like Tea-drinkings, to which the women, first initiated by their Egyptian neighbours, had invited their husbands. The offering of a part, whether in meat or in drink, was an established practice of the heathen, before they proceeded to feast on the remainder. Thus, having put by a muffin, and poured out a cup of tea for the queen, or host of Heaven (the stars then beginning to appear after sunset) they proceeded to the entertainment of their guests. The least indication of such idolatry among them must have provoked the indignation of the Lord's prophet: yet it is possible the ceremony was, in effect, the mere compliment they were expected to pay to their neighbours, in return for the pleasure of sitting down with them to a luxury unknown (among the common people at least) in their own country.

That they had sugar, to put to their tea, is unquestionable, from the text in Chapter vi, Verse 20. The 'sweet cane is here said to come 'from a far country. The country, here left without a name, was probably in the East Indies-and the merchants who traded for the sugar, on behalf of the Egyptians, would not have much further to go for the Tea.

Lastly, as to how early this plant was grown and prepared as at present for use, though we may not be in possession of historical proof, conjecture may be allowed to go back to the extent of 2000 years, the great antiquity and unchanging habits of the Chinese considered.

Idolatrous as the practice of tea-drinking may have been in its origin, or as mixed with the worship of false gods, we need not suffer either this reference to it in Scripture, or the pun used by Botanists upon the Chinese name (tcha) in calling it in Latin, Thea, (Gr. for goddess) to hinder us from sipping our tea and eating our butter cakes, after a Christian sort and with Christian converse intermixed, leaving the queen of heaven and her host to find reverence where they may!

Ed.

ART. IV. STANZAS: Written after reading Brainerd's Life.

ART. V.-Lines dictated by the late Thomas Huntley, of Burford, in extreme old age; sitting on a piece of ground formerly the site of his School-room.

This spot, where Science long had rear'd her head,
Is now with Flora's blooming gifts o'erspread;
This spot, where Euclid and where Tully taught,
Is with Pomona's various fruitage fraught:
Since such the changeful state of things below;
Then seek the place where fruits immortal grow.

ART. VI. To my Cows at the approach of Winter.

Poor tenants of my little field, who pay
For the crude herb in nectar, twice a day,
And fill the bowl that swells my children's veins
'Till ruddy health in each complexion reigns,
I found you at the frozen pool, this morn,
(Bursting for drink the glassy fence) forlorn,
While each, as doubting or averse to sip
The chilling beverage, twice withdrew the lip!
Soon, too, the withering blade shall mock your bite,

Nor to their task your pliant tongues invite,
While, hid by dark manure or dazzling snow,

The soil recruits its wasted force below.

Yet, fear not Winter, I have what will stay
The tyrant Hunger's march for many a day.
For you already is the shed made warm
And closed around, against the sleety storm:
For
you the rick its daily stores shall yield,
Nor shall you languish thirsty in the field.

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And who, that owns a heart of human mould,
Could see you pine thro' months of wet and cold,
Nor give the slender succour nature craves,

Which gain'd the season's bleakest frown she braves,
Yielding unspent into the brimming pail,
Grateful, her milky streams, that else would fail?

AKT. VII.-THE MOTH: founded on a real incident.

"Go, flutterer! shun that taper's rays,
'Tis death, if thou but touch the blaze:
Go, seek the friendly night,

Where moon and stars give light,

And let those little eyes,

(That glow with harmless fire,*

Nor need refulgent skies)

Guide thee, athwart the gloom, to thy desire."

Thus Blanda, while her fair hand strove

A silly moth's defence to prove :

In vain below there stood,

In cups Chinese, the flood

Fragrant, y'clept Bohea,
And there the dazzled guest

Alights, felo de se,

And, sav'd from fire, by water sinks opprest.

And thus, where Folly's taper shines,
(What time Instruction's day declines,)
With youthful heat rais'd high

The giddy round to try,

The self-will'd, pamper'd child,

By forceful means, in vain,

Of his first ruin foil'd,

Resumes the mad attempt-nor 'scapes again!

Children! be yours the nobler flight

That courts the day and shuns the night.

So when, on full fledg'd wing,

From parent's side you spring

The world's wide waste to prove,

O'er danger you may rise,

Pure as the feather'd dove,

And as the scaly-crested serpent, wise.

The eyes of some Moths, like those of Cats, shine in the dark.

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ART. I.-The Sabbath: its obligation and right observance: account of some Magisterial errors on the subject.

(Continued from p. 296, vol. 1.)

Referring the Reader to the former part above cited for principles, let me now proceed to treat of practice; and shew how egregiously men have erred, in the estimate both of their own and their neighbours' duty, in this thing.

We will begin with an example under the Commonwealth in 1660. It is from the Life of Thomas Ellwood, a young gentleman of whose 'convincement,' and joining himself in Society with Friends, I have made mention in my last number.

"At length it pleased the Lord to move Isaac Penington and his wife to make a visit to my father, and see how it fared with me: And very welcome they were to me, whatever they were to him; to whom I doubt not but they would have been more welcome, had it not been for me.

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'They tarried with us all night, and much discourse they had with my father both about the principles of Truth in general, and me in particular; which I was not privy to. But one thing, I remember, I afterwards heard of, which was

this:

"When my father and we were at their house some months before, Mary Penington, in some discourse between them, had told him how hardly her husband's father (Alderman Penington) had dealt with him about his hat; which my father (little then thinking that it would, and so soon too, be his own case) did very much censure the Alderman for; wondering that so wise a man as he was, should take notice of such a trivial thing as the putting off, or keeping on a hat; and he spared not to blame him liberally for it.

"This gave her a handle to take hold of him by. And having had an ancient

acquaintance with him, and he having always had a high opinion of and respect for her; she, who was a woman of great wisdom, of ready speech, and of a wellresolved spirit, did press so close upon him with this home-argument, that he was utterly to seek, and at a loss how to defend himself.

"After dinner next day, when they were ready to take coach to return home, she desired my father that, since my company was so little acceptable to him, he would give me leave to go and spend some time with them, where I should be sure to be welcome.

"He was very unwilling I should go, and made many objections against it; all which she answered and removed so clearly, that not finding what excuse further to alledge, he at length left it to me and I soon turned the scale for going. "We were come to the coach side before this was concluded on, and I was ready to step in; when one of my sisters privately put my father in mind, that I had never a hat on. That somewhat startled him for he did not think it fit I should go from home (and that so far, and to stay abroad) without a hat. Wherefore he whispered to her, to fetch me a hat, and he entertained them with some discourse in the mean time. But as soon as he saw the hat coming, he would not stay till it came, lest I should put it on before him; but breaking off his discourse abruptly, took his leave of them, and hastened in before the hat was brought to me.

"I had not one penny of money about me, nor any, indeed, elsewhere. For my father, so soon as he saw that I would be a Quaker, took from me both what money I had, and every thing else of value, or that would have made money, as some plate buttons, rings, &c. pretending that he would keep them for me, till I came to myself again, lest I in the mean time should destroy them.

"But as I had no money, so being among my friends, I had no need of any, nor ever honed after it; though once upon a particular occasion I had like to have wanted it. The case was thus:

"I had been at Reading, and set out from thence on the First day of the week in the morning, intending to reach (as in point of time I well might) to Isaac Penington's, where the Meeting was to be hat day; but when I came to Maidenhead, a thorough-fair town on the way, I was stopt by the Watch for riding on that day.

"The watchman laying hold on the bridle, told me I must go with him to the constable; and accordingly I, making no resistance, suffered him to lead my horse to the Constable's door. When we were come there, the Constable told me I must go before the Warden, who was the chief officer of that town, and bid the Watchman bring me on, himself walking before.

"Being come to the Warden's door, the Constable knockt, and desired to speak with Mr. Warden. He thereupon quickly coming to the door, the Constable said, Sir, I have brought a Man here to you, whom the Watch took riding through the town.' The Warden was a budge old man; and I looked somewhat big too, having a good gelding under me, and a good riding-coat on my back, both which my friend Isaac Penington had kindly accommodated me with for that journey. The warden therefore taking me to be (as the saying is) somebody, put off his hat and made a low congee to me; but when he saw that I sate still, and neither bowed to him, nor moved my hat, he gave a start, and said to the Constable, 'You said you had brought a man, but he don't behave himself like a man.'

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"I sate still upon my horse, and said not a word, but kept my mind retired to the Lord, waiting to see what this would come to.

"The Warden then began to examine me, asking me whence I came, and whither I was going. I told him I came from Reading, and was going to Chalfont. He asked me, Why I did travel on that day! "I told him, I did not know that it would give any offence barely to ride or walk on that day, so long as I did not carry, or drive any carriage, or horses laden with burthens. Why,' said he, ‘ if your business was urgent, did you not take a pass from the Mayor of Reading?

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