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word! So give me your promise by a nod, and I'll tell you what, Jack,-I mean you dog,-if you don't by―

Capt. A. What, sir, promise to link myself to some mass of ugliness; to

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Sir A. Zounds! sirrah! the lady shall be as ugly as I choose she shall have a hump on each shoulder; she shall be as crooked as the crescent; her one eye shall roll like the bull's in Cox's museum; she shall have a skin like a mummy, and the beard of a Jew. She shall be all 10 this, sirrah! Yes, I'll make you ogle her all day, and sit up all night to write sonnets on her beauty.

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Capt. A. This is reason and moderation, indeed!

Sir A. None of your sneering, puppy! no grinning, jackanapes!

Capt. A. Indeed, sir, I never was in a worse humor for mirth in my life.

Sir A. 'Tis false, sir; I know you are laughing in your sleeve; I know you'll grin when I am gone, sirrah!

Capt. A. Sir, I hope I know my duty better.

Sir A. None of your passion, sir! none of your violence, if you please; it won't do with me, I promise you.

Capt. A. Indeed, sir, I was never cooler in my life. Sir A. 'Tis a confounded lie! I know you are in a passion in your heart; I know you are a hypocritical young dog; but it wont do.

Capt. A. Nay, sir, upon my word,

Sir A. So you will fly out! Can't you be cool, like 30 me? What good can passion do? Passion is of no service, you impudent, insolent, overbearing reprobate! There, you sneer again! Don't provoke me! But you rely upon the mildness of my temper, you do, you dog! You play upon the meekness of my disposition! Yet take care; 35 the patience of a saint may be overcome at last! But mark! I give you six hours and a half to consider of this; if you then agree, without any condition, to do every thing on earth that I choose, why, confound you! I may in time forgive you. If not, don't enter the same 40 hemisphere with me! don't dare to breathe the same air, or use the same light with me; but get an atmosphere and a sun of your own: I'll strip you of your commission I'll lodge a five-and-three-pence in the hands of trustees, and you shall live on the interest. I'll disown

you; I'll disinherit you; and hang me, if ever I call you Jack again!

[Exit.

Capt. A. Mild, gentle, considerate father, I kiss your hands.

LESSON CCIV.-ANTONY'S ADDRESS TO THE ROMAN POPU-
LACE.-Shakspeare.

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears:
I come to bury Cæsar, not to praise him.
The evil, that men do, lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones :
5 So let it be with Cæsar! The noble Brutus
Hath told you, Cæsar was ambitious.

If it were so, it was a grievous fault :-
And grievously hath Cæsar answered it.
Here, under leave of Brutus, and the rest,
10 (For Brutus is an honorable man,
So are they all, all honorable men ;)
Come I to speak in Cæsar's funeral.-

He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says, he was ambitious;

15 And Brutus is an honorable man.

He hath brought many captives home to Rome,
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this, in Cæsar, seem ambitious?

When that the poor hath cried, Cæsar hath wept: 20 Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Yet Brutus says, he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honorable man.

You all did see, that, on the Lupercal,
I thrice presented him a kingly crown;

25 Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says, he was ambitious;

And sure he is an honorable man.

I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke;
But here I am to speak what I do know.

30 You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then to mourn for him?
O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.-Bear with me:
My heart is in the coffin there with Cæsar;
35 And I must pause till it come back to me.
But yesterday, the word of Cæsar might

Have stood against the world: now lies he there,

And none so poor to do him reverence.
O Masters! If I were disposed to stir
Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage,
I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong.
5 Who, you all know, are honorable men.

I will not do them wrong, I rather choose
To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you,
Than I will wrong such honorable men.

But here's a parchment, with the seal of Cæsar; 10 I found it in his closet: 't is his will.

Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read,) And they would go and kiss dead Cæsar's wounds And dip their napkins in his sacred blood,15 Yea, beg a hair of him for memory. And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it as a rich legacy,

Unto their issue.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
20 You all do know this mantle: I remember
The first time ever Cæsar put it on;

'T was on a summer's evening in his tent:
That day he overcame the Nervii :—

Look! In this place, ran Cassius' dagger through :-
25 See, what a rent the envious Casca made,—
Through this, the well-beloved Brutus stabbed;
And, as he plucked his cursed steel away,
Mark how the blood of Cæsar followed it!-
This was the most unkindest* cut of all!
30 For, when the noble Cæsar saw him stab,

Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms,
Quite vanquished him! Then burst his mighty heart.
And, in his mantle, muffling up his face,
Even at the base of Pompey's statua,t

35 Which all the while ran blood, great Cæsar fell.
Oh, what a fall was there, my countrymen !
Then I and you, and all of us, fell down;
Whilst bloody treason flourished over us.
Oh, now you weep; and I perceive you feel

*This double superlative, like "the most straitest sect of our reli gion," (Acts xxvi. 5,) was tolerated by the best English writers, two or three centuries ago.

† Statua, for statue,

common among the old writers.

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The dint of pity:-these are gracious drops.

Kind souls! What! weep you when you but behold
Our Cæsar's vesture wounded? Look ye here!-
Here is himself,-marred, as you see, by traitors.

Good friends! sweet friends! Let me not stir you up
To such a sudden flood of mutiny!

They that have done this deed are honorable!
What private griefs they have, alas, I know not,
That made them do it! They are wise and honorable,

10 And will, no doubt, with reason answer you.

I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts!
I am no orator, as Brutus is;

But, as you know me all, a plain, blunt man,
That love my friend,—and that they know full well,
15 That gave me public leave to speak of him!
For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth,
Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech,
To stir men's blood:-I only speak right on:
I tell you that which you yourselves do know,- -
20 Show you sweet Cæsar's wounds, poor, poor dumb mouths,
And bid them speak for me. But, were I Brutus,
And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony
Would ruffle up your spirits, and put a tongue
In every wound of Cæsar, that should move
25 The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.

LESSON CCV.-THE VICTOR ANGELS.

-Milton.

Now when fair morn orient in Heaven appeared,

Up rose the victor Angels, and to arms

The matin trumpet sung: in arms they stood

Of golden panoply, refulgent host,

5 Soon banded; others from the dawning hills

Looked round, and scouts each coast light armed scour
Each quarter, to descry the distant foe,

Where lodged, or whither fled, or if for fight,
In motion or in halt: him soon they met
10 Under spread ensigns moving nigh, in slow
But firm battalion; back with speediest sail
Zophiel, of Cherubim the swiftest wing,

Came flying, and in mid air aloud thus cried;
'ARM, Warriors, arm for fight,—the foe at hand,
15 Whom fled we thought, will save us long pursuit
This day; fear not his flight: so thick a cloud

He comes; and settled in his face I see
Sad resolution and secure: let each

His adamantine coat gird well,—and each

Fit well his helm,-gripe fast his orbed shield,
5 Borne even or high; for this day will pour down,
If I conjecture aught, no drizzling shower,
But rattling storm of arrows barbed with fire."

So warned he them, aware themselves, and soon
In order, quit of all impediment;

10 Instant, without disturb, they took alarm,
And onward move, embattled when behold!
Not distant far, with heavy pace the foe,
Approaching, gross and huge, in hollow cube,
Training his devilish enginery, impaled
15 On every side with shadowing squadrons deep,
To hide the fraud. At interview both stood
Awhile; but suddenly at head appeared
Satan, and thus was heard commanding loud;
"VANGUARD, to right and left the front unfold;
20 That all may see who hate us, how we seek
Peace and composure, and with open breast
Stand ready to receive them, if they like
Our overture, and turn not back perverse."

LESSON CCVI.-IMPRESSMENT OF AMERICAN SEAMEN.-
HENRY CLAY.

Who is prepared to say, that American seamen shall be surrendered, as victims, to the British principle of impressment? And, sir, what is this principle? She contends, that she has a right to the services of her own subjects; 5 and that, in the exercise of this right, she may lawfully impress them, even although she finds them in American vessels, upon the high seas, without her jurisdiction. Now I deny that she has any right, beyond her jurisdiction, to come on board our vessels, upon the high seas, for any 10 other purpose, than in the pursuit of enemies, or their goods, or goods contraband of war.

But she further contends, that her subjects cannot renounce their allegiance to her, and contract a new obligation to other sovereigns. I do not mean to go into the 15 general question of the right of expatriation. If, as is contended, all nations deny it, all nations, at the same time, admit and practice the right of naturalization. Great