, of being crush'd, insulted, and governed, whether they will or no.
Now, Sir, though I, thus alternately, sided with the People against Power, and with Power against the People; yet I struck at nothing but Faults, on either Hand; and equally asserted, on both Sides of the Question, the Cause of my Country, of Liberty, and Truth.
I took five Times the Pains with these latter Papers that I had with the Former, and yet, I confess I had not equal Pleasure in the Delivery. I am, also, persuaded, that these had more than double the Merit of the other; and, in Point of Sentiment, Moral, and general Instruction, were of twenty Times the Value to Mankind: But, how can that instruct which is not attended to? it was intimated to the People that these had been written at the Instance of their Governors; and they would not have listened to an Oracle, if uttered from that Quarter.
Six Months had now elapsed in these Lucubrations. I had delivered, to my Wife two hundred and sixty Guineas, the weekly Price of my Labours. We had lived with great Frugality.
Arabella
had, again, taken in as much Work as her Nursing and Attention to the Child would admit. And we had some Pieces left of our former Remnant; when Lord
Stivers
called in upon me, with Pleasure and good News, as it were, Prologue in his Aspect.
Mr.
Clement,
says he, I want to speak to you, apart. I had, Yesterday, some Talk with the Minister about you, and he has promised me four hundred a Year Pension for you, till something better can be done; and this is to be wholly clear and over your weekly Wages of ten Guineas, while we keep you so hard at Work. But, tell me,
Clement,
says he, laying his Hand with an affectionate Familiarity upon my Shoulder, are you of a jealous Temper? The furthest from it, my Lord, of any Man breathing. O, I'm glad of that, but, if you were, I have nothing exceptionable to propose. To be short; Half a Dozen of Noblemen, all my Friends, and People of strict Probity and Virtue, have engaged to spend a Share of To-morrow, in a Party of Pleasure upon the
Thames;
and, we have, each of us, laid a Bet of a hundred Guineas, that, from the Number of his Relations, his Friends, or Acquaintance, he will bring
