But what in Bancok greater dash Made 'mid the haut ton---lots of cash. This scheme the father greatly charmed, It gave his lady---quite alarmed At the mere mention of the Ocean.* (And did at length succeed) the attorney; And settled that the saint should pay The whole expenses of the journey. "Tis every where we see a sad age, *The Siamese have a superstitious dread of going "O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea." EUSEBIUS saith, that craft or fraud, The pious cannot but applaud, Declares-no doubt he's right about it— Some scarce would be convinced without it. . Makes physic' for the unbelieving ;* Tho' fed entirely on this physick.† The bond completed, Fiam saw 'Twas made quite good in Bancok law; As close in England as in Siam: Or nursing a Rousseau-like heart. * “Οτι δεήοει ποτὲ τῶ ψέυδει αντὶ φαρμάκου χρῆσθαί επὶ ὠφελέια τῶν δεομέ VWV TOV TOLOÚTOV трóñоν.-Euseb. Præp. Evang. 1. xii. c. 31. This doctrine of the piety of fraud is common among nearly all the primitive writers of the church. + The cunning and falsehood of the Siamese is a bitter subject of complaint with all their visitors. Now, though at Bancok, as in London, (And faith, the prettiest way to feast .) Folks there, are now but slowly learning Began to see good cause to dread it. The doating father's heart less-ah! less When left upon the world papa-less! Are merely proofs that we are vicious ;- * Rank in this life, is held by the Boudhists, as a proof of moral excellence in a former-so are all worldly blessings. In Siam and the Burman empire, a man acts as well as he can, in the hope of being made a lord after he dies-just as in certain other countries, a man acts as ill as he in the hope of being made a lord before that event. can, If coupled with an empty purse, Would be esteemed no trivial curse; And that the world would act most oddly, This foresight then, had made the father The fortune he had lost replace, Rob his boy's doom of its disgrace, And make them, with such slender labours, Nay, to nought less he could compare it, Than to the might of those who muse On man in the Zadumaharit,+ And stand three leagues—without their shoes! You'll own in Fiam not unfitting. Not so his neighbours !-long and loud * Nat-Superior beings in the Boudhist religion. The Nat of the Zadumaharit are of the most exalted order; their height is half a juzana; a juzana being six Burma leagues, and four ratoen. They were so shock'd, they scarce could speak, Especially, of course, the women all; -Were they not all confined to Siam? While thus his friends-(friends are so moral "I hear," quoth Chang, "the sorcerer's art 66 Surpasseth Reason's cramp'd believing ; "And-just look round, Ching!—for my part, "I dare say, there is some deceiving; "Yet, ere our land, our home we change, "Launch in a scheme that seems so strange, "Trust hope, and life to fortune frail, "And with our guest, in short, set sail, |