[…] in things of Fact, the People are as much to be believed, as the most subtle Philosophers and Speculators, since here sense is the Judge.

Faith! let him scape, let Love and Fame survive, / With your kind sanction keep his scenes alive; / Try to approve (applaud we will exempt), / Nor crush the bardling in this hard attempt.

MARSHALL GILKES QUINTET (Tuesday through Thursday) The resourceful young trombonist Marshall Gilkes recently released an album, “Lost Worlds” (Alternate Side), remarkable for both his easefully modern compositions and for the cohesion of this ensemble, which includes the trumpeter Michael Rodriguez and the pianist Jon Cowherd.

Pawn another man's property for the sake of a meal, eat and drink one's self to perdition, brand one's soul with the first little sear, set the first black mark against one's honour, call one's self a blackguard to one's own face, and needs must cast one's eyes down before one's self? Never! never!