Lives of the Most Eminent Literary And Scientific Men of Great ..., volume 1
Lives of the Most Eminent Literary And Scientific Men of Great ..., volume 1
S a Samuel Astley Dunham
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i. s d by Google 258 LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEN.* the King of Wrath is also to he abandoned, he (Man. hood) bursts into a furious passion : — " Fye on the, false flaterynge frere ! Thou shalte rewe the tyme that thou came here. The devyll mote set the on a fyre, That ever I with the mete, For thou counseylest me from all gladnes, And wolde me .set unto all sadnes : But or thou brynge me in this madnes The devyll brake thy necke ! " * In the end, however,— for who can resist so tremendous a pow...er ? he promises to leave the service both of Mirth and of Covetousness ; listens with very laudable pa- tience to an exposition of the Ten Commandments ; and promises that he will in future be the liege-man of Conscience, and the foe of her foe, Folly : but, alas ! for human resolutions when they are against the vices of our nature ! In the midst of them he falls in with that very character, who talks quite as rationally as Con- science has ever done,' and certainly not so dully. When asked what Folly can do, he replies, that he can stop the holes of a sieve, or mend an old pan, and that he is an expert player.
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