_Dionysius_ the Tyrant had made great Promises to an excellent Musician, who sung before him, and as the Musician found that they came to nothing, he complain’d to the Tyrant, who answer’d him: _Friend, What reason hast thou to complain? I paid thee the same way as thou servedst me: Thou hast tickled my Ear with pleasing Musick, and I have entertain’d thee with the Pleasure of fair Hopes, and so we are quits._ 103 _Denys_ le Tyran avoit fait de grandes promesses à un excellent Musicien qui avoit chanté devant lui, & comme le Musicien vid qu’elles n’ètoient suivies d’aucun effet, il se plaignit au Tyran, qui lui rêpondit: _Dequoi te plains tu, mon Ami? je t’ai payé de la même sorte que tu m’as servi: tu m’as chatouillé l’oreille par le plaisir de la Musique, & moi je t’ai fait goûter le plaisir des belles Esperances; ainsi nous voilà quittes_. 104 One of the Ancients said: _That the Great ones us’d all their endeavours to lose the use of their Hands and Feet, because they get others to dress and carry them_. 104 Un Ancien disoit, _que les grands faisoient tout leur possible, afin de perdre l’usage des Pieds & des Mains, parce qu’ils se font chausser, habiller, & porter par les autres_. 105 _Diogenes_ wrote upon the Foot of a golden Statue which the Curtezan _Phrine_ had erected to _Venus_, in the Temple of _Delphos_, these Words: _The Incontinency of the Grecians has rais’d this Statue_. 105 _Diogene_ écrivit sur le pied d’une Statuë d’Or que la courtisane _Phryné_ avoit presentée à _Venus_ dans le Temple de _Delphes_, ces Mots: _l’Incontinence des_ Grecs _a dressé cette Statuë_. 106 _Adrian_ the Emperour ask’d _Epictetus_ why _Venus_ was represented Naked: _Because_, answered he, _She strips those Men of every thing who court her Pleasures too much_. 106 L’Empereur _Adrien_ demandoit à _Epictete_ pourquoi on representoit _Venus_ toute nuë: _C’est_, repondit-il, _parce qu’elle depouille de tous les biens ceux qui recherchent trop ses Plaisirs_. 107 _Vespasian_ finding himself dying, to ridicule the silly Custom of the Heathens in those Times, (who rank’d the Emperours among the Gods, after they were dead) said, _I feel I become a God_. 107 _Vespasien_ qui se sentoit mourir, disoit en se moquant de la sotte coutume des Payens de ce tems-là, qui mettoient les Empereurs, après leur Mort, au nombre des Dieux: _je sens bien que je deviens Dieu_. 108 _Portia_ the Wife of _Brutus_, gave her self a great wound with a Knife, the Night before _Cesar_ was to be murder’d by her Husband, and said to those who ask’d her how that Misfortune was befallen her: _I did it on purpose, to try with what Resolution I shall suffer that Death I prepare to my self, if the design of the Conspirators miscarries_. 108