expense of the community; and they became, under assiduous
training, the first soldiers in Greece. They were constantly
victorious till they were opposed to Philip's admirably
disciplined phalanx at Charonea; and even at Chaeronea they were
not defeated but slain in their ranks, fighting to the last. It
was this band, directed by the skill of great captains, which
gave the decisive blow to the Lacedaemonian power. It is to be
observed that there was no degeneracy among the Lacedaemonians.
Even down to the time of Pyrrhus they seem to have been in all
military qualities equal to their ancestors who conquered at
Plataea. But their ancestors at Plataea had not such enemies to
encounter.

FN 3 L'Hermitage, Dec. 3/13 7/17, 1697.

FN 4 Commons' Journals, Dec. 3. 1697. L'Hermitage, Dec 7/17.

FN 5 L'Hermitage, Dec. 15/24., Dec. 14/24., Journals.

FN 6 The first act of Farquhar's Trip to the Jubilee, the
passions which about his time agitated society are exhibited with
much spirit. Alderman Smuggler sees Colonel Standard and
exclaims, "There's another plague of the nation a red coat and
feather." "I'm disbanded," says the Colonel. "This very morning,
in Hyde Park, my brave regiment, a thousand men that looked like
lions yesterday, were scattered and looked as poor and simple as
the herd of deer that grazed beside them." "Fal al deral!" cries
the Alderman: "I'll have a bonfire this night, as high as the
monument." "A bonfire!" answered the soldier; "then dry,
withered, ill nature! had not those brave fellows' swords'