use which I knew not I searched out. Did
not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the
poor? Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine
integrity. If I did despise the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-
servant when they contended with me: What then shall I do when God riseth
up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? Did not he that made
me in the womb, make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? If I
have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the
widow to fail; Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless
hath not eaten thereof; If I have seen any perish for want of clothing,
or any poor without covering; If his loins have not blessed me, and if he
were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; If I have lifted my hand
against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: Then let mine arm
fall from my shoulder-blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone. If I
[have] rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up
myself when evil found him: Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin, by
wishing a curse to his soul. The stranger did not lodge in the street;
but I opened my doors to the traveller. If my land cry against me, or
that the furrows likewise thereof complain: If I have eaten the fruits
thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their
life: Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley."

A GRINNING MATCH.

--_Remove fera monstra_, _tuaeque_
_Saxificos vultus_, _quaecunque ea_, _tolle Medusae_.

OVID, _Met._ v. 216.

Hence with those monstrous features, and, O! spare
That Gorgon's look, and petrifying stare.

POPE.

In a late paper, I mentioned the project of an ingenious author for the
erecting of several handicraft prizes to be contended for by our British
artisans, and the influence they might have towards the improvement of
our several manufactures. I have since that been very much surprised by
the following advertisement, which I find in the _Post-boy_ of the 11th
instant, and again repeated in the _Post-boy_ of the 15th:--

"On the 9th of October next will be run for upon Coleshill-heath, in
Warwickshire, a plate of six guineas value, three heats, by any horse,
mare, or gelding that hath not won above the value of 5 pounds, the
winning horse to be sold for 10 pounds, to carry 10 stone weight, if