What havoc now shall thin our race, To prove his taste, and seem polite, Will feed on Geese both noon and night!"1 (1) The observation of Lear admirably portrays the sycophancy of satellites to men in power: "Lear. Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? Glo. Ay, Sir. Lear. And the creature run from the cur? There thou mightst behold the great image of authority: a dog's obeyed in office!" The real moral, however, is, that those praise the thief who share in the spoil, and that in flattering the vices of a Tiberius, a Sejanus ensures the gratification of his own. Thus it was with Empson and Dudley, the ministers to Henry the Seventh's cupidity. WHAT whispers must the Beauty bear! But who can drive the num'rous breed?- Who knows a fool, must know his brother; And with this plague she's rightly curst, As Doris, at her toilette's duty, As thus in indolence she lies, Perch'd on her lip, and sipt the dew. She frowns, she frets. "Good gods!" she cries, "Protect me from these teazing flies: Of all the plagues that heaven hath sent, A Wasp is most impertinent." The hovering insect thus complain'd,— "Strike him not, Jenny!" Doris cries, (1) Flattery, like strife, is as when one letteth out water; the first drop soon becomes the stealthy stream, which undermines the judgment, and prostrates the reputation! (1) For though he's free, (to do him right,) In ecstasies, away he posts; "For women, born to be controll'c, The gay, the frolick and the loud."-HUDIBRAS. (2) What begins in falsehood and treachery, must end in shame and discontent. "There are two sorts of persons," says Charron, "who lie open to flattery, and as they never want fawning people who are always ready to offer them this trash, so they, for the most part, as greedily swallow it; these are princes, and women." But as the old Latin adage has it, "Meliora vulnera diligentis quam oscula blandientis ;" and Solomon warns us that "a flattering mouth worketh ruin." Prov. xxvi. 28. SEEK THE BULL AND THE MASTIFF. you to train your favourite boy? As on a time, in peaceful reign, He foam'd, he raged with thirst of blood, -Spurning the ground, the monarch stood, |