Que du nom de savante on honore en tous lieux, Fachez ainsi que moi de vous montrer sa fille Aspirez aux chartes qui sont dans la famille, Et vous rendez sensible aux charmantes douceurs, Que l’amour de l’etude epanches—dans les cœurs; Loin d’etre aux loix d’un homme en esclave asservie, Mariez vous, ma sœur a la philosophie, Qui nous monte au-dessus de tout le genre-humain, Et donne a la raison l’Empire Suverain. CHAP. LXIV. P. 416. Ambo florentes ætatibus. Arcades ambo Et certare pares et respondere paretiæ. By the way it may be asked, as a sort of desultory question, at what period did these same Arcadians redeem their character? In primitive times, they were considered as a mighty stupid people, celebrated, as they afterwards became, as poets. Athenæus tells us, that they despised music, and refused to receive the art among them. Lucian also, in his Treatise on Astrology, relates that they were the only people who refused and despised it, and professed themselves to be of greater antiquity than the moon. The Tragi-Comedy of the Fœminæ Concurientes, or women assembling themselves together, here concludes. CHAP. LXV. P. 421. Of the venerable personage here depicted, it may be truly said, that he Sinks to the grave by unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way, And all his prospects brightning to the last, His heaven commences ere this world be past. CHAP. LXVI. P. 427. “As one who destin’d, from his friends to part, Regrets his loss, yet hopes again, erewhile To share their converse, and enjoy their smile, And tempers, as he may, affliction’s dart. Thus loved associates, Teachers of wisdom, I now resign you, nor with fainting heart, For pass a few short years, or days, or hours, And happier seasons, may their dawn unfold, And all your sacred fellowship restore, When freed from earth, unlimited its powers, Mind, shall with mind, direct communion hold, And kindred spirits, meet to part no more.” POSTSCRIPT.