36 NORTHERN MEMOIRS. 



claims against pensioners that pick his pocket, 

 and abominates sycophants that fawn and flatter, 

 and seem to adore the rising sun ; yet with im- 

 patience longs to see it set. Not but that no 

 sun shines without some cloud, nor any court is 

 kept without some flatterers, till that time comes 

 (and I hope is at hand) that vertue shall naturally 

 flow from the streams of piety, (and not from 

 imitation,) which spontaneously spring from the 

 celestial fountains of pure Christianity. 



Tkeoph. When Democrasians dagger the 

 crown, then the perplex'd native stands a tiptoe 

 (every minute) expecting some fatal event ; and 

 so it is, when insolency justles justice, then the 

 magistrate suffers affronts in his legal justiciary 

 proceeds. Such scorpions as these wound and 

 infect the body politick. 



Am, From thence I observe, whenever pride 

 is most predominant, there of necessity a nur- 

 sery of war is planted, that in time will murder 

 the blessings of peace. We have learn'd by ex- 

 perience, that fulness of bread (without a bless- 

 ing) perverts into wantonness, so into a curse, 

 that by degrees grows up into such a vice, that 

 murders all it meets with, and kills without 

 care ; it's a vertue therefore to shun its acquaint- 

 ance. 



Theoph. Come, Arnoldus, let us enter this so- 

 litary grove ; here we may dwell among rocks, 



