Fortune, that with malicious joy
Does man, her slave, oppress,
Proud of her office to destroy,

Is seldom pleased to bless :
Still various, and unconstant still,
But with an inclination to be ill,
Promotes, degrades, delights in strife,

And makes a lottery of life.

I can enjoy her while she's kind;

-But when she dances in the wind,

And shakes the wings, and will not stay,

I puff the prostitute away:

The little or the much she gave, is quietly resigned;

Content with poverty my soul I arm,

And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
HORACE BY DRYDEN.

TEN

THOUSAND A-YEAR.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

Fortuna sævo læta negotio, et
Ludum insolentem ludere pertinax,
Transmutat incertos honores,

Nunc mihi, nunc alii benigna.
Laudo manentem. Si celeres quatit
Pennas, resigno quæ dedit, et mea
Virtute me involvo, probamque
Pauperiem sine dote quæro.

HORACE.

VOL. I.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS,
EDINBURGH AND LONDON.

M.DCCC. XLI.

EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND HUGHES

PAUL'S WORK, CANONGATE.

ΤΟ

EMILY,

A LITTLE BLUE-EYED LAUGHING IMAGE OF PURITY AND HAPPINESS,

THESE VOLUMES ARE INSCRIBED,

AS A SLIGHT MEMORIAL OF A FATHER'S AFFECTION FOR

October 1841.

AN ONLY DAUGHTER.