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of judicial astrology? that Dr Clarke valued himself 
much more on his agility, than on his science ? and that 
Pope was such an epicure, that when on a visit to lord 
Bolingbroke, it was his custom to lie whole days in bed, 
unlefs when his servant informed him there was stewed 
Jamprey for dinner? Yet all these things were so. 
The picture of human frailty may be extended, as the 
portraits are numerous. Queen Elisabeth was a coquette, 
and Bacon received a bribe! On the eve of an important 
battle, the duke of Marlborough was heard to chide his 
servant for lighting four candles in his tent, at a time 
when he had an important conference with!prince Eu- 
gene. Luther was so immoderately pafsionate, that he 
sometimes boxed Melancton’s ears; and Melaneton him- 
self was a believer in dreams. Cardinals Richlieu and 
Mazarine were so superstitious as to employ and pension 
Morin, a pretender to astrology, who calculated their na- 
tivities. Tacitus, who appears in general superior to su- 
perstition, was grofsly affected by it in particular instan- 
ces. Dryden was also a believer in astrology, and Hobbes 
firmly believed the existence of goblins and spirits. 
THE FATE OF GENIUS. ' 
Tur Following fhort but melancholy list proves the jus- 
tice of aremark which wounds sensibility, w%. that many 
a wise head and many a worthy heart, are doomed to live 
in misery and die in obscurity and want. Plautus turned 
a mill, Terence was a slave, Boethius died in a jail, Tafso 
was often distrefsed for five fhillings, Bentivoglio was re- 
fused admifsion into the hospital he himself erected, Cer- 
vantes died of hunger, Camoens ended his days in an alms- 
house, and Vaugelas left his body to the surgeons, to pay 
his debts as far as it would go! 
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