parts of joy as are not to be conceived but by thofe who feel them. I now heard a trampling over my head, and fomebody calling through the hole with a loud voice in the English tongue, If there be any body below, let them fpeak. I answered, I was an Englishman, drawn by ill fortune into the greateft calamity that ever any creature underwent, and begged by all that was moving to be delivered out of the dungeon I was in, The voice replied, I was fafe, for my box was fastened to their fhip; and the carpenter fhould immediately come and faw a hole in the cover large enough to pull me out. I answered, that was needlefs, and would take up too much time, for there was no more to be done, but let one of the crew put his finger into the ring, and take the box out of the fea into the hip, and fo into the captain's cabin. Some of them upon hearing me talk fo wildly thought I was mad; others laughed; for indeed it never came into my head that I was now got among people of my own ftature and ftrength. The carpenter came, and in a few minutes fawed a passage about four feet fquare, then let down a fmall ladder, upon which I mounted, and from thence was taken into the fhip in a very

weak condition.

The failors were all in amazement, and afked me a thousand queftions, which I had no inclination to answer. I was equally confounded at the fight of fo many pigmies, for fuch I took them to be, after having fo long accuftomed mine eyes to the monftrous objects I had left. But the captain, Mr. Thomas Wilcocks, an honeft worthy Shropshireman, obferving I was ready to faint, took me into his cabin, gave me a cordial to comfort me, and made me turn in upon his own bed, advifing me to take a little reft, of which I had great need. Before I went to fleep, I gave him to underftand that I had fome valuable furniture in my box too good to be loft; a fine hammock, an handfome field- bed, two chairs, a table, and a cabinet. That my closet was hung on all fides, or rather quilted, with filk and cotton: that if he would let

There are feveral little incidents which fhew the author to have had a deep knowledge of human nature; and I think this is one. Although the principal advantages enumerated by Gulliver in the beginning of this chapter, of mingling again among his countrymen, depended on their being of the fame fize with himself, yet this is forgotten in his ardour to be delivered; and he is afterwards betrayed into the fame abfurdity, by his zeal to preferve his furniture.

one of the crew bring my clofet into his cabin, I would open it there before him and fhew him my goods. The captain hearing me utter thefe abfurdities concluded I was raving: however (I fuppofe to pacify me) he promised to give order as I defired, and going upon deck, fent fome of his men down into my clofet, from whence (as I afterwards found) they drew up all my goods, and ftripped off the quilting; but the chairs, cabinet, and bedstead, being fcrewed to the floor, were much da maged by the ignorance of the feamen, who tore them up by force. Then they knocked off fome of the boards for the ufe of the fhip, and when they had got all they had a mind for, let the hull drop into the fea, which by reafon of many breaches made in the bottom and fides funk to rights. And indeed I was glad not to have been a fpectator of the havock they made; because I am confident it would have fenfibly touched me, by bringing former paffages into my mind, which I had rather forget.

I flept fome hours, but perpetually dif turbed with dreams of the place I had left and the dangers I had efcaped. However, upon waking I found myself much recovered. It was now about eight o'clock at night, and the captain ordered fupper immediately, thinking I had already fafted too long. He entertained me with great kindnefs, obferving me not to look wildly, or talk inconfiftently; and, when we were left alone, defired I would give him a relation of my travels, and by what accident I came to be fet adrift in that monstrous wooden chest. He faid, that about twelve o'clock at noon, as he was looking through his glass, he fpied it at a diftance, 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 short. 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 swimming houfe. That he laughed at their folly, and went himself in the boat, ordering his men to take a strong cable along with them. That the weather being calm he rowed round me several times, obferved my windows, and the wire lattices that defended them. That he discovered two ftaples 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 fasten3 T 4

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ing 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 saw my ftick and handkerchief thrust out of the hole, and concluded that fome unhappy man must be Shut up in the cavity. I asked, whether he or the crew had feen any prodigious birds in the air about the time he first difcovered me to which he answered, 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 guefs the reafon of my question. I then asked the captain, how far he reckoned we might be from land? he faid, by the best computation he could make, we were at leaft an hundred leagues. I affured him that he must be mistaken by almost half, for I had not left the country from whence I came above two hours before I dropt into the fea. Whereupon he began again to think that my brain was difturbed, of which he gave me a hint, and advised me to go to bed in a cabin he had provided. I affured him I 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 ask me freely, whether I were not troubled in mind by the confcioufnefs of fome enormous crime, for which I was punished 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 should be forry to have taken fo ill a man into his hip, yet he would engage his word to fet me fafe afhore in the first port where we arrived. He added, that his fufpicions were much increased by fome very abfurd fpeeches I had delivered at firft to the failors, and afterwards to himfelf, in relation to my clofet or cheft, as well as by my odd looks and behaviour while I was at fupper.

I begged his patience to hear me tell my ftory, which faithfully did from the lait time I left England to the moment he first discovered me. And as truth always forceth its way into rational minds, fo this

honeft worthy gentleman, who had fome tincture of learning, and very good sense, was immediately convinced of my candour and veracity. But, farther to confirm all I had faid, I intreated him to give order that my cabinet should be brought, of which I had the key in my pocket, (for he had already informed me how the feamen dif. pofed of my clofet.) I opened it in his own prefence, and fhewed him the fmall 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 ftumps of the king's beard, and another of the fame materials, but fixed into a paring of her majefty's thumbnail, which ferved for the back. There was a collection of needles and pins from a foot to half a yard loug; four wafpflings, like joiners tacks; fome combings of the queeu's hair; a gold ring which one day the made me a prefent of in a moft 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 refused. I shewed 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 Kentifh 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 mouse's skin.

I could force nothing on him but a foot. man's tooth, which I oblerved 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 I 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 anfwer was, that I thought we were already Overstocked 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 story could contain little

befides common events, without thofe or namental descriptions of ftrange plants, trees, birds, and other animals; or of the barbarous customs and idolatry of favage people, with which moft writers abound. However, 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 speak fo loud, afking 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 seemed 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 ftreet to another looking out from the top of a steeple, 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 moft 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 accustomed to fuch prodigious objects, becaufe the comparifon gave me fo defpicable a conceit of myfelf. The captain faid, that while we were at fapper 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 answered it was very true; and I wondered how I could forbear, when I faw his difhes 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 reft of his houfhold-fluff and provifions after the fame manner. For although 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 littlenefs, as people do at their own faults. The captain underftood my raillery very well, and merrily replied with the old English proverb, that he doubted my eyes were bigger than my belly, for he did not obferve my ftomach fo good, although I had fafted all day; and continuing in his mirth, protefted 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 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 northeastward to the latitude of 44 degrees, and of longitude 143. But meeting a tradewind two days after I came on board him, we failed fouthward a long time, and coafting New-Holland, kept our course weftfouth-weft, 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 protefted he would not receive one farthing. We took a kind leave of each other, and I made him promife he would come to see 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 lit tlenefs of the houses, the trees, the cattle, and the people, I began to think myself 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 striking my head. My wife ran out to embrace me, but I ftooped lower than her knees, thinking the could otherwife never be able to reach my mouth. My daughter kneeled to afk my bleffing, but I could not fee her till the arofe, having been fo long used to stand with my head and eyes erect to above fixty feet; and then I went to take her up with one hand by the waist. I looked down upon the fervants, and one or two friends who were in the house, as if they had been pigmies, and I a giant. I told my wife fhe had been too thrifty, for I found the had ftarved herfelf and her

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daughter to nothing. In short, 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 inftance 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 protefted I fhou'd 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.

§ 150. Detached Sentences. 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 itself hath its ftated limits; which not being strictly 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.

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

The difcretion of a man deferreth his anger, and it is his glory to país over a tranfgreffion.

Money, like manure, does no good till 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, difribute cheerfully, and live upon contentedly.

From the whole of thefe two voyages to Lilliput and Brobdingnag arifes one general remark, which, however obvious, has been overlooked by thofe who confider them as little more than the sport of a wanton imagination. When human actions are afcribed to pigmies and giants, there are few that do not excite either contempt, dif

guft, or horror; to afcribe them therefore to fuch beings was perhaps the most probable method of engaging the mind to examine them with attention, and judge of them with impartiality, by fufpending the tafcination of habit, and exhibiting familiar objects in a new light. The ufe of the table then is not lefs apparent than important and extenfive; and that this ufe was intended by the author, can be doubted only by those who are dif posed to affirm, that order and regularity are the effects of chance.

A contented mind, and a good conè fcience, 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 against all gloomy prefages and terrors of mind; and that is, by fecuring to ourselves the friend lip and protection of that Being, who dipoles of events, and governs faturity.

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 profess 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.

Excess 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 himself 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 ourfelves that we leave them.

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

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

Cuftom 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 u moft of our abilities, is the glory of man.

No

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

vours.

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

None more impatiently fuffer injuries, than thofe that are moft 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 kindness fhould begin on ours.

The prodigal robs his heir, the mifer robs himself.

We fhould take a prudent care for the future, but fo as to enjoy the prefent. It is no part of wisdom, to be miferable today, because 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 inftruments; 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 wisdom.

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 blush at his own ignorance in one thing, who perhaps may excel us in many.

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 instructed what we ought to be.

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

The temperate man's pleasures are durable, because they are regular; and all his

life is calm and ferene, because it is inno cent.

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 best principles in the world.

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

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to fpeak 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 dramą never drew fuch a part; she 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, because few things appear new to them.

It happens to men of learning, as to ears of corn: they hoot 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 respect, and to please 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 praise: fuch is the force of illwill and ill-nature.

It is harder to avoid cenfure, than to gain applause; 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 thousand 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.

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