adventure which happened to this monarch with one captain Michau, who had pretended to defert from the Spanish fervice, and go over to that of Henry, in order to find an opportunity of affaffinating him. One day, fays that hiftorian, as Henry was hunting in the foreft of Ailas he perceives Captain Michau at his heels, well mounted, and with a couple of piftols cocked and primed: the king was alone, no affiftance was at hand, as it is the custom of hunters to be fcattered: from one another. Henry, feeing Michau approach, faid in a bold and determined manner, <6 Captain Michau, alight, I want to try whether your horfe be as good a one as you fay he is." Michau obeyed; the king mounted his horse, and, taking the two piftols, faid, "Haft thou a mind to kill any one? I have been told that thou hadft a design to kill me; but it is in my power to kill thee, if I choose." As he faid this, he fired the pistols into the air, and ordered Michau to follow him. The captain, after many excufes, took his leave in two days after, and never again made his ap pearance.

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THE CHURCH-YARD.

Go

O to the Church-yard, then, O finful and thoughtless mortal;-go learn from every tomb-ftone and every rifing hillock, that," the of fin is death." Learn in filence, among wages the dead, that leffon which infinitely concerns ail the living; nor let thy heart be ever at reft, till thou art acquainted with JESUS, who is the refur rection and the life.

PASSIONS influenced by different t

SITUATIONS IN LIFE.

DIFFERENT employments, and different

conditions in life, beget in us a tendency to our different paffions. Those who are exalted above others in their daily ftations, and especially if they have to do with many perfons under them, and in many affairs, are too often tempted to the haughty, the morofe, the furly, and the more unfriendly ruffles and disturbances of nature, unless they watch against them with daily care. commanders in armies and navies, the governors in work-houses, the mafters of public schools, or those who have a great number of fervants under them, and a multitude of cares and concerns in

The

human

human life, fhould continually fet a guard upon themselves, left they get a habit of affected fuperiority, pride, and vanity of mind, of fretfulness, impatience, and criminal anger.

The Wearifomeness of what is commonly

CALLED

A LIFE of PLEASURE.

THE fpleen is feldom felt where Flora reigns;

The low'ring eye, the petulance, the frown,

And fullen fadness, that o'er fhade, diftort,
And mar the face of beauty, when no cause
For fuch immeafurable woe appears;

These Flora banishes, and gives the fair

Sweet fmiles and bloom, lefs tranfient than her own.
It is the conftant revclution, ftale

And taftelefs, of the fame repeated joys,
That palls and fatiates, and makes languid life
A pedlar's pack, that bows the bearer down.
Health fuffers, and the spirits ebb; the heart
Recoils from its own choice at the full feast
Is famifh'd-finds no mufic in the fong,
No smartness in the jeft, and wonders why.
Yet thousands ftill defire to journey on,
Though halt and weary of the path they tread.

The

The paralytic, who can hold her cards,
But cannot play them, borrows a friend's hand
To deal and fhuffle, to divide and fort
Her mingled fuits and sequences, and fits
Spectatrefs both and fpectacle, a fad
And filent cypher, while her proxy plays.
Others are dragg'd into the crowded room
Between fupporters; and, once feated, fit,
Through downright inability to rife,
Till the ftout bearers lift the corpfe again.
These speak aloud memento. Yet even these
Themselves love life, and cling to it; as he
That overhangs a torrent, to a twig.

They love it, and yet loath it; fear to die,
Yet fcorn the purposes for which they live.
Then wherefore not renounce them? No-the dread,
The flavifh dread of folitude, that breeds
Reflection and remorse, the fear of shame,
And their inve'trate habits-all forbid.

Whom call we gay? That honour has been long
The boaft of mere pretenders to the name.
The innocent are gay-the lark is gay,
That dries his feathers, faturate with dew,
Beneath the rofy cloud, while yet the beams
Of day-fpring overfhoot his humble neft.
The peafant too, a witness of his fong,
Himself a fongfter, is as gay as he.
But fave me from the gaiety of those

Whofe

Whose head achs nail them to a noon day bed;
And fave me too from theirs whofe haggard eyes
Flash desperation, and betray their pangs

For poverty ftripp'd off by cruel chance,
From gaiety that fills the bones with pain,
The mouth with blafphemy, the heart with woe.

ANECDOTE

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A SCOTCH PEDLAR.

ASHORT time fince, Sawney Frazer, a native

of the northern part of this ifland, who, by vending of linen which he carried around the country on his back, had acquired a fum of one hundred pieces of gold, refolving to extend his bufinefs by the addition of other wares, fet out for London, in order to purchase them to the best advantage. When he had arrived within a few miles of the end of his journey, he was obliged to take fhelter in a house of entertainment, which flood in a lonely part of the road, from a violent storm of wind and rain; where he had not been long, before he was joined by two horsemen of genteel appearance who stopped on the fame account.

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