tum, copiis in tres partes diſtributis, impe-
dimenta omnium legionum Atuatucam contulit. Id
caltelli nomen eſl. Hoc fere eſt in mediis Eburonum
hnibus ; ubi Titurius atque Aurunculeius, Hh e mandi
causa, conſederant. Hunc chm reliquis rebus locum
probabat; tum, quod ſuperioris anni munitiones inte-
dre manebant, ut militum laborem ſublevaret. Præſi-
dio impedimentis legionem quartam decimam reli-
quit; unam ex 11s 111, quas proxime conſcriptas ex
lala tranſduxerat. Ei legioni caſtriſque Q Tullium
Ciceronem præfecit; ducent6ſque equites attribuit.
Partito exercitu; T. Labienum cum legionibus 111 ad
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Oceanum versus, in eas partes, quæ Menapios attin.
Lunt, proficiſci jubet: C. Trebonium cum pari legio-
num numero ad cam regionem, quæ Atuaticis adja-
cet, depopulandam mittit: ipſe cum reliquis tribus ad
| Rumen Scaldim, quod influit in Moſam, extremiſque
Arduennæ partes, ire conſtituit; quò cum paucis equi.
' tibus proſectum Ambiorigem audiebat. Dif:
diem vii ſeſe reverſurum confirmat ; quam ad diem ei
legion), quæ in præſidio relinquebatur, deberi-frumen-
tum ſciebat. Labienum Treboniumque hortatur, {i
Reipubl commodo facere poſſint, ad eam diem re-
vertantur; ut, rurſus communicato confilio, exploratiſ-
que hoſtium rationibus, aliud initium belli capere
poilint.
XXXI. Erat, ut ſupra demonſtravimus, manus certa
nulla, non præſidium, non oppidum, quod ſe armis
defenderet; ſed in omnes partes diſperſa multitudo,
Ubi cuique aut vallis abdita, aut locus ſylveſtris, aut
palus impedita, ſpem præſidii aut ſalutis aliquam offe-
rebat ; conſederat. Hæc loca vicinitatibus erant nota:
magnamque res diligentiam requirebat, non in ſummà
exercitùs tuenda, (nullum enim poterat univerſis, ab
perterritis ac diſperſis, periculum accidere) ſed in ſin-
gulis militibus conſervandis. Quæ tamen, ex parte,
res ad ſalutem exercitũs pertinebat: nam & prædæ
cupiditas multos longiùs evocabat; & ſylvæ incertis
occultiſque itineribus confertos adire prohibebant. $i
negotium confici, ſtirpemque hominum ſceleratorum
interfici vellet; dimittendz plures manus, diducendi-
que erant milites: fi continere ad ſigna manipulos
vellet, ut inſtituta ratio & - conſuetudo exercitũs Ro-
mani poſtula bat; locus ipſe erat præſidio barbaris; ne-
ue ex occulto inſidiandi, & diſperſos circumveniendi,
—— deerat audacia. At in ejuſmodi difficultatibus,
quantum diligentia provideri poterat, providebatur :
ut potiùs in nocendo aliquid omitteretur, etſi omnium
animi ad ulciſcendum ardebant; quam cum aliquo
detrimento militum noceretur. Dimittit ad. finitimas
civitates nuncios Czſar ; omnes evocat ſpe predz, ad
diripiendos Eburones; ut potiùs in ſylvis Galloren
Vita,
cedens, poſt
— 5 2 &
oo
ps BeLLo GaILIcO Lis, VI. 115
vita, quam legionariorum, periclitetur; ſimul, ut,
magna multitudine circumfusa, pro tali facinore ſtirps
ac homen civitatis tollatur. Magnus undique numerus
celeriter convenit. |
XXXII. Hæc in omnibus Eburonum partibus gere-
bantur ; dieſque appetebat vis, quem in diem Cæſar
ad impedimenta legionemque reverti conllituerat. Hie,
quantum in bello Fortuna poſſit, & quantos afferat
caſus, cognoſci potuit. Diſſipatis ac perterritis hoſti-
bus, ut demondravimus: manus erat nulla, quæ par-
vam modo timoris cauſam afferret, Trans Rhenum
ad Germanos pervenit fama; diripi Eburones, atque
ultro omnes ad prædam evocari. Cogunt equitum 11
millia Sigambri, qui ſunt proximi Rheno; à quibus re-
ceptos ex fuga Tenchtheros atque Uſipetes ſupra do-
cuimus. Tranſeunt Rhenum navibus ratibüſque, xxx
millibus paſſuum infra eum locum, ubi pons erat im-
tfectus, prefidiamque ab Cæſare relictum: primos
buronum fines adeunt: multos ex fuga diſperſos ex-
cipiunt: magno pecoris numero, cujus ſunt cupidiſſi-
mi barbari, potiuntur. Invitati præda, longiùs proce-
dunt. Non hos palus in bello Jatrociniilq ue natos,
non ſylvæ morantur. Quibus in locis fit Cæſar, ex
captivis quzrunt: profectum longids reperiunt, om-
nemque exercitum diſceſſiſſe — Atque unus
ex captivis: Quid vos, inquit, banc miſeram ac lenuem
ſectamini prædam, quibus jam licet efſe fortunatiſſimis ? 11
boriz Atuaticam wenire poteſtis; huc omnes ſuas fortunas
exercitus Romanorum contulit, Midi tantum , ut ne
murus quidem. cingi poffit, neque quiſquam egredi extra
munitiones audeat, Oblata ſpe, Germani, quam nacti
erant prædam, in occulto relinquunt : Ipſi Atuatucam
contendunt ; uſi eodem duce, cujus hæc indicio cogno-
verant. 5 15
XXXIII. Cicero, qui per omnes ſuperiores dies, præ-
ceptis Czſaris, ſumma diligentia milites in caſtris con-
tinuiſſet; ac ne calonem quidem quemquam extra mu-
ndonem egredi paſſus eſſet: ſeptimo die, diffidens C-
ſarem de numero dierum fidem ſervaturum ; quod lon-
dis eum progreſſum audiebat, neque ulla de ejus 2
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/
116 C. JULI CESARAIS
famg afferebatur: ſimul, eorum permotus vocibus, qui
Hius patientiam pene obſeſſionem appellabant, ſiqui-
dem ex caſtris egredi non liceret: nullum hujuſmodi
caſum exſpectans, quo ix oppoſitis legionibus maximo-
que equitatu, diſperſis ac pene deletis hoſtibus, in mil.
libus paſſuum 11 offendi poſſet; v cohortes frumenta.
tum in proximas ſegetes miſit, quas inter & caſlra unus
omnino collis intererat. Complures erant in caſtris ex
legionibus zgri relicti: ex quibus, qui hoc ſpatio die-
rum convaluerant, Circiter ccc ſub vexillo una mittun-
tur. Magna præterea multitudo calonum, magna vis
jumentorum, quz in caſtris ſubſederat, faQa poteſtate,
ſcquitur,
XXXIV. Hoc ipſo tempore, caſu Germani equites
interveniunt; protintſque eodem illo, guo venerant,
curſu ab Decumana porta in caſtra irrumpere conantur:
nec priùs ſunt viſi, objectis ab ea parte ſylvis, quam
caſtris appropinquarent uſque ed, ut qui ſub vallo ten-
derent mercatores, recipiendi ſui non haberent facul-
tatem. Inopinantes noſtri re nova perturbantur ; ac
vix primum impetum cohors in ſtatione ſuſtinet, Cir-
cumtfunduntur hoſtes ex reliquis partibus, fi quem
aditum reperire poſſent. ÆEgre noſtri portas tuentur;
reliquos aditus locus ipſe per ſe, muniti6que defendit,
Totis trepidatur caſtris; atque alius ex alio cauſam
tumultus quærit: neque quo figna ferantur, neque
quam in partem quiſque conveniat, provident. Alius |
jam capta caſtra pronunciat: alius, deleto &ercitu at-
que imperatore, victores barbaros veniſſe contendit :
plerique novas fibi ex loco religiones fingunt; Cottz-
& Titurii calamitatem, qui in evdem occiderint
caltello, ante oculos ponunt. Tali timore omnibus
perterritis ; confirmatur opinio barbaris, ut ex captiv0
audierant, nullum eſſe intus præſidium. Perrumpere
nituntur; ſeque ipſi adhortantur, ne tantam fortunam
ex manibus dimittant. :
XXXV. Erat æger in præſidio relictus P. Sextius Ba-
culus, qui primum pilum apud Cæſarem duxerat; cvjUs
mentionem ſuperioribus preeliis fecimus: ac diem jam
v cibo caruerat. Hic, diſſiſus ſuæ atque omnium m
| | inerm
'vs BzLLo Gattico LI. VI. 117
inermis ex tabernaculo prodit: videt imminere hoſtes,
atque in ſummo eſſe rem difcrimine; capit arma à
proximis, atque in porta conſiſtit. Sequuntur hunc
centuriones ejus cohortis, quæ in ſtatione erat: paulliſ-
per prœlium una ſuſtinent. Relinquit animus Sextium,
ravibus acceptis vulneribus: ægre, per manus tractus,
2 ti6c ſpatio interpoſito, reliqui ſeſe confir-
mant; tantüm ut in munitionibus conſiſtere audeant,
ſpeciemque defenſorum præbeant. |
XXXVI. Interim, confeta frumentatione, milites
noſtri clamorem exaudiunt: præcurrunt equites; quanto
res ſit in peticulo, cognoſcunt. Hie verò nulla muaitio
et, quæ perterritos recipiat. Modo conſeripti, atque
us0s militaris imperiti, ad tribunum militum centurio-
neſque ora convertunt; quid ab his præcipiatur, ex-
ſpectant. Nemo eſt tam fortis, quin rei novitate per-
turbetur. Barbari, ſigna procul conſpicati, oppugna -
tione deſiſtunt: rediſſe primò legiones credunt, quas
longids diſceflifle ex captivis cognoverant: poſtea, de-
ſpecta paucitate, ex omnibus partibus impetum faciunt.
XXXVII. Calones in proximum tumulum procurrunt:
hinc celeriter dejecti, ſe in ſigna manipuloſque conji- ,
ciunt : ed magis timidos perterrent milites. Alii, cunco
facto ut celeriter perrumpant, cenſent: Quoniam tam pro-
pingua fint caſtra; etfi pars aliqua circumventa ceciderit, at
reliquos ſervari poſſe confidunt. Alii, ut in jugo confiftant,
atque eundem omnes ferant caſum. Hoc veteres non pro-
bant milites, quos ſub vexillo una proſectos docuimus :
itaque inter ſe cohortati, duce C. Trebonio equite R.
qui eis erat præpoſitus, per medios hoſtes perrumpunt;
incoluméſque ad unum in caſtra perveniunt omnes.
Hos ſubſecuti calones equiteſque eodem impetu, mili-
tum virtute ſervantur. At ii, qui in jugo conſtiterant,
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erant ordines hujus legionis tranſducti; ne ante partam
rei militaris laudem amitterent, Miſimè pugnantes
conciderunt. Militum pars, ror ſummotis
hoſtibus, præter ſpem incolumis tra pervenit;
s, a barbaris circumventa, periit.
XXXVIII. Germani, deſperatà expugnatione caſtro-
rum, quod noltros jam conſtitiſſe in munitionibus vide.
bant ; cum & præda, quam in ſylvis depoſuerant, trans
Rhenum ſeſe receperunt. Ac tantus fuit, etiam poſt
diſceſſum hoſtium, terror; ut ea note, quum C. Volu-
ſenus miſſus cum equitatu ad caſtra veniflet, fidem non
faceret adeſſe cum incolumi Cæſarem exercitu. Sic
omnium animos timor præoccupaverat, ut, pence alie-
nata mente, deletis omnibus copiis, equitatum tantim
ſe ex fuga recepiſſe dicerent ; neque incolumi exercitu,
Germanos caſtra oppugnaturos fuiſſe contenderent:
quem timorem Cæſaris ad ventus ſuſtulit.
XXXIX. Reverſus ille, eventus belli non ignarus;
unum, quod cohortes ex ſtatione & præſidio eſſent
emiflæ, queſtus; ne minimo quidem caſui locum relingui
debuijje, multum fortunam in repentino hoſtium adventu
potuiſſe, indicavit: multo etiam amplins, quod penè ab ipſi
wallo porti/que caftrorum barbaros awertifſent. Quarum
omnium rerum maxime admirandum videbatur, quod
Germani, qui eo conſilio Rhenum tranſierant, ut Am-
biorigis fines depopularentur; ad caſtra Romanorum
delati, optatiſſimum Ambiorigi beneficium obtulerunt.
XL. Cæſar, ad vexandos rurſus hoſtes profectus;
magno coatto numero ex finitimis civitatibus, in om-
nes partes dimittit. Omnes vici atque omnia ædificia,
qua quiſque conſpexerat, incendebantur: præda ex
omnibus locis agebatur: frumenta non ſolim i tanta
multitudine jumentorum atque hominum conſumeban-
tur, ſed etiam anni tei pore atque imbribus procubue-
rant: ut, ſi qui etiam in preſentia ſe occultaſſent;
tamen iis, deducto exercitu, rerum omnium inopia pe-
reundum videretur. Ac ſæpè in eum locum ventum
elt; tanto in omnes partes diviſo equitatu, ut non moco
viſum ab ſe Ambiorigem in fuga captivi, ſed nec plane
etiam abiſſe ex conſpectu contenderent ; ut, ſpe _
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ve BeLLo GaLLico Lis, vn. 119
gendi illata, atque infinico labore ſuſcepto, qui ſe
Crna a Czſazggratiam inituros putarent, pene na-
turam ſtudio ent; ſemperque paullum ad ſum-
mam felicitatemefuiſſe videretur ; atque ille latebris,
ac ſylvis, aut ſaltibus ſe eriperet; & noctu occultatus
alias regiones parteſque peteret, non majore equitum
præſidio quam iv, quibus ſolis vitam ſuam committere
audebat.
XLI. Tali modo vaſtatis regionibus; exercitum Cæ-
ſar, duarum cohortium damno, Durocortorum Rhemos, -
rum reducit: conciliõque in eum locum Galliz indicto,
de conjuratione Senonum & Carnutum quæſtionem ha-
bere inſtituit; & de Accone, qui princeps ejus conſilii
fuerat, graviore ſententià pronunciata, more majorum
ſupplicium ſumpſit. Nonnulli, judicium veriti, proſu-
gerunt: quibus quum aqua atque igni interdixiſſet; 11
legiones ad fines Trevirorum, 11 in Lingonibus, v1 re-
liquas in Senonum finibus Agendici in hybernis collo-
cavit: frumentoque exercitui proviſo; ut inſtituerat, in
ltaliam ad conventus agendos profectus eſt,
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I, UE TA Gallia ; Cæſar, ut conftituerat, in Ita-
() liam ad conventus agendos proficiſcitur ; abi
cognoſcit de P. Clodii cæde: de Senatũique
conſulto certior factus, ut omnes Italiz juniores con-
jurarent ; delectum tota Provincia habere inſlituit. Ex
res in Galliam Tranfalpinam celeriter perferuntur : ad-
. Cunt ipfi & affingunt rumoribus Galli, quod res poſcere
videbatur ; retineri urbano motu Cæſarem, neque in tantis
diſenfionibus ad exercitum wenire pat. Hac impulſi
occaſione ; qui jam ante ſe populi R. imperio ſubjectos
golerent, liberiùs atque audaciùs de bello conſilia inire
meipiunt. Indictis inter fe principes Galliæ eonciliis,
Hlyeltribus ac remotis locis, queruntur de Acconis
| morte:
120 C. Jourtit CESARIS
morte: poſſe hunc caſum ad ipſos recidere, demon-
ſtrant: miſerantur communem Galli fortunam : om-
nibus pollicitationibus ac præmiis depoſcunt, qui belli
initium faciant, & ſui capitis periculo Galliam in li-
bertatem vindicent. Ejus in primis rationem haben-
dam eſſe dicunt, prits quam eorum cland@fiina conſilia
efferantur; ut Cæſar ab exercitu intercludatur. Id eſſe
facile; quòd neque legiones, abſente Imperatore, ex
hy bernis egredi audeant; neque Imperator, ſine præſi-
dio, ad legiones pervenire poſlit. Poſtremò, in acie
præſtare interfici ; quam non veterem belli gloriam, li-
| bertatemque, quam a majoribus acceperint, recuperare,
II. His rebus agitatis, profitentur Carnutes ; /e nullun
periculum, communis ſalutis causd, recuſare; principe/que
fe ex omnibus, bellum facturos pollicentur. Et, quoniam
in preſentia obſidibus cavere inter ſe non pofſent, ne res
efferatur : ut juregjurando ac fide ſanciatur, petunt, (collatis
militaribus fignis, quo more eorum gradiſimæ cærinoniæ
continentur) ne, facto initio belli, a, religuis dcferantur,
Tunc, collaudatis Carnutibus, dato jurejurando ab om-
nibus qui aderant, tempore ejus rei conſtituto, ab con-
cilio diſceditur. |
III. Ubi ea dies venit; Carnutes, Cotuato & Cone-
toduno ducibus, deſperatis hominibus, Genabum dato
fipno concurrunt: civeſque Romanos, qui negotiandi
causa ibi conſtiterant; in iis C. Fuſium Cottam, honeſ-
tum equitem Romanum, qui rei frumentariz juſſu Cæ-
ſaris præerat; interficiunt: bonaque eorum «iripiunt,
Celeriter ad omnes Galliæ civitates fama perfertur:
(nam, ubi major atque illuſtrior incidit res; clamore
per agros regioneſque fignificant : .hunc alii deinceps
excipiunt, & proximis tradunt: ut tune accidit) nam,
quæ Genabi ori-nte Sole geſta eſſent, ante primam
conſectam vigiliam in finibus Arvernorum audita ſunt:
quod ſpatium eſt milium paſſuum circiter o .
IV. Simili ratione ibi Vercingetorix, Celtilli flius,
Arvernus, ſummæ potentiæ adoleſcens; cujus pater prin-
cipatum Galliæ totius obtinuerat, &, ob cam cauſam,
quod regnum appetebat, ab eivitate erat interfectus;
cenvo-
pz Berro GaLLtico Lis. VII. 121
convocatis ſuis clientibus, facile eos incendit. Cognito
ejus conſilio, ad arma concurritur : prohibetur ab Go-
banitione patruo ſao, reliquiſque principibus, qui hanc
tentandam fortunam non exiſtimabant: expellitur ex
oppido GergFvia : non deſiſtit tamen: atque in agris
habet delectum egentium ac perditorum. Hic coactã
manu; quoſcumque adit ex civitate, ad ſuam ſenten-
tiam perducit : hortatur, ut, communis libertatis causa,
arma capiant: magniſque coactis copiis, adverfarios
ſuos, à quibus paulld ante erat ejectus, expellit ex
civitate. Rex ab ſuis appellatur : dimittit quoquo ver-
ſus legationes : obteſtatur, ut in ide maneant. Celeri-
ter ſibi Senones, Pariſios, Pictones, Cadurcos, Turones,
Aulercos, Lemovices, Andes, reliquoſque, omnes qui
Oceanum attingunt, adjungit : omnium conſenſu, ad
eum defertur imperium. Qua oblata poteſtate, omni-
bus iis civitatibus obſides imperat; certum numerum
militum celeriter ad ſe adduei jubet: armorum quan-
tum quæque civitas domi, quodque ante tempus efficiat,
conſtituit: in primis, equitatui ſtudet. Summe dili-
gentiæ ſummam imperii ſeveritatem addit ; mag nito-
dine ſupplicii, dubitantes cogit: nam, majore com m iſſo
| delicto, igni atque omnibus tormentis necat; leviore
| de causa, auribus deſeRis, aut ſingulis effoſſis oculis,
; domum remittit : ut ſint reliquis documento, & magni-
5 tudine pœnæ perterreant alios. . |
F V. His ſuppliciis celeriter coaQto exercitu ; Luterium
Cadurcym, — hominem audaciæ, cum parte ca-
plarum in Ruthenos mittit : ipſe in Bituriges proficiſci-
tur, Ejus adventu Bituriges ad ZEduos, quorum erant
in fide, legatos mittunt, ſubſidium rogatum, qud faci-
lius hoſtium copias ſuſtinere poſſint. dui, de conſilio
legatorum, quos Cæſar ad exercitum reliquerat, copias
equitatüs peditatuſque ſubſidio Biturigibus mittunt:
qu quum ad flumen Ligerim veniſſent, quod Bituriges
ad Æduis dividit : paucos dies ibi morati, neque flumen
tranfire auſi, domum revertuntur: legatiſque noſtris re-
nunciant, /e Biturigum perfidiam weritos revertifſs ; quibys
a confilr; fuiſſe cognoverint, ut, ſi flumen transiſtat, und ex
fare ipſi, alters drverni /e circumſiſterent. Id cane de
G caus à,
122 C. JurLit CaASaARIS
causa, quam legatis pronunciarunt, an perfidia adducti
fecerint, qudd nihil nobis conſtat; non videtur pro
certo elle ponendum. Bituriges, eorum diſceſſu, ſtatim
ſe cum Arvernis coujungunt.
VI. His rebus in Italiam Cæſari nunciatis ; quum jam
ille virtute Cn. Pompeit urbanas res commodiorem in
ſtatum perveniſſe intelligeret, in Tranſalpinam Galliam
profectus eſt. Eo quum veniſſet; magna difficultate
afficiebatur, qua ratione ad exercitum pervenire poſſet.
Nam, fi legiones in provinciam accerſeret : ſe abſente,
in itinere prœlio dimicaturas intelligebat : fi ipſe ad
exercitum contenderet ; ne iis quidem, qui ea tempore
cati viderentur, ſuam ſalutem rectè committi videbat.
VII. Interim Luterius Cadurcus in Ruthenos miſſus,
eam civitatem Arvernis conciliat; progreſſus in Ni-
tiobriges & Gabalos, ab utriſque obſides accipit; &,
magna coacta manu, in Provinciam, Narbonem verss,
eruptionem facere contendit. Qua re nunciata ; Czlar
omnibus conſiliis antevertendum exiſtimavit, ut Narbo-
nem proficiſceretur. Fd quum veniſſet, timentes con-
firmat: præſidia in Ruthenis Provincialibus, Volcis
Arecomicis, Toloſatibus, circumque Narbonem ; quz
loca erant hoſtibus finitima ; conſtituit. Partem copia-
rum ex Provincia, ſupplementümque, quod ex Italia
adduxerat, in Helvios, qui fines Arvernorum contin-
gunt, convenire jubet.
VIII. His rebus comparatis: repreſſo jam Luterio &
remoto, quòd intrare intra præſidia periculoſum puta-
bat; in Helvios proficiſcitur. Eth mons Cebenna, qu!
Arvernos ab Helviis diſcludit, duriſſimo tempore anni,
altiflima nive iter impediebat; tamen diſcuſsa nive V1
in altitudinem pedum, atque ita viis patefactis, ſummo
militum labore ad fines Arvernorum pervenit, Quibus
oppreſſis ĩnopinantibus; quod fic ſe Cebenna, ut muro,
munitos exiſtimabant ; ac ne ſingulari quidem homidl
unquam eo tempore anni ſemitæ patuerant ; equitivus
impexat, ut, quam : latiſſimè poſſent, vagentur ; & quam
maximum hoſtibus terrorem inferant. Celeriter hc
famã ac nunciis ad Vercingetorigem perferuntur: quem
perterriti omnes Arverni circumſiſtunt, atque onen
ve BELLO GaLLico Lis. VII. 123
ut ſuis fortunis conſutat,, neu ſe ab boftibus diripi patiatur :
prefertim guum videat omne ad. ſe bellum tranſlatum. Quo-
rum ille precibus permotus, caſtra ex Biturigibus movet
in Arvernos verſus.
IX. At Cæſar biduum in 1is locis moratus, quòd hæc
de Vercingetorige uſu. ventura opinione præceperat:
per cauſam ſupplementi equitatũſque cogendi, ab exer-
citu diſeedit: Brutum adoleſcentem iis copiis præficit:
hunc monet, ut in omnes partes equites quam latiſſimè
pervagentur: daturum fe operam, ne longiùs triduo ab
caſtris abſit. His conſtitutis rebus; ſuis inopinantibus,
quam maximis poteſt itineribus, Viennam pervenit.
Ibi nactus recentem equitatum, quem multis ante die-
bus eo præmiſerant; neque diurno neque nocturno itinere
intermiſlo, per fines Æduorum in Lingones contendit,
ubi-11 legiones hyemabant; ut, fi. quid etiam de ſui
ſalute ab ÆEduis iniretur conſilii, celeritate præcurreret.
Eo quum perveniſſet, ad reliquas legiones mittit; pri-
que in unum locum omnes cogit, quam, de ejus ad-
rents Arvernis nunciart poſſet.
X. Hac re .cognita, Vercingetorix rurſus in Bituriges
exercitum reducit; atque inde profectus, Gergoviam
boiorum oppidum, quos ibi Helvetico prœlio victos
Cæſar collocaverat, Æduiſque attribuerat, oppugnare
a- inttituit. Magnam hec res Cæſari difticultatem ad con-
llium capiendum afferebat : ſi reliquam partem hyemis
uno in loco legiones contineret; ne, ſtipendiariis Ædu-
com expugnatis, cuncta Gallia deficeret, quod nullum
in eo amicis preſidium videret poſitum efle : fin matu-
nus ex hybernis educeret; ne ab re frumentaria duris
ſubrectionibus laboraret. Præſtare viſum eſt tamen
omnes difficultates perpeti, quam, tanta contumelia ac-
cepta, omnium ſuorum voluntates alienare. Itaque co-
bortatus Æduos de ſupportando commeatu z præmittit
id Boios, qui de ſuo adventu doceant, hortenturque, ut
n fde maneant, atque hoſtium impetum magno animo
meant. Duabus Agendici legionibus, atque impe-
mentis totius exercitis relictis; ad Boios proficiſcitur.
XI. Altero die quum ad oppidum Senonum Vellau-
aunum veniſſet; ne quem poſt ſe hoſtem relinqueret,
s 2 que
parabant. Huc b.duo Cæſar pervenit; & caſtris ante
getorigis anteceſſerat: quem ſimul atque oppidani con.
124 C. JuLIICæESARIS
2 expeditiore re framentaria uteretur, oppugnare in-
uit: idqve biduo circumvallavit. Tertio die miſſis
ex oppido legatis de deditione ; arma proferri, jumenta
roduci, pc obfides dari jubet. Ea qui conficeret, C.
rebonium legatum relinquit. Ipſe, ut quamprimum
iter faceret, Genabum Carnutum proficiſcitor : qui tunc
primùm allato nuncio de oppugnatione Vellaunoduni;
_ longiùs eam rem ductum iri exiſtimarent; præ-
dium, Genabi tuendi causa, quod eo mitterent, com-
oppidum poſitis, diei tempore excluſus, in poſterum
oppugnationem differt ; quzque ad eam rem ufui ſint,
militibus imperat: &, quod oppidum Genabum pons
fluminis Ligeris continebat; veritus ne noctu ex oppido
profugerent, 11 legiones in armis excubare jubet. Gena-
benſes, paullò ante mediam noctem, ſilentio ex oppido
egreſſi, flumen tranfire cœperunt. Qua re per explora-
tores nunciata ; Cæſar legiones, quas expeditas eſſe juſ-
ſerat, portis incenſis, intromittit; atque oppido potitur;
perpaucis ex hoſtium numero deſideratis, quin cuncti
caperentur; quod pontis atque itinerum anguſtiæ mul-
titudinis fugam intercluſerant, Oppidum diripit, atque
incendit; prædam militibus donat : exercitum Ligerim
tranſducit, atque in Biturigum fines pervenit. /
XII. Vercingetorix, ubi de Cæſaris adventu cognonit, 6
oppugnatione defiſtit ; atque obviam Cæſari proficiſc =
tur. Ille oppidum Biturigum, poſitum in via, Novio- 15
dunum oppugnare inſtituerat. Quo ex oppido quun a.
legati ad eum veniſſent, oratum, ut fbi ignoſceret, ſueqi oy
witee conſuleret : ut celeritate reliquas res conficeret, qui } b
pleraque erat conſecutus; arma proferri, equos produc,
obſides dari jubet. Parte jam obſidum tranſdita ; quum
reliqua adminiſtrarentur; centurionibus & paucis mil.
tibus intromiflis, qui arma jumentaque conquirerent:
equitatus hoſtium procul viſus eſt, qui agmen Vercin-
ſpexerunt, atque in ſpem auxilii venerunt; clamore ſob
lato, arma capere, portas claudere, murum complet
cceperunt. Centuriones in oppido, quum, ex ſign)hca
tione Gallorum, novi aliquid ab iis iniri conſilii int
lexiſlent
—
pe BeLLo GauLico Lis. VII. 12g
lexiſſent; gladiis diſtrictis, portas occupaverunt, ſuGſ-
que omnes incolumes receperunt. Cæſar ex caſtris
equitatum educi jubet ; prœliùmque equeſtre commit -
tit. Laborantibus jam ſuis Germanos equites cireiter
ed ſubmittit, quos ab jinitio fecum habere inſtituerat.
Eorum impetum Galli ſuſtinere non potuerunt; atque
in fugam conjecti, multis amiſſis, ſeſe ad agmen rece-
perunt. Quibus profligatis, rurſus oppidani perterriti,
comprehenſos eos, quorum opera plebem concitatam
exiſtimabant, ad Cæſarem perduxerunt : ſeſeque ei de-
diderunt. Quibus rebus confectis, Cæſar ad oppidum
Avaricum, (quod erat maximum munitiſſimümque in
fnibus Biturigum, atque agrt fertilifima regione) pro-
ſectus eſt : quod, eo oppido recepto, civitatem Bituri-
gum ſe in poteſtatem redacturum confidebat.
XIII. Vercingetorix, tot continuis incommodis Vel-
launoduni, Genabi, Novioduni acceptis; ſuos ad con-
cilium convocat : docet, /ong? alia ratione effe bellum ge-
rendum, algue antea fit geſtum omnibus modis huic rei flu=
dendum, ut pabu/atione & commeatu Romani prohifeantur :
id M facile; quod equitatu ipſi abundent, & guod anni tem-
pore ſublewentur; pabulum ſecari non p1rfſt ; neceſſarid diſper-
for hofles, ex ædiſciis petere ; hos omnes quotidie equitibus
&lri poſſe, Preterea, ſalutis causd, rei familiaris commoda
negligenda : vicos atque edificia incendi oportere, hic ſpatio
a Bold quoguo versus, guo, pabulandi causd, adire poſſe /
videantar : harum iffts rerum copiam ſuppetere ;-qudd, quo=
rum in finibus bellum geratur, eorum opibus- ſubleventur :
Romanbs aut inopiam non laturos, aut magno cum periculo
lngius & caftris progreſſuros : neque intereſſ, ipſuſne inter fi-
cant, impedimenti/ue exuant ; quibus amiſſis, bellum geri
non poſit. Preterea, oppida incendi of ortere, gue non mu-
nittone & loci naturd ab omni fint periculo tuta ; neu ſuis
fint ad detrectandam militiam receptacula; neu Romanis
propoſita ad copiam commeatus predamgue tollendam. Hac
þ gravia, aut acerba wideantur : multo illa grawviis si-
mari debere; liberos, conjuges in ſervitutem abſtrahi ; ipſos
mterfici e que fit neceſſt accidere victis.
XIV. Omnium conſenſu bac ſententia probati, uno
die amplius xx urbes Biturigum incenduntur, Ts
G 3
126 C. JULI CEasARIS
idem fit in reliquis civitatibus. In omnibus partibus in-
cendia conſpiciuntur. Quæ eiſi magno cum dolore om-
nes ferebant; tamen hoc ſibi ſolatii proponebant, quod
ſe, prope explorata victoria, celeriter amiſſa recuperatu-
ros confidebant, Deliberatur de Avarico in communi
concilioz incendi placeret, an defendi ? Procumbunt
Gallis omnibus ad pedes Bituriges ; ac pulcherrimam proj?
totius Galliæ urbem, que & prefidio & ornament» fit ciwi-
zati, ſuis manibus ſuccendere cogerentur : facile ſe loci naturd
defenſuros dicunt : guod prope ex omnibus partibus flumine
& palude circumdala, unum babeat & peranguſtum aditum.
Datur pet ntibus venia; difluadente primo Vercinge-
torige, poſt concedente ; & precibus ipſorum, & miſeri-
cordia vulgi. Detenfore: idonei oppido deliguntur.
XV. Vercingetorix minoribus Cæſarem itinetibus
ſubſequitur; & locum caſtris deligit, paludibus ſylviſ-
que munitum, ab Avarico longe millia paſſuum xy,
Ibi per certos exploratores in ſingula diei tempora, quæ
ad Avaricum agerentur, cognoſcebat; &, quid fieri vel-
let, imgerabat. Omnes noſtras pabulationes frumenta-
tioneſque obſervabat; diſperioſque, quum longiũùs ne-
ceſſario procederent, adoriebatur; - magn6que incom-
modo afficiebat; etſi, quantum ratione provideri pote-
rat, ab noſtris occurrebatur, ut incertis temporibus di-
versiſque itineribus iretur.
XVI. Caſtris ad eam partem oppidi poktis Czar,
uz, intermiſſa a flumine & palude, aditum (ut ſapra
Gs) anguſtum habebat ; aggerem apparare, vineas
agere, turres duas conſtituere cœpit: nam circumvallare
loci natura prohibebat. De re frumentaria Boios, at-
ue Aduos adhortari non deſtitit: quorum alteri, quod
nullo ſtudio agebant, non multum adjuvabant; alter
non magnis facultatibus, quod civitas e,
infirma, celeriter, quod habuerunt, conſumpſeront.
Summa diflicultate rei frumentariæ affecto exercitu,
tenuitate Boiorum, indiligentia Æduorum, incendiis
zedificiorum, uſque eò, ut complures dies milites fru-
mento caruerint, &, pecore è longinquioribus vicis ad-
acto, extremam famem ſuſtentarent: nulla tamen vox
eſt ab iis audita, populi R. majeſtate & ſuperioribus
FO virus
A. 5 _ 2.» 4. Ao io hd Bnd
*
pe Bello GaLLIco Lis. VII. 127
victoriis indigna. Quin etiam Cæſar quum in opere
ſingulas legiones appellaret, &, * acerbiùs inopiam
ferrent, ſe dimiſſurum oppugnationem diceret ; univerſi
ab eo, ne id faceret, petebant ; Sic /e complures annos, illo
imperante, meruifſe ; ut nullam ignemini am acciperent; nun-
quam infectd re diſcederent : hoc ſe ignominie laturos loco,
i inceptam oppugnationem reliquifſent ; præſtare omnes per-
ferre acerbitates, quam non civibus Romanis, qui Genabi
perfidia Gallorum interiſſent, parentarent. Hæc eadem
centurionibus tribuniſque militum mandabant, ut per
eos ad Cæſarem deferrentur.
XVII. Quum jam muro appropinquaſſent turres; ex
captivis Cæſar cognovit, Vercingetorigem, conſumpto
pabulo, caſtra moviſſe propiùs Avaricum; atque ipſum,
cam equitatu, expeditiſque, qui inter equites preeliari
conſueſſent, inſidiarum causa eo profectum, quò noſ-
tros poſtero die pabulatum venturos arbitrabatur. Qui-
dus rebus cognitis; media nocte ſilentio profectus, ad
hoſtium caſtra manè pervenit. Illi, celeriter per explo-
ratores adventu Celaris cognito, carros impedimenta-
que ſua in arctiores ſylvas abdiderunt; copias omnes,
in loco edito atque aperto, inſtruxerunt. Qui re nun-
_— Czſar celeriter farcinas conferri, arma expediri
jaſſit. a
XVIII. Collis erat leniter ab infimo acclivis. Hunc
ex omnibus ferè partibus palus difficilis atque impedita
eingebat, non latior pedibus I. Hoc ſe colle, inter-
ruptis pontibus, Galli fiducia loci eontinebant 3 gene-
ratimque diſtributi in civitates, omnia vada ac faltus -
ejus paludis certis cuſtodiis obtinebant; fic animo pa-
rati, ut, fi eam paludem Romani perrumpere conaren-
tur, hæſitantes premerent ex loco ſuperiore : ut, qui
propinquitatem loci viderent, paratos prope æquo
Marte ad dimicandum exiſtimarent ; qui iniquitatem
conditionis perſpicerent, inani ſimulatione ſeſe often-
tare cognoſcerent. Indignantes milites Cæſar, quod
conſpectum ſuum hoſtes ferre poſſent, tantulo ſpatio in-
terjecto; & ſignum prœlii expoſcentes ; edocet, guanto
detrimento, & quot virorum fortium morte neceſſe e et con-
Hart vicloriam ; quos quum fic animo paratos wideret, ut
2 N G + nullum
128 C. Jr II Casanis
nullum pro fud laude periculum recuſarent ; ſumme /e iniqui-
tatis condemnari debere, niſi eorum vitam ſud ſalute habeat
cariorem. Sic milites conſolatus, eodem die reducit in
caſtra : reliqua, quz ad oppugnationem oppidi pertine-
bant, adminiſtrare ioſtitvit,
XIX. Vercingetorix, quum ad ſuos rediſſet; prodi-
tionis inſimulatus, gued caſtra propius Romanos movifſt,
quod cum omni equitatu dijceſſifſet, guad fine imperio tantas
copias religuiſſet, quod ejus di ſceſſi Romani tantã opportuni-
pate & celeritate veniſſent; non hac omnia fortuitu, aut ſine
confilio, accidere potuiſſe ; regnam illum Galliæ malle Cz/aris
conceſſu, quam ifſorum habere beneficio: Tali modo accu-
ſatus, ad hæc reſpondit : Quòd caſfra mowifſet, fadun
inopiã pabuli; etiam ipſis hortantibus : quod propiùs Romano
acceſſigſot; per ſuaſum loci opportunitate, qui Je ipſum muni-
tione deftnderet : eguilum verdò operam, neque in loco paluſtri
defederari debuiſſe;- & illic fuifſe utilem, quo fint profed!,
Summam imperii ſe conſulid nulli diſcedentem tradidiſſe, ne
is multitudinis ſludio ad dimicundum impelleretur : cui rei,
fFropter animi mollitiem, fludere omnes videret; gudd diubiui
laberem ferre non pofſent : Romani fi caſu intervenerint,
fortunæ; fi alicujus indicis wocatt, huic habendam gratian ;
gudd & paucitatem eorum ex loco ſuperiore cognaſcere, ©
eirtutem deſpicere petuerint; qui dimicare non auſi, turpiter
fe in caſtra receperint. Imperium ii & Cæ ſare, per proditio.
nem, nullum drfiderars ; quod habere widtoria peſſet, gue
jam efſet fibi ac omnibus Gallis explorata ; quin etiam if/is
remittere, fi fibi magis honorem tribucre, guam ab /e ſalulen
accipere videantur. Hae ut intelligatis, inquit, ſincerò d n-
nunciari; audite Remanos milites, Producit ſervos, quos
in pa bulatione paucis ante diebus exceperat, & fame
vinculifque exctuciaverat. Ii, jam ante edoRi quæ in-
terrogati pronunciarent, Milites /e e legionarios dicunt:
fame Q inopia addductes, clam ex caftris exiſſ; ſi quid fru-
menti, aut pecorit, in agris reperite peſſent; ſimili omnen
exercitum incpid premi ; nec jam wires ſufficere cujuſquan
nec ferre operis laborem poſſe : itague flatuifſe Imperatorem,
js nibil in oppugnatione oppidi profeciget, triduo exercitum
-deducere. Hæc @ me, inquit Vercingetorix, beneficia ba-
beiis ; quem proditionis infimulatis : cyjus opera, ſine ugs
| © ſang M.
ps BerLo GaLLico LIE. VII. 129
fanguine, tantum exercitum wvietorem fame pene cor ſumpt um
widetis 3 quem, turpiter Je ex hac fugd recipientem, ne qua
civitas ſuis finibus recipiat, a me proviſum eſt,
XX. Conclamat omnes multitudo, & ſuo more armis
concrepat; quod facere in eo conſueverunt, cujus ora-
tionem approbant : Summum /e Vercingetorigem ducem;
nee de ejus fide dubitandum; nec majori ratione bellum ad.
miniſtrar: poſſe. Statuunt, ut decem millia hominum,
delecta ex omnibus copiis, in oppidum ſubmittantur;
nec ſolis Biturigibus communem ſalutem committen-
dam cenſent; qudd penè in eo, fi id oppidum retinu-
iſſent, ſummam victoriæ conſtare intelligebant.
XXI. Singulari militum noſtrorum virtuti conſilia eu-
juſquemodi Gallorum occurrebant : ut eſt ſummæ genus
ſollertiæ; atque ad omaia imitanda atque efficienda,
_ ab quoque traduntur, aptiſſimum. Nam & laqueis
ces avertebant ; quas quum deſtinaverant, tormentis
introrſus reducebant; & aggerem cuniculis ſubtrahe-
bant: ed ſcientius, quod apud eos magnæ ſunt ferrariz
atque omne genus cuniculorum notum atque uſitatum
eſt. Totum autem murum ex omai parte turribus con-
tabulaverant, atque has coriis intexerant. Tum crebris
diurnis nocturniſque eruptionibus, aut aggeri ignem in-
ferebant, aut milites occupatos in opere adoriebantur;
& noſtrarum turrium altitudinem, quantum has quotidi-
anus agger expreſſerat. commiſſis ſuarum turrium mælis
adæquabant; & apertos cuniculos præuſtà & præac uta
materia, & pice fervefatia, & maximi ponderis {axis
morabantur, menibuique appropiaquare prohibeban*.
XXII. Muris autem omnibus Gallicis hæc fere forma
eſt, Trabes directæ perpetuz in longitudinem, paribus
in zervallis, diſtantes inter ſe binos pedes, in ſolo collo-
eantur: he revinciuntur introrſus, & multo aggere veſ-
vuntur : ea autem, quæ diximus, intervalla grandibus
in ſronte ſaxis effarciuntus. lis collocatis & coagmen-
tatis, alius inſuper ordo ad jicitur; ut idem, illud inter-
valium ſervetur; neque inter ſe contingant trabes, (ed
paribus intermifie ſpatiis, fingule fingulis ſaxis inter-
J«Ctis, arte contineantur. Sic deinceps omne opus con-
Naur, dum juſta muri altitudo expleatur. Hoc con
| g WS in
130 C.,JvrinCasanis.
in ſpeciem varietatemque opus deforme non eſt, alternis
trabibus ac faxis, quæ rectis lineis ſuos ordines ſervant :
tum, ad utilitatem & defenſionem urbium, ſummam
habet opportunitatem; quòd & ab incendio lapis, & ab
ariete materia defendit; quæ, perpetuis trabibus pedes
quadragenos plerumque introrſus revincta, neque per-
rum pi neque diſtrahi poteſt.
XXIII. lis tot rebus impedita oppugnatione; milites,
quum toto tempore, luto, frigore, & aſſiduis im bribus
tardarentur; tamen continenti labore omnia hæc ſupe-
raverunt ; & diebus xxv aggerem latum pedes cccxxx,
altum pedes Lxxx, exſtruxerunt. Quum is murum hoſ-
tium pene contingeret ; & Cæſar ad opus conſuetudine
excubaret ; — cohortaretur, ne quod omnino
tempus ab opere intermitteretur: paullò ante 111 vigi-
liam eſt animadverſum, fumare aggerem, quem cuni-
culo hoſtes ſuccenderant; eodemque tempore toto muro
clamore ſublato, duabus portis ab utroque latere tur-
rium eruptio fiebat. Alii faces, atque aridam materiem
de muro in aggerem eminus jaciebant; picem alii, re-
liquaſque res quibus ignis excitari poteſt, fundebant:
ut, quo primum occurreretur, aut cul rei ferretur auxi-
lium, vix ratio iniri poſſet, Tamen, quòd inſtituto
Czſaris duæ ſemper legiones pro caſtris excubabant;
plureſque. partitis tem poribus in opere erant; celeriter
factum eſt, ut alii eruptionibus reſiſterent, alii turres
reducerent, aggeremque interſcinderent ; omnis vero ex
caſtris multitudo ad reſtinguendum concurreret.
XXIV. Quum in omnibus locis, conſumptà jam reli-
qua parte noctis, pugnaretur; ſemperque hoſtibus ſpes
victoriæ redintegraretur; ed magis, quod deuſtos tur-
rium pluteos videbant, nec facile adire apertos ad aux-
iliandum animadvertebant ; ſemperque ipſi recentes
defeſſis ſuccederent; omnemque Galliæ falutem in illo
veſtigio temporis poſitam arbitrarentur: accidit inſpec-
tantibus nobis, quod, dignum memoria viſum, preter-
mittendum non exiſtimavimus. Quidam ante portam |
oppidi Gallus, qui per manus ſevi ac picis tranſditas dej
glebas in ignem è regione turris projiciebat ; ſcorpione ſlit
ab latere dextro transjeRus, exanimatuſque, _ tra
une
If
f
f
1
if
-
j
_
—_
— — —
pz BELLIO GALTIcO Lis; VII. 131
Hunc ex proximis unus jacentem tranſgreſſus, eodem
illo munere fungebatur; eadem ratione ictu ſcorpionis
exanimato altero, ſucceſſit tertius; & ter tio, quartus :
nec ille priùs eſt a propugnatoribus vacuus relictus lo-
eus; quam, reſtincto aggere, atque omni parte ſubmotis
hoſtibus, finis eſt pugnandi factus. |
XXV. Omnia experti Galli; quod res nulla ſucceſſe-
rat, poſtero die conſilium ceperunt ex oppido profu-
gere, hortante & jubente Vercingetorige. Id filentio
noctis conati, non magna jacturà ſuorum ſeſe effectu-
ros ſperabant: propterea quòd neque longè ab oppido
caſtra Vercingetorigis aberant; & palus, quæ perpetua
intercedebat, . ad inſequendam tardabat. Jam-
que hoc facere noctu apparabant, quum matres fami-
has repente in publicum procurrerunt, flenteſque pro-
jectæ ad pedes ſuorum, omnibus precibus petierunt,
ne ſe & communes liberos hoſtibus ad ſupplicium de-
derent, quos ad capiendam fugam natura & virium
infirmitas impediret. Ubi eos perſtare in ſententia
viderunt, quod plerumque in ſummo periculo timor
miſericordiam non recipit ; conclamare, & ſignificare
de fuga Romanis cœperunt. Quo timore perterriti
Galli, ne ab equitatu Romanorum viz præoccuparen-
tur, conſilio deſtiterunt.
XXVI. Poſtero die Cæſar, promota turri, direAiſque
operibus, quæ facere inſtituerat; magno coorto imb i,
non inutilem hanc ad capiendum confilium tempeſ-
tatem arbitratus eſt; quod paullò incautiùs cuſtodias
ia muro diſpoſitas videbat : ſuòſque languidids in
opere verſari juſſit; & quid fieri vellet, oftendit.
Legiones intra vineas in occulto expeditas cohortatus,
ut aliquando pro tantis laboribus fructum victoriæ
perciperent; iis, qui primi murum aſcendiſſent, præ-
mia propoſuit; militibuſque ſignum dedit: IIli ſubitò
ex omnibus partibus evolaverunt, muramque celeriter
complerunt. |
XXVII. Hoſtes re nova perterriti, muro turribuſque
dejecti, in foro ac locis patentioribus cuneatim con-
ſliterunt ; hôc animo, ut, fi qua ex parte obviam con-
va veniretur, acie inſtzuAa depugnarent, Ubi nemi-
R nem
132 C. Turrrt CESARTS
nem in æquum locum ſeſe demittere, ſed toto nndi.
que muro circumfundi viderunt; veriti, ne omnino ſpes.
omnis fugz tolleretur, abjeQis armis, ultimas oppidi
partes continenti impetu petiverunt:: parſque ibi, quum
anguſto exitu. | pee ſe ipſi premerent,. a militibus-;
pars jam egre
fuit quiſquam, qui prædæ ſtuderet. Sic, & Genabenſi
cæde, & labore operis incitati ; non ætate confectis,
non mulieribus, non infantibus pepercerunt. Denique
ex omni eo numero, qui fuit circiter xL millium ; vix
BCCC, qui primo clamoze audito ſe ex oppido ejece-
rant, incolumes ad Vercingetorigem pervenerunt. Quos
Me, multa jam nocte, filentio fic ex fuga excepit, (ve-
titus, ne qua in caſtris ex eorum concurſu & miſericor-
dia vulgi Teditio oriretur) ut, procul in via diſpoſitis fa-
miliaribus ſuis principibaſque civitatum, diſparandos
deducendoſque ad ſuos curaret, quæ cuique- Civitati
ars caſtrorum ab initio-obvenerat. |
XXVIII. Poſtero die, concilio convocato, conſolatus
cohortataſque eſt; ne /e admodunt animo demitterent, neve
gerturbarentur incommodo : non virtute, neque in acie vi.
ci Romans; ſed artificio quodam, & ſcientia oppug natio-
mis: cujus rei fuerint iffi imperiti. Errare, fiqui in bell
omnes ſecundos rerum proventus exſpectent fibi nunquan
Pplacuifſe Avaricum agfendi; cujus rei teſtes, ipſos, habertt:
ſed ſuctum imprudentid Biturigum, & nimi& obſequentid re-
Kkquorum,. ut? hoc incommodum acciperetur : id tamen /e celt-
riter majoribut commodis ſanaturum. Nam gue ab reliquis
Gallis civitates diſſentirent, has ſud diligentia adjundw
rum; atque unum confilium totins Gallie effefturum ; cujus
conſenſu ne-wbis guidem terrarum- poſſi obſiſtere e idque /e
prep? jam =_— habere. Interea æguum effe, ab iis,
communis /alutis causd, impetrari, ut caſtra munire infli-
tucrent, ud facilius hoſtium repentinos impetus JSuſtinere
pofſem. Fuit hac oratio non ingrata Gallis ; maximè,
quod ipſe animo non defecerat, tanto accepto incom-
modo; neque ſe in occultum abdiderat, & conſpectum
multitudinis fugerat; plaſque animo providere & prz-+
fentire exiſtimabatur, quod, re integra, primò incen-
dendum Avaricum, poſt deſerendum cenſuerat. 1 *
a portis, ab equitibus eſt interfecta: nec
. ejus affirmatione, de reliquis adjungendis civitatibus ;
- gum, cujus pater ab ſenatu noſtro amicus erat appella-
vx Beto GaLt1co L1s. VII. 133
ut reliquorum Imperatorum res adverſæ auctoritatem
minuunt; fic hujus ex contrario dignitas, incommodo
accepto, in dies augebatur. Simul in ſpem veniebant,
primimque- eo tempore Galli caſtra munire inſtitue-
runt; & fic ſunt animo conſternati homines inſueti la-
borum, ut omnia, quæ imperarentur, fibi patienda ex-
iſtimarent. . | |
XXIX. Nec minus, quam eſt pollicitus, Vercingeta-
rix animo laborabat, ut reliquas civitates adjungeret;
atque earum principes donis pollicitationibũſque alli-
ciebat, Huic rei ĩidoneos homines deligebat; quorum
quiſque aut oratione ſubdola, aut amicitia, facillimè
capi poſſet. Qui Avarico expugnato refugerant, ar-
mandos veſtiendoſque eurat : ſimul, ut diminutæ copiz
redintegrarentur, imperat certum numerum militum
eivitatibus z quem, & quam ante diem, in caftra adduci
velit; ſagittaris{que omnes, quorum erat permagnus- in
Galli3 numerus, conquiri, & ad ſe mitti jubet. His
rebus celeriter id, quod Avarici. deperierat,. expletur.
Interim Theutomatus Olloviconis filius, rex Nitiobri-
tus; cum magno equitum ſuorum numero, & quos ex
Aquitania conduxerat, ad eum pervenit. |
XXX. Cæſar Avarici complures dies commoratue,
ſummämque ibi copiam frumenti & reliqui commeatũs
nactus; exercitum ex labore atque inopiã refecit. Jam
prope hyeme confectà; quum ipſo anni tempore ad
gerendum bellum vocaretur, & ad hoſtem proficiſci
conſtituiſſet, five eum ex paludibus ſylviſque elicere,
Ive obſidione premere poſſet: legati ad eum principes
Aduorum veniunt, oratum, at maxime necef/ario
i vitati ſubweniat : ſummo eſſe in periculo rem; quod,
quum finguli magiſtratus antiguitàs creari, atque regiam
poteflatem annum obtinere conſutſſent : duo magiſtratum
gerant; & ſe mterque eorum legibus creatum efſe dicat.
Horum effe alterum Conviclolitanem, florentem & illuſtrem
adoleſcentem 3 alterum Cotum, antiquiſſima familia natum,
atque ip/um bomi nem ſumma potentiæ & mag næ cognationis,
wu frater Vedeliacas proximo anno eundem magiſtratum
geferis.
134 C. Jurir1 Ca$anis
gefſeret. Civitatem omnem eſſe in armis; diviſum ſenatum :
diviſum populum, in ſuas cujuſque corum clientelas : quid 4
diutius alatur contro werſſa; fore, uti pars cum parte civita-
tis confligat : id ne accidat, poſitum in jus diligentiã atque
auctoritate.
XXXI. Cæſar, etſt a bello atque hoſte diſcedere,
detrimentoſum eſſe exiſtimabat: tamen non ignorans,
quanta ex diſcenſionibus incommoda oriri conſuèſſent;
ne tanta & tam conjuncta populo R. civitas, quam
ipſe ſemper aluiſſet, omnibuſque rebus ornàſſet, ad vim
atque ad arma deſcenderet; atque ea pars, quæ mi-
nas ſibi confideret, auxilia a Vercingetorige accerſe-
tet; huic rei prævertendum exiſtimavit: &, qudd, le-
gibus AÆduorum, iis, qui ſummum magiſtratum obti-
nerent, excedere ex finibus non liceret; ne quid de
jure aut legibus eorum diminuiſſe videretur, ipſe in
Aduos proficiſci ſtatuit; ſenatumque omnem, & quos
inter controverſia eſſet, Decetiam ad ſe evocavit. Quum
prope omnis civitas ed conveniſſet; doceretarque, pau-
cis clam vocatis, alio. loco, alio tempore, atque opor-
tuerit, fratrem a fratre renunciatum; quum leges, duos
ex una familia, vivo utroque, non ſolum magiſtratus
creari vetarent, ſed etiam in ſenatu eſſe prohiberent:
Cotum magiſtratum deponere coegit : Convictolitanem,
qui per ſacerdotes, more civitatis, intermiſſis magiſtra-
tibus, eſſet creatus, poteſtatem obtinere juſſit.
XXXII. Hoc decreto interpoſito; cohortatus Æduos,
ut controverſiarum ac diſſenſionum obliviſcerentur; at-
que omiſſis omnibus rebus, huic bello ſervirent : eaque,
qua meruiſſent, præmia ab ſe, devita Gallia, ex{pec-
tarent: equitatimque omnem, & peditum millia x fibi
celeriter mitterent, quæ in præſidiis rei frumentariæ
causa diſponeret: exercitum in duas partes diviſit, 1V
legiones in Senones Pariſioſque Labieno ducendas de-
dit: v1 ipſe in Arvernos, ad oppidum Gergoviam ſe.
cundum flumen Elaver duxit. Equitatüs partem ili
attribuit ; partem ſibi reliquit. Qua re cognita ; Ver-
cingetorix, omnibus interruptis ejus fluminis pontibus,
ab altera parte fluminis iter facere cœpit.
| | XXXII.
ve Bello Gartico Liv. VII. 13g
XXXIII. Quym uterque utrique eſſet exercitus in
conſpectu, fereque è regione caſtris caſtra poneret;
diſpoſitis exploratoribus; necubi effecto ponte Romani
copias tranſducerent: erat in magnis Cæſari difficulta-
tibus res, ne majorem æſtatis partem flumine impedi-
retur; quòd non ferè ante autumnum Elaver vado
tranſiri ſoleat. Itaque, ne id accideret; fylveſtri loco
caſtris poſitis, è regione unius eorum pontium, quos
Vercingetorix reſcindendos curaverat; poſtero die cum
11 legionibus in occulto reſtitit: reliquas copias cum
— impedimentis, ut conſueverat, miſit; demptis
quartis quibuſque cohortibus, uti numerus legionum
conſtare videretur. His quam poſſent longiſſimè pro-
gredi juſſis; quum jam ex diei tempore conjecturam
caperet, in caſtra perventum ; iiſdem ſublicis, quarum
pars inferior integra remanebat, pontem reficere cœ-
pit. Celeriter effeQo opere, legionibaſque tranſductis,
& loco caſtris idoneo delecto; reliquas copias revo-
cavit. Vercingetorix, re cognita, ne contra ſuam vo-
luntatem dimicare cogeretur, magnis itineribus ante-
ceſſit. g
XXXIV. Cæſar ex eo loco quintis caſtris Ger
viam pervenit: equeſtrique prœlio eo die levi facto;
perſpecto urbis ſitu, quæ poſita in altiſſimo monte
omnes aditus difficiles habebat; de expugnatione de-
ſperavit: de obſeſſione non priùs agendum conſtituit,
quàm rem frumentariam expediſſet. At Vereingeto-
rix, caſtris prope oppidum in monte poſitis; medio-
cribus eircùm fe intervallis, ſeparatim ſingularum ci-
vitatum copias collocaverat: atque omnibus ejus jugi
collibus occapatis, qua deſpici poterat; hortibilem
ſpeciem præbebat: principeſque earum civitatum, quos
ſibi ad concilium capiendum delegerat, prima luce ad
ſe quotidie convenire jubebat; ſeu quid communican-
dum, ſeu quid adminiſtrandum videretur: neque ul-
lum ferè diem intermittebat, quin, equeſtri prelio,
interjectis ſagittariis, quid in quoque eſſet animi ac
virtutis ſuorum, periclitaretur. Erat è regione oppidi
collis ſub ipſis radicibus montis egregiè munitus, at-
que ex omni parte circumciſus; (quem ſi tenerent
noſtri;
136 C. Jr II Cmsanrs
noſtri; & aquæ magni parte, & pabulatione liberz,
prohibiturt hoſtes videbantur) fed is locus præſidio ab
iis non nimis firmo tenebatur. Tum ſilentio noctis,
Czſar ex caſtris egreſſus; priùs quam ſubſidium ex
oppido venire poſſet, dejecto præſidio, potitus loco,
duas ibi legiones collocavit ; foſſamque duplicem duo.
denim pedum a majoribus caſtris ad minora perduxit;
ut tutò ab repentino hoſtium incurſu etiam ſinguli com-
meare poſſent.
XXXV. Dum hæc ad Gergoviam geruntur; Con-
viclolitanis Æduus, cut magiftratum adjudicatum a Cz.
fare demonſtravimus, follicitatus ab Arvernis pecunia,
cum quibuſdam adoleſcentibus colloquitur: quorum
erat princeps Litavicus, atque ejus fratres, ampliſima
familia nati adoleſcentes, Cum 1is præmium commu-
nicat; hortaturque eos, wt /e /iberos, & imperio nato;,
meminerint : unam efje /Eduorum civitatem, que certi ſi.
mam Galliæ victoriam diſiineat : ejus auctoritate reliquas
contineri; qua tranſduttd, locum conſſtendi Romanis in
Gallia non fore: e nonnullo ſe Cæſaris beneficia a fectum:
fic tamen ut juſliſimam apud eum cauſam obtinuerit ; ſed
plus communi libertati tribuere. Cur enim potiùs AEdui de
fuo jure & des legibus ad Cæſarem diſceptatorem, quam Ro-
mani ad duos, veniant? Celeriter adoleſentibus &
oratione magiſtratis & præmio deductis, quum fe vel
principes ejus conſilii fore profiterentur, ratio perfici-
- endi querebatur ; quod civitztem temere ad ſuſcipien-
dum bellum adduci poſſe non conſidebant. Placuit, ut
Litavicus decem illis millibus, quz Cæſari ad bellum
mitterentur, præſiceretur; atque ea ducenda curaret;
fratreſque ejus ad Cæſarem præcurrerent: reliqua, qua
ratione agi placeat, conſtituunt. | |
XXXVI. Litavicus, accepto exereitu; quam millia
ſſuum circiter xxx ab Gergovià abeſſet, convocatis
ſubitò militibus, lacrymans; Q preficiſcimur, inquit,
milites Onmis neſter equitaius, nobilitas: one inter:
principes civitatis Eporedarix & Verdumarus, in fimuloit
preditionis ab Romanis; indi&4 causd, inlenfedli ſunt. Hat
ab its. cogneſcite, gui tx ipſã cads fugerunt'; nam eg,
fratribus algae omnibus pre pinguis meis interfetis, dolor
| | probibeor,
DE BeLLo GaLtico LIS. VII. 137
probibeor, que gefta ſunt, pronunciare. Producuntur ii,
quos ille edocuerat, quæ dici vellet: atque eadem,
quæ Litavicus pronunciaverat, multitudini exponunt ;
Multos equites AEduorum inter fectos, qudd collocuti cum
Arvernis dicerentur ; ipfos ſe inter multitudinem militum
eccultafſe, atque ex media cade profugiſſe. Conclamant
Adui; & Litavicum obſecrant, ut bi conſulat. 2A
verd, inquit ille, confilii fit res; ac non neceſſe fit nobis
Gergowiam contendere, & cum Arwernis no/met conjungere.
An dubitamus, quin, nefario facinore admiſſo, Romani
jam ad nos interficiendos concurrant ? Proindt, fi quid in
nobis animi eft, perſequamur eorum mortem, qui indignilſi-
me interierunt ; atque hos latrones * Oſtendit
cires Romanos, qui ejus præſidii fducia una erant.
Continuo magnum numerum frumenti commeatiſque
diripit ; ipſos crudeliter excruciatos interficitz nuncios
tota civitate Æduorum dimittit : eodem mendacio, de
cede equitum & principum, permovet: hortatur, ut
ſimili ratione, atque ipſe fecerit, ſuas injurias perſe-
quantur. | .
XXXVII. Eporedorix /Eduus, ſummo loco natus
adoleſcens, & ſummæ domi potentiæ; & una Virdu-
marus, pari ætate & gratia, 2 genere diſpari; quem
Cætar fibi ab Divitiaco tranſditum, ex humili loco ad
ſummam dignitatem perduxerat; in equitum numero
convenerant, nominatim ab eo evocati. His erat inter
ſe de principatu contentio; &, in ill magiſtratuum
controverſia, alter pro Convictolitane, alter pro Coto
ſummis opibus pugnaverat. Ex iis Eporedorix, cognito
Litayici conſilio, media ſerè note rem ad Cæſarem
defert; orat, ne patiatur ciuitatem, pravis adoleſcentium
confilits, ab amicitia populi Romani deficere : quod futurum
provideat, fi ſe tot hominum miilia cum boftibus conjunxe-
rint; quorum ſalutem neque propingqui negligere, neque civi-
tas levi momento eftimare poſſet. ;
XXX VIII. Magna affectus ſollicitudine hdc nuncio
Cæſar, quod ſemper ÆAduorum civitati przcipue indul-
; nulla interpoſita dubitatione, legiones expeditas
, equitatimque omnem ex caſtris educit: nec fuit
patium tali tempore ad contrahenda caſtra, quod res
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138 C. Jurii Casaris
in celeritate poſita eſſe videbatur. C. Fabium legatum,
cum legionibus 11, caſtris præſidio relinquit. Fratres
Litavici, quum comprehendi juſſiſſet, paullo ante repe-
rit ad hoſtes profugiſſe. Adhortatus milites, ne neceſaris
tempore, itineris labore permoveantur cupidiſſimis omni-
bus, progreſſus millia paſſuum xxv, agmen Æduorum
conſpicitus, immiſſo equĩtatu iter corum moratur atque
Impedit; interdicitque omnibus, ne quemquam inter fi-
ciant. Eporedorigem & Virdumarum, quos illi inter-
fectos exiſlimabant, inter equites verſari ſuõſque appel-
lare jubet. lis cognitis, & Litavici fraude perſpecia;
Edui manus tendere, deditionem ſignificare, &, pro-
jectis armis, mortem deprecari incipiunt. Litavicus,
cum ſuis clientibus, quibus nefas more Gallorum eſt,
etiam in extrema fortuna, deſerere patronos, Gergoviam
Profugit.
XXXIX. Cæſar nunciis ad civitatem ÆEduorum mi-
fis, qui ſuo beneficio conſervatos docerent, quos jure
belli interficere potuiſſet; tribuſque horis noctisexer-
citui ad quietem datis; caſtra ad Gergoviam movit.
Medio fere itinere, equites a Fabio miſſi, quanto res
in periculo eſſet, exponunt: Summis copiis caſtra ofpus-
ata demonſtrant, guum crebrò integri e ſuccederent,
nofiraſque affiduo labore defatigarent ; quibus, propter mag-
nitudinem caftrorum, perpetuò efſet iiſdem in vallo perma-
nendum : multitudine ſagittarum, atque omnis generis tele.
rum, multos' vulneratos ; ad hec ſuſtinenda, magno 10
faifſe tormenta; Fabium, diſceſſu corum, duabus reli:
gortis, obfiruere ceteras ; pluteafque walls addere, & /e in
poſterum diem /imilem ad caſum parare. lis rebus coguitis
Cæſar, ſummo ſtudio militum, ante ortum ſolis in cafira
pervenit. , | 5
XL. Dum hæc ad Gergoviam gerantur ; dui, pri-
mis nunciis a Litavico acceptis, nullum fibi ad cog-
noſcendum ſpatium relinquunt. Impellit alios avarita,
alios iracundia & temeritas ; quæ maximè illi heminum
generi eſt innata, ut levem auditionem habeat pro ſe
comperti. Bona civium Romanorum diripiunt; cædes
faciunt; in ſervitutem abfirabunt. Adjuvat rem pro-
elinatam Convictolitanis, plebemque ad furorem —
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ve BerLo GaLtico Lis.. VII. 139
pellit; ut, facinore admiſſo, ad ſanitatem reverti pudeat.
M. Ariſtium tribunum militum, iter ad legionem facien-
tem, fide data, ex oppido Cabillono educunt: idem fa-
cere cogunt eos, qui negotiandi causa ibi conſtiterant:
hos continuo itinere adorti, omnibus impedimentis exu-
unt; repugnantes, diem notemque obſident: multis
utrimque interfectis, majorem multitudinem ad arma
concitant. Interim nuncio allato, omnes eorum milites in
poteſtate Cefaris teneri; concurrunt ad Ariſtium: nihil
publico factum conſilio demonſtrant: quæſtionem de
bonis direptis decernunt: Litavici fratramque bona pub-
licant: legatos ad Cæſarem, ſui 2 gratia, mittunt.
Hæc faciunt, recuperandorum ſuorum causa : fed, con-
taminati facinore; & capti compendio ex direptis bonis,
quòd ea res ad multos pertinebat; & timore pœnæ ex-
territi; confilia clam de bello inire incipiunt, civitatẽ ſ-
que reliquas legationibus ſollicitant. Quz tameth Czſar
intelligebat; tamen, quam mitiſſimè poteſt, legatos
appellat : Nibil ſe, propter inſcientiam levitatemque vulgi,
gravius de civitate judicare ; neque de ſud in Æauos bene»
wolentia diminuere. Ipſe majorem Galliz motum ex-
ſpetans, ne ab omnibus civitatibus circumſiſteretur,
conſilia inibat, quemadmodum a Gergovia diſcederet,
ac rurſus omnem exercitum contraheret ; ne profectio
nata a timore defectionis, ſimilis fugæ videretur.
XLI. Hæc cogitanti, accidere viſa eſt facultas rei
bene gerendæ. 12 quum minora in caſtra, operis
perſpiciendi causa, veniſſet; animadvertit collem, qui
ab hoſtibus tenebatur, nudatum hominibus; qui, ſupe-
rioribus diebus, vix præ multitudine cerni poterat. Ad-
miratus, quærit ex perfugis cauſam; quorum magnus
ad eum quotidie numerus confluebat. Conſtabat inter
omnes, quod jam ipſe Cæſar per exploratores cogno-
verat ; dorſum eſſe ejus jugi prope æquum; ſed hac
ſylveſtre & anguſtum, qua eſſet aditus ad alteram par-
tem oppidi. Vehementer huic illos loco timere: nec
Jam aliter ſentire, uno colle ab Romanis occupato, ſi
alterum amiſiſſent, quin pens circumvallati atque omni
exitu & pabulatione intercluſi viderentur; ad banc mu-
niendum locum omnes à Vercingetorige PE
1,0 C. JuLi1CEaSaARIS
XLII. Hae re cognita, Cæſar inittit complures equi.
tum turmas ed de media note ; is imperat, ut paullò
tumultuoſids omnibus in locis pervagentur. Prima luce
magnum numerum impedimentorum ex caſtris mulo-
ramque produci, deque iis ſtramenta detrahi; mulione(-
que cum caſſidibus, equitum ſpecie ac fimulatione, co].
libus circumvehi jubet; his paucos addit equites, qui
latiùs oſtentationis causa, vagarentur: longo circuitu
eaſdem omnes jubet petere regiones. Hæc procul ex
oppido videbantur; ut erat a Gergovia deſpectus in
caſtra: neque tanto ſpatio, certi quid eſſet, explorari
rerat. ' Legionem unam eodem jugo mittit, & paul.
um progreſſam inferiore loco conſtituit, ſylviſque oc-
cultat. Augetur Gallis ſuſpicio; atque omnes illò mu-
nitionum copiæ tranſducuntur. Vacua caſtra hoſtium
Cæſar conſpicatus; tectis inſignibus ſuorum, occulta-
tiſque ſignis militaribus, raros milites, ne ex oppido
animad verterentur, ex majoribus caſtris in minora
tranducit: legatiſque, quos fingulis legionibus præfe-
cerat, quid fieri velit, oſtendit. In primis monet, ut
contineant milites, ne ſtudio pugnandi aut ſpe prædæ
longiùs progrediantur: quid iniquitas loci habeat in-
commodi, proponit: hoc, una celeritate poſſe vitari:
occaſionis eſſe rem, non preœlii. His rebus expofitis,
ſignum dat, & ab dextera parte alio aſcenſu eodem
tempore /Eduos mittit. | |
XLIII. Oppidi murus ab planitie atque initio aſcen-
_ shs, reQa regione, fi nullus anfractus intercederet, uce
paſſus aberat : quidquid huic circuitts ad molliendum
clivum acceſſerat, id ſpatium itineris augebat. A me-
dio fere colle in longitudine, d natura montis ferebat,
ex grandibus ſaxis vi pedum murum, qui noſtrorum
impetum tardaret, præduxerant Galli: atque, inferior?
omni ſpatio vacuo relicto, ſuperiorem partem collis,
uſque ad murum oppidi, denſiſſimis caſtris compleve-
rant. Milites, ſigno dato, celeriter ad munitionem per-
veniunt; eamque tranſgreſſi, trinis caſtris potiuntur: ac
tanta fuit in capiendis caſtris celeritas, ut Theutomatus
tex Nitiobrigum ſubitò in tabernaculo oppreſſus, ut
meridie conquieverat, ſuperiore corporis parte nudata,
vulnerato
pz BzLLo GaLtico Lis, VII. 141
vulnerato equo, vix ſe ex manibus prædantium militum
eriperet.
XLIV. Conſecutus id quod animo propoſuerat Cæ-
ſar, receptui cani juſſit; legioniſque decimæ, quacum
erat concionatus, ſigna conſtitere : at reliquarum milites
legionum, non exaudito tubz ſono, quod ſatis magna
yallis intercedebat; tamen à tribunis militum, legatiſ-
que, ut erat à Cæſare præceptum, retinebantur.. Sed
elati ſpe celeris victoriæ, & hoſtium fuga, ſuperiorüm-
que temporum ſecundis preliis; nihil adeò arduum ſibi
exiſtimabant, quod non virtute conſequi poſſent: neque
prias finem ſequendi fecerunt, quam muro oppidi por-
tiſque appropinquarunt. Tum vero ex omnibus urbis ,
partibus orto clamore; qui longius aberant, repentino
tumultu perterriti, quum hoſtes intra portas eſſe exiſti-
marent, ſeſe ex oppido ejecerunt. Matres-familias de
muro veſtem argentamque jactabant; & pectore nudo
prominentes, paſſis manibus obteſtabantur Romanos, ut
übi parcerent; neu, ſicut Avarici feciflent, ne mulieri-
bus quidem atque infantibus abſtinerent: nonnullæ de
muris per manus demiſſæ, ſeſe militibus tranſdebant.
L. Fabius centurio legionis v1it, quem inter ſuos eo
die dixiſſe conſtabat, excitari ſe Avaricenſibus præmiis;
neque commiſſurum, ut prius quiſquam murum aſcenderet;
tres ſuos nactus manipulares, atque ab iis ſublevatus,
murum aſcendit: eos ipſe rurſus ſingulos exceptans, in
murum extulit.
XLV. Interim ii, qui ad alteram partem oppidi, ut
ſupra demonſtravimus, munitionis causa convenerant;
primo, exaudito clamore ; inde etiam crebris nunciis in.
citati, oppidum ab Romanis teneri; præmiſſis equitibus,
magno concurſu ed contende: unt. Eorum ut quiſque
primus venerat, ſub muro conſiſtebat, ſuoramque pug-
nantium numerum augebat: quorum quum magna
multitudo conveniſſet; matres familias, quæ paullo ante
' Romanis de muro manus tendebant, ſuos obteſtari, &
more Gallico paſſum capillum oſtentare, liberôſque in
conſpectu proferre, cœperunt. Erat Romanis nec loco,
nec numero, æqua contentio ; ſimul, & curfu & ſpatio
pugnæ defatigati, non facilè recentes, atque integros
ſuſtinebant. XLVI.
142 C. JurriCeaAsaris
XLVI. Cæſar, quum iniquo loco pugnari, hoſtiam.
que augeri copias videret; præmetuens ſuis, ad T. Sex.
tium legatum, quem minoribus caſtris præſidio relique-
rat, mittit; ut cohortes ex caſtris celeriter educeret, &
ſub infimo colle ab dextro latere hoſtium conſtitueret:
ut, fi noſtros depulſos loco vidiſſet; quò minus libere
hoſtes inſequerentur, terreret. Ipſe paullùm ex eo loco
cum legione progreſſus, ubi conſtiterat; eventum pug.
næ exſpectabat. | |
XLVII. Quum acerrime cominus pugnaretur : hoſtes,
loco & numero; noſtri, virtute confiderent: ſubitò
ſunt /Edui viſi, ab latere noſtris aperto; quos Cæſar
ab dextra parte alio aſcenſu, manũs diſtinendæ causa,
miſerat. li, ſimilitudine armorum, vehementer noſtros
perterruerunt: ac,itametſi dextris humeris exertis anim-
advertebantur, quod inſigne pacatis eſſe conſueverat;
tamen id ipſum ſui fallendi causa milites ab hoſtibus
factum exiſlimabant. Eodem tempore L. Fabius cen-
turio, quique unà murum aſcenderant; circumventi at-
que interfecti, de muro præcipitabantur. M. Petreius
ejuſdem legionis centurio, quum portgs exſcindere co-
natus eſſet; à multitudine oppreſſus, ac ſibi deſperans,
multis jam vulneribus acceptis; manipularibus ſuis, qui
illum ſecuti erant, Quoniam, inquit, me und vobiſcum
ſervare nos poſſum, weifire quidem certè ſaluti proſpiciam,
quos, cupiditate gloriæ adductus, in periculum deduxi. Vos,
datd facullate, wobis conjulite : Simul irrupit in medics
hoſtes ; duobuſque interfectis, reliquos à porta paujlim
ſubmovit. Conantibus auxiliari ſuis, Fruftra, inquit,
mee vitæ ſubvenire conamini, quem jam ſanguis vire/que
deficiunt. Proinde hinc abite, dum eft facultas ; wojque
ad legionem recipite. Ita pugnans, poſt paullum concidit,
ac ſuis ſaluti fuit. P |
XLVIII. Noſtri quum undique premerentur, xLv!
centurionibus amiſſis, dejecti ſunt loco; fed into- _
lerantids Gallos inſequentes, legio x tardavit; quæ
pro ſubſidio paulld æquiore loco conſtiterat. Hanc
rurſus xIII legionis cohortes exceperunt; quz ex
caſtris minoribus edufiz, cum T'. Sextio legato cepe-
rant locum ſuperiorem. Legiones, ubi primùm pla-
nitlem
bk. BeLLo GaLLico LIBE. VII. 143
nitiem attigerunt, infeſtis contra hoſtes ſignis conſtite-
runt. Vercingetorix ab radicibus collis ſuos intra mu-
nitiones reduxit. Eo die, milites ſunt paulls minds
pcc deſiderati. a |
XLIX. Poſtero die Cæſar, concione advocata, teme-
ritatem cupiditatemque militum reprehendit; quod bi
ii judicawiſſent, quo procedendum, aut quid agendum vidi-
retur 3 neque, ſigno recipiendi dato, conſtitiſſent; neque à tri-
bunis militum legatiſque retineri potuiſſent : Expoſito, guid
iniquitas loci paſſet; quid ipſe ad Avaricum Senfiſſet, quum,
fine duce & /ine equitatu deprehenſis hoftibus, exploratam
wictoriam dimiſiſſet, ne parvum mods detrimentum in conten-
tione propter iniguitatem loci acciperet. Quantopere eorum
animi magnitudinem admiraretur, guos non caſtrorum muni-
tiones, non altitudo montis, non murus oppidi tardare potuiſſet;
tantopere licentiam arrogantiamgue reprehendere, quòd plus
ſe quam imperatorem, de victorid atque exitu rerum ſentire
exiſlimarent: non minus ſe in milite modeſtiam & continen-
tiam, quam virtutem atque animi magnitudinem, azfiderart.
L. Hac habita concione: & ad extremum confirmatis
militibus; ne ob hanc cauſam animo” permoverentury neu,
quod iniquitas loci attuliſſet, id wirtu#i boſitum tribuerent e
eadem de profectione cogitans, quæ ante ſenſerat; le-
giones ex caſtris eduxit: aciemque idoneo loco conſti-
tuit. Quum Vercingetorix nihilo magis in æquum lo-
cum deſcenderet; levi facto equeſtri prœlio, atque eo
ſecundo, in caſtra exercitum reduxit. Quum hoc idem
poſlero die feciſſet: ſatis. ad Gallicam oſtentationem
minuendam, militumque animos confirmandos; factum
exiſtimans; in ZEduos movit caſtra. Ne tum quidem
inſecutis hoſtibus; 111 die ad flumen Elaver pontem
refecit, atque exercitum tranſduxit.
LI. Ibi a Virdumaro atque Eporedorige Æduis ap-
pellatus, diſcit, car omni equitaru Litavicum ad ſollici-
tandos AEduos profettum ; opus effe & uſes antecedere, ad
| confirmandam civitatem, Etſi multis jam rebus perfidiam
Aduoram Cæſar perſpectam habebat, atque horum
diſceſſu admaturari defectionem civitatis exiſlimabat;
tamen retinendos eos non cenſuit; ne aut inferre in-
Juriam videretur, aut dare timoris aliquam ſuſpicionem.
Diſcedentibus
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Diſcedentibus his, breviter ſua in Æduos merita e
ſuit: quos & quam humiles accepiſſet, compulſos in oppida,
enultatos agris, omnibus ereptis copiits, impoſito flipendio, ob-
fidibus ſumma cum contumelid extortis : quam in fortunan,
quamque in amplitudinem deduxiſſet ; ut non folum in priſii-
num ſlatum redifſent, ſed omnium temporum dignitatem &
gratiam anteceſfifſe viderentur. His datis mandatis, eos
ab ſe dimifit. us: |
III. Noviodunum erat oppidum Æduorum, ad ripas
Ligeris opportuno loco pofitum. Huc Cæſar omnes ob-
fides Galliz, frumentum, pecuniam publicam, ſuorum
atque exercitis impedimentorum magnam partem con-
tulerat; huc magnum numeram equorum, hvjus belli
causa, in Italia atque Hiſpania coemptorum miſerat.
Eò quum Eporedonx Verdumariſque veniſſent, & de
ſtatu civitatis cognoviſſent; Litaamcum Bibracte ab A.
duis receptum, quod eft oppidum apud eos maxime auttori- -
tatis; Conwictolitanem mag iſir atum, magnamque partrm
ſenatut, ad eum convenifſe ; legatos ad Veriingetorigem de
pace & amicitia conciliandd public? miſſes : non preter-
mittendum tantum commodum exiſtimaverunt. Itaque,
inter fectis Novioduni cuſtodibus, quique eo negotiandi
- aut itineris causa convenerant; pecuniam atque equos
inter ſe partiti ſunt: obſides civitatum, Bibracte ad
magiſtratum deducendos curaverunt : oppidum, quod
ab ſe teneri non poſſe judicabant, ne cui eſſet uſui Ro-
manis, incenderunt: frumenti quod ſubito potuerunt,
navibus avexerunt ; reliquum, fumine atque incendio
corruperunt. Ipſi ex finitimis regionibus copias cogere;
præſidia cuſtodiaſque ad ripas Ligeris diſponere; equi.
tatümque omnibus locis, injiciendi timoris causa, ol.
tentare cœperunt; fi aut re frumentaria Romanos ex-
cludere, aut adductos inopia ex Provincia expellere
poſſent: quam ad ſpem multum eos adjuvabat, quod
Liger ex nivibus creverat, ut omnino vado tranſiri non
e videretur. J |
LIN. Quibus rebus cognitis, Cæſar maturandum fi
cenſuit ; fi eſſet in perficiendis pontibus periclitandum;
ut priùs, quam eſſent majores eo copiæ coactæ, dimi-
Earet, Nam ut, commutato conſilio, iter in Provinct
am
pt BeLLo GATILIcO Lis. VII. 145
am converteret; id ne tum quidem neceſſariò facien-
dum exiſtimabat: quum infamia atque indignitas rei,
& oppoſitus mons Cebenna, viarümque difficultas im-
pediebat; tum maxime, quod adjungi Labieno, atque
iis legionibus, quas una miferat, vehementer cupiebat.
Itaque, admodum magnis diurnis nocturniſque itineri-
bus confectis, contra omnium opinionem ad Ligerim
pervenit: vad6que per equites invento pro rei neceſſi-
tate opportuno, ut brachia mods atque humeri ad ſuſ-
tinenda' arma liberi ab aqua eſſe poſſent; diſpoſito
equitatu, qui vim fluminis refringeret, atque hoſtibus
duxit: framentamque in agris, & copiam pecoris nac-
tus; repleto its rebus exercitu, iter in Senones facere
inſtituit.
eo ſupplemento, quod nuper ex Italia venerat, relicto
Agendici, ut eſſet impedimentis præſidio; cum iv le-
gionibus Lutetiam proficiſcitur; (id eſt oppidum Pari-
ſiorum, poſitum in inſula flu minis Sequanz) cujus ad-
ventu ab hoſtibus cognito, magnæ ex finitimis civita-
tibus copiæ convenerunt. Summa imperii tranſditur
Camulogeno Aulerco; qui prope confectus ætate, tamen
propter ſiugularem ſcientiam rei militaris, ad eum eſt
honorem evocatus. Is, quum animadvertiſſet, perpe-
tuam eſſe paludem, quæ influeret in Sequanam, atque
illum omnem locum magnopere impediret; hic conſe-
cit; noſtrõſque tranſitu prohibere inſtituit. Labienus
primò vineas agere, cratibus atque aggere paludem ex-
plere, atque iter munire conabatur. 9 id diffi-
cilius confieri animadvertit; filentio è caſtris 111 vigilia
egreſſus, eodem, quo venerat, itinere Melodunum per-
vent: id eſt oppidum Senonum in inſula Sequanæ po-
kum, ut paullò ante Lutetiam diximus. Deprehenſis
navibus circiter 1, celeriterque conjunctis, atque ed
| militibus impoſitis; & rei novitate perterritis oppidanis,
quorum magnaypars erat ad bellum evocata; fine con-
tentione oppidÞ potitur: refectõque ponte, quem ſupe-
toribus diebus hoſtes reſciderant, exercitum tranſdu-
at; & ſecundo flumine ad Lutetiam iter facere cœpit.
Hoſtes,
primo aſpectu perturbatis, incolumem exercitum tranſ-
LIV. Dum bæc apud Cæſarem geruntur: Labienus,
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Hoſtes, re cognita ab iis, qui a Meloduno profugerant ;
Lutetiam incendi, ponteſ{que ejus oppidi reſciftdi jubent,
Ipſi, profecti palude, in ripis Sequanæ, è regione Lute.
tiæ, contra Labieni caſtra conſidunt. x
LV. Jam Cæſar a Gergovia diſceſſiſſe audiebatur:
jam de /Eduorum defectione, & ſecundo Galliz moty,
rumores aſferebantur: Gallique in colloquiis, intercly-
um itinere & Ligere Cæſurem, inopia frumenti coactun,
in Provinciam contenaifſe confirmabant. Bellovaci autem,
defefiione Æduorum cognita; qui ante erant per ſe
infideles, manus cogere atque aperte bellum parare
cœperunt. Tum Labienus, tanta rerum commutatione,
longe aliud capiendum conſilium, atque antea ſenſerat,
intelligebat: neque jam, ut aliquid acquireret, preelis-
que hoſtes laceſſeret; ſed ut incolumem exercitum
Agendicum reduceret, cogitabat. Namque altera ex
arte, Bellovaci, (quz civitas in Gallia maximam ha-
t opinionem virtutis) inſtabant; alteram Camuloge-
nus parato atque infirufto exercitu tenebat: tum legio-
nes a præſidio atque impedimentis intercluſas maxi-
mum flumen diſtinebat. Tantis ſubitò difficultatibus
objectis, ab animi viitute auxilium petendum videbat.
LVI. Itaque ſub veſperum concilio con vocato; co-
Hortatus, ut ea, quæ imperaſſet, diligenter induſtriẽque
adminiſtrarent; naves, quas a Meloduno deduxerat,
fingulas equitibus Romanis attribuit: &, prima confeCa
vigilia, 1v millia paſſuum ſecundo flumine progredi
ſilentio, ibique ſe exſpectare, jubet: v cohortes, quas
minime firmas ad dimicandum eſſe exiſtimabat, caſtiis
prefidio relinquit: v ejuſdem legionis reliquas, de me-
dia nocte, cum omnibus impedimentis, ad verſo flumine,
magno tumultu proficiſci imperat: conquirit etiam lin-
tres; has magno ſonitu remorum incitatas, in eandem
partem mittit: ipſe pdſt paullò, ſilentio egreſſus cum
111 legionibus, eum locum petit, quo naves appelii
joſſerat. Ed quum eſſet ventum; exploratores hoſtium,
ut omni fluminis parte erant diſpoſiti, inopinantes, quod
magna ſubitò erat coorta tempeſtas, ab noſlris oppri
muntur: exercitus equitatuſque, equitibus Romants
adminiſtrantibus, quos ei negotio prefecerat, celerite!
; | trank-
»: Beito Gartico Lis. VII. 147
tranſmittitur. Uno ferè tempore ſub lucem hoſtibus
nunciatur, in caſlris Romanorum præter conſuttudinem tu-
multuari, & magnum ire agmen adverſo flumine, fonitums-
que remorum in eadem parte exaudiri, & paullo infra mi-
lites navibus tranſportari. Quibus rebus auditis : quod
exiſtimabant tribus locis tranure legiones, atque omnes
perturbatos defeftione Æduorum fugam parare; ſuas
quoque copias in tres partes diſtribuerunt. Nam,
præſidio E regione caſtrorum relicto; & parva manu
Metioſedum versùs miſsa, quæ tantum progrederetur,
quantum naves proceſſiſſent; reliquas copias contra
Labienum duxerunt. Prima luce, & noſtri omnes erant
tranſportati, & hoſtium acies cernebatur. Labienus,
milites cohortatus, at ſue priſtinæ wirtutis & tot ſecun-
diſſimorum preliorum memoriam tenerent z atque ipſum Ce
farem, cujus duitu ſepenumero hoftes ſuperaſſent, preſeutem
adeſſe exiſtimarent; dat ſignum prœlii. Primo concurſu ;
ab dextero cornu, ubi vit legio conſtiterat, hoſtes pel-
luntur, atque in fugam conjiciuntur: ab finiflro, quem
locum x11 legio tenebat ; quum primi ordines hoſtium
transfixi pilis concidiſſent, tamen acerrime reliqui re-
ſiſtebant, nec dabat ſuſpicionem fugæ quiſquam. Ipſe
dux hoſtium Camulogenus ſuis aderat, atque eos cohor-
tabatur. At, incerto etiam nunc exitu vicdtoriæ; quum
i legionis Tribunis eſſet nunciatum, quæ in finiftro
cornu gererentur, poſt tergum hoſtium legionem oſten-
derunt, ſignãque intulerunt. Ne eo quidem tempore
quiſquam loco ceſſit; ſed circumventi omnes, interfecti-
que ſunt: eandem fortunam tulit Camulogenus. At ii,
qui præſidio contra caſtra Labieni erant relicti; quum
prœlium commiſſum audiſſent, ſubſidio ſuis ierunt, col-
lemque ceperunt; neque noſtrorum militum victorum
impetum ſuſtinere potuerunt. Sic, cum ſuis fugientibus
permiſti, quos non ſylvæ monteſque texerunt ; ab equi-
tatu ſunt interfecti. Hoc negotio confecto, Labienus
revertitur Agendicum, ubi impedimenta totius exercitũs
relicta erant; inde, cum omnibus copiis, ad Czſarem
perventt,
LVII. Defe&ione Æduorum cognita, bellum auge-
ur; legationes in omnes partes circummittuntur: quan-
hs tum
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tum gratia, auctoritate, pecunia valent; ad ſollicitandas
civitates nituntur. Nacti obſides, quos Cæſar apud eos
depoſuerat; horum ſupplicio dubitantes territant. Pe.
tunt a Vercingetorige ÆEdui, ut ad ſe veniat; ratione(-
que belli gerendi communicet. Re impetrata, conten-
dunt, ut ipſis ſumma imperii tradatur: &, re in con-
troverſiam deductà, totius Galliæ concilium Bibracte
indicitur. Eodem conveniunt undique frequentes : mul-
titudinis ſuffragiis res permittitur: ad unum omnes Ver-
cingetorigem probant Imperatorem. Ab hoc concilio,
Rhemi, Lingones, Treviri abfuerunt ; illi, quòd amici-
tiam Romanorum ſequebantur; Treviri, quod aberant
longius, & ab Germanis premebantur; quæ fuit cauſa,
quare toto abeſſent bello, & neutris auxilia mitterent.
Magno dolore Edui ferunt, ſe dejectos principatu:
queruntur fortunæ commutationem; & Cæſaris indul-
gentiam in ſe requirunt: neque tamen, ſuſcepto bello,
juum conſilium ab reliquis ſeparare audent. Inviti
ſummę ſpei adoleſcentes, Eporedorix & Virdumarus,
Vercingetorigi parent.
LVIII. Ille imperat reliquis civitatibus obſides. De-
nique ei rei conſtituit diem. Huc omnes equites, xv
millia numero, celeriter convenire jubet. Ped:tatu,
quem ante habuerit, ſe fore contentum dicit: neque fortu-
nam tentaturum, neque acie dimicaturum : ſed, quonian
abundet equitatu; perfacile ee factu, frumentationibus
pabulationibuſaue Romanos probibere : axquo modo anin'
Jua ipfe frumenta corrumpant, edificiaque incendant ; gut
rei fanuliaris jadtura, perpetuum imperium liberta!empque /t
conſequti videant. His conſtitutis rebus ; Æduis, Seguli-
aniſque, qui ſunt finitimi Provinciz, x millia peditum
imperat; huc addit equites pccc ; his preficit fratrem
Eporedorigis ; bellümque inferre Allobrogibus jubet.
Altera ex parte, Gabalos, proximoſque pagos Arverno-
rum, in Helvios; item Ruthenos Cadurcolque, ad ines
Volcarum Arecomicorum depopulandos, mittit. Ni-
hilominus clandeſtinis nunciis legationibuſque Allobro-
ges ſollicitat; quorum mentes nondum à ſuperiore bello
reſedifle ſpor Forum principibus, pecunias; ci-
vitati o um totivs provinciæ pollicetur. 11
o BELILO GALLI co Lis, VII. 149
LIX. Ad hos omnes caſus proviſa erant præſidia co-
hortium duarum viginti; quæ ex ipsa coactæ Provincia,
ab L. Cæſare legato ad omnes partes opponebantur.
Helvii ſua ſponte cum finitimis prœlio congreſſi, pel-
luntur; &, C. Valerio Donotauro Caburi filio, principe
civitatis, compluribùſque aliis interfectis, intra oppida
muroſque compelluntur. Allobroges, crebris ad Rho-
danum diſpoſitis præſidiis, magna cum cura & diligenua
ſuos fines tuentur. Cæſar, quod hoſtes equitatu ſupe-
riores eſſe intelligebat: & intercluſis omnibus itineri-
bus, nulla re ex Provincia atque ltalia ſublevari pote-
rat; trans Rhenum in Germaniam mittit ad eas civita-
tes, quas ſuperioribus annis pacaverat ; equiteſque ab
his accerſit, & levis armature pedites, qui inter eos
rœliari conſueverant, Eorum adventu; quod minds
idoneis equis utebantur; A tribunis militum, reliquiſ-
ue, ſed & equitibus Romanis, atque evocatis, equos
umit, Germaniſque diſtribuit. |
LX. Interea dum hec geruntur; hoſtium copiæ ex
Arvernis, equiteſque, qui toti Galliz erant imperati,
conveniunt. Magno horum coacto numero: quum Cæ-
ſar in Sequanos per extremos Lingonum fines iter face-
ret, quo faciliùs ſubſidium Provinciæ ferri poſſet; circi-
ter millia paſſuum x ab Romanis, trinis caſtris Verein-
getorix conſedit; convocatiique ad concilium præfectis
$quitum, wenif/e tempus viftorie demonſtrat: fugere in
Provinciam Romanos, Gallidque excedere : id fibi ad præ-
Jentem obtinendam libertatem /atts e; ad reliqui temporis
pacem atque otium, parum profici : majoribus enim coattis
coptis reverſuros, negue finem bellandi facturos. Proinde,
agmine impeditos adoriantur. Si pedites ſuis auxilium fe-
rant, atque in eo morentur ; iter confici non poſſe : fin, (id
quod magis futurum confidat) relifis impedimentis, ſuæ
faluti conſulant ; & uſu rerum necgſſariarum, & dignitate
Spoliatum iri. Nam, de equitibus hoſlium ; quin nemo eorum
progredi mod extra agmen audeat, ne ipſos quidem debere
dubitare. Id quo majore faciant animo, copias ſe omnes pro
caſtris habiturum, & terrori hoſtibus futurum. Conclamant
equites ſanctiſſimo jurejurando confirmari oportere ; ne tes
recipiatur, ne ad liberos, ne ad parentes, ne ad uxorem
aditum habeat, qui non bis - hoſtium agmen perequitaſſits
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150 C. JULI CaA$SARI1S
LXI. Probati re, atque omnibus jurejurando adactis;
poſtero die, in tres partes diſtributo equitatu, duæ ſe
acies a duobus lateribus oſtendunt; una a primo ag-
mine iter impedire cœpit. Qua re nunciata, Cæſar
ſuum quoque equitatum tripartitò diviſum ire contra
hoſtem jubet. Pugnatur unà omnibus in partibus.
Conſiſtit agmen. Impedimenta inter legiones recipi-
untur. Si qua in parte noſtri laborare, aut gravids
premi videbantur; eo ſigna inferri Cæſar, aciemque
converti jubebat: quæ res & hoſtes ad inſequendum
rdabat, & noſtros ſpe auxilii confirmabat. Tandem
ermani ab dextro latere, ſummum jugum nacti, hoſ-
tes loco depellunt: fugientes, uſque ad flumen, ubi
Vercingetorix cum pedeſtribus copiis copſederat, per-
ſequuntur; complureſque interficiunt. Qui re anim-
adversa ; reliqui, ne circumvenirentur veriti, ſe fugz
- mandant. Omnibus locis fit cædes. Tres nobiliflimi
dui capti, ad Cæſarem perducuntur; Cotus præſectus
equitum, qui controver ſam cum Convictolitane proxi-
mis comitiis habuerat; & Cavarillus, qui, poſt defec-
tionem Litavici, pedeſtribus copiis præfuerat; & Epo-
redorix, quo duce, ante adventam Cæſaris, Ædui cum
Sequanis bello contenderant. |
LXII. Fugato omni equitatu; Vercingetorix copias
ſuas, ut pro caſtris collocaverat, reduxit; protinũſque
Aleſiam, quod eſt oppidum Mandubiorum, iter facere
cepit; celeriterque impedimenta ex caſtris educi, &
ſe ſubſequi juſſit. Cæſar, impedimentis in proximum
collem deductis, duabuſque legionibus præſidio reliftis,
ſequutus, quantum diei tempus eſt paſſum; circiter 111
millibus hoſtium ex noviſſimo agmine interfectis, altero
die ad Aleſiam caſtra fecit. Perſpe&o urbis ſitu, per-
territiſque hoſtibus; quod equitatu, qua maxime parte
exercitus confidebant, erant pulſi: adhortatus ad labo-
rem milites, Aleham circumvallare inſtituit. |
LXIII. Ipſum erat oppidum in colle ſummo, admo-
dum edito loco: ut, niſi obſidione, expugnare non polic
videretur: cujus collis radices duo duabus ex partibus
flumina ſubluebant. Ante oppidum planities circiter
millia paſſuum 111 in longitudinem patebat: reliquis
ex omnibus partibus colles, mediocri interjecto ſpatio,
pail
"pz BeiLo GaLLico Lis, VII. 151
pari altitudinis faſtigio oppidum eingebent. Sub muro,
quz pars collis ad orientem Solem ſpectabat, hunc om-
nem locum copiz Gallorum compleverant ; foſſamque,
& maceriam ſex in altitudinem pedum præduxerant.
Ejus munitionis, quæ ab Romanis inſtituebatur, circui-
tus x1 millia paſſuum teuebat. Caltra opportunis locis
erant poſita : ibique caſtella x*111 facta; in quibus
caſtellis interdiu ſtationes diſponebantur, ne qua ſubitò
irruptio fieret: hæe eadem, noctu, excubitoribus ac fir-
mis præſidiis tenebantur. |
LXIV. Opere inſtituto ; fit equeſtre prœlium in ea
planitie, quam, intermiſſam collibus, 111 milliam paſ-
ſuum in longitudinem patere ſupra demonſtravimus.
Summa vi ab utriſque contenditur. Laborantibus nof-
tris, Czzſar Germanos ſubmittit; legioneſque pro caſtris
conſtituit, ne qua ſubitò irruptio ab hoſtium peditatu
fiat. Preſidio legionum addito, noſtris animus augetur 2
hoſtes in fugam conjecti, ſe ipfi multitudine impediunt;
atque anguſtioribus portis relictis coarctantur. Germat I
acriùs uſque ad munitiones ſequuntur. Fit magna ca-
des: nonnulli, relidtis equis, foſſam tranſire & mace-
riam tranſcendere conantur. Paullùm legiones Cæſar,
quas pro vallo conſtituerat, promoveri jubet. Non
minus, qui iatrà munitiones erant, Galli perturbantur;
veniri ad ſe confeſtim exiſtimantes, ad arma concla-
mant: nonnulli perterriti in oppidum irrumpunt. Ver-
cingetorix jubet portas claudi, ne caſtra nudentur.
Multis interfectis, compluribus equis captis; Germani
ſeie recipiunt. | | |
LXV. Vercingetorix, priuſquam munitiones ab Ro-
manis perficiantur, conſilium capit, omnem à fe equi-
tatum noctu dimittere. Diſcedentibus mandat, ut ſuν,
quiſque eorum civitatem adeat : omnt/que, qui per ætatem
arma ferre po/ſint, ad bellum cogant : ſua in illos merita
proponit ; ebrefla!aurgue, ut ſue ſalutis rationem habtant;
neu ſe de communi libertate optime meritum in cruciatum
hoftibus dedant : qui , indiligentiores fuerint, millia homi-
num Lx xx delecta ſecum interritura demonſtrat: Ratione
mita, frumentum je exigud ditrum xxx habere, ſed paullo
64/1 /ongius-tolerare poſſe parcends, Hic datis mandatis
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qua erat noſtrum opus intermiſſum, ſecunda vigilia fi-
lentio equitatum dimittit: frumentum omne ad fe ferri
Jubet : capitis pœnam iis, qui non paruerint, conſtituit:
pecus, cujus magna erat ab Mandubiis compulſa copia,
viritim diſtribuit: framentum parce & paulllatim metiri
inſtituit: copias om nes, quas pro oppido collocaverat,
in oppidum recipit. His rationibus auxilia Galliz ex-
ſpectare, & bellum adminiſtrare parat. ;
LXVI. Quibus rebus cognitis ex perfugis & captivis;
Czfar bhæc genera munitionis inſtituit. Foſſam pedum
xx directis lateribus duxit ; ut ejus ſolum tantundem
pateret, quantum ſumma labra diſtabant : reliquas om-
nes munitiones ab ea foſsa pedibus cp reduxit: id hoc
conſilio, (quoniam tantum eflet neceſſariò ſpatium com-
plexus, nec facilè totum opus corona militum cingere-
tur) ne de improviſo aut noctu ad munitiones hoſlium
multitudo advolaret, aut interdiu tela in noſtros operi
deftinatos conjicere poſſent. Hoc intermiſſo ſpatio ;
duas foſſas, xv pedes latas, eadem altitudine, perduxit :
quarum interiorem, campeſtribus ac demiſſis locis, aqua
ex flumine derivata' complevit. Poſt eas aggerem, &
vallum x11 pedum exſtruxit: huic lorican. pinnaſque
adjecit; prandibus cervis eminentibus ad commiſſuras
pluteorum atque aggeris, qui aſcenſum hoſtium tarda-
rent: & turres toto opere circumdedit, quæ pedes LxXx
inter ſe diſtarent. 77
LXVIL Erat uno tempore & materiari, & frumen-
tari, & tantas munitiones fieri neceſſe; diminutis noſtris
copiis, quæ longiùs ab caſtris progrediebantur: & non-
nunquam opera noſtra Galli tentare, atque eruptionem
ex oppido pluribus 2 facere ſumma vi conabantur.
Quare ad bzc ruſus opera addendum Cæſar putavit,
quò minore numero militum munitiones defendi poſ-
"ſent. Itaque truncis arborum aut admodum firmis ra-
mis abſciſſis, atque horum dolabratis atque præacutis
cacuminibus; perpetuæ foſſæ, quinos pedes altæ, duce-
bantur: huc illi ſtipites demiſſi; & ab infimo revincti,
ne revelli poſſent, ab ramis eminebant. Quini erant
ordines conjuncli inter ſe, atque implicati; quo qui in-
waverant, fe ipſi acutiſſimis vallis iyduebant ; hos, Cip-
| pos
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pos appellabant. Ante hos, obliquis ordinibus in quin-
cuncem diſpoſitis, ſcrobes trium in altitudinem pedum
fodiebantur; paullatim anguſtiore ad infimum faſtigio:
huc teretes ſtipites, feminis craſſitudine, ab ſummo
præacuti & præuſti, demittebantur; ita ut non amplius
Iv digitis ex terra eminerent: ſimul, confirmandi &
ſtabiliendi causa, ſinguli ab infimo ſolo pedes teria
exculcabantur : reliqua pars ſcrobis, ad occultandas
inſidias, viminibus ac virgultis integebatur. Hujus
generis oftoni ordines ducti, ternos inter ſe pedes dif-
tabant; id, ex fimilitudine floris, Lilium appellabant.
Ante hec, talez pedem longæ, ferreis hamis infixis,
totæ in terram infodiebantur ; mediocribuſque intermiſ-
ſis ſpatiis, omnibus locis diſſerebantur; quos Stimulos
nominabant.
LXVIII. His rebus perfectis: regiones ſecutus quam
potuit æquiſſimas, pro loci natura; x1v mallia paſſuum
complexus, pares ejuſdem generis munitiones, diverſas
ab his contra exteriorem holtem perfecit; ut ne magna
quidem multitudine, f ita accidat, ejus diſceſſu, muni-
tionum præſidia circumfundi/ poſſent. Neu cum peri-
culo ex caſtris egredi cogerentur: dierum xxx pabu-
lum, frumentümque habere omnes convectum jubet.
LXIX. Dum hc ad Aleſiam geruntur; Galli, con-
cilio principum indicto, non omnes, qui arma ferre
poſſent, (ut cenſuit Vercingetorix) convocandos ſtatu-
unt, ſed certum numerum cuique civitati imperandum;
ne, tanta multitudine confusa, nec moderari nec diſcer-
nere ſuos, nee frumentandi rationem habere poſſent.
Imperant Æduis; atque eorum clientibus, Seguſianis,
Ambivaretis, Aulercis Brannovicibus, Brannoviis ; mil-
lia xxxv: parem numerum Arvernis ; adjunctis Elen-
theris Cardurcis, Gabalis, Velaunis, qui ſub imperio
Arvernorum eſſe conſueverunt: Senonibus, Sequanis,
Biturigibus, Xantonibus, Ruthenis, Carnutibus; xII
millia: Bellovacis, x: totidem Lemovicibus : octona
Pictonibus. & Turonis, & Pariſiis, & Eleutheris Sueſſt-
onibus: Ambianis, Mediomatricis, Petrocoriis, Nerviis,
Morinis, Nitiobrigibus ; quina millia: Aulercts Ceno-
mans, totidem ; Atrebatibus, ty millia : Bellocafhs,
H 5 Lexaviis,
*
Lexoviis, Aulercis Eburovicibus ; terna : Rauracis, &
Boiis; xxx: univerſis civitatibus, quæ Oceanum attin-
gunt, quzque eorum conſuetadine Armoricz appellan-
| tur; (quo ſunt in numero Curioſolites, Rhedones, Cale-
tes, Oſiſmii, Lemovices, Veneti, Unelli) ſena. Ex his
Bellovaci ſuum numerum non contulerunt ; quod ſe ſug
nomine atque arbitrio cum Romanis bellum geſturos
dicerent, neque cujuſquam imperio obtemperaturos:
rogati tamen a Comio, pro ejus heſpitio 11 millia mi-
ſerunt. | |
LXX. Hujus opera Comii, ita ut antea demonſtravi-
mus, fideli atque utili ſuperioribus annis erat uſus in
Britannia Cæſar: pro quibus meritis civitatem ejus im-
munem eſſe juſſerat; jura legeſque reddiderat; atque
| iph Morinos attribuerat. Tanta tamen univerſe Galliz
| conſenſio fuit libertatis vindicandæ, & priſtinæ belli
laudis recuperandz; ut neque beneficiis, neque amici-
tiz memoria, moverentur; omneſque & animo & opi-
bus in id bellum incumberent; coaQtis equitum vii
millibus, & peditum circiter cexL, Hæc in Æduorum
finibus recenſebantur; numerũſque inibatur. Prefedti
| conſtituebantur : Comio Atrebati, Virdumaro, & Epo-
[ redorigi Æduis; Vergaſillauno Arverno, conſobrino
| Vercingetorigis; ſumma imperii tranſditur. lis delecti
ex civitatibus attribuuntur, quorum conſilio bellum ad-
| miniſtraretur. Omnes alacres, & fiduciæ pleni, ad A-
| leſiam proſiciſcuntur: nec erat omnium quiſquam, qui
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aſpetum modo tantæ multitudinis ſuſtinere poſſe arbi-
| traretur: præſertim ancipiti prœlio; quum ex oppido
[ eruptione pugnaretur, & foris tantz copiz equitatus
peditatùſque cernerentur. |
LXXI. At ii, qui Aleſiæ obſidebantur, preterita die,
2 ſuorum auxilia exſpectaverant; mw omni
rumento; inſcii quid in Aduis gereretur, concilio co-
acto, de exitu fortunarum ſuarum conſultabant. Ac
| . variis dictis ſententiis; quarum pars, deditionem ; pars,
dum vires ſuppeterent, eroptionem cenſebant : non præ-
| « tereunda videtur oratio Critognati, propter ejus ſingula-
,
- F'54 c. Jutir Cx$anis
| rem ac nefariam crudelitatem. Hic ſummo in Arvernis
natus loco, & magnæ habitus auctoritatis; nihil, inguit,
ot BzTTo GaLLtico Lis, VII. I55
n eerum ſententida dicturus ſum, qui turpiſſimam ſervitutem
deditionis nomine appellant ; neque hos habendos civium loco,
neque ad concilium adhibendos cenſeo. Cum iis mihi res fit,
qui eruptionem probant: quorum in conſilio, omnium ve
trim conſenſu, prifline refedere virtulis memoria widetur.
Animi eft iſta mollities, non wirtus ; inopiam paulliſper ferre
non poſſe. Qui ſe ultro morti offerant, facilius reperiuntur z
quam qui dolorem patienter ferant. Atque ego hanc ſenten-
tiam probarem, (nam apud me multum dignitas poteft) ft -
nullam, praterquam vitæ noflire jatturam fieri viderem.
Sed, in conſilio capiendo, omnem Galliam reſpiciamus z
quam ad noftrum auxilium concitavimus. Quid, hominum
millibus Lx x x uno loco interfectis, propingquis conſanguine-
iſque animi fore exiſlimatis: fi pens in ii cadaveribus
prælio decertare ee ? Nolite has wefiro auxilio poli-
are, qui veſtræ ſalutis causa ſuum periculum neglexerint ;
nee flultitia ac temeritate veſira, aut imbecillitate animi,
emnem Galliam proſternere, ac perpetuæ ſervituti addicere.
An, gubd ad diem non wenerint, de e. um fide conflantiaque
dabitatis* Quid ergo? Romanos in illis ulterioribus muni-
tionibus, animine causd quotidie exerceri putatis? Si illorum
wnciis confirmari non poteſtis, omni aditu preſepto; iis
utimini teflibus, appropinguare eorum adwentum; cijus rei
timore exterriti, diem nocmemgque in opere werſantur, Quid
ergo mei confilit ei ? Facere, quod noftri majores, negua-
quam pari bello Cimbrorum Teutoniamgue, fecerunt ; qui in
oppida compulſi, ac fimili inopiã ſubacti; eorum corforibus,,
qui etate inutiles ad bellum videbantur, vitam tolerave-
rurt ; negue ſe hoftibus tranſdiderunt : cujus rei exemplum
ft non haberemus ; tamen libertatis causd inſlitui, & paſle-
ris. prodi, pulcherrimum judicarem. Nam quid huic fimile
bello fuit! Depopulatã Gallid, magnagque illata calamitate,
Cimbri finibus neftris aliguando exceſſcrunt, atque alias
terras petierunt ; jura, leges, agros, libertatem nobis reli-
querunt : Romani wero quid petunt aliud, aut quid volunt,
miſs, invidid adducti, ques fama mobiles potentiſque bello
eguoverunt, horum in agris civitatibuſque conſidere, atque
bis eternam injungere ſervitulem? neque enim umquam
alid conditione bella gefſerunt. Qudd fi ea, que longinquis
. Balionibus geruntur, ignoratis ; reſpicite finitimam. Galliam,
ques
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156 C. Jut1i1 CESARIS
que in provinciam redatia, jure & legibus commulatis,
ſecuribus ſubjecta, perpetud premitur ſervitute. Senten-
1 tiis dictis; conſtituunt ut, qui valetudine aut ætate inu-
| tiles ſunt bello, oppido excedant; atque omnia prius
experiantur, quam ad Critognati ſententiam deſcen-
dant: illo tamen potiùs utendum conſilio, {| res cogat
atque auxilia morentur: quàm deditionis aut pacis ſub-
eundam conditionem. Mandubii, qui eos oppido re-
ceperant, cum liberis atque uxoribus exire coguntur.
Ii, quum ad munitiones Romanorum acceſſiſſent, flentes
omnibus precibus orabant, ut ſe in ſervitutem receptos
cibo juvarent. Hos Cæſar, diſpoſitis in vallo cuſtodiis,
recipi prohibebat.
LXXII. Interea Comius, reliquique duces, quibus
ſumma imperii permiſſa erat; cum omnibus copiis ad
Aleſiam perveniunt: &, colle exteriore occupato, non
longids p paſſibus à noſtris munitionibus conſidunt.
Poſtero die, equitatu ex caſtris educto, omnem eam
planitiem, quam in longitudinem 111 millia paſſuum
patere demonſtravimus, complent; pedeſtreſque copias,
paullum ab eo loco, abditas in locis ſuperioribus conſti-
tuunt. Erat ex oppido Alefia deſpectus in campum.
Concurritur, bis auxiliis viſis: fit gratulatio inter eos,
atque omnium animi ad lætitiam excitantur. Itaque
productis copiis, ante oppidum conſidunt; & proximam
foſſam cratibus integunt, atque aggere explent; ſeque
ad eruptionem atque omnes caſus comparant.
LXXIII. Cæſar omni exercitu ad utramque partem
munitionum diſpoſito; ut, fi uſvs veniat, ſuum quiſque
Yocum teneat & noverit: equitatum ex caſtris educi, &
prœlium committi jubet. Erat ex omnibus caſtris, quæ
ſummum undique jugum tenebant, deſpectus; atque
omnium militum intenti animi pugnæ eventum exſpec-
tabant. Galli, inter equites, raros ſagittarios, expedi-
toſque levis armaturz, interjecerant; qui ſuis cedenti-
bus avxilio ſuccurrerent, & noſtrorum equitum impe-
tum ſuſtinerent. Ab his eomplures de improviſo vul-
nerati, prœlio excedebant. Quum ſuos pugna ſuperio.
. res eſſe Galli confiderent, & noſtros multitudine premi
viderent; ex omnibus partibus, & ii qui musitionibus
con-
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continebantur, & ii qui ad auxilium convenerant, cla-
more & ululatu ſuorum animos confirmabant. Quod
in conſpectu omnium res gerebatur, neque rectè aut
turpiter factum celari poterat; utroſque & laudis cu-
piditas, & timor ignominiæ, ad virtutem excitabat.
Quum a meridie prope ad Solis occaſum dubia victoria
ugnaretur, Germani una in parte confertis turmis in
loſes impetum fecerunt, eoſque propulerunt: quibus
in fugam conjectis, ſagittarii circumventi interfectique
ſunt. Item ex reliquis partibus noſtri, cedentes uſque
ad caſtta inſecuti, ſui colligendi facultatem non dede-
runt. At ii, qui ab Alefia proceſſerant, meoſti, prope
victoria deſperata, ſe in oppidum receperunt.
LXXIV. Uno die intermiſſo, Galli; atque hoc ſpa-
tio, magno cratium, ſcalarum, harpagonum numero
effecto; media notte ſilentio ex caſtris egreſſi, ad cam-
peſtres munitiones accedunt. Subito clamore ſublato;
qua ſignificatione, qui in oppido obſidebantur, de ſao
adventu cognoſcere poſſent: crates projicere ; fundis,
ſagittis, lapidibus noſtros de vallo deturbare ; reliquã-
ue, quz ad oppugnationem pertinent, adminiſtrare.
em tempore, clamore exaudito, dat tuba ſignum
ſuis Vercingetorix; atque ex oppido educit. Noſtri, ut
fuperioribus diebus ſuus cuique locus erat definitus, ad
munitiones accedunt; fundis librilibus ſudibaſque, quas
in opere diſpoſuerunt, ac glandibus Gallos perterrent.
Proſpectu tenebris adempto ; multa utrimque vulnera
accipiuntur, complura tormentis tela conjiciun tur. At
M. Antonius, & C. Trebonius, legati, quibus ex par-
tes ad defendendum obvenerant; qua ex parte premi
noſtros intellexerant, iis auxilio ex ulterioribus caſtellis
deductos ſubmittebant.
LXXV. Dum longiùs ab munitione aberant Galli,
plus multitudine telorum proficiebant : poſtea quam
propiùs ſucceſſerunt; aut ſe ipſi ſtimulis inopinantes in-
duebant, aut in ſcrobes delapſi transfodiebantur, aut ex
rallo & turibus transjecti pilis muralibus interibant.
Multis undique vuloeribus acceptis, nulla munitione
perrupta; quum lux appeteret, veriti, ne ab latere
aperto ex ſuperioribus caltris eruptione circumveniren-
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tur, ſe ad ſuos receperunt. At interiores, dum ea, quze.
a Vercingetorige ad eruptionem praparata erant, pro-
ferunt, priores foſſas explent ; diutius in iis rebus ad-
miniſtrandis morati, priùs ſuos diſceſſiſſe cognoverunt,
quam munitionibus appropinquarent. Ita, re infecta,
in oppidum reverterunt.
LXXVI. Bis magno cum detrimento repulſi Galli,
quid agant, conſulunt: locorum peritos adhibent: ab
his ſaperiorum caſtrorum ſitus munitioneſque cognoſ-
cunt, Erat a Septemtrionibus collis; quem quia, prop-
ter magnitudinem circuits, opere circumplecti non
potuerant, noſtri, neceſſariò pene, iniquo loco & leniter
declivi caſtra fecerunt : hæc C. Antiſtius Reginus, & C.
Caninius Rebilus, legati, cum 11 legionibus obtinebant,
Cognitis per exploratores regionibus ; duces hoſtium
Lv millia ex omni numero deligunt earum civitatum,
quæ maximam virtutis opinionem habebant : quid,
gu6que pacto, agi placeat; occulte inter ſe conſtituunt:
adeundi tempus definiunt, quum meridies eſſe videatur.
Tis copiis Vergaſillaunum Arvernum, unum ex iv du—
cibus, propinquum Vercingetorigis, præficiunt. Ille ex.
caſtris prima vigilia egreſſus, prope confeQo. ſub lucem
itinere, poſt montem ſe occultavit; militeſque ex noc-
turno labore ſeſe reficere juſſit. Quum jam meridies
appropinquare videretur; ad ea caſtra, quæ ſupra de-
monſtravimus, contendit : eodemque tempore equitatus
ad campeſtres munitiones accedere, & reliquæ copiz
ſeſe pro caſtris oſtendere cœperunt.
LXXVII. Vercingetorix ex arce Aleſiæ ſuos con-
ſpicatus, ex oppido egreditur; ac crates, longurios,
muſculos, falces, reliquaque, quæ eruptiones causa para-
verat, profert. Pugnatur uno tempore omnibus locis ;
atque omnia teutantur, Quæ minime pars firma viſa
. eſt, huc concurritur. Romanorum manus tantis muni-
tionibus diſtinetur; nec facile pluribus locis occurrit.
Multum ad terrendos noſtros valuit clamor, qui poſt
tergum pugnantibus exſtitit; qudd ſuum jericulum in
aliena vident virtute conſiſtere: omnia enim plerumque,
quæ abſunt, vehementiùs hominum mentes perturbant.
LXXVIIL Cæſar idoneum locum nactus, quid qua-
que
BE Brito GALIIco LIEB. VII. 159
que in parte e cognoſcit; laborantibus auxilium
ſubmittit. Utriſque ad animum occurrit, unum illud
eſſe tempus, qud maximè contendi conveniat. Galli,
niſi perfregerint munitiones, de omni ſalute deſperant :
Romani, ft rem obtinuerint, finem laborum omnium
exſpectant. Maxime ad ſuperiores munitiones labora-
tur, quò Vergaſillaunum miſſum demonſtravimus. Ex-
iguum loci ad declivitatem faſtigium, magnum habet
momentum. Alii tela conjiciunt ; alii, teſtudine factà,
ſubeunt; defatigatis, invicem integri ſuecedunt. Agger
ab univerſis in munitionem conjectus, & aſcenſum dat
Gallis, &, quæ in terram occultaverant Romani, con-
tegit : nec jam arma noſtris, nec vires ſuppetunt.
XXIX. His rebus cognitis, Cæſar Labienum cum
cohortibus vi ſubfidio laborantibus mittit. Imperat,
ſi ſuſtinere non poſſit; deductis cohortibus, eruptione
ugnet: id, niſi necceſſarid, non faciat. Ipſe adit re-
— cohortatur, ne labori ſuccumbant :. omnium
ſaperiorum dimicationum fructum in eo die atque hora
docet conſiſtere. Interiores, defperatis campeſtribus lo-
cis propter magnitudinem munitionum, loca prærupta
ex aſcenſu tentant: huc ea, quæ paraverant, conferunt:
multitudine telorum ex turribus propugnantes detur-
bant: aggere & cratibus aditus expediunt: falcibus
vallum ac loricam reſcindung. |
LXXX. Cæſar mittit primo Brutum adoleſcentem
cum cohortibus vi; gl aliis vil, C. Fabium le-
atum: poſtremò ipſe, quum vehementiùs pugnaretur,
integros ſubſidio adducit. Reſtituto prœlio, ac repulſis
hoſtibus ;, eo, quò Labienum miſerat, contendit: cohor-
tes iv ex proximo caſtello educit : equitum ſe partem
ſequi ; partem circumire exteriores munitiones, & ab
tergo hoſtes adoriri jubet. Labienus, poſtquam neque
- apgeres neque foſſæ vim hoſtium ſuſtinere poterant ;
coactis una de quadraginta cohortibus, quas ex proxi-
mis præſidiis deductas fors obtulit, Cæſarem per nun-
cios facit certiorem, quid faciendum exiſtimet: accele-
rat Cæſar, ut prelio interſit.
LXXXI. Ejus adventu ex colore veſtitis cognito,
quo inſigni in prœliis uti. conſueverat; turmiſque equi-
160 C. Jurir CZSARAIS
tum & cohortibus viſis, quas ſe ſequi juſſerat; ut de
locis ſuperioribus hæc declivia & devexa cernebantur:
hoſtes prœlium committunt. Utrimque clamore ſublato,
excipit rurſus ex vallo atque omnibus munitionibus
clamor. Noſtri, emiſſis pilis, gladiis rem gerunt. Re-
pentè poſt tergum equitatus cernitur: cohortes aliæ ap-
propinquant: hofles terga vertunt: fugientibus equites
occurrunt: fit magna cædes. Sedulius, dux & princeps
Lemovicum, occiditur: Vergaſillaunus Arvernus vivus
in fuga comprehenditur : ſigna militaria Lxxrv ad Cæ-
ſarem referuntur : pauci, ex tanto numero, ſe incolumes
in caſtra recipiunt. Conſpicati ex-oppido cxdem &
fugam ſuorum ; deſperata ſalute, copias a munitionibus
reducunt. Fit protinus, hac re audita, ex caſtris Gal.
lorum fuga. Quod niſi crebris ſubſidiis, ac toties diet
labore, milites fuiſſent defeſſi; omnes hoſtium copiæ
deleri potuiſſent. De media nocte miſſus equitatus,
noviſſimum agmen conſequitur: magnus numerus ca-
pitur, atque interficitur ; reliqui ex fuga in civitates dif
cedunt.
LXXXII. Poſtero die Vercingetorix, concilio convo-
cato; id /e bellum ſuſcepiſſè, non ſuarum neceſſitatum, ſed
communis libertatis cauiã, demonſtrat : &, quoniam jit fer-
tune cedendum : ad utramgue rem ſe illis offerre, ſeu morts
ſud Romanis ſatisfacere, ſeu wvivum tranſdere welint, Mit-
tuntur de his rebus ad Cæſarem legati. Jubet arma
tranſdi ; principes produci. Ipſe in munitione pro caſ-
tris conſedit; eo duces producuntur: Vercingetorix
deditur; arma projiciuntur. Reſervatis Æduis atque
Arvernis, fi per eos civitates recuperare poſſet ; ex reli-
quis captivis toto exercitu capita ſingula, prædæ nomine,
diſtribuit. |
LXXXIII. His rebus confectis, in Æduos proficici-
tur; civitatem recipit. Eo legati ab Arvernis miſſi;
quæ imperaret, ſe facturos pollicentur: imperat mag-
num numerum obſidum. Legiones in hyberna mittit;
captivorum circiter xx millia Æduis Arverniſque red-
dit. T. Labienum, cum 11 legiovibus & equitatu, in
Sequanos proficiſci jubet: hnic M. Sempronjum Ru“.
lum attribuit. C. Fabium & L. Minucium Paßlum,
cum
„
DE BzeLLo GaLLico Las. VIII. 161
cum 11 legionibus, in Rhemis collocat; ne quam 4 fint-
timis Bellovacis calamitatem accipiant. C. Antiſtium
Reginum, in Ambivaretos ; T. Sextium, in Bituriges;
C. Caninium Rebilum, in Ruthenos; cum fingulis le-
gionibus, mittit. Q. Tullium Ciceronem, & P. Sulpi-
cium, Cabiloni & Matiſcone in Æduis ad Ararim, rei
frumentariæ causa, collocat. Ipſe Bibracte hyemare
conſtituit. His rebus Cæſaris litteris cognitis, Rome
dierum xx ſapplicatio indicitur.
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Scriptore A, HIR T1O.
OACTUS aſſiduis tuis vocibus,' Balbez quam
quotidiana mea recuſatio non difficultatis excuſa-
tionem, ſed inertiz videretur deprecationem ha-
bere ; difficillimam rem ſuſcepi. Cæſaris noſtri Com-
mentarios rerum geſtarum Galliz, non comparandos
ſuperioribus atque inſequentibus ejus ſeriptis, contexui:
noviſimeque, imperfecta ab rebus geſtis Alexandriæ
confeci ; uſque ad exitum non quidem civilis diſſenſio-
nis, cujus finem nullum videmus ; ſed vite Cæſaris.
Quos utinam qui legent, ſcire poſſent, quam invitus
ſuiceperim ſcribendos; quo faciliùs caream ſtultitiæ at.
que e crimine, qui me mediis interpofuerim
Cæſaris ſcriptis. Conſtat enim inter omnes, nihil tam
operosè ab aliis eſſe perfectum, quod non horum ele-
gantia Commentariorum ſuperetur: qui ſunt editi, ne
icientia tantarum rerum ſeriptoribus deeflet : adeoque
probantur omnium judicio ; ut prærepta, non præbita
facultas, ſcriptoribus videatur. Cujus tamen rei major
noſtra, quam, reliquorum eſt admiratio: cæteri enim,
quàm bene atque emendate; nos etiam, quam facile
atque celeriter eos confecerit, ſcimus. Erat autem in
Cxſare, cùm facultas atque elegantia ſumma ſcribendi,
tum
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162 A. H1nT 11
tum veriſſima ſuorum ſcientia conſiliorum explicando-
rum. Mihi ne illud quidem accidit, ut Alexandrino
atque Africano bello interefſem. Quæ bella quam-
quam ex parte nobis Cæſaris ſermone ſunt nota; tamen
aliter audimus ea, quæ rerum novitate aut admiratione
nos capiunt; aliter, quæ pro teſtimonio ſumus dicturi.
Sed ego nimirum, dum omnes excuſationis cauſas col-
ligo, ne cum Cæſare conferar; hoc ipſum crimen arro-
gantiæ ſubeo, quod me judicio cujuſquam exiftimem
poſſe cum Cæſare comparari, Vale.
J. MNI Gallia devita; Cæſar quum ſuperiore
aſtate nullum bellandi tempus intermiſiſſet,
- militeſque hybernorum quiete reficere a tantis
laboribus vellet; complures eodem tempore civitates
renovare belli conſilia nunciabantur, conjurationeſque
facere, Cujus rei veriſimilis cauſa afferebatur ; quod
Gallis omnibus cognitum eſſet, neque ulla multitudine
in unum locum coaQi reſiſti poſſe Romanis ; nec, fi
diverſa bella complures eodem tempore intuliſſent ci-
vitates, ſatis auxilii aut ſpatii aui copiarum habiturum
exercitum populi Rom. ad omnia perſequenda: non
eſſe autem alicui civitati ſortem incommodi recuſan-
dam, fi tali mora reliquæ poſſent ſe vindicare in liber-
tatem.
II. Quæ ne opinio Gallorum confirmaretur ; Cæſat
M. Antonium quæſtorem ſuis preficit hybernis ; ipſe
equitatds præſidio, pridie Kal. Jan. ab oppido Bibracde
— — ad legionem x111, quam non longe a fini-
us Aduorum collocayerat in finibus Biturigum; eique
adjungit legionem xi, quæ proxima fueret, Binis co-
hortibus ad impedimenta tuenda relictis, reliquum ex-
ercitum in copioſiſſimos agros Biturigum inducit : quy
quum latos fines & complura oppida haberent, un1us
legionis hybernis non potuerant contineri, quin bellum
pararent, conjurationéſque facerent. ;
III. Repentino adventu Cæſaris accidit, quod 1mpa-
ratis disjectiſque accidere fuit neceſſe; ut, fine timore
ullo rura colentes, priùs ab equitatu opprimerentus,
quam confugere in oppida poſſent: namque My
vz Betto GALLIco Lis, VIII. 163
Jud vulgare incurſionis hoſtium ſignum, quod incendiis
ædificiorum intelligi conſuevit, Cæſaris erat interdicto
ſublatum: ne aut copia pabuli frumentique, fi longiùs
progredi vellet, deficeretur; aut hoſtes incendiis terre-
rentur. Multis hominum millibus captis, perterriti Bi-
turiges, qui primum adventum effugere potuerant Ro-
manorum, in finitimas civitates, aut privatis hoſpitiis
confiſi, aut ſocietate conſiliorum, confugerant. Fruſtra:
nam Cæſar magnis itineribus omnibus locis occurrit;
nec dat ulli civitati ſpatium de aliena potiùs, quàm de
domeſtica ſalute, cogitandi: qua celeritate, & fideles
amicos retinebat, & dubitantes terrore ad conditiones
pacis adducebat. Tali conditione Bituriges propoſita,
quum ſibi viderent clementia Cæſaris reditum patere in
ejus amicitiam; finitimaſque civitates fine ulla pcena
dediſſe obſides, atque in fidem receptas eſſe; idem fe-
cerunt. Cæſar militibus, pro tanto labore ac patientia ;
qui brumalibus diebus, itineribus difficillimis, frigori-
bus intolerandis, ſtudioſiſſimè permanſerant in labore;
ducenos ſeſtertios: centurionibus, 11 millia nummim
prædæ nomine condonanda pollicetur; legionibuſque
in hyberna remiſſis, ipſe ſe recipit die x Bibracte.
IV. Ibi quum jus diceret; — ad eum legatos
mittunt, auxilium petitum contra Carnutes, quos intu-
liſſe bellum fibi querebantur. Qua re cognità; quum
non amplius x & viII dies in hybernis eſſet commo-
ratus, legiones xiv & v1 ex hybernis ab Arare edu-
cit; quas ibi collocatas, explicandæ rei frumentariæ
causa, ſuperiore Commentario demonſtratum eſt. Ita
cum 11 legionibus ad perſequendos Carnutes proficiſci-
tur, Quum fama exercitùs ad hoſtes eſſet perlata ; ca-
Jamitate ceterorum ducti Carnutes ; deſertis vicis oppi-
diſque, quæ, tolerandæ hyemis causa, conſtitutis re-
pentè exiguis ad neceſſitatem ædiſiciis, incolebant; (nu-
per enim devicti, complura oppida dimiſerant) diſperſi
profugiunt. Cæſar erumpentes eo maximè tempore
acerrimas tempeſtates quum ſubire milites nollet, in
oppido Carnutum Genabo caſtra ponit: atque in tecta,
partim Gallorum; partim quæ, conjectis celeriter ſtra-
mentis, tentoriorum integendorum gratia, erant inæ-
| dificata ;
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ras autem ad C. Fabium mittit, ut in fines Sue ſfo-
num legiones 11, quas babebat, adduceret; alteram-
onus injungebat.
164 A. HIRTI I
dificata; milites contegit. Equites tamen, & auxilla-
rios pedites, in omnes partes mittit, quaſcumque pe-
tiſſe dicebantur hoſtes: nec fruſtra; nam plerumque
magna przda potiti noſtri revertuntur. Oppreſſi Car-
nutes hy emis difficultate, terrore periculi, quum tectis
axpulſi nullo loco diutius conſiſtere auderent, nec ſyl-
varum præſidio tempeſtatibus duriſſimis tegi poſſent;
diſperſi, magna parte amiſsa ſuorum, diſſipantur in fi-
nitimas civitates. a
V. Cæſar, tempore anni difficillimo, quum ſatis ha.
beret convenientes manus diſſipare, ne quod initium
belli naſceretur; quantümque in ratione eſſet, explo-
ratum haberet, ſub tempus æſtivorum nullum ſummum
bellum poſſe conflari; C. Trebonium cum 11 legioni-
bus, quas ſecum habebat, in hybernis Genabi colloca-
vit. Ipſe, quum crebris legationibus Rhemorum cer-
tior fieret, Bellovacos (qui belli gloria Gallos omnes
Belgaſque præſtabant) finitimaſque civitates, duce Cor-
reo Bellovaco, & Comio Atrebate, exercitum compa-
rare, atque in unum locum cogere; ut omni multitu-
dine in fines Sueſſionum, qui Rhemis erant attributi,
facerent impreſſionem: pertinere autem non tantim
ad dignitatem, ſed etiam ad ſalutem ſuam judicaret,
nullam calamitatem ſocios optimè de republ. meritos
accipere: legionem ex hy bernis evocat rurſus x1; lite-
que ex duabus a T. Labieno accerſit. Ita, quantum
hy bernorum opportunitas, bellique ratio poſtulabat;
perpetuo ſuo labore, invicem legionibus ex peditionun
VI. His copiis coactis, ad Bellovacos proficiſcitur;
caſtriſque in eorum finibus poſitis; equitum turmas
dimittit in omnes partes ad aliquos excipiendos, ex
vibus hoſtium conſilia cognoſceret. Equites officio
fongi, renunciant paucos in ædificiis efſe invent;
atque hos, non qui agrorum incolendorum causa te-
manſiſſent, (namque eſſe undique diligenter demigr?-
tum) ſed qui, ſpeculandi gratia, eſſent remiſſi. A qui.
bus quum quzreret Cæſar, quo loco makkicado on
/ Epi hf
4
pz BxLLo GaLLico Lis. VIII. 165
Bellovacorum ;- quodque eſſet conſilium eorum : inve-
niebat, Bellowacos omnes, qui arma ferre poſſent, in unum
locum conveniſſe : itẽmgue Ambianos, Aulercos, Caletes, Vel-
lxcafſes, Atrebates : locum caftris excelſum, impeditd circum-
data palude, delegifſe; omnia impedimenta in ulteriores-
ſyloas contulifſe : comp lures effe principes belli auctores; ſed
multitudinem maxim? Correo obtemperare, quod ei ſummo
efſe odio pop uli Romani nomen intellexiſſent. Paucis ants
giebus, ex his caſtris Comium diſceſſifſe ad auxilia Germano-
rum adducenda ; quorum & wicinitas propingua, & multi-
tudo effet infinita conflituiſſe autem Bellovacos, omnium
principum conſenſu, ſumma plebiz cupiditate ; fi, ut diceretur,
Cæſar cum 111 legionibus weniret; offerre ſe ad dimican-
aum; ne, miſeriore ac duriore poſtea conditione, cum toto ex-
ercitu decertare cogerentur : fin majores copias adduceret ; in
zo loca permanere, quem delegiſſent; pabulatione autem ( que
propter anni tempus, cum exigua, tum disjea effet ) & fru-
mentatione, & reliquo commeatu, ex inſidiis probibere Ro-
manos.
VII. Quæ Cæſar quum, conſentientibus plurimis,
cognoviſſet; atque ea quæ proponerentur conſilia, plena
| prudentiæ, longeque a temeritate barbarorum remota
| eſſe judicaret; omnibus rebus inſerviendum ſtatuit, quo.
celerids hoſtes, contempta ſuorum paucitate, prodirent
; in aciem : ſingularis enim virtutis veterrimas legiones
- vn, vin, & ix habebat : ſumme ſpei, delectæque ju-
- ventutis, xi; quæ octavo jam ſtipendio functa, tamen,
collatione reliquarum, nondum eandem vetuſtatis &
virtutis ceperat opinionem. Itaque concilio advocato:
rebus 11s, quz ad fe eſſent delatæ, omnibus expoſitis;
animos multitudinis confirmat. Si forte hoſtes, 111 le-
gionum numero poſſet elicere ad dimicandum; agminis
ordinem ita conſtituit, ut legio vit, viii, & 1x ante
omnia irent impedimenta ; deinde omnium impedimen-
torum agmen (quod tamen erat mediocre, ut in expe-
ditionibus eſſe conſuevit) cogeret xi; ne majoris 20
tudinis ſpecies accidere hoſtibus poſſet, quam ipſi de-
popoſciſſent. Hac ratione penè quadrato agmine in-
fructo; in conſpectu hoſtium, celerids opinione eorum,
exercitum adducit.
| VII.
166 A. HI ATI I
VIII. Quum repente inſtructas velut in acie certs
gradu legiones accedere Galli viderent, quorum erant
ad Cæſarem plena fiduciz conſilia perlata ; ſive certa-
minis periculo, five ſubito adventu, ſeu exſpectatione
noſtri conſilii, copias inſtruunt pro caſtris, nec loco
ſuperiore decedunt. Cæſar, etſi dimicare optaverat;
tamen admiratus tantam multitudinem hoſtium; valle
intermiſsà, magis in altitudinem depreſsà, quam late
patente; caſtra caſtris hoſtium confert. Hæc imperat
vallo pedum x11 muniri; coroniſque pro ratione ejus
altitudinis inzdificari: foſſam duplicem, pedum qꝗti-
num denam, lateribus directis, deprimi: turres crebras
excitari, in altitudinem 111 tabulatorum; pontibus
trans jectis conſtratiſque conjungi; quorum frontes vi-
minea loricula munirentur, ut hoſtis a duplici propug-
natorum ordine depelleretur; quorum alter ex poni!-
bus, quo tutior altitudine eſſet, hoc audacids longidſ.
que tela permitteret; alter, qui propior hoſtem in ipſo
vallo collocatus eſſet, ponte ab incidentibus telis tegere-
tur. Portis fores, altioreſque turres impoſuit.
IX. Hujus munitionis duplex erat conſilium: namque
& operum magnitudinem, & timorem ſuum ſperabat
fiduciam barbaris allaturum: &, quum pabulatum fru-
mentatamque longiùs eſſet proficiſcendum, parvis copiis
caſtra munitione 1psa 2 poſſe defendi. Interim,
crebrò paucis utrimque procurrentibus, inter bina caſ-
tra palude interjeaa, contendebatur: quam tamen pa-
ludem nonnumquam aut noſtra auxilia Gallorum Ger-
manorumque tranſibant, acriaſque hoſtes inſequeban-
tur; aut viciſſim hoſtes eandem tranſgreſſi, noſtros lon-
ins ſubmovebant. Accidebat autem quotidianis pa-
bulationibus, (id quod accidere erat neceſſe, quum raris
disjectiſque ex ædificiis pabulum conquireretur) ut im-
peditis locis diſperſi pabulatores circumvenirentur: quæ
res etſt mediocre detrimentum jumentorum ac ſervorum
noſtris afferebat, tamen ſtultas cogitationes incitabat
barbarorum: atque ed magis, quod Comius, quem pro-
fectum ad auxilia Germanorum accerſenda dixeram,
cum equitibus venerat; qui, tametſi namero non am-
pom erant quingenti, tamen Germanorum adventu
arbari inflabantur. X.
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DE BELLO GaLLIico LIB. VIII. 167
X. Cæſar, quum animadverteret hoſtem complures
dies caſtris palude & loci naturi munitis ſe tenere:
neque oppugnari caſtra eorum ſine dimicatione per ·
niciosà, nec locum munitionibus claudi nifi a majore
exercitu poſſe: litteras ad Trebonium mittit, ut, quàm
celerrime poſſet, legionem x iii, quæ cum T. Sextio
legato in Biturigibus hyemabat, accerſeret; atque ita
cum 111 legionibus, magnis itineribus, ad ſe veniret.
Ipſe equites invicem Rhemorum, ac Lingonum, reli-
quarimque civitatum, quorum magnum numerum evo-
caverat, præſidio pabulationibus mittit, qui ſubitas hoſ-
tium incurſiones ſuſtinerent. |
XI. Quod quum quotidie fieret ; ac jam conſuetu-
dine diligentia minueretur, (quod plerumque accidit
diuturnitate) Bellovaci delectà manu peditum, cognitis
ſtationibus quotidianis equitum noſtrorum, ſylveſtribus
locis inſidias diſponunt; eodemque equites poſtero die
mittunt, qui primùm elicerent noſtros in inſidias, de-
inde circumventos aggrederentur : cujus mali ſors incj-
dit Rhemis, quibus illa dies fungendi muneris obvene-
rat. Namque ii, quum repente hoſtium cquites anim-
advertiſſent, ac numero ſuperiores paucitatem contemp-
ſillent; cupidiùs inſecuti, a peditibus undique ſunt cir-
cumdati : quo facto perturbati, celeriùs, quam conſue-
tudo fert eq ueſtris prœlii, ſe receperunt; amiſſo Vertiſ.
co, principe civitatis, præfecto equitum; qui quum vix
equo propter ætatem poſſet uti, tamen, nee
Gallorum, neque ætatis excuſatione in ſuſcipiendã
præfecturà uſus erat, neque dimicari ſine ſe voluerat.
Inflammantur atque incitantur hoſtium animi ſecundo
prœlio, principe & præfecto Rhemorum interfecto:
noltri detrimento admonentur, diligentiùs exploratis
locis ſtationes diſponere, ac moderatius cedentem inſequi
holtem. g 8
XII. Non intermittuntur interim quotidiana prœlia
in conſpectu utrorumque caſtrorum, quæ ad vada tran-
ſuüſque fiebant paludis. Qui contentione Germani,
(quos propterea Cæſar tranſduxerat Rhenum, ut equi-
übus interpoſiti prœliarentur) quum conſtantiùs univerſi
paludem transiſſent; pauciſque reſiſtentibus interfectis,
perti-
—
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A HIATII
pertinaciùs reliquam multitudinem eſſent inſecuti: per.
territi non ſolùm ii qui aut cominus opprimebantur aut
eminus vulnerabantur, ſed etiam qui longiùs ſubfidiari
conſueverant, turpiter fugerunt; nec prids finem fugæ
fecerunt, ſxpe amiſſis ſuperioribus locis, quam ſe aut
in caſtra ſuorum reciperent, aut nonnulli pavore coacti
longias profugerent : quorum periculo ſie omnes copiæ
ſunt perturbatæ, ut yi:. judicari poſſet, utrim ſecundis
minimis rebus infolentiores, an adverſis mediocribus
timidiores eſſent. |
XIII. Complurimis diebus iiſdem in caſtris conſump.
tis: quum propius acceſſiſſe legiones, & C. Trebonium
legatum, cognoviſſent; duces Bellovacorum, verlti fi-
milem obſeſſionem Aleſiæ, noctu dimittunt eos, quos
aut ztate aut viribus inferiores, aut inermes habebant;
unaque reliqua impedimenta: quorum perturbatum &
confuſum dum explicant agmen, (magna enim multi-
| tudo carrorum, etiam expeditos fequi Gallos conſue-
vit) oppreſſi luce copias armatorum pro ſuis inflru-
unt caſtris ; ne priùs Romani perſequi ſe inciperent,
| quam longiùs agmen impedimentorum ſuorum proceſ-
| fiſſet. At Cæſar neque reſiſtentes tantb collis aſcenſu
aggrediendos judicabat: neque non uſque <0 legiones
| admovendas, ut diſcedere ex eo loco fine periculo bar-
bari, noftris militibus inſtantibus, non poſſent. Ita,
| quum paludem impeditam a caſtris caftra dividere,
(quæ tranſeundi difficultas celeritatem inſequendi tar-
dare poſſet) atque id jugum, quod trans paludem pene
ad hoſtium caflra pertinerer, mediocri valle a caſtris
eorum interciſum animadverteret: pontibus palude
conſtrata, legiones tranſducit ;' celeriterque in ſummam
$ planitiem jugi pervenit, quæ declivi faſtigio duobus
ab lateribus muniebatur. Ibi legionibus inſtructis, ad
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ultimum jugum pervenit; aciemque eo loco conſtituit,
unde tormento miſſa tela in hoſtium cuneos conjid
poſſent. ä 7 :
XIV. Barbari, confiſi loci natura: quum dimicare
non recuſarent, ſi forte Romani ſubire collem cona-
rentur; pavllatimque copias diſtributas dimittere 10.
auderent, ne diſperſi perturbarentur; in acie 4 007;
| | erunt.
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vs BeiLo GaLLrco Lis. VIII. 169
ſerunt. Quorum pertinacia cognita ; Cæſar, xx cohor-
tibus inſtructis, caſtriſque eo loco metatis, muniri jubet
caſtra. Abſolutis operibus, legiones pro vallo inſtruc-
tas collocat; equites, frænatis equis, in ſtationibus diſ-
nit. Bellovaci, quum Romanos ad inſequendum pa-
ratos viderent; neque pernoctare, neque diutiùs perma-
nere fine cibariis eodem loco poſſent; tale conſilium ſui
recipiendi inierunt. Faſces, ubi conſederant, nam, in
acie ſedere Gallos conſueile, ſuperioribus commentariis
declaratum eſt] ſtramentorum ac virgultorum, quorum
ſumma erat in caſtris copia, per manus inter ſe tranſ—
ditos, ante aciem collocaverunt; extrem6que tempore
diei, ſigno pronunciato, uno tempore incenderunt Ita
continens flamma copias omnes repente a conſpectu
texit Romanorum ; quod ubi accidit, barbari vehemen-
t:ſimo curſu fugerunt. :
XV. Caſar, eth diſceſſum hoſtium animadvertere non
poterat, incendiis oppoſitis; tamen id confilium quum
ſugæ causa initum ſuſpicaretur, _—_ promovet, &
tarmas mittit ad inſt quendum: ipſe veritus inſidias, ne
forte in eodem loco ſubſiſteret hoſtis, atque elicere
noſtros in locum conaretur iniquum ; tardiùs procedit.
F Equites,- quum intrare fumum & flammam denſiſſimam
timerent; ac, ſi qui cupidiùs intraverant, vix ſuorum
ipſi priores partes animadverterent equorum; inſidias
veriti, liberam facultatem ſui recipiendi Bellovacis de-
derunt. Ita, fuga timoris ſimul calliditatiſque plenà.
line ullo detrimento, millia non ampliùs x progreſſi
holes, munitiſſimo loco caſtra poſuerunt. Inde, quum
ixpe in inſidiis equites peditéſque diſponerent, magna
detrimenta Romanis in pabulationibus inferebant.
XVI. Quod quum crebrids accideret ; ex captivo
* quodam comperit Cæſar, Correum Bellovacorum du-
it cem, fortiſſimorum millia vi peditum delegiſſe, equitéſ-
ic que ex omni numero mille, quos in inſidiis eo loco col-
locaret, quem in locum, propter copiam frumenti ac
a pabuli Romanos pabulatum miſſuros ſuſpicaretur. Quo
cognito conſilio, Cæſar legiones plures, quàm ſolebat,
educit; equitatümque, quem. præſidio pabulatoribus
mittere ſemper conſueverat, præmittit: huic interponit
CM auxilia
170 A. HIRATI I
auxilia levis armature: ipſe cum legionibus, quam
teſt maxime, appropinquat. Hoſtes in inſidiis diſpoſiti,
quum f1b1 delegiſſent campum ad rem gerendam, non
ampliùs patentem in omnes partes paſſibus u; ſylvis
undique impeditiſſimis, aut altiſſimo flumine, velut in-
dagine, munitum ;- hunc circumdederunt. Nottri, ex-
plorato hoſtium conſilio, ad preliandum animo atque
armis paratiz quum, ſubſequentibus legionibus, nullam
dimicationem recuſarent; turmatim in eum locum de-
venerunt. Quorum adventu quum ſibi Correus obla-
tam occaſionem rei gerendæ exiſtimaret, primùm cum
paucis ſe oſtendit; atque in proximas turmas impetum
facit. Noſtri conſtanter incurſum ſuſtinent inſidiato-
rum: neque plures in unum locum conveniunt; quod
plerumque equeſtribus prœliis cum propter aliquem ti-
morem accidit, tum multitudine ipſorum detrimentum
accipitur, Quum, diſpoſitis turmis, invicem rari prœ-
liarentur: neque ab lateribus circumveniri ſuos pate-
rentur: erumpunt cæteri, Correo prœliante, ex ſylvis.
Fit magna contentione diverſum prœlium: quod quum
diutiùs pari Marte iniretur; paullatim ex ſylvis inſtructa
multitudo procedit peditum, quæ noſtros cogit cedere
equites: quibus celeriter ſubveniunt levis armaturz
pedites, quos ante legiones miſſos doeui; turmiſque
noſtrorum interpoſiti, conſtanter prœliantur. Pugnatur
aliquamdiu pari contentione: deinde, ut ratio poſtula-
bat prœlii; qui ſuſtinuerant primos impetus inſidiarum,
hoc ipſo fiunt ſuperiores, quod nullum ab infidiantibus
imprudentes acceperant detrimentum. Accedunt pro-
pius interim legiones : erebrique eodem tempore &
noſtris & hoſtibus nuncii afferuntur, imperatorem in-
ſtructis copiis adeſſe. Qua re eognità; præſidio cohor-
tium confiſi noſtri, acerrimè preeliantur: ne, fi tardius
rem geſſiſſent, victoriæ gloriam communicaſſe cum le-
gionibus viderentur. Hoſtes concidunt animis, atque
itineribus diverſis fugam quærunt. Nequidquam: nam
quibus difficultatibus locorum Romanos claudere volve-
rant, iis ipſi tenebantur. Victi tamen propulsique
majore parte amiſsa, conſternati, quo fors tulerat, con-
fugiunt; partim ſylvis petitis, partim flumine : qui ta-
| men
vs BeLLo GaLLico Lis. VIII. 171
men in fugã à noſtris acriter inſequentibus conficiunturs
quum interim nulla calamitate victus Correus, excedere
preelio, ſylvaſque petere, aut, invitantibus noſtris ad
deditionem potuit adduci, quin fortiſſime prœliando,
complureſque vulnerando, cogeret elatos iracundia vic-
tores in ſe tela conjicere.
XVII. Tali modo re geſtà: recentibus prœlii veſtigiis
ingreſſus Cæſar; quum victos tanta calamitate exiſti-
maret hoſtes, nuncio accepto, locum caftrorum relictu-
ros; quæ non longius ab ea cæde abeſſe plas minùs viie
millibus paſſuum dicebantur: tametſi flumine impedi-
tum tranſitum videbat, tamen, exercitu tranſducto, pro-
greditur. At Bellovaci, reliquzque civitates; repente
ex fugã paucis, atque his vulneratis, receptis, qui ſvl-
varum beneficio caſum evitaverant; omnibus adverſis.
cognità calamitate, interfecto Correo, amiito equitatu
& fortifiimis peditibus; quum adventare Romanos ex-
iſtimarent, conſilio repente cantu tubarum convocata,
tur.
XVIII. Hoc omnibus probaty confilio; Comius Atre-
bas ad eos profugit Germanos; à quibus ad id bellum
auxilia mutuatus erat; ceteri e veſtigio mittunt ad
Cæſarem legatos; petintque, 2 i pœnd fit corntent:s
boſtium, quam, fi ſine dimicatione inferre integris paſſet. pro
Jua clementia atque humanitate numquam profecto ct ilia-
turus : afliftas opes, equeſiri prœlio, Bellxyacorum eſſe * de-
leckorum peditum multa millia interiiſſe : vix refugife nun-
A
J- ciot cædis. Tamen magnum, ut in tantd calamitate, DBells-
& vaeos e prœlio commodum effe conſecutos; quod Correus, auc-
n- tor belli, concitator multitudinis, et intenfectus: numquam
r- enim Senatum tantum in civitate, illo vivo, quantum im pe-
Us ritam plebem, poturſſe, Hec orantibus legatis, comme-
le- morat Cæſar; eodem tempore, ſuperiore anno, Bellowacts
zue ceteraſpue Gallize civitates ſaſcepifſe bellum : pertinaciſſim?
am ex omnibus in ſententid fermanſiſ}e, neque ad ſanitateau
reliquorum deditione eſſe perdados: ſcire atque intelligere
Je, cauſam peccati facfllimè mortuis delegari : neminem wer?
lantum pollere, ut, invitis principibus, refiflente ſenotu, om-
nous bonis repugnantibus, infirms manu plebis bellum conci-
2 tare
conclamant, ut legati obſideſque ad Cæſarem mittar -
, 272 A.1H12.2 1:1
fare & gerere paſſet: ſed tamen ſe contentum fore ed pœna,
guam fibi ipſi contraxigent. | |
XIX. Nocte inſequenti, legati reſponſa ad ſuos refe.
runt; obſides conficiunt. Concurrunt reliquarum civi-
tatum legati, quæ Bellovacorum ſpeculabantur even-
tum: obtides dant; imperata faciunt : excepto Comio;
uem timor cohibebat cujuſquam fidei ſuam committere
ſalutem. Nam ſuperiore anno T'. Labienus, Cæſare in
Gallia citeriore jus dicente; quum Comium comperiſſet
ſollicitare civitates, & conjurationem contra Cæſarem
facere; infidelitatem ejus fine ulla perfidia judicavit
comprimi poſſe ; quem quia non arbitrabatur vocatum
in caſira venturum ; ne tentando cautiorem faceret, C,
Voluſenum Quadratum miſit, qui eum, per ſimulatio-
nem colloquii, curaret interficiendum. Ad eam rem
delectos idoneos ei tranſdidit centuriones. Quum in
colloquium ventum eſſet; &, ut convenerat, manum
Comii Voluſenus arripuiſſet; & centurio, velut inſueta
re permotus, vellet hominem conficere; celeriter a fa-
miliaribus prohibitus Comii, non potuit: graviter tamen
primo ictu gladio caput percuſſit. Quum utrimque
gladii diſtridti eſſent, non tam pugnandi quam diffugi-
endi fuit utrorumque conſilium; noſtrorum, quod mor-
tifero vulnere Comium credebant affectum; Gallorum,
quòd, inſidiis cognitis, plura, quam viderant, extimeſce-
bant. Quo facto; ſtatuiſſe Comius dicebatur nunquam
in conipectu cujuſquam Romani venire.
_ XX. Bellicoſiſſimis gentibus devictis, Cæſar; quum
videret nullam jam eſſe civitatem, quæ bellum para-
ret, quo ſibi reſiſleret; ſed nonnullos ex oppidis de-
migrare, ex agris diffugere, ad præſehs imperium evi-
tandum: plures in partes exercitum dimittere conſii
tuit. M. Antonium quaſtorem, cum legione x1, ſibi
corjungit. C. Fabium legatum, cum cohortibus xx),
mittit in diverſiſſimam partem Galliæ: quod ibi quaſ-
dam civitates in armis eſſe audiebat; neque C. Ca-
ninium Rebilum legatum, qui illis regionibus przerat,
ſatis firmas 11 legiones habere exiſtimabat, L. Labic-
num ad fe evocat: legionemque x11, quz cum ed
fuerat in hybernis, in Togatam Galliam miitit, ” c0-
0014s
ve BeLLo GaLLico Lis. VIII. 173
lonias civium Romanorum tuendas; ne quod ſimile in-
commodum accideret decurſione barbarorum, ac ſu-
periore æſtate Tergeſtinis accidiſſet, qui repentino la-
trocinio- atque impetu eorum erant oppreſſi. Ipſe ad
devaſtandos depopulandoſque fines Ambiorigis proficif-
eitur: quem perterritum atque fugientem, quum redigi
ſſe in ſuam poteſtatem deſperaſſet ; proximum ſuæ
dignitati efſe ducebat, aded fines ejus vaſtare civibus,
zdificiis, pecore; ut odio ſuorum Ambiorix, fit quos
fortuna feciſſet reliquos, nullum reditum propter tantas
calamitates haberet in civitatem. Quum in omnes par-
tes finium Ambiorigis, aut legiones aut auxilia dimiſiſ-
ſet; atque omnia cædibus, incendiis, rapinis, vaſtaſſet ;
magno numero hominum interfecto aut capto: Labie-
num cum 11 legionibus in Treviros mittit; quorum ci-
yitas, propter Germaniz vicinitatem, quotidianis exer-
citata bellis, cultu & feritate non multum a Germanis
differebat ; neque imperata umquam, niſi exercitu co-
acta, faciebat. ö
XXI. Interim C. Caninius legatus; quum magnam
multitudinem conveniſſe hoſtium in fines Pictonum, litte-
ris nunciſque Duracii cognoviſſet, qui perpetuò in ami-
citia Romanorum permanſerat, quum pars quædam ci-
vitatis ejus defeciſſet; ad oppidum Limonem contendit.
Quo quum adventaret; atque ex captivis certiùs cogno-
ſceret, multis hominum millibus, Dumnaco duce Andi-
vm, Du*acium clauſum Limone oppugnari; neque infir-
mas legiones hoſtibus committere auderet; caſtra munito
loco poſuit. Dumnacus, quum appropinquare Canini-
um cognoviſſet; copiis omnihus ad legiones converſis,
caſtra Romanorum oppugnare inſtituit. Quum com-
plures dies in oppugnatione conſumpſiſſet; &, magno
luorum detrimento, nullam partem munitionum convel-
lere potuiſſet; rurſus ad obidendum Limonem redit.
XXII. Eodem tempore C. Fabius legatus complures
clvitates in fidem recepit, obſidibus firmat; litteriſque
C. Caninii certior fit, quæ in Pictonibus gerantur. Qui-
bus rebus cognitis, proficiſcitur ad auxilium Duracio
ferendum. At Dumnacus, adventu Fabii cognito; de-
ſperata ſalute, fi tempore eodem coactus eſſet & Rom
13 nu
*
174 rr
num externum ſuſtinere hoſtem, & reſpicere ac timere
oppidanos; repentè eo ex loco cum copiis recedit:
dec fe ſatis tutum fore arbitratur, niſi flumen Ligerim,
quod erat ponte propter magnitudinem tranſeundum,
copias tranſduxiſſet. Fabius, etſi nondum in conſpectu
venerat hoſtibus, neque ſe cum Caninio conjunxerat;
tamen, doctus ab 1is, qui locorum noverant naturam,
potiſſimùm credidit, hoſtes perterritos eum locum, quem
pete bant, petituros. Itaque cum copiis ad eundem pon-
tem contendit; equitatumque tantum procedere ante
agmen imperat legionum, quantum quum proceſliſſet,
une de fatigatione equorum in eadem ſe reciperet caſtra.
Conſequuntur equites noſtri, ut erat præceptum; inva-
dantque Dumnaci agmen: & fugientes perterritoſque
ſub ſareinis in itinere aggreſſi; magna preda, multis
interfectis, potiuntur, Ita re bene gefla, ſe recipiunt in
caſtra. |
XXIII. Inſequenti note Fabius equites præmittit, fic
paratos, ut confligerent, atque omne agmen moraren-
tur, dum conſequeretur ipſe. Cajus præceptis ut res
gereretur, Q. Atius Varus, præfectus equitum, fingula-
ris & animi & prudentiz vir, ſuos hortatur; agmenque
hoſtium conſecutus, turmas partim idoneis Jocis dil-
ponit, partim equitum prœlium committit. Con ſiſtit
audaciùs equitatus hoſtium, ſuccedentibus ſibi pediti-
bus; qui toto agmine ſubſiſtentes, equitibus ſuis con-
tra noſtros ferunt auxilium. Fit prœlium 2 certa-
mine. Namque noſtri, contemptis pridie ſuperatis hoſ-
tibus; quum ſubſequi legiones meminiſſent; & pudore
cedendi, & cupicitate celerins per ſe conſiciendi prœlii,
fortiſumè contra pedites prœliantur: hoſteſque, nibil
amplius copiarum acceſſurum credentes, ut pridie cog-
noverant; delendi equitatiis noſtri nacti occaſionem vi-
debantur. Quum aliquamdiu ſumma contentione dimi—
caretur; Dumnacus inſtruit aciem, quæ ſuis eſſet equi-
tibus invicem præſidio. Tum repente confertæ legiones
in conſpectu hoſtium veniunt. Quibus vifi:, perculiz
barbarorum turmæ, ac perterritæ acies hoſtium, pertur-
bato impedimentorum agmine, magno cla more diſ-
cursũque paſſim fugæ ſe mandant. At noſtri equites,
4 | (ul
*
' pe BELILO Gartico Lis. VIII. 175
qui paullo ante cum refiftentibus fortiſſimè conflixerant;
Iztitia victoriæ elati, magno undique clamore ſublato,
cedentibus circumfuſi; quantum equorum vires ad per-
ſequendum, dextræque ad cedendum valent; tantum
eo prœlio interficiunt. Itaque amplius millibus x11
aut armatorum, aut eorum qui timore arma projece-
rant, interfectis; omnis multitudo capitur impedimen-
torum.
XXIV. Qua ex fuga, quum conſtaret Drapetem Se-
nonem, (qui, ut primùm defecerat Gallia, collectis un-
dique perditis hominibus, ſervis ad libertatem vocatis,
exulibus omnium civitatum accitis, receptis latronibus,
impedimenta & commeatus Romanorum interceperat)
non amplius hominum v millibus ex faga collectis,
Provinciam petere: unaque conſilium cum eo Luterium
Cadurcum cepifſe: quem in ſuperiore Commentario,
prima defectione Galliz, facere in Provinciam impetum
voluiſſe cognitum eſt: Caninius legatus, cum legionibus
11, ad eos perſequendos contendit; ne de timore aut
detrimento Provinciz, magna infamia, perditorum ho-
minum latrociniis, caperetur.
XXV. C. Fabius cum reliquo exercitu, in Carnutes
reliquaſque proficiſcitur civitates; quarum eo prœlio,
quod cum Dumnaco fecerat, copias eſſe acciſas chat.
Non enim dubitabat, quin recenti calamitate ſubmiſſio-
res eſſent futur: dato vero ſpatio ac tempore, eodem
inſtante Dumnaco, poſſent concitari. Qua in re, ſumma
felicitas celeritaſque in recipiendis civitatibus Fabium
conſequitur. Nam Carnutes, qui, ſæpe vexati, num-
quam pacis fecerant mentionem ; datis obſedibus, veni-
unt in deditionem ; cæteræque civitates poſitæ in ulti-
mis Galliz finibus, Oceano conjunctæ, que Armoricæ
appellantur; auctoritate adductæ Carnutum, adventu
Fabii legionamque, imperata fine mori faciunt. Dum-
nacus ſuis finibus expulſus, errans, latitänſque, ſolus
extremas Galliz regiones petere coactus eſt.
XXVI. At Drapes unique Luterius, quum legiones
Caniniümque adeſſe cognoſcerent; nec ſe fine cert
pernicie, perſequente exercitu, putarent Provinciz fines
intrare poſſe; nec jam liberam vagandi latrocinandique
T5 facul-
176 " 98 © 47 07 hed
facultatem haberent: conſiſtunt in agris Cadurcorum,
Ibi quum Luterius apud ſuos cives quondam, integris
rebus, multum potuiſſet; ſemperque autor novorum
conſiliorum, magnam apud barbaros auctoritatem habe-
ret; oppidum 6 quod in clientelà fuerat
ejus, natura loci egreg;e munitum, occupat fuis & Dra-
petis copiis, oppidanoſque ſibi conjungit.
XXVII. Quo quum confeſtim C. Caninius veniſſet;
animadverte!etque omnes oppidi partes præruptiſſimis
ſaxis eſſe munitas, quo, defendente nullo, tamen ar-
matis aſcendere eſſet difficile; magna autem impe-
dimenta oppid anorum videret, quæ, ſi clandeſtina fuga.
ſubtrahere conarentur, effugere non modò equitatum,
ſed ne legiones quidem poſſent: tripartitò cohortibus
diviſis, trina excelſiſſimo loco caſtra fecit; a quibus
paullatim, quantum copiæ patiebantur, vallum in op-
pidi eircuitu ducere inſtituit. Quod quum animadver-
terent oppidani; miſerrim due Aleſiæ memoria ſolliciti,
fimilem caſum obſeſſionis vererentur; maximeque ex
omnibus Luterius, qui fortunz illius perieulum fecerat,
moneret rationem frumenti eſſe habendam : conſti-
tuunt omnium conſenſu, parte ibi relictà copiarum, ipſi
cum expeditis ad importandum frumentum proficiſci.
Eo conſilio probato; proxima nocte, 11 millibus ar-
matorum reliftis, reliquos ex oppido Drapes & Lute-
rius educunt: ii, paucos dies morati; ex finibus Cadur-
corum (qui partim re frumentarià ſublevare eos cupis-
bant; partim prohibere, quo mindùs ſumerent, non po-
terant) magnum numerum frumenti comparant : non-
numquam autem expeditionibus nocturnis caſtella noſ-
trorum adoriuntur; quam ob cauſſam C. Caninius toto
oppido munitiores circumdare moratur; ne aut opus
effectum tueri non poſſit, aut plurimis in locjs infirma
diſponat præſidia.
XXVIII. Magna copia frumenti comparata ; conli-
dunt Drapes & Luterius non longius ab oppido x mil-
libus paſluum, unde paullatim frumentum in oppidum
ſupportarent. Ipſi inter ſe provincias partiuntur. Dra-
pes caſtris præſidio cum parte copiarum reſtitit ; Lute-
rius agmen jumentorum ad oppidum adducit, W
tis
D
pet BZILIO GaLltico Lis, VII. 177
ſitis ibi præſidiis; hora noctis circiter x, ſylveſtribus
anguſtiſque itineribus frumentum importare in oppidum
inſſituit: quorum ſtre pitum vigiles caſtrorum quum ſen-
ſilent ; exploratoreſque miili, quæ agerentur, renun-
ciaſſent; Caninius celeriter cum cohortibus armatis ex
proximis caftel!is, in framentarios ſub ipſam lucem im-
petum fecit. li, repentino malo perterriti, diffagiont
ad ſua præſidia: quæ noſtri ut viderunt; acriùs contra
armatos incitati, neminem ex eo numero vivum capi
patiuntur. Effugit indè cum paucis Luterius, nec ſe
recipit in caſtra. |
XXIX. Re bene geſta ; Caninius ex captivis compe-
rit, partem copiarum cum Drapete eſſe in caftris a mil-
libus non amplius x. , Qua re ex compluribas cognità:
quum intelligeret, fugato duce altero, perterritos reli-
quos facile opprimi poſſe; magnæ felicitatis eſſe arbi-
trabatur, neminem ex cæde refugiſſe in caſtra, qui de
accepta calamitate nuncium Drapeti perferret. Sed,
quum in experiundo periculum nullum videret; equi-
tatum omnem, Germanoſque pedites, ſum mæ velocita-
tis omnes, ad caſtra hoſtium præmittit: ipſe legionem
unam in trina caſtra diſtribuit; alteram 45 expedi-
tam ducit. Quum propiùs hoſtem acceſſiſſet: ab ex-
ploratoribus, quos præmiſerat, cognoſcit; caſtra eorum,
ut barbarorum fert conſuetudo, relictis locis ſuperiori-
bus, ad ripas flumipis eſſe demiſſa; at Germanos,
equiteſque, imprudertibus omnibus, de improviſo advo-
lafle, & prœlium commiſiſſe. Qua re cognia ; legio-
nem armatam inſtructamque adducit. Ita, repente, om-
nibus ex partibus ſigno dato, loca ſuperiora capiuntur.
Cod ubi accidit; Ger mani, equitéſque, ſignis legionis
viſis, vehementiſſimè prœliantur. Confeſtim omnes
cohortes undique impetum faciunt, Omnibus aut inter-
feclis aut captis; magna prada potiuntur. Capitur
ipſe eo prœlio Drapes. ; 3
XXX, Caninius, feliciſſimè re geſtà, ſine ullo pens
militis vulnere; ad obſidendos oppidanos revertitur.
Extern6que hoſe deleto ; cujus timore augere præſidia,
& munitione oppidanos circumdare prohibitus erat ;
opera undique imperat adminiilrari. Venit eddem cum
I 5 tuis
178 &. M327 1:1
ſuis copiis poſtero die C. Fabius; partemque oppidi
ſumit ad obſidendum.
XXXI. Cæſar interim M. Antonium quæſtorem, cum
cohortibus xv, in Bellovacis reliquit; ne qua rurſus
novorum conſiliorum capiendorum Belgis facultas da-
retur. Ipſe reliquas civitates adit: obſides plures im-
perat: timentes omnium animos conſolatione ſanat.
Quum in Carnutes veniſſet; quorum in civitate, ſupe-
riore Commentario, Cæſar expoſuit initium belli eſſe
ortum: quòd præcipuè eos, propter conſcientiam facti,
timere animadvertebat ; quo celeriùs civitatem meta li-
beraret, principem ſceleris ipſius & concitatorem belli
Guturvatum ad ſupplicium depoſcit: qui, etſi ne civi-
bus quidem ſuis ſe committebat; tamen celeriter, 6m-
nium cura quæſitus, in caſtra perducitur. . Cogitur in
ejus ſupplicium Cæſar contra naturam ſuam, maximo
militum concurſu; qui omnia pericula & detrimenta
belli, Guturvato accepta referebant; adeò ut verberibus
exanimatum corpus ſecuri feriretur.
XXXII. Ibi crebris literis Caninii fit certior, quæ de
Drapete & Luterio geſta eſſent; qu6que in conſilio
permanerent oppidani. Quorum etſi paucitatem con-
temnebat, tamen pertinaciam magna pcena eſſe affici-
endam judicabat ; ne univerſa Gallia non vires ſibi
defuilie ad reſiſtendum Romanis, ſed conſtantiam, pu-
taret; neve hoc exemplo cæteræ civitates, locorum op-
portunitate fretæ, ſe vindicarent in libertatem; quum
omnibus Gallis notum efle ſciret, reliquam eſſe unam
eſtatem ſuæ provinciæ; quam f ſuſhnere potuiſſent,
nullum ultra periculum vererentur. Itaque Q. Cale-
rum legatum cum legionibus 11 relinquit, qui juſtis iti-
neribus ſe ſubſequeretur: ipſe cum omni equitatu, quam
teſt ceierrime, ad Caninium contendit.
XXXIII. Quum, contra exſpectationem omnium, Cz-
far Uxellodunum veniſſet, oppicumque operibus clau-
{um animadverteret, neque ab oppugnatione recedi vi-
deret ulla conditione poſſe ; magna autem copia ffu-
menti abundare oppidanos, ex perfugis cognoviſſet;
aqua prohibere hoſtem tentare cœpit. Flumen infimam
vallem dividebat, quæ penè totum montem cingebat,
. in
9
pz BELLO GATLIco Lin. VIII. 179
in quo poſitum erat præruptum undique oppidum Ux-
ellodunum. Hoe avertere loci natura prehibebat ; fic
enim imis radicibus montis ferebatur, ut nullam in
partem, depreſſis foſſis, derivari poſſet. Erat autem
oppidanis diſſicilis & præruptus eò deſcenſus; ut, pro-
hibentibus noſtris, fine vulneribus ac periculo vitæ ne-
que adire flumen, neque arduo ſe recipere poſſent
aſcenſu. Qua difficultate eorum cognita ; Ceſar, ſagit-
tariis funditoribaſque diſpoſitis, tormentis etiam qui-
buſdam locis contra facillimos deſcerſus collocatis
aqua fluminis prohibebat oppidanos; quoram omnis
poſtea multitudo aquatum unum in locum conveniebat
ſub ipſius oppidi murum, ubi magnus fons prorumpe-
bat ab ea- parte, quæ, fetè pedum cce intervallo, flue
minis circuitu vacabat. Hoc fonte prohiberi poſſe op-
pidanos quum optarent reliqui, Cæſar unus videret;
non fine mag no periculo, © 1&gione ejus vineas agere
adversùs montem, & aggeres {iruere cœpit; magno cum
labore, & contineũ dimicatione. Oppidani enim loco
ſuperiore deewefentes,. fine peiiculo prœliabantur: mul-
toique pertinaciter {uccedentes vulnerabant; ut tamen
non deterrerentur milites noſtri vineas proferre, & la-
bore atque operibus locorum vincere diſficultates. Eo-
dem tempore tectos cuniculos, ab aggere & vineis
agunt ad caput fontis: quod genus operis ſine ullo
periculo, & ſine ſuſpicione hoſtium facere licebat.
Exftruitur agger in altitudinem pedum Lx: collocatur
in eo turris x tabulatorum; non quidem quz maenir
bus #quaretur, (id enim nullis operibus effici poterat)
ſed quæ ſuperaret fontis faſtigium. Ex ea quum tela
tormentis jacerentur ad fontis aditus ; nec fine pericelo
poſſent adaquari oppicani; non tantùm pecora atque
jumenta, fed etiam magna hominum multitudo ſiti con-
ſumebatur. ;
XXXIV. Quo malo perterriti oppidani; cupas ſevo,
pice, ſcandulis complent : eas ardentes in opera pro-
volvunt, Eodem tempore acerrimè prœliantur, ut ab
incendio reſtinguendo dimicatione & periculo deter-
reant Romanos, Magna repente in ipſis operibus flam-
ma exliſtit ; quæcunque enim per locum PROS
| m
180 A. HIATII
miſſa erant; ea, vineis & aggere ſuppreſſa, comprehen-
debant id ipſum, quod *. wack Milites contra noſtri,
quanquem periculoſo genere prœlii, loc6que iniquo pre-
mebantur ; tamen omnia paratiſſimo ſuſtinebant animo.
Res enim gerebatur & excelſo loco, & in conſpectu ex-
ercitus noſtri; magnuſque N clamor oriebatur:
ita, quam quiſque poterat maxime inſignis, quò notior
te ſtatiorque virtus ejus eſſet, telis hoſtium flammæque ſe
offerebat. | |
XXXV. Cæſar, quum complures ſuos vulnerari vide-
ret; ex omnibus oppidi partibus cohortes montem aſcen-
dere, &, ſimulatione menium occupandorum clamorem
undique jubet tollere, Quo facto perterriti oppidani ;
quum, quid ageretur in locis reliquis, efſent ignari;
revocant ab impugnandis operibus armatos, muriſque
diſponunt. Ita noftri, fine prœlio facto, celeriter opera
flamma comprehenſa partim reſtinguunt, partim inter-
ſeindunt. Quum pertinaciter reſiſterent oppidani ; &,
jam magna parte ſuorum fiti amiſsa, in ſententia perma-
nerent ; ad poſtremum cuniculis venæ fontis interciſæ
ſunt atque averſz. Quo facto repente fons perennis ex-
hauſtus, tantam attulit oppidanis falutis —
ut id non hominum confilio, ſed Deorum voluntate fac-
tum putarent. Itaque neceſſitate coaQi, ſe tranſdiderunt.
* XXXVI. Cæſar, quum ſuam lenitatem cognitam
omnibus ſciret; neque vereretur, ne quid r ee
naturæ videretur aſperius feciſſe; neque exitum conſilio-
rum ſuorum animadverteret, 6 tali ratione diverſis in
locis plures rebellare cœpiſſent: exemplo ſopplicii de-
terrendos reliquos exiſtimavit. Itaque omnibus, qui
arma tulerant, manus præcidit: vitam conceſſit; quo
teſtatior eſſet pœna improborum. Drapes, quem cap-
tum efle a Caninio docui; five indignatione & dolore
viaculorum, five timore gravioris ſupplicii, paucis die-
bus ſeſe cibo abſtinuit, atque ita interiit. Eodem
tempore Luterius, quem profugiſſe ex prœlio ſcriph;
quum in poteſtatem veniſſet EpafnaQti Arverni, (ere-
brd enim matandis locis, multorum fidei ſe* committe-
bat: quod nuſquam diutius fine periculo commoratus
videbatur, quum ſibi conſcius eſfet, "quam —_—
| debetet
—
= £ ER > and eo. eo.
p2 BELIO Garrreo Lis. VIII. 181
deberet Czfarem. habere) hunc Epaſnactus Arvernus,
amiciſſimus populi Romani, fine dubitatione ulla vinc-
tum ad Cæſarem duxit. - | 1 ; |;
XXXVII. Labienus interim in Treviris equeſtre proz-
lium ſecundum facit: compluribuſque' Treviris interfec-
tis, & Germanis, qui nulli- adversus Romanos auxiha
denegabant; principes eorum vivos in ſuam redegit
poteſtatem; atque in iis Sarum Æduum; qui & virtu-
tis & generis ſummam nobilitatem habebat, ſoluſque
ex ÆEduis ad id tempus permanſerat in armis. Ea re
cognita, Cæſar; quum in omnibus partibas Galliæ be.
ne res geſtas videret; judicarẽtque, ſuperioribus æſti-
vis Galliam devictam & ſubactam eſſe; Aquitaniam
nunquam ipſe adiſſet, ſed per P. Craſſum quadam ex
parte deviciſſet: cum 11 legionibus in eam partem eſt
profectus, ubi extremum tempus conſumeret æſtivorum:
quam rem, ficut cetera, celeriter feJiciterque confecit ;
namque omnes Aquitaniz. civitates legatos ad eum
miſerunt, obſideſque ei dederunt. Quibus rebus geſtis,
ipſe cum equitum præſidio -Narbonem profectus eſt:
exercitum per legatos in -hyberna deduzit; iy legio-
nes in Belgio collocavit, cum M. An enn, W C. Tre -
bonio & P. Vatinio & Q. Tullio legatis s duas in -
duos miſit, quorum in omni Gallia ſummam eſſe anc-
toritatem ſciebat: 11 in Turonis ad fines Carnutum
poſuit, quæ omnem regionem conjunctam Oceano
continerent: 11 reliquas in Lemovicum finibus non
longe ab Arvernis, ne qua pars Galliæ vacua ab exer
city eſſet. Paucos dies ipſe in —
quum celeriter omnes conventus percucurriſſet,
cas controverſias cognoviſſet, bene meritis præmia tri-
buiſſet; (cognoſcendi enim maxipam facultatem habe-
bat, quali quiſque animo in rempublicam fuiſſet to-
tius Galliæ defectione, quam ſuſtinuerat fidelitate at-
que auxiliis provineiæ illius) his rebus confeQtis, ad
legiones in Belgium ſe recipit ; hybernätque Neme-
tocennæ. |
XXX VIII. Ibi cognoſcit Comium Atrebatem prœlio
cum equitatu ſuo contendiſſe. Nam quum Antonius
F
in hyberna veniſſet, civitaſque Atrebatum in officio
maneret;
182 A. HIRTII
maneret; Comius, qui poſt illam vulnerationem, quam
ſupra commemoravimus, ſemper ad omnes motus para-
tus ſuis civibus eſſe conſueſſet; ne eonſilia belli quæren-
tibus auctor armorum duxque deeſſet; parente Romanis
civitate, cum ſuis equitibus fe ſuoſque latrociniis alebat;
infeſtiſque itineribus commeatus complures, qui com-
rtabantur in hyberna Romanorum, intercipie bat.
XXXIX. Erat attributus Antonio præfectus equitum
C. Voluſenus Quadratus ; qui cum eo hyemaret. Hunc
Antonius ad perſequendum equitatum hoſtium mittit.
Voluſenus autem ad eam virtutem, quz fingularis in
eo erat, magnum odium Comii adjungebat; quo li-
bentiùs id faceret, quod imperabatur. Itaque, diſpo -
fitis infidiis, ſæpiùs ejus equites aggreſſus, ſecunda
preelia faciebat. Noviflime, quum vehementiùs con-
tenderetur : ac Voluſenus, ipſius intercipiendi Comii
cupiditate, pertinaciùs eum cum paucis inſecutus eſſet;
ille autem fuga vehementi Voluſenum produxiſſet lon-
giùs: repentè omnium ſuorum invocat fidem atque aux-
ilium, ne ſua vulnera, per ſidem impoſita, paterentur
inulta: converſ6que equo, fe à cæteris incautiùs per-
mittit in præfectum. Faciunt idem omnes ejus equi-
tes: paucoſque noſtros convertunt atque inſequuntur.
Comius incenſum calcaribus equum jungit equo Qua-
drati; lanceaque infeſta medium femur ejus mag nis
viribus trans jicit. Præfecto vulnerato; non dubitant
noſtri reſiſtere, & converſi hoſtem pellere. Quod ubi
accidit; complures hoſtium, magno noſtrorum impetu
pulſi, vulnerantur; & pariim in fuga proteruntur, par-
tim intereipiuntur. Quod ubi malum dux, equi velo-
citate, evitavit; graviter vulneratus præſectus, ut vitz
periculom aditurus videretur, refertur in caſtra. Co-
mius autem; five expiato ſuo dolore, five magna parte
amiſsa ſuorum : legatos ad Antonium mittit, ſeque &
ibi futurum ubi præſcripſerit, & ea ſacturum quæ impe-
raverit, obſidibus datis firmat: unum illud orat, ut ti-
mori ſuo concedatur, ne in conſpectum veniat cujuſquam
Romani. Quam poſtulationem Antonius, quum judica-
ret ab juſto naſci timore, veniam petenti dedit; obſides
accepit. :
clio
DB BeLLo Gartico Lis. VIII. 183
Scio Cæſarem ſingulorum annorum fin Com -
mentarios confeciſſe: quod ego non exiſtimavi mihi
eſſe faciendum ; propterea quod inſequens annus L.
Paullo, C. Marcello Conſulibus, nullas habet Galliz
magnopere res geſtas. Ne quis tamen ignoraret, qui-
bus in locis Cæſar exercitüſque eo tempore fuiſſent;
pauca ſcribenda, conjungendaque huic Commentario
ſtatui. |
XL. Cæſar quum in Belgio hyemaret, unum, illud
propoſitum habebat; continere in amicitia civitates,
nulli ſpem aut cauſam dare armorum : nihil enim minus
volebat, quam ſub deceſſum ſuum neceſſitatem ſibi ali-
quam imponi belli gerendi; ne, quum exercitum de-
ducturus eſſet, bellum aliquod relinqueretur, quod om-
nis Gallia libenter fine præſenti periculo ſuſciperet. Ita -
que, honorifice civitates appellando, principes maximis
præmiis afficiendo, nulla onera nova imponendo, defeſ-
{am tot adverſis præliis Galliam, conditione parendi
meliore, facile in pace continuit.
XLI. Ipſe, hybernis peractis, contra conſuetudinem,
in Italiam quam maximis itineribus eſt profectus; ut
municipia & colonias appellaret, quibus M. Antonii
quæſtoris fui commendaret ſacerdotii petitionem: con-
tendebat enim gratia, cum libenter pro homine ſibi
conjunctiſſimo, quem paulld ante præmiſerat ad peti-
tionem 3 tum acriter contra factionem & potentiam
paucorum, qui, M. Antonii repulsa, Cæſaris deceden-
tis convellere gratiam cupiebant. Hunc etſi augurem
prids factum, quam Italiam attingeret, in itinere au-
dierat; tamen non minds juſtam ſibi cauſam municipia
& colonias adeundi exiſtimavit, ut is gratias ageret,
quòd frequentiam atque officium ſuum Antonio præſti-
tient : ſimülque ſe & honorem ſuum in inſequentis
anni commendaret petitione; propterea quòd inſolenter
adrerſarii ſui gloriarentur, L. Lentulum & C. Marcel-
lum Conſules creatos, qui omnem honorem & dignita-
tem Cæſaris exſpoliarent; ereptum Ser. Galbæ conſu-
latum, quum is multo plus gratia ſuffragiiſque valuiſſet,
quòd ſibi conjunctus & familiaritate & neceflitudine le-
Zationis eſſet. |
mm A HirzrTi1'r
ſalubritatem exiſtimabat. Ibi quamquam crebrò avdi-
proximo anno, quum impugnaret Cæſaris dignitatem ;
XLII. Exceptus eſt Cæſaris adventus ab omnibus
municipiis & coloniis, incredibili honore atque amote:
tum primùm enim veniebat ab illo univerſe Galliz
bello. Nihil relinquebatur, quod ad ornatum porta.
rum, itinerum, locorümque omnium, qua Cæſar iturus
erat, excogitari poſſet. Cum liberis omnis multitudo
obviam procedebat : hoſtiæ omnibus locis immolaban.
tur: tricliniis ſtratis fora templaque occupabantur ; ut
vel exſpectatiſſimi triumphi Iztitia præcipi poſſet. Tan.
ta erat magnificentia apud opulentiores, cupiditas apud
humiliores. | | '
XLIII. Quum omnes regiones Galliæ Togatz Czar
percucurriſſet, ſumma ' celeritate ad exercitum Neme-.
tocennam rediit; legionibuſque ex omnibus hybernis
ad fines Trevirorum evocatis, ed profectus eſt, ibique
exercitum luſtravit. T. Labienum Galliz Togatz prz-
fecit, quo majore commendatione conciliaretur ad
conſulatũs petitionem, Ipſe tantum itinerum faciebat,
quantum ſatis eſſe ad mutationem locorum propter
ebat, Labienum ab inimicis ſuis ſollicitari: certiorque
fiebat, id agi paucorum conſiliis, ut, interpoſita fenatis
auRoritate, aliqua parte exercitũs ſpoliaretur : tamen
neque de Labieno credidit quidquam; neque contra
ſenatũs auctor itatem, ut aliquid faceret, potuit adduci.
Judicabat enim, liberis ſententiis Patrum Conſcriptorum
cauſam ſuam facile obtineri. Nam C. Curio vibunus
plebis, quyum Cæſaris cauſam dipnitatemque deteicen-
dam ſuſce piſſet, ſæpe erat ſenatui pollicitus; A quem li-
mor armorum Cæſaris læderet, & quoniam Pompeii domi- in
natio atgue arma non minimum terrorem foro inferrent; er
diſcederet uterque ab armis, exercitu/gue dimitteret fore eo ta
pacto liberam, & ſui juris civitatem. Neque hoc tantum Þ
2
pollicitus eſt; ſed etiam per ſe ſenatũs diſceſſionem ſa-
cere cœpit: quod ne fieret, conſules amicique Pumpen
interceſſerunt: atque, ita rem moderando, diſceſſerunt.
XLIV. Magnum hoc teſtimoniom ſenatũs erat uni-
verſi; convenienſque fuperior: facto. Nam Marcellus,
contra legem Pompeii & Craſſi, retulerat ante *
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ve BrILO GAILIco Lis. VIII. 185
ad ſenatum de Cæſaris provinciis: ſententiiſque diftis ;
diſceſſionem faciente Marcello, qui fibi omnem dignita-
tem ex Cæſaris invidia quærebat; ſenatus frequens in
alia omnia tranſit. Quibus non frangebantur animi
inimicorum Cæſaris; ſed admonebantur, quò majores
pararent neceſſitudines, quibus cogi poſſet ſenatus id
probare, quod ipſi conſtituiſſent.
XLV. Fit deinde S8. C. ut ad bellum Parthicum legio
una à Cn. Pompeio, altera a C. Cæſare mitteretur.
Neque obſcurè hæ duæ legiones uni Cæſari detrahun-
tur. Nam Cn. Pompeius legionem primam, quam ad
Cæſarem miſerat, confectam ex delectu provinciæ Cæ-
ſaris; tamquam ex ſuo numero, dedit. Cæſar tamen,
quum de voluntate adverſariorum ſuorum nemini du-
bium eſſet, Cn. Pompeio legionem remiſit; & ex ſuo
numero decimam quintam, quam in Ga'lia citeriore
habuerat, ex ſenatiiſconſulto jubet tranſdi. In ejus
locum x111 legionem in Italiam mittit, quæ præſidia
tueretur, ex quibus præſidiis decima quinta deduceba-
tur: ipſe exercitum diſtribuit per hyberna; C. Trebo-
nium, cum legionibus 1v, in Belgio collocat; C. Fabi-
um, cum totidem, in ZEduos deducit. Sic enim ex-
iſtimabat tutiſſimam fore Galliam: fi Belgæ, quorum
maxima virtus; & Adui, quorum auctoritas ſumma
eſſet; exercitibus continerentur. 31
XLVI. Ipſe in Italiam profectus eſt. Quò quum ve-
niſſet; cognoſcit, per C. Marcellum conſulem legiones
11, ab fe remiſſas, quæ ex ſenatũſconſulto deberent ad
Parthicum bellum duci, Cn. Pompeio tranſditas atque
in Italia retentas eſſe. H6c facto; quamquam nulli
erat dubium, quin arma contra Cæſarem pararentur;
tamen Cæſar omnia patienda eſſe ſtatuit, quoad fibs.
{pes aliqua relinqueretur jure potiùs diſceptandi, quam
belli gerendi. 1
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KW IT7Tzx 1s [a Fabio] C. Cæſaris, conſulibusred.
ditis; — ab jis impetratum eſt, ſumma tribu-
norum plebis contentione, ut in ſenatu recitaren -
tur: ut vero ex litteris ad ſenatum referretur, impetrari
non” potuit. Referunt conſules de rep. {in civitate)
L. Lentalus conſul /enatii reigue publica ſe nou defutr-
— —— 1 —— ac fortiter ſententias dicrre ve-
nt © rem re/piciant, atque ej pratiam ſeguantur,
, fuperioribus fecerint — he 72 — captu-·
gum, neque ſenatũs auctoritati obtemperaturum : habere /t
quegue ad. Caſaris gratiam argue amicitiam receptum. In-
eandem ſententiam loquitur Scipio: Pompeio ft in ani-
mo, reipub. non derfſe, fi ſenatus ſequatur : fin cunctetur ;
atque agat lenins; nequidguam tjus auxilium, ft poſtea vb.
lit, ſenatum imploraturum. Hæc Scipionis oratio ; qu
ſenatus in urbe habebatur, Pompeiaſque, aderat ; ex
ipſius ore Pompeii mitti videbatur. Dixerat aliqu!s
leniorem ſententiam: ut primo M. Marcellus; 2
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ſus in eam orationem, non oportere ant? de repub. ad /e-
natum referri, quam deleus totd Italia habiti, & exercitus
wellet, decernere auderet : Ut M. Calidius ; qui ceaſe
ut Pompeius in ſuas provincias proficiſceretur, ne qua efjet
armorum cauſa : timere Ce/ſarem, abreptis ab eo 11 legioni-
bus, ne ad ejus periculum reſervare & retinere eas ad urbem
Pompeius videretur : Ut M. Rufus; qui ſententiam Ca-
lidii, paucis ferè mutatis verbis, ſequebatur. Ii om-
nes, convitio L. Lentuli conſulis correpti exagitaban-
tur. Lentulus, ſententiam Calidii pronunciaturum ſe
omnjno negavit. Marcellus, perterritus convitiis, 4
ſuà fententia diſceſſit. Sic vocibus conſulis, terrore
præſentis exercitũs, minis amicorum Pompeii, plerique
compulſi; inviti & coacti, Scipionis ſententiam ſequun-
tur: Un ante certam diem Cæſar exercitum dimittat: fi
tercedunt M. Antonius, Q Caſſius, tribuni plebis. Re-
fertur confeſtim de interceſſione tribunorum: dicuntur
ſententiæ graves: ut quiſque acerbiſime crudeliſime- _
que dixit, ita quam maximè ab inimicis Cæſaris col-
laudatur. |
II. Miſſo ad veſperum ſenatu; omnes, qui ſunt ejus
ordinis, à Pompeio evocantur. Laudat promptos, at-
que in poſterum confirmat ; ſegniores caſtigat, atque
incitat. Multi undique ex veteribus Pompeu exerciti-
bus, ſpe præ miorum atque ordinum, evocantur: multi
ex duabus legionibus, qua ſunt tradite à Cæſase, ac-
cerſuntur. Completur urbs ad jus comitiorum. Tri-
bunos plebis C. Curio evocat. Omnes amici conſulom,
neceſſarii Pompeii, atque eorum, qui veteres inimici-
tias cum Cæſare gerebant ; coguntur in ſenatum: quo-
rum vocibus & concurſu, terrentur infirmiores, dubii
confirmantur, pleriſque vero liberè decernendi poteſ-
tas eripitur. Pollicetur L. Piſo Cenſor, ſeſe iturum ad
Cæſarem; item L. Roſcius prætor; qui de his rebus
zum doceant : ſex dies ad eam rem conficiendam ſpatii
poſtulant. Dicuntur etiam a nonnullis ſententiz, ut le-
gati ad Cæſarem mittantur, qui voluntatem ſenatũs ei
proponant, 9
conſeripti efſent 3 quo prefedio, tutd & libers ſenatus, go
*
non faciat, eum adverſus rempubl. facturum videri. In-
188 C. JuvuliiCasanris
III. Omnibus his reſiſtitur; omnibuſque oratio con-
ſulis, Scipionis, Catonis opponitur. Catonem veteres
inimicitiæ Cæſaris incitant, & dolor repulſæ. Lentulus
æris alieni magnitudine, & ſpe exercitis ac provincia-
rum, & regum appellandorum largitionibus movetur
ſeque alterum fore Syllam inter ſuos gloriatur, ad quem
ſumma imperii redeat. Scipionem eadem ſpes provin-
ciz atque exercituum impellit; quos ſe pro neceſſitu-
dine partiturum com Pompeio arbitratur : ſimul, judi-
ciorum metus; adulatio atque oftentatio ſui, potentium ;
qui in republica judiciiſque tum plurimum pollebant,
Ipſe Pompeius, ab inimicis Cæſaris incitatus, & quod
neminem dipnitate ſecum exequari volebat; totum fe
ab ejus amicitia averterat; & cum communibus inimicis
in gratiam redierat, quorum ipſe maximam partem illo
affinitatis tempore adjunxerat Cæſari: fimul intamia 11
legionum permotus, quas ab itinere Aſiæ Syriæque ad
ſuam potentiam dominatumque converterat, rem ad
arma deduci ſtudebat. = of
IV. His de cauſis aguntur omnia ruptim, atque tur-
bate. Neque docendi Cæſaris, propinquis ejus ſpati-
um datur. Nec tribunis plebis, fa periculi deprecandi;
neque etiam extremi juris interceſſione retinendi, quod
L. Sylla reliquerat; facultas tribuitur. Sed de ſua ſa-
lute die vii cogitare coguntur; quod illi turbulentiſſi-
mi ſuperioribus temporibus tribuni plebis, octavo de-
nique menſe ſuarum actionum reſpicere ac timere con-
ſueverant. Decurritur ad illud extremum atque ulti-
mum S. C. quo, niſi penè in ipſo urbis incendio, atque
deſperatione omnium ſalutis, latorum audacia, num-
quam ante diſceſſum eſt ; Dent operam conſules, præſores,
tribuni plebis, quique pro conſulibus ſunt ad urbem; ne quid
reſpublica detrimenti capiat. Hæc 8. C. perſcribuntur,
a. d. vii Id. Januar. Itaque v primis diebus, quibus
haberi ſenatus potuit, qua ex die conſulatum iniit Len-
tulus, biduo excepto comitiali; & de imperio Cæſaris,
& de ampliſſimis viris tribunis plebis, graviſſimè acer-
biſſimẽ que decernitur. Profugiunt ſtatim ex utbe tri-
buni plebis, ſeſẽque ad Cælarem conferunt. Is es
tempore erat Ravennæ; exſpectabätque ſuis leniſſimis
ds | potulatis
uid
ar,
205 :
ris,
tri-
1015
latis
pr BELLO CIvIII Lis. I. 789
poſlulatis reſponfa ; fi qua hominum æquitate res ad
otium deduci poſſet.
V. Proximis diebus habetur ſenatus extra urbem.
Pompeius eadem illa, quæ per Scipionem oſtenderat,
agit; ſenatis virtutem conſtantiãmque collaudat ; copias
ſuas exponit ; legiones habere ſeſe paratas x; præterea
cognitum compertùmque ſibi, alieno eſſe animo in Cæ-
ſarem milites ; neque iis poſſe perſuaderi, ut eum de-
fendant aut ſequantur. De reliquis rebus ad ſenatom
refertur : tota ut Italia delectus habeantur: Fauſtus
Sylla pro Præt. in Mauritaniam mittatur ; pecunia uti
ex zrario Pompeio detur. Refertur etiam de rege Juba,
ut ſocius fit atque amicus : Marcellus vers, paſſurum
ſe in præſentiã negat. De Fauſto, impedit Philippus
tribunus plebis. De reliquis rebus, S. C. perſeribuntur.
Provinciæ privatis decernuntur; duz conſulares, reli-
que prætoriæ. Scipioni obvenit Syria: L. Domitio,
Gallia ; Philippus & Marcellus, privato conſilio præte-
reuntur; neque eorum ſortes dejiciuntur. In reliquas
provincias prætores mittuntur : neque exſpectant, quod
ſuperioribus annis acciderat, ut de eorum imperio ad
populum referdtur ; paludatique; votis nuncupatis, ex-
eant. Conſules, quod ante id tempus acciderat num-
quam, ex urbe proficiſcuntur : lictoréſque habent in
urde & Capitolio privati, contra omnia vetnflatis ex-
empla. Tota Italia delectus habentur ; arma imperan-
tur; pecuniz a municipiis exiguntur, & è fanis tollun-
tur: omnia divina & humana jura permiſcentur.
VI. Quibus rebus cognitis, Cæſar apud milites conci-
onatur : Omnium temporum injurias inimicorum in fe com-
memorat, à guibus diductum Q depravatum Pompeium que-
ntur, invid:@ atque obtredtatione laudis ſux : cujus ipſe bo-
vori H dignitati ſemper faverit, adjutorgue fuerit. Nowum
in Rep. introductum exemplum queriter, ut tribunicia inter-
w/o armis notaretur atque opprimeretur, que ſuperioribus
annis Met reſtituta. Syllam, nudatã omnibus rebus tribu-
nicid poteſtate, tamen interceſſionem liberam reliquifſe; Pom-
perm, qui amiſſam reftituiſſe vidratur : dona etiam, =
ante hahuerat, ademiſſe. Quoticſcungue fit decretum, Da-
rat operam magiſtratus, ne quid reſpublica detrimenti
caperet
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caperet (qud voce, & gue S. C. populus Romanus ad army
wocatus) fattum in perniciofis legibus, in vi Tribunici,
in Jecefſione populi, templis lociſgue editioribys occupatis ; (at-
que hæc ioris ælatis exampla, expiata Saturnini atque
Graechorum caſibus docet) Quarum rerum illo tempore nihil
fatum, ne cogitatum quidem ; nulla lex promulgata, nin
cum populo agi ceftum, nulla ſeceſſio facta. Hortatur:
cujus Imperatoris ductu Ix annis Remp. feliciſſimè geſſerint,
plurimague prœrlia ſecunda fecerint, omnem Galliam Gerna.
niamgue pacaterint ; ut jus exiſtimationem dignitatemgqu
ab inimicis defendant. Conclamant legionis x111, que
aderat, milites; (hanc enim initio tumultùs evocaverat :
reliquz nondum convenerant) ſeſe paratos eſſe Impera-
toris ſui Tribunorùmque pl. injurias defendere.
VII. Cognita militum voluntate, Ariminum cum ea
legione proficiſcitur ; ibique Tribonos plebis, qui ad
eum confugerant, convenit : reliquas legiones ex hy-
bernis evocat, & ſubſequi jubet. Eo L. Cæſar adole-
ſcens venit: cujus pater Cæſaris erat legatus. Is, re-
liquo ſermone confecto, cujus rei causa venerat ; ha-
bere ſe à Pompeio ad eum privati officii mandata, de-
monſtrat; Yelle Pompeium /e Cæſari pur gatum; ne ea, que
reopubl. causũ egerit, in ſuam contumeliam wveriat : /emper
fe reipubl. commoda privatis neci{/itatibus habuiſſe potiora:
Cæſarem quogue, pro ſud dignitate, debere & ftuatum &
iracundiam fuam reipubl. dimittere ; neque adeo gravi'tr
iraſci inimicis : ne, quum illis no cere ſe ſperet, reipubl. nice.
at. Pauca ejuſdem generis addit, cum excuſatione
Pompeii conjuncta. Eadem fere, atque eiſdem de rebus,
prætor Roſcius agit cum Cæſare; ſibique Pompeium
commemoraſle de monſtrat. ;
VIII. Quz res etfi nihil ad levandas injurias perti-
nere videbantur; tamen idoneos nactus homines, per
quos ea, quæ vellet, ad eum perferrentur: petit ab
utroque, quoniam Pompeii mandata ad ſe detulerint,
ne graventur ſua quoque ad eum poſtulata deferre; fi
parvo labore mag nas controverſias tollere, atque om.
nem [taliam metu liberare, poſſent ; Si ſemper reirubl.
mam fuiſſe dignitatem, witaque potiorem. Dolu'fe Ve,
gudd populi R. beneficium ſibi fer contumeiiam ab inimteit
8 ; extor-
ve BeLLo Civitt Lin. I. 191
txtorqueretur 3 ereptoque Jemeftri imperio, in urbem retrabe-
retur, cujus abſentis rationem haberi proximis comitiis popu-
las juſifet « tameh hanc honoris jacturam fui, reip. causd,
quo animo tulifſe. Naum litteras ad ſenatum miſerit, ut
omnes ab exercitibus diſcederent ; ne id quidem impetravi/}s,
Teta Italia delectus haberi : retineri legiones 11, guæ ab ſe
ſanulatione Parthici belli fiat abductæ : ci vitatem efſe in
armis, Quònam hec omnia, niſi ad ſuam perniciem, perti-
nere? Sed tamen ad omnia ſe deſcendere paratum, atque
onnia pati, reipubl. causd. proficiſcatur Pompeius in ſuas
provincias : ipfi exercitus demittant : diſcedant in Italia
emnes ab armis: metus & civitate tollatur: libera comitia,
atgue omnis reſpub. Senatui populoque R. permittatur. Hec
quo facilzus, certi/que conditionibus fiant, & Jurejurando
ſanciantur ; aut ipſe propius accedat, aut /e patiatur acce-
dere : fore, ut? per colloguia omnes controverſiæ cumponan-
tur,
IX. Acceptis mandatis Roſcius cum L. Cæſare Ca-
puam pervenit, ibique conſules Pompeiamque invenit :
poſtulata Cæſaris renunciat. IIli re deliberata, reſpon-
dent; ſcriptaque ad eum mandata per eos remittunt ;
quorum hæc erat ſumma : Cz/ar in Galliam reverteretur:
Arimino excederet ; exercitus dimitteret : que fi fecifſet,
Pompeium in Hiſpanias iturum. Interea quoad fides efſet
data, Cæſarem facturum, que polliceretur ; non intermiſſuros
Confules Pompeitumgue dele us.
X. Erat iniqua conditio poſtulare, ut Cæſar Arimino
excederet, atque in provinciam reverteretur ; ipſum, &
provincias & legiones tenere alienas : exercitum Cæſa-
11s velle dimitti ; delectus habere: polliceri, ſe in pro-
ynciam iturum; neque ante quem diem iturus fit, de-
finite: ut fi, peracto Cæſaris conſulatu, Pompeius pro-
fetus non eſſet; nulla tamen mendacii religione ob-
fictus videretur. Tempus verd colloquio non dare,
deque acceſſurum pollicerĩ; magnam pacis deſperatio-
dem afferebat. Itaque ab Arimino M. Antonium, cum
odortibus v., Arretium mittit: ipſe Arimini cum 11
udſiſtit, ibique delectum habere inſtituit. Piſaurum,
Farm, Anconam, ſingulis cohortibus occupat, xr
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XI. Interea certior factus, Iguvium Thermum præ-
torem cohortibus v tenere, oppidum munire ; omni-
umque eſſe Iguvinorum optimam erga ſe voluntaten :
Curionem cum 111 cohortibus, ces Me & Arimi-
ni habebat, mittit. Cujus adventu cognito ; diffiſus
municipii voluntati Thermus, cohortes ex urbe educit,
& profugit ; milites in itinere ab eo diſcedunt, ac do.
mum revertuntur : Curio, omnium ſumma voluntate, |
Iguvium recipit. Quibus rebus cognitis ; confiſus mu-
nicipiorum voluntatibus Czlar, cohortes legionis x11
ex præſidiis deducit, Auximamque proficiſcitur ; quod
oppidum Attius, cohortibus introductis, tenebat ; de-
lectümque toto Piceno, circummiſſis ſenatoribus, habe-
bat. Adventu Cæſaris cognito, Decuriones Auximi ad
Attium Varum frequentes conveniunt; docent, ai ju4;-
eii rem non ; neque Je neque relig uos municipes pati poſſe,
C. Cæſarem imperatorem bene de Repub. meritum, tantis
rebus geſtis, oppido marnibiiſque prohiberi : proinde habeat
rationem poſteritatis, & periculi ſui, Quorum oratiore
permotus Attius Varus, præſidium quod introduxera,
ex oppido educit, & profugit. Hunc ex primo ordi-
ne pauci Czfaris. conſecuti milites, conſiſtere cogunt;
commiſioque prœlio, deſeriter a ſuis Varus: nonnuila
pars militam domum diſcedit; reliqui ad C:zfarem
perveniunt: atque una cum iis deprehenſus L. Pupius
primipili centurio adducitur, qui hunc eundem orci-
nem in exercitu Cn, Pompeii antea duxerat. At Cz:
far milites Attianos cellaudat ; Pupium dimittit; Aus-
. Imatibus agit gratias, ſeque eorum facti memorem fore
pollicetur.
XII. Quibus rebus Romam nunciatis, tantus repents
terror invaſit ; ut, quum Lentulus conſul ad aperien-
dum #rarium veniſſet, ad pecuniam Pompeio ex 8.
C. proferendam ; protinus, aperto ſanctiore ærario, ex
urbe profugeret: Cæſar enim adventare, jamjamque
adeſſe ejus equites falsd nunciabantur. Hung Marcel.
Jus collega, & plerique magiſtratus conſecuti fun,
Cn. Pompeius pridie ejus die ex urbe profectus, 1
ad legiones habebat, quas a Cæſare acceptas in pu.
lia hybernorum causa diſpoſuerat. Delectus *
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bem intermittuntur. Nihil citra Capuam tutum eſſe
omnibus videtur. Capuz primum ſeſe confirwant & |
colligunt; delectümque colonorum, qui, lege Julia Ca-
puam deducti erant, habere inſtituunt: gladiatorẽſque,
1u0s ibi Cæſar in ludo habebat, in forum productos
Laa libertati confirmat; atque iis equos attribuit,
& ſe ſequi juſſit: quos poſtea monitus à ſuis, quòd ea
res omnium judicio ®prehendebatur, circum familiares
conventus Campaniz, cultodiz causa, diſtribuit.
XIII. Auximo Cæſar progreſſus, omnem agrum Pi-
cenum percurrit. Cundiz earum regionum præfecturæ
libentiſlimis animis eum recipiunt; exercitimque ejus |
omnibus rebus juvant. Etiam Cingulo; quod oppi- |
dum Labienus conſtituerat, ſuaque pecunia exædifica- ll
verat ; ad eum legati veniunt: quæque imperaverit, ſeſe
cupidiſſimè facturos pollicentur: milites imperat; mit- |
tunt. Interea legio x11 Cæſarem conſequitur. Cum |
his 11 Aſculum Picenum proficiſcitur. Id oppidum |
Lentulus Spinther x cohortibus tenebat: qui, Cæſaris |
adventu cognito, profugit ex oppido ; cohorteſque ſe-
cum abducere conatus, a magna parte militum deſeri-
tur, Relictus in itinere cum paucis, incidit in Vibulli-
um Rufum, miſſum a Pompeio in agrum Picenum, con-
firmandorum hominum causa; a quo factus Vibullius
certior, quæ res in Piceno gererentur; milites ab eo ac-
cipit, ipſum dimittit: item ex finitimis regionibus, quas
of poteſt, contrahit cohortes ex delectibus Pompeianis: in
* üs Camerino fugientem Ulciilem Hirum, cum vi co-
Ire hortibus, quas ibi in præſidio habuerat, excipit; quibus
eoactis, x111 efficit, Cum iis ad Domitium Ahenobar-
at bum, Corfinium magnis itineribus pervenit ; Cæſarém-
en- que adeſſe cum legionibus 11 nunciat. Domitius per ſe
% cireiter xx cohortes ex Alba, ex Marſis & Pelignis, &
ex finitimis ab regionibus coegerat. |
que XIV. Recepto Aſculo, expulſoque Lentulo ; Cæſar |
cel- conquiri milites, qui ab eo diſceſſerant, delectümque N
unt. inſtitui jubet: ipſe unum diem ibi rei frumentariæ U
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causa moratus, Corfinium contendit. Eò quum ve-
niſſet; cohortes v, premiſſe a Domitio ex oppido,
pontem fluminis interrumpebant ; qui erat ab oppida,
"i millia
repulſi ſe in oppidum receperunt. Czfar, Iegioniby;
am peritos regionum magno propoſito præmio cum lit.
194 C. Jr II CasaRis
millia paſſuum circiter 111, Ibi cum antecurſoribos
Cæſaris prœlio commiſſo, celeriter Domitiani a ponte
tranſductis, ad oppidum conſtitit; juxtaque murum
caſtra poſuit.
XV. Re cognita, Domitius ad Pompeiom in Apuli.
teris mittit; qui petant atque orent, ut ſibi ſubveniat:
Ce/arem duobus exercitibur, & locorum anguſtits, facile in.
tercludi poſſe ; frumentoque probiberi e quod niff fecerit; /e,
conorte/que amplius xxx, magnumque numerum ſenatorum
atque equitum- Romanorum in periculum eſe venturum. In-
terim ſuos cohortatus, tormenta in muris difponit ; cer.
taſque cuique partes, ad cuſtodiam urbis, attribuit : mi-
litibus in concione agros ex ſuis poſleſſionibus pollice.
tur, quaterna in fingulos jugera, & pro rata parte cen-
turionibus evocatiſque.
XVI. Interim Cæſari nunciatur Sulmonenſes, (quod
oppidum a Corfnio y11 millium intervallo abeſt) cu-
pere ea facere, quæ vellet: fed a Q. Lucietio ſenatore
& Attio Peligno prohiberi, qui id oppidum vii cohor-
tium præſidio tenebant. Mittit ed M. Antonium cum
legionis v11 cohortibus v. -Sulmonenſes, ſimul atque
noſtra ſigna viderunt, portas aperuerunt; universique
& oppidani & milites obviam gratulantes Antonio ex-
jerunt. Lucretius & Attius de muro fe dejecerunt,
Attius ad Antonium deductus petit, ut ad Cæſarem
mitteretur. Antonius cum cohortibus & Attio codem
die, quo profectus erat, revertitur- Cæſar cas cohortes
cum exercitu ſuo conjunxit, Attiamque incolumem di-
miſit. .
XVII. Cæſar tribus primis diebus caſtra magn!s
operibus munire, & ex finitimis municipiis frumentum
comportare, reliquaſque , copias exſpectare infiitult,
Eo triduo, legio viii ad eum venit ; cohorteſque ex
novis Galliz delectibus, x x11; equiteſque a rege Nor
co, Circiter ccc; quorum adventu, altera caſtra ad a.
teram oppidi partem ponit, lis caſtris Curionem pr2-
fecit. Reliquis diebus, oppidum vallo caſtelliſque cr-
cummunire inſtituit ; cujus operis maxima parte effec-
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ta, codem fere tempore miſſi ad Pompeium revertun-
tur. | -
XVIII. Litteris perlectis; Domitius diſſimulans, in
concilio pronunciat Pompeium celeriter /ubfidio venturum :
hortaturque eos, ne animo deficiant; quæque uſui ad
defendendum oppidum ſint, parent. Ipſe arcand cum
paucis familiaribus ſuis colloquitur, conſiliùmque fugæ
capere inſtituit. Quum vultus Domitii cum oratione
non conſentiret; atque omnia trepidantiùs timidiaſque
ageret, quam ſuperioribus diebus conſuèſſet; multum-
que cum ſuis, conſiliandi causa, ſecretò præter conſue-
tudinem colloqueretur; concilia conventaſque homi-
num fugeret ; res diutius tegi diſſimulatique non po-
tuit. Pompeius enim reſcripſerat; /e/e rem in ſummum
periculum deducturum non ęſe; neque ſuo confilio aut voluns
tate, Domitium /e in oppidum Cor finium contulif}e e proi nde,
i qua facultas fuiſſet, ad ſe cum omnibus copiis veniret. Id
ne fieri poſſet, obſidione atque oppidi circummunitione
fie bat.
XIX. Divulgato Domiui conſilio; milites, qui erant
Cortinii, prima veſpera ſeceſſionem faciunt ; atque ita
inter ſe, per tribunos militum centurioneſque atque
honeſtiſſimos ſui generis, colloquuntur; ob/ideri fe 4 Cæ-
are; opera munitiane/que prope s perfetas ; ducem ſuum
Domitium, cujus /þe atque fiducia permaxſerint, projectis om-
nibus, fugæ conſilium capere : debere ſe ſuæ ſalutis rationem
habere. Ab his primò Marſ diſſentire incipiunt; eam-
que oppidi partem, quæ munitiſſima videretur, occu-
pant: tantaque inter eos diſſenſio extitit, ut manum
conſerere atque armis dimicare conarentur: poſt paullò
tamen, internunciis ultro citr6que miſſis, quz igno-
rabant, de L. Domitii fuga cognoſcunt. Itaque omnes
uno conſilio Domitium produtum in publicum circum-
hitunt, & cuſtodiunt; legatoſque ex ſuo numero ad
Cæſarem mittunt, /e/e paratos efje porias aperire, guægue
imperawerit facere, & L. Domitium vivum in tjus poteſia-
tem tranſdere.
XX. Quibus rebus cognitis, Cæſar; etſi magni inter-
eſſe arbitrabatur, quam primùm oppido potiri, cohor-
teſque ad ſe in caſtra tranſducere ; ne qua aut largitio-
K 2 nibus
196 C. Jurii CaASARIS
nibas, aut animi confirmatione, aut falſis nunciis, com-
mutatio fieret voluntatis; quod ſæpe in bello parvis
momentis magni caſus intercederent: tamen veritus, ne
militum introitu, & nocturni temporis licentia, oppidum
diriperetur; eos, qui venerant, collaudat, atque in op-
pidum dimittit; portas mur6ſ{que aſſervari jubet: ipſe
iis operibus, quæ facere inſtituerat, milites diſponit;
non certis ſpatiis intermiſſis, ut erat ſuperiorum dierum
conſuetudo ; ſed perpetuis vigiliis ſtationibaſque, ut
contingant inter ſe, atque omnem munitionem exple-
ant: tribunos militum & præfectos circummittit; atque
hortatur, non ſolùm ab eruptionibus caveant; ſed etiam
fingulorum hominum occultos exitus aſſervent. Neque
verò tam remiſſo ac languido animo quiſquam omnium
fuit, qui ea nocte conquieverit. Tanta erat ſumma
rerum exſpectatio, ut alius in aliam partem mente at-
que animo traheretur; quid jipſis Corfinienſibus, quid
Domitio, quid Lentvlo, quid reliquis accideret ; qui
quoſque eventus exciperet,
XXI. Quarta vigilia circiter, Lentulus Spinther de
muro cum vigiliis cuſtodibũſque noſtris colloquitur :
velle, ſi fibi fiat poteſtas, Cæ ſarem convenire. FaQa po-
teſtate, ex oppido mittitur; neque ab eo priùs Domi-
tiani milites diſcedunt, quam in conſpectum Cæſaris
deducatur. Cum eo de Alas ſua orat atque obſecrat,
bi ut parcat : wetertmque amicitiam commemorat : Cæ-
| fariſque in ſe beneficia exponit; gue erant maxima : gud
per eum in collegium pontificum venerat : quod provincian
Hiſpamiam ex preturd habuerat ; quid in petitione conſala-
tits ab eo erat ſubleuatus. Cujus orationem Czfar inter-
pellat : Se non maleficii causa ex provincid egreſſum, ſed
wt? ſe à contumeliis inimicorum defenderet ; ut tribuncs fl.
ed re ex civitate expulſos, in ſuam dignitatem reſtitueret;
ut ſe & populum Romanum paucorum factione oppreſſum, in
libertatem vin dicaret. Cujus oratione confirmatus Len-
tulus; ut in oppidum reverti liceat, petit, gudd de ſud
lalute impetraverit, fore etiam reliquis ad fue ſpem ſolatio:
aded effe perterritos xonnullos, ut ſue vilæ durius conſulert
cogantur. Factà poteſtate, diſcedit.
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XXII. Cæſar, ubi illuxit, omnes ſenatores, ſenato-
rumque liberos, tribunos militum, equiteſque Romanos,
ad ſe produci jubet. Erant ſenatorii ordinis L. Domi-
tius, P. Lentulus Spinther, L. Vibullius Rufus, Sex.
Quinctilius Varus quæſtor, L. Rubrius; præterea filius
Domitii, aliique complures adoleſcentes, & magnus
numerus Equitum Romanorum & Decurionum, quos
ex municipiis Domitius evocaverat. Hos omnes pro-
ductos, a contumeliis militum conviciiſque prohibet.
Pauca apud eos loquitur; quòd ſibi, à parte eorum, gratia
relata non fit, pro ſuis in eos maximis beneficits. Dimittit
omnes incolumes, Seſtertiùm ſexagies, quod aurum ad-
duxerat Domitius atque in publicum depoſuerat, alla-
tum ad ſe ab Duum-viris Cor finienſibus, Domitio red-
dit; ne continentior in vita hominum, quam in pecunia,
ſuiſſe videatur; etſi eam pecuniam publicam eſſe conſta-
bat, datamque a Pompeio in ſtipendium, Milites Do-
mitianos ſacramentum apud fe dicere jubet: atque eo
die caſtra movet, juſtümque iter conficit ; vii omnino
dies ad Corfinium commoratus: & per fines Marrucino-
rum, Frentanorum, Larinatium, in Apuliam pervenit.
XXIII. Pompeius, iis rebus cognitis quæ erant ad
Corfinium geſtæ, Luceria proficiſcitar Canuſium, atque
inde Brundiſium. Copias undique omnes ex novis de-
lectibus ad ſe cogi jubet: ſervos, paſtores armat; atque
his equos attribuit : ex iis circiter CCC equites conficit.
L. Manlius prætor Alba cum cohortibus vi profugit ;
Rutilus Lupus pretor Tarracina, cum 111: quæ procul
equitatum Cæſaris conſpicatæ, cui preerat Bivius Cu-
nus; relicto prætore, ſigna ad Curium transferunt, atque
ad eum tranſeunt. Item reliquis igineribus non nullæ
cohortes in agmen Cæſaris, * in equites incidunt.
Reducitur ad eum deprehenſus ex itinere Cn. Magius,
Cremona præfectus fabram Cn. Pompeii: quem Cæſar
ad eum remittit cum mandatis: Quoniam ad id tempus
facultas colloguendi non fuerit, atque ad ſe Brundiſium fit ven-
turus ; intereſſe Rei publ. & communis ſalutis, /e cum Pom-
rio collagui. Megue verò idem per ſici longo itineris patio,
tuum per alios conditiones ferantur ; ac i cordm de omnibus
conditionibus diſceptetur.
198 C. Juri Casanrs
XXIV. His datis mandatis, Brundiſium cum legioni-
bos vi pervenit : veteranis, 111; reliquis, quas ex novo
'acleftu confecerat, atque in itinere compleverat : Do-
mitianas enim cohortes protinus a Corfinio in Siciliam
miferat. Reperit conſules Dyrrachium profeQos, cum
magna parte exercitus; Pompeium remanere Brundiſii,
cum cohortibus xx: neque certum inveniri poterat, ob-
tinendine causa Brundiſii ibi remanſiſſet; quo faciliùs
omne Hadriaticum mare, extremis Italiæ partibus re-
gionibũſque Greciz, in poteſtatem haberet, atque ex
utraque parte bellum adminiſtrare poſſet; an inopii
navium ibi reſtitiſſet. Veritüſque, ne Italiam ille di.
mittendam non exiſtimaret; exitus adminiftrationeſque
Brundiſini portũs impedire iuſtituit. Quorum operum
hæe erat ratio. Qua fauces erant anguſtiſſimæ portũs,
molem atque aggerem ab utriaque parte litoris jacie-
bat; quod his locis erat mare vadoſum. Longius pro.
greſſus, quum agger altiore aqua contineri non poſſet;
rates duplices, quoquò versùs pedum xxx, è recione
molis collocabat. Has quaternis anchoris ex quatuor
angulis deſtinabat, ne fluctibus moverentur. His per-
fectis collocatiſque, alias deinceps pari magnitudire
rates jungebat: has terra a'que aggere integebat, ne
aditus atque incurſus ad defendendum impediretur: à
fronte atque ab utroque latere cratibus ac pluteis pro-
tegebat: in quarta quaque earum, turres binorum ta.
bulatorum excitabat, quo commodius ab impetu navt-
um incendiifque defenderet.
XXV. Contra hæc Pompeius naves magnas onerari-
as, quas in portu Brundiſino deprehenderat, adornabat.
Ibi turres cum ternis tabulatis erigebat; eaſque mul:
tormentis & omi genere telorum completas, ad open
Cæſaris appellebat; ot rates perrumperet, atque open
diflurbaret. Sic quotidie uttimque eminus fundis, {2
gittis, reliquiſque telis, pugnabarur. Atque hc 1!
Czſar adminiſtrabat ; ut conditiones pacis dimittenda
non exiſtimaret: ac tametſi magnopere admirabatat
Magium, quem ad Pompeium cum mandatis miſerat,
ad fe non remitti; atque ea res ſæpe tentata, impetus
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erſeverandum putabat. Itaque Caninium Rebilum
3 familiarem neceſſariùmque Scribonii Libonis,
mittit ad eum collequii causà: mandat, ut Libonem
de concilianda pace hortetur ; in primis, ut ipſe cum
Pompeio colloquerctur, poſtulat; Magnepere /e/e confidere
demonſtrat, f# ejus rei fit peteſtas fatta, fore, ut aquis-
conditionibus ab armis di. edatur ; cujus rei mag nam partem
laudis atgue exiftimationis ad Libonem perventuram, ff, illo
audtore atque agente, ab armis fit diſceſſum. Libo à col-
joquio Caniun digreſſus, ad Pompeium proficiſcitur.
Paullo poſt renunciat; qudd conſules abſint, fine illis
de compoſitione agi non poſſe. Ita ſæpiùs rem fruſtra
tentatam Cæſar aliquando dimittendam fibi judicabat,
& de bello agendum.
XXVI. Propè dimidia parte operis a Cæſare effectà,
diebuſque in ea re conſumptis ix; naves A conſulibus
Dyrrachio remiſſz, quæ priorem partem exercitas eò
deportaverant, Brundifium revertuntur. Pompeius, five
operibus Cæſaris permotus, five etiam quod ab initio
Italia excedere conſtituerat; adventu navium, profetti-
onem parare incipit: &, quo facilins impetum Czfaris
tardaret, ne ſub ipsa profectione milites oppidum ir-
rumperent ; portas obſtruit, vicos plateaſque inzdificat,
foſſas tranſverſas viis preducit, atque ibi ſudes ſtipitef-
que præacutos defigit. Hæc levibus cratibus terraque
inæquat. Aditus autem atque itinera duo, quæ extra
murum ad portum ferebant; maximis defixis trabibus,
atque els præacutis, præſepit. His paratis rebus; mili-
tes ſilentio naves conſcendere jubet: expeditos autem
ex evocatis, ſagittariis, funditoribuſque, raros in maro
turibaſque diſponit; hos certo ſigno revocare conſtitu-
it, quum omnes milites naves conſcendiſſent; atque iis
expedito loco actuaria navigia relinquit.
XXVII. Brundiſini Pompeianorum militum injuriis,
atque ipſius Pompeii contumeliis permoti; Cæſaris re-
us favebant. Itaque, cognits Pompei profectione;
concurſantibus illis atque in ea re occupatis, vulgò ex
teclis ſigniſicabant: per quos re cognita, Cæſar ſcalas
parari, militeſque armari jubet; ne quam rei gerendæ
facultatem dimittat. Pompeius ſub noctem naves ſol-
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vit. Qui erant in muro, cuſtodiæ causa, collocati; co
ſigno, quod convenerat, revocantur; notiſque itineribus
ad naves decurrunt. Milites, poſitis ſcalis, muros af.
cendunt: ſed moniti à Brundiſinis, ut vallum cæcum
foſsaſque caveant, ſubſiſtunt, & longo itinere ab iis cir.
cumducti, ad portum perveniunt: duaſque naves cum
militibus, quæ ad moles Cæſaris adhæſerant, ſcaphis
lintribuſque deprehendunt; deprehenſas, excipiunt.
XXVII. Cæſar; etſi ad ſpem conficiendi negotii
maximè probabat, coactis navibus mare tranſite, &
Pompeium ſequi, priùs quam ille ſeſe tranſmarinis aux-
ilüis confirmaret; tamen rei ejus moram, temporiſque
longinquitatem, timebat: quod omnibus coactis navi-
bus, Pompeius præſentem 2 inſequendi ſui ad-'
emerat. Relinquebatur, ut ex longinquioribus regioni-
bus Galliz, Picenique, & a Freto naves eſſent exſpec-
tandz : fed id, propter anni tempus, longum atque im-
peditum videbatur. Interea veterem exercitum, duas
Hiſpanias confirmari; (quarum altera erat maximis
beneficiis Pompeii devincta) auxilia, equitatum parari;
Galliam Italiamque tentari, ſe abſente, nolebat. Ita-
que in præſentia, Pompeii inſequendi rationem omittit:
in Hiſpaniam proficiſei conſtituit: Duum-viris munici-
piorum omnium imperat, ut naves conquirant, Brundi-
ſiümque deducendas curent. Mittit in Sardiniam, cum
legione una, Valerium legatum; in Siciliam, Curionem
proprætorem cum legionibus 111: eundem, quum Sici-
ſiam recepiſſet, protinus in Africam tranſducere exerci-
tum jabet. |
XXIX. Sardiniam obtinebat M. Cotta ; Siciliam, M.
Cato: Africam ſorte Tubero obtinere debebat. Cara-
litani, ſimul ad fe Valerium mitti audierunt ; nondum
profecto ex Italia, ſua ſponte ex oppido Cottam eji-
ciunt, Ille perterritus, quod omnem provinciam con-
ſentire intelligeret, ex Sardinia in Africam profugit.
Cato in Sicilia naves longas veteres reficiebat, . novas
civitatibus imperabat ; hzc magno ſtudio agebat: in
Lucanis Brutüſque, per legatos ſuos, civium R. delec-
tus habebat; equitum peditumque-certum numerum
à civitatibus Siciliz exigebat. Quibus rebus 2 py
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feftis; adventu Curionis cognito, queritur in concione:
feſt prgiectum ac proditum a Ga. P ompeio 3 gut emmibus rebus
imparatiſſemus, non necgſſarium betlum ſuſcepifft ; &, ab ſe
' religui/que in Senatu interrogatus, omnia cha eſſ ad bellum
apta ac parata confirmaſſit : Hzc in concione queſtus, ex
provincia fugit. Nacti vacuas ab imperiis, Sardiniam
Valerius, Curio Siciliam; cum exercitibus eo perveni-
unt. Tobero, quum in Africam veniſſet, invenit in
provincia cum imperio Attium Varum ; qui ad Auxi-
mum, ut ſupra demonſtravimus, amiſſis cohortibus, pro-
tinus ex fuga in Africam pervenerat ; atque eam ſua _
ſponte vacuam occupaverat ; deleftique habito, 11 le-
giones effecerat ; hominum & locorum notina, & uſu
ejus provinciæ, nactus aditus ad ea conanda, quod-
paucis ante annis ex præturâ eam provinciàm obtinue-
rat. Hic venientem Uticam cum navibus Tuberonem,
portu atque oppido prohibet; neque affectum valetu-
dine filium exponere in terra patitur, ſed ſublatis an-
choris excedere eo loco cogit.
XXX. His rebus confectis Cæſar, ut reliquum tem-
pus a labore intermitteretur, milites in proxima muni-
cipia deducit; ipſe ad Urbem proficiſcitur. Coats
Senatu, inimicorum injurias commemorats Docet, /e
nullum extraordinarium honorem appetiſſe; ſed, ex/peftato
legitimo tempore conſulatus, eo fuiſſe contentum, guòd omni-=
bus civibus pateret. Latum ab x Tribunis plebis, ( contra-
dicentibus inimicis ; Catone verò acerrimè repugnante, &,
priſtind conſuetudine, dicendi mord dies extrahente) ut ſui
ratio abJentis haberetur, ip/o conſule Pompeto ©: gui ft impro-
baſſet, cur ferri paſſus efſet * fin probaſſet, cur /e uti populi
beneficio probibuiſſet? Patic ntiam proponit uam, quum de
exercitibus dimittendis ultro poſtulawifſet 3 in quo jatturam
dignitatis atque honoris ipſe facturus effet, Acerbitatem
inimico um docet; qui, quod ab altero poftularent, in /e
reci arent: atgue omnia permiſceri mallent, quam imperium
exerritu/que dimittere. Injuriam in eripiendis legionibus
predicat ; cradelitatem Q inſolentiam, in circumſcribendis
Tribunis plebis. Conditiones d ſe latas, & expetita collo-
quia, & denegata, commemorat. Pro quibus 'rebus orat
ac foftulat, Remp. nd atque una 5 Bas adminifirent
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fin timore deſugiant; illis ſe oneri non futurum, & per ſe
Rempubl. adminiſiraturum. Legatos ad Pompeium de com-
pofetione mitii oportere: negue ſe reformidare, quod in ſenatu
paullo ante Pompeius dixiffet ad quos legati mitterentur,
iis auctoritatem attribui; timoremque eorum, qui mit-
terent, ſignificari : Tenuts atque infirmi hæc animi videri;
fe wero, ut eperibus anteire luduerit, fic juſtitid I equitate
velle ſuperare. |
XXXI. Probat rem Senatus, de mittendis legatis : ſed
qui mitterentur, non reperiebantur : maximeque timo-
ris Causa pro ſe quiſque id munus legationis recuſabat,
Pompeius enim diſcedens ab urbe, in Senatu dixerat ;
ecdem fe habiturum loco, qui Rome remanſiſſent, & qui in
cuſationibuſque extrahitur. Subjicitur etiam L. Metel-
las Tribunus pleb. ab inimicis Cæſarls, qui hanc rem
diſtrahat; rel1quaſque res, quaſcunque agere inſtituerit,
impediat. Cujus cognito conſilio, Cæſar, fruſtra diebus
aliquot conſumptis; ne reliquum tempus omittat, infec-
tis 1is quæ agere deſtinaverat, ab urbe proficiſcitur; at-
que in ulteriorem Galliam pervenit; |
XXXII. Qud quum veniſſet; cognoſcit miſſum in
Hiſpaniam a Pompeio Vibullium Reſon quem paucis
ante diebus Corſinii captum dimiſerat: profectum
item Domitium ad occupandam Maſſiliam, navibus
aftuariis vii; quas Igili & in Coſano a privatis coac-
tas, ſervis, libertis, coloniis ſuis compleverat ; premil-
fos etiam Iegatos Maſſilienſes domum, nobiles adoleſ-
centes; quos ab Urbe diſcedens Pompeius erat adhor-
tatus, ne nova. Cæſaris officia veterum ſuorum benef-
ciorum in eos memoriam expellerent. Quibus manda:
tis acceptis, Maſſilienſes portas Czfari clauſerant ; Al:
bicos, barbaros homines, qui in eorum fide antiquitus 6
erant, monieſque ſupra Maſſiliam incolebant, ad & |
vocaverant; frumentum ex finitimis regionibus, atque
ex omnibus caſtellis, in urbem convexerant ; armorum
officinas' in urbe inſtituerant: muros, claſſem, portaſque
refecerant. a |
XXXIII. Evocat ad fe Cæſar Maſſilienſium xv pri
mos: cum his agit, ne initium inferendi belli à MF
; ſtilienſibus
vet Berto Civiti Lis. I. 203
ſilienſibus oriatur: Debere cot lralie totius aucteritalem
fequi potiùt, quam unius hominis voluntati obtemper are.
Reliqua, quæ ad eorum ſanandas mentes pertinere are
bitrabatur, commemorat. Cujus orationem domum le-
gat] referunt, atque ex auctoritate hæc Cæſari renunci-
ant: Intelligere ſe, diviſum eſe populum R. in partes duas ©
neque ſui judicii. neque ſuarum ¶ e dirium, decernere ut) @
pars juftiorem habeat cauſam. Principes verò «fe earum
fgartium Cn. Pompetum & C. Cæſarem, patrons avitatis
quorum” alter agros Volcarum Arecomicorum & Helviorum
publice its conc: fſerit ; alter bello viftas Gallias attribuerit,
weftigaliaque auxerit. - Duare paribus eorum beneficiis pa-
rem Je quoque vo'untatem tribuere d'/bere : & neutrum earum
contra alterum juvare, aut urbe aut portubus recipere.
XXXIV. Hæc dum inter eos aguntur, Domitius na-
vibus Maſſiliam pervenit: atque ab iis receptus, urbl
et Summa ei belli adminiſtrandi permittitur,
rarias naves, quas ubiq gollunt, deprehendunt, atque
in portum deducunt ; partum elavis aut materia atque
armamentis juſtructis, ad reliquas armandas reficien-
daſque utuntur : frumenti quod inventum eſt, in pub-
ſcum conferuut: reliquas merces commeatuſque, ad
obficionem urbis, ſi accidat, reſerrant. Quibus inju-
ris permotus Ceſar, legiones 111 Maſſiliam adducit:
turres vineaſque ad oppugnationem urbis aggere, naves
longas Arelaie numero X11 facere inflituit. Quibus
effectis armatxque diebus xxx, a qua die materia cæſa
elt, adductiique Maſſiliam; his D. Brutum præficit:
C. Trebotlium legatum ad oppugnationem Maſſilia
relinquit. | |
XXXV. Dum hzc parat atque adminiſtrat; C. Fa-
bium legatum cum legionibus 111, quas Narbone cir-
cumque ea loca hyemandi causa diſpoſuerat, in Hiſpa-
niam premittit; celeritèt que Pyrenzos ſaltus occupari
jubet; qui eo tempore ab L. Afrauio legato præſidiis
tenebantur. Reliq ua Jeg iones, quæ longids hyemabant,
ſubſequi jubet. Fabius, ut erat imperatum, adhibita,
celeritate, præſicli m ex ſaltu dejecit; magniſque itine-
Tibus. ad Exercitum Af anii contendit. ö |
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XXXVI. Adventu Vibullii Ruf, quem a Pompeio
miſſum in Hiſpaniam demonſtratum eſt; Afranius, &
Petreius, & Varro, legati Pompeii, (quorum unus 111
legionibus, Hiſpaniam citeriorem ; alter à ſaltu Caſtu-
lonenſi ad Anam, 11 legionibus ; tertius ab Ana, Vet-
tonum agrum Luſitaniamque pari numero legionum
obtinebat) officia inter ſe partiuntur : ut Petreius ex
Lofitania per Vettones cum omnibus copiis ad Afrani-
um proficiſcatur ; Varro cum iis, quas habebat, legio-
nibus omnem ulteriorem Hiſpaniam tueatur. His re-
bus conſtitutis; equites auxiliaque toti Luſitaniz, a Pe-
treio; Celtiberis, Cantabris, barbariſque omnibus, qui
ad Oceanum pertinent, ab Afranio imperantur: quibus
coactis, celeriter Petreius per Vettones ad Afranium
3 Conſtituunt communi conſilio bellum ad
lerdam, propter ipfius loci opportunitatem, gerere.
XXXV l. Erant, ut ſupra de nonſtratum eſt, legiones
Afranii, 111; Petreii, 11: præterea ſcutatæ, citerioris
provinciæ; & cetratz, ulteriagtis Hiſpaniæ, cohortes
circiter Lxxx: equitom, utriuſque provinciæ, circiter
v millia, Cæſar legiones in Hiſpaniam præmiſerat, ad
vi millia auxilia peditum, equitum 111 millia, quz
emnibus ſuperioribus bellis habuerat; & parem ex
Gallia numerum, quem ipſe paraverat, nominatim ex
omnibus civitatibus nobiliſſimo & fortiſſimo quoque
evocato; hinc optimi generis homines ex Aquitanis
montaniſque, qui Galliam provinciam attingunt ; poſt-
guam audierat Pompeium per Mauritaniam cum legio-
nibus iter in Hiſpaniam facere, confeſtimque eſſe ven -
turum. Simul 2 tribunis militum centurionibaſque mu-
tuas pecunias ſumpſit: has exercitui diſtribuit. Quo
ſacto, duas res conſecutus eſt; quòd pignore animos
centuriorum devinxit, & largitione redemit militum
vceluntates. ky
XXXVIII. Fabius finitimarum civitatum animos lit-
teris--nunciſque tentabat. In Sicore flumine pontes
effecerat duos, inter ſe diſtantes millia paſſuum iv:
his pontibus pabulatum mittebat; qudd ea, quæ citia
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duces faciebant ; crebr6que inter ſe equeſtribus prezliis
contendebant. Hue quum quotidiana conſuetudine
congreſſæ, pabulatoribus præſidio proprio, legiones Fa-
bianæ 11 flumen transiſſent: impedimentaque, & omnis
equitatus ſequeretur: ſubitò vi ventorum, & aquz mag-.
nitudine pons eſt interruptus'; & reliqua multitudo equi-
tum intercluſa. Quo cognito a Petreio & Afranio, ex
aggere atque cratibus, quæ flumine ferebantur; celerites
ponte Afranius, quem oppido caſtriſque conjunftlum
habebat, legiones 1v equitatamque omnem transjecit:
duabaſque Fabianis occurrit legionibus. Cujus adventu
nunciato ; L. Plancus, qui legionibus præerat, neceſſa-
ria re coactus, locum capit ſuperiorem ; diversàmque
aciem in duas partes conſtitnit ; ne ab equitatu circum-
veniri poſſit. Ita, congreſſus impari numero, magnos
impetus legionum equitatuſque ſuſtinet. Commiſſo ab
equitibus prœlio, ſigna 11 legionum procul ab utriſque
conſpiciuntur, quas C. Fabius ulteriore ponte ſubſidio
noſtris miſerat, ſuſpicatus fore id quod accidit, ut duces
adverfartorum occaſione & beneficio fortune ad noſtrog
opprimendos uterentur : quarum adventu prœlium diri-
mitur, ac ſuas uterque legiones reducit in caſtra.
XXXIX. Ed biduo Cæſar cum equitibus pcecc, quos
ibi præſidio reliquerat, in caſtra pervenit. Pons qui
fuerat tempeſtate interruptus, neque erat refectus; hunc
noctu perfici juſſit. Ipſe, cognita locorum natura, ponti
caſtriſque præſidio vi cohortes relinquit, atque omnia
impedimenta: & poſtero die omnibus copus, triplici
inſtructà acie, ad Ilerdam proficiſcitar ; & ſub caſtris
Afranii conſiſtit: & ibi paulliſper ſub armis moratus,
facit æquo loco pugnandi poteſtatem. Poteſtate fatta,
Afranius copias educit, & in medio colle ſub caſtris
conſiſtit. Cæſar ubi cognovit per Afranium ſtare, quò
minus prœlio dimicaretur; ab infimis radicibus mon-
tis, intermiſſis circiter paſſibus cp, caſtra facere con-
ſtituit: &, ne in opere faciendo milites repentino hoſ-
tium incurſu exterrerentur, atque opere prohiberentur :
vallo muniri vetuit, (quod eminere & procul videri ne-
ceſſe erat) ſed A fronte contra hoſtem pedum xv foſſam
geri juſlit, Prima & ſecunda acies in armis, ut ab
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initio conſtituta erat, permanebat : poſt hos, opus in
occulto acies tertia faciebat. Sic omne prius eſt per-
ſectum, quam intelligeretur ab Afranio caſtra muniri.
XL. Sub veſperum Cæſar intra hanc foſſam legiones
reducit, atque ibi ſub armis proxima nocte conquieſcit.
Poſtero die omnem exercitum intra foſſam continet:
& quòd longiùs erat agger petendus, in præſentia ſi-
milem rationem operis inſtituit; ſingulaque latera. caſ-
trorum fingulis attribuit legionibus munienda; foſsaſ-
ve ad eandem magnitudinem -perfici jubet: reliquas
Are! in armis expeditas contra hoſtem coyſtituit.
Aal Petreiuſque, terrendi causa atque operis im-
pediendi, copias ſuas ad infimas montis radices pro-
| Jene & prœlio laceſſunt: neque idcirco Cæſar opus
intermittit, confiſus præſidio legionum 111 & munitione
foſſe. Illi non diu commorati, nec longiùs ab infimo
colle progreſſi; copias in caſtra reducunt. Tertio die
Czſar vallo caſtra communit : reliquas cohortes, quas
in ſuperioribus caſtris reliquerat, impedimentaque, ad
fe tranſduci jubet. 244% | |
XLI. Erat inter oppidum Herdam & proximum col-
lem, ubi caſtra Petreius atque Afranius .habebant, pla-
nities circiter paſſuum ec: atque in hoc ferè medio
ſpatio, tumulus erat paulld editior; quem fi occupaſlet
Czſar, & communiſſet; ab oppido & ponte & com-
meatu omni, quem in oppidum contulerant, ſe inter-
cluſurum adverſarios confidebat. Hoc ſperans, legiones
111 ex caſtris educit: aciẽque in locis idoneis inftruc-
ta; unius legionis anteſignanos precurrere, atque oc-
cupare eum tumulum jubet. Qua re cognira; celeriter,
quæ in ſtatione pro caſtris erant Afranii cohortes bre-
viore jitinere ad eundem occupandum locum mittuntur,
Contenditur prcelio-; & quod prius in tumulum Afrz-
niani venerant, noſtri repelluntur ; atque, aliis ſum miſſis
ſubſidiis, terga vertere, ſẽque ad ſigna legionum recipere
coguntur.
XIII Genus erat pugnæ militum illorum; ut magno
impetu primo procurrerent, audacter locum caperent,
ordines ſuos non magnopere ſervarent, rari diſpersique
pugnarent: ſi premerentur; pedem referre, & loco ex-
772 cedere,
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cedere, non tufpe exiſtimarent : tum Luſitanis, reliquiſ-
ue barbaris, genere quodam pugnæ aſſuefacti: quod
ere fit ; quibus quiſque in locis miles inveteraverit, ut?
multim earum regionum conſuetudine moveatur. Hæc
tamen ratio noſtros perturbabat, inſuetos hujus generis
pognæ: cireumiri enim ſeſe ab aperto latere, procur-
rentibus ſingulis, arbitrabantur: ipſi autem ſuos ordines
ſervare, neque ab ſignis diſcedere, neque ſine gravi
causa eum locum, quem ceperant, dimitti cenſuerant
oportere, Itaque, perturbatis anteſignanis; legio, quæ
in eo cornu conſtiterat, locum non tenuit; atque in
proximum collem ſeſe recepit. „„
XLIII. Cæſar, pep omni acie preterrita, quod præ-
ter opinionem conſuetudinẽmque acciderat ; cohortatus
ſuos, legionem ix ſubſidio ducit: hoſtem inſolenter at-
que acriter noſtros inſequentem ſupprimit ; rurſfifque
turga vertere, ſeque ad oppidum Ilerdam recipere, &
ſub muro conſiſtere cogit. Sed nonz legionis milites,
elati ſtudio, dum ſarcire acceptum detrimentum volunt,
temere inſecuti fugientes, in locum iniquum progredi-
untur; & ſub montem, in quo erat oppidum poſitum
ſuccedunt: hinc ſe recipere quum vellent, rurſus illi ex
loco ſuperiore noſtros premebant. Præruptus locus erat,
utraque ex parte directus: ac tantum in latitudinem
patebat, ut tres inſtructæ cohortes eum locum explerent;
& neque ſubſidia à lateribus ſummitti, neque equites
laborantibus uſui eſſe poſſent: ab oppido autem declivis
locus tenui faſtigio vergebat, in longitudinem paſſuum
circiter eo: hac noſtris erat receptus; quod ed, incitati.
ſtudio, inconſultiùs proceſſerant. Hoc pugnabatur loco,
& propter anguſtias iniquo, & quod ſub ipſts radicibus
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0 omnia vulnera fuſtinebant. Augebantur illis copiæ;
. atque ex caltris cohortes per oppidum crebro ſummitte-
bantur, ut integri defeſſis ſuecederent. Hoc idem Cæſar
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conſumptis omnibus telis, gladiis diſtrictis, impetum
- adversds montem in cohortes faciunt: pauciſque dejectis,
reliquos ſeſe convertere cogunt. Summotis ſub murum
cohortibus, ac nonnulla parte propter terrorem in oppi-
dum compulſis; facilis eſt noſtris receptus datus, Equi.
tatus autem nofter ab utroque latere, etſi dejectis aut
inferioribus locis conſtiterat, tamen in ſummum jugum
virtute connititur; atque inter duas acies perequitans,
commodiorem ac tutiorem noſtris receptum dat. Ita
vario certamine pugnatum eſt. Noſtri in primo con-
greſſu circiter Lxx ceciderunt; in his Q. Fulginius ex
primo haſtato legionis x1v, qui, propter eximiam vir-
tutem, ex inferioribus ordinibus in eum locum perye-
nerat: vulnerantur amplius pc. Ex Afranianis interfici-
tur T. Cæcilius, primipili centurio; &, præter eum,
centuriones iv; milites, amplius cc,
XL. Sed bæc ejus diei præfertur opinio, ut ſe utri-
que ſuperiores diſceſſiſſe exiſtimarent: Afraniani; quod,
quum eſſe omnium judicio inferiores viderentur, cominus
tamen diu ſtetiſſent, & noſtrorum impetum ſuſtinuiſſent,
& initio locum tumulumque tenuiſſent, quæ cauſa pug-
nandi fuerat, & noſtros primo cangreſſu terga vertere
cos giſſent: noſtri autem, quod iniquo loco, atque impari
congreſſi numero, v horis prœlium ſuſtinuiſſent; quod
montem gladiis diſtriftis aſcendiſſent; quod ex loco ſu-
periore terga vertere adverſarios coëgiſſent, atque in
oppidum compuliſſent. Illi eum tumulum, pro quo pug-
natum eſt, magnis operibus munierunt; præſidiùmque
ibi poſuerunt.
XLVI. Accidit etiam repentinum incommodum biduo,
quo hæc geſta ſunt: tanta enim tempeſtas cooritur, ut
numquam illis locis majores aquas fuiſſe conſtaret: tum
autem ex omnibus montibus nives proluit, ac ſummas
ripas fluminis ſuperavit; ponteſque ambos quos C. Fa-
bius fecerat, uno die interrupit. Quæ res magnas diff
cultates exercitui Cæſaris attulit: caltra enim ut ſupra
demonſtratum eſt, quum eſſent inter flumina duo, Sico-
rim & Cingam, ſpatio millium xxx; neutrum horum
tranſiri poterat; neceſſarioque omnes his anguſtiis con-
tinebantur: neque civitates, quæ ad Cæſaris 8
| accelle-
"d. N *%
. . es A LI
=D
pt BelLo CIvII Lis. I. 209
acceſſerant, frumentum ſupportare; neque ii qui pa-
bulatum longiùs progreſſi erant, intercluſi fluminibus,
reverti; neque maximi comitatus, qui ex Italia Gal-
lizque veniebant, in caſtra pervenire poterant. Tem-"
pus autem erat anni difficillimum : quo neque frumenta
in herbis erant, neque multùm à maturitate aberant.
Ac civitates exinanitæ: quod Afranius pene omne fru-
mentum, ante Cæſaris adventum, llerdam convexerat ;
reliqui fi quid fuerat, Cæſar ſuperioribus diebus con-
ſumpſerat. Pecora, quod ſecundum poterat eſſe inopiæ
ſubſidium, propter bellum finitimæ civitates longius
removerant, Qui erant, pabulandi aut frumentandi
caus4, progreſſi; hos levis armature Luſitani, periti-
= earum regionum cetrati citerioris Hiſpaniz, con-
ectabantur; quibus erat proclive tranſnare flumen:
quod conſuetudo eorum omnium eſt, ut fine utribus
ad exercitum non eant. At exercitus Afranii omnium
rerum abundabat copia, multum erat frumentum pro-
viſam & convectum ſuperioribus temporibus: multum
ex omni provincia comportabatur: magna copia pa-
buli ſuppetebat. Harum rerum omnium facultates
ſine ullo periculo pons Ilerdæ præbebat: & loca
trans flumen integra, quò omnino Cæſar adire non
poterat. | | |
XLVII. Ez permanſerunt aquæ dies complures.
Conatus eſt Cæſar reficere pontes ; ſed nec magnitudo
fluminis permittebat; neque ad ripam diſpoſitæ cohortes
adverſariorum, perfici patiebantur: quod illis prohibere
erat facile: tum ipſius fluminis natura, atque aquz
magnitudine; tum quòd ex totis ripis in unum atque
anguſtum locum tela jaciebantur: atque erat difficile,
eodem tempore, rapidiſſimo flumine, opera perſicere, &
tela vitare, woke
XLVIII. Nungiatur Afranio magnos comitatus, qui
ter habebant ad Cæſarem, ad flumen conſtitiſſe. Vene-
rant eo ſagittarii ex Ruthenis, equites ex Galli; cum
multis carris magniſque impedimentis, ut ſert Gallica
conſuetudo. Erant præterea cujuſque generis hominum
millia circiter v1, cum ſervis deri ue; ſed nullus ordo,
aullum imperium certum; quum ſuo quiſque copfilio
8 uteretur,
210 C. JI II Ca$aris
uteretur, atque omnes fine timore iter facerent, uſi ſu-
periorum temporum atque itinerum licentia: erant com-
plures honeſt: adoleſcentes, ſenatorum filii, & equeſtris
ordinis ; erant legationes, civitatum: erant legati Cæſa-
ris: hos omnes flumina, continebant. Ad hos oppri-
mendos, cum omni cquitatu tribũſque legionibus A fra.
nius de nocte proficiſcitur; imprudenteique antemiſſis
equitibus aggreditur celcriter- tamen ſeſe Galli equites
expediunt, prœliumque committunt. Hi, dum pari
certamine res geri potuit, magnum hoſtium numerum
pauci ſuſlinuere; ſed, ubi ſigna legionum appropin-
quare cœperunt, paycis amiſſis, ſeſe jn montes proximos
conferunt. Hoc pugnæ tempus magnum attulit no{tris
ad ſalutem mementum; nacti enim ſpatium, ſe in loca
ſuperiora receperunt. Deſiderati ſunt eo die ſagittarii
circiter CC, equites pauci, calonum atque impedimen-
torum non magnus numerus. |
XLIX. His tamen omnibus annona crevit : quz fere
res, 1nOpia non ſolùm præſentis, ſed etiam futuri tem-
poris timore, ingraveſcere conſuevit. Jamque ad de-
narios 1 in ſingulos modios annona pervenerat, &
militum vires inopia frumenti diminuerat: atque in-
commoda in dies augebantur: & tam, paucis diebus,
magna erat rerum facta commutatio, ac fe fortuna in-
clinaverat; ut noſtri magna inopia neceſſariarum rerum
conflictarentur; illi omnibus abundarent rebus, ſuperio-
reique haberentur. Cæſar iis civitatibus, quæ ad ejus
amicitiam acceſſeränt, quo minor erat frumenti copia,
pecus imperabat; calones ad longinquiores civitates
dimittebat: ipſe præſentem inopiam, quibus poterat,
ſubſidiis tutabatur.
L. Hzc Afranius Petreiüſque, & eorum amici, ple-
niora etiam atque uberiora Romam ad ſuos perſcribe-
bant. Multa rumor fingebat: ut penè bellum confec-
tum videretur. Quibus litteris nuncizique Romam per-
Iatis; mag 7 d46mum concurſus ad Afranium, magnz
gratulationes fiebant: multi ex Italia ad Cn. Pompeium
proficiſcebantur ; alii, ut principes talem nuncium attu-
liſſe; alii, ne eventum belli exſpectaſſe, aut ex omnibus
noviſiimi veniſle, viderentur. f IL
ve BeLLo Civitt Lis, I. 271
LI. Qaum in his anguſtiis res eſſet; atque omnes
viz ab Afraniariis militibus equitibuſque obſiderentur;
nec pontes perfici poſſent: imperat milicibus Cæſar, ut
naves faciant; cujus generis eum ſaperioribus annis uſus
Britanniz docuerat. Carinz primum ac ſtatumina ex
levi materia fiebant ; reliquum corpus navium, vimini-
bus contextum, coriis integebatur. Has perfectas carris
junctis devehit noctu millia paſſuum A caſtris xx11 3
militeſque his navibus flumen tranſportat; continen-
temque ripæ collem improvisò occupat: hunc celeriter,
priuſquam ab adverſariis fentiatur, communit: huc le-
gionem poſtea tranſ{ducit; atque ex utraque parte pon-
tem inſtitutum perficit biduo. Ita comitatus, & qui
frumenti causa proceſſerant, tutò ad ſe recipit; & rem
frumentariam expedire incipit. Eodem die equitum
magnam partem flumen transjecit: qui inopinantes
pabulatores & ſine ullo diſſipatos timore aggreſl, quam
maximum numerum jumentorum atque hominum in-
tercipiunt : cohortibi{que cetratis ſubfidio miſſis, ſcien-
ter in duas partes ſefe diſtribuunt; alii, ut prede præ-
fidio fint ; alii, ut venientibus reſiſtant, atque eos pro-
pellant: unamque cohortem, quæ temere ante cxteras
extra aciem procurrerat, ſecluſam & reliquis circumve-
niunt atque interficiunt; incoluméſque, cum magna
præda, eodem ponte in caſtra revertuntur.
LII. Dum hec ad Ilerdam geruntur; Maſſilienſesyuſi
L. Domitii confilio, naves longas expediunt, numero
xvit, quarum erant xi tectæ: multa huc minora na-
vigia addunt; ut ipſa multitudine noſtra claſſis terrea-
tur: magnum numerum ſagittariorum, magnum Albi-
corum, de quibus ſupra demonſtratum eſt, imponunt ;
atque hos præmiis pollicitationibũſque incitant. Certas
ibi depoſcit naves Domitius; atque has colonis, paſto-
ribuſque, quos ſecum adduxerat, complet. Sic omnibus
rebus inſtructà claſſe ; magna fiducii ad noſtras naves
procedunt, quibus præerat D. Brutus. Hæ ad inſulam,
quæ eſt contra Maſſiliam, ſtationes obtinebant. Erat
multo inferior numero navium Brutus; ſed delectos ex
omnibus legionibus fortiſſimos viros, anteſignanos, cen-
turiones, Ceſar et claſſi attribuerat; qui ſibi id muneris
a | depopoſ-
212 C. JVTII CXSARAIS
- depopoſcerant. Ii manus ferreas atque harpagontei
paraverant; magn6que numero pilorum, tragularum,
reliquorümque telorum, ſe inſtruxerant. Ita, cognii
hoſtium adventu, ſuas naves ex portu educunt; cun
Maſſilienſibus confligunt. Pugnatum utrimque eſt for.
tiſſimè, atque acerrime: neque multùm Albici noſtri
virtute cedebant ; homines aſperi, & montani, & exer-
citati in armis: atque ii modò digreſſi a Maſſilienfibus
recentem eorum pollicitationem animis continebant:
paſtoreſque indomiti, ſpe libertatis excitati, ſub oculi
domini ſuam probare operam ſtudebant. Ipſi Maſſli.
enſes, & celeritate navium & ſcientià gubernatorun
_confifi, poſtros eludebant; impetaſque eorum excipie-
bant; &, quoad licebat latiore ſpatio; productâ long u
acie, circumvenire noſtros, aut pluribus navibus adorii i
ſingulas, aut remos tranſcurrentes detergere, ſi poſſent, m.
contendebant: quum propius erat neceſſariò ventum; Wl
ab ſcientia gubernatorum atque artificiis ad virtutem
montanorum confugiebant. Noſtri, quod minds exer-
- Citatis remigibus, miniiſque peritis * ute ·
bantur; qui repente ex onerariis navibus erant produdii
neque dum etiam vocabulis armamentorum cognitis;
tum etiam gravitate & tarditate navium impedieban- lu
tur: factæ enim ſubitd ex humida materia, non eundem u
uſum celeritatis habebant. Itaque, dum locus cominus
Pignandi daretur, æquo animo ſingulas binis navibus im
objiciebant; atque, injectà manu ferrea, & retenta utri-
que nave, diverſi pugnabant; atque in hoſtium nave
tranſcendebant; &, magno numero Albicorum & pak
torum interfecto, partem navium deprimunt ; nopnullas
cum hominibus,.capiunt ;, reliquas in portum compel-
Junt. Eo die naves Maſfilienſium, cum iis quæ ſunt
captæ, intereunt 1x.
III. Hoc prœlio Cæſari ad llerdam nunciato: {i
mul perfecto ponte, celeriter fortuna mutatur. 111i, per-
territi virtute equitum, minds libere, minus audacter,
vagabantur; alias, non longo ab caſtris progreſſi ſpatio,
at celerem receptum haberent, anguſtias pabulabantur:
alias, longiore circuitu, cuſtodias ſtationeſque equitum
vitabant: aut, aliquo accepro detrimento, aut procul
* ; equitatd
ps BELLo CIVIII Lis. I. 2173
Wequitatu viſo, ex medio itinere, projectis ſarcinis, fu-
iebant. Poſtremò & plures intermittere dies, &, præ-
er conſuetudinem omnium, noctu conſtituerant pabu-
ari.
LIV. Interim Oſcenſes, & Calagurritani, qui erant
um Oſcenfibus contributi, mittunt ad eum legatos;
eſeque imperata facturos pollicentur. Hos, Tarraco-
nences & Jacetani & Auſetani, &, paucis pdſt diebus,
Wllurgavonenſes, qui flumen Iberum attingunt, inſe-
Wovuntur. Petit ab his omnibus, ut ſe frumento juvent:
Wrollicentur;z atque, omnibus undique conquiſitis jumen-
Weis, in caſtra deportant. Tranſit etiam cohors Illurga-
Wvonenſis ad eum, cognito civitatis conſilio; & ſigna ex
Whatione transfert. Magna celeriter fit commutatio re-
um. Perfecto ponte; magnis v civitatibus ad amici-
Pram adjunctis; expedita re frumentaria ; exſtinctis ru-
Wnoribus de auxiliis legionum, quæ cum Pompeio per
Mauritaniam vergre dicebantur: multæ longinquiores
Neivitates ab Afranio deſciſcunt, & Cæſaris amicitiam
Wequuntur, ,
LV. Quibus rebus, perterritis animis adverſariorum;
WCziar, ne ſemper magno circuitu per pontem equita-
us eſſet mittendus, nactus idoneum locum, foſſas pe-
dum xxx in altitudinem complures facere inſtituit;
Nuibus partem aliquam Sicoris averteret, vadumque in
o flumine efficeret. His pene effectis; magnum in
imorem Afranius Petreiuſque perveniunt, ne omnino
rumento pabul6que intercluderentur; quod multum
æſar equitatu . itaque conſtituunt iis locis ex-
edere, & in Celtiberiam bellum transferre. Huic con-
flo ſuffragabatur etiam illa res: quòd, ex duobus con-
iis generibus; quæ ſuperiore bello cum L. Sertorio
Kterant, civitates victæ, nomen atque imperium ab-
entis timebant; quæ in amicitia manſerant Pompeii,
ns affectæ beneficiis eum diligebant: Cæſaris au-
em in barbaris erat nomen obſcurius. Hine magnos
Wquitatas, magnaque auxilia exſpectabant; & ſuis locis
dellum in hyemem dacere cogitabant. H6c inito con-
io; toto flumine Ibero naves conquirere, & Octoge-
an adduci jubent ; id erat oppidum poſitum ad Ibe-
rum,
214 C. JULI CESARIS
rum, milliaque paſſuum a caſtris aberat xx: ad eum
locum fluminis, navibus junctis, pontem imperant fieri;
- Legioneſque 11 flumen Sicorim tranſducunt; caſtraque
muniunt vallo pedum x11.
- LVI. Qua re you exploratores cognita ; ſummo la-
bore militum Cæſar, continuato diem noctémque opere
in flumine avertendo, huc jam rem deduxerat, ut equi.
tes, etſi difficulter atque zgre fiebat, poſſent tamen at-
que auderent flumen tranſire: pedites verd tantummodo
humeris ac ſummo pectore exſtabant: ut, cùm altitu-
dine aquæ, tum etiam rapiditate luminis, ad tranſeun—
dum impedirentur. Sed tamen eodem fere tempore
pons in Ibero prope effectus nunciabatur; & in Sicori
vadum reperiebatur. Jam verò eo magis illi maturan-
dum itet exiſlimabant; itaque, 11 auxiliaribus cohorti-
bus Ilerdz præſidio relictis, omnibus copiis Sicorim
tranſeunt; & cum 11 legionibus, quas ſuperioribus die-
bus tranſduxerant, caſtra conjungunt, Relinquebatut
Cefari nihil, niſi uti equitatu agmen adverſariorum
male haberet & carperet: pons enim ipſius, magnum
circuitum habebat; ut multo breviore itinere illi ad
Iberum pervenire poſlent. Equites ab eo miſſi, flumen
tranſeunt: & quum de tertia vigilia Petreius atque
Afranius caſtra moviſſent, repentè ſeſe ad noviſimun
agmen oſtendunt; &, magna multitudine circumfuca,
morari atque iter impedire incipiunt.
LVII. Prima luce ex ſuperioribus locis, quæ Caſari
caſtris erant conjuncta, cernebatur equitatiis noſtri prcł-
lio noviſſimos illorum premi vehementer ; ac nonnun—
quam ſuſtinere extremum agmen, atque interrumpi:
alias inferri ſigna, & univerſaram cohortium impete
noſtros propelli; deinde rurſus converſos inſequi. Totis
vero caltris milites circulari & dolere, ho/tem ex mani
dimitti, bellum necefſarid longius duci. Centuriones ui
bun6ſque militum adire atque obſecrare, ut per «0
Cæſar certior fieret, ne /abori ſuo neu periculs parcerit
Paratos ofje ſeſe; preſſe & audere ea tranſire fiumin, id
tram ſductus et equitatus. Quorum ſtudio & vocibus en.
citatus Czlar ; etſi timebat tantæ magnitudinis flumin
exercitum ohjicere, conandum tamen atque *
1 um
—
pon BelLo Civiti Lis. I. 215
dum judicat. Itaque infirmiores milites ex omnibus
centuriis deligi jubet, quorum aut animus aut vires vi-
debantur ſuſtinere non poſſe; hos cum legione uni
præſidio caſtris relinquit: reliquas legiones expeditas
educit; magn6que numero jumentorum in flumine ſa-
pra atque infra conſtituto, tranſducit exercitum. Pauci
ex his militibus, vi fluminis abrepti, ab equitatu exci-
piuntur ac ſublevantur: interiit tamen nemo. Tranſ-
ducto incolumi exercitu, copias inſtruit; triplicemque
aciem ducere incipit: ac tantum fuit in militibus ſtudi-
um, ut, millium v1 ad iter addito circuitu, magnaque
ad vadum fluminis mora interpoſita, eos, qui de terti3
vigilia exiſſent, ante horam diei 1x conſequerentur,
LVIII. Quos ubi Afranius procul viſos, cum Petreio
conſpexit ; nova re perterritus, locis ſuperioribus con-
fiſtit, aciemque inſtruit. Cæſar in campis exercitum re-
ficit, ne defeſſum prœlio objiciat: rurſus conantes pro-
gredi, inſequitur & moratur, Illi neceſſariò maturids,
quam conſtituerant, caſtra ponunt. Suberant enim
montes, atque A millibus paſſuum v itinera difficilia at-
que anguſta excipiebant. Hos intra montes ſe recipie-
angultiis collocatis, exercitum itinere prohiberent; ipſi,
ſine periculo ac timore, Iberum copias tranſducerent;
quod fuit illis cœnandum, atque omni ratione efficien-
dum: ſed, totius diet pugnã atque itineris labore defeſſ;
proximo colle caſtra ponit. . 4
LIX. Media circiter nocte, iis} qui adaquandi causa
longizs à caſtris proceſſerant, ab dann h
fit ab his certior Cæſar, duces adverſafſgrui Rentio
copias caſtris educere. Quo cognito; fighym dati ja-
det, & vaſa militari more conclamati? H, &#udito
clamore, veriti, ne noctu impedit? ſuß onere confligere
cogerentur, aut ne ab equititu Cars in anguſtiis te-
perentur ; iter ſupprimunt, Fopfeſque: in caſtris conti-
dent. Poſtero die Petreius, cum patieis-<quitibus, OCs
cults ad exploranda loca proficiſtitur: hoc idem fit ex
caſtris Cæſaris ; mittitur L. Decidivs Saxa cum paucis,
qu loci naturam perſpiciat, Utert de idem ſuis renun-
a Len ciat;
— — — — — — ::D”e—?:o
bant, ut equitatum effugerent Cæſaris; præſidiiſque in
tem in poſterum diem diſtulerunt. Cæſar quoque in
. . |
216 c. Jutir1 Caganis
ciat; v millia paſſuum proxima intercedere, itineri;
cawpeſtris ; inde excipere loca aſpera & montuoſa: qu
wif has anguſtias occupaverit, ab hoc hoſtem prohi.
ri nihil efle negoti.
LX. Diſputatur in concilio a Petreio & Afranio, 4
tempus profectionis quæritur. Plerique cenſebant, u
noctu iter facerent by poſſe prius ad anguſtias Ventri, quan
ſentirentur. Alii, quad pridie noctu conclamatum «ſet i
caſtris Ce/aris, argumenti ſumebant loco, now po//e clin
exiri : circumfundi noctu equitatum Ce/aris, atque ont
loca atque itinera obſideri : nocturndgue prelia «f/e vitan Wi
quod perterritus miles in civili diſſenſione timori mags qu
religion conſulere conſueverit : at lucem multum per ſe pudoren
ommium oculis, multum etiam tribunorum militum && cent.
rionum preſentiam afferre ; quibus rebus coerceri milite;, &
in officio contineri ſoleant: quare omni ratione efſe inter
ferrumpendum : etft aliquo accepto detrimento, tamen, ſanni
exercitus Jalva, locum quem petant capi po? Hæc vicitin
concilio ſententia; & prima luce poflridie conſtituu
proficiſci. |
- LXI. Cæſar, exploratis regionibus, albente co
omnes copias caſtris educit ; magnoque circuitu, null
certo itinere, exercitum ducit: namque itinera quz 4
Werum atque Octogeſam pertinebant, caſtris hoſtjun
fitis tenebantur. Ipſi erant tranſcendendæ val
maximz ac difficillimæ; ſaxa multis locis prærupta i
jebant: ut arma per manus neceflario trani
rentuys militeſque inermes, ſublevatique alii ab ali
m itineris conficerent; ſed hunc labore
recuſaba nemo; qudd eum omnium laborum fines
fore exiflimabant, fi hoſtem Ibero intercladere & i
mento * potuiſſent. Ac primò Afraniani mil
tes, viſendi causdy laæti ex caſtris procurrebant ; cf.
meliosHque yocibus ebantur, neceſſarii vici 1 . at
ia coattos Hherdam rewerti. Erat etl an
Ker à pro $ contrariamque in partem —
videbatur. Duces verd corum ſuum conſilium laudid
ferebant, qudd fe eaftris tenuiſſent : my”
opinionem adjuvabad, quod fine zomentis impe m6
riſque ad iter profeftes videbant ; ut non pole di
inopu
- ve BEIIO Crviti Lis. I. 217
inopiam ſuſtinere confiderent. . Sed, ubi paullatim
retorqueri agmen ad dextram conſpexerunt, jamgque
primos ſuperare regionem caſtrorum animadverterunt z
nemo erat adeò tardus, aut fugiens laboris, quin ſtatim
caſtris exeundum atque occurrendum putaret. Concla-
matur ad arma; atque omnes copiz, paucis præſidio
relictis cohortibus, exeunt, reftoque ad Iberum itinere
contendunt. | |
LXII. Erat in celeritate omne poſitum certamen, ut:1
pris anguſtias monteſque occuparent : ſed exercitum
Ceſaris viarum difficultates tardabant ; Afranii copias
equitatus Cæſaris inſequens morabatur. Res tamen ab
A franianis huc erat neceſſariò deducta; ut, ſi priores
[7 montes, quos petebant, attgiſtent, ipſi periculum vit
Went; impedimenta totius exercitũs, cohorteſque in cal-
ris relictas, ſervare non poſſent, quibus intercluſis ex-
rcitu Cæſatis, àuxilium ferri nulla ratione poterat.
on fecit pitor iter Cæſar; atque ex magnis rupibus
aus planiciem, in hac contra hoſtem aciem 1ottruit,
\ franius, quum ab equitatu noviſſimum agmen preme-
etur, & ante ſe hoſtem videret; collem quendam nec-
ps, ibi conſtitit: ex eo loco 1v cetratorum cohortes in
Wontem, qui erat in conſpectu omnivm excelſiſſimue,
1:tit; hunc magno curſu concitatos jubet occupare ;
o conſilio, ut! ipſe eõdem omnibus copiis contenderet, .
, mutato itinere, jugis Otogeſam perveniret. Hurc
aum obliquo itinere c2trati peterent; conſpicatus equi-
tus Cæſaris, in cohortes impetum facit: nec minimam
artem temporis equitum vim cetrati ſuſtinere potue-
nt; omnẽſque ab his circumventi, in conſpectu utriuſ-
ve exercitùs interfieiuntur.
LXIII. Erat occaſio bene gerendæ rei. Neque vers
Cæſarem fugiebat, tanto ſub oculis accepto detri-
ento perterritum exercitum ſuſtinere non poſſe; præ-
rum circumdatum undique equitatu ; quum in loco
Nuo atque aperto confligeretur. Idque ex omnibus
W'tidus ab eo flagitabatur. Concurrebant legati, cen-
ones, tribunique militum : xe dubitaret prelium com-
ere : omnium efſe militum paratiſſimos animes : Afrania-
contra, multis rebus ſui 1 figna miſſſſe; quid ſuis
non
cundo prœlio, aliquos ex ſuis amitteret? cur vulnerari
etiam miſericordia civium, quos interficiendos videbat;
amiſerant ; de reliquis rebus conſultabant. Erat unun
. xs. r=
218 C. Juri Casanris
non ſubveniſſent ; quod de colle non decederent ; quod dix
equitum incurſus ſuſtinerent; collatiſque in unum locum jig.
nis conferti, neque ordines negut ſig na ſervarent. Quòd |
zniquitatem loci timeret ; datum iri tamen aligus loco pug-
nandi facullatem; quod ceri? inde decedendum efſet Afraniz,
nec fine aqua permanere peſſet.
LXIV. Cæſar in eam ſpem venerat, ſe, fine pugnz
& fine vulnere ſuorum, rem conficere poſle ; quòd re
frumentaria adverſarios interclufiflet. Cur, etiam ſe—
pateretur optimè meritos de ſe milites ? cur denique for-
tunam periclitaretur ? præſertim quum non minds eſſet
imperatoris, conſilio ſuperare, quàm gladio: movebatut
quibus ſalvis atque incolumibus rem obtinere malebat,
Hoc conſilium Cæſaris a pleriſque non probabatur:
milites vero palam inter ſe loquebantur; guoniam tai
occaſio victeriæ dimitteretur ; etiam quum wellet Cæſar,
ſeſe non efſe pugnaturos. Ille in tua ſententia perſeverat;
& paullum ex eo loco digreditur, ut timorem adverſacii
minuat. Petreius atque Afranius, oblatà facultate, in
caſtra ſeſe referunt. Czfar, prefidiis in montibus cif. WW
oſitis, omni ad Iberum intercſuſo itinere, quam pro-
ime poteſt hoſtium caſtris, caſtra communit.
LXV. Poſtero die duces adverſariorum perturbzt,
quòd omnem rei frumentariæ fluminiſque Iberi ſpen
iter, Ilerdam fi reverti vellent ; alterum, fi Tarraconen
peterent. Hæc confiliantibus eis, nunciatur dung
ab equitatu premi noſtro: qua re cognita ; crebras ſts
tiones difponunt equitum & cohortium alariarum, |
gionariaſque interjiciunt cohoites : vallamque ex caltni
ad aquam ducere incipiunt ; ut intra munitionem & line
timore, & ſine ſtationihus, aquari poſſent. Id opus ite
ſe Petreius atque Afranius partiuntur ipsique perficiend
operis causa, longiùs progrediuntur.
LXVI. Quorum diſceſſu liberam nacti milites colle
quiorum facultatem, vulgo procedunt : & quem qui
que in caſtris notum aut municipem habebat, congu
rit atque evocat. Primùm agunt gratias omnes a
; 2 6 49
*
DE BTT Crvitt Lis, I. 219
bus, quod ſibi perterritis pridie peperciſſent: eorum ſe
beneficio vivere. Deinde Imperatoris fidem quærunt;
recene ſe illi ſint commiſſuri. Et, quòd non ab initio
fecerint, armaque cum hominibus neceſſariis & con-
ſanguinies contulerint; conqueruntur. His provocati
ſermonibus, fidem ab Imperatore de Petreii & Afranii
vita petunt; ne quod in fe ſcelus concepiſſe, neu ſuos
prodidiſſe yideantur: quibus confirmatis rebus, fe ſtatim
ſigna tranſlaturos confirmant ; legat6ſque de pace pri-
morum ordinum centuriones ad Cæſarem mittunt. In-
terim alii ſuos in caſtra, invitandi causa, adducunt; alii
ab ſuis abducuntur: adeò ut una caſtra jam facta ex
binis viderentur: complureſque tribuni militum & cen-
turiones ad Cæſarem veniunt, ſéque ei commendant.
Hoc idem fit a principibus Hiſpaniæ; quos illi evoca-
verant, & ſecum in caſtris habebant obſid um loco. li
ſuos notos hoſpiteſque quærebant, per quem quiſque
eorum aditum commendationis haberet ad Cæſarem.
Afranii etiam filius adoleſcens de ſua & parentis ſui ſa-
lute cum Cæſare per Sulpicium legatum agebat. Erar t
plena lætitià & gratulatione omnia; eorum, qui tanta
pericula vitaſle ; & eorum, qui ſine vulnere tantas res
confeciſſe videbantur : magnũmque fructum ſuæ priſtine
lenitatis, omnium judicio, Cæſar ferebat ; confiliamque
ejus a cunctis probabatur.
LXVII. Quibus rebus nunciatis Afranio; ab inſtituts
opere diſcedit, ſeque in caſtra recipit; fic paratus, (ut
videbatur) ut, quicumque accidiſſet caſus, hunc quieto
& æquo animo ferret, Petreius vero non deſerit ſeſe:
armat familiam: cum hac, & pretoria cohorte cetra-
orum, barbariſque equitibus paucis, beneficiariis ſuis,
quos ſuæ cuſtodiæ causa habere conſueverat; improvisò
ad vallum advolat: colloquia militum interrumpit:
noſtros repellit ab caſtris: quos deprehendit, interficit:
* cot unt inter ſe; &, repentino periculo exterriti,
miſtras ſagis involvunt, gladioſque diſtringunt; atque
a ſe a cetratis equitibuſque defendunt, caſtrorum pro-
pnquitate confiſi: ſceque in caſtra recipiunt; & ab iis
ohortibus, quæ erant in ſtatione ad portas, defendun-
Ur.
L. 2 LXVIII.
220 C.Jurirt CaASaRIs
LXVIII. Quibus rebus confectis; flens Petreius ma-
nipulos circuit, militeſque appellat: neu /e, neu Pompe-
ium abſentem Imperatorem ſuum, adver/arits ad ſupplicium
tranſdant; obſecrat. Fit celeriter concurſus in prætori-
um. Poſtulat, ut jurent omnes, ſe exercitum duceſque
non deſerturos, neque prodituros; neque ſibi ſeparatim
a reliquis conſilium capturos. Princeps in hc verba
jurat ipſe: idem jusjurandum adigit Afranium : ſubſe.
quuntur tribuni militum centurioneſque: centuriatim
producti milites, idem jurant: edicunt, penes quem
quiſque fit miles Cæſaris, ut producatur : productos,
palam in prætorio interficiunt : ſed pleroſque hi qui re-
ceperant, celant; nofluque per vallum emittunt. Sic
terror oblatus a ducibus, crudelitas in ſupplicio, nova
religio jurisjurandi, ſpem præſentis deditionis ſuſtulit;
mentsſque militum convertit; & rem ad priſtinam belli
rationem redegit.
LXIX. Czlar, qui milites adverſariorum in caſtra per
tempus colloquii venerant, ſomma diligent'à conquiri
& remitti jubet; ſed ex numero tribunorum militum,
centurionumque, nounull: ſua voluntate apud eum re-
manſerunt; quos ille poſtea magno in honore habuit,
Centuriones, in ampliores ordines; equites Romanos, in
Tribunitium reſtituit honorem.
LXX. Premebantur Afraniani pabulatione ; aqua-
bantur #gre. Frumenti copiam legionarii nonnu lam
habebant; qudd dierum xx11 ab llerda frumentum juſh
erant efferre: cetrati auxiliareſque, nullam; quorum
erant & facultates ad parandum exiguæ, & corpora in-
ſueta ad onera portanda; itaque magnus eorum quotidie
numerus ad Cæſarem perfugiebat. In his erat anguſtiis
res: ſed ex propoſitis conſiliis duobus, explicitics vide-
batur Ilerdam reverti; quod ibi paullulum frumenti re-
liquerant. I bi ſe reliquum conſilium explicaturos con-
fidebant. Tarraco aberat longiùs: quo ſpatio plures
rem poſſe caſus recipere intel gebant. Loc probato
conſilio, ex caſlris proficiſcuntur.” Cæſar, equitatu præ—
miſſo, qui noviſſimum agmen carperet atque impediret;
ipſe cum legionibus ſubſequitur. Nullum intercedebat
tempus quin extremi cum equitibus —
COS —ſ—D—— — — oe ue
pe Bello CIVILI Lis, I. 221
LXXI. Genus erat hoc pugnæ. Expeditz cohortes
noviſimum agmen claudebant; plurieſque in locis cam-
ribus ſubſiſtebant. Si mons erat aſcendendus ; facile
ipſa loci natura periculum repellebat; quòd ex locis
ſuperioribus, qui anteceſſerant, ſuos aſcendentes prote-
gebant: quum vallis aut locus declivis ſuberat; neque
1 qui anteceſſerant, morantibus opem ferre poterant ;
_ equites verò ex loco ſuperiore in averſos tela conjicie-
bant; tum magno erat in periculo res. Requirebatur,
ut, quum ejuſmodi eſſet locis appropinquatum, legio-
num ſigna conſiſtere juberent, magnõque impetu equi-
tatum repellerent; eo ſummoto, repente incitato curſu
ſeſe in valles univerſi demitterent, atque ita tranſgreſſi
rurſus in locis ſuperioribus conſiſterent: nam tantùm ab
equitum ſuorum auxiliis aberant, (quorum numerum
bhabebant magnum) ut eos ſuperioribus perterritos prœ-
lis in medium reciperent agmen, ultroque eos tueren-
tur; quorum nulli ex itinere excedere licebat, quin ab
equitatu Cæſaris exciperetur. |
LXXII. Tali dum pugnatur modo, lente ac paullatim
proceditur ; crebroque, ut ſint auxilio ſais, ſubſiſtunt; Ut
tum accidit ; millia enim progreſſi iv, vehementiaſque
peragitati ab equitatu; montem excelſum capiunt, ibi-
que una a fronte contra hoſtem caftra muniunt, neque .
jumentis onera deponunt. Ubi Cæſaris caſtra poſita,
tabernaculaque conſtituta, & dimiſſos equites pabulandi
causa, animadvertere; ſeſe ſubitd proripiunt. hora eirei-
ter v1 ejuſdem diei: & ſpem nacti moræ, diſceſſu noſ-
trorum equitum; iter facere incipiunt. Qua re animad-
versa, Cæ ſar eductis legionibus ſubſequitur ; præſidio
impedimentis paucas c:hortes relinquit ; hora x ſubſe-
qu! pabulatores, equiteſque revocari jubet. Celeriter
equitatus ad quotidianum itineris officium revertitur.
Puznatur acriter ad noviſſimum agmen; adeò ut pens
terga convertant : complureſque milites, etiam nonnulli
centuriones interficiuntur. Inſtabat agmen Cæſaris, at-
que univerſum imminebat. SF
LXXIII. Tum verd neque ad explorandum idoneum
locum caftris, neque ad progrediendum data facultate ;
coutiſtunt neceſſariò: & procul ab aqui, & natura ini-
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quo loco, caſtra ponunt; ſed iiſdem de cauſis Cæſar,
quz ſupra ſunt demonſtratæ, prœlio non laceſſit; & eo
die tabernacula ſtatui paſſus non eſt; quò paratiores
eſſant ad inſequendum omnes, five noctu five interdiu
erumperent. Illi, animadverſo vitio caſtrorum, tots
note munitiones proferunt; caſtraque caſtris conver-
tunt. Hoc idem poſtero die à prima luce faciunt;
*totumque in ca re diem conſumunt: ſed, quantum
opere proceſſerant, & caſtra protulerant; tanto aberant
ab aqua . 2h & præſenti malo aliis malis remedia
dabantur. Prima nocte, aquandi causa nemo egreditur
ex cafiris: proximo die, præſidio in caſtris relicto, uni-
verſas ad aquam copias educunt; pabulatum emittitur
nemo. His eos ſupplices malis haberi Cæſar, & ne-
ceſſatiam ſubire deditionem, quam prœlio decertare,
malebat: conatur tamen eos vallo folsaque circummu-
nire: ut quam maxime repentinas eorum eruptiones
demoretur, quo neceſſariò deſcenſuros exiſtimabat. Illi,
& inopia pabuli adducti, & quò eſſent ad iter expeditio-
res; omnia ſarcinaria jumenta interfici jubent.
LXXIV. In his operibus conſiliiſque, biduum conſu-
mitur: tertio die magna jam pars operis Cæſaris pro-
ceſſerat. Illi, impediendz rei causa, hora circiter vin
ſigno dato, legiones educunt; aciemque ſub caſtris in-
ſtruunt. Cæſar ab opere legiones revocat ; equitatum
omnem convenire jubet; aciem inflruit : contra opinio-
nem enim militum, famamque omnium, videri prelt-
um defugiſſe, magnum detrimentum afferebat. Sed
eiſdem de cauſis quæ ſunt cognitæ, quò minds dimi-
care vellet, movebatur; atque hoc etiam magis, quod
ſpatii brevitas, etiam in fugam conjectis adverſari,
non mu'tum ad ſummam victoriæ juvare poterat : n0
enim amplius pedum millibus 11, ab caſtris caſtra dil
tabant : hinc duas partes acies occupabant ; tertia vi
cabat, ad incurſum atque impetum militum relicta: f
prœlium committeretur, propinquitas caſtrorum celerem
ſuperatis ex fuga receptum dabat. Hac de causa con.
ſtituerat ſigna inferentibus reſiſtere, prior pree!10 non
laceſſere. |
LXXV.
Ye oa re CE IRS
pe BELLo Civiti Lis, I. 223
LXXV. Acies erat Afraniana duplex, legionum v;
& tertium in ſubſidiis locum alariz cohortes obtinebant.
Cæſaris, triplex: ſed r aciem 1 cohortes
ex v legionibus tenebant: has ſubſidiariæ ternæ, &
rarfus aliæ totide m, ſuæ cujuſque legionis, ſubſequeban-
tur: ſagittarii funditoreſque media continebantur acie:
equitatus latera cingebat. 'T ali inſtructà acie, tenere
uterque propoſitum videbatur : Cæſar, ut, niſi coactus,
prœlium non committeret: illi, ut opera Cæſaris impe-
dirent. Producitur tamen res; acieſque ad ſolis occa-
ſum continentur: inde utrique in caſlra diſcedunt.
Poſtero die, munitiones inſtitutas Cæſar parat perficere ;
illi vadum fluminis Sicoris tentare, ſi tranſire poſſent:
qua re animadverſa, Cæſar Germanos levis armaturæ,
equitimque partem, flumen transjicit; crebraſque in
ripis cuſtodias diſponit.
LXXVI. Tandem, omnibus rebus obſeſſi; quartum
jam diem fine pabulo retentis jumentis ; aquæ, ligno-
rum, frumenti inopia ; colloquium petunt: & id, fi fieri
poſſit, ſemoto a militibus loco. Ubi id a Cæſare nega-
tum; &, palàm ſi colloqui vellent, conceſſum eſt: datur
obſidis loco Cæſari filius Afrahii. Venitur in eum lo-
cum, quem Cæſar delegit: audiente utroque exercitu,
loquitur Afranius: non e aut ipſi aut militibus ſuccenſen-
dum, quod fidem erga Imperatorem ſuum Cn. Pompeium con-
er dare voluerint : ſed ſatis jam feciſſe officio, ſatiſgue ſup-
glicii tulifſe, perpeſſos omnium rerum inopiam: nunc Verd,
pe e ut fer as, circummunitos, prohiheri agud, probib er in-
greſſu : neque corpore dolorem, negue ignominiam animo ferre
er itaque Je victes confitert: orare atgue ob/ecrare, ſi quis
locus miſericorciæ relinquatur, ne ad uitinum ſupplicium
pregredi neceſſe habeant. Hac, quam poteſt demiſiſſimè
atque ſub jectiſſimè, exponit. |
LXXVII. Ad ea Cxfar reſpondit : Nulli omnium has
partes, wel querimoniæ, wel mijerationis, minus conveniſſẽ.
Reliquos enim omnes ſuum officium prefiitifſe : ſe, qui etiam
bona conditione, & loco & tempore æguo, confligere noluerit,
ut quam integerrima ent ad pacem omnia: exercitum ſuum,
qu, inmjuria etiam acceptd, fuiſque interfetis, quos in ſud
poteflate habuerit, conſervarit & texerit : illius denique ex-
L 4 ercitũs
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224 C. JULI CasARis
ercitũs milites ; qui, per ſe, de conciliandd pace egerint © qua
in re, omnium ſuorum vitæ conjulendum putarunt., Sic om.
uium ordinum partes in miſericordid conflitifſe : ipſos auces a
pace abhurruiſſe; eos, neque colloguti neque induciaram jura
Jervaſſe; & homines imperitas, & per colloquium deceptcs,
cruaelifſume interfecifſe. Accidiſſe igitur his, quod plerumpue
hominibus nimid pertinacid atque arrogantid accidere ſoliai;
u7t e0 recurrant, & id cupidiſſimè petant, quod paullo ante
contempſerint, Neque nunc ſe illorum humilitate, neque ali-
gud temporis opportunitate peftulare, quibus rebus augeantur
opes ſuæ : ſed eos exercitus, quos contra ſe multos jam anni,
aluerint, weile dimittis neque enim V1 legiones alid de cauid
mifſas in Hiſpaniam, ſeptimamgque ibi conſcriptam; neque tot
tantaſque claſſes paratas : neque ſummiſſos ducts, rei milita-
ris perites: nihil horum ad pacandas Hiſpanias, nihil ad
u/um provincie proviſum; que, propter diuturnitatem pacis,
nullum auxilium defiderat ; omnia hac jam pridem contra
fe parari : in /e novi generis imperia conſtitui; ut idem ad
portas urbanis prefideat rebus, & duas bellicefiſimas pro-
wvincias abſens tot annos obtineat: in. ſe. jura magiſtratuum
commutari; ne ex træturã & conſulatu, ut ſemper, . ſed fer
paucos probati & electi in provincias mittantur: in ſe 4tatis
excuſationem nibil valere ; quod ſuperioribus bellis probati,
ad ebtinendos exercitus evocentur: in /e una non ſervari, quid
fit omnibus datum ſemper imperatoritus ; ut, rebus feliciter
geſtis, aut cum honore aligu), aut certe fine ignominid
domum. revertantur, exercilumgue dimittant, Yue tantn
omnia, & ſe tulifſe patienter, & efſe laturum : neque nan
id agere, ut ab illis abdudtum exercitum teneat ipſe, (quad
tamen fibi difficile non fit) ſed ne illi babeant, quo contra /e
uti poſſint. Proinde, ut eſſet dictum, provinciis exceaerent,
exercitimque dimitterent « ſi ia fit factun, nociturum ſe nt
mini: hanc unam atque exiremam pacis ¶ & conditionem.
LXXVIII. Id vero militibus fuit pergratum & jucun- | port
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ere
dum, (at ex ipsa ſignificatione potuit cognoſci) ut qui ere
aliqud victi incommodi exſpectaviſſent, ultro ince pre: oi
mium miſſionis ferrent. Nam, quum de loco & tem- dbu
ore ejus rei controverſia inferretur: & voce & man bet
— univerſi ex vallo, ubi conſtiterant, ſignificare cœ-
perunt, ut ſlatim dimitterentur; neque omni *
= ü
a ve BeLlLo Civiti Lis. II. 225
\ Gti fide firmum eſſe poſſe, ſi in aliud tempus differre-
tur. Paucis quum eſſet in utramque partem verbis di-
putatum, res huc deducitur: ut ii qui habeant domi-
cilium aut poſſeſſiones in Hiſpania, ſtatim; reliqui ad
Varum flumen dimittantur. Ne cui de eis noceatur,
neve quis invitus ſacramento dicere cogatur a Cæſare,
cavetur.
LXXIX. Cæſar ex eo tempore, dum ad flumen Va-
rum veniatur, ſe frumei tum daturum pollicetur ; addit
etiam, ut, quid quiſque eorum in bello amilerit, quz
ſint penes milites ſuos, iis, qui amiſerint, reſtituatur ;
militibus, qua factà æſtimatione, pecuniam pro 118 re-
bus diflolvit. Quaſcunque poſtea controverſias inter ſe
milites habuerunt, ſua ſponte ad Cæſarem in jus adie-
runt, Petreius atque Afranius; quum ſtipendium ab
legionibus, penè ſeditione factà, flagitarentur, cujus illi
diem nondum veniſſe dicerent; Cæſar ut cognoſceret,
poſtulant: eõque utrique, quod ſlatuit, contenti fuerunt.
Parte circiter tertia exercitùs eo biduo dimiſsà; 11 le-
giones ſuas antecedere, reliquas ſubſequi juſſit; ut non
longo inter ſe ſpatio caſtra facerent: eique negotio Q.
Fuſium Kalenum legatum præfecit. Hoc ejus præſcrip-
to, ex Hiſpania ad Varum flumen eſt iter factum; atque
ibi reliqua pars exercitus dimiſſa eſt,
air
J. UM hxc in Hiſpania geruntur; C. Trebovius
legatus, qui ad oppugnationem Maſhliz relictus
erat, duabus ex partibus aggerem, vineas, turref-
que ad oppidum agere inſtituit. Una erat proxima
bportui, navalibuſque ; altera ad partem, qua elt aditvs
Jex Gallia atque Hiſpania, ad id mare, quod attingit ad
g oſtum Rhodani. - Maſfilia enim ferè ex 111 oppidi par-
| tibus man) alluitur: reliqua quarta eſt, quz aditum ha-
bet a terra. Hujus quoque ſpatii pars ea, quz ad ar-
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cem pertinet, loci naturà & valle altiflima munita, lon-
gam & difficilem habet oppugnationem. Ad ea perk-
cienda opera, C. Trebonius magnam jumentorum atque
hominum multitudinem ex omni Provincia vocat; vi-
mina materiamque comportari jubet. Quibus compa-
ratis rebus, aggerem in altitudinem pedum LXXx ex-
ſtruit.
II. Sed tanti erant antiquitus in oppido omnium
rerum ad bellum apparatus, tantaque multitudo tor-
mentorum, ut eorum vim nullæ contextæ viminibus
vinez ſuſtinere poſſent. Aſſeres enim pedum x11, cul-
pidibus prefixi, atque hi maximis balliſtis miſſi, per iv
ordines cratium in terra deſigebantur. Itaque pedalibus
lignis conjunctis inter ſe, porticus integebatur; atque
hac agger inter manus proferebatur. Antecedebat teſ.
tudo pedum Lx, æquandi loci causa; facta item ex for-
tiſſimis lignis, involuta omnibus rebus, quibus ignis jac-
tus & lapides defendi poſſent. Sed magnitudo operum,
altitudo muri atque turrium, multitudo tormentorum,
omnem adminiſtrationem tardabat: tum crebræ per
Albicos eruptiones fiebant ex oppido; igneſque aggeri
& turribus inferebantur: quz facile noſtri repellebant
milites; magniſque ultro illatis detrimentis, eos, qui
eruptionem fecerunt, in oppidum rejiciebant.
III. Interim L. Naſidius ab Cn. Pompeio cum claſſe
navium xv, in quibus paucæ erant æratæ, L. Domi-
tio Maſſilienſibuſque ſubſidio miſſus; freto Siciliæ, im-
prudente atque inopinante Curione, provehitur: ap-
pulsiſque Meſſanam navibus; atque inde, propter re-
pentinum terrorem, Principum ac Senatas fag fataz
ex navalibus eorum, navem deducit. Hac adjunctà ad
reliquas naves, curſum Maſſiliam versũs perficit : præ-
miſsãque clam navicula, Domitium Maſſiliensẽſque de
tuo adventu certiores facit: eoſque magnopere horta-
tur, ut rurſus cum Bruti claſſe, additis ſuis auxiliis,
confligant.
IV. Maſlilienſes, poſt ſuperius incommodum, veteres
ad eundem numeram ex navalibus productas naves
refecerant ; ſummaque induſtria armaverant: remigum
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gabernatorimque magna copia ſuppetebat ; piſcatoria(-
que adjecerant atque contexerant, ut eſſent ab ictu te-
lorum remiges tuti: has ſagittariis tormentiſque com-
pleverant, Tali modo inſtrudtà claſſe; omnium ſenio-
rum, matrum familiæ. virginum, precibus & fletu exci-
tati, ut extremo tempore civitati ſubvenirent; non mi-
nore animo ac fiducia, quam ante dimicaverant, naves
conſcendunt. Communi enim fit vitio nature, ut invi-
fis, latitantibus, atque incognitis rebus magis confida-
mus, vehementiũſque exterreamur: ut tum accidit; ad-
ventus enim L. Naſidii ſumma ſpe & voluntate civita-
tem compleverat. Nacti idoneum ventum, ex portu
exeunt; & Tauroenta, quod eſt caſtellum Maſſil'enſium,
ad Naſidium perveniunt: Ibique naves expediunt ; rur-
zuſque ſe ad confligendum animo confirmant; & conſilia
communicant. Dextra pars Maſſilienſibus attribuitur,
finiftra Naſidio. i
V. Eodem Brutus contendit: aucto navium numero.
Nam ad eas, quæ factæ fuerant Arelate per Cæſarem,
captive Maſſilienſtum acceſſerant vi. Has ſuperioribus
retecerat diebus, atque omnibus rebus inſtruxerat. Ita-
que ſuos cohortatus, guos integros ſuperaviſ/ent, ut wifes
contemnerent :. plenus ſpei bonæ atque animi, adversàs
eos proficiſcitur. Facile erat ex cafiris C. Trebonii,
atque omnibus ſuperioribus locis, proſpicere in urbem;
ut omnis juventus, quæ in oppido remanſerat, omne(-
que ſuperioris ætatis, cum liberis, atque uxoribus, pub-
hciſque cuſtodiis, aut ex muro ad cœlum manus tende-
rent, aut templa Deorum immortalium adirent, & ante
45 erat quiſquam omnium, qui non in ejus diei caſu
uarum omnium fortunarum eventum confiftere exifli-
maret. Nam & honeſti ex juventute, & cujuſque ætatis
ampliſſimi, nominatim evocati atque obſecrati, naves
conſcenderant: ut, fi quid adverſi accidiſſet, ne ad co-
nancum quidem fibi quidquam reliqui fore viderent; fi
ſuperaviſlent, vel domeſticis opibus, vel exteruis auxiliis;
de ſalute urbis conſiderent.
VI. Commiſſo prœlio, Maſſilienſibus res nulla ad
virtutem defuit; ſed memores eorum præceptorum,
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quæ paulld ante ab ſuis acceperant, hoe animo'decer.
tabant, ut nullum aliud tempus ad conandum habituri
viderentur; &, quibus in pugna vitz periculum accide.
ret. non ita multo ſe reliquorum civium fatum antece.
dere exiſlimarent, quibus, urbe captà, eadem eſſet belli
fortuna patienda. Deductiſque noſtris paullatim navi.
bus; &, arti ficio gubernatorum, mobilitati navium locus
dabatur; &, fi quando noſtri, facultatem nacti, ferreiz
injectis manibus navem religaverant, undique ſuis labo-
rantibus ſuccurrebant. Neque verd, conjuncti Albicis,
cominus pugnando deficiebant; neque multùm cedebant
virtute noſtris. Simul ex minoribus navibus magna vis
eminus miſſa telorum, multa noſtris de improviſo im-
prudentibus atque impeditis vulnera inferebant. Con-
ſpicatzque naves triremes 11 navem D. Bruti, quz ex
infigni facile agnoſci poterat; duabus ex partibus ſeſe in
eam incitaverant : ſed tantùm, re provisa, Brutus cele-
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he mentiſſimè utræque ex concurſu laborarent; altera
vero, perfracto roſtro, tota collabefieret. Qua re anim-
adversaà; quz proximæ ei loco ex Bruti claſſe nave
erant, in eas impeditas impetum faciunt, celeriterque 6
ambas deprimunt. .
VII. Sed Naſidianæ naves nulli uſui fuerunt, celer- :
terque pugna exceſſerunt: non enim has aut conſpec- c
tus patriæ, aut propinquorum præcepta, ad extremum rn
vitæ periculum adire cogebant. Itaque ex eo numero i.
navium nulla deſiderata eſt: ex Maſſilienſium claſſe, WW ti
V ſunt depreſſæ, iv captæ, 1 cum Nafidianis profugit; d
quæ omnes citeriorem Hiſpaniam petiverunt. At ex in
reliquis una præmiſſa Maſſiliam, hujus nuncii perſe- ru
rendi gratia, quum jam appropinquaret urbi, omnis en
ſeſe multitudo ad cognoſcendum effudit: ac, re cog- ga
nita, tantus luctus, excepit, ut urbs ab hoſtibus capta ex
esdem veltigio videretur. Maſſilienſes tamen nihilo ver
ſequius ad defenſionem urbis reliqua apparare cœpe- Dit:
runt. dus
VIII. Eft animadverſum ab legionariis, qui dexteram con
partem operis adminiſtrabant, ex crebris hoſti um etup-
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tionibus magno fibi e ſſe præſidio poſſe, fi, pro caſtello ac
receptaculo, turrim ex latere ſub muro feciſſent. Quam
primo, ad repentinos incurſus, humilem parvamque
fecerant. Huc Te referebant : hinc, fi qua major op-
preſſerat vis, propugnabant : hinc, ad repellendum &
proſequendum hoſtem, procurrebant. Patebat hzc quo-
quo versus pedes xxx; fed parietum eraſſitudo, pedum
v. Poſtea vero, (ut eſt rerum omnium magiſter uſus,
hominum adhibita ſollertia) inventum eſt, magno eſſe
uſui poſſe, fi hc eſſet in altitudinem turris elata. Id
hac ratione perfectum eſt, Ubi turris altitudo perducta
eſt ad contabulationem ; eam in parietes inſtruxerunt
ita, ut capita tignorum extrema parietum ſtractura te-
gerentur; ne quid emineret, ubi ignis hoſtium inhæ-
reſceret. Hanc inſuper contignationem, quantum tec-
tum plutei ac vinearum paſſum eft, laterculo adſtrux-
erunt: ſupraque eum locum duo tigna tranſverſa inje-
cerunt, non longè ab extremis parietibus; quibus ſuſ-
penderent eam contignationem, quæ turri tegumento eſſet
futura: ſupraque ea tigna, directo tranſverſas trabes in-
jecerunt; eaſque axibus religaverunt. Has trabes paullo
longiores atque eminentiores, quam” extremi parietes
erant, effecerunt ; ut efſet, ubi tegumenta præpendere
poſſent, ad defendendos ictus ac repellendos, dum inter
eam contignationem parietes exſtruerentur: eamque
contabulationem ſummam lateribus lut6que conſtrave-
runt: re quid ignis hoſtium nocere poſſet: centoneſque
inſuper injecerunt ; ne aut tela tormentis miſſa tabula-
tionem perfringerent, aut ſaxa ex catapultis lateritium
diſcuterent. Storias autem ex funibus anchorariis tres,
in longitudinem parietum turris, latas iv pedes, fece-
runt; eaſque ex 111 partibus, quæ ad hoſtes vergehant,
eminentibus trabibus circum turrim præpendentes reli-
gaverunt : quod unum genus tegument aliis locis erant
experti nullo telo neque tormento transjici poſſe, Ubi
verò ea pars turris, quæ erat perfecta, tecta atque mu-
nita eſt ab omni ictu hoſtium; pluteos ad alia opera ab-
duxerunt: turris tectum per ſe ipſum prehenſionibus ex
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ubi, quantum ſtoriarum demiſſio patiebatdr,, tantum
elevabant. Intra hæc tegumenta abditi atque muniti,
parietes lateribus exſtruebant: rurſuſque alia prehen-
ſione ad zdificandum ſibi locum expediebant. Ubi
tempus alterius contabulationis videbatur; tigna item,
ut primo, tecta extremis lateribus inſtruebant: exque
ea contignatione rurſus ſummam contabulationem ſto-
riaſque elevabant. Ita tutò, ac ſine ullo vulnere ac
periculo, vi tabulata exſtruxerunt: feneſtraſque, quibus
in locis viſum eſt, ad tormenta mittenda in ſtruendo
reliquerunt.
IX. Ubi ex ea turri, quz circum eſſent, opera tueri
materia bipedali, quem a turri lateritia ad hoſtium tu-
rem murumque perducerent, facere inſtituerunt. Cajus
muſculi hæc erat forma, Duæ primum trabes in ſolo,
æquè longæ, diſtantes inter ſe pedes iv, collocantur:
inque eis columellz, pedum in altizudinem », defigun-
tur. Has inter fe capreolis molii faſtigio conjunguat;
ubi tigna, quæ muſculi tegendi causà ponant, co)locen- Wi
tur: eo ſuper, tigna bipedalia injiciunt; eaque Jaminis
claviſque religant. Ad exttemum muſculi rectum,
trabeique extremas; quadratas regulas, IV patentes di-
gitos, defigunt; quæ lateres, qui ſuper muſculo ftruan-
tur, contineant. Ita faſtigiato atque ordinatim ſtructo,
ut trabes erant in capreolis collocatæ, lateribus lutoque
muſculus, (ut ab igne, qui ex muro jaceretur, tutus
eſſet) contegitur : — lateres coria inducuntur ; ne
canalibus aqua immiſſa lateres diluere poſſæt: corn
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tonibus conteguntur. Hoc opus omne tectum vines fa
ad ipſam turrim perficiunt; ſabiteque, inopinantibus Nu
hoſtibus, machinatione navali, palangis ſubjectis, ad eu
turrim hoſtium admovent, ut edificio jungatur. *
ut
X. Quo malo perterriti ſubitò oppidani, ſaxa quam
muro in muſculum devolvunt. Ictum firmitas maten
ſuſtinet; & quidquid incidit, faſtigio muſculi elabitu
Id ubi vident, mutant conſiljum: cupas tzda ac pice
refertas incendunt; eaſque de muro in muſculum de-
volvunt,
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volvunt.. Involutæ labuntur: delapſe ab lateribus-
longuriis furciſque ab opere removentur. Interim ſab
— milites vectibus inſima ſaxa turris hoſtium,
quibus fundamenta continebantur, convellunt. Muſ-
eulus ex turri lateritia a noſtris telis tormentiſque de-
fenditur : hoſteſque ex muro ac turribus ſubmoventur.
Non datur libera muri defendendi facultas. Compluri-
bus jam lapidibus ex ea, quæ ſuberat, turri ſubductis;
repentina ruina pars ejus turris concidit: pars reliqua
conſequens procumbebat. | f
XI. Tum hoſtes, turris repentina ruinà commoti,
inopinato malo turbati, Deorum ira perculſi, urbis di-
reptione perterriti; inermes cum infulis ſeſe porta foras
univerſi proripiunt : ad legatos atque exercitum ſuppli-
ces manus tendunt. Qua nova re oblata, omnis ad-
miniſtratio belli conſiſtit: militẽſque averſi a prœlio,
ad ſtudium audiendi & cognoſcendi feruntur. Ubi
hoſtes ad legatos exercitimque pervenerunt, univerſi ſe
ad pedes projiciunt : Orant, ut adventns Cæſaris exſpec-
tetur : captam ſuam urbem widert, opera per fecta, turrem
ſubrutam ; itague à defenſione defiſtere : nullam exoriri mo-
ram poſſe, quo minus, cum veniſſet, fi imperata non facerent,
ad nutum à wefligio diriperentur. Docent, ii omninoturris
concidiſſet, non poſſe milites contineri, quin\pe prede in ur-
bem irrumperent, urbemgue delerent. Hæc, atque ejuſdem
generis complura, ut ab hominibus doctis, magna cum
miſericordia fletaque pronunciantur.
XII. Quibus rebus commoti legati, milites ex opere
deducunt; oppugnatione deſiſtunt; operibus cuſtodias
relinquunt. Induciarum quodam genere miſericordia
facto, ad ventus Cæſaris exſpectatur. Nullum ex muro,
nullum a noſtris mittitur telum; ut re confectà, omnes
curam & diligentiam remittunt: Cæſar enim per literas
Trebonia magnopere mandaverat, ne per vim oppi-
dum expugnari pateretur ; ne gravius permoti milites,
& defectionis odio, & contemptione ſui, & diutino la-
bore, omnes puberes interficerent, quod ſe facturos mi-
nabantur: ægrẽque tunc ſunt retenti, quin oppidum
urumperent; graviterque eam rem tulerunt, quod ſte-
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tiſſe per Trebonium, quo minds oppido potirentur, vi-
de batur. | |
XIII. At hoſtes fine fide tempus atque occaſionem
fraudis ac doli quzrunt : interjectiſque aliquot diebus,
noſtris languentibus atque animo remiſſis, ſubito, meri.
diano tempore, quum alius diſceſſiſſet, alius ex diutino
labore in ipſis operibus quieti ſe dediſſet; arma ver)
omnia repoſita contectaque eſſent; portis ſe foras erum.
punt: ſecundo magnoque vento ignem operibus ine.
runt. Hunc fic diſtulit ventus, uti uno tempore agger,
plutei, teſtudo, turris, tormentaque, flammam concipe-
rent; & priùs bac omnia conſumerentur, quam, quem-
admodum accidiſſet, animadverti poſſet. Noſtri repen-
tina fortuna permoti, arma, quæ poſſunt, arripiunt: ali
ex caſtris ſeſe incitant. Fit in hoſtes impetus: ſed e
muro, ſagittis, tormentiſque, fugientes perſequi prohi-
bentur, Illi ſub murum ſe recipiunt; ibique muſculum,
turrimque lateritiam, libere incendunt. Ita multorum
menſium labor, hoſtium perfdia, & vi tempeſtatis,
puncto temporis interiit. Tentaverupt hoc idem Maſi.
lienſes poſtero die, eandem nacti tempeſtatem ; mayori-
que cum fiducia ad alteram turrem aggeremque erupti-
one pugnaverunt ; multumque ignem intulerunt: ſed,
ut ſuperioris temporis contentionem noſtri omnem re-
miſerant; -ita proximi diei caſu admoniti, omnia ad de-
fenſionem paraverant. Itaque multis interfectis, reli-
quos infectà re in oppidum repulerunt.
XIV. Trebonius ea, quæ ſunt amiſſa, multo majore
ſtudio militum adminiſtrare & 'reficere inſtituit. Nam
ubi tantos ſuos labores & apparatus malè cecidiſſe vi-
derunt; induciiſque per ſcelus violatis, ſuam virtutem
irriſui fore perdoluerunt: quod, unde agger omnino
comportari poſſet, nihil erat reliquum ; omnibus arbo-
ribus longe lateque in finibus Maſſilienſium exciſis, &
convectis; aggerem novi generis atque inauditum, ex
lateritiis duobus muris ſenum pedum craſſitudine, at-
que eorum murorum contignationem facere inſtitue-
runt, qua fere latitudine atque ille congeſtus ex ma
teria fuerat agger ; ubi autem ſpatium inter mutos
aut
9 R ö
pe BEILO CI VIII Lis. II. 233
aut imbecillitas materiz, poſtulare videretur; pilæ inter-
onuntur; tranſverſaria tigna injiciuntur, quæ firmamento
eſſe poſſint; & quidquid eſt contignatum, cratibus con-
ſternitur; cratEique Juto- integuntur. Sub tecto, miles;
dextera ac ſiniſtra, muro tectus; adverſus, plutei objectu;
operi quæcunque uſui ſunt, fine periculo ſupportat.
Celeriter res adminiſtratur : diuturni laboris detri-
mentum, ſollertia & virtute militum brevi reconcin-
natur. Portæ, quibus locis vid tur, eruptionis causa, in
muro relinquuntur.
XV. Quod ubi hoſtes viderunt; ea, quæ diu longs-
que ſpatio refici non poſſe fperaſſent, paucorum die-
rum opera & labore ita refecta, ut nullus perfdiz ne-
que eruption locus eſſet; neque quidquam omnino re-
linqueretur, quo aut vi militibus, aut igni operibus, no-
ceri poſſet: eodèmque exemplo ſentiunt totam urbem,
qua fit aditus ab terra, muro turribuſque circumveni-
11 poſſe ; ſic, ut ipſis conſiſtendi in ſuis munitionibus
locus non eſſet, quum pene inzdificata in muris ab
exercita noſtro mœnia viderentur, ac tela manu con-
jicerentur; ſuorumque tormentorum uſum, quibus ipſt
magna ſperaviſſent, ſpatio propinquitatis interire; pari-
que conditione è muro-ac turribus bellandi data, virtute
ſe noſtris adæquare non poſſe intelligunt: ad eaſdem
deditionis conditiones recurrunt.
XVI. M. Varro in ulteriore Hiſpania initio, cognitis
is rebus, quæ ſunt in Italia geſtæ, diſſidens Pompeia-
nis rebus, amiciſſimè de Cæſare loquebatur : præoccupa-
In ſeſe legatione ab Cn, Pampeio, teneri obſtrictum fide *
WW co/itudinem guidem ibi mihbilo minorem cum Ceſare
Wer cedere ; neque ſe ignerare, quod gt officium legati, qui
duciariam operam obtineret ; quæ wires ſuæ, que voluntas
#% Ce/arem totius provintie, Hæc omnibus ferebat ſer-
| monibus; neque ſe in ullam partem movebat Poſtea
Pero, quum Cæſarem ad Maſſiliam diſtineri cognovit;
opias Petreii cum exercitu Afranii efle conjunctas 3
Pagaa auxilia conveniſſe; magna efle in ſpe atque
xſpectatione; & conſentire omnem citeriorem Pro-
WF ociam ;- quazque poltea acciderant, de anguſtiis ad
erdam rei frumentariæ accepit ; atque hæc ad eum la-
— tiùs
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1 quod Maſſilienſibus, item quod Afranio Petrei6que mit-
autem hæc erat belli; ut ſe cum 11 legionibus Gaces
liam revocabatur, tamen conſtituera nullam parten
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234 C. Julin Casarnrs
tids atque inflatiüs Afranius perſcribebat: ſe quoque
ad motum fortunz movere ccepit, Delectum habit
tota provincia: legionibus completis 11, cohortes Circiter
xxx alarias addidit: frumenti magnum numerum coegit,
teret: naves longas x Gaditanis, ut facerent, imperavit;
eomplures præterea Hiſpali faciendas curavit; pecuniam
omnem, omniaque ornamenta ex fano Herculis in op-
pidum Gades contulit. Eà vi cohortes, prefidii causa,
ex provincia mifit ; Caiumque Gallonium, equitem
Romanum, familiarem Domitii, qui ed procurandz
hereditatis causa' venerat mifius a Domitio, oppido
Gadibus præfecit; arma omnia, privata & publica,
in domum Gallonii contulit. Iple habuit graves in
Cæſarem conciones: ſwpe ex tribunali prædicavit, 4d.
verſa Cæſarem jrelia feciſſe; Ke. ag numerum ab #
militum ad Afranium perfugiſſe; hac ſe certis nuntiiy
certis auctoribus, comperiſſe. Quibus rebus perterritos
eives Romanos ejus provinciæ, fibi ad Rempublicam
adminiſtrandum HS cxc, & argenti pondo xx millia,
tritici modios Cxx millia, polliceri coegit. Quas Cz-
ſari eſſe amicas civitates arbitrabatur, iis graviora onen
injungebat: qui verba atque orationem adversus Rem-
23 habuifſent, eorum bona in publicum addice-
at; præſidiãque eò deducebat; & judicia in privatos
reddebat ; provinciam omnem in ſua & Pompeii verb
jusjurandum adigebat. Cognitis iis rebus, quz ſunt
geſtæ in citeriore Hiſpania ; parabat bellum. Ratio
conferret ; naves, frumentimque omne, ibi contineret;
(provinciam enim omnem Cæſaris rebus favere cgi
verat) in inſulà, frumento navibaſque comparatis, b mu
lum duci non difficile exiſtimabat. :
XVII. Cæſar, etfi multis neceſſariiſque rebus in Itt
belli in Hiſpaniis relinquere; quod magna eſie Pom.
11 beneficia & magnas clientelas in citeriore provis
cia ſciebat. Itaque duabus legionibus miſſis in ulten®
rem Hiſpaniam cum Q. Caſſio Tribuno plebis, e:
eum equitibus Þc magnis itineribus progreditur ; 8
tum
pt BELLO Civiti Lis. II. 235
zjimque præmittit, ad quam diem magiſtratus prinei-
peſque omnium civitatum fibi eſſe præſtò Cordubæ
vellet. Quo edits tota provincia pervulgato ; nulla
fuit civitas, quin ad id tempus partem fenatas Cordu-
bam mitteret; nulliſve civis Romanus paulld notior,
quin ad diem conveniret. Simul ipſe Cordubz con-
ventus, per ſe portas Varroni clauſit: cuſtodias vigiliaſ-
que in muro turribaſque diſpoſuit: cohortes 11, que
Colonicæ appellabantur, quum eo, caſu veniſſent; tu»
endi oppidi causa, apud ſe retinuit. Iifdem diebus
Carmonenſes, quæ eſt longe firmiſſima totius provin-
ciæ civitas; deductis 111 in arcem oppidi cohortibus A
Varrone præſidio, per ſe cohortes ejecit, portaſque
præcluſit. |
XVIII. Hoc verd magis properare Varro, ut cum
legionibus quamprimum Gades contenderet ; ne itinere
aut transjectu intercluderetur: tanta ac tam ſecunda
in Cæſarem voluntas provinciæ reperiebatur. Progreſſo
ei paulld longiùs, litteræ a Gadibus redduntur ; fmut
= argue cognitum fit de edidto Cæſaris, conſenſiſſ' Gaditanos
= principes cum Tribunis cobortium, qua effent ibi in præ-
Als, ut Gallonium ex oppido expellerent, urbem inſulamgus
= Cz/ari ſervarent : hac inito confilio, denunciaviſſe Gal-
bio, ut ſud ſponte, dum fine periculo liceret, excederet Ga-
bus; fi id non fecifſet, ibi confilium capturos: hic timore
adductum Gallonium, Gadibus exceſſiſe. His cognitis re-
bos, altera ex 11 legionibus, quæ Vernacula appellaba-
ur, ex caſtris Varronis, adſtante & inſpectante ipſo,
ſigna ſuſtulit, ſeſeque Hiſpalim recepit, atque in foro
& porticibus fine maleficio conſedit: quod factam adeò
eius conventũs cives Romani comprobaverunt, ut do-
num ad fe quiſque hoſpitio cupidiſſimè reciperet.
W Quibus rebus perterritus Varro; quum, itinere con-
Nerſo, ſeſe Italicam venturum pronunciafſet ; certior à
q ſais factus eſt, præcluſas eſſe portas. Tum verd, omni"
WW tercluſus itinere, ad Cæſatem mittit ; paratum /e gi,
ionem, cui jufſerit, trauſdere. Ile ad eum Sex. Cæ-
em mittit, atque huic tranſdi jubet. Tranſdita le-
one, Varro Cordubam ad Cæſarem venit: relatis ad
um publicis rationibus; cum fide, quod penes eum
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226 c. TJurtin Ca$SARIS
eſt pecuniz, tranſdit; &, quod ubique habeat frumenti
ac navium, oſtendit. ' |
XIX. Czfar, habitz concione Cordubæ, omnibus ge-
neratim gratias agit: civibus Romanis ; quod oppidum
in ſoa poteſtate ſtuduifſent habere : Hiſpanis; qudd
ene expuliſſent: Gaditanis: quòd conatus adver.
ariorum infregiſſent, ſeſẽque in libertatem vindicaſ.
ſent : tribunis militum centurionibuſque, qui eo præ-
ſidii causa venerant ; quod eorum conſilia ſua virtute
confirmaſſent. Pecunias, quas erant in publicum Var.
roni cives Romani polliciti, remittit : bona reſtituit
Is, quos liberiùs locutos hanc pœnam tulifſe cogno-
verat : tributis quibuſdam publicis privatiſque premiis,
reliquos in poſterum bona ſpe complet: biduvumque
Cordubæ commoratus, Gades proficiſcitur: pecunias
monumentaque, quæ ex fano Herculis collata erant
in privatam domum, referri in templum jubet: pro-
vinciæ Q. Caſſium preficit ; huic 1v legiones attribu-
it: ipſe jis navibus, quas M. Varro, quaſque Gadita-
ni juſſu Varronis fecerant Tarraconem paucis diebus
pervenit. Ibi totius fere citerioris provinciz legatio-
nes, Cæſaris adventum exſpectabant. Eadem ratione
privatim ac publice quibuſdam civitatibus habitis ho- d:
noribus, Tarracone diſcedit ; pedibuique Narboncm, ty
atque inde Maſſiliam, perverit. Ibi legem de Dich- lit
tore latam, ſeſeque Dictatorem dictum a M. Lepido dr
prætore, cor noſcit. | | | Nau
XX. Maſſilienſes, omnibus defeſſi malis; rei frumen- nat
tariæ ad ſummam inopiam adducti; bis prœlio naval! au.
ſuperati; crebris eruptionibus fuſi; | bak etiam pelil- Wa crc
lentia conflictati, ex diutina concluſione & mutatiore reli
vitis; (panico enim vetere, atque hordeo corrupt Wl fir:
omnes alebantur; quod ad hvjuſmodi caſus antiquitu Wn 5
paratum, in publicum contulerant) dejefa turri ; lave- öpfe
faa magna parte muri; auxiltis provinciarum & e
ercituum deſperatis, quos in Czlaris poteſtatem e.
niſſe cognoverant : ſeſe dedere fine fraude conſtituuſ
Sed paucis ante diebus L. Domitius, cognita Maſi
enſium voluntate ; navibus 111 comparatis, (ex quit
11 familiaribus ſuis attribuerat, unam ipſe _—
. n
ps Brlro Civiti Lis. II. 237
rat) nactus turbidam tem peſtatem, eſt profectus. Hunc
conſpicatæ naves, quæ, juſſu Bruti, conſuetudine queti-
diana ad portum excubabant ; ſublatis anchoris, ſequi
cœperunt: ex ils unum, ipſius navigium, contendit, &
fugere perſeveravit; auxili6que tempeſtatis ex conſpectu
abiit : duo, perterrita concurſu noſtrarum navium, ſeſe
in portum receperunt. Maſſilienſes arma tormentaque
ex oppido, ut eſt imperatum, proferunt: naves ex portu
navalibuſque educunt: pecuniam ex publico tranſdunt.
Quibus rebus confectis; Cæſar magis eos pro nomine &
vetuſtate, quam pro meritis in ſe civitatis, conſervans,
11 ibi legiones przhdio relinquit ; cæteras in Italiam
mittit : ipſe ad Urbem proficiſcitur.
XXI. Iiſdem temporibus C. Curio, in Africam pro-
fectus ex Sicilia, & jam ab initio copias P. Attii Vari
deſpiciens; 11 legiones ex iv, quis a Czfare accepe-
rat, & p equites tranſportabat: biduoque & noctibus
111 navigatione conſumptis, appellit ad eum locum,
qui appellatur Aquilaria, Hic locus abeſt a Clupea
paſſuum xxii millia, havetque non incommodam
zitate ſtationem; & duobus eminentibus promontoriis
continetur. Hujus adventum L. Cæſar filius, cum x
longis navibus, ad Clupeam præſtolans; (quas naves,
Uticæ ex prædonum bello ſubductas, P. Attius reficien-
das hujus belli causa curaverat) veritus navium multi-
tudinem, ex alto refugerat: appulsaque ad proximum
littus trireme conſtrata, & in littore relifta, pedibus A-
drumetum profugerat ; id oppidum C. Confidius Lon-
eus unius legionis præſidio tuebatur : reliquæ Czfaris
en- naves ejus fuga Adrumetum fe receperunt. Hunc ſe-
val quutus M. Rufus Quæſtor navibus x11, quas præſidio
li- ordinariis navibus Curio ex Sicilià eduxerat; poſtquam
ore relictain in littore navem conſpexit, hanc remulco ab-
po, A fr4it; ipſe ad Curionem cum claſſe redit, -
irs WH XXII. Curio Marcum Uticam navibus præmittit;
abe- ple eödem cum exercitu proficiſcitur; biduique iter
en. rogreſſus, ad lumen Bagradam pervenit. Ibi C. Ca-
ve mum Rebi'um legatum cum legionibus relinquit :
ee cum equiiatu an ecedit, ad caſtra exploranda
orneliana; quod is locus peridoneus caſtris habeba-
; | tur.
%
228 C. Jurtrir Cmsanins
tur. Id autem eft jugum directum, eminens in mare,
utrãque ex parte præruptum atque aſperum, ſed paullè
tamen leniore faſtigio ab ea parte, quæ ad Uticam
vergit. Abeſt direto itinere ab Utica, paullo ampliùs
paſſuum mille: ſed hoc itinere eſt fons, quo mare
ſuccedit ; longe lateque is locus reſtagnat; quem f
quis vitare voluerit, vi millium circuitu in oppidum
perveniet. Hoc explorato loco, Curio caſtra Vari con-
ſpieit, muro oppidoque conjuncta ad portam, quæ ap-
pellatur Bellica; admodum munita, natura loci: uni
ex parte, ipſo oppido Utica; altera theatro, quod eſt
ante oppidum : ſubſtructionibus ejus operis maximis ;
aditu ad caſtra difficili & anguſto. Simul animadverit
multa undique portari atque agi pleniſſimis viis, que
repentini tumultùs timore ex agris in urbem confere-
bantur. Huc equitatum mittit, ut diriperet, atque ha-
beret loco prædæ. Eodemque tempore his rebus ſub-
ſidio pe equites Numidz ex oppido, pediteſque co,
mittuntur a Varo; quos, auxilii causa, rex Juba paucis
ante diebus Uticam miſerat. Huic & paternum hoſpi-
tium cum Pompeio, & ſimultas cum Curione intercede-
bant ; quod tribunus plebis legem promulgaverat, q"2
lege regnum jubæ publicaverat. Concurrunt equites
inter ſe: neque verò primum impetum noſtrorum Nu-
mice ferre potuerunt; ſed, interfectis circiter Cx,
reliqui ſe in caſtra ad oppidum receperunt, Interin, m.
adventu longarum navium, Curio pronunciari onerar!!
navibus jubet, quæ ſtabant ad Uticam numero circiter'
cc; /e in hoflium habiturum loco, qui non 2 weſtigis al
caſtra Corneliana wela direxiſſet. Qua pronunciatione
factà; temporis puncto, ſublatis anchoris, omnes Ut
eam relinquunt, &, quo imperatum eſt, tranſeunt. Quz
res omnium rerum copia complevit exercitum.
XXIII. His rebus g eſtis, Curio ſe in caſtra ad Bags.
dam recepit; atque univerſi exercitas conclamatione,
Imperator appellatur. Poſtero die Uticam exercitum
ducit, & prope oppidum caſtra ponit. Nondum opeie
caſtrorum perfecto, equites ex ſtatione nunciant, mag:
na auxilia equitum peditumque ab rege miſſa Utica
venire; eodemque tempore vis magna pulveris on
. : aturs
K
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hy wt
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batur; & è veſtigio temporis primum agmen erat in
conſpectu. Novitate rei Curio permotus præmittit equi-
tes, qui primum impetum ſuſtineant ac morentur: ipſe
celeriter ab opere deductis legionibus aciem inſtruit.
Equites committunt prœlium: & priùs quam plane le-
giones explicari & conſiſlere poſſent, tota auxilia regis
impedita ac perturbata, quod nullo ordine & fine ti-
more iter fecerant, in fugam ſe conjiciunt: equitatd-
que omni ferè incolumi, quod ſe per littora celeriter
in oppidum recepit; magnum peditum numerum inter-
ficiunt.
XXIV. Proxima nocte centuriones Marſi 11 ex caſtris
Curionis, cum manipularibus ſuis xx11, ad Attium
Varum perfogiunt. li, ſeu vere, quam habuerant,
opinionem perferunt ; five etiam auribus Vari ſerviunt;
(nam quæ volumus, & credimus libenter; &, quæ ſen-
timus ipſi, reliquos ſentire ſperamus) confirmant qui-
dem certe totius exercitus animos alienos eſſe a Cu-
rione; maxime opus eſſe in conſpectu exercicum venire,
& colloquendi dare facultatem. Qua opinione adductus
Varus, poſtero die mane legiones ex caſtris educit.
Facit idem Curio atque una valle non magna interjec-
ta, ſuas uterque copias inſtruit.
XXV. Erat in exercitu Vari Sext. Quinctilius Varus;
quem fuiſſe Corfinii ſupra demonſtratum eſt. Hic di-
miſſus a Cæſare in Africam venerat : legioneſque eas
tranſduxerat Curio, quas ſuperioribus temporibus Cor-
hnio receperat Cziar; adeò ut, paucis mutatis centu-
nionibus, iidem ordines manipulique conſtarent. Hane
nactus appellationis cauſam QuinRilius, circumire
Jaciem Curionis, atque obſecrare milites cœpit, ne primi
W/acraments, quod apud Domitium atque apud je Quæſtarem
i ent, memoriam deponerent; neu contra eos arma ferrent,
W's cadem Q int uſi fortund, eademque in ohſidione perpeſãñ;
pro iis pug na, ent, àᷓ quibus in contumelid perfugæ af pel-
I 1 larentay, His pauca ad ſpem largitionis addit, qu ab
pelt va liberalitate, ſi ſe _ Attium ſecuti eſſent, exipec-
nag are deberent, Hac habita oratione, nullam in partem
4 Jo exercitu Curionis fit ſignificatio; atque ita ſuas uter-
Noe copias reducit.
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240 C. JviiiCasaris
XXVI. At in caſtris Curionis magnus omnium in.
ceſſit timor: nam is varus hominum ſermonibus celeri.
ter augetur; unuſquiſque enim opiniones fingebat; &
ad id, quod ab alio audierat, ſui aliquid timoris adde.
bat; hoc ubi uno auctore ad plures permanaverat, at.
que alius alii tranſdiderat ; plures auctores ejus rei yi.
debantur. {[Civile bellum ; genus hominum, quod li.
ceret liber è facere & ſequi quod vellet: leg iones ex,
uz paullo ante apud adverſarios fuerant; nam etiam
Czfaris beneficium mutaverat conſuetudo, qua offerren.
tur: monicipia etiam adverſis partibus conjuncta; re.
que enim ex Marſis Peligniſque veniebant, ut qui ſuo-
periore nocte in contuberniis: commilitoneſgue nonnul.
li, graviores ſermones militum vulgo durids accipie-
bant: nonnulla etiam ab 1s, qui diligentiores viden
volebant, fingebantur. ]
XXVII. Quibaus de cavſis concilio convocato, de
ſumma rerum deliberare incipit. Erant ſententiæ, quz
conandum omnibus modis, caſirague Vari oppugnanda, cen.
ſerent; quod, hujuſmodi militum confilus, otium mas.
ime contrarium eſſe arbitrarentur: poſtremò, pan
dicebant, per wirtutem in pugnd belli fartunam experiri
uam dejertos, & circumventes a ſuis, gravifſimum juff/ic-
um pati Potro erant, qu1 cenſerent, de tertia cg in
caftra Corneliana recedendum; ut. majore ſpatio tem ois itt
terjecto, militum mentes ſararentur : ſimul, fi quid gravii
accidifſet, magna multitudine navium & tutius & facili
in Siciliam receptus daretur. Curio utrumque 1mprobans
conſilium, quantum alteri ſententiæ deefjct animi, lantis
alteri ſupereſſe dicebat : hos turpiſſime fuge ratienen le.
Bere, illes etiam iniquo loco dimicandum putare. Qu enn
inquit, fiducia, & opere & naturd loa munitiſſima coi
expugnari peſſe confictmus ? aut vero quid preficimus, ſi, 6
cepio magno detrimrnto, ab opprznatione ca Meru d;ſcedi
mus? quaſi non & felicitas rerum geflarum, exerciti, ben
wolentiam imperatoribus; © res aaver/e, odia cnt ie
Caftrorum autem mutatio quid habet nift turpem fi gam &
dejperationem omnium, & alienationem exercitils * Nam .
gue pudentes ſuſpicari oportet, fibi parumcredi; neque ing
Jos ſcire, ſeſe timeri ; quod illis licentiam timer augeat * |
'
; Berlo Civiti Ls, II. 241
Li: fudia diminuat. Quòd fi jam, inquit, hec explorata
babemus, guæ de exercitius alienatione dicuntur; que quidem
con aut omnino falſa, aut certe minora opinione efſe confiao
quanto diſſimulari & occullari hec, quam per nos confirmar i,
præſtat! An non, ut? corporis wulnera, ita exercitũs incom-
moda ſunt tegenda; ne ſperm adverſariis augeamus ? At
etiam, ut media node proficiſcamur, addunt ; quo majoren,
credo, licentiam habeant, qui peccare conentur + namque bu-
fuſmodi res aut pudore aut metu tenentur, quibus rebus nox
maxim? adver/aria e. Quare neque tanti ſum animi, ut
fine ſp» caſtra oppugnanaa cenſeam ; neque tanti timorit, ut
ip/e deficiam : atque omnia prius experienda arbitror ; mag-
rum confido.” .
XX VIII. Dimiſſo concilio, concionem advocat mili-
tum; commemorat, quo fit corum uſus /Iudio ad Corfinium
Cxfar ; ut magnam partem lializ, beneficio atque aucto-
ritate eorum, ſuam fecerit : Vos enim wveſtrungque fattum,
mquit, omnia deinceps municipta Sunt ſecuta; neque fine
cauſa & Cæſar amicifſime de wehis, & illi graviyim?
judicaderunt. Pompeius enim, uulis proetio puljus, veflri
ſacti prajiedicio demetus, [talia exc fju : Cefar me, gen
fibi cariſimum hab uit; g rovinciumęue Siciliam atgue Afri-
cam, fine gpuibus Urbem atque ltaliam tueri noa poteſt;
weſirg fides commiſit. Adſunt, qui vis Hortentur, ut à
27 bit aeſciſcatis, Did enim oft illis optatius guam uns
tempere & nos circumvenire, & wos nefario ſcelere obftr in-
gere? aut quid irati gravius de wobis /entire pofſunt, quam
vt es proantis, gui ſe vobis emuia debere judicant ; in eo-
ram poteſtatem wveniatis, gui je per vos per & exiſlimant ?
fin dee in Hiſpanis res geſlas Cæſaris nen audiſtis ?
duos puljes exercitus ? duos ſuperates duces ? duas receptas
frovincias * Hee acta diebus XL, quibus in conſpectu ad-
der ſariorum venerit Ceſar. An gui incolumes refiftere non
petrerunt, perditi refitant ? Vos autem, incerta victoria
Cæſaremſecuti; dijudicata jam belli fortund victum ſe-
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<ramenti mentionem faciunt : voſne vero L. Domitium, an
3; L. Demitiys delernit ? Nonne extremam paii fortunam
par alo!z
nique ex parte jam me una vobiſcum de re judicium factu-
quamint, puum weftri officii præmia percipere debeatis ?
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paratos, projecit ille? non fibi, clam wobis, ſalutem fugd
petivit . non, proditi fer illum, Cæſaris bengſicio eflis con-
Jervatt ? Sacramento gui dem vos tenere qui potuit ; guum,
prgjectis faſcibus, & depoſito imperio, privatus & captus
ie in alienam wenifſet poteſlatem ? Relinguitur nova Re.
ligio, ut, eo neglecto ſacramento, quo nunc tenemini, reſpi-
ciatis illud, qucd deditione ducis & capitis diminutione ſub.
tatum t. At credo, fi Caſarem probatis, in me offenditis;
qui de pneis in Vos meritis prædicaturas non ſum, que ſunt
adiuc & med woluntate & weſira exſpectatione leviora:
Jed tamen ſui laboris milites ſemper, eventu belli, premia
fetiuet unt; qui qualis fit fulurus, ne vos quidem dubitatis,
Hiligentiam quidem nat ram, aut quem ad finem adbuc rei
precefſit, fortumamgue, cur preteream ? An panitet von,
guod jalwvum atgue incolumem exercitum, null omnino nav!
Gefiderate, tran/duxerim? quod claſſem heſtium primo impetu
adwveniens profligauerim? guid bis per biduum equeſtri pra-
Ho juperaverim ? quod ex portu finiique, adverſariorum cc
naves onerarias adduxerim ; eogue illos compulerim, ut nequt
pedeferi itinere neque nadibus commeatu juvari pufſint ? Hat
vas fortund atque his ducibus repudtatis, Cor finienſem igno-
miuiam, an Hlalie fugam, an Hiſpaniarum deditionem, an
Africi belli prejudicia jequimini ? Equidem me Cæſaris mi-
litem dici wvolut ; vos me lmperatoris nomine appellaviſtis:
cujus fi vos peenitet, veflrum wobis beneficium remilto; nili
meum reſlituite nomen, ne ad contumeliam honorem didit
videami ni. 7
XXIX. Qua oratione permoti milites, crebro etiam
dicentem interpellabant; ut magno cum dolore inhde-
litatis ſuſpicionem ſuſtinere viderentur : diſcedentem
vero ex concione, univerſi cohortantur: magno t ani
9:0, ncu dubitet prælium committere, & ſuam fidem virli-
temque experiri. Quo facto, commutata omnium 0.
luntate & opinione, conſenſu ſummo conſtituit Cuno,
quum primum fit data poteſtas, prœlio rem committete.
Poſtero die productos, loco eodem quo ſuperiorivus
diebus conſtiterat, in acie collocat. Ne Varus quicen
Attius dubitat copias producere; five ſollicitandi mil
tes, five æquo loco dimicandi detur occaſio, ne facuitt
tem pra termittat. 4
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XXX. Erat vallis inter duas acies, ut ſupra demon-
ſtratum eſt ; non ita magna, at difficili & arduo ad-
ſcenſu. Hanc, uterque, ſi adverſariorum copiæ tranſire
c>"arentur, exſpectabat; quo æquiore loco prœlium
cod mitteret. Simul a ſiniſtro cornu, P. Attii equitatus
omnis, & una levis armaturæ interjettt complures,
uum ſe in vallem demitterent, cernebantur. Ad eos
Gario equitatum, & duas Marrucinorum cohortes. mit-
tit: quorum primum impetum equites hoſtium non tule-
runt; ſed, admiſſis equis, ad ſuos refugerunt: relicti
ab iis, qui una procurrerant, levis armature ; circam-
venicbantur atque interficiebantur ab noſtris. Huc tota
Vari converſa acies, ſuos fagere & concidi videbat.
Tum Rebilus legatus Czfaris, quem Curio ſecum ex
Sicilia duxerat, quod magnum habere uſum in re mi-
litari ſciebat 3 Perterritum, inquit, hoftem wides, Cur. o.
Ind dubitas uti temporis opportunitate ? Ie, unum elo-
cutus, ut memoria tenerent milites ea, quæ pridie fibi
conirmafſent ; ſequi ſeſe jubet, & præcurrit ante om»
nes: ade6que erat impedita vallis, ut in aſcenſa, niſi
ſublevati a ſais, primi non facile eniterentur, Sed præ-
occupatus animus Attianorum militum, timore, & fuga,
& cæde ſuorum; nihil de reſiſtendo cogitabat : omne(-
que jam ſe ab equitatu circumveniri arbitrabantur. Ita-
que priùs, quam telum adjici poſſet, aut noſtri propits
accederent; omnis Vari acies terga vertit, ſeque in
caſtra recepit.
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m XXXI. Qua in fugi Fabius Pelignus quidam, ex in-
|e- mis ordinibus, de exercitu Curionis, primum agmen
:0 fagientium conſecutus, magna voce Varum nomine
oppellans requirebat; uti unus eſſe ex ejus militibus,
L monere aliquid velle ac dicere, videretur. Ubi ille
'0- pias appellatus adſpexit, ac reſtitit; &, quis eſſet,
10 et quid vellet, quæſivit; humerum apertum gladio
ele. ppetit; paullümque abfuit, quin Varum interficeret:
bas od ille periculum, ſublato ad ejus coratum ſcuto,
em 2 itavit: Fabius à proximis militibus circumventus, in-
my 4 caſtrorum occupantur, atque iter impeditur ; plu-
aue in co loco fine vulnere, quam in prelio aut
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Fuca, intereunt: neque multum abſuit, quin etiam caſ:
tris expellerentur; ac nonnulli protinus eodem Curſu in
oppidum contenderunt. Sed cum loci natura, tum my.
nitio caſtrorum aditum prohibebat : quòd ad prœlium
egreſii Curionis milites, iis rebus indigebant, qua re
ad oppugnationem caſtrorum erant uſui. Itaque Curio
exercitum in caſtra reducit ; ſuis omnibus, præter Fabi.
um, incolumibus; ex numero adverſariorum circiter
DC interfectis, ac mille vulneratis: qui omnes, diſceſü
Curionis; multique præterea, per ſimulationem vulne.
rum; ex caſtris in oppidum, propter timorem, {eſe
reciptunt. Qua re animadverſa, Varus, & terrore ex-
ercitus cognito; buccinatore in caſtris, & paucis ad
ſpeciem tabernaculis relictis; de tertia vigilia ſilentio ex-
Ercitum in oppidum reducit. .
XXXII. Poſtero die Curio Uticam obſidere, & vallo
circummunire inſtituit, Erat in oppido multitudo info-
lens belli, diuturnitate otii ; Uticenſes, pro quibuſdam
Cæſaris in ſe beneficiis, illi amiciſſimi: conventus, gui
ex variis generibus conſtaret; terror ex ſuperioribus
prœliis magnus. Itaque de deditione palam loqueban-
tur omnes; & cum P. Attip agebant, ne ſua per:inac'2
omnium fortungs perturbari vellet. Haze quum ageren-
tur; nuncii præmiſſi ab rege Juba venerunt, qui ian
cum magnis copiis adeſſe dicerent, & de cuſtodia ac
defeuſione urbis hortarentur: quæ res eorum perter:1itos
animos confirmavit.
XXXIII. Nunciabantur hæc eadem Curioni: fed al.
quamdiu fides fieri non poterat; tantam habebat fus-
rum rerum fiduciam. Jamque Cæſaris in Hiſpania re
ſecundæ in Africam nunciis ac litteris perſcrebantur,
(2uibus omnibus rebus ſublatus, nihil contra fe Regen
niſurum exiſtimabat. Sed ubi certis auctor. bus compe-
Tit, minds v & xx millibus longe ab Utica ejus cops
abeſſe; reliftis munitionibus, ſeſe in caſtra Cornel:aul
recepit. Huc frumentum comportare, caſtra muste
materiam conferre cœpit; ſtatimque in Siciliam mil
ut 11 legiones reliquuique equitatus ad ſe mitieict!
Caſtra erant ad bellum ducendum aptifima, natuiz, &
loci munitione & maris propinquitate, & aquæ & {ali
copia
ve BzLLo Civitti Lis. II. 245
copia z cujus magna vis jam ex proximis erat ſalinis eo
congeſta. Non materia, multitudine arborum ; non fru-
mentum, cujus erant pleniſſimi agri ; deficere poterat.
Itaque ſuorum omnium conſenſu Corio reliquas copias
exſpectare, & bellum ducere 3
XXXIV. His conſtitutis rebus, probatiſque conſiliis;
ex perfugis quibuſdam oppidanis audit, Jubam, revo-
catum finitimo bello, & controverſiis Leptitanorum
reſtitiſſe in regno; Saburam, ejus præfectum, cum me-
diocribus copiis miſſum, Uticæ appropinquare, His
auctoribus temere credens, conſilium commutat, & prœ-
lio rem committere conſtituit, Multum ad hanc rem
probandam adjuvat adoleſcentia, magnitudo animi, ſu-
perioris temporis proventus, fiducia rei bene gerendæ.
His rebus impulſas, equitatum omnem prima nocte ad
caſtra hoſtium - mittit, ad flamen Bagradam; quibus
præerat Sabura, de quo ante erat auditum. Sed rex
omnibus copiis inſequebatur, & vi millium paſſuum
intervallo a Sabura, conſederat. Equites miſſi, note
iter conficiunt; imprudentes atque inopinantes hoſtes
aggrediuntur: Numidæ enim, quadam barbara conſue-
tudine, nollis ordinibus paſſim conſederant. Hos op-
preſſos ſomno & diſperſos adorti, magnum eorum nu-
merum interficiunt: multi perterriti protugiunt. Quo
facto, ad Curionem equites revertuntur, captivoſque ad
eum reducunt. ä |
XXXV. Cvrio cum omnibus copiis quarta vigilia exi-
erat, cohortibus v caſtris præſidio rel:&is, * Progreſſus
millia paſſuum vr, equites convenit; rem geſtam cog-
novit; ex captivis quærit, quis caſtris ad Bagradany
præſic: refpondent, Saburam. Reliqua, ſtudio itineris
contciend), quærere piætermittit; proxiwaque reſpiciens
ſigna; F:idetijne, inquit, milites, cap tiuorum orationem cum
perfugis convenire ? abe regem; exiguas effe copias miſjas,
fue paucts rquitibus pares effe non potuerint. Proinde ad
predam, ad gloriam, preperate; ut jam de premiis wveſtrisy
& de referenda gratid copitare incipiamus. Erant per ſe
magna, que gefferant equites; præſertim quum eorum
ekiguus numerus cum tanta multitudine Numidarum
Conterretur: hæc tamen ab ipſis inflatiũs commemo-
M 3 rabantur;
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246 C. Jurlii CæESARIS
rabantur; ut de ſuis homings laudibus libenter prædi.
cant: multa præterea ſpolia præferebantur: capti ho-
mines, equiteſque producebantur: ut, quidquid interce-
deret temporis, hoc omne victoriam morari videretur,
Ita ſpei Curionis militum ſtudia non deerant. Equites
ſequi jubet ſeſe; iterque accelerat, ut quam maxime ex
fuga perterritos adoriri poſlet. At illi, itinere totius
noctis confecti, ſubſequi non poterant: atque alii alio
loco reſiſtebant. Ne hæc quidem res Curionem ad ſpem
morabatur.
XXXVI. Juba certior factus 4 Sabura de nocturno
preelio; 11 millia Hiſpanorum & Gallorum equitum,
- guos ſuæ cuſtodiæ causa circum ſe habere conſueverat;
& peditum eam partem, cui maxime confidebat, Sa.
buræ ſubmittit. Ipſe cum reliquis copiis, elephantiſque
xL, lentius ſubſequitur. Saſpicatus, præmiſſis equitibus,
iplum affore Curionem ; Sabura copias equitum pedi-
tümque inſtruit: atque bis imperat, ut ſimulatione ti-
„ moris paullatim cedant, ac pedem referant; ſeſe, quum
opus ellet, ſignum prœlii daturum ; &, quod rem poſtu-
lare cognoviſſet, imperaturum.
XXXVII. Curio, ad ſuperiorem ſpem addita præſentis
temporis opinione, hoſtes fugere arbitratus, copias ex
locis ſuperioribus in campum deducit. Quibus ex locis
quoum Ingiùs eſlet prog reſius; confecto jam labore ex-
ercitu, xvi millium ſpatio conſiſtit. Dat ſignum fu!
Sabura; aciem conflituir, & circumire ordines atque hor-
tari incipit : ſed peditatu duntaxat procul ad ſpeciem
utitur; equites in acicm miitit. Non deeſt negotio Curio;
ſu6ſque hortatur, ut ſpem omnem in virtute repor ant.
Nec militibus quidem, ut defeſſis; neque equitibus, ut
paucis & labore confectis; ſtudium ad pugnandum i
taſque deerat: ſed 11 erant numero cc; reliqui in 1it
nere ſubſtiterant. Hi quamcunque in partem impetum
fecerant, hoſtes loco cedere cogebant : ſed neque lor.
gius fugientes proſequi, nec vehementius equos incitate
poteratit. At equitatus hoſtium ab utroque cornu ch.
cumire aciem noſtram, & averſos proterere incipt.
Quum cchortes ex acie procurtiſſent; Numidæ integt
ordine:
pe BeLLo Civiti Lis, II. 247
ordines ſuos ſe recipientes circumibant, & ab acie ex-
cludebant. Sic neque in loco manere, ordineſque ſervaræ;
neque procurrere, & caſum ſubire ;, tutum videbatur. .
Hoſtium copiæ, ſummiſſis ab rege auxiliis, crebrd auge -
bantur: noſtros vires laſſitudine deficiebant; ſimul ii, qui
vulnera acceperant, neque acie excedere, neque in 1 *
cum tutum referri poterant: quod tota acics equitatu
hoſtium circumdata tenebatur. Hi, de ſua falute deſpe-
rantes, (ut extremo vitæ tempore homines facere con-
ſueverunt) aut ſuam mortem miſerabantur, aut paren-
tes ſuos commendabant, ſi quos ex eo periculo for-
tuna ſervare potuiſſet. Plena erant omnia timoris, &
luctüs.
XXXVIII. Curio; ubi, perterritis omnibus, neque
cohortationes ſuas, neque preces audiri intelligit; unam,
ut in miſeris rebus, ſpem reliquam ſalutis eſſe arbitra-
tus; proximos colles capere univerſos, atque ed inferri
ſigna jubet: hos quoque præoccupat miſſus a Sabura
equitatus. Tum vero ad ſummam deſperationem noſ-
tri perveniunt; & partim fugientes ab equitatu inter-
ficiuntur, partim integri procumbunt. Hortatur Curio-
nem Cn. Domitius præfectus equitum, cum paucis
equitibus circumſiſtens; ut fuga ſalutem petat, atque
in caſtra contendat; & ſe ab eo non diſceſſurum pol-
licetur. At Curio nunquam, amiſſo exercitu quem A
Cæſare fidei ſuæ commiſſum acceperit, fe in ejus con-
ſpectum reverſurum confirmat ; atque ita prœlians in-
terficitur, Equites perpauci ex prcelio fe recipiunt.
Sed ii, quos ad noviſſimum agmen, equorum refici-
endorum cauſa, ſubſtitiſſe demonſtratum eſt; fuga to-
tius exerciths procul animadversa, ſeſe incolumes in
caſtra conferunt, Milites ad unum omnes interfici-
uutur.
XXXIX. His rebus cognitis; M. Rufus quæſtor in
caſtris relictus à Curione, cohortatur ſuos, ne animo
deliciant. Illi orant atque obſecrant, ut in Siciliam
ravious reportentur, Pollicetur ; magiſtriſque imperat
narlum, ut primo veſpere omnes ſcaphas ad littus ap-
pulſas habeant. Sed tantus fuit omnium terror, ut alii
adeſſe copias Jubæ dicerent; alii cum legionibus in-
M 4 ſtare
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248 C. FoLrn Casanis
fare Varum, jamque ſe pulverem venientium cernere
quarum rerum nihil omnino acciderat: ali: claſſem
noſtium celeriter advolaturam ſuſpicarentur. Itaque
Pelterritts omnibus, ſibi quiſque conſulebat. Qui in
clafle erant, proſiciſci properabant. Horum fuga navi-
um onerariarum magiſlros incitabat. Pauci lenunculi
ad officium imperiamque conveniebant: ſed tanta erat
completis littoribus contentio, qui potiſſimùm ex magno
numero conſcenderent; ut multitudine atque onere non-
nulli deprimerentur, reliqui ob timorem propids adire
tardarentur. | |
XL. Quibus rebus accicit, ut pauci milites patreſque
familiæ, qui aut gratia aut mitericord:a valerent, aut
naves adnare poſient, iecepti, in. Siciliam incolumes
pervenirent. Reliquæ copiz; miſſis ad Varum noQu,
legatorum numero, centurionibus ; ſeſe ei dediderunt,
(Quorum cchortes militum Juba poſtero die ante oppi-
dum conſpicatus; ſuam eſſe prædicans prædam, mag-
nam partem eorum interfici juſſit: paucos electos in
regnum remiſit. Cum Varus ſuam fidem ab eo ldi
quereretur, neque reſiſtere auderet: ipſe equo in oppi-
dum vedlus, profequentibus compluribus ſenatoribus,
uo in numero erat Ser. Sulpicius & Licinius. Dama-
i paucis diebus, quæ fier1 vellet, Uticæ conſtituit
atque ig peravit: diebuſque poſt paucis ſe in reg num
cum omuibus copus recepit.
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T; ICTATORE habente comitia Cæſare, con-
ſules creantur Julivs Cæſar & P. Servihus : 1s
enim erat annus, quo per leges ei conſulem
ſieri lice;et. His rebus confectis: quum fides tota Itaiid
efſet anguſtior, neque credite pecuniæ ſolvetentur; conſti-
tuit, ut arbitri dareutur: per eos fierent æſtimationes poF
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ſeſlonum & rerum, quanti quæque earum ante bellum
fuiſſent; atque ex creditoribus tranſderentur. Hoc & ad
timorem novarum tabularum tollendum minuendam-
ve, qui fere bella & civiles diſſenſiones ſequi con-
fevit; & ad debitorum tuendam exiſtimationem, eſſe
aptiſſimum exiſtimavit. Item, prætoribus tribuniſque
plebis rogationes ad populum fetentibus; nonnullos
ambitas Pompeià lege damnatos, illis te mporibus, qui-
bus in U:be præſidia legionum Pompeius habuerat;
(quæ judicia, aliis audientibus judicibus, aliis ſenten-
tiam ferentibus, ſingulis diebus erant perfecta! in inte-
grum reſtituit, qui ſe illi initio civilis belli obtulerant,
1; ſui opera in bello uti vellet; perinde æſtimans ac fi
vſus eſſet, quoniam ſui feciſſent poteſtatem; ſtatuerat
enim hos priùs judicio popult debere reſtitui, quam ſuo
beneficio videri receptos ; ne aut ingratus in referenda
gratia, aut arrogans in preripiendo populi beneficio,
videretur,
II. His rebus & feriis Latinis, comitiifque omnibus
perficiundis, x1 dies tribuit : diftaturaque ſe abdicat z
& ab Urbe proficiſcitur, Brundifiamque pervenit. Eo
legiones X11, equitatum omnem, venire juſſerat. Sed-
tantum navium reperit, ut anguſte xx ,millia legiona-
riorum militum, & Dc equites, tranſportare poſtent.
Hoc unum [ino;1a navium] Cæſati ad conficiendi belli
celeritatem defuit. Atque ex ipſæ copiæ infrequentiores
imponuntur, quòd multi Gallicis tot beilis delecerunt;
longumque iter ex Hiſhanid magnum numerum demi-
nuerat ; & gravis autumnus in Apulia circùmque Brun-
alum, ex ſaluberrimis Galliæ & Hiſpauiæ regionibus,
omnem exercitum valetudine tentaverat,
III. Pompeius annuum ſpatium ad comparandas
copias nactus, quod vacuum a bello, atque ab hoſte-
otiolum fuerat; magnam ex Aſia, Cycladibiiſque inſu-
lis, Corcyra, Atkenis, Ponto, Buthynia, Syria, Cilicia,
Phozuice, & Ægy pto, claſſem coëgerat; magnam om-
nibus locis ædificandam curaverat: maznam impera-
tam Aſie, Syria, regibuique omnibus, & dynaſtis, &
| tetrarchis, & liberis Achaia popuus, pecuniam exege-
zat; magnam, ſocietates earum provinciarum,. quas:
M 5. ipſe
250 C. Jurrt CasaRis
i pſe obtinebat, ſibi numerare coëgerat. Legiones effe.
cerat civium Romanorum, rx: v, ex Italia quas tranſ.
duxerat: unam ex Sicilia veteranam, quam factam ex
duabus gemellam appellabat; unam ex Creta & Mace.
donia, ex veteranis militibus, qui dimiſſi a ſuperioribus
imperatoribus in iis provinciis conſederant; 11 ex Aſia,
quas Lentulus conſcribendas curaverat. Præterea mag-
num numerum ex Theflalia, Bceotia, Achaia, Epiroque,
ſapplementi nomine, in legiones diſtribuerat. His An-
tonianos milites admiſcuerat. Præter has, exſpectabat
cum Scipione ex Syria legiones 11. Sagittarios ex Cre-
ta, Lacedzmone, Ponto, atque Syria, reliquiſque civi-
tatibus, 111 millia numero habebat : funditorum, co-
hortes vi: mercenarias, 17: equitum, vii millia: ex
quibus pc Gallos Deiotarus adduxerat ; p, Ariobarza-
nes ex Cappadocia: ad eundem pumerum Cotus ex-
'Thracia dederat, & Sadalem filium miſerat. Ex Ma-
cedonia c erant, quibus Raſcipolis præerat, excellen-
ti virtute: Þ ex Gabinianis Alexandria, Gallos Ger-
-mano{que, quos ibi A. Gabinius præſidii causa apud
regem Ptolemæum reliquerat, Pompeius filius cum
claſſe adduxerat: pecc, quos ex ſervis ſuis paſtorum-
que ſuorum coegerat. cc Tarcundarius Caſtor & Do-
nilaus ex Gallogræcià dederant: horum alter una ve-
nerat, alter filium miſerat. ce ex Syria a Comageno
Antiocho, cui magna præmia Pompeius tribuit, miſi
erant, in his plerique hippotoxotæ. Hue Dardanos,
Beſlos ; partim mercenarios, partim imperio aut grata
comparatos ; item Macedonas, Theſſalos, & reliqua-
rum gentium & civitatum adjecerat; atque eum, quem
ſupra demonſtravimus, numerum expleverat. Frumen-
ti vim maximam ex Theſlalia, Aſia, Agypto, Cret,
Cyrenis, reliquiſque regionibus comparaverat. Hyema-
re Dyrrhachii, Apollonia, omnibviſque oppidis mart
timis conſtituerat ; ut mare Cæſarem tranſire prohibe-
ret. Ejus rei causi, omni or> maritima claſſem dit
poſuerat. Præerat Egyptiis navibus Pompeius filius;
Aſiaticis, D. Lælius & C. Triarius; Syriacis, C. Cz
ius; Rhodiis, C. Marcellus cum C. Coponio ; Livur-
uicæ atque Achaicæ claſſi, Sctibonius Libo & M. Os
tavius.
pe BELITIO Crvicr LI. III. 251
tavius. Toti tamen officio maritimo M. Bibulus præ-
ſitus, cuncta adminiſtrabat : ad hunc ſumma imperii
#.oiciebat: |
IV. Cæſar, ut Brundiſium venit, concionatus apud
milites: quoniam propè ad finem laborum ac periculorum
t perventum, quo animo mancipia atque imptdimenta in
Italia relinquerent ; ipſi expediti naves conjcenderent, qr0
major numerus militum paſſẽt imponi; omniague ex victor;
ex /ud liberalitate ſpexarent : Conclamantibus omnibus,
imperaret, quod wellet; quedeungque imperavifftt, ſe aquo
anime effe fafturos : prnidie Non. Jan. naves-tolvit; impo-
fitis, ut ſupra demonſtratum ett, legionibus vir. Poſtri-
die terram attigit Cerauniorum. Saxa inter & alia loca
periculoſa quietam nactus ſtationem; & portus omnes
timens, quos teneri ab adverſariis arbitrabatur; ad eum
locum, qui appellatur Pharſalus, omnibus navibus ad
unam incolum:bus milites expoſuit.
V. Erat Orici Lucretius Veſpillo, & Minucius Rufus,
eum Aſiaticis navibus x v111; quibus, juſſu D. Lælii,
przerant: M. Bibulus, cum navibus cx, Corcyræ. Sed
neque ii fibi confiſi ex portu prodire ſunt anſi; quum
Cæſar omiino x11 naves longas præſidio duxiſſet, in qui-
bus erant conſtratæ Iv: neque Bibulus, impeditis navi-
bus, diſpersiſque remigibus, ſatis mature occurrit; quod
prius ad continentem viſus eſt Car, quam de ejus ad-
ventu fama omnind in eas regiones perſerretur.
VI. Expoſitis militibus, naves eddem nocte Brundi-
hum à Cæſate temittuntur; ut religum legiones, equi-
ratuſque, tranſportari poſſent. Huie officio præpoſitus
erat Fufius Kalenus legatus, qui celeritatem in tfanſ-
portandis legionibus adhiberet. Sed ſeriùs à terra pro-
vedæ naves, neque uſæ nocturnã aura; in redeundo
offenderunt. Bibulus enim, Corcyræ certior factus de
adventu Cæſaris, ſperans ſe alicui parti onuſtarum na-
vium occurrere poſſe, inan bus occurrit; & naftus cir-
eiter xxx, in eas indiligentias ſbo ac doloris iracundiã
erupit, omneſque incendit: eodeimque igne nautas do-
minoſque navium interfecit ; magnitudine pcenæ reli-
quos deterrere ſperans. Hoe confecto negotio : a Sa-
lonis ad Orici portum, ſtationes littorãque omnia longe
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Jateque claſſibus occupavit: cuſtodiiſque diligentius dif.
poſitis, ipſe graviſſimà hyeme in navibus excubabat;
neque ullum laborem aut munus deſpiciens, I neque
ſubſidium exſpectans, fi in Cæſaris complexum venire
poſſet.
VII. Poſt diſceſſum Liburnarum; ex Illyrico M. Oc-
tavius, cum 11s quas habebat navibus, Salonas pervenit:
ibique concitatis Dalmatis reliquiſque barbaris, Iſſam
a Cæſaris amicitia avertit; conventum Salonis quum.
neque pollicitationibus neque denunciatione periculi
permovere poſſet; oppidum oppugnare inſtituit. Ef
autem oppidum & loci natura, & colle munitum. Sed
celeriter cives Romani, ligneis effectis turribus, iis ſele
munierunt: &, quum elient infirmi ad reſiſlendum,
propter paucitatem hominum; crebris confedii vulneri-
bus, ad exttemum auxilium deſcenderunt, ſervoſque-
omnes puberes liberaverunt; & præſectis omnium mu-
lierum crinibus, tormenta effecerunt. Quorum cognita
ſententia; Octavius quinis caſtris oppidum circumdedit,
atque uno tempore obſidione & oppugnationibus cos
premere cœpit. 111; omnia perpeti parati, maxime a re
trumentaria laborabant. Quare miſſis ad Cæſarem le-
gatis, auxilium ab eo petebant: reliqua, ut poterant, per
ie incommoda ſuſtinebant. Et, longo inter poſito ſpatio,
quum diuturnitas oppugnationis negligentiores Octa-
vianos effeciſſet; nacti occaſionem meridiani temporis,
eiſceſlu eorum, pueris mulieribüſque in muro diſpoſitis,
re quid quotidianæ conſuetudinis deſideraretur; ipſi,
manu fa@a, cum 1is quos nuper manumiſſos liberave-
rant, in proxima Octavii caſtra irruperunt. His expug-
natis, eodem impetu altera ſunt adorti; inde tertia, &
quarta, & deinceps reliqua; omnibuſque eos caſtris ex-
pulerunt: &, magno numero interfecto, reliquos atque
ipſum Octavium in naves confugere coegerunt. Hic
ſuit oppugnationis exitus. Jamque hyems appropinqua-
bat; &, tantis detrimentis acceptis, Octavius, deſperata
oppognatione oppidi, Dyrrhachium ſeſe ad Pompeium
recepit. |
VIII. Demonſtratum eſt L. Vibullium Rufum, Pom-
peii præſeclum, bis in poteſtatem peryeniſie Cæſaris;
| atque
pe BELTLO CI VIII Lis. III. 257
ue ab eo eſſe dimiſſum: ſemel ad Corfinium, iterum
in Hiſpania, Hunc pro ſuis beneficiis Cæſar judica-
verat idoneum, quem cum mandatis ad Cn. Pom-
peium mitteret: eundemque apud Cn. Pompeium aue-
toritatem habere intelligebat. Erat autem hæc ſumma
mandatorum: Debere utrumque, perti naciæ finem facere;
& ab armis diſcedere; neque amplius fortunam periclitari:
Jatis eſe magna utrimque, incommoda accepta; quæ pro di-
ſciplind & præceptis habere poſſent, ut reliquos caſus time
rent; illum ab Italid expulſum, amifſa Sicilid. & Sardi-
nia, duabiiſque Hiſpanis, & cohortibus in Italia atque in
Hiſpaniã civium Romanorum c atque XXX ; /e norte Curio-
nit, & detrimento Africani exercitũs tanto, militiumgue de-
ditione ad-Corcyram : proinde fibi ac reipublice parcerent.
Quantum in bello fortuna prfſet, jam iffi incommodis ſuis
ſatis efſent documents : hoc unum efje tempus de pace apendi,
dum fibi utergue confideret, & pares ambo viderentur : ſi werd
alteri paullum modo tribuiſſet fortuna; non efſe uſurum con-
ditionibus pacis eum, gui ſuperior videretur; neque
fore ægquã parte contentum, qui /e omnia habituram confide-
ret. Conditiones pacis, quoniam antea convenire non potuiſ-
ſent, Rome a Senatu & a populo peti debere: interea & rei-
publice & ipfts placere oportere, ft uterque in concione flatim
juraviſſet, ſe tridpo proximo exercitum dimiſſurum ; depoſi-
tis armis auxiliifque, quibus nunc confiderent ; necefario po-
puli ſenatiſque- judicis fore utrumgue contentum; bæc gud:
facilius Pompeio probari pant, omnes ſuas terrefires urbi-
umgue copias dimiſſurum.
IX. Vibullius, his expoſitis a. Cæſare, non minds ne-
ceſſarium eſſe exiſtimavit, de repentino adventu Cæ-
ſaris Pompeium fieri certiorem ; uti ad id conſilium
capere poſſet, antequam de mandatis agi inciperet :
atque ideo, continuato & nocte & die itinere, atque
mutatis ad celeritatem jumentis, ad Pompeium con-
tendit; ut adeſſe Cæſarem omnibus copiis nunciaret,
Pompeius erat eo tempore in Candavia;z iterque ex
Macedonia in hyberna, Apolloniam, Dyrrhachiümque
habebat: ſed, re nova perturbatus, majoribus itineribus
Apolloniam petere cœpit; ne Cæſar ore maritime ci-
vitates occuparet, At ille, expoſitis militibus, eodem
die
254 C. JT II CæESARTS
die Oricum proficiſcitur. Quò quum veniſſet; L. Tor-
vacus, qui juſſu Pompeii oppido præerat, præſidiùmque
ibi Parthinorum habebat; conatus portis clauſis oppidum
defendere, Græcos murum aſcendere atque arma capeie
jubet: illi autem quum ſe contra imperium populi
Romani pugnaturos eſſe negarent; oppidani autem ſua
ſponte Cæſarem recipere conarentur; deſperatis omni-
bus auxiliis, portas ape ruit; & ſe atque oppidum Cæſari
dedit ; incolumiſque ab eo conſervatus eſt.
X. Recepto Cæſar Orico, null à interpoſità motà,
Apolloniam proficiſcitur. Ejus adventu audito; L. Sta-
berius, qui ibi præerat, aquam comportare in arcem,
atque eam mnnire, obfidelque ab Apolloniatibus exi-
gere cœpit. Illi verò daturos fe negare; neque portas
Conſuli pꝛæcluſuros; neque ſibi judicium fumpturos cor-
tra atque om nis Italia populaſque R judicaviſſet. Quo-
rum cognita voluntate, clam profugit. Apolloniates
ad Cæſarem legatos mittunt, oppidcque recipiant. Hes
ſequuntur Bollidenſes, Amantiani, & reliquæ finitimæ
civitates, totique Epirus; & legatis ad Cæſarem mi-
fis, quz imperaret, facturos pollicentur. |
XI. At Pompeius; cognitis iis rebus, quæ erant O. ici
atque Apolloniæ geſtæ; Dyrrhachio timens, divr1-1s £0
nocturniſque itineribus contendit. Simul ac Cæſar ap-
propinquare dicebatur, tantus terror incidit ejus ext.
Citul ; quod properans noctem diei corjunxerat, neguy
iter intermiſerat; ut penè omnes, in Epiro finits.(-
que regionibus ſigna relinquerent; complures ara
projicerent 3 ac fugz ſimile iter videretur. Sed quim
prope Dyrphachium Pompeius conſtitiſſet, caſiraque me-
tart juſſifiet; perterrito etiam tum exercitu, princeps Li-
bienus procedit; juratque, ſe eum non deferturum, evi
demque caſum ſubiturum, que mcumque ei fortuna un.
buiſſet. Hoc idem reiiqui jurant-Jegati : hos tribunl
militum centurionẽſque eee atque idem omi
exercitus jurat. Cæſar, praoccupato itinere ad Dyirha-
chium, ſinem properandi facit: cafiaque ad flumen
Apſum ponit in finibus Apolloniatiom, ut caſtella vici.
que bene meritæ civitatis tuti eſſent præſidio: ibique
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ſub pellibus hyemare conſlitait. Hoc idem Pompeius
facit; &, trans lumen Apſum poſitis caſtris, eo copias
omnes auxiliaque conduxit. | |
XII. Kalenus, legionibus equitibuſque Brundiſii in
naves impoſitis, ut erat præceptum a Cæſare; quantam
navium facultatem habebat, naves ſolvit; paullamque a
portu progreſſus, litteras a Cæſare accipit ; quibus eft
certior factus, portus littoraque omnia claſſibus adverſa-
riorum teneri. Quo cognito; ſe in portum recipit,
naveſque omnes revocat. Una ex iis, quz perſeveravit,
neque imperio Kaleni obtemperavit; quod erat fine
militibus, privatoque conſilio adminiſtrabatur; delata
Oricum, à Bibulo expugnata eſt: qui de ſervis liberiſ-
que omnibus ad impuberes ſupplicium ſumit, & ad
unum interficit, Ita, exiguo tempore, magno caſu totius
exercitas ſalus conſlitit,
XIII. Bibulus, ut ſupra demonſtratum eſt, erat cum
elaſſe ad Oricum ; &, ſicut mari portubitque Cæſarem
prohibebat ; ita ipſe omni terra earum regionum pro-
hibebatur: preſidiis enim diſpoſitis, omnia littora a
Cæſare tenebantur; neque lignandi, neque aquandi,
neque naves png religandi, poteſtas fiebat. Erat
res in magna difficultate; ſummiſque anguſtiis rerum
neceſſariarum premebantur; adeò ut cogerentur, ficuti
reliquum commeatum, ita ligna atque aquam Corcyra
navibus onerariis ſupportare : atque uno etiam tempore
accidit, ut, difficilioribus uſi tempeſtatibus ; ex pellibus,
quibus erant tectæ naves, nocturnum excipere rorem
cogerentur. Quas tamen difficultates patienter & æquo
animo ferebant: neque ſibi nudanda littora, & relin-
quendos portus exiſtimabant. Sed quum eſſent in qui-
bus demonſtravi anguſtiis; ac ſe Libo cum Bibulo con-
junxiſſet: loquuntur ambo ex navibus cum M. Acilio
& Statio Murco legatis; quorum alter oppidi muris,
alter præſidiis terreſtribus præerat: welle /e de maximis
rebus cum Ceſare logui, fi fibi ejus fatultas detur. Huc
addunt pauca, rei confirmandz causa; ut de compoſi-
none acturi viderentur. Interim poſtulant, ut ſint in-
duciz; atque ab iis impetrant: magnum enim, quod
aterebant, videbatur; & Cæſarem id ſumme ſciebant
15 cupere;
contendere
256. C. Jorir Cavanrs
eupere;-& profectum aliquid Bibuli mandatis exiſtima-
tur.
XIV. Cæſar eo tempore cum legione -una profedtus
ad recipiendas ulteriores civitates; & rem frumentazri-
am expediendam, qua anguſtè utebatur; erat ad Bu-
throtum, oppoſitum Corcyræ. Ibi ab Acilio certior &
Murco per litteras factus de poſtulatis Libonis & Bi—
buli, legionem relinquit; ipſe Oricum revertitur. Eô
quum veniſſet, evocantur illi ad colloquium. Prodit
Libo, atque excuſat Bibulum, quòd 7s #acundid ſunnd
erat, inimicia/que habebat ctiam privatas cum Caſare tx
edilitate & pretura concept as : 0b cam rem colloquium <i>
taffe ; ne res maxima ſpei maxiniaegque utilitatis Jus IT ACUG
dia impearrentur. Pompeii ſummam eſſe ac fuifje jemper we
luntatem, ut componcretur, algue ab armis diſcederetur : ſed
Holeſſatem fe cjus rei nullam haber: propterea quod, de won
cilii ſententia, ſummam belli rerimgue omnium Pomfeio fir
miſerint : ſed, pojtulatis Cæſaris cognitis, mrſſuros ad Pen
peium; atque ilium religua per ſe acturum, hortantibus ii.
interca manerent inauciæ dum ab ilio rediri paſſet: nive
alter alteri noceret, Huc addit pauca de causa, & de
copiis auxiliiique ſuis. Quibus rebus neque tum re-
ſpondendum Cæſar exiſtimavit; neque nunc, ut mein:0-
riz prodatur, ſatis cauſæ putamus. Poſtulabat Cæſar,
ut legato: fibi ad Pompeium fine pericuio m:itere lice ; id-
gue ifft fore reciperert, aut acciftos per fe ad cum p erduce-
rent. Quod ad inducias pertineret ; fic belli raltonem 4
diviſam, ut illi claſſe raves auxiliague ſua impeatrent, ij/t
ut agua terraque tos fprobiberct e fi hoc febi remiiti wellint,
remitterent ii de maritimis cuſlidtis; fin illud teneront, /t
guogue id retenturum; nihileminus tamen agi fee de comper
fultone, ut. bac non remitierentur 3 egit hanc rim fe e-
diments loco. Illi neque legatos Cæſaris recipere, neque
periculum præſtare eorum, ied totam rem ad Pompeium
rejicere; unum inſtare de induciis, vehementiſhméqte
Quos vbi Cztar intellexit, ptæſentis peii-
culi atque inopiæ vitandæ causa omnem orationem ig—
ſtituiſie ; neque vilam ſgem, aut conditionem Pacis af.
ferre; ad reliquam cogitationem belli ſeſe recepit.
XV.
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XV.. Bibulus multos dies terra prohibitus, & graviore
morbo ex frigore ac labore implicitus ; quum neque
curari poſſet, neque ſuſceptum officium deſerere vellet,
vim morbi ſuſtinere non potuit. Eo mortuo, ad nemi-
nem unum ſumma imperii redit; ſed ſeparatim ſuam
quiſque claſſem ad arbitrium ſuum adminiſtrabat.
XVI. Vibullius; ſedato tumulta, quem repentinus
adventus Cæſaris concitaverat; ubi primum -rurſus ad-
hibito Libone & L. Lucceio & Theophane, (quibuſcum
communicare de maximis rebus Pompeius conſueverat)
de mandatis Cæſaris agere inſtituit; eum, ingreſſum in
ſermonem, Pompeius interpellavit, & loqui plura pro-
hibuit. Quid mibi, inquit, aut vitd aut civitate opus eſt,
quam beneficio Cæſaris habere widebor ? cujus rei opinio
toll! non poterit, guum in Taliam, ex qua profettus ſum,
reductus exiſiimaber. Bello perfecto, ab its Cæſar hæc
dicta cognovit, qui ſermoni interfuerunt: conatus tamen
nihilo minus eſt aliis rationibus per colloquia de pace
agere. |
XVII. Inter bina caſtra Pompeii atque Cæſaris, unum
flumen tantum intererat Apſus : crebraque inter ſe col-
loquia milites habebant; neque ullum interim telum
per pactiones colloquentiam, transjiciebatur, - Mittit P.
Vatinium legatum ad ripam ipſam fluminis: qui ea, qua
maxime ad pacem pertinere viderentur, ageret; & crey
brd magna voce pronunciaret, /iceretne civibus ad cives
de pace legatos mittere? quod etiam fugitivis ab ſaltu Pyrex
ne, predonibuſque licuifſet ; præſertim, ut id agerent, ne
cives cum civibus armis decertarent. Multa ſappliciter lo-
cutus; ut de ſua atque omnium ſalute debebat; ſilentiõ-
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parte, A. Varronem prafiteri je alterd die ad colloquium
venturum ; atque una etiam utrimgue adinodum tuto legati
venire, , quæ vellent, exponere poſſent; certumque ei rei
tempus conſtituitur. Quò quum eſſet poſtero die ven-
um; magna utrimque multitudo convenit : magnaque
erat ejus rei exſpectatio; atque omnium intenti animi
ad pacem eſſe videbantur. Qua ex frequentia, T. La-
bieaus prodit; ſummiſa oratione loqui de pace, atque
altercari cum Vatinio incipit. Quorum mediam ora-
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tionem interrumpunt undique ſubitò tela immiſſa; quæ
ille, obtectus armis militum, vitavit: vulnerantur ta-
men complures; in his Cornelius Balbus, M. Plotius,
L. Tiburtius centuriones, militeſque nonnulli. Tum
Labienus; Definite ergo de compoſitione laqui : nam nobis
niſi Cæſaris capite relato, pax e nulla foteft.
XVIII. Iiſdem temporibus Romæ M. Cœlius Rufus
prætor, causa debitorum ſuſceptà, initio magiſtratis
tribunal ſuum juxta C. Trebonii prætoris urbani ſellam
collocavit: &, fi quis appellaſiet de æſtimatione, & de
ſolutionibus quæ per arbitrum ferent, ut Cæſar præſens
conſtituerat; fore auxilio pollicebatur. Sed fiebat æqui-
tate decreti, & humanitate Trebonii, qui his temporibus
clementer & moderate jus dicendum exiftimabat; ut re-
pore non poſſet, a quibus initium appellandi naſceretur,
am fortaſſe inopiam excuſare, & calamitatem aut pro-
priam ſuam aut temporum queri, & difficultates auQtic-
nandi proponere; etiam mediocris eſt animi: integras
vero tenere poſſeſſiones, qui ſe debere fateantur, cujus
animi, aut cvjus impudentiz eft? Itaque, hoc qui poſſu-
laret, reperiebatur nemo. Atque ipſis, ad quorum com-
modum pertinebat, durior inventus eft Cœlius. Et, ab
hoe profectus initio; ne fruſtra ingreſſus turpem cauſam
videretur, !egem promulgavit, ut ſexies ſeni dies {ine
uſuris creditz pecuniz ſolvantar.
XIX. Quum refiſteret Servilius Conſul, reliquique ma-
giſtratus; & minus opinione ſa efficeret : ad hominum
excitanda ſtudia, ſublata priore lege, duas promulgavit;
unam, qua mercedes habitationum annuas conducto-
ribus donavit; alteram, tabularum novarum. Impeti-
que multitudinis in C. Trebonium facto, & nonnulis
vulneratis; eum de tribunali deturbavit. De quibus
rebus, Servilius Conful ad Senatum retulit: Senatüſque
Cœlium ab rep. removendum cenſuit, Hoc decreto
eum Conſul Senatu prohibuit, & concionari conanten
de roſtris deduxit. Ille ignominià & dolore permotus,
palam ſe proficiſci ad Cæſarem ſimulavit; clam nut-
eiis ad Milonem miſſis, qui, Clodio intefecto, co 10
min. erat damnatus: atque, eo in Italiam cvocate,
quòd, magnis muneribus datis, gladiatoriæ familie
religua⸗
vz BzLLo CivilI Lis, III. 259
reliquias habebat; fibi conjunxit: atque eum in Tu-
rinum ad ſollicitandos paſtores præmiſit. Ipſe, quum
Caſilinum veniret; unoque tempore ſigna ejus milita-
ria atque arma Capuæ eſſent comprehenſa, familia
Neapoli viſa, atque proditio oppidi appareret: pate-
factis conſiliis, excluſus Capua, & periculum veritus,
add conventus arma ceperat, atque eum hoſtis loco
+ :bendum exiſtimabat; conſilio deltitit, atque eo itinere
tele avertit.
XX. Interim Milo, dimiſſis circùm municipia litteris,
ta, que faceret, juſſu atque imperio facere Pompeii, que
mandata ad ſe per Bibulum dclata ęſent; quos ex ere
alieno laborare arbitrabatur, ſollicitabat: apud quos
quum proficere nihil poſſet; quibuſdam ſolutis ergaſtulis,
Coſam in agro Turino oppugnare ccpit. Eo quum
a Q. Pædio prætore, cum legione ; lapide iftus
ex muro, periit. Et Cœlius profectus, ut dictitabat,
ad Cæſarem; pervenit Thurios ; ubi, quum quoſdam
ejus municipii ſollicitaret ; equitibuſque Cæſaris Gallis
atque Hiſpanis, qui eo præſidii causa miſſi erant, pecu-
niam polliceretur; ab iis eſt interfectus. Itaque magna-
rum initia rerum, quæ occupatione magiſtratuum &
temporum ſollicitam Italiam habebant, celerem & faci-
lem exitum habuerant. ä
XXI. Libo, profectus ab Orice cum claſſe, cui præ-
erat, navium , Brundiſium venit; inſulamque, que
contra Brundifinum portum eſt, occupavit: quod præ-
ſtare unum locum arbitrabatur, qua neceſſarius noſtris
erat egreſſus, quam omnium littora ac portus cuſtodia
clauſos teneri. Hie repentino adventu naves onerarias
quaſdam nactus incendit, & unam frumento onuſtam
abduxit; magnamque noſtris terrorem injecit; & noctu
militibus & ſagittariis in terram expoſitis, præſidium
equitum dejecit; & adeò loci opportunitate profecit,
ut ad Pompeium litteras mitteret ; nawes religuas, ff wel-
let, fubduci & refici juberet ; ſud claſſe auxilia feſe Cæſu-
1s probibiturum.
XXII. Erat eo tempore Antonius Brundiſi; qui
virtute militum confiſus, ſcaphas navium magnarum
eucnter 1x, cratibus pluteiſque contexit; eoque milites
delectos
260 C. Jotii Casanis
delectos impoſuit; atque eas in littore pluribus locis
ſeparatim diſpoſuit; naveſque triremes 11, quas Brundiſi
faciendas curaverat, per cauſam exercendorum remi-
gum, ad fauces portis prodire juſſit. Has quum auda-
cius progreſſas Libo vidiſſet; ſperans intercipi poſle,
quadriremes v ad eas miſit: quæ quum navibus noftris
appropinquaſſent, noſtri veterani in portum refugerunt;
illi, ſtudio incitati, incautids ſequebaptur Jam ex on-
nibus partibus ſubitd Antonianz ſcaphæ, ſigno dato, 1:
in hoſes incitaverunt ; prims6que impetu, unam ex bis
quadriremem, cum remigib 1s defenſoribafque ſuis, ce-
perunt; reiiguas turpiter fugere coëgerunt. Ad hcc
detrimentum acceſſit, ut, equitibus per oram maritiman
ab Antonio diſpoſitis, aquari prohiberentur: qua neceſ-
ſitate & ignominia permotus Libo, diſceſſit a Brundiſio,
ebſeflionemque noſtrorum omiſit.
XXIII. Multi jam menſes tranſierant, & hyems jam
przcipitaverat; neque Brundiſio naves legioneſque ad
Cæſarem veniebant: ac nonnullæ ejus rei prætermiſſæ
occaſiones Cæſari videbantur; quòd certè ſæpe flave-
rant venti, quibus neceſlario committendum exiſtima-
bat: quantoque ejus amplius proceſſerat tem poris; tan-
to erant alacriores ad cuſtodias, qui claſſibus præerant;
majoremque fiduciam prohibendi habebant; & crebris
Pompeii litteris caftigabantur, guoniam primo wenientc!
Cæſarem non probibuiſjent, ut reliquos tus exercitus infedi-
rent: duriaſque quotidie tempus ad tranſportandum
lenioribus ventis exſpectabant. Quibus rebus permotus
Czſar, Brundiſium ad ſuos ſeverius ſcripſit, ut, radii
idoneum ventum, ne occaſionem navigandi dimitterent,
fi vel ad littora A polloniatium curſum dirigere, atque
eò naves <jicere poſſent Hzc a cuſtodiis, claſſium loca
maximè vacabant, quod ſe longius portubus committere
non auderent.
XXIV. Illi, adhibita- audacia. & virtute, adminiftran- a
tibus M. Antonio & Fuho Kaleno, miltum ipfis mili— |
tibus hortantibus, neque ullum periculum pro ſalute (
Cæſaris recuſantibus, nacti Auſtrum, naves ſolvunt; 0
atque altera die Apolloniam Dyrrhachiumque prætal. Tr
vehuntur. Qui quum eſſent ex continenti viſi; C.
Coponlus,
f pz Bello Civiti Lis. III. 261
Coponius, qui Dyrrhachii claſh Rhodiz præerat naves
ex portu educit ; &, quum jam noſtri remiſliore vento
N idem Aulter increbuit, noſttiſque
præſidio fuit. Neque vero ille ob eam cauſam conatu
deſiſtebat; ſed labore & perſeverantia nautarum, ſe
vim tempeſtatis ſuperare poſſe ſperabat; prætervectoſ-
que Dyrrhachium magna vi venti, nihilo ſecius ſeque-
batur Noſtri, uſi fortunæ beneficio, tamen impetum
clallis timebant, ſi forte ventus remiſiſſet Nacti por-
tum, qui appellatur Nymphæum, ultra Liſſum millia
paſſuum 111; eo na es introduxerunt; (qui portus ab
Africo, tegebatur, ah Aultro non erat tutus) ieviaſque
tempeſtatis, quam elaſſis, periculum æſtimavęrunt. Quo
ſimul atque intus eſt itum; incredibili felicitate Auſter,
qui per biduum flaverat, in Africum fe vertit. Hic
ſubitam commutationem fortunz videre licuit: qui
modò tfibi timuerant, ho: tutiflimus portus recipiebat;
qui noſtris navibus periculum intulerant, de ſuo timere
cogebantur. Itaque, tempore commurato, tempeſtas &
noſtros texit, & naves Rhodias afflixit; ita ut ad unam
conſtratæ omnes, numero xv1, eliderentur & naufra-
gio interirent; & ex magno remigum propugnatorum-
que numero, pars ad ſcopulos allita interficeretur, pars
a noſtris diſtraheretur; quos omnes conſervatos Cæſar
domum remiht, |
XXV. Noſtræ naves 11, tardiùs curſu confecto, in
noctem conjectæ; quum ignorarent, quem locum reli-
que cepiſlent, contra Lilium in anchoris conſtiterunt.
Has, ſcaphis minoribaſque navigiis compluribus ſum-
miſſis, Otacilius Craſſus, qui Liſſi preerat, expugnare
parabat; ſimul de deditione eorum agebat, & incolu-
witatem dedit's pollicebatur. Harum altera navis du-
centos viginti ex legione tironum ſuſtulerat; altera ex
veterana paullo minus ducentis fe compleverat. Hic
coprelci licuit, quantum cilet hominibus prefidi in
amm hrmitudine, Tirones enim, multitudine navium
perterriti, & ſalo naulcaque confecli, jurejurando ac-
cepto, nihil jis nocituros hoſtes; ſe Otacilio dediderunt:
qui omnes ad eum petdocti; contra reſigionem jurisju-
randi, in ejus conipectu crudeliſimè inter ficluntur. At
vete-
C. Jurri'Canilrs
veteranæ legionis milites, item conflictati & tempeſtatis
& ſentinæ vitiis, non ex priſtina virtute remittendum
aliquid putaverunt: ſed, tractandis conditionibus, &
ſimulatione deditionis, extracto primo noctis tempore;
gubernatorem in terram navem ejicere cogunt: ipfi,
idoneum locum nacti, reliquam noctis partem ibi con-
fecerunt; & luce prima, miſſis ad eos ab Otacilio equi-
tibus, qui eam partem oræ maritimæ aſſervabant, cir.
citer op, quique eos armati ex præſidio ſecuti ſunt; ſe
defenderunt: &, nonnullis eorum interfectis, incolumes
ad noſtros ſeſe receperunt.
XXVI. Quo facto; conventus civium Romanorum,
qui Liſſum obtinebat, quod oppidum 1is antea Cæſar
attribuerat, muniendümque curaverat, Antonium rece-
pit, omnibuſque rebus juvit. Otacilius ſibi timens op-
pido fugit, & ad Pompeium pervenit. Expoſitis copiis
Antonius; quarum erat ſumma, veteranorum 111 legio-
num, uniaſque tironum, & equitum pccc; pleraſque
naves in Italiam remittit, ad reliquos milites equiteſ-
que tranſportandos : pontones, quod eſt genus navium
Gallicarum, Liſſi relinquit; hoc conſilio, ut, fi forte
Pompeius, vacuam exiſtimans Italiam, ed trans jeciſſet
exercitum ; quæ opinio erat edita in vulgus; aliquam
Cæſar ad inſequendum facultatem haberet : nuncioſque
ad eum celeriter mittit, quibus regionibus exercitum
expoſuifſet, & quid militum tranſvexiſſet.
XXVII. Hæc eodem ferè tempore Cæſar atque Pom-
peius cognoſcunt. Nam prætervectas A polloniam D;r-
rhachiümque naves viderant; ipfi iter ſecundùm ess
terra direxerant: ſed quo eſſent ex delatæ, primis die-
bus ignorabant: cognitique re, diverſa ſibi ambo con-
ſilia capiunt; Cæſar, vt quamprimum ſe cum Antonio |
conjungeret; Pompeius, ut venientibus in itinere ſe
opponeret, & h imprudentes ex inſidiis adoriri poſet.
Eodemque die uterque corum ex caſtris ſtativis a fiv-
mine Apſo exercitum educunt: Pompeius clam, & noc:
tu; Cæſar palam, atque interdiu. Sed Cæſari circuitu
majore iter erat longiùs, adverſo flumine, ut vado trant-
ire poſſet: Pompeius, quia expedito itinere flumen ci
tranſeundum non erat, magnis itineribus ad Antonin
con-
*
i»
IP ve Beto CIvIII Lis, III. 263
contendit; atque, ubi eum appropinquare cognovit,
idoneum locum nactus, ibi copias collocavit: {uoique
omnes caſtris continuit, igneſque fieri prohibuit; quo
occultior eſſet ejus adventus. Hæc ad Antonium ſtatim
per Græcos deferuntur. Ille, miſſis ad Cæſarem nunciis,
unum diem ſeſe caſtris tenuit: altero die, ad eum per-
venit Cæſar. Cujus adventu cognito, Pompeius, ne
dnobus circumcluderetur exercitibus, ex eo loco diſce-
dit; omnibaſque copiis ad Aſparagium Dyrrhachinorum
pervenit, atque ibi idoneo loco caſtra ponit
XX VII. His temporibus Scipio, detrimentis quibuſ-
dam circa montem Amanum acceptis, ſeſe Imperato-
rem appellaverat. Quo facto, civitatibus tyranniſque
magnas imperaverat, pecunias: item à publicanis ſuæ
provinciz debitam biennii pecuniam exegerat, & ab
eiſdem inſequentis anni mutuam preceperat ; equitẽſ-
que toti provinciæ imperaverat. Quibus coactis; fini-
timis hoflibus Parthis pott ſe relictis, qui paullo ante
M. Craſſum imperatorem interfecerant, & M. Bibulum
in obſidione habuerant; legiones equiteſque ex Syria
deduxerat; ſummaàque in ſollicitudine ac timore Parchi-
ci belli in provinciam quum veniſſet. ac nonnullæ mili-
tum voces audirentur; -/eſe, contra hoftem fi ducerentur,
ituros, contra civem & canſulem, arma non laturos ; de-
ductis Pergamum atque in locupletiſſimas urbes in hy-
berna legionibus, maximas largitiones fecit; & confir-
mandorum militum causa, diriptendas iis civitates de-
dit. Interim acerbiſſimè imperatæ pecuniæ tota pro-
vincia exigebantur. Multa præterea generatim ad avari-
tam excogitabantur. In capita ſingula ſervorum ac libe-
drum tributum imponebatur. Columnaria, oſtiaria, fru-
mentum, milites, remiges, arma, tormenta, vecturæ, im-
pcravantur, Cujus modò rei nomen reperiri poterat, hoc
[aus elle ad cogendas pecunias videbatur. Non ſolùm
urbibas, ſed pene vicis caſtelliſque ſingulis cum impe-
10 præſiciebautur. Qui horum quid acerbiſſimè crude-
111mcque fecerat, is & vir & civis optimus habebatur,
Lrat plena lictorum & imperiorum proviacia ; differta
pretectis atque exactoribus; qui, præter imperatas pe-
canias, ſuo etiam privato compendio ſervieb ant: dicti-
tabant
264 C. JulirCeAasaris
tabant enim, ſe, domo patriaque expulſos, omnibus
neceſſarlis egere rebus ; ut honeſtà præſcriptione rem
turpiſſimam tegerent. Accedebant ad hæc graviſimz
uſurz, quod in bello plerumque accidere conſuevit; uni.
verſis imperatis pecuniis: quibus in rebus, prolationem
diei, donationem eſſe dicebant. Itaque æs alienum pro-
vinciæ eo biennio multiplicatum eſt, Nec minds ob
eam cauſam civibus Romanis ejus provinciz, ſed in ſin.
gulos conventus ſingulaſque civitates certæ pecuniæ im-
perabantur; mutuaſque illas ex S. C. exigi dictitabant;
publicanis, uti in ſorte fecerant, inſequentis anni ve&i-
gal promutuum, Præterea Epheſi a fano Dianæ depo-
ſitas antiquitus pecumas Scipio tolli jubebat, ccteraſ-
que ejus dez ſtatuas. Quum in fanum, ventum eſlet,
ac hibitis complunbus ſenatorii ordinis, quos advocave-
rat Scipio; litteræ ei redduntur a Pompeæ io. mare tra-
e cum legicnibus Cæſarem; properaret ad ſe cum exerciiu
wenire, omniague pofibaberet. His litteris acceptis; quo
advocaverat, dimittit: ipſe iter in Macedoniam paiare
incipit ; pauciſque poſt diebus eſt profectus. Hoc re;
Epheſiz pecuniz ſalutem attulit.
XXIX. Cæſar, Antonii exercitu conjunfo ; deduda
. Orico legione, quam tuendz orz maritime causa poſo-
erat; tentandas ſibi provincias, longiuique procedendun
exiſtimabat; &, quum ad eum legati veniſſent ex Thel
ſalia Ætoliaque, qui przfidio miſſo pollicerentur eg
gentium civitates imperata facturas; L. Caſlium Log.
num cum legione tironum, que appellabatur vigefne
ſeptima, atque equitibus cc, in Theſſaliam; C. Calvil-
um Sabinum cum cohortibus v, pauciſque equitibus, it
Etoliam miſit: maximéque eos, quod erant propinguz
regiones, de re frumentaria ut providerent, hortacus cl
Cn. Lomitium Calvinum cum legionibus duabus, i
& x11, & Ccquitibus b, in Macedoniam proficiſci jutit;
cujus provinciæ ab ea parte, quæ Libera appellabatu, Wc,
Menedemus, princeps earum regionum, mitius legatu, |
omnium ſuorum excellens ſtudium profitebatur.
XXX. Ex his Calviſius primo adbentu ſummä cn
nium /Etolorum receptus voluntate; præſidiis adverts
riorum Cal done & Naupacto dejectie, omni e
; Pes
pe BELLO Civil Lis, III. 265
potitus eſt. Caſſius in Theſſaliam cum legione perve-
nit. Hic quum eſſent factiones duz, varia voluntate
civitatum utebatur. Egeſaretus, veteris homo potentiz,
Pompeianis rebus ſtudebat : Petreius, ſummæ nobili-
tatis adoleſcens, ſuis ac ſuorum opibus Cæſarem enixe
juvabat. |
: XXXI. Eodemque tempore Domitius in Macedoni-
am venit: &, quum ad eum fiequentes civitatum le-
gationes convenure cœpiſſent, nunciatum eſt adeſſe Sci-
pionem cum legionibus, magna & opinione & fama
omnium; nam plerumque in novitate fama antecedit.
Hic, nullo in loco Macedoniæ moratus, magno impetu
contendit ad Domitium; & quum ab eo millia paſ-
ſuum xx abfuiſſet, ſubitò ſe ad Caſſium Longinum in
Theſlaliam convertit. Hoc adeò celeriter fecit, ut ſi-
mul adeſſe & venire nunciaretur: &, quo iter expedi-
tius faceret, M. Favonium ad flumen Haliacmonem,
quod Macedoniam a Theſſalià dividit, cum cohortibus
vi11 præſidio impedimentis legionum reliquit, caſtel-
lumque ibi muniri juſſit. Eodem tempore equitatus re-
gis Coti ad caſtra Caſſii ad volavit, qui eircùm Theſſali-
am eſſe conſueverat. Tum timore perterritus Caſſius,
cognito Scipionis adventu, visiſque equitibus, quos
Scipionis efle arbitrabatur; ad montes ſe. convertit, qui
Theſſaliam cingunt: atque ex his locis, Ambraciam
versus iter facere cœpit. At Scipionem properantem
ſequi, litteræ ſunt conſecutæ a M. Favonio; Domitiune
cum legionibus adeſſe; nec Je prefidium, ubi conſtitutus Het,
ine auxilio Scipionis tenere poſe. Quibus litteris acceptis
conſilium Scipio iterque commutat; Caſſium ſequi de-
ſiſtit; Favonio auxilium ferre contendit. Itaque die
ac nocte continuato itinere, ad eum pervenit tam op-
portuno tempore, ut ſimul Domitiani exercitũs pulvis
cerneretur, & primi antecurſores Scipionis viderentur.
Ita Caſſio induſtria Domitii, Favonio Scipionis celeritas
lalutem attulit.
XXXII. Scipio in caſtris ſtativis biduum moratus ad
lumen, quod inter eum & Domitii caftra fluebat, Ha-
liacmonem z tertio die, prima luce, exercitum vads
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ante frontem caſtrorum inſtruit. Domitius tum quo.
que ſibi dubitandum non putavit, quin produQtis legi-
onibus prœlio decertaret: fed, quum eſſet inter hina
caſtra campus circiter millium paſſuum v1, caſtris Sci.
pionis aciem ſuam ſubjecit. Ille à vallo non diſcedere
perſeveravit. Attamen, ægre retentis Domitianis mili-
tibus eſt factum, ne prœlio contenderetur; & maxime,
quod rivus difficilibus ripis caftris Scipionis ſubjectus,
progreſſus noſtrorum impediebat. Quorum ſtudium
alacritatemque pugnandi quum cognoviſſet Scipio;
ſuſpicatus fore, ut poſtero die aut invitus dimicare
cogeretur, aut magna cum infamia caſtris ſe continere;
qui magna cum exſpectatione veniſſet, temere pro-
greſſus, turpem habuit exitum: & noctu, ne conclama-
tis quidem vaſis, flumen tranſit; atque in eandem par-
tem, ex qua venerat, rediit: ibique prope flumen, edito
natura loco, caſtra poſuit. Paucis diebus interpoſitis,
noctu inſidias equitum collocavit; quo in loco ſupeti-
oribus ferè diebus noſtri pabulari conſueverant: &,
quum quotidiana conſuetudine Q., Varus præfectus
equitum Domitii veniſſet, fubitd illi ex inſidiis eonſur-
rexerunt: ſed noſtri fortiter eorum impetum tulerunt,
celeriterque ad ſuos quiſque ordines rediit, atque ultro
univerſi in hoſtes impetum fecerunt. Ex his circiter
L xxx interfectis, reliquis in fugam conjectis; noſtri,
duobus amiſſis, in caſtra ſe receperunt. f
XXX1II. His rebus geſtis, Domitius ſperans Scipio- i
nem ad pugnam elici poſſe, ſimulavit ſeſe anguſtiis rei [
frumentariæ adduftum caſtra movere; vasiſque militari d
more conclamatis, progreſſus millia paſſuum 111, loco q
idoneo & occulto omnem exercitum equitatumgque at
collocavit. Scipio ad . ſequendum paratus, equitatum L.
magnamque partem levis armaturæ ad exploraudum me
iter Domitii & cognoſcendum præmiſit. Qui quum
eſſent progreſſi, primæque turmæ inſidias intraviſſent,
ex fremitu equorum illatà ſuſpicione, ad ſuos fe rect-
pere cœperunt; quique hos ſequebantur, celerem eo-
rum receptum conſpicati reſtiterunt. Noftri, cogn!t1s
hoſtium turmas exceperunt: in his fuit M. Opimius
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præfectus equitum. Reliquos omnes earum turmarum
aut interfecerunt, aut captos ad Domitium deduxerunt.
XXXIV. Deductis orz maritime Cæſar præſidiie,
ut ſuprà demonſtratum eſt; 111 cohortes Orici, oppidi
tuendi causa, reliquit: iiſque cuſtodiam navium longa-
rum tranſdidit, quas ex Italia tranſduxerat. Huic officio
oppid6que præerat Acilius legatus. Is naves noſtras in
interiorem partem poſt oppidum reduxit, & ad terram
deligavit; faucibũſque portiis navem onerariam ſubmer-
{am objecit; & huic alteram conjunxit; ſuper qua tur-
rim effectam ad ipſum introitum portùs oppoſuit, &
militibus complevit, tuendamque ad omnes repentinos
caſus tranſdidit. Quibus cognitis rebus Cn. Pompeius
filius, qui claſſi Ægyptiæ præerat, ad Oricum venit ;
ſubmersamque navim remulco, multiſque contendens
funibus, abduxit: atque alteram navem, quz erat ad
cuſtodiam ab Acilio poſita, pluribus aggreſſus navibus,
in quibus ad libram fecerat turres; & ex * pug-
nans loco; integrõſque ſemper defatigatis ſummittens ;
& reliquis partibus ſimul ex terra ſcalis & claſſe mœnia
oppidi tentans, ut adverſariorum manus diduceret ; la-
bore, & multitudine telorum, noſtros vicit: dejectiſque
defenſoribus, qui omnes {caphis excepti refugerunt,
etiam navem expugnavit: eodemque tempore ex altera
parte molem tenuit naturalem objectam, quæ penè in-
ſulam contra oppidum effecerat: 1v biremes, ſubjeQis
ſcutulis, impulſas vectibus in interiorem partem tranſ-
duxit Ita ex utraque parte naves longas aggreſſus,
quæ erant deligatæ ad terram, atque inanes; iv ex his
abduxit, reliquas incendit. Hoc confefto negotio, D.
Lzlium ab Afiatica claſſe abductum reliquit, qui com-
meatus Bullide atque Amantia importari in oppidum
prohibebat; ipſe Liſſum profectus, naves onerarias xxx
M. Antonio relictas, intra portum aggreſſus, omnes
Incendit: Liſſum expugnare conatus; defendentibus ci-
Pribus Romanis, qui ejus erant conventis, militibuſque,
$9405 præſidii causa miſerat Cæſar; triduum moratus,
Wpaucis in oppugnatione amiſſis, re infeta inde diſ-
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XXXV. Cæſar, poſtquam Pompeium ad Aſparagium
eſſe cognovit ; eõdem cum exercitu profectus; expug-
nato.in itinere oppido Parthinorum, in quo Pompeius
ptæſidium habebat; 111 die in Macedoniam ad Pom.
peium pervenit, juxtaque eum caſtra poſuit ; & poſtri-
die, eductis omnibus copiis, acie inſtructà, decernendi
poteſtatem Pompeio fecit. Ubi eum ſuis locis ſe tenere
animadvertit ; reducto in caſtra exercitu, aliud fibi con-
ſilium capiendum exiſtimavit. Itaque poſtero die om-
nibus copiis, magno circuitu, difficili anguſtoque iti-
nete, Dyrrhachium profectus eſt; ſperans Pompeium
aut Dyrrhachium compelli, aut ab eo intercludi poſſe;
quòd omnem commeatum, totiùſque belli apparatum,
is eo contuliſſet: ut accidit. Pompeius enim primò ig-
orans ejus conſilium, quòd diverſo ab ea regione iti-
nere profectum videbat, anguſtiis rei frumentariæ com-
pulſum diſceſſiſſe exiſtimabat: poſtea per exploratores
certior ſactus, poſtero die caſtra movit ; breviore iti-
nere ſe occurrere ei poſſe ſperans. Quod fore ſuſpica-
tus Cæſar, mfliteſque adhortatus, ut æquo animo labo-
rem ferrent ; parva parte noctis itinere intermiſſo, mane
ad Dyrrhachium venit, quum primum agmen Pompeii
procul cerneretur ; atque ibi caſtra poſuit.
XXXVI. Pompeius intercluſus Dyrrhachio, ubi pro-
poſitum tenere non potuit, ſecundo uſus conſilio, edito
loco, qui appellatur Petra, aditümque habet navibus
mediocrem, atque eas A quibuſdam protegit ventis;
caſtra communit. Eo partem navium longarum con-
venire; frumentum commeatimque ab Aſia, atque om-
nibus regionibus, quas tenebat, comportari imperat.
Cæſar, longiùs bellum ductum iri exiſtimans; & de Ita-
licis commeatibus deſperans, quod tanta diligentia om-
nia littora Pompeianis tenebantur ; claſſeſque ipſius,
quas hyeme in Sicilia, GaJlia, Italia fecerat, moravan-
tur; in Epirum, rei frumentariz causa, L. Canulcium
legatum miſit : quodque hw regiones aberant longius,
lozis certis horrea conſtituit ; veuraſque frumenti fin-
timis civitatibus deſcripſit: item Liſſo. Parthini que £
omnibus caſtellis, quod eſſet frumenti, conquiri jullt
Id erat perexiguum, cum ipſius agri natura, quod .
ve BELLIO Civitt Lis, III. 269
loca aſpera & montuoſa, ac plerumque utuntur frumento
importato ; tum quòd Pompeius hæc providerat, & ſupe-
rioribus diebus prædæ loco Parthinos habuerat; frumen-
tümque omne conquiſitum, ſpoliatis effoſsiique eorum
domibus, per equites comportaverat.
XXXVII. Quibus rebus cognitis, Cæſar conſilium ca-
pit ex loci natura. Erant enim circum caſtra Pompeii
permulti editi atque aſperi colles: hos primum præſidiis
tenuit; caftellaque ibi communiit; inde, ut loci cujuſ-
que natura ferebat, ex caſtello in caſtellum perduaa
munitione, circumvallare Pompeium inflituit; hac ſpec-
tans; (qudd anguſta re frumentaria utebatur; quod-
que Pompeius multitudine equitum vatebat, quo mi-
nore periculo undique frumentum commeatumque ex-
ercitui ſupportare poſſet) ſimul, ut pabulatione Pom-
peium prohiberet; equitatumque ejus ad rem gerendam
inutilem efficeret: tertid, ut auctoritatem, qua ille ma-
ximè apud exteras nationes niti videbatur, minueret;
uum fama per orbem terrarum percrebuiſlet, illum a
æſare obſideri, neque audere prœlio dimicare.
XXXVIII. Pompeius, neque a mari Dyrrhachioque
diſcedere volebat; quod omnem apparatum belli, tela,
arma, tormenta, ibi collocaverat ; framentamque exerci-
tui navibus ſupportabat: neque munitiones Cæſaris pro-
hibere poterat, niſi prœlio decertare vellet; quod eo tem-
pore ſtatuerat non eſſe faciendum. Relinquebatur, ut
ex remam rationem belli ſequens, quamplurimos colles
occuparet; & quam latiſſimas regiones præſidiis teneret;
Cæſariſque copias, quam maxime poſſet, dittineret: idque
accidit, Caſtellis enim xx1v effectis, xv millia paſſuum
circuitu amplexus, hoc ſpatio pabulabatur ; mulcaque e-
rant intra eum locum manu ſata, quibus interim jumenta
paſceret, Atque ut noſtri, qui perpetuas munitiones habe-
bant, perductas ex caſtellis in proxima caſtella; ne quo!o-
co erumperent Pom peiani, & noſtros poſt tergum adoriren-
tur, timebant: ita ilſi interiore ſpatio perpetuas munitiones
. efficiebant, ne quo loco noſtri intrare atque ipſos a tergo
circumvenire poſſent. Sed illi operibus vincebant; quod
& numero militum præſtabant, & interiore ſpatio mino-
rem Circuitum habebant. Quz quum erant loca Cztari
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capienda ; etſi prohibere Pompeius totis copiis, & dimi-
care, non conſtituerat ; tamen ſuis locis ſagittarios fun.
ditoreſque mittebat, quorum magnum habebat nume-
rum: multique ex noſtris vulnerabantur; magnuſque
inceſſerat timor ſagittarum: atque omnes fere milites,
aut ex coactis, aut ex centonibus, aut ex coriis tunicas
aut tegmenta fecerant, quibus tela vitarent.
XXXIX. In occupandis præſidiis magna vi uterque
nitebatur: Cæſar, ut quam anguſtiſſimè Pompeium con-
tineret; Pompeius, ut quàm plurimos colles quàm ma-
xi mo circuitu occuparet: crebraque ob eam cauſam
preelia fiebant. In his, quum legio Cæſaris 1x præſi-
dium quoddam ne. & munire cœpiſſet; huic
loco 75 & contrarium collem Pompeius oc-
cupavit, noſtro{que opere prohibere cœpit: &, quum
una ex parte prope æquum aditum haberet ; primum
ſagittariis funditoribuſque circumjectis, poſtea levis ar-
maturæ magna multitudine miſsa, tormentiſque prola-
tis, munitiones impediebat: neque erat facile noſtris uno
tempore propugnare & munire. Cæſar, quum ſuos ex
omnibus partibus vulnerari videret; recipere ſe ſtatuit,
& loco excedere. Erat per declive receptus : illi autem
hoc acrius inſtabant, neque regredi noſtros patiebantur;
quòd timore adduct ; bs relinquere videbantur,
Dicitur eo tempore glorians apud ſuos Pompeius
dixiſſe; Non recuſare Je, quin nullius uſus Imperator
exiſtimaretur, fe fine maximo detrimento legienes Cx/aris
ſeſe recepiſſent inde, gud temere ent progriſſe. Cæſar,
receptui ſuorum timens; crates ad extremum tumulum
contra hoſtem proferri, & adverſas locari; intra . has
1 mediocri latitudine foſſam, tectis militibus, obduci juſ-
'Þ | ſit; locumque in omnes partes quammaxime impediri,
3 Ipſe idoneis locis funditores inſtruxit, ut præſidio no-
qt ſtris ſe recipientibus eſſent. His rebus completis, le-
| giones reduci jufſit, Pompeiani hoc inſolentiùs atque
audaciùs noſtros premere, & inſtare cceperunt ; cratel-
1 que pro munitione objectas propulerunt, ut foſſas tran-
4 ſcenderent. Quod quum animadvertiſſet Cæſar; , veritus,
ne non reducti, ſed rejecti viderentur, majũſque detri-
mentum caperetur; à medio ferè ſpatio ſuos per Anto-
nium,
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nium, qui ei legioni præerat, cohortatus ; tuba ſignum
dari, atque in hoſtes impetum fieri, juſſit. Milites le-
jonis ix ſubitd conltipati, pila conjecerunt; & ex in-
— loco adversus clivum incitati curſu, præcipites
Pompeianos egerunt, & terga vertere coegerunt : quibus
ad recipiendum, crates directæ, longuriique objecti, &
inſtitutæ foſſæ, magno impedimento fuerunt. Noſtri
verd, qui ſatis habebant ſine detrimento diſcedere:
compluribus interfectis, v omnino ſuorum amiſſis, qui-
etiſſimè ſe receperunt ; paulloque citra eum locum, aliis
comprehenſis collibus, munitiones perfecerunt. |
XL. Erat nova & inuſitata belli ratio; cum tot
caſtellorum numero, tantoque ſpatio, & tantis muni-
tionibus, & toto obſidionis genere; tum etiam reliquis
rebus. Nam quicunque alterum obſidere conati ſunt ;
perculſos atque infirmos hoſtes adorti, aut prœlio ſupe-
ratos, aut aliqua offenſione permotos, continuerunt :
quum ipſi numero militum equitumque preſtarent :
cauſa autem obſidionis hæc fere eſſe conſuevit, ut fru-
mento hoſtes prohibeantur. At contra integras atque
incolumes copias Cæſar inferiore militum numero con-
tinebat; quum illi omnium rerum copia abundarent:
quotidie enim magnus undique navium numerus con-
veniebat, quæ commeatum ſupportatent: neque ullus
flare ventus poteratz quin aliqua ex parte ſecundum
curſum haberent. Ipſe autem, conſumptis omnibus
longe latéque frumentis, ſum mis erat in anguſtiis. Sed
tamen hæc ſingulari patientia milites ferebant: recorda-
bantur enim, eadem ſuperiore anno in Hiſpania per-
peſſos; labore & patientià maximum bellum confeciſſe.
Meminerant, ad Alefiam magnam ſe inopiam perpeſ-
ſos ; multo etiam majorem, ad Avaricum ; maximarum
ſe gentium victores diſceſſiſſe. Non, illis hordeum
quum daretur; non legumina recuſabant : pecus vero,
cuJus rei ſumma erat ex Epiro copia, magno in honore
habebant. Eft etiam genus radicis inventum ab iis,
qui fuerant cum Valerio, quod appellatur Chara : quod
admiſtum lacte, multùm inopiam levabat : id ad fimi-
litudinem panis efficiebant. Ejus erat magua copia:
ex hoc effectos panes, quum in colloquis Pompeiani
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famem noſtris objectarent, vulgò in eos jaciebant, ut
ſpem eorum minuerent,
XLI. Jamque frumenta matureſcere incipiebant; at.
que ipſa ſpes inopiam ſuſtentabat; quod celeriter fe
habituros copiam confidebant : crebroque voces militum
in vigiliis colloquiiſque audiebantur, prizs /e cortice ex
arboribus vidturos, quam Pompeium e manibus dimiſſuros,
Frequenter etiam ex perfugis cognoſcebant, equos
corum vix tolerari, reliqua veiò jumenta interifſe : uti
autem ipſos valetudine non bona ; cum anguſtiis loci, &
odore tetro ex multitudine cadaverum, & quotidianis
Jaboribus, inſuetos operum ; tum aquæ fumma inopiz
- affeQos : omnia enim flumina, atque omnes rivos, qui
ad mare pertinebant, Cæſar aut averterat, aut magnis
operibus obſtruxerat: atque, ut erant loca montuoſa, &
ad ſpecus anguſtiæ vallium ;. has ſublicis in terram de-
miſſis præſepſerat, terramque aggeſſerat, ut aquam con-
tinerent. Itaque illi neceſſario loca ſequi demiſſa ac
paluſtria, & puteos fodere, cogebantur; atque hunc
— ad quotidiana opera addebant: qui tarnen
fontes à quibuſdam præſidiis aberant longiùs, & cele-
riter æſtibus exareſcebant. At Cæſaris exercitus optima
valetudine, ſummaque aquæ copia utebatur; tum com-
meatits omni genere præter frumentum abundabat:
quibus quotidie melius ſuccedere tem pus; majoremque
ſpem maturitate frumentorum proponi videbant.
XLII. In novo genere belli, novz ab utriſque bellan-
di rationes reperie bantur. Illi, quum animadvertifſent
ex ignibus noctu cohortes noſtras ad munitiones excu-
bare; ſilentio adverſi univerſas intra multitudinem fa-
giitas conjiciebant, & {2 confeſtim ad ſuos recipiebant,
Quibus rebus noſtri, uſu docti, hæc reperiebant remedia;
ut alio loco ignes facerent, alio excubarent, * * * *
XLIII. Interim certior ſactus P. Sulla, quem diſce-
dens caſtris præfecerat Cæſar, auxilio cohorti venit
cum legionibus 11; cujus adyentu facile ſunt repulſi
Pompeiani : neque vero conſpectum aut impetum nol-
trorum tulerunt; primiſque dejectis, reliqui ſe verte-
runt & l co ceſierunt. Sed inſequentes noſtros, ne lon-
giùs proſequerentur, Sulla revocavit. At plerique exilti-
mant,
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mant, ſi acrius inſequi voluiſiet, bellum eo die potuiſie
finiri. Cujus conſilium reprehendendum non videtor ;
aliz enim ſunt legati partes, atque imperatoris: alter,
omnia agere ad przſcriptum ; alter libere ad ſummam
rerum conſulere debet. Sulla, a Cæſare caſtris relictus;
liberatis ſuis, hoc fuit contentus : neque prœlio decer-
tare voluit, (quz res fortaſſe aliquem reciperet caſum)
ne imperatorias fibi partes ſumpſiſſe videretur. Pom-
peianis magnam res ad receptum difficultatem affere-
bat; nam ex iniquo progreſſi loco, in ſummo conflite-
rant: fi per declive ſeſe reciperent, noſtros ex ſuperiore
inſequentes loco verebantur: neque multum ad ſolis
occaſum temporis ſupererat ; ſpe enim conficiendi ne-
gotii, prope in noctem rem duxerant. Ita neceſſario,
atque ex tempore capto conſilio, Pompeius tumulum
quendam occupavit; qui tantùm aberat à noſtro caſ-
tello, ut telum tormento miſſum adigi non poſſet: hõe
conſedit loco, atque eum communiit; omneique ibi co-
pias continuit.
XLIV. Eodem tempore duobus præterea locis pugna-
tum eſt; nam plura caſtella Pompeius pariter, diſtinen-
dz manũs rausa, tentaverat; ne ex proximis præſidiis
ſuccurri poſſet. Uno loco Volcatius Tullus impetum
legionis ſuſtinuit cohortibus 111, atque eam loco depu-
lit: altero Germani munitiones noſtras egreſſi, complu-
ribus interfectis, ſeſe ad ſuos incolumes receperunt.
XLV. Ita uno die v1 prœliis factis, 111 ad Dyrrha-
chium, 111 ad munitiones; quum horum omnium ratio
haberetur, ad duorum millium numero ex Pompeianis
cecidiſſe reperiebamus, evocatos centurioneſque eom-
plures; in eo fuit numero Valerius Flaccus, L. filius
ejus, qui prætor Aſiam obtinuerat: fignaque ſunt ſex
militaria relata. Noſtri non ampliùs xx omnibus ſunt
prœliis deſiderati. Sed in caſtello nemo fuit omnino
militum, quin vulneraretur; quatuG6rque ex una cohorte
centurzones oculos amiſerunt : &, quam laboris ſui pe-
riculique teſtimonium afferre vellent, millia ſagittarum
circter xxx in caſtellum conjecta Cæſari renumera-
verunt: ſcutoque ad eum relato Scævæ centurionis, in-
venta ſunt in eo fora;uina xxx. Quem Cæſar. ut
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pro caſtris exercitum conſtituebat, ut tertia acies vallum
vallo adjectis protegi poſſet.
274 CT JuLn Casanis:
erat de ſe meritus & de Republica, donatum millibus
ducentis, ab octavis ordinibus ad primipilum fe tranſ.
ducere pronunciavit; ejus enim opera caſtellum con-
ſervatum eſſe. magna ex parte conſtabat.: cohortemque
9596 duplici ſtipendio, frumento, & ſpeciariis militari-
üſque donis ampliſſimè donavit.
XL VI. Pompeius noctu magnis additis munitionibus,
reliquis diebus turres exſtruxit; & in altitudinem pe-
dum xv effectis operibus, vineis eam partem caſtrorum
obtexit; & V intermiſlis diebus, alteram noctem ſub-
nubilam nactus, exſtructis omnibus caſtrorum portis, «&
ad impediendum objectis, tertia inita vigilia, filentio WR
exercitum eduxit, & ſe in antiquas munitiones recepit. 2
XLVII. #tolia, Acarnania, Amphilochis, per Caſ- :
ſium Longinum & Calviſium Sabinum, ut demonſtravi-
mus, receptis; tentandam fibi Achaiam, ac paullo lon-
giùs progrediendum, exiſtimabat Cæſar. Itaque eo Fu-
fium Kalenum miſit; & Q. Sabinum, & Caſſium cum
cohortibus adjungit. Quorum cognito adventu ; Ruti-
Iius Lupus, qui Achaiam miſſus a Pompeio obtinebat,
Iſthmum premunire inftituit, ut Achaia Fufium prohi.
beret. Kalenus Delphos, Thebas, Orchomenum, vo-
luntate ipſarum civitatum, recepit ; nonnullas per vin
expugnavit; reliquas civitates, circummiſhs leg ationi-
bus, amicitiæ Cæſaris conciliare ſtudebat. In his rebus
ſerè erat Fufius occupatus.
- XLVHI. Omnibus deinceps diebus Cæſar exercitum
in aciem æquum in locum produxit, ſi Pompeius pre
lio decertare vellet; ut penè caſtris Pompeii legiones
ſubjiceret: tantümque a vallo ejus prima acies aberat,
nti ne in eam telum tormento adigi poſſet. Pompeius
autem, ut famam & opinionem hominum teneret, fic
contingeret, omniſque ejus inſtructus exercitus telis ex
XLIX. Hæc quum in Achaia atque apud Dyrrha-
chium gererentur, Scipionemque in Macedoniam ve-
niſſe conſtaret; non oblitus priſfini inſtituti Cæſar, mit
tit ad eum Clodium, ſuum atque illius familiarem;
quem ab illo tranſditum init & commendatum, in
ſuotum
ſuorum-neceſſariorum numero habere inftituerat. Huic
dat litteras, mandataque ad eum; quorum hec erat
ſumma ; Seſe omnia de pace expertum, nibil adhuc arhitrari
alum, witio eorum, quos efſe auttores ejus rei valuifſtt;
quid ſua mangata perferre non opportuno tempore ad Fom-
peium vererentur. Scipio nem ea auttoritate eſſe, ut non ſo-
lum liberè, que probaſſet, eapenere; ſed magna etiam ex
parte compellere, atgue errantem regere paſſet. Prægſſè au-
tem ſuo nomine exercitui; ut, preter auctoritatem, wires
guogue haberet ad coercenaum. Quod fi feciſſet; quietem
Italiæ, pacem provinciarum, falutem imperii, uni omnes ac-
ceptam relaturos., Hæc ad eum mandata Clodius refert.
Ac primis diebus, ut videbatur, libenter auditus ; reli-
quis ad colloquium non admittitur ; caſtigato Scipione
a Favonio, ut poſtea confecto bello reperiebamus : in-
fetaque re, leſs ad Cæſarem recepit.
L. Czfar, quò faciliùs equitatum Pompeianum ad
Dyrrhachium contineret, & pabulatione prohiberet;
aditus duos, quos eſſe anguſtos demonſtravimus, mag-
nis operibus præmunivit: caſtellaque his locis poſuit.
Pompeius, ubi nihil profici equitatu cognovit; paucis
intermiſſis diebus, rurſum eum navibus ad ſe intra mu-
nitiones recipit. Erat ſumma inopia pabult; adeò ut
foliis ex arboribus ſtrictis, & teneris arundinum radici-
bus contuſis equos alerent ; frumenta enim, quæ fuerant
intra munigones ſata, conſumpſe ant; & cogebantur
Corcyra atque Acarnania, logo interjecto navigationis
ſpatio, pabulum ſupportare: quoque erat ejus rei minor
copia, hordeo adaugere, atque his rationibus equita-
tum tolerare. Sed poſtquam non modo hordeum pabu-
lumque omnibus in locis, herbæque deſectæ, fed etiam
frondes ex arboribus dcficiebant z corruptis equis macie,
conandum ſibi aliquid Pompeius de eruptione exifli-
mavit. | a
LI. Erant apud Cæſarem, ex equitum numero, Al-
lobroges duo tratres, Roſcilius & Agus, Adbucilli filit,
qui principatum in civi:ate multi> annis obtinuerat;
ſingulari virtute homines; quorum opera Cæſar, omni-
bus Gallicis bellis, optima fortiſlimaque erat uſus, His
com! Gb has cauſas amplifiimos magiltratus manda-
vera;
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verat ; atque eos extra ordinem in ſenatum legendos
curaverat: agroſque in Gallia ex hoſtibus capros, præ-
miaque rei pecuniariæ magna tribuerat; locupleteſque
ex egentibus effecerat. Hi propter virtutem non ſolùm
apud Czfarem in honore erant, ſed etiam apud exer-
citum cari habebantur : ſed, freti amicitia Cæſaris, &
ſtulta ac barbara arrogantia- elati, deſpiciebant ſuos;
ſtipendiamque equitum fraudabant, & prædam omnem
domum avertebang, Quibus illi rebus permoti, univerſi
Cæſarem adierunt, palamque de eorvm injuriis ſunt
queſti; & ad cztera addiderunt, falſum ab his equitum
far, neque tempus illud animadverſionis eſſe exiſtimans,
& multa virtuti eorum concedens; rem diſtulit totam:
illos ſecretò caſtigavit, qudd quzſtui equites haberent;
monvitque, ut ex ſua amicitia omnia exſpectarent, &
ex præteritis ſuis officiis reliqua ſperarent. Magnam
tamen hc res illis offenſionem & contemptionem ad
omnes attulit: idque ita eſſe, cum ex aliorum objecta ·
tionibus, tum etiam ex domeſtico judicio atque animi
conſcientia intelligebant. Quo pudore adducti; & for-
taſſe ſe non liberari, ſed in aliud tempus reſervari at-
bitrati; diſcedere à nobis, & novam tentare fortunam,
novaſque experiri amicitias conſtituerunt: &, cum pau-
cis collocuti clientibus ſuis, quibus tantum facinus com-
mittere audebant; primùm conati ſunt præfectum equi-
tum C. Voluſenum interficere; ut poſtea, bello confec.
to, cognitum eſt; ut cum munere aliquo perfugiſſe al
Pompeium viderentur. Poſtquam id difficilius viſun
eſt, neque facultas perficiendi dabatur; quam maxima
potuerunt pecunias mutuati, perinde ac ſuis ſatisfacet
& fraudata reſtituere vellent; multis coemptis equi
ad Pompeium tranſierunt cum iis, quos fui conſilii pu-
- ticipes habebant. Quos Pompeius, quòd erant hcneli
loco nati, & inſtructi liberaliter ; magn6que cormitaty,
& multis jumentis venerant; virique — habebantul
& in honore apud Cæſarem fuerant ; quodque novum,
& præter conſuetudinem acciderat ; omnia ſua preſidi
circamduxit, atque oſtentavit. Nam ante id teins
nemo aut miles, aut eques, a Cæœſare ad Pompeius
f | trau:
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tranſierat; quum pene quotidie a Pompeio ad Cæſarem
perfugerent, vulgo verò in Epiro atque Atolia con-
ſcripti milites, earamque regionum omnium, quæ a
Cæſare tenebantur. Sed hi, cognitis omnibus rebus ;
ſeu quid in munitionibus perfectum non erat; ſea quid
à peritioribus rei militaris deſiderari videbatur ; tempo-
ribuſque rerum, & ſpatiis locorum, & cuſtodiarum viri-
bus ac diligentia animadverſa ; prout cujuſque eorum,
qui negotiis præerant, aut natura aut ſtudium ferebat ;
hæc ad Pompeium omnia detulerunt.
LII. Quibus ille cognitis; eruptioniſque jam ante
capto conſilio, ut demonſtratam eſt ; tegmenta galeis
milites ex viminibus facere, atque aggerem comportare
jubet. His paratis rebus; magnum numerum levis ar-
maturæ & ſagittariorum, aggerẽmque omnem, noctu in
ſcaphas & naves actuarias imponit; & de mediã nocte
cohortes Lx ex maximis caſtris præſidiiſque deductas,
ad eam partem munitionum ducit, quæ pertinebat ad
mare, longiſſimeque a maximis caſtris Cæſaris aberant.
Eodem naves, quas demonſtravimus, aggere & levis
armaturæ militibus completas, quaſque ad Dyrrhachium
naves longas habebat, mittit: & quid a quoque fieri
velit, præcipit. Ad eas munitiones Cæſar Lentulum
Marcellinum quæſtorem, cum legione 1x, poſitum ha-
bebat. Huic, quod valetudine minùs commoda uteba-
tur, Fulvium Poſthumum adjutorem ſummiſerat.
LIII. Erat eo loco foſſa pedum xv, & vallus contra
hoſtem in altitudinem pedum x: tantundemque ejus
valli agger in latitudinem patebat. Ab eo, intermiſſo
ſpatio pedum pc, alter converſus in contrariam partem
erat vallus, humiliore paullo munitione : hoc enim
ſuperioribus diebus timens Cæſar, ne navibus noftri
circumvenirentur ; duplicem eo loco fecerat vallum;
ut, ſi ancipiti prœlio dimicaretur, poſſet reſiſti. Sed
operum magnitudo & continens omnium dierum labor,
quod millia.paſſuum in circuitu xviii munitione erat
complexus, perficiendi ſpatium non dabat. Itaque con-
tra mare tranſverſum vallum, qui has duas munitiones
contingeret, nondum perfecerat, _— res nota erat
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que noſtris attulit incommodum. Nam, ut ad mare
noſtræ cohortes ix legionis excubuerant, acceſſere ſu-
bitò prima luce Pompeiani exercitus : novuſque eorum
adventus exſtitit: ſimulque navibus circumvecti milites,
in anteriorem vallum tela jaciebant: foſſæque aggere
complebantur: & legionarii, interioris munitionis de.
fenſores, ſcalis admotis, tormentis cujuſque generis te-
liſque terrebant; magnaque multitudo ſagittariorum ab
utraque parte circumfundebatur. Multùm autem ab
ictu lapidum, quod unum noſtris erat telum, viminez
tegmenta galeis impoſita defendebant. Itaque, quum
omnibus rebus noſtri premerentur, atque ægre 1ciilte-
rent; animadverſum eſt vitium munitionis, quod ſupr;
demonſtratum eſt ; atque inter duos vallos, qua porfec-
tum opus non erat, per mare, navibus expoſiti, in aver-
ſos noſtros impetum fecerunt; atque ex utraque muni-
tione dejectos terga vertere cocgerunt,
LIV. Hoc tumultu nunciato, Marcellinus cohortes
ſubſidio noſtris laborantidus ſummiſit; que ex caltris
fugientes conſpicatz, neque illos ſuo adventu conſir-
mare potuerunt, neque ipiæ hoſtium impetum tulerunt.
Itaque quodcumque addebatur ſubſidio, id corruptum
timore fugientium, terrorem & periculum augebat: ho-
minum enim multitudine, recepius impediebatur. In
eo piœlio, quum gravi vulnere eſſet affectus Aquilifer,
& viribus deficeretur ; conſpicatus equites noſtros, Han:
ego, inquit, & wiwvus multos per an nes magnd diligentid dt-
Fendi, nunc moriens eadem fiae Cæſari reſtitus. Molile,
ebſecro, commuileye, quid ante in exercitu Cafaris nan ac-
cidit, ut rei militaris deaecus admittatur : incolumemgque ad
eum referie. tioc caſu Aquila conſervatur ; omnibus
primæ cohortis centurionibus interfectis, præter princi-
pem priorem.
LV. Jamque Pompeiani, magna cæde noſtrorum,
caſtris Marcelliui appropinquabant; non mediocri ter-
rore illato reliquis cohortibus: & M. Antonius, qual
proximum locum tenebat præſidiorum, ea re nunciaia,
cum cohortibus xi deſcendens ex loco ſuperiore cet
nebatur. Cujus adventus Pompeianos compreſſit; noſ-
troſque firmavit, ut ſe ex maximo timore colligerent,
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Neque multo poſt Cæſar, ſignificatione per caſtella fo-
mo factà, ut erat ſuperioris temporis conſuetudo ; de-
ductis quibuſdam cohortibus ex præſidiis, eõdem venit:
qui, cognito detrimento, quum animadvertiſſet Pompei-
um, extra munitiones egreſſum, caſtra ſecundum mare,
ut liberè pabulari poſſet, nec minus aditum navibus
habere; commutata ratione belli, quoniam propoſitum
non tenuerat, juxta Pompeium munire juſſit.
LVI. Qua perfectà munitione, animadverſum eſt à
ſpeculatoribus Cæſaris, cohortes quaſdam, quod inſtar
legionis videretur, elle poſt ſylvam, & in vetera caſtra
duci. Caſtrorum hic ſitus erat. Superioribus diebus,
quum ſe 1x legio Cæſaris objeciſſet Pompeianis copiis,
atque opere, ut demonſtravimus, circummuniret; caſtra
eo loco poſuit. Hæc ſylvam quandam contingebant;
neque longiùs à mari paſſibus op aberant. Pöôſt, mu-
tato conſilio quibuſdam de cauſis, Cæſar paullò ultra
eum locum caſtra tranſtulit: pauciſque intermiſſis die-
bus, hzc eadem Pompeius occupaverat; &, quod eo
loco plures erat legiones habiturus, relicto interiore
vallo, majorem adjecerat munitionem. Ita minora caſ-
tra incluſa majoribus, caſtelli atque arcis locum obti-
nebant. Item ab angulo caſtrorum ſiniſtro munitionem
ad flumen perduxerat, circiter paſſus cÞ ; quo liberids,
ac ſine periculo, milites aquarentur, Sed is quoque,
mutato conſilio quibuſdam de cauſis, quas commemoe
rari neceſſe non eſt; eo loco exceſſerat. Ita complures
dies manſerant caſiia. Munitiones quidem integræ om-
nes erant. Ed figno legionis illato; ſpeculatores Cæ-
ſari renunciarunt. Hoc idem viſum ex ſuperioribus
quibuſdam caſtellis confirmaverant Is locus aberat a
novis Pompeii caftris, circiter paſſus v. Hanc legionem
ſperans Cæſar ſe opprimere poſle, & cupiens ejus diei
detrimentum ſarcire; reliquit in opere cohortes 11, quæ
ſpeciem munitionis præberent: ipſe diverſo itinere,
quam potuit occultiſimèe, reliquas cohortes, numero
XXX111, in quibus erat legio 1x, multis amiſſis centu-
nonibus, diminut6que militum numero, ad legionem
Pompeii caſtrique minora duplici acie duxit. Neque
eum prima opinio fefellit: nam & pervenit priùs, quam
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Pompeius ſentire poſſet; & tametſi erant munitione
caſtrorum magnæ, tamen ſiniſtro cornu, ubi erat ipſe,
celeriter aggreſſus Pompeianos ex- vallo deturbavit.
Erat objectus portis ericius: hie paulliſper eſt pugna-
tum; quum irrumpere noſtri conarentur, illi callra de.
fenderent; fortiſſimè T. Pulcione, cujus opera proditum
exercitum C. Antonii demonſtravimus, è loco propug-
nante, Sed tamen noſtri virtute vicerunt: exciſõque
ericio, primò in majora caſtra, poſt etiam in caſtellum,
quod erat incluſum majoribus caſtris, irruperunt; &,
quòd eò pulſa legio ſeſe receperat, nonnullos ibi re-
pugnantes interfecerunt. |
LVII. Sed fortuna, quz plurimam poteſt, cùm in
reliquis rebus, tum precipue in bello; parvis momentis
magnas rerum commutationes efficit : ut tum accidit.
munitionem enim, quam pertingere a caftris ad fumen
ſupra demonſtravimus, dextri Czfaris cornu cohortes,
Ignorantia loci, ſunt ſecutæ; quum portam quzzrerent,
caſtroramque eam munitionem eſſe arbitrarentur. Quod
quum eſſet animadverſum, conjunctam eſſe flumini;
protinus his munitionibus, defendente nullo, tranſcen-
derunt: omniſque noſter equitatus eas cohortes eſt ſe-
cutus. Interim Pompeius, hac longa ſatis interjecta
mora, & re nunciata;_v legionem ab opere deductam,
ſubſidio ſuis duxit: eodemque tempore equitatus cjus
noſtris equitibus appropinquabat; & acies inſtructa, à
noſtris, qui caſtra occupaverant, cernebatur: omniaque
ſunt ſubitò mutata, Pompeiana enim legio, celeris ſpe
ſubſidii confirmatà, ab decumana porta reſiſtere cona-
batur; atque ultro in noſtros impetum faciebat. Equi
tatus Cæſaris, quod anguſto itinere per aggeres aſcen-
debat, receptui ſuo timens, initium fug faciebet.
Dextrum cornu, quod erat a finiftro ſecluſom; terrore
equitum animadverſo; ne intra munitionem opprimere-
tur, ea parte, qua proruerat, ſeſe recipiebat; ac ple
que ex iis, ne in anguſtias inciderent, x pedum mum.
tionis ſeſe in ſoſſas precipitabant : primiſque opprelis,
reliqui per horum corpora ſalutem ſibi atque exitun
pariebant. Siniſtro cornu milites, quum ex vallo Pon-
peium adeſſe, & ſuos fugere cernerent; veriti ne *
Lu 118
pe BELLo CIvIII Lis, III. 281
guſtiis intercluderentur, quum extra & intus hoſtem ha-
berent; eodem, quo venerant, receptu fibi conſulebant :
omniaque erant tumultũs, timoris, fugæ, plena adeo,
ut, quum Cæſar ſigna fugientium manu prehenderet, &
conſiſtere juberet, alii, dimiſſis equis, eundem curſum
conficerent; alii, ex metu, etiam ſigna dimitterent ; ne-
que quiſquam omnino conſiſteret. |
LVIII. His tantis malis hæc ſubſidia ſuccurrebant,
qud minis omnis deleretur exercitus ; quod Pompeius
(inſidias timens, credo, quod hzc præter ſpem accide-
rant ejus, qui paullo ante ex caſtris fugientes ſuos con-
ſpexerat) munitionibus appropinquare aliquandiu non
audebat ; equiteſque ejus, anguſtiis portiſque a Cæſaris
militibus occupatis, ad inſequendum tardabantur. Ita
parvæ res magnum in utramque partem momentum
habuerunt. Munitiones enim a caſtris ad flumen per-
ductæ, expugnatis jam caſtris Pompeii, propriam & ex-
peditam Cæſaris victoriam interpellaverunt: eadem res,
celeritate inſequentium tardata, noſtris ſalutem attulit.
LIX. Duobus his unius diei prœliis, Cæſar deſidera-
vit milites pccccLxXx: & notos equites R. ““ Tu-
ticanum Gallum, Senatoris filium; C. Felginatem,
WPlaccntia; A. Gravium, Puteolis; M. Sacrativirum,
Capua; tribunos militum & centuriones, xxx. Sed
horum omnium pars magna in foſſis munitionibũſque
& fluminis ripis oppreſſa ſuorum terrore ac fuga,
ne ullo vulnere interiit; ſignaque ſunt. militaria xxxiI
Wamilla, Pompeius eo prœlio Imperator eſt appellatus.
oc nomen obtinuit ; atque ita ſe poſtea ſalutari paſſus
et; ſed neque in litteris, quas ſcfibere eſt ſolitus, ne-
Noe in faſcibus, inſignia laurez prætulit. At Labienus,
aum ab co impetraviſſet, ut ſibi captivos tranſdi
4 uberet ; omnes productos, oſtentationis, ut videbatur
ausà, quo major perfugæ fides haberetur, commilitones
ppellans, & magna verborum contumelia interrogans,
pw veterani milites fugere ? in omnium conſpectu
nter ficit.
IX. His rebus tantum fduciz ac ſpiritas Pompe1a-
Is acceſſit, ut non de ratione belli cogitarent, ſed vi-
ſe jam ſibi viderentur. Non illi paucitatem noſtro-
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rum militum; non iniquitatem loci atque anguſly
przoccupatis caſtris, & ancipitem terrorem intr4 ex.
traque munitiones; non abſciſſum in duas partes exer.
citum, quum altera alteri auxilium ferre non poſſet:
cauſæ fuiſſe cogitabant. Non ad hzc addebant; ro
ex concurſu acri facto, non prœlio, dimicatum : {ihj.
yu es multitudine atque anguſtiis majus attuliſe
etrimentum, quàm ab hoſte accepiſſent. Non dei.
que communes belli caſus recordabantur, quam pzrry.
Iz ſæpe cauſæ vel falſæ ſuſpicionis, vel terroris repent
ni, vel objectæ religionis, magna detrimenta intuliſſent:
Quwotles vel culpa ducis, vel tribuni vitio, in exercit
.ellet offenſum. Sed proinde ac ſi virtute viciſſent, ne.
que ulla commutatio rerum poſſet accidere; per o.
bem terrarum, fama ac litteris, victoriam ejus diei cos.
celebrabant. .
LXI. Cæſar a ſuperioribus conſiliis depulſus, omnen
ſibi commutandam belli rationem exiſtimavit. Itague
uno tempore præſidiis omnibus deductis, & oppugur
tione dimiſsa, coaAoque in unum locum exercitu, con
cionem apud milites habuit : Hortatuſque eſt, ze ea gue
accidifſent, graviter ferrent ; neve his rebus terrevrentat;
multiſgue ſecundis preliis unum adverſum, & id median,
opponerent, Halerdam fortune gratiam, quod Italian ſi
aliguo wulnrre cefifſent ; qudd duas Hiſpanias, bellic off
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habità concione, nonnullos ſigniferos ignominia notavit
ac loco movit. Exercitui quidem omni tantus inceſſit
ex incommodo dolor, tantumque.ſtudium infamiæ ſar-
ciendæ, ut nemo aut tribuni aut centurionis imperium
deſideraret; et ſibi 2 etiam pœnæ loco graviores
imponeret labores, mülque omnes arderent cupiditate
pugnandi; quum ſuperioris etiam ordinis nonnulli, ora-
tione permoti, manendum eo loco & rem prœlio com-
mittendam exiſtimarent. Contra ea Cæſar, neque ſatis
militibus perterritis confidebat ; ſpatiumque interponen-
dum ad recreandos animos putabat; relictiſque munitio-
nibus, magnopere ei frumentariz timebat.
XLII. Itaque nulla interpoſità mori, ſauciorum mo-
60 & ægrorum habità ratione, impedimenta omnia ſi-
lentio prima nocte ex caſtris Apolloniam præmiſit, ac
W conquieſcere ante iter confectum vetuit. His una le-
Woio miſſa præſidio eſt. His explicitis rebus, duas in
Wealiris legiones retinuit, reliquas de 1v vigilia complu-
bus portis eductas eodem itinere præmifit; parvoque
patio intermiſſo, ut & -militare inftitutum ſervaretur,
quam ſeriſſimè ejus profectio cognoſceretur, concla-
Vari jofſit; ſtatimque egreſſus, & noviſimum agmen
Wonſecutus, celeriter è conſpectu caſtrorum diſceſſit.
W\eque vero Pompeius, cognito conſilio ejus, moram
lam ad inſequendum intulit: ſed eadem ſpeRans, fi
iinere impeditos & perterritos deprehendere poſſet,
ercitum è caſtris eduxit; equitatümque præmiſit ad
Poriſßmum agmen demorandum; neque conſequi po-
Wuit; qudd multum expedito itinere anteceſſerat Cz-
: {ed quum ventum eſſet ad flumen Genuſum, quod
is erat impeditis, conſecutus equitatus noviſſimos
var b elio detinebat. Huic ſuos Cæſar equites oppoſuit,
(0 peditöſque anteſignanos admiſcuit pe; qui tantum
rofecere. ut, equeſtri prœlio commiſſo, pellerent omnes,
mpluréſque interficerent, ipſi incolumes ſe ad agmen
ciperent. |
LX[1I. Confecto juſto itinere ejus diei, quod propo-
erat Ceſar; tranſductõque exercitu lumen Genuſum ;
enbus ſuis in caſtris contra Aſparagium conſedit:
: liteſque omnes intra vallum caſtrorum continvit :
i equi-
284 C. Jul II CESARIS
equitatümque per cauſam pabulandi emiſſum, conſeſ
tim decumana porta in caſtra ſe recipere juſlit, $i.
mili ratione Pompeius, confefto ejuſdem diei itinere,
in ſuis veteribus caſtris ad Aſparagium conſedit; cjuſ.
que milites, quod ab opere integris munitionibus yz. Mi
cabant, alii lignandi pabulandique causa longids pro. Wi
grediebantur; alii, qudd ſubitò confilium profectioni
„ . magna parte impedimentorum & ſarcinarun
relictà, ad hæc repetenda invitati propinquitate ſuperio.
rum caſtrorum, depoſitis in contubernio armis, vallon
relinquebant. Quibus ad inſequendum impeditis, ('z.
far, quod fore providerat, meridiano ferè tempore, ſy.
no protectionis dato, exercitum educit; duplicat6que
ejus diei itinere, viii millia paſſuum ex eo loco pro.
cedit. Quod facere Pompeius, diſceſſu militum, na
potuit. f 6
LXIV. Poſtero die Cæſar fimiliter præmiſſis prini
note impedimentis, de 1v vigilid ipſe egreditur; ut, f
qua impoſita eſſet dimicandi neceſſitas, ſubitum caſun
expedito exercitu ſubiret. Hoc idem reliquis fecit d
bus. Quibus rebus eee eſt, ut altiſſimis flumitþ
bus, atque impeditiſſimis itineribus nullum accipert
incommodum. Pompeius enim, primi diei mora illa
& reliquorum dierum fruſtra labore ſuſcepto: quum
magnis itineribus extenderet, & progteſſos conſeqt
cuperet, 1v die finem ſequendi fecit, atque aliud i
conſilium capiendum exiitimavit.
LXV. Cæſari ad ſaucios deponendos, ſtipendium a
ercitui dandum, ſocios confirmandos, præſdium ul
bus relinquendum, neceſſe erat adire Apolloniam: Wl
his rebus tantum temporis tribuit, quantum erat pr
peranti neceſſe: — Domitio, ne adventu P-gp":
eij præoccuparetur; ad eum omni celeritate & e
incitatus ferebatur. Totius autem rei conſilium his" obr
tionibus explicabat: ut, fi Pompeius eodem contenu ad
ret; abductum illum a mari, atque ab iis copiis, wh exp]
Dyrrhachii comparaverat, frumento ac commeatu 1
tractum, pari conditione belli ſecum decertare cnn
ret: ſi in Italiam tranſiret; conjuncto exercitu 0
Domitio, per iyricum Italiæ ſubſidio proficiſcer®
px Belo Civitt Lis, III. 285
fin Apolloniam Oricamque oppugnaret, & ſe omni ma-
ritima ora excludere conaretur; obſeſſo tamen Scipione,
neceſſarid illum ſuis auxilium ferre 'cogeret. Itaque
premiſſis nunciis ad Cn. Domitium Czlar ſcripſit, &
quid fieri vellet, oſtendit: prefidioque Apolloniæ co-
hortibus iv, Liſſi 1, 111 Orici relictis; quique erant ex
yulneribus ægri, depoſitis; per Epirum atque Acarna-
niam iter facere cœpit. Pompeius quoque, de Cæſaris
conſilio conjecturà judicans, ad Scipionem properandum
abi exiſtimabat: fi Cæſar iter illò haberet; ut ſubſid i-
Jom Scipioni ferret; ſi ab ora maritima Corcyraque
Wdiſcedere nollet, quod legiones equitaramque ex Italia
Werſpefaret; ipſe ut omnibus copiis Domitium aggrede-
retur. :
XVI. Tis de cauſis uterque eorum celeritati ſtudebat,
& ſais ut eſſet auxilio, & ad opprimendos adverſarios,
ne occaſioni temporis deeſſet. Sed Cæſarem Apollo-
nia directo itinere averterat: Pompeius per Candaviam
iter in Macedoniam expeditum habebat. Acceſſit etiam
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dies complures caſtris Scipionis caſtra collata habuiſſet,
ent ei frumentariæ cau+-a ab eo diſceſſerat, & Heracleam
enticam, quæ eſt ſubjecta Candaviæ, iter fecerat: ut
oa fortuna illum objicere Pompeio videretur. Hac
1 ad id tempus Cæſar ignorabat. Simul à Pompeio
teris per omnes provincias civitateſque dimiſſis de
prœlio ad Dyrrhachium facto, elatiùs inflatiaſque multo,
PWW
Ce ſarem penò omnibus copiis amiſis. Hæc itinera infeſta
W eddiderant: hæc civitates nonnullas ab ejus amicitia
pi verterant, Quibus accidit rebus, ut pluribus dimuſi
pon tineribus a Cæſare ad Domitium, & ab Domitio ad
{uh z/arem, nulla ratione iter conficere poſſent. Sed Al-
i-th obroges, Roſcilli atque Ægi familiares, (quos perfugiſſe
end Pompeium demonſtravimus) conſpicati in itinere
e ploratores Domitii; ſeu priitina ſua conſuetudin-,
, quod una in Gallia bella geſlerant; ſeu gloria ela;
o vncta, ut erant acta, expoſuerunt; & Cæſaris profec-
onem, & auvenram Pompeii docuerunt: a quibus Do-
nitius certior factus, vix 1v horarum ſpatio antecedens,
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hoſtium beneficio periculum vitavit; & ad Zginium,
quod eſt objectum oppoſitùmque Theſſaliæ, Cæſari ve-
nienti occurrit.
LXVII. Conjuncto exercitu, Cæſar Gomphos perve-
nit; quod eſt oppidum primum Theſſaliæ, venientibus
ab Epiro; quz gens paucis ante menſibus ultro ad Cx-
ſarem legatos miſerat, ut ſuis omnibus facultatibus
uteretur; præſidiùmque ab eo militum petierat. Sed
ed fama jam præcurrerat, quam ſupra docuimus de
preelio Dyrrhachino; quod multis auxerat partibus,
Itaque Androſthenes, prætor Theſſaliæ, quum ſe victo-
riæ Pompe'i comitem eſſe mallet, quam ſocium Cæſa-
ris in rebus adverſis; omnem ex agris multitudinem
ſervorum ac liberorum in oppidum cogit, portaſque
præcludit; & ad Scipionem Pompeiümque nuncios
mittit, ut ſibi ſubſidio veniant: / confidere manitionibus
eppidi, fi celeriter ſuccurratur : longinguam ofppugnationen
luftinere non poſſe. Scipio, diſceſſu exercituum a Dyr-
rhachio c: gnito, Lariſſam legiones adduxerat ; Pom-
peius nondum Theſſaliæ appropinquabat. Czar, caſ-
tris munitis, ſcalas muſcaloſque ad repentinam oppug-
nationem fieri, & crates parari juſſit Quibus rebus
effectis, cohortatus milites, docuit, quartum uſum habe-
ret ab ſublewandam omnium rerum inofiam, potiri oppic
pleno atque opulento : fimul reliquis civitatibus, urbis bujus
exemplo, inferre terrorem ; & id fieri celeriter, priuſquam
atxilia concurrerent, Itaque uſus ſingulari militum ftudio
eodem quo venerat die, poſt horam ix oppidum altiſ-
ſimis moenibus oppugnare aggreſſus, ante ſolis occa-
ſum expugnavit: & ad diripiendum militibus concefiit;
ſtatimque ab oppido caſtra movit, & Metropolim ve-
nit, fic ut nuncios expugnati oppidi famamque antece-
deret |
LXVIII. Metropolitz, eodem primim uſi confilio,
iiſdem permoti rumoribus, portas clauſerunt, mur6{que
armatis compleverunt: ſed poſtea, caſu civitatis Gom-
phenſis ex captivis cognito, quos Cæſar ad murum pro-
ducendos curaverat; portas aperuerunt. Quibus dili-
gentiſſimè conſervatis; collata fortuna Metropolitarum
cum caſu Gompbeaſium, nulla Theſſaliæ fuit civitas,
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præter Lariſſæos qui magnis exercitibus Scipionis tene-
hanturs quin Cæſari parerent atque imperata facerent.
Ille ſegetis idoneum locum in agris nactus, quæ prope
jam matura erat; ibi adventum exſpectare Pompeii,
eoque omnem rationem belli conferre conſlituit.
LXIX. Pompeius paucis pöſt diebus in Theſſaliam
pervenit; concionatuſque apud cunctum exercitum, ſuis
agit gratias: Scipionis milites cohortatur, ut, parta jam
victoria. prædæ ac præmiorum velint eſſe participes:
receptiique omnibus in una caſtra legionibus, ſuum
cum Scipione honorem partitur: claſſicumque apud
eum cani, & alterum il'i jubet prætorium tendi. Auc-
tis copiis Pompeii, duobũſque magnis exercitibus con-
junctis; priſtina omnium confirmatur opinio, & ſpes
victoriæ augetur adeò, ut, quicquid intercederet tem-
poris, id morari reditum in Itaham videretur; &, fi
quando quid Pompeius tardius aut conſideratius face-
ret, unius efſe negotium diti, ſed illum delectari imperio,
&& conſulares pretorioſque jervorum habere numero, dice-
rent. Jamque inter ſe palam de præmiis ac ſacerdotiis
contendebant; in annõſque conſulatum definiebant: alii
domos bonaque eorum, qui in caftris erant Cæſaris,
petebant: magnaque inter eos in conſilio fuit contro-
verlia, opporteretne L. Hirri, qu09 15 a Pompeio ad
Parthos milſus eſſet proximis comitiis pretor iis abſentis
rationem haberi; quum ejus neceitiarii fidem implo-
rarent Pompeii, ut præilaret, quod proficiſcenti rece-
Filet, ne per ejus auctoritatem deceptus videretur; re-
liqui, in labore pari as periculo, ne unus omnes an-
tecederet, recuſu rent jam de ſacerdotio Cæſaris, Do-
mitius, Scipio, Spinthcrque Lentulus, quotidianis con-
tenttonidus ad graviſhmas verborum contumelias pa-
lam deſcenderunt ; quum Lentulus ztatis honorem of-
tentaret; Domitius urbanam gratiam dignitatemque jac-
taret, Scipio affinitate Pompeit confideret. Poſtulavit
etiam L. Alranium proditionts exercitùs Attius Rufus
apad Pompeium, quod geſtum in Hiſpania diceret:
& L. Domitius in concilio dixit; placere fibi, bello
cnfeto, ternas tabellas dari ad judicandum iis, gui ordi-
us efent ſenatorii, bellique und cum ipfis inter fuiſſent;
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Sententiaſque de fingulis ferrent, qui Rome remanſiſeu,
quique intra præſidia Pompeii fuiſſent, neque operam in u
militari prefiitifjent : unam fore tabellam, qui liberandù
omni periculo cenſerent ; alteram, qui capitis damnare,
tertiam, qui pecunia multarent. Poſtremò omnes aut &
honoribus ſuis, aut de premiis pecuniæ, aut de per
quendis inimicitiis agebant: nec quibus rationibus ſup
rare poſlent, ſed quemadmodum uti victoria deberen,
cogitabant. Re . |
LXX. Re frumentaria przparata, confirmatiſque ni. +
litibus, & ſatis longo ſpatio temporis a Dyrrhachin MY :
preeliis intermiſſo; quum ſatis perſpectum militum a
mum habere videretur, tentandum Czfar exiſtimam
quidnam Pompeius propoſiti aut voluntatis ad dim
candum haberet. Itaque ex caſtris exercitum edu
aciemque inftruxit; primum ſuis locis, paulloque 3 ſ
caſtris Pompeu longius ; continentibus vero diebus, « U
rogrederetur a caſtris ſuis, collibuſque Pompeianis WA /
em ſubjiceret. Quæ res in dies confirmatiorem f;
efficiebat exercitum. Superius tamen inſtitutum in «qu-M i!
tibus, quod demonſtravimus, ſervabat; ut, quonian A -
numero multis partibus eſſet inferior, adoleſcentes a-Bi./:
que expeditos ex anteſignanis electos milites ad pm..
citatem armis inter equites prœliari juberet; qui qu
tidiana conſuetudine uſum quoque ejus generis h
liorum perciperent. His erat rebus effectum, ut equi
mille, apertioribus etiam locis, vii millium Pomp.
anorum impetum, quum adeſſet uſus, ſuſtinere au,?
rent; neque magnopere eorum multitudine terrerentu
namque etiam per eos dies prœlium ſecundum cquel: 87:
fecit; atque /Egum Allobrogem, ex duobus quos p
fugiſſe ad Pompeium ſupra docuimus, cum quibu{dan Cz
interfecit. u
LXXI. Pompeius, quia caſtra in colle habebat, adi
fimas radices montis aciem inſtruebat; ſemper, ut vi
batur, ſpectans, fi iniquis locis Cæſar ſe ſubjiceret. C]
nulla ratione ad pugnam elici poſſe Pompeium exiſimm
hanc ſibi commodiſſimam belli rationem judicavit, /
caſtra ex eo loco moveret, ſemperque eſſet in itinctib f
hoc ſperans, ut, movendis caſtris, pluribüſque adi iP
a
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dis locis, commodiore frumentaria re uteretur ; fimil-
que, in itinere ut aliquam occaſionem dip:icandi nan-
ciſceretur, & inſolitum ad laborem Pompeii exercitum
quotidianis itineribus defatigaret. His conſtitutis re-
bus, ſigno jam profectionis dato, tabernaculiſque de-
tenſis, animadverſum eſt, paullò ante, extra quotidia-
nam conſuetudinem, longius a vallo eſſe aciem Pom-
peii progreſſam; ut non iniquo loco poſſe dimicari
videretur Tunc Cæſar apud ſuos, quum jam eſſet
mW gmen in portis, Di erendum off, inquit, iter in præſenlid
%%, & de prœlio cogitandum, ficut ſemper depufaſcimuse
ne mus ad dimicandum, parati : non facile eccaſtanem
eben repericmus. Confeltimque expeditas copias educit.
LXXII. Pompeius quoque, ut poſtea cognitum eſt,
SS ſuorum omnium hortatu ſtatuerat prœlio decertare.
(SN 2mque etiam in concilio ſuperioribus diebus dixerat,
n, guar concurrerent acies, fore, ut exercitus Cæſaris
pelleretur. Id quum eſſent plerique admirati; Scio me,
„ inquit, % incredibilem rem polliceri e fed ratisnem conſilti
r accipite, guò firmiore anime in prælium prodtatis. Per-
mW 792 equitibas neſts is, idgue mi hi ſe faturo: confirmaterunt,
, num propius /it acceſſum, dextrum Cae/aris corm ab
m YZ aperto agg redtrentur; ut, arcumventa ab 4g acie,
, perturbatum exercitum pellerent, gudm d nalis telum
188 beſtem jaceretur. Iia fine periculs Iligionum, & pen? fine
vulnere, bellum conficicmus. Id autem difficile nen eft, guns
tantum equitatu ⁊aleamus. Simul denunciavit, vt ent
animo parati in paſterum; &, quontam fieret dimicandi
eta, (ut ſafe optawifſent) ne uſu manique) reliquarum
ilonem ſallerent. Hunc Labienus excepit; ut, quum
Cæſaris copias deſpiceret, Pompeii conſilium ſummis
Waudibus efferret. Noli, inquit, exiſfimare, Pompei, hunc
We exercitum, qui Calliam Germaniamgue devicerit. Om-
7 bus interfui prœliis; neque temere ince gnitam rem pronun-
0e perexigua pars illius exercitiis ſupereſt; magna pars de-
bertit, quad accidere tot prœliis fuit neceſſe ; multos autumui
eftilentia in Italia conſumpſit; multi domum diſceſſerunt;
ulli ſunt relicti in continenli. Au non audiſtis ex tis, qui
er cauſam wvaletudinis temanſerunt, cobortes eſe Brundi/ii
O Faclas?
2900 C. JurliiCASARIS
fadas? Fe copiæ, quas widetis, ex delectilus horum any.
rum in citeriore Gallia ſunt refectæ; & plerique ſunt er
colonis Tranſpadanis. Attamen, quod fuit roboris, duty
preiis Dyrrhachims interiit. Hæc quum dixiſſet, jurayit,
fe, niſi viclorem, in caſtra non rever/urum : reliqu6ſque,
ut idem facerent, hortatus eſt, Hoc laudans Pompeius,
idem juravit; nec vero ex reliquis fuit quiſquam, qu
jurare dubitaret. Hæc quum faQa eſſent in concilio,
magna ſpe & Iztitia omnium diſceſſum eſt: ac jan
animo victoriam præcipiebant; quod de re tanta, & à tan
perito Imperatore, nihil fruſtra confirmari videbatur,
LXXIII. Cæſar cam Pompeii caſtris appropinquaſlt,
ad hunc modum aciem ejus inſtructam animum adver.
tit. Erant in ſniſtro cornu legiones duæ, tranſditz i
Cæſare initio diſſenſionis ex Senatiis conſulto; quarun
una prima, altera tertia appellabatur: in eo loco ipſe
erat Pompeius. Mediam aciem Scipio cum legionibus
Syriacis tenebat. Cilicienſis legio conjuncta cum co-
hortibus Hiſpanis, quas tranſductas ab Afranio docii.
mus, in dextro cornu erant collocatæ: has fir miſſima
ſe habere Pompeius exiſtimabat. Reliquas inter acien
mediam cornuaque interjecerat: numeroque cohorts
Cx expleverat. (Hæc erant millia xLv.) Evocatorun
Circiter duz, quæ ex beneficiariis ſuperiorum exerd-
tuum ad eum convenerant; quæ tota acie diſperlz
erant. Reliquas cohortes vir caſtris propinquiſque
caſtellis præſidio diſpoſuerat. Dextrum cornu ejus i.
vus quidam impeditis ripis muniebat ; quam ob cauſan
cunctum equitatum, ſagittarios funditoreſque omnes, i
finiſtro cornu objecerat.
= — kk, *% wy CL, mo ket PI
LXXIV. Cæſar, ſuperius inſtitutum ſervans, x lego Jy
nem in dextro cornu, ix in ſiniſtro collocaverat ; tam 2
eth erat Dyrrhachinis prœliis vehementer attenuata: 1
& huic fic adjunxit v111, ut penè unam ex duabus ef-.
ceret; atque alteram alteri præſidio eſſe juſſerat. Co Wt
hortes in acie LxXX conſtitutas habebat, quæ ſumm 2
erat millium xx11. Cohortes 11 caſtris prefidio re 25
querat. Siniſtro cornu Antonium, dextro P. Sullan 88
media acie Cn. Domitium præpoſuerat: ipſe conti F
Pompeius
pe BZLLIO Civitr Lis. III. 291
Pompeium conſiſtit. Simul his rebus animadverſis,
quas demonſtravimus; timens, ne a multitudine equi-
tum dextrum cornu circumveniretur; celeriter ex tertia
acie ſingulas cohortes detraxit, atque ex his quartam
inſtituit, equitatuique oppoſuit; &, quid fieri vellet,
oſtendit; monuitque ejus diei victoriam in earum co-
hortium virtute conſtare. Simul tertiz aciei totique ex-
ercitui imperavit, ne injuſſu ſuo concurreret; ſe, quum
id fieri vellet, vexillo ſignum daturum.
LXXV. Exercitum quum militari more cohortaretur
ad pugnam, ſuaque in eum perpetui temporis officia
prædicaret; in primis commemoravit, teffibus /e militi-
bus uti poſſe, quanto fludio pacem petiſſet; que per Vatinium
in colloguiis, guæ per A. Clodium cum Scipione egifſet ; qui-
bus modis ad Oricum cum Libone de mittendis legatis con-
tendifſet : neque ſe unquam abuti militum ſanguine, neque
Rempublicam alterutro exercitu privare woluifſe, Hac
habita oratione, expoſcentibus militibus, & ſtudio pug-
ne ardentibus, tuba ſignum dedit. Erat Craſtinus
erocatus in exercitu Cæſaris, qui ſuperiore anno apud
eum primum pilum in legione x duxerat; vir ſingulari
virtute. Hic, ſigno dato, Sequimini me, inquit, manipu-
are mei gui fuiſtis; & weſiro Imperatori, quam COnfiitue
17, operam date, Unum hoc prolium Jupereſt e quo con-
eto, & ule ſuam dignitatem, & nos noſtram libertatem
ecuperabimus. Simul reſpiciens Cæſarem, Faciam, in-
quit, Hodte, Imperator, ut aut vivo mibi aut mortuo gralias
gas, Hzc quum dixiſſet, primu: ex dextro cornu pro-
urrit ; atque eum milites electi circiter cxx voluntarii
juſdem centuriz ſunt proſecuti.
LXXVI. Inter duas acies tantum erat relictum ſpa-
ü, ut ſatis eſſet ad concurſum utriuſque exercitüs.
ed Pompeius ſuis prædixerat, ut Cæſaris impetum ex-
Piperent, neve ſe loco moverent; aciemque ejus diſtrahi
daterentur; idque admonitu C. Triarii fecitie diceba-
ur, ut primus excurſus viſque militum infringeretur,
cieſque diſtenderetur; atque ſuis ordinibus diſpoſiti,
Wiperſos adorirentur. Levids quoque caſura pila ſpe-
bat, in loco retentis militibus; quam ſi ipfi immiſſis
lis occurriſſent: ſimul fore, ut, duplicato curſu C-
O 2 ſaris
—
292 C. JULI CSESARIS
ſaris milites exanimarentur, & laſſitudine conficerentar,
Quod nobis quidem nulla ratione factum a Pompeig
videtur; propterea quod eſt quædam animi incitatio
atque alacritas naturaliter innata omnibus, quæ ſtudio
pugnæ incenditur; hanc non reprimere, ſed auger
imperatores debent: neque fruſtra antiquitus inſtitutun
eit, ut ſigna undique concinerent, clamoremque univer{
tollerent; quibus rebus & hoſtes terreri, & ſuos incitan
exiſtimaverunt. Sed noſtri milites, dato figno, quum
infeſtis pilis procucurriſſent, atque animadvertiſſen
non concurri à Pompeianis; uſu periti, ac ſuperioribus
pugnis exercitati, ſua ſponte curſum repreſſerunt; &
ad medium fere ſpatium conſtiterunt, ne conſumpti
viribus appropinquarent; parvoque intermiſſo tempori
ſpatio, ac rurſus renovato curſu, pila miſerunt; celer;-
rerque, ut erat præceptum a Cæſare, gladios ſtrinze.
runt. Neque vero Pompeiani huic rei defuerunt: nan
& tela mifla exceperunt, & impetum legionum tulerant,
& ordines conſervaverunt; piliſque miths ad gladia
redierunt. Eodem tempore equites à ſiniſtro Pompei
cornu, ut erat imperatum, uuiverſi procucurrerunt;
omniſque multitudo ſagittariorum fe profudit; quorun
impetum noſter equitatus non tulit, ſed paullum lod
motus ceſſit; equiteſque Pompeiani hoc acriùs inſtat
& ſe turmatim explicare, aciemque noſtram A later
aperto circumire cceperunt.
vertit; iv aciei, quam inſtituerat ſex cohortium nume
ro, ſignum dedit.
tiſque ſignis tanta vi in Pompeii equites impetum fect
unt, ut eorum nemo conſiſteret; omneſque conyell
non ſolum loco excederent, ſed protinus iucitati, fug
montes altiſſimos peterent. Quibus ſummotis, omnd
ſagittarii funditoreique deflituti, inermes, ſine prefid
interfecti ſunt. Eodem impetu cohortes ſint{trum ci
nu, pugnantibus etiam tum ac reſiſtentibus in act
Pompeianis, circumierunt; e6ſque à tergo ſunt adeiv
Eodem tempore tertiam aciem Cæſar, quæ quieta WM
rat, & ſe ad id tempus loco tenuerat, procurrere jul
Ita quum recentes atque integri defeſſis ſucceliſſen
alli autem a tergo adorirentur ; ſuſtincre Pompe
' | | qd
Quod ubi Cæſar anima
Illi celeriter procucurrerunt ; inf:
*
bz BELITO Civiti Lis. III. 293
non potuèrunt, atque univerſi terga verterunt. Neque
vero Cæſarem fefellit, quin ab 1is cohortibus, quæ con-
W tra equitatum in iv acie collocatz eſſent. initium vic-
WS toriz oriretur; ut ipſe in cohortandis militibus pronun-
ciaverat: ab his enim primùm equitatus eſt pulſus: ab
jiſdem facta cædes ſagittariorum atque funditorum: ab
jiſdem acies Pompeiana a ſiniſtrà parte circumventa,
atque initium fugæ fadtum. |
LXXViI. Sed Pompeius, ut equitatum ſuum pulſum
WS vidit; atque eam partem, cui maxime confidebat, per-
territam animadvertit; aliis diffitus, acie exceſſit: pro-
Laäſque ſe in caftra equo contulit; & iis centurionibus,
it WY quos in ſtatione ad prætoriam portam poſuerat, clare,
unt milites exaudirent, Tucamini, inquit, caffra, & defen-
(te dil. genter, fi quid durius acciderit. Ego reliquas portas
© WS circumes, & caſtroram præſidia confirmo. Hac quum
n WT dixiſſet, ſe in prætorium contulit, ſummæ rei diffidens,
it, & tamen eventum exſpectans. Cæſar, Pompeianis ex
n fuga intra vallum compulſis, nullum ſpatium perterritis
dare oportere æſtimans, milites cohortatus eſt, ut bene-
t; WG ficio fortunæ uterentur, caſtraque oppugnarent : qui,
et magno æſtu fatigati, (nam ad meridiem res erat
1 BE perducta) tamen ad omnem laborem animo parati, im-
4, A perio paruerunt. Caſtra à cohortibus, quæ ibi præſidio
ei erant relictæ. induſtriè defendebantur; multo etiam
„c criùs a Thracibus barbariſque auxiliis: nam qui acie
n refugerant milites, & animo perterriti & laſlitudine
4 cooked, miſſis pleriſque armis ſigniſque militaribus,
ct magis de reliqua fuga, quam de caſtrorum defenſione,
ei cogitabant. Neque verd diutius, qui in vallo conſtite-
rant, multitudinem telorum ſuſtinere potuerunt; ſed
ua contecti vulneribus, locum reliquerunt: protinaſque
a omaes, ducibus uſi centurionibus tribuniſque militum,
co Win altiflimos montes, qui ad caſtra pertinebant, confu-
0 To crunt. |
ar LXXVIII. In caſtris Pompeii videre licuit trielinia
ſtrata, magnum argenti pondus expoſitum, recentibus
ceſpitibus tabernacula conſtrata; L. ętiam Lentuli, &
nonnullorum, tabernacula protecta hederà; multaque
preterea, quæ nimiam luxuriam, & victoriæ fiduciam
O 3 deſigna-
294 Eh Jr CASARAIS
deſignarent; ut facile æſtimari poſſet, nihil eos de
eventu jus diei timuiſſe, qui non neceſſarias conquire.
rent voluptates; atque ii miſerrimo ac patientiſſimo
exercitui Cæſaxis luxuriem objiciebant, cui ſemper on.
nia ad neceii:r;um uſum defuiſſent. :
LXXIX. Pompeius, jam, quum intra vallum noi
verſar-nur, equum naQus, detractis infignibus [mpera.
toris, Cecumana porta ſe ex caſtris ejecit ; protinuſque
equo citato Lariſſam contendit. Neque ibi conſiitit;
ſed eacem ccleritate, paucos ſuorum ex fuga nactus,
noaurno itinere non intermiſſo, comitatu equitum xxx
ad mare pervenit, navemque frumentariam conſcendit;
ſpe, ut dicebatur, querens, tantum /e opinionem fefelliſh,
ut d quo genere hommun wvittoriam fperdfſet, ab eo initi
fuge facto, pene proditus wideretur.'
LXXX. Cæſar caſtris potitus, a militibus contendit,
ne in prædà occupati, reliqui negotii gerendi facults-
tem dimitterent. Qua re impetrata, montem open
circummunire inſtituit. Pompeiani, quòd is mons erat
Gne aqua, diffiſi eo loco, relicto monte, univerſi ¶ juri
ejos] Lariſiam versùs ſe recipere cœperunt. Qui nr.
animadversa, Cæſar copias ſuas diviſit; partemque le. f.
gionum in caſtris Pompeii remanere juſſit, partem u
ſua caſtra remiſit: 1v ſecum legiones duxit z commodi- n
orẽque itinere Pompeianis occurrere cœpit: & progrel- I.
ſus millia paſſuum vi, aciem inſtruxit. Qua re animad- tu
versa, Pompeiani in quodam monte conſtiterunt. Hut fc
montem flumen ſubluebat. Cæſar, milites cohortatus; lis
etſi totius diet continenti labore erant confecti, noxqu gu
jam ſuberat; tamen munitione lumen à monte ſeclul', ite
ne noctu Pompeiani aquari poſſent. Quo jam perfedꝰ rio
opere, illi de deditione, miſſis legatis, agere co2per uit WW (
Pauci ordinis Senatorii, qui ſe cum iis conjunxera ha
note ſugã ſalutem petierunt. Cæſar prima luce om Het
eos, qui in monte conſederant, ex ſuperioribus loch on
in planitiem deſcendere, atque arma projicere juſt ec
Quod ubi fine recuſatione fecerunt; paſsiſque palm
projecti ad terram, flentes ab eo petierunt ſalutem
conſolatus conſurgere juſſit: & pauca apud eos de lem
tate ſua locutus, quo minore eflent timore; omnes cob
| {ervavil;
pe BeLLo Civiti Lis, III. 295
ſervavit; militibuſque ſuis commendavit, ne qui eorum
violarentur, neu * ſui deſiderarent. Hàc adhibita
diligentia, ex caſtris ſibi legiones alias occurrere, &
eas, quas ſecum duxerat, invicem requieſcere, atque in
caſtra reverti juſſit: eodemque die Lariſſam pervenit.
LXXXI. In eo prœlio non ampliùs cc milites deſi-
deravit; ſed centuriones, fortes viros, Circiter XXX
amiſit. Interfectus eſt etiam fortiſſimè pugnans Craſti-
nus, cujus mentionem ſupra fecimus; gladio in os ad-
verſum conjecto. W 1 id fuit falſum, quod ille in
pugnam proficiſcens dixerat. Sic enim Cæſar exiſli-
mabat, eo prœlio excellentiſſimam virtutem Craſtini
fuiſſe; optimeque eum de ſe meritum judicabat. Ex
0 Pompeiano exercitu circiter millia xv cecidiſſe vide-
"SS bantur; fed in deditionem venerunt amplius millia
WAY xx1v: (namque etiam cohortes, quæ præſidio in caſ-
1 WS tellis fuerant, ſeſe Sollæ dediderunt; multi præterea
e in finitimas civitates refugerunt) fignaque militaria ex
a BE proclio ad Cæſarem ſunt relata cLxxx, & aquilz ix.
L. Domitius ex caſtris in montem refugiens, quum vi-
eres eum laſſitudine defeciſſent, ab equitibus eſt inter-
e. fetus.
i RS LXXXII. Eodem tempore D. Lælius cum claſſe ad
di brundiſium venit; eademque ratione, qua fadtdum a
el. ibone antea demonſtravimus, inſulam objectam por-
0- ru Brundiſino tenuit. Similiter Vatinius, qui Brundi-
nc io præerat, tectis inſtratiſque ſcaphis elicuit naves Læ-
5 lianas; atque ex his longiùs productam unam quin-
Jue queremem, & minores duas, in angufliis portũs cepit :
i, emque per cquites diſpoſitos, aqua prohibere claſſia-
(0 rio inflituit. Sed Lzlivs tempore anni commodiore
us ad navigandum, onerariis navibus Corcyra Dyr-
Whachioque aquam ſuis ſupportabat; neque à propolito
Wcterrebatur ; neque ante prœlium, in Theſſalia fac-
um, cognitum, aut ignominia amiſſarum navium, aut
eceſſariarum rerum 1nopia, ex portu'inſulaque expelli
Otuit.
LXXXIII. Iiſdem ferè temporibus Caſſius cum claſſe
rorum & Phoenicum & Cilicum in Siciliam venit: &
O 4 quum
—
296 C. JULI CESARNIS
quum eſſet Cæſaris elaſſis diviſa in duas partes, & di.
midize parti præeſſet P. Sulpicius prætor Vibone ad
fretum, dimidiæ M. Pomponius ad Mefianam ; priug
Caſſius ad Meſſanam navibus advolavit, quam Pompo-
nius de ejus adventu cognoſceret: perturbatümque eum
nactus, nullis cuſtodiis, neque ordinibus certis; magno
vento & ſecundo, completas onerarias naves tzeda &
pice & ſtapà, reliquiſque rebus, quz ſunt ad incendiz,
in Pomponianam claſſem immiſit; atque omnes nave
incendit xxx, in quibus erant xx conſtratæ: tantiſ.
que eo facto timor inceſſit, ut, quum eſſet legio pra-
ſidio Meſlanæ, vix oppidum defenderetur: &, niſi e
ipſo tempore nuncii de Cæſaris victoria per diſpolitas
equites eſſent allati, exiſtimabant plerique futurum fi-
ile, ut amitteretur: ſed opportuniſſimè nunciis alla,
oppidum fuit defenſum. Caſſiuſque ad — *
inde cl aſſem Profectus eſt Vibonem : applicatiſque nol.
tris ad terram navibus, propter eundem timorem; pati,
atque antea, ratione egit: ſecundum nactus ventum,
onerarias naves Circiter XL, præparatas ad incendium,
immiſit; &, flamma ab utroque cornu comprehens,,
naves ſunt eombulz v. Quùmqde ignis, magnitudine
venti, latiùs ſerperet; milites, qui ex veteribus legio-
nibus erant relicti præſidio navibus, ex numero zgro-
rum, ignominiam non tulerunt; ſed ſua ſponte nave:
conſcenderunt, & a terri ſolverunt; impetaque fach
in Caſtanam claſſem, quinqueremes 11, in quarum 2:
tera erat Caflius, ceperunt: ſed Caſſius, exceptus {cz
pha, refugit. Præterea duæ ſunt depreſſæ triremes
Neque mulio pdft de prœlio facto in Theflalia cognt-
tum eſt; ut iplis Pompeianis fides fieret: nam ante it
tempus fingi a legatis amiciſque Cæſaris arbitrabantu,
uibus rebus cognitis, ex iis locis Caſſius cum claſk
diiceflit. |
LXXXIV. Cæſar, omnibus rebus relics, per{ſequen-
dum fibi Pompeium exiftimavit, quaſcumque in parts
ex fuga ſe recepiſſet; ne rurſus copias comparare ality
& bellum renovare poſſet: & quantum itineris equitt
tu efficere poterat, quotidie progrediebatur : legionene
que-unam minoribus itineribus ſubſequi m_ —
edictun
ts, 4 1 . 8
5 An, 5" Ih a Sth.
pe BrILO Civirt Lis, III. 297
editum Pompeii nomine Amphipoli propoſitum, ut
omnes ejus provinciz juniores, Græci, civeſque Roma-
ni, jurandi causa convenirent; ſed, utrùm avertendæ
ſuſpicionis causa Pompeius propoſuiſſet, ut quam diu-
tiſimè longioris fugæ conſilium occultaret; an novis
electibus, fi nemo premeret, Macedoniam tenere co-
naretur; exiſtimari non poterat. Ipſe ad anchoram
una note conÞiit; & vocatis ad fe Amphipoli hoſpi-
tibus, & pecunia ad neceſſarios ſumptus corrogata,
cognito Cæſaris adventu. ex co loco diſceſſit, & ad Mi-
tylenas paucis diebus venit. Biduum tempeſtate reten-
tus, navibuſque aliis additis actuariis; in Ciliciam, at-
que inde in Cyprum pervenit. Ibi cogroſcit, conſenſu
omnium Antiochenſium, civiümque Romanorum gut
d. i!lic negotiarentur, arcem ante captam eſſe, excludendi
5 ſui causà; nunciòſque dfinifios ad eos, qui ſe ex fugi in
n WT finitimas civitates recepiſte dicerentur, ne Antiochiam
(. WS 2dirent: id ſi feciſſent; magno corum capitis periculo
i, foturum. Idem hoc L. Lentulo, qui ſuperiore anno
", a conſul fuerat, & P. Lentulo conſulari, ac nonnullis
u, alis, acciderat Rhodi: qui, quum ex foga Pompeium
i ſequerentur, atque in inſulam veniſſent, oppido ac
ne portu recepti non erant: miſsiſque ad eos nunciis, ut
0. e 115 locis diſcederent, contra voluntatem ſuam naves
o- Wa {olveron'. Jamque de Claris adventu fama ad civita-
e tes per ferebatur. 1
XXV. Quibus cognitis rebus; Pompeius, depoſits
d. adeundæ Syrie conſilio, pecun'a ſocietatis ſublata, &
. J quibaſdam privatis ſumptä, & aris magno pondere
ad militarem uſum in naves impotto, duobaſque mil-
libus hominum armatis, partim quos ex familiis ſocie-
tatum delegerat, partim a negotiatoribus coegerat,
qu6ſque ex ſuis quiſque ad hane rem idoneos exifli-
mabat; Peluſium pervenit. Ibi caſu rex erat Ptolemæ-
us, puer ætate, magnis copiis, cum ſorore Cleopatra
gerens bellum; quam paucis ante menſibus per ſuos
ropinquos atque amicos regno expulerat: caſtraque
leopatræ non longo ſpatio ab ejus caſttis diſtabant.
Ad eum Pompeius miſit, ut, pro hoſpitio atque ami-
ata patris, Alexandria reciperetur, atque illius opibus
5 in
298 C. JuliiCasanis
in calamitate tegeretur. Sed qui ab eo miſſi erant,
confecto legationis officio, liberiùs cum militibus regis
colloqui cœperunt; eòſque hortari, ut ſuum officium
Pompeio præſtarent, neve ejus fortunam deſpicerent,
Ia hoc erant numero complures Pompeii milites, quos
ex ejus exercitu acceptos in Syria Gabinius Alexandri-
am tranſduxerat, bell6que confeto apud Ptolemæum
patrem pueri reliquerat. His tunc cognitis rebus;
amici regis, qui propter ætatem ejus in procuratione
erant regni; five timore adducti, ut poſtea prædicabant,
ne, ſollicitato exercitu regio, Pompeius Alexandriam
Fgyptimque occuparet; five deſpe&3 ejus fortuna, ut
plerumque in calamitate ex amicis inimici exiſtunt;
lis, qui erant ab eo miſſi, palam liberaliter reſponde.
runt; eamque ad regem venire juſſerunt: ipſi, clam
conſilio inito, Achillam præfectum regium, fingulari
hominem audacia; & L. Septimium, tribunum mili-
tum; ad interficiendum Pompeium miſerunt. Ab his
liberaliter ipſe appellatus ; & quadam noritia Septimii
productus, quod bello prædonum apud eum ordinem
duxerat; naviculam parvulam conſcendit cum paucis
ſuis, & ibi ab Achilla & Septimio interficitur. Item
IL. Lentulus comprehenditur a rege, & in cuſtodia re-
catur.
LXXXVI. Cæſar, quum in Aſiam veniſſet, reperie-
bat, T. Ampium conatum eſſe tollere pecunias Ephelo
ex ſano Dianz; ejuſque rei causa, ſenatores omnes ex
provincia evocaſle, ut iis teſtibus in ſumma pecuniz
uteretur; ſed interpellatum adventu Czſaris, proſugille:
ita duobus temporibus Epheſiæ pecuniæ Cæſar auxil-
um tulit. Item conflabat, Elide in templo Minervz,
repetitis atque enumeratis diebus, quo die prceliud
ſecundum feciſſet Cæſar, ſimulacrum Victoriæ, quod
ante ipſam Minervam collocatum erat, & ante 4
fimulacrom Minervæ ſpectabat, ad valvas ſe templ
limenque . convertiſſe. Kodemque die Antiochiz 1
Syria bis tantus exercitus clamor, & ſignorum lor
exauditvs eſt, ut in muris armata civitas diſcurrere
Hoc idem Ptolemaide accidit. Pergami, in occult
ac remotis templi, quo præter ſacerdotes, adire ft
nel
mr 7} }_ww ͤ .
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AL eft, quæ Greci aJore appellant; tympana ſonue⸗
runt. Item Trallibus in templo Victoriæ, ubi Cæſaris
ſtatuam conſecraverant, palma per eos dies in tecto,
inter coagmenta lapidum, ex pavimento exſlitiſle oflen-
debatur.
LXXXVII. Cæſar paucos dies in Aſia moratus, quum
audiſſet Pompeium Cy pri viſum, conjectans eum in .-
gyptum iter habere, propter neceſſitudines regni, reli-
quaſque ejus loci opportunitates ; cum legionibus, una,
quam ex Theſſalid ſe ſequi juſſerat, & altera, quam ex
Achaia a Fufio legato evocaverat, equitibaſque pccc,
& navibus longis Rhodiis x, & Alaticis paucis, Alex-
andriam pervenit. In his erant legionibus hominum
111 millia ducenti: reliqui, vulneribus ex prœliis, &
labore ac magnitudine itineris confetti, conſequi non
potuerant. Sed Czſar confiſus fama rerum geitarum,
infirmis auxiliis proficiſci non dubitaverat; atque om-
nem ſibi locum tutum fore exiſtimabat. Alexandriz
de Pompeii morte cognoſcit ; atque ibi primùm è navi
egrediens clamorem militum audit, quos rex in oppidg
præſidii causa reliquerat; & concurſum ad fe fieri vi-
det, quod faſces ante ferrentur. In hoc omnis multitu-
do majeſtatem regiam minui prædicabat. Hoe ſedato
tumultu, crebræ continuis diebus ex concurſu multitu-
dinis concitationes fiebant: complurẽſque milites hujus
urbis omnibus partibus 1nterficiebantur,
LXXX VIII. Quibus rebus animadverſis; legiones ſibi
alias ex Aſia adduci juſſit, quas ex Pompeianis mili-
tibus confecerat: ipſe enim neceſſariò Eteſſis tenebatur;
qui Alexandria navigantibus ſunt adverſiſſimi venti.
Interim controverſias regum ad populum R. & ad fe,
quod eſſet conſul, pertinere exiſtimans; atque ed ma-
gis officio ſuo convenire, qudd ſuperiore conſulatu
cum patre Ptolemzo & lege & S. C. ſocietas erat facta;
oſtendit ſibĩ placere, regem Ptolemæum, atque ſororem
ejus Cleopatram, exercitus, quos haberent, dimittere;
& de controverſiis jure apud ſe potiùs, quam inter ſe
armis, diſceptare. a
LXXXIX. Erat in procuratione regni, propter æta.
tem pueri, nutricius ejus eunuchus, nomine Pothinus.
Is
200 C. JI Casanis
Is primim inter ſuos queri atque indignari ccepit, re.
gem ad dicendam cauſam evocari: deinde adjutores
quoſdam conſcios ſui nactus ex regis amicis, exercitum
a Peluſio clam Alexandriam evocavit ; atque eundem
Achillam, cujus ſuprà meminimus, omnibus copiis præ-
fecit. Hunc incitatum ſuis, & regis inflatum pollici-
tationibus; quz fieri vellet, litteris nunciiſque edocuit,
In teſtamento Ptolemzi patris hæredes erant ſcripti, ex
duobus filiis major, & ex duabus ea, quz ztate ante-
cedebat. Hæc uti ferent, per omnes deos, perque
- foedera, quæ Romæ feciſſer, eodem teſtamento Ptoſe.
mzus populum R. obteftabatur. Tabulæ teſtamenti,
unz per legatos ejus Romam erant allatz, ut in zraris
Ponerentur; (ex, quum propter publicas occupationes
poni non potuiſſent, apud Pompeium ſunt depoſitz) al-
teræ, eodem exe mplo, relidtæ atque obſignatæ Alexan-
driæ proferebantur.
XC. De his rebus quum ageretur apud Cæſarem; iſ-
que maxime vellet, pro communi amico atque arbitro,
controverſias regum componere : ſubitò exercitus regius,
equitatuſque omnis, venire Alexandriam nunciatur. Cæ-
ſaris copiæ nequaquam erant tantz,, ut eis extra oppi-
dum, ſi eſſet dimicandum, confideret : relinquebatur, ut
' ſe ſuis locis oppido tznerct, confiliumque Achillæ cog-
noſceret. Milites tamen omnes in armis efle juſſit:
regemque hortatus eft, ut ex ſuis neceſſariis, quos
haberet maximæ auctoritatis, legatos ad Achillam mit-
teret; & quid eflet ſuæ voluntatis, oſtenderet. A quo
miſſi Dioſcorides & Serapion, qui ambo legati Romæ
fuerant, magnamque apud patrem Ptolemæum aucto-
ritatem habuerant; ad Achillam pervenerunt. Quos
ille, quum in conſpectum ejus veniſſent; priùs, quam
audiret, aut, cujus rei causa miſſi eſſent, cognoſceret ;
corripi, ac interfici juſſit; quorum alter accepto vul-
nere occupatus, per ſuos pro occiſo ſublatus; alter in-
terfeAus eſt. Quo facto, regem in ſua poteſtate ut
haberet, Cæſar effecit: magnam regium nomen apud
ſuos auctoritatem habere exiſtimans; & ut privato pau-
corum & latronum potiùs, quam regio conſilio, ſuſcep-
tum bellum vidergtur,
a XCl,
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XCI. Erant cum Achilla copiz; ut neque numero,
neque genere hominum, neque uſu rei militaris, con-
temnendz viderentur : millia enim xx in armis habe-
bat. Hz conſtabant ex Gabinianis militibus ; qui jam
in conſuetudinem- Alexandrinz vitz atque licentiæ ve-
nerant; & nomen diſciplinamque populi Romani dedi-
dicerant; uxbrẽſque duxerant, ex quibus plerique li-
beros habebant. Huc accedebant collecti ex prædoni-
bus latronibüſque Syriz, Cilicizque provinciæ, finiti-
marimque regionum. Multi præterea, capitis damnati,
exuleſque convenerant: fugitiviſque omnibus noſtris
certus erat Alexandriæ receptus, certaque vitæ condi-
tio, ut, dato nomine, militum eſſent numero: quorum
ſi quis a domino comprehenderetur, concurſu militum
eripiebatur; qui vim ſuorum, quod in ſimili culpa ver-
ſabantur, ipſi pro ſuo periculo defendebant. Hi regum
amicos ad mortem depoſcere : hi bona locupletum di-
ripere ſtipendii * causa, _ domum obſidere,
regno expellere alios, alios accerſere, vetere quodam
Alexandrini exercitis inſtituto, conſueverant. Erant
præterea equitum millia 11, qui inveteraverant com-
pluribus Alexandriz bellis: hi Ptolemæum patrem in
regnum reduxerant ; Bibuli filios duos interfecerant ;
bella cum /Egyptiis geſſerant: hunc uſum rei militaris
habebant. | .
XCII. His copiis fidens Achillas, paucitatemque mi-
litum Cæſaris deſpiciens, occupat Alexandriam ; præ-
terea oppidi parte, quam Cæſar cum militibus tenebat,
primo impetu domum ejus irrumpere conatus eſt ; ſed
Cæſar, diſpoſitis per vias cohortibus, impetum ejus ſuſ-
tinuit, Eodemque tempore pugnatum eſt ad portum :
ac longè maximam attulit ea res dimicationem : fimul
enim, diductis copiis, pluribus viis pugnabatur; &,
magna multitudine, naves longas occupare hoſtes cona-
bantur; quarum erant L auxilio miſſæ ad Pompeium,
quæ, prœlio in Theſſalia facto, domum redierant. IIlæ
triremes omnes & quinqueremes erant, aptz inſtructæ-
que omnibus rebus ad navigandum. Præter has, xx1z
erant, quæ præſidii causa Alexandriz eſſe conſueverant,
conſtratæ omnes: quas fi occupatient; claſſe Cæſari
| ereptà,
302 C. JULI Casanis
ereptà, portum ac mare totum in ſua poteſtate habe-
rent; commeatu auxiliiſque Cæſarem prohiberent. Ia.
que tanta eſt contentione actum, quanta agi debuit;
quum ille celerem in ea re victoriam, hi ſalutem ſuam
conſiſtere viderent. Sed rem obtinujt Cæſar; omneſ.
que eas naves, & reliquas, quæ erant in navalibus, in-
cendit; quod tam late tueri tam parva manu non po-
terat: confeſtimque ad Pharum navibus milites expo-
ſuit. |
XCIII. Pharus eſt in inſula turris, magna altitudine,
mirificis operibus extructa; qu nomen ab inſulà ac.
cepit. Hæc inſula objecta Alexandriæ, portum efficit:
ſed a ſuperioribus regionibus in longitudinem paſſuum
becce in mare jactis molibus, anguſto itinere & ponte
cum oppido conjungitur. In hac ſunt inſula domicilia
Egyptiorum, & vicus, oppidi magnitudine : quzque
ubique naves imprudentia aut tempeſlate paullulim
ſuo curſu deceſſerint, has more prædonum diripere con-
ſueverunt. lis autem invitis, a quibus Pharus tenetur;
non poteſt eſſe, propter anguſtias, navibus introitus in
portum. Hoc tum veritus Cæſat; hoſtibus in pugni
occupatis, militibuſque expoſitis, Pharum apprehendit;
atque ibi præſidium poſuit. Quibus eſt rebus effectum,
uti tutò frumentum auxiliaque navibus ad eum ſup-
portari poſſent: dimiſit enim circum omnes propin-
-quas regiones, atque inde auxillia evocavit. Reliqui
oppidi partibus fic eſt pugnatum, ut æquo prœlio diſce-
deretur, & neutri pellerentur; (id efficiebant anguſtia
loci) pauciſque utrimque interfectis, Cæſar loca maxi-
me neceſſaria complexus, noctu præmunit. Hoc trad
oppidi pars erat regiz exigua, in quam ipſe habitandi
causa initio erat inductus; & theatrum conjunctum
domui, quod arcis tenebat locum, aditüſque - habebat
ad portum, & ad reliqua navalia. Has munitiones in-
ſequentibus auxit diebus: ut pro muro objectas habe-
ret, neu pugnare invitus cogeretur. Interim filia minor
Ptolemæi regis, vacuam poſſeſſionem regni ſperans, ad
Achillam ſe ex regia transjecit, ur äque bellum admi—
niſtrare cœpit. Sed celeriter eſt inter eos de principt-
tu controverſia orta; quæ res apud milites Jargitiones
i. 2 '
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auxit; magnis enim jacturis ſibi quiſque eorum animos
conciliabat. Hæc dum apud hoſtes geruntur; Pothinus,
nutricius pueri, & procurator regni, in parte Cæſaris;
quum ad Achillam nuncios mitteret, hortaretürque,
ne negotio deſiſteret, neve animo deficeret; indicatis
deprehensiſque internunciis, a Cæſare eſt interfectus.
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COMMENTARIORUMM
DE BELLO ALEXANDRINO
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LIBER UN US.
I. ELLO Alexandrino conflato, Cæſar Rhoco
atque ex Syria Ciliciaque omnem claſſem ac
| cerſit; ex Creta, ſagittarios; equites, ab rege :
Nabatzorum Malcho evocat: tormenta undique ce!
quiri, & frumentum mitti, auxiliaque adduci jubet. 1n- WW 1
terim munitiones quotidie operibus avgenter; atque o-,
nes oppidi partes, quz minus firmæ eſte viderentur, tel j
tudinibus atque muſculis az tantur :- ex ædificiis auten t.
per foramina in proxima ædificia arietes immittuntur: U
quantumque aut rvinis dejicitur, aut per vim recipitu fi
loci ; in tantum mvnitiones proferuntur. Nam inces. ſc
dio ferè tuta eſt Alexandria ; quod fine contignatior? di
ac materia ſunt ædificia, & ſtructuris atque fornicitu p.
continentur, tectaque ſunt rudete aut pavimentis. b.
ſar ſtudebat maxime, ut, quam anguſliſſimam parten ag
oppidi palus a meridie interjed a efficiebat, hanc g
ribus vinciſque agendis a reliqua parte urbis excluce
ret: illud ſpectans; primùm, ut, quum eſſet in Cui
partes urbs diviſa, acies uno conũlio atque imperio «6
miniſtraretu
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pE BELLO ALEXANDRINO, 30g
miniſtraretur; deinde, ut laborantibus ſuceurri, atque
ex altera oppidi e auxilium ferri poſſet; in primis
vero, ut aqua pabuloque abundaret: quarum alterius
rei copiam exiguam, alterius nullam omnino faculta-
tem habebat: quod utrumque palus large præbere po-
terat,
II. Neque vero Alexandrinis in gerendis negotiis
cunctatio ulla aut mora inferebatur: nam in omnes
partes, per quas fines /Egyptii regnamque pertinet, le-
gatos conquiſitoreſque, deleftas habendi causa, miſe-
rant; magnumque numerum in oppidum telorum atque
| WS tormentorum convexerant; & innumerabilem multitudi-
nem adduxerant: nec minus in urbe maximæ armorum
erant inſtitutæ officinz : ſervos præterea puberes arma-
verant, quibus domini locupletiores vdum quotidianum
) ſtipendiümque præbebant. Hac - muititudine diſpoſita,
Ws munitiones ſemotarum partium tuebantur: veteranas
cohortes, vacuas in celeberrimis urbis locis habebant.z
ur, quacumgie regione pugnaretur, integtis viribus ad
auxilium ferendum opportune efiznt. Omnibus viis
% atque angiportis, triplicem valium ohdugerant: erat
- WA 2vtem quadrato exſtructus ſaxo ; nec minus x1 pedes
ce WS altitudinis habebat: quæque partes urbis inferiores erant,
„has altiſſimis turribus denorum tabulatorum munierant:
præterea alias ambulatorias, totidem tabulatorum con-
W fixerant, ſubjectiſque eas rotis, funibus jumentiſque ob-
jectis, directis plateis, in quamcunque erat viſum, par-
em movebant. Urbs fertiliſſima & copioſiſüma omni-
um rerum apparatus ſuggerebat. Ipſi homines ingenio-
afimi atque acutiſſimi, quæ a nobis fieri viderant, eã
follertia efficiebant, ut noſtri illorum opera imitati vi-
derentur: & ſua ſponte multa reperiebant: un6que tem-
pore, & noſtras munitiones infeſtabant, & ſuas defende-
„ Pant; atque bac principes in conciliis concionibuſque
ten 2gitabant; populum Romanum paullatim in conſuetudinem
e regni venire occupandi : paucis annis antea Gabinium
berg exercitu fuiſje in Ægypto: Pompeium ſe ex fugd t6-
(11 Gem recepiſ : ac Cæſarem veniſie cum copiis © neque morte
ei quidguam profectum, quo minus Ceſar apud fe
(Gor aretur ; quem /i non expulifſent, futuram ex 1egna
| | provinciam:
306 A HIAIATII
provinciam e idgue agendum matur? + namgue eum, int.
cluſum tempeflatibus propter anni tempus, recipere tranſna.
rina auxilia non poſſe. =
III. Interim, diſſenſione orta inter Achillan, qui ye.
terano exercitui præerat; & Arſinoen regis Ptolemzi
minorem filiam, ut ſupra demonſtratum eſt: quum uter.
que utrique inſidiaretur, & ſummam imperii ipſe obtinere
vellet; præoccupat Arſinoè per Ganymedem eunuchun
nutricium ſuum; atque Achillan interficit. Hoc occiſo,
ipſa fine ullo ſocio & cuſtode omne imperium obtinebat;
exercitus Ganymedi tranſditur. Is, ſuſcepto officio, lar.
gitionem in milites auget; reliqua pari diligentia ad-
miniſtrat. 5 ;
IV. Alexandria eſt ferè tota ſuffoſſa; ſpecuſque habet
ad Nilum pertinentes, quibus aqua in privatas domos
inducitur, quæ paullatim ſpatio temporis liqueſcit ac
ſubſidit. Hac uti domini zdificiorum atque eorun WR'*:
familia conſueverunt: nam quæ flumine Nilo fertur,
adeo eſt limoſa atque turbida, ut multos variöſque mor.
bos efficiat: fed ea plebes ac multitudo contenta ef
neceſtarid,, quod fons urbe tota nullus eft. Hoc tamen
flumen in ea parte urbis erat, quz ab Alexandrinis
tenebatur : quo facto eſt admonitus Ganymedes, poſe
noſtros aqua intereludi; qui, diſtributi munitionem tu-
endarum causa, vicatim ex privatis zdificiis, ſpecubus
& puteis extractà aqua utebantur. Hoc probato con-
filio, magnum ac difficile opus aggreditur : interſepti
enim ſpecubus; atque omnibus urbis partibus excluſis
quæ ab ipſo tenebantur; aquz magnam vim ex mar i
rotis ac machinationibus exprimere contendit : hanc
locis ſuperioribus fundere in partem Czfaris non 1t-
termittebat. Quamobrem ſalſior paulld præter conſue-
tudinem aqua trahebatur ex proximis ædificiis, mag:
nãmque hominibus admirationem præbebat, quam ob
cauſam id accidifſet: nec ſatis ſibi ipſi credebant; WW we
quum ſe inferiores ejuſdem —— ac ſaporis aqui d.
cerent uti, atque ante conſueſſent-: vulgoque inter-
conferebant; & deguſtando, quantum inter ſe differ ““
rent aquæ, cognoſcebant. Parvo verò temporis (patio,
hæc propior bibi non poterat omnino; illa inferior cor
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roptior jam, falficrque reperiebatur. Quo facto dubi-
tatione ſublati, tantus inceſſit timor, ut ad extremum
caſum omnes deducti viderentur : atque alii morari
multo graviorem extimeſcerent caſum; quod neque ce-
lari Alexandrinos poſſent in apparanda fuga, quum hi
tam parvo ſpatio diſtarent ab ipſis; neque, illis immi-
nentibus atque inſequentibus, ullus in naves receptus
daretur. Erat autem magna multitudo oppidanorum in
parte Cæſaris, quam domiciliis ipſorum non moverat;
quòd ea fe fidelem palàm noſtris eſſe ſimulabat, &
deſciviſte à ſuis videbatur: ut, ſi mihi defendendi eſ-
ſent Alexandrini, quòd neque fallaces eſſent, neque te-
merarii; multa oratio fruſtra abſumeretur: quum verò
ono tempore & natio eorum & natura cognoſcatur;
e ptiſſimum eſſe hoc genus ad proditionem, nemo dubi-
are poteſt.
= V. Cæſar ſaorum timorem conſolatione & ratione
minuebat. Nam puteis fof/is aquam dulcem fpofſe reperiri
Wafiirmabat; Omnia enim littora, naturaliter aguæ dulcis
cas babere.: guid ſi alia effet littoris AEgyptii natura,
gue omnium religuorum; tamen, quoniam mare liber? tene -
Wet, negue hoſtes claſſem haberent, prohiberi ſeſe non poſſes
27 minus quotidie aguam navibus peterent, wel & finiftrd
barte à Parætonio, wel à dextra of inſuld ; que diwerſæ
avigationes nunguam uno tempore adverſis ventis præclude-
ur. Fugæ verò nullum d confilium, non ſolum its qui
mm dignitatem haberent, ſed ne tis quidem qui nibil
= ctrguam de wid cogitarent + magn?. negotio impetus hoſ=
ium adverſos ex munitionibus ſuſtineri; quibus relictis, nec
eco nec numero pares efſe poſſe : magnam autem moram &
; icultatem adſcenſum in naves habere, prefertim ex ſca-
0% Summam effe contra in Alexandrinis velocitatem, lo-
orumgue & edificiorum notitiam : hos, pracipud in victoria
»/olentes, precurſuros I loca exce!fiora algue edificia occu-
We tures ; ita fugd navibu/que naſtros probibituros. Proinde
us confilitobliviſcerentur, atque omni ratione efſe vincen-
dmnium mentibus excitatis ; dat centurionibus negoti-
m, ut, reliquis operibus intermiſſis, ad fodiendos pu-
teos
Cæſarem dicerent, quin naves conſcendere juberet: alii
Wy: cogitarent, Hac oratione apud ſuos habita, atque
308 . HI ir
teos animum conferant ; neve quam partem noctumi
temporis intermittant. Quo ſuſcepto negotio, atque
omnium animis ad laborem incitatis; magna una notte
vis aquæ dulcis inventa eſt: Ita operoſis Alexandrinc-
rum machinationibus, maximiſque conatibus, non longi
temporis labore occurſum eſt. |
VI. Eo biduo, legio x xxv11 ex dedititiis Pompeianiy
militibus, cum frumento, armis, telis, tormentis, impo-
ſita in naves a Domitio Calvino, ad littora Africæ pan.
lo ſupra Alexandriam delata eſt. Hæ naves Euro, qui
multos dies continenter flabat, portum capere prohi.
bebantur ; fed Joca ſunt egregia omni il/a regione ad
tenendas anchoras: hi, quum did retinerentur, atque
aquz inopia premerentur ; navigio actuario Cæſarem
faciunt certiorem. Cæſar, ut per ſe conſilium caperet,
quid faciendum videretur, navim conicendit,, atque on.
nem claſſem ſequi juſſit; nullis noſtris militibus impo-
fitis ; qudd, quum longiùs paulld diſcederet, munitiones
nudari nolebat z quimque ad eum locum accefiiſie
qui appellatur Cherroneſus ; aquandique causa, remiges
an terram expoſuiſſet; nonnulli ex eo numero, quum
Jongids a navibus prædatum proceſſiſſent, ab equitibu
hoſtium ſunt excepti: ex iis cognoverunt, Cæſarem ip-
ſem in claſſe veniſſe, nec ullos milites in navibus ha
bere. Qua re comperta, mag nam ſibi facultatem for
tunam obtuliſſe bene gerendz rei crediderunt : itaque
naves omnes, quas paratas habuerant ad naviganaun,
propugnatoribus inftruxerunt, Cæſarique redeunti cin
claſſe occurrerunt : qui duabus de cauſis eo die dim:
care nolebat; quòd & nullos milites in navibus habe
bat, & poſt horam x diei res agebatur: nox auten
allatura videbatur majorem fiduciam illis, qui locorun
notitia confidebant : fibi etiam hortandi ſuos aux111 hl
defuturum ; quod nulla ſatis idonea effet hortatio, qu
neque virtutem poſſet notare, neque inertiam, Quibe
de cauſis naves, quas potuit, Cæſar ad terram detrabli
quem in locum illos fuccefſuros non exiſtimabat.
VII. Erat una navis Rhodia, in dextro Cæſaris co.
nu, longè ab reliquis collocata. Hane conſpicati b
tes, non tenuerunt ſeſe; magnoque impetu 1 ad e
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DE BxlLLo ALEXANDRINO, 309
conſtratæ naves, & complures apertæ, contenderunt ;
cui coactus eſt Cæſar ferre ſubſidium, ne turpiter in
conſpectu contumeliam acciperet 3 quamquam, ſiquid
gravius illi accidiſſet, merito caſurum judicabat. Prœ-
lium commiſſum eſt, magna contentione Rhodiorum;
qui quum in omnibus dimicationibus & ſcientia & vir-
tute præſtitiſſent, tum maxime illo tempore totum onus
ſuſtinere non recuſabant, ne quod ſuorum culpa detri-
mentum acceptum videretur. Ita prœlium ſecundiſſi-
mum eſt factum. Capta eſt una hoſtium quadriremis:
depreſſa eſt altera; alteraque perforata; deinde omnes
epibatis nudatæ: magna præterea multitudo in reliquis
navibus propugnatorum eſt interfecta. Quòd niſi nox
prœlium diremiſſet, tota claſſe hoſtium Cæſar potitus
eſſet. Hac calamitate petterritis hoſtibus; adverſo vento
Jeniter flante, naves onerarias Cæſar remigio victrjcibus
ſuis Alexandriam deducit. ;
VIII. Eo detrimento aded ſunt fracti Alexandrini,
quum non jam virtute propugnatorum, ſed ſcientia
daſſiariorum ſe victos viderent ; ut ****** quibus &
ſuperioribus locis ſublevabantur, ut ex zdificiis defendi
poſſent: & materiam cunctam objicerent, quod noſtræ
Nclaſſis oppugnationem etiam ad terram verebantur.
lidem, poſtea quam Ganymedes in concilio confirma-
Wit, // & eas, que effent amiſſe, reſtituturum; & nume-
un adaucturum; magna ſpe & fiducia veteres reficere
Waves, accuratiaſque huic rei ſtudere atque inſervire
Wanſtituerunt : ac, tametſi amplius cx navibus longis in
Wportn navalibuſque amiſerant, non tamen reparandæ
laſſis cogitationem depoſuerunt: videbant enim non
xi Cæſari, non commeatus ſupportari poſſe; fi
laſſe ipſi valerent. Præterea nautici homines, & urbis
regionis maritimæ, quolidianòque uſu A pueris ex-
rcitati; ad naturale ac domeſticum bonum refugere
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IX. Erant omnibus oftiis Nili cuſtodiæ, exigendi
e tori causa, diſpoſitæ. Naves veteres erant in oc-
aldi regiæ navalibus, quibus multis annis ad navigan-
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fore videbantur.
dum non erant uſi. Has reficiebant; illas 'Alexands..
am revocabant, Deerant remi: porticus, gymnaſiz
ædificia publica detegebant; aſſeres remorum uſum ob.
tinebant: aliud naturalis ſollertia, aliud urbis copia
ſubminiſtrabat. Poſtremò, non longam navigationen
parabant ; ſed præſentis temporis neceſſitati ſerviebant,
& in ipſo portu confligendum videbant. Itaque pauci
diebus, contra omnium opinionem, quadriremes x x11,
quinqueremes v, confecerunt: ad has, minores apertiſ,
que complures adjecerunt: &, in portu periclitati, remi.
gio quid quæque earum efficere poſſet, idoneos milites
impoſuerunt; ſeque ad confligendum omnibus recbuy
paraverunt. Cæſar Rhodias naves ix habebat (nam, x
miſſis, una in curſu littore /Egyptio deſecerat) Pontica
vin, Lycias v, ex Aſid xir, Ex his quinquerene
nitudinem, & pleræque apertæ. Tamen virtute mil.
tum confiſus, cognitis hoſtium copiis, ſe ad dimicandun
abat.
X. Poſtquam eo ventum eſt, ut ſibi uterque eorun
confideret; Cæſar Pharon clafle circumvehitur, adver-
ſaſque naves hoſtibus conſtituit: in dextro cornu Rho.
dias collocat, in ſiniſtro Ponticas. Inter has, ſpativn
ob paſſuum relinquit; quod ſatis eſſe ad explicanda
naves videbatur. Poſthunc ordinem reliquas nave
ſubſidio diſtribuit: quæ quamque carum ſequatur, &
cui ſubveniat, conſtituit atque imperat. Non dubitan-
ter Alexandrini claſſem producunt, atque inftruvnt; n
fronte collocant x x11: reliquas ſubſidiarias in ſecunde
ordine conſtituunt: magnum præterea numerum mind.
olis ignibuſque ; ſi quid ipſa multitudo, & clamor, &
flamma, noſtris terroris afferre poſſent. Erant inte
duas claſſes vada tranſitu anguſto, quæ pertinent ad i
gionem Africz: (fic enim prædicant, parte m elle Alt-
andriz dimidiam Africæ) ſatiſque diu inter ipſos eſt en
ſpectatum, ab utris tranſe undi fieret initium: propterdl
quòd, ed qui intraſſent; & ad explicandam clauem!
ad receptum, fi durior accidiſſet caſus, impedition
X
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pe BELLO ALEXANDRINO., 211
XI. Rhodiis navibus præerat Euphranor, animi mag-
nitudine ac virtute magis cum noſtris hominibus, quam
cum Græcis, comparandus. Hic ob notiſſimam ſcien-
tiam atque animi magnitudinem delectus eſt ab Rho-
diis, qui imperium claſſis obtineret; Qui, ubi Cæſaris
animum advertit, Videris mibi, inquit, Cæſar, vereri, fi
hac vada primus navibus intraveris, ne prius dimicare
cogaris, quam religuam claſſem paſis explicare. Nobis rem
committe 3 nos prelium ſuſlinebimus, ( neque tuum judicium
allemus ) dum reliqui ſubſequantur. Hos quidem diutius in
noſtro conſpectu gloriari, magno nobis & dedecori & dolori
eff. Cæſar illum adhortatus, atque omnibus laudibus
proſecutus, dat ſignum pugnz, Progreſſas ultra vadum
iv Rhodias naves circumſiſtunt Alexandrini, atque in eas
impetum faciunt. Suſtinent illi, atque arte follertiaque
ſe explicant: ac tantum doctrina potuit, ut in diſpart
numero nulla tranſverſa hoſti objiceretur, nullius remi
detergerentur; ſed ſemper venientibus adverſæ occurre-
rent. Interim ſunt reliquz ſubſecutæ. Tum neceſſa-
Trio diſceſſum ab arte eſt, propter anguſtias loci ; atque
omne certamen in virtute conſtitit. Neque verò Alex-
Wandriz fuit quiſquam aut noſtrorum aut oppidanorum,
qui aut in opere aut in oppugnatione occupatum ani-
mum haberet, quin altiſſima tecta peteret, atque ex
omni proſpectu locum ſpectaculo caperet, precibuſque
& votis victoriam ſuis ab diis immortalibus expoſce-
ret,
x XII. Minime autem erat par preœlii certamen.
W\ oltris enim prorſus neque terra neque mari effugium
Habatur victis; omniaque victoribus erant futura in in-
no: illi, ſi ſuperaſſent navibus, omnia tenerent ; fi
Inferiores fuiſſent, reliquam tamen fortunam periclita-
Neatur. Simul illod grave ac miſerum videbatur, per-
aucos de ſumma rerum ac de, ſalute omnium decer-
Pie; quorum ſi quis aut animo aut virtute ceſſiſſet,
eliquis etiam eſſet cavendum, quibus pro ſe pugnandi
cultas non fuiſſet. Hæc ſuperioribus diebus ſœpenu-
ero Cæſar ſuis expoſuetat; ut hoc majori animo con-
Euderent, quod omnium ſalutem ſibi commendatam
Perent. Eadem ſuum quiſque contubernalem, ami-
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& ex tectis ædificiorum propugnabant, & littora 2
cum, notum, proſequens erat obteſtatus; ne ſuam #,
que omnium falleret opinionem, quorum qudicio del.
tus ad pugnam -proficiſceretur. Itaque hoc animo &
decertatum, ut neque maritimis nauticiſque ſollert/a a;
que ars præſidium ferret; neque numero navium pre.
ſtantibus, multitudo prodeſſet; neque et ecti ad virtuten
ex tanta multitudine hoſtium viri, virtuti noftrorun
poſſent adæguari. Capitur h6c prœlio quinqueremi
una, & biremis cum defenſoribus remi ibüͤſque; &
deprimuntur tres; noſtris incolumibus omnibus: reliqu
propinquam fugam ad oppidum capiunt ; quas pro
texerunt ex moſibus atque ædificiis imminentibus, &
noſtros adire propias * g
XIII. Hoc ne ſibi ſæpiùs accidere poſſet; omni n.
tione Cæſar contendendum exiſtimavit, ut inſulan,
molemque ad inſulam pertinentem, in ſuam redigem
teſtatem: perfectis enim magna ex parte munitioni
bos in oppido, & illam & urbem uno tempore tente
poſſe confidebat. Quo capto conſilio; cohortes x, &
levis armaturz electos, quos idoneos ex equitibus Gal
lis arbitrabatur, in navigia minora ſcaphaſque imps-
nit: alteram inſulæ partem, diſtinendæ mantis cad
cum conſtratis navibus aggreditur; præmiis mag nis pu
poſitis, qui primus inſulam cepiſſet. Ac primo, impe
tum noſtrorum pariter ſuſtinuerunt: uno enim tempo
mati defendebant; quo, propter aſperitatem loci, ni
facilis noſtris aditus dabatur: & ſcaphis navibulu
is v, mobſliter & ſcienter anguſtias loci, tuc haun
Sed ubi, Jocis primùm cognitis vadiſque pertertith
auci noſtri in littore conſtiterunt; atque hos nta
blecuti ; conſtanterque in eos, qui in littore 29
inſtiterant, impetum fecerunt : omnes Pharit tegie
terunt. His pulfis ; cuſtodia portis reliaa, ad fig
& vicum applicaverunt; ſẽque ex navibus ad tuend
xdificia ejecerunt. Neque vero diutiùs ipfi c mui
tione ſe continere potuerunt; etſi erat non diflimile, #
Alexandriz, genus ædificiorum; (ut minora u
ribus conferantur) turreſque editæ & conjuncta 46
locum obtinebant; neque nofiri aut ſcalis, aut cr
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aut reliquis rebus parati venerant ad oppugnandum: fed
terror hominibus mentem conſiliùmque eripit, & mem-
bra debilitat: ut tunc accidit, Qui ſe in æquo loco ac
plano pares elle confidebant, iidem, perterriti fuga ſuo- |
um & cæde paucorum, xxx peddm altitudine in zdifh-
ciis conſiſtere auſi non ſunt; ſeque per molem in mare
præcipitaverunt, & Decc paſſu um intervallo ad oppidum
enataverunt. Multi tamen ex 11s capti interfectique
ſunt: ſed numerus captivorum omnino fuit pe.
XIV. Cæſar, preda militibus conceſsa, ædificia diripi
juſt; caſtellamquz ad pontem, qui propior erat Pha-
70, communivit; atque ibi præſidium poſuit. Hunc fu-
oa Pharitz reliquerant; fortiorem illum, propioremque
oppido, Alexandrini tuebanter: ſed eum poſtero die
ſimili ratione aggreditur; quod, his obtentis duobus,
omnem navigiorum excurſum & Tepentina latrocinia
ſublatum iri videbatur. Jamque eos, qui præſidio eum
locum tenebant, tormentis Ee navibus Trail depu-
lerat, atque in oppidum redegerat; & cohortium 111
inſtar in terram expoſuerat; (non enim plures conſiſ-
tere anguſtiæ loci patiebantur) reliquæ copiæ in navi-
bus ſtationem obtinebant. Quo facto, imperat pon-
em adversùs hoſtem prævallari; &, qua exitus navi-
vas erat, fornice exſtructo, quo pons ſuſtinebatur, lapi-
ibus oppleri atque obſtrui. Quorum altero opere effec-
o; ola omnino ſcapha egredi poſſet: altero inſtituto,
anes Alexandrinorum copiz ex oppido ſe ejicere, &
ontra munitiones pontis latiore loco coniliterunt ;
odemque tempore, que conſueverant navigia per pontes
d incendia onerariarum emittere, ad molem conſtitue-
unt. Pugnabatur a noſtris, ex ponte, ex mole; ab illis,
x area quæ erat adversus pontem, & ex navibus contra
Poem. In his rebus occupato Cæſare, milite{que hor-
ante; remigum magnus numerous, & claſſiariorum, ex
dng1s navibus noſtris in molem ſe ejecit. Pars eorum,
adio ſpectandi ferebatur; pars etiam cupiditate pug-
andi. Hi primùm navigia hoſtium lapidibus ac fun-
Ws i mole repellebant; ac multum proficere multitu-
ee tclorum videbantur: ſed poſtquam ultra eum lo-
m, ab latere eorum aperto, auſi ſunt egredi ex navi-
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314 A. HI AT 1
bus Alexandrini pauci; ut fine ſignis certiſque ordini.
bus, ſine ratione prodierant, fic temere in naves refy.
gere cceperunt. Quorum fuga incitati Alexandrini, ex
navibus egrediebantur, noflroique acrius perturbatos in-
ſequebantur. Simul qui in navibus longis remanſerant,
ſcalas rapere, naveſque a terra repellere, properabant;
ne hoſtes navibus potirentur. Quibus omnibus rebyy
perturbati milites noſtri cohortium trium, quæ in ponte
ac prima mole conſtiterant; quum poſt ſe clamorem
exaudirent, fugam ſuorum viderent, magnam vim telo.
rum adverfi ſuſtinerent; veriti, ne ab tergo circumve.
rentur; munitionem in pontem inſtitutam reliquerunt,
& magno curſu incitati ad naves contenderunt: quo-
rum pars, proximas naRa naves, multitudine hominum
atque onere depreſſa eſt; pars reſiſtens, & dubitans,
quid eſſet capiendum conſilii, ab Alexandrinis inter.
fea eſt. Nonnulli feliciore exitu expeditas ad ancho-
ram naves conſecuti, incolumes diſceſſerunt: pauci, al.
levati ſcutis, & animo ad conandum nixi, ad proxima
navigia adnatarunt. Cæſar, quoad potuit, cohortando
ſuos ad pontem & munitiones contendere, eodem in
periculo verſatus eſt: poſtquam univerſos cedere anim-
advertit, in ſuum navigium ſe recepit : quò multity-
do hominum inſecuta quum irrumperet, neque admini-
ſtrandi neque repellendi a terra facultas daretur ; fore,
quod accidit, ſuſpicatus, ſeſe ex navigio ejecit ; atque
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ad eas, quæ longius conſtiterant, naves adnatavit: hinc
conſervavit. Navigium quidem ejus, multitudine de.
preſſum militum, una cum hominibus interiit. Hoc ,
prœlio deſiderati ſunt ex numero legionariorum militun ,
circiter CD, & paullo ultra eum numerum clafiiari! & ,
remiges. Alexandrini-eo loco caſtellum magnis mum WE 1
tionibus multiſque tormentis confirmaverunt ; atque,
egeſtis ex mari lapidibus, libere ſunt uſi poſtca ad mit
tenda navigia.
XV. Hoc detrimento milites noſtri tantum abfuerutt
ut perturbarentur, ut incenſi potiùs atque incitati mag
nas acceſſiones fecerint in operibus hoſtium expugnis
C153
pt BELLO ALEXANDRINO. 315
dis; in prœliiſque quotidianis, quandocumque fors ob-
tulerat; procurrentibus & erumpentibus Alexandrinis
##*#* qmanum comprehendi multum operibus, & ar-
dentibus ſtudiis militum ; nec divulgata Cæſaris cohor-
tatio, ſubſequi legionum aut laborem aut pugnandi po-
terat cupiditatem: ut magis deterrendi & continendi
a periculoſiſſimis eſſent dimicationibus, quam incitandi
ad pugnandum. EE
XVI. Alexandrini, quum Romanos & ſecundis rebus
confirmari. & adverſis incitari viderent ; neque ullum
belli tertium caſum noſlent, quo poſſent eſſe firmiores ;
(ut conjeftura conſequi poſſumus] aut admoniti a regis
amicis, qui 1n Cæſaris erant præſidiis; aut ſuo priore
conſilio, per occultos nuncios regi probato; legatos
ad Cæſarem miſerunt, ut dimitteret regem, tranſireque
ad ſuos pateretur ; paratam enim omnem multitudiuem eſſe
(confectam tadio puellæ, fiduciario regno, dominativne cru-
deliſ/ima Ganymedis) facere id, quad rex imperaſſet : quo ft
auctore in Cæſaris fidem amicitiamque venturi Mut; nullius
periculi timorem multitudini fore impedimento, qud minus ſe
dederent. Ceſar, etſi fallacem gentem, ſempèrque alia
cogitantem, alia ſimulantem, bene cognitam habebat;
tamen petentibus dare veniam utile etle ſtatuit: quòd,
ſi quo pacto ſentirent ea, quæ poſtularent; manſurum
in fide dimiſſum regem credebat: fin, id quod magis
illorum naturæ conveniebat, ducem ad bellum gerendum
regem habere vellent; ſplendidiùs atque honeſtiùs ſeſe
contra regem, quam contra convenarum ac fugitivorum
manum, bellum efle geſturum. Itaque regem cohor-
tatus, ut conſuleret regno pater us; parceret preclariſſime
patriæ, que turpiſſimis incendiis & ruints efſet deformata z
ctves ſuos primum ad ſanitatem rewocaret, deinde conſerua-
ret; fidem populo Romano febigue preſtaret, quum ipſe tan-
tum ei crederet, ut ad hoſtes armatos cum mitteret ; dexterà
dexteram tenens, dimittere ccepit adulta jam ztate pue-
rum, At regis animus diſciplinis fallaciſſimis eruditus,
ne a gentis ſuz moribus degeneraret, flens orare contra
Cæſarem cœpit, ne /e dimitteret ; non enim regnum ipſum
bi conſpedtu Cæſaris efſe jucundius. Compreſſis puert las
crymis, Cxſar ipſe commotus ; celeriter, ſi illa ſentirer,
N of fore
— — — — — — — —
316 rin ern
fore cum ſecum affirmans; ad ſuos dimiſit. IIle, ut
ex carceribus in liberum curſum emiſſus, adeò contra
Cæſarem acriter bellum gerere cœpit, ut lacry mas quas
in colloquio projecerat, gaudio videretur profudiſſe.
Accidiſſe hoc complures Cæſaris legati, amici, centuri.
ones, militeſque lætabantur; quod nimia bonitas ejus
fallaciis pueri eluſa eſſet. Quaſi vero id Cæſar bonitate
tantum adduQus, ac non prudentiſſimo conſilio feciflet,
XVII. Quum duce aſſumto, Alexandrini nihilo ſe
Ermiores factos, aut languidiores Romanos, animad-
rerterent ; eludentibũſque militibus regis ætatem atque
infirmitatem, magnum dolorem acciperent; neque ſe
quidquam proficere viderent : rumoreſque exſiſterent,
magna Czſari preſidia, terreflri itinere, Syria Cilicia-
que adduci : quod rondum Cæſari auditum erat: inter-
ea, commeatum, qui noſtris mari ſupportabatur, inter.
cipere ſtatuerunt. Itaque expeditis navigiis, locis ido-
neis ad Canopum in ſtatione diſpoſitis navibus, infidia-
bantur noftris commeatibus. Quod ubi Cæſari nuncia—
tum eſt, claſſem jubet expediri atque inſtrui. Praficit
huic Tib. Neronem. Proficiſcuntur in ea claſſe Rhodiæ
naves; atque in his Euphranor, fine quo nulla um-
quam dimicatio maritima, nulla; etiam parum feliciter
confecta erat. At fortuna, quæ plerumque eos, quos
plurimis beneficiis ornavit, ad duriorem caſum reſer—
vat; ſuperiorum temporum diſſimilis Euphranorem pro-
ſequebatur. Nam, quum ad Canopum ventum eſiet,
inſtructaque utrimque claſſis conflixiflet, & ſoa con-
ſuetudine Euphranor primus prœlium commiſiſſet, &
illic triremem hoſtium perforaſiet ac demerſiſſet; prox-
imam longiù, inſecutus, parum celeriter inſequentibus
reliquis, circumventus ab Alexandrinis eſt: cui ſubſi1-
um nemo tulit; five quod in ipſo ſatis præſidii. pro
virtute ac felicitate ejus, putarent efie ; five quo ipf
ſibi timebant. iraque unvs ex omnibus eo prœſio bene
rem geſſit, ſolus cum ſua quadriremi victrice periit
XVIII. Sub idem tempus Mithridates Pergamenus,
magnæ nobilitatis domi, ſcientizque in bello & viru—
tis. fidei dignitatiſque in amicitia Cæœſaris; miſſus in
Syriam Ciliciamgue initio belli Alexandrini, ad auxilia
accer-
-pe BELLO ALEXANDRINO. 317
accerſenda; magnas copias, quas celeriter & propen-
ſiſſima civitatum voluntate & ſui diligentia confecerat,
itinere pedeſtri, quo conjungitur Ægyptus Syriæ, Pe-
luſium adduxit: idque oppidum, firmo præſidio oc p pa-
tum ab Achilla propter opportunitatem loci, (namque
tota Ægyptus maritimo acceſſu Pharo, pedeſtri Peluſio,
velut clauſtris, munita exiſtimatur) repentè magnis cir-
cumdatum copiis, multiplici præſidio pertinaciter pro-
pugnantibus; & copiarum magnitudine, quas integras
vulneratis defeſſiſque ſubjiciebat; & perſeverantia con-
ſtantiaque oppugnandi; quo die eſt aggreſſus, in ſuam
redegit poteſtatem: - prefidiamque ibi ſuum collocavit.
Inde, re bene geſta, Alexandriam ad Cæſarem cor.-
tendit; omnefque eas regiones, per quas iter faciebar,
auctoritate ca, que plerumqu: acelt victori, pacärat,
atque in amicitiam Cæſaris redegerat. i
X. X. Locus eſt fere regionum illarum nobiliſumue,
non ita longe ab Alexandria, qui nominatur Delta;
quod nomen a ſimilitudine litter cepit: nam pars
quædam fluminis Nili, mire derivata inter_ſe duobus
itineribus paullatim, medium inter ſe ſpatium relir-
quens, diverſiſſimo ad littus intervallo mari conjung.-
tur, Cui loco quum appropinquare Mithridaten rex
cognoviſſet, & tranſeundum ei flumen ſciret; magnas
adversus eum copias miſit, quibus vel ſuperari deleri-
que Mithridaten, vel fine dubio retineri poſſe, credebat.
Quemadmodum autem optabat eum vinci; fic ſatis
habebat intercluſum a Cæſare à ſe retineri, Que pri-
mz copiæ flumen a Delta tranſire, & Mithridati occut-
rere potuerunt, prœlium commiſerunt; feſtinantes præ-
rpere ſubſequentibus victoriæ ſocietatem ; quorum in-
petum Mithridates magna cum prudentia, conſuetudine
noſtra caſtris vallatis, ſuſlinuit: quum - vero incaute
atque inſolenter ſuccedere eos munitionibus videret ;
eruptione undique factà, magnum numerum eorum in-
terfecit ; Quod nifi locorum notitia reliqui ſe texiſſent;
partimque in naves, quibus lumen tranſierant, recepiſ-
ſent; fanditus deleti eſſent. Qui ut paullulum ab illo
timore ſe recrearunt, adjunctis lis qui ſubſequebantor,
rurſus Mithridaten oppugnare cceperunt.
P 3 XX.
318 A. HIAT II
XX, Mittitur a Mithridate nunciss Cæſari, qui rem
geſtam perferret. Cognoſcit ex ſuis eadem hæc accidiſ-
ſe rex. Ita penè ſub idem tempus, & rex ad opprimen-
dum Mithridaten proficiſcitur, & Cæſar ad recipiendum.
Celeriore fluminis Nili navigatione rex eſt uſus; in quo
magnam & paratam claſſem habebat. Cæſar eodem
iti nere uti noluit, ne navibus in flumine dimicaret: ſed,
circumvectus eo ſþari, quod Africæ partis eſſe dicitur,
ſicuti ſupra demonſtravimus; priùs tamen regis copiis
occurrit, quam is Mithridaten aggredi poſſet: eumque
ad ſe victorem incolumi exercitu recepit. |
XXI. Conſederat cum coplis rex, loco naturà muni-
to; quod erat ipſe excelſior, planitie ex omnibus parti-
bus ſubjeAa:; tribus autem ex lateribus, variis genere
munitionibus tegebatur: unum latus erat adjectum flu-
mini Nilo; alterum editiſſimo loco ductum, ut partem
caſtrorum obtineret; tertium palude cingebatur. Inter
caſtra regis & Cæſaris iter, flumen intercedebat an-
guitum, altiſſimis ripis, quod in Nilum influebat; ab-
erat autem ab Regis caſtris, millia paſſuum circiter y11,
Rex, quum hoc itinere venire Cæſarem comperiſſet,
equitatum omnem expeditoſque delectos pedites ad id
flumen miſit, qui tranſitu Cæſarem prohiberent, & emi-
nus ex 1ipis prœlium impar inirent: nullum enim pro-
ceſſum virtus habebat, aut periculum ignavia ſubibat.
Quz res incendit dolore milites equiteſque noſtros,
quod tam diu parti prœlio cum Alexandrinis certare-
tur. Itaque eodem tempore equites Germani diſperl
yada fluminis quærentes, partim demiſſioribus ripis flu-
men tranſnarunt: & legionarii, magnis arboribus ex-
ciſis, quæ longitudine utramque ripam contingerent,
projectis, repentinoque aggere injecto flumen tranh-
erunt : quorum impetum adeò pertimuerunt hoſtes, ut
ia tuga-ſpem ſalutis collocarent. Sed id fruftra : nam-
que ex ca {uga pauci ad regem refugerunt, penè omil
r:1iqua multitudine interfectä.
XXII. Caæſar, re præclariſſimè geſtà, quum ſubitun
adventum ſuum judicaret magnum terrorem Alexan—
drinis injecturum, protinus victor ad regis caſtra pe!-
tendit, Hæc quum & opere magno vallata, & loc! n.
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DoE BELLO ALEXANDRINO. 319
tara munita adverteret ; confertamque armatorum mul-
titudinem collocatam in vallo videret; laſſos itinere ac
rœliando milites ad oppugnanda caſtra ſuccedere no-
Fit: itaque, non magno intervallo relicto ab hoſte,
caſtra poſuit. Poſtero die caſtellum, quod rex in proxi-
mo vico non longe a ſuis caſtris muniverat, brachiiſque
cum opere caſtrorum conjunxerat, vici obtinendi causa;
Cæſar aggreſſus omnibus copiis, expugnat: non quod
id minori numero militum conſequi, difficile factu pu-
taret; ſed ut ab ea viRtoria, perterritis Alexandrinis
protinus caſtra regis oppugnaret. Itaque eo curſu, quo
refugientes Alexandrinos ex caſlello in caſtra ſunt milites
inſecuti, munitionibus ſucceſſerunt; acerrimeque emi-
nus prœliari cœperunt. Duabus ex partibus aditus op-
ugnationis noſtris dabatur: una, quam liberum acceſſum
— demonſtravi; altera, quæ mediocre intervallum
inter caſtra & flumen Nilum habebat. Maxima &
electiſſima Alexandrinorum multitudo defendebat eam
partem, quæ facillimum aditum habebat: plurimum
autem proficiebant hoſtes in repellendis vulnerandiſ-
que noſtris, qui in regione fluminis Nili propugnabant:
diverſis enim telis noſtri figebantur; adverſi, ex vallo
caſtrorum; averſi, ex flumine; in quo multæ naves in-
ſtructæ funditoribus & ſagittariis, noitros impugnabant.
Cæſar, cum videret milites acriùs prœliari non poſſe,
nec tamen multum profici propter locorum difficulta-
tem: quumque animum adverteret, excelſiſſimum lo-
cum caſtrorum relictum eſſe ab Al exandrinis; quod &
per ſe munitus eſſet; & ſtudio partim pagnandi, par-
tim ſpectandi, decucurriſſent in eum locum, in quo
pugnabatur ; cohortes illò circuire caſtra, & ſummum
locum aggredi, juſſit; hiſque Carſulenum præfecit, &
animi magnitudine, & rei militaris ſcientia, virum
præſtantem. Quò ut ventum eſt; paucis defendentibus
munitionem, noſtris contrà militibus acerrimè pugnanti-
bus; diverſo clamore & prœlio perterriti Alexandrini,
trepidantes in omnes partes caſtrorum diſcurrere cœ-
perunt: quorum perturbatione, noſtrorum animi adeo
ſunt incitati, ut penè eodem tempore ex omnibus par-
tibus, primi tamen editiſſimum locum calrorum cape-
P 4 rent;
320 A. HirTIT
rent; ex quo decurrentes, magnam multitudinem hoſi.
um in caſtris interfecerunt. Quod periculum plerique
Alexandrini fugientes, acervatim fe de vallo precipita-
verunt in eam partem, quz flumini erat adjuncta. Ho.
rum primis in ipsa foſsz munitionis magna ruina op.
ꝓreſſis, cæteri faciliorem fugam habuerunt. Conltat
fugiſſe ex caſtris Regem ipſum; receptumque in navem;
&, multitudine eorum, qui, ad proximas naves adnata-
bant, demerſo navigio, perifle.
XXIII. Re feliciſſimè celerrimeque gelia; Cæſar,
magnæ victoriæ fiducia, proximo terreſlri itinere Alexan-
driam cum equitibus contendit; atque ea parte oppici
victor introiit, quæ præſidio hoſtium tenebatur. Neque
eum conſilium ſuum feſellit, quin hoſtes, eo prœlio
audito, nihil jam de bello eſſent cogitaturi. Dignum
adveniens fructum virtutis & animi magnitudinis tulit,
Omnis enim multitudo oppidanorum, armis projectis,
munitionibaſque ſuis relictis; veſte ea ſumpta, qui
ſupplices dominantes deprecari conſueverunt ; ſacriſque
omnibus prolatis, quorum religione precari offenſos ira-
toſque animos regum erant ſoliti; advenienti Czſan
occurrerunt, ſeque ei ded iderunt. Cæſar in fidem re-
ceptos conſclatus, per hoſtium munitiones in ſuam par-
tem oppidiemagna gratulatione venit ſuorum ; qui non
tantum bellom z3ptum ac dimicationem, ſed etianitalem
adventum ejus felicem fuiſe lætabantur.
XXIV. Cæſar Egypto atque Alexandria potitus
reges conllituit, quos Ptolemæus teſtamento ſcripſerat,
atque obteſtatus erat populum Romanum, ne mutaren-
tur Nam, majore ex duobus pueris rege amiſſo, mi-
nori tranſdidit regnum; majorique ex duabus fili
Cleopatiæ, quæ manſerat in fide præſidiiſque ejus. Mi-
norem Arſinoën, cujus nomine diu regnafſe impoten-
ter Ganymeden docuimns, deducere ex regno ffatuit;
ne qua rurfus nova diſlenſio, priùs quam diuturoitate
confirmarentur regis imperia, per homines ſeditiolos
naſcerctur” Legione veterana vi ſecum deduRa, cate-
ras ibi relinquit ; quo firmius eſſet eorum regum im—
perium: qui neque amorem ſuorum habere poterant,
quod fideliter * in Cæſaris amicitia ; be-
que
]
DE BeLLo ALEXANDRINO. 321
que vetuſtatis auQtoritatem, paucis diebus reges conſti-
tuti. Simul ad imperii noſtri dignitatem vtilitatemgue
publicam pertinere exiſtimabat, fi permanerent in fide
reges, præſidiis eos noſtris elſe tutos; & hos, ſi eſſent
inzrati, poile iſdem præſidiis cherceri. Sie rebus om-
nibus confectis & collocatis, ipſe itinere terreſiti pro-
fectus eſt in Syriam. 3
XXV. Dum hæc in Zgypto geruntur; rex Deiotarus
ad Domitium Calvinum, cui Cæſar Aſtam finitimaſque
provincias ad miniſttandas tranidicerat, venit; oratum,
ne Armeriam minorem, regnum ſurm; nete Cafpadociam
regnum Ariobarzanis. pofſideri veſtarique pateretur a Phar-
nace: quo mals nifi liberarentur; imperata ſibi fucere, pe-
euniampue premiſſam Cafari rot peſſe ſe perjolvere, Domi-
tivs, non tantum. ad explicundos ſumtus rei militaris
quum pecuniam neceſlariam eſſe judicaret; fed etiam
turpe populo Romano, & Cæſari victori, fibique in-
fame eſle ſlatueret, regna ſociorum atque amicorum ab
externo rege occupari; nuncios confeltim ad Pharna-
cem mint, Armenia Cat fadlc id ue decederet ; niwve eccupa-
tine belli ciwilis, potuli Romani jus majeſlatemgue tentaret.
Hane denunciationeni quum majorem vim habituram
exiſlimaret, ft propiùs eas regiones cum exercitu acceſ-
fillet; ad legiones profectus, unam ex tribus, triceſimam
ſextam, ſecum ducit; 11 in /Egyptum ad Cæſarem mit-
tit, litteris ejus evocatas ; quarum altera in bello Alex-
andrino non occuriit, quod itinere terreſtri per Syriam
erat miſla. à jungit Cn. Domitius legioni x xxv1 duas
a Deiotaro, quas ille diſciplina atque armatura noſtrà
complures annos conilitatzs habebat; equiteique cen-
tum: totidemque ab Ariobarzane ſumir. Mittit P.
Sextium ad C. Plætorium quaitorem, ut legionem ad-
duceret, quz ex tumultuarus militibus in Ponto confecta
erat; Quinctümque Patiſtum in Ciliciam, ad auxilia
accerſenda. Quæ copiæ celeriter omnes, juſſu Domitii,
Comana convenerunt.
XXVI. Interim legati a Pharnace reſponſa referunt ;
Cappadociã ſe aeceſiſſy; Armeniam minorem recepiſſe, quam
paierno amine jure obtmere deberet: denique tjus regui cauſa
mttgra Ceajari jervaretur; paratum enim je facert, qurd
P 5 15
922 ho. JL IR F210
is 92 . Cn. Domitius, quum animadverteret eum
Cippadocia deceſſiſſe, non voluntate adductum, ſed ne-
ceſſitate; quòd facilius Armeniam defendere poſſet ſub-
jectam ſuo regno, quam Cappadociam longius remo-
tam; quodque omnes 111 legiones adducturum Domi.
tium putaſſet; ex quibus cum 11 ad Cæſarem miſſas
aadiſſet, audacius in Armenia ſubſtitiſſet: perſeverare
ccepit, ut eo quoque regno decederet ; neque enim aliud ju;
e Ca} paaociæ atque Armeniæ; nec Jule eum poftulare, ut
in Ce/aris adventum res integra differretur ; id enim ee in-
tegrum, quod ita effet, ut fuifſet. His reſponſis datis ; cum
11s copiis, quas ſupra ſcripſi, profectus eſt in Armeni-
am; lociſque ſuperioribus iter facere inſtituit. Nam ex
Ponto à Comanis jugum editum ſylveſtre eſt, pertinens
in Armeniam minorem; quo Cappadocia finitur ab Ar-
inenia : cujus itineris has eſſe certas opportunitates; quod,
in locis ſuperioribus, nullus impetus repentinus accidere
hoſtium poterat; & quod Cappadocia his jugis ſubjecta,
magnam commeatũs copiam erat ſubminiſtratura.
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XXVII. Complures interim legationes Pharnaces ad
Domitium mittit ; quæ de pace agerent, regiaque mu-
nera Domitio ferrent. Ea conſtanter omnia aſpernab· e
tur: nec ſibi quidguam fore antiquius, quam dignitatem p. c
puli Romani & regna fociorum recuperare, legatis reſpon - f
debat, Magnis & continuis itineribus confectis quum
adventaret ad Nicopolim ; quod oppidum in Armenii
migore poſitum eſt, plano ipſum loco, montibus tamen
altis ab duobus lateribus objectis, ſatis magno intervallo
ab oppido remotis; caſtra poſuit, longè a Nicopoli ci
citer millia paſſuum vii. Quibus ex caſtris, quum locus
anguſtus atque impeditus eſſet tranſeundus, Pharnaces it
inſdiis delectos pedites omneſque penè diſpoſuit equi |
tes: magnam autem multitudinem pecoris intra en eu
fauces diſſipari juſſit, pagan6ſque & oppidanos in i ſur
locis obſervari, ut ſi amicus Domitius eas anguſus apf
tranſiret, nihil de infidiis ſuſpicaretur, quum in ag tri,
& pecora & homines animadverteret 2 tamquan dex
amicorum adventu: fin vero, ut in hoſtium fines, vet egi
ret; pizda diripienda milites diſſiparentur, diſpersiqu Ws ut!
caderentur. bor
XXVII.
DE BELLO ALEXANDRINO, 323
XXVII. Hæc quum adminiſtraret, nunquam tamen
intermittebat legatos de pace atque amicitia mittere
ad Domitium; quum hoc ipſo crederet eum ſaciliùs
decipi poſſe. At contra ſpes pacis Domitio in {dem
caſtris morandi attulit cauſam. Ita Pharnaces, amiſ-a
proximi temporis oecaſione, veritus ne cognoſcerentur
inſidiæ, ſuos in caſtra revocavit. Domitius poſtero die
propiùs Nicopolim acceſſit, caſtraque oppido contulit:
quæ dum muniunt noſtri, Pharnaces aciem inſtruxit
{zo more atque inſtituto; in fronte enim, ſimplici di-
recta acie, cornua trinis firmabantur ſubſidiis; eadem
ratione hæc media collocabantur acie, duobus dextra
ſiniſtraque intervallis, ſimplicibus ordinibus inſtructis.
Perfecit inceptum caſtrorum opus Domitius, parte co-
piarum pro vallo inſtructà.
XXIX. Proxima nocte Pharnaces; interceptis tabel-
Jariis, qui de Alexandrinis rebus litteras ad Domitium
ferebant; cognoſcit Cæſarem magno in periculo verſa-
ri, flagitareque a Domitio, ut quam primùm ſibi ſub-
ſidia mitteret, propiuſque ipſe Alexandriam per Syri-
am accederet. Qua cognita re, Pharnaces victoriæ lo-
co ducebat, {i trahere tempus poſſet; quum diſceden-
dum celeriter Domitio putaret. Itaque ab oppido, qua
fscillimum acceſſum & æquiſſimum ad dimicandum no-
| WS {iris videbat, ſoſſas 11 directas, non ita magno medio
iniervallo relicto, iv pedum altitudinis, in eum locum
edoxit, quo longiàs conſtituerat ſuam non produce re
0 caciem. Inter has faſſas aciem ſemper inſtruebat; equi-
. tatum autem ab lateribus omnem, extra ſoſſam, collo-
3 cabat; qui neque aliter utilis eſſe poterat, & multum
numero anteibat noſtrum equitatum,
„XXX. Domitius autem; quum Cæſaris magis peri-
„ culo, quam ſuo commoveretur ; neque ſe tuto diſceſ-
1 WG forum arbitraretur, ſi conditiones, quas rejecerat, rurſus
oappeteret, aut ſine causã diſcederet; ex propinquis ca-
ſtris in aciem exercitum eduxit. xxxVI legionem 19
dextro cornu collocavit, Ponticam in ſiniſtro: Deiotari
legiones in mediam aciem contulit; quibus tamen an-
eoſtiſimum frontis reliquit intervallum; reliquis co-
orubus in ſubſidiis collocatis. Sic utrimque acie in-
ſtructaà.
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ſtructàa, proceſſum eſt ad dimicandum. Signo ſub idem
tempus ab utroque dato, concurritur: acriter variẽque
pugnatur: nam xxxvi legio, quum extra foſſam in
equitatum regis impetum feciflet, adeò ſecundumi prœ-
lium fecit, ut mœnibus oppidi ſuccederet, foſfamque
tranſiret, averſoſque hoſtes aggrederetur. At Pontica
ex altera parte legio, quum paullulùm averſa hoſt.
bus ceſſiſſet; foſſam autem circuire acies ſecundò co-
nata eſſet, ut aperto late e aggrederetur hoſtem; in
ipſo tranſitu foſſæ, confixa & oppreſſa eſt. Deictar
vero legiones vix impetum ſuſtinuerunt. Ita victrices
regis copiæ, cornu ſuo dextro mediaque acie, conver-
terunt ſe ad xxxvr legionem: quæ tamen fortiter
vincentium impetum ſuſtinuit, mapnis copiis hoſtiun
circumdata; præſentiſſimôque animp pugnans in or
beni ſe recepit ad r:dices montium; quo Pharnaces in-
ſequi, propter iniquitatem Joci, noluit. Ita, Pontica
legione pene tota amiſsa, magna parte Deiotari mil.
tum interfeta; xxxv1 legio in loca fe ſuperiora con-
tulit non amplius c defideratis. Ceciderunt eo pr:
tio ſplendidi ac illuſtres viri nonnulli, equites Roman!
Quo tamen incommodo Domitius accepto, rel1quias
exercitũs diſſipati collegit; itineribuſque tutis, per Cap
padociam fe in Aſiam recepit.
XXXI. Pharnaces rebus ſecundis elatus; quum de |
Cz'are ea, quz optabar, ſperaret; Pontum omnids
copiis occupavit : ibique & victor & rex crudeliſſimus
quum ſibi fortunam paternam feliciore eventu deftics-
ret, multa oppida expugnavit; bona civium Roman6
rum, Ponticorümque ditipuit; ſupplicia conſtituit u
eos qui aliquam formæ atque ætatis commendatigten if
habebant, ea quæ morte eſſent miſeriora; Pontümq Wy tt:
nullo defendente, paternum regnum fe recepiſſe plot
ans, obtincbat, |
XXXII. Sub idem tempus, in Illyrico eſt incont
modum acceptum. Quvz provinciæ ſu perioribus menſtha
laude, erat. Namque eo miſſus æſlate cum 11 legte 0
nibus Q Cornificius, Cæſaris quæſtor pro prætoti .
quamquam erat provincia minimè copioſa ad ene
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tus alendos, & finitimo bello ac diſſenſionibus vaſtata
& confecta; tamen prudentia ac diligentia ſua, quod
magnam curam ſuſcipiebat, ne quo temere progrede-
retur, & recepit & defendit. Namque & caſtella com-
plura loris editis poſita, quorum oppertunitas caſtella-
nos impellebat ad decurſiones faciendas & bellum in-
ferendum, expugnavit; eaque præda milites donavit;
quæ etſi erat tenuis, tamen in tanta provinciæ deſpe-
ratione erat grata, præſertim virtute parta: & quum
ORavius ex fuga Pharſalici prœlii, magna claſſe in il-
tim fe finum contuliſſet; paucis navibus lIadertinorum,
quorum ſemper in Rempublicam ſingulare conſtiterat
oſficium, diſperſis Octavianis navibus erat potitus; ut
vel claſſe dimicare poſſet, adjunctis captivis navibus
ſociorum. Et quum diverfiſſima parte orbis terrarum
Cn. Pompeium victor Cæſar ſequeretur ; complurẽſque
adverſarios in Illyricum, propter Macedoniæ propin-
quitatem, ſe reliquiis ex fuga collectis contuliſſe au-
diret; litteras ad Gabinium mittit, uti cum legrionibus
tironum que nuper erant conſcriptæ, proficiſceretur in Iily-
ricum; conjunctiſque copiis cum Q. Cornificio, fi quod peri-
calum provincie inferretur, depelleret; fin ea non magnis co-
fits jula effe poſſer, in Macedoniam legiones adduceret ; on-
nem enim illam partem regionemque, vide Cn. Pompeio,
bellum inſtauraturam e credebat.
XXXIII. Gabinius ut in Illyricum venit, hy berno
tempore anni ac difficili: ſive copioſiorem provinciam
exiſtimans; five multum fortunz victoris Cæſaris tribu-
ens; five virtute & ſcientia confifus, qua ſæpe in bel-
lis periclitatus magnas res et ſecundas ductu auſüque
ſuo geſſerat; neque provinciæ facultatibus ſublevaba-
tur, quze partim erat exinanita, partim irfidel's; ne-
que navibus intercluſo mari tempeſtatibus commeatus
ſupportari poterat; magniſque difficultatibus coactus,
non ut volebat, fed ut neceſſe erat, bellum gere bat.
Ita, quum duriſſimis tempeſtatibus, propter inopiam,
callella aut oppida expugnare cogeretur; crebra incom-
moda accipiebat: adeoque eſt a bar baris contemptus,
ut, Sa'onam fe recipiens in oppidum maritimum, quod
caves Romani fortiſſimi ſideliſſimique incolebant ; in
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agmine dimicare fit coactus. Quo prelio duobus mil-
libus militum ampliùs amiſſis, centurionibus xxxv111,
- tribunis 1v z cum reliquis copiis Salonam. ſe recepit:
ſummaque ibi difficultate rerum omnium preſſus, pau-
cis menſibus morbo periit. Cujus & infelicitas vii,
& ſubita mors, in magnam ſpem Octavium adduxit
provinciæ potiundz : quem tamen diutius in rebus ſe.
cundis & fortuna, quz plurimum in bellis poteſt, dili.
te Cornificii, & virtus Vatinii verſari paſſa non
eſt. .
XXXIV. Vatinius, Brundiſii quum eſſet; copnitis
rebus, quæ geſtæ erant in Illyrico; quum crebris litte-
ris Cornificii, ad auxilium provinciæ ferendum evoca-
retur; & M. Octaviom audiret cum barbaris fcder;
percuſſiſſe, compluribũſque lock noſtroruom militum
oppugnare præſidia, partim claſſe per ſe, partim pede
ſtribus copiis per barbaros : etſi gravi valetudine af.
ſectus, vix corporis viribus animum ſequebatur; tamen
virtute vicit incommodum naturæ, difficultatẽſque hye.
mis & ſubitæ præparationis. Nam, quum ipſe paucas
in portu naves longas haberet; litteras in Achaiam ad
Q. Kalenum miſit, uti ſibi claſſem mitteret. Quod
quum tardius fieret, quam periculum noſtrorum flagi-
tabat, qui ſuſtinere impetum Octavii non poterant;
. navibus actuariis, quarum numerus erat ſatis magnus,
magnitudine quamquam non ſatis juſta ad preliandum,
roſtra impoſuit ; his adjunctis navibus longis, & numero
claſſis auto; militibus veteranis impoſitis, quorum
magnam copiam habebat, ex omnibus legionibus, ql
numero ægrorum relic erant Brundiſit, quum excrcicus
in Grzciam tranſportaretur ; proſectus eſt in IIlyr icum:
maritimaſque nonnullas civitates, quæ defecerant, Oc-
tavioque ſe tranſdiderent, partim recipiebat, partim te-
manentes in ſuo conſilio prætervehebatur; nec ſibi ulli.
us rei moram neceſſitatẽmque injungebat, quia, quam
celerrime poſſet, ipſum Octavium perſequeretur. Hure,
oppugnantem Epidaurum terra marique, ubi noſtrum
erat præſidium; adventu ſuo diſcedere ab oppugnatione
eoegit, præſidiumque noſtrum rece pit. Xr
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pt BELLO ALEXANDRINO. 327
XXXV. Octavius, quum Vatinium claſſem magna eo
arte confectam ex naviculis actuariis habere cognx-
viſſet; confiſus ſua claſſe, ſubliitit ad inſulam Tauri-
dem: qua regione Vatinius inſequens navigabat ; nga
quod Octavium ibi reſtitiſſe ſciret, ſed quod eum lon-
giùs progreſſum inſequi decreverat. Quum propius
Tauridem acceſſiſſet; diſtenſis ſuis navibus, quod &
tempeſtas erat turbulenta, & nulla ſuſpicio hoſtis; re-
pentè adverſam ad ſe venientem navem, antennis ad
medium malum demiſſis, inſtructam propugnatoribus
animadvertit. Quod ubi conſpexit, celeriter vela ſub-
duci, demittique antennas jubet, & milites armari: &,
vexillo ſublato, quo pugnandi dabat ſignum; quæ pri-
mz naves ſubſequebantur, idem ut facerent, ſignifica-
bat. Parabant ſe Vatiniani, repentè oppreſſi: parati
deinceps Octaviani ex portu procedebant. Inſtruitur
utrimque acies: ordine diſpoſita magis, Octaviana:
paratior militum animis, Vatiniana.
XXXVI. Vatinius, quum animadverteret neque navi-
um ſe magnitudine, neque numero parem eſſe futuræ
dimicationi; fortunæ rem committere maluit. Itaque
primus ſua quinqueremi in quadriremem ipſius Octa-
vi impetum fecit. Celerrime fortifſimeque contra illo
remigante, naves adverſæ roſtris concurrunt adeò vehe-
menter, ut navis Octaviana, roftro diſcuſſo, ligno con-
WES tincretur. Committitur acriter reliquis locis prœlium,
WAS concurritarque ad duces maxime : nam quum ſuo quiſ-
aue 2uxilium ferret, magnum cominus in anguſto mart
W prelium factum eſt : quantoque conjunctis magis navi-
bus confligendi poteſtas dabatur, tanto ſuperiores erant
Vatiniani: qui admirandà virtute ex ſuis navibus in
hoſtium naves tranſilire non dubitabant ; & dimicati-
one #quata, longe ſuperiores virtute, rem feliciter ge-
WAS rcbant. Deprimitur ipfius Octavii quadriremis : multæ
præterea capiuntur, aut roſtris perforatæ merguntur:
propugnatores Octaviani partim in navibus jugulantur,
partim in mare præcipitantur. Ipſe Octavius ſe in ſca-
pham confert; in quam plures quum confugerent, de-
preſſa ſcapha; vulneratus tamen adnatat ad ſuum my-
oparonem: eo receptus, quum prœlium nox dirimeret,
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tempeſtate magna velis profugit; ſequuntur hunc {uz
naves nonnullæ, quas caſus ab Illo periculo vindicara,
XXXVII. At Vatinius, re bene geſta, receptui ceci.
Wit; ſuilgue omnibus incolumibus in eum ſe portum vie.
tor recepit, quo ex portu claſſis Octaviana ad dimican.
dum procefſerat. Capit ex eo prœlio penterem 1, tit:
mes 11, dicrolas viiI, complurèſque F remiges Octaviaros
poſteroque ibi die fuit, dum ſuas captivaſque naves re.
ficeret. Poſt diem 111, contendit in infulam Iffam;
quod co ſe recepiſſe ex fuga credebat Octavium. Fra
in ea regione nobiliſſimum oppidum, conjunEtiflimin.
ve Octavio: quo ut pervenit, oppidani ſupplices {|
Vatinio dediderunt; comperitque ip fum Octavium, pan.
cis parviſque nayigiis, vento ſecundo, regionem G:z
ciæ petiſſe; ipdè ut Siciliam, deinde Africam, caperet,
Ita brevi ſpatio re præclariſimè geſta, provincta recep!
& Cornificio reddita, claſſe adverfariorum ex illo tay
ſinu expulsa; victor ſe Brundiſium, incolumi exciciu
& claſſe, recepit.
XXXVIII. lis autem temporibus, quibus Cefir ad
Dyrrhachium Pompeium obſidebat, & Palæpharſali ren
feliciter gerebat, Alexandrizque cum periculo magno
tum etiam majore periculi fama dimicabat; Catlin
Longinus in Hiſpania proprætor provinciæ ulterioris ob-
tinendæ causa reliftus ; five conſuetudine nature ſve;
five odio, quod in iam provinciam ſoſceperat qualiar
ex inſidiis ibi vulneratus, magnas odii ſui fecerat at
ceſſioges: quod vel ex conſeie entis ſua, quum e de ſe mu-
tuò entire provinciam cre2cret ; vel multis ſignis &
teltimoniis eorum, qui d fiiculter cdia dich. mulabank
animadyertere poterat : & compenſare offen fionem pi
vinciæ, exercitus amore cupicbat, Itaque quum pri-
mum in enum locum exerc.t' m conduxit, H $ centenss
militibus eſt pollicitus. Nec mult poſt; quum in Lo-
ſitania Medobregam oppidum, montemque Herminiun
expugnailer, quo Medobregenies confugerant ; zige
Imperator eſſet appellatus; iterum H 8 centenis milie
donavit. Multa præterea & magna premia fiugulii
concedebat ; quæ ſpecioſum reddebant prez vlentem es
ercitus amorem; paullatim tamen & occulie mi! itaren
diſciplinam ſeveritatemgue miaucbant, X XXIV
pt BELLO ALEXANDRINO., 329
XXXIX. Caſſius, legionibus in hyberna diſpoſitis, ad
jus dicendum Cordubam fe recepit; contractümque in
ea æs alienum, graviſſimis oneribus provinciæ conſti-
tuit exſolvere: & (ut largitionis poſtulat conſuetudo)
per cauſam liberalitatis ſpecioſam plura largitori quæ-
rebantur: pecuniæ locupletibus imperabantur; quas
Longinus ſibi expenſas ferri non tantùm patiebatur,
ſed etiam cogebat: in gregem locupletium, ſimulta-
tum cauſæ tenues conjiciebantur: neque ullum genus
queſts, aut magni & evidentis, aut minimi & fordt-
di, prætermittebatur; quo domus & tribunal imperato-
ris vacaret. Nemo erat, qui modò aliquam jacturam
ficere poſſet, quin aut vadimonio teneretur, aut inter
reos referfetur, Ita etiam magna ſollicitudo periculo-
rum ad jaQturas & detrimenta rei familiaris adjunge-
batur.
XL. Quibus de cauſis accidit, ut, quum Longinus
imperator eadem faceret, quz fecerat Quæſtor; fimilia
rurſus de morte ejus provinciales conſilia inirent. Ho-
rum odium confirmabant nonnulli familiares ejus; qui,
quum in illa ſocie tate verſarentur rapinarum, nihilo mi-
nus tamen oderant eum, cujus nomine peccabant : ſibi-
que, quod rapuerant, acceptum ferebant; quod inter-
cicerat, aut erat interpellatum, Caſſio aſſignabant. V
Jegionem novam conſeribit: augetur odium & ex ipſo
delectu, & ſumptu additæ legionis. Complentur equt-
tum 111 millia; maximiſque ornantur impenſis: nec
provinciz datur ulla requies.
XLI. interim litteras accepit a Cæſare, ut in Africam
xercitum transjiceret, pergue Mauritaniam ad fines
umidice perveniret; quod magna Cn. Pompeio Juba
ex miſerat auxilia, majoraque miſſurus exiſtimabatur.
vibus litteris acceptis, inſolenti voluptate efferebatur ;
quod ſibi novarum provinciarum, & fertiliſſimi regni
aol oblata eſſet facultas. Itaque ipſe in Luſitaniam
proficiſcitur, ad legiones accerſendas, auxiliaque addu-
enga: certis hominibus dat negotium, ut frumentum
avelque Cc prepararentur, pecunizque deſeriberentur
que 1mperarentur ; ne qua res, quum s diſſet, mora-
Fur. Reditus ejus fuit celerior omnium opinione:
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non enim labor aut vigilantia, cupienti præſertim ali.
quid, Caſſio deerat.
XLII. Exercitu coacto in unum locum, caſtris ad
Cordubam poſitis, pro concione militibus exponit,
quas res Cæſaris juſſu gerere deberet: pollicetarque iis,
quum in Mauritaniam transjeciſſet, ns centenos ſe da-
turum; v fore in Hiſpania legionem. Ex concione ſe
Cordubam recepit. _ iplo die, meridiana horz,
quum in Baſilicam iret ; quidam Minutius Silo, cliens
L. Racilii, libellum, quaſi aliquid ab eo poſtularet, ut
miles, ei tranſdit: deinde poſt Racilium, (nam is la-
tus Caſſii tegebat) quaſi reſponſum ab eo petetet, ce-
leriter dato loco quum ſe infinuaſſet ; ſiniſtrà corripit
eum, dextraque bis ferit pugione. Clamore ſublato,
ft a conjuratis impetus univerſis. *Munatius Plancus
proximum gladio transjicit lictorem. Hoc interfecto,
Q. Caſſium legatum vulnerat. Ibi T. Vaſius & L.
Mergilio, ſimili confidentià Plancum municipem ſuum
adjuvant: erant enim omnes Italicenſes. Ad ipſum
Longinum L. Licinius Squillus involat, Jacentemque
levibus ſauciat plagis. Concurritur ad Caſſium defen-
dendum : ſemper enim berones complureſque evocatos
cum telis ſecum habere conſueverat; à quibus cæteri
intercluduntur, qui ad cædem faciendam ſubſequeban-
tur: quo in numero fuit Calpurnius Salvianus, & Ma-
nilius Tuſculus. Minutius inter ſaxa, quæ jaciebant
in itinere, fugiens opprimitur ; &, relato domum Ca-
ſio, ad eum deducitur, Racilius in proximam ſe do-
mum familiaris ſui confert, dum certum cog noſceret
confectuſne Caſſius eſſet. L. Laterenſis, quum id y
dubitaret, accurrit lætus in caſtra; militibus vernad
& ſecundæ legionis, quibus odio ſciebat præcipuè Cab.
ſium eſſe, gratulatur: tollitur a multitudine in tribg-
nal: prætor appellatur: nemo enim aut in provincia
natus, aut vernaculæ legionis miles, aut diuturnitate
jam factus provincialis; ( quo in numero erat 11 legio)
non cum omni provincia conſenſerat in odio Caſſii:
(nam legiones xxx & xxl, paucis menſibus in Italia
ſcriptas, Cæſar attribuerat Longino: v leg io ibi nupet
erat confecta.) Interim nunciatur Laterenſi, vivete
Caſſium.
pe BELLO ALEXANDRINO. 33r
Cafium. Quo nuncio, dolore magis permotus quam
animo perturbatus, reficit celeriter ſe, & ad Caſſium
viſendum proficiſcitur, Re cognita, xxx legio ſigna
Cordubam infert, ad auxilium ferendum Imperatori
ſuo: facit hoc idem xx1, ſubſequitur has v. Quum 11
legiones reliquæ eſſent in caſtris: ſecundani, veriti ne
ſoli relinquerentur; atque ex eo, quid ſenſiſſent, indi-
caretur; ſecuti ſunt factum ſuperiorum. Permanſit in
ſententia legio vernacula, nec ullo timore de gradu
dejecta eſt. Caſſius eos, qui nominati erant conſcii
cædis, jubet comprehendi: legionem v in caſtra re-
mittit, cohortibus xxx retentis. Indicio Minutii cog-
noſcit, L. Racilium & L. Laterenſem, & Annium Sca-
pulam, maximæ dignitatis & gratiæ provincialem ho-
minem, ſibique tam familiarem quàm Laterenſem &
Racilium, in eadem fuiſſe conjuratione : nec diu mo-
tatur dolorem ſuum, quin eos interfici jubet. Minu-
tium libertis tranſdit excruciandum; item Calpurnium
Salvianum : qui profitetur indicium, conjuratorumque
numerum auget; vers, ut quidam exiſtimant; ut non-
nulli queruntur, coactus. Iiſdem cruciatibus affectus L.
Mergilio. Squillus nominat plures: quos Caſſius inter-
fict jubet; exceptis iis, qui ſe pecunia redemerunt:
nam palam HS x, cum Calpurnio paciſcitur ; & cum
Q. Sextio, L: qui fi maxime nocentes ſunt multati z
tamen periculum vitæ dolorque vulnerum pecunia re-
miſſus, crudelitatem cum avaritia certaſſe ſigniſicabat.
XLIII. Aliquot bolt diebas, litteras a Cæſare miſſas
ccipit; quibus cognoſcit Pompeium in acie victum
s Copiis fugiſſe. Qua re cognita miſtam dolori
| ptatem capiebat, Victoriæ nuncius lætitiam ex-
7 Primebat : confectum bellum licentiam temporum in-
tercludebat. Sic erat dubius animi, utrùm nihil timere,
an omnia licere mallet. Sanatis vulneribus, accerſit
omnes qui fibi pecunias expenſas tulerant, acceptaſ-
que eas jubet referri. Quibus parum videbatur impo-
ſuiſſe oneris, ampliorem pecuniam imperat. Quem au-
tem Romanorum delectum inſtituit; quòſque ex omni-
bus conventibus coloniiſque conſcriptos habebat ; tranſ-
marina militia perterritos, ad ſacramenti redemptionem
h vocabat.
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vocabat. Magnum hoc fuit vectigal; majus tamen cre.
abat odium. His rebus confeQis, totum exercitum lu.
ſtrat : legiones, quas in Africam duQurus erat, & auxi.
Jia, mittit ad Trajectum: ipſe, claſſem quam paraba,
ut inſpiceret, Hiſpalim accedit: ibique moratur ; prop.
terea quod edictum tota provincia propoſuerat, ut qui
bus pecunias imperaſier, neque contuliſſent, fe adirent,
Quz evocatio vehementer omnes perturbavit,
XLIV. Interim L. Titius, qui eo tempore tribuny
militum legionis vernaculæ fuerat, nunciat fama leg.
onem xxx, quam Q. Caſſius legatus ſimul ducebat;
quum Tlurgim ad oppidum caſtra haberct, fediticne
factà, centurionibus aliquot occiſis, qui ſigna tolli nar
patiebantur, diſceſſiſſe; & ad 11 legionem contend.ſ,
quæ ad fretum alio itinere due, batur, Copnita re, 0.
u cum v cohortibus undeviceſimanorum egrediter;
mane pervenit. Ibi eum diem, ut, quid ageretur, pet
ſpiceret, moratus; Carmonam contendit. Hie, quun
legio xxx & xxl, & cohortes iv ex v legione, totil
que conveniſſet equitatus; audit 1v cohortes à verpact
lis oppreſſas ad Obuculam, cum his ad ſecundam per
veniſſe legionem, omneſque ibi ſe conjunxiſſe; & l.
Thorium Italicenſem ducem delegiſte. Celeriter ht
bito concilio, Marcellum Cordubam, ut eam in poteſs
te retineret; Q. Caſſium legatum, Hiſpalim mitt
Paucis ei diebus affertur, conventum Cordubenſem 35
eo defeciſſe; Marcellümque, aut voluntate aut necelts
tate adductum, (nam que id variè nunciabaiur) cone.
tire cum Cordubenſibus : 11 cohortes legionis v, gu
fuerant Cordubæ in, præſidio, idem facere. Caflivh
his rebus incenſus, movet caſtra; & poſſero die dego
viam ad flumen Silicenſe venit. Ibi habita conciors
militum tentat animos: quos cognoſcit non ſud, fe
Cæſaris abſentis causa, ſibi fidiſſimos eſſe; nu!iumque
periculum deprecaturos, dum per eos Cæſari proviud⸗
reſtituetetur. |
XLV. Interim Thorius ad Cordubam veteres legions
adducit: ac, ne diſſenſionis initiffh natum' ſedites
militum ſuaque videretur natura ; fimul, ut cont? L
Caſſium, qui Cæſaris nomine mayoribus viribus ut!
. de batus,
pt BELLO ALEXANDRINO, 333
Pompeio fe provinciam recuperare velle, palam dicti-
tabat, Et forfitan etiam hoc fecerit odio Cæſaris, &
amore Pompeii ; cujus nomen multum poterat apud eas
legiones, quas M. Varro obtinuerat: fed id qua mente
commotus fecerit, conjeQtura ſciri non poteſt. Certe
hoc præ ſe Thorius ferebat. Milites adeò fatebantur,
ut Cn. Pompeii nomen in ſcutis inſerip um haberent.
Frequens legionibus conventus obviam prodit; neque
tantum virorum, ſed etiam matrum familias ac prætex-
tatorum : deprecaturque, ue hoftili adventur Cordubam
diriperent : nam ſe contra Caſſium ſentire cum omnibus; con-
tra Ca ſarem ne facere cogerentur, orare.
ercitus commotus; quum videret ad Caſſium perſequen-
= dum nihil opus eſſe Cn. Pompeii nomine & memoria ;
W:amque omnibus Cæſarianis, quam Pompeianis, Longi-
rom eſſe in odio ; neque fe conventum, neque M. Mar-
„ ecellum, contra Cæſaris cauſam poſſe perducere: nomen
Pompeii ex ſcutis detraxerunt; Marcellum, qui ſe Cæ-
N ſaris cauſam defenſurum profits batur, ducem adicive-
Pont, prætorémque appellärunt; & fibi conventum ad-
unxerunt; caſtraque ad Cordubam poſuerunt, Caſ-
us eo biduo circiter 1v millia paſſuum a Corduba, ci-
a flumen Bætim, in oppidi conſpectu, loco excelſo
oecit caſtra: litteras ad regem Bogudem in Mauritaniam,
x ad M. Lepidum proconſulem in Hiſpaniam citerio-
em mittit ; /ub/idio ſib. prowincieque, Ca. ſaris causd,
anprimum veniret. Ipſe hoitili modo Cordubenfium
ros viitut, ædificia incendit.
ALVII. Cajus tei deformitate atque indignitate, le-
ziones, que Marcellum übi ducem ceperant, ad eum
Wo icurrerunt; ut in aciem educerentur, orant; priut-
ie confligendi ſibi poteſlas fieret, quam cum tanta
ntumelia nobiluümæ cariſümæque poſſeſſiones Cor-
| Lubenfium in conſpectu ſuo rapiuis, ferro, flammaque
onlumerentur. Marcellus, q um conflig ere miſerrimum
putaret; quol & victoris & victi detrimentum ad eun-
em Cælarem eſſet redundaturum; neque ſuæ pote-
ails eſle; legiones Bætim trauſducit, atque aciem in-
tru.
debatur, æquè potentem opponeret dignitatem; Cn,
XLVI. Tantæ multitudinis precibus & lacrimis ex-
234 ARTS.
ſtruit. Quum Caſſium contra pro caſtris ſuis aciem in.
ſtruxiſſe loco ſuperiore videret ; causa interpoſità quod
is in zquum non deſcenderet, Marcellus militibus per.
ſuadet, ut ſe in caſtra recipiant. Itaque copias redu-
cere cœpit. Caſſius; quo bene valebat, Marcellamque
ihfirmum eſſe ſciebat; aggreſſus equitatu legiona-
rios ſe recipientes, complures noviſſimos in fluminis ripi
interficit. Quum hoc detrimento, quid tranſitus flumi-
nis vitii difficultatiſque haberet, cognitum eſſet; Mar.
cellus caſtra Bætim transfert : crebroque uterque legio-
nes in aciem educit; neque tamen confligitur, propter
locorum difficultates.
XLVIII. Erat copiis pedeſtribus multo firmior Mar.
cellus; habebat enim veteranas legiones multi{que
prœliis expertas. Caſſius fidei magis, quam virtutj
legionum confidebat. Itaque quum caſtra caſtris col.
lata eſſent; & Marcellus locum idoneum caſtello ce.
piſſet, quo prohibere aqua Caſſianos poſſet ; Longinuy,
veritus ne genere quodam obſidionis clauderetur in te.
glonjbus alienis ſibique infeſtis, noctu ſilentio ex d.
{tris proficiſcitur ; celerique itinere Uliam contendit
quod fibi fidele eſſe oppidum credebat. Ibi adeo con.
juncta ponit mœnibus caſtra, ut & loci naturd (vam-
ue Ulia in edito loco poſita eſt) & ipsa munition
urbis undique ab oppugratione tutus eſſet. Hunc Mar:
cellus inſequitur, &, quam proxime poteſt Uliam, d.
ſtra caſtris confert : locoramque cognita natura ; quo
maxime rem deducere volebat, neceſſitate eſt adductus;
ut neque confligeret, (cujus ſi rei facultas eflet, refiſtere
incitatis militibus non poterat) neque vagari Caſſium [#
tits pateretur, ne plures civitates ea paterentur, qus
paſſi erant Cordubenſes. Caſtellis idoneis locis colo
catis, cperibuſque in circuitu oppidi continuatis, Utia
Caſſiùmque munitionibus clavſit : quæ priuſquam peri
cerentur, Longinus omnem ſuum equitatum emilit;
quem magno ſibi uſui fore credebat, ſi pabulari i
mentarique Marcellum non pateretur ; magno anten
impedimento, ſi clauſus obſidione & inutilis neceſſariul
conſumeret frumentum.
a XLIL
pz BzLLo ALEXANDRINO. 335
XLIX. Paucis diebus, litteris Caſſi acceptis, rex Bo-
gud cum copiis venit; adjungitque ei legionem, quam
ſecum adduxerat, complureſque cohortes auxiliarias
Hiſpanorum : namque ut in civilibus diſſenſionibus ac-
cidere conſuevit, ita temporibus illis in Hiſpania non-
null civitates rebus Caſſii ſtudebant, plures Marcello
fivebant. Accedit cum copiis Bogud ad exteriores
Marcelli munitiones. Pugnatur utrimque acriter cre-
br6que ; ut accidit, fortuna ſæpe ad utrumque tranſ-
ferente victoriam; nec tamen umquam ab operibus de-
pellitur Marcellus, b
L. Interim Lepidus ex citeriore provincia, cum co-
hortibus legionariis xxxv, magn6que numero equitum
& reliquorum auxiliorum, venit ea mente Uliam, ut,
ſine ullo ſtudio, contentiones Caſſii Marcellique com-
poneret. Huic venienti fine dubitatione ſe credit at-
que offert Marcellus: Caſſius contra ſuis fe tenet præ-
ſidiis; five ed quod plus ſibi juris deberi, quam Mar-
cello exiſtimabat; five eo quod, ne præoccupatus ani-
mus Lepidi eſſet obſequio adverfarii verebatur, Ponit
ad Uliam Caſtra Lepidus; neque habet a Marcello
quidquam diviſi. Ne pugnetur, interdicit : ad exeun-
dum, Caſſium invitat ; 5demque ſuam in re omni in-
F terponit, Quum diu dubitäſtet Caſſius, quid ſibi faci-
endum, quidque Lepido eſſet credendum ; neque ullum
Wexitum conſilii ſai reperiret, fi permaneret in ſenten-
WT tia ; poſtulat, uti munitiones disjicerentur, ſibique liber
eutus daretur. Non tantùm induciis factis, ſed pro-
e jam conſtituta opera quum complanarent, cuſtodiæ-
De munitionum eſſent deductæ; auxilia regis in id
caſtellum Marcelli, quod proximum erat regiis caſtris
eque opinantibus omnibus, (ſi tamen in omnibus fuit
allius, nam de hujus conſcientia dubitabatur) impe-
um fecerunt ; complureſque ibi milites oppreſſerunt.
Quod nifi celeriter, indignatione & auxilio Lepidi,
Wi=iium eſſet diremptum; major calamitas eſſet ac-
epta. ;
LI. Quum iter Caſſio patefactum eſſet; caſtra Mar-
ellus eum Lepido conjungit. Lepidus eodem tempore
larcellũſque Cordubam cum ſuis proficiſcitur ; Caſſius
Car-
”
3365 A. HIN TI
Carmonam. Sub idem tempus, Trebonius Proconſal
ad provinciam obtinendam venit : de cvjus adventu ut
cognovit Caſſius; legiones, quas ſecum habuerat, equi-
tatumque in hyberna diſtribuit; ipſe, omnibus ſuis re.
bus celeriter correptis, Malacam contendit : tbique,
adverſo tempoie navigandi, naves conſcendit: ut ipſe
prædicabat; ne ſe Trebonio & Lepido & Marcello
committeret: ut amici ejus dictitabant; ne per eam
provinciam ininore cum dignitate iter faceret, cujus
magna pars ab eo defecerat : ut cæteri exiſtimabant;
ne pecunia illa ex infinitis rapinis confecta, in poteſta.
tem cujuſquam veniret. Progreſſus ſecunda, ut hy ber.
na, tempeſtate; quum in Iberum flumen, noctis vitan-
dz causa, ſe contuliſſet; inde; paullo vehementiore
tempeſtate, nihilo periculoſiùs ſe navigaturum creden,
profectus; adverſis fluctibus occurrentibus oſtio flumi-
nis; in ipſis faucibus, quum neque flectere navem p10-
pter vim fluminis, neque directam tantis fluctibus tence
poſſet, demersa navi periit.
LII. Quum in Syriam Cæſar ex /E2ypto veniſtet;
atque ab 1is, qui Roma venerant ad eum cognoiceret,
litteriſque urbanis auimadverteret, multa Rom male
& inutiliter adminiſtrari, neque ullam partem 'Rejpub-
licæ ſatis commode geri; quod &, contentionibus Tri
bunitiis, pernicioſæ ſeditiones orirentur ; &, ambitior
atque indiligentia Tribunorum militum, & qui legion
bus præerant, multa contra morem conſuetodinemqus
militarem fierent, quæ diſſolvendæ diſciplinæ ſer erits ;
tiſque eſſent: eaque omnia flagitare adventum ſuum
videret: tamen præferendum exiſtimavit, quas in po. 5
vincias regioneſque veniſſet, eas ita relinqueie con f
tutas, ut domeſticis diſienſionibus liberarentur, jura fe.
geſque acciperent, & externorum hoſtium metum de. a
ponerent. Hæc in Syria, Cilicta, Aſia celeriter ſe cos of
Cc
fecturum ſperabat; quod hz provinciz nullo bello pre
mebantur. In Bithynia ac Ponto, plus oneris videos
impendere ſibi: non enim excefũſſe Ponto Pharnacel
audierat, neque exceſſurum patabat; quum ſecunc
preelio eſſet vehementer inflatus, quod contra Veit
tium Calvinum fecerat. Commoratus fere in omnibs
chr
vr: Brito ALEXAnDRINO. 337
civitatibus, quæ majore ſunt dignitate, præmia bene-
meritis & viritim & publicè tribuit: de controverſiis
veteribus cognoſcit ac ſtatuit: reges, tyrannos, dy naſtas
provinciæ, finitimoſque, qui omnes ad eum concurre-
rant, receptos in fidem, conditionibus impoſitis provinciæ
amiciſſimos. | N |
LIL Paucis diebus in ef provincia conſumptis; Sex.
Cæſarem, amicum et neceflarium ſuum, legionibus Sy-
rixque preficit; ipſe eadem claſſe, qua venerat, pro-
fciſcitur in Ciliciam ; cvjus provinciz civitates omnes
evocat Tarſum; quod oppidum fere totius Ciliciz no-
biliſümum fortiſimumque eſt. Ibi, rebus omnibus pro-
vinciæ & finitimarum civitatum conltitutis ; cupiditate
proficiſcendi ad bellum gerendum, non diutius mora-
tur; magniſque itineribus per Cappadociam confectis,
bidaum Mazacæ commoratus, venit Comana, vetultiſ-
ſimum & ſanctiſſimum in Cappadocia Bellonæ tem-
dex, majeſtate, imperio, & potentia, ſecundus a rege
conſenſu gentis illius habeatur. Id homini nobiliſſimo
Lycomedi Bithyno adjudicavit; qui, regio Cappado-
cum genere ortus, propter adverſam fortunam majo-
rum ſuorum, mutationemque generis, jure minimè du-
bio, vetuſtate tamen intermiſlo, ſacerdotium id repete-
bat. Fratrem autem Ariobarzanis Ariaraten, quum
bene meritus uterque eorum de Republica eſſet; ne
ni terreret; Ariobarzani attribuit, qui ſub ejus imperio
c ditione eſſet. Iple iter cœptum ſimili velocitate con-
»r i. f cere cœpit. |
LIV. Quum propiùs Pontum fineſque Gallogræciæ
ccceſſiſſet; Deiotarus, tetrarches Gallogręeciæ tunc qui-
cor Lem pene totius, (quod ei neque legibus neque moribus
Wy concellum elle, cæteri tetrarchæ contendebant) fine du-
* io autem rex Armeniæ minoris ab Senatu appellatus;
cen Cepolitis regiis inſignibus; neque tantùm privato veſtity,
curde ted ctiam reorum habitu, ſupplex ad Cæſarem venit;
Dem- atum, ut ibi iguaſceret, quod in ea parte pofitus terrarum,
ib nulla prefidia Cæſaris habuiftt, exercitibus imperiiſyus
in
tuendæ ac defendendæ, dimittit & ſibi & populo Romano
plum; quod-tanta religione colitur, ut ſacerdos ejus
aut regni hæreditas Ariaraten ſollicitaret, aut hæres reg-.
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tie ac diligentia ſcire potuiſſet, quis Urbem Italiamgut
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A. HIRATII
in Cu. Pompeii Caſiris fuiſſet; neque enim fe judicem dilu.
& efſe controverſiarum populi Romani ; Jed parare prajen-
tibus imperits. Contra quem Cæſar, quum plurima ſua
commemoraſlet cia, quæ conſul ei decretis publicis triby.
Zet; quumque defefionem ejus nullam poſſe excuſationem
imprudentiæ recipere coarguiſſet; quod homo tantæ pruden-
teneret; ubi Scnatus populuſque Romanus, ubi Reſpublica
t; quis deinde poſt L. Lentulum, C. Marcellum, conſul
Het; tamen ſe concedere id fattum ſuperioritus, ſuis benef
cits, weteri hoſpitio atque amicitiæ, dignitati atatique lo-
minis, precibus ecrum, qui frequentes concurriſſent hoſpites
atque amici Deiotari ad deprecanaum ; de controverſits its
trarcharum poſtea ſe cogniturum , dixit: regium veſtitum
ei reſtituit. Legionem autem, quam, ex genere civium
ſuorum, Deiotarus armaturs diſciplinaque noſtri conſti-
tutam habebat, equitatumque omnem, ad bellum geren-
dum adducere juſſit. |
LV. Quum in Pontum veniſſet, copiaſque omnes in
tione bellorum, mediocres erant: (excepta enim legione
y1, quam ſecum adduxerat Alexandria veteranam, mul-
tis laboribus periculiſque functam, multiſque militibus
partim difficultate itinerum ac navigationum, partim
crebritate bellorum adeò derifutam, ut minus mille
hominum in ea eſſet; reliquæ erant 111 legiones ; uni,
Deiotari; duæ, quz in eo prœlio, quod Cn. Domitiun Wl
fecifie'cum Pharnace ſcripſimus, fuerant) legati a Pha-
nace miſſi, Cæſarem adeunt; atque in primis deprecantu Wh
ge cus adventus beſtilis et: fatturum enim omnia U bar.
nacem, que imperata ( ent. Maximeque commemorabant
aulla Pharnacen auxilia contra Cæſarem Pompeio dun
eoluifſe ; quum Deictarus, gui dedifſet, tamen ei jatisfeciſa
Cæſar reſpondit, /e fore eequi{imum Pharnaci, ſi, 14
polliceretur, repreſentaturus et monuit autem, ut 9
lebat, mitibus verbis legatos; ne aut Deiotarum fbi e
cerent; aut nimis e gloriarentur bentficio, quod au:
Pompeio non miſiſſent: nam ſe neque libentiis facere fu
quam, quam ſufflicibus igneſcere; neque provinciaru' ju nn
cas injurias condonare its paſe, qui ſuiſſent in Ji Hai 1 7
0
pe Bello ALEXANDRINO. 339
T1 ifm, quid commemori ſent, officium utilius Pbarnaci
fuiſſe, qui providifſet, ne winceretur ; quam fibi, cui Dii im-
mortales victoriam tribuiſſent. Itague Je magnas & graves
injurias civium Romanorum, qui in Ponto negotiati ent,
quoniam in integrum reſtituere non pefſet, concedere Pharna-
ci: nam neque interfetis amiſſam vitam, neque exſectis
wirilitatem reſlituere pofſe : quod quidem ſupplicium gr aviut
morte cives Romani ſubiſſent. Ponts verd decederet confeflim g
familiaſque publicanorum remitteret ; cateraque reflitueres
faciis civibuſgue Romanis, que peues eum efſent. Si feciſſet 3
jam tune fibi mitteret munera ac dona, quæ bene rebus geſtis!
imperatores ab amicis accipere conſuefſent : Miſerat enim
Pharnaces coronam auream. His reſponſis datis legatos
remiſit.
LVI. At Pharnaces, omnia liberaliter pollicitus; quumt
feſtinantem ac properantem Cæſarem ſperaret libentiùs
etiam crediturum ſuis promiſſis, quam res pateretur,
quo celeriùs honeſtiùſque ad res magis neceſſarias pro-
hciſceretur; (nemini enim erat ignotum, plurimis do
cauſis ad Urbem Cæſarem revocari): lentiùs agere, de-
ione ¶ cedendi diem poſtulare longiorem, pactiones interponere,
mul- in ſumma fruſtrari cœpit. Cæſar, cognita calliditate
tibus 7 hominis; quod aliis temporibus natura facere conſueve-
artim N at, tunc neceſſitate fecit adductus, ut celeriis omniune
mille Wopinione manum conſereret.
uni, BR LVII. Ziela eſt oppidum in Ponto, poſitu ipſo, ut in
num ö
um
um
tis
en-
S in
cita-
plano loco, ſatis munitum: tumulus enim nituralis,
Phar- elut manu factus, excelſiore undique faſtigio ſuſtinet
cantut ¶ N urum. Circumpoſiti ſunt huic oppido magni multique
Phan rerciſi vallibus colles: quorum editiſſimus unus; qut
-1bant, Ar opter victoriam Mithridatis, & infelicitatem Triarii,
3 dart etrimentamque exercitus naſtri, ſuperioribus locis atque
facile neribus r conjunctus oppido, magnam in illis
, bos babet nobilitatem; nec multò longiùs millibus
at um 111 abeſt ab Zielà: hunc locum Pharnaces,
{bi oh eribus paternorum felicium caſlrorum refectis operi-
aun copiis ſuis omnibus occupavit.
e ul. Cæſar, quum ab hoſte millia paſſuum v caſ-
n ful poſuiſſet; viderẽtque eas valles, quibus regia caſtra
ci arentur, codem intervallo ſua caſtra munituras, fi
jj :
Q 2 modo
*
240 . A. HII T1
modo ea loca hoſtes priores non cepiſſent, quæ multo
erant propiora regis Caſtris; aggerem comportari jubet
Intra munitiones, Quo celeriter collato; proxima node,
vigilia quarta, legionibus omnibus expeditis, impedi.
mentiſque in caſtris relictis, prima luce, neque opinan-
tibus hoſtibus, eum ipſum locum cepit, in quo Mithri.
dates ſecundum prœlium adverſus Triarium fecerat,
Huc omnem comportari aggerem è caſtris, ſervitiaque
quz agerent juſſit; ne quis ab opere miles diſcederet,
quum ſpatio non amplius mille paſſuum interciſa vallis
caſtra hoſtium divideret ab opere incepto Cæſaris caſ.
trorum. | |
LIX. Pharnaces, quum id repente prima luce animad-
vertiſſet; copias ſuas omnes pro caltris inſtruxit. Quas,
interpoſita tanta locorum iniquitate, conſuctudine magis
pervulgata militari credebat inſtrui Cæſar; vel ad opus
ſuum tardandum, quo plures in arms tenerentur; vel
ad oitentationem regiz fiduciæ, ne munitione magis
quam manu defendere locum Pharnaces videretur. ltu-
ue deterritus non elt, quo minus, prima acie pro vallo
inſtruQa, reliqua pars exercitas opus faceret. At Phar-
naces, impulſus five loci felicitate, five auſpiciis & reli
tonibus inductus, quibus obtemperaile eum poſtea au-
e ſive paucitate noſtrorum, qui in armis erant,
comperta; quum, more operis quotidiani, magnam illan
ſervorum multitudinem, quæ aggerem portabat, militun
elſe credidiſſet: five etiam veterani kducia exercitas {ul
quem {cum legione] xx11 in acie conflixiſſe & vicilt
Iegati ejus gloriabantur: ſimul conte ptu exercitũs nol
tri, quem pulſum a ſe, Domitio duce, ſciebat: init
conſilio dimicandi, deſcendere prætuptà valle capit
Cpjus aliquandiu Cæſar irridebat inanem oftentationen,
& eo loco militum coarctationem, quem in locum nem
ſanus hoſtis ſubiturus eſſet; quom interim Pharnace
eodum gradu, quo præruptam deſcenderat in valien,
aſcendere adversùs arduum collem inſtructis cop
cœ pit. f
LX. Cæſar, incredibili cjas vel temeritate vel {duc
motus ; neque opinans, imparatuſque oppreſſus; coded
Xmpore milites ab operibus vocat, arma capere Ju
TY
D E BELLO ALEXANDRINO, 341
legiones opponit, aciem inſtrait. Cujus rei ſubita trepi-
datio magnum terrorem attulit noſtris. Nondum ordi-
nibus inſtructis, falcatz regiæ quadrigæ permiſtos milites
perturbant; quæ tamen celeriter multitudine telorum
opprimuntur. Inſequitur has, acies hoſtium ; & clamore
ſublato, confligitur; multùm adjuvante natura loci, plu-
1mum Deorum immortalium benignitate: qui quum
omnibus caſibus belli interſunt, tum præcipuè eis, qui-
bus nihil ratione potuit adminſtrari.
LXI. Magno atque acri cominus prœlio facto; a dex-
tro cornu, quo veterana legio v1 erat collocata, initium
victoriæ natum eſt, Ab ea parte quum in proclive de-
truderentur hoſtes; multò tardiùs, ſed tamen nidem Diis
adjuvantibus, ſiniſtro cornu, mediaque acie, totæ profli-
gantur copiæ regis: quæ quam facile ſubierant iniquum
jocum, tam celeriter gradu pulſæ premebantur loci ini-
quitate. Itaque multis militibus partim interfectis, par-
tim ſuorum ruina oppreſſis; qui velocitate effugere po-
terant, armis tamen projects, vallem tranigreſſi, nihil
ex loco ſuperiore inermes proficere poterant. At noſtri
victoria elati, ſubire iniquum locum, munitioneſque ag-
gredi non dubitarunt: defendentibus autem its cohor-
tibus caſtra, quas Pharnaces præſidio reliquerat; cele-
riter caſtris hoſtium ſunt potiti. Interfectà multitudine
aut capta ſuorum, Pharnaces cum paucis equitibus pro-
fugit: cui niſi gaſttorum oppugnatio facultatem attuliſſet
Wiberius profugiendiy vivus in Cæſaris poteflatem adduc-
Wt us cllet. 15 a |
LXII. Tali victoria, toties victor Cæſar incredibili
ſt Iztitia affectus; quòd maximum bellum tanta cele-
tate confecerat, Eratque ſubiti periculi recordatione
ætior, quod victoria facilis ex difficillimis rebus acci-
erat, Ponto recepto, przda omni regia militibus con-
ponata, poſtero die cum expeditis equitibus ipſe proſi-
iſcitur: legionem vi decedere ad przmia atque hono-
es accipiendos in Italiam jubet : auxilia Deiotari do-
Pom remittit: 11 legiones cum Cælio Vinciano in Ponto
elinquit.
LXIII. Ita per Gallogræciam Bithyniimque in Aſiam
er facit: omniùmque earum provinciarum de con-
23 troverſiis
342 A. HT 3.1, 0c.
troverſiis cognoſcit & ftatuit : jura in tetrarchas, feges,
civitgtes diſtribuit. Mithridaten Pergamenum, a quo
rem feliciter celeriterque geſtam in Agypto ſupra ſcrip-
fmus, regio genere ortum, diſciplinis etiam regiis edu-
catum, (nam cum Mithridates rex Aſiæ totius propter
nobilitatem Pergamo parvulum ſecum aſportaverat in
caltra, multoſque tenuerat annos) regem Boſphori con-
ſtituit, quod ſub imperio Pharnacis fuerat; provincia(-
que populi Romani a barbaris atque inimicis regibus,
interpoſito amiciſſimo rege, munivit. Eidem tetrarchian
{legibus] Gallogræcorum, jure gentis & cogna ionis,
ad judicavit; occupatam & poſſeſlam paucis ante annis
a Deiotaro. Neque tamen uſquam diutius-moratus el},
quam neceſſitas urbanarum ſeditionum pati vide batur.
| Rebus feliciſſimè celerrimẽque confectis, in Italiam (6
lerids ommum opinione venit.
—
A HIRT II
COMMENTARIORUM
Dt: Bello Ar RICANO
LIBER UNUS.
I. Es Ax itineribus juſtis confeQis, nullo die in-
termiſſo, ad x1v. Kal. Jan. in Lilybæum per-
venĩt: ſtatimque oſtendit, ſeſe naves velle con-
ſcendere ; quum non amplius legionem tironum haberet
unam, equitẽſque vix oe. Tabernaculum ſecundùm li
tus ipſum conſtituit, ut prope fluctus verberaret. Hoe
eo conſilio fecit, ne quid fibi moræ quiſquam fore ſpera-
ret, & ut omnes in dies horaſque parati eſſent. Incidit
per id tempus, ut tempeſtates ad navigandum idoneas
non haberet: nihilo tamen minus in navibus remiges
militeſque continere, & nullam prætermittere occaſionem
profectionis; quum præſertim ab incolis ejus provineia
nunciarentur ad verſariorum copiæ, equitatus infinitus,
legiones regiæ iv, levis armaturz magna vis, Scipionis
legiones x, elephanti cxx, clafſE{que eſſe complures;
tamen non deterrebatur, anim6que & ſpe confidebat.
Interim in dies, & naves longz adavgeri, & onera-
Q 4 nt
944 . | ce: A. HTI
riæ complures eòdem concurrere, & legiones tironum
convenire; in his veterana legio v, equitum ad 1
milla. |
II. Legionibus collectis vi, & equitum 11 millibus;
ut quæque prima legio venerat, in naves longas impo.
nebatur; equites autem in onerarias. Ita majorem
pattem navium antecedere juſſit, & inſulam petere Apo-
nianam, quæ non longe abeſt a Lil) bæo. Ipſe parum
com moratus, bona paucorum vendit publicè: deince
Allieno prætori, qui Siciliam obtinebat, de omnibs
rebus præcipit: &, de reliquo exercitu celeriter impo-
nendo datis mandatis, ipſe navem conſcendit a. d. yi,
Kal. Jan. & reliquas neves ſtatim eſt conſecutus, Ita
Into certo, celerique navigio vectus, poſt diem quar-
am cum longis paucis navibus in conſpectum Africa
venit: namque onerariæ reliquæ, præter paucas, vento
diſperſæ atque errabundæ, diverſa loca petierunt. Clu-
pram claſſe prætervehitur; inde Neapolim. Complun
præterea caſtelia & oppida non longe a mari relin-
uit,
III. Poſtquam Adrumetum acceſſit; ubi præſidiun
erat adverſariorvin, cui præerat C. Conſidius; & a
Cliupea ſecundum cram maritimam, cum equitaty
Adrumeti, Cn. Piſo cum Maurorum circiter 111 millibyy
apparuit; ibi paulliſper Cæſar ante portum commors
ius, dum reliquæ naves convenirent, exponit exeicl
tum: cujus numerus in preſentia fuit peditum 111
millia, equitum CL : caſtriſque ante oppidum poſit,
fige injuria cujuſquam coaledit ; cohiberque omnes 1
przedi, Oppidani interim muros armatis complent:
ante portam frequentes conſidunt, ad fe de fenden
dum: quorum numerus 11 legionum intus erat. C.
far circum oppidum vectus, natura loci perſpecta, rr.
dit in caſtra, Non nemo culpæ cjus imprudentizque
aſſignabat, quod neque certum locum gubernatoribs
preteciiique, quem peterent, præceperat; neque, Uo
mos ipſius coniuetudoque ſuperioribus temporibus fue
rat, tabellas ſignatas dederat, ut, in tempore 115 pet.
le&is locum certum peterent univerſi. Quod mining
Cæſarem fefelletat; namque nullum portum tenz
Afffica
[ WT —
=
— |
* es, hn
* e
„ aw mr *
„E Brito ArtiCano, 345
Africz, quo claſſes decufrerent, pro certo tutum ab ho-
ſtium præſidio fore ſuſpicabatur ; ſed fortuita oblatam
occahonem egreſsas aucupabatur. / |
IV. L. Plancus interim legatus petit a Cæſare, ut
fbi daret facultatem cum Conſidio agendi, in poſſet
aliqua ratione perduci ad ſanitatem. Itaque data fa-
cultate litteras conſcribit, & eas captivo dat perferen-
das in oppidum ad Conſidium. Qaò ſimul atque cap-
tivus perveniſſet; litteraſque, ut erat mandatum, Con-
ſidio porrigere cœpiſſet; priùs quam acciperet ille,
Unde, inquit. fas! Tum captivus,. Interatore à Cas
fare. Tunc Conſidius, Unus ejt, inquit, Scipio imperater,
hoc tempore, populi Romani Deinde in conſpectu ſuo cap-
tivum ſtatim interſici jubet: litteraſque nondum perle-
das, ſicut erant ſignatæ, dat homini certo ad Scipio-
nem perferendas,
V. Poliquam, una nocte & die ad oppidum conſump-
ta; neque reſponſum ullom a Conſidio dabatur; ne-
que ei reliquæ copiæ ſuccurrebant; neque equitatu ab-
undabat; & ad oppidum oppugnandum non ſatis co-
piarum habebat, & eas tironum; neque primo adven-
* tu convulnerari exercitum volebat; & oppidi egregia
tat munitio, diffiiliſque ad oppugnandum erat acceſſus;
ibo & nunciabaatur auxilia magna equitazis oppidanis
Fa: ſuppetias venire: nou. eſt vija ratio ad oppu2nandum
20 oppidum commorandi; ne, dum in ea re Czfar eſſet
* occupatus, circumventus a tergo ab equitatu hoſtium
lie, lboraret. Itaque caſtra quum movere vellet, ſubits
s C2 oppido crupit multitudo; atque equitatus ſubſdio
lent; undo tempore eis caſu ſuccurrit, qui erat miſſus ab ju-
den b ad ſtipendium accipiendum: caſträque, unde Cæſar
( egreſſus iter facere cœperat, occupant: & ejus agmen
„ . rtremum inſequi cœperunt. Quz res quum animad-
-m— verſa eſſet, ſubitò legionarii conſiſtunt; & equites,
ribs quanquam erant pauci, tamen contra tantam multitu-
dinem audacifiime concurrunt. Accidit res incredibi-
e, Ui 5 5 reg © nl, he
hy 45, ut equites minus xxx Galli Maurorum equitum
pe 11 millia loco pellerent, urgerentque in oppidum. Poſt-
nim em repulſi & conjecti erant intra munitiones, Cæ-
nter conſtitutum ire contendit, Quod quum ſœpius
Qs face;
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0
4
't
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v1
346 ern
facerent; & modd inſequerentur, mods rurſus ab equi-
tibus in oppidum repellerentur: cohortibus paucis ex
veteranis, quas ſecum habebat, in extremo agmine
collocatis, & parte equitatus ; iter leniter cum reliquis
facere cœpit. Ita, quanto longiùs ab oppido diſcede.
batur, tanto tardiores ad inſequendum erant Numidæ.
Interim in itinere ex oppidis & caſtellis legationes
venire; pollicert frumentum; paratoſque eſſe, quæ im-
eraſſet, facere. Itaque eo die caſtra poſuit ad oppidum
Koſpinam, Kalendis Januar.
VI. Inde movit, & pervenit ad oppidum Leptin, li-
beram civitatem & immunem. Legati ex oppido ve-
niunt obviam ; l/ibenter ſe cmuia facturos, gue will,
pollicentar. Itaque centurionibus ad portas oppidi &
cuſtodiis impoſitis, ne quis miles in oppidum introitet,
aut injuriam faceret cuipiam incolæ; non longe ab
oppido ſecundùm littus facit caſtra. E6dem naves one-
rariæ, & longæ nonnullz, caſu advenerunt : reliquz,
ut eſt ei nunciatum, inceitz locorum, Uticam versds
petere viſæ ſunt. Interim Cæſar a mari non digredi,
neque mediterranea Petere, propter navium errorem :
equitatamque in navibus omnem contineri, {ut arbi-
tror, ne agri vaſtarentur) aquamque in naves jubet
comportari. Remiges interim, qui aquatum a navi-
bus exierant, ſubitò equites Mauri, neque opinartibus
Cſarianis, adorti, multos jaculis convulneraverurt;
nonnullos interfeccrunt : latent enim in jniidiis cem
quis inter convalles, & ſubitò exiliunt; non ut in
eampo cominus depugnent.
VII. Cafar interim in Sardiniam nuncios cum lit-
teris, & in 1eliquas provincias finitimas dimiſit; ut
Sbi auxilia, commeatus, frumentum, ſimul atque lit-
teras legiſſent, mittenda curarent : exoneratiſque par-
tim navibus longis, Rabirium Poſtumum in Sicilian
ad ſecundum commeatum accerſendum mittit. Inte-
rim cum x navibus longis ad reliquas naves onerat-
as conquirendas, quz deerrafient, & ſimul mare tuen-
dum ab hoſtibas, jubet proficiſci, Item C. Salluli
um Criſpum prætorem ad Cercinam inſulam versùs
quam adverſart tenebant, cum parte navium ire Ls
Pw. — = S r
—
pt: BELIO Ar RIAN O. 447
bet; quòd ibi magnum numerum frumenti eſſe audi-
ebat. Hæc ita imperabat, iraque unicuique præcipie-
bat, ut, fi fieri poſſet, ne locum ullum excuſatio ha-
beret, nec moram tergiverſatio. Ipſe interea ex per-
fugis & incolis cognitis conditionibus Scipionis, &
qui cum eo contra ſe bellum gerebant; miſerari, (re-
gium enim itatum in provincia Africa Scipio ale-
bat) tanta homines eſſe dementia, ut mallent regis
eſſe vectigales, quam cum civibus in patria in ſuis
fortunis eſſe incolumes.
VIII. Cæſar ad 111 Non. Jan. caftra movet; Lepti-
que vi cohortium præſidio cum Saferna relicto. ipſe
rurſus, unde pridie venerat, Rufpinam cum reliquis
copiis convertit. Ibique farcinis exercitùs relictis, ipſe
eum expedita manu profi ciſcitur circum villas frumen-
tatum : oppidaniſque imperat, ut plauſtra jJumentaque
omnia ſequantur: itaque magno frumenti invento nu-
mero, Ruſpinam redit. Hoc eum idcirco exiſtimo fe-
ciſſe, ne maritima oppida poſt le vacua relinqueret;
præfidiõque firmata, ad elaſſem receptacula muniret.
IX. Itaque, ibi reſicto P. Saferna. fratre ejus, quem
Lepti proximo oppido reliquerat cum legione; jubet
comportari ligna in oppidum quamplurima. lpſe, cum
cohortibus v11, quæ ex veteranis legionibus in claſſe
cum Sulpicio & Vatinio rem geſſerant, ex oppido Ru-
ſpinz egrefſus, proficiicirur ad portum, qui abeſt ab
oppido millia paſſuum 11; ibiaue claſſem ſub veſpe-
om com ea copia conſcendit, omnibus in exercitu
inſciis & requirentibos Tmperatoris confilium. © Qui
magno metu ac triſtitid follicitabantur: parva enim
eum copia, & ea tironum, neque omni expoſita, in
Africa contra magnas copias, & infidio'/z- nationis,
equitatümque innumerabilem, fe expoſitos videbant :
neque quidquam ſolatii in praefentia, neque auxilium
in ſuorum conſilio animadvertebant; niſi in ipſius im-
peratoris vultu, vigore, mirabilique hilaritate: ad ĩimum
enim altum & erectum pra ſe gerebat. Haie acqui-
eſcebant homines, & in ejus ſcientia & conſilio omnia
ſlbi proclivia omnes fore ſperabant.
X. Cæſar,
348 A. Hiri
X. Cæſar, in navibus una nocte conſumpta, jam ce-
lo albente quum proficiſci conaretur, ſubito navium
pars, de qua timebat, ex errore, eodem conferebatur,
Hac re cognita, Cæſar celeriter de navibus imperat
omnes egredi, atque armatos in littore reliquos, adve-
nientes milites exſpectare. Itaque fine. mora navibus
eis in portum receptis, & advectis miligum £quitum-
que copiis, rurſus ad oppidum Ruſpinam. redit; atque
ibi caſtris conſlitutis, ipſe cum cohortibus expeditis
xxx frumentatum eſt profectus. Ex eo eſt cognitum
Cæſaris conſilium: illum cum clafle navibus onerariis,
quæ ccerrallent, ſubſidio ire, clam hoſtibus, voluiſie;
ne caſu imprudentes ſuz naves in claſlem adverſario-
rum inciderent; neque eam rem eos voluiſſe ſcire, qui
in præſidiis relicti ſui milites fuiſſent; ne illi, prop-
ter ſuorum paucitatem, & holtium multitudinem, metu
defſicerent. 3238 |
XI. Interim, quum jam Cæſar progreſſus eſſet a ca-
Kris circiter millia paſſuum 111 per ipeculatores & an-
teceſſores equites nunciatur ei, copias hoſtium baud
longe a ſe viſas, Et hercle cum eo nuncio pulvis in-
gens conſpici cœptus eſt. Hac re cognita, Cæſar ce-
leriter jubet equitatum univerſum, cujus copiam habuit
in præſent:à non magnam; & ſagittarios, quorum par.
yas è caſtris exierat numerus, accert} ; atque ordina-
tim ſigna ſe lenitcr conſequi: 1pſe antecedere cum
paucis armatis. Jamgue quum procul hoſtis conſpici
poſſet, milites in campo jubet galeari & ad pugnam
parari. Quorum omnino numerus ſuit xx x cohoruvm,
cum equitibus op, & ſagittariis “. 5
XII. Hoſtes interim, quorum dux erat Labienus, &
duo Pacidii; aciem dirigunt mirabili longitudine, non
peditum, ſed equitum confertam: & inter eos, lavis
armaturz Numidas & ſagittarios pedites, interpoſue-
rant; & ita condenſaverant, ut procul Cæſatiani pece-
ſtres copias arbitrarentur: & dexti um ac ſiniſtrum cor
nu magnis equitum copiis firmaverant. Interim Cz-
far aciem dirigit ſimplicem, ut poterat, propter pauci—
tatem. Sagittarios ante aciem conſtituit: equites dex-
uo ſiniſtroque cornu opponit ; & ita præcipit, - po
; Vide
pr Brito Arricano 849
viderent, ne multitudine equitatũs hoſtium circumveni-
rentur : exiſtimabat enim ſe cum pedeſtribus copiis, acie
inſtructàa, dimicaturum. | |
XIII. Quum utrimque exſpeRatio fieret; neque Ca
ſar ſe moveret; & cum ſuorum paucitate contra mag-
nam vim hoſtium artificio magis, quam viribus, de-
cernendum videret; ſubitò ad verſariorum equitatus ſeſe
extendere, & in latitudinem promovere, colleſque com-
plecti, & Cæſaris equitatum extenuare, fimulque ad
cicumeundum comparare ſe, cœperunt. Cæſariani
equites eorum multitudinem ægre ſuſtinebant. Acies
interim medi quum concurrere conarentur, ſubitò ex
condenſis tyrmis -pedites Nymide levis armature cum
equitibus procurrunt, & inter legionarios milites jacula
conjiciunt. Hic quum Cætlariani in eos impetum fe-
ciſlent, illorum equites refugiebant; pedites interim
reſiſtebant, dum equites rurſus curſu renovato peditibus
ſuis ſuccurrerent. |
XIV. Cæſar, novo genere pugnz oblato, quum anim-
advertetet ordines ſuorum in procurrendo turbari,
(pedites enim, dum equites longius a ſignis perſequun-
tur, latere nudato, a proximis Numidis jaculis vulnera-
bantur; equites autem hoſtium, pilum militis curſu facile
vitabant) edicit per ordines, ne quis miles a fignis 1v
pedes longiùs procederet. . Equitatus interim Labieni,
ſuorum multitudine confiſus, Cæſaris paucitatem circum-
ire conatur. Equites Juliani pauci, multitudine hoſtium
cetefi, equis convulneratis, paullatim cedere: hoſtes
magls magiſque inſtare. Ita, puncto temporis omnibus
legionariis ab hoſtium equitatu circumventis, Cæſariſque
copiis in orbem compulſis, intra cancellos omnes con-
jecti pugnare cogebantur.
XV. Labienus in equo, capite nudo, verſari in prima
acie; ſimul fuos cohortari: noanunquam legionarios
Cezlaris ita appellare: QAuid tu, inquit, miles tiro, tam
eoculus es! vos quogue ifte werbis infatuavit ? In magnum
me hercule wos periculum impulit : miſereor veſiri. Tum
miles; Non ſum, inquit, tiro, Labiene; ſed de legione x
weteranus, Tum Labienus; Noz agnsſco, inquit, gn
dicumauorum. Tum miles, Jam me, quis fim, intelbges.
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aciem in Jongitudinem quam maximam porrigi; alter-
hoſtes, ſuis ex terrore firmatis, rurſuſque renovatis ani.
ſigna converti. & medio campo redintegrari prœlium.
Simul caſſidem de capite dejecit, ut cognoſci ab eo poſ.
ſet; atque ita pilum viribus contortum dum in Labienum
mittere contendit, equi graviter adverſo pectori affixit;
& ait; Labiene, decumanum militem, qui ie petit, ſcito eſe,
Omnium tamen animi in terrorem conjecti, & maxime
tironum. Circumſpicere enim Cæſarem; neque ampliuy
facere, niſi hoſtium jacula vitare.
XVI. Cæſar interim, confilio hoſlium cognito, jubet
nis converſis cohortibus, ut una poſt alteram ante hgna
tenderet. Ita coronam hoſtium dextro finiſtr6que corny
mediam dividit z & unam partem ab altera excluſam,
equitibus intrinſecus adortus cum peditatu, telis con-
jectis in fagam vertie: neque longiùs progreſſus, veritus
inſidias, fe ad ſuos recepit. Idem altera pars equitum
1 Cæſatis facit. His rebus geſtis, & procul
oſtibus repulſis convulneratiſque; ad ſua præſidia ſeſe,
fic, ut erat inſtructus, recipere ceœpit.
XVII. Interim M. Petreius & Cn Piſo, cum equi-
tibus Numidis u electis, peditatüque ejuſdem generis
ſatis grandi, ex itinere rectà ſobſidio ſuis occurrunt. At
mis; legionatios, converhs equitibus, fe recipientes, no-
viſſimos adoriri; & impedire cœperunt, quo minds ſe
in caſtra reciperent. Hac re animadversà, Cæſar jubet
Qvum ab hoſtibus ecdem modo pugyaretur ; nec com!-
nus ad manus rediretur; Cæſariſque equites jumenta
ex nauſea recenti, ſiti, languore, paucitate, vulneribus
defatigata, ad inſequendum hoſtem perſeverandimque
curſum tardiora haberent; dieique pars exigua jam e-
Iiqra eſſet: cohortibus equitibuſque circumdatis impe-
rat, ut uno iu contenderent, neque remitterent, donte
ultra ultimos colles hoſtes repuliſſent, atque eorum e
ſent potiti. Itaque ſigno dato, quum jam hoſtes lan- X
guide negligenterque tela mitterent, ſubito immitit ;
cohortes turmaſque ſuorum; atque puncto tempo
hoſlibus nullo negotio campo pulſis poſt coll mque de
jectis, nacti locum, atque ibi paulliſper commorati, it,
ut erant inſlructi, leniter ſe ad ſuas recipiunt munite
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XVIII. Interim ea re geſta, & prœlio dirempto; ex
adverſariis perfugæ plures ex omni hominum genere,
& præterea intercepti hoſtium complures equites pedi-
teſque. Ex quibus cognitum eſt hoſtium conſilium;
eos hac mente & conatu veniſſe, ut, novo atque in-
uſitato genere prœlii, tirones legionariique pauci per-
turbati ; Curionis exemplo, ab equitatu circumvent
opprimerentur: & ita Labienum dixiſſe pro concione z
tantam ſefe multitudinem auxiliorum adverſariis ſubminiſ=
traturum, ut etiam cadendo in iþ/a wittoria fatigati vince-
rentur, atgue @ ſuis ſuperarentur. Quippe qui in illorum
ſibi confideret multitudine; primùm quod audierat Ro-
mæ legiones veteranas diſſentire, neque in Africam
velle tranſire; deinde, quod triennio in Africa ſuos
milites conſuetudine retentos, fideles jam ſibi effeciſ-
ſet; maxima autem auxilia haberet Numidarum equi-
tum, leviſque armaturæ. Præterea ex fuga pralioque
Pompeiano, quos ſecum a Brundifio tranſportaverat,
equites Germanos Galloique, ibique poſtea ex hibridis
libertinis ſerviſque conſcripſerat; armaverat, equoque
t;znato uti condocuerat. Præterea regid auxilia, ele-
phanti xx, equitatizſque innumerabilis: deinde le-
giones, conicriptz ex cujuſquemodi generis amplius xi
milllibus. Hac ſpe atque ea audacia inflammatus La-
bienus; cum equitibus Gallis Germaniſque une, Nu-
midarum fine frænis vitt millibus, præterea Petreiano
auxilio adhibito equitibus mc, peditum ac levis arma-
turz quater tanto, fagittariis ac funditoribus hippoto-
xotiſque compluribus: his coptis, pridie Non. Jan. poſt
diem 111 quam Africam attigit, in campis planiſſimis
puriſhmiſque, ab hora diei quinta uſque ad ſolis oc-
caſum eſt decertatum. Iu eo- proelio Petreius graviter
ictus ex acie receſſit. |
XIX. Cæſar interim caſtra munire diligentids, præ-
ſidia firmare majoribus copiis, valiumque ab oppido
Ruſpina uſque ad mare deducere, & à caltris alterum
evdem; quo tutiùs ultro citr6que commeare, auxilia-
que fine periculo ſibi ſuccurrere poſſent: tela tormen-
taque
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täque ex navibus in caſtra comportare; remigum par-
tem ex claſſe, Gallorum Rhodioramque, epibatarum-
que, armare & in caſtra evocare; uti, $i poſſet, eadem
ratione, qua adverſarn, levis armatura interjecta inter
equites ſuos inter poneretur: ſagittariiſqde ex omnibus
navibus, Itureis, 5yriis, & cujuſque generis ductis in
caſtra compluribus, frequentabat ſuas copias: (audiebat
enim Scipionem poſt diem tertium ejus diei, quo pree-
lium factum erat, appropinquare; copias ſuas cum La-
bieno & Petreio conjungere; cujus copiæ, legionum
VIII & cquitum 1v millium, eſſe nunciabantur) ofl-
einas ſerrarias inſtruere; ſagitta{que, & tela uti fierent
complura, curare; glandes fundere; ſudes comparare;
litteras in Siciliam nunciòſque mittere, ut ſibi crates
materiemque congererent ad arietes, cujus inopia in
Africa eſſet; prætefea ferrum plumbumque mittereter,
Et animum etiam advertcbat, framento ſe in Africa nil
importatitio uti non poſſe: priore enim anno, propter
ad verſariorum delectus, quod ſtipendiarii aratores mi-
lites eſſent facti, meſſem non eſſe factam: preterea cx
omni Africa frumentum adverſarios in pauca oppida &
bene manita comportàaſſe, omnemque regionem Africa
exinaniile frumento: oppida præter pauca quæ ipſi ſuis
præſidiis tueri poterant, reliqua dirui atque delcri; &
eorum incolas intrà ſua præſidia coëgiſſe commigrare;
agros deſertos ac vaſtatos eile, |
XX. Hac neceſſitate Cæſar coactus, privatos ambien-
do & blandè appellando, aliquantulum frumenti no-
merum in ſua præſidia congeſlerat; & eo parce uteba-
tur. Opera interim ipſe quotidie circumire, & altern?s
cohortes in flatione habere, propter hoſtium multitudi-
nem. Eabienus ſaucios ſuos, quorum numerus maxi
mus fuit, jubet in plauſtris deligatos Adrumetum Ce-
orfari, Naves interim Cæſaris onerariz errabundz
:ale vagabantur; incertæ locorum atque caſtrorum ſuo-
rum; quas ſingulas ſcaphæ adverſariorum complore:
adortæ, incenderant atque expugnaverant. Hac re nun-
ciatà Cæſari, claſſes circum inſulas portuſque diſpoluit;
quò tutiùs commeatus ſupportari pollet, ___
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XXI. M. Cato interim, qui Uticz przerat, Cn. Pom-
peium filium multis verbis afſidueque objurgare non de-
ſiſtebat. Tuus, inquit, pater, iſluc ætatis guum ęſſet, S
animadwvertifjet Remp. ab audacibus ſceleratijgue civibus op-
preſſam bono/que aut inter fettos aut exilio multatos patrià
civitateque carere; glorid & animi magnitudine elatus, pri-
vatus atque adoleſcentulus, paterni exerciius reliquiis collectis
pond oppreſſam funditus & deletam [taliam, urbemqgue Ro-
mana in libertatem vinditavit : idemgue Siciliam, Afri-
cam, Numidiam, Mauritaniam, mirabili celeritate armis re-
cepit. Quibus ex rebus ſibi eam dignitatem, que eft per gentes
clariſſima noti{/imaque concitiavit; adoleſcentuluſque- atque .
eques Romanus 1riumphatit. Atque ille, non ita amplis ro-
bus patris geſlis, neque tam excelienti majorum dignitate par-
ta, neque tantis clientelis nomini/que claritate præ ditus, in
Remp. eft ingreſſus e tu contra, & patris nobilitate & digni-
tate, & per te ipſe ſatis animi magnitudine diligentiaque
præditus; nonne eniteris & preficiſceris ad paternas clientelas,
auxilium tibi reigue publice atgue optimo cuique efflagita-
tum? His verbis hominis graviſſimi incitatus adoleſcen-
tulus, cum naviculis — generis xxx, inibi
paucis roſtratis, proſectus ab uticà eſt in Mauritaniam;
regnümque Bogudis eſt ingreſſus: expeditoque exerci-
tu; numero ſervorum, liberorum, 11 millium; cujus
partem inetmem, partem armatam habuerat; ad oppi-
dum Aſcurum accedere cœpit: in quo oppido præſidium
tuit regium. Pompeio adveniente ; oppidani, uſque ed
paſſi propiùs eum accedere, donec ad ipſas portas ac
murum appropinquaret ; ſubitò eruptione factà, pro-
ſtratos perterritoſque Pompeianos in mare paſſim nave(-
que compulerunt. Ita re male geſta, Cn. Pompeius
fl ius naves inde avertit; neque poſtea littus attigit; claſ-
itemque ad inſulas Baleares versùs convertit.
XXII. Scipio interim cum iis copiis, quas paulld ants
Cemonltrayimus, Uticæ grandi præſidio relicto, profec-
tus, primùm Adrumeti caſtra ponit; deinde, ibi paucos
dies commoratus, noctu jitinere facto, cum Petreii &
Labieni copiis ſe, conjungit; atque unis caſtris factis,
111 millia paſſuum longè conſidunt. Equitatus interim
eorum, circum Czſaris munitiones vagari; atque eog,
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354 A HIRTII
qui pabulandi aut aquandi gratia extra vallum pro-
greſſi eſſent, excipere: ita omnes adverſarios intra
munitiones continere. Qua re Cæſariani gravi annona
ſunt conflictati; ideo quod nondum neque ab Sicilia,
neque ab Sardiaia- commeatus ſupportatus erat; neque
per anni tempus in mari claſſes fine periculo vagari
Poterant; neque amplius millia eee, v1 terre Afri-
c quoquo verslis tenebant; pabulique inopia preme-
bantur. Qui neceſſitate coacti, veterani milites equi-
tẽſque, qui multa terra marique , bella conſeciſſent, &
periculis inopiaque tali ſzpe eſlent conflictati; alga e lit-
tore collect, & aqua dulci cluta, & ita jumentis eſurien-
tibus data, vitam eorum producebant.
XXIII. Dum hæc ita fierent; rex Juba, cognitis Cæ-
Faris difficultatibus copiaramque paucitate; non eſt vi-
Jum dari ſpatium convaleſcendi, augendarimque ejus
opum; itaque comparatis equitum mag nis peditumque
copiis, ſubſidio ſuis, egreſſus è regno, ire contendit. P.
Sitius interim & rex Bogud, conjunctis ſuis copiis, cog-
nito regis Jubz egreſſu, propiùs ejus regnum copias ſuas
admovere; Cirtamque oppidum ejus regni opulentifſ-
mum adorti, paucis diebus pugnando capiunt; & præ-
terea duo oppida Gætulorum: quibus quum conditio-
nem ferrent, ut oppido excederent, idque ſibi vacuum
tranſderent; conditionemque repudiſſent ; poſtea ab
eis capti interfectique ſunt omnes. Inde progreſſi, agros
Oppidaque vexare non deſiſtunt. Quibus rebus cognitis,
Juba, quum jam non longe ab Scipione atque ejus du-
Cibus abeſſet, capit confilium ; /atius t febi /uoque regno
Jubſidio ire, ' quam, dum alios adjuturus praſiciſceretur, ij/e
ſuo regno expulſus, forſitan utraque re expellerctur. Itaque
rurſus ſe recepit, atque auxilia ab Scipione etiam abduxit,
ſibi ſuĩſque rebus timens; elephantiſque xxx relitis, ſuis
finibus oppidiſque ſuppetias profectus eſt. |
XXIV. Cæſar, quum de ſuo interim adventu dubita-
tio in provincia eſſet; neque quiſquam crederet ipſum,
Fed aliquem legatum cum copiis in Africam veniſſe;
conſcriptis litteris circùm provinciam, omnes civitates
facit de ſuo adventu certiores. Interim nobiles hom
nes ex ſuis oppidis profugere, & in caſtra Cæſaris de-
venire,
yr: BeLLo Arritcano 355
'venire, & de adverſariorum ejus acerbitate erudelitatẽ-
que commemorare cœperunt: quorum lacrymis quere-
ſiſque Cæſar commotus; quum antea conſtitiſſit in ſta»
tivis caſtris; ſtate inita, cunctis copiis auxiliiſque ac-
citis, bellum cum adverfariis gerere inſtituit ; litteris
celeriter in Siciliam ad Allienum & Rabirium Poſlu-
mum conſcriptis, & per cataſcopum miſſis, ut fine mor
aut ulld excuſatione hyemis ventorumgue, exercitus ſibi
quam celerrimè tranſportaretur : Africam provinciam perire,
fundnufque evertt a ſuis inimicis: quod nifi celeriter ſociis
faret Jubventum ; præter ipſam Africam terram, nihal. ne
tectum quidem, quo ſe reciperent, ab illorum ſcelere infrdti/-
que reliquum futurum. Atque ipſe in tanta erat feſtinas
tione & exſpectatione, ut, poſtero die quam miſiſſet
litteras nunciùmque in Siciliam, claſſem exercitumque
morari diceret; noctes 3 oculos mentemque ad
mare diſpoſitos directõſque haberet. Nec mirum: animad-
vertebat enim villas exuri, agros vaſtari, pecus diri-
pi trucidarique, oppida caſtellãque dirui deſerique, prin»
cipeſque civitatum aut interfict aut in catenis teneri,
liberos eorum obſidum nomine in ſervitutem abripis
us ſe in miſeriis ſuamque fidem implorantibus, auxilio
propter copiarum paucitatem eſſe non poſſe. Milites
interim in opere exercere ; caſtra munire ; turres, ca-
ſtella facere 3 moleſgue jacere in mare, non intermit-
tere. " | |
XXV. Scipio interim elephantos hoc modo. condoces
facere inſtituit. Duas inftruxit acies: unam funditorum
contra elephantos, quæ quaſi adverſariorum locum ob-
Uneret, & contra eorum frontem adverfam lapillos mi-
nutos mitteret: deinde in ordinem elephantos conſtituit z
poſt illos autem aciem ſuam inſtruxit; , quum ab ad-
verſariis lapides mitti cœpiſſent, & elephanti perterriti ſe
ad ſuos convertiſſent, rurſus a ſua acie lapidibus miſlis
eos converterent adversùm hoſtem. Qgod ægre tarde-
que fiebat: rudes enim elephanti, multorum annorum
doctrina usuque vetuſto vix edocti, tamen communi pe-
riculo in aciem producuntur. 5
XXVI. Dum hæc ad Ruſpinam ab utriſque ducibus
zdminiſtrantur: C. Virgilius Prætorius, qui Thapſo ph
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do maritimo præerat; quum ani madvertiſſet naves ſin.
. gulas cum exercitu Cæſaris, incertas locorum atque
caſtrorum ſuorum, vagari; occaſionem nactus, navem,
quam ibi habuit actuariam, complet militibus & ſagit.
tariis: eidem ſcaphas de navibus adjungit; ac ſingulas
naves Cæſarianas conſectari cœpit: &, quum plures
adortus, pulſus fugatuſque inde diſceſſiſſet, nec tamen
deſiſteret periclitari; fortè incidit in navem, in qua
erant duo Titi Hiſpani adoleſcentes, tribuni legionis u,
quorum patrem Cæſar in Senatum legerat; & cum his
J. Salienus,fcenturio legionis ejuſdem; qui M. Meſſa-
lam legatum obſederat Meſſanæ, & ſeditioſiſſimà ora-
tione apud eum eſt uſus; idemque & pecuniam & or-
namenta triumphi Cæſaris retinenda & cuſtodienda
curaverat; & ob has cauſas time bat ſibi. Hie, propter
conſcientiam peccatorum ſuorum, perſuaſit adoleſcenti-
bus, ne repugnarent, ſeleque Virgilio tranſderent. Ita-
que deducti a Virgilio ad Scipionem, cuſtodibus tranſ-
diti, & poſt diem 111 ſunt interfecti. Qui quum duce-
rentur ad necem; petiſſe dicitur major Titus a centu-
rionibus, uti ſe priorem, quam fratrem, interficerent;
idque ab eis fagle impeträſſe, atque ita eſſe inter-
fectos. > tit n £
XXVII. Turmæ interim equitum, quæ pro vallo in
ſtationibus eſſe ſolebant, ab utriſque ducibus quotidie
minutis prœliis inter ſe pugnare non intermittunt : none
numquam etiam Germani Gallique Labieniani, cum
Cæſaris equitibus, \fide data, inter ſe colloquebantur,
Labienus interim cum parte equitatùs Leptim oppidum,
cui præerat Saſerna cum cohortibus 111, oppugnare ac
vi irrumpere conabatur: quod ab defenſoribus, propter
egregiam moni em oppidi, & tormentorum multitu-
dinem, facile & fine periculo defendebatur. Quod vb!
ejus facere equitatus ſæpius non intermittebat; & quum
forte ante portam turma denſa adſtitiſſet: ſcorpione
accuratiùs miſſo, atque eorum decurione percuſſo, & ad
terram defixo; reliqui perterriti, fuga ſe in caſtra re-
cipiunt. Quo fatto, poſtea ſunt deterriti oppidum ten-
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XXVIII. Scipio interim fere quotidie non longe ab
ſais caſtris paſſibus cc inſtruere actem, ac, majore
diei parte conſumpta, rurſus ſe in caſtta recipere. Quod
quum ſæpius fieret; neque ex Cæſaris caſtris quiſquam
prodiret, neque propiùs ejus copias accederet: deſpectà
patientia Cæſaris exereitũſque ejus, univerſis copiis pro-
ductis, elephantiſque turritis xxx ante aciem inſtruc-
tis, quam latiſimè potuit porretta equitum pedi-
timque multitudine, uno tempore progreſſus, haud
ita longè a Cæſaris caſtris conſtitit in campo. Quibus
rebus cognitis, Cæſar jubet milites, qui extra munitio-
nes proceſſerant, quique pabulandi aut lignandi aut
etiam muniendi gratia vallum petierant, quzque ad
eandem rem opus erant, omnes intra munitiones minu-
tatim modeſteque fine tumultu aut terrare ſe recipere,
atque in opere conſiſtere; equitibus autem, qui in ſta-
tione fuerant, præcipit, ut uſque eo locum obtinerent,
in quo paullò antè conſtitiſſent, donec ab hoſte miſſum
telum ad ſe perveniret ; quod f1 propi ùs accederetur,
quam honeſtiſſimè ſe intra munitiones reciperent. Alii
quoque equitatui edicit, uti ſuo quiſque loco paratus
armatuſque præſtò eſſet. At hæc non ipſe per ſe co-
ram, quum de vallo perſpecularetur, fed, mirabili peri-
tus ſcientia bellandi, in prætorio ſedens, per ſpeculato-
rcs & nuncios imperabat, quz fieri volebat. Animad-
vertebat enim, quamquam magnis eſſent copiis adver-
ſarii freti ; tamen ſæ pe a ſe fugatis, pulſis, perterritiſque,
& conceſſam vitam & ignota peccata: quibus rebus
numquam tanta ſuppeteret, ex ipſorum inertia conſci-
entiaque animi, victoriæ fiducia, ut caſtra ſua adoriri
auderent. Præterea ipſius nomen auQtoritaſque, magna
ex parte, eorum exercitùs minuebat audaciam. Tum
Jegregiæ munitiones caſtrorum, & valli foſſarümque al-
titudo, & extra vallum ſtyli cæci mirabilem in modum
Nconfiti, vel fine de fenſoribus aditum adverſariis prohi-
bebant. Scorpionum, catapultarum, cæterorümque te-
Forum, quæ ad defendendum ſolent parari, magnam co-
iam habebat. Atque hæc, propter exercitas ſui præ-
atis paucitatem & tirociaium, præparaverat; non
volium vi & metu commotus patientem fe timidüm-
que
*
paelſint : ſe & frumentum & quæcumque res eis ſuppetert,
358 A. HI RTI.
que hoſtium opinioni præbebat. Neque idcirco copia
(quamquam erant paucz tironũmque) non educebat
in aciem, quod victoriæ ſuorum diffideret ; ſed referrs i
arbitrabatur, cujuſmodi victoria eſſet futura: ture
enim ſibi exiſtimabat, tot rebus geſtis, tantiſque exerci. Mi
tibus devictis, tot tam claris „Aoris partis; ab rell.
quis coptis adverſaricrum ſuorum ex fuga colleQis, :
cruentam adeptum exiſtimari victoriam. Itaque con- 2
ſtituerat gloriam exſultationemque eorum pati, donee
fibi veteranarum legionum pars aliqua in ſecundo con-.
meatu occurriſſet.
XXIX. Scipio interim paulliſper, ut ante dixi, in eo
loco commoratus, ut quaſi deſpexiſſe Cæſarem videre.
tur; paullatim reducit ſuas copias in caſtra, &, con.
cione advocatà, de terrore ſuo deſperationẽque exerci.
tis Cæſaris verba facit; &, cohortatus ſuos, victorian Ml
propriam ſe eis brevi daturum pollicetur. Cæſar jube
milites rurſus ad opus redire; &, per cauſam munitio-
num, tirones in labore defatigare non intermittit
Interim Numide Gztulique diffugere quotidie ex d.
ſtris Scipionis; &, partim in regnum ſe conferre;
partim, quod ipſi majoreſque eorum beneficio C. Mz
rii uſi fuiſſent, Cæſarẽmque ejus affinem eſſe audie.
bant, in ejus caſtra perfugere catervatim non intermit-
tunt. Quorum ex numero electos homines, illuitriore
Gætulos, litteris ad ſuos cives datis, cohortatus, ut m
acta ſe ſuoſgue defenderent, Q ne ſuis inimicis adverſarial
gue ditto audientes nut, mittit.
XXX. Dum hæc ad Ruſpinam fiunt ; legati ex Aci
ja civitate libera, etiam undique, ad Cæſarem veniunt;
ſeque paratos, quecunque imperifſet, & libenti anims fac
ruros pollicentur: tantum orare & petere ab eo, ut fi
præſidium daret, quo tutins id & fine periculo fac
cemmunis ſalutis gratia ſubminiſtraturos. Quibus rebus f.
eile a Cæſare impetratis, przſidioque dato; C. Mef.
um, ædilitià funtum poteſtate, Acillam jubet profo
ſi, Quibus rebus cognitis; Conſidius Longus, qu
Adrumeti cum 11 legionibus & equitibus pcc prxer
celeriter, ibi parte præſidii relita, cum viii my |
C 4
*
* -
—
,
pt: BELLO AFRICANO. 339
3 ;
= A cillam ire contendit. Mefliue, celeriùs itinere con-
ao, prior Acillam cum cohortibus pervenit. Con-
adios interim, quum ad urbem cum copiis acceſſiſſet
animadvertiſſet præſidium Cæſaris ibi eſſe; non auſus
ecriculo ſao rem facere, nulla re geſta pro multitudine
ominum, rurſus Adrumetum fe recipit: deinde paucis
old diebus, equeſtribus copiisa Labieno adductis, rurſus
WA cillanos caſtris poſitis obfidere cœpit.
XXXI. Per id tempus C. Salluſtius Criſpus, quem
daucis ante diebus miſſum a Cæſare cum claſſe demon-
W'ravimus, Cercinam pervenit. Cujus adventu, C.
Wecimias quæſtorius, qui ibi cum grandi familiz ſuæ
reſidio præerat commeatui, parvulum navigium nac-
Ius conſcendit, ac ſe fugæ commendat. Salluſtius in-
rim prætor à Cereinnatibus receptus, magno numero
umenti invento, naves onerarias, quarum ibi ſatis
agna copia fuit, complet, atque in caſtra ad Cæſa-
m mittit. Allienus interim proconſul è Lilybæo in
Waves onerarias imponit legiones x111 & xiv, & equi-
es Gallos pccc, funditorum ſagittariorümque mille;
Wc ſecundum commeatum in Africam mittit ad Cæſa-
m: quæ naves, ventum ſecundum nactæ, iv die in
ortum ad Ruſpinam, ubi Cæſar caſtra habuerat, inco-
mes pervenerunt. Ita Cæſar duplici lztitia ac vo-
ptate uno tempore auctus, frumento auxiliiſque;
ndem, ſuis exhilaratis, annonaque levata, ſollicitudĩnem
ponit; legiones equitẽſque ex navibus egreſſos, jubet
languore nauſeaque reficere ; dimiſſos in caſtella
unitioneſque diſponit. |
XXXII. Quibus rebus Spicio, quique cum eo eſſent
2 mites, mirari & requirere. C. Cæſarem, qui ultro
ſl nſucſſet bellum inferre ac laceſſere prœlio, ſubitd
i 2 utatum non fine magno conſilio ſuſpicabantur.
rave ejus patientia in magnum timorem conjecti;
; fr Gætulis duos, quos arbitrabantur ſuis rebus amiciſ-
ef- os, magnis præmiis pollicitationibuſque propoſitis,
oc, perfugis ſpeculandi gratia in Cæſaris caſtra mit-
uf t: qui ſimul ad eum ſunt deducti, petierunt, ut fibi
em ret une periculo verba proloqui. Poteſtate facta:
cores, inquiunt, Imperator, complures Gætuli, qui ſu-
mus,
: | .
K. HA
mus chentes C. Marii, & propemodum omnes cive; Ni.
mani, qui ſunt in legione 1v & viz ad te woluimus, in tu
gue præſidia confugere : fed cuſtodiis equitum Numidarun,
guo id fine: periculo minus faceremus, impediebamur. Nan,
| data facultate, pro ſpeculatoribus miſſi a Scipione, ad te d.
pidiffime vrnimus ; ut perſpiceremus, num que feſſee aut in-
fidice elepbantis ante caſtra portaſpue alli ent fate; f.
anulque conſilia veſtra contra ea/dem beſlias, comparationins
1 pug ner cegnaſceremus, atque ei renunciaremus. Qui col.
" —— a Cæſare, ſtipendiõque donati, ad reliquos per.
| fugas deducuntur. Quorum orationem celeriter verity
comprobavit: namque poſtero die ex legionibus iis, qua
Gætuli nominaverunt, milites legionarii complures |
Scipione in caſtra Cæſaris profugerunt.
XXXIII. Dum hæc ad Ruſpinam geruntur; M. Ca
to, qui Uticæ præerat, delectus quotidie libertinorun,
Afrorum, ſervorum denique & cujuſquemodi genen
hominum, qui modo per ætatem arma ferre poteran, i
habere, atque ſub manum Scipionis in caſtra tubmit. Wl
tere, non intermittit. - Legati interim ex oppido Ti. WM
drz, in quo tritici modiùm millia cce comportata fl
erant à negotiatoribus Italicis aratoribaſque, ad Cz War
rem venere; quantaque copia frumenti apud ſe ſit, do
cent; ſimulque orant, ut ſibi præſidium mittat, qui
facilids & frumentum & copiæ ſuz conſerventur. G
bus Cæſar in preſentia gratias agit, præſidiümque bie
vi tempore ſe miſſurum dixit; cohortatuſque, ad ſeo
cives jubet proſficiſci. P. Sitius interim cum copllz
Numidiz fines ingreſſus; caſtello in monte loco mui
nito locato, in quod Juba belli gerendi gratia & fi
mentum & res cæteras, quæ ad bellum uſui ſolent ei
| = comportaverat, vi expugnando eſt potitus. |
XXXIV. Cæſar, poſtquam legionibus veteranis
equitatu, levique armatura, copias ſuas ex ſecundo con
meatu auxerat; naves vi onerarias ſtatim jubet Lili
[| bæum, ad reliquum-exercitum tranſportandum, prof
|| ſci : ipſe v1 Kal. Febr. circiter vigilia- prima impemꝶ
ſpeculatores apparitoreſque omnes ut ſibi præſto een
1 Itaque, omnibus inſciis, neque ſuſpicantibus, vg
[ tertia jubet omnes legiones ex caſtris educi, age! „.
Ih | cone
. FL
. =
ee
14
- - — =
.
pt BELLO Arien o. 261
conſequi ad oppidum Ruſpinam versds, in quo ipſe
præſidium habuit. & quod primum ad amicitiam ejus
acceſſit : inde parvulam proclivitatem digreſſus, ſiniſtrà
parte campi, propter mare legiones ducit, Hic cam-
Joos mirabili planitie patet millia paſſuum xv; quem
ogum ingens A mari ortum, neque ita præaltum, velut
WW: heatri efficit ſpeciem. - In hoc jugo colles ſunt excelfi
Wpauci; in quibus ſingulæ turres, ſpeculæque ſingula
Iperveteres, erant collocatæ; quarum apud ultimam
ra fdium & ſtatio fuit Scipionis.
cv. Poſtquam Cæſar ad jugum, de quo docui,
; WE -cndit; atque in unumquemque collem turres caſtel-
ae facere cœpit; atque ea minus ſemihora effecit ;
We: pofiquam non ita longe ab ultimo colle turrique
„ai, quz proxima fuit caſtris adverſariorum; in qua
ocui eſſe præſidium ſtationẽmque Numidarum: paul-
iſper commoratus, perſpectaque natura loci, equitatu
n ſtatione diſpoſito, legionibus opus attribuit; brachi-
Winque medio jugo, ab eo loco ad quem pervenerat,
due ad eum unde egreſſus erat, jubet dirigi 2c muni-
. Quod poſtquam Scipio Labienũſque animadverte-
pnt; equitatu omni ex caſtris educto, aciẽque equeſtii
iſtructa, a ſuis munitionibus circiter paſſus mille pro-
rediuntur; pedeſttèẽmque copiam in ſecundã acie, mi-
us paſſus cÞ a caſtris ſuis, conflituunt,
XXXVI. Cæſar in opere milites adhortari, neque
uverſariorum copiis moveri, Jam quum non amplius-
aſſuum MD inter hoſtium aciem ſuaſque munitiones
ie animadvertiſſet; intellexiſletque ad impedien dos
Ilites ſuos, & ab opere depellendos, hoſtem propius
cedere; neceſſẽque haberet legiones a munitionibus
ducere: imperat turmæ Hiſpanorum, ut ad pioxi-
um collem properè occurrerent, præſidiùmque inde
turbarent, lockmque caperent; eodemque jubet levis
L ature paucos conſequi ſubſidio: qui mifii celeriter,
um idas adorti, partim vivos capiunt, nonnullos equi-
lugientes convulneraverunt; locõque ſunt potiti.
quam id Labienus animadvertit; quo celerids iis
lium ferret, ex acie inſtruta equitatüs ſui props
um dextrum corny avertit, atque ſuis fugicntibus
R ſu p-
362 A. HHR TT
ſuppetias ire contendit. Quod ubi Cæſar conſpexit
Labienum ab ſuis copiis longiùs jam abſceſſiſſe; equi.
tatiis ſui alam finiſtram ad intercludendos hoftes in.
miſit. |
XXXVII. Erat in eo campo, ubi ea res gerebatur,
villa permagna, iv turribus exſtructa, quæ Labiej
proſpectum impediebat, ne poſlet -animadvertere a M
equitatu Cæſaris ſe intercludi. Itaque non priùs vidt Wl
turmas Julianas, quam ſuos cædi a tergo ſenſit: ex qui i
re ſubitd in terrorem converſo equitatu Numidarun Wl
re; in caſtra fugere contendit. Galli Germaniqu Wl
qui reſtiterant, ex ſuperiore loco & poſt tergum cir. Wl
cumventi, fortiterque reſiſtentes, conciduntur univer{,
Quod ubi legiones Scipionis, quæ pro caſtris erant in.
ſlructæ, animadverterunt; metu ac terrore obcxcatz
omnibus portts in ſua caſtra fugere cœperunt. Poles, Wl
Scipione ejufque copiis campo collibuſque exturbatis
atque in caſtra compulſis; quum receptui Cæſar can
juſſiſſet, equitatümque omnem intra ſuas munitiones rc.
cepiſſet; campo purgato, animadvertit mirifica corporu Wl:
Gallorum Germanorumque, qui partim ejus audtorit» Wl
tem erant ex Gall:a ſecuti, partim pretio pollicitationi Wn
butque adducti ad eum fe contulerant ; nonnulli, qu
ex Curionis prœlio capti conſervatique, parem gratianl
in fide partienda præſtare voluerant: horum corpor, Wl
mirific ſpecie amplitudineque, caſa toto campo, i
proltrata diverse jacebant. . 1
XXXVIII. His rebus geſtis, poſtero die Cæſar ei
omnibus præſidiis cohortes deducit, atque omnes (ul
copias in campo inſtruxit: Scipio, ſuis male accept
occiſis, vulneratiſque, intra ſuas continere ſe mung
ones cœpit. Cæſar, inſtructà acie, ſecundum infimd 4
jugi radices propiùs munitiones leniter acceſſit. Jan
que minus mille paſſuum ab oppido Uzita, quod vB
pio tenebat, aberant legiones Julianæ; quum Scipumy
veritus ne oppidum amitteret, unde aquari reliq ui
rebus ſublevari ejus exercitus conſueverat; edyctis 0
nibus copiis, quadruplici acie inſtructa, ex inſtituto i
prima equeſtri turmatim directa, elephantiſque tor"
ipterpoſitis armatiſque, ſuppetias ire contendit. WY
-
"vt BELLo Arricano, 363
ubi Cæſar animadvertit ; arbitratus Scipionem ad di-
micandum paratum, ad ſe certo animo venire : in eo
loco, quo paulld ante commemoravi, ante oppidum
conſtitit; * aciem mediam eo oppido texit:
aextrum ſiniſtrümque cornu, ubi elephanti erant, in
conſpettu patenti adverſariorum conſtituit. |
= XXXIX. Quum jam prope Solis occaſum Cæſar ex-
Wſpectaviſſet ; neque ex eo loco, quo conſtiterat, Scipio-
oem progredi propitis fe animadvertiſſet; locõque ma-
is ſe detendere, fi res coëgiſſet, quam in campo co-
Wninus conſiſtere, audere: non eſt viſa ratio propius
ccedendi eo die ad oppidum ; quoniam ibi præſidium
ande Numidarum eſſe cognoverat, hoſtéſque mediam
Wciem ſuam oppido texiſſe; fibique difficile factu eſſe
ntellexit, ſimul & oppidum uno tempore oppugnare,
& in acie in cornu dextro ac ſiniſtro ex iniquiore loco
ue
Its
Tl,
It
Ne,
den
11, ognare; præſertim, quum milites a mane diei jejuni
ca ub armis ſtetiſſent defatigati. Itaque reductis ſuis co-
e. is in caſtra, poſtero die propiùs eorum aciem inſtituit
pon porrigere munitiones.
ri XL. Interim Confidins, qui Acillam & vit cohor-
001 s ſtipendiarias Numidis Gætuliſque obſidebat, ubi C.
qu, leſſus cohortibus præerat; diu multümque expertus,
120 agniſque operibus ſæpe admotis, & iis ab oppidanis
po, cenſis, quum proficeret nihil ; ſubito nuncio de eque-
0, i proflio allato commotus ; frumento, cujus in caſtris
piam habuerat, incenſo; vino, oleo, cæteriſque re-
ar eis, quæ ad victum parari ſolent, corruptis : Acillam,
nem obſidebat, deſeruit: atque, itinere per regnum
est be facto, copias cum Scipione partitus Adrumetum
unit recepit. |
bm XA L1. Interea ex ſecundo commeatu, quem à Sicilia
Jan erat Allienus, navis una, in qua fuerat Q. Comini-
+ S & L. Ticida eques Romanus, ab reiidea claſſe quum
cpo riet, delatäque eſſet vento ad Thapſum; à Virgi-
ige =_ {caphis naviculiſque actuariis excepta eſt, & ad Sci-
13 00 nem deducta. Item altera navis triremis ex eadem
ut fe errabunda, ac tempeſtate ad Egimurum delata,
cor? lade Vari & M. Octavii eſt capta; in qua milites
rani cum uno centurione, & nannulli tirones fue-
R 2 rust:
(Q 1
364 A. Hra mi I
runt: quos Varus aſſervatos ſine contumelia deducen-
dos curavit ad- Scipionem. Qui poſtquam ad eum per-
venerunt, & ante ſuggeſtum ejus conſtiterunt; Non we/-
#ra, inquit, /ponte vos, certo ſcio, ſed illius ſeelerati veſtri
imperatoris impulſu & imperio coactos, cives & optimum
guemgue nefarie conſectari: guos quoniam fortuna in noſtram
detulit poteſtatem; ſi, id quod facere debetis, Rempublican
cum optimoquegue defenditis, certum eff vobis vitam & po-
cuniam donare. Quapropter, quid ſentiatis proloquimini,
Hac habita oratione Scipio, quum exiſtimàſſet pro ſuo
beneſicio fine dubio ab lis gratias ſibi actum iri, poteſ-
te tem 1is dicendi fecit. Ex eis centurio legionis x1v
Pro tuo, inquit, ſummo benejicio, Scipio, tibi grutias ags,
(uon enim imperatorem te appello) guod mibi vitam incilu-
mutattmgue beili jure capto polliceris : 5 forjan iſto uterer
' beneficio,. fi non ei ſummum ſcelus adjungeretur. . Egine con-
tra Ca, ſarem imperatorem meum, apud guem ordinem duxi;
ejuſque exercitum, pro cijus dignitate vidoriaque ampltii
XXXVI Anuos acfiugnali ; edverſus armaiu/que can!
Neque ego iftud fatturus ſum; & te magnopere, ut de negotia
arfaftas, adbortor. Contra cujus enim cojias contendas, ,
minus antea expertus es, licet nunc cognoſcas, Vlige ex tuts
cohortem unam, quam putas te firmiffimam i & conſtitue
contra me : ego autem ex meis cmmilitonibus, quos nunc in
tug tenes pottſiaie, non amplius x ſumam : tunc ex virtue
noſirg intelliges, quid ex tuis copiis ſperare debeas, Poſt-
quam hc centurio præſenti animo adversus opinionem
tj us eſt locutus; ira percitus Scipio, atque animi dolore
incenſus, annuit centurionibus, quid fieri vellet: atque
ante pedes centurionem interficit; reliquoſque, veteranos
A tironibus jubet ſecerni. Abdacite, inquit, Ie nefario
Jetlere coutaminato;, & cade civium ſaginatos, Sic extra
vallum deducti ſunt, & cruciabiliter interfecti. Tirones
autem jubet inter legiones diſpertiri: & Cominium cum
Ticida in conſpectum ſuum prohibet adduci. Qua ex
re Cælar commotus; eos, quos in ſtationibus cum lou-
is navibus apud Thapſum, cuſtodiæ causa, in falo eſſe
juſſerat; ut ſais onerariis longiſque navibus præſidio
eſſent; ob negligentiam, ignominiæ causa dimittendos
ab exercitu, graviſimumque in eos edictum n,
dum cutavit. :
"vx: BrLLo Ar RIAN o. 36,
XLII. Per id tempus fere Cæſaris exercitui res acci-
dit incredibilis auditu: namque, Virgiliarum figno
confe&o, circiter vigilia {ecunda noctis, nimbns cam
ſaxea grandine ſubito eſt exortus ingens. Ad hoc au-
tem incommod um acceſſerat, quod Cæſar non, more
ſuperiorum imperatorum, in hybernis exercitum conti«
nebat: ſed in tertio quart6que die procedendo, propi-
iſque hoſtem accedendo, caſtra communiebat; opere-
que faciendo, milites ſe circumſpiciendi non habebant
facultatem. Præterea ita ex Sicilia exercitum tranſpor-
taverat, ut, præter ipſum militem & arma, neque vas
neque mancipium neque ullam rem, quæ uſu militi eſſe
conſvevit, in naves imponi pateretur: in Africa autem,
non modò fibi quidquam non acquiſierant aut parave-
rant ; fed etiam, propter annonæ caritatem, ante parata
conſumpſerant. Quibus rebus atrenuati, oppido per-
quam pauci ſub pellibus acquieſcebant : reliqui, ex
veſtimentis tentoriolis factis, atque arundinibus ſcopiſ-
que contextis, permanebant. Itaque, ſubito imbre
grandineque conſecuta, gravati pondere, tenebris aqua -
que omnes ſubruti disjectique, note intempeſta, igni-
bus extinctis, rebuſque ad victum pertinentibus omni-
bus corruptis, per caſtra paſſim vagabantur, ſeutiſque
capita contegebant. Eidem nocte, v legionis pilorum
cacumina ſva ſponte arſerunt. |
XLIII. Rex interim Juba de equeſtri preelio Scipionis
certior factus, evocatuſque ab eodem litteris: præfecte
dabura, cum parte exercitũs, contra Sitium relicto; ut,
quum ipſe aliquid auctoritatis haberet, exercitus Sci-
pionis à terrore Cæſaris liberaretur; cum 111 legioni-
bus, equittbuſque frenatis pccc, Numidis fine trenis,
peditibuſque levis armaturz grandi numero, elephantiſ-
que xxx, egreſſus è regno, ad Scipionem eſt profectus.
Foſtquam ad eum pervenit; caſtris regiis ſeorſum poſi-
tis, cum eis copiis, quas commemoravi, haud ita longè
ab Scipione conſedit. (Erat in caſtris Czſaris ſuperiori
tempore magnus terror; &, exſpectatione copiarum
regiarum, exercitus ejus magis ſuſpenſiore animo ante
adrentum Jubæ commovebatur: poſtquam vero caſtra
caſtris contulit; deſpectis ejus copiis, omnem terrorem
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deponit: ita quam antea abſens habuerat auctoritatem,
eum omnem præſens dimiſerat.) Quo facto, facile fun
intellectu, Scipioni additum animum fiduciamgque regis
adventu: nam poſtero die univerſas ſuas regiſque copia
cum elephantis Lx productas in aciem, quam ſpecio-
ſiſime potuit, inſtruxit; ac paulld longiùs progreſſus 3
fois munitienibus, haud ita diu commoratus fe recepit
in caſtra,
XLIV. Cæſar, poſtquam animadvertit Scipioni auxi-
lia fere, quæ exſpectaſſet, omnia conveniſſe; neque
moram pugnandi ullam fore; per jugum ſummum cun
eop1iis progredi cœpit; & brachia protinus ducere, &
caſtella munire, propiuſque Scipionem capiendo loc
excelſa occupare contendit. Adverſarii, magnitudine
copiarum confifi, proximum collem occupaverunt; a.
que ita longiùs ſibi progrediendi eripuerunt facultatem,
Ejuſdem collis occupandi gratia, Labienus conſiliun
ce perat; &, quo propiore loco fuerat, eo celeriùs 0c
currerat, Erat convallis ſatis magna latitudine, altitu-
dine prærupta, crebris locis ſpeluncæ in modum ſubru-
tis; quz erant tranſgredienda Cæſari ante, quam ad
eum collem, quem capere volebat, perveniretur : ultra-
que eam convallem olivetum vetus crebris arboribu
condenſum. Hic quum Labienus animadvertiſſet Cz-
ſarem, fi vellet eum locum occupare, prius neceſſe ell
convallem olivetumque tranſgredi; eorum locorum pe.
ritus, in inſidiis cum parte equitatas levique armaturs
conſedit: & præterea poſt montem colleſque, equites it
occulto collocaverat ; ut, quum ipſe ex improviſo legi
onarios adortus eſſet, ex colle ſe equitatus oſtenderet;
& re duplici perturbatus Czſar, ejuſque exercitus, te.
ue retro regrediundi neque ultra procedendi oblata
acultate, circumventus concideretur, Cæſar, equitati
ante præmiſſo, inſcius inſidiarum, quum ad eum locun
veniſſet; abuſi ſive obliti præceptorum Labieni, ſit
veriti ne in foſsa ab equitibus opprimerentur, rari &
ſinguli de rupe prodire & ſumma petere collis: quo
Cæſaris equites conſecuti, partim interfecerunt, pati
vivorum ſunt potiti: deinde protinus collem peteꝶ
pre{idi
ite
contenderunt; atque eum, decuſſo Labieni
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DE Beilto Arkicand, 367
teleriter occnpaverunt. Labienus, cum parte equitum,
vix fugã ſibi peperit ſalutem. .
XLV. Hac re per equites geſta, Cæſar legionibus
opera diſtribuit; atque in eo colle, quo erat potitus,
medium campum, è reg1one oppidi Uzitæ, (quod, inter
ſua caſtra & Scipionis, in planitie poſitum erat, tene-
batürque a Sciptone) duo brachia'inftituit duci, & ita
erigere, ut ad angulum dextrum ſiniſtrümque ejus op-
pidi convenirent, Id hac ratione opus inſtruebat, ut,
quam propiùs oppidum copias admoviſſet, oppugnare-
. que cœpiſſet; tecta latera ſuis munitionibus haberet, ne,
n ab equitatus multitudine circumventus, ab oppugna-
g tione deterreretur : præterea, quo facilids cqlloquia fieri
8 poſſent, &, ſi qui perfugere vellent, (id quod antea ſæpè
: accidebat magno cum eorum periculo) tum facile &
« ſine periculo fieret. Voluit etiam experiri, quum pro-
4 pius hoſtem acceſſiſſet, haberetne in animo dimicare.
Accedebat etiam ad reliquas cauſas, qudd is locus de-
„preſſus erat, puteique ibi nonnulli ſieri poterant: aqua-
one enim longa & anguſta utebatur. Dum hæc opera,
, A gue ante dixi, fiebant à legionibus ; interim pars acie
ante opus inftrufta ſub hoſte ſtabat. Equites barbari
| 4 armaturz, prœliis minutis cominus dimica-
dant.
, XLVI, Czfar ab eo opere quum jam ſub veſperum
i WS <opias in caſtra reduceret; magno incurſu, cum omni
1 WY <4 uitatu levique armatura, Juba, Scipio, Labienus, in
i, £quites impetum fecerunt. Equites Cæſariani, vi uni-
re ſubitzque hoſtium multitudinis pulſi, parumper
„ Leſſerunt. Qua res aliter adverſariis cecidit: 3
1; WY -x#lar, ex medio itinere copiis reductis, equitibus ſuis
u auxilium tulit; equites autem, adventu legionum animo
n addito, converſis equis, in Numidas cupide inſequentes
i © perſoſque impetum fecerunt ; atque eos convulnera-
os uſque in caſtra regia repulerunt, multöſque ex iis
Yb i<rfecerunt: quod ni in noctem prœlium eſſet conjec-
num, pulviſque vento flatus omnium proſpectu offeciſ-
m let; Juba cum Labieno capti, in poteſtatem Cæſaris
„eniſſent; equitatuſque cum levi armatura funditus ad
te | R 4 inten-
caſtra munivit. Deinde ab ſuis maximis caſttis, per
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ones pervenire: itemque equites
Pioni ejuſque copiis, complures ſe eodem conferebant,
' magis in ſeditione concitandi milites adversus drum in
X HI T1
internecionem deletus eſſet. Interim ineredibiliter ei
legionibus 1v & v1 Scipionis milites diffugere, partin
in caſtra Cæſaris, partim in quas quiſque poterat regi
Guridniarh, diffiſi Sci.
XLVII. Dum hec circum Uaitam ab utriſque duci 7
bus adminiſtrantur; legiones duæ, 1x & x, ex Sicilii |
nayibus onerariis profectæ, quum jam non longe à pom
Ruſpinæ abeſſent, conſpicatæ naves Cæſarianas, quæ h
Ratione. apud Thapſum ſtabant; veriti, ne in adveſzr.
orum, ut inſidiandi gratia ibi commorantium, claſſen
inciderent; imprudentes vela in altum dederunt: 2
diu multùmque jaftati, tandem multis poſt diebus, fu
anopiaque confecti, ad Cæſarem pervenerunt. kx
XLV III. Quibus legionibus ex poſitis: memor in la
Jia priſtine licentiz militaris, ac rapinarum certorunſ
bominum; parvulam medo cauſulam nactus Czia,
.eu0d C. Avienus tribunus militum decimæ legion
navem commeatu, familia ſoa, atque jumentis occup-
viſſet, neque militem unum ab Sicilia ſuſtuliſſet; poſten
die de ſuggeſtu, convocatis omnium legionum trib ui
centurionibuſque ; Maxim? wellem, inquit, bomi nes g
Fetulantiæ nimiagque libertatis aliguande finem fecifſnt;
meegue lenitatis, modeſtiæ, patientiægue, rationem bali
ſent; ſed, guoniam if ſi ſibi negue modum negue terminum ci
fitaunt ; qua ceteri diſſimililer /e gerant, egomet iþ/e diu
27. , . 11
mentum more militari conſtituam. C. Awiene; quod i
Tralid milites populi Romani contra rempublicam in/tigaji
rapina/que per municipia fæciti; quodgue mi bi reigque rl
anutilis fuiſti; & pro militibus tuam familiam junen! un
in naves impoſuiſti; tuaque opera militibus tempore neceſſ!l
reſpublica caret; ab eas res, ignominiæ causd, ab excrall
neo te removes: hoditque ex Africa abeſfſe, &, quoniul
poteft, proficiſei jubeo. ltemgue te, A. Fontei, quid tribum
militum ſeditieſus, malu/que civis fuiſit; ab exercitu dim
7. Saliene, M. Tiro, C. Cluſinas; guum or dines in neo uf 5
ercitu beneficio, non wvirtute, conſecuti, ita vos git
neque bello fortes, negue pace boni aut utiles fueritis;|
ratorem, quam pudoris modefiieque fueritis .
4 14 |
1h
pe BeLLo AFRICAN O. 369
dige v arbitror, qui in meo exercitu ordines ducatis 3
m:oſque facio, &, quantum poteft, abeſſe ex Africa jubeo.
Itaque tranſdidit eos centurionibus; & ſingulis non
ampliùs ſingulis additis ſervis, in navi imponendos ſe-
paratim curavit.
| XLIX. Gwetali interim perfugz, quos cum litteris
mandatiſque à Cæſare miſſos ſupra docuimus, ad ſuos
WS cives perveniunt: quorum auctoritate facile adducti,
-
SS Czſariſque/ nomine perſuaſi, a rege Juba deſciſcunt ;
WS celerirerque cuncti arma capiunt ; contraque regem fa-
cere non dubitant. Quibas rebus cognitis: Juba diſ-
x tentus triplici bello, neceffirate coactus; de ſuis copiis,
WS quas contra Cæſarem adduxerat, vr cohortes in fines
WS regni ſui mittit, que eſſent præſidio contra Gætulos.
I. Cæſar brachiis per fectis, promotiſque uſque eo,
in ut telum ex oppido adjici non poſſet; caftra munit.
a WS Baliſtis ſcorpionibuſque crebris ante frontem caſtrorum
contraque oppidum, collocatis ; defenſores muri deter-
rere non intermittit : eõque v legiones ex ſuperioribus
caſtris deducit. Qua facultate oblata ; illuſtriores
notiſſimique, conſpectum amicorum propinquorumque
efagitabant, atque inter ſe colloquebantur. Quæ res
quid utilitatis haberet, Cæſarem non fallebat, Nam-
que Gætuli ex equitatu regio nobiliores, equitimque
præfecti; quorum patres cum Mario ante meruerant,
ejulque beneficio agris fnibuſque donati, poſt Sullæ
victoriam ſub Hiempſalis regis erant poteſtate dati;
occaſione capta, nocte jam luminibus accenſis, cum
Wequis calonibuſque ſuis circiter mille perfugiunt in Cæ-
Jaris caſtra, quæ erant in campo proxime Uzitz locata,
LI. Quod poſtquam Scipio, quique cum eo erant,
ognoverunt; quum commoti ex tali incommodo eſ-
ent, fere per id tempus M. Aquinium cum C. Saſernaà
olloquentem viderunt. Scipio mittit ad Aquinium,
l altinere eum cum adverſariis collagui. Quum nihilo
inds cjus ſermonem nuncius ad fe referret ; reſtarét-
We, ut reliqua, quæ vellet, perageret ; viator poſtea
| Y Juba ad eum eſt miſſus, qui diceret, audiente Safer-
45 Velat te rex colloqui. Quo nuncio perterritus, diſ-
elit; & dicto audiens fuit regi. Uſa veniſſe hoc civi
R 5 Ro-
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Romano miror, & ei, .qui a Populo Romano honorez
accepiſſet; incolumi patria, fortuniſque omnibus, ſubæ
barbaro potiùs obedientem fuiſſe, quam aut Scipionis
obtemperaſſe nuncio, aut, cæſis ejuſdem partis civibus,
incolumem reverti malle. Atque etiam ſuperbius jubz
factum, non in M. Aquinium, hominem novum, par-
vuͤmque ſenatorem; ſed in Scipionem, hominem il};
familia, dignitate, honoribüſque præſtantem: nam,
quum Scipio ſagulo purpureo ante regis adventum uti
ſolitus eſſet; dicitur Juba cum eo egiſſe, non oportere il.
lum eodem uti veſlitu atque iffe uteretur : Itaque factum
eſt, ut Scipio ad album ſeſe veſtitum transferret, &
ubæ homini ſuperbiſſimo inertiſſimòque obtempexatet.
LII. Poſtero die univerſas omnium copias de caſtiis
omnibus deducunt, & ſupercilium quoddam exce!ſur
nacti non longè a Cæſaris caſtris, aciem conſlituunt,
atque ibi conſiſtunt. Cæſar item producit copias; ce-
leriterque iis inſtructis, ante ſuas munitiones, quæ erant
in campo, conſtitit; ſine dubio exiſtimans, ultro ad-
verſarios, quum tam magnis copiis auxilnſque regis
eſſent præditi, promptiuſque proſiluiſſent, ante ſe con-
curſuros, propiuſque ſe acoeſſuros. Equo circumvectus
legionẽſque cohortatus; ſigno dato, acceſſum hoſtium
aucupabatur. Ipſe enim a ſuis munitionibus longius,
non ſine ratione, non procedebat; quòd in oppido Uzitz,
qvod Scipio tenebat, hoſttum erant cohortes armatæ:
eidem autem oppido ad dextrum latus ejus cornu erat
oppoſitum: verebatarque ne, f1 prætergreſſus eſſet, er
oppido eruptione faQta ab latere eum adorti concide-
rent. Præterea hæc quoque eum cauſa tardavit, qu!
erat locus quidam perimpeditus ante aciem Scip10nis
quem ſuis impedimento ad ultro occurrendum fore en
1110 abat. |
LIII. Non arbitror eſſe prætermittendum, quemiG
modum exercitus utriuſque fuerint in aciem in{truci,
Scipio hoc modo aciem direxit. Collocabat in tron
ſeas & Jubz legioncs: poſtea autem Numidas in {40
ficiaria acie ita extenuatos, & in longitudinem diret%
ut procul ſimplex eſſe acies media a legionariis mids
tus videretur 3 in cornibus autem duplex eſſe exilim
*
i
bB BELLOAFRICANO. 371
katur. Elephantos dextro ſiniſtrõque cornu collocave-
rat, zqualibus inter eos intervallis interjectis; poſt au-
tem elephantos, armaturas leves, Numicaſque ſubſti-
tuerat auxiliares, Equitatum frenatum univerſum in
ſao dextro cornu diſpoſuerat: ſiniſtrum enim cornu op-
pido Uzita claudebatur, neque erat ſpatium equitatus
W cxplicandi, Propterea Numidas, leviſque armature
| SS infinitam multitudinem, ad dextram partem ſuæ aciei
oppoſuerat, ferè interjecto non minus mille paſſuum
| WT ſpatio; & ad collis radices magis appulerat, longiuſque
ab adverſariorum ſuiſque copiis promoverat ; id hoc
WS confilio, ut, quum acies 11 inter ſe concurniſſent ini-
tio certaminis, paullò longius ejus equitatus circurmvec-
tus, ex improviſo clauderet multitudine ſua exercitum
4 Cæſaris, atque perturbatum jaculiz configeret: hzc fuir
a WT ratio Scipionis ea die prœliandi. Cæſaris autem acies
„hoc modo collocata; ut ab ſiniſtro ejus cornu or-
diar, & ad dextrum perveniam. Habuit in ſiniſtro
t cornu legionem 1x. v11 : in dextro cornu, XXX, xxix:
d- xi, x1v, Xxv111, XxVv1, in media acie: ipſum autem
1s WR dextrum cornu, ſecundam aciem fere, in earum legio-
nom parte cohortium collocaverat ; præterea ex tiro-
„nam legionibus paucas adjecerat : tertiam autem aciem
min finiftrum ſuum cornu contulerat, & uſque ad aciei
ſux mediam legionem porrexerat, & ita collocaverat,
uti ſiniſtrum ſuum cornu triplex eſſet. Id eo conſilio
fecerat, quod ſuum dextrum latus munitionibus adju-
vabatur; ſiniſtrum autem ut equitatũs hoſtium multitu-
contulerat equitatum : &, quòd ei parum confidebat,
Wprzidio his equitibus legionem v præmiſerat: levem-
aue armaturam inter equites interpoſuerat. Sagittarios
Wvaric paſsimque, locis certis, maximeque in cornibus,
ollocaverat.
I. Sic utrorümque exercitus inſtructi, non plas
cl. paſſuum ccc interjecto ſpatio, (quod forte ante id tem-
os acciderat nunquam, quin dimicaretur) à mane uſ-
„ue ad horam x diei perſtiterunt. Jamque Cæſar dum
"i xercitum zeducere intra munitiones ſuas cœpiſlet; ſub-
b univerſus equitatus ulterior Numidarum Gztulo-
ny rumque
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rümque fine frenis, ad dextram partem ſe movere, pro-
piũſqe Cæſaris caſtra, quæ erant in colle, ſe conferre
ecepit; frenatus autem Labieni eques in loco perma-
nere, legioneſque diſtinere; quum ſubito pars equitatus
Cæſaris cum levi armatura contra Gætulos, injuſſu ac
temere, longius progreſſi, paludemque tranſgreſſi, mul.
titudinem hoſtium ſuſtinere pauci non potuerunt ; le.
vique armatura deſerti, ac pulſt convulneratique, uno
equite amiſſo, multis equis ſauciis, levis armature xxvi
occiſis, ad fuos refugerunt. Quo ſecundo equeſtri pre-
ho facto, Scipio lætus in caſtra nocte copias reduxit,
Quod proprium gaudium bellantibus fortuna tribuere
non decrevit: namque poſtero die Cæſar, cum parte
equitatùs ſui, Leptim, frumenti gratia, miſit: in itinere
prædatores equites Numidas Gztuloſque ex improviſo
adorti, cireiter centum partim occiderunt, partim vi.
vorum potiti ſunt. Cæſar interim quotidie legiones in
eampum deducere, atque opus facere ; vallümque &
foſſam per medium campum ducere ; adverſariorüm.
que excurſionibus iter officere, non intermittit, Scipio
item munwgones contra facere, &, ne jugo a Cæſate
excluderetur, approperare. Ita duces utrique & in ope-
ribus occupati erant, & nihilo minus equeſtribus preelis
inter ſe quotidie dimicabant. |
LV. Iaterim Varus claſſem, quam antea Uticz bye.
mis gratia ſubduxerat, cognito legionis vi: & v11l er
Sicilia adventu, ccleriter deducit; ibique Gætulis te-
migibus epibatiſque complet; inſidiandique gratia pro-
greſſus, Adrumetum cum Lv navibus pervenit. Caja
adventũs inſcius Cæſar, L. Ciſpium cum claſſe xxv!!
navium ad Thapſum versùs in ſtationem, præſidii gie
tia commeatas ſui, mittit: itemque Q. Aquilam, cin
X:1t navibus long is, Adrumetum eadem de causa pis-
mittit. Ciſpius, quò erat miſſus, celeriter pervert:
Aquila, tempeſtate jactatus, promontorium ſuperar?
non potuit; atque angulum quendam tutum A tempe!
tate nactus, cum claſſe ſe longiùs A proſpectu removtt:
reliqua claſſis in falo ad Leptim, egreflis remigibu
paſsimque in littore vagantibus, partim in oppido Vi
ts ſui mercandi gratia progreſis, vacug a 3
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hs WH Co Ie oo RE ERS
ve Bello AFRICANO. 373
flabat. Quibus rebus Varus ex perfugis cognitis, oc-
cafionem nactus, vigilia ſecunda Adrumeto ex Cothone
egreſſus, primo mane Leptim universa claſſe veQus,
naves onerarias, quæ longias a portu in ſalo ſtabant,
incendit; & penteres duas, vacuas a defenforibus, nullo
repugyante, cepit.
- LVI. Cæſar interim celeriter per nuncios in caſlris,
quum opera circuiret, certior factus; quæ aberant a
portu millia paſſuum vi: equo admiſſo, omiſſis omnibus
rebus, celeriter pervenit Leptim. Ibique moratus, om-
nes ut ſe naves conſequerentur; primùm ipſe navigio-
lum parvum conſcendit; in curſu Aquilam multitudine
ravigiorum perterritum atque trepidantem nactus, hoſ-
tium claſſem ſequi cœpit. Interim Varus, celeritate
Cæſaris audaciaque motus, cum universa claſſe, con-
verſis navibus, Adrumetum versus fugere contendit :
quem Cæſar in millibus paſſuum 1v conſecutus, recu-
perata quinqueremi cum omnibus ſais epibatis, atque
etiam hoſtium cuſtodibus xxx in ea nave captis, trire-
mem hoſtium proximam, quz in repugnando erat com-
morata, onuſtam remigum epibatarumque, cepit: reli-
que naves hoſtium promontorium ſuperarunt, atque
Adrumetum in Cothonem ſe univerſæ contulerunt.
Cæſar eodem vento promontorium ſuperare non potu-
it; atque in ſalo in anchoris ea note commoratus, pri-
mã luce Adrumetum accedit: ibique navibus onerariis
quæ erant extra Cothonem, incenſis; omnibũſque reli-
quis aliis aut ſubductis, aut in Cothonem compulſis;
paulliſper commoratus, fi forte vellent claſſe dimicare,
rurſus ſe recepit in caſtra. In ea nave captus eſt P.
Veſtrius eques Romanus: & P. Ligarius Afranianus;
quem Cæſar in Hiſpania cum reliquis dimiſerat, &
poſtea ſe ad Pompeium contulerat ; inde ex prœlio ef-
fugerat, in Africamque ad Varum venerat : quem, ob
perjurium perfidiamque, Cæſar juſſit necari. P. Veſtrio
autem; quòd ejus frater Romæ pecuniam imperatam
numeraverat, & quod ipſe ſuam cauſam Cæſari proba-
verat, /e Naſidii claſſe captum, guum ad necem du ceretur,
beneficio Vari e ſervatum, poſtea facultatem fibi nullam
latam tranſeundi ; ignovit. |
LVII.
in campo caſtris unis poſitis, ipſe frumentatum circun
374 A HI1IAT1
LVII. Eſt in Africa conſuetudo incolarum, ut i»
agris & in omnibus fere villis, ſub terra ſpecus, con-
dendi frumenti gratia, clam habeant; atque id propter
bella maxime, hoſtiùmque ſubitum adventum, pra-
parent. Qua de re Cæſar certior per indicem factus,
tertia vigilia legiones 11 cum equitatu mittit a caſtris
ſuis millia paſſuum x; atque inde magno numero tru-
menti onuſtos recepit in caſtra, Quibus rebus cognitis,
Labienus, progreſſus a ſuis caſtris millia paſſuum vit,
per jugum & collem, per quem Cæſar pridie iter fe-
cerat; ibi caſtra duarum legionum facit: atque ipſe
quotidie, exiſtimans Cæſarem eadem ſzpe (frumentan-
di gratia) commeaturum, cum magno equitatu levique
armatura inſidiaturus locis idoneis conſedit. Cæſar in-
terim de inſidiis Labieni ex perfugis certior factus;
paucos dies ibi commoratus, dum hoſtes quotidiano
inſtituto, ſæpe idem faciendo, in negligentiam addu-
cerentur; ſubitò mane imperat porta decumana legic-
nes ſe v111 veteranas, cum parte equitatus, ſequi: at-
que, gquitibus præmiſſis, neque opinantes infidiatores
ſubito in convallibus latentes levi armatura concidit
Circiter v; reliquos in fugam tur piſſimam conjecit. In-
terim Labienus, cum univerſo equitatu, fugientibus
ſuis ſuppetias occurrit. Cujus vim multitudinis quum
equites pauci Cæſariani jam ſuſtinere non poſſent, Cæ-
ſar inſtructas legiones hoſtium copiis oſtendit. Quo
facto perterrito Labieno ac retardato, ſuos equites re-
cepit incolumes. Poſtero die Juba Numidas eos, qui
loco amiſſo fuga ſe receperant in caſtra, in cruce om-
nes ſuffixit.
LVIII. Cæſar interim, quoniam frumenti inopi
premebatur, copias omnes in caſtra conducit : atque
ræſidio Lepti, Ruſpinæ, Acillæ, relicto; Ciſpio Aqui:
læque claſſe tranſdita, ut alter Adrumetum, alter
Thapſum mari obſiderent; ipſe caſtris incenſis, Iv noc-
tis vigilia, acie inſtructa, impedimentis in ſiniſtrà parte
collocatis, ex eo loco proficiſcitur; & pervenit ad op-
pidum Agar, quod a Gztulis ſæpe antea oppugnatum
ſumm ique vi per ipſos oppidanos erat defenſum. Ib
vil
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villas cum parte exercitũs profectus; magno invento
hordei, olei, vini, fici numero; pauco, tritici; atque
rect eato exercitu; redit in caſtra, Scipio interim, cog-
ni:o Cæſaris diſceſſu, cum univerſis copiis per jugum
Cæſatem ſubſequi cœpit; atque ab ejus caſtris millia
paſſuum v1 longe, trinis callris diſpartitis copiis, con-
ſedit.
LIX. Oppidum erat Zeta; quod aberat à Scipione
millia paſſuum x, ad ejus regionem & partem caſtrorum
collocatum; à Cæſare autem diverſum ac remotum,
quod erat ab eo longè millia paſſuum xviiIi. Huc
Scipio legiones 11, frumentandi gratia, miſit. Quod
poſtquam Cæſar ex perfuga cognovit; caſtris ex campo
in collem ac tutiora loca collocatis, atque ibi præſidio
relicto, ipſe 1v vigilia egreſſus præter hoſtium caftra
proficiſcitur cum copiis, & oppido potitur. Legiones
Scipionis comperit longiùs in agris frumentari: &,
quum eò contendere conaretur, animadvertit copias
hoſtium iis legionibus occurrere ſuppetias; quæ res ejus
impetum retardavit. Itaque, capto C. Mutio Regino,
equite Romano, Scipionis familiariſſimo, qui ei oppido
præerat; & P. Atrio, equite Romano, de conventu
Uticenſi; & camelis xx11 regis adductis; præſidio ibi
cum Oppio legato relicto, ipſe ſe recipere cœpit ad
caſtra. |
LX. Quum jam non longe a caſtris Scipionis abeſſet,
quæ eum neceſſe erat prætergredi; Labienus Afraniaſ-
que cum omni equitatu levique armatura ex inſidiis
adorti; agmini ejus extremo ſe offerunt, etque ex colli-
bus primis exſiſtunt. Quod poſtquam Cæſar animad-
vertit; equitibus ſuis hoſtium vi oppoſitis, ſarcinas le-
gionarios in acervum jubet comportare, atque celeriter
igna hoſtibus inferre. Quod poſtquam cœptum eſt
Heri; primo impetu legionum, equitatus & levis ar-
matura hoſtium nullo negotio loco pulſa & dejecta eſt
de colle. Quum jam Cæſar exiſtimaſſet hoſtes pulſos
deterritòſque finem laceſſendi faQuros, & iter cœptum
pergere cœpiſſet; iterum celeriter ex proximis collibus
erumpunt; atque eadem ratione, qua ante dixi, in Cæ-
Kris legionarios impetum faciunt Numidz, leviſque
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armatura, mirabili velocitate præditi, qui inter equiles
pugnabant & una pariterque cum equitibus accurrete
& refugere conſueverant. Quum hoc ſæpius facerent,
& Julianos proficiſcentes inſequerentur & refugerent
inſtantes, propiùs non accederent, & ſingulari genere
pugnæ uterentur, e6ſque jaculis convulnerare ſatis eſſe
exiſtimarent; Cæſar intellexit. nihil aliud illos conari,
nifi ut ſe cogerent caſtta in eo loco ponere, ubi omni.
no aquæ nihil eſſet: ut exercitus ejus jejunus, qui 2
quarta vigilia uſque ad horam x diei nihil guſtaſſet,
ac jumenta fiti perirent. Quum jam ad Solis occaſum
eſſet, & non totos e paſſus horis 1v eſſet progreſſus;
equitatu ſuo, propter equorum interitum, extremo ag-
mine remoto, legiones invicem ad extremum agmen
evocabat. Ita vim hoſtium, placide leniterque proce.
dens, per legionarium militem commodits ſuſtinebat.
Interim equitum Numidarum copiz dextra finiſtraque
er colles præcurtere, coronæque in modum cingere
multitudine ſva Cæſaris copias ; pars agmen extremum
inſequi. Cæſaris autem non amplius tres aut quatuor
milites veterani 1 fe convertiſſent, & pila viribus con-
torta in Numidas infeſtos conjeciſſent, amplius 11 mil
lium numero, ad unum terga vertebant: ac rurſus ad
aciem paſſim, converſis equis, ſe colligebant, atque in
ſpatio conſequebantur, & jacula in legionarios conjici-
ebant. Ita Cæſar, modo procedendo, modo reſiſtendo,
tardiùs itinere confecto, noctis hora prima omnes (uo;
ad unum in caſtris incolumes, ſauciis x factis, reduxit.
Labienus circiter ccc amiſſis, multis vulneratis, 2
deſeſſis inſtando omnibus, ad ſuos ſe recepit. Scipio
interim legiones productas cum elephantis; quos ante
caſtra in acie, terroris gratia, in conſpectu Cæſaris cob
locaverat; reducit in caſtra.
LXI. Cæſar contra ejuſmodi hoſtium genera copis
ſuas, non ut Imperator exercitum veteranum victorem-
que maximis rebus geſtis, ſed ut laniſta tirones gladis
tores condocefacere: quo pede fe reciperent ab hoſt;
& quemadmodum obverſi adverſariis, & in quantu!9
ſpatio reſiſlerent; modo procurrerent, modò recece
rent, comminarenturque impetum; ac Prope quo _
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- ve BELLIO Arricano 377
& quemadmodum tela mitterent, præcipere. Mirifice
enim hoſtium levis armatura anxium exercitum noſ-
trum atque ſollicitum habebat: quia & equites deter-
rebat prœlium inire, propter equorum interitum; quod
eos jaculis interficiebat : & legionarium militem defa-
tigabat, propter velocitatem; gravis enim armatur
miles ſimul atque ab his inſectatus conſtiterat, in eof-
que impetum fecerat, illi veloci curſu facile periculom
vitabant. Quibus ex rebus Cæſar vehementer commo-
vebatur: quia, quodcumque prœlium quoties erat com-
miſſum, equitatu ſuo, ſine legionario milite, hoſtium
equitatui, levique armaturæ eorum, nullo modo par
eſſe poterat. Sollicitabatur autem his rebus; quod
nondum hoſtium legiones cognoverat, & quonam
modo ſuſlinere fe poſſet ab eorum equitatu, levique
armatura, quæ erat mirifica, fi legiones quoque accel-
lent. Accedebat etiam hec cauſa, quòd elephanto-
rum magnitudo multitudoque militum animos detine-
bat in terrore ; cui uni rei tamen invenerat remedium;
namque elephantos ex Italia tranſportari juſſerat, quo
& miles noſter ſpeciemque & virtutem beſtiæ cognoſ-
ceret, & cul parti corporis ejus telum facile adigi poſ-
ſet; ornataſque ac loricatus elephantus quum eſſet,
quæ pars ejus corporis nuda ſine tegmine relinquere-
tur, ut eò tela conjicerentur: præterea, ut jumenta
beſliarum odorem, ſtridorem, ſpeciem, conſuetudine
capta non reformidarent: quibus ex rebus largiter erat
conſecutus: nam & milites beflias manibus pertracta-
bant, earümque tarditatem cognoſcebant; equiteſque
in eos pila præpilata conjiciebant; atque in conſuetu-
dinem equos patientia beſtiarum adduxerat. Ob has
cauſas, quas ſupra commemoravi, ſollicitabatur Czfar ;
tardiörque & conſideratior erat factus; & ex priſtina
bellandi conſuetudine celeritateque exceſſerat. Nec
mirum : copias enim habebat in Gallia bellare conſue-
tas locis campeſtribus, & contra Gallos homines aper-
tos minimeque inſidioſos; qui per virtutem, non per
dolum, dimicare-conſueverunt: tum autem erat ei la-
borandum, ut conſuefaceret milites, hoſtium dolos; in-
ſidias, artificia- cognoſcere ; & quid ſequi, quid vitare
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conveniret. Itaque quò hæc celerids conciperent, da.
bat operam, ut legiones non in uno loco contineres,
ſed, per cauſam frumentandi, hue atque illuc raptaret;
ideo quod hoſtium copias ab, ſe, ſuoque veſtigio, non
diſceſſuras exiſtimabat. Atque poſt diem 111, productas
accuratiùs ſuas copias ſicut inſtruxerat; propter hoſtium
caſtra prætergreſſus, æquò loco invitat ad dimicandum.
Poſtquam eos abhorrere videt, reducit ſub veſperum
legiones in caſtra. |
LXII. Legati interim ex oppido Vacca, quod finiti-
mum fait Zetæ, cujus Cæfarem potitum eſſe demon-
ſtravimus; veniunt. Petunt, & obſecrant, ut „i pre-
frdium mittat : ſe res complures, que utiles bello fint, adni-
niſtraturos, Per id tempus, [Deorum voluntate ſtudi6.
que erga Cæſarem] transfuga ſuos cives facit certiores;
Jubam regem celeriter cum copiis ſuis, anteguam Ca/ari
prefidium ed perweniret, ad oppidum adcucurriſſe ; atqu
adweniente multitudine circumdatd, eo potitum; omnibiſhus
ejus oppidi incolis ad unum interfectis, dedifſe oppidum dir
piendum delendimque militi bus. |
LXIII. Cæſar interim, luſtrato exercitu a. d. x11 Kal.
Apr. poſtero die productis univerſis copiis, progret-
ſus a ſuis caſtris millia paſſuum quinque, a Scipionis
Circiter 11 millium interjecto ſpatio, in acie conſtiti.
Poſtquam ſatis diaque adverſarios a ſe ad dimicandun
invitatos ſuperſedere pugnæ animadvertit; reducit co:
pias. Poſtero die caſtra movet; atque iter ad oppidun
Sarſuram, ubi Scipio Numidaram habebat præſidium,
frumentümque comportaverat, ire contendit. Quot
ubi Labienus animadvertit; cum equitatu levique 2
matura agmen ejus extremum carpere cœpit: atque
ita lixarum mercatorùmque, qui plauſtris merces ports
bant, interceptis ſarcinis; addito animo, propiùs audr
ciùſque accedit ad legiones; quod exiſtimabat milite
ſub onere ac ſub ſarcinis defatigatos, pugnare MB
poſſe. Quæ res Cæſarem non fefellerat: namqu
expeditos ex ſingulis legionibus tricenos milites c
Juilerat ; itaque eos in equitatum Labieni immiſſos
turmis ſuorum ſuppetias mittit. Tum Labienus, co
ſum
verſis equis, ſignorum conſpectu perterritus, turp! tl
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contendit fugere; multis ejus oceiſis, compluribus vul-
neratis. Milites legionarii ad ſua ſe recipiunt ſigna,
atque iter inceptum ire cœperunt. Labienus per jugum
ſummum collis dextrorſus procul milites ſubſequi non
deſiſlit.
LXIV. Poſtquam Cæfar ad oppidum Sarſuram venit;
inſpectantibus adverſariis, interfecto præſidio Scipionis,
quum ſuis auxilium ferre non auderent; fprtiter repug-
nante P. Cornelio Scipionis evocato, qui ibi præerat,
atque a multitudine circumvento interfectõque; oppido
potitur. Atque ibi frumento exercitui dato, poſtero die
ad oppidum Tiſdram pervenit; in quo Conſidius per
id tempus fuerat, cum grandi præſidio cohorteque ſuà
gladiatorum. Cæſar, oppidi natura perſpectà, atque
| inopia ab oppugnatione ejus deterritus; protinus pro-
| fetus circiter millia paſſuum iv, ad aquam facit caſtra:
atque inde iv die egreſſus, redit rurſus ad ea caſtra,
,
& quz ad Agar, habuerat. Idem facit Scipio, atque in
antiqua cattra copias reducit. .
= LUXV, Thabenenſes interim, qui ſub ditione & po-
„d teltate Jubz eſſe conſueſſent, in extrema ejus regni re-
- gione maritima locati ; interfecto regio præſidio, lega-
tos ad Cæſarem mittunt: rem a ſe geſtam docent:
petunt orantque, ut /i, fortunis, de populo Romano quod
bene meriti ent, auxilium ferret. Cæſar, eorum conſi-
lio probato, M. Criſpum tribunum cum cohorte, &
ſagittariis, tormentiſque compluribus, præſidio Thabe-
nam mittit. .
LXVI. Eodem tempore ex legionibus omnibus mili-
tes, qui aut morbo impediti, aut commeatu dato, cum
fignis non potuerant ante tranſire in Africam, ad millia
Iv; equites, CD; funditores fagittariique mille; uno
commeatu Cæſari occurrerunt. Itaque tum his copiis
e omnibus legionibus eductis, ficut erat inſtructus,
0! BT 11 millibus paſſuum a ſuis caſtris, ab Scipionis vero
he millibus paſſuum longe, conſtitit in campo.
ci Gn LXVI1I. Erat oppidum infra caftra Scipionis, nomine
10 BT <gea ; ubi præſidium equeſtre, circiter cy numero,
ol abere conſueverat. Eo equitatu dextra ſinittraque
edo ab oppidi lateribus; ipſe, legionibus ex caltris
eductis
380 A. HIRTII
concitatis, Juliani impetum feeiſſent; Pacidius ſuos
neratis; inſecuti per 111 millia paſſuum, uſque in col!
eductis atque in jugo inferiore inſtructis, non lonęih
ferè mille paſſus ab ſuis munitionibus progreſſus, in
acie conſlitit. Poſtquam diutius in uno loco Scipio
commorabatur, & tempus diei in otio conſumebatur;
Cæſar equitum turmas ſuorum jubet in hoſtium equity
tom, qui ad oppidum in ſtatione erat, facere impreſſo.
nem; levemque armaturam, ſagittarios, funditoreſque,
e6dem ſubmittit. Quod ubi cœptum eſt fieri; &, cquiz
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equites exporrigere ccepit in longitudinem, ut haberert
facultatem turmas Julianas circumfundere, & nihilo
minus fortiſſimè acerrimeque pugnare. Quod ubi Cæ-
far animadvertit; ce, quos ex Jegionibus habere ey
peditos conſueverat, ex proxima legione, quæ ei prœlio
in acie confliterat, jubet equitatui ſuccurrere. Labie.
nus interim ſuis equitibus auxilia equeſtria ſubmittere,
ſauciiſque ac defatigatis integros recentioribuſque viri-
bus equites ſubminiſtrare. Poſtquam equites Julian
ep vim hoſtium ad 1v millia numero ſuſtinere non po- :
terant, & à levi armatura Numidarum vulnerabantur,
minutatimque cedebant; Cæſar alteram alam mitti,, ay *
qui ſatagentibus celeriter occurrerent, Quo facto ſu q
ſublati univerſi, in hoſtes impreſſione faQa, in fugen ©
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adverſarios dederunt ; multis occiſis, CG vil.
hoſlibus adaQis, ſe ad ſuos recipiunt. Cæſar in hoeren
Xx commoratus, ſicut erat inſtructus, ſe ad ſua can
recepit; omnibus incolumibus. In quo prœlio Pact
dius graviter pilo per caſſidem caput ictus, complure-
que duces ac fortiſimus quiſque interfecti vulneratique
ſunt. f
LXVIII. Poſtquam nulla conditione cogere adverſi
rios poterat, ut in æquum locum deſcenderent, lege
namque periculum facerent; neque ipſe propius hotten
caſtra ponere, propter aquæ penuriam, ſe poſſe anin-
adverteret; adverſarios non eorum virtute confer
fed aquarum inopia fretos deſpicere ſe intellexit: put
Non. Apr. tertia vigilia egreſſus, ab Agar x v1 mi
paſſuum nocte progreſſus, ad Thapſum, ubi Virgil
cum grandi præſidio præerat, caſtra ponit; oppicun |
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pet BELLO AFRICANO, 387
que eo die circummunire cœpit; locaque idonea op-
portunaque complura præſidiis occupare, ne hoſles in-
trare ad ſe ac loca interiora capere poſſent. Scipio
interim, cognitis Cæſaris conſiliis, ad neceſſitatem ad-
ductus dimicandi, ne per ſummum dedecus fidiſſimos
ſuis rebus Thapſitanos & Virgilium amitteret; confeſ-
tim Cæſarem per ſuperiora loca conſecutus, millia paſ-
ſuum v111 à Thapſo binis caſtris conſedit.
LXIX. Erat ſtagnum ſalinarum, inter quod & mare
anguſtiæ quædam non amplius mille & quingentos
paſſus intererant; quas Scipio intrare, & Thapfitanis
auxilium ferre, conabatur. Quod futurum, Cæſarem
non fefellerat : namque pridie in eo loco caſtello mu-
nito, ibique trino præſidio reticto, ipſe cum reliquis
copiis lunatis caſtris Thapſum operibus circummunivit,
Scipio interim excluſus ab incepto itinere, ſupra ſtag-
num poſtero die & nocte confecta, cœlo albente, non
longe a caſtris præſidiõque, quod ſupra commemoravi-
mus, MD paſſibus, ad mare versus conſedit, & caſtra
munire cœpit. Quod poſtquam Cæſari nunciatum eſt:
milite ab opere deducto, caſtris præſidio Aſprenate
proconſule cum legionibus 11 relicto, ipſe cum expedità
copia in eum locum citatim contendit; claſsiſque par-
te ad Thapſum relictà, reliquas naves jubet poſt hoſ-
tium tergum quam maxime ad littus appelli, ſignam-
que ſuum obſervare; quo ſigno dato, ſubitò clamore
facto, ex improviſo hoſtibus averſis incuterent &rro-
rem; ut perturbati ac perterriti, reſpicere poſt terga
Nein s |
ILXX. Quo poſtquam Cæſar pervenit; & animadver-
it aciem pro vallo Scipionis, elephantöſque dextro.
Winiſtroque cornu collocatos, & nihilo minus parzem
ilitum caſtra non ignaviter munire; ipſe, acie triplici
ollocata; legione deciina ſecundaque, dextro cornu
[11 & ix, tiniftro; appoſitis v legionibus, in quartz.
cie; ante ipſa cornua, quinis cohortibus contra beſtias
W0!ocatis ; ſagittariis, funditoribus, in utriſque cornibus
WP poius; levique armatura inter equites interjectaà;
pic pedibus circum milites concurſans, virtuteſque ve-
ranoram prœliàque ſuperiora commemorans, blande-
que
382 WW nb
que appellans animos eorum excitabat. Tirones ay.
tem, qui nunquam in acie dimicaſſent, hortabatur, ut
eeteranorum wirtutem æmularentur; torumgue famam, 11.
men, locumgue, victorid partd, cuperent pofſidere.
LXXI. Itaque in circumeundo exercitum, animad-
vertit hoſtes circa vallum trepidare, atque ultro citrs.
que pavidos concurſare; & modo ſe intra portas recipe.
re, modo inconſtanter immoderateque prodire: quũm.
que idem a pluribus animadverti cceptum eflet ; ſubiiè
legati evocatique obſecrare Cæſarem, ne dubitaret g.
num dare; victoriam ſibi propriam a diis immortalibus per.
tendi. Dubitante Cæſare, atque eorum ſtudio cupidita.
tique reſiſtente, ſibique eruptione pugnari non placere
clamitante, & etiam atque etiam aciem ſuſtentante;
ſubitò dextro cornu, injuſſu Cæſaris, tubicen, A militi.
bus coactus, canere cœpit. Quo facto, ab univerſ
cohortibus ſigna in hoſtem cœpère inferti; quum cer-
turiones pectore adverſo reſiſlerent, vique continerent
milites, ne injuſſu imperatoris concurrerent; nec quid-
quam proficerent, Quod poſtquam Cæſar intellexi, Me
incitatis militum animis reſiſti nullo modo poſſe; figno
Felicitatis dato, equo admiſſo in hoſtem contra princi-
pes ire contendit. A dextro interim cornu funditores
ſagittariique concita tela in elephantos frequentes inji-
ciunt. Quo facto, beſtiæ ſtridore fundarum lapidum-
que perterritæ ſeſe convertere, & ſuos poſt ſe frequente
ſtipatoſque proterere, & in portas valli ſemifaQas ruere
contendunt. Item Mauri equites, qui in eodem cornu
cum elephantis erant, præſidio deſerti, principes fug!-
unt. Ita celeriter beſtiis circuitis, legiones vallo hol:
tium ſunt potitæ; &, paucis acriter repugnantibus in-
torfẽctis, reliqui concitati in caſtra, unde pridie erait
egreſſi, confugiunt. ;
LXXII. Non videtur eſſe prætermittendum de vi- ;
tute militis veterani v legionis. Nam quum in {iniftro |
cornu elephantus vulnere ictus & dolore concitatus 1
lixam inermem impetum feciſſet, eamque ſab pede 0
ſubditum, deinde genu innixus pondere ſuo, proboſcice uo
ereaa vibrantique, ſtridore maximo premeret at
; ebe · Nor
2
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enecaret; miles hic non potuit pati, quin ſe armatum
beſliæ offerret: quem poſtquam elephantus ad ſe telo
infeſto venire animadvertit; relicto cadavere, militem
proboſcide circumdat, atque in ſublime extollit arma-
tum. Qui in ejuſmodi periculo quum conſtanter agen-
dom ſibi videret; gladio proboſcidem, quo erat circum-
datus, cædere, quantum viribus poterat, non deſtitit:
| quo dolore adductus elephantus, milite abjecto, maxi-
mo cum ſtridore cursũque converſus ad reliquas beſtias
ſe recepit.
LXXIII. Interim Thapſo qui erant præſidio, ex op-
pido eruptionem porta maritima faciunt: &, ſive ut
ſuis ſublidio occurrerent; five ut, oppido deſerto, fuga
ſalutem fibi pararent; egrediuntur: atque ita per mare
umbilici fine ingreſſi, terram petebant: qui a ſervitiis
pueriſque, qui in caſtris erant, lapidibus piliſque pro-
WS hibiti terram attingere, rurſus ſe in oppidum recepe-
WS wont. Interim Scipionis copiis proftratis, paſsimque
toto campo fugientibus; confeſtim Cæſaris legiones
conſequi, ſpatiamgque ſe non dare colligendi. Qui poſt-
adam ad ea caſtra, quæ petebant, profugerunt, ut re-
fectis caſtris rurſus ſeſe defenderent; ducem aliquem
Frequirunt, quem reſpicerent, cujus auctoritate imperiö—
jue rem gererent: qui poſtquam animadverterunt ne-
minem ibi eſſe præſidio, protinus armis abjectis in regia
allra fugere contendunt: quo pollquam pervenerunt,
2 quoque ab Julianis teneri vident. Deſperata ſalute,
n quodam colle conſiſtunt: atque armis demiſſis, ſalu-
donem more militari faciunt. . Quibus miſeris ea res
Warvo præſidio fuit : namque milites veterani ira & do-
*
. e incenſi, noy modò ut parcerent hoſti, non poterant
m dduci; ſed etiam ex ſuo exercitu illuſtres urbanos,
os aactores appellabant, complures aut vulnerarunt
„t interfecerunt. In quo numero fuit Tullius Rufus
iro Þzitorius; qui pilo transjectus conſulto a milite inte-
in WE tem Fompeius Rufus brachium gladio percuſſus,
ede RE"! celeriter ad Cæſarem adcucurriſſet, interfectus eſſet.
ile go facto complures Romani ſenatoreſque perterriti,
m preetio ſe receperunt; ne à militibus, qui ex tant
cnc ori licentiam fibi atſumpſilent immoderatè peccan-
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fdem Cæſaris implorarent; inſpectante ipſo Cæſare, &
a militibus deprecante, eis uti parcerent, ad unum {ſunt
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LXXIV. Cæſar trinis caſtris potitus, occisiſque hofi.
um x millibus, fugatiſque compluribus ; ſe rec« hit, 1
militibus amiſſis, paucis ſauciis, in cafira. Ac atim
ex itinere ante oppidum Thapſum conſtitit: elephan.
toſque Lx1iv ornatos armatoſque cum turribus orna.
mentiſque capit, captos ante oppidum inſtructos con-
ſituit; id hoc conſilio; ſi poſſet Virgilius, quique cun
eo oblidebantur, rei male geſtæ ſuorum indicio à per.
tinacia deduct. Deinde ipſe Virgilium appellavit, in-
vitavitque ad deditionem; ſuamgue lenitatem & cle.
mentiam commemoravit: quem poſiquam animadvertit
reſponſum ſibi non dare, ab oppido receſſit. Poſtcro
die, divina re fad, concione advocata ; in con ſpectu
oppidanorum, milites collaudat; totumque exetcitun
veteranum donavit; præmia fortiſiimo cuique ac bene
merenti, pro ſuggeſtu tribuit. Ac ſtatim ince digreſſus:
C. Rebello proconſule cum 111 ad Thapſum legionibuy
& Cn. Domitio cum 11 Tiſdræ, ubi Conſidius præera,
ad obſidendum relictis; M. Meflala Uticam ante pre
miſſo, cum equitatu ; ipſe eodem iter facere contendit
LXXV. Equites interim Scipionis, qui ex pralo
fugerant, quum Uticam versùs iter facerent, perveniuit
ad oppidum Parade. Ubi, quum ab incolis non reci-
perentur, ideo quod fama de viftoria Cæſaris prac
currifſet ; vi oppido potiti, in medio foro lignis coacer-
vatis, omnibũuſque rebus eorum congeſtis, ignem ſub. Wt
ciunt ; atque cjus oppidi incolas cujuſque generis 2! Wy:
tiſque, vivos, conftriftoſque, in flammam conjiciunt; |
atque ita acerbiſſimo afficiunt ſupplicio: deinde prote
nus Uticam perveniunt. Superiore tempore I. Cat: 8
od Uticenſibus, propter beneficium legis Iulia, parun
in ſuis partibus piæſidii efle exiſtimaverat; plebem *
ermem oppido ejecerat, & ante portam Bellicam cππÜ
foſsaque parvulà duntaxat munierat, ibique, cut
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eircumdatis, habitare coegerat ; ſenatum autem oppidi,
cuſtodia tenebat. Eorum caſtra ii equites adorti expug-
nare cœperunt, ideo quod eos partibus Cæſaris faviſſe
ſciebant; ut, eis interfectis, eorum pernicie dolorem
ſaum ulciſcerentur. Uticenſes, animo addito ex Cæſa-
ris victoria, lapidibus fuſlibüſque equites repulerunt,
Itaque, poſtquam caſtra non potuerant potiri, Uticam
ſe in oppidum conjecerunt; atque ibi multos Uticenſes
interfecerunt, domoſque eoram expugnaverunt ac diri-
puerunt. Quibus quum Cato perſuadere nulla ratione
quiret, ut ſecum oppidum defenderent, & cæde rapi-
niſque deſiſterent; &, quid ſibi vellent, ſciret; ſedan-
dz eorum importunitatis gratia, ſingulis H 5 C diviſit.
Idem Sulla Fauſtus fecit, ac de ſua pecunia largitus eſt;
| unaque cum 11s ab Utica proficiſcitur, atque in regnum
' we contendit.
Ss IXXVI. Complures interim ex fuga Uticam perve-
niunt: quos omnes Cato convocatos, una cum CCC qui
Wpccuniam Scipioni ad bellum faciendum contulerant,
Weohortatur, ut ſervitia manumitterent, oppidumque de-
Wenderent, Quorum quum partem aſlentire, partem ani-
am mentemque perterritam atque in fuga deſtinatam
abere intellexiſſet, amplius de ea re agere deſtitit;
Paveſque 1is attribuit, ut, in quas quiſque partes vellet,
rofciſceretur. Ipſe, omnibus rebus diligentiſſimè con-
itutis; liberis ſuis L. Cæſari, qui tum ei pro quæſtore
erat, commendatis; & fine ſuſpicione, vultu atque
rmone quo ſuperiore tempore uſus ſuerat, quum dor-
Witum iſſet, ferrum intro clam in cubiculum tulit, at-
ee ita ſe transjecit: qui dum anima nondum exſpi-
Wc concidiſſet; &, impetu facto in cubiculum ex ſu-
cone, medicus familiareſque continere atque vulnus
ligare cœpiſſent; ipſe ſuis manibus vulnus crudeliſ-
ne divellit, atque animo præſenti ſe interemit. Quem
ticenſes, quamquam oderant partium gratia; tamen,
opter ejus ſingularem integritatem, & quod diſſimil-
nus reliquorum ducum fuerat, quodque Uticam mi-
eis operibus munierat, turreſque auxerat; ſepultura
ciunt. Quo interfecto; L. Cæſar, ut aliquid ſibi ex
re auxilii pararet, 2 populo, concione ha-
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bita, cohortatur omnes, ut portæ aperirentur; ſe in Cx.
ſaris clementia magnam ſpem habere. Itaque portis pate.
factis, Utica egreſſus, Cæſari Imperatori obviam profi
ciſcitur. Meſſala, ut erat imperatum, Uticam pervenit;
- ©mnibuſque portis cuſtodias ponit.
LXXVII. Cæſar interim a Thapſo progreſſus, Uſce.
tam pervenit; ubi Scipio magnum numerum frumenti,
armorum, telorum, czterarumque rerum, cum parvo
præſidio habuerat. Id adveniens potitur ; deinde Adru-
metum pervenit. Quo quum fine mora introiſlet ; armis,
frumento pecuniaque. confiderata; Q. Ligario, C. Con-
fidio filio, qui tum ibi fuerant, vitam conceſſit. Deinde
eodem die Adrumeto egreſſus, Livineio Regulo ibi cum
religione relicto, Uticam ire contendit. Cui in itinere .
fit obvius L. Cæſar, ſubitoque ſe ad genua projicit;
vitämque ſibi, nec amplius quidquam, deprecatur; cui
Cæſar facile, pro ſua natura & inſtituto, conceſſit: item
Czcinz, C. Ateio, P. Atrio, & L. Cellz patri & filio,
M. Eppio, M. Aquinio, Catonis filio, Damaſippigue
liberis, ex ſua conſuetudine, tribuit ; circiterque noten
luminibus accenſis Uticam pervenit, atque extra oppi-
dum ea nocte manſit. .
LXXVIII. Poſtero die mane oppidum introiit : con- i;
cioneque advocata, Uticenſes incolas cohortatus, g. WM:
tias pro eorum ſtudio erga ſe agit; cives autem Roms Mi;
nos negotiatores, & eos qui inter trecentos pecunias con-
tulerant Varo & Scipioni, multis verbis accuſatos, & ei
eorum ſceleribus longiori habita oratione, ad extremun, I
ut fine metu prodirent, edicit: /e eis duntaxat vitam ts re
cefſurum . bona quidem corum fe quenditurum; ita tamtin, r,
gui eorum bona ſua redem.ſet, ſe bonorum venditionem ir
ducturum, & pecuniam muictæ nomine relaturum, ut incoit
mitatem retinere paſſent. Quibus metu exſanguibus, d
vitique ex ſuo promerito deſperantibus, ſubitò obla
ſalute, libentes cupidique conditionem acceperunt; eg
tiefuntque a Cæſare, ut univerſis c c uno nomine pe
ut per triennium ſex penſionibus populo Romano ſol
rent; nullo eorum recuſante, ac ſe eodem die demi
N
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LXXIX. Rex interim Juba, ut ex prœlio fugerat,
uni cum Petreio interdiu in villis latitando, tandem,
nocturnis itineribus confectis, in regnum pervenit: at-
que ad oppidum Zamam, ubi ipſe domicilium, conju-
ges, liberoſque habebat; quo ex cuncto regno omnem
pecuniam, cariflimaſque res, comportaverat; quodque,
inito bello, operibus maximis munierat; accedit. Quem
oppidani, antea rumore exoptato de Cæſaris victoria
audito, ob has cauſas oppido prohibuerunt, quòd, bello
contra populum Romanum ſuſcepto, in oppido Zamæ
lignis congeſtis, maximam in medio foro pyram con-
ſtruxerat; ut, ſi forte bello foret ſuperatus, omnibus
rebus eò coacervatis, dehinc civibus cunctis interfectis
codemque projectis, igne ſubjecto, tum demum ſe ipſe
Jinſuper interficeret; atque una cum liberis, conjugi—
bas, civibus, cundtàque gaza regia, cr-maretur, Poſt-
quam Juba ante portas diu multumque, primo minis
Wpro imperio egiſſet cum Zamentibus ; deinde, quum ſe
aroum proficere intellexiſſet, precibus quoque oräſſet,
Bt ſe ad ſuos Deos penates admitterent; ubi eos in
Wc ntcntia perſtare animadvertit, nec minis nec precibus
Wuis moveri, quò magis ſe reciperent, tertio petit ab
ſportaret. Poſtquam fibi nihil omnino oppidanos re-
donſi reddere animadvertit, nulla re ab iis impetratä,
on- b Z ama diſcedit; atque ad villam ſuam, cum M. Pe-
de eio pauciſque equitibus, ſe confert.
um N LXXX. Zamenſes interim legatos de iis rebus ad Cæ-
co rem Uticam mittunt; petantque ab eo, uti ante guar
1 1 x manum colligeret, ſeſegus oppugnaret, ſibi auxilium mit-
; th et : ſe tamen paratos qe, ſibi quoad vita ſuppeteret, op-
ln ſegue ei reſervare. Legatos collaudatos Cæſar do-
;, eam jubet antecedere, ac ſuum adventum prenunciare.
blaß ee poſtero die Utica egreſſus cum equitatu, ire in reg-
; (WP contendit. Interim in itinere ex regiis copiis ducgs
e pt mplures ad Czſarem veniunt, orantque, ut hbi ignoſ-
= quibus ſupplicibus venii data, Zamam perveniunt.
ſolve
more interim perlato de ejus lenitate clementiaque,
dpemodum omnes regni equites Zamam perveniunt
Cæſarem, ab edque ſunt metu pericul6que liberati.
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LXXXI. Dum hæc utrobique geruntur; Conſidius,
qui Tiſdræ cum familia ſua, gladiatoria manu, Gætu-
liſque præerat; cognita cæde ſuorum, Domitiique &
legionum adventu perterritus, deſperata ſalute, oppidum
deſerit; ſeque clam cum paucis barbaris pecunia onuſ.
tus ſubducit, atque in regnum fugere contendit: quem
Geætuli ſui comites in itinere, prædæ cupidi, concidunt;
ſeque, in quaſcumque potuere partes, conferunt. C. in-
terim Vergilius, poſtquam terra marique clauſus fe nihil
proficere intellexit; ſuòſque interfectos, aut fugatos ; M.
Catonem Uticæ ſibi ipſum manus attuliſſe; regem va-
gum, a ſuis deſertum, ab omnibus aſpernari ; Saburam,
cjũſque copias, ab Sitio eſſe deletas; Uticæ Cæſarem
i106 mora receptum; de tanto exercitu reliquias efle
nullas, qui ſibi ſuiſque liberis prodeſſent: - a Caninio
proconſule, qui cum obſidebat, fide accepta: ſeque &
ſua omnia & oppidum praconſuli tranfdit.
LXXXII. Rex interim Juba.ab omnibus civitatibus
excluſus, deſperata ſalute; quum jam ccenatus eſſet cum
Petreio; ut per virtutem interfecti eſſe viderentur, ferro
inter ſe depugnant: atque firmior imbeciiliorem, Juba
Petrefum facile ferro conſumpſit: deinde ipſe fibi quum
conaretur giadio transjicere peclus, nec poſſet; preci-
bus a ſervo ſuo impetravit, ut ſe interficeret ; idque ob-
tinuit. |
LXXXIII. P. interim Sitius, pulſo exercitu Saburz
prefect Jubæ, iploque interfecto; quum iter cum paucis
per Mauritaniam ad Cæſarem faceret, fortè incidit in
Fauſtum Afraniin;que; qui eam manum habebant,
qua Uticam diripuerant, iterque in Hiſpaniam tende-
bant, & erant numero circiter MD, Itaque celeriter
nocturno tempore inſidiis diſpobtis, eos prima luce ad-
ortus, præter paucos equitcs, qui ex primo agmine fu-
gerant, re iquos aut inter ficit, aut in deditionem accipit;
Afranium & Fauſtum vivos capit, cum conjuge & libcris.
Paucis poſt diebus diſſenſione in exercitu orta, Fauſtus.
& Afranius interfic untur. Pompeiæ cum Fauſti liberis,
Cæſar incolumitatem ſuaque omnia conceſſit.
LXXXIV. Scipio interim, cum Damaſippo & Tor-
quato & Plztorio Ruſtiano, navibus longis diu multün-
que
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que jactati, quum Hiſpaniam peterent, ad Hipponem
regium deferuntur, ubi claſſis P. Sitii per 1d tempus erat:
i qua pauciora ab amplioribus circumventa navigia
deprimuntur: ib1que Scipio cum iis, quos paullo-ante
nominavi, interiit.
LXXXV. Cæſar interim, Zamæ auctione regia factà
boniſque eorum venditis, qui cives Romani contra po-
pulum Romanum arma tulerant; præmiiſque Zamen-
ſibus, qui de rege excludendo conlilium ceperant, tri-
butis; vectigalibüſque regiis abrogatis; ex 2
provincia facta, atque ibi Criſpo Saluſtio proconſule
cum imperio relicto; ipſe Zama egreſſus, Uticam ſe
recepit. Ibi bonis venditis eorum, qui ſub Juba Petrei6-
que ordines duxerant; item Thapſitanis H S xx millia,
conventui eorum HS xxx millia, Adrumetanis HS xxx,
conventui eorum HS L millia, multæ nomine, imponit :
civitates, bonaque eorum, ab omni injuria rapiniſque
defendit. Leptitanos, quorum ſuperioribus annis Juba
bona diripuerat: & ad ſenatum queſti per legatos, atque
arbitris a ſenatu datis, ſua receperant ; tricies centenis
millibus pondo olei, in annos fingulos, multat; ideo
quod initio, per diſſenſionem principum, ſocietatem
cum Juba inierant, eümque armis, militibus, pecunia
juverant. Tiſdritanos, propter humilitatem civitatis,
certo numero frumenti multat.
LXXXVI. His rebus geſtis; Idibus Jun. Uticæ claſ-
{em conſcendit, & poſt diem 111 Carales in Sardiniam
pervenit. Ibi Sulcitanos, quod Naſidium ejũſque claſſem
receperant, copiiſque juverant, H S c millibus multat ;
& pro decumys octavas pendere jubet: bonaque'pauco-
rum vendit; & ante diem 111 Kal, Quinct. naves con-
ſcendit; & a Caralibus ſecundum terram profectus,
duodetrigeſimo die, eo quod tempeſtatibus in portubus
cohibebatur, ad urbem Romam venit.
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A HIRTITI
COMMENTARIORUM
DER BELLO HISPANIENSI
LIBER UN Us.
J. TY Tanxacz ſuperato, Africa receptâ; qui a
115 P1115 cum adoiriernis Cn. Pompcig pm.
fugiſſent; quum & ulterioris Hiſpaniæ potitu
eſſet; dum Cæſar muneribus dandis in Italia detinetur;
uo facilias præſidia contra compararet Pompeius, i
dem unius cujuſque civitatis confugere cœpit. it
partim precibus, partim vi, bene magna comparatz
manu, provinciam vaſtare cœpit. Quibus in rebos
nonnullæ civitates ſua- ſponte auxilia mittebant ; iten
nonnullæ portas contra cludebant: ex quibus 6 qu
oppida vi ceperat; quum aliquis ex ea civitate opti:
de Cn. Pompeio meritus civis eſſet, propter pecunls
magnitudinem aliqua ei inferebatur cauſa, ut, co ©
medio ſublato, ex ejus pecunia latronum largitio fert
Ita paucis commodis hoſte hortato, majores augevant!
copiz : ideoque crebris nunciis in Italiam miffis, cv-W
tates contrariæ Pompeio auxilia fibi depoſtulabant. |
II. C. Cæſar dictator 111, deſignatus 1v, multis .
neribus ante confectis, quum celeri feſtinatione ad be
myo
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lum conficiendum in Hiſpaniam veniſlet ; legati cor-
dubenſes, qui a Cn. Pompeio diſceſſerant, Cæſari ob-
viam veniunt: a quibus nunciabatur, nourno tempore
oppidum Coraubæ capi pf? ; quod, nec opinantibus ad verſa-
pits us, provincia potitus et; ſimulque quod tabellarii
capti ent; qui a Cn. Pompeio diſpeſiti omnibus locis erant,
qui certiorem Cn. Pompeium de Cajaris adventu facerent.
Multa præterea veriſimilia proponebant. Quibos rebus
adductus; quos legatos ante exercitui pretecerat, Q.
Pedium & Q. Fabium Maximum, de ſuo adventu facit
cettiores; ut, quem fibi equitatum ex provincia feciſ-
ſent, præſidio mitterent. Ad quos celerius, quam ipſi
opinati ſunt, appropinquavit: atque, ut ipſe voluit,
equitatum ſibi præſidio habuit,
III. Erat idem temporis Sex. Pompeius frater, qui
cum præſidio Cordubam tenebat, quod ejus proyinciæ
caput eſſe ezinimabatur: iple autem Gn, Pompeius
adoleſcens Uliam oppidum oppugnabat; & fere jam
aliquot menſibus ibi detinebatur. Quo ex oppido, cog-
nito Cæſaris adventu, legati clam præſidia Cn. Pom-
peii Cæſarem quum adiſlent, petere cœperunt, ut ſibĩ
primo quoque tempore ſubſidium iaitteret. Cæſar eam
civitatem omni tempore optime de Populo Romano
meritam eſſe ſciens, x1 cohortes ſecunda vigilia jubet
proficiſci, parique equites numero; quibus præfecit ho-
minem ejus provinciæ notum, & non parum ſcientem,
L. Julium Paciecum; qui quum ad Cn. Pompeii præ-
ſidia veniſſet, incidit idem temporis, ut tempeſtate ad-
versa vehementique vento afflictaretur: qua vi tempe-
ſtatis ita obſcurabatur, ut vix proximum cognoſcere
poſſet. Cujus incommodum ſuminam utilitatem 'ipfis.
præbebat. Ita quum ad locum venerunt, jebet binos
equites incedere, & rectà per adverſariorum præſidia ad
oppidum contendere: mediiſque ex præſidiis quum
quæreretur, ent, unus ex noſtris reſpondit ut {-
kat verbum facere; nam id temporis conari ad murum acce-
dere ut oppidum capiant & partim tempeſtate impediti
2c non poterant. diligentiam præſtare, partim illo
etponſo deterrebantur. Quum ad portam appropin-
quällent, ſigno dato, ab oppidanis ſunt recepti ; & pe-
4 dites
.
392 A. HIRTII
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dites equitẽſque, clamore facto, diſpoſitis ibi partin
qui remanſere, eruptionem in adverſariorum caſtra fe.
cerunt. Sic illud quum inſcientibus accidiſſet; exiſi.
mabat magna pars hominum, qui in 1is caſtris fuiſſent,
ſe prope captos eſſe.
IV. Hoc miſſo ad Uliam præſidio, Cæſar, ut Pon.
peium ab ea oppugnatione deduceret, ad Corduban
contendit: ex quo itinere loricatos viros fortes cum
equitatu ante præmiſit; qui ſimul in conſpectu oppidi
fe dederunt, in equis recipiuntur. Hoc a Cordubenſ.
bus nequaquam poterat animadverti, Appropinguan-
tibus, ex oppido bene magna multitudo ad equitatun
concidendum quum exiſlet; loricati, ut ſupra ſcripſ.
mus, ex equis deſcenderunt, & magnum prœbium ſe.
cerunt; fic, ut ex infinita hominum multitudine pas-
ei in opnidum ſe reciperent. Hoc timore adduQu;
Sex. Pompeius litteras fratri miũt, ut celertter Hi l.
fedia acniret; ne prius Ceſar Cordubam caperet, puòm ih
1. venifſet. Ita Cn. Pompeius. Ulia prope captà, litte-
ris fratris excitus, cum copiis ad Cord ubam iter facere
cœpit. |
V. Cæſar, quum ad flumen Bætim veniſſet, neque
propter altitudinem fluminis tranfire poſſet; Japidibu
corbes plenos dimiſit: ita, inſuper ponte ſacto, copia
ad caſtra tripartito tranſduxit. Tenebant adverts
oppidum è regione pontis trabes, ut ſupra ſcripſimus
bipartito, Huc quum Pompeius cum ſuis copiis ve.
niſſet, ex adverſo pari ratione caſtra ponit. Cæſar, u
eum ab oppido commeatũque excluderet, brachium 20
pontem ducere cœpit: pari idem eonditione Pompeids
Hic inter duces duos fit contentio, uter priùs ponten
occuparet: ex qua conditione quotidiana minuta pres
lia fiebant; ut modd hi, modo illi, ſaperiores diſce-
derent, Quæ res quum ad majorem contentionel
veniſſet, ab utriſque cominus pugna iniqua: dum CM
pidiùs locum ſtudent tenere, propter pontem coangs
ſtabantur; & fluminis ripis appropinquantes, coangr
ſtati præcipitabantur. Hic alteri alteris non fojun
mortem morti exaggerabant, ſed tumulos tumulis ex
quabant. Ita diebus compluribus cupiebat Czlar,
q%
pet BeLLo HISPHANIENSI. 393
qui conditione poſſet, adverſarios in æquum locum de-
ducere, & primo quoque tempore de bello decernere.
VI. Quum animadverteret adverſarios minime velle,
quos ideo A via retraxerat, ut in æquum deduceret:
copiis lumen tranſductis, noctu jubet ignes fieri mag-
nos. Ita firmiſſimum ejus præſidium Ateguam profici-
W {citur. Id quum Pompeius ex perfugis reſciſſet; ea
n die, per viarum difficultatem & angultias, carra com-
W plura multaſque baliftas retraxit, & ad Cordubam ſe
recepit. Cæſar mumtionibus Ateguam oppugnare, &
brachia circumducere cœpit. Cuyjus rei Pompeio quum
nuncius effet allatus, eo die proficiſcitur, Cujus in
adventum, præſidii cansa, Cæſar complura caſteila oc-
cupavit, partim ſuo equitatu, partim ut pedeſtris copia
ein ſtatione & in excubitu caſtris præſidio eſſe poſſent.
Hic in advento Pompeii incidit, ut matutino tempore
us WS nebula eſſet craſſiſſima: itaque in illà obſcuratione, cum
{ auliquot cohortibus & equitum turmis circumcludunt Cæ-
„ ſaris equites, & concidunt, fic, ut vix in ea cxde pauct
c- effugerent.
i RS VII. Inſequenti nocte caſtra ſua incendit Pompeius,
= & trans flumen Salſum per convalles caſtra inter duo
e oppida Ateguam & Ucubim in monte conſtituit. Cæ-
0; WS far in mumtionibus, cæteriſque quæ ad oppidum op-
144 WS pugnandum opus fuerunt, aggerem vineaſque agere
u WS inltituit, Hazc loca ſunt montuoſa, & natura edita ad
% rem militarem; quæ planitie dividuntur, Salſo flumine;
e- proxime tamen Ateguam, ut ad flumen fint circiter
i WS pailuum duo millia. Ex ea regione oppidi, in mon-
tibus caſtra habuit poſita Pompeius, in conſpectu utro-
u. WY ramque oppidorum ; neque ſuis auſus eſt ſubſidio ve-
en nire. Aquilas habuit & ſigna x111 legionum : ſed, ex
. quibus aliquid firmamenti ſe exiſtimabat habere, duæ
ce. fuerunt vernaculæ, quæ à Trebonio transfugerant ; &
en una facla ex coloniis, quæ fucrunt in his regionibus:
cl- quarta fuit Afraniana, ex Africa, quam ſecum addux-
or erat; reliquæ ex fugitivis auxiliares conſiſtebant: nam
de levi armatura & equitatu, longe & virtute & nu-
ung mero noltri erant ſuperiores. a
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VIII. Accedebat huc, ut longius bellum duceret Pom-
peius; quod loca ſunt edita, & ad caſtrorum munitio-
nes non parum idonea; nam fere totius ulterioris Hiſ-
paniæ regio, propter terræ fecunditatem inopem dif-
Cileèmque habet * & non minus copio-
ſam aquationem. Hic etiam, propter barbarorum cre-
bras excurſiones, omnia loca, quæ ſunt ab oppidis re.
mota, turribus & munitionibus retinentur; & ſicut in
Africa, rudere, non tegulis, teguntur; fimulque in his
habent ſpecalas, &, propter altitudinem, longe latéque
proſpiciunt. Item oppidorum magna pars ejus pro-
vinciæ, montibus fere munita, & natura excellentibus
locis eſt conflituta; ut fimul aditus adſcenſuſque ha-
beat difficiles. Ita ab oppugnationibus natura loci dil-
tinentur, ut civitates Hiſpaniæ non facile ab hoftibus
capiantur. Id quod in hoc contigit bello. Nam ubi
inter Ateguam & Ucubim, quæ -oppida ſupra ſunt
ſcripta, Pompeius habuit caſtra conſtituta, in conſpectu
duorum oppidorum; ab ſuis caſtris circiter millia paſ-
ſuum iv, grumus eſt excellens natura, qui appellatur
Caſtra Poſthumiana; ibi, præſidii causa, caſtellum Cæſar
habuit conſtitutum. |
IX. Pompeius, qui eodem jugo tegebatur loci natu-
Ta, & quod remotum erat a cailris Cæſaris: animad-
vertebat loci difficultatem; &, quod flumine Salſo in-
tercludebatur, non eſſe commiſſurum Cæſarem, ut in
tanta loci difficultate ad ſubſidium ſubmittendum {:
mitteret. Iſta fretus opinjone tertia vigilia profectus,
caſtellum oppugnare ccepit, ut laborantibus ſuccurreret,
Noftri, quum appropinquaſſent, clamore repentino,
teloramque multitudine, jadtus facere cœperunt; ut
magnam partem hominum vulneribus afficerent. Qu
peracto, quum ex caſtello repugnare cœpiſſent, & ma-
joribus caſtris Cæſari nuncius eflet allatus; cum 111 le
gionibus eſt profectus: & quum ad eos appropingualit,
tuga perterriti multi ſunt interfecti, complures capt:
multi præterea armis exuti fugerunt; quorum ſcuta ſuit
Telata Lxxx. | 1
X. Inſequenti luce Arguetius ex Italia cum equitatu
venit: is ſigna Saguntinorum retulit v, que ab oppida-
: ns
vt BeLLo HTISPANTENSI. 395
nis cepit, Suo loco præteritus eſt, quod equites ex Ita-
lia cum Aſprenate ad Cæſarem veniſſent. Ea nccte
Pompeius caſtra incendit, & ad Cordubam versùs iter
facere cœpit. Rex nomine Indo, qui cum equitatu ſuas
copias adduxerat; dum cupidiùs agmen adverſariorum
inſequitur, à vernaculis legionariis exceptus eſt & inter-
fectus. Poſtero die equites noſtri longiùs ad Cordubam
versùs perſecuti ſunt eos, qui commeatus ad caſtra Pom-
peii ex oppido portabant ; ex iis capti L cum jumen-
tis ad noſtra adducti ſunt caſtra. Eodem die Q Mar-
cius tribunus militum qui fuiſſet Pompeii, ad nos tranſ-
fugit: &, noctis tertia vigilia, in oppido acerrimè pug-
natum eſt; ignemque multum miſerunt; ſicut & omne
genus, quibus ignis per jactus ſolitus eſt mitti. Hoc
præterito tempore, C. Fundanius eques Rom. ex caſtris
adverſariorum ad nos transfugit. |
XI. Poſlero die ex legione vernacula milites ſunt
capti ab equitibus noſtris duo, qui dixerunt ſe ſervos
eſſe; quum venirent. cogniti ſunt à militibus, qui an-
tea cum Fabio & Pedio fuerant, & a Trebonio tranſ-
fugerant. Eis ad ignoſcencum nulla elt data facul-
tas; & A militibus noſtris interfecti ſunt. Idem tem-
poris, capti tabellarii, qui a Corduba ad Pompeium
miſſi erant, perperamque ad caſtra noſtra pervenerant;
præciſis manibus, miſſi ſunt facti. Pari conſuetudine,
vigilia ſecunda ex oppido ignem multum teloramque
multitudinem jactando, bene magnum tempus con-
ſumpſerunt; complureſque vulneribus affecerunt. Præ-
terito noctis tempore, eruptionem in legionem ſextam
fecerunt, quum in opere noſtri diſtenti eſſent; acriter-
que pugnare cœperunt: quorum vis repreſſa a noftris,
eth oppidani ſuperiore loco defendebantur. Ii quum
eruptionem facere cœpiſſent, tamen virtute militum no-
ſtrorum, etſi inferiore loco premebantur, tamen repulſi
adverſarii bene multis vulneribus affecti in oppidum ſe
contulerunt.
XII. Poſtero die Pompeius ex caſtris ſuis brachium
cœpit ad flumen Salſum facere: & quum noſtri equites
pauci in ſtatione fuiſſent à pluribus reperti de ſta-
tione ſunt dejecti, & occiſi tres, Eo die A. Valgius,,
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ſenatoris filius, cujus frater in caſtris Pompeii fuiſſet;
omnibus ſuis rebus relictis, equum conſcendit, & fu-
it. Speculator de legione ſecunda Pompeiank captus
a militibus, & interfectus eſt. Idem temporis glans
miſſa eſt inſcripta; quo die ad oppidum capiendum ac-
cederent, ſeſe ſcutum efſe poſiturum. Qua ſpe nonnulli,
dum fine periculo murum aſcendere & oppidum po-
tiri poſſe ſe ſperarent, poſtero die ad murum opus
facere cœperunt, & bene magna prioris muri pars
dejecta eſt. Quo facto, ab oppidanis, ac fi. ſuarum
partium eſſent, conſervati, mi//os facere loricatos, quigut
prefidii causa præpoſiti oppido a Pompeio efſent, orabant,
Quibus reſpondit Cæſar, /e conditiones dare non acci-
pere, conſueviſſe, Qui quum in oppidum revertiflent,
relato reſponſo, clamore ſublato, omni genere telorum
emiſſo, pugnare pro muro toto cœperunt: propter
quod fere magna pars hominum, qui in caſtris noſtris
eſſent, non dubitarunt, quin eruptionem eo die efſent
facturi. Ita, corona circumdata, pugnatum eſt ah
quamdiu vehementiſſimè; fimulque baliſta miſſa à noſ-
tris turrem dejecit: qua adverſariorum, qui in ea tune
fuerant, v dejecii ſunt; & puer, qui baliſtam ſolitus
erat obſervare,
XIII. Eo præterito tempore, Pompeius trans flumen
Salſum caſtellum conſtituit; neque a noſtris prohibitus;
falsaque illa opinione gloriatus eſt, quod prope in
noſtris partibus locum tenuiſſet. Item inſequenti die
eadem conſuetudine dum longiùs proſequitur, quo lo-
co equites noſtri ſtationem habuerant; aliquot turmæ
cum levi armatura, impetu facto, loco ſunt dejez;
& propter paucitatem noftrorum equitum, ſimul cum
levi armatura inter turmas adverſariorum protritæ.
Hoc in conſpettu utrorumque caſtrorum gerebatur:
& majore Pompeiani exſultabant gloria, longids quod
noſtris cedentibus proſequi cœpiſſent. Qui quum al-
quo loco a noſtris recepti eſſent, ut conſueſſent, es
ſimili virtute clamore facto; averſati ſunt prœliun
facere. a g
XIV. Ferè apud exercitus hzc eſt equeſtris prelil
conſuetudo. Quum eques ad dimicandum, dimiſo
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Dp E BELLO HisPANIENSI. 397
equo, cum pedite progreditur; nequaquam par habetur.
Id quod in hoc accidit certamine. Quum pedites ex
levi armaturà lecti, ad pugnam, equitibus noſtris nec
opinantibus, veniſſent; idque in prœlio animadverſum
eſſet; complures equites deſcenderunt. Ita exiguo tem-
pore eques pedeſtre, pedes equeſtre prœlium facere
cœpit; uſque ed, ut cædem proxime a vallo fecerint :
in quo prœlio, adverſariorum ceciderunt Cxx111; com-
plureſque armis exuti, multi vulneribus affecti, in caſtra
ſunt redacti: noſtri ceciderunt 111; ſaucii x11 pedites,
& equites v. |
XV. Ejus diei inſequenti tempore, priſtina conſuetu-
dine, pro muro pugnari ceeptum eſt, Quum bene mag-
nam multitudinem telorum, ignemque noſtris defenden-
tibus injecifſent ; nefandum crudelifiimimque facinus
ſunt aggreſſi; in conſpetaque noſtro hoſpites, qui in
oppido erant jugulare, & de muro præcipites mittere
cœperunt, ſicut apud barbaros: quod poſt hominum
memoriam numquam eſt factum.
XVI. Hojus diei extremo tempore, a Pompeianis
clam noſtros tabellarius et miſſus, ut ea nocte turres
aggeremque incenderent, & 111 vigiha eruptionem
facerent. Ita igne teloramque multitudine jafta, quum
bene magnam partem muri conſumpſiſſent, portam,
quz E regione & in conſpectu Pompeii caſtrorum fue-
rat, aperuerunt; copizque tote eruptionem fecerunt;
ſecumque extulerunt calcatas ad foilas complendas, &
harpagones ad caſas (quæ ftramentitiz ab noſtris hy-
bernorum causa ædificatæ erant) diruendas & incen-
dendas: præterea argentum, & veſtimenta; ut, dum
noltri in preda detinerentur, illi, cæde factà, ad præ-
ſidia Pompeit ſe reciperent: nam, quod exiſtimabat
eos poſſe conatum efficere, nocte tota ultra ibat flu-
men Salſum in acie. Quod factum, licet nec opinan-
tibus noſtris eſſet geſtum; tamen virtute freti, repul-
los, multiſque vulneribus affectos, oppido repreſſerunt;
przdaque & armis eorum ſunt potiti; vivoſque ali-
quos ceperunt, qui poſtero ſunt interfecti die. Eodem-
que tempore transfuga nunciavit ex oppido, Junium,
qui in cuniculo fuiſſet, jugulatione oppidanorum facta,
dla-
398 . 3H © & &
clamaſle ; facinus /e refandum, & ſcelus fecifſe : nam 9
nibil meruiſſe, quare tali pand afficerentur, qui eos ad ary
& focos ſuos recepiſſent ; eoſyue hoſpitium ſeelers contamini),
multa præterea dixiſſe: qua oratione deterritos, ampli
Jugulationem non feciſſe.
XVII. Ita poſtero die Tullius legatus cum C. Anw.
nio Luſitano venit, & apud Cæſarem verba fecit. CN
nam quidem Dii immortales feciſſent, ut tuus potius nil,
quam Cn. Pompeii, factus eſem; & hanc wirtutis conſis
tiam in tud victorid, non in illius calamitate prefiar.
eujus funeſtæ laudes quippe ad hanc fortunam reciderunt, i
ciues Rom. indigentes præſaii, & propter patriæ ludui/an
perniciem, dedamur heo/lium numero: qui neque in illi
praſperd acie primam fortunam, neque in adverſa ſecunian
obtinuimus victoriam: qui legionum tot impetus ſuſtentante,
nofturnis diurniſque operibus gladiorum ictus telerunut
miſſus exſpectantes, witti & dejerti a Pompeio, tud wirtut
Superati, ſalutem a tua climentid depoſcimus, petimuſque u,
gualem te gentibus prefiitiſti, fimilem in civium dd tim
prefies. Et gualem, ait, gentibus me fraſtiti, fimilem it
civium deditione præſtabo.
XVIII. Remiſſis legatis, quum ad portam veniſlent;
Tiberius Tullius quum introcuntem C. Antonium inſe-
eutus non eſſet, revertit ad portam, & hominem appre
hendit. Quod Tiberius quum fieri animadvertit, fin!
Pugionem <duxit, & manum ejus incidit. Ita reſags
runt ad Cæſarem. Eodemque tempore fignifer de be.
gione prima trasfugit; & nunciavit, quo die eg
prelium fattum efjet, ſus ſig ue perifſe bemines xxxV; nige
ficere caſtris Cn. Pompeii nunciari, neque dici perifſe quit
guam. Servus, cujus dominus in Cæſaris caltris fa
ſet; uxoremque & filium in oppido reliquerat; com!
num jugulavit: & ita clam a Cæſaris præſidiis in Fon
peii caſtra diiceflit, & indicium glande ſcriptum mitt
per quod certior fieret Cæſar, quæ in oppido ad ee
fendendum compararentur. Ita, litteris acceptis, quit
I: oppidum revertiſſent, qui mittere glandem 1n1cnÞ
tam ſolebant, inſequenti tempore duo Luſitani fran
transfuge nunciarunt, quam Pompeius concionem i
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adverſariorum conſpectu ſe deducerent ad mare weriim :
Unum reſpondiſſe: ut, petius ad dimicandum deſcendere nt,
quam fignum fugæ oftenderent : tum, qui ita locutus eſſet,
jugulatum. Eode m tempore tabellarii e jus deprehenſi,
qui ad oppidum veniebant; quorum litteras Cæſar op-
pidanis objecit: &, qui vitam ſibi peteret, juſſit tur-
rem ligneam oppidanorum incendere: id ſi feciſſet,
ei ſe promiſit omnia conceſſurum: quod difficile erat
factu, ut eam turrem quis ſine periculo incenderet.
Ita ** facturus de ligno, quum propius acceſſiſſet, ab
oppidanis eſt occiſus. Eadem nocte transfuga nunciavit,
Pompeium & Labienum de jugulatione oppidanorum
indignatos eſſe.
XIX. Vigilia ſecunda, propter multitudinem telorum
turris lignea, quæ noſtra fuiſſet, ab imo vitium fecit,
uſque ad tabulatum ſecundum & tertium. Eodem tem-
pore, pro muro pugnatum acerrime; & turrim noſtram,
ut ſuperiorem, incenderunt; idcirco quod ventum op-
pidani ſecundum habuerunt. Inſequenti luce mater-fa-
milias de muro ſe dejecit, & ad nos tranſiliit; dixit-
que, /e cum familia conſtitutum habuiſſe, ut und transfu-
gerent ad Cæſarem; illam oppriſſam & jugulatam. Hoc
one tempore tabellæ de muro ſunt dejectæ, in qui-
us ſcriptum eſt inventum: L. Minutius Cæſari Si
mihi vitam tribuis, quoniam a Cn. Pompeio ſum defertus ;
qualem me illi prefiiti, tali wirtute & conflantia futurum
me in te eſe præ tabu. Eodem tempore oppidanorum
legati, qui antea exierant, Cæſarem adierunt; / fbi
vitam concederet, ſeſe inſequenti die oppidum s dedituros.
Quibus reſpondit; /e Cæſarem eſſe, fidemgue præſtaturum.
Ita ante diem x1 Kalend. Martii, oppido potitus, Im-
perator eſt appellatus,
XX. Et Pompeius, ex perfugis quum deditionem
oppidi factam eſſe ſciſſet, caſtra movit Ucubim versus ;
& circum ea loca caſtella diſpoſuit, & munitienibus ſe
continere cœpit. Cæſar movit, & propidùs caſtra caſtris
contulit. Eodem tempore manè loricatus unus ex le-
gione vernacula ad nos transfugit, & nunciavit. Pom-
feium ofpidanes Ucubenſes conwvocaſſe, ii/que imperaviſſes
ut, diligentid adbibita, perguirerent, qui efſent ſuarum
fare
400 A, HIN
partium, itimque adwerſariorum victoria fautores, Hot
præterito tempore in oppido, quod fuit captum, ſervy;
eſt prehenſus in cuniculo, quem ſuprà demonſtravimus
dominum jugulaſſe: is vivus eſt combuſtus. Idemque
temporis centuriones loricati viii ad Cæſarem tranſ.
fugerunt ex legione vernacula; & equites noſtri cum
adverſariorum equitibus congreſſi ſunt, & ſaucii ali.
quot occiderunt ex levi armatuia. Ea nocte ſpeculz-
tores prehenſi ſervi 111, & unus ex legione vernacula;
ſervi ſunt in crucem ſublati; militi, cervices abſciſſæ.
XXI. Poſtero die equites cum levi armatura ex ad-
verſariorum caſtris ad nos transfugerunt. Et co tem.
Pore circiter x1 equites ad aquatores noſtros excucurre-
runt: nonnullos interfecerunt, item alios vivos abduxe.
runt. Ex equitibus capti ſunt equites viii. Inſequent
die Pompeius ſecuri percuſſit homines Lxx1v, qui di.
cebantur eſſe fautores Cæſaris victoriæ Reliquos in
oppidum juſſit deduci; ex equitibus effugerunt xx &
ad Cæſarem venerunt.
XXII. Hoc præterito tempore, qui in oppido Ategui
- Burſavolenſes capti ſunt, legati profecti ſunt cum 50.
ſtris, uti rem geſtam Burſavolenſibus referrent, quid
ſperarent de Cn. Pompeio, quum viderent hoſpites ju.
gulari; præterea multa ſcelera ab iis fieri, qui pra:
dii causa ab his reciperentur. Qui quum ad oppidun
veniſſent; noſtri, qui fuiſſent equites Rom. & ſenato-
res, non ſunt auſi introire in oppidum, preterquan
qui ejus civitatis fuiſſent. Quorum reſponſis ultro ci
troque acceptis & redditis, quum ad noſtros fe recipe.
rent, qui extra oppidum fuiſſent, illi de præſidio is.
ſecuti, ex averſione legatos jugularant. Duo reliqu)
qui ex eis fugerunt, Cæſari rem geſtam detulerunt, E
ſpeculatores ad oppidum Ateguam miſerunt: qui quun
certum comperiſſent legatorum reſponſa ita eſſe yeſta,
quemadmodum illi retuliſſent; ab oppidanis concurli
facto, eum, qui legatos jugulaſſet, lapidare, & ei ms
nus intentare cœperunt; iius opera Je perifſe. Ita vi
riculo liberatus, petiit ab oppidanis, ut ei liceret l-
gatum ad Cæſarem proficiſci ; illi ſe ſatisfacturum. Pe
teſtate data: quum inde efiet profectus; præſidio com
Parat,
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parato; quum bene magnam manum feciſſet; & noc-
turno tempore, per fallaciam, in oppidum eſſet _
tus; jugulationem magnam facit: principibus, qui ſibi
contrarii fuiſſent, interfectis, oppidum in ſuam poteſta-
tem recipit. H6c præterito tempore, ſervi transfugæ
nunciaverunt, oppidanorum bona vendi; nec cui extra
vallum licere exire, niſi diſcinctum; iccircoque, ex quo
die oppidum Ategua eſſet captum, metu conterritos
complures profugere in Bethuriam, neque ſibi ullam
ſpem victoriæ propoſitam habere; ut ſi quis ex noſtris
transfugerit, in levem armaturam conjici, eumque non
amplius xv1 accipere.
XXIII. Inſequenti tempore Cæſar caſtris caſtra con-
tulit, & brachium ad flumen Salſum ducere cœpit.
Hic dum in opere noſtri diſtenti eſſent, complures ex
ſuperiore loco adverſariorum decucurrerunt: nec deti-
nentibus *** noſtris, multis telis injectis, complures
vulneribus affecere. Nie tamen, ut ait Ennius, neftrz
ceſſere parumper. Itaque, præter conſuetudinem, quum
A noſtris a e eſſet cedere; centuriones ex
legione v flumen tranſgreſſi duo, reſtituerunt aciem;
acriterque eximia virtute plures quum agerent, ex ſu-
periore loco multitudine telorum alter eorum conci-
dit. Ita, quum is compar preœlium facerę cœpiſſet,
& quum undique ſe circumveniri animadvertiſſet, pa-
rumper ingreſſus pedem offendit. Hujus concidentis
viri caſu paſſim audito, quum complures adverſariorum
concurſum facerent, equites noſtri tranſgreſſi interiore
loco adverſarios ad vallum egere cœperunt. Ita dum
cupidiùs intra præſidia illorum ſtudent cædem facere, &
turmis & levi armatura ſunt intercluſi. Quorum niſi
ſumma virtus fuiſſet, vivi capti eſſent; nam & muniti-
one præſidii ita coanguitabantur, ut eques ſpatio inter-
cluſo vix ſe defendere poſſe, Ex his, utroque genere
pugnz, complures ſunt vulneribus affecti; in quis etiam
Clodius Aquitius: inter quos ita cominus elt pugna-
tum, ut ex noſtris, præter 11 centuriones, fit nemo de-
ſideratus, gloria ſe efferentes. |
XXIV. Poſtero die ab Soricaria utrzque convenere
copiz, Noſtri brachia ducere cœperunt. Pompeius
quum
402 os BY Ke 9 W.
quum animadverteret caſtello ſe excludi Aſpavia, quo
ab-Ucubi millia paſſuum v diſtat ; hæc res neceſlarij
vocabat ut ad dimicandum deſcenderet : neque tamen
æquo loco ſui poteſtatem faciebat, ſed ex grumo excel.
ſum tumulum capiebat, uſque eo, ut neceſſariò cogere.
tur iniquum locum ſubire. Quo facto, quum utrorim-
que copiæ tumulum excellentem petiſſent, prohibit: l
noſtris ſunt, dejectique planitie: quæ res ſecundun
noſtris efficiebat prœlium. Undique autem cedentibys
adverſariis, noſtri magna in cæde verſabantur. Quibug
mons, non virtus, ſaluti fuit. Quo ſubſidio tunc, nil
adveſperaſlet, a paucioribus noſtris omni auxilio privat
eſſent: nam ceciderunt ex levi armatura, cccxx1v; et
legionariis, Cxxxv111; præterquam quorum arma &
ſpolia ſunt allata. Ita pridie 11 centurionum interito
hac adverſariorum pcena eſt litata.
XXV. Inſequenti die, pari conſuetudine, quum 20
eundem locum ejus præſidium veniſſet, prittino ii
ſuo utebantur initituto: nam preter equites, null
loco æquo ſe committere audebant. Quum noſtri in
opere eſſegt, equitum copiæ concurſus facere cceperunt:
ſimülque vociferantibus legionariis, quum locum eftla
gitarent, ut conſueti inſequi exiſtimare poſſent ſe pa-
ratiſſimos eſſe ad dimicandum, noſtri ex humili com
valle bene longe ſunt egreſſi, & planitie in æquo loco
conſtiterunt, Illi tamen proculdubio ad congredier-
dum in æquum locum non ſunt auſi deſcendere, prz:
ter unum Antiſtium Turpionem, qui, fidens viribus, 1 We
adverſariis ſibi parem eſſe neminem cogitare cœpi.
Hic, ut fertur, Achillis Memnoniſque congreſſus. Q
Pompeius Niger, eques Romanus Italicenſis, ex ac We
noſtrà ad congrediendum progreſſus eſt. Quoniam fe.
rocitas Antiſtii omnium mentes converterat ab pee
ad ſpectandum, acies ſunt diſpoſitæ: nam inter bel
tores principes dubia erat poſita victoria, ut propè .
deretur finem bellandi duorum dirimere pugoa. l
avidi cupidique ſuarum quiſque partium, [*** expe
torum virorum fautorümque voluntas habebatur. Qu#
rum virtute alacri quum ad dimicandum in planiteg
ſe contuliſlent, ſcutorümque laudis inſignis pratulg®®
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opus cælatum; quorum “““ pugna eſſet prope profes
dirempta, niſi propter equitum conceſſum, ut ſupra de-
monſtravimus, levis armatura præſidii causa non longe
ab opere caſtrorum conſtitiſſet.] Ut noſtros equites in
receptu, dum ad caſtra redeunt, ad verſarii cupidius ſunt
inſecuti; univerſi, clamore facto, impetum dederunt.
Ita metu perterriti, quum in fuga eſſent, multis amiſſis,
in caſtra ſe recipiunt. |
XXVI. Cæſar, ob virtutem, turmæ Caſſianæ donavit
millia x111, & præfecto torques aureos 11, & levi ar-
maturæ millia x. Hoc die A. Bæbius, & C. Flavius,
& A. Trebellius equites Romani Aſtenſes, argento
prope tecti equos, ad Cæſarem trans fugerunt: qui nun-
ciaverunt, equites Romanos conjuraſfſe omnes, qui in caſtris
Pompeii efſent, ut tranjitionem facerent; ſervi indicio omnes
in cuſtodiam efſe conjectos; e quibus, occaſione capta, ſe
tran;/ugiſſe. Item hoc die litteræ ſunt deprehenſæ, quas
mittebat Urſaonem Cn. Pompeius: S. V. G. E. V.
Eſſi, prout neftra felicitas, ex ſententia adver/arios adbuc
propuljos habemus ; tamen, fi equo loco ſui poteſiatem face-
rent, celerius quam veſtra opinio fert, bellum confeciſſem.
ved exercitum tironum non audent in campum deducere ; noſ-
rrijgue aaoue fret prefidiit, bellum ducunt : nam fengulat
civitates circumſident; ind? ſibi commeatus capiunt. Yuars
& civitates naſtrarum parti um conſervabo, & beilum primo
guoque tempore conficiam. Co bortes in animo habeo ad vt
mittere. Profectò noſtro commeatu privati, neceſſaris ad
dimicandum deſcendent.
XX VII. Inſequenti tempore, quum noftri temere in
opere diſtenti eſſent; equites in oliveto, dum lignan-
tur, interfecti ſunt aliquot. Servi transfugerunt, qui
W nunciaverunt a. d. 111 Nonarum Martii, prœlio, ad
Soritiam quod factum eſt, ex eo tempore metum eſſe
magnum; & Attium Varum circùm caſtella præeſſe.
Eo die Pompeius caſtra movit, & contra Hiſpalim in
oliveto conſtitit. Cæſgar priuſquam eodem eſt profec-
tus, luna hora circiter vi viſa eſt. Ita caſtris motis
Ucubim, præſidium, quod Pompeius reliquit, juſſit ut
incenderent; &, deuſto oppido, in caſtra majora ſe
veciperent. Inſequenti tempore Ventiſponte oppidum
quum
404 A Hir 1 1
interceptus eſt à noſtris & fuſti percuſſus. H inc itinere
incidit tempore. Planities inter utraque caſtra interce-
turd. Hine dirigens proxima planities zquabatur:
cujus decurſum antecedebat rivus, qui ad eorum ae.
tempus prope ab Diis immortalibus illud tributum elit
e
e We ab
quum oppugnare cœpiſſet, deditione faQa, iter fecit i
Carrucam ; contraque Pompeium caſtra poſuit. Pompeiy,
oppidum, quod contra ſua præſidia portas clauſift,
incendit: mileſque, qui fratrem ſuum in caſtris jugulaſte,
facto, in campum Mundenſem quum eflet ventum, caſt
contra Pompeium conſtituit.
XXVIII. Sequenti die quum iter facere Cæſar cun
copiis vellet, renunciatum eſt ab ſpeculatoribus, Pom.
peium de 111 vigilia in acie ſtetiſſe Hoc nuncio al.
lato, vexillum propoſuit. Iccirco enim copias eduxe-
rat, quod Urſaonenſium civitati, qui erant fautores
antea litteras miſerat; Cz/arem nolle in convallem d.
ſcendere, quod majorem partem exercitum tironum habert,
He litterz vehementer confirmabant mentes oppids.
norum. Ita hac opinione fretus, totum ſe facere poſ
exiſtimabat. Etenim & natura loci defendebatur, &
ipſius oppidi munitione, ubi caſtra habuit conſtituta;
namque, ut ſuperiùs demonſtravimus, loca excellenti
tumulis contineri “**: ¶ Interim nulla planities dividit:|
XXIX. Sed ratione nulla placuit taceri id, quod e
my Rd © — A _ = f —
debat, circiter millia paſſuum v; ut auxilia Pompei
duabus defenderentur rebus, oppidi excelſi & loci ni
ceſſum ſummam efficiebat loci iniquitatem; nam pi
luſtri & voraginoſo ſolo currens erat ad dextrum. |
Cæſar, quum aciem directam vidiſſet, non habuit di.
bium, quin media planitie in æquum ad (dimicandum
adverſarii procederent. Hoc erat in omnium conſpettu,
Huc accedebat, ut locus illa planitie equitatum o1nare!,
& diei Soliſque ſerenitas; ut mirificum & optandin
ad prœlium committendum. Noſtri lætari, nonouli
etiam timere ; quod in eum locum res fortunæque om.
nium deducerentur, ut quidquid poſt horam caſus tribs
iſſet, in dubio poneretur. Itaque noſtri ad dimicandun
procedunt; id quod adverfarios exiſtimabamus eſſe fac-
turos; qui tamen à munitione oppidi mille pn
ong
Dt Bello HISPANIENSI. 405
longiis non audebant procedere; in quo fibi prope
murum adverſarii prœliandum conſtituebant. Itaque noſ-
tri procedunt. Interdum æquitas loci adverſarios effla-
gitabat, ut tali conditione contenderent ad victoriam:
neque tamen illi a ſua conſuetudine decedebant, ut aut
ab excelſo loco aut ab oppido diſcederent. Noſtri pede
preſſo propiùs rivum quum appropinquaſlent, adverſarii
patrocinari loco iniquo non deſinunt.
XXX. Erat acies x111' aquilis conſtituta, quæ lateri-
: bus equitatu tegebatur, cum levi armatura millibus v1.
j Præterea auxiliares accedebant, prope alterum tantum,
.. WS Noftra præſidia Lx xx cohortibus, VIII millibus.equi-
„in. Ita, in extrema planitie iniquum in locum noſtri
„ gduum appropinquailent, paratus hoſtis erat ſuperior; at
tranſeundi ſuperius iter vehementer eſſet periculoſum.
Quod quum a Cæſare eſſet animadverſum; ne quid te-
mere culpa ſua ſequius admitteretur, eum locum definire
Wcc:pit. Quod quum hominum auribus eſſet objectum;
moleſte & acerbe accipiebant ſe impediri, quò minus
Wprezlium conficere poſſent. Hac mora adverſarios alas
riores efficiebat; Cz/aris copias timore impediri ad com-
niltendum prælium. Ita ſe efferentes, iniquo loco ſui
Wpoteſtatem faciebant, ut magno cum periculo acceſſus
eorum haberetur. Hic Decumani ſuum locum cornu
+ extrum tenebant, ſiniſtrum 111 & v legio, itemque cæ-
r: tera auxilia & equitatus. Prœlium clamore facto com-
1 mittitur.
+ SS XXXI. Hic etſi virtute noſtri antecedebant, adverſa-
1 ii loco ſuperiore defendebantur acerrimè, & vehemens
u. ebat ab utriſque clamor, telorümque miſſu concurſus;
ne, ut prope noſtri diffiderent yittoriz : congreſſus enim
Ia; K clamor, quibus rebus maxime hoſtes conterrentur, in
e ollatu pari erant conditione. Itaque ex utroque genere
om agnæ quum parem virtutem ad bellandum contuliſſent,
Ct oraum miſſu fixa cumulatur, & concidit adverſariorum
W Atitudo. Dextrum demonttravimus Decumanos cornu -
m. enuiſſe: qui, etſi erant pauci, tamen, propter virtutem,
hy: 33n0 adverſarios tima:e eorum opera afficiebant; quod -
un luo loco hoſtes vehementer premere cœperunt; ut ad
- dium, ne ab latere noſtri occuparent, legio adverſa-
bus riorum
bat. Hic, ut ait Ennius, pes pede premitur, armis .
Rom, prom ex urbe, partim ex provincia, ad mil!
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406 UH TaT'rt
riorum tranſduci cœpta fit ad dextrum. Quæ ſimul eq
mota, equitatus Cæſaris finiltrum cornu premere ccpit,
At ii eximia virtute prœlium facere incipiunt, ut locus
in acie ab ſubſidium veniendi non daretur Ita, quum
clamori eſſet intermiſtus gemitus, gladiorümque crepitus
auribus oblatus; imperitorum mentes timore præpedie.
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runtur arma : adverſario{que vehementiſſimè pugnantes
noſtri agere cœperunt: quibus oppidum fuit ſubfidio,
Ita ipſis Liberalibus fuſi fugatique non ſuperfuiſſent,
niſi in eum locum confug iſſent, ex quo erant egreſfi. [y
2 preelio ceciderunt millia hominum circiter xxx, &
1 quid amplius; præterea Labienus, Attius Varus; qu.
bus occiſis utriſque funus eſt factum: itemque equite;
111. oſtri deſiderati ad hominum mille, partim pedi.
tum, partim equitum; ſaucii, ad o. Adverſa tion
aquilz ſunt ablatæ x111, & figna, & faſces. Prætetes
duces belli xv41 capti ſunt. Hos habviv res exitus,
XXXII. Ex fuga hac quum oppidum Mundem ib
conſtituitient præſidium, noſtri cogebantur neceſſand
eos circumvallare. [Ex hoflium armis, pro ceſpite ca.
davera collocabantur; ſcuta & pila pro vallo: ““
inſuper occiſi; & gladii, & mucrones, & capita bo-
minum, ordinata, ad oppidum converſa; univerſa hot-
tium timorem, virtutiſque inſignia *“ propoſita vi
derent; & vallo circumcluderentur adverſarii : *** 11
Galli tragulis jaculiſque oppidum ex hoſtium cad
veribus ſunt circumplexi, oppugnare cœperunt.] Er
hoc prœlio Valerius adoleſcens Cordubam cum paucs
equitibus fugiens, Sex. Pompeio, qui Cordubæ fuillet
rem geſtam reſert. Cognito hoc negotio; quos equi
tes ſecum habvit, quod pecuniæ ſecum, eis diſtriou!t;
& oppidanis dixit, ſe de pace ad Cæſarem proficit;
& ſecunda vigilià ab oppido diſceſſit. Cn. Pompem
autem cum equitibus” paucis, nonnulliſque pedicibus
ad navale præſidium parte altera contendit Cartein;
quod oppidum abett a Corduba millia paſſuum c
Quo quum ad oftavum- milliarium veniffet ; F. C
vitius, qui caſtris antea Pompeii præpoſitus cilet, ©"
vel
vt Bello HISPANIENSTI. 407
erbis nuncium mittit; quum minus belle haberet, ut mit-
is Pompeius Carteiam defertur. Qui illarum par-
Jam fautores erant, conveniunt in domum, quò erat
W-latus; (qui arbitrati ſunt clanculum veniſſe) ut ab
Wo, quz vellet, de bello requirerent. Quum frequentia
onveniſſet, de lecticà Pompeius eorum in fidem con-
git.
XXIII. Cæſar ex prœlio, Munda munitione circum-
lata, Cordubgm venit: qui ex cæde ed refugerant,
Wontem occupaverunt. Quum ed eflet ventum, con-
Witiari cœperunt, 20s ex prœlio paucos ſufere/ſe : quo con-
Wer emus ? Ita pugnare cœperunt de ponte. Cæſar flu.
Wen transjecit, & caſtra poſuit. Scapula, totius ſedi-
onis familiæ & libertinorum caput, ex prœlio Cor-
Wubam quum veniſſet, familiam & libertos convoca-
Wit, pyram fibi exſtruxit, cœnam afferri quam opimam
nperavit, item optimis inſternendum veſtimentis : pe-
niam & argentum in preſentia familiæ donavit,
ſe de tempore cœnavit; **** refinam & nardum
lentidem ſibi infundit. Ita noviſſimo tempore ſervum
ft, & libertum, qui fuiſſet ejus concubinus, alteram
jugulare, alterum pyram incendere.
XXXIV. Oppidani autem, ſimul Cæſar caſtra contra
Wpidum poſuit, diſcordare cœperunt uſque ed, ut
amor in caſtra noſtra perveniret fere, inter Cæſari-
Jos & inter Pompeianos. Erant hic legiones, quæ
perfugis conſcriptæ; partim oppidanorum ſervi,
1 erant à Sex, Pompeio manumiſſi; tunc in Cæſaris
ventum deſcendere cœperunt. Legio x111 oppidum
3
1, endere cœpit: nam quum jam repugnarent, turres
gui parte & murum occuparunt. Denuo legatos ad
* klarem mittunt, ut ſibi legiones ſubſidio intromitte-
Hoc quum animadverterent homines fugitivi, op-
cv am incendere cœperunt: qui ſuperati a noſtris, ſunt
des erfecti hominum millia x x11; præterquam extra mu-
2m: qui perierunt. Ita Cæſar oppido potitus. Dum
115 detinetur; ex preelio quos circummunitos ſuperius
(4) Pop iiravimus, eruptionem fecerunt; &, bene multis
edis, in oppidum ſunt redacti.
cl XXXV.
erent lecticam, qua in oppidum deferri pofſet. Litteris
408 - r
XXXV. Cæſar Hiſpalim quum contendiſſet, legai
deprecatum venerunt. Ita quum oppidum ſeſe ter
dixiſſet, Caninium legatum cum præſidio intromittii. i
ipſe caſtra ad oppidum ponit. Erat bene magna intr,
Pompeianarum partium multitudo, quæ Cæſaris pre.
dium receptum indignabatur; clam quod, Philo quidam, Wl
l ille, qui Pompeianarum partium fuiſſet defenſor acerii. Wi
=_ mus, (is tota Luſitania notiſſimus erat) hic clam præſda Ml
1 in Luſitaniam proficiſcitur: & Cæcilium Nigrum, ng.
lf mine Barbarum, ad Lenium convenit; qui bene magnam
__ | manum Luſitanorum haberet. Reverſus, in Hiſp:lin
i oppidum denuo noctu per murum recipitur: p1a{diun
| [| vigileſque jugulant, portas præcludunt, de integro pup:
| | nare cœperunt. h
|
XXXVI. Dum hac geruntur, legati Carteienſes v.
nunciarunt, quod Pompeium in poteſtatem haberent;
: udd ante Cæſari portas præcluſiſſent, illo benefch
Tom malificium exiſtimabant ſe lucrifacere. Luf*itari
Hiſpali pugnare nullo tempore deſiſtebant. Quod Cz
far quum animadverteret, ft oppidum capere conte.
deret, ut homines perditi incenderent, & mcenia ce.
| lerent; ita conſilio habiio nou, patitur Lutitzno i
| eruptionem facere. Id quod conſult non exiſtimabai WW
fheri. Ita erumpendo, naves, quæ ad Bætim flumen Wi
| fuiſſent, incendunt. Noſtri dum incendio detinentur; :
| illi profugiunt, & ab equitibus conciduntur. Quo fa WW |
| to, oppido recuperato, Aſtam iter facere cœpit: « WW .
| qua civitate legati ad deditionem venerunt. Munde
| ſeſque, qui ex prœlio in oppidum confugerant, qu r
| diutius circumfiderentur, bene multi deditionem a0: 2
| unt; & quum eſſent in legionem diſtributi, conjuratt f
|
|
inter ſe, ut, noctu ſigno dato, qui in oppido fuiltnt,
eruptionem facerent; illi cædem in caſtris admin: WE .
| rent. Hac re cognita, inſequenti noe, vigilia tet q1
; teſſerà dat à extra vallum omnes ſunt conciſi. *
| XXXVII. Carteienſes, dum Cæſar in itinere c!19 >
| oppida oppugnat, propter Pompeium diſſentire cen
ruat. Pars erat, quz legatos ad Cæſarem mite;
pars, qui Pom e anarum partium eſſent fautores, &
ditione concitata, portas occupant; cædes fit mag
aud
pz BeLLo HisPANIENSI. 409
ſaucius Pompeius naves xxx occupat longas, & pro-
fugit. Didius, qui Gadis claſh præfuiſſet; *** ad
quem ſimul nuncius allatus eſt, confeſtim ſequi cœpit;
partim peditatibus & equitatibus ad perſequendum ce-
leriter iter faciens. Item t die, navigatione confecta,
conſequuntur. Qui imparati a Carteia profeQi fine
aqua fuiſſent, ad terram applicant. Dum aquantur,
Didias claſſe decurrit, naves incendit, nonnullas capit.
XXXVIII. Pompeius cum paucis profugit, & locum
gquendam munitum natura occupat. Equites & co-
WS hortes quæ ad perſequendum miſſæ eſſent, ſpecula-
| WS toribus ante miſſis, certiores fiunt: diem & noctem
tier faciunt. Pompeius humero & ſiniſtro crure vehe- .
menter erat ſaucius. Huc accedebat, ut etiam talum
intorſiſſet: quæ res maximè impediebat. Ita le&ica
a worre qui eſſet allatus, in ea ferebatur. Luſitanus
more militari, quum a Cæſaris prefidio fuiſſet con-
ſpectus, celeriter equitatu cohortibũſque circumcludi-
4 tur. Erat acceſsùs loei difficultas: nam iccirco quod
- Wa propter ſuos 2 notiro præſidio fuiſſet conſpectus, cele-
WS ziter municum locum natura ceperat fibi Pompeius,
quem vix magna multitucine *** deducti homines
cx ſuperiore loco defendere poſſent. Subeuntes in
adventu noſtri depelluntur telis; quibus cedentibus,
cupidius inſequebantur adverſarii, & confeſtim tarda-
bant ab acceſſu. Hoc ſæpius facto, animadvertebatur
noſtro magno id ſieri periculo. Opere circummunire
inſtituit; pari autem & celeri feſtinatione circum muni-
tiones in jugo dirigunt, ut æquo pede cum adverſariis
congredi poſſent. A quibus cum animadverſum eflet,
tuga ſibi præſidium capiunt.
XXXIX. Pompeius, ut ſupra demonſtravimus, ſaucius,
& intorto talo, iccirco tardabatur ad fugiendum: em-
que propter loci difticultatem, neque equo neque ve-
hiculo ſaluti ſuz præſidium parare poterat. Cædes
à noſtris undique adminiſtrabatur, exclusa munitione,
amiſs1{que auxiliis. Ad convallem autem atque exeſum
locum, ut in ſpeluncam, Pompeius ſe occultare cœpit;
Wt à noſtris non facile inveniretur, nifi captivorum 1n-
cio. Ita ibi interficitur. Quum Cæſar Gadibus eflet ;
Hiſpalim,
410 A. HIT
Hiſpalim, pridie Id. Aprilis, caput allatum, & populo
datum eſt in conſpectum.
XL. Interfecto Cn. Pompeio adoleſcente : Didius,
quem ſupra demonſtravimus, ilia affectus lztitia, proximo
ſe recepit caſtello, nonnullaſque naves ad reſiciendum
ſubduxit. Lufitani, qui ex pugna ſuperfuerunt, ad fig.
num ſe receperunt; &, bene magna manu comparata,
ad Didium ſe reportant, Huic etſ non aberat diligentia
ad naves tuendas, tamen nonnunquam ex caſtello prop.
ter eorum erebras excurſiones ejiciebatur; & ſic prope
quotidianis pugnis inſidias ponunt, & tripartitò ſigna
difiribuunt. Erant parati, qui naves incenderent; in-
censiſque qui ſubſidium repeterent: 11 fic diſpoſiti erant,
ut, a nullo conſpecti omnium, ad pugnam contenderent.
Ita, quum ex caſtello Didius ad propellendum proceſ-
ſiſſet cum copiis, ſignum à Luſitanis tollitur, naves in-
cenduntur; ſimulque qui è caſtello ad pugnam proceſſe-
rant, eodem ſigno fugientes latrones dum perſequuntur,
a tergo inſidiæ clamore ſublato circumveniunt. Didius
magna cum virtute cum compluribos interficitur : non-
nulli ea pugna ſcaphas, quæ ad littus fuerant, occu-
Pant: item complures nando ad naves quz in ſalo
fuerunt, ſe recipiunt: anchoris ſublatis, pelagus remis
petere cœperunt; quæ res eorum vitæ ſubſidio fit.
Luſitani przeda potiuntur. Cæſar a Gadibus rurſus ad
Hiſpalim recurrit.
XLI. Fabius Maximus quem ipſe ad Mundæ preſi-
dium oppugnandum reliquerat, operibus afliduis ***
hoſtèſque circùm ſeſe intercluſi, inter ſe decernere;
fata cæde bene magna, *** eruptionem faciunt. Noſtr
ad oppidum recuperandum occaſionem non pretermit-
tunt; & reliquos vivos capiunt; ac deinde Urſaonem
proficiſcuntur; quod oppidum magna munitione conti
nebatur, ſic, ut ipſe locus non ſolum opere, ſed etiam
natura editus, ad oppugnandum hoſtem abverterct.
Huc accedebat, quod aqua, præterquam in ipſo oppido,
non erat: nam circamcirca rivus nuſquam reperiebatur,
propiùs millia paſſuum viii; quæ res magno erat ad-
jumento oppidanis. Tum præterea accedebat, ut agget
materiẽſque, unde ſolitæ ſunt turres agi, propiùs millia
| | * paſſuum
—
DE Bello HISTANIENSI. 41
paſſuum vi non reperiebantur. Ac Pompeius, ut op-
pidi oppugnationem tutiorem efficeret, omnem materi-
em circum oppidum ſucciſam intrd congeſſit. Ita ne-
ceſlarid deducebantur noſtri, ut a Munca, quam proxi-
me ceperant, materiem illò depottarent.
XLII. Dum hec ad Mundam geruntur & Urſaonem;
Cæſar, quum à Gadibus ad Hiſpalim ſe recepiſſet, in-
ſequenti die, concione advocata, commemorat; Iaitio
quefiure ſue, eam provinciam ex omnibus provinciis pecu-
liarem ſibi conflituiſſe; &, que potuiſſet, eo tempore be ne-
ficia largitum efſe inſeguenti pretura, ampliato Honors,
wediga/ia, que Metelius impaſuiſſet. a Senatu petiſe, &
eis pecuniis provinciam liverifſe; fimulque, patrocinio /\ /cep-
to, multis legibus ab ſe in Senatum inductis, ſimul publicas
privataſque cauſus, multorum inimicitiis ſuſceptis, deftndiſſes
Juo item in conjulatu ab/entem, que potuiſſet, commoda pro-
vnncie tribuiſſe : eorum omnitum commadorum eſſe & imme-
mores & ingratas eos in Je in populum Romanum, hoc
belle, & in præterito tempore, cognofje. Vos, jure gentium,
iaquit, & civium Romanorum infittutis cognitis; more bar-
la orum, populi R. Magiſtratibus ſacroſanctis manus ſæpe
& /epius attuliftis: luce clara Caſſium in media foro nefa-
rie interficere woluiſlis : vos ita pacem ſemper odiflis, ut
null tempore legiones defint populi Romani in hac prowin-
cid haleri: apud vos beneficia pro maliſiciis, maleficia pro
beneficiis habentur : ita neque in otio concordiam, neque in
bello virtutem, ullo tempore retinere potuiftis : privatus ex
igd Cn. Pompeius adoleſcens @ wobis receptus, faſces im-
periumque ſibi arripuit : multis inter fectis civibus, auxilia
contra populum Romanum comparawit; agros veſiramque
provinciam vero impulſu depopulavvit. In quos v, wittes
res exiſtimabatis? An, me deleto, non animum advertebatis,
decem habere legiones populum Romanum, qua non folum
vobis obſeſtere, ſed etiam cœlum airuere poſſent? Quorum
laudibus & wirtute ***, Deſunt reliqua.
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Ex Ciceronis Epiſtolarum libris collecta.
*
*
P. 347. Edit. Car. Steph. Ciceron. 5
Cz/ar Imp. S. D. Ciceroni Imp.
UUM Furnium noſtrum tantim vidiſſem; neque
O loqui, neque audire meo commodo potuiſlem;
properarem, atque eſſem in itinere, prezmiſl
jam legionibus; præterire tamen non potui, quin &
ſcriberem ad te, & illum mitterem, gratiaſque agerem,
Etſi hoc officium & feci ſæpe, & ſæpius mihi facturus
videor: ita de me mereris. Imprimis a te peto, quoti-
am confido me celeriter ad Urbem venturum, ut te ibi
videam ; ut tuo conſilio, gratia, dignitate, ope omniun
rerum, uti poſſim. Ad propoſitum revertar: feſtins
tioni mez, brevitatique litterarum ignoſces; reliqua e
Furnio cognoſces. Vale. | |
Pag. 357. Cæſar Imp. Ciceroni Imp. S. D.
Rectè auguraris de me, (bene enim tibi cognitu
ſum) nihil a me abeſſe longius crudelitate : atque egy,
quum ex 1psa re magnam capio voluptatem, tum me-
um fadtum probari abs te, triumpho gaudio. New
iilud me movet, qudd ii, qui a me dimiſſi ſunt, di.
ceſſiſſe dicuntur, ut mihi rurſus bellum inferrent: nit
enim malo, quàm & me mei ſimilem eſſe, & illos [u
Tu velim mihi ad Urbem præſtò ſis, ut tuis confi
atque opibus, ut conſuevi, in omnibus rebus utar, D-
labella tuo nihil ſcito mihi eſſe jucundius : hanc ad#
habebo gratiam illi: neque enim aliter facere poter:
tanta ejus humanitas, is ſenſus, ea in me eſt benev
lentia, Vale.
Pay
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C. Juriri1 CESARIS, Oc. 413
Pag. 364. Cæſar Imp. Ciceroni Imp. &.
Etſi te nihil temere, nihil imprudenter, facturum
judicaram; tamen permotus hominum fama, ſcriben-
dum ad te exiſtimavi, et pro noſtra benevolentia pe-
tendum, ne quo progredereris proclinata jam re, qua-
integra etiam progrediendum tibi non exiſtimaſles ;
namque & amicitiz graviorem injuriam feceris, & tibi
minis commodè conſulueris, fi non fortunz obſecutus
videbare ; (omnia enim ſecundiſſima nobis, adverſiſſima
illis accidiſſe videntur) nec cauſam ſecutus, (eadem
enim tum fuit, quum ab eorum conſiliis abeſſe judi-
caſti) ſed meum aliquod factum condemnaviſſe; quo
mihi gravius abs te ml accidere poteſt: quod ne facias,
pro jure noſtræ amicitiæ a te peto. Poſtremò, quid
viro bono, & quieto, & bono civi magis convenit,
quam abeſſe a civilibus controverſiis? quod nonnulli
quum probarent, periculi causd ſequi non potucrunt;
tu, explorato & vite meæ teſtimonio, & amicitiæ ju-
dicio, neque tutius neque honeſtius reperies quidquam,
quam ab omni contentione abeſſe. xv. Kal. Mai. ex
itinere. Vale.
Pag. 349. Cæſar Oppio & Cornelio S. |
Gaudeo mehercule vos ſignificare litteris, quam valde
probetis ea, quz apud Corfinium ſunt geſta. Conſilio
veſtro utar libenter; & hoc libentiùs, quod mea ſponte
facere conſtitueram, ut quam leniſſimum me præberem,
& Pompeium darem operam ut reconciliarem. Ten-
temus hoc modo, fi poſſumus omnium voluntates re-
cuperare, & diutarna, victoria uti: quoniam reliqui cru-
Celitate odium effugere non potuerunt, neque victoriam
diutius tenere; præter unum L. Sullam, quem imitatu-
Tus non ſum. Hæc nova fit ratio vincendi, ut miſeri-
Cordia & liberalitate nos muniamus, Id quemadmodum
fieri poſſit, nonnulla mihi in mentem veniunt, & multa
eperiri poſſunt: de his rebus, rogo vos, ut cogitationem
luſcipiatis. Cn. Magium, Pompeii Præfectum, depre-
endi: ſcilicet meo inſtituto uſus ſum, & eum ftatim
iſlum feci. Jam duo Præfecti fabrim Pompeii in me-
n poteſtatem venerunt, & à me miſſ ſunt; ſi volent
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grati eſſe, debebunt Pompeium hortari, ut malit mihi
elle amicus, quam 11s, qui & illi & mihi ſemper fuerunt
inimiciſſimi: quorum artificiis effectum eſt, ut Reſp, in
hunc ſtatum perveniret.
Pag 356. Cz/ar Oppio & Coernelio S.
A. d. vii Id. Mart. Brundifium veni: ad murum
caſtra poſui. Pompeius cf Brundiſii: miſit ad me Cn.
Magium de pace; quz viſa ſunt, reſpondi. Hoc vos
ſtatim fcire volui. Quum in ſpem venero, de compo. i
ſitione aliquid me conticere; ſtatim vos certiores faciam. Wl
Valete.
Epiſtolarum Fragmenta.
Pag. 75. Cicero C. Cæſari Imp. S.
—/itere mibi dantur a te quibus in extremis ſcriptum erat,
M. Ornum quem mihi commendas, vel regem Galliz
faciam, vel Leptæ legatum, Si vis tu, ad me alium
mitte, quem ornem.
Pag. 337. Cicero Attico S.
Nued queris, quin Caſar ad me Jcripferit: Quod fle;
gratiſimum fibi eſſe, qusd quierim: oratque in eo ut
perſeverem.
Pag. 365.
Aud quicdem propemadum videor ex Cæſaris litteris, itf
veluntate facere poſſe: gui negat neque honeſtius neque
tutius mihi quidquam eſſe, quam ab omni contentions
abeſſe.
Pag. 397. 3
Seftins' aud me fuit; & Theopompus pridie: venſe 0
Ceſare narrabat litteras: hoc ſcribere, ſibi certum ell
Romæ manere ; cau/amgue eam ad/cribere, guæ erat il
efiftela noftra, ne fe abſente leges ſuæ negligerents,
ſicut eſſet neglecta Sumptuaria,
* Pag. 232. Marcus Quinto Fratri. |
— Sed heus tu, celari videor a te! quomodonz",
mi Frater, de nofiris verſibus Cæſar? Nam primus
librum fe legiſſe, ſcripfit ad me ante; & prima ſic. u
negat ſe ne Græca quidem meliora legifle. Reliqua al
quendam locum gabHάn ga; hoc enim utitur verbo, *
; a7. as
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EP1$STOLARUM FRAGMENTA. 415
Pag 236. Marcus 8 Fratri 8s.
Ex Britannia Ceſar ad me Kal. Septemb. dedit litteras,
quas ego accepi A. D. iv Kal. Oaeb. (alu commodas de
Britannicis rebus: quibus, ne admirer quod a te nullas ac-
ceperim, ſcribit ſe hne te fuiſſe, cum ad mare acceſſetit.
Pag. 230.
Ex Balbi epiſiold pauca werba intellexcrat, ad que
reſcripſit his verbis: De Cicerone video te * —
ſeripuſſe, quod ego non intellexi; quantum autem
conjecturà conſequebar, id erat hujuſmodi, ut magis
optandum quam ſperandum putarem.
—
Ex libro Epiſtolarum ad Q. Pedium.
Pag. 356. Cicero Attice S.
Iitteras accepi ab Q Pedio, Cæſarem ad ſe prid.
Id. Mart. miſiſſe litteras hic exemplo. Pompeius ſe oppido
tenet: nos ad portas caſtra habemus; conamur opus
magnum, & multorum dierum, propter altitudinem ma-
ris: ſed tamen nihil eſt, quod potius faciamus b utro-
que portũs cornu moles jacimus, ut aut illum quampri-
mum trajicere, quod habet Brundiſii copiarum, cogamus,
aut exitu prohibeamus.
Pag. 373.
Ad me miſit Antonius exemplum Ca ſaris ad /e littera-
rum; in quibus erat, fe audiſſe Catonem & L. Metel-
non placere, ne qui motus ex eo fierent; prohiberique
omnes Italia, niſi quorum ipſe cauſam cognoviſſet:
deque eo vehementius erat ſcriptum.
Ex Chariſ. Grammat, Edit. Putſch. col. 101.
ligente ſe caſtris continuit. Et col. 60. g
Ce/ar ad Piſonem, Locellum tibi ſignatum remiſi.
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un Oratio de Conjuratis. Ex Sallust. Bell. Catilin.
' Sed Cæſar, ubi ad eum perventum /t, rogatus ſententiam 4
Conſile, bujuſeemadi verba locutus eff: Omnes homines, c.
4 OR 4&4.
lum in Italiam veniſſe, Romæ ut eſfeyt palam : id ſibi
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ORATIONUM FRAGMENTA
Pro Buthynis. Ex A. Gell. I. 5. c. 13.
C. Cæſar Pont. Max. in oratione, quam fro Bithynis
dixit, Luc principio uſus eſt. Vel pro hoſpitio regis Nico-
medis; vel pro horum neceſſitate, quorum res agitur;
refugere hoc munus, M. Vinici, non potui. Nam
neque hominum morte memoria deleri debet, quin à
proximis retineatur; neque clientes fine ſummäũ infa-
mia deſeri poſſunt: quibus etiam a propinquis noltris
opem ferre inſtituimus.
Ex Jul. Rufinian. de Figur. p. 25. Edit. Pithoe,
Quid ergo? ſyngraphæ non ſunt, ſed res alicna eſt.
Pro lege Plautia, Ex 4. Gell. l. 13. c. 3. & Now,
Referi tamen in oratione C. Ce/aris, qua Plautiam re-
gationem ſuafit ; neceſſitatem dictam pro necellitudine,
id eft, jare adfinitatis, Verba hec ſunt: Equidem mihi
videor pro noſtra neceſſitate, non labore, non opera,
non Induſtria defuiſſe.
In Cn. Dolabeilam. Ex A. Gell. J. 4. c. 16.
Ceſar in Dolabellam, Actionis 111. Ibi ifti, quorum
in ædibus faniſque poſita, & honori erant & ornatu.
Ad milites. Ex Diomed. col. 305. Fit. Putſch.
Fruſtro, ait C. Ce/ar apud milites de commodis ecrun.
Non fruſtrabo vos, milites.
In Articatone pr iore, Ex Priſcian. Edit. Putſch. ci.
694 & 717 & 740 & 960. Uno enim excepto, quem
aliuſmodi, atque omnes, natura finxit, ſuos quiſque la-
bet charos. 5
8 Ex A Gell. l. 4. c. 16.
C. etiam Ceſar, gravis auctor lingue Lating, in Att
catone: Unius, inguit, arrogantiæ, ſuperbizque, dom
, nataque,
Ad M. T. Ciceronem de Analogia. Ex Cicer. Brut. p. 24%
Edit. Car. Steph. |
Quin etiam in maxinmis occupationibus cum ad tt ipſum
(inquit, in me intuens,) de ratione Latine loquendi acc
ratifins
| FRACGMENTA. 417
rati ſims ſcripſerit; primogue in libro dixerit, werborum
deleum originem d elogueniize; tribueritque, mi Brute,
huic noftro, qui me de illo maluit quam Je dicere, laudem
fingularem ; (nam fſeripfit his verbis, cùm bunc nomine Her
afatus; Ac, ſi cogitata præclarè loqui poſſent, nonnulli
ſtudio & uſu laboraverunt; cujus te penè principem
copiæ atque inventorem, bene de nomine ac dignitate
Populi Romani meritum eſſe exiſtimare debemus ;) Hue
facilem I cotidianum noviſſe ſermanem, nunc pro relicto «ft
habendum.
Ex A. Gell. l. 19. c. 8.
In libris, quos ad M. Ciceronem de Analogid ſcripſit, ha-
renas wvitiose dici exiſiimabat, quod harena numqguam mul»
titudinis numero appellanda fit, fecuti neque cœlum, neque
triticum ; contra autem quadrigas, etiamſi currus unus
equorum quatuor junttorum unum fit, plurativo ſemper nu-
nero dicendas putat, ficut arma, & mcoenia, & comitia,
& inimicitias, Sc. Paullo poſt: Tunc prolato libro ds
Analogid primo, werba hec ex eo pauca memoriæ mandavi:
nam quum predixiffet, neque cœlum, triticùmve, negus
arenam multitudinis figni ficutio nem pati. Num tu, inguit,
harum rerum natura accidere arbitraris, quod unam
Terram, & plures Terras, & Urbem, & Urbes; & Im-
perium, & Imperia dicamus? neque Quadrigas in unam
nominis figuram redigere, neque Arenam in multitudinis
appellationem convertere poſſunus ?
Ex 4. Gell. J. 1. c. 10. Macrob. Satur nal. iS. 1. c. 5.
Atque id quod a C. Cæſare, in primo de Analogid libra
ſcriptum eſt, habe ſemper in memorid atque in pectore, ut
tanquam ſcopulum ſic fugias inauditum atque inſolens
verbum.
In libro de Analgia ſecundo dicendum putat.
Hujus die & hujus ſpecie [A. Gell. J. 9. c. 14.] ho-
rum panium, harum partum; fagos, populos, ulmos;
turbonem, non turbinem etiam in tempeſtate; lacer
an laceris, ut tener, puer; idem ſingulariter, pluraliter
lidem [ex Chariſ. col. 114. 104. 117, 109. 86.
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In libris Analogicis omnia iſtiuſmodi (ſenatu, victu,
anu, adſpectu, concubitu, dominatu) in dandi caſu ſine
1 liter a dicenda cenſet. A. Gell. /. 4 c. 16. ] Hic & hæc
Samnis, hujus Samnitis [Priſcian. col. 70).
Mihi autem placet Latinam rationem ſequi quouſ.
que patitur decor. Neque enim jam Calyp/enem die.
rim, ut Junonem: quamquam ſecutus antiquos C. Cx.
far, utitur hac ratione declinandi, [Quinctilianus /, v.
. * | ,
M. Tullius & C. Cæſar mordeo memordi; pungs fepugi;
ponds ſpepondi, dixerunt. [A. Gell. J. 7. c. .]
C. Cæſar ait L. litterà nominativo ſingulari neutro
Baita nomina, eandem definitionem capere, quam ca-
piant E littera terminata. Huic animali, & ab lc ani.
mali; huic puteali, & ab hic puteali. [ Chariſ. col. 95.
Apluftre. Omnium nominum, quæ ſunt neutri gener
& in E terminantur, ait Plinius, Cæſarem ſciſſe eoſdem
eſſe ablativos, quales ſunt dativi ſingulares. 4 R litteris
nomina neutralia terminata, ait Cæſar, quod dativo &
ablativo pari jure funguntur; ut idem Plinius ſcribit.
- FCharif. col. 98.)
Fubar. Plinius ait inter cztera etiam iſtud Cæſarem
dediſſe præceptum, quod neutra nomina, A R nomint-
tivo clauſa, per I dativum abhtivamque finpulares
oſtendant: Zubar tamen & Far ab hac regula diſfere
nam huic jubari dicimus, ab h6c jubare, & huic farri, ab
tec farre. [Charil. col, 108.]
Aso ne illa ratio recepta eſt, quam Cæſar ponit in fe-
mininis, ut puppim, veſtim, pel vim: hoc enim modo &
ab lc cani, & ab hic cane, { Char. col. 98.)
Ut fi dicas Pon peii; nam tribus 7 7 7 junctis quali
poſſet ſyllaba pronunciari? nam poſtreiaum / pro vocal
eft accipiendum; [Priſcian. col. 545.]
Pro quo (digamma F) Cæſar hanc figuram g ferivere
voluit. [Priſcian. col. 545.]
Cæſar declinat pubis puberis, hoc pollen pollinis;
hoc lutum, hec luta; enunciat & ſcribit per ? ejuſmod
verba, lacrimæ, maximus; mancipiom, aucipium, mi-
nibiæ [ Priſcian col. 707, 708. Vel. Lang. col. 2244
Caſſtiador. col. 2284. Vel. Long. col. 2228. W
rotull
te
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Protulit non incongrue es a verbo /um es eff, quomodo
& verbo poſſum potes potens. [Priſcian. col. 1140. ]
In Auguralibus.
Si fincera pecus erat. [ Priſcian. col, 719.
Donatus, vel potius Suztonius, in witd Terentii, hos C. Julii
Cæſaris nomine verſus profert,
Tu quoque, tu in ſummis, 6 dimidiate Menander,
Poneris, & meritò, puri ſermonis amator ;
Lenibus atque utinam ſeriptis adjuncta foret vis
Comica, ut æquato virtus polleret honore
Cum Græcis, neque in hac deſpectus parte jaceres.
Unum hoc maceror & doleo tibi deeſſe, Terenti.
Sequens etiam Epigramma C. Julio Cæſari quidam ad-
Icribunt, alii Germanico.
Thrax puer aſtricto glacie dum ludit in Hebro,
Pondere concretas frigore rupit aquas.
Dumque imæ partes rapido ln, ab amne,
Abſcidit tenerum lubrica teſta caput.
Orba quod inventum mater dum conderet urna,
Hoc peperi flammis, cetera, dixit, aquis.
Ex Ifidor. de Orig. lib. 4. c. 12.
Corpus ſuavi Telino unguimur.
Ex Nonio in voce Cinis.
Quum jam fulva cinis fueris.
Ex Diomede. col. 366.
Poſſeſſiones redemi, eas poſtea pluris venditas,
Ex Tun. Philargyr. in Virgil. Georg. wer. 204.
Cæſar libro ad Ciceron. 111. Multa millia equitum
tque eſledariorum habet.
Ex Quintilian. lib. 1. cap. 6.
Auguſtus quoque in Epiſtolis ad C. Cæſgarem ſcriptis
mendat, quod is calidum dicere quam caldum malit.
Ex Plin, Hiſtor. ] 3. c. 3.
Caſtulonenſes Cæſari venalcs appellantur,
c r
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C. Julii Cæſaris dicta. |
Ex Cicer. lib. 14. ad Attic. Epift. 1. & 2.
Tu, quæſo, quidquid novi (multa autem exſpecto)
ſcribere ne pigrere: in his, de Sexto, ſatiſue certum;
maxime autem de Bruto noſtro: de quo quidem ille,
ad quem diverti, Cæſarem ſolitum dicere ; Magni refert,
hic quid welit ; qed guidpuid wolt, walde volt. Idque eum
animadvertiſſe, quum pro Deiotaro Niceæ dixerit, valde
vehementer eum viſum & liberè dicere.
Proximè quum, Seſtii rogatu, apud eum fuiſſem;
exſpectarẽmque ſedens, quoad vocarer; dixiſſe eum;
Ego dubitem, quin ſummo in odio fim, guum M. Cicero ſe-
beat, nec ſuo commodo me convenire poffit | Atgui, ji quiſ-
quam eft facilis, bic eſt: tamen non dubito, quin me mal:
oaerit. | X
Aiebat Cæſarem ſecum, quo tempore Seſtii rogatu
veni ad eum, quum exſpectarem ſedens, dixiſſe: Ego
nunc tam fim flultus, ut hunc ipſum, facilem hominem, pu-
tem mihi e amicum, quum tam diu ſedens meum commadumn
exſpeatet. 22 855
Lib. 12. ad Famliares Efift, 36.
Demetrio Megæ Siculo Dolabella rogatu meo civita-
tem a Cæſare impetravit; qua in re ego interfui. Itaque
nunc P. Cornelius vocatur. Quumgue propter quoſdam
ſordidos homines, qui Cæſaris beneficia vendebant, ta-
bulam, in qua nomina civitate donatorum inciſa eſſent,
revelli juſſiſſet; idem Dolabellæ, me audiente, Czlar
dixit, Nihil e, quid de Megd wereretur ; beneficium ſuun
in ee manere, |
Ex Sueton, in Vit. Cæſar.
Cap. 67. Jactare ſolitus, Milites ſuos etiam unguentatsi
bene pugnare poſe : nec Milites eos pro concione, {cd
blandiori nomine Commilitones appellabar.
Cap. 72. Quoſdam infimi generis ad ampliſſimos
honores provexit, Quum ob id culparetur ; proſeſſus
eſt palam, / grafſatorum N ficariorum ape in tuendd ſul
. dignitate uſus effect, talibus guogue ſe parem gratiam relalu-
TUM.
Cap. 74. Interrogatus, cur repudiàſſet uxorem, Nu.
niam, inquit, eos tam ſuſpicione, quam crimine, Judi
carere ofortere, Ex
Die rA. 2
Ex Quintilian. |
J 1. e. 8. De quo genere optime C. Cæſarem prætex
tatum adhuc accepimus dixiſſe, Si cantas, mai? cantas:
ſs legis, cantas. , |
J. 6. c. 3. Elevandi ratio eſt duplex, ut aut veniam
vis aut jactantiam minuat : quemadmodum C. Czfar
—
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Sulpiciana, = ipſe ſe paſſum pro Cæſare pugnantem
gloriabatur, Nunguam fugiens reſpexeris, inquit: aut Cri-
men objectum, ut Cicero, Oc.
lib. 6. c. 3. Eſt & illa ex ironia fictio, qua uſus eſt C.
Cæſar. Nam quum telltis diceret, a reo femina ſua ferro
petita ; & eſſet facilis reprehenſio, cur illam potiſſimum
partem corporis vulnerare voluiſſet: guid enim faceret,
inquit, quum tu galeam & loricam habere: ?
Ex F rents. Strateg.
J. 1, c. 12. C. Cæſar, chm forte conſcendens navem
lapſus eſſet, Teneo te, terra mater, inquit; qua interpre-
tatione effecit, ut repetiturus illas, a quibus proficiſce-
batur, terras videretur,
J. 4. c. 7. Cæſar dicebat, ihm ee fibi confilium ad-
versus hoſtem, quod pleriſque medicis contra witia corporum,
fame potius quam ferro ſuperandi.
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Nominum Propriorum & Rerum maximè
Memorabilium.
recipitur 274.
Acco Senonum conjurationi
princeps 100, ſupplicio plecti-
tur 119.
Achillas Ptolemæi præfectus ad
interficiendum Pompeium miſ-
ſus 298. ab Arſinoꝭ᷑ interficitur
06.
Achillis & Memnonis congreſſus
402.
Acilius legatus Cæſaris 267.
Acilla libera civitas legatos ad
Cæſarem mittit 3 58.
actuariis navibus roſtra impoſita
326.
Adbucillus Allobrogum princeps
275.
Adiatomus eruptionem facere co-
natus repellitur 53.
Adrumetum ſe recipiunt naves
Cæſaris 237, occupat Cæſar
! 386.
"Adura templorum 299.
Adui legatos ad Cæſarem mit-
tunt rogatum auxilium contra
Helvetios 6. de magiſtratibus
creandis inter ſe tumultuantes
a Cæſare pacantur 134. inter-
fici ob defectionem meriti Cæ-
ſaris beneficio conſervantur 1387
Eeimurus 363.
{Eginium Theſſaliæ oppokitum
oppidum 286.
AÆgus Abducilli filius 3 Czſare |
ad Pompeium transfugit 275.
æquinoctialis navigatio infirmis
navibus periculoſa 71.
ris exigua apud Britannos copia z
#re pro nummo utuntur 79.
ærariæ ſecturæ apud Aquitanos 53.
eſtus mars biis incitatus hora-
rum 12 ſpatio 48.
ZEtolia omni potitur Calviſius
Cæſarianus dux 264.
Afranius Pompeii legatus 204.
obſidis loco Czfari filium dat
223. interficitur 388.
Africe natio inſidioſa 347. ſub
terra ſpecus, condendi frumen-
ti gratia, habent 374. ä
Agar oppidum a Getulis ſpe
oppugnatum, & per oppidanos
defenſum 374. |
Agendicum | Sens] in Senonum
finibus, 119.
Alba oppidum 193.
Albici, barbari homines, mon-
tiam ſupra Maſſiliam incolæ
202.
alces ſimiles capreis figura &
varietate pellium 111.
Aleſiam oppidum circumvallat
Cæſar 150. & recipit 160.
Alexandria incendio tuta 304.
ab Achilla occupatur 301. a
Cœſare capitur 320.
Allienus Siciliæ priztof 344. pro-
conſul commeatum in Africam
ad Cæſarem mittit 359.
Allobroges [ Sabaudii] trans Rho-
danum vicos
Bies in Britannia non! Ægypto potitur Cæſar 320.
/ \ creſcit, pag- 79
Acarnania : HF
habentes fuga ſe ad Cæſarem
recipiunt
poſſe ſſionẽſque Do.
[7
recipiunt 6. .
Alpium iter difficillimum 43.
Amagetobriæ factum prelium
16. |
Amantiani 254..
Amanum circa montem detri-
menta accipit Scipio 263,
ambactos plurimos clientẽ ſque
circùm ſe habet eques quiſque
Gallorum ampliſſimus 107,
Ambarri Æduorum conſanguinei
& neceſlarii 6. |
Ambiani ſe dedunt Cæſari 35.
[Ambianum Amiens]
Ambiorix Eburonum princeps 84.
fug & latebris Cæſari ſe eripit
119. |
Amblvarett [le Vivarais] 153.
Ambivariti 60.
Ambraciam versus iter facit Caſ-
ſius 265, :
Amphilochi 274-
Amphipoli propofitum ediftum
Pompeii 297. |
Anam circa legati Pompeii of-
ficia inter ſe partiuntur 204.
Anartium & Dacorum ad fine:
pertinet Hercynia ſylva 110,
Ancalytes | the hundred of Henly |
82.
Ancona 191.
Andes [l Duche d' Anjou] 43.
Androſthenes prætor Theſlalia
286.
animas non interire, ſed ab aliis
ad alios tranſire perſuadent
Druides 106.
Annius Scapula 331.
annotinæ naves 77.
anſerem guſtare fas non putant
Britanni 79. a
Antiochia. Antiochenſes 297.
Antiochus Comagenus 250.
Antiſtius Turpio cum Qu, Pom-
peio Nigro equite Romano
congreditur 402,
Antonius Libonem cogit omittere
Brundifii obſidionem 260,
Apollinem morbos depellere cre-
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Apolloniam occupat Cæſar 254,
Apſus flumen in Snibus Apollo.
niatium 2 54.
Apuliæ autumnus gravis 249.
aquæ dulcis venas naturaliter ha.
bent omnia littora 307,
Aquilaria a Clupea diſtans paſ-
ſuum XXII millia 237.
Aquileia 5.
Aquitania [ Guienne] ex terti?
parte Galliæ æſtimanda 52.
| Aquitani cuniculorum agendo-
rum peritifſimi 53,
Arar [a Saone] per fines Ædu-
orum & Sequanorum in Rho-
danum influit mcredibili leni-
tate 6.
Arduenna ſylva per medios Tre-
virorum fines a Rheno ad ini-
tium Rhemorum pertinet 74,
Arecomici Volce122. Vid:Volcz
Arelate [ Arles] 203.
Arguetius Saguntinorum ſigna v
retulit 394.
Artarates Ariobarzanis
n
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frater
35.
. proficiſcitur Cæſa
190.
Ariobarzanes ex Cappadocia D
milites ad Pompeium adducit
250.
Arioviſtus rex Germanorum 16,
a Cæſare victus navicull pro-
fugit 28. 6
umorum officine Alexandrir
inſtitutæ 305. armatum Gal -
lorum concilium 98.
Armenia minor Deiotari regnum
321.
Armoricæ civitates [/a B:etagr]
96. |
Arretium mittitur M. Antonius
191. F
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lia per Ganymedem Eunuchum
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—
Cæſar 4320»
Arverni 2 pays d' Auvergne]
alterius factionis Gallie prin-
cipatum tenent * bello ſupe-
rati a Q Fabio Maximo 24.
à Cxſare 122.
aryndinum teneris radicibus con-
tuſis equos alunt Pompeiani
2
alien Picenum, quod Lentu-
lus Spinther X cohortibus te-
nebat, occupat Cœſar 193.
Aſcurum oppidum accedens Pom-
peiue filius rem male geſſit 353.
Aſiam verſds proficiſcitur Cæſar
.
Aſparagium Dyrrhachinorum op-
pidum petvenit Pompeius 263.
Aſparia oppidum, quod ab Ucubi
millia paſſuum V diſtat 402.
Aſprenas ptoconſul 381.
Aſta 408.
Aſtenſes 403.
Ateguam Cæſar oppugnat 393.
& capit 399.
Athenis claſſem cogit Pompeius
«.
in
.
249»
Atrebates [ie pays de Artois] 30.
Attius Pelignus incolumis a Cæ-
fare dimittitur 194. Attius
Rufus apud Pompeium poſtu-
lat L. Afranium proditionis
exercitis 287. Attius Varus
cum Curjone pugnam conſerit
242.
Atuatuca caſtellum in mediis E-
bdororum finibus 113.
Atuatici ¶ Leodienſes. Al. Ie comte
de Namur. Al. Bofleduc] 30.
ex Cimbris Teutoniſque prog-
nati 41. legatos ad Cæſarem
de pace mittunt 41, poſtea
eruptionem faciunt in Cæſaris
copias; tandem vincuntur, &
partim occiduntury partim ven-
duntur 42. |
ivaricum [ Beurges] oppidum
maximum munitiſhmimque in
finibus Biturigum 12 5. expug-
|
IN D E X.
natur à Cæſare 130.
Avienum tribunum militum, ig-
nominiæ causa, ab exercitu
removet Cæſar 368.
Aulerci in ditionem populi Ro-
mani redacti 43. rebellant ſe+
que cum Viridovice conjungunt
2»
* 1 Britanni mobilitatem e-
quitum, ſtabilitatem peditum
in prœlium præſtant 71.
Auſci [ Aux en Gaſcogne] Craſſo
ſe dedunt 55,
Auſetani mittunt legatos ad Cz-
ſarem 213. -
Auximum, Attio Varo profugi-
ente, ab Auximatibus deditur
Ceſart 192.
Axona [ AiſneT flumen in extre-
mis Rhemorum finibus 31.
Acenis ſylva infinitæ magni-
tudinis 104+
Baculus æger hoſtes imminentes
ſuſtinet 117.
Bæbius 403.
Bætis flumen 333.
Bagrada flumen propeUticam 237.
Baleares funditores 31.
Baleares [ Majorca & Minorca]
inſulz 353.
Baſilica 330.
Batavorum inſulam [ Betuxve] ef-
ficit pars Rheni, quæ appella-
tur Uhalis 60
Belgæ [ies pays bas] fortiſſimi 1.
plerique orti a Germanis 29. 2
Cæſare vertuntur in fugam 33.
Bellica porta Uticæ 238.
Bellocaſſi [/ Pays de Bayeax en
Normandie] 154.
Bellonæ templum in Cappadocia
vetuſtiſſimum 337.
Bellovaci [e Beauvais] virtute,
auctoritate & hominum nume-
ro valent 30. pacem a Roma
nis petunt 34. ſupplices ad
Cæſarem mittunt legatos 171.
derones 330. |
|
Beſſi
*
Beſſi inter Pompeii copias 250.
Bethuria 401.
Bibracte [ Bevray d Autun] E.
duorum oppidum maximum &.
copioſiſſimum 12. incenditur
144.
Bibrax [ Braine] Rhemorum op-
pidum oppugnatur a Belgis,
_ Cefenditur a Cæſare 31.
Bjbroci { tbe hundred of Bray] ſele
dedunt Cæſari 82
Bibulus xxx naves Cæſaris in-
cendit 251. morbo gravi im-
plicitus moritur 257.
Bigerriones ſe Craſſo dedunt 55
Bithynia ac Pontus plus oneris
Cæſari afferunt 336.
Bituriges ¶ & duche de Berri] ſub-
— fidium adver:ns Cæſarem ZE -
duos rogant 121. vincuntur
163.
Bivius Curius 197.
—
Boduognatus Nerviorum dux 38.
Bog ud Mauritaniæ rex in ſubſi-
dium conta Cæ ſarem a Cafſio
accerſitur 333. conjungit co-
pias cum P,. Sitio, Jubzque
regnum invadit 254.
Boia 125. Boii [ Jes Bowrborneis
trans Rhenum incoluerant,
Helvetiorum ſocii 3.
bos, cervi figurd 111.
Boſpori regem Mithridatem Per-
gamenum Cæſar conſtituit 342.
brachium ad flumen Salſum facit
Pompeius 306.
Brannovii, Brannovices Aulerci
La Merienne] 153.
Brantuſpantium [ Beauwais] 34.
Britanniam petit Cælar 65. Bri-
tanniæ deſcriptio, & Britan-
norum mores 78.
Brundifum proficiſcitur Pom-
peius 197. recipit Cæſar 199.
obſidet Libo Pompeianus : ab
Antonio liberatur 259.
Brutus adoleſcens claſſi preficitur
a Cæſare 48. — navali
ſuperat Maſſilienſes 211.
IN D E X.
Brutii 200.
Bullidenſes 254.
Burſavolenſes 400.
Buthrotum oppidum oppoſitum
Corcyræ 256,
C
CAbilonum LCbalons ſur Sane]
161.
Caburus 149.
Cadurci [ie pays de Quercy] 121,
Cecrius Niger, nomine Earbarus
408,
Cæcinæ Cæſar vitam tribuit 386,
Cæræſi 30.
Ceſar Helvetios fundit 6. Ger.
manos, Arioviſto in fuzam
pulſo 27. Belgas 32. accivit
in deditionem Sueſſiones, Bel-
lovacos 34. Ambianos 35.
Nerv orum reſiſtentium gentem
prope ad internecionem redi-
git 40. Atuaticos Nerviis au-
xiliatos ad pacem admittit 41.
& rebellantes vendit 42. Ve-
netorum bellum conficit 50,
Mor inorum Menapiorimgue
agros veſtat 56. Germanos pti-
md ſuperiores tandem caſtris
exuit 61, 62, Sigambrorum vi-
cos incendit; Ubios oblidione
Sue vorum liberat 64. in Bri-
tanniam contendit 65. cogit
Britannos terga vertere 71
reverſus Morinos reprimit 72.
Piruſtarum incurſiones ccerct
73. & adversùs Treviros pro-
fectus 74. Indutiomarum cum
filio & propinquis obſides t-
cipit 75, Dumnorigem inter:
fici jubet 76. In Britannia
trajicit 77, cum Britannis cot
fligit So. Trinobantibus in &
ditionem receptis, CLngetori??
capto 82. obſidibus a Cal
vellauno acceptis, revert.fur ®
Galliam 83. Gallos dat in
gam 95. Indutiomaro oc
Galliam habet quictioten 90
Nervios cogit in an
ven
*
N . *
—
venire, Senones, Carnutes 100.
& Menapios 101. Rhenum
tranſit 103. inopiam frumenti
veritus, exercitu trans Rhenum
reducto, contendit adversus
Ambiorigem 112. eoque in
turpem fugam acto, hoſtiũm-
que vicis incenſis 118. in Ita-
liam proficiſcitur 119. caftra
movet in Arvernos 122. capit
Vellaunodunum, Genabum,
Noviodunum 124. & Avari-
cum 130, componit /Eduorum
controverſias 134. Aduos de-
ficientes ad deditionem reducit
137. Gallos Vercingetorige
duce rebellantes 148. fugat
150. Alchia & Vercingetorige
potitur; recipit Aduorum ci-
vitatem & Arvernos 160. op-
primit Bituriges 162. & Car-
nutes 163. recipit legatos ob
ſidéſque a Bellovacis reliquiſ-
que civitatibus 171. expugnat
Uxellodunum 178. in Italiam
profectus 183. incredibili ho-
nore excipitur. Ad exercitum
redit 184. deinde quum in
Italiam veniſſet, intelligit arma
contra {2 parari 28 5. Iguvio &
Auximo occupatis, inimicis ſuis
Capuam protugientibus 192.
Pompeium Brundifii obfidet
198. Pompeicque ſub noctem
naves ſolvente oppidum capit
199. Afranio & Petteio re
trumentaria intercluſis 218.
milites ad deditionem redigit
225. in Italiam revocatus om-
num civitatum magiſtratus &
principes ſibi preſto eſſe Cor-
dubæ jubet 234. pedibus Nar-
bonem atque indè Maſſiliam
pervenit, ubi cognoſcit ſe 3
NM. Lepido Diftatorem dium
236. conſul cum P. Servilio
creatur 248. ſe abdicat Dicta-
tura, & ab Urbe Brundiſium
proficiſcitur 249, receptis O-
| 1
IIN D E X.
rico & Apollonia 254. Pom”
peium Dyrrhachio intercluſum
268. & ſumma pabuli inopia
laborantem'27 5, poſt eruptio-
nem in Cæſarianos ſatis feli-
eiter factam 277. tandem 0-
mittere ſtatuit 282. &, inſe-
quente Pompeio, recedit ad
Aſparagium, indè ad Apolloni-
am 284. Gomphos Theſlalize
oppidum expugnat 286, om-
nem, præter Lariſſæos, reciyit
Tbeſſaliam 287. Pompeium
fundit ingenti clade 292. fu-
gientem perſequitur 296. com-
pellit Pharitas terga vertere
312. ab Alexandrinis repulſus
natando evadit 314. Alexan-
drinis Ptolemæum regem te-
mittit, ex amico ſimulato haſ-
tem mox apertum 315, Mi-
thridate Perzameno in ſubſi-
dium veniente, Peluſio in po-
teſtatem redacto 317. Ptole-
mæum expellit caſtris 319.
ZEzypto atque Alexandria po-
titus, reges ibi conſtituit 320.
venit in Syriam 336. & Cili-
ciam; rebũſque ibi conflitutis
accedit propiùs Pontum 337.
ibi Pharnace rege debellato
341. & Mithridate Pergame-
no Boſpori rege deſignato in
Italiam venit 342. exin in Li-
ly bæum 343. & Adrumetum
244 inde caſtra ponit ad Ruſ-
pinam 345. recipit Leptin 346
redit Ruſpinam 347. ubi La-
dienum, cui M. Petreius &
Cn. Piſo ſubſidio occurrerant,
repellit 350. Scipione copias
ſuas cum Labieno & Petreio-
conjungente, gravi annona
conflictatur 353. Scipionem
& Jubam ejus auxiliarium 365.
cum Labieno eorümque copiis
proffligat 367. oppidum Zeta
redigit in poteſtatem, Labienum
Scipionẽm que magna clade affi-
ck
M5, 12 RI. =o
F--N=*D*+.E”*X.
eit 376. præſidio Scipionis in-
terfecto, Sarſura potitus, ab
oppugnatione Tiſdræ deterre-
tur 379. Thapſum circummu-
nit 381. Thapfitanis auxilium
ferentem Scipionem proſternit
383. Uticam iter facit 384.
poſt Catonis mortem Uticen-
fibus ſeſe dedentibus agit
gratias 386. Zamenſes clemen-
ter recipit 387. claſſem con-
ſcendens ad urbem Romam
venit 389. miſſo ad Uliam,
quam Cn. Pompeius adoleſcens
oppugnabat 391. præſidio, ad
Cordubam, quam Sex. Pom-
peius tenebat, contendit 392.
Ateguam oppidum oppugnat
393. eõque potitur 399. in
campo Mondenſi conſtituit ca-
ſtra contra Pompeium 404.
hoſtiles copias concidit 406.
Munds, in quam ex fuga ſe
receperant, munitione circum-
data, Cordubam oppugnat 407.
in Hiſpalim recipitur; Mun-
- denſes poſt deditionem perf-
dos ulciſcitur 408. ' Carteia
Pompeium expellit 409.
Calagurritani 213.
Caletes ¶ Caulx en Normandie] 30.
Calpurnius Salvianus 330.
Calviſius Sabinus 164.
Calydon 264.
Camerinum 193.
Camulogenus Aulercus 145.
Candavia 285,
Caninius legatus Cæſaris 173.
Canopus 316.
Cantabri 2 ] 204.
Cantium | s) 79»
Canufium 197.
Cappadocia regnum Ariobarzanis
321. 0
Capua 191. f
Carales in Sardini3 38.
Caralitani 200.
Carcaſo 52.
Carmona 332.
| .
Carmonenſes 23 5.
Carnibus 82.
Carnutes [ie pays du Chartrain]
43 legatos obfideſque mittunt
ad Cæſarem 101.
Carruca 404.
Carſulenus 319.
Carteia; Carteienſes 409.
Caſilinum 259.
Caſſi ebe hundred of Caifhnw) 82.
Caſſivellauno ſumma imperii bel-
lique adminiſtrandi permittitur
78.
Caſſius Pompeianus 295.
Caſſius Longinus in Hiſpani2
proprætor 328. vulneratur 470,
caſtellani caſtellorum domini 325.
Cafticus Catamantaledis filius 2,
caſtra Lunata 381, Poſthumiana
_ 394»
Caſtulonenſis ſaltus 204.
CatamantaledesSequancrum prin-
ceps 2,
cataſcopus 355.
Cativulcus $4. rex dimidiæ partis
Eburonum taxo ſe exanimat
.
box. qui Uticæ præerat, Cn,
Pompeium filium ad bel lum in-
citat 353. fecro ſe traficit 385.
Caturiges [ie pays 4 Embrun} b.
Cavarillus x50.
Cavarinus Senonum Rex à Czſare
conſtitutus 97.
Cebenna mons Arvernos ab Hel-
viis diſcludit 122.
| Celtz ipſorum lingua, moſt
Galli appellantur 1.
Celtiber 204, Celtiberia 213.
Celtilli filius Vercingetorix 12%
Cenimagni [ Suffolk, Norfolk ad
Cambridgeſhire] ſeſe Cæſari ce.
dunt 82.
Cenomani Aulerci [/e fys ©
Maine] 153. ;
Centrones [e pays de Tarantaiſ]
6. [ceux de Courtray) 90.
Cerauniorum terra 251, _
Cercinna inſula 346. Cercin”?
tes 359» Ceri!
"
4 -
* ” « 7
5 n =
_ q _ SEPT
R
cervi grandes, inter opera mili-
taria 152.
LN D E, X.
rõſque mittunt legatos ad Cæ-
ſarem 113.
cetratæ cohortes 204+ cetratorum Conetodunus dux Carnutum 120.
cohortes 217.
chara, genus radicis 271.
Cherroneſus 308.
Cheruſci Lunenburgenſes] tog.
Ciceronis (Q.) caſtra ab Ambio- Convictolitanes
a Sigam-
rige obſidentur 90.
bris 115.
Ciliciæ res conſtituit Cæſar 337
confluens Moſæ & Rheni 62.
Confidius captivum a Cæſare li-
teras porrigentem interfici ju-
bet 345.
Aduus -1 33
Ceſare arbitro, magiſtratum
obtinet 14.
. |Corcyra [ Corfu] 249.
Cimberius & Naſua fratres Sue- |Corduba 235. occupatur a Cæ-
vorum præfecti 19
ſare 407.
Cimbri Teutonique Italiam vaſta- [Corfinium 193. capitur 197.
verant 17, à C. Mario pulſi 20
Cinga flumen 208. Tg
Cornelius Balbus vulneratur 258,
Corneliana caſtra 237.
Cingetorix cum Indutiomaro de Cornificius (Q.) Czſaris quæſtor
Trevirorum principatu conten- 24.
dit 74. ab Indutiomaro in ar- Correus Bellovacus
mato concilio hoſtis judicatur
47.
Cingulum oppidum, quod Labi-Coſam in agro Turino oppugnat
enus ſua pecunia exædificave- |
rat, recipit Cæſar 193.
dux 164.
interficitur 171.
Corus ventus 76.
Milo 259.
Coſanum 202.
Cirtam oppidum Jubæ opulen- |Cothon 373.
tiſſimum P. Sitius & Bogud Cotta 84.
capiunt 354.
Ciſpius 374
Cleopatra Ptolemæi ſoror 297.
Clodius Aquitius 401.
Clodius Cæſaris & Scipionis fa-
miliaris 274.
B Cotuatus Carnutenſium dux 120.
Cotus ZEduus magiſtratum depo-
nere a Cæſare cogitur 134.
Cotus ex Thracia milites & Sa-
dalem filium mittit ad Pom-
peium 250.
Clodii (P.) cædes 119. Clodii J Craſſo (P.] Aquitaniæ maxima
interfecti
Milo 258.
Clupea 237.
Cocoſates 5 5.
Celius (M.) Rufus prætor 258.
Celius Vincianus 341,”
Comana 321.
Comana Cappadociæ, vetuſtiſſi-
mum Bellonæ templum 337.
Comius Atrebas 154. ſollicitat
clvitates contra Cæſarem 172.
commeatus Romanorum inter-
cipit 182.
Condruſi 30. Condruſones Tre-
virorum clientes 59. Condruſi
ex gente & numero Germa-
norum inter Eburones Trevi-
nomine damnatus
pars ſe dedit 55.
ſaris, vir ſingulari virtute 291.
Cremona 197.
Creta Candie] 2 50.
Criſpus (C. Salluſtius) 359 ·
Critognati Arverni ſingularis ac
nefaria crudelitas 154.
Curio 201, prelians interficitur
247
Curioſolitæ [ Corneuaillſe en Bre-
tagne] in populi Romani diti-
onem redacti 43.
Cyclades inſulæ 249.
Cyprus 297.
Cyrenæ 250.
yre 3 9,
Craſtinus evocatus in exercitu Cz.
TY»
D. |
Aei [ Tanſylvani, Moldawi &
Valachi] 110,
Damaſippi liberis vitam tribuit
Czſar 386. Damaſippvs una
cum Scipione interit 388,
Dagubius 110,
Dardanos mercenarios Pompeius
. comparat 250,
Decetia 134.
decumana porta 280.
Deiotarus DC Gallos ad Pom-
peium adducit 250. rex Ar-
meniæ minoris 321. & tetrar-
ches penè totius Gallogtæciæ
ſupplex ad Cæſarem venit 337.
Delphos recipit Kalenus 274.
Delta non longe ab Alexandria,
locus regionum illarum nobi-
lifimus 317.
devoti,quosSoldurios appellant 53.
Diablintes [e Perche] 47,
Dianz fanum Epheſi, ubi anti-
quitus depoſitæ erant pecuniæ
264. ne a T. Ampio fpoliare-
tur, adventus Cæſaris impedi-
mento fuit 298.
Didius Gadis claſſi præfuit 409.
magna cum virtute interficitur
410. |
Di Gallorum, Mercurius maxime, |
Apollo, Mars, Jupiter, Miner-
va 107. Germanorum, Sol,
Vulcanus, Luna 109.
Dioſcorides & Serapion legati
> Ptolemzi ad Achillam 300.
Dite patre prognatos ſz omnes
Galli prædicant 108.
Divico Helve.iorum ad Cæſarem
legationis princeps, & eorum
dux bello Cafhano 7.
Divitiacus Dumnorigis frater erat
ſummo in populum Romanum
ſtudio 10+ auxilii petendi causa
Romam profectus infecta re
redit 105. |
Domitius Ahenobarbus 193. Maſ-
filize præficitur 203. cognica
Maſſilienſium voluntate ſeſe
dedendi, nave conſcensa _—
*
4
|
1 Duracius Romanorum amicus }
Ex
tur 236.
Domitio Calvino Czar Afr
finitimaſque provincias admi.
niſtrandas tradit 32 1.
Donilaus ex Gallogrzcii milite
Pompeio mittit 250,
Drapes Gallus à Caninio captus
ſeſe cibo abſtinuit, atque inte.
riit 180.
Druidum apud Gallos officium,
authoritas, & vivendi ratio og,
Dubis [ Deux] flumen 19.
Dumnacus a Fabio vertitur in
fugam 173.
Dumnorix Aquos apud Sequangy
plurimùm potens 5. Divitiac
frater, Cæſari perfidize ſuſſec-
tus g. fugiens à caſtris, inter.
ficitur 76. |
Dumnaco Andium duce ob
ſus a Fabio liberatur &
Durocortorum Rhemorvm
I19-
Dyrrachio intercluſus Pompciu
268. erumpens, Cæſarem duo-
bus preliis debilitavit 281.
E.
E DTongres] 30. Trevi
rorum clientes 59. inter
Moſam & Rhenum, ſub inpt-
rio Ambiorigis & Cativulci 83
Eburovices [ /e pays d Evreux] 51.
Rem
Egeſaretus Pompeianarum rerun I;
ſtudioſus 265. b.
Elaver flumen Falter) 134. bm:
elephantos condocefacit Scipio
355. tranſportari ex Italia ju!
Cæſar 477. elephanti & m
iO!
congreſſus 382. f zuſt
Eleutheri Cadurci; Eleuther! d- =Y
eſſiones 153. Tar
Elide, in templo Minervz, f. 12
lachrum ad valvas limènge ?
templi ſe convertit 298.
Eluſates [le pays d Euſe en Cg.
cagne] 55,
Ennii poet locus citatus 406-
Epaſnactus Arvernus 131+ |,
Epheſi pecunias tolli jubet *
+
Co: nummo 79.
nteium (A.) tribunum roili-
ob. tum ſeditioſum ab exercitu
264. ſervat Cæſar 298.
Ephippiis uti turpe & 1ners habe
tur apud Sue vos 57.
Epibatæ remiges 352.
Epidaurum oppugnantem Octa-
26.
Epirus tota Cæſari ſe dedit 254.
Eporedorix 144. quo duce Ædui
cum Sequanis contenderant,
capitur 150.
equeſtre genus pugnæ apud Ger-
manos 26, equeſtris prœlii
conſuetudo inter Cæſarianos
& Pompeianos 396.
Eratoſtheni & quibuſdam Græcis
fami nota Hercynia ſylva 110.
ericius objectus portis 280. .
efjedorum pugna 70.
Sw gantibus adverſiſſimi 299.
Euphranor Rhodiæ claſſis præ-
fectus 311. bene rem gerens,
perit 316.
Euſubii 46.
| F.
£ [FF Abiue Pelignus Varum gladio
petens interficitur 243.
*abius (C.) legatus in Hiſpaniam
a Ceſare mittitur 203.
habet 79.
ice Pharnacis quadrigæ mi-
lites Cæſaris permiſtos pertur-
bant 341.
me de victoria Cæſaris incre-
W didilis celeritas 96.
anum oppidum 191,
Vonius Scipionem caſtigat 275,
auſtus & Afranius a P. Sitio
vivi capti interficiuntur 388.
Tariz magnæ apud Bituriges
129. ferrariz officine 452.
rum in maritimis Britanniæ
regionibus 3 ferrei anuli pro
ear dimittit 368.
vium diſcedere cogit Vatinius
ies venti Alexandria navi-
cum ſuã quadriremi victrice
agum & abietem Britannia non
IN D E X.
| fortitudo P. Sextii Baculi 39.
& 141. T. Pulfionis & L.
Vareni 92. M. Petreii 142.
centurionis cujuſdam 364.
militis cujuſdam veterani 382.
fortitudo & fraterna pietas
Piſonis Aquitani 61. |
fortuna multum poteſt in re mi-
litari 112. & 115, & 280,
Frentani 197.
| frumenti condendi gratia ſub
terra ſpecus habent Afri 374.
Fulvius Poſthumus 277.
funera Gallorum magnifica &
ſumptuoſa 108.
Fuſius Kalenus 151. Jide Kale-
nus,
Fuſius (C.) Cotta eques Romanus
a Carnutibus interficitur 120,
G.
Abali [/e pays de Givaudan]
122.
Gabinii infelicitas & ſubita mors
325
Gades oppidum 234.
| Gztuli 355, complures 3 Scipione
ad Celarem confugiunt 359.
ſare mittitur 43.
Galba Sueſſionum rex juſtiſſimus
30.
Gall'æ diviſio 1. mores 104. 1.
gue ad 109,
gallinam guftare fas non putant
Britanni 79. 5
Gallogtæcia 337.
Ganymedes eunuchus
306.
Garites [ie pays de Cavre] 55.
Garumna 2 Garonne] flumen
Gallos ab Aquitanis dividit I,
Garumni 55.
gemella veterana legio ex duabus
facta 250.
Gebenna | montagnes de Cevennes]
vide Cebenna.
Genabum [Orleans] concurrunt
Carnutes 120. diripit Cæſar 124.
Geneva oppidum extremum Al-
Arſinots
lobrogam proximimque” Hel-
| vetiorum
Galba (Ser.] in Nantuates a Cæ-
. —
—
—
— — =
2 - -
— —
— —o- wo
EN DEX
, vetiorum finibus 4. .
Genuſum flumen exercitus Cæ-
ſaris tranſductus 283.
Gergovia oppido Vercingetorix
Arvernus expellitur 121. diſ-
cedit Cæſar 139. |
Gergoviam Boiorum oppidum
oppugnat Vercingetorix 123.
Germanorum mores 109. 1½ ue
ad 112.
gladiatoria familia 2 59. +
glans inſcripta 396.
Gobanitio patruus Vercingetori-
gis 121. —
Gomphos oppidum Theſſaliæ
Cæſar eodem, quo venerat, dig
expugnat 286. 0 |
Gorduni 90. |
Graioceli ¶ ceux de Mont Cenis] 6.
grandine ſaxorum permiſt us nim-
bus 365.
Græci ſe contra i 1eratorem
Romanorum pugnaturos negant
254.
Grudii 00,
grumus excellens natura, qui ap-
pMaturcaſtra Poſthumiana 394
| 11 flumen Macedoni-
am a Theſſali2 dividit 265.
ha tpagones ad caſas diruendas &
incendendas 397.
Harudum millia hominum XXIV
ad Arioviſtum veniunt 16.
Hel vetii [/es Sui ſcn] reliquos Gal-
los virtute præcedunt 1, fu-
gantur a Czſare 6.
Helvios [ie pays de Viwarez] ab
Arvernis diſcludit Cebenna 122.
Heraclea Sentica ſubjecta Canda-
viæ 289,
Herculis fanum 234.
Hercyniæ ſylvæ latitudo IX die-
rum iter expedito 110. fera-
rum genera in aliis locis non
viſa 111. l
Herminium montem in Luſitania
expugnat Caſſius Longi nus 328.
Hibernia dimidio minor, quam |
Britannia 79.
| hibriee libertini ſervigue cog.
. feripti 357.
Hiempſal rex 369.
Hippo regius 389.
hippotoxotæ 250,
Hiſpalis [Seville] 234. recipit
_ Cxfarem 408,
Hiſpanæ uiterioris regio oppug.
natu difficilis 394. potitur
Cn, Pompeius adoleſcens zog.
Hiſpaniæ duz à Caſariinis
ducibus pacatæ 282.
Acetani 213.
Jadertinorum fingulare in
Rempublicam officium 3235.
Iberum flumen attingunt Illu
gavonenſes 213.
Iccius Rhemorum legatus 29.
Igilium ſe du lys] 202.
Iguvium| Gubio]recipitCurioiq,
Ilerda [ Lerida] 204,
Illurgavonenſes 217.
Illyricum [ Sclavonia] 324.
Ilurgis oppidum 332
Imanventiusrex Trinobantium s;
Indo rex à vernaculis legion
interficitur 395.
Indutiomarus cum Cingetorf
de Trevirorum principatu cot
tendit 74. interficitur 99.
Iſſam [Lia] a Czforis anti
avertit Octavius 252.
Iſthmum præmunit Rutilivs L
pus 274.
Italia fine aliquo vulnere à Cr
ſarianis capta 282.
Italica [ Sewila la Veja] 235. I
licenſes 330. 2
Itius, quo ex portu common
mus eſt in Britanniam tt
jectus 74.
Iturei 352. 4
Juba rex Numidas Uticom 2
cui & paternum ho!pit.un dt
Pompeio, & fimultas cum
rione intercedebant 238.
auxiliis ad Scipionem pres
citur 365. penè in Cx
teſtatem venit 367. bete
peroiu
fi
.
perbiſſimus & inertiſſimus 370.
deſperat3 ſalute, precibus a ſer-
vo impetrat, ut ſe interficeret
88.
** hortante à jugulatione op-
pidancrum defiſtitur 397.
Jupiter a Gallis colitur 107,
Jura mons altiflimus inter Sequa-
nos & Helvetios 2.
. |
R (Fuſius) legatus Cæ-
ſaris 251.
L. a
12 (T.) Cæſaris legatus
pro prætore 11. fuga fimula-
ia, Treviros vertit in fugam
102, Lutetiam profectus, Me-
loduno potitur 145. Pompeio
fidem ſuam ac totius exercitis
jurejurando obligat 154. in
prœlio cadit 406.
Lacedæmon 2 50.
Lælius (D.) 295.
Larinates 197.
Lariſſa 286.
L. Lateranenſis interficitur 331.
*
Latobrigi Helvetiorum finitimi &
finibus ſuis exeunt 3. in fines
revertuntur 14.
legio gemella 258, veterana 261.
vernacula 393. ſeptima fru-
mentatum miſſa 70. decima,
cuĩ indulgebat Cæſar pracipue,
& propter virtutem maxime
confidebat 21. ſeptima, oftava
& nona veterrima, undecima
delete juventutis 165. vi-
geſima ſeptima tyronum 164.
trigeſima ſexta 323. trigeſima
ſeptima 308.
legionarii milites 22.
Lemanus lacus [ie lac de Geneve]
2.
Lemovices [le Limoſin] 12 1. Le-
movices inter Armoricas civi-
tates ¶ ccux de St. Paul de Leon]
154. a"
Lenium oppidum 408.
entulup (L.) cenſul 186, Spin-
; Dek.
ther (P.) 197. L. Lentulus in
cuſtodia necatur 298, Lentu-
lus Marcellus Cæſaris quæſtor
1227
lenunculi 248. ö
Lepidus, ut Caſſi Marcellique
contentiones componat, venit
3285
Lepontii, qui Alpes incolunt 60.
leporem guſtare fas non putant
Britanni 79. ,
munem recipit Cæſar 346.
oppugnare conatur Labienus
. |
Leptitam 245.
Levaci 90. :
Leuci ¶ Le Taulois] 21.
lex AÆAduorum de magiſtratibus
134. julia 193. Pompeia de
ambit 249 Cell 259.
Lexobij Pr ifieux en Normandie]
47.
libertate in ea, quam I majort-
bus acceperant, permanere, /
quam Romanorum ſervitutem
perferre malunt Galli 46,
Libo infulam contra Brunduft-
num portum occupat 259. cufa
Cæſare colloquitur 256.
Liburnæ 252.
Liburnica claſſis 250, - :
Licinius (J..) Squillus ſauciat
Longinum Caſſium 330.
Licinius Damaſippus 248.
Ligarius (P.) Afranianus ob per-
jurium perfidiamque a Czfare
juſſus necari 373. |
Ligario (Q_) vitam concedit
Czſar 386.
Ligeris [/a Loire] flumen, quod
' influit Oceanum 47. Bituriges
ab /Eduis dividit 121.
lilium, munitio bellica, ex fimili-
tudine floris ſic appellata 153.
Lilybeum, 343.
Limonem [ Poitiers]
* Dumnacus 173.
obſidet
Lingones [ceux d Lareves] 13.
9 | J. tens
b 4
Leptin civitatem liberam & im-
* „ — OS
a
I N D E X.
Liſcus, qui ſummo Aduorum
magiſtratui przerat 9.
Liſlum oppidum muniendum Cæ-
ſar curaverat 262,
conatur Cn, Pompeius filius
267.
Litavicus princeps
inter /Eduos 136.
Livincius Regulus Adrumeti
præfectus 386.
Lucani 200.
. L. Lucceius 257.
Luceria 197.
Lucretius Veſpillo 25 r.
luna plena maritimos æſtus maxi-
mos in Oceano efficere con ue-
vit 69. ante novam lunam prœ-
lio non contendere Germanis
conſuetudo eſt 27.
lunata caſtra vide caſtra.
Luſitania [ Portugal] 204.
adoleſcens
Lufitani oppugnant Hiſpalim
2408.
Luterius Cadurcus 122.
Lutetia [ Paris] oppidum Pariſi-
orum, poſitum in inſula flu-
minis Sequanz, incenditur14 5.
M
F Acedonia 265.
Magius (Cn.) præfectus fa-
briim Cn, Pompeii 197.
Malaca 336.
* malacia ac tranquillitas maris 50.
Malchus Nabatæorum rex equi-
tes mittit'ad Cæſarem 304.
Mandubii [ P Auxois en Bourgogne]
1 56.
Mandubrative adoleſcens ex ci-
vitate Trinobantium, Imanu-
entii filius, Cæſaris fidem ſe-
cutus 82.
Manilius Tuſculus 330.
Manilius (L.) proconſul, impe-
dimentis amiſſis, Aquitania
profugit 52.
Manlius (L.) prætor Pompeii
197
expugnare
——
Marcellus impugnat Cæſaris dig-
nitatem 184.
|
— I
M-rcellus (M.) ſe Cæſaris cay-
lara defenſurum profitetur 333.
Maicamani 27.
Marii (C.) affinis Czſar 358.
Marrucini 197.
Mars unus ex Diis Gallorum 105.
Marſi 193.
Mafia 1 2 2 oppugnatur
202. Maſlilienſes, omnibus
malis defeſſi, Cæſari ſe dedunt
236. 1
mataras ac tragulas inter carros
rotaſque ſubjiciebant Galli 13.
Matiſco | Maſcon] 161.
Matrona flumen [/a Marne] Gal-
los a Belgis dividit 1.
Mauri equites 382.
Mazaca 337.
Mediomatrici [ceux de Mets en
Lorraine] 153.
Medobrega Luſitaniæ oppido [A.
menna] expugnato, Medobre-
genſes ad montem Herminium
confugiunt 328.
Melodunum 7117 oppidum
Senonum in inſula Sequanæ
poſitum 145.
Menapii 30. a Cæſare in ſylvas
repelluntur 56. propinqui E-
buronum finibus, legatos ad
Cæſarem pacis petendæ cdu
mittunt 101. i
Menedemus Macedoniæ princeps
164.
Mercurium deum maxime colunt
Galli 107,
Mergilio (L.) cruciatibus afffci-
tur 331.
M. Metlala & M. Piſo conſules
18.
Meſſanæ M. Meſſala Iegatus ob-
fidetur 356. ;
Metellus (L.) Tribunus pl. inter
Cæſaris inimicos 202
Metioſedum | Corbeil] ru.
Metropolim venienti Cz/ari Me-
tropolitz portas aperiunt 286.
+ Milo Clodianæ cædis reuv 255
Coſam oppugnat 259.
ppugnat 25 Mincrral
My pf fond
Minervam colunt Galli 103. Mi-
Minuties Sito, cliens I., Racilii
Pg
IN
nervæ templum Elide 298.
Minutius (L.] Bafilus 112. cus,
epiſtola ad Cæſgatem 399.
Minutius Rufus 251. |
330. index conjurationis ad-
versùs Caſſium, libertis tranſ-
ditur excruciandus 331.
Mithridates Pergamenus Peluſio
in ſuam poteſtatem redacto
316. Alexandriam ad Cæſarem
contendit 37. rex Boſpori ab
eo eonſtituitur 342
Mytilenz 297.
Mona [ Man] inſula in medio
curſu inter Galliam & Britan-
niam 79.
monomachia Antiſtii Turpionis
& Q. Pompeii Nigri 402.
Morini | ceux de Tereuanne en Ar-
telt] 30.
in ſylvas 5&4 ad eum legatos
mittunt 66. ab its breviſſimus
in Britanniam transjectus 65.
Moritaſgus Cavarini regis frater
97»
Moſa [la Meu'e] profluit ex mon-
te Vogeſo 60.
mulierum crinibus præſectis effi-
ciuntur tormenta 3 52+
Munatius (L.) Plancus legatus
83. lictorem Caſſii gladio
tranſigit 3 30.
Munda oppidum 406. in Mun-
denſi campo caſtra contra
Pompeium conſtituit Czar
404. Mundam capiunt Cæſa-
riani 411.
munitionis genera varia inſtituit
Czfar 152.
murorum Gallicorum forma 129.
muſculi forma 230.
myoparo 327.
NAbatæorum n Malchus
0
Nannetes [ ceux de Nantes] 47.
Nantuates 43, à Galba tufi 44-
à Cæſare fugantur |
ö
E X.
Narbo [ Narbonne] 122.
Naſidius (L.) a Cn. Pompeio
cum claſſe Maſſilienſibus ſubſi-
dio miſſus 226. Naſidianæ na-
ves celeriter pugna excedunt
228.
Naſua & Cimberius fratres Sue-
vorum imperatores 19.
navium Gallicarum forma 48.
navalis puzna Maſſilienſium
cum D. Bruto 211.
Naupactus { Lepanto] 264.
Neapolis [ Naples] Italiæ oppidum
259. Africz, prope Clupeam
44.
ee [ ceux de Spire} 27.
Nemetocennz hybernat Cæſar
181.
Nervii [le Haynault] maxĩimè feri
habentur 30. ſed magnæ vir-
tutis 35. valent pedeſtribus
copiis 36. fugantur a Cæſare
95.
Nicomedi Bithynio, Regio Cap-
padocum genere orto, ſacerto-
tium Bellonz adjudicat Cæſar
7» ; ;
Nicopolis Armeniz minoris op-
pidum 322.
Niger (Q. Pompeius) eques Ro-
manus Italicenfis ad congre-
diendum cum Antiftio. Tur-
pione progreditur 402.
Nili aqua limoſa & turbida mul-
tos varĩõſque mor bos efficit 306.
Nitiobriges [/ Agenois] 122.
nix VI in altitudinem pedum
diſcuſſa 122.
Noreia ¶ Nuremberg], Noricus
ager 3. |
Noricus rex 194.
Noviodunum oppidum Sueſſio-
num | Seifſors] 34. Biturigum
LNeuvy] occupatur a Cæſare
124. Aduorum | /a ville de Ne-
vers] ab oppidanis incenditur
144. x
nox ſub brumi eſt dies XXX
continuos in compluribus mi-
U 2 noribas
wk ( T N D E X
noribus inſulis Britannicis; | Germanorum legatorum a
noctes breyiores quam in con- Cæſarem 59,
tinente 79. Ambiorig's ad legatos Cæſarf;
Numeius & Verodoctius Helve- 85.
tiorum legati 4. Vercingetorigis ad ſuos 125,
Numidæ quo genere pugræ u- ejuſdem ad eoſdem, excuſz-
tun: ur 349. & 376. in exerci- toria 128. conſolatoria 132.
tu Cælaris 32. ex Scipionis ad præfectos equitur 149.
caſtris ad Cæſarem perfugiunt] Aduorum legatorum ad Cæ-
=. 358. equites find frenis 351. - farem 133.
mirabili velocitate pre iti 376. Critognati, plena nefariæ cru-
a Juba in cruce ſuffixi, qui, delitatis, ad eos, qui Aleſiæ
loco amiſſo, fugi ſe in caftra obfidebantur 154.
receperant 374. { Bellovacorum legatorum ad
Nympheum, portus ultra Liſſum Cæſatem 171,
millia paſſuum 111. 261. IL. Cæſaris adoleſcentis ad
O. Cæſarem 190.
G 332. ä Lentuli Spintheris ad Cæga-
Ocelum, quod eſt citerioris rem 196.
provinciz extremum 6. legxtorum, centurionum &
Octavius (M.) Iflam à Czfaris tribunorum ad Cafarem
amicitia avertit 252, acicm | 227.
inſtruit contra Vatinium, & | Curionis ad cancilium 240. &
vulneratus, in myoparone pro- ad milites 241.
ſugit 327. Pompeii ad ſvos, & Labieni
Octodurus [St. Maurice} Vera- ad Pompeium 289.
grorum vicus 43. Deiotari ſupplicis ad Cæſaren
Octogeſa, oppidum poſitum ad 337.
Iberum 213. Catonis ad Cn. Pompeium
- Ollovico Theutomati pater 133. filium, objurgatoria 353.
Oppius Cz aris legatus 375. Gætulorum duorum perfuga-
eratio lezatorum Gallorum ad rum ad Cæſarem 359.
Cæſarem 15. Scipionis ad captivos Cæſati-
Cæſaris ad milites, incuſa- anos, & centurionis Cæſa- P
toria 20. & 143 · ejuſdem riani ad Scipionem 364.
ad eoſdem 189. ad Pompeii] Tullii legati apud Cæfarem P
legatos, poſtulatoria 190. ad 398.
Senatum, contra ſuos ini- Orchomenum recipit Kalenus
micos 201. ad Afranium 274. ;
223. ad Cn. Pompeivm, per | Orgetorix apud Helvetios nobt- Ph
L. Vibullum Rufum 253. | liflimus & ditiſſimus 2. chi, Ph
apud milites hortatoria 282. non fine ſuſpicione quin ſid
& 30. ad Pharnacis legatos | ipſe mortem conſciverit 5: Pic
335. ad milites, caſtigatoria | capiuntur ejus filius & fila
308, ad ſuos 411. 13
Arioviſti ad Cæſarem 23. Oricum Cæſar recipit 254. 0-
Divitiaci ad Cæſarem 34. rici naves Cæſaris incendt
Atuaticorum legatorum ad Cn. Pompeius filius 267.
Oi
Cæſarem 47. Oſcenſes 213.
Oſſmii 43. ; | vinciæ incurfionibus vaſtant 73.
Otacilius Liſſo fugit, & ad Pom Piſaurum [| Peſaro] occupat Cæ-
peium petvenit 262. | far 197.
. Piſo Aquitanus, vir fortiſſimue,
P4cidivs pilo per caſſidem ca- cujus avus in civitate ſua reg-
put ictus 380. num obtinuerat, in prœlio con-
Pæmani [cu de Pemont] Ger- tra Germanos interficitur 61.
mani 30. Piſo (L.) cenſor 187. |
Parada oppidum 384. Piſonis (L.) Cæſaris ſoceri avum
Parætonium 307. a L. Piſonem legatum Tigurini
Pariſii [L' If de France] 121. * | interfecerant 7. |
Parthi M. Craſſum interfecerant.] Piſo (Cn.) 344.
Parthicum bellum 263. Plztorius Ruſtianus cum Scipio-
Parthini 254. ne interit 388.
Paullus (L.) conſul 183. Plancus (L.) 205.
Peligni 173. ; Pleumoſii ſub imperio Nervio-
Peluſium pervenit Pompeius 297. rum go.
in Mithridatis poteſtatem re- Pompeius Pharſali a Cæſare pro-
digitur 317. fligatus 293. Peluſium fugiens
Pergamus 263. ab Achilla & Septimio inter-
Petra, locus editus 268. ficitur 297. & 298. Pompeius
Petreius legatus Pompeii 204. 3] (Cn.) filius, Cæſaris naves in-
Juba ferro conſumitur 388. cendit 267, à Catone ad bel-
Petrecorii ie Perigord] 153. lum incitatur 353. in Mun-
Petrofidius (L.) aquilifer, aquil: denfi prœlio victus 406. ſau-
intra vallum projectà, fortiſſi- cins, in ſpelunca, ubi ſe occul-
me pugnans occiditur 89. taverat, interficitur 410.
Pharnaces Armeniam minorem,| Pompeia lex de ambitu 249.
& Cappadociam invadit 321. Pompeiz cum Fauſti liberis in-
Romanis cæſis elatus - Pontum] columitatem ſuãque concedit
js occupat 324. a Cæſare tandem] Cæſar 388.
| copiis tot is profligatis in ſu- Pompeius Rufus, brachium gla-
. gam pellitur 341. dio percuſſus, penè occiditur
a” Pharſalus | Farſa] 251. ubi Cz-| 383. 5
ſar Pompeium fudit 294. Pomponius (M.) 296.
” Pharus inſula, & turris Alexan-| pontis ſuper Rheno faciendi ratio
& criz objecta, a Cæſare appre- | 63.
aus RE Henditur 302. Pharitæ terga| pontones, genus navium Gallica-
| vertunt 412. rum 262.
bi- WY Philippus tribunus plebis 189. Pontum occupat Pharnaces 324.
bit, Philo Pompeianarum partium| recipit Cæſar 341.
(2541 defenſor acerrimus 408. portenta, quo die prelium ſe-
Picenum ſia Marca d' Ancona] cundum fecit Cæſar 298.
fila 192. Picenum agrum Czfar| Poſtumiana caſtra vide Caſtra.
_ percurrit 193. - Pothinus Eunnchus, nutritius
0- WR Piftones [/e pays de Poiftou] 48. Ptolemei, regni procurator
endit bilorum cacumina ſul ſponte ar- 249. 3 Cæſare inter fieĩtur 303.
dent 365. I Pretorius (C. Virgilivs) 355.
Time finitimam partem pro-] Preciani 55,
| }. U 3 Procillus
LN DE X.
Procillus (C. Valerius) C. Vale-
rii Caburi filius, ſumma virtute
& humanitate adoleſcens 25.
ex hoſtium manibus ereptus,
Ceæſari reſtituitur 28.
Proviaciæ [ia Provence] pars fi-
nitima Piruſtarum incurſioni-
bus vaſtatur 73. |
Ptolemaide [St. Jean d' Acre]
ſignorum ſonitus exauditus
298. .
Ptolemæus Rex, puer ætate,
magnis copiis, cum ſorore
Cleopatra gerens bellum 297.
A Czxſare fugatus, nave, in |.
quam ſe receperat, ' demersa
perit 320.
Pulfionis (T.) & L. Vareni cen-
turionum nobilis de virtute
controverſia 92. g
Pupius (L.) primipili centurio à
Cæſare captus dimittitur 192.
* Pyren&i montes 2.
Q.
Uadrige falcatæ Pharnacis
341.
22. Poſthumus 346.
Racilius (L.) ir »njuratione
contra Caſſium, interficitur
.
Raſcipolis ex Macedonia auxili-
arios ad Pompeium adducit
250.
Ravenna 188.
Rauraci ¶ ceux de Bale] Helveti -
orum finitimi 3. eorum cenſus
14.
Rebilus legatus Cæſaris 243.
Rhedones [ceux de Rennes en
Bretagne] 43.
Rhemi Fes Remois] qui proximi
Galliæ ex Belgis ſunt 29.
locum Sequanorum ſuccedunt
105.
Rhenas [ Rhein] oritur ex Le-
ntiis, longo ſpatio fertur,
* multis capitibus in Ocea-
num influit 60. latiſſimus at-
in .
1
que altiſſimus, qui agrum Hel.
vetium a Germanis dividit 2,
Rhodanum [e Rhone] flumen
influit lacum Lemanum 8.
Rhodanus fluit inter fines Hel.
vetiorum & Allobrogum 4.
Rhodus 297. Rhodiis navibus
præeſt C. Marcellus cum C.
Coponĩo 2 50. Rhodii in rebus
maritimis & ſcientia & virtute
præſtant 309.
Romanorum brevitas Gallis præ
ſuorum corporum magnitudine
contemptui eſt 41. Romanæ
legiones etiam cœlum poſſent
dirvere 412.
Roſcillus & Ægus, Adbucilli f-
lii, fingulare virtute homines,
ad Pompeium a Cæſare tranſ-
eunt 275. & 276.
Roſcivs (L.) legionem ducit in
ZEduos 83. legatus, legionis
XIII præfectus 96. prætor 287.
roſtra navibus actuariis impopit
Vatinius 326.
Rubrius (l. 197.
Ruſpina oppidum 346.
Ruteni | La Rouergne] a Q. Fabis
Maximo ſuperati 24.
Rutilius Lupus prætor 197.
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Sabis flumen | Sambre] 35.
Sabura Jubz præfectus 245. ins
terficitur 388.
ſacrificia Gallorum 107,
Sadales Coti filius 250.
Saguntini eee 394.
Salienus (T.) centurio 3 56.
ſalinarum. ſtagnum 381.
Salluſtius (C.) Criſpus 359.
Salonæ 251, oppidani Octaviun
in fugam compellunt 252.
Salſum flumen [ Rio Salads] 393.
Salvianus (Calpurnius) 39.
Samarobriva [ Amiens] 83.
Santones [/ Saintong] non
longè abſunt à Toloſatium f-
nibus 5. l
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Sardinià Cottam Calaritani eji-
ciunt 200.
Sarſuri oppido Czſzr potitur 379.
Saſerna (P.) & Saſerna fratres
——
mal atque Gracchorum ca-
ſus 190.
ſaxorum grando 365.
Scævæ centurionis ſcutum cexxx
foraminibus confoſſum 273.
Scaldis flumen [ Scheid] influit in
Moſam 114.
Scapula (Annius) maximæ dig-
nitatis & gratiæ provincialis
homo 330.
Scapula, poſt cœnam opimam,
ſervorum id agere juſſorum
altero ipſum jugulante, altero
pyram, quam ſibi extruxerat,
incendente, obit 407.
Scipio de litteris Cæſaris in ſe-
natu habet orationem 186.
ſeſe imperatorem appellat 263.
condocefactis elephantis duas
acies ĩnſtruit 355. milites Cæ-
ſaris veteranos & unum cen-
turionem captivos cruciabili-
ter interfici jubet 364. copiis
profligatis 383. ad Hipponem
regium delatus, navibus ſuis a
= Sitii claſſe depreſſis interit
389.
feorpio, inſtrumentum bellicum
19.
Scribonius Libo 199.
ſcutatæ legiones 204.
ſecundani, ſecundæ legionis mi-
lites 330. & 331.
Sedulius Lemovicum dux occidi-
tur 160.
Seduni [/e haut Valais] 43.
Seduſſi 27.
Segni ex gente & numero Ger-
manorum 113.
Segonax rex 82.
Segontiaci $2,
Segovia 332.
Segufiani [le Lyornois] 6.
ſenatus omnis Venetorum necatus
E X.
Senones [le Senonoi:] 29. legatos
ad Cægʒarem deprecandi causa
mittunt 100, "
Septimius (L.) tribun. milit. ad
interficiendum Pompeium mit-
titur 298.
Sequana 2 Seyne] flumen di vidit
Gallos à Belgis 1.
Sequanus ager optimus
Galliæ 16.
Sequani [ia Franche conte] 2.
principes alterius factionis in-
ter Gallos 104.
Ser. Galbæ ereptus conſulatus
189.
Sertorius (L.) 213.
Servilis tumultus in Italia 2046
Seſuvii 43.
Sex, Cæſar 235. amicus & ne-
ceſſarius Jul. Cæſaris 337.
totius
Sex. Pompeius Cn. Pompeii fra-
ter 391.
Sex. Quintilius Varus quæſtor
197.
Siburzates 5 5.
Sicilia ejicitur Cato 200.
Sicoris flumen [Segre] 214.
Sigambri 63. Cæſare adveniente
fugam cor arant 64. proximi
Rheno; :. 1nſeunt Rhenum,
& Eburonum fines adeuntes,
prædã magna potiuntur 115.
Silicenſe flumen 332.
Silo (Minucius) 330.
Sitius (P.) Numidiæ fines in-
greſſus, caſtellum Jubz vi ex-
pugnat 360. Afranium &
Fauſtum capit 388.
ſolduriorum ſive devotorum con-
ditio 53.
Soricaria 402.
Soritia 403.
Sotiates [ie pays alentour d Aire]
poſt diuturnam acremque pug-
nam vincuntur 55.
(-eculator captus & interfectus
396. ſpeculatores prehenſi ſervi
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ſtagnum Sali narum 381.
Statius Murcus 25
Straberius (L.) odds ab Apol-
loniatibus exigit 2
Sueſſiones | /e Soiſſonois] Rhemo-
rum fratres & conſanguinei 29.
legatos ad Cæſarem de dedi-
tione mittunt 34.
Suevi [Schwaber}} 19. maximi
& bellicoſiſſimi Germanorum
omnium 57, bellum parant
contra Romanos 104.
| Sulcitani in Sardinia 339.
Sulla (P.) 272.
Sulla Fauſtus 385.
Sulmonenſes portas aperiunt Cœ-
ſari: Sulmo oppidum a Cor-
finio VII millium intervallo |.
abeſt 194.
Sulpitius (P.) Rufus legatus 66.
Surus ZEduus ſumma nobilitate
virtutis & generie 181.
Sylla (L.) 188.
Syriam petit Cæſar ex Egypto
reverſus 336.
8 terne datæ ad judi-
candum 287. tabelle in
caſtris Helvetiorum repertz
literis Græcis confectæ I4-
Tameſis [Thames] flumen a mari
circiter millia paſſuum LXXX.
dividit fines Caffivellauni a
maritimis civitatibus 78.
Tarbelli [ ceux d' Ays & de .
one au pays de Labeurd] 55.
Tarcundarius Caſtor 2 50.
Tarracina 197.
Tarraco [Tarragene] 236. Tar-
raconenſes 213.
Tarſus oppidum ferè totius Ci-
licie nobiuiimum & fortiſh-
mum 337.
Taruſates 53. & 55.
227.
Taximagulus 2 82.
Taſgetius opera Carnutium in-
terfectus 84.
Tauris inſula 327.
Tauroënta · Maſhlienfium caſtel-
lum Maſſilienſes perveniunt
taxo, cujus magna in Gallit
Germaniaque copia eſt, ſe ex-
animat Cativulcus 1 13.
Tectoſages Volcæ ie baut Lan.
guedoc] gens ſumme juſtitiz
& bellicæ laudis 110.
Tegea oppidum 379.
Tenchther 56,
Terrafidius (T.) 46.
Tergeſtini | ceux de Trieſte] decur-
ſiope Barbarorum oppreſſi 173. 0
teſtudo pedum LX, #quandi loci t
causa faQta 226. |
tetrarchiam Gallogræcorum Dei-
otaro ademtam Mithridati ad- «
judicat Cæſar 342.
Teutoni [Tewtſeb} 17. a C. Maw
rio pulſi 20. Teutones 50.
Thabenenſes ſub jubæ poteſtate
locati legatos mittunt al
Cæſarem, qui Thabenam M,
Criſpum præſidio mittit 379.
Thapſus oppidum maritimem
55. Thapfitani oppugnantur
a Ceſare 381. Thapſitar.s
HS XX millia, & conventul
eorum HS L miliia _
nomine imponit Cæſar 389.
Thebas recipit Kalenus 374.
Theopbanes 257.
Thermus (Iguvius) pretor 192-
Theſſaliam 3 Macedonif divicit
flumen Haliacmon 265. ©
Theſſalid veniunt lezati 3d
Cæſarem 264. Theſſalia tota,
preter Lariſſæos, Cæſari par
286. 1
Theſſali in copiis Pompel
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250, 5
Theutomatus Olloviconis fili
rex Vitiobrigum 133.
I zum
Ki (T.) Italicenſis 33? ,
Thurii [Torre Brodogneto] Turi-
nus ager 259.
Tiburtius (L.) centurio vulnera-
tur 258.
Ticida (L.) eques Romanus 363.
Tib. Neronem clafli præficit Cæ-
far 316.
Tigurinus pagus Canton de Zu-
rich] 6.
Tiſdræ oppidum [Cairsan] 360.
deſerit Conſidius 388.
Titi duo Hiſpani adoleſcentes,
tribuni legionis V, interſecti;
353, eorum maſor natu, ut
prior quam frater occidatur,
rogat 356.
Titivs (L.) tribun. mil. 332.
Titurius (Q Sabinus 46.
togata Gallia 172.
Toloſa [Thoulouſe]} 52. Toloſa-
tes 8. |
Torquatus (L.) ſe & Oricum
Cæſari dedit, & incolumis ab
eo conſervatur 254.
Trallibus templum Victoriæ 299.
Trebellius (A.) eques 406.
Trebius (M.) Gallus 46.
Trebonius (C.) legatus Maſſiliam
oppugnat 225. prætor urbanus
258. proconſul 336.
Treviri ¶ cen de Triers] legatos
ad Cæſarem mittunt 19. e-
quites ſingularis virtutis inter
Gallos 39. plurimùm totius
Galliæ, equitatu valent, Rhe-
nimque tangunt 74. à Labie-
no fugantur 102,
Tribocci [ Alſace] 27,
Triaobantes | Mrddleſex,] firmiſ-
= lima earum regionum civitas,
3 legatos ad Cæſarem
2.
ubero 201,
ulingi 3. & 13. & 14.
urones [a Touraine] 43.
uticanus Gallus 281.
1 ſponte ſonant Pergami
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Acca oppidum finitimuns
Zetæ, a Cæſare præſidium
petit 378.
Valerius legatus mittitur in Sar-
diniam 200,
Valerius adoleſcens ex Mundenſi
prœlio Cordubam ad Sex.
Pompeium fugit 406.
Valerius (L.) Præconius legatus
2 —
2.
vaͤgius (A.) ſenatoris filius 396.
Vangiones | Wormes] 27.
Vareni (L.) & T. Pulfionis no-
bilis contentio 92.
Varro 10 257 ·
Varro (M.) 233.
Varus fluvius ( Var] 225.
Varus (Attius) 192. capitur 3
Cæſare 373. N
Varus (Sext. Quintilius) 239.
Vatinius 295. Octavium perſe-
quitur, & fugat 326. & 327.
Ubii [ceux de Cologne] proxime
Rhenum incolunt 28. quorum
civitas ampla & florens 58.
Ucubis [ Lucubi] oppidum 393.
Ucubenſes oppidanos Pompe-
| ius convocat 399. oppidum
incenditur 403.
Vedeliacus frater Coti, inter -
duos annuo magiſtratu functus
BOT 0
Velanivs (Q.) 46.
Vellauni [ie Ye/ai] ſub imperia
Arvernorum 153.
Vellaunodunum ¶ Auxerre] oppi-
dum Senonum biduo circum-
vallat Cæſar 123.
Velocaſſes 30.
Veneti ¶ Vunnes en Bretagne] 43.
naves habent plurimas, quibus
in Britanniam navigant; ſci -
entia & uſu nauticarum re-
rum cæteros antecedunt 46.
navali prelio a Cæſare ſupe-
rantur 49.
Ventiſponte
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Vertico Nervius 93. . || Volcatius Tullus 273.
Vertiſcus Rhemòrum priaceps, Volcæ Arecomici 122. & Tedo-
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Veſontio [Bezancon] oppidum] guedoc,
Sequanorum maximum 19. Urbigenus pagus 14.
Veſtrius (P.) eques Romanus 373. Uri, ferarum genus in ſylva Hers
Vettones { Extremadura] 204. cynia 111.
Vhalis pars Rheni 60. Urſao Mu] 403. oppugnatur
Vibo ad fretum 296. 411. Urſaonenſes 404.
Vibullius (L.) Rufus à Pompeio | Uſceta potitur Cæſar 386.
in agrum Picenum miſſus 194. | Uſipetes Germani 56.
A Ce ſare captus & dimiſſus Utica { Biſerte] 237. obſidetur!
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Viennam pervenit Cefar 123. capitur a Cæſare 178.
Virdumarus ZEduus 143. Uzita oppidum tenetur 2 Scipion
Virgilius (C.) Prætorius Thaph | 362. & 370.
præſectus 355. Xx.
Viridovix civitatum, quæ defece- . 153 · vide Santond
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And ſeiz'd th' occafion to abuſe her,
And of rank plagiariſm accuſe her, .
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Crawl'd prone on earth ? It cannot be.
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Fell man himſelf ꝓurſues, in vain nn 3540
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His friendly monitor, with care
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Falſe pleaſure | falſe; and fatal tod!
Superior joys he keeps in vie.
They comy— the genial ſpring ſupplies
The wings he hop'd, and Io! he flies !
Taſtes all that ſummer- ſuns prepare,
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No fancy'd ills affright.
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Diſperſe in empty air.
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Pug reliſht not th elyſian mades; —
Their cypreſs-groves, and lonely glades, | ._ .
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He begg'd that he again might go'
To earth; he'd take what ſhape king Plats
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Put not my ſoul in that curſt covering.
A drouſy, dull, damm d diſmal creature,
So very foreign to my feature! |
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Call'd Tom a knave, .2.cagkold ll;
Was pert and vain, and apiſh.ftill:
Till now the times .come, .benche |
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8* yonder gaudy tulip riſe,
And to the ſun her leaves diſplay ; -
My fancy gives her voice and eyes
And thus the boatter ſeeris to'fay : "|
Queen of the gay parterre I reign : |
My glowing dies, how bright they ſhine !
The flow'rs unfold their bloom in vain,
No flow'r hae charms n wine, |
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Tall and majeſtic I appear;
Ye ſubject tribes, your Queen, obey, ;
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Thy arrogance, imperious flow'r, .
To real worth has made thee blind;
Thy vaunted beauties of an hour,
Are charms of an inferior kind.
From thee no fragrant odors breathe,
No healing gifts thy leaves beſtow, -
The flow'rs thou view'ſt with ſcorn beneath,
Can more pretence to merit how.
The cowlſlip's virtues, and my own,
Let man, let grateful man confeſs ;
To him our real worth is known:
Thee he admires, but for thy dreſs,
The friendly hint, ye liſt ning fair,
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Let uſeful virtues be your care,
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As uon, a motley nymph of yore,
The cyprian queen to Proteus bore,
Various herſelf in various climes, |
She molds the manners of the times;
And turns, in ev'ry age and nation,
The checker'd wheel of variegation.
True female, that ne'er knew her will;
Still changing, though immortal till.
One day, as the inconſtant maid
Was careleſs on her ſofa laid,
Sick of the ſun, and tir d with light,
She thus invok'd the gloomy Nicur :
Come, theſe malignant rays deſtroy,
Thou ſcreen of ſhame, ' ant riſe of joy.
Come from the weſtern ambuſcade,
Queen of the rout and maſkerade:
Nymph, without thee no cards advance,
Without thee halts the loit'ting dance;
Till thy approach,” all, all's reftraint :
Nor is it ſafe to game or pant.
The belles and beuux thy influence'afk : *
Put on the univerſal maſk'#* /
Let us invert, in thy diſguiſe,
That odious Nature we deſpiſe.
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She ceaſt The ſable-mantled dame |
With flow apptoach, and awful, came!
And frowning with ſarcaſtic leer. £
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Was I cranted to n ;
To contraſt with a friendly ſhade, |
The pictures beav'n's rich pencil made;
And with my ſleep- alluring doſe. JERRY
To give laborious Art repole; ___. . 4
To make both noiſe and action ceaſe,
The Queen of ſecrecy and peace.
But thou, a rebel vile and vain,
Uſurp'ſt my lawful old domain; *
My ſcepter thou affect'ſt to ſway,
And all the various hours are day... |
With clamors of unreal; joy, nh
My ſiſter, Silence, you deſtroy,
The blazing lamps, (unnat ral lebt),
My eyeballs weary and „„ "th
But if I am allow'd one ſhade, Ry 3 eee
Which no intruſive eyes, invade ; a
There, all th' atrocious imps of hell, 1
Theft, Murder, and Pollution dwell.
Think then how much, thou toy of chance, 4
Thy praiſe is like my worth t enhance; ; 1
Blind thing, chat runn 't without guide, 1 vi. 11
Thou whirlpool in a ruſhing, tide ;,. 2 02 84:4 &f 107
No more my fame with praiſe pollute, , bas £9120 2.
But damn me into ſome 8 Em sein $43 c 144
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II. Deng and POSSESSION. |
9*F1S firange; whit diffrent thou zhts inſpire.
In men, Posskssion and Decie!” |
Think what they wilt ſo rent 4 bleſſing; *
So diſappointed when poſſeſſing ! 1
A moraliſt profoundly ſage,
I know not in what book or Page,
Or whether o'er a pot of ale, 4 3
Related thus the following tale.
Possess10n and DSU his brother,
But ſtill at varfance with" each other, _
Were ſeen contending in a race;
And kept at firſt an equal pace.
"Tis ſaid, their courfe” continued long ; 5
For this was actire, thit Was ſtrongz:
Till envy, ſiahder, Noth, and doubt,
Miſled them mail e about. a
Seduc'd by ſome « deceiving light, 46g
They take the A gl RP the right:
They often climb, ald oſten cfecp.
DzsixE, the ſwifter of the two, ag
Along the plain, like ligbruwg, 1 1
Till ent'ring on a broad Highway, > xd
Where poser and titles ſcatter'd lay,
He ſtrove to pick up all he found,
And by excurſions loſt his ground;
No ſooner got, than with diſdain '
He threw them on the ground again;
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And haſted Le to — |
Freſh objects fairer to his view; 7
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But all he, k, Wag, ju the ſame; _ me
Too ſcornfyl now tg ſtop his pace,
He ſpurn/d them in bis gvaFsace. (1
PossEss ion kept the beaten road, n
And gather d all his brother A. d;, |
But over-charg'd, and out o Wind, |
Though Grog in by dee bind.
Drsiar had now the, goal in t:. wall
It was a tow'r of monſtrous, height z „
Where on the ſummit: \FoaTuns 1 „ =
A crown and ſcepter in her hands 3 nets cok dV
Beneath a chaſm as degp. a5 hell, SLE 1% r 2994.4,
Where many W ya vale 2 ih
Des1KE in 'd.2 Able, c 15
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III. TRUTR and Fals uon. |
IRS on a time, in Tankkine weather,
Falsknoob and TauTH walkt out together,
The neighb'ring woods and lawns to view ; .
As oppoſites will ſometimes do. 8
Through matiy 4 blooming mead they paſt, 2
And at a brook arriv'd at lat.
The purling ftream, the margin green, |
With flow'rs bedeckt, a vernal ſcene, 4
Invited each itin'rant maid _ a
To reſt a white beneath che Rade.
Under a ſpreading beeck they ſat, '
And paſt the time with E84. chat; 5
While each her chärafter aintzin'd : *
One ſpoke her thouſfhis, the al 0 dd.
At length, quoth FIT sib ob, filter RA,
{For ſo ſhe Ad Her Fo her. 3 bs you)
What if, to .
We bathe in this eighth =
The bottom frioodh, 't
And there's no > pry
With all my heart, *
And threw her 2
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And with a ſpring leapt headlons
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And laying by key taudry veſt,
Trickt herſelf out in Taurn's array,
And croſs the meadows f tript away.
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Of ſacred Txurꝝ uſurps the name,
And with a vile, perfidious mind,
Roams far and near to cheat mankind;
Falſe ſighs ſuborns and artful tears, ny \
And ftarts with vain, pretended fears;
In viſits, ſtill appears moſt wiſe, | |
And rolls at church her ſaint-like eyes ;
Talks very much, plays idle tricks,
While riſing ſtock * her conſcience pricks ;
And then, poor thing ! extremely gravell'd, .
She ſecrets op'd, and all unravell'd, |
But on ſhe will, and ſecrets tell!
Of Jobs and Joan, and Ned and Nell ; en
Reviling ev'ry one ſhe knows,
As fancy leads, beneath the roſe, 4
Her tongue ſo voluble and kind, 5
It always runs before her mind ; een,
As times do ſerve, ſhe {lily Pleads, | As Wa l
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And copious tears ſtill ſhow ber needs,
With promiſes as thick as —
Speaks pro and con, is wond'rous civil,
'To-day a ſaint, to-morrow
Poor Turn ſhe ftript, 45 bas been 2 22
And naked left the 10 eh ad, .
Who ſcorning frohi Ker caufe to Vince,
Has gone ſtark- naked ever fnce z "OF
And ever naked will appear, |
Belov'd by all who Tauru revere.
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Auratus let the world deplore : n Aa
The good Auratur- is 10 "miord! 44." MN thor fil
Yet, even in death, Fr rl ny :
Plann'd for the 97 f hb tragic
Von riſing hoſpital ſhaft Ade TTL mnt * — gin
His worth from 49 272 age below :?: So 3 *
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Above, the ſaint, enrob'd with light, .
Half angel ſhines divinely bright! | 3 *
A theme preſents, unlike the laſt; 3 e
Her trumpet ſbundb à diff rent blaſt: = 2 eo
Rejoice! the robber meets his doom ; = CET
He dies unwept, nor finds à tomb:
Snatcht from the gibbet, warm with life, _ wy
His body gluts the ſurgeon' s knife. th
His ſoul deſcends with fiends to dwell: : 9
Than his, no hotter place i in hell!
His name, to care, ſurvives his duſt : 1
Remember Milo, and be juſt.
But Faux, at length, fatigu d and hoarſe, | > *
From crouds and tumult bent ker courle. od of
In ſolitude the ſought for reſt, : ah
And ſhades receiv d th anivonted gueſt: | | * f
Deep was the grove, by human tread
Unmarks; *twas here that TxuTn" had fled.”
"Twas here, for once, their fate to meet z.
And thus ws wond ring ſtrangers greet.
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Vice prais'd for merit nt her own— 1
F. I ſcorn the charge; what l Fele,
With all her cautiag,, Txy74 might ow 7 611.
Falſchood my trumpet never ann, Re |
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7. 1 wrung from half mankind. ;
F. But then that hoſpital. be eu. 1
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T. - - Fot a name rever'd, 2 2
His life, kis heart, high heaven deſcri 'd, n
His cloſe injuftice markt, and price.
His doom, though worſhipt round the ball,
His doom is fixt beyond recall!
F. Yet Taurn may oyn, Bay. on — |
1 prov'd to Miles mem'ry juſt. |
7. That once he robb'd, Tl own. to Fanz,
When urg'd by want, and ſtung by fame:
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The nobler purpole .
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And heaven witli pi pity. him 1 pray.
Long ere the ſurgeon's kn 18 8 pin -
His ſoul was lafe, and that's e,
Caught from che : gallows to to the ſkies — |
Pray! did you never trumpet. t lies ?
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Faux clapt her wing, and, , mounting, Gore, ar
If choſe were lies, ſhe d trumpet more. a
TxuTH ſought her cave to vent her woe
For each wrong'd ct character below. 1 | | F
But this reflexion calm'd her grief; 1 i: &
Time ſoon ſhall. bring the wrong d relief;
Tims Toon ſhall bid my voice 2
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18 oo was once of men the beſt,
Reason ſole empreſs of his breaſt ;,
Nor was a ſingle: paſſion: found |
One ſtep beyond its proper bound:
If Theught rebell'd, 'twas firſt chaſtis d;
If rebel ſtill, twas ſacrific'd. | |
Once, for all virtues you could name, A
His Grace was juſtly dear to fame.
But ſtrange! beyond expreſſion frange!:
How ſudden, how entire a change!
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He takes a whim to live with ert, 5 2
And thinks, in humor. there is merit.
By turns behold Him greom and e
Grave, gay; goodnatur d, and ſevere.
Now with nine footinen, now "with none!
His horſes mixt; black, white, bay, ual.
And odder ſtill, if that can be, 9
Now drives with fix, and nos with ches!
At nine his feat was ſold! at ten
Rebought ; at twelve twas ſold again!
His fortune flies a thouſand ways; FA
His conſtitution faſt decays.
The doors to a man adviſe '
Milk, ſnails, and gentle exerciſe. ©
He rides, but not his eaſy pad 5
A ſtallion, mettled high, juſt mad.
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He's thrown ; with bruiſe and — 2 —
A ſervant bears him home to bed.
Reflecting as the ſuff rer lay,
Impatient for the riſing day;
He curſt wild Humor, that ſo. Tong
Had led him blind from right to wrong.
The juſt complaint reacht Reason's ear:
Rzason, though not within, was near.
Howe'er provok'd with ample cauſe,
From man ſhe never quite withdraws ;
But, till by Death's dread ſeythe we fall,
Still waits within a moment's call.
Receive me yet again, ſhe crrd :
From wrong to right I'll be your guide.
My dictates while your Grace purſu'd ; ©
Your heart, your life, was wife, was good:
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The bp fs Hens 8 mig Fs __ 11
That foe to virtue, pleaſure, ſeaſe'} + nad "#f Fr 4E dg. A
Again take Kr ion to your breaſt; T 1, 2 941 3 2
And be again rever'd and bleſt. ee
Humos heard all, and, kung with ragh, rae v9 1
Came forth With REA to e, tr £90 of 4H
A ſpeedy fight enſues, and 10 5 5 >b%9 bo fs
Hvuon receives a dreadful blow . Au, 1 * wo
Full on the brain. She loſt her =, * ay N .
With Reasdv in a former fight, | * | 275 | Vet 53
Frantic ſhe ran: beware, ai! 1 5 of 41H
Now Humor's mad as well as _ ( 05 PITS.
Rxason's rethron's, but doftors dre 27 get 94
Small hope: His Grate (they cry}: may live A1
Vet great's the daubt—and let kim dy, vo bn | 7
Reason ſhall fix him in the .- N 2 al A
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VI The Apology of A. FIPS
7 WAS when the ſun direct, with potent ray, |
Ober all the azure ſpread _redoybled days VA |
On Deva's banks, beneath the leafy ſhade,
Pleas'd with the vari'd proſpect, thus F ſaid: 4 4: 1
O Art! how vain is all thy vaunted ſkill!ʒ⁶ßʒ ny
Ev'n ye who boaſt a pegaſean'quill, Ao 2
Can ye deſcribe the ſmoothneſs of the ſtream, 2 "fr 4
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Or feign the force of the all-conqu*ring beam?
Ye who with Nature on the canvas vy, |
Whoſe labors charm the ſoul, and bleſs the eye, 94
How faint your ſtain to yonder vivid green; 1
What painting equals the ſurrounding ſcene? 5
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A nymph, in all the Lodge pare
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Enfeebled Art, nd more the prize contend : 35
Nor ſtrive to conquer Sher ata canſt, not m
Scarce ſaid, when 10, a 57
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The waters gath'ring Nen her in a ring,.
| Diſclos'd the mimit verdure of the ſpring...
Bending ſhe ſtood with eful ; air and mien,
As the fam'd ſtatue of L. paphian queen *. :
Who thus arialgns the growing pow'r of Art,
She who at once can warm and mend the heart?
Rude and untaught, the favage Indians roam
From cave to cave, nor find a peaceful home !.
Unknown to all the elegance of life,
Expert alone in wild unſocial rife; |
Strangers to all th the beauties of the 4 ap
All that or graces, or endears mankind ;
Superior only to the brutal race,
And all Ger Wore but their —＋ to trace,.
Look forward, ſee the gultiyated fields;
Compare with theſe what fallow Nature yields:
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Then tart, Belibld the tow'ritty fpites atiſe,
Whoſe lofty ſitmiaitsemo!ite the Hieb;
The winding bay with: wg treuer crowd, f
Where ſhouts of jby art echo'd all around,
View next the ſeats whete Learning ſheds her 7
And where in ſilence all the Mufes ftray. |
See heross, patriots, legiſlators there;
See here the fliade, the ſage's, poet's cares.
Turn where you will, ackrowlege Art's renown,
In hut, in hamlet, or in wealthy town,
* Travellers remark, that the Vxxvs ** Medicis is cines forward,
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ike the palace and the church; nor leſs
r pow'r the leaſt, the meaneſt movement ſhows. ;
e Nate! ſelf to Art her praiſes owes : |
For Art is Nature from all drofs refin'd,
The pure effulgence of th unclouded mind.
Swift from her eye ſhe ſent an angry beam.
And, filent, ſunk beneath the clofing ſtream.
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I. The Power of Innoctives!
Northern pair, we waive the name,
Rich, young, and not unknown to fame,
When firft the nuptial ſtate they tri d, | |
With poets' gods in pleaſure vi'd,
New to the mighty charm, they feel!
A joy that all their looks reveal. L
We love whate er has pow's to pleaſe;
So Nature's ancient law decrees:
And thus the pair, while each had pow'r. /- L
To bleſs the fond, ſequeſter d hour, 11 Lo
With mutual love enraptur'd glow, - N
And hve in kind camplacence ſhow. |
But when familiar charms no more
Inſpire the bliſs they gave before;
Each leſs delighting, leſs was lu?
Now this, now that was diſapprov d.
Some trifling fault which Leve conceal d,
Indi F rence ey'ry day reveal'd, Mn
Complacence flies, Neglect ſucceeds ;
Neglea, Diſdain, and Hatred breeds:
The wiſh. 0 pleaſe forſakes the breaſt;
The wiſh to rule has each poſſeſt.
Perpetual war, that wiſh to gain, 2
They wage, alas | but wage in vain, pt Uo 26
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Sir John now ring Yo'UPHR; ©
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Now hope of conqueſt ſwells the heart
Nb more at length content to part.
The rural Teat, that filvan ſhade,
Where firſt the nuptial vows were E *
That ſeat teſts the dire intent.
And hears the parting ſettlement.
This houſe, theſe fields, my Lady's own,
Sir 7ohn muſt ride to town alone.
The chariot Wit they bid achter;
ut fill the chariot waits in View.
Tom tires with waiting long in doubt,
And lights a pipe and ThibKkes it büt . —
Myſterious! wherefore this Mela) ' |
One lovely girl the Lady bore,
Dear pledge of joys nie taſtes nn möfe:
The father, meter 5, Giftig Mr; +
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Turn'd to the darfg ef Mir heart,
And cri'd, with Ader in h er:
Come, Betſey ; bid Hrhr a 5%. 2
The Lady, begs Aon * N q
Go, kiſs pa „
Sir John, th 8 e wie .
The child herſelf ſhall chooſe, Yaid he,
Poor Betſey lookt at exth by Party,
And each the ſtafting tear Meru.
My Lady aſks, Wick doubt aud fehr:
Will you not live wick fit, *#iy Dear * ©
Yes, half-reſolv'd, reftyd Ut Gift;
And, half ſuppfeft det für, fle Ant, -
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WA nd live with dear papa, I knoW.
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The child, ho tears am chidiip Sane,
Suppos'd papa diſpleas d, Nu > a5 7
And tri'd, with: all her litt Ill.
To ſooth his oft-telemiag W] lll.
Do, cri'd the liſper, Pappy, do gil 10 70 130M 4 6v;
Love dear mama Mmm {avg you,”
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Hough 4 bed, where Miro day,
He flept not to the dawn of day:-
And who could hope a moment's reſt.
While thoughts like theſe perplex the breaſt ?
Knowlege conceal'd beyond the I Wahr;
Ah ! what can dim- ey d man apy F< |
Life's good or ill till felt unknown : '- - i bit
'To-morrow's is to-morrows o Wi {1900 of
My n hour the ee be- bo
Ji My moments pas- when paſt, A bog b
If fraught with happineſs:or Wet .
| i The tardy knowlegezcames:to0 e eh elt
And unprepar d we meet our fat. 3
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F Thus hoodwinktiman'sinirhonal/ mind & 1
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Why preſcience-jealouſly:deni'd, 4 i901 39419 .
Of life alone the guard and gude:
Man born to woe, as ſparłs aſcend, zuki: © I
The means of .blifs-heaviniwill:notlend; ©:
| Here ſlumber feal'd his weary eyes;
| ; | A dream enſu'd, to make him wiſe.
[| (But all her ſons, like Eve, ſhall know
| Kinowlege that heav'n forbids, is woe ! )
i An angel thus beſpoke him : Friend !
| I come at once thy doubts to end
Pull to thy view I'll make appear
| The fate of thy enſuing year:
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ell ſcales—a ſcene began to riſe—/ © |
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riekt and expir'd!-—turn'd cold as clay: |
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nd now, the ſhadow gaſpt for Rl,
nd now was agoniz'd in death. *
ho's ſhe, that fever robb'd ef; lie: |
he angel anſwer'd : Twas your wife! —
he man conſumption ended, bo ?ꝰ
gain the angel anſwer'd; You...
hat dreadful word like thunder. broke
he dreamer ſtartled |—and awoke.!—_
hat can this ſhocking dream portend—
wo deaths before the year: ſnall end!
ira's the firſt nor hers alone!
much it aſcertain d my o]õ wi
our wife — and y.. This tingling ear
till rings, as were the angel here Ja
ut what's a dream? Nay ſome rehearſe
juſt denotes its 'own.ceverſe— . Wh
ff mine ſhall I preſume-the ſame ? ©: +
mpoſlible ! from heav'n it came
ame to correct this e de 1
aſt I then dy ? Is death ſo near?
ood heay'n ! Accept this guſhing tear !
0 ev'ry crime thy grace extend!
ind let that death my ſorrows end
but how to hyeak it to my Fair?
or the dread ſecret ſhe muſt ſhare !
ind what but truth can heav'n impart ?— -
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Warn'd, ſhe'll prepare horſelf to-dg;. -
And ſhine a brighter ſaintvou-high. -
The dream was told—how —
High boungs her ——— 1
See her in bed ! ſhe pants} Nie-turns! © ind
She raves |— How fell-the- fever burns — \ tal
She's gone! and, when her r | pree
Miro felt more than half the ftroke#' 0 Il p
By forethought of that dreadful day, | Ne
How much was Me worn away! he
But quite to loſe ſo ſond a Wife he
It ſhrinks him to a ſhade of liſo? \nd
Ev'n Hope, the waſter's oonſtant friend, no\
That ſcarce deſerts him at his end; © {ave
Hope flies the-piner's heart; nor dare he
That heart importune-heavinito pre — n lif
But certain, that his inſtant doom's decreed, p01
He meets * Death ue and dies indeed. —
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Man at his 1 N and
What beſt were hid, heavin hides from 3 oo zut
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Hence Hope, that belps „ a eee 0
Hence all the humble confidence: of pray?r:; 7» dtrie
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T always. has been thoughy diſcreet,
To know the, company vou et
nd ſure there may.,be. ſecret danger,
talking much beſore a ranger... ; 2
greed: what then ? Thea, drinks: your, ales >»
Ul pledge you, and en ale. N 1 92.
No matter Where. the ſceneds fixt:
he perſons were but odly mixt.
'hen ſober Damen thus began:
\nd Damon is a clever man!)
now grow old bus till; from, youth, |
ſave held for Modefly and Truth, :
he men, -who — ſtaer.
n life's great voyage never ver.
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Sir, either is a good at
aid one who ſat a little diſtant :.
ruth decks our ſpeeches, and. our bels
And Modeſly adorns our dpoks,
ut farther progreſs we muſt; ſeek, _ -
ot only born to lot and pet
The man muſt ar. The STAGIRITE ,
days thus, and ſays extremely right: |
dtrict juſtice is the ſoy xeign guide,
That o'er our actions ſhould _preſide2
his queen of virtues. is conſeſt.
o regulate and bind the reſt.
hrice happy, if you can but find
Fler equal ballance poiſe yu wind: -
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All diff rent graces ſonn will enter,
Like lines concurrent to their center.
"Twas thus, in mort, theſe — on, 9
With Tea and Nay, and N and C;
Through many - points divinely dark,
And WarTzRrLAnd aſſaulting Urans;
Till wreckt upon che rocky cbaſt,
Damon took up the Fen- et N
Confounded Srain, compos'd+ the North, -
And deep in Politics held/foreh : - cope 13
Methinks we re in the like condition,
As at the TazaTY of rARTIT Io W: 8
That ſtroke, for all king WiLL1an's care,
Begat another ſad affair. .
MaTTHEw, who knew the 230% e,
Ne'er much approv'd that myftic N
In the vile UTzEcHT-TREATY. too,
Poor man ! he found enough to do.
Sometimes to me he did apply;
But downright Dunſtabl was I, |
And told him «vbere they were miftaken,
And counſel'd him to /ave hit bacon,
But, paſs his politics and pro/e, *
I never herded with his foes ;
Nay, in his verſes, us a friend,
I ftill found ſomething to commend :
Sir, T excus'd bis NuT-Bzown: Maw,
Whate'er ſeverer critics ſaid.
Too far, I own, the girl was tri d:
The women all were on my fide. -
For Alma I return'd bim thanks 1 1 4 $44
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Till out of breath, he turn'd to Git:
Of all the 5 the gods Rnd:
(If we may take old Turi vl mind)
The greateſt is a friend; whoſe hve 4a
Knows how to praiſe, and'when reprove. |
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From ſuch a treaſure” never part;
Zut hang the jewel on your heart: 8 |
And, pray, Sir, (it delights hw tt; ns
You know this Author mighty well—
Know him / d'ye queſtion it? Om fi!
Sir, does a beggar know bis di *
I'd him, as I told 9 0
Advis'd kin Here a ſftander-by”'! ;
Twitcht Damon gently by the rloke, '
And thus, unwilling; filence broke ;
Damon, 'tis time we ſhould" retire : |
The man you talk with is Mar Pair.
Patron through life, and from thy birth my frierd,
Dorser, to thee, this fable let me fend; | |; _
With Danox's lightneſs weigh thy ſolid wyoreb:
The foil is known to ſet the diamond forth.
Let the feign'd tale this real moral give:
How may Dur how zer Dokeers ure!
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The trumpet's call bey de.
His perſon all his country's due *
He deem'd, and to 3 bent
In Part a hand had paid. ran.
One ſtill remains, dee dend w vie, — 45
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Reviving color zlow'd. with broken light ;/
The varied, land cape ; dawn'd upon the fight: |
The lark's Arft ſong Fates, floats in air; |
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Unpens the fold, and o'er the glitt ring mead.
Wich thodghiful eds.” conduct! his Acecy breed. 11 :
Near, in rude majeſty, a mouptain ſtood,
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The mountain Echo'd ev r plaintive train, ...
The fighing breeze return d his ichs again ; |
The gliding remurmur 'd to His
As thus from ſong the ſhepherd ſought relief:
When late in rural ſports. I took my ſhare,
Blithe as the blitheſt in the crouded fair ;
What though from ten, "contending i in the race,
I ſnatcht the prize, with. yet unrival'd pace)
What though, in Wrefling, arduous to excel;! -
I ſtood the victor, whe each rival fell? Tp |
What though, when Calin, oft in combat cron Fo
The cudgel ſeiz d, and aw'd the circle round,
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Won the loud Lr of the liſt nin ning throng ? .
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And rival hands for me the chaplet twine,
On Rabis's ſhoulders through the croud convey'd,
Of maids that bluſht, and ſhepherds that huzza'd;.
Vain all my ſtrength, activity and ſpeed. 10
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No joy the chaplet, or the piize could give:
For Phillis frown'd, the nymph for whom I live! | |
Phillis, whoſe charms alone my wiſhes fir'd, -
Whoſe charms ambition, not my. own, inſpir ird; 2 3%
Who made my feet more ſwift, my arms more ſtrong *
My heart more dauntleſs, and more ſweet my ſong.
Love gave me conqueſt, but deni'd me bliſs, _
When from her lips the wip'd the raviſht kiſs: ,
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And all his ſorrows and his pains beguiles. rs 5
She, from the wound I gave, with lenient care, 2
Waſht the ſtiff gore, and clipt the clotted har :
The healing ſimples with foft touch appli d, t of —
Own'd and careſt him, ſpite of female pride. Fry
Mourn'd his diſgrace ; and now, from future harms, ,
Perhaps the hides him in her circling arms. Tre
O ! had kind heay'n to me transferr'd his Wen N
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Bleft, though forgotten, i in the ſecret ſhade. . 7” DN
Vain wiſh! to Cal is chat bliſs decreed — * We
Diſtracting thoaghts diftraQing thoughts fuccecd— *
May ſwift deſtruction ſeize the hated pair, 3 1
Or, worſe than ſwift deſtruQon, my deſpair ! . ;
No— may the fruitleſs cu:ſe leave Phillis free;
But doubled, Calin / be fulfill'd in the.
High on the neighb'ring mountain's airy. head
His brouſing goats as happy Colin fed, *
Pronounc'd with haſty rage, be heard his name
W attention came; |
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He dhricks, fad plunges inthe brook below ; _ ._
The founding waters, Whitening as ey role,.,. 2
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Damon, alarm d, bis 7955 rival Knew; en,
And, ſwift as Jight” nin 10 his, aid 8 * /o
Prevailing virtue tr np] t in Ee breaſt,
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By partial Favor, not by we „
To thee mare Worthy, Phil lis Tr — ">
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Go, and may heav Nang le ve thy ſuit fi
Thus ſoon, 1 5 ardent 1 5 eg, 470 pil
He ſcorns 77 2 broken Vows to gain gain :
Be thine the Lk linge fate ordains it ſo,
And time and 3125 Mall allay my woe! | We”
Friengs, from this ho zour for ever, let us lire: 3
My frien ſhip's pledge „ this ſpotleſs « ew 1 give.
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Thus bab'd;” Pham, waperestyd; drew near,”
Take, Desen, (chus te blühing mraill ene,
The hand, the heart, thy gem tous Virtue wiits.
Not Colin's broken vows, but Dames truth, |
Now blends-nry fate with thiite; Yeſerviny Nr. 10
To try hee {O! forgive, f id cob füt) *
Was all I meant, whate er my dcin were.
Her hand, with ſudden rapture, Dam pet IE
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The fated firebrand of unhappy Trey: ett
His idle crook was, careleſs, throwh 4 ay
His flock at diſtance wich his-raftic bride; *'* Wy
Apt ſcene and leifure for the fwain 0 El- W
Fanteflic forms to pleaſe Mis ally mE z
But chief was Love, that feet deluding wet, 7
For ever welchins ww? che yourhful breaſt ; ' *
Where abſolute he ſoon erefts his throne ;
A jealous monarch, that will reign alone !
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Unuſual day ſhot. ſydden, through the ſhade; : Th
Surpris q, uproſe he from the moſſy ground.
And ſmelt ambrofal odors all around? 40
When 10 J, the meſſenger of Fove appears:
One hand his ſngke-enwin'd — 0 75
And one preſents th' infcrib'd my ſlerious ball,
That wrought diſenſion in Ober hall, 4
Wich him three beauties. of celeſtial ac,
Whoſe radiant charms iHumin'd all the place.
Then ſpoke fair Maia's ſon: From Jeve we came,
Behold his daughters, and his royal dame!
Which ſhines the faireſt of th' illuſtrious three,
O Paris, to decide is left to thee ! |
To thee, the thand'rer's delegate below,
This prize upon the vict'reſs to beſtow ;
He ſaid : and Juno firſt adyanc'd; her air
And ſtately motion conſcious pride declare;
While the gay bird, adorn'd with. Arguf eyes,
Attends th' 1 imperial. miſtreſs of the lies:;
Who thus began — : Unknown to thee * hn 21
In ruſtic ſloth thou loſeſt princely worth; FLA
While in the myſtic coll of fate. I read, 17
Life more ſublime is to thy lot decreed: dat 3677 214
Thy ficecy beds, an thy. crook, diſdain z:
And date o'er men, ee eee l {
Rever . ador d, obey d, an carthly god, wif
Wich life or death attending on thy nod _—
To this my gift, direct thy gen'rous vie vd, ñ
And be the prize awarded where tis due.
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A heroe crown'd, tis mine that crow hay
'Tis I the field arrange, de bug
Wich ſteady courage; add with martial ff 77 att
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Or royal birth, that idler zigkt, ro regnrß 4
"Tis I the patroneſs of arts along, 1 odor?) nol
Erect the pillars that ſuppbit a thron e 6
Thus I o'er peace as well as war pred,
And bleſs the ſtates that I with counſel guideQ.
Conſult thy glory, be chat apple mia += ot
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The loves attend ber, and each MN
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O lovely youth, with vernaf vigor erow ed . 2 ++
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And yield to Helen, paragon of Grete; 5 0 ol .
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Aud Philemel begins her midnight-layz
A daring mouſe, that dauntleſs long dei d
The yazigus arts,which, Abjgei/ had tri dl.
His deſtin'd doom receiy d: for, ſoon or late, 07
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Tales of fair Raad arer turn di to faz:
A conj' ring book, love-jeſts, and Robiz Hat.
Thus, like wild Tartars, liv'd the beaft on prey;
Plunder d all night, and ſlumber'd all the dax.
When ruddy Morn walk d the more ruddy maid,
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Luxuriqus nights in pleaſing plander paſt.
Nor dreamt that this was doom d to be his laſt.
For now the time; the deſtin'd time was ſent:
So Fate ordain'd ; and who can Fate prevent ?
Thick ſhades once more had vail'd the haunted houſe:
Once more from covert bolts th' advent'r rous: mouſe.
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Free from the graver topics of the gown,
The lawyer's quihble, and the zealot's frown;
My book I court, and from the filent page,
Imbibe the wiſdom of, the ſaint and ſag.
Pleas'd I review the firſt records of time,
The moſt authentic, aud the moſt ſublime.
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And view its iniage; yet untaught to in-
Next fin her dire vontagion fpreading wide,
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Review each day'ch'cimprovements Þ have made,
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Here Ce/ar Aitiked me with triumphant ſway,
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Fulfil wiſe Nature's Plain deſire; 9. 9
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Has promis d to be ever mine zz
For well inte knows my heart:
She knows it honeſt and ſincere,
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Tis a flame you cannot hear.
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Take my counſel ere too late: 3
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Settle on the wall or, ground: *
Sleep till morning, with the day I. Arent
Riſe, and uſe your wings, you may; ß
Uſe them then, of danger clear ;
Wait till morning ; do, my dear. |
Lo! my counſel nought avails: | 4
Round, and round, and round it fails ;
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Is not this a draught of man?
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Pleaſure's burning ſphere, and dies.
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He rebels, alas! and will. , |
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O] where the roſy- boſom'd hours
Fair Venus train appear,
Diſcloſe the long- expected flowers
And wake the purple year!
The attic warbler pours her throat,
Reſponſive to the cuckow's note, | 1
hat untaught harmony of ſpring ; 3 of
While whiſp'ring pleaſure, as they fly, ,
Cold zephyrs through the clear blue fky,
Their gather'd fragrance fling.” —_
Where'er the oak's thick branches reach
A broader, browner ſhade ; |
Where'er the rude and moſs-grown beech
O'ercanopies the glade; - ©
Beſide ſome waters ruſhy bring
With me the muſe ſhall-fit and think
(At eaſe reclin'd in ruſtic ſtate)
How vain the ardor of the croud. |
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And they that creep, and they that fly, |
Shall end where they began. 4
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In fortune's varying colors dreſt ;
Bruſht by the hand of rough miſchance, 4
Or chill'd by age, their airy dance,
They leave, in duſt to reſt, I
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The ſportive kind reply; 1
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Thy joys no glitt' ring . meets 4 |
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Thy ſun is ſet, thy ſpring is gone; 8 |
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N the barn the tenant, —_
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Briſkly crows (the ſhepherd's clock!)
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Swiftly from the mountain's-brow, 470
Shadows, nurſt by Night, retire; |
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"Paints with gold the vilggge- pi.
Now the pine-trees waving top _
Gently greets the morning-gale !
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Daſies round the dewy dale.
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Plaintive where ſhe prates at night ;
And the lark to meet the morn,
Soars beyond the ſhepherd's fight. .
From the clay-built cottage- ridge,
See the chatt'ring ſwallow ſpring !
Darting through the one- arch'd bridge,
Quick ſhe dips her dappled wing.
Lo, the buſy bges, employ'd!
Reſtleſs till their taſk be done
Now from ſweet to ſweet uncloy d.
Sipping dew, before the ſun. &
Trickling through the creyic'd rock,
See the ſilver- ſtream diſtil! //
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Sweet, oh ſweet, the warbling throng,
On the white- embloſſom d pray!
All is muſic, mirth, and ſong,
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From the fierce meridian-heat
She'ter'd, by the branching pines,
Pendant o'er his graſſy ſeat.
See, the flock forſakes the glade,
Where uncheckt the ſun- beams fall;
Sure to find a pleaſing ſhade
By the ivi'd abbey-wall.
Echo in her airy round
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Or with languid filence ſtand
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But from mountain, dell, or ſtream,
Not a flutt'ring zephyr ſprings 1
Fearful, leſt the piercing beam
Scorch his ſoft, his ſilken wings.
Not a leaf has leave to ſtir,
Nature's lull'd, ſerene, and ſtill!
Quiet e'en the ſhepherd's cur, |
Sleeping on the heath-clad hill!
Languid is the landſcape round,
Till the freſh-deſcending ſhow'r
Kindly cools the thirſty ground,
And revives each fainting flow'r.
Now the hill, the hedge, is green;
Now the warbler's throat in tune!
Blitheſome is the vernal ſcene,
Brighten'd by the beams * Noon.
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Copy the refulgent dy?
Where the riſing foreſt ſpreads
Round the time-decaying dome;
To their high- built airy beds,
See the rooks returning home!
As the lark, with vari'd tune,
Carols, to the evening, loud:
Mark the mild-reſplendent moon, a
Breaking through a 1 cloud !
Now the hermit-howlet peeps
From the barn, or twiſted brake;
And the curling vapor creeps
O''er the lily-border'd lake.
As the trout, in ſpeckled pride,
Playful, from her boſom os
To the banks a ruffled tide
Verges in ſuceeſſive rings.
Tripping through the filken gras 5
O'er the path divided dale, |
See the roſe-complexion'd laſs,. .
With the well-pois'd milking- pail]
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XII. The Saczirics: as piftle to CELIA,
F you, dear Celia, cannot bear,
The low delights that others ſhare ;
If nothing will your palate fir,
But learning, eloquence, and wit;
Why, you may fit alone, I ween,
Till you're devoured with the ſpleen.
But if varigty can pleaſe, |
With humble ſcenes and 3 eaſe;
If ſmiles can baniſh melancholy,
Or Whimſy with its parent Folly ;
If any joy in theſe there be,
I dare invite you down to me.
You know theſe little roofs of mine
Are always ſacred to the Nine;
This day we make a ſacrifice
To the Parnaſſian deities z .
Which I am order'd by Apollo,
To ſhow you in the words that follow. | |
As firſt, we purge the ballow'd room, 1
With ſoft utenſil, call'd a broom ; |
And next for you a throne prepare, l
Which vulgar mortals call a chair ; N
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While zephyrs from an engine blow,
And bid the ſparkling cinders glow.
Then gather round the mounting flames, ht
The prieſteſs and afſembled*dames ; _ ©
While ſome inferior maid ſhall bring |
Clear water from the bubbling ſpring,
Shut up in vaſe of ſable dy,
Secure from each unhallow'd eye.
Fine wheaten bread you next behold,
Like that which Homer fings of old 3
And by ſome unpolluted fair, 15
It muſt be ſcorcht with wond'rous care.
So far 'tis done:. and now behold
The ſacred veſſels not of gold;
Of poliſnt earth muſt they be made, 2 $2 ;
With painting curiouſly diſplay d. 2
Theſe rites are paſt: and nom muſt follow
The grand lbation to Ah
Of juices drawn from magic weeds, 5
And pith of certain indfan reeds
For flow'r of milk the prieſteſs calls:
Her voice reechoes from the walls ;
With hers the ſiſter- voices blend,
And with the od'rous team aſcend.
Each fair-one now a fibyl grows,
And ev'ry cheek with ardor glows ;
And, though not quite beſide their wits,
Are ſeiz d with deep prophetic fits:
- Some by myſterious figures ſhow,
That Celia loves a ſhallow beau;
And ſome by ſigns and hints declare,
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I. To Mr. HaRLEY, 2 *
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N one T6 Now, ſuperior to an age,
The full extremes of nature's foree we find?
How heavenly virtue can exalt ; or rage
Infernal, how degrade the human mind.
While the fierce monk does at his trial ſtand;
He chews revenge, abjuring his offence :
Guile in his tongue, and murder in his band,
He ſtabs his judge, to prove his innocence.
The guilty ſtroke and torture of the ſteel
Infixt, our dauntleſs Baron ſcarce perceives:
The wounds his country from his death muſt feel,
The Patriot views; for thoſe alone he grieves.
The barb' raus rage that durſt attempt thy life,
HazLEy, great counſellor! extends thy fame;
And the ſharp point of cruel Guiſcard's knife,
In braſs or marble carves thy deathleſs name..
Faithful aſſertor of thy country's cauſe,
Britain with tears ſhall bathe thy glorious wound; |
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She for thy. ſafety ſuall enlarge her laws, > 7-4
And in her ſtatutes ſhall thy worth be found.
Yet midſt her fighs ſhe triumphs, on the band 1
Reflecting, that diffus d the public ms bon
A ſtranger to her altars and her land: 8
No ſon of hers could meditate the blow! *
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Meantime thy pain is gracious AN s care:
Our queen, our ſaint, with ſacrificing breath,
Softens thy angulſh: in her pow'rful pray r
She pleads thy ſervice, and forbids th 7 death.
Great as thou art, thou eanſt demand no more,
O breaſt bewail d by earth, preſery'd by heaven“
No higher can alpiring Virtue ſoar; ..,, .
Enongh. to thee of e and fame is given.
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ow bleſt is * who for his country! dies !
Since death purſues the coward as he flies.
The youth in vain- would fly from fare's attack,
With trembling knees, and terror at his back; _
Though fear ſhould lend him pinions like the wind,
Yet ſwifter fate will ſeize him from behind.
" Virtue, repulſt, yet knows not to repine;
But ſhall with unattainted honor ſhine ;
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Juſt as the rabble est us ite er on'?" ,
Virtue, to crown her fay rites, loves to trx
Some new unbeaten paſſage to the K 45s?
Where Jovr a ſeat among the gods will mY nc A
To thoſe who dy for meriting to lige.
Next faithful ſilence has a ſure ed: NR Rd
Within our breaſt be ex'ry ſecret harr d. .
He who betrays his friend, ſhall never be =
Under one roof, or in one ſhip with ms. *-
For who with traitors would his fafety truſt 5
Leſt with the Wicked, heaw'n involve the juſt.
And though che villain "ſcape awhile, he feels
Slow vengeance, like's bloodhound, at lis heels.
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To the Right Honorable RoztrT Earl of
OxrorD, and Earl, Mon ria.
UCH were the notes, thy once lov'd poet ſung,
Till death untimely ſtopt bis tuneful tongue.
Oh juſt beheld, and loſt! admir'd and mourn'd?
With ſofteſt manners, gentleſt arts, adorns? ©
Bleſt in each ſcience! bleſt in ev'ry-ſtrain ! +
Dear to the muſe, to HARLEY dear—in vain *
For him, thou oft haſt bid the world attend,
Fond to forget the ſtateſman in the friend:
For Sw1eT- and him, deſpis'd the farce of ſtate,
The ſober follies of the wiſe and great;
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Dextrous the craving, fawning croud to Quits.)
And pleas'd to 'ſcape from flattery to Wit.
Abſent or dead, ſtill let.a friend be dear;
A ſigh the abſent claims, the dead a tear:
Recall thoſe nights that clos'd ty toilſom days 3
Still hear thy PAR xREL in his living lays; ud het
Who careleſs, now, of int'reſt, fame, or fate.
Perhaps forgets that Oxroap eber was great;
Or, deeming meaneſt what we greateſt call, 4.
Beholds thee gloriqus only in thy ann
And ſure, if aught below the ſeats divine
Can touch immortals, tis a ſoul like thine;
A ſoul ſupreme, in each hard inſtance td |
Above all pain, all anger, and all pride; J0Z2
The rage of pow'r, the blaſt of public breath,
The luſt of lucre, and the dread of death.
In vain to deſarts thy retreat is made:
The muſe attends thee to the filent ſhade, SS;
"Tis hers, the brave man's lateſt ſteps to trace,
Rejudge his acts, and dignify diſgrace ; 8
When Int' reſt calls off all her ſneaking train,
When all th' ebhg'd deſert, and all the vain ;
She waits or to the ſeaffold, or the cell,
When the laſt ling' ring friend has bid fare wel.
Even now ſhe ſhades thy evening-walk with bays,
(No hireling ſhe, no proſtitute to praiſe |).
Even now, obſervant: of the panting ray,
Eyes the calm ſunſet of thy various day
Through fortune's cloud one truly great can fee ;
Nor fears ta tel}, that MoxTwex is he.
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IV. To Ab Wen Brounry « on ber:
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H, be thou bleſ with all that heaven can ſend.
Long health, long youth,, long pleaſure, and &
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Not with thoſe toys the female race admire;
Riches that veæ, and vapities that tire;
Not as the world its pretty faves rewards,
A youth of frolics, and old age of cards;
Fair to no purpoſe, artful to no end;
Young without lovers, old without a friend;
A fop their paſſion, but their prize a ſot;
Alive, ridiculous ; and dead, forgot!
Let joy or caſe, let affluence or content,
And the gay conſcience of a life well ſpent,
Calm ev'ry thought, inſpirit ev'ry grace,
Glow in thy heart, and ſmile upon thy face.
Let day improve on day, and year on year,
Without a pain, a trouble, or a far; |
Till death unfelt that tender frame deftroy,
In ſome ſoft dream, or extaſy of jay.
Peaceful ſleep out the ſabbath of the zomb,
And wake to raptures in a life to come!
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And cite thoſe Sappbo's we admire no more: WV
Fate doom'd the fall of ev'ry female wit; =
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Of all examples by the world confeſt. W 7
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Who, like her Miſtreſs on Britannia 3 throne, : »$
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To write their praiſe, you but in vain N effay ; Ko | -
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Vet, Alexander, have a care, 0 Vet!
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We rule the world our life's whole race: We'
Men but aſſume that right; Bj
Firſt ſlaves to ev'ry tempting face,
Then martyrs to our ſpite.
You of one Orphens ſure have read,
Who would Jike you have writ;
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Had he in Londen-town been bred,
And poliſh to his wit FRAN
But he, poor Wal?" thought M1 was well,
And great ſhould be his fame: _ ,
When he had left his wife in hell, "a
And birds and beaſts could — 41 of
Yet vent ring chen with ſcoffing times,
The women to incenſmm FH
Reſenting heroines of thoſe times, *
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And as the Hebrus roll'd his A
And harp beſmear'd with blood;
They claſhing, as the waves grew ll |
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Our admiration you command,
For all that? s gone before:
What next we look for at your hang,
Can only raiſe it more.
Yet ſooth the ladies I adviſe: _
(As me too Pride has wrought)
We're born to wit; but to be wiſe
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VII. To the Hon. Ak, Elizabeth Townfheneſ
en ger pile at, Rana.
A cruel N that me ſuch po pow 'r employ,
To teach the pictur d beauty to deſtroy! 7
Singly ſhe charm'd before; but by thy *
The living beauty and her likeneſs kill:
Thus when in parts the broken mirrors fall,
A face in all is ſeen, and charms in a Wali
Think then, O faireſt of the fairer race,
What fatal beauties arm thy heav'nly face,
Whoſe very ſhadow can ſuch flames inſpire: /.
We ſee 'tis paint, and yet we feel tis fre.
See ! with falſe life the lonely image glo ws,
And ev'ry wond'rous grace apa ae;
Fatally fair the new creation. ceignt,. | T0
Charms in her ſhape; and avriplies, our paing:, |
Hence the fond — that ere y abſence found,
Views the dear form, and | bleeds at ev ry. wound.
Thus the bright Yenus, though to heav'n ſhe ſoar'd,
Reign'd in her i image, by the world ade d. gs
© wond'rous pow'r of mingled light and ſhades!
Where beauty with damb eloquence perſwades ; ;
Where paſſions are beheld in picture wrought,
And animated colors look a thought. dhe:
Rare art! on whoſe command all nature waits! Ly
It copies all Omnipotence creates! '' _ ©
Here crown'd with mountains Earth expanded lies}
There the proud ſeas with all their billows riſe !
If life be drawn, reſponſive to. the thought,
The wy figures live throughout the draught ;
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The mimic bird in ſkies fictitious movers | |
Or fancied beaſts in imitated groves : _ _
Even heaven it climbs, and from the forming haods,.
An angel here, and there a TownsHenD ſtands. -
Yet, painter, yet, though Art with Nature frive,
Though even the lovely fantom ſeem alive;
Submit thy . vanquiſht art! and own the draught,
Though fair, defective, and a beauteous fault.
Charms, ſuch as hers, inimitably great, |
He only can expreſs, that can create, TORY
Could'ſ thou extract the whiteneſs of the ſnow...
Or of its colors, rob, the. heavenly bows.
Yet would her beauty: triumph o'er thy ſkill,
Lovely in thee, herſelf more lovely ſill,
Thus in the limpid fountain we deſery,
The faint reſemblance of the glitt ring ** yy
Another ſyn diſplays his leſſen d beams, .
Another heaven adorns th' eplighten'd rcams;
But though the ſcene. be fair, yet high ateve
Th' exalted ſkies in nobler beauties move ; |
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VIII. W to ABRLARD;
N theſe deep ſolitudes * awful cells,
Where heav'nly-penſive Contemplation dwells;
And ever - muſtig Melancholy reigus ;
What means this tumult in a Veſtal's veins ?
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Why rove my thoughts beyond chis laſt er
Why feels my heart its long forgotten heat? rne.
Yet, yet I love !-—From Abelard it came, Urne
And Eloiſa yet muſt kiſs the name. |
Dear fatal name! Teſt ever unreveal'd,
Nor paſs theſe lips in holy filence ſeabd:
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Hide it, my heart, within that cloſe diſguiſe, And
Where mixt with God's, his lov'd-idea lies : WT ca
O write it not, my hand the name appears ov
Already written—waſh it out, my tears | No
In vein loſt Eloiſa weeps and prays ro:
Her heart ſtill dictates, and her band obeys. *
Relentleſs walls ! whoſe darkſom round contain
| Repentant fighs, and voluntary pains;
Ve rugged rocks! Which holy . Som
Ye grots and caverns ſhagg'd with horrid #hors / he
Shrines! where their vigils pale-ey'd virgins keep, Wa
And pitying ſaints, whoſe ſtatues learn to weep | The
Though cold like you; unmov'd and 208 grown,
I have not yet forgot myſelf to ſtone, Spec
All is not Heav'n's, while Abelard 10 part ; 1 And
Still rebel nature holds out half my heart:
Nor pray'rs nor faſts its ſtubborn pulſe reſtrain, Wh
Nor tears for ages taught to flow in vai.
Soon as thy letters trembling I uncloſe, Son
That well-known name awakens all my woes. it Thc
Oh name for ever {ad! for ever dear!
Still breath'd in ſighs, till uſher'd with a tear. |
I tremble too, where'er my on I find. Ane
Some dire mis fortune follows cloſe behind. Fro,
Line after line my guſhing eyes oerflow, - hey Toc
Led thro' a ſad variety of woe: |
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here ſtern Religion quencht th? unwilling le,
here dy'd the beſt; of paſſions, Love and Fame.
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Nor foes nor fortune take this po.] ¾r awWð”2·: ,
and is my Abelard leſs kind than they?
ears ſtill are mine, and thoſe I need not ſpare:
ove but demands what elſe were ſhed in pray r;
o happier taſk. theſe faded eyes purſue!i
o read and weep ãs all they now can do.
Then ſhare thy pain, allow that ſad relief;
Ah, more than ſhare it: give me all thy .
Heav'n firſt taught letters for ner n aid,
WS ome baniſht Iover, or ſome captive” ; 7
They live, they ſpeak, they breathe what . inſpires;
Warm from the foul; and faithful to its fire:
The virgin's wiſh: without her fears imp art.
Excuſe the bluſh; and pour out all the beart ; ,
Speed the ſoft intercourſe from ſoul to ſoul, - th
And waft a ſigh from Indus to the pole. |
Thou know'&t how guiltleſs firſt I met thy flame,
When Love approach'd me under Friendſhip's nume;
My fancy form'd thee of angelic kind.
Some emanation of th} all-beauteous mind. |
Thoſe ſmiling eyes, attemp'ring ev'ry ray,
Shone ſweetly lambent with celeſtial day.
Guiltleſs L gaz d heav'n liften'd while you ſung ;
And truths divine came mended from that tongue.
From lips like thoſe what precepts; fail- to move ?
Too ſoon they taught me twas no fin to love: |
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HFimſelf, his throne, his world, I'd ſcom em all:
And once the lot of Abelard and me.
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Back through the paths of pleaſing ſenſe I tan,
Nor wiſh'd an angel Whom I lev'd a man.
Dim and remote the joys of ſaints I ſee;
Nor envy them that heav'n I loſe for the.
How: oft, when preſt to marriage, have I ſaid,
Love, free as air, at ſight of human ties,
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
Let wealth, let honor, wait the wedded dame
Auguſt her deed, and facred be her fame ;-
Before true paſſion all thoſe-views reo;
Fame, wealth, and honor ! what are you e
The jealous god, when we profane his fire,
Thoſe reſtleſs paſſions in revenge inſpires,
And ids them make miſtaken mortals groan,
Who ſeek in love for aught but love alone.
Should at my feet the world's great mafter ſall,
Not Ceſar's empreſs would 1 daign to prove ;
No, make me miſtreſs to the-man+I love ;
If there be yet another name more free,
More fond than miſtreſs, make me that to thee !
Oh! happy ſtate! when ſouls each other draw,
When love is liberty, and nature, la : q
All then is full, poſſeſſing, and poſſeſt,
No craving. void left aking in the breaſt??
Ev'n thought meets thought, ere-from the lips it part;
And each warm wiſh ſprings mutual from the heart.
This ſure is bliſs, (if bliſs on earth there be,)
Alas how chang'd ! what ſudden horrors riſe!
A naked lover bound and bleeding lies !. .
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4a no more; by ame, by rage fopprett ;
et tears, and burning bluſhes ſpeak the reſt.
Canſt thou 'forget that ſad, that ſolemn day,
When victims at yon altar's foot we lay ?
Canſt thou forget what tears that moment fell,
When, warm in youth, I bade the World farewel?
As with cold lips I kiſt the facred vail,
WW The ſhrines all trembled, and the lamps grew pale:
WW Heav'n ſcarce believ'd the conqueſt it ſurvey d,
And ſaints with wonder heard the vows I made.
Yet then, to thoſe dread altars as I drew,
Not on the croſs my eyes were fixt but you:
Not grace, or zeal; love only was my call;
And if I loſe thy love, I loſe my all..
Come! with thy Iooks, thy words, relieve my woe
Thofe ſtill at leaſt are left thee to beſtow,
Still on that breaſt enamour'd let me lie,
Still drink delicious poiſon from thy eye,
Pant on thy lip, and to thy heart be preſt ;
Give all thou canſt—and let me dream the reſt,
Ah no! inſtru&' me other joys to prize,
With other beauties charm my partial eyes;
Full in my view ſet all the bright abode,
And make my ſoul quit Abelard for God.
Ah! think at leaſt thy flock deſerves thy care,
Plants of thy hand, and children of thy pray r.
From the falſe world in early youth they fled,
By thee to mountains wild and deſarts ted,
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Biack Melancholy fits, ind round Her Saas
A death-like Mete; dba u rend repole : |
Her gloomy pn ſaddens al the feent,
Shades ev'ry flow't; n
Deepens the murmar of thi falling a,
And breathes 2: bieter horror on the woods,
Yet here for Eher, ve ind I ly:
Sad prot How wen d lover can obey? | |
Death, onlF death, ea break the laſting chain ;
And here, e en then, all u 66H duſt remain:
Here all its frailkies, all its Mines gn, |
And wait tifl u no if ch mit with thine.
Ah wretch ! 8&ev'd the poiſe of God in vain,
Confſeſt Wichin the ſlave of man did pain.
Afiſt me, Hern! but whence aroſe that ray ?
Sprung it from piety, or from deſpair?
Ev'n here, where froxen chaſtity retires,
Love finde an altar for forbidden fires.
I ought to grieve, but cannot what I ought;
I mobi the lover, got lament the fault ;
I view my crime, but kindle at the view,
Repent ol pleafares; and folicit be:
Now turn'd to Heavn, F weep my paſt offence ;
Now think of thee, and curſe my innocence,
Of all aflicttion taught a lover yet,
"Tis fare the hardeſt feience to forget!
How ſhallT loſe the fin, yet keep the ſenſe;
And love th' offender, yet deteſf th' offence ?
How the dear object from the erime remote,
Or how diſtinguiſh" peniterice from lows ?
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How often muſt it love, hom often hate l π⁹²/X⁊jÜ |
Oh come l oh teach me nature to ſubd ue,
Alone can nivak; can ſucceed to the. bs &
Eternal ſunſnine of the ſpotleſs mind
Obedient ſlumbers chat can wake and weep ;
And whiſp'ring angels prompt her golden e |
Then conſcience ſleeps,” and leaving nature free,
Ere ſuch aul zegain. irs (peaceful fate, e 14112) +,
How often hope,-deſpain,.#eſent, rere. goulg (is
Conceal, _ diſdain do all things bot forget?. , |: |,, /.
But let Heav'a' ſeize, alli at once tis fir d
Not touch d, but rapt; not waken d, but inſpit dl
Renounce my love, my life,; myſelf nd 1 |
Fill my fond heart iti God alone for hee /:
How happy is the blameleſs Veſtal's lot; ᷑ H
The world forgetting, by the world forgot:
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Each pray r accepted, and each wich aefgn da.
Labour and reſt, that equal periqds keeps
Defires eompos d, affections ever r · 11,
Tears that delight, and ſighs that waft to Heas's...
Grace ſhines around her with ſereneſt beams,
For her th' unfading roſe of Eden blooms, -; |
And wings of ſeraphs thed diviae defer > EEE
For her the ſpouſe prepares the bridal ring. Ge
For her white virgins hymeneals. ſinng
To ſounds of heav'nly-harps the dies aways 2 ies
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Far other dreams my erring; foul xmploy, TIT
Far other raptures; of unholy joy, : +... g F KAN
When at the cloſe of each fad, ſorrowing days: -
Fancy reſtores what vengeance ſnatcht away ;
All my looſe ſoul Sm ſpripgsto thee...
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O curſt; dear horrbrs of alleonſgions night? by
How glowing / guilt exalts the keen delight?!
Provoking demens all reſtraint emo ++ +=
And ſtir wichin me er ry ſburce o „ 5
I hear thee, view tee; gase Oer all thy charme,.
And round hy phantom glue; my-claſping m..
I wake :—no' more I hear, no more I vier,
The fantom flies me, as uhltind an, eus
I call aloud ; it hears not What I fa: * wh
I ſtretch my empty arms; it glides away. 7D
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Ye ſoft illuſions, dear deceit; are:
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Through dreary waſtes, and wecp each orher's woe,
Where round ſome mold' ring tor pale ivy 2
And low- brow'd rocks hang nodding Oer the *
Sudden you mount, you beckon-from the lies
Clouds interpoſe,” waves roar,” and winds ariſe.
I chriek, ſtart up the fame ſad E11,
And wake to all che grief I leſt behind.
For thee che Fateiy"ſeverely kind, ordnn
A cool ſuſpenee from pleaſure and from pain; 1
Thy life along dead calm of -fixt repoſe; >
No pulſe that riots, and no blood that glows. - 14
Still as the fea, ere winds were 5 blow,
Or moving ſpirit bade the waters flo“? ;
Soft as the ſlumbers of a ſaint /orgio'n;
And mild as op'ning gleams of promis'd ven.
Come, Abetard ! for what haſt chou to dread ?
The torch of Venus burns not for the dead,
Nature ftands chect; religion difapproves ;
Ev'n BAIL x Hae AE 158 loves. - ©
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Snatch me, Jult h Trom the” blefßt- UBA /
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Here Grief forgets to groan, and Lone foe.
Evn Superſtition loſes. every fear :. - | wy
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When this rebellious heart fiall beat eee
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Condemn'd whole years4n- abſence to deg,
And image chafms be moſt behold, no more; 14
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My beating heart ſprung flerrely in my breaſt;
Through my whale frame aguilty reno glows,
And fighting toxrems from wy eyelids flow'd, .
Oh Er otss1, and; art thou fill the ſame? 1 %
Doſt chou ſtill nauriſh this deſtructive flame ? +; 6
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The hour that eaiinet, ought bot 10 be ming.
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Teach you to injur'd' Heaven all- chang'd to turn,
And bid your ſoul with ſacret raptutes burn.
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That mine with pious undiſſembled cane
Could Aid the latent virtue iraggling there..
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Burn in a heat oppreſt with crimes like mine, 21.
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Of feeble piety and warring ltr: 1.
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And drove pale Envy mutt ring Ger the Plains: 1710
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To flaſh his light'nings in each guilty face ;
To paint fair Virtue's,awful ſtriking mien,
Who, to be. lov'd, needs only to be ſeen. ;z.-
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A race of blockheads, dull and aa 7 7
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My ſon ſhall elſe aſſume, bis potent dares !, 8 B
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Than velvet 's more ſoft, and more gay than brocade:
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That the butterfly ſtill is leſs Tov'd than the bee.
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We provide a good lodging to fence from the cold:
For his honey we love him, although he will ſting,
And deſpiſe the gay inſects that flutter and ing.
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Let the fooliſh and vain at the toilet Rillvy,
In the fruitleſs endeayor to rival a fly!
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By fools they'd be play d with, and then thrown away,
Let me, like the bee, ev'ry moment improve,
And merit a love which no time ſhall remove.
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When good-ſenſe and good-nature direct what you fay;
The concord ſo charming with tranſport alarms,
And we liſten delighted while melody charms:
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E fair married James, who ſo often deplore, .
That a lover once bleſt is a lover 10 more;
Attend to my counſel, nor bluſh to be taught,
That prudence muſt cheriſh, what beauty has caught.
The bloom of your cheek, and the glance of * ih
Your roſes and lilies may make the men ſigh: *
But roſes, and lilies, and fighs paſs away;
And paſſion will dy, as your beauties decay,
Uſe the man that you wed, like your fav'rite guittar : :
Though muſic in both, they are both apt to jar ;
How tuneful and ſoft from a delicate touch, 5
Nor handled too roughly, nor play'd on too much I.
The ſparrow and linnet will feed from your hand 3 ;
Grow tame by your kindneſs, and come at command;
Exert with your huſband the ſame happy ſxill;
For hearts, like your birds, may be tam'd to your will.
Be gay and good-humor'd, complying and kind
Turn the chief of your care from your face to your
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'Tis there that a wife may her conqueſts FEENEY
And Hymn ſhall rivet the fetters of Love,
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E fair poſſeft of ey ry "charm |
To captivate the will, |
Whoſe ſmiles can Rage herſelf aiſrm,
' Whoſe frowns at once can kill:
Say, will ye daign the verſe to hae... n
Where flatt ry bears no part:
An humble verſe, that flows fincere, | 1
And candid from the Fern
Great is your pow! by —— n
Mankind it might engage,
If, as ye all can make à net,
Te all would make a cage.
Each nymph a thauſand hearts might ake: |
For who's to beauty blind ? "IE
* to what end a pris ner make,
Without the ſtrength to bind ?:
Attend the counſel often told, |
Too often told in vain!
Learn that beſt art, the art to bold,
And lock the lover's chain: A 40 err
Gameters'o lle putpoſe ..
Who loſe again as faſt ; | wot Ty
Though beauty may the charm begin,
Ti ſu eetneſs makes it laſt.
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ILVIA! with the wheel 1 . 1
Take the hints *twas form'd to lend.
Emblem this of life is found, ec is
While you turn it round and round. se
All the years that roll away, * N NI ,
Are but circles of à day;
Still the ſame, and ſtill renew'd/ .
While ſome diſtant-good's purſu'd jj
Diſtant, for we're never bleſt- +4 5 0 nent nth
Till the lab'ring wheel's avreſt 37 + nu 7 24 4h
Then the various thread is-ſpun 5 =
Then the toil of life is done
Happy! if the running twine
Form'd a ſmooth and even line; de 08 1
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Not untimely ſnapt in tuo.
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Reſt that ever ſhall endurez, - -*s _ x
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XII. To Mira with 8, painted.) Fax, 1
On one fide an old uoman yeading with Bud,
her crutch flanding by ber; on the reverſe, Virtue ir V
a rich-wrought, but hoſe, robe, "looking apabard, and V
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When it riſes, full diſplay d. ]
To ſupply the cooling ſhade, obo www Wal, 1
Read theſe maxims there;expreſt:; :
Shade for man is ſometimes beſ !!! 2Y
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Were the ſcene for ever bright, 4 304 + |
When the chearing breeze it ſends, _-
Think on whom your breath depend!!!
Think, that blifs and life would fail.
But for Providence's galddg·8e·e fs 1
If, to mock the farer's eyes,
And conceal a bluſh, it riſe;
Thus reflect behind the ſcene:
Will my actions need a ſcreen,
When diſplay'd to ev'ry eye?
Or will heav'n a ſcreen ſupply ?
In that aged face you'll ſee
What ere long your own may be:
Learn from ev'ry wrinkle there,
Time's a foe to all that's fair.
By thoſe ſpectacles you'll read,
What your orbs may one day need.
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I may need f porting 5
Turn it then to Virtue 's ſide,
View her form; (but ſtreteh it wide)
Virtue, if ſhe's painted right,
Ben appears, when moft in fight,
Rich her robe ! and this implies,
Wealth is ſometimes Virtue's prize.
All with curious Ie *
Hence her induſtry be taoght 3 | Wr
Looſely flowing, to expreſs. ©
Negligence of mode and dreſs.
vet, though looſely flows the veſt,
Claſpt, with care; acxeſs her ben!
Mira wants not to be told; i ©
Virtue's free, but never B.
Think that placid ſmile reveals © --
Joys which Virtue only feels;
Think that eaſy, open, air
Speaks the unaffected fair.
See! the drops her alms inclin ;
This denotes her humble mind; *
Upwards that ſhe turns her eye, -
Hints her portion in the ſky.
Show, by folding the machire,
Virtue may exiſt un/cen.
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When you forward urge its pace, ny v |!
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In my paſſage to the fc), |
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| Mira with him or behin-? 1 0 1
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1 Some internal fault concludſe .
1 Thus if Mira's liſe ſhould fin, |
| Let her frf reform within. 55
When it Hriles the hour, admit
Silence is not always fit.
Ewv'ry day its taſk purſu'd,
Hints how thine muſt be renew'd.
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Say, when winding up ; an, ant NIX.
Human | wheels, like hel of
Soon their funcuoùs muſt forego; „ 7
Nought if foreign hand beſtow, ..
If, all day, it acted right, 5 S eie!
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If it err d, let Mira paß; SE
Heav'n, forgive my faults w. * 10h
For its e, my preſent pri aa
All beſides neglet— deſpiſe Ne rere reg ds 7
Shine its trinkets as they will, Pi Ne.
Trinkets Are but trinkets ſtill. MN eb py, 27 |
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All in jewels and brocade; » jolt © nh bh
If at heart no merit-dwelh, { 5
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Though a Lord ſhould fmile, or * I 4} TS
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Means to mend it wainly tri'd, *
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Joyful retroſpection caſt: 70.
But let Mira think again, * 1770 ie Kr ui 451
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And ſing the face where beauties meet, _ |
And praiſe a public toaſt;
Tis not of thoſe we mean to l.. ey Mesure 90
Since inward graces far excel
Whate'er the face can boaſt, ,
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Than all the gifts of fortune more, 1
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And points the way to live. . 21
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Or what the cheeks where we may ; + LS
Ten thouſand graces riſe? |
Beauty's, alas! a fading wwe, xo
That comes and goes, Within an hour; 3 550
That lives, by turns, and dies. 7 ors vor A
What then avails a painted face?
Or what a ſhape, with ev'ry Face,
That's delicately fine?
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No more then yours than mine. . N
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Whoſe worth we no-where find:
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Deſpiſe the giddy n N nete:
Who prizes beauty that muſt falle, 21.
Go, wiſer thou, improve thy, mind, TY
With all the virtues thou canſt nnd, | "hr
And ev'ry ſocial grace: S 17 WT
The gen'rous gift of Providence | | rd donpd!
And leave to heaven thy face.
No longer then, ye lovely fair, ues,
With pride regard your flowing hair, |
Or neck, or eyes, or noſe.
Remember outward graces fade, |
And oh. the faireſt, lovelieſt, maid
Falls like the N roſe, was
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Autumn his ruſſet fingers lay
On ev'ry leaf of ev'ry tre;
I call: but Summer will not ſtay.
She flies, the boaſting goddeſs Hes, oY
And, pointing where th eſpaliets ſhoot, |
Deſerve my parting. gift, ſhe cries, ;
I take the leaves, but not the Fruit.
Let me the parting.gift improve,
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Health, beauty, vigor, now end; - ode,
The pride of Summer's Glendidudey,, 115
Leaves, which the ſtem muſt ſoon Te
The mournful prelude of decay.
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Dry and wither'd to the ground,
Thus to thoughtleſs mortals N
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When, like us, he blighted fell, Ken lee ase.
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View us late in beauty blooming, . |
Number'd now among the dead,
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See the end of all your care!
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Ey'ry leaf muſt have its fall. 61-45 yang
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Gay in health and manly grace,
Let not cloudleſs ſkies deceive oa:
Summer give ts Aur place. | 1118
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Man, let all thy hopes be 47d,
Which alone, for ever vernal _ }
Bears a leaf that ſhall not fade.
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Pun”, the great Gods thy. wel F308 rence.
Uſe with religious aw. their facred name,
. Aſſur'd they view thy ways, let nought controul |
The oath thou once haſt bound upon er ;
Next, to the Heroes bear a grate ful mind,
Whoſe gen' rous cares and toils have bleſt mankind
Let juſt reſpect in decent rites urray cg
To the immortal Mauss ſtill be padde
Honor thy Parents and the next of kind,
And virtuous men in equal bond oombin; d.
Uſeful and ſteady let thy: liſe proceed
Mild ev'ry word, good. natur. dev ry 4004.21 I
Oh ! never, with the man thou dov A. —
But bear a thouſand frailties from thy rin.
Raſhly enflam'd, vain ſpleen, and flight ſurmiſe,
To real feuds and endleſs diſcords riſe. .
Oi''er luſt, o'er anger, keep. the fie. rein:
Subdue thy ſloth, thy appetite, reſtrain. . q
With no vile zich venture to comply;
No: though unſekn by ev* ry mortal ere, ;
Above all witneſſes thy Conſcience fear, pſt.
And more than all mankind thyſelf revere. 15
One way let all thy words and actions oY Fr
Reaſon their eonſtant guide, and Truth their end.
And ever mindful of thy mortal ſtate,
How quick, how-various are the turns of fate;
How here, how there the tides of fortune roll;
_ ſoon 3 death concludes the whole;
Compoſe
Practiſe by day, and ponder them by night.
DID AC TIC ESSATS. 139
Compoſe thy inind; and free from anxious ſtrife,
Endure thy portion of the ills of life:
Though ſtill the gogd-mas ſtands ſecure from barks,
Nor can Misfortune wound whom Virtue arms.
Diſcourſe in common converſe, thou wilt ud,
Some to improve, and ſome to taint thy mind :/ l
Grateful to that. a due obſervance pay:
Beware leſt his entice thy thoughts aſtra ;;
And untruths bold, which thou art fonc d to Nr ]
Receive diſcreetly with à patient ea.
Would'ſt thou be juſtly: rankt among the wiſek
Think, ere thou dd; ere thou reſolve, adviſe:
Still let thy aims with thy experience 606M 91
And plan thy conduct with ſagacious care.
So ſhalt thou all thy courſe with | pleaſure ma, 9 617
Nor wiſh an action of thy life undenee..
Among the various ends of thy deſires,
+ 'Tis no inferior place thy Hea/th requires.
Firmly for this from all exceſs refrain;
Thy cups be mod'rate, and thy diet plain.
Nor yet ineltgant thy board ſupply ;
But ſhun the nauſeous pomp of luxury.
Of ſpleen by chearful converſe, ſtem the flood
Let honeſt labor purify thy blood.
Each night, ere needful lumber feal thy eyes, 95
Home to thy foul let theſe reflexions riſe
How has to-day' my duty been expreſt ?
What heve.T dome, omitted, or tranſęre ß
Then mourn the moments thou haſt idly ſpent :*
The reſt will. yield thee comfort nnd content.
Be theſe good rules thy ſtudy and delight;
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Thus all thy thoughts to Yirtue's height ſhall riſe,
And Truth ſhall ſtand unvail'd before thy eyes:
Of beings the whole ſyſtem ſhalt thou ſee,
Rang d as they are in beauteous barmony 15 l
Whilſt all depend from one ſuperior Cauſe, —_ V. |
And Nature works obedient to her laws,
Hence, as thou labor'ſt with judicious care,
To run the courſe allotted to thy ſhare, _ , \
Widow, refulgent with a heav'nly. rar.
Shall clear thy proſpect, and direRt thy way. e
Then all around compaſſionately vie,
The wretched ends which vain mankind purſue:
Toſt to and fro by each impetuous guſt, |
The rage of paſſion, and the fire of luſt;
No certain ftay, no ſafe tetreat they know, |
But bliadly wander through a maze; of woe.
Meanwhile congenial vileneſs. works within,
Aad Cuſtom quite ſubdues the ſoul to ſin.
Save us from this diſtreſs, almighty N
Our minds illumine, or our ills remuj re.
But oh! ſecure from all, thy liſe is led, ®
Whoſe feet the happy paths of 9 *
Thou ſtand'ſt un ted to the race divine.
And the perfection of the Gods is thine MEE
: Imperial Reaſon, free from all . 4
Maintains her juſt dominion in thy ſoul ;
Till purg'd at length from ev'ry finful HA e
When friendly Death ſhall break the cumbrous chain,.
Loos'd from thy body thou ſhalt take thy flight,
And range immortal in the fields of light.
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Am I th' abandon'd orphan of blind Chance, Sony:
Dropt by wild atoms in diforder'd. dance ? Wt R 90 5
Or from an endleſs chain of cauſes wrought,
And of unthinking ſubſtance, born with thoug ht 4D
By motion which began without à cauſe, . *
Supremely wiſe, without deſign or mee: ; 25
Am I but what I feem, mere fleſh and blood ; |
A branching channel with a mazy flood)“, Y ys
The purple ſtream that through my veſſels glides, >
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Are that ſame thinking I, no more than they:
This frame compatted with-tranſcendant fill, . ..,
Of moving joints: obedient to my will, | *
Nurſt from the fruitful glebe, like yonder tree, 1
Waxes and waſtes; I call it mine, not me: 3
New matter ſtill the mold' ring maſs ſuſtains ; |
The manſion chang'd, the tenant ſtill remains
And from the fleeting ſtream, repair'd by fd.
DiſtinQ, as is the ſwimmer from the fond. W
What am I then ? ſure, of a nobler birth,
By parents right, I own as mother, earth;
But claim ſuperior lineage by my fire, |
Who warm'd th' unthinking clod with heavenly fre I
Eſſence divine, with lifeleſs clay allay d, |
By double nature, double inſtinct ſway'd ;
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With look erect, T dart Fr longing eye,
Seem wing 'd to part, and gain my my native &y;
IT ftrive to mount, but ſtrive, "alas! f in vain, N
Ti'd Yo this maſſy globe with magic chain.
Now. with ſwift thought I range from pole to pole,
View. warlds around their flaming centers roll:
What pow'rs conduct, their motions undeſtroy'd, '
Through the fame trackleſs paths of boundleſs void!
I trace the blazing comet's firy trail, 3
And: weigh the whirling planets in a ſcale:
Theſe godlike thoughts, while eager 1 purſue, ;
Some glitt'ring trifle offer d to my view,
A gnat, an infe&, of the meaneſt kind,
Eraſe the new - born image from my mind ;
Some beaſtly want, craving, importunate,
Vile as the grinning maſtif at my gate,
Cuts off from heavenly truth this reas'ning me,
And tells me, I'm a brute as much as ke.
If on ſublimer wings of love and ugh
My ſoul above the ſtarry vaalt I raiſe ;
Lur'd by ſome vain conceit or ſhanieful luſt; |
I flag, I drop, and flutter in the duſt.
The tow'ring lark thus from ker lofty Arkin, 1
Stoops to an emmet, or a ee proba
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I rove to one, now to the other coaſt:
To bliſs unknown my lofty ſoul aſpires,
My lot unequal to my vaſt deſires.
As mongſt the hinds a child of royal .
Finds his high pedigree by bo worth; ;
So man, amongſt his fellow-brutes expos'd, |
Sees he's a king, but 'tis a King depos'd:
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Confounded, by. the aid of knowlege ſtrays 35 |
Too weak to choole, yet chooſing, fill in, halle,
Bilkt by paſt minutes, while, the preſent 8
Not happy, but amus'd upon the road, 7
And, like you, thoughtleſs, of his laſt 3
To endleſs nothing, happineſs or pain,
Bewilder'd each, their diff rent paths purſue:
Of them I.aſk the way; the firſt replies, | 425
Thou art a god, and ſends me to the ſłies.
There fix thy lot, thy reſt, and endleſs feaft. \
Between theſe wide extremes, the length is ſuch,
I fnd I know too little, or too much. e
Almighty pow'r, by whoſe moſt wiſe 2
Take this faint glimm ring of thyſelf away,
Or break into my ſoul with perfect day.
This ſaid, expanded lay the ſacred text,
Thus the benighted traveller, that ſtranss
Through doubtful paths, enjoys the morning rays ;
The mighty miſt, and thick-deſcending dew
Parting, unfold the fields, and vaulted blue.
O truth divine | enlighten'd by thy ray,
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Around me, lo! the thinking, thoughtlefs 4
Down on the turf, the next, thou two-legg'd beaſts, |
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Thou clear'ft.the fecret of my high deſcrut.
And tell me what thoſe myſtic tokens meant;
Marks of my birth, which I had agen, bp. vs.
Too hard for worldly ſages to explain
Zeno's were vain, ain Epicurss' ſchemes, | *
Their {yſtems falſe; deluſive were their dreams;
One nurſt my pleaſue, and one narf my pride
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Thy ſacred page [thus bids me reconcile,
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What thou once wert, art now, and {ill may'ft be,
Faultleſs thou dropt'ſt from his unerring ſkill,
With the bare pow'r to fin, ſince free of will;
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Fer who has pow'r to walk, has pour to obe:
Who acts by force impell'd, can nought deſerve ;
And wiſdom ſhort of infinite may ſwerve.
Born on thy new-impt wings, thou took ft thy flight,
Left ſt thy Creator, and the realms of light;
Diſdain'd'ft his gentle precept to fulfill, I
And thought'| to grow a god by doing ill.
Though by foul” guilt thy heavenly form defac'd,
In nature chang'd, from happy manfions chas d,
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Angel enough to ſeek thy bliſs again,
And brute enough to make thy ſearch in vain.
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Vet urg'd by her, our buſy fires began
The ſocial, moral, ſcientific plan;
Till ſyſtems ſprung from works which Uſe ;nſpir'a,
And Uſe completed what mere Want requir'd.
From this firſt cauſe, immediate need, aroſe
The robes of nobles, and the dreſs of beaux:
Their common father felt the chilling blaſt,
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For this they rang d, and tore the recking hide
(Firſt won by conqueſt) from the panther's ſide.
Increaſing need the warmer fleece ſurvey'd,
And Art ſabfervient wrought in Nature's aid :
Yet coarſe the texture was, and rude the frame;
The gloſſy web from long experience c came;
Still longer trials could alone ſupply
The glowing purple, and the crimſon *
Such flow progreflion markt each due degree;
Firſt Want, then Prudence, Pleaſure, Luxury,
But let not Satyr too ſeverely chide;
Pomp has her uſes, and her merits Pride:
To Virtue, that her due diſtinction gives;
Through hit, induſtrious Emulation lives.
To him, meanwhile, who ſeeks the middle way,
The Muſe directs her monitory lay.
Be his the care to temper each extreme,
More ſtudious what to be, than what to ſeem ;
Quick to diſcern advantage from pretence,
His ſtandard Decency, his taſte Good-ſenſe.
If graver Care to ſcenes of bus'neſs call,
Where Trade enriching each gives bliſs to all;
His graver cares his habit will expreſs, - - --
Plain, unaffected decency of dreſs. - -
If rural joys uſurp with weaning power
His calmer purpoſe, and more vacant hour;
For this apparell'd as becomes the need,
He'll rove uncumber'd o'er the fow'ry mead ;
Wrapt in the nappy frieze, unheeding view,
The morn's hoar. froſt, and even's falling dew ; |
Or fitly arm'd amid the hunting train, |
Urge the ſwift ſtag that bounds along the plain,
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If tyrant Love, who oer the young and gay,
Exerts more ſoft, but not leſs ſoy'reign ſway, -. |
Dooms him a ſlave at Beauty's ſhrine to bow,
And read his fortune in a woman's brow z _ |
His happy thought each pow'r of dreſs will trace,
Improve the native, catch the foreign grace.
One gen'ral rule in this, in ev'ry part,
Will ſtill preſide, and this be all his art,
To keep each bound Propriety commends ;
For where Exceſs begins, Politeneſs ends,
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HE village-cock, with piercing notes,
The dappled dawn's approach denotes.
Riſe, Damon, riſe, the call obey,
And baſk in Phebu? earlieſt ray;
But while we gaze with raptur'd eye,
And Nature's lovelieſt fcenes defcry,
Let every lovely ſcene impart
Some moral lecture to the heart. |
Whether we view the ſun's bright blaze,
And on the purple ether gaze ;
Or bend to earth our wand'ring looks
To flow'ry meads and purling brooks ;
Above, beneath, and alt around,
We'll mingle ſight with thought profound;
And ev'ry leaf, and ev'ry ſpray -
Shall wiſdom to the foul convey. - - |
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Behold the dawn-in bluſhes breaks,
And all the eaſt with crimſon *
The clouds their fleecy ſkirts unfold,
Now ting d with azure, purple, gold; .
And now the ſun his beam unſhrouds,
And ſcatters wide the gaudy clouds
Thoſe clouds he ting'd with diſtant rays,
Now fade before the bright'ning blaze.
So life's enjoyments lovely ſeem, _
When glittring in the diſtant beam;
And ſtill they drink a richer dy,
And brighten ftill approaching nigh;
But when we claſp, we loſe the prize,
And all th' aerial luſtre flies. |
Now, Damon, yonder turn thine eye,
Where fields in fair expanſion lj
Fields dreſt in flow'rs, all freſh, and gay, .
That open to the morning ray. is iki
The litile lark unfolds his wings,
And ſwiftly ſoars, and ſweetly ings ; | ol $
Along the ſky his muſic-floats, . _
And diſtant hills return the notes.
The gilded inſects lightly ſkim. , -.
The liquid air in gaudy trim
From vale to vale, from wood to wood,
They fly, to cull their flow'ry food;
And ſip the ſpangled dews that ſhake
On ev'ry buſh, on ev'ry. brake.
Ah! feeble flutt'rers of a day,
How ſwift your pleaſures paſs away! WAY
A freezing blaſt, a frigid ſky ;
Ye droop your tender wings, and dy!
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And truths of human frailty teach.
When life is frefh' in ev'ry vein,
Like them, he ſports in Pleaſure's train;
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Like them, from wiſh to wiſh he ſtrays, ©
And round in cirditlg revels plays;
Till ſudden, Jo! the hand of Death
Impedes his courſe, and ſtops his breatd.
Shall man like inſects live? and dy
Like inſects too? in worth, a fly!
No: juſtice ſends a heavier doom,
Than waits on flies, beyond the tomb;
To rage, deſpair, and torment driver,
The ſhame of earth, and ſcorn of heaven :
But if, to nobler views inclin'd,
Virtue and truth adorn the mind,
Like inſets men may fall, but riſe
To angels' bliſs, above the ſkies. *
Now village-cries the filence break,
The chearful ſwains to labor wake,
Unpen their folds, and o'er the mead
Their flocks and herds to paſture lead:
They tune their mirth to ruſtic ſounds,
And Echo the rough ſong rebounds. -
How pure and fimple are the ſweets
Diſpenſt in rural calm retreats!
The ſwain ſalutes the riſing day,
And hies him to the fields away;
With homely mirth, that time beguiles,
He there purſues his duſty oil;
At night the nut-brown bowl he drains,
And counts, content, his humble gains;
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Then on his ſtraw- fill d couch he lies,
Where golden ſlumbers ſeal his eyes.
Through labor, mirth, and ſweet repoſe,
His ſtream of life thus gently flows!
The hero's palm, the pomp of kings,
And all that ſmiling Fortune brings;
Ambition, tumult, guilt, and glare,
Can ne'er with rural bliſs compare.
But now the mounting ſun diſplays
Around the fierce meridian blaze,
Hail, glorious orb! thy heat and light,
The life they give with joy unite
Tris thine, where'er we turn our eyes,
To charm with ever-changing dies;
With blue to tinge the diſtant ſcene,
The neighb'ring fields with ſprightly green;
With brown the ruſſet heath to ſpread, -
With gold the tow'ring mountain's head.
The varied flow'r with ey'ry hue, -
Wich ev'ry tint the pendant dew.
Thy genial beams impregnate earth,
And give to various beauty birth, ,
But thou, ſuperior ſun | whoſe Ar Ls
Illumes the lamp that lepds us day.
* Whoſe glories. ſhine alike diſplay d
W | In evenings mild, and peaceful ſhade ;
1x8 J Great Lord of all ! receive the praiſe,
| That man, the reas'ning reptile, pays.
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And till devotion, prompt the lay. wor
Thee let me learn from all I ſee
For all, my God ! is full of thee.
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HILE adtive Thought unſeals my eye,
And midnight darkneſs ſhades the ſky ;
Be huſht my ſoul !-—ye moments, ſtay,
While I rejudge the guilty day.
See Conſcience glares, more dreadful made,..
By filence and the awful ſhade! _
She points the poniard to my breaſt,
And bids my juſtice ſpeak the 15
Then think my ſoul !-—while heav'n gives breath,
And antedate the ſtroke of death;
Reflect how ſwift the moments fly,
Nor linger unprepar'd to dy!
Penfive revolve, ere yet too late,
The ſcenes of an eternal fate !
A ſeries of unnumber'd years,
Or crown'd with joys—or loſt in tears !
But hark ! the ſolemn bells reſound ;
What horrors ſhake the ſacred ground !
And ghoſts, around us gliding flow,
Invite us to the ſhades below !
Through the wide arch, and vaulted cave,
Down the long iſle, o'er many a grave;
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They chill the blood, they pall deſire!
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All- clement thou, O God! all juſt,
The good- man's rock, the ſinner's truſt-
Accept the blood my Savior ſned.
To ſave from woe this guilty bead!
Oh ſend thy life-reftoring grace,
Effuſe the luſtre of thy face!
From guilt and ſorrow ſet me free,
And guide me till I come to Thee!
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And locks the buſy, world in ſoft repoſme.
The boiſt'rous Boreas now forgets to blow, - ,
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The ſleepy winds, ſcarce bid the currents flow,
And drouſy ſurges murmur on the ſhore. , 0
The queen of heaven, refulgent lamp of night.
Now ſkirts the ocean's brim with upward beam
In clouded luſtre ſheds a dubious light.
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With gentle whiſper through the — tree:
And ſcarce is heard the dewy leaves among
And ſcarce the aſpen quivers with his — 118
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With creeping moſs and ivy overſpread, 20
The ſolemn bell proclaims the midnight hour.
Sad prelude of the trump that ſhall awake the dead.
Heard you from yonder oak, .whoſe tow'ring height, 1%
Aſpiring, ſeems to prop the nether ſæy,
The diſmal ſcreeching of the bird of night,.
The beetle's drauſy hum, the curlew's cry?
Ah! whence that groan? why ſhakes the ſolid ground?
And who are thoſe in ſhining white array'd,
That ſpread a tranſient blaze of luſtre round,
And gild with broken rays the duſky ſhade?
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*T'was but the ſolemn bird, whoſe plaintive air,
Is nightly warbled from vonne ray,
And thoſe tall pines ſeen by a meteor's glare,
Whoſe tranſient glories; fading, dy a- wa!
Hail, awful groves! and thou, — \ 4
Whoſe duſky reign alternately returns
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Fail to each glitt ting fire which round thee burns
And thou, O Contemplation 7 ſacred maid,
To higheſt heaven that wing ft thy ſhitiing Way ;
All hail thy preſence, in this friendly ſhade, i
Free from the buſy cares of glaring day!
Whene'er I haunt the groves and ſhady. bow“ W
Whene'er by the cool fountain's fide n, |
I ſeek in ſolitade to ſpend my hours,
And taſte the nobler pleaſures of the mind.
O grant thy aid, and from thy ſapphire-ſæy
Deſcending, warm my foul with rapt'rous ke,
While huſht afleep the troublous paſſions ly,
And my wing d ee to ine.
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Bid heaven ſublime her ſhining gates — *
Let hoſts ſeraphie chant th' harmonious lay j,
And choirs celeſtial ſtrike their harps of gold!
And while ſuch viſions charm my faricy's eyes,
Let my rapt ſoul unheeded rake her flight,
In trance extatic mounting view the ſkies, -
And trace the regions of eternal light!
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A weak, but, pious aid can Qught any 82 7 5
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That once inſpir d my youth, ſhall ſooch my ages KA
Deaf to ambition and ta int reſt's call;
Honor my titles, and enongh my all; FEE)
No pimp of pleaſure, and no ſlave of fate, _
Serene from fools, and guiltleſs of the great;
Some calm and undiſturb'd retreat Pd chooſe,'
Dear to myſelf and friends. Perhaps: the Muſe
May grant, while all my thoughts her charms employ,”
If not a future fame, a preſent joy,,
Pure from each few'riſh hope, each weak deſire: ;
Thoughts that improve, and ſlumbers that — ;
A ſtedfaſt peace of mind, rais'd far above
The gailt of hate and weakneſſes of love:
Studious of life, yet free from doubt or fear,
To others candid, to myſelf ſevere:
Filial, ſubmiſſive to the ſav'reign will; 1721!
Glad of the good, and patient of the ill
III work in narrow ſphere, what Heaven approves, \'
Abating hatreds, and increaſing loves
My friendſhip, ſtudies, pleaſures, all my own ;; A }
Alike to envy, and to fame unknown:
Such in ſome bleſt aſylum let me ly,
Take off my fill of life, and wait, not with to dy.
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Life! Death ! dread objects of — nen |
Whether ſuperior to the ſhocks. of fate,
To bear its fierceſt ills. with Redfat mind.
To Nature's order piouſly reſign d; 1
Or, wich magnanimou- and brave « aging
Return th injurious galling gift again.
O! if to dy, this mortal buſtle oer, DN TER
Were but to cloſe one's eyes, and be no more;
From pain, from ſickneſs, ſorrows, ſafe withdrawn,
In night eternal that ſhall know no dawn;
TRI dread; imperial, wond'rous frame of man,
Loſt in ſtill nothing. whence it firſt began:
Yes : if the grave ſuch quiet could ſupply;
Devotion's ſelf might even dare to dy. Dr
Leſt hapleſs victors in the mortal ſtriſe,
Through death we ſtruggle but to ſecond life—
(Bat fearful here, though curious to explore,
Thought pauſes, trembling on the hither ſhore—)
What ſcenes may riſe, awake the human fear, |
Our being reaſſum'd, and God more near?
If awful thunders the new gueft appall, *
Or the ſoft voice of gentle mercy call,
This teaches life with all her ills to pleaſe,
Aftlifing poverty, ſevere diſeaſe ;
To loweſt infamy gives pow'r to charm,
And ſtrikes the dagger from the boldeſt arm.
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Pleas'd with thy lot on earth, abſolve the fries.
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IJ vaerious innfate of this breaſt,
Eokindled by thy flame ;
By thee my being's beſt expreſt *
What thou art, I'm the ſame.
With thee I claim celeſtial *
A ſpark of heaven's own ray;
Without thee fink to vileſt earth,
Unanimated clay,
Now in this ſad and diſmal bens
Of multipl?d diſtreſs,
Has any former thought the power
To make thy ſorrows leſs?
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Threaten thy deſtin'd breath,
And ev'ry ſharp reflexjon, bes, Muna 5
Want, exile, chains, or death;
Can ought that paſt in youth's fowl olinj pong 2c
Thy pleaſing vein reſtore pn
Lives beauty's gay and feſtive train
In memory s ſoft. ſtore ?
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Gives fierceſt pangs to ceaſe ? '
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Now ſpeak the words of peace £
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To whiſper thy repoſe; _ ©
Nor was her friendly aid RW |
At grateful evening's cloſe.
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May mitigate thy doom;
As light' ning, ſhot acroſs hs night;
A moment gilds the gloom..
O God! thy providence alone
Can work a wonder here,
Can change to gladneſs ev 'ry moan,
And baniſh all my fear. |
Thy arm, all- powerful to ſave,
May ev'ry doubt deſtroy;
And, from the horrors of the grave,
New-raiſe to life and joy.
From this, as from a copious ſpring,
Pure conſolation flows ; |
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XXVI. Thanks on DEATH.
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Death's ſhadowy form no glancing eye diſplays ;
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With all his terror, brings the ſpectre near;
Then Fancy, fkilful in the painters art, AP nag
Shapes the grim feature, and projects the dart. 1
Man ! wretched man, whom lengthen'd woes attend,
Still clings to life, and fears his laſt, beſt friend ;
Of pain and want tenacious, gaſps | for breath,
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By age, and age's wants and woes, grown wiſe,
I view thee, Death, though near, with placid eyes.
Thy haſting ſtrides let Superſtition dread, |
And Vice, too late repenting. hide her head:
For me, I find no terrors in thy face,
Parent of reſt, and miniſter of grace !
O! lead me quickly to the blisful ſhore,
Where fraud and malice ſhall purſue no more,
With joy the victor o'er the bluſt'ring band
Sp:eads all his canvas for the riſing land ;
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Their books from wiſdom wid dy ſiray, |
Or point at beſt the longeſt way.
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Where wiſdom's ſurely taught below.
How deep yon azure dies the ſky *
Where orbs of gold unnumber 'd t
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Time was, like thee, they life poſſe ft ;
And time ſhall be, that thou ſhalt reft.
Thoſe graves, with beading ol
That nameleſs heave the crumbled ground,
Quick to the glancing thought diſcloſe,
Where toil and poverty repoſe.
The flat ſmooth ſtones that bear a name, g
The chiſel's lender help to fame.
(Which, ere our ſet of friends decay, N N
Their frequent ſteps may wear away ;)
A middle race of mortals own,
Men, half-ambitious, all- unknown.
The marble-tombs that riſe on high,
Whoſe dead in vaulted arches ly;
Whoſe pillars ſwell with ſculptur'd ſtones,
Arms, angels, epitaphs, and bones
Theſe, all the poor remains of ftate;
Adorn the rich, or praiſe the great;
Who, while on earth in fame they live,
Are ſenſeleſs of the fame they give.
Hah! while I gaze, pale Cynthia fades ;
The burſting earth unvails the ſhades! ?
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All- ſlow, and wan, and wrapt with ſhrouds,
They riſe in viſionary crouds ;
And all with ſober accent cry:
Think, mortal, what it is to dy.
Now from yon black and fun'ral yew,
That bathes the charnel-houſe with dew,
Methinks I hear a voice begin;
(Ye ravens, ceaſe your croaking din ;
Ye tolling clocks, no time reſound
O'er the long lake and midnight-ground!)
It ſends a peal of hollow groans,
Thus ſpeaking from among the bones :
When men my ſcythe and darts ſupply,
How great a king of fears am I!
They view me like the laſt of things;
They make, and then they dread my ſtings,
Fools | if ye leſs provok'd your fears,
No more my ſpectre- form appears,
Death's but a path that muſt be trod,
If man would ever paſs to God:
A port of calms, a ſtate of eaſe |
From the rough rage of ſwelling ſeas,
Why then thy flowing ſable ſtoles,
Deep-pendant cypreſs, mourning poles,
Looſe ſcarfs to fall athwart thy weeds,
Long palls, drawn herſes, cover'd ſteeds,
And plumes of black, that as they tread,
Nod o'er the ſcutcheons of the dead?
Nor can the parted body know,
Nor wants the ſoul theſe forms of woe ;
As men who long in priſon dwell,
With lamps that glimmer round the cell,
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Whene'er their ſuff ring years are run. |
Spring forth to. greet. the- glitt'ring ſun :
Such joy, though far-tranſcending ſenſe,
Have pious ſouls at parting hence,
On earth, and in the body plac'd
A few, and evil years they walks i?
But when their chains are caſt aide,
See the glad ſcene unfolding wide, |
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And calFd theſe eyes and hands my own; 3
A thouſand little acts have done, 1 1
And childhood have and "manhood known,
O! what is life? and this dull round 1
To tread why was a ſpirit bound? 1
So many airy draughts and lines,
And warm excurſions of the mind, -.
Have fill'd my ſoul with great defigns, , I
While praQtice grovel'd far behind :
O! what is thought ? and where withdraw
The glories which my fancy ſaw ?
So many tender joys and woes
Have on my quiv ring ſoul had pow'r ;
Plain life with height'ning paſſions roſe,
"Tv boaſt or burden of their hour:
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Thoſe pains and pleaſares Ver | my head?
So many human ſouls divine, 4:66
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On my weak, wretched, dying breaſt ? Nature
So many wond'rous gleams of light, balls Take
And gentle ardors from above, Tal
Have made me ſit like ſeraph bright, When
Some moments on a-throne of love: On
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Ere long, when ſov'reign wiſdom wills, Take
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Down it rolls, unleſs you ſtay it,
Down it runs its hilly race:
While to gain the vale it ſtrives,
Nature like a Jeba drives.
Take the ſmalleſt leaf that grows,
Take a feather light as air,
When the rougheſt north wind blows, ©
On your hand expoſe them dare;
Graſp the little fleeting things,
Or the wind will give them wings.
Take a pair of oars, and try,
If you needs muſt venture on;
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Ply your oars, or elſe un,
You'll lament your ſtormy fate.
Take a firebrand, and apply it
To the ſtubble as it grows,
As the ſun does parch and dry it,
Quenching water interpoſe : .
Or the catching matter ſpends,
And the blazing fantom ends.
Take the horſe that's hot and young,
One that had a gen'rous fire ;
Let your bit be good and frong,
For you ride a horſe of fire.
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Smoothly run their wonted courſe ;
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You that live ſo like a brute ;-
The rolling ball, the ranging beaſt, 8
The untam'd colt, the flaming ſtraw,
The foaming flood that knows no law,
Deſcribe the riſks you run in ſin: i
Your body does your ſoul betray ;
You've a great work to do within, 1
Strike into the narrow way: 1
Stop your vain courſe, true Wiſdom cries,
Or endleſs death will be your prize. :
Thou, that with healing in thy wings,
Bleſt Sun of righteouſneſs, didſt ri/e :
All ſov'reign balms thine advent brings,
Enough to cure the world of vice?
Souls once baptiz'd, and clear'd from ſtain,
Let not the foul fiend ſoil again
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'VE ſeen c Oh! come away;
I'm weary of this-brittle clay,
And pant for purer joy:
More ardent paſſions fire my ſoul; a
They thrill my boſom as they roll,
And all my thoughts employ.
I ſee the little trembling ball
Shake at the dread almighty call:
Heav'ns! ſhall I ſtay behihd ?.
Oh! no; I'll rather ſoar above,
Loſt in an extaſy of love,
* Till I be wholely mind.
?Twas there they pierc a my Savior" s lde,
"Twas there he bled, 'twas there he *
And cri'd aloud; Tis dene |
III lay me then at Jeu feet;
And if the: ſhadow be fo ſweet,
Oh! W be the Sun!
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E wiſe, infiru me to endure
An evil, which admits no cure :
Or, how this evil can be born,
Which breeds at once both hate and ſcorn,
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" In venom, till they burſt their lungs, 5
Their malice, is=——— to let them talk. *
Bare innocence is no ſupport,
When you are tri d in ſcandal's court,
Stand high in honor, wealth, or wit ; |
All others who inferior fit, ,
Conceive themſelves in conſcience bound
To join and drag you to the ground.
Your altitude offends the eyes
Of thoſe, who want the pow'r to riſe.
The world, a willing —— |
Inclines to aid a ſpecious 7:
Alas ! they would not do you wrong;
But all appearances are ſtrong.
Yet whence proceeds this weight we lay.
On what detracting people ſay? _.
For let mankind diſcharge their tongues
Their utmoſt malice cannot make
Your head, or tooth, or finger ake ; ©
Nor ſpoil your ſhape, diſtort your face,
Or put one feature out of place:
Nor will you find your fortune figk 1 + +
By what they ſpeak, or what they think;
Nor can ten hundred thouſand: liese R
Make you leſs virtuous, learn d or wiſe.
The moſt effectual way to balk . *
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L* This boſom knows in grief o ene,
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Her tender heart ſtill melts at athers woes,
Nor centers in itſelf e |
Her let me ever cheriſh in my breaſt ; |
For hers are moral Viftues, are Aide: 1 py ;
Her laws are nature's, God's, and therefore beſt: |
Her precepts make 1 my neighbor's 3 ifit "reſt mine. |
When Friendſhip adds her ſoft epgaging ties,
What duty bids, is choice, i is pleaſure. here;
By ſympathy our,jays increaſing riſe,
And grief is foften'd by the mingling tear.
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Tis love, *tis charity, tis all that Hæav'n,
Bounteous to man, to ſweeten — OR
Prevents the dangers of eternal ſtrife, |
And ſtamps their value on the goods of *
Without it, ſocial bliſs is but 'a name, \
And love a wild miſleading de Ben fame 5+
But with it, ev'ry pleaſure is refin d.
And heaven is all reflected by the mind.
Deftription faints : but woul&f'thou — it 0
Turn thy view inward, and thyſelf explore.
Yet, ſtrange to think : this only ſolid band
Of certain bliſs is ſeldom to be found.
The winning maſk of Friendſhip many wear;
But how deform'd, how black their ſouls when bare
While Fortune ſmiles, what numbers eroud around
Stop where you tread, and kiſs the hallow'd ground
But ſhould the feeble goddefs chance to frown,
And from that dazzling ſummit hurl thee down;
Soon would'ft thou find in thy inverted year, |
Thoſe ſwallows of thy ſummer diſappear.”
How wretched is our fate, who cannot be
Aſſur d of blifs, except by miſery !-: |
Who mult to trials moſt ſevere be driven, >
To know a friend, or taſte the joys of heaven!
Throw round through Nature's works a curious eye,
Through earth, th' embracing deep, and ſtarry {ky ;
All ſeem by her to one great end defign'd :
All ſeem by her in one conſent combin d.
See in the midſt the ſun majeſtic reieig,
Attended by his planetary train: B +
See round him with what harmony they roll,
Dependant, like the body on the ſoul.
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In peace he holds his undiſputed ſeat, 4
And with large bounty deals them light and heat.
Like Friendſhip's pow'r, kis ſtrong attractive foroe
In union leads them through their circling courſe.
This bond deſtroy'd, they d in confuſion fall,
And one great ruin overwhelm them all.
vet daring man from this fair order ſtrays,
By ſome wild paſſion led through devious ways s
Rejecting Friendſhip's' aid, he's headlong hurl'd,
And darts confus'dly through the dang'rons world.
Hence this diſorder, that around appears, |
Inteſtine broils, black jealouſies and fears;
Deſtructive warfare hence receives her birth,
And man ſweeps off his image from the earth.
Wich nobler daring, let the wiſer. few ..
This melancholy ſcene with pity view;
Diſplay the beauty of the friendly mind,
And claim the joys which heaven for man deſign'd.
Among the firſt, .my Friend, ſhall ſhine thy name,
And all my pow'r ſhall feed the glorious flame.
In all the luxury of Love we'll live,
In all the joys that Friendſhip's hand can give;
And while along the lovely courſe we dart,
Share ev'ry ſorrow, ev'ry joy impart;
Our joys communicated ſhall increaſe,
Divided ſorrows dwindle into peace.
Oh ! could we ſee thoſe blisful times regain „
When Friendſhip true and unſuſpected reign'd !
Vice from the world affrighted would remove,
And Eden's garden ſmile in ev'ry grove.
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No ſudden ſtart of raging pain,
Which in a moment grows a fire,
And in a moment cools again:
Not found in the ſad. ſonnetecry” 141.5. |
That ſings of darts, deſpais and * Ei,
And by whoſe diſmal verſe tis clear,
He wants not heart alone, but brains.
Ner does it center in the beau, |
Who fighs by rule, in order dies ;
Whoſe all confiſts in outward ſhow,
And want of wit by dreſs ſupplies. .
No: love is ſomething fo divine,
Deſcription would but make it leſs :
Tis what I feel, but can't define;
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ONG have I ſought the wiſh of all
True happineſs to find ;
+ Which ſome will wealth, ſome pleaſure call,
And ſome a virtuous mind :
Sufficient wealth to keep away
Of want the doleful ſcene,
And joy enough to gild the day,
And make life's courſe ſerene :
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DIDACTIC ESSAYS. 173
Virtue enough to aſk the heart, _ | |
Art thou ſecure within? © =
Haſt thou perform'd an honeſt part ?
Haſt thou no private fin ?
This to perform, theſe things poſſeſs
Muſt raiſe a noble joy
And conſtitute that happineſs
Which nothing can deſtroy,
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Mr. URBAN, |
The following ſpecimen of ancient poetry is an imila-
tion of a chorus in the Hecuba of Euripides on the taking
of Troy. This chorus, it nuſt be obſerved for the ſake
of common readers, is ſuppoſed to be ſung by ſome female
Trijan captives then in Thrace, who are repreſented, as
was uſual, by one principal charaQer. |
STroPHE I.
O more ſhall Ilinm boaſt her tow'rs,
That once in peerleſs pride, unconquer d, ccd,
That roſe ſuperior to the hoſtile food,
And fternly brav'd the Grecian pow'rs»
Now of their creſted honors ſhorn,
Her ſpires in mold'ring ruins ly;
And ah! yon natal hills, forlorn,
Now fade for ever on my parting eye,
ANTISTROPHE,
Old Night wheel'd on her duſky car,
And hung upon the heaven her ſableſt robe ;
When Sleep's ſoft influence wrapt the drouſy globe,
And ceaſt the ſound of mirth and ar.
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My ſpouſe hung up his peaceful ſpear,
And ſoftly ſunk into the bridal ben.
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With curious ſkill I bound my brow: »
And tir'd in well-wrought cawls my flowing hair ?
While many a beamy glaſs with friendly glare
Shed from their orbs a golden glow ; © -
When ſtraight a voice with ſudden roar
KReſounding, pierc'd the midnight-ſhade :
Ohl when ſhall Troy, in aſhes laid,
Give back the Grecians to their native ſhore ?
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And trembling wing d my doubtful Wap.
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Then look by fits on Ilium's grave, Wan
And, ſorrowing, weep my lord, my life no more]
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To Paris' ever-hateful name; |
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WAKE, Folian lyre, eli!
And give to rapture all thy trembling, — 1.
From Helicon's harmonious ſprings :
Athouſand rills their mazy progreſs take: ;
The laughing flow'rs, that round Pas + |
Drink life and fragrance, as they flow. |
Now the rich ſtream of mufic winds along, |
| Deep, majeſtic, ſmooth and ſtrong
Through verdant vales, and Ceres golden reign:
Now rolling down the ſteep amain,
Headlong, impetuous, ſee it pour:
The rocks, and nodding groves rebellow to the roar,
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Oh! ſov'reign of the willing ſoul, ,
Parent of ſweet and ſolemn- breathing " "oy
Enchanting ſhell ! the fullen cares,
And frantic paſſions hear thy ſoft controul, ; (
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On-Thracid's bills the Lord of war
Has curb'd theifury.of his car, Tm
And dropt his thirſty. lance at thy. command.
Perching on the ſcepter'd hand. ;, _
Of Jove, thy magic lulls the feather'd king
With rufiled plumes, -and flagging wing :
_ Quencht in dark clouds of lumber iy
The terror of his beak, and light'nings of his eye.
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Thee the voice, the dance, obey,
" Temper'd to thy warbled lay,
| Ofer 1dalig's velvet-green
The roſy- crow ned Loves are ſeen
On Otbereas day 4 |
With autic ſports, and blue-ey'd pleaſures
Friſking light in frolic meaſures ; |
Now purſuing, now retreating,
Now in circling troops they meet:
To briſk notes in cadence beating,
Glance their many-twinkling feet. s
Slow melting ftrains their Queen's approach declare;
Where' er ſhe turas, the Graces homage pay.
With arms ſublime, that float upon the air,
In gliding ſtate ſhe wins her eaſy way:
O'er her warm cheek, and rifing boſom, move
The bloom or young Deſire, and purple light of Lowe.
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Man's feeble 1 race what ills await ;
Labor, and penury, the racks of pain,
Diſeaſe, and Sorrow's weeping train,
And Death, ſad refuge from the ſtorms of fate
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The fond complaint, my ſong, diſprove,
And juſtify the laws of Jo ẽ,˖.
Say, has he giv'n in vain the heavenly Wale?
Night, and all her fickly-dews,'- |
Her Spectres wan, and birds of boding cry,
He gives to range the dreary ſky:
Till down the eaſtern cliffs afar,
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Hyperion's march they ſpy, and glitt ring ſhafts of war.
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In 4525 beyond the ſolar road,
Where ſhaggy forms o'er ice-built mountains ſtray'd ;
The Muſe has broke the twilight - hade,
To chear the ſhiw' ring natives dull abode.
And oft, beneath the od'rous ſhade _
Of Chili's boundleſs foreſts laid,
She daigns to hear the ſavage youth repeat,
In looſe numbers wildly- ſweet,
Their feather- cinctur'd chiefs, and duſky loves.
Her track, where er the Goddeſs roves,
Glory purſue, and gen'rous ſhame,
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Woods, that wave o'er - Delphi” 8 ſteep,
Iſles, that crown th' Egean deep;
Fields, that cool Miu laves,
Or where Meander's amber waves
In ling'ring lab'rinths creep ;
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How do your tuneful echoes languiſu,
Mute, but to the voice of anguiſh ?
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Where each old poetic mountain
Inſpiration breath'd around: |
- By'ry ſhade and*hallow'd-foiintain ©, -| Beho!
Murmur'd deep a ſolemn found : . -
Till the ſad Nine in Gyezee's evil hour. |
Left their Parraſs for the Latian plains, -- - With
Alike they ſcorn the pomp of tyrant-pow'r,
And coward-vice, that revels in her chains.
No longer lofty- ſpirit Latium's boaſt,
They ſought, oh ve) next dere run coaſt.
III. 1.
Far from the fun and ſummer. TRY
In thy green lap was Nature's Darling laid,
What time, where lucid Avon fitay'd. g
To him the mighty mother did unvaii!
Her awful face: the dauntleſs child
Stretcht forth his little arms, and ſmil'd.
T'his pencil take (ſhe faid) whoſe colors elear
Richly paint the vernal year: y
Thine too theſe golden keys, immortal boy! 4
This can unlock the gates of Foy ; © N *
Of horror that, and thrilling fears, y
Or opes the ſacred ſource of ſympathetic tears, 5
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Ne or ſecond He, that rode ſublime
Upon the ſeraph-wings of extaſy,
The ſecrets of th' abyſs to ſpy
He paſt the flaming bounds of place 'and time ;
'The living throne, the ſapphire-blaze,
Where angels tremble while they gaze, £
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He ſaw ; but blaſted with exceſs of light,
Clos'd his eyes in ęndleſs night.
Behold, where Drums leſs preſumptuous car
Waft o'er the fields of glory far,
Tu conſers af ethereal tac,
With necks in mu and hegte.
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Bright-ey'd Fancy hov'ring o'er,
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Thronghits That breath, and words that burn,
Bat zh! dis heard no more—
Oh! lyre divine, what caring” 1
Wakes thee now ? though he inherit 5
Nor the pride, nor ampſe pinion,
That the Theban Eagle bear
| Sailing with ſupreme dominion _....:
Through the azure, deep of air; =
Yet oft before his infant-eyes would run
Such forms, as Sitter in the Muſe's ray
With orient bues, anborrow'd of the ſun: r
Yet ſhall he mount, and keep his diſtant way
Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate;
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E D by the Muſe, thy ſtarry mount I climb,
Which ſtands unhurt amid the wrecks of time.
Here eee e Op 1 TY,
A carpet of eternal flaw/rs 3'/
In gay rotation fly the nimble FR
And feſtive mirth 1. on the dancing hours.
Vet has the light' ding blaz'd around i its brow,
And left unſing'd the laurel's verdant WN
Untoucht th' immortal bays remain:
For nature fills the lofty ſpacem; 8
The goddeſs here has fixt ber ſtable reign:
'Tis ſacred all, and heaven protects the place.
H ence bold Ima nation cleaves the ſkies, |
And all Creation burſts upon mine hou:
Whatever ſleeps in ocean's bed,
Or floats upon the fluid air,
Each humble vale, and mountain's lordly head,
I ſee, and bow to Him who . them there.
Oh Pokrar ! ns can thy j joys proclaim. . | *
Who, but thy bard, perpetuate thy name?
| Even I, the hindmoſt in thy train
Obſequious to thy diſtant nod,
Dare in thy praiſe to liſp a feeble ſtrain ;
Yet tremble at th' exulting critic's rod.
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Thou taught thy sisr EA thy creative ſkill,
And lo! each image quickens at her will:
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So potent is her ſacred breath,
The canvas lives at her r command 3 11
And ſhades of heroes long conſigu'd to death,
Reſurge beneath her vivifying hand. 2
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Beneath the pow?r her pencil daigus to give:
With ſuch collective grace 3 4
Such warmth the rival- colors dart,
That each bold figure teems with fanci'd chought,
And Nature owns the force of minuc-art, :
Nor leſs does Music, ever- charming maid! © -.
Feel the propitious advent of thy ad.
She harmonizes empty ſound,
As words and ſentiment inſpiremm:
Makes Echo's hall reverberate around,
And wakes each note that ſlept within * yrs,
Sweet PozTRY ! when bus'neſs ſets me ag
Oh ! let me ſpend : a vacant hour with thee,
For through thy channel's ample maze:
Fair Harmony devolves her tide ; :
The ſmiling ſun ſheds inexhauſted rays, *
As through Jznovan' s land thy holy waters ae.
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Tu potes Tigres, comiteſue fikvas ©
Ducere, & rivos celeres' morari. Hor,
ENCE, dull-brow'd Melancholy ! creep away
To weeping caverns, exil'd from the day,
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That drops from yonder baneful — LD
Or go where endleſs horror dtychls
To Bedlam-walls, to Meeüteeellsb z:
Elſe while thy front diſtils a ſweating ev,
Go watch, the murder d corpſe —
hour Hand on a . E. an!
But come, thou patent of bete a
Pride of my verſe, ſweet Moste, haſte Ru ;
Deſcend from thine ethereal boyw'rs, ©
And with thee bring the ſportive hours.
She comes l. The clouds her voice obey,
And hrighten into purer day |
A harp adorns her hand; and on her face
Sits laughing Mirth with Harmony's attractive grace. Ei
No moe the ſwelling north i is heard to rave, Ass
Yon foahiug flood: has calm'd his angry ware;
Huſht is che jay's diſcordant note,
Silent che raven's croaking throat.
Throughout the woods, — plains
Stilneſs, an awful ſilence, reipns!
Gay ſmile the blue ſkirt ies. All nature round
Seems pauſing, and prepar'd to hear the magic ſound.
* And hark ! how gentle the ſalutes the ear
The touch how ſoft ! the melody how clear!
To love ſhe'flightly ſweeps the Arings :
Smooth fly. the notes on filken wings.
Theſe are the ſtrains that ſooth my care,
Alarm, and terrify deſpair.
The louring demon ftartles at the ſound,
TS off in ſullen mood, and treads uahallow'd ground.
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Heavens! how the noble nir my Tpirir charms!
I feel, I feel my courage glow, '
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Heroes and ſteeds in, wild confuſion roll. ..
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Yon ſtag is tame the dappled Mess |
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Anſwers her ſiſtet d ον mov ry ſolden d oy
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The rav nous wolves let looſe their Pe :
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The crawling adder Woo, at her command | EM
Puts forth his harmleſs tongue, to 3 hand
Bot ah ! ſhe ſtops her ſoul-enchanting brain,
And ſoars t6 her celeſtial throne again:
Adieu, ye flatt ning ſounds, adieu!
The change is felt all Hathre thrbogh y ” © ©
Surcharg'd-with rain the Uduts tppear;
To ſtain che products of the year.
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The ſacred haunts, the peaceful ſhades, -
Where Aur and, SCULPTURE. reign:
I ſees. eee, at their command $640 |
The living ſlones. in order ſtand,
And marble, breathe through ev 7 yein,
Tiuz breaks his hoſtile ſeythe? he 2
To find his pow'r malignant fled; ;
And what avails my dart, he cries, _
Since theſe can animate the dead?
Since wak'd to mimic life, again in Jnr” |
The patriot ſeems to ſpeak, the heroe . 3
There Vixrbr's fitent train are Teens, all bak
Faſt fixt their looks, ere& their mien.
Lo! while, With more chan ſtoic ſoul,
The Krrie “ sack exhauſts the bowl 3
A pale, ſuffuſion ſhades his eyes,
Till by degrees the marble Ties !
See where che infur d rot f bled'!
Ah ! ſec he droops his languid head!
What ſtarting nerves, what dying pain,
What horror freezes ev'ry vein! .
"Theſe are thy works, 0 Scyrrxpsz! thine to bon,
In rugged rock, a feeling ſenſe of woe. -
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In pitying ſtone ſhe weeps, to ſee .,, _
His ſqualid hair and galling chains
And trembling, on her bended knee,
His hoary head her hand ſuſtains; _
While ev'ry look, and ſorrowing feature prove,
How ſoft her breaſt, how great her filial love,
Lo! there the wild a35yzIan * - QUEEN,
With threat'ning brow and frantic mien! 5
Revenge l revenge | the marble cries,
While fury ſparkles in her eyes.
Thus was her awful form beheld,
When BazByLon's proud ſons rebell'd 1 _
She left the woman's vainer care, © 245
And flew with looſe diſhevell'd harr:
She ſtretcht her hand imbru'd in Sid, C
While pale Sedition trembling food ; —
In ſudden filence, madneſs hid her head,
At th' awful voice, and ſtygian diſcord fled, _
With hope, or fear, or love, by turns,
The marble leaps, or frinks, or burns,
As SculeTURE waves her hand:
The varying paſſions of the mind,
Her faithful handmaids are aſſign'd,
And-riſe or fall by her command.
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When finks to duſt this mortal frame;
She, like PromeTREvs, grafps the fire;
Her touch revives the lambent flame;
While ptienix#tike, the ſtateſman, bard, or ſage
Hence, where the organ full and clear,
With loud Roſanna's charms the ear,
Behold (a priſm within his hands)
Abſorb'd in thought, great NewTox ®. Rands ! !
Such was his folemn, wonted Race, N
His ſerious brow, and muſing gait,
When, taught on eagle - wings to 45 /
He trac'd the wonders of the fty ; :
The chambers of the ſun explor d,
Where tints of thouſand hues are ſtor 1g
Whence ev'ry flow'r in painted robes is dreſt,
And varying Iais ſteals her gaudy veſt,
Here, as Dxvoridn, heavenly: _”
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With Visruz's pureſt tt veſtal rays, . ;
Behold their ardent boſams ly
Hail, mighty. mod.! | Hail; awful name!
I feel inſpir d my lab riag breaſt:
And lo! I pant, I burn for fame!
Come, Scityes, bright ethereal pueſt ;
Oh come, and lead the meaneſt of the gown,. | -
Through W1sp0M's arduous paths, to ſair renown!
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One ſpark of that caleſtial fre Gt 256 ene! |
The leading: Cynoſure, that glow'd r
While Sulrn explor' d the dark abode; - +1
Where Wisnon fat. on Nature's ſhrin g
How great. my boaſt! , what 2 -
Illuſtrious ſage ! who firſt, ou |. tell
Where the bland pow'rs of Puste duell.
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HE buſy cares of day are done:
In yonder weſtern cloud the ſun
Now ſets, in other worlds to riſe !
And glad with light the nether ſkies.
With ling'ring pace the parting day retires,
And ſlowly leaves the mountain-tops, and gilded ſpires.
Yon azure cloud, enrob'd. with-white,
Still ſhoots a gleam of fainter light:
At length deſcends. a browner ſhade,
At length the glimm'ring objects fade;
Till all ſubmit to Niour's impartial reign,
And undiſtinguiſht darkneſs covers all the plain.
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No more the ivy-crowned; oak
Reſounds beneath the — SE
Now filence holds her ſolemn wa:
Mute is each buſh, and ev'ry ſpra :
Nought but the found of murm' ring rills is heard,
dee eee ring tow'r, Night's Py: Sinks;
Of ons to W bot troubled break? |
By thee the captive ſlave obtains | -
Short reſpite from his galling pains ;
Nor ſighs for liberty, nor native oil ;
But for a while forgets his chains, and ſultry toil,
No horrors: haſt thou in thy train,
No ſcorpion laſh, no clanking chain:
When the pale murd'rer round him ſpies
A thouſand griſly forms ariſe'; ++ +
When ſhrieks and groans arouſe his palſied fear,
Tis guilt alarms his ſoul, and conſcience wounds
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The village-ſwain whom Ph:/lis r ci
Whoſe breaſt the tender paſſion warms; -/
Wiſhes for thy all-ſhadowing vail,
To tell the fair his loveſick tale:
Nor leſs impatient of the tedious day, 4
She longs to hear his tale, and ſigh her ſoul ey.
Oft by the covert of thy ſhade,
LrAN DER woo'd the THRACIAN maid ;
Through foaming ſeas: his paſſion bore,
Nor fear'd the ocean's thund'ring roar.
The conſcious virgin from the ſea-girt row'r,
„ aufn torch to guide lin to her Bon!
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When he aſſumes the critic's chair,
Or from the STATE or PLaTto draw
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And glean from s learned fore.
Fair ſcience and true wiſdom's lore.
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Her honors oer the flowiry beds
The ſpringing valleys ſmile _ . 7 8
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And muſic glads the plain.
While Nature's new-born beauties pleaſe,. _ ;
Let me enjoy the fragrant breeze, mY
That op'ning flow'rs diffuſe;
Tee RAnce and Innocence, attend:
Theſe are your haunts! your influence lend,
Aſſociates of the Mues! 4
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And fell Revexci, and black Desrain,
Avoid the morning's light; _
Nor beams the ſun, nor blooms the roſe,
Their reſtleſs paſſions to compoſe,
Who Vinrur 5 dickates flight, |
Along the med, "ws | in the wood,
And on the margin of the Food, 8
The Goddeſs walks confeſt;
She gives the landſcape power to charm,
The ſun his genial heat, to warm |
The wiſe and gen'rous breaſts _
Happy the man, whoſe tranquil mind
Sees Nature in her changes kind, |
And pleas'd the whole ſurveys! . |
On him the morn benignly ſmiles,
And evening gratefully beguiles
The labors of his days.
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VIII. To SPRING, , |
AIL, genial goddeſs, bloomy- ſpring !
Thy bleſt return, O! let me ſing;
And aid my languid lays. |
Let me not ſink in ſloth ſupine,
While all creation, at thy ſhrine,
Its annual tribute pays.
Eſcap'd from Mnter's freezing pow” r,
Each bloſſom greets thee, and each flow r,
While foremoſt of the train,
By Nature (artleſs handmaid !) dreſt,
The ſnow-drop comes in lili'd veſt,
Prophetic of thy reign.
The lark now ſtrains his warbling throat,
And, with a loud and chearful note,
Calls Echo from her cell :
Be warn'd, ye fair, that liften round,
A beauteous nymph became a Sound,
By having lov'd too well.
The bright-hair'd ſun, with warmth divine,
Bids trees and ſhrubs before thy ſhrine,
Their infant-buds diſplay :
Again the ſtreams refreſh the plains,
Which Vinter bound in icy chains,
And ſparkling bleſs his ray !
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And inſtant glows th enamell'd ground
With Nature's vazi'd hues :
Not ſo returns our youth decay'd,
Alas | nor air, nor fun,” hor ſhade
The ſpring of life renews.
The ſun's too quick-revolving beam
Diſſolves at once the human dream,
And brings th appointed hour:
Too late we catch his parting ray,
And mourn the idly-waſted day,
No longer in our pow'r.
Then happieſt he, whoſe lengthen'd ſight
Purſues by Virtue's ſteady light
A hope beyond the ſkies;
Where Winter ſtern ſhall n&er be gloom,
But roſy Spring for ever bloom,
And ſuns eternal rife !
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If faireſt Science ever dwells
Beneath the moſſy cave;
Indulge the verdure of the woods,
With azure beauty gild the floods,
And flow'ry carpets lave. a
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Delighted in the filvan plains
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While Dian, huntreſs of the *
Seeks lulling ſounds and fanning gales, |
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Untaught, not ooinſpy'd, to ahing,, |
By Reaſon's pour” r redreſt.
When Solon and Lycurgus ii
To moralize the human thought
Of mad opinion's maze; *
To erring zeal they gave new laws:
Thy charms, O Liberty, the cauſe _
That blends congenial rays !
Bid bright Afrrea gild the morn,
Or bid a hundred ſuns be born,
To hecatomb the year;
Without thy aid in vain the poles, 491 þ
In vain the zodiac-ſyftem rolls, "7
In vain the Junar ſphere.
Come, faireſt princeſs of the throng,
Bring ſweet philoſophy along,
In metaphyſic dreams ;
While raptur'd bards no more | behold
A vernal age of purer gold
In Heliconian ſtreams. |
Drive heed with malignant hand, |
To curſe ſome other deſtin'd land
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Thy univerſal ſway.
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Through the, thick ſhades now wings bis .
And quits the time-ſhook tow'r, *
Where ſhelter'd from the blaze of dar
In philoſophic sloom he lay,
Beneath his ivy- bow F. +
With joy I hear the ſolemn. ſound,
Which midnight-echoes waft around,
And ſighing gales repeat; bo
Fav'rite of , Pa{las! I attend,
And, faithful to thy ſummons, bend
At Wiſdom's awful ſeat.
She loves the cool, the filent eve,
Where no falfe ſhows of life Tective,
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Beneath the lunar ray:
Here Folly quits each vain diſguiſe,
Nor ſport her gaily-color'd dies,
As in the beam of day.
O Pallas] queen of ev'ry art, -
That glads the ſenſe, or mends the heart,
Who beam'ſt with purer eyes,
In ev'ry form of beauty, bright,
That captivates the mental fight
With pleaſure and ſurpriſe,
To thy unſpotted ſhrine I bow :
Attend thy modeſt ſuppliant's vow,
That breathes no wild deſires ; +
But taught by thy unerring rales
To ſhun the fruitleſs wiſh of faols,
To nobler views aſpires,
Not Fortune's gem, Ambition's plume,
Nor Cytherea's ſhort-liv'd bloom,
Be objects of my pray'r:
Let Av'rice, Vanity, and Pride,
Thoſe glitt'ring envy'd toys, divide
The dull rewards of Care, |
To me thy better gifts impart,
Each moral beauty of the heart,
By ſtudions thought refm'd ;
For wealth, the ſmiles of glad content ;
For pow'r, its ampleſt beſt extent,
An empire o'er my mind. |
When Fortune drops | hee. gay parade, |
When Pleaſvre's tranſient roſes fade,
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And wither in the tomb;
Unchang'd is thy immortal _—
Thine ever-verdant laurels rife -
In undecaying bloom. .
By thee protected, I defy
The coxcoinb's ſneer, the ſtupid We":
Of Ignorance and 'Spite ;
Alike contemn the leaden fool,
And all the pointed ridicule
Of teeth that cannot bite.
From envy, harry, noiſe and firife,
The dull impertinence of life,
In thy retreat I reſt;
Purſue thee to the peaceful groves,
Where Plato's ſacred ſpirit roves
In all thy beauties dreſt.
He bade Liſus tuneful fiream
Convey thy philoſophic theme
Of yxrFECT, FAIR, and ooo:
Attentive Athens caught the ſound,
And all her liſt ning fons around
In awful ſilence ſtood.
Reclaim'd, her wild licentious youth,
Confeſt the potent voice of Truth,
And felt her juſt controul ;
The Paſſions ceaſt their loud alarms,
And Virtue's ſoft perſwaſive charms .
O'er all their ſenſes ſtole,
Thy breath inſpires the poet's ſong, .
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To Thee ! ſupreme, all- perfect mind,
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My thoughts direct their flight.
Wiſdom's thy gift, and all 1 wage
From Thee: deriv'd,. eternal ſource
Of intellectual light!
O ſend her ſure, her ſteady ray,
To regulate my doubtful way
Through paths I ne'er yet trod;
The miſts of Error to controul,
And through its [gloom | to. guide 516 foul |
To happineſs and God.
Beneath ker clear 8 vs
The viſionary ſhadows fly, .
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To thee he gave the heavenly birth, a7
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With patience many a year ſhe bore:
What ſorrow was, thou bad'ſt her xnow,
And from her own ſhe learn n men ar other' woe.
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Self- pleaſing Folly's idle fea, L
Wild Laughter, Noiſe, and thoughtleſs To,
And leave us leifure to be good.
Light they diſperſe ; and with them go
The ſummer-friend, the Aatt'ring foe :
By vain Proſperity receiv'd,
To her they vow their truth, and are again. deli ed.
Wiſdom in ſable garb array'd,
Immerſt in rapt tous thought profound, |
And melancholy, filent maid,
With leaden eye that loves the ground,
Still on thy ſolemn ſteps attend:
Warm Charity, the gen'ral friend ;
With Juſtice, to herſelf ſevere ;
And 10 dropping ſoft the "Py; leaking tear.
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Oh, gently on thy enden ſad,
Dread goddeſs, lay thy chaſt ning band!” *
Not in thy gorgon- terrors clad,
Nor circled with the vengeful band,
(As by the impious thou art ſeen)
With thund'ring voice and threat ning mien,
With ſcreaming Horror's fun'ral cry,
Deſpair, and fell Piſeaſe; and ghaſtly Poverty.
Thy form benign, Oh goddeſs, wear; J
Thy milder influence i impart ;
Thy philoſophic train be there,
To ſoften, not to wound my heart:
The gen'rous ſpark bid to relieve ;
Teach me to love, and to forgive;
Exact my own defects to ſcan;
What N are, to feel, and know myſelf a man.
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H! ceaſe this kind perſuaſive ſtrain,
Which, when it flows from Friendſhip's tongue,
However weak; however vain,
O'erpow'rs beyond the firen's. /ong :
Leave me, my friend, indulgent 80,
And let me muſe upon my woe. |
Why lure me from theſe pale retreats ?
Why rob me of theſe penſive ſweets ? '
Can Muſic's voice, can Beauty's eye,
Can Painting's glowing hand ſupply
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As blows this hollow guſt of wind, -
As drops this little weeping rill 4 55
Soft- tinkling down the moſs-grown hill?
Whilſt through the weſt, where ſinks the crimſon day,
Meek Twilight lowly als und waves nnn gray ?
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Do none but turbid waters flow? |
And cannot Fancy elear their pare = af n!
For Fancy is the friend of woe. G07 1
Say, mid that grove, in love-Jorn ate,
When yon poor ringdove mourns her mate,
Is all that meets the ſhepherd's ear,
Inſpir'd by anguiſh aud by fear?
Ah! no: fair Fancy rules the ſang :
She ſwells her throat; ſhe guides her tongue;
She bids the waving aſpin-fpray
Quiver in cadence to her lay;
She bids the fringed ofiers bow,
And ruſtle round the lake below,
To ſuit the tenor of her gargling ſighs,
And ſooth her throbbing breaſt with ſolemn ſympathies,
To thee, whoſe young and poliſht brow
The wrinkling head of Sorrow ſpa:es ;
Whole cheeks, with roſes ſtrow d, allow
No channel for the tide of cares ;
To thee yon Abbey, dank and lane,
Where ivy chains each mold'ring ſtone
That nods o'er many a martyr's tomb,
May caſt a formidable gloom.
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Could wander through the eloiſters drear,
Could rove each deſolated* leg oo
'Tho' midnight-thunders ſhook the pile;
And dauntleſs view, or ſeem to view
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Thin*thivring ghoſts from yawning charnels throng,
And glance with ſilent ſweep GT: vaults og”
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I aſk not yet: my ſober mind
The fainter forms of ſadneſs pea #5 08% oi!
My ſorrows are of ſofter kind. hf ond
Through this ſtill valley let me onus
Wrapt in ſome ftrain of 2 Nor z
Whoſe lofty genius bears along
The conſcious dignity of ſong;
And ſcorning from the ſacred bow'r 1
To waſte a note on pride or pow'r, - |
Roves when the glimm ri ng twilight glooms, V
And warbles mid the ruſtic tombs ??:
He too perchance, for well I know,
His heart would melt with friendly woe;
He too perchance, when theſe poor limbs are laid,
Will heaveone tune ful d, and och! my hov* ring ſhade.
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Irſt-born of Heaven! propitious Pow r,
Who bidd'ſt fell Fear confefs her foe,
Who antedat'ſt Enjoyment's hour,
_ inſtant ſmil'f away each woe. |
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Who ſay ſt to F aith, Believe; to Charity, Be .
Who paints, like thee, the jocund Spring,
Whoſe charms each raptur'd'bard mA 1
Who can like thee fruition fling
On Nature's harbinger of joy?
Who bids to blow {7 4 on en PP
The youthful glo- T? 1
Who gives to dane
The piercing glancfgg.
That luſtres in the eye?
Who ſheds freſh ardor n prime?
Who lends to Autumn what wealth cannot buy ?
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That hears thy ann call ?. 3
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Ye fodls, be wiſme
»Tis ne'er too late
To conquer Fate,
Though alpable the YES
Know all is bliſs, that Tooks annoy,
Let confidence divine the ſoul illume,
That he who ſows i in tears, mall build his ſheaves with; joy.
O bliſsful ſound ! enchanting. vaiee 4
Avant vile Doubt and daſtard Fear,
Where Sorrow muſt herſelf xejoice
To ſee the Cloud or Pillar near.
Hail heavenly guide, |
Our prop and,pride!., ...:
In weal and woe
Before us go:;
And lead us through the „ld. 1
We feel, we feel thy ſov” reign .
Who ever follow'd thee, and was beguil'd ? _
Bleſt chearer of the night, and charmer of che days
But ſee a meteor mock thy guiſe,
- Deluding with fiftitions fire,;
By Folly blown to cheat our eyes,
And for Deſert to ſhow Deſire.
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ODDBS 81 preſiding 0 er me plains,
Auſpicious to the lab ring . |
Hygieia, thou whoſe eyes giſplay
The luſtre of meridian day, 5
Whoſe roſeate cheeks ſuch tints adorn,
As paint the bluſþ of conſcious Morn,
When glowing W.
Ceph' lus to her arms: |
Dryad, that lov'f{ at early dawn
Vig'rous to trace the deWY lawn, 4
To breath the balm-impregned gale,
When flow'rs their liquid {0
Bot chief, who 10V "Ft, ike Cynthus queens
In golden zone, and mantle green,
Grac'd with the quiver's wry pride
Thy beauteous locks with fillets ti d,
To urge the keen fate · pointed dart,
That ſwift o ertakes the flying hart:
When ſated with the vig'rous ſport,
To what cool grot doſt thou reſort ?
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What though no ſculpture's frmig
No canvas drinks the ward dies,
That ſpeak hiſtoric to che eyes
No pealing organ ſwells the note,
No viol aids the euuuch's chroat?
Yet chere ſhall ſmiling Flora bring
The blooming pride of all the ſpring,
Shall bid the ſtately tulips riſe,
| And crocus ſhine in golden dies; ;
Shall bid che Hly, Jaſmin, roſe,
| O'erſhade thee in thy ſoft n
There too each poet of the grove,
Inſpir'd by thee with joy ſhall rove,
Shall wake ſome ſweetly-ſoothing ſtrain,
Which Phebus” ſelf might entertain.
Pale Envy there ſhall ne'er be ſeen,
Nor Lux'ry, ſoft, enſlaving queen ! *
Shall introduce diſeaſe and pain,
To rack the nerves, ' and fire the brain,
There Hope ſtill plumes his golden wings,
And gay Content her requiem ſings ;
There ftill ſha!l ſmile heart-chearing Joy,
Of Innocence the lovely boy;
Fair Chaſtity of heavenly birth,
Scarce daigning to be ſeen on earth ;
And Temf'rance ſage, with youthful face,
Conſpire to conſecrate the place.
Auſpicious goddeſs, ſtill impart
Thy vital influence to my heart;
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And the proud lord's ORE ſeats” | | 9 7
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Goddeſs fair, and blithe . gay, i ae
Hralrn, accept th' unpoliſht lay.
Yon pleaſing, ſhady row of trees,
Freſh zephyr's cool and fragrant breeze, |
The lov'd approach of eve or dawy,
The walk through waving ears of corn,
The gliding ſtream, the hawthorn ſhade, 12
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The cowſlip pale, and raih roma |
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Sighs for Health and Liberty.
Silvan maiden, blooming fair,
Hear thy conſtant vot ry's pray 'r.
From the barren deſart haſte,
From Norxegia's chęarleſs waſte +
From the cataracts of Nile,
Or Bermudga's pleaſant iſle; |
Through fair Britain's meadows ſtray,
Come and make all Nature gay?
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UXOM vymph all nymphs excelling,
Say where haſt thou fixt thy dwelling?
Haſt thou plac'd thy bed of. * 551
In Arabia the bleſt; | .
Where ſpicy zephyrs all the year ;
Breathe upon the atmoſphere :
Odors borrowing and beſtowing,
With eternal freſhneſs glowing ? |
Or in Afric's auburn downs, _
Where the ſun the zenith crowns ;
Full of heat, and full of fire,
Do thy tumid veins perſpire ;
Doſt thou, where the lion lies,
Ply the manly exerciſe ?
Skill'd the winged ſpear to throw,
Or to bend the ſtubborn bow ?
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The ungenial north-winds howl? _
Do Lapland's hamlets charm thy fight;
Candi'd o'er with gliſt'ning white ?
On ſolid waters doſt thou ſlide,
Or, drawn by rapid raindeer, ride?
Or doſt thou flouriſh ſtrong and Hale,
Ermin'd in S:iberia's valle?
Wafted o'er th* Atlantic waves,
To the land of gold and flaves;
To the land of fruit and flow rs,
Conſtant winds, and punctual ſhow'rs ;
Where far beyond th' Hercultan bars,
C:lumbus found new lands and ftars ;
All-coveted, all-courted fair, 7
„Tell me, charmer ! art thou there?
Is thy courſe propitious bent,
To Europa's continent?
Forth to Ga/lia's ſouthern ſhores,
Doſt thou bear thy balmy ſtores?
Or the pride of haughty Spain,
In Andalufia doſt thou reign,?
Or where Brunduſium ſtood of yore,
Or where Liſbon is no more?
Or hither com ' ſt with all thy ſmiles, 8
To fair Freedom's weſtern iſles ?
Thee nor Araby can boaſt,
Thee, nor Mios tawny coaſt ;
Thou art not of local reſt,
Not in north, or ſouth, or weſt ;
Not in climate, or in zone;
But in Temytrancs alone.
Or rangeſt thou, where, bleak and foul,
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Softly o'er my ſenſes creep:
Gently ſteal my heart from care,,
Shed, O ſhed thy poppies there:
Come, O come, and wich thee bring
Odors dropping from thy wing
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Dipt in Hy8La's roſy" bed, *
Wave it o'er my umb Nag hea ow
Still, as SiLexce, let me ly;
Still, as ſummer-breezes fly,
Softly beat, ye ſprings of life; *.
Ceaſe, ah ceaſe your buſy hore,”
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My trembling heart to own thy on dd ;
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The merchant wand'ring o'er the wat'ry way
The chief ſerene, before th aſſaulted wall ! N 0
The climbing ſtateſman, thoughtleſs of his fall;
All whom the love of wealth or pow'r inſpires,
And all who burn with proud Ambition's s fires.
But peaceful bards thy conſtant preſence know,
0 thou of ev'ry glorious deed the foe!
Of thee the filent ſtudious race complains,
And Learning groans a captive in thy chains.
The ſecret wiſh, when ſome fair object moves,
And cautious Reaſon what we wiſh approves, -
Thy gorgon-front forbids to graſp the prize,
And ſeas are ſpread between, and mountains rife ; .
Thy magic arts a thouſand fantoms raiſe, | |
And fanci'd deaths and dangers fill our ways.
With ſmiling Hope, you wage eternal ſtrife, 5
And envious ſnatch the cup of joy from life.
O leave, tremendous-pow'r ! the blameleſs breaſt * |
Of guilt alone the tyrant and the gueſt:
Go, and thy train of ſable horrors ſpread,
Where Murder meditates the future dead;
Where Rapine watches for the gloom of night,
And lawleſs Paſſion pants for others right ; 1
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_ Suſpicion, felſehood, rancor, and deſpair.
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Reſtrain her fp, and wilify hee fame ! /
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Impartial. Time thy calumny, ſhall raſe,
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And ſet my raptur'd thought on flame.
Who art thou, who? The ſolar orb,
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Whate'er the beauties all combin'd :
'Tis Dioxirx, that gives the grace,
And forms the fair, as firſt deſign'd, e.
Through life we have a ſterling rule.
To make the nobleſt points our aim 2
And Diexrrr commands the ſchool © ”
Of all that excellence we claim. 1
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Or bought by wealth, or forc'd by pow'r;
For thee the champion graſps his lance,
For thee the flights of Fancy tow'r.
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By fenſe to choiceſt ſounds _— 5 5;
The Muſes do thy Grates wrong.
Unleſs her influence preſid me.
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That play'ſt fo ſwret, and ſo . *.
To feed the flow of derent mirth, __ "Oy
The pride of Pre the life, of Trex, gia!
Hail Condeſcenſion, . Hu 1
Thee Faith and Truth their Teen bene la, .
And Ri} with awful love acedſt. ;
On thee, ten thouſand bleſlings wait,
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Sunn thou gentle nurſe of thought, |
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Fair Science oft thy aid has ſought,
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We languiſh to be bleſt ;
Tis thine to ſooth, compoſe, inſpire,
And give for tumult reſt.
The ſprightly ſong, the jacand. tale,
The dance, the glitt ring cloud, 3
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Are wild, confus d, and | „
Thy ſober pauſe of calm delight, .
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A maxim whiſpers, O how true yl
That 'tis my chief concern,
My thoughts in filence to review,
And only hear and learn.
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That lov'ſ the dark fequeſter'd woods 3
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Be thou on earth my conſtant gueſt;
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3 laſting Peace of d! ;
Sweet delight of human kind!
Heavenly born, and bred on +
To crown the fav'rites of the wot
With more of happineſs below,
Than victors in a triumph know! -- * Boot |
Whither, O whithet art thou fled +
To lay thy meek; contented head?
What happy region doſt thon please
To make the ſeat of . calms:andeafar? e net
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Of pomp and ſtate, to meet thee here.
Encreaſing Avarice would find —_
Thy. preſence in her gold enſhrin de.
The bold advent'rer ploughs hie war,
Through rocks, and keeps the ſeas at ha,
To gain thy love; and then he nds.
Thou wert nor in the waves nor windds.
The ſilent heart, which grief aſſails,
Treads ſoft and loneſom o'er the n
Sees daifies open, rivers run, BY i 11 4
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I ſang my wiſhes to the woodd j |
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In heavenly viſion, prayer, and AN 1
Pleafing all men, hurting none; 5
Pleas'd, and bleſt with God alone.
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With all the colors of delight ;
While filver-waters glide along |
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The ſun that walks his airy way,
To light the world, and give the day;
The moon, that ſhines with borrow'd light ; 1
The ſtars, that gild the gloomy night;
The ſea, that waves unnumber d heaves;
The wood, that ſpreads its ſhady leaves;
The field, whoſe ears conceal the grain, ©
The yellow treafure of the plain
All of theſe, and all I fee,” | 12
Should be ſung, and ſung by me: T7
They ſpeak their Maker, as they can; > 1 +
But want and ak the tongue of man.
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To diſembogue us in the och 3
Fate bears an univerſal ſway,
We molder by degrees away nn
Even ſaints, who moſt death's ſting defy,
Yet, at their call to bliſs, muſt dy.
Should we, to ſullen fate each day
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Even Og and 1/bbibenob's might“, et
Whoſe looks made'armies quit chi field,
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Sink huddled into native ores, 1
They who war, ſhipwrec, plague, ſurvives .,
In vain with Death for malt'ry ſtrive: |
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This paradiſe, my joy of life, 54 8
Theſe pretty babes, this pleaſing wife,
Theſe plants, flow'rs, groves, which charm my .
I muſt forſake at Death's ſurpriſe :*
Cypreſs alone will with me ſtay,
To ſhroud its ſhort-liv'd maſter's clay. 83
Yet Death in vain exerts his might | —_
To rob me of one dear delight ;
Sweet mulic and devoted fong
I hope to perfect and prolong ;
While I with heavenly minſtrelſy, 4
Shall hymn the coharmonious Taree! !
O! while we breathe this fleeting air,
May we for endleſs life prepare; 2
To love divine continue chaſte,
All its ſweet effluences taſte;
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Above the reach of vulgar ong. A. Ig b IId r
Though daring Mir ron fits ſublime,
In Syexs& native muſes pla7ß;
Nor yet ſhall War uER yield to Time,
Nor penſive CowLey's moral lay. I 39
| Sages and Chiefs long fince had birth,
Ere CEsaA was, or Newrox nam'd ;
Theſe rais'd new empires o'er the earth,
And thoſe new heavens and ſyſtems fram'd.
Vain was the Chief's, the Sage's pride! 3 ;
They had no Poet, and they di'd;
In vain they ſchem'd, in'vain. they bled !..
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| Dulce et decorum ef pro patria mori !
OW ſleep the brave, who ſink to reſt,
With all their country's wiſhes bleſt!
When Spring, with dewy fingers cold,
Returns to deck the hallow'd mold;
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Tu t'en vas done, ma fille, & Dies ache o tu vat.
Ta pars ſeulette, nue, & tremblotante, bels?
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9 Muſt we no longer live together pF babe %
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To take = flight thou n not dither oh
The 0 vein, the Wee folly
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ITAL Tpark of heavenly 1
Quit, oh ! quit chis 2 |
Trembling, hoping, ling'rings fing,
Oh the pain, the bliſs of dying
Ceaſe; fond nature, ceaſe thy ſtrife,
And let me langüich into liſe.
Hark! they whiſper ; nen, Ware r
Siger-{pirit, come away. yu_ 1 N
What is this abſorbs me quite 7 |
Steals my ſenſes, . ſhuts my fight? _ -
Drowns my ſpirits, draws my breath?
Tell me, my ſoul, can this be death:
The world recedet: it e 5] de bd
Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears eo
With ſounds ſeraphic ring: CAR 5
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fy!
O grave! where is thy victory ? 4
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Clos'd in a ſting.” &: | |
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Sure is the ting ! Thou know'ft ho fling.
Though thy heart flatter thee, Thy heart ne'er flatters thee
That bought hall batter thee, That nothing batters thee;
Life's on the wing. Thy life's in ſpring.
What though bo bane inglide, What though each bane inglides
Full waft each vein her tide, Full waft no vein her tide,
Each bone remain thy pride ? No bone remain thy pride? /
Certain 's the ſting. Death has no fling,
Though in no fear thou be, Then i ao fear be thou,
But in high chear thou: be, But in high chear be now,
Mark the grim king! Hail the kind king!
Though thou'rt as Hector ftrong, Still be as Hector ftrong 3
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With double ſting. Death without ſting.
Though the tone parian Though no tone parian
Build buſt ceſarean, Build buſt ceſarean,
What thence ſhall ſpring ? Thy ſoul ſhall fing:
High heav*n now hides her face, Here now abides the place,
Hell now abides the place; Horrid hell hides her face ;
Woes on all fides embrace: Joys on all fides embrace:
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Friends, in a few weeks. wal
W EIGH well, my ſoul, while yet there's time,
The tranſient fate of earthly thing:
On Jacob's ſacred ladder climb | 1 4
To Jace God, the King of kings,
Farewel, ye vain, I hate your ways;
Ye grovling ſons of pride, adieu;
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From all things learn to live and dy; 11 rad 7
From all the vile and vain retreat,
Among the dead fond Mem'ry weeps, |
O'er graves of lov'd aſſociates gone:
The ſcythe of death, how near i neg. 5
"Twill be my turn to fall anon.
See, where an old acquaintance lies
Another! and another here |
This once, on earth, was counted wiſe ;
Facetious this, and this fincere !
This was good-natur'd to a fault,
And this was charitably giv'n ;
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The fond delight of er eye 5
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The ſeat of ſenfe, in ages fſec ß
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Behold the ſockets empty fpace oo 97
Affrights the yet-peroiving eye, I
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Of all who five, alas! 40 dy. "ay
Here yet remain, expos d and bare, -
By duſt defil'd of earthly hues
Thoſe teeth that age vouchſaf d to ſpare, i nad Wd
A uſcleſs and a mold ring few ! rr in
Gay friend, here hung the liſt ning ear.
Here the loquacious tongue; and here |
Tbe noſe, on this-difterted wound“! 1
Theſe all had converſe with the foul,
Myfterious work of heavenly ill!
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| Be witty, mortal, bold, and free; /- |
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| Ere long thy ſcalp like, this ſhall be,
Not worth the ſordid ſexton's care. | _
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Perhaps ſome former Garrick bore
This ſcalp aloft with graceful pride:
That once new force to wit ſupply'd.
Perhaps, with cunning.quibbles AWd, '-
"Twas once a lawyer's—arch and ary
To obviate ev'ry. claim though {kill'd,
He paid one debt, decreed to . 77
Perhaps ſome haughty beauty 8 charms,
Adorn'd this bone with white and red:
No more the nymph the world alarms, ook
The lilies and the roſes fled. _
Perhaps a crown theſe temples bound ;
Before it ſubject nations bow'd :.
Now, undiſtinguiſht in the ground,
The beggar tramples on the proud.
What cauſe has mortal fleſh to boaſt 1
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| The ſummons comes: we give the ghoſt, |.
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And lead me through this vaſe br woe; Mb, Yet
The ſtaff of age, and guide of youth. tire 4;
Suſtain me in the mortal Hour Rane
For then tis thine alone to "fave; | ;
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Want'ſt thou to find out what am I ? |
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To know what lexers ſpelt my name, 65 44
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And all that thou halt Be.
Go now that heap of duſt explore, _
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The wicked here from miſchief ceaſe, | 117
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Here let me muſe! — and, wrapt in thought, |
The realms of Death ſurvey:
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To gain thy guardian pre! ed :
That ſo—when this diſſolving frame
Shall mingle with the duſt.
Preferi'd my better part may claim
A portion with the juſt! :
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Now fades the glimm'ring landſcape on the fight,
And all the air a ſolemn ſtilneſs holds;
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Their furrow oft the ſtubborn glebe Has broke;
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How bow'd che woods beneath their pours of; _ 25
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Their homely joys, and deftiny obſeure;
Nor Grandeur hear with a diſdainful nile,
The ſhort and fimple annals of the port..
The boaſt of heraldry, the pomp of 'pow'r,'
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The paths of glory lead but to the grüve.
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Hands, that the tod of empire might have ſway d,
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Kich with the ſpoils of Time did neer unrl?
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The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean * 85 0
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Some Cromwell guiltleſs of hit country's bla.
Th' applauſe of liſt ning ſenates to'command,
The threats of pain and zuin to deſpiſe, .._.. 4
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This pleafing- anxious being Cer-refign'd,
Left the warm, of the chearfyl day.
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Nor chink the Maſe, whole ſober voice ye hear, *
Contracts with bigot-frown her ſullen brow ; .
Caſts round religion's orb the miſts of fear,
Or fhades with horrors, what would ſmiles allow,
No: ſhe would warm you with ſeraphic fire,
"Heirs as ye are of heaven's eternal day ;
Wouid bid you boldly to that heaven aſpire,
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I ſaw Health paint them with her roſy hand,
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Shakes at the ſtroke of thy tremendous. pow'r, ©
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Full- rigid queen! unnerve the ſoul's bright pom Is,
Till with a joylefs ſmile the eye beholds
Art's magic charms, and Nature's fairy bow'rs?
No: let me follow ſtill, thoſe bow'rs' among,
Her flow'ry footſteps, ' as the goddeſs" goes?
Let me, juit lifted bove th" unletter'd throng. *
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His daring mind the humanizing glooms |
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The ſiren- throng of follies numberleſo,
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