She leaves at last, or feebly mans the soul. This was changed in the second, third, fourth, and fifth editions to:— When noble aims have suffer’d long controul, They sink at last, or feebly man the soul. No product here, etc. The Swiss mercenaries, here referred to, were long famous in European warfare. They parted with a thousand kisses, And fight e’er since for pay, like Swisses. Gay’s _Aye and No, a Fable_. breasts This fine use of ‘breasts’—as Cunningham points out—is given by Johnson as an example in his Dictionary. With patient angle, trolls the finny deep. ‘Troll,’ i.e. as for pike. Goldsmith uses ‘finny prey’ in _The Citizen of the World_, 1762, ii. 99:—‘The best manner to draw up the _finny prey_.’ Cf. also ‘warbling grove,’ _Deserted Village_, l. 361, as a parallel to ‘finny deep.’ the struggling savage, i.e. wolf or bear. Mitford compares the following:—‘He is a beast of prey, and the laws should make use of as many stratagems and as much force to drive the _ reluctant savage_ into the toils, as the Indians when they hunt the hyena or the rhinoceros.’ (_Citizen of the World_, 1762, i. 112.) See also Pope’s _Iliad_, Bk. xvii:— But if the _savage_ turns his glaring eye, They howl aloof, and round the forest fly. lines 201–2 are not in the first edition. For every want, etc. Mitford quotes a parallel passage in _Animated Nature_, 1774, ii. 123:—‘Every want thus becomes a means of pleasure, in the redressing.’ Their morals, like their pleasures, are but low. Probably Goldsmith only uses ‘low’ here in its primitive sense, and not in that which, in his own day, gave so much umbrage to so many eighteenth-century students of humanity in the rough. Cf. Fielding, _Tom Jones_, 1749, iii. 6:— ‘Some of the Author’s Friends cry’d—“Look’e, Gentlemen, the Man is a Villain; but it is Nature for all that.” And all the young Critics of the Age, the Clerks, Apprentices, etc., called it _Low_ and fell a Groaning.’ See also _Tom Jones_, iv. 94, and 226–30. ‘There’s nothing comes out but the ‘most lowest’ stuff in nature’—says Lady Blarney in ch. xi of the _ Vicar_, whose author is eloquent on this topic in _The Present State of Polite Learning_, 1759, pp. 154–6, and in _She Stoops to Conquer_, 1773 (Act i); while Graves (_Spiritual Quixote_, 1772, bk. i, ch. vi) gives the fashion the scientific appellation of _ tapino-phoby,_ which he defines as ‘a dread of everything that is _low_, either in writing or in conversation.’ To Goldsmith, if we may trust George Colman’s _Prologue_ to Miss Lee’s _Chapter of Accidents_, 1780, belongs the credit of exorcising this particular form of depreciation:—