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Res dura, et regni novitas, me talia cogunt 
Moliri. . 
Hard fortune, and the newness of-my reign, 
compel me to such measures. 
The beauty of this quotation ‘restored 
good humour to the whole assembly, and 
the levee broke up, some highly extol- 
ling the magnanunity of Swift, and all 
admiring the ingenuity of the lord-leu- 
tenant’s auswer. 
| DRYDEN AND TONSON. 
_ When Dryden had finished his trans- 
lation of Virgil, after some deliberation 
with himself, he sent the M.S. to Jacob 
Tonson,requiring forita certain sum,which 
he mentioned in a note. Tonson was de- 
sirous of possessing the work, but mean- 
Jy. wished to avail himself of Dryden’s. 
necessities, which, at that time, were 
particularly urgent. He, therefore, in- 
formed Dryden, that he could not af- 
ford to give so much for it as he demand- 
ed. . In answer to this, Dryden sent 
the three foliowing lines to Tonson, whom 
they were meant to describe: | 
With leering look, bull-fac’d, and freckled 
fair, 
With two left legs, with Judas’-colour’d hair, 
Aad frowzy* pores that taint the ambient 
alr. ‘ 
When they were delivered to Tonson, 
he asked if Mr. Dryden had said any 
thing-more. Yes, sir, answered the 
bearer, he said, “ Tell the dog, that he 
who wrote these lines will write more 
like them.” 'Tonson immediately paid the 
money which Dryden had at firstdemand- | 
ed for’his Virgil. 
THE PRETENDER AND A POOR GEN- 
. TLEMAN. 
A poor gentleman, who had taken no 
part in the rebellion, but whose humani- 
ty had led him to relievethe necessities of 
Charles, being apprehended before a 
court of justice, was asked how he dared 
to assist the king’s greatest enemy, and 
why, Having always appeared to be a 
loyal subject, he did not deliverup the 
pretender, and claim the reward of thir- 
ty-thousand pounds offered by govern- 
“ment for his person? “J onivgave him”, 
replied the prisoner, “ what nature 
seemed to require—a night's lodging, and 
‘a humble repast. And who among my 
judges, ‘though pooras Lam, would have 
sought to acquire riches, by violating the 
rights of hospitality, in order to earn the 
price of blood?” The court was tiled 
with confusion and amazement at the 
* Query.—What is the meaning of the 
werd frowzy, or where is it to be found. 
Extracts from the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. [July 1, 
simple eloquence of this untutored ora~ 
tor:, the suit was dismissed, and the pri- 
soner set free. So much stronger an im- 
pression does. fellow-feeling and a sense 
of natural equity make on the human 
breast, than the dictates of political law, 
though enforced by the greatest rewards, 
or the severest punishments. 
. , DR. EDWARD YOUNG. 
Dr. Young was, remarkable for his 
intimate. acquaintance with the Greek 
authors, and had as great a veneration, 
for Aischylus, as parson Adams in Jo- 
seph Andrews. Indeed,!it is said, that 
he was the gentleman from whom Field« 
ing derived the idea of parson Adams, 
and whose character he so well deline- 
ates. Dr. Young was chaplain toa regi- 
ment which served in the war in Flan- 
ders. One fine summer’s evening, he 
indulged himself in his love of a solitary 
walk. Whatever was the object of the 
doctor's meditations, whetherthe beauties 
of the hemisphere and the surrounding 
landscape engaged his attention, or some 
passage in his favourite Aéschylus occurred 
to his memory, certain it is, that he was 
go absorbed in thought that he proceed- 
ed in his walk till he unconsciously ar- 
rived in the enemy’s cainp., The repeti- 
tion of gui va la from, the soldiers with 
difficulty brought him to a recollection of 
himself. The officer who commanded, 
finding that the doctor had strayed thi- 
ther in the undesigning simplicity of his 
heart, and perceiving in his prisoner an, 
innate goodness which commanded his 
respect, very politely aliowed him to 
depart, and to pursue his contemplations: 
back again. | | 
SIR RICHARD STEELE . 
“ The Crisis,” which was published by 
Sir Richard Steele, January 19, 1714, 
was voted by the House of Commons a 
scandalous and seditious libel, and Steele 
expelled the house. In his defence, in 
the House of Commons, Steele confessed 
himself the author of the Crisis, and 
read the paragraphs complained of by 
the house with the same Chea week and 
satisfaction with which he abjured the 
pretender. However, three days after, 
he took ample revenge on the Harleys 
and Foleys, who were his principal op- 
ponents, and whom he lashed under the 
name of the crabtrees and brickdusts, 
in the eleventh number of “ the Lover.” 
Itis said that Mr, Minshull, Mr. Moore, 
Mr. Lechmere, Bishop Hoadley, and 
Mr. Addison, were all concerned ‘with 
Stecle in the composition, revisal, and 
correction of the Crisis. 4 
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