able Mr. Tempest, my near neighbour,-by sad experience I exhort you, trust not to chance and time; make suit 85 without delay, lose not a moment, but repair forthwith to Mr. Tempest.

Hen. Ah! sir, what hope for me?

Pen. A soldier 86 and despair? For shame! Go, go, announce yourself, and take your chance for a reception. Come, I'll attend you to the door. [Exeunt.

ACT V. SCENE I.

PENRUDDOCK, WEAZEL.

Pen. Thus then it stands.87-This house and all that its owner had amassed within it, we doom to instant sale; some modern Lucullus will be found to purchase it: the mourners 88 in black, and the mountebanks, I mean the laquais,89 in their party-coloured jackets,90 must be paid their wages and dismissed. So far we are agreed 91

Wea. Perfectly, sir; and if any young heir is in haste to be rid of his estate, these are the gentlemen that will soonest help him to the end of it.

Pen. Mrs. Woodville's settlement,92 which, in her husband's desperate necessity, she had desperately resigned to him, is now made over, and secured in trust 93 to her sole use and benefit.

Wea. The deed 94 is now in hand, and a deed it is, permit me to say, that will make your fame resound to all posterity.

Pen. Thank Heaven I shall not hear it! The fame I covet blows no trumpet in my ears; it whispers peace and comfort to my heart. The obligations, bonds,95 and mortgages of whatever description, covering 96 the whole of Woodville's property, are consigned 97 to Henry

his son.

Wea. They are, and give him clear possession of his paternal estate.98

Pen. 'Tis what I mean:99 and also of the house in town.

Wea. They are effectual 100 to both purposes; and, take it how you will, good sir, I must, and will, pronounce it a most noble benefaction.

Pen. In this particular I will not decline your praise: for doing this I have struggled hard against an evil spirit 101 that had seized dominion of my heart, and triumphed over my benevolence,-this conquest I may glory in.

Wea. There yet remains, of solid and original state,102 possessions to a great amount.

Pen. Those I shall husband as untainted stock :103 I do not cut into the heart 104 of the tree, I only lop off the excrescences and funguses, 105 that weakened and disgraced 106 it.

Now, sir, if these points are clearly understood by you, and no difficulty occurs that requires explanation, we will separate, with your leave, to our respective occupations.

Wea. I have nothing more to add, and wish you farewell—[Exit WEAZEL].

Pen. 'Tis done! the last bad passion in my breast is now expelled and it no longer rankles with revenge:107 in the retirement of my cottage I shall have something in store on which my thoughts may feed with pleasing retrospection : 108 courted 109 by affluence, I resort to solitude by choice,110 not fly to it for refuge from misfortune and disgust. Now I can say, when I contemplate nature's bold and frowning face-" Knit not your brows at me;1 111 I have done the world no wrong."

EXTRACT FROM THE SPECTATOR.'

ON CHEERFULNESS.

I have always preferred cheerfulness1 to mirth; the latter 3 I consider as an act, the former as a habit of the mind. Mirth is short and

transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those 4 are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy. On the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depth of sorrow. Mirth is like a fish of lightning that breaks through 7 a gloom of clouds and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

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Men of austere principles look upon mirth as too wanton 8 and dissolute for a state of probation, and as filled with a certain triumph and insolence of heart that is inconsistent with a life which is every moment exposed to the greatest dangers. Writers of this complexion have observed, that the sacred person who was the great pattern of perfection was never seen to laugh 10

Cheerfulness of mind is not liable to any of these exceptions: it is of a serious and composed nature; it does not throw the mind into a condition improper 11 for the present state of humanity, and it is very conspicuous in the characters 12 of those who are looked upon as the greatest philosophers among the heathens, as well as among those who have been deservedly esteemed as saints and holy men among Christians. If we consider cheerfulness in three lights, 13 with regard to ourselves, to those we converse with, and to the great Author of our being, it will not a little recommend itself on each of these accounts. The man who is possessed of this excellent frame of mind,14 is not only easy in his thoughts, but a perfect master 15 of all the powers of his soul: his imagination is always clear, and his judgment undisturbed:16 his temper is even and unruffled,17 whether in action or in solitude. He comes with a relish to 18 all those good things which nature has provided for him, tastes all the pieasures of the creation which are poured upon him, and does not feel the full weight of those accidental evils which may befall him.

If we consider him in relation to the persons whom he converses

with, it 19 naturally produces love 20 and good-will towards him. A cheerful mind is not only disposed to be affable and obliging, but raises the same good-humour in those who come within 21 its influence. A man 22 finds himself pleased, he does not know why, with the cheerfulness of his companion: it is like a sudden sunshine that awakens a sacred delight in the mind without her attending to it. The heart rejoices of its own accord, and naturally flows out into 23 friendship and benevolence towards the person who has so kindly an effect upon it.

When I consider this cheerful state of mind in its third relation,24 I cannot but 25 look upon it as a constant habitual gratitude to the Author of nature. An inward cheerfulness is an implicit 26 praise and thanksgiving to providence under all its dispensations. It is a kind of acquiescence 27 in the state wherein we are placed, and a secret approbation of the Divine will in his conduct towards man.

A man who uses his best endeavours to live according to the dictates of virtue and right reason, has two perpetual sources of cheerfulness in 28 the consideration of his own nature, and of that Being on whom he has a dependence. If he looks into himself, he cannot but rejoice in that existence which is so lately bestowed upon him,29 and which, after millions of ages, will be still new, and still in its beginning. How many self-congratulations naturally rise in the mind, when it reflects on this, its entrance into eternity; when it takes a view 30 of those improvable 31 faculties, which in a few years, and even at its first setting out,32 have made so considerable a progress, and which will be still receiving an increase of perfection, and, consequently, an increase of happiness! The consciousness of 33 such a being spreads a perpetual diffusion of joy through the soul of a virtuous man, and makes him look upon himself every moment as more happy than he knows how to conceive.

19 In this case, as well as in many others, the noun (la gaîté), for the sake of clearness, had better be supplied.

20 When ""love" signifies merely "friendship" it is better expressed by amitié.

21 A portée de, or, susceptible de. 22 Turn: "The cheerfulness of a companion makes us feel, unknown to us, a kind of satisfaction, the effect of which resembles a ray of sun, which spreads in the mind a holy and ineffable joy, for which he cannot account (dont il ne saurait se rendre compte)."

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The second source of cheerfulness to 3 a good mind,35 is its consideration of that Being on whom we have our dependence,36 and in whom, though we behold him as yet 37 but in the first faint discoveries of his perfections, we see everything that we can imagine as great, glorious, or amiable.38 We find ourselves everywhere upheld by his goodness, and surrounded with an immensity of love and mercy. In short, we depend on a Being, whose power qualifies him to make us happy by an infinity of means, whose goodness and truth 39 engage him to make those happy who desire it of him, and whose unchangeableness will secure us in this happiness to all eternity.

Such considerations, which every one should perpetually cherish in his thoughts,40 will banish from us all that secret heaviness of heart 41 which unthinking men are subject to when they lie under no real affliction; all that anguish which we may feel from any evil that actually oppresses us 42 to which I may likewise add those little cracklings 43 of mirth and folly that are apter to betray virtue than support it; and establish in us such an even and cheerful temper, as makes us pleasing to ourselves, to those with whom we converse, and to Him whom we were made to please.

THE ORDER OF JESUS.

TAKEN OUT OF MACAULAY'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

....On the other side was a body of which the weight balanced even the weight of the papacy, the mighty Order of Jesus.

That at this conjuncture these two great spiritual powers, once, as it seemed, inseparably allied, should have been opposed to each other is a most important and remarkable circumstance. During a period of little less than1 a thousand years, the regular orders had been the chief support of the holy see. By that see they had been protected from episcopal interference, and the protection they had received had been amply repaid.2 But for 3 their exertions it is probable that the