came above two hours before I dropt into the fea. Whereupon he began again to think that my brain was dif turbed, of which he gave me a hint, and advifed me to go to bed in a cabin he had provided. I affured him Í was well refreshed with his good entertainment and company, and as much in my fenfes as ever I was in my life. He then grew ferious, and defired to afk me freely, whether I were not troubled in mind by the confcioufnefs of fome enormous crime, for which I was punified at the command of fome prince by expofing me in that cheft, as great criminals in other countries have been forced to fea in a leaky veffel without provifions: for although he fhould be forry to have taken fo ill a man into his fhip, yet he would engage his word to fet me fafe a-fhore in the first port where we arrived. He added, that his fufpicions were much increased by fome very abfurd fpeeches I had delivered at firit to the failors, and afterwards to himself, in relation to my closet or cheft, as well as by my odd looks and behaviour while I was at fupper.

alone, defired I would give him a relation of my travels, and by what accident I came to be fet adrift in that monftrous wooden cheft. He faid, that about twelve o'clock at noon, as he was looking through his glafs, he fpied it at a distance, and thought it was a fail, which he had a mind to make, being not much out of his courfe, in hopes of buying fome bifcuit, his own beginning to fall fhort. That upon coming nearer, and finding his error, he fent out his long-boat to difcover what I was; that his men came back in a fright, fwearing they had feen a fwimming houfe. That he laughed at their folly, and went himself in the boat, ordering his men to take a ftrong cable along with them. That the weather being calm he rowed round me feveral times, obferved my windows, and the wire-lattices that defended them. That he discovered two staples upon one fide, which was all of boards without any paffage for light. He then commanded his men to row up to that fide, and, fastening a cable to one of the ftaples, ordered them to tow my cheft (as they called it) towards the fhip. When it was there, he gave directions to faften another cable to the ring fixed in the cover, and to raise up my cheft with pullies, which all the failors were not able to do above two or three feet. He faid, they faw my ftick and handkerchief thrust out of the hole, and concluded that fome unhappy man must be fhut up in the cavity. I asked, whether he or the crew had feen any prodigious birds in the air about the time he firit difcovered me to which he anfwered, that, difcourfing this matter with the failors while I was afleep, one of them faid, he had obferved three eagles flying towards the north, but remarked nothing of their being larger than the ufual fize, which I fuppofe must be imputed to the great height they were at; and he could not guess the reafon of my question. I then asked the captain, how far he reckoned we might be from land? he faid, by the beft computation he could make, we were at least an hundred leagues. I affured him that he must be mistaken by almost half, for I had not left the country from whence I

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I begged his patience to hear me tell my ftory, which I faithfully did from the last time I left England to the moment he first difcovered me. truth always forceth its way into rational minds, fo this honeft worthy gen tleman, who had fome tincture of learning, and very good fenfe, was immedi ately convinced of my candour and ve. racity. But, farther to confirm all I had faid, I intreated him to give order that my cabinet fhould be brought, of which I had the key in my pocket, (for he had already informed me how the feamen difpofed of my clofet.) I opened it in his own prefence, and fhewed him the mall collection of rarities I made in the country from whence I had been fo ftrangely delivered. There was the comb I had contrived out of the flumps of the king's beard, and another of the fame materials, but fixed into a paring of her majefty's thumb-nail, which ferved for the back. There was a collection of needles and pins from a foot to half a yard long; four wafp-ftings, like joiners tacks; fome combings of the queen's

hair; a gold ring which one day fhe made me a prefent of in a most obliging manner, taking it from her little finger, and throwing it over my head like a collar. I defired the captain would please to accept this ring in return of his civilities; which he abfolutely refufed. I fhewed him a corn that I had cut off with my own hand from a maid of honour's toe; it was about the bignefs of a Kentish pippin, and grown fo hard, that, when I returned to England, I got it hollowed into a cup, and fet in filver. Laftly, I defired him to fee the breeches I had then on, which were made of a moufe's fkin.

I could force nothing on him but a footman's tooth, which I obferved him to examine with great curiofity, and found he had a fancy for it. He received it with abundance of thanks, more than fuch a trifle could deferve. It was drawn by an unfkilful furgeon in a mistake from one of Glumdalclitch's men, who was afflicted with the tooth-ach, but it was as found as any in his head. I got it cleaned, and put it into my cabinet. It was about a foot long, and four inches in diameter.

The captain was very well fatisfied with this plain relation 1 had given him, and faid, he hoped, when we returned to England, I would oblige the world by putting it on paper, and making it public. My answer was, that I thought we were already over ftocked with books of travels: that nothing could now pafs which was not extraordinary; wherein I doubted fome authors lefs confulted truth, than their own vanity, or intereft, or the diverfion of ignorant readers: that my ftory could contain little befides common events, without thofe ornamental defcriptions of ftrange plants, trees, birds, and other animals; or of the barbarous customs and idolatry of favage people, with which moft writers abound. How ever, I thanked him for his good opinion, and promised to take the matter into my thoughts.

He faid, he wondered at one thing very much, which was, to hear me fpeak fo loud, asking me whether the king or queen of that country were

thick of hearing. I told him, it was what I had been used to for above two years paft; and that I admired as much at the voices of him and his men, who feemed to me only to whisper, and yet I could hear them well enough. But, when I fpoke in that country, it was like a man talking in the fireet to ano ther looking out from the top of a fleeple, unlefs when I was placed on a table, or held in any perfon's hand. I told him, I had likewife obferved another thing, that when I first got into the fhip, and the failors ftood all about me, I thought they were the most little contemptible creatures I had ever beheld. For indeed, while I was in that prince's country, I could never endure to look in a glafs, after mine eyes had been accuftomed to fuch prodigious objects, because the comparifon gave me fo defpicable a conceit of myfelf. The captein faid, that while we were at fupper he obferved me to look at every thing with a fort of wonder, and that I often feemed hardly able to contain my laughter, which he knew not well how to take, but imputed it to fome diforder in my brain. I anfwered it was very true; and I wondered how I could forbear, when I faw his dishes of the fize of a filver three-pence, a leg of pork hardly a mouthful, a cup not fo big as a nut-fhell; and fo I went on, defcribing the rest of his houfhold-ftuff and provifions after the fame manner. For al though the queen had ordered a little equipage of all things neceffary for me, while I was in her fervice, yet my ideas were wholly taken up with what I faw on every fide of me, and I winked at my own littleness, as people do at their own faults. The captain underflood my raillery very well, and merrily replied with the old English proverb, that he doubre i mine eyes were bigger than my belly, for he did not obferve my tomach fo good although I had fafted all day; and, continuing in his mirth, protested he would have gladly given an hundred pounds to have feen my clofet in the eagle's bill, and afterwards in its fall from fo great a height into the fea; which would certainly have been a moft aftonishing object, worthy to have the defcription of it tranfmitted

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to future ages and the comparison of Phaeton was fo obvious, that he could not forbear applying it, although I did not much admire the conceit.

The captain, having been at Tonquin, was in his return to England driven north-eastward to the latitude of 44 degrees, and of longitude 143. But meeting a trade-wind two days after I came on board him, we failed fouthward a long time, and, coafting New-Holland, kept our courfe weft-fouth-west, and then fouth-fouth-west, till we doubled the Cape of Good Hope. Our voyage was very profperous, but I fhall not trouble the reader with a journal of it. The captain called in at one or two ports, and fent in his long-boat for provifions and fresh water, but I never went out of the fhip till we came into the Downs, which was on the third day of June, 1706, about nine months after my efcape. I offered to leave my goods in fecurity for payment of my freight; but the captain protested he would not receive one farthing. We took a kind leave of each other, and I made him promife he would come to fee me at my houfe in Rotherhithe. I hired a horfe and guide for five fhillings, which I borrowed of the captain.

As I was on the road, obferving the littleness of the houses, the trees, the cattle, and the people, I began to think myfelf in Lilliput. I was afraid of trampling on every traveller I met, and often called aloud to have them ftand out of the way, fo that I had like to have gotten one or two broken heads for my impertinence.

When I came to my own houfe, for which I was forced to enquire, one of the fervants opening the door, I bent down to go in (like a goofe under a gate) for fear of ftriking my head. My wife ran out to embrace me, but I ftooped lower than her knees, thinking he could otherwife never be able to reach my mouth. My daughter kneeled to ask my bleffing, but I could not fee her till the arofe, having been fo long ufed to ftand with my head and eyes erect to above fixty feet; and then I went to take her up with one hand by the waift. I looked down upon the fervants, and one or two friends who

were in the houfe, as if they had been pigmies, and I a giant. I told my wife the had been too thrifty, for I found she had starved herfelf and her daughter to nothing. In fhort, I behaved myfelf fo unaccountably, that they were all of the captain's opinion when he firft faw me, and concluded I had loft my wits. This I mention as an instance of the great power of habit and prejudice.

In a little time, I and my family and friends came to a right understanding : but my wife protested I should never go to fea any more; although my evil definy fo ordered, that he had not power to hinder me, as the reader may know hereafter. In the mean time, I here conclude the fecond part of my unfortunate voyages Swift.

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To be ever active in laudable purfuits, is the diftinguishing characteristic of a man of merit.

There is an heroic innocence, as well as an heroic courage.

There is a mean in all things. Even virtue itfelf hath its ftated limits; which not being ftrictly obferved, it ceases to

be virtue.

It is wifer to prevent a quarrel beforehand, than to revenge it afterwards. It is much better to reprove, than to be angry fecretly.

which torments envy by doing good. No revenge is more heroic, than that

The difcretion of a man deferreth his

anger, and it is his glory to país over a tranfgreffion.

From the whole of thefe two voyages to Lilliput and Brobdingnag arifes one general remark, which, however obvious, has been overthan the fport of a wanton imagination. When looked by thofe who confider them as little mare human actions are afcribed to pigmies and giants, there are few that do not excite either contempt, difguft, or horror; to afcribe them therefore to fuch beings was perhaps the most probable method tention, and judge of them with impartiality, by of engaging the mind to examine them with atfufpending the fafcination of habit, and exhibit ing familiar objects in a new light. The use of the fable then is not lefs apparent than important and extenfive; and that this ufe was intended

by the author, can be doubted only by thofe who are difpofed to affirm, that order and regularity are the effects of chance.

Money,

Money, like manure, does no good ill it is fpread. There is no real ufe of riches, except in the diftribution; the reft is all conceit.

A wife man will defire no more than what he may get juftly, ufe foberly, diftribute cheerfully, and live upon contentedly.

A contented mind, and a good confcience, will make a man happy in all conditions. He knows not how to fear, who dares to die.

There is but one way of fortifying the foul againft all gloomy prefages and terrors of mind; and that is, by fecuring to ourfelves the friendship and protection of that Being, who difpofes of events, and governs futurity.

Philofophy is then only valuable, when it ferves for the law of life, and not for the oftentation of science.

Without a friend, the world is but a wilderness.

A man may have a thousand intimate acquaintances, and not a friend among them all. If you have one friend, think yourself happy.

When once you profefs yourself a friend, endeavour to be always fuch. He can never have any true friends, that will be often changing them.

Profperity gains friends, and adverfity

tries them.

Nothing more engages the affections of men, than a handfome addrefs, and graceful converfation.

Complaifance renders a fuperior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

Excels of ceremony fhews want of breeding. That civility is beft, which excludes all fuperfluous formality.

Ingratitude is a crime fo fhameful, that the man was never yet found, who would acknowledge himfelf guilty of it.

Truth is born with us; and we must do violence to nature, to shake off our veracity.

There cannot be a greater treachery, than firft to raise a confidence, and then deceive it.

By others faults wife men correct their own.

No man hath a thorough tafte of profperity, to whom adverfity never happened,

When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we leave them.

It is as great a point of wisdom to hide ignorance, as to difcover knowledge.

Pitch upon that courfe of life which is the most excellent; and habit will render it the most delightful.

Custom is the plague of wife men, and the idol of fools.

As, to be perfectly juft, is an attribute of the Divine nature; to be fo to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of

man.

No man was ever caft down with the injuries of fortune, unlefs he had before fuffered himself to be deceived by her favours.

Anger may glance into the breaft of a wife man, but refts only in the bofom of fools.

None more impatiently fuffer injuries, than those that are most forward in doing them.

By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in paffing it over he is fuperior.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man, than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindnefs fhould begin on ours.

The prodigal robs his heir, the mifer robs himself.

We should take a prudent care for the future, but fo as to enjoy the prefent. It is no part of wifdom, to be miferable to-day, becaufe we may happen to be fo to-morrow.

To mourn without meafure, is folly; not to mourn at all, infenfibility.

Some would be thought to do great things, who are but tools and intruments; like the fool who fancied he played upon the organ, when he only blew the bellows.

Though a man may become learned by another's learning, he can never be wife but by his own wifdom.

He who wants good fenfe is unhappy in having learning; for he has thereby more ways of expofing himself.

It is ungenerous to give a man occafion to bluth at his own ignorance in one thing, who perhaps may excel us in many.

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No object is more pleafing to the eye, than the fight of a man whom you have obliged; nor any mufic fo agreeable to the ear, as the voice of one that owns you for his benefactor.

The coin that is most current among mankind is flattery; the only benefit of which is, that by hearing what we are not, we may be inftructed what we ought to be.

The character of the perfon who commends you, is to be confidered before you fet a value on his eftcem. The wife man applauds him whom he thinks moft virtuous; the rest of the world, him who is most wealthy.

The temperate man's pleasures are durable, because they are regular; and all his life is calm and ferene, because it is innocent.

A good man will love himself too well to lofe, and all his neighbours too well to win, an eftate by gaming. The love of gaming will corrupt the beft principles in the world.

An angry man who fuppreffes his paffions, thinks worfe than he speaks; and an angry man that will chide, speaks worse than he thinks.

A good word is an eafy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our filence, which cofts us nothing.

It is to affectation the world owes its whole race of coxcombs. Nature in her whole drama never drew fuch a part; fhe has fometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of his own making.

It is the infirmity of little minds, to be taken with every appearance, and dazzled with every thing that fparkles; but great minds have but little admiration, becaufe few things appear new to them.

It happens to men of learning, as to ears of corn they fhoot up, and raise their heads high, while they are empty : but when full and fwelled with grain, they begin to flag and droop.

He that is truly polite, knows how to contradict with refpect, and to pleafe without adulation; and is equally remote from an infipid complaifance, and a low familiarity.

The failings of good men are commonly more published in the world than their good deeds; and one fault of a

deferving man fhall meet with more reproaches, than all his virtues praife: fuch is the force of ill-will and ill-na

ture.

It is harder to avoid cenfure, than to gain applaufe; for this may be done by one great or wife action in an age; but to escape cenfure, a man muft pafs his whole life without faying or doing one ill or foolish thing.

When Darius offered Alexander ten thoufand talents to divide Afia equally with him, he answered, The earth cannot bear two funs, nor Afia two kings.— Parmenio, a friend of Alexander's, hearing the great offers Darius had made, faid, Were I Alexander I would accept them. So would I, replied Alexander, were I Parmenio.

Nobility is to be confidered only as an imaginary diftinction, unlefs accompanied with the practice of thofe generous virtues by which it ought to be obtained. Titles of honour conferred upon fuch as have no perfonal merit, are at beft but the royal ftamp fet upon bafe metal.

Though an honourable title may be conveyed to pofterity, yet the ennobling qualities which are the foul of greatnefs are a fort of incommunicable perfections, and cannot be transferred. If a man could bequeath his virtues by will, and fettle his fenfe and learning upon his heirs, as certainly as he can his lands, a noble defcent would then indeed be a valuable privilege.

Truth is always confiftent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and fits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware: whereas a lye is troublesome, and fets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

The pleafure which affects the human mind with the moft lively and tranf porting touches, is the fenfe that we act in the eye of infinite wifdom, power, and goodness, that will crown our vir tuous endeavours here with a happiness hereafter, large as our defires, and lafting as our immortal fouls: without this the higheft ftate of life is infipid, and with it the loweft is a paradife.

Honourable age is not that which ftandeth