"Now thou hast plung'd in Folly, Shame, Disgrace; "Now! thou?rt an Object meet for healing Grace: "No Merit thine, no Virtue, Hope, Belief, "Nothing hast thou, but Misery, Sin, and Grief, "The best, the only titles to Relief.”

"What must I do,' 1 said, my Soul to free??'.** 66 -Do nothing, Man; it will be done for thee.'...\\/ "But must I not, my reverend Guide, believe??..., {} "If thou art call'd, thou wilt the Faith receive t "But I repent not :-Angry he replied, due to "If thou art call'd, thou needest nought beside "Attend on us, and if 'tis Heaven's Decree dinl "The Call will come,if not, ah! woe for thee? 6 I "

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"There then I waited, ever on the watch, bol oz bak" "A spark of Hope, a ray of Light to catch; i buk → "His Words fell softly like the flakes of Sdow, qqulo"! "But I could never find mine Heart o'erflow: "He cried aloud, 'till in the Flock began

"The Sigh, the Tear, as caught from Man to Man;
"They wept and they rejoic'd, and there was I
"Hard as a Flint, and as the Desert dry:

"To me no Tokens of the Call would come,
"I felt my Sentence and receiv'd my Doom;
"But I complain'd-' Let thy Repinings cease,
"Oh! Man of Sin, for they thy Guilt increase;
"It bloweth where it listeth-die in peace.'
"In peace, and perish?' I replied; impart
"Some better Comfort to a burthen'd Heart.'-
"Alas!' the Priest return'd, 'can I direct

"The heavenly Call ?-Do I proclaim th' Elect?

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"Raise not thy Voice against th' Eternal Will, “But take thy part with Sinners and be still.'

"Alas! for me, no more the times of Peace "Are mine on Earth-in Death my Pains may cease.

"Foes to my Soul! ye young Seducers, know, "What serious Ills from your Amusements flow; 66 Opinions, you with so much ease profess, “O'erwhelm the Simple and their Minds oppress : "Let such be happy, nor with Reasons strong, "That make them wretched, prove their Notions wrong; "Let them proceed in that they deem the way, "Fast when they will, and at their pleasure pray :

"Yes, I have Pity for my Brethren's Lot,

"And so had Dives, but it help'd him not:

"And is it thus ?-I'm full of Doubts :-Adieu! "Perhaps bis Reverence is mistaken too."

Methought the souls of all that I had murder'd came to my tent, and every one did threat

Shakspeare. Richard III.

The time hath been,

That when the brains were out the man would die,

And there an end; but now they rise again,
With twenty mortal murders on their crowns,
And push us from our stools.

Macbeth.

PETER GRIMES.

The Father of Peter a Fisherman.-Peter's early Conduct.-His Grief for the old Man.-He-takes an Apprentice.-The Boy's Suffering and Fate.-A second Boy: how he died.-Peter acquitted. A third Apprentice.-A Voyage by Sea: the Boy does not return.-Evil Report on Peter:his is tried and threatened.-Lives alone. His Melancholy and insipient Madness.-Is observed and visited. He escapes and is taken; is lodged in a Parish-House: Women attend and watch him.— He speaks in a Delirium: grows more collected.-His Account of his Feelings and visionary Terrors previous to his Death.

OLD Peter Grimes made Fishing his employ,
His Wife he cabin'd with him and his Boy,
And seem'd that Life laborious to enjoy:

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To Town came quiet Peter with his Fish, CT And had of all a civil word and wish.

He left his Trade upon the Sabbath-Day, d

And took young Peter in his hand to pray
But soon the stubborn Boy from care broke loose,

At first refus'd, then added his abuse :

His Father's Love he scorn'd, his Power defied,
But being drunk, wept sorely when he died, lea

Yes! then he wept, and to his Mind there came
Much of his Conduct, and he felt the Shame,-
How he had oft the good old Man revil'd,
And never paid the Duty of a Child;
How, when the Father in his Bible read,

He in contempt and anger left the Shed: