3^3 AN OLYMPIC DIALOGUE. 



Jupiter.'] To that it will not fo eafily come, my 

 deareft ! 



Juno.] To that it is in part already come ; and to 

 that it will at laft come altogether, if we remain idle, 

 fpedtators much longer. 



Jupiter.'] Out of a card-king we lhall not indeed 

 make a man, fuch as Henry the fourth of France or 

 Frederic of Pruffia ; and he that makes a card-king of 

 himfelf, deferves to be nothing better. 



Juno.] That is a mere evalion, my lord and fpoufe. 

 Thou knoweft well, that fuch kings as thou haft 

 named, are exceedingly rare productions of nature 

 and circumftances, and it is fo much the better that 

 they are. Kings are in fadt only our vicegerents, and 

 to that end they are always good enough, if we do not 

 let them fall. 



Jupiter. The compliment thou there intendefi: me, 

 is, I own, not very flattering. But, bafta ! we will not 

 dwell upon it. 4 I mall not let my vicegerents, as thou 

 termeft them, fall, fo long as they can but Hand on 

 their own legs. My office is to fuffer no one to be op-? 

 preffed — when I can prevent it. But, my dear lady, 

 let us never forget the grand truth : that kings are for 

 the people, and not the people for kings. 



Juno.] That, with thy permiffion, my, lord, is an 

 old canting phrafe ; which, like moft wife fpeeches of 

 the fame kind, feems to fay a great deal, and in reality 

 fays but little. Kings are, that they may govern the 

 people, and the people ought to let themfelves be go- 

 verned by them ! — This is the true flate of the cafe, 

 and fo old Homer underftood it when he makes the 

 wife UlyfTes fay to the ignorant rabble cf the grecian 

 army : 



