'Sir, 'They tell me, the busy part of the nation are not more busy about Whig and Tory; than these idle-fellows of the feather, about Mr. Tickell's and my translation.

The idlers amidships were a totally different classa mongrel scum, profanely chatting in Spanish, or swaggering about the deck, their very looks a challenge.

If they saturate their minds with the idler books, the "good book," which Milton calls "an immortality rather than a life," is dead to them: it is a book sealed up and buried.

Till with a sudden bound of smart reproach, Such as an idler deals with in his shame, I to the sport betook myself again.

AN APOLOGY FOR IDLERS NOTES III AES TRIPLEX NOTES IV TALK AND TALKERS NOTES V

But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortunes gates, And conquers its desire.