What, glad to go? stay, devils, and be still; 'Tis to your uncle's cot you wish to run, To learn to live at ease and be undone; 210 Him you can love, who lost his whole estate, And I, who gain you fortunes, have your hate; 'Tis in my absence you yourselves enjoy: Tom! are you glad to lose me? tell me, boy: 'Yes!' does he answer?"--"'Yes!' upon my soul;" "No awe, no fear, no duty, no control! Away! away! ten thousand devils seize All I possess, and plunder where they please! What's wealth to me?--yes, yes! it gives me sway, And you shall feel it--Go! begone, I say." 220 NOTES TO LETTER VIII. [53] Note 1, page 358, line 8. _Is "Harmony in Uproar" all day long._ The title of a short piece of humour by Arbuthnot. [54] Note 2, page 360, line 90. _Nor less the place of curious plant he knows._ In botanical language, "_the habitat_," the favourite soil or situation of the more scarce species. [55] Note 3, page 360, line 102. _This is no shaded, run-off, pin-eyed thing._ This, it must be acknowledged, is contrary to the opinion of Thomson, and I believe of some other poets, who, in describing the varying hues of our most beautiful flowers, have considered them as lost and blended with each other; whereas their beauty, in the eye of a florist (and I conceive in that of the uninitiated also), depends upon the distinctness of their colours: the stronger the bounding line, and the less they break into the neighbouring tint, so much the richer and more valuable is the flower esteemed. [56] Note 4, page 360, line 102. _Pin-eyed._ An auricula, or any other single flower, is so called when the _stigma_ (the part which arises from the seed-vessel) is protruded beyond the tube of the flower, and becomes visible. [57] Note 5, page 360, line 105. _Which shed such beauty on my faire Bizarre._ This word, so far as it relates to flowers, means those variegated with three or more colours irregularly and indeterminately. LETTER IX. _AMUSEMENTS._ Interpone tuis interdum gaudia curis, Ut possis animo quemvis sufferre laborem. [_(Dionys.) Cato de Moribus._ III. 7.] ... nostra [fatiscit] Laxaturque chelys; vires instigat alitque Tempestiva quies, major post otia virtus. _Statius, Sylv._ lib. IV. [4, vv. 32-3]. Jamque mare et tellus nullum discrimen habebant; Omnia pontus [erat]: deerant quoque littora ponto. _Ovid. Metamorph._ lib. I [vv. 291-2].