interests, and as it always happens to other monarchs when they are able to surmount an insurrection form’d against them, I look upon your throne, since you have so happily broke the neck of this rebellion, to be settled upon a surer basis than ever. The Parish-clerks, sextons, and old women, all over the kingdom are in a particular manner devoted to your service, preserving a most entire and unshaken allegiance to you, and on my conscience would sooner part with all _magna charta_ than one syllable of yours. You wonderfully revive my spirits, replies old _Hopkins_, to tell me such comfortable news, but pray, Sir, one word more with you; This new translation that has made such a noise in the world, is it so much superior to mine, as my enemies here would make me believe? Mr. _Hopkins_, says I, I flatter no man, ’tis not my way, therefore you must not take amiss what I am going to say to you. For my part I am of opinion, that king _David_ is not oblig’d to any of you, but ought to cudgel you all round; for I can find no other difference between the _Jewish_ monarch in his ancient collar of _ekes_ and _ayes_, which you and your brethren there have bestow’d upon him, and in his new-fashion’d _Irish_ dress, than there is between an old man of threescore with a long beard hanging down to his waste, and the same individual old man newly come out of a barber’s shop nicely shav’d and powder’d. ’Tis true, he looks somewhat gayer and youth-fuller, but has not a jot more vigour and ability.