 of thy life too.
    REVENGE from some baneful corner shall level a tale of dishonour at thee,
which no innocence of heart or integrity of conduct shall set right. -- The
fortunes of thy house shall totter, - thy character, which led the way to them,
shall bleed on every side of it, - thy faith questioned, - thy works belied, -
thy wit forgotten, - thy learning trampled on. To wind up the last scene of thy
tragedy, CRUELTY and COWARDICE, twin ruffians, hired and set on by MALICE in the
dark, shall strike together at all thy infirmities and mistakes: - The best of
us, my dear lad, lie open there, - and trust me, - trust me, Yorick, When to
gratify a private appetite, it is once resolved upon, that an innocent and an
helpless creature shall be sacrificed, 'tis an easy matter to pick up sticks
enew from any thicket where it has strayed, to make a fire to offer it up with.
    Yorick scarce ever heard this sad vaticination of his destiny read over to
him, but with a tear stealing from his eye, and a promissory look attending it,
that he was resolved, for the time to come, to ride his tit with more sobriety.
-- But, alas, too late! - a grand confederacy, with * * * * * and * * * * * at
the head of it, was form'd before the first prediction of it. - The whole plan
of the attack, just as Eugenius had foreboded, was put in execution all at once,
- with so little mercy on the side of the allies, - and so little suspicion in
Yorick, of what was carrying on against him, - that when he thought, good easy
man! full surely preferment was o'ripening, - they had smote his root, and then
he fell, as many a worthy man had fallen before him.
    Yorick, however, fought it out with all imaginable gallantry for some time;
till over-power'd by numbers, and worn out at length by the calamities of the
war, - but more so, by the ungenerous manner in which it was carried on, - he
threw down the sword; and though he kept up his spirits in appearance to the
last, he died, nevertheless, as was generally thought, quite broken hearted.
    What inclined Eugenius to the same opinion, was as follows:
    A few hours before Yorick breath'd his last, Eugenius stept in with an
intent to take his last sight and
