sick and aged, to superintend the education of children, to do my
subjects every good office of kind intercession, to lay before me their
wants, to mediate for those who were objects of mercy, to sue for those
who deserved the favours of the Crown. And shall I banish myself for
ever from such a consort? Shall I give up her society for the brutal
joys of a sensual life, keeping indeed the exterior form of a man, but
having lost the human soul, or at least all its noble and godlike powers?
Oh, Circe, it is impossible, I can't bear the thought.

_Circe_.--Begone; don't imagine that I ask you to stay a moment longer.
The daughter of the sun is not so mean-spirited as to solicit a mortal to
share her happiness with her. It is a happiness which I find you cannot
enjoy. I pity and despise you. All you have said seems to me a jargon
of sentiments fitter for a silly woman than a great man. Go read, and
spin too, if you please, with your wife. I forbid you to remain another
day in my island. You shall have a fair wind to carry you from it. After
that may every storm that Neptune can raise pursue and overwhelm you.
Begone, I say, quit my sight.

_Ulysses_.--Great goddess, I obey, but remember your oath.



DIALOGUE VI.


MERCURY--AN ENGLISH DUELLIST--A NORTH AMERICAN SAVAGE.

_The Duellist_.--Mercury, Charon's boat is on the other side of the
water. Allow me, before it returns, to have some conversation with the