Comments on Sterne. 65 
** and Mycene, and Thebes, and Delos, and Perfe- 
** polis, and Agrigentum. ---- What is become, 
“* brother Toby, of Nineveh, and Babylon, of 
** Cyzicum and Mytilene; the faireft towns that 
** ever the fun rofe upon, are now no more.”* — 
‘* Kingdoms, Provinces, Towns and Cities,” fays 
Burton, ‘‘have their periods, and are confumed. In 
thofe flourifhing times of Troy, Mycene was the faireft 
city in Greece, - -~- but it, alas, and that Affyrian Ninive 
are quite overthrown. The like fate hath that Egyptian 
and Beotian Thebes, Delos, the common Council-houfe af 
Greece, and Babylon, the greateft City that ever the Sun 
Shone on, hath now nothing but walls and rubbifk left.” 
---- And where is Troy, itfelf now, Perfepolis, Car- 
thage, Cizicum, Sparta, Argos, and all thofe Grecian Cities ? 
Syracufe and Agrigentum, the fatreft towns in Sicily, 
which had fometimes feven hundred thoufand inhabitants, 
are now decayed. Let us follow Sterne again. ‘ Re- 
** turning out of Afia, when I failed from Agina 
towards Megara, I began to view the Country 
round about. gina was behind me, Megara 
** was before, Pyreus on the right hand, Corinth 
on the left. What flourifhing towns now proftrate 
“on the earth! Alas! alas! faid I to my‘elf, 
“ that a man fhould difturb his foul for the lofs of 
** a Child, when fo much as this lies awfully buried 
in his prefence. Remember, faid I to myfelf 
again—remember that thou art a Man,” 
I This 
* Sterne, 
