o64 Evxiracts from i 
lest change ! frem wounding human nodcles, 
‘Eos rest among an artist’s modéls. 
Was ever sword so great a martyr, 
Doon:’d.to hang, and draw, and quarter. 
My hilt is bright, 
When drawn ia oil, 
Well-drawn to take thy country’s part, 
Well-drawn to grace thy country’s art. 
my kee: ping good, 
er drawn in blood. 
Painted af worn, ’tis still thy fate . 
Fodeck the brave and gird the great. 
In fight, in canvas, or in wit, 
Your fate’s to hit, or to be hit. 
Epigrams on the last cwcek’s epigrams. 
How ill do those rhimes with the subject 
accord f 
They want its essential, the peiat of the 
sword. 
Brave Berry's sword by Opie drawn, 
Its. wanted prowess still raisins 
And though blood-letting it might scorn, 
Te makessad haveck. with the brains, 
Enstead of venturing mere "mid human strife, 
And cutting short the thread of mortal life, 
Fhy sword, Sir Edward, has revers’d its 
crime, 
By giving birth to many a wretched rhime. 
They find you rusting peaceful in the hall, 
They make ink of you—but forget the gall. 
From Vulean’s cleaver wisdom rose, 
So fyom your gashes Dulness grows. 
You once sent Ficnchmen to the devil, 
And now the poetasters 5 
_ "Fo perish by your point is still 
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Fhesurest of disasters. 
Gf all the rhimes about you made, 
May none-be etch’d upon your bladz. 
Vou once cut laurels, that endure, your own, 
You now cut lsurels—fer your poets——down. 
Your point—Sir Edward chose to show it: 
Not so the painter ; nor the poet. 
ABSTBACT OF THE MAHOMETAN CREED 
AND PRECEPTS. 
4. There is only one God. 
2. Mahomet is the Prophet and Mis- 
sionary of God. 
3. The Old and New Testaments were 
reve sr by God, but have been cor- 
rupted by the a and Christians. 
4. To these two codes is subsiitated 
the Koran revealed by Ged. 
5. To the Koran is due the same obe- 
dience as to the word of Ged. 
6. There are Prophets. Jesus Christ 
is a Prophet, bat not the Son of God. 
~  %. Our Souls form part of the Divine 
Essence. 
- Jesus Christ did not die on the 
Cross; another was substituted for niin. 
9. Universal Judgment, 
40. An eternal Paradi se, and a te m- 
porary Ilell.- 
the Port-fokio of a Me 
an of Let tcrs. | Oct. 
41. After the Judgment, all Mussee 
ens damned shall be received. inte 
? aradise. — e 
42. In) this. celestial habitation they 
shall enjoy beautiful women, and: eee . 
sea of eating and drinking. 
- Mabomet has. been predicted by 
the Sen ptures. 
14. [tis not enue to dispute in 
public resp cting thc Mahomeian reli-= 
g1ob. 4 
15. It is forbidden to worship images 
and statues, which can only be objects 
of idolatry. 
16. Circumcision is recommended, 
but not strictly obligatory. 
17. Prohibition of games of chance, 
of wine and fermented) liquors, en 
blood, and animals strangled. 
16. Polygamy and slavery are per 
mitted.. 
49. The fast of Ramazan. 
a Pilgrimage to. Mecca. 
1. Ablutions. 
99. The Resurrection. 
23. Payment of tythes. 
64, Prohibition of uSUry. 
25. Not to take the name of God im 
vain. 
ft To suffer for God. 
27. To be patient, and do good to 
friends and neighbours. 
28. To cursc no creature. 
€HARACTER OF 
TIME OF ELIZABETH. 
The English are serious like the Ger- 
mans; lovers of shew, liking to be followed 
wherever they go by w hole troops of their 
servants, who wear their master’s arms 
in silver, fastened to their left arms; 
a ridicule they deservedly he under, 
bey excel in dancing and music, for they 
are active and lively, though of thicker 
aoe than the French: they eut. their 
hair close on the middle of the head, let- 
ting it grow on either side; they are good 
sallars, and better pirates: cunning, 
treacherous, and thievish ; 
hundred are said to be hanged annually 
in London; beheading with, them is less 
infamous than hanging; they give the’ 
wall as the place of houour; ; “hawking i Is 
the general sport of the gentry, They 
are inore polite in cating than the French, 
devouring less bread, but more meat, 
which they roast In perfection ; they put 
a great deal Of sugar in their drinks their 
beds are covered* with tapestry, even 
those of farmers; they are often molested 
THE ENGLISH, IM. ie - | 
‘above three ~- 
with the scurvy, said to have first crept 
into England with the Norman Conquest. - 
Their houses are commonly of two stories, — 
except in London, where they are of 
three 
