not only the fhip, but even the whole crew, were redeemed and restored to freedom. 51. Francifco and his fon, after a quick paffage, arrived in their own country, where they lived beloved and refpect. ed, and endeavored to convince every one they knew, how great were the viciffitudes of fortune, and that God never fuffers humanity and generofity to go unrewarded, here or hereafter. THE QUARREL OF BRUTUS AND CASSIUS. Cafous. THAT HAT you have wrong'd me doth appear in this, You have condemn'd and noted Lucius Pella, Brutus. You wrong'd yourfelf to write in fuch a cafe. Caf. I an itching palm! You know that you are Brutus that fpeak this, Bru. The name of Caffius honors this corruption, Caf. Chaftifement ! Bru. Remember March, the ides of March.remember; Did not great Julius bleed for justice fake? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Caf. Brutus, bay not me, I'll not endure it; you forget youfelf, Bru. Go to; you are not, Caffius. Bru. I fay you are not. Caf. Urge me no more, I fhall forget myfelfHave mind upon your health-tempt me no farther. Bru. Away, flight man! Caf. Is it poffible ? Bru. Hear me, for I will fpeak. Must I give way and room to your rafh choler? Caf. Muft I endure all this? Bru. All this! aye, more. Fret till your proud heart breaks. Go tell your flaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble. Muft I budge? You fhall digeft the venom of your fpleen, Caf. Is it come to this? Bru. You fay you are a better foldier: Let it appear fo; make your vaunting true, And it fhall please me well. I fhall be glad to learn of noble men. Caf. You wrong me every way; you wrong me, I faid an elder foldier, not a better : Did I fay better? Bru. If you did, I care not. Brutus; Caf. When Cefar liv'd, he durft not thus have mov'd me. Bru. Peace, peace, you durst not so have tempted him. Caf I durit not. Bru. Bru. No. Caf. What, durft not tempt him! Bru. For your life you durft not. Caf. Do not prefume too much upon my love; I may do what I shall be forry for. Bru. You have done what you should be forry for. There is no terror, Caffius, in your threats; For I am arm'd fo ftrong in honesty, That they pafs by me, as the idle wind, Which I refpect not. I did fend to you For certain fums of gold, which you deny'd me ; And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring To you for gold to pay my legions, Which you deny'd me; was that done like Caffius ? When Marcus Brutus grows fo covetous, To lock fuch rafcal counters from his friends, Caf. I deny'd you not. Bru. You did. Caf. I did not; he was but a fool That brought my anfwer back. Brutus hath riv'd my heart; A friend fhould bear a friend's infirmities; But Brutus makes mine greater than they are. Bru. I do not. Still you practise them on me. Caf. You love me not. Bru. I do not like your faults. Caf. A friendly eye could never fee fuch faults.. Bru. A flatterer's would not, though they do Appear as huge as high Olympus. Caf Come, Anthony, and young Octavius, come !! For Caffius is a-weary of the world; To To caft into my teeth. O I could weep When thou didst hate him worft, thou lov'dft him better Than ever thou lov'dft Caffius. Bru. Sheathe your dagger; Be angry when you will, it shall have fcope; Caf. Hath Caffius liv'd To be bat mirth and laughter to his Brutus, Caf. O Brutus ! Bru. What's the matter? Caf. Have you not love enough to bear with me, When that rafh humor which my mother gave me, Makes me forgetful? Bru. Yes, Caffius, and from henceforth, When you are over-earneft with your Brutus, SPEECH OF DEMOSTHENES TO THE ATHENIANS, CONCERNING THE REGULATION OF THE STATE. You OU afk, Athenians, "What real advantage have we derived from the fpeeches of Demofthenes ? He rifes when he thinks proper; he deafens us with his harangues; he declaims against the degeneracy of present times; times; he tells us of the virtues of our ancestors; he transports us by his airy extravagance; he puffs up our vanity; and then fits down." 2. But, could these my speeches once gain an effectual influence upon your minds, fo great would be the advantages conferred upon my country, that, were I to attempt to fpeak them, they would appear to many as vifionary. Yet ftill I muft affume the merit of doing fome fervice, by ac cufloming you to hear falutary truths. 3. And if your counfellors be folicitous for any point of moment to their country, let them first cure your ears; for they are diftempered; and this, from the inveterate habit of liftening to falfehoods, to every thing, rather than your real interefts. 4. There is no man who dares openly and boldly to declare, in what case our conftitution is fubverted. But I fhall declare it. When you, Athenians, become a helpless rabble, without conduct, without property, without arms, without order, without unanimity; when neither your general, nor any other perfon, hath.the leaft refpect for your decrees; when no man dares to inform you of this your condition, to urge the neceffary reformation, much lefs to exert his effort to effect it; then is your conftitution fubverted. And this is now the cafe. 5. But, O my fellow citizens! a language of a different nature hath poured in upon us; falfe, and highly dangerous to the State. Such is that affertion, that in your tribunals is your great fecurity; that your right of fuffrage is the real bulwark of the conftitution. That these tribunals are our common refource in all private contests, I acknowledge. 6. But it is by arms we are to fubdue our enemies; by arms we are to defend our State. It is not by our decrees that we can conquer. To thofe, on the contrary, who fight our battles with fuccefs, to thefe we owe the power of decreeing, of tranfacting all our affairs, without control or danger. In arms, thea, let us be terrible; in our judicial tranfactions, humane. 7. If it be observed, that these sentiments are more elevated than might be expected from my character, the obfervation, I confefs, is juft. Whatever is faid about a ftate of |