[Footnote 1: "To whisper in books," says Mr D--s, "is arrant nonsense." I am afraid this learned man does not sufficiently understand the extensive meaning of the word whisper. If he had rightly understood what is meant by the "senses whisp'ring the soul," in the Persian Princess, or what "whisp'ring like winds" is in Aurengzebe, or like thunder in another author, he would have understood this. Emmeline in Dryden sees a voice, but she was born blind, which is an excuse Panthea cannot plead in Cyrus, who hears a sight: --------Your description will surpass All fiction, painting, or dumb shew of horror, That ever ears yet heard, or eyes beheld. When Mr D--s understands these, he will understand whispering in books. ] _Dood_. Then 'tis a gristle of no mortal kind; Some God, my Noodle, stept into the place Of Gaffer Thumb, and more than [1]half begot This mighty Tom. [Footnote 1: Some ruffian stept into his father's place, And more than half begot him.--_Mary Queen of Scots_] _Nood_.--[1] Sure he was sent express From Heaven to be the pillar of our state. Though small his body be, so very small A chairman's leg is more than twice as large, Yet is his soul like any mountain big; And as a mountain once brought forth a mouse, [2] So doth this mouse contain a mighty mountain. [Footnote 1: For Ulamar seems sent express from Heaven, To civilize this rugged Indian clime.--_Liberty Asserted_] [Footnote 2: "Omne majus continet in se minus, sed minus non in se majus continere potest," says Scaliger in Thumbo. I suppose he would have cavilled at these beautiful lines in the Earl of Essex: ----Thy most inveterate soul, That looks through the foul prison of thy body. And at those of Dryden: The palace is without too well design'd; Conduct me in, for I will view thy mind.--_Aurengzebe_. ] _Dood_. Mountain indeed! So terrible his name, [1]The giant nurses frighten children with it, And cry Tom Thumb is come, and if you are Naughty, will surely take the child away. [Footnote 1: Mr Banks hath copied this almost verbatim: It was enough to say, here's Essex come, And nurses still'd their children with the fright. --_Earl of Essex_. ] _Nood_. But hark! [1]these trumpets speak the king's approach. [Footnote 1: The trumpet in a tragedy is generally as much as to say, Enter king, which makes Mr Banks, in one of his plays, call it the trumpet's formal sound.] _Dood_. He comes most luckily for my petition. [_Flourish_. SCENE II.--KING, QUEEN, GRIZZLE, NOODLE, DOODLE, FOODLE. _King_. [1] Let nothing but a face of joy appear; The man who frowns this day shall lose his head, That he may have no face to frown withal. Smile Dollallolla--Ha! what wrinkled sorrow [2] Hangs, sits, lies, frowns upon thy knitted brow? Whence flow those tears fast down thy blubber'd cheeks, Like a swoln gutter, gushing through the streets?