Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.

No shoots, says Friday, no yet, me shoot now, me no kill; me stay, give you one more laugh.

Not the man in the moon, not the groaning-board, not the speaking of friar Bacon's brazen- head, not the inspiration of mother Shipton, or the miracles of Dr. Faustus, things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all its hardships and misfortunes ; and this part also I cannot but recommend to the reflection of those who are apt, in their misery, to say, Is any affliction like mine? Let them consider how much worse the cases of some people are, and their case might have been, if Providence had thought fit.

And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.