A TALE OF 1688,

BY THE

AUTHOR OF "BRAMBLETYE HOUSE," &c. &c.

Remember, O my friends! the laws, the rights,
The generous plan of power delivered down,
From age to age, by your renown'd forefathers:
O let it never perish in your hands,
But piously transmit it to your children!

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

CATO.

OF

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN AND RICHARD BENTLEY,

NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY,

Dorset Street, Fleet Street.

UNIV.

WALTER COLYTON.

CHAPTER I.

Do not weep. What is it?

I had spoke at first, but that

I held it most unfit for you to know:

Faith! do not know it yet.

Thou seest my love, that will keep company

With thee in tears: hide nothing then from me.
The Maid's Tragedy.

THE Squire had passed so many years in supine indolence and tranquil enjoyment, both of mind and body; he had been so perfectly indifferent to all the cares and troubles of others, provided his own affairs flourished, and his own personal comforts were secured to him; he had so long and so completely verified the French