ACTUS. V. SCENA. I.

Quid enim dedisset, quæ dedit frustra nihil,
Eternitatis insitam cupidinem

• Natura? quorsum hæc dulcis expectatio;
Vitæque non explenda melioris sitis ?
"Quid vult sibi aliud iste redeundi in nihil
'Horror, sub imis quemque agens præcordiis ?
'Cur territa in se refugit anima, cur tremit
Attonita, quoties, morte ne pereat, timet?
'Particula nempe est cuique nascenti indita
" Divinior ; quæ corpus incolens agit;
Hominique succinit, tua est æternitas.
'Eternitas! O lubricum nimis aspici,

Mixtumque dulci gaudium formidine !

Qua demigrabitur alia hinc in corpora?

• Quæ terra mox incognita? Quis orbis novus,
• Manet incolendus? Quanta erit mutatio ?
Hæc intuenti spatia mihi quaqua patent
'Immensa: sed caliginosa nox premit ;
'Nec luce clara vult videri singula.

Quid dubius hæret animus usque adeo? Brevi
Arma en induor.

• Hic nodum hic omnem exbediet.

ACT V. SCENE I.

CATO alone, &c.

must be so

-Plato, thou reason'st well

e whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,
s longing after immortality?

whence this secret dread, and inward horror,
falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul
ck on herself, and startles at destruction?

is the Divinity that stirs within us;

is heav'n itself that points out an hereafter,

nd intimates eternity to man.

ternity! thou pleasing, dreadful, thought!

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hrough what variety of untry'd being,

'hrough what new scenes and changes must we pass!
The wide, th' unbounded prospect, lies before me;
But shadows; clouds, and darkness rest upon it.
Here will I hold. If there's a power above us,

And that there is all Nature cries aloud

Though all her works) he must delight in virtue ;
And that which he delights in must be happy.

But when Lon where ? This world was made for Cæsar.

• In utramque partem facta; quæque vim inferant, 'Et quæ propulsent! Dextera intentat necem 'Vitam sinistra: vulnus hæc dabit manus ;

* Altera medelam vulneris: hic ad exitum

'Deducet, ictu simplici; hæc vetant mori.

Secura ridet anima mucronis minas,

Ensesque strictos, interire nescia.

Extinguet atas, sidera diuturnior : 'Etate languens ipse sol, obscurius

• Emittet orbi consenescenti jubar;

"Natura et ipsa sentiet quandom vices
'Etatis; annis ipsa deficiet gravis:
'At tibi juventus, at tibi immortalitas,
Tibi parta divum est vita. Periment mutuis
'Elementa sese et interibunt ictibus:

Tu permanebis sola semper integra,
• Tu cuncta rerum quassa, cuncta naufraga,
'Jam portu in ipso tuta, contemplabere.
Compage rupta, corruent in se invicem,
'Orbesque fractis ingerentur orbibus ;
• Illæsa tu sedebis extra fragmina?

us am I doubly arm'd; my death and life, ane and antidote, are both before me. in a moment brings me to an end; his informs me I shall never die. soul, secur'd in her existence, smiles e drawn dagger, and defies its point. stars shall fade away, the sun himself

dim with age, and nature sink in years; hou shalt flourish in immortal youth, rt amidst the war of elements,

wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds."

No. 629. MONDAY, DECEMBER 9,

AUTHOR UNKNOWN.

1714.

-Experiar quid concedatur in illos,

Quorum Flaminia tegitur cinis, atque Latina.

Juv. Sat. 1. v. 170.

-Since none the living dare implead, Arraign them in the persons of the dead.

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DRYDEN.

EXT to the people who want a place, there are none to be pitied more than those who are solicited for one. A plain answer, with a denial in it, is looked upon as pride, and a civil answer as a promise.

Nothing is more ridiculous than the pretensions of people upon these occasions. Every thing a man hath suffered, while his enemies were in play, were certainly brought about by the malice of the opposite party. A bad cause would not have been lost, if such an one had been upon the bench; nor a profligate youth disinherited, if he had not got drunk every night by toasting an outed ministry. I remember a Tory, who having been fined in a court of justice for a prank that deserved the pillory, desired upon the merit of it to be made a justice of peace when his friends came into power; and shall never forget a Whig criminal, who upon being indicted for a rape, told his friend, you see what a man suffers for sticking to his principles.

The truth of it is, the sufferings of a man in a party are of a very doubtful nature. When they are such as have promoted a good cause, and fallen upon a man undeservedly, they have a right to