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For as in my hot youth I suffered sorrows many from love, so now I may say, like that Carthaginian queen in Maro, "miseris succurrere disco."
They were both very grateful to Newhaven; when they married they vowed to visit it twice a year, and mingle a fortnight's simple life with its simple scenes; but four years have passed, and they have never been there again, and I dare say never will; but when Viscount Ipsden falls in with a brother aristocrat who is crushed by the fiend ennui, he remembers Aberford, and condenses his famous recipe into a two-edged hexameter, which will make my learned reader laugh, for it is full of wisdom: "Diluculo surgas! miseris succurrere discas!!"
“Well, Arnobius,” he cried, “how does rhetoric proceed? are we to take the law line, or turn professor? Who’s the boy? some younger brother?” “I’ve taken pity on the little fool,” answered Arnobius; “these schoolmasters are a savage lot. I suffered enough from them myself, and ‘miseris succurrere disco.’ So I took him from under the roof of friend Rupilius, and he’s under my tutelage.
Having become famous, he turns back to them, throwing the powerful light of his art into the dark places where wretchedness and social injustice are hidden away. His generous soul has known suffering; he does not close his eyes to the sufferings of others. Haud ignara mali, miseris succurrere disco....
What man who has ever bestrode Pegasus for an hour, will be insensible to such a claim? Haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco. We are next favoured with an enumeration of the Attendants of this "debonair" Nymph, in all the minuteness of a German Dramatis Personae, or a Ropedancer's Handbill.
It would ill become my cloth and character to act dishonorably or contrary to the spirit of my religion. 'Non ignara mali miseris succurrere disco. You see, Mr.
'Non ignara mail, miseris succurrere disco, sayeth Dido, and I might say in my own person, non ignarus; but to change the gender would affect the prosody, whereof our southern subjects are tenacious. So, my Lord of Huntinglen, I trust you have acted by our advice, and studied patience before ye need it venienti occurrite morbo mix the medicament when the disease is coming on."
He is like the cabin-boy Ransome in Kidnapped, who, being treated with the grossest brutality by the officers, kept a rope's end of his own to wallop the little ones with. I do not say that this is a generous or high-hearted view of life. It would be better if he could say Miseris succurrere disco. What he rather says, to parody the words of the hermit in Edwin and Angelina, is
Thus it becomes clear that he must force his own way to happiness, without interfering with the happiness of others. SECOND MAXIM. We never pity another's woes unless we know we may suffer in like manner ourselves. "Non ignara mali, miseris succurrere disco." Virgil. I know nothing go fine, so full of meaning, so touching, so true as these words. Why have kings no pity on their people?
We had ill-formed souls enough, without spoiling those that were generous and good; so that, if we hold on, there will scarcely remain any with whom to intrust the health of this State of ours, in case fortune chance to restore it: "Hunc saltem everso juvenem succurrere seclo, Ne prohibete." Virgil, Georg., i. 500.
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