. Thackerayana;. ed with a tune upon the fiddle,and if they had the policy to smother a laugh, and raise anoutrageous clap, their taxes were paid, and they had whatever theyasked ; and so miserably was this monarch and madman bewitchedby himself and his sycophants, with the character of a victoriousfiddler, that when he was abandoned by God and man, and, as anenemy to mankind, sentenced to be whipped to death, he did not THE HUMOURIST1 307 grieve so much for the loss of his empire as the loss of his he had no mortal left to natter him, he nattered himself,and his last words were, Q
. Thackerayana;. ed with a tune upon the fiddle,and if they had the policy to smother a laugh, and raise anoutrageous clap, their taxes were paid, and they had whatever theyasked ; and so miserably was this monarch and madman bewitchedby himself and his sycophants, with the character of a victoriousfiddler, that when he was abandoned by God and man, and, as anenemy to mankind, sentenced to be whipped to death, he did not THE HUMOURIST1 307 grieve so much for the loss of his empire as the loss of his he had no mortal left to natter him, he nattered himself,and his last words were, Qualis Artifex pereo ! What a bravescraper is lost in me ! And then he buried a knife in his inside,and made his death the best action of his life. Of Retirement. 1 To be absolute master of ones own time and actions is aninstance of liberty which is not found but in solitude. A man thatlives in a crowd is a slave, even though all that are about him fawnupon him and give him the upper-hand. They call him master, or. lord, and treat him as such ; but as they hinder him from doing whathe otherwise would, the title and homage which they pay him isflattery and contradiction* I ever loved retirement, and detested crowds ; I would ratherpass an afternoon amongst a herd of deer, than half an hour at acoronation ; and sooner eat a piece of apple-pie in a cottage, thandine with a judge on the circuit. To lodge a night by myself in acave would not grieve me so much as living half a day in a will look a little odd when I own that I have missed many agood sennon for no other reason but that many others were to * Nothing is so valuable as Time ; and he who comes undesired to helpto pass it away, might with the same civility and good sense give you tounderstand that he is come, out of pure love to you, with a coach and six andall bis family, to help you to pass away your estate. To have ones hours andrecesses at the mercy of visitants and intruders is arrant thraldom ; and thoughI am a
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