while the smith is employed. Give the oats the last thing. Water your horses when you are within a mile of the inn. Never keep above forty yards before or behind your master unless he commands you. Try the oats by smelling and weighing them; see you have good measure; stand by while your horses are eating their oats.

When you enter your evening inn, let your horses' feet be stuffed with cow-dung every night. Observe the same rules, only be sure if anything be wanting for a smith, let it be done over-night.

Know the time your master will set out in the morning: allow him a full hour to get himself ready. Contrive, both at morn and noon, to eat so that your master need not stay for you. Do not let the drawer carry the bill to your master, but examine it first carefully and honestly, and then bring it yourself, and be able to account for every article. If the servants have not been civil, tell your master, before their faces, when he is going to give them money.

Duty of the other Servant where there are two.

Ride forty yards behind your master; but be mounted before him. Observe now and then whether his horses' shoes be right. When you come to an inn at noon, give your horse to the ostler; bestir yourself to get a convenient room for your master; bring all his things into his room, full in his sight; inquire what is in the house, see it yourself, and tell your master how you like it. Step yourself now and then into the kitchen to hasten dinner or supper, and observe whether they be cleanly. Taste the ale, and tell your master whether it be good or bad. If he want wine, go you with the drawer and choose a bottle well filled and stopped. If the wine be in hogsheads, desire to taste and smell it; if it be sour, or not clear, or ill-tasted, let your master know it, that he may not be at the charge of wine not fit to be drunk. See the salt be dry and powdered, the bread new and clean, the knives sharp. At night observe the same rules; but first choose him a warm room, with a lock and key in order; then call immediately for the sheets, see them well aired, and at a large fire; feel the blankets, bed, bolster, pillow, whether they be dry, and whether the floor under the bed be damp. Let the chamber be that which has been last laid in; inquire about it. If the bed itself be damp, let it be brought before a large fire, and air it on both sides. That you may forget nothing in the inn, have a fair list of what you want to take out; and

You are to step now and then into the stable, to see whether the groom performs his duty.

For packing up your things, have a list of linen, &c. In packing, take care that no hard things be together, and that they be wrapped

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in a paper, and other waste paper. Remember to put everything in their proper places in the portmanteau. Stuff the shoes and slippers at the toes with a small lock of hay; fold up the clothes so as that they may not be rumpled. When your master is in his room at night, put all his things in such a manner as he has them at home. Learn to have some skill in cookery, that at a pinch you may be able to make your master easy.

The Groom.-Carry with you a stirrup-leather, an awl, twelve horse-nails, and a horse's fore-shoes, pick, and a hammer, for fear of an accident; and some ends and pack-thread, a bottle-screw, knife, and pen-knife, needles, pins, thread, silk, worsted, &c.; some plasters and scissors.

Item.-The servants to carry their own things, have a pocketbook, keep all their bills, date the time and place, and indorse the numbers.

Inquire in every town if there be anything worth seeing. Observe the country seats, and ask whom they belong to; and enter them, and the counties where they are.

Search under your master's bed when he is gone up, lest a cat or something else may be under it.

When your master's bed is made, and his things ready, lock the chamber-door, and keep the key till he goes to bed; then keep it in your pocket till morn.

Let the servants of the inn be sure to wake you above an hour before your master is to go, that he may have an hour to prepare

himself.

If the ostler has been knavish or negligent, do not let him hold your master's horse. Observe the same rule at a gentleman's house; if the groom has not taken care of your horses, do not let him hold your master's.

Inquire at every inn where you stay what is the best inn in the next town you are to come to; yet do not rely on that, but likewise, as you enter into any town to stay, ask the people which is the best inn, and go to that which most people commend.

LAWS FOR THE DEAN'S SERVANTS.

If either of the two men-servants be drunk, he shall pay an English crown out of his wages for the said offence, by giving the dean a receipt for so much wages received.

When the dean is at home, no servant shall presume to be absent without giving notice to the dean, and asking leave, upon the forfeiture of sixpence for every half-hour that he is absent, to be stopped out of his or her board-wages.

When the dean is abroad, no servant except the woman shall presume to leave the house for above one half-hour; after which, for every half-hour's absence, he shall forfeit sixpence: and if the other servant goes out before the first returns, he shall pay five shillings out of his wages as above.

Whatever servant shall be taken in a manifest lie, shall forfeit one shilling out of his or her board-wages.

When the dean goes about the house, or out-houses, or garden, or to Naboth's vineyard, whatever things he finds out of order, by neglect of any servant under whose care it was, that servant shall forfeit sixpence, and see to get it mended as soon as possible, or suffer more forfeitures, at the dean's discretion.

If two servants be abroad together when the dean is from home, and the fact be concealed from the dean, the concealer shall forfeit two crowns out of his or her wages, as above.

If, in waiting at table, the two servants be out of the room together, without orders, the last who went out shall forfeit threepence out of his board-wages.

The woman may go out when the dean is abroad for one hour, but no longer, under the same penalty with the men, but, provided the two men-servants keep the house until she returns: otherwise, either of the servants who goes out before her return, shall forfeit a crown out of his wages, as above.

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Whatever other laws the dean shall think fit to make at time to come, for the government of his servants, and forfeitures for neglect or disobedience, all the servants are bound to submit to. Whatever other servant, except the woman, shall presume to be drunk, the other two servants shall inform the dean thereof, under pain of forfeiting two crowns out of his or her wages, besides the forfeiture of a crown from the said servant who was drunk.

DR. SWIFT'S REMARKS

ON THE FIRST FIFTEEN PSALMS OF DAVID, TRANSLATED INTO1 LYRIC VERSE.

Proposed as an essay supplying the perspicuity and coherence according to the modern art of poetry; not known to have been attempted before in any language. With a preface, containing some observations of the great and general defectives of the present version in Greek, Latin, and English; by Dr. [James] Gibbs. London, printed by J. Matthews, for J. Bartley, over against Gray's Inn in Holborn, 1701.

DR. GIBBS.

PSALM OF DAVID. (1)

Comparing the different state of the righteous and the wicked, both in this and the next world.

THRICE happy he that doth refuse
With impious (2) sinners to combine;
Who ne'er their wicked way pursues,

And does the sinners' seat (3) decline.

(1) I warn the reader that this is a lie, both here and all over this book; for these are not the Psalms of David, but of Dr. Gibbs.

(2) But I suppose, with pious sinners a man may combine safely enough. (3) What part of speech is it?

But still to learn and to obey

The law of God is his delight,

In that employs himself all day

And reads and thinks thereon at (4) night.

(4) A man must have some time to sleep; so that I will change this verse thus

"And thinks and dreams thereon all night."

For as a tree, whose spreading root

By some prolific stream is fed.
Produces (5) fair and lively fruit,

And numerous boughs adorn its head.

(5) Look ye, you must thin the boughs at the top, or your fruit will be neither fair nor timely.

Nor, I hope, ever will again.

Whose very (1) leaves, though storms descend

In lively verdure still appear:

Such blessings always shall attend.

The man that does the Lord revere.

(1) Why, what other part of a tree appears in a lively verdure, beside the leaves? Read

These very leaves on which you spend

Your woeful stuff, may serve for squibs:
Such blessings always shall attend

The madrigals of Dr. Gibbs.

The above may serve for a tolerable specimen of Swift's remarks. The whole should be given, if it were possible to make them intelligible, without copying the version which is ridiculed; a labor for which our readers would scarcely thank us. A few detached stanzas, however, with the dean's notes on them, shall be transcribed. Why do the heathen nations rise,

And in mad tumults join?

Confederate kings vain plots (2) devise
Against the Almighty's reign!

(2) I don't believe that ever kings entered into plots and confederacies against the reign of God Almighty.

But those that do thy laws refuse,

In pieces thou shalt break;

(3) And with an iron sceptre bruise

The disobedient (4) neck.

(3) After a man is broken in pieces, it is no great matter to have his neck bruised. (4) Neak.

Ye earthly kings, the caution hear,

Ye rulers learn the same (5);

Serve God with reverence, and with fear (6)
His joyful praise proclaim.

(5) Rulers must learn it, but kings may only hear it.

(6) Very proper, to make a joyful proclamation with fear.

(7) For should the madness of his foes
Th' avenging God incense,

Happy are they that can repose

In him their confidence. (8)

(7) For should the foes of David's ape
Provoke his gray-goose quills,

Happy are they that can escape
The vengeance of his pills.