[138] Odyssey, tr. Pope, Book IX. 329-332.
[139] Odyssey, tr. Pope, Book X. 133.
Other verses, by Richard Owen Cambridge, the satirist, and contemporary of Dr. Johnson, picture this Slavemonger Government:—
“Polypheme was a cannibal,
And most voracious glutton;
Poor shipwrecked tars he smoused for fish,
And munched marines for mutton.”
[140] Regicide Peace, Second Letter: Works (London, 1801), Vol. VIII. p. 161.
[141] Deuteronomy, xxviii. 65-67. See, ante, Vol. V. pp. 304, 305, where the fate of the Flying Dutchman is predicted for our Disunionists. The remarkable story of Peter Rugg, always on the road, driving furiously, but unable to find his way to Boston, illustrates the same blasted condition. Chaucer foreshadows a similar doom:—
“And breakers of the law, soth to saine,