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'Called at the post-office just now, and found this here letter, as has laid there for two days, replied Mr. Weller. 'It's sealed vith a vafer, and directed in round hand. 'I don't know this hand, said Mr. Pickwick, opening the letter. 'Mercy on us! what's this? It must be a jest; it it can't be true. 'What's the matter? was the general inquiry.
Omne vafer vitium ridenti tangit amico? Who sportingly never leaveth, until he make a man laugh at folly, and at length ashamed, to laugh at himself: which he cannot avoid, without avoiding the folly. Who while Circum pracordia ludit, giveth us to feel, how many headaches a passionate life bringeth us to. How when all is done,
O'Dowd, Major Pendennis, and Colonel Newcome. The epithet "Vafer" applied to Horace by Persius is not inapplicable to Addison. There is a slyness about some of his sketches which breathes something of the Horatian facetiousness. It is remarkable that in all this long and varied criticism Walpole scarcely mentions wit, which he seems to allow to no one but Horace and Boileau.
"Omne vafer vitium ridenti Flaccus amico Tangit, et admissus circum praecordia ludit." This was the commendation which Persius gave him; where by vitium he means those little vices which we call follies, the defects of human understanding, or at most the peccadilloes of life, rather than the tragical vices to which men are hurried by their unruly passions and exorbitant desires.
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