[1226] Macbeth, act v. sc. 3.

[1227] Satires, x. 356.  Paraphrased by Johnson in The Vanity of Human Wishes, at the lines beginning:—­

     ’Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind,
      Obedient passions and a will resigned.’

[1228] Johnson, three days after his stroke of palsy (ante, p. 230), wrote:—­’When I waked, I found Dr. Brocklesby sitting by me.  He fell to repeating Juvenal’s ninth satire; but I let him see that the province was mine.’ Piozzi Letters, ii. 274.

[1229] Johnson, on his way to Scotland, ‘changed horses,’ he wrote, ’at Darlington, where Mr. Cornelius Harrison, a cousin-german of mine, was perpetual curate.  He was the only one of my relations who ever rose in fortune above penury, or in character above neglect.’ Piozzi Letters, i. 105.  Malone, in a note to later editions, shews that Johnson shortly before his death was trying to discover some of his poor relations.

[1230] Mr. Windham records (Diary, p. 28) that the day before Johnson made his will ’he recommended Frank to him as to one who had will and power to protect him.’  He continues, ’Having obtained my assent to this, he proposed that Frank should be called in; and desiring me to take him by the hand in token of the promise, repeated before him the recommendation he had just made of him, and the promise I had given to attend to it.

[1231] Johnson wrote five years earlier to Mrs. Thrale about her husband’s will:—­’Do not let those fears prevail which you know to be unreasonable; a will brings the end of life no nearer.’ Piozzi Letters, ii. 72.

[1232] ’IN THE NAME OF GOD.  AMEN.  I, SAMUEL JOHNSON, being in full possession of my faculties, but fearing this night may put an end to my life, do ordain this my last Will and Testament.  I bequeath to GOD, a soul polluted with many sins, but I hope purified by JESUS CHRIST. I leave seven hundred and fifty pounds in the hands of Bennet Langton, Esq.; three hundred pounds in the hands of Mr. Barclay and Mr. Perkins, brewers; one hundred and fifty pounds in the hands of Dr. Percy, Bishop of Dromore; one thousand pounds, three per cent. annuities, in the publick funds; and one hundred pounds now lying by me in ready money:  all these before-mentioned sums and property I leave, I say, to Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir John Hawkins, and Dr. William Scott, of Doctors Commons, in trust for the following uses:—­That is to say, to pay to the representatives of the late William Innys, bookseller, in St, Paul’s Church-yard, the sum of two hundred pounds; to Mrs. White, my female servant, one hundred pounds stock in the three per cent. annuitites aforesaid.  The rest of the aforesaid sums of money and property, together with my books, plate, and household furniture, I leave to the before-mentioned Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir John Hawkins, and Dr. William Scott, also in trust, to the use of Francis Barber, my man-servant, a negro, in such a manner as they shall judge most fit and available to his benefit.  And I appoint the aforesaid Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir John Hawkins, and Dr. William Scott, sole executors of this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills and testaments whatever.  In witness whereof I hereunto subscribe my name, and affix my seal, this eighth day of December, 1784.