46  lucubrations of Timothy Hatrbrains Nov, 14+ 
LUCUBRATIONS OF TIMOTHY HAIRBRAIN. 
And thinkest thou that these men were wicked above all others? I say 
unto thee.nay5 for unlefs you repent, ye fhall all likewise perth. 
SIR, To the Editor of the Bee. 
IF it be true, as your redoubtable correspondent 
Thunderproof alleges, that it is a high degree of 
comfort for one who has got an arm lopped off, to 
be told that his neighbour has come yet worse off, 
by losing two, then we in this nation may console 
ourselves for the ridiculous follies of which all ranks. 
are guilty, by being afsured, that in other parts of 
the world there are at least as great fools as our 
selves. In this way, though we cannot prove that 
two blacks will make a white, we may prove that 
two fools may be made to believe they are both wise 
men, by keeping each other in countenance. 
The king of Prufsia, by this kind of logic, will, 
on the present occasion, afford us an abundant fund. 
for self complacency ; for he, 
Even Quixote himself has out-Quixoted. 
He cauld not be satisfied with looking on at a dis 
tance, and beholding the French squabbling among 
themselves about power; but he forsooth, like a wise 
man as he is, must have a finger in the pye; though 
I think it will puzzle wiser noddles than his own to 
find out what businefs he had there. But he hath 
had his reward. Like those busybodies who can= 
not see a man and his wife give each other a few lo- 
ving lounders, but they must be intermeddling be- 
