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MEAN AND GREAT FIGURES, made by several Perfons.

Of those who have made GREAT FIGURES in Some particular Action, or Circumftance of

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LEXANDER the Great, after his victory, [at the Streights of Mount Taurus] when he entered the tent where the Queen and the Princeffes of Perfia fell at his feet.

Socrates, the whole laft day of his life, and particularly from the time he took the poifon to the moment he expired.

Cicero, when he was recalled from his banishment; the people, through every place he paffed, meeting him with fhouts of joy and congratulation, and all Rome coming out to receive him.

Regulus, when he went out of Rome attended by his friends to the gates, and returned to Carthage according to his word Bb 2

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of honour, although he knew he must be put to a cruel death, for advising the Romans to pursue their war with that commonwealth.

Scipio the Elder, when he difmiffed a beautiful captive lady, prefented to him after a great victory, turning his head afide to preferve his own virtue.

The fame Scipio, when he and Hannibal met before the battle, if the fact be true.

Cincinnatus, when the meffengers, fent by the fenate to make him Dictator, found him at the plough.

Epaminondas, when the Perfian Ambaffador came to his houfe, and found him in the midst of poverty.

The Earl of Strafford, the day that he made his own defence at his trial.

King Charles the Martyr, during his whole trial, and at his death.

The Black Prince, when he waited at fupper on the King of France, whom he had conquered and taken prifoner the fame day.

Virgil,

Virgil, when, at Rome, the whole audience rose up, out of veneration, as he entered the theatre.

Mahomet the Great, when he cut off his beloved miftrefs's head, on a stage erected for that purpose, to convince his földiers, who taxed him for preferring his love to his glory.

Cromwell, when he quelled a mutiny in Hide-Park.

Harry the Great of France, when he entered Paris, and fat at cards the fame night with some great ladies, who were his mortal enemies.

Robert Harley Earl of Oxford, at his trial.

Cato of Utica, when he provided for the fafety of his friends, and had determined to die.

Sir Thomas More, during his imprisonment, and at his execution.

Marius, when the foldier, fent to kill him in the dungeon, was ftruck with fo Bb 3

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much awe and veneration, that his fword fell from his hand.

Douglas, when the fhip he commanded was on fire, and he lay down to die in it, because it should not be faid, that one of his family ever quitted their post.

Sir Jerom Bows,

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Of thofe who have made a mean contemptible Figure, in fome Action or Circumflance of their Lives.

Antony, at Actium, when he fled after Cleopatra.

Pompey, when he was killed on the fea-fhore in Egypt.

Nero and Vitellius, when they were put to death,

Lepidus, when he was compelled to lay down his fhare of the triumvirate.

Cromwell, the day he refufed the Kingfhip out of fear.

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Perfeus King of Macedon, when he was led in triumph.

Richard II. of England, after he was depofed,

The late King of Poland, when the King of Sweden forced him to give up his kingdom; and when he took it again upon the King of Sweden's defeat by the Mufcovites.

King James II. of England, when the Prince of Orange fent to him at midnight to leave London,

King William III. of England, when he fent to beg the Houfe of Commons to continue his Dutch guards, and was refused.

The late Queen Anne of England, when fhe fent Whitworth to Mufcovy on an embaffy of humiliation, for an infult committed here on that Prince's ambaffador.

The Lord Chancellor Bacon, when he was convicted of bribery,