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 and eager expectations of being honourably greeted in their darkſome cells. The man of years and experience, reputed as an oracle in his generation, was content to lie down at the feet of a babe. In this houſe appointed for all living, the ſervant was equally accommodated, and lodged in the ſame ſtory with his maſter. The poor indigent lay as ſoftly, and ſlept as ſoundly, as the moſt opulent poſſeſſor. All the diſtinction that ſubſiſted, was a graſſy hillock, bound with oſiers; or a ſepulchral ſtone, ornamented with imagery.

Why then, ſaid my working thoughts, O! why ſhould we raiſe ſuch a mighty ſtir about ſuperiority and precedence, when the next remove will reduce us all so, a ſtate of equal meanneſs? Why ſhould we exalt ourſelves, or debaſe others; ſince we muſt all one day be upon a common level, and blended together in the ſame undiſtinguiſhed duſt? Oh! that this conſideration might humble my own and others pride: and ſink our imaginations as low as our habitation will ſhortly be!

Among theſe confuſed relics of humanity, there are, without doubt, perſons of contrary intereſts, and contradicting ſentiments: But death, like ſome able dayſman, has laid his hand on the contending parties, and brought all their differences to an amicable concluſion. Here enemies, ſworn enemies, dwell