In falling out with that or this,
And finding somewhat still amiss;
More peevish, cross, and splenetic,

Than dog distract, or monkey sick.
25 That with more care keep holy-day

The wrong, than others the right way;
Compound for sins they are inclined to,
By damning those they have no mind to:
Still so perverse and opposite,

30 As if they worshipped God for spite.
The self-same thing they will abhor
One way, and long another for.
Free-will they one way disavow,
Another, nothing else allow.
35 All piety consists therein

In them, in other men all sin.

But when he went to dine or sup,
More bravely ate his captives up,
And left all war, by his example,
Reduced to vict'ling of a camp well.

THE OPPOSITION IN THE LONG PARLIAMENT.

Are these the fruits o' th' protestation,
The prototype of reformation,

Which all the saints, and some, since martyrs,
Wore in their hats like wedding garters,
5 When 'twas resolved by their house
Six members' quarrel to espouse?

Did they for this draw down the rabble,
With zeal, and noises formidable:

And make all cries about the town

10 Join throats to cry the bishops down?
Who having round begirt the palace,
(As once a month they do the gallows,)
As members gave the sign about,

Set up their throats with hideous shout.
15 When tinkers bawled aloud, to settle

Church discipline, for patching kettle :
The oyster women locked their fish up,
And trudged away to cry No Bishop;
The mousetrap-men laid save-alls by,
20 And 'gainst ev'l counsellors did cry;

Botchers left old clothes in the lurch,
And fell to turn and patch the church;
Some cried the covenant, instead

Of pudding-pies, and gingerbread;
25 And some for brooms, old boots, and shoes,
Bawled out to purge the common's-house:

4. Garters: Mr. Garnett refers garter to Celtic gar tas, shank tie. We get it, however, from Fr. jarretière.

21. Botchers, those who botched, or rudely mended old clothes.

Left...... in the lurch: a metaphor from the gaming table, where the phrase means to gain every point before your opponent makes one; fr. Fr. lourche, Ger. lurz (Wedgwood).

Instead of kitchen-stuff, some cry

A gospel-preaching ministry;

And some for old suits, coats, or cloak,

30 No surplices nor service-book.

A strange harmonious inclination

Of all degrees to reformation.

30. Surplices: Fr. surplis (or surpelis), th. fr. Lat. superpelliceus, It. pellicia, from which pellisse also is taken.

John Dryden. 1631-1700. (History, p. 125.)

109. From the 'ANNUS MIRABILIS.'

LONDON AFTER THE FIRE.

Methinks already from this chymic flame,
I see a city of more precious mould:
Rich as the town which gives the Indies name,
With silver pav'd, and all divine with gold.

5 Already labouring with a mighty fate,

10

She shakes the rubbish from her mounting brow,
And seems to have renew'd her charter's date,
Which heaven will to the death of Time allow.

More great than human now, and more august,
Now deified she from her fires does rise:
Her widening streets on new foundations trust,
And opening into larger parts she flies.

Before, she like some shepherdess did show,
Who sat to bathe her by a river's side;
15 Not answering to her fame, but rude and low,
Nor taught the beauteous arts of modern pride.

1. Chymic: this spelling of chemic is due to a supposed derivation from Gk. Xvμós, sap, which is still maintained to

be the correct one. Diez gives Arabic al-kîmîa; others, Xnuía, one of the ancient names of Egypt.

20

Now like a maiden queen she will behold,

From her high turrets, hourly suitors come;
The East with incense, and the West with gold,
Will stand like suppliants to receive her doom.
The silver Thames, her own domestic flood,
Shall bear her vessels like a sweeping train;
And often wind, as of his mistress proud,
With longing eyes to meet her face again.

17. Queen: Cuen in O. E. meant wife, lady; and comparative philology decisively pronounces it to have originally meant mother, Sk. gani, Gk. yvvý, Goth. quino; just as, according to the same authority, king, O. G. chuning, O. E. cyning signified father, Sk. ganaka, from gan, to beget; the same root, common

to both words, being found in Lat. gigno, genitor, &c. King is ordinarily taken to be a formation made up of the patronymic termination -ing and cyn-race, nation. It would thus mean "son of the race." 20. Doom, judgment. See note 12, p. 20.

110. From the 'ODE TO THE MEMORY OF MRS. ANN KILLEGREW.'

O gracious God! how far have we
Profaned thy heavenly gift of poesy?
Made prostitute and profligate the Muse,
Debased to each obscene and impious use,
5 Whose harmony was first ordain'd above
For tongues of angels, and for hymns of love?
O wretched we! why were we hurried down
This lubrique and adulterate age,

10

(Nay, added fat pollutions of our own,)

T' increase the steaming ordures of the stage?
What can we say t' excuse our second fall?
Let this thy vestal, Heaven, atone for all;
Her Arethusian stream remains unsoil'd,
Unmix'd with foreign filth, and undefiled;

15 Her wit was more than man; her innocence a child.

8. Lubrique, uncertain, unsteady, fr. Lat. lubricus, slippery.

10. Ordures: It. ordo, O. Fr. ord, ugly-from which comes It. orduratake their origin from Lat. horridus.

12. Atone, meant originally to make at

one, to reconcile, and sometimes to be at one, to harmonize; as in As You Like It, v. 4,

"Then is there mirth in heaven, When earthly things made even Atone together."

20

When in mid-air the golden trump shall sound,
To raise the nations under ground;
When in the valley of Jehoshaphat,

The judging God shall close the book of fate;
And there the last assizes keep

For those who wake, and those who sleep;
The sacred poets first shall hear the sound,

And foremost from the tomb shall bound,
For they are cover'd with the lightest ground;
25 And straight, with inborn vigour, on the wing,
Like mountain larks, to the new morning sing.
There thou, sweet saint, before the quire shalt go,
As harbinger of heaven, the way to show,
The way which thou so well hast learnt below.

20. Assizes: something definitely fixed or appointed is the radical meaning of this word; fr. assise part. of assire, to place (and that from Lat. assidere). Thus the word, in either singular or plural, means a court held upon a day fixed beforehand, a tax, a decree (as in the "Assize of Clarendon "); and even the

university sizer got his name from the sizes, or fixed allowances of necessaries, he once received. "To scant my sizes" is a phrase used by King Lear, ii. 4.

28. Harbinger, originally one who goes before and prepares harbourage or lodg-. ing for another, now one who simply announces another's coming.

111. ON MILTON.

Three poets, in three distant ages born,
Greece, Italy, and England did adorn.
The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd;
The next in majesty; in both the last.
The force of nature could no further go;
To make a third, she join'd the other two.

112. From ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL.'

CHARACTER OF SHAFTESBURY (ACHITOPHEL).

Of these the false Achitophel was first;
A name to all succeeding ages curst: