33 2 AN OLYMPIC DIALOGUE. 



Jupiter ! or to what purpofe have we any thing to do 

 with the world ? 



Jupiter.] Wei — Now there indeed, my jewel, 

 thou art in the right. Only that the rational part of 

 the human race fee the matter in another point of view. 

 We, think they, are at laft the only people, that have 

 fuffered under the government of the world as it has 

 hitherto been managed ; we can help ourfelves ; there- 

 fore we will help ourfelves ! He that lets that be done 

 for him by others which he can do for himfelf, and in 

 \vhich no one is more concerned than he, is like to be 

 always badly ferved. 



Juno. 2 How thou talkeft ! If the race below did 

 but hear thee fpeak in this manner ? — 



Jupiter.] We are fpeaking between ourfelves, my 

 charmer ! — ■ If we mould not fee clear ! — However, I 

 fhould have no objection, if all men knew, that I, for 

 « my part, always fide with them that do their duty. I 

 might well endure that people mould be more difcreet. 

 There was a time when they did me the unmerited ho- 

 nour of placing to my account all the misfortunes that 

 befell them by lightning ; and the whole heaven knows 

 what nonfenfe I have been obliged to hear when it 

 darted againft. my own temple, or paffed by a crew of 

 rafcals, to knock down fome poor harmlefs being. 

 Now, lince honest. Franklin has found out, and lince 

 they know, that metals, high trees, lofty fpires, and 

 the like, are natural conductors to the lightning, my 

 bolts are lefs and lefs dreaded, without my taking a fit 

 of jealoufy about it. 



Juno,'] We are imperceptibly beginning to mo- 

 ralize, dear Jupiter. - — 



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