R—Rational, Reciprocative, Receptive.
Y—Yielding, Ypight (fixed), Yare (ready).
Which is explained thus:—
| Masonry, of things, teaches how to attain their just | Magnitude. |
| To inordinate affections the art of | Moderation. |
| It inspires the soul with true | Magnanimity. |
| It also teaches us | Affability. |
| To love each other with true | Affection. |
| And to pay to things sacred a just | Attention. |
| It instructs us how to keep | Silence, |
| To maintain | Secrecy, |
| And preserve | Security; |
| Also, to whom it is due, | Obedience, |
| To observe good | Order, |
| And a commendable | Œconomy. |
| It likewise teaches us how to be worthily | Noble, |
| Truly | Natural, |
| And without reserve | Neighborly. |
| It instils principles indisputably | Rational, |
| And forms in us a disposition | Reciprocative, |
| And | Receptive. |
| It makes us, to things indifferent, | Yielding, |
| To what is absolutely necessary, perfectly | Ypight, |
| And to do all that is truly good, most willingly | Yare. |
HEMPE.
Bacon says, “The trivial prophecy which I heard when I was a child and Queen Elizabeth was in the flower of her years was—
When Hempe is spun
England’s done;
whereby it was generally conceived that after the sovereigns had reigned which had the letters of that word HEMPE, (which were Henry, Edward, Mary, Philip, Elizabeth,) England should come to utter confusion; which, thanks be to God, is verified in the change of the name, for that the King’s style is now no more of England, but of Britain.”