Raff. There,-now I toil no more. While I am gone, Julio. Julio. [Raff. exit. Of Galatea to the watery shores. Some say that Orpheus-like he charm'd dull stones, Took captive; but 'tis known he sigh'd, and sang And call'd on Galatea :-She the while Lay mute, and closed-if e'er she heard his strains- He sang. and like the mateless lark call'd forth Held mournful celebration, and at eve Fatigued by sorrow and strange song,-he wept! [The Prince of Centers.] Prince. So where is Raffaelle? Julio. Prince. Prince. Julio. (Sketching.) Gone. Gone whither ?-Gone? Ay, marry? Cupid called him, and he went. H'as brought his brown girl there for summer talking. 'Sdeath! what art thou doing, sirrah? (painte.) Prince. Tried! ay, and fail'd. Get thou to Raffaelle, fellow. The scene, the groups, the-all. I will not have Bid him come here (if it must be) with his-girl, SCENE II. [Exeunt.] Will surely come, and every trooping star Bind 'em in chains, for love will fail like ice 1st. Attend. Hark! hark! Fornar. Raff. Fornar. Fornar. Raff. Fornar. Raff. Fornar. Raff 2d. Attend. Fornar. 2d. Attend. begins to sing.] He's here. Mother of love, he's here. Art come at last? I will not look on thee. Did I not hear the nightingale in the thorn, Just as I entered?-Why, what gloom is here?- Shame! Your brightness? Let rain fall, if rain must be, And straight grow clear again. Look up, sweet heart! A world of mischief in those night-black eyes, Now, art thou not The great sun Falls from his fiery strength!-This purple light, Shall we be dreaming?-Hark! The nightingale, Speaks and the woods are still. Sorrow and joy, Fill (till it faints) her song.-What sweet noise was 't The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; Come! a soft song! a song! Let me hear it. What shall it be? Sing any thing, good girl. Beauty is beauty 2d. Attend. sings. Raff. Fornar. Raff. Fornar. Raff. Fornar. Fornar. Fornar. Raff. SONG. 1. O summer river! Why dost thou prolong 2. Thou hast some rich hours, Through them may'st thou run Sleep, sweet summer river! This music falls on me like slumber, And crowns me now the toilsome day is over, Many thanks! Mocking its music, as the cuckoo's tongue She sings as you have heard. Thanks, girls' now leave us. How soft a prelude are sweet songs to love! Come nearer to me,-near. Mad Jove Ne'er loved white Leda with such amorous heat, Come nearer, thou wild witch! nearer, I say. Crimson to roses, juice to the fresh plant, I am here. And Galatea naked as the dawn. What is it that I see in those black eyes Love! 'Tis love for thee ! But, what didst paint to-day? A team of dolphins, A brace of Tritons and a crooked shell, Fornar. Raff. Julio. Raff. Julio. Raff. Julio. Raff. Shine well enough for men below the moon: But thou hast left Julio Pippi. Troth, he's as rough as winter. Here he is! Why, what has brought thee here? Oh! princely frowns, A vulgar word or two, a Roman oath. I'll paint bime with a flaming robe in Hell, Heed him not, Julio. Do I?-By the Gods, I love a quaint, wild, wonder-stirring tale. Let it be Goth or Roman, what care I, So that each line be stuff'd with witchery. Then this will suit thee. Now, mark well the story. A wondrous image stands. 'Tis broad and gaunt, And snaky hair, and large eyes all of stone; This statue, as 'tis told, was once a king, A fierce idolater, who cursed the moon And hated heaven, yet own'd some hellish sway :- Well, he was born a king, as I have said, Julio. Raff. Hunted the tyrant from his brazen throne- Oh! this is brave. [Julio exit. Farewell!-Now, sweet, to Venus's chamber! [Exeunt MR. PLUNKET AND HIS INFORMATIONS. NOTWITHSTANDING the authority of Cardinal de Retz, as to the ease with which affairs of state are directed, we are often presented with proofs, that some who superintend the direction of important offices, however simple their duties, are inadequate to the task. This may arise from various causes besides want of capacity for situations, which, in most European countries, leave little more to do than to copy forms and imitate the examples of predecessors, whether such forms and examples be adopted to the present time or not. Let political chances produce a concatenation of novel circumstances around him, and what becomes of the individual whom the world had lately deemed a constellation in the official hemisphere? He is at a nonplus immediatelythe mask is removed, and a mere common-place countenance is discovered to have been beneath it. He who looked a skilful equestrian in the management of his jog-trot hack-let him be placed upon a barb or hunter that has blood enough to curvet and prance a little, and he is speedily in the mire. The rara avis of our day is the public man whose sway, prompted by the ambition of honest fame arising from the success of well-directed efforts for the public good, finds testimony, under all circumstances, of the correctness of his views and the success of his exertions. But all men are not men of genius:-still it is reasonable to expect that those, from whose habits scarcely a greater exertion of intellect is required in public duties, than the shopkeeper or artizan displays in his daily avocations, shall be equally adequate to their business, especially if far greater things have been expected from them on the ground of past promise. Men of genius and talent may err as well as others-they may be great only in the pursuit of one absorbing object, and common-place in most besides; but they will never fail in matters intimately connected with what first fixed upon them the eyes of the world. In regard to official situations, men often accept them, when foreign to their natural habits, in consequence of not having virtue to resist the temptation of place, at the expense of past fame. Others are pushed or drop into offices through the casualties of life, to the fulfilment of which they can only pretend-honour is in a manner forced upon them. But it is a rare thing indeed when one, who has been looked up to in a particular character for a series of years-whose principles, talents, and judgment, have been highly estimated-who is elevated to an office, to which, from his former career, |