The contrast will be found in Sir Walter Scott's edition of Dryden.
176. See the Life of Southern. by Shiels.
177. See Rochester's Trial of the Poets.
178. Some Account of the English Stage.
179. Life of Southern, by Shiels.
180. If any reader thinks my expressions too severe, I would advise him to read Dryden's Epilogue to the Duke of Guise, and to observe that it was spoken by a woman.
181. See particularly Harrington's Oceana.
182. See Sprat's History of the Royal Society.
183. Cowley's Ode to the Royal Society.
184. "Then we upon the globe's last verge shall go, And view the ocean leaning on the sky; From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know, And on the lunar world secretly pry.' —Annus Mirabilis, 164
185. North's Life of Guildford.
186. Pepys's Diary, May 30, 1667.
187. Butler was, I think, the only man of real genius who, between the Restoration and the Revolution showed a bitter enmity to the new philosophy, as it was then called. See the Satire on the Royal Society, and the Elephant in the Moon.
188. The eagerness with which the agriculturists of that age tried experiments and introduced improvements is well described by Aubrey. See the Natural history of Wiltshire, 1685.
189. Sprat's History of the Royal Society.
190. Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting, London Gazette, May 31, 1683; North's Life of Guildford.
191. The great prices paid to Varelst and Verrio are mentioned in Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting.
192. Petty's Political Arithmetic.
193. Stat 5 Eliz. c. 4; Archaeologia, vol. xi.
194. Plain and easy Method showing how the office of Overseer of the Poor may be managed, by Richard Dunning; 1st edition, 1685; 2d edition, 1686.
195. Cullum's History of Hawsted.
196. Ruggles on the Poor.
197. See, in Thurloe's State Papers, the memorandum of the Dutch Deputies dated August 2-12, 1653.
198. The orator was Mr. John Basset, member for Barnstaple. See Smith's Memoirs of Wool, chapter lxviii.
199. This ballad is in the British Museum. The precise year is not given; but the Imprimatur of Roger Lestrange fixes the date sufficiently for my purpose. I will quote some of the lines. The master clothier is introduced speaking as follows:
"In former ages we used to give,
So that our workfolks like farmers did live;
But the times are changed, we will make them know.
"We will make them to work hard for sixpence a day,
Though a shilling they deserve if they kind their just pay;
If at all they murmur and say 'tis too small,
We bid them choose whether they'll work at all.
And thus we forgain all our wealth and estate,
By many poor men that work early and late.
Then hey for the clothing trade! It goes on brave;
We scorn for to toyl and moyl, nor yet to slave.
Our workmen do work hard, but we live at ease,
We go when we will, and we come when we please."
200. Chamberlayne's State of England; Petty's Political Arithmetic, chapter viii.; Dunning's Plain and Easy Method; Firmin's Proposition for the Employing of the Poor. It ought to be observed that Firmin was an eminent philanthropist.
201. King in his
