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the purpose of subsisting my army; so 
that T could not prevent Villars from 
retaking Douay, Quesnoi, and Bouchain. 
- Toften examine myself with the utmost 
‘possible strictness, It appears to me, 
that if I had placed twenty battalions 
more in the lines, which would bave been - 
necessary to defend them, Villars, who 
was’ stronger than I, would then have 
beaten me. Out of the lines, posted as 
I was, I provided for every contingency. 
Could [ expect that an hour at the 
utmost, more or less, would be decisive 
of my glory, of the war, and of the sal- 
vation of France? The artillery of the 
ines, which were thickly planted with 
it, ought alone to have given me time to 
come up. > Instead of being well served, 
# was abandoned in as cowardly a man- 
ner as the entrenchments. The two 
faults which I committed were, not dis- 
Scarce Tracts, Ke. 
| [Oct. t, 
regarding the remonstrances of the depu- 
ties respecting Marchiennes, and conft- 
ding a post of such importance to their 
troops, the flower of which had perished 
at Malplaquet. 
It may easily be supposed, that Iwas 
the subject of criticism at Vienna, Lon- 
don, and the -Hague, and of songs at 
Paris. Here is one which I thought 
pretty, because it gives my history im 
very few words: . 
Eugene, op’ning the campaigny 
Swore with air most furious, eta 
He’d march straightway to Champagne 
To swig our wines so curious. 
The Dutchman for this journey gay ~~ 
His cheese to Marchienne sent away; 
But Villars, fir’d with glory, cried : 
‘‘Paith, where you are you'd better bide; 
Scheldt’s muddy water is, I think, | 
Quite good enough for ydu to drink.” 
SCARCE TRACTS, WITH EXTRACTS AND ANALYSES OF 
SCARCE BOOKS. 
\ 
‘It is proposed in future to devote a few Pages of the Monthly Maguzine to the _ 
Insertion of such Scarce Tracts as ure of un interesting Nature, with the Use 
ef which we may be favoured by our Correspondents; and under the same Head to 
introduce also the Analyses of Scarce and Curious Books. 
ee 
“Sir Thomas Overbury his Wife; with 
Additions of New Characters, and many 
other. Witty Conceits, never. before 
printed.” The sixteenth Dmpresszon. 
Lenden, 1638, 1Gine.: 
F this work the characters form the 
principal portion. - The following 
are arcong the best and most interesung 
, «6 4 COURTIER, 
“ To all mens thinking, is a man, and 
to most men the finest: ail things else are 
defined by the understanding, but this 
by the seuses; but his surest mark is, 
that he is to be found only about princes, 
He.smels, and putteth away much of his 
judgement about the situation of his 
clothes. He-knows no man that is not 
generally known. His wit, like the ma- 
rigold, openeth with the sun, and there- 
fore he riseth not-before ten of the clock. 
He puts more confidence. in his words 
_ than meaning, and more in bis pronun- 
ciation than bis words. Occasion is his 
_Cupid, and he hath but one receit of ma- 
king love. Ee followes nothing but ine 
coustancie, admires nothing but beauty, 
honors nothing but fortune: Loves no- 
thing. The sustenance of his discourse 
is newes, and his censure, like a shot, de- 
yends upon the charging. He is not, if 
\ 
he be out of court; but, fish-like, breaths 
destruction, 1f out of his element. Nei- 
ther his motion or aspect, are regular, but 
he moves by the upper spheares, and is 
the reflection of higher substances. 
“Tf you find him not here, you shalt in 
Paul's, with a picke-tooth in his hat, a 
cape-cloak, and a long stocking.” 
2 ‘¢ A PEDANT. . 
“Yee treades in a rule; and one hand 
scannes verses, and the ether: holds hs 
scepter. Hee dares not thinke a thought, 
that the nominative case governs not the 
verb; and he never had meaning in his 
life, for he travelled only for words. His 
ambition is criticisine, and -his example 
Tully. - Hee values phrases, and elects 
them by the sound, and the eight parts. 
of speech are his. servants. To bee 
briefe, he is a heteroclite, for he wants 
the plural number, having onely the sine 
gle quality of words.” - es 
a 
“a PURITANE 2 
_“ Ts a diseased piece of apoerypha s 
bind him to the bible, and he corrupts. 
the whole text / ignorance and fat -feed 
are his founders: his nurse, 
his f railing, 
rabbies, and round breeches; 
his life is 
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