The old English 'squire, "a jovial gay fox hunter, bold, frank, and free" : a poem in ten cantos . leasure, 1170 So got it translated, and sent to the country,Where it edified all, but most fishing gentry. THE SERMON {Vide Addison s Letters from Italy.^ T\7HEN the hereticks would not regard thepreaching of St. Anthony^ he betookhimself to the sea shore^ where the riverMarrechia runs into the Adriatic^ and havingcalled the fish together^ they came swimmingtowards him in such vast shoals, from the seaand from the river, that the surface of thewater was quite covered with their multitudes ;they q
The old English 'squire, "a jovial gay fox hunter, bold, frank, and free" : a poem in ten cantos . leasure, 1170 So got it translated, and sent to the country,Where it edified all, but most fishing gentry. THE SERMON {Vide Addison s Letters from Italy.^ T\7HEN the hereticks would not regard thepreaching of St. Anthony^ he betookhimself to the sea shore^ where the riverMarrechia runs into the Adriatic^ and havingcalled the fish together^ they came swimmingtowards him in such vast shoals, from the seaand from the river, that the surface of thewater was quite covered with their multitudes ;they quickly ranged themselves, according totheir several species, into a very beautiful con-gregation, and like so many rational creatures,presented themselves before him. St. Anthonywas so struck with the miraculous obedienceand submission of these poor animals, that hefound a secret sweetness distilling upon his soul,and at last addressed himself to them in thefollowing words :— My dearly beloved Fish—the goodness of providence shines out in youmore eminently, and appears after a more par- 72. THE SERMON 73 ticular manner, than in any other createdbemgs. For notwithstanding you are compre-hended under the name of reptiles, partakingof a middle nature between stones and beasts,and imprisoned in the deep abyss of w^aters ;notwithstanding you are tost among billows,thrown up and down by tempests, deaf tohearing, dumb to speech, and terrible to behold ;notwithstanding, I say, these natural dis-advantages, ye have been favoured in a mostwonderful manner. It is from above, mybeloved fish, that you have received being, life,motion, and sense. In compliance with yournatural inclinations, the whole world of watershas been given for your habitations. Theyhave been furnished with lodgings, chambers,caverns, grottos, and such magnificent retire-ment, as are not to be found within the seatsof kings, or in the palaces of princes ; you havethe waters for your dwelling, a clear transparentele
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