Reward him for the noble deed, just Heavens!
For this one action, guard him, and distinguish him
With signal mercies, and with great deliverance,
Save him from wrong, adversity, and shame,
Let never-fading honours flourish round him;
And consecrate his name; ev'n to time's end.
Let him know nothing else, but good on earth
And everlasting blessedness hereafter.

COMMANDING.

Silence, ye winds!
That make outrageous war upon the ocean:
And then, old ocean? lull thy boist'rous waves.
Ye warring elements! be hush'd as death,
While I impose my dread commands on hell.
And thou, profoundest hell! whose dreary sway,
Is given to me by fate and demogorgon--
Hear, hear my powerful voice, through all thy regions
And from thy gloomy caverns thunder the reply.

COURAGE.

A generous few, the vet'ran hardy gleanings
Of many a hapless fight, with a, fierce
Heroic fire, inspirited each other:
Resolv'd on death, disdaining to survive
Their dearest country. "If we fall," I cry'd,
"Let us not tamely fall, like passive cowards!
No--let us live, or let us die--like men!
Come on, my friends. To Alfred we will cut
Our glorious way: or as we nobly perish,
Will offer to the genius of our country--
Whole hecatombs of Danes." As if one soul
Have mov'd them all, around their heads they flash'd
Their flaming falchions--"lead us to those Danes!
Our Country!--Vengeance!" was the general cry.

BOASTING.

I will tell you, Sir, by the way of private, and under seal. I am a
gentleman; and live here, obscure, and to myself; but, were I known
to his Majesty, and the Lords, observe me, I would undertake, upon
this poor head and life, for the public benefit or the state, not
only to spare the entire lives of his subjects in general, but to
save the one half, nay three parts of his yearly charge, in holding
war, and against what enemy soever. And how would I do it, think
you? Why thus, Sir. I would select nineteen more to myself,
throughout the land; gentlemen they should be; of good spirit,
strong and able constitution. I would chuse them by an instinct that
I have. And I would teach these nineteen, the special rules; as your
Punto, your Reverso, your Stoccaio, your Imbroccato, your Passada,
your Montonto; till they could all play very near, or altogeth