versation turns on cultivation, rearing crops, or to find a check for cursed monopoly, subjects of more real service to my country, than all the frothy loquacity of the fribble, the incongruities of the fanatic, and all the underhanded contrivances of the plodding trader.

When night comes, to rest me on the quiet bed be neath the ample thatch, is to me no diminutive luxury; aud then to wake at early morn→→

"Sweet as the breath of morn, its rising sweet,
With charms of earliest bud."

My chamber perfumed with the spare-mint that climbs WITHIN the casement, and the honey-suckle that waves so rich WITHOUT, with tints of gold and crimson; descending to break my fast on rustic fare, again suits the quiet purpose of my soul, and then to turn me to the pastures, to see, to hear, ten thousand charms, unseen, unheard before--

"To muse on nature with a poet's eye," :

And mount among the forest trees, and there to set me down and sing with honest Valentine,

"How use doth breed a habit in a man!
This shadowy desart, unfrequented woods,
I better brook than flourishing peopled towns;
Here I can sit alone, unseen of any,
And to the nightingale's complaining notes,
Tune my distresses, and record my woes.'

Even the accustomed sports, or rural recreations of the villagers, deinand a preference, because they promote that circulation which defies idleness, and disease, shewing with Voltaire's Zadig,

"That health is to be secured by temperance and exercise; and that the art of making health consistent with luxury, is impracticable, and in all respects, as idle and chimerical as those of the philosopher's stone, judicial astrology, or the theology of the Magi."

But these amusements I own are not varied, the manly cricket being paramount, in which the sturdy natives delight, and shew that for skill and courage in this invigorating game, Kent has had for ages, and still retains the pre-eminence.

When time warns me to depart for the great emporium, I do it with all the pangs of regret, and often, as I go, turn while the village spire is in sight, and with Milton's Eve thus tenderly exclaim

"Must I then leave thee, Paradise? thus leave
Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades,
Fit haunt of Gods? where I had hoped to spend
Quiet-the respite of that day

: That must be mortal to us both. O flow'rs
"That never will in other climate grow,
My early visitation and my last

At even, which I bred up with tender hand
From the first opening bud, and gave you names,
Who now shall rear you to the sun, or rank

Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount ?"

When I am no longer permitted to enjoy these haunts of felicity, how different are the scenes I go to encounter ; the nightly consequences of inebriated riot, the loud mirth of mischievous folly, the stiff and gloomy jargon of hypocrisy, the irrational habits of the LITTLE-GREAT, the gilded tricks of false friendship and filial ingratitude, the ruin spread by voracious lawyers, and the delusions hourly practised on artless simplicity; these, and more evils, make up the coin 1 am forced to exchange for my quiet, which I would not relinquish for mountains of gold, or rivers bottomed with the purest pearls. Even winter, in retirement, has for me its charms, the farm as well as the court has its festivals, which, if not so gaudy, are less mingled with dangers. *One among the many, has sometimes excited my admiration; I once thought it worthy my muse, and have given it to the public in a former paper, as a type of rural felicity.

Vide page 189.

T. N."

EXTRACTS from a scarce BOOK entitled LUTHER on CHRISTIAN LIBERTY,

Worthy the perusal of all Protestants.

Speaking of Law-makers, he makes the following obser

vation.

Therefore, although we most stoutly withstand those teachers of Traditions, and sharply inveigh against the constitutions of Bishops, wherewith they over-run the people of God, yet regard should be had of the timorous weaklings, whom those cruel blood-suckers, do cruelly detain captive with those traditions, until they be set at liberty. On this wise encounter manfully against the Wolves, but for the Sheep, and not against the Sheep also, which thou shalt the better do, if thou bend thy force earnestly against those Laws and Law-makers, and yet withal thyself observe them in the sight of the weak, lest they become offended through thee, until themselves may know that Tyranny, and understand their own liberties. And if thou wilt enjoy thinę own liberty, use it to thyself in secret (as Paul teacheth thee in the fourteenth to the Romans) Keep thou the faith which thou hast unto thy self before God, but beware thou use it not be fore the weak. Again, Before tyrants and obstinate frowards, use the same in despite of

them, yea, and that most manfully and constantly that they also may understand their own wickedness, and their Laws to be nothing available to righteousness, as also that they had no authority to make such laws.

Therefore it is necessary we flee to prayer, that the Lord will vouchsafe to draw us and make us instructed unto God, that is to say, apt Scholars for God, and that himself will vouchsafe to write his Law in our hearts (as he hath promised) otherwise we do all come to confusion. For except he do engraft in our souls this marvellous wisdom hidden in a mystery, Nature cannot choose but condemn it, and adjudge it for an Heretic, because she is offended in it, and appeareth foolish in her eyes. Even as we saw to have happened in times past to the prophets of God and the Apostles, and even as the wicked blind Prelates, and their false flatterers do now unto me, and others like unto me, unto whom, and to all of us, God be merciful, and shew the light of his countenance upon us, that we may know his way upon the earth, and health amongst all generations. blessed for ever and ever.

his saving

Who be

Amen.

On my Friend Philpot.

Here lies Toby---free from strife,
He never had that plague---a wife:
The reason of it does you puzzle,
"Twas cause the girls ne'er lik'd his muzzle:
Which being made of materials rough,
Gave him an appearance rather gruff :
His legs too were not of the best,
However they are now at rest:

His friends at last they all forsook him,
And the devil out of friendship took him.

To MARIA B

Oh remember the day, when I told you I lov'd,
And your lip how impassioned I press'd;
And wish'd you to believe that I never could rove,
While with your fond wishes I'm bless'd.

Believe me then now-when again I express,
My fond words once again unto thee;

That my love for

you, never-can never be less, For still dearer and dearer you'll be.

By the lock of your hair which you gave unto me,
And the love too-you always have shewn ;

I love you so well, and happy should be,

If in my power 'twas to call you my own.
In hopes still I live, that soon it may come,
The day when I boldly may say;

Welcome dear girl-to a comfortable home,
If not-in your parental one stay.

For sooner would I give up ev'ry thought,
Of having you, dear Maria, as my own;
Than like many-to misery brought,
Who marry without e'er a home.

Should such a day come, and I call you mine,
How happy and blessed my lot;

In my arms the girl of my heart to entwine,
And contentedly rest in a cot.