The modern Quakers come as near the mark in these cases as they can. They do not go to plays, but they are great attenders of spouting-clubs and lectures. They do not frequent concerts, but run after pictures. We do not know exactly how they stand with respect to the circulating libraries. A Quaker poet would be a literary phenomenon. Footnote 41: We have made the above observations, not as theological partisans, but as natural historians. We shall some time or other give the reverse of the picture; for there are vices inherent in establishments and their thorough-paced adherents, which well deserve to be distinctly pointed out. Footnote 42: Is all this a rhodomontade, or literal matter of fact, not credible in these degenerate days? Footnote 43: One of the most interesting traits of the amiable simplicity of Walton, is the circumstance of his friendship for Cotton, one of the ‘swash-bucklers’ of the age. Dr. Johnson said there were only three works which the reader was sorry to come to the end of, _Don Quixote_, _Robinson Crusoe_, and the _Pilgrim’s Progress_. Perhaps Walton’s _Angler_ might be added to the number. Footnote 44: Oxberry’s manner of acting this character is a very edifying comment on the text: he flings his arms about, like those of a figure pulled by strings, and seems actuated by a pure spirit of infatuation, as if one blast of folly had taken possession of his whole frame, ‘And filled up all the mighty void of sense.’ Footnote 45: The following lines are remarkable for a certain cloying sweetness in the repetition of the rhymes: _Titania._ Be kind and courteous to this gentleman; Hop in his walks, and gambol in his eyes; Feed him with apricocks and dewberries, With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries; The honey-bags steal from the humble bees, And for night tapers crop their waxen thighs, And light them at the fiery glow-worm’s eyes, To have my love to bed, and to arise: And pluck the wings from painted butterflies, To fan the moon beams from his sleeping eyes;’ Nod to him, elves, and do him courtesies.’ Footnote 46: