"When pulpit drum ecclesiastic
Was beat with fist instead of a stick."
—"Hudibras," Part I. c. i. line 10.
[86] Cf. No. 130, Advertisements. The dangers of the streets at the beginning of the eighteenth century are described in Gay's "Trivia," iii. 335 seq.
[87] "Iliad," i. 249.
[88] Milton says of Belial ("Paradise Lost," ii. 112):
"But all was false and hollow, though his tongue
Dropped manna, and could make the worse appear
The better cause."
No. 133.
[Addison.
Saturday, Feb. 11, to Tuesday, Feb. 14, 1709-10.