. Thackerayana;. ce,and a grey monkey; and in spite of her parents and her reason,she is guilty of will-worship to Dick Noodle. But this last is nowonder at all, for Dickwears fine brocade waist-coats and the best Mechlin,and no man of the agepicks his teeth with greaterelegance. And would it not beequally bold and barbarousto enslave a beau or a bullywith the tyranny of thethird commandment ? whenits well known that theseworthy gentlemen and bro-thers in understanding andcourage must either be dumb or damning themselves; and, there-fore, to stop their swearing would be to stop their breath, a
. Thackerayana;. ce,and a grey monkey; and in spite of her parents and her reason,she is guilty of will-worship to Dick Noodle. But this last is nowonder at all, for Dickwears fine brocade waist-coats and the best Mechlin,and no man of the agepicks his teeth with greaterelegance. And would it not beequally bold and barbarousto enslave a beau or a bullywith the tyranny of thethird commandment ? whenits well known that theseworthy gentlemen and bro-thers in understanding andcourage must either be dumb or damning themselves; and, there-fore, to stop their swearing would be to stop their breath, and gagthem to all eternity. Beau Wittol courts Arabella with great suc-cess, and it is not doubted he will carry her, though he was neverheard to make any other speech or compliment to her than thatof Demme, madam ! after which he squeezes her hand, takessnuff, and grins in her face with wonderful wit and smiles, and owns with her eyes her admiration of theseaccomplishments of a. fine gentleman? x. 3o6 THA CKERA YANA. Of Flattery. * Flattery is the art of selling wind for a round sum of readymofiey. A sycophant blows up the mind of his unhappy patientinto a tympany, and then, like other physicians, receives a fee forhis poison. It is his business to instruct men to mistake them-selves at a great expense ; to shut their eyes, and then pay forbeing blind. Thus the end of excelling in any art or professionis to have that excellence known and admired. Sing-song Nero, an ancestor of Mr. Tom dUrfey, would, pro-bably, never have banished the sceptre and adopted the fiddle, butthat he found it much easier for his talents to scrape than togovern. In this reign, he that had a musical ear, or could twist acatgut, was made a man ; and the fiddlers ruled the Roman
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