Part ii

. Canto iii. Line 459._

BEILBY PORTEUS. 1731-1808.

In sober state, Through the sequestered vale of rural life, The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.[425-1]

_Death. Line 108._

One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.[425-2]

_Death. Line 154._

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

_Death. Line 178._

Teach him how to live, And, oh still harder lesson! how to die.[425-3]

_Death. Line 316._

FOOTNOTES:

[425-1] See Gray, page 385.

[425-2] See Young, page 311.

[425-3] See Tickell, page 313.

GEORGE WASHINGTON. 1732-1799.

Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire,--conscience.

_Rule from the Copy-book of Washington when a schoolboy._

To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.[425-4]

_Speech to both Houses of Congress, Jan. 8, 1790._

'T is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

_His Farewell Address._

FOOTNOTES:

[425-4] Qui desiderat pacem præparet bellum (Who would desire peace should be prepared for war).--VEGETIUS: _Rei Militari 3, Prolog._

In pace, ut sapiens, aptarit idonea bello (In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war).--HORACE: _Book ii. satire ii._

LORD THURLOW. 1732-1806.

The accident of an accident.

_Speech in Reply to the Duke of Grafton. Butler's Reminiscences, vol. i. p. 142._

When I forget my sovereign, may my God forget me.[426-1]

_27 Parliamentary History, 680; Annual Register, 1789._

FOOTNOTES:

[426-1] Whereupon Wilkes is reported to have said, somewhat coarsely, but not unhappily it must be allowed, "Forget you! He'll see you d----d first." Burke also exclaimed, "The best thing that could happen to you!"--BROUGHAM: _Statesman of the Time of George III._ (_Thurlow._)

JOHN DICKINSON. 1732-1808.

Then join in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

_The Liberty Song_ (1768).

Our cause is just, our union is perfect.

_Declaration on taking up Arms in 1775._[426-2]

FOOTNOTES:

[426-2] From the original manuscript draft in Dickinson's handwriting, which has given rise to the belief that he, not Jefferson (as formerly claimed), is the real author of this sentence.

W. J. MICKLE. 1734-1788.

The dews of summer nights did fall, The moon, sweet regent of the sky,[426-3] Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall And many an oak that grew thereby.

_Cumnor Hall._

For there 's nae luck about the house, There 's nae luck at a'; There 's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman 's awa'.

_The Mariner's Wife._[427-1]

His very foot has music in 't As he comes up the stairs.

_The Mariner's Wife._

FOOTNOTES:

[426-3] Jove, thou regent of the skies.--POPE: _The Odyssey, book ii . line 42._

Now Cynthia, named fair regent of the night.--GAY: _Trivia, book iii ._

And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.--DARWIN: _The Botanic Garden,