48 NORTHERN MEMOIRS. 



Agrip. You have them both, and the National 

 Diary to boot, where you may read the various 

 products of men, frequent tumults in every cor- 

 ner, general discontents in families ; heatings, 

 but no healings, in their grand consults. 



Theoph. What do they vary for ? 



Agrip. Something superlative ; but the gene- 

 rality cry, tempora mutantur. 



Theoph. By this I perceive some dig deep to 

 hide their counsels. 



Am. Deep or shallow, it's a tiffany plot ; any 

 man with half an eye may easily see through it : 

 who is it cries up peace, only those men whom 

 the times court, and the Constitution flatters ? 

 such men as these may cry up for peace, while 

 others sollicit an every day's novel : No,Theophi- 

 lus, there's nothing pleasant, every thing seems 

 in a hurly burly ; and France and Spain at 

 sword's point. 



Theoph. O, but then what becomes of our force 

 in Flanders? and what prospect have we of the 

 Sweeds expedition ? 



Am. The Sweed you may read looks asquint 

 on the Dane, the Portugal in trouble, the Ve- 

 netian unsafe, and the Turk infested with in- 

 testine war. Poor Europe, who can but pity 

 thee! more especially our native country Al- 

 bion, where every politician expects to be made 



