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DIALOGUES
CHARLES.
I muR consefs you excelled me in Conduct, in Policy, and
in true Magnanimity. But my Liberality was not inferior
to youss; and neither you nor any Mortal ever lurpaHed
me in the Enthuiiasm of Courage. I was also Bee from
those Vices which lullied your Chara&er. I never was drunk;
I killed no Friend in the Riot of aFeaR; Hired no Palace at
the InRigation of a Harlot.
ALEXANDER.
It may perhaps be admitted as some Excuse for myDrunk-
enness, that the Persians eReemed it an Excellence in their
Kings to be able to drink a great quantity of Wine, and
the Macedonians were far from thinking it a Dishonour.
But you were as frantic, und as cruel, when sober, as I was,
when drunk. You were sober when you resolved to conti-
nue in Turkey against the Will of your Holt, the .Agwr.
You were sober when you commanded the unfortunate Pat-
kull, whole only crime was his having maintainedtheLiberties
os his Country, and who bore the iacred Character of anEm-
baBador, to be broken alive on the Wheel, against the Laws of
Nations, and those of Humanity, more inviolable Rill to a ge-
nerous Mind. You were iikewile sober when you wrote! to
the Senate of Sweden, who, upon a Report of yourDeatb,
endeavoured to take some care of your Kingdom, yoK
KW/Zns fLa Ar,
rc A; Gcu'^77-
An itisult much worse than any the Macedonians com-
plained of from me, when I was moR heated with Wine and
with Adulation! As for my ChaRity, it was not so perseA
as youss, though on someOccasions I obtained great Praisc
for my Continence: but, perhaps, is you had been not quite
sb insenlible to the Charms of the fair Sex, it would have miti-
gated and sostened the Fierceness, the Pride, and the ObRi-
nacy of your Nature.
CHARLES.
It would have softened me into a Woman, or, what I
think Rill more contemptible, the Slave of a Woman. But
you seem to inlinuate that you never were cruel or Rantic
unless when you were not drunk ; This I absolutely deny. —
You were not drunk, when you crucified Hephmition'sPhy-
sician, for not curing a Man who killed himself by his In-
temperance in his Sickness; nor when you lacrihced to the
Ma-
DIALOGUES
CHARLES.
I muR consefs you excelled me in Conduct, in Policy, and
in true Magnanimity. But my Liberality was not inferior
to youss; and neither you nor any Mortal ever lurpaHed
me in the Enthuiiasm of Courage. I was also Bee from
those Vices which lullied your Chara&er. I never was drunk;
I killed no Friend in the Riot of aFeaR; Hired no Palace at
the InRigation of a Harlot.
ALEXANDER.
It may perhaps be admitted as some Excuse for myDrunk-
enness, that the Persians eReemed it an Excellence in their
Kings to be able to drink a great quantity of Wine, and
the Macedonians were far from thinking it a Dishonour.
But you were as frantic, und as cruel, when sober, as I was,
when drunk. You were sober when you resolved to conti-
nue in Turkey against the Will of your Holt, the .Agwr.
You were sober when you commanded the unfortunate Pat-
kull, whole only crime was his having maintainedtheLiberties
os his Country, and who bore the iacred Character of anEm-
baBador, to be broken alive on the Wheel, against the Laws of
Nations, and those of Humanity, more inviolable Rill to a ge-
nerous Mind. You were iikewile sober when you wrote! to
the Senate of Sweden, who, upon a Report of yourDeatb,
endeavoured to take some care of your Kingdom, yoK
KW/Zns fLa Ar,
rc A; Gcu'^77-
An itisult much worse than any the Macedonians com-
plained of from me, when I was moR heated with Wine and
with Adulation! As for my ChaRity, it was not so perseA
as youss, though on someOccasions I obtained great Praisc
for my Continence: but, perhaps, is you had been not quite
sb insenlible to the Charms of the fair Sex, it would have miti-
gated and sostened the Fierceness, the Pride, and the ObRi-
nacy of your Nature.
CHARLES.
It would have softened me into a Woman, or, what I
think Rill more contemptible, the Slave of a Woman. But
you seem to inlinuate that you never were cruel or Rantic
unless when you were not drunk ; This I absolutely deny. —
You were not drunk, when you crucified Hephmition'sPhy-
sician, for not curing a Man who killed himself by his In-
temperance in his Sickness; nor when you lacrihced to the
Ma-