When I lay me down to sleep, I recommend myself to His
care; when I awake, I give myself up to His direction. Amidst all
the evils that threaten me, I will look up to Him for help, and
question not but He will either avert them, or turn them to my
advantage. Though I know neither the time nor the manner of the
death I am to die, I am not at all solicitous about it; because I am
sure that he knows them both, and that He will not fail to comfort
and support me under them.
OPERA LIONS.
Dic mihi, si fias tu leo, qualis eris?
MART., xii. 93.
Were you a lion, how would you behave?
There is nothing that of late years has afforded matter of greater
amusement to the town than Signior Nicolini's combat with a lion in
the Haymarket, which has been very often exhibited to the general
satisfaction of most of the nobility and gentry in the kingdom of
Great Britain. Upon the first rumour of this intended combat, it
was confidently affirmed, and is still believed, by many in both
galleries, that there would be a tame lion sent from the tower every
opera night in order to be killed by Hydaspes. This report, though
altogether groundless, so universally prevailed in the upper regions
of the playhouse, that some of the most refined politicians in those
parts of the audience gave it out in whisper that the lion was a
cousin-german of the tiger who made his appearance in King William's
days, and that the stage would be supplied with lions at the public
expense during the whole session.
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