Time’s thievish progress to eternity;

Look, what thy memory cannot contain,

Commit to these waste blanks, and thou shall find

Those children nursed delivered from thy brain

To take a new acquaintance of thy mind.

These offices so oft as thou wilt look,

Will profit thee, and much enrich thy book.

Shakspere.

But what strange art, what magic can dispose

The troubled mind to change its native woes,