ing a cable to one of the ftaples, ordered them to tow my cheft (as they called it) towards the fhip. When it was there, he gave directions to faften another cable to the ring fixed in the cover, and to raife up my cheit with pullies, which all the failors were not able to do above two or three feet. He faid, they faw my ftick and handkerchief thrust out of the hole, and concluded that fome unhappy man must be fhut up in the cavity. I asked, whether he or the crew had feen any prodigious birds in the air about the time he firft difcovered me? to which he answered, that, difcourfing this matter with the failors while I was afleep, one of them faid, he had obferved three eagles flying towards the north, but remarked nothing of their being larger than the ufual fize, which I fuppofe muft be imputed to the great height they were at; and he could not guefs the reafon of my question. I then asked the captain, how far he reckoned we might be from land? he faid, by the beit computation he could make, we were at least an hundred leagues. I affured him that he must be mistaken by almost half, for I had not left the country from whence I came above two hours before I dropt into the fea. Whereupon he began again to think that my brain was disturbed, of which he gave me a hint, and advised me to go to bed in a cabin he had provided. I affured him I was well refrethed with his good entertainment and company, and as much in my fenfes as ever I was in my life. He then grew serious, and defired to ask me freely, whether I were not troubled in mind by the confcioufnefs of fome enormous crime, for which I was punished at the command of fome prince by expofing me in that cheft, as great criminals in other countries have been forced to fea in a leaky veffel without provifions: for although he should be forry to have taken fo ill a man into his fhip, yet he would engage his word to fet me fafe a-fhore in the firft port where we arrived. He added, that his fufpicions were much increased by fome very abfurd fpeeches I had delivered at firft to the failors, and afterwards to himself, in relation to my closet or cheft, as well as by my odd looks and behaviour while I was at fupper.

I begged his patience to hear me tell my ftory, which I faithfully did from the laft time I left England to the moment he first discovered me. And as truth always forceth its way into rational minds, fo this

honeft worthy gentleman, who had fome tincture of learning, and very good fenfe, was immediately convinced of my candour and veracity. But, farther to confirm all I had faid, I intreated him to give order that my cabinet thould be brought, of which I had the key in my pocket, (for he had already informed me how the feamen ciipofed of my clofet.) I opened it in his own prefence, and fhewed him the fmall collection of rarities I made in the country from whence I had been so strangely delivered. There was the comb I had contrived out of the ftumps of the king's beard, and another of the fame materials, bat fixed into a paring of her majesty's thumbnail, which ferved for the back. There was a collection of needles and pins from a foot to half a yard long; four wafpftings, like joiners tacks; fome combings of the queen's hair; a gold ring which one day the made me a prefent of in a met obliging manner, taking it from her little finger, and throwing it over my head like a collar. I defired the captain would pleate to accept this ring in return of his civilities; which he abfolutely refufed. I thewed him a corn that I had cut off with my own hand from a maid of honour's toe; it was about the bignefs of a Kentish pippin, and grown fo hard, that, when I returned to England, I got it hollowed into a cup, and fet in filver. Laftly, I defired him to fee the breeches I had then on, which were made of a moufe's skin.

I could force nothing on him but a footman's tooth, which I obferved him to examine with great curiofity, and found he had a fancy for it. He received it with abundance of thanks, more than such a trifie could deferve. It was drawn by an unfkilful furgeon in a mistake from one of Glumdalclitch's men, who was afflicted with the tooth-ach, but it was as found as any in his head. I got it cleaned, and put it into my cabinet. It was about a foot long, and four inches in diameter.

The captain was very well fatisfied with this plain relation I had given him, and faid, he hoped, when we returned to England, I would oblige the world by putting it on paper, and making it public. My a fwer was, that I thought we were already overflocked with books of travels: that nothing could now pafs which was not extraordinary; wherein I doubted fome authors lefs confulted truth, than their own vanity, or intereft, or the diverfion of ignorant readers: that my ftory could contain little

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befides common events, without those ornamental defcriptions of ftrange plants, trees, birds, and other animals; or of the barbarous customs and idolatry of favage people, with which moft writers abound. However, I thanked him for his good opinion, and promised to take the matter into my thoughts.

He faid, he wondered at one thing very much, which was, to hear me fpeak fo loud, afking me whether the king or queen of that country were thick of hearing. I told him, it was what I had been used to for above two years paft; and that I admired as much at the voices of him and his men, who feemed to me only to whisper, and yet I could hear them well enough. But, when I poke in that country, it was like a man taiking in the ftreet to another looking out from the top of a fteeple, unlefs when I was placed on a table, or held in any perfon's hand. I told him, I had likewife obferved another thing, that when I first got into the thip, and the failors ftood all about me, I thought they were the most little contemptible creatures I had ever beheld. For indeed, while I was in that prince's country, I could never endure to look in a glafs, after mine eyes had been accustomed to fuch prodigious objects, becaufe the comparifon gave me fo defpicable a conceit of myfelf. The captain faid, that while we were at fupper he obferved me to look at every thing with a sort of wonder, and that I often feemed hardly able to contain my laughter, which he knew not well how to take, but imputed it to fome diforder in my brain. I answered it was very true; and I wondered how I could forbear, when I faw his dithes of the fize of a filver three-pence, a leg of pork hardly a mouthful, a cup not fo big as a nut-fhell; and fo I went on, defcribing the reit of his houfhold-fluff and provifions after the fame manner. For although the queen had ordered a little equipage of all things neceflary for me, while I was in her fervice, yet my ideas were wholly taken up with what I faw on every fide of me, and I winked at my own littlenets, as people do at their own faults. The captain underfood my raillery very well, and merrily replied with the old English proverb, that he doubted my eyes were bigger than my belly, for he did not obferve my flomach fo good, although I had fasted all day; and, continuing in his mirth, protested he would have gladly given an hundred pounds to have feen my closet in the eagle's bill, and

afterwards in its fall from fo great a height into the fea; which would certainly have been a moft aftonishing object, worthy to have the defcription of it tranfmitted to future ages: and the comparison of Phaeton was fo obvious, that he could not forbear applying it, although I did not much admire the conceit.

The captain, having been at Tonquin, was in his return to England driven northeastward to the latitude of 44 degrees, and of longitude 143. But meeting a tradewind two days after I came on board him, we failed fouthward a long time, and, coasting New-Holland, kept our courfe weltfouth-weft, and then fouth-fouth-west, till we doubled the Cape of Good-Hope. Our voyage was very profperous, but I fhall not trouble the reader with a journal of it. The captain called in at one or two ports, and fent in his long-boat for provisions and fresh water, but I never went out of the ship till we came into the Downs, which was on the third day of June, 17c6, about nine months after my efcape. I offered to leave my goods in fecurity for payment of my freight; but the captain protefted he would not receive one farthing. We took a kind leave of each other, and I made him promife he would come to fee me at my houfe in Rotherhithe. I hired a horfe and guide for five fhillings, which I borrowed of the captain.

As I was on the road, obferving the littlenefs of the houses, the trees, the cattle, and the people, I began to think myself in Lilliput. I was afraid of trampling on every traveller I met, and often called aloud to have them ftand out of the way, fo that I had like to have gotten one or two broken heads for my impertinence.

When I came to my own house, for which I was forced to enquire, one of the fervants opening the door, I bent down to go in (like a goofe under a gate) for fear of ftriking my head. My wife ran out to embrace me, but I ftooped lower than her knees, thinking fhe could otherwife never be able to reach my mouth. My daughter kneeled to ask my bleffing, but I could not fee her till the arofe, having been fo long ufed to ftand with my head and eyes erect to above fixty feet; and then I went to take her up with one hand by the waist. I looked down upon the fervants, and one or two friends who were in the house, as if they had been pigmies, and I a giant. I told my wife fhe had been too thrifty, for I found the had starved herself and her

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daughter to nothing. In fhort, I behaved myfelf fo unaccountably, that they were all of the captain's opinion when he firft faw me, and concluded I had loft my wits. This I mention as an inftance of the great power of habit and prejudice.

In a little time, I and my family and friends came to a right understanding: but my wife protested I should never go to fea any more; although my evil deftiny fo ordered, that she had not power to hinder me, as the reader may know hereafter. In the mean time, I here conclude the fecond part of my unfortunate voyages

Swift.

It is wifer to prevent a quarrel beforehand, than to revenge it afterwards.

It is much better to reprove, than to be angry fecretly.

No revenge is more heroic, than that which torments envy by doing good.

The difcretion of a man deferreth his anger, and it is his glory to pass over a tranfgreffion.

Money, like manure, does no good till it is fpread. There is no real use of riches, except in the diftribution; the rest is all conceit.

A wife man will defire no more than what he may get justly, use foberly, distribute cheerfully, and live upon contentedly.

From the whole of thefe two voyages to Lilliput and Brobdingnag arifes one general remark, which, however obvious, has been overlooked

by those who confider them as little more than the sport of a wanton imagination. When human actions are afcribed to pigmies and giants, there are few that do not excite either contempt, difguft, or horror; to afcribe them therefore to fuch

beings was perhaps the most probable method of

engaging the mind to examine them with attention, and judge of them with impartiality, by fufpending the fafcination of habit, and exhibiting familiar objects in a new light. The ufe of the fable then is not lefs apparent than important and extenfive; and that this ufe was intended by the author, can be doubted only by those who are dif pofed to affirm, that order and regularity are the

effects of chance.

A contented mind, and a good con fcience, will make a man happy in all conditions. He knows not how to fear, who dares to die.

There is but one way of fortifying the foul against all gloomy prefages and terrors of mind; and that is, by fecuring to ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being, who difpofes of events, and governs futurity.

Philofophy is then only valuable, when it ferves for the law of life, and not for the oftentation of fcience.

Without a friend, the world is but a wil derness.

A man may have a thousand intimate acquaintances, and not a friend among them all. If you have one friend, think your felf happy.

When once you profefs yourself a friend, endeavour to be always fuch. He can never have any true friends, that will be often changing them.

Profperity gains friends, and adverfty tries them.

Nothing more engages the affections of men, than a handfome address, and graceful converfation.

Complaisance renders a fuperior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

Excefs of ceremony fhews want of breeding. That civility is beft, which excludes all fuperfluous formality.

Ingratitude is a crime fo fhameful, that the man was never yet found, who would acknowledge himself guilty of it.

Truth is born with us; and we mut do violence to nature, to shake off our veracity.

There cannot be a greater treachery, than first to raife a confidence, and then deceive it.

By others faults wife men correct their

own.

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No man was ever caft down with the injuries of fortune, unless he had before fuffered himself to be deceived by her fa

vours.

Anger may glance into the breaft of a wife man, but reits only in the bofom of fools.

None more impatiently fuffer injuries, than thofe that are most forward in doing them.

By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in pafling it over he is fuperior.

To err is human; to forgive, divine. A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man, than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness fhould begin on ours.

The prodigal robs his heir, the mifer robs himself.

We should take a prudent care for the future, but fo as to enjoy the prefent. It is no part of wifdom, to be miferable today, because we may happen to be fo

to-morrow.

To mourn without meafure, is folly; not to mourn at all, infenfibility.

Some would be thought to do great things, who are but tools and inftruments; like the fool who fancied he played upon the organ, when he only blew the bellows.

Though a man may become learned by another's learning, he can never be wife but by his own wifdom.

He who wants good fenfe is unhappy in having learning; for he has thereby more ways of expofing himself.

It is ungenerous to give a man occafion to blush at his own ignorance in one thing, who perhaps may excel us in many.

No object is more pleafing to the eye, than the fight of a man whom you have obliged; nor any mufic fo agreeable to the ear, as the voice of one that owns you for his benefactor.

The coin that is most current among mankind is flattery; the only benefit of which is, that by hearing what we are not, we may be inftructed what we ought to be.

The character of the perfon who commends you, is to be confidered before you fet a value on his efteem. The wife man applauds him whom he thinks moft virtuous; the rest of the world, him who is most wealthy.

The temperate man's pleasures are durable, because they are regular; and all his

life is calm and ferene, because it is innocent.

A good man will love himself too well to lofe, and all his neighbours too well to win, an eftate by gaming. The love of gaming will corrupt the best principles in the world.

An angry man who fuppreffes his paffions, thinks worse than he speaks; and an angry man that will chide, fpeaks worfe than he thinks.

A good word is an eafy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our filence, which costs us nothing.

It is to affectation the world owes its whole race of coxcombs. Nature in her whole drama never drew fuch a part; fhe has fometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of his own making.

It is the infirmity of little minds, to be taken with every appearance, and dazzled with every thing that fparkles; but great minds have but little admiration, because few things appear new to them.

It happens to men of learning, as to ears of corn: they fhoot up, and raise their heads high, while they are empty: but when full and fwelled with grain, they begin to flag and droop.

He that is truly polite, knows how to contradict with refpect, and to please without adulation; and is equally remote from an infipid complaifance, and a low familiarity.

The failings of good men are commonly more published in the world than their good deeds; and one fault of a deferving man fhall meet with more reproaches, than all his virtues praife: fuch is the force of illwill and ill-nature.

It is harder to avoid cenfure, than to gain applaufe; for this may be done by one great or wife action in an age; but to efcape cenfure, a man muft pafs his whole life without faying or doing one ill or foolish thing.

When Darius offered Alexander ten thousand talents to divide Afia equally with him, he answered, The earth cannot bear two funs, nor Afia two kings.-Parmenio, a friend of Alexander's, hearing the great offers Darius had made, faid, Were I Alexander I would accept them. So would I, replied Alexander, were I Parmenio.

Nobility is to be confidered only as an imaginary diftinction, unless accompanied with the practice of thofe generous virtues by which it ought to be obtained. Titles

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of honour conferred upon fuch as have no perfonal merit, are at beft but the royal ftamp fet upon bafe metal.

Though an honourable title may be conveyed to pofterity, yet the ennobling qualities which are the foul of greatness are a fort of incommunicable perfections, and cannot be transferred. If a man could bequeath his virtues by will, and fettle his fenfe and learning upon his heirs, as certainly as he can his lands, a noble defcent would then indeed be a valuable privilege.

Truth is always confiftent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and fits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware: whereas a lye is troublefome, and fets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

The pleafure which affects the human mind with the most lively and tranfporting touches, is the fenfe that we act in the eye of infinite wisdom, power, and goodnefs, that will crown our virtuous endeavours here with a happiness hereafter, large as our defires, and lafting as our immortal fouls: without this the highest fate of life is infipid, and with it the lowest is a para

dife.

Honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time, nor that is measured by number of years; but wifdom is the grey hair unto man, and unfpotted life is old age.

Wickedness, condemned by her own witnefs, is very timorous, and being preffed with confcience, always forecaileth evil things; for fear is nothing elfe but a betraying of the fuccours which reafon of fereth.

A wife man will fear in every thing. He that contemneth small things, fhall fall by little and little.

A rich man beginning to fall, is held up of his friends; but a poor man being down, is thrust away by his friends: when a rich man is fallen, he hath many helpers; he fpeaketh things not to be fpoken, and yet men justify him: the poor man flipt, and they rebuked him; he spoke wifely, and could have no place. When a rich man fpeaketh, every man holdeth his tongue, and, look, what he faith they extol it to the clouds; but if a poor man fpeaks, they say, What fellow is this?

Many have fallen by the edge of the fword, but not fo many as have fallen by the tongue. Well is he that is defended

from it, and hath not paffed through the venom thereof; who hath not drawn the yoke thereof, nor been bound in her bonds; for the yoke thereof is a yoke of iron, and the bands thereof are bands of braís; the

death thereof is an evil death.

My fon, blemish not thy good deeds, neither ufe uncomfortable words, when thou giveft any thing. Shall not the dew affuage the heat? fo is a word better than a gift. Lo, is not a word better than a gift? but both are with a gracious man.

Blame not, before thou haft examined the truth; understand first, and then rebuke.

If thou wouldest get a friend, prove him firft, and be not haity to credit him; for fome men are friends for their own occafions, and will not abide in the day of thy trouble.

Forfake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

A friend cannot be known in profperity; and an enemy cannot be hidden in adverfity.

Admonish thy friend; it may be he han not done it; and if he have, that he do it no more. Admonith thy friend; it may be he hath not faid it; or if he have, that he fpeak it not again. Admonish a friend; for many times it is a flander; and believe not every tale. There is one that flippeth in his fpeech, but not from his heart; and who is he that hath not offended with his tongue?

Whofo discovereth fecrets lofeth his credit, and fhall never find a friend to his mind,

Honour thy father with thy whole heart, and forget not the forrows of thy mother; how canft thou recompenfe them the things that they have done for thee?

There is nothing fo much worth as a mind well instructed.

The lips of talkers will be telling fuch things as pertain not unto them; but the words of fuch as have understanding are weighed in the balance. The heart of fools is in their mouth, but the tongue of

the wife is in their heart.

To labour, and to be content with that a man hath, is a sweet life.

Be at peace with many; nevertheless, have but one counsellor of a thousand. Be not confident in a plain way. Let reafon go before every enterprize, and counsel before every action,

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