Give me a country, how remote foe’er,
Where happiness a moderate rate does bear,
Where poverty itself in plenty flows,

And all the folid ufe of riches knows.

The ground about the house maintains it, there;
The house mantains the ground about it, here:
Here even hunger's dear; and a full board
Devours the vital fubftance of the lord.

The land itfelf does there the feast bestow,
The land itself muft here to market go.

Three or four fuits one winter here does waste,
One fuit does there three or four winters laft.
Here every frugal man must oft be cold,
And little luke-warm fires are to you fold.
There fire 's an element, as cheap and free,
Almoft, as any of the other three.

Stay you then here, and live among the great,
Attend their sports, and at their tables eat.
When all the bounties here of men you fcore,
The place's bounty there fhall give me more.

EPITAPHIUM

EPITAPHIUM VIVI AUCTORIS *.

"Hic, o viator, fub lare parvulo
"Couleius hic eft conditus, hic jacet ;

"Defunctis humani laboris

"Sorte, fupervacuâque vitâ,

"Non indecorâ pauperie nitens,
"Et non inerti nobilis otio,

"Vanóque dilectis popello

"Divitiis animofus hoftis.

Poffis ut illum dicere mortuum ;
“En terra jam nunc quantula fufficit!
"Exempta fit curis, viator,

« Terra fit illa levis, precare.

"Hic fparge flores, fparge breves rofas
"Nam vita gaudet mortua floribus

"Herbifque odoratis corona

"Vatis adhuc cinerem calentem."

* See a translation of this Epitaph among the poems
of Mr. Addison.

THAT

one, two, or (at fartheft) three miles of London; and, if it be poffible to find that convenience, upon the fide of the river, or very near it.

That the revenue of this college amount to four thousand pounds a year.

* Ingenious men delight in dreams of reformation. - In comparing this Propofition of Cowley, with that of Milton, addreffed to Mr.Hartlib, we find that these great poets had amused themfelves with fome exalted, and, in the main, congenial fancies, on the fubject of education: that, of the two plans propofed, this of Mr. Cowley was better digested, and is the less fanciful; if a preference, in this refpect, can be given to either, when both are manifeftly Utopian: and that our universities, in their prefent form, are well enough calculated to anfwer all the reasonable ends of fuch inftitutions; provided we allow for the unavoidable defects of them, when drawn out into practice. H.

1. That

That the company received into it be as follows: 1. Twenty philofophers or profeffors. 2. Sixteen young scholars, fervants to the profeffors. 3. A chaplain. 4. A bailiff for the revenue. 5. A manciple or purveyor for the provifions of the house. 6. Two gardeners. 7. A mafter-cook. 8. An under-cook. 9. A butler. 10. An under-butler. 11. A furgeon. 12. Two lungs, or chemical fervants. 13. A library - keeper, who is likewife to be apothecary, druggift, and keeper of inftruments, engines, &c. 14. An officer to feed and take care of all beafts, fowl, &c. kept by the college. 15. A groom of the table. 16. A messenger, to fend up and down for all ufes of the college. 17. Four old women, to tend the chambers, keep the house clean, and fuch-like fervices.

That the annual allowance for this company be as follows: 1. To every profeffor, and to the chaplain, one hundred and twenty pounds. 2. To the fixteen scholars, twenty pounds apiece; ten pounds for their diet, and ten pounds for their entertainment. 3. To the bailiff, thirty pounds, befides allowance for his journies. 4. To the purveyor, or manciple, thirty pounds. 5. To each of the gardeners, twenty pounds. 6. To the mafter-cook, twenty pounds. 7. To the under-cook, four pounds. 8. To the butler, ten pounds. 9. To the under-butler, four pounds. 10. To the furgeon, thirty pounds. 11. To the librarykeeper, thirty pounds. 12. To each of the lungs, twelve pounds. 13. To the keeper of the beafts, fix pounds.

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pounds. 14. To the groom, five pounds. 15. To the meffenger, twelve pounds. 16. To the four neceffary women, ten pounds. For the manciples' table, at which all the fervants of the house are to eat, except the scholars, one hundred and fixty pounds. For three horses for the fervice of the college, thirty pounds.

All which amounts to three thousand two hundred

eighty-five pounds. So that there remains for keeping of the house and gardens, and operatories, and inftruments, and animals, and experiments of all forts, and all other expences, feven hundred and fifteen pounds.

Which were a very inconsiderable fum for the great ufes to which it is defigned, but that I conceive the induftry of the college will in a fhort time fo enrich itself, as to get a far better ftock for the advance and enlargement of the work when it it once begun : neither is the continuance of particular men's liberality to be despaired of, when it shall be encouraged by the fight of that public benefit which will accrue to all mankind, and chiefly to our nation, by this foundation. Something likewife will arife from leafes and other cafualties; that nothing of which may be diverted to the private gain of the profeffors, or any other ufe befides that of the fearch of nature, and by it the general good of the world; and that care may be taken for the certain performance of all things ordained by the inftitution, as likewife for the protec