48  lucubrations of Timothy Hairbrain. Now. 14. 
I, who am no friend to despotism, rejoice at the 
“misgiving of every madcap enterprise of that sort ; 
and I hope that his example will afford a lefson to 
some wihers, who might have a touch of the cacoethes 
dictandi ; a certain kind of radzes, which is apt to 
seize upon persons that have long had too'much of 
their own will, which seldom leaves them till they 
‘meet with a little salutary discipline, from that ill — 
looking, though best of all friends, Misfortune by 
name, whose severe gripe every one withes to fhun, 
though it is well known to be the most sovereign 
xemedy that ever was applied for removing that 
kind of vertigo in the head, which is the never 
failing attendant on prosperity. Now, as we in tiis 
island have got a little touch of this malady, I fhould 
reckon it a very happy circumstance, indeed, if we 
-fhould allow the misfortunes of others to cure us of — 
our idle vagaries, and, not insist upon feeling them 
aur very selves, before we would take the lefson. 
It is highly probable, that both Prufsia and Austria 
may be cured, for a time, by this imperious physi- 
cian; for both of them have. exhausted their finan- 
ces, jn equipping themselves to run a ‘tilt against 
windmills, and herds of madmen, which they mistook 
for hay cocks, and flocks of fheep: They may now 
find businefs at home, to keep them for all their 
lifetime from ever venturing out again en such 
wild expeditions, as that in which they \ were 
lately. engaged. As to their supreme wisdoms of 
Sardinia and Spain, they have been heaping up com- . 
bustibles at home for many years, which only requi- 
‘red a spark.to set it ina blaze; and now, they are 
