Comments on Sterne. 69 
and treafure; [Ecclefiaft.] the poor man’s riches, the 
rich man’s blifs, without thee there can be no happinefs.* 
O beata fanitas, te prefente, amenum 
Ver floret gratis, abfque te nemo deatus, 
But I fhould, in order, have noticed firft an 
exclamation at the end of Chapter ix. in the 
“Spirit of which no body could expect Sterne to be 
original. ‘* Now I love you for this—and ’tis this 
“* delicious mixture within you, which makes you 
«* dear Creatures what you are—and he who hates 
“ you for it—all I can fay of the matter is, ‘That 
*« he has a pumpkin for his head, or a pippin for 
«* his heart,—and whenever he is diffec&ted ’twill be 
_ found fo.’—Burton’s Quotation is: Qui vim non 
fenfit amoris, aut lapis eft, aut bellua: which’ he tran- 
flates thus: He is not a man, a block, a very ftone, aut 
Numen, aut Nebuchadnezzar, he hath a gourd for his head, 
a pippin for his heart, that hath not felt the power of it. 
In Chap 36, vol. vi. Sterne has picked out a few 
quotations from Burton's Effay on Love-Melancholy, 
which afford nothing very remarkable’ except Sterne’s 
boldnefs in quoting quotations. 
By help of another extra&tt from Burton, Sterne 
makes a great figure asa curious Reader: ‘‘ I hate 
“to make myfteries of nothing;—’tis the cold 
** cautioufnefs 
* Page 104. ibid. Page 276, 
+ See Burton, page g10, & feq. 
t Trift, Shandy, vol, vii. c, 13, 
