M—Magnitude, Moderation, Magnanimity. A—Affability, Affection, Attention. S—Silence, Secrecy, Security. O—Obedience, Order, Œconomy. N—Noble, Natural, Neighborly. R—Rational, Reciprocative, Receptive. Y—Yielding, Ypight (fixed), Yare (ready). Which is explained thus:— Masonry, of things, teaches how to attain their just Magnitude. To inordinate affections the art of Moderation. It inspires the soul with true Magnanimity. It also teaches us Affability. To love each other with true Affection. And to pay to things sacred a just Attention. It instructs us how to keep Silence, To maintain Secrecy, And preserve Security; Also, to whom it is due, Obedience, To observe good Order, And a commendable Œconomy. It likewise teaches us how to be worthily Noble, Truly Natural, And without reserve Neighborly. It instils principles indisputably Rational, And forms in us a disposition Reciprocative, And Receptive. It makes us, to things indifferent, Yielding, To what is absolutely necessary, perfectly Ypight, And to do all that is truly good, most willingly Yare. HEMPE. Bacon says, “The trivial prophecy which I heard when I was a child and Queen Elizabeth was in the flower of her years was— When Hempe is spun England’s done; whereby it was generally conceived that after the sovereigns had reigned which had the letters of that word HEMPE, (which were Henry, Edward, Mary, Philip, Elizabeth,) England should come to utter confusion; which, thanks be to God, is verified in the change of the name, for that the King’s style is now no more of _England_, but of _Britain_.” THE BREVITY OF HUMAN LIFE.