death of Mrs. Foster (who had been sole manager, and a very learned and sensible woman), being quite disconsolate and alone, he returned to his alma mater, for the sake of society, where he took chambers. One day, after looking over some papers, in the absence of his servant, he went out, forgetting to lock his door, not per ceiving or recollecting that he had left a thousand pound bank note upon the table, which had been paid him that morning, and of which he had made no minute. Some days after, however, he missed the note, and being reminded by the servant (whom he knew to be honest) that he had left the door open, he concluded that the note had been stolen by some one who had peeped into the chambers, and accordingly advertised it, offering an hundred pounds reward to the person that would restore it. The advertisement was immediately answered by the person who took it, informing the Doctor that he would meet him next day at a certain hour in the Beau Walk, Stephen's Green, and restore it. The Doctor went accordingly, and met the man, but forgot to bring the hundred pound which he had promised, of which he informed the man, who insisted, however, upon Doctor takingthe note, which at length he consented to, appointing the man to meet him at the same time and place next day to receive the hundred pound, when the Doctor punctually attended, and performed

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It should be added, that the Doctor was strongly solicited by some of his friends, to whom he had mentioned the matter (one of whom was a bishop) to bring a constable with him in both the first and second instance, and take up the man; which, however, the Doctor could not be prevailed upon to do, saying, it would be an act of teachery and breach of faith that all mankind should reprobate.

THE ENGLISH VERB.

AN Englishman, who knew the value of his own constitution, and the richness, strength, and beauty of his own language, chanced on a time to fall into the conversation of a French savant (for all are men of letters in France, from the head of a university down to the penny-postman). The conversation turned on the French and English languages. The Parisian condemned the English as defective in the variety of inflections: "Thus," said he, "I love, you love, he loves; we love, ye love, they love; you see, it is love through all." The Englishman, who well knew that simplicity is one of the chief beauties of any language, was resolved to meet Monsieur

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sieur on his own ground; and when the vain Gaul thought he was just ready to carry off the spolia opima, he addressed him thus: "It is true, that love is as immutable in our tongue as it is in our hearts; but I perceive that you never followed an English verb throughout the whole of its conjugation. Now, there's the verb, to twist-I'll conjugate it, if you please:" on which he repeated the following lines out of Dr. Wallis:

"WHEN a twister, a-twisting, will twist him a twist, With the twisting of his twist, he the twines doth entwist;

But if one of the twines of the twist do untwist,
The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist.
Untwisting the twine that entwisteth between,
He twists, with his twister, the two in a twine:
Then twice having twisted the twines of the twine,
He twisteth the twine he had twined, in twain.
The twain, that in twining before in the twine,
As twins were entwisted, he now doth untwine;
'Twixt the twain, intertwisting a twine more between,
He, twirling his twister, makes a twist of the twine."

The Frenchman was obliged to acknowledge, that, in point of variety, the English language was superior to his own.

See Johnson's Dictionary, under the word, Twist.

QUEEN ELIZABETH'S SPEECH AT THE DISSOLUTION OF HER PARLIAMENT, January 2, 1566.

I HAVE in this assembly found so much dissimulation, where I always professed plainness, that I marvel thereat; yea, two faces under one hood, and the body rotten, being covered with two vizors, succession and liberty. But, alas! they began to pierce the vessel before the wine was fined, and began a thing, not foreseeing the end. Now, by this means I have seen my wellwishers from my enemies, and can, as meseemeth, very well divide the house into four. First, fault; second, the speakers, who by eloquent tales persuade others; third, the agreers; and lastly, those who sat still mute, and meddled not therewith, but rather wondered, disallowing the matter, who in my opinion opinion are most to be excused.

THE STATESMAN'S ACADEMY,

Erected in the Tower at the proper Cost of the House of Peers, where at present inhabit three of the best Masters of the Time.

By Lord ROCHester.

Found in his own Hand-writing among his Papers.

DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.

HE that would learn to fence for his life,

Or run away with a grace another man's wife ;

How

How to drink and make speeches, curse, banter, and

swear,

Let him but unto the tower repair;

And if George does not teach him as well as he can, he's no Lord, but a dull alderman.

By

SALISBURY.

But if he would learn the method of sleeping;
And of an estate, too, the method of keeping;
Not getting, for that's not a topic in fashion;
Why, Cecil will teach him the best in the nation:
But as for more wit, God knows he has none;
His father got all, and left none for the son.

SHAFTSBURY.

But if you would be a statesman in grain,
And learn the whole art of legerdemain,
With all the tricks of à tumbler of state;

As from nothing to rise to something that's great,

And from thence, without breaking his neck, to be

hurl'd,

Little Anthony Cooper's the best in the world.

BRISTOL SLAVE-MARKET.

THERE is a town called Bruhston (Bristol) opposite to Ireland, and extremely convenient for trading with that country. Wulfstan* induced them to drop a barbarous custom, which neither the love of God, nor the King, could

* Wulfstan was Bishop of Worcester, and died in 1995.

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