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The Egyptians were wont to do after this manner, who in the height of their feasting and mirth, caused a dried skeleton of a man to be brought into the room to serve for a memento to their guests: "Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum Grata superveniet, quae non sperabitur, hora." Where death waits for us is uncertain; let us look for him everywhere.
"Quem fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro Appone," and "Grata superveniet, quae non sperabitur, hora," he tells us in his too-little-consulted Proposal for the Poor, he had schooled himself to regard events with equanimity, striving above all, in what remained to him of life, to perform the duties of his office efficiently, and solicitous only for those he must leave behind him.
Scholars, too, I perceive you to be, witness the Latin following your signatures. Ah well, Grata superveniet quae non sperabitur hora, as the poet so truly says, and I cannot express to you how eager, how happy I am, in the thought of communicating with some one other than the natives of this desolate isle. These inhabitants, though friendly on the whole, are uncouth and barbaric.
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