o a bit of base metal; but Gold and Silver will pass all
the world over without any other recommendation than their own weight.

The same good-will that made me think of offering up half an hour's
amusement to Mr.... when out of place--operates more forcibly at
present, as half an hour's amusement will be more serviceable and
refreshing after labour and sorrow, than after a philosophical repast.

Nothing is so perfectly amusement as a total change of ideas; no ideas
are so totally different as those of Ministers, and innocent Lovers:
for which reason, when I come to talk of Statesmen and Patriots, and set
such marks upon them as will prevent confusion and mistakes concerning
them for the future--I propose to dedicate that Volume to some gentle
Shepherd,

Whose thoughts proud Science never taught to stray,
Far as the Statesman's walk or Patriot-way;
Yet simple Nature to his hopes had given
Out of a cloud-capp'd head a humbler heaven;
Some untam'd World in depths of wood embraced--
Some happier Island in the wat'ry-waste--
And where admitted to that equal sky,
His faithful Dogs should bear him company.

In a word, by thus introducing an entire new set of objects to his
Imagination, I shall unavoidably give a Diversion to his passionate and
love-sick Contemplations. In the mean time,

I am

The Author.

Chapter 4.I.

Now I hate to hear a person, especially if he be a traveller, complain
that we do not get on so fast in France as we do in England; whereas we
get on much faster, consideratis considerandis; thereby always meaning,
that if you weigh their vehicles with the mountains of baggage which
you lay both before and behind upon them--and then consider their puny
horses, with the very little they give them--'tis a wonder they get on
at all: their suffering is most unchristian, and 'tis evident thereupon
to me, that a French post-horse would not know what in the world to do,
was it not for the two words...... and...... in which there is as much
sustenance, as if you give him a peck of corn: now as these words cost
nothing, I long from my soul to tell the reader what they are; but
here is the question--they must be told him plainly, and with the most
distinct articulation, or it will answer no end--and yet to do it
in that plain way--though their reverences may laugh at it in the
bed-chamber--full well I wot, they will abuse it in the parlour: for
which cause, I have