quarter-day came, finding the rent too bulky for him, he very fairly rubb’d off with all his effects, and left his landlord the key under the door. Without pretending to the spirit of _Nostradamus_, or _Lilly_, this I foresee, will be the fate of _Lewis le Grand_; therefore when you write next to your glorious monarch, pray give my respects to him, and bid him remember the sad destiny of the poor knife-grinder of _London_. Thus you see, Sir, how I am daily plagu’d and harrass’d by a parcel of brawny impudent rascals, and all for espousing your quarrel, and crying up the justice of your arms. For _Pluto_’s sake let me conjure your majesty to lay your commands upon _Boileau_, _Racine_, or any of your panegyrists, to instruct me how I may stop the mouths of these impertinent babblers for the future, who make Hell ten times more insupportable than otherwise it would be, and threaten to toss me in a blanket the next time I come unprovided for your defence into their company. In the mean time, humbly desiring your majesty to present my love to the _quondam_ wife of my bosom, I mean the virtuous madam _Maintenon_, who, in conjunction with your most christian majesty, now governs all _France_; and put her in mind of sending me a dozen of new shirts by the next pacquet, I remain, _Your Majesty’s most obedient, and most obliged Subject and Servant_, SCARRON. HANNIBAL _to the Victorious Prince_ EUGENE _of_ SAVOY. _By Mr._ BROWN. ’Twas with infinite satisfaction that I receiv’d the news of the happy success of your arms in _Italy_. My worthy friend _Scipio_, (for so I may justly call him, since we have dropp’d our old animosities, and now live amicably together) is eternally talking of your conduct and bravery; nay, _Alexander the Great_, who can hardly bear any competitor in the point of glory, has freely confessed, that your gallantry in passing the _Po_ and _Adige_, in the face of so powerful an enemy, falls not short of what he himself formerly shew’d upon the banks of the _Granicus_. For my part, I have a thousand obligations to you. My march over the _Alpes_, upon which I may deservedly value myself, was look’d upon here to be fabulous, till your late expedition over those rugged mountains confirm’d the belief of it. Thus neither hills nor rivers can stop the progress of your victories, and ’tis you who have found out the lucky secret, how to baffle the circumspect gravity of the _Spaniards_, and repress the furious impetuosity of the _French_. His _Gallic_ majesty, who minds keeping his word as little, as that mercenary republick of tradesmen whom it was my misfortune to serve, will find to his cost, that all the laurels he has been so long, a plundering, will at last fall to your excellency’s share; and that he has been labouring forty years together to no other purpose, than to enrich you with the spoils of his former triumphs. Go on, therefore, in the glorious track as you have begun, and be assured, that the good wishes of all the great