one: on the other side, I found that I myself
had no great reason to triumph, for as I went to touch my forehead, I
missed the place, and clapped my finger upon my upper lip.

22. Besides, as my nose was exceedingly prominent, I gave it two or
three unlucky knocks as I was playing my hand about my face, and aiming
at some other part of it. I saw two other gentlemen by me, who were in
the same ridiculous circumstances: these had made a foolish swap between
a couple of thick bandy legs, and two long trap-sticks that had no calfs
to them.

23. One of these looked like a man walking upon stilts, and was so
lifted up in the air above his ordinary height, that his head turned
round with It, while the other made such awkward circles, as he
attempted to walk, that he scarce knew how to move forward upon his new
supporters: observing him to be a pleasant kind of fellow, I stuck my
cane in the ground, and I told him I would lay him a bottle of wine,
that he did not march up to it on the line that I drew for him, in a
quarter of an hour.

24. The heap was at last distributed among the two sexes, who made a
most piteous sight, as they wandered up and down under the pressure of
their several burthens. The whole plain was filled with murmurs and
complaints, groans and lamentations. _Jupiter_, at length, taking
compassion on the poor mortals, ordered them a second time to lay down
their loads, with a design to give every one his own again.

25. They discharged themselves with a great deal of pleasure, alter
which the phantom, who had led them into such gross delusions, was
commanded to disappear. There was sent in her stead a goddess of a quite
different figure; her motions were steady and composed, and her aspect
serious, but cheerful. She every now and then cast her eyes towards
heaven, and fixed them upon _Jupiter_.

25. Her name was _Patience_. She had no sooner placed herself by the
mount of sorrow, but, what I thought very remarkable, the whole heap
sunk to such a degree, that it did not appear a third part so big as it
was before. She afterwards returned every man his own proper calamity,
and teaching him how to bear it in the most commodious manner, he
marched off with it contentedly, being very well pleased that he had not
been left to his own choice as to the kind of evils which fell to his
lot.

27. Besides the several pieces of morality to be drawn out of this
vision, I learned from it, never to repine at my own mis