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IUDD'S LONDON JOURNAL. 



OUR NOTE-BOOK ; 



ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. 



" A wise man will always note down whatever strikes 

 him as being worthy of observation. It may, at a future 

 time, benefit or amuse others as well as himself." — 

 Fitzosbortie. 



Charles Lamb's Goodness of Heart. — He 

 used to seek out occasions of devoting a part of 

 his surplus to those of his friends whom he be- 

 lieved it would really serve, and almost forced 

 loans, or gifts in the disguise of loans, upon 

 them. If he thought one, in such a position, 

 would be the happier for £50 or £100, he would 

 carefully procure a note for the sum, and perhaps 

 for days before he might meet the object of his 

 friendly purpose, keep the note in his waistcoat 

 pocket, " burning" in it till it could be pro- 

 duced, and, when the occasion arrived — " in the 

 sweet of the night" — he would crumple it into his 

 hand and stammer out his difficulty of disposing 

 of a — a little money. " I don't know what to do 

 with it — pray take it — pray use it — you will do 

 me a kindness if you will" he would say ; and it 

 was hard to disoblige him ! 



[We record this, to the honor of Charles 

 Lamb, Since his death, there have been, we fear, 

 more Wolves than Lambs. Charity is indeed 

 " cold !"] 



Mrs. Howard's Spending Money. — The be- 

 nevolent John Howard, well known for his phi- 

 lanthropy, especially his attention to prisoners, 

 having settled his accounts at the close of a par- 

 ticular year, and found a balance in his favor, 

 proposed to his wife to make use of it in a journey 

 to London, or in any other excursion she chose. 

 " What a pretty cottage for a poor family it would 

 build /" was her answer. This charitable hint met 

 with his cordial approbation, and the money was 

 laid out accordingly. 



Emulation. — Those natural inclinations of the 

 human mind ought to be encouraged to the 

 utmost (under proper regulations) which tend to 

 put it upon action and excelling. Whoever 

 would wish his son to be diligent in his studies, 

 and active in business, can use no better means 

 for that purpose than stirring up in him emula- 

 tion, a desire of praise, and a sense of honor and 

 shame. Curiosity will put a youth upon in- 

 quiring into the nature and reason of things, and 

 endeavoring to acquire universal knowledge. 

 This passion ought, therefore, to be excited to the 

 utmost, and gratified even when it shows itself by 

 his asking the most childish questions, which 

 should always be answered in as rational and satis- 

 fying a manner as possible. 



Superstition gendered by Trifles. — As if 

 the natural calamities of life were not sufficient 

 for it, we turn the most indifferent circumstances 

 into misfortunes, and suffer as much from trifling 

 accidents as from real evils. I have known the 

 shooting of a star spoil a night's rest ; and have 

 seen a man in love, grow pale and lose his appe- 

 tite upon the plucking a merry thought. A screech- 

 owl at midnight has alarmed a family more than 

 a band of robbers ; nay, the voice of a cricket hath 

 struck more terror than the roaring of a lion. 



There is nothing so inconsiderable which may 

 not appear dreadful to an imagination that is 

 filled with omens and prognostics : a rusty nail 

 or crooked pin shoot up into prodigies! — 

 Addison. 



Promisers. — There is a sort of people in the 

 world of whom the young and inexperienced stand 

 much in need to be warned. These are the san- 

 guine promisers. They may be divided into two 

 sorts. The first are those who, from a foolish 

 custom of fawning upon all those they come in 

 company with, have learned a habit of promising 

 to do great kindnesses, which they have no thought 

 of performing. The other are a sort of warm 

 people, who, while they are lavishing away their 

 promises, have really some thought of doing 

 what they engage for; but afterwards, when 

 the time of performance comes, the sanguine ft 

 being gone off, the trouble or expense appears in 

 another light ; the promiser cools, and the expec- 

 tant is bubbled, or perhaps greatly injured by the 

 disappointment. — Burgh. 



A joke never gains over an enemy; but it 

 often loses a friend. 



A BACHELOK'S LAY OF THE OLDEN TIME. 



In the Register of the Stationers' Company, 

 we find the following from a MS. of the time of 

 James I. 



Maides and Widowes. 

 If ever I marry, I'le marry a maide: 

 16 marry a widowe I am sore afrayde: 

 For niaydes they are simple, and never will 



grutch, 

 But widowes full oft, as they saie, know to[o~] 



much. 

 A maide is so sweete and so gentle of kinde, 

 That a maide is the wyfe I will choose to my 



minde : 

 A widowe is froward, and never will yeeld; 

 Or if such there be , you will meet them but 



seeld. 

 A maide nere complaineth, do what so you will ; 

 But what you meane well, a widowe takes ill ; 

 A widowe will make you a drudge and a slave, 

 And cost nere so much, she will ever go brave. 

 A maide is so modest, she seemeth a rose, 

 When it first beginneth the bud to unclose ; 

 But a widowe full blowen full often deceives; 

 And the next winde that bloweth, shakes downe 



all her leaves. 

 That widowes be lovelie, I never gainsaye, 

 But well all their bewtie they know to display ; 

 But a maide hath so great hidden bewty in 



store, 

 She can spare to a widowe, yet never be pore. 

 Then, if I marry, give me a fresh maide, 

 If to marry with aniel need be not afrayde; 

 But to marry with anie it asketh much care, 

 And some bachelors hold they are best as 



THEY ARE ! 



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