ACTUS. V. SCENA. I. Quid enim dedisset, quæ dedit frustra nihil, • Natura? quorsum hæc dulcis expectatio; Mixtumque dulci gaudium formidine ! Qua demigrabitur alia hinc in corpora? • Quæ terra mox incognita? Quis orbis novus, Quid dubius hæret animus usque adeo? Brevi • Hic nodum hic omnem exbediet. ACT V. SCENE I. CATO alone, &c. must be so -Plato, thou reason'st well e whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, whence this secret dread, and inward horror, is the Divinity that stirs within us; is heav'n itself that points out an hereafter, nd intimates eternity to man. ternity! thou pleasing, dreadful, thought! از hrough what variety of untry'd being, 'hrough what new scenes and changes must we pass! And that there is all Nature cries aloud Though all her works) he must delight in virtue ; But when Lon where ? This world was made for Cæsar. • In utramque partem facta; quæque vim inferant, 'Et quæ propulsent! Dextera intentat necem 'Vitam sinistra: vulnus hæc dabit manus ; * Altera medelam vulneris: hic ad exitum 'Deducet, ictu simplici; hæc vetant mori. Secura ridet anima mucronis minas, Ensesque strictos, interire nescia. Extinguet atas, sidera diuturnior : 'Etate languens ipse sol, obscurius • Emittet orbi consenescenti jubar; "Natura et ipsa sentiet quandom vices Tu permanebis sola semper integra, us am I doubly arm'd; my death and life, ane and antidote, are both before me. in a moment brings me to an end; his informs me I shall never die. soul, secur'd in her existence, smiles e drawn dagger, and defies its point. stars shall fade away, the sun himself dim with age, and nature sink in years; hou shalt flourish in immortal youth, rt amidst the war of elements, wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds." No. 629. MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, AUTHOR UNKNOWN. 1714. -Experiar quid concedatur in illos, Quorum Flaminia tegitur cinis, atque Latina. Juv. Sat. 1. v. 170. -Since none the living dare implead, Arraign them in the persons of the dead. NEXT DRYDEN. EXT to the people who want a place, there are none to be pitied more than those who are solicited for one. A plain answer, with a denial in it, is looked upon as pride, and a civil answer as a promise. Nothing is more ridiculous than the pretensions of people upon these occasions. Every thing a man hath suffered, while his enemies were in play, were certainly brought about by the malice of the opposite party. A bad cause would not have been lost, if such an one had been upon the bench; nor a profligate youth disinherited, if he had not got drunk every night by toasting an outed ministry. I remember a Tory, who having been fined in a court of justice for a prank that deserved the pillory, desired upon the merit of it to be made a justice of peace when his friends came into power; and shall never forget a Whig criminal, who upon being indicted for a rape, told his friend, you see what a man suffers for sticking to his principles. The truth of it is, the sufferings of a man in a party are of a very doubtful nature. When they are such as have promoted a good cause, and fallen upon a man undeservedly, they have a right to |