appear to ftudy the practice of them in their own perfons: while 'tis agreed that without thofe very qualifications no man muft hope to see his Saviour, who was the only true model of them all. For that they are not strictly fynonymous, may, I think, be proved by bringing them all close together, without împutation of tautology, in a tranflation of Defmarets' pretty epigram upon the Violet: when the French wits joined to make a garland for Mademoiselle de Rambouillet, choofing each a flower, and making verses upon it.-The collection of poems, when finished, was known by the name of Guirlande de Julie, and fome lines upon the Crown Imperial won the prize;-which was however well difputed by this neatly turned and elegant quatrain: Modefte en ma couleur, modefte en mon fejour, `Franche de l'ambition, je me couche fous l'herbe ; Mais fi fur votre front je peux briller en jour, La plus humble des fleurs fera la plus fuperbe. Which might be rendered as follows, with little other deviation from the original than that which naturally follows inferiority of genius: Though MODEST my colours, and LowLY my lot, Defmarets' was an eafy, elegant writer, though fomewhat flighty: be made up a little book, fuch as we had once too few of--and we have now now too many-a fort of Recueil; and he called it Delices de l'Esprit. Some wag, Menage I believe, put among the errata-Au lieu de Delices lifez Delires. LOYALTY, FIDELITY, FIRM ADHERENCE TO ONE'S PRINCE. QUALITIES fo lovely, fo attractive, that 'tis they perhaps which are most prized even among angelic virtues; and to this opinion Milton, though fo violent on earth in the caufe of democracy, bears witnefs when he defcribes inhabitants of heaven, while 'mid the numberlefs paffages of the Paradise Loft, configned and justly to perpetual admiration, I know none oftener quoted, none more truly delightful, than those which give us the character of faithful Abdiel, and tell us how Amongt innumerable falfe, unmov'd, His LOYALTY he kept; his love, his zeal. These fynonymes are going out of fashion in days when the popular prate teaches to difmifs, or, in the new phrafe, to cafhier kings as foon as their virtues begin to reproach, or their power to affright us. Let it be observed however, that as with their louis d'ors the French drove out their motto, Chriftus regnat, vincit, imperata legend once revered-fo it appears too, that upon upon LOYALTY many excellencies feem to have depended-for with that virtue vanished all the reft. Who would have dreamed indeed fome fifteen years ago, that the dwellers in Gaul, whofe great diftinction from other Europeans was a fidelity bordering on fondness for their prince, could have looked tamely on, and feen the blameless grandfon of their Louis le Bienaimé dragged like a lamb to flaughter, without one pious hand held up to fave his life, of whose trifling predeceffor's health they had fuch care, that when the meffenger arrived at Paris from Versailles to tell of his recovery from a dangerous illness, the citizens and populace flocked round about him, kiffing the horse which brought fuch joyful news; while one of their sweetest poets breaks out into a fort of filial rapture, fo charming in a fubject, Cher Prince! aimable Roi! car mon cœur en ce jour And now! no ADHERENCE to the family, no respect for the fole remaining feyon of a stock fo cherished; no warm ATTACHMENT left-no LOYALTY! Oh judgment! thou art fled to brutish beafts, The first of these words was formerly used to exprefs conftancy in love, FIDELITY to a man's miftrefs; but that fenfe is fure enough grown obfolete in our country, where ladies no longer require R require painful fervices from their admirerslovers I will not call them-and where if a man does profess to love a woman, which he fcarcely ventures to do-he thinks of nothing lefs than ferving her, I believe, and FIDELITY implies fervice. Of love them and of LOYALTY speak we no more; they are out-of-fashion terms in England, and from its neighbour France they are completely banished. We will however venture to add, that formerly a wife's attachment to her husband, her FIDELITY to the marital engagements, and fubmiffion to his authority, with fteady ADHERENCE to his finking fortunes (if fuch was their lot in life), and diligent endeavours to repair that fortune by dutiful attention to his intereft, were dignified by the name of LOYALTY; and fo the foreigners will find it in our beft authors, when fpeaking even the colloquial language of the times; while married women failing in thefe points are commonly, and conftantly called DISLOYAL, and to be called fo was confidered as the most bitter of all reproaches. The fair dames of the prefent day show their difapprobation of this term in many fenfes, and with the word may perchance lofe fight of the qualities implied by it: although we must confefs that LOYALTY is as the band which ties the fheaf together, and when that's cut-away the charities! the tender ligatures that twisting without perplexity form the foft bands of focial life-away all filial piety! piety! all conjugal affection, all idea of the man Who, whether his hoary fire he spies, Ten thousand raptures move; His heart now leaps, now melts, now burns, With reverence, hope, and love. POPE. Inftead of these verses now read the following, fcarce a caricature of French conduct newly arranged fo upon principle-while They fay man and wife fhall no longer be one ; If LOZENGE, PARALLELOGRAM. AND these words would have had no place here, but that although both of them are alike in their proper fituations terms of art, beft appropriated to heraldry or to geometry, the first has by mere accident got into the commoneft ufe by a fancy fome apothecary took at first of making up little ineffectual preparations for a cough in that particular form, with two acute angles and two obtufe ones; fo that now when a lady opens her box of bon-bons-all the leaft pleafing R 2 |