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CHAPTER XXXVI. P. I.—p. 85.
REMARKS ON AN OPINION OF MR. CRABBE'S. TOPO-
GRAPHICAL POETRY. DRAYTON.
Do, pious marble, let thy readers know
What they and what their children owe
To Drayton's name, whose sacred dust
We recommend unto thy trust.
Protect his memory, and preserve his story;
Remain a lasting monument of his glory;
And when thy ruins shall disclaim
To be the treasurer of his name,
His name that cannot fade shall be
An everlasting monument to thee.
EPITAPH IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
CHAPTER XXXVII. P. I. p. 87.
ANECDOTES OF PETER HEYLYN AND LIGHTFOOT,
EXEMPLIFYING THAT GREAT KNOWLEDGE IS
NOT ALWAYS APPLICABLE TO LITTLE THINGS;
AND THAT AS CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME, SO IT
MAY WITH EQUAL TRUTH SOMETIMES BE SAID
THAT KNOWLEDGE ENDS THERE.
A scholar in his study knows the stars,
Their motion and their influence, which are fix'd,
And which are wandering; can decypher seas,
And give each several land his proper bounds:
But set him to the compass he's to seek,
Where a plain pilot can direct his course
From hence unto both the Indies.
HEYWOOD.
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If they which employ their labour and travail about the
public administration of justice, follow it only as a trade,
with unquenchable and unconscionable thirst of gain,
being not in heart persuaded that justice is God's own
work, and themselves his agents in this business,
sentence, of right, God's own verdict, and themselves his
priests to deliver it; formalities of justice do but serve to
smother right; and that which was necessarily ordained
for the common good, is through shameful abuse made
the cause of common misery.
HOOKER.
CHAPTER XLI. P. I. p. 97.
REVENUE OF THE CORPORATION OF DONCASTER
WELL APPLIED. DONCASTER RACES.
Play not for gain but sport: who plays for more
Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart;
Perhaps his wife's too, and whom she hath bore.
HERBERT.
INTERCHAPTER V.-p. 98.
WHEREIN THE AUTHOR MAKES KNOWN HIS GOOD
INTENTIONS TO ALL READERS, AND OFFERS
GOOD ADVICE TO SOME OF THEM.
I can write, and talk too, as soft as other men, with
submission to better judgements, — and I leave it to you
Gentlemen. I am but one, and I always distrust myself.
I only hint my thoughts: You'll please to consider whether
you will not think that it may seem to deserve your con-
sideration. This is a taking way of speaking. But much
good may do them that use it!
ASGILL.
CHAPTER XLVII. P. I.-p. 111.
DONCASTRIANA. GUY'S DEATH. SEARCH FOR HIS
TOMBSTONE IN INGLETON CHURCHYARD.
Go to the dull churchyard and see
Those hillocks of mortality,
Where proudest man is only found
By a small hillock on the ground. TIXALL POETRY.
CHAPTER XLVIII. P. 1.-p. 112.
A FATHER'S MISGIVINGS CONCERNING HIS SON'S
DESTINATION. PETER HOPKINS'S GENEROSITY.
DANIEL IS SENT ABROAD TO GRADUATE IN
MEDICINE.
Heaven is the magazine wherein He puts
Both good and evil; Prayer's the key that shuts
And opens this great treasure: 'tis a key
Whose wards are Faith and Hope and Charity.
Wouldst thou prevent a judgement due to sin?
Turn but the key and thou mayst lock it in.
Or wouldst thou have a blessing fall upon thee?
Open the door, and it will shower on thee !
VOYAGE TO ROTTERDAM AND LEYDEN. THE
AUTHOR CANNOT TARRY TO DESCRIBE THAT
CITY. WHAT HAPPENED THERE TO DANIEL
DOVE.
He took great content, exceeding delight in that his
voyage. As who doth not that shall attempt the like? —
For peregrination charms our senses with such unspeak-
able and sweet variety, that some count him unhappy
that never travelled, a kind of prisoner, and pity his case
that from his cradle to his old age he beholds the same
still; still, still, the same, the same!
BURTON.
CHAPTER LI. P. I. p. 117.
THE PULPIT.