_Polypth._ The Posture always to me appears a little too much strained. I can scarce throw myself into such an Attitude. Yet it is fine I must confess.
_Calloph._ You have the best View of it, Sir, from hence. Most of the Engravings I have met with give us the back View, but I think the Statue appears infinitely to the best Advantage when taken in Front. The Air of the Head is delightful, and cannot be hid without depriving the Figure of half its Life.----I am leading you now to that genteel Piece of Building which goes by the Name of the Palladian Bridge.
_Polypth._ I have seen, I think, something like it at my Lord _Pembroke_'s.
_Calloph._ I believe, Sir, the Model was taken from thence. Tho' if I remember right, the Roof is there supported by Pillars on both Sides.
_Polypth._ I think it is.----But what have we got there? You are taking me past something curious.
_Calloph._ I beg your Pardon: Indeed I had almost forgot the Imperial Closet: And I wonder I should, for I assure you I have the greatest Veneration for its Inhabitants.--There, Sir, is a noble Triumvirate. _Titus_, _Trajan_, and _Aurelius_, are Names which want not the Pomp of Title to add a Lustre to them.
_Polypth._ I wish you could persuade all the Kings in _Europe_ to take them as Patterns. But, God knows, public Spirit is now at a low Ebb amongst us: There is more of it in that single honest Sentiment, _Pro me: si merear, in me_, than I believe is to be found in this degenerate Age in half a Kingdom.
_Calloph._ I see, my good Friend, you can moralize upon Occasion too.
_Polypth._ Moralize! The D----l take me, if I would not this Moment, in spite of--
_Calloph._ Nay, come, don't grow serious: You know I have long since laid it down as a Rule, to stop my Ears when you get into your political Vein. I am not now to learn that there is no keeping you within the Bounds of Temperance upon that Topic.
_Polypth._ Well then, let us have something else to talk about.----Yon Wall at this Distance seems to promise us some Bass-relief.
_Calloph._ Yes, Sir; you are there presented with a View of the different Quarters of the World, bringing their various Products to _Britannia_. It is a pretty Ornament enough for a Bridge, which, like the Art of Navigation, joins one Land to another.