which reason would not refuse.

Among the advantages to arise from the future years of William's
reign, he mentions a Society for Useful Arts, and among them:-


"Some that with care true eloquence shall teach,
And to just idioms fix our doubtful speech;
That from our writers distant realms may know
The thanks we to our monarchs owe,
And schools profess our tongue through every land
That has invoked his aid, or blessed his hand."


Tickell, in his "Prospect of Peace," has the same hope of a new
academy:-


"In happy chains our daring language bound,
Shall sport no more in arbitrary sound."


Whether the similitude of those passages, which exhibit the same
thought on the same occasion, proceeded from accident or imitation,
is not easy to determine. Tickell might have been impressed with
his expectation by Swift's "Proposal for Ascertaining the English
Language," then lately published.

In the Parliament that met in 1701 he was chosen representative of
East Grinstead. Perhaps it was about this time that he changed his