pass through your towns with acclamations.[314]

"This Englishman went on to say, you seemed at present to flag
under a satiety of success, as if you wanted misfortune as a
necessary vicissitude. Yet, alas! though men have but a cold relish
of prosperity, quick is the anguish of the contrary fortune. He
proceeded to make comparisons of times, seasons, and great
incidents. After which he grew too learned for my understanding,
and talked of Hanno the Carthaginian, and his irreconcilable hatred
to the glorious commander Hannibal. Hannibal, said he, was able to
march to Rome itself, and brought that ambitious people, which
designed no less than the empire of the world, to sue for peace in
the most abject and servile manner; when faction at home detracted
from the glory of his actions, and after many artifices, at last
prevailed with the Senate to recall him from the midst of his
victories, and in the very instant when he was to reap the benefit
of all his toils, by reducing the then common enemy of all nations
which had liberty to reason. When Hannibal heard the message of the
Carthaginian senators who were sent to recall him, he was moved
with a generous and disdainful sorrow, and is reported to have
said, 'Hannibal then must be conquered not by the arms of the
Romans, whom he has often put to flight, but by the envy and
detraction of his countrymen. Nor shall Scipio triumph so much in
his fall as Hanno, who will smile to have purchased the ruin of
Hannibal, though attended with the fall of Carthage.'[315]

"I am, Sir, &c.
"PASQUIN."

_Will's Coffee-house, June 19._

There is a sensible satisfaction in observing the countenance and action
of the people on some occasions. To gratify myself in this pleasure, I
came hither with all speed this evening with an account of the surrender
of Douay. As soon as the battle-critics[316] heard it, they immediately
drew some comfort, in that it must have cost us a great deal of men.
Others were so negligent of the glory of their country, that they went
on in their discourse on the full house which is to be at "Othello" on
Thursday, and the curiosity they should go with to see Wilks play a part
so very different from what he had ever before appeared in, together
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