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behold on that occasion. There lay in the body of Some indeed will affirm that they are a kind of Perithe piece a Venus, (under a purple canopy furled patetics, because we see them continually walking with curious wreaths of drapery,) half naked, attend-about. But I would have these gentlemen consider, ed with a train of Cupids, who were busied in fan- that though the ancient Peripatetics walked much, ning her as she slept. Behind her was drawn a yet they wrote much also; witness to the sorrow of satyr peeping over the silken fence, and threatening this sect, Aristotle and others: whereas it is nototo break through it. I frequently offered to turn rious that most of our professors never lay out a farmy sight another way, but was still detained by the thing either in pen, ink, or paper. Others are for fascination of the Peeper's eyes, who had long prac-deriving them from Diogenes, because several of the tised a skill in them to recal the parting glances of leading men of the sect have a great deal of cynical her beholders. You see my complaint, and I hope humour in them, and delight much in sunshine. you will take these mischievous people, the Peepers, But then, again, Diogenes was content to have his into your consideration. I doubt not but you will constant habitation in a narrow tub, whilst our phithink a Peeper as much more pernicious than a losophers are so far from being of his opinion, that Starer, as an ambuscade is more to be feared than it is death to them to be confined within the limits an open assault. of a good handsome convenient chamber but for half an hour. Others there are, who from the clearness of their heads deduce the pedigree of loungers from that great man (I think it was either Plato or Sofessed, that all he then knew was, that he knew crates) who, after all his study and learning, pronothing. You easily see this is but a shallow argument, and may be soon confuted.

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"I am, Sir, your most obedient servant." This Peeper using both fan and eyes, to be considered as a Pict, and proceed accordingly. "KING LATINUS TO THE SPECTATOR, GREETING, Though some may think we descend from our imperial dignity in holding correspondence with a private literato, yet as we have great respect to all good intentions for our service, we do not esteem it Beneath us to return you our royal thanks for what you published in our behalf, while under confinement in the enchanted castle of the Savoy, and for your mention of a subsidy for a prince in misfortune. This your timely zeal has inclined the hearts of divers to be aiding unto us, if we could propose the We have taken their good will into consideration, and have contrived a method which will be easy to those who shall give the aid, and not unacceptable to us who receive it. A concert of music shall be prepared at Haberdasher's hall, for Wednesday the second of May, and we will honour the said entertainment with our own presence, where each person shall be assessed but at two shillings and sixpence. What we expect from you is, that you publish these our royal intentions, with injunction that they be read at all tea-tables within the cities of London and Westminster; and so we bid you heartily farewell. "LATINUS,

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King of the Volscians. "Given at our court in Vinegar-yard, Story the third from the earth, April 28, 1711." R.

No. 54.] WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1711.

Strenua nos exercet inertia.-HOR. 1. Ep. xi. 29. Laborious idleness our powers employs.

THE following letter being the first that I have received from the learned university of Cambridge, I could not but do myself the honour of publishing it. It gives an account of a new sect of philosophers which has arose in that famous residence of learning; and is, perhaps, the only sect this age is likely to produce.

"MR. SPECTATOR, Cambridge, April 26. "Believing you to be a universal encourager of liberal arts and sciences, and glad of any information from the learned world, I thought an account of a sect of philosophers very frequent among us, but not taken notice of, as far as I can remember, by any writers, either ancient or modern, would not be unacceptable to you. The philosophers of this sect are, in the language of our university, called loungers. I am of opinion that, as in many other things, so likewise in this, the ancients have been defective, viz., in mentioning no philosophers of this sort.

observations from time to time upon these sages;
"I have with great pains and industry made my
and having now all materials ready, am compiling a
treatise, wherein I shall set forth the rise and pro-
gress of this famous sect, together with their maxims,
austerities, manner of living, &c. Having prevailed
with a friend who designs shortly to publish a new
edition of Diogenes Laertius, to add this treatise of
mine by way of supplement, I shall now, to let the
world see what may be expected from me (first beg-
ging Mr. Spectator's leave that the world may see
and then subscribe myself your humble servant. In
it,) briefly touch upon some of my chief observations,
the first place I shall give you two or three of their
maxims: the fundamental one, upon which their
whole system is built, is this, viz. That Time being
an implacable enemy to, and destroyer of, all things,
ought to be paid in his own coin, and be destroyed
and murdered without mercy, by all the ways that
can be invented.' Another favourite saying of theirs
is, That business was designed only for knaves,
ludicrous one, but has a great effect upon their lives;
and study for blockheads.' A third seemed to be a
and is this, That the devil is at home.' Now for
their manner of living and here I shall have a
large field to expatiate in; but I shall reserve parti-
culars for my intended discourse, and now only men-
tion one or two of their principal exercises. The
elder proficients employ themselves in inspecting
mores hominum multorum, in getting acquainted with
all the signs and windows in the town. Some are
arrived at so great knowledge, that they can tell
every time any butcher kills a calf, every time any
old woman's cat is in the straw, and a thousand
other matters as important. One ancient philoso-
pher contemplates two or three hours every day over
a sun-dial! and is true to the dial,

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Cambridge. They were ever looked upon as a people that impaired themselves more by their strict application to the rules of their order, than any other students whatever. Others seldom hurt themselves any farther than to gain weak eyes, and sometimes head-aches; but these philosophers are seized all over with a general inability, indolence, and weariness, and a certain impatience of the place they are in, with a heaviness in removing to another.

The loungers are satisfied with being merely part of the number of mankind, without distinguishing themselves from amongst them. They may be said rather to suffer their time to pass than to spend it, without regard to the past, or prospect of the future. All they know of life is only the present instant, and do not taste even that. When one of this order happens to be a man of fortune, the expense of his time is transferred to his coach and horses, and his life is to be measured by their motion, not his own enjoyments or sufferings. The chief entertainment one of these philosophers can possibly propose to himself, is to get a relish of dress. This, methinks, might diversify the person he is weary of (his own dear self) to himself. I have known these two amusements make one of these philosophers make a very tolerable figure in the world; with variety of dresses in public assemblies in town, and quick motion of his horses out of it, now to Bath, now to Tunbridge, then to Newmarket, and then to London, he has in process of time brought it to pass, that his coach and his horses have been mentioned in all those places. When the loungers leave an academic life, and, instead of this more elegant way of appearing in the polite world, retire to the seats of their ancestors, they usually join in a pack of dogs, and employ their days in defending their poultry from foxes. I do not know any other method, that any of this order has ever taken to make a noise in the world; but I shall inquire into such about this town as have arrived at the dignity of being loungers by the force of natural parts, without having ever seen a university; and send my correspondent, for the embellishment of his book, the names and history of those who pass their lives without any incidents at all; and how they shift coffee-houses and chocolatehouses from hour to hour, to get over the insupportable labour of doing nothing.-R.

No. 55.1 THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1711.

Baro, regustatum digito terebrare salinum
Contentus perages, si vivere cum Jove tendis.
Jam pueris pellem succinctus et œnophorum aptas:
Ocyus ad navem. Nil obstat quin trabe vasta
Ægæum rapias, nisi solers Luxuria ante
Seductum moneat; quo deinde, insane, ruis? Quo?
Quid tibi vis? Calido sub pectore mascula bilis
Intumuit, quam non extinxerit urna cicutæ ?
Tun' mare transilias? Tibi torta cannabe fulto
Cœna sit in transtro? Veientanumque rubellum
Exhalet vapida læsum pice sessilis obba?

Quid petis? Ut nummi, quos hic quincunce modesto
Nutrieras, pergant avidos sudare deunces?
Indulge genio: carpamus dulcia: nostrum est
Quod vivis; cinis, et manes, et fabula fies.

Vive memor lethi: fugit hora. Hoc quod loquor, inde est.
En quid agis? Duplici in diversum scinderis hamo:
Hunccine, an hunc sequeris ?—
SAT. v. 132,*

Whether alone, or in thy harlot's lap,
When thou wouldst take a lazy morning's nap;
Up, up, says Avarice; thou snor'st again,
Stretchest thy limbs and yawn'st, but all in vain.
The rugged tyrant no denial takes ;

At his command th unwilling sluggard wakes.
What must I do? he cries; What? says his lord,
Why rise, make ready, and go straight aboard:
With fish, from Euxine seas, thy vessel freight;
Flax, castor, Coan wines, the precious weight
Of pepper, and Sabean incense, take
With thy own hands, from the tir'd camel's back,
And with post-haste thy running markets make.
Be sure to turn the penny: lie and swear,
'Tis wholesome sin: but Jove, thou say st, will hear.
Swear, fool, or starve, for the dilemma's even;
A tradesman thou' and hope to go to heav'n ?
Resolv'd for sea, the slaves thy baggage pack,
Each saddled with his burden on his back:
Nothing retards thy voyage now, but he,
That soft voluptuous prince, call'd Luxury;
And he may ask this civil question; Friend,
What dost thou make a-shipboard? to what end?
Art thou of Bethlem's noble college free?
Stark, staring mad, that thou wouldst tempt the sea?
Cubb'd in a cabin, on a mattrass laid,

On a brown George, with lousy swobbers fed; Dead wine that stinks of the Borachio, sup From a foul jack or greasy maple cup? Say, wouldst thou bear all this, to raise thy store From six i' th' hundred to six hundred more? Indulge, and to thy genius freely give; For, not to live at ease, is not to live. Death stalks behind thee, and each flying hour Does some loose remnant of thy life devour. Live, while thou liv'st; for death will make us al A name, a nothing but an old wife' tale. Speak: wilt thou Avarice or Pleasure choose To be thy lord? Take one, and one refuse. When a government flourishes in conquests, and is secure from foreign attacks, it naturally falls into all the pleasures of luxury; and as these pleasures are very expensive, they put those who are addicted to them upon raising fresh supplies of money by all the methods of rapaciousness and corruption: so that avarice and luxury very often become one com. plicated principle of action, in those whose hearts are Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living wholly set upon case, magnificence, and pleasure. among mankind, take their original either from the The most elegant and correct of all the Latin his. love of pleasure, or the fear of want. The former, torians observes, that in his time, when the most when it becomes too violent, degenerates into luxury, formidable states in the world were subdued by the and the latter into avarice. As these two principles Romans, the republic sank into those two vices of of action draw different ways, Persius has given us a quite different nature, luxury and avarice:† and a very humorous account of a young fellow who accordingly describes Catiline as one who coveted was roused out of his bed in order to be sent upon a the wealth of other men, at the same time that he long voyage by Avarice, and afterward over-per-squandered away his own. This observation on the suaded and kept at home by Luxury. I shall set down the pleadings of these two imaginary persons as they are in the original, with Mr. Dryden's trans

-Intus et in jecore ægro
Nascuntur Domini-

PERS. Sat. v. 129.

Our passions play the tyrants in our breasts

lation of them:

Mane, piger, stertis: surge, inquit Avaritia, eja

commonwealth, when it was in its height of power and riches, holds good of all governments that are settled in a state of ease and prosperity. At such times men naturally endeavour to outshine one another in pomp and splendour, and having no fears

Surge. Negas: instat: surge, inquit. Non queo. Surge. to alarm them from abroad, indulge themselves in

Et quid agam? Rogitas? saperdas advehe ponto,
Castoreum, stuppas, hebenum, thus, lubrica Coa.
Tolle recens primus piper e sitiente camelo.

Verte aliquid; jura. Sed Jupiter audiet. Eheu'
SPECTATOR.-Nos. 9 & 10.

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the enjoyment of all the pleasures they can get into their possession; which naturally produces avarice, and an immoderate pursuit after wealth and riches.

As I was humouring myself in the speculation of these two great principles of action, I could not forbear throwing my thoughts into a little kind of allegory or fable, with which I shall here present my reader.

No. 56.] FRIDAY, MAY 4, 171i.

Felices errore suo LUCAN, i. 454.
Happy in their mistake.

THE Americans believe that all creatures have souls, not only men and women, but brutes, vegetables, nay, even the most inanimate things, as stocks and stones. They believe the same of all the works of art, as of knives, boats, looking-glasses; and that as any of these things perish, their souls go into another world, which is inhabited by the ghosts of men and women. For this reason they always place that he may make use of the souls of them in the other world, as he did of their wooden bodies in this. How absurd soever such an opinion as this may apseveral notions altogether as improbable. Some of Plato's followers in particular, when they talk of the world of ideas, entertain us with substances and beings no less extravagant and chimerical. Many Aristotelians have likewise spoken as unintelligibly of their substantial forms. I shall only instance Albertus Magnus, who, in his dissertation upon the loadstone, observing that fire will destroy its magnetic virtues, tells us that he took particular notice of one as it lay glowing amidst a heap of burning coals, and that he perceived a certain blue vapour to arise from it, which he believed might be the substantial form, that is, in our West Indian phrase, the soul of the loadstone.

There is a tradition among the Americans, that one of their countrymen descended in a vision to the great repository of souls, or, as we call it here, to the other world: and that upon his return he gave his friends a distinct account of every thing he saw among those regions of the dead. A friend of mine, whom I have formerly mentioned, prevailed upon one of the interpreters of the Indian kings, to inquire of them, if possible, what tradition they have among them of this matter: which, as well as he could learn by those many questions which he asked them at several times, was in substance as follows:

There were two very powerful tyrants engaged in a perpetual war against each other; the name of the first was Luxury, and of the second Avarice. The aim of each of them was no less than universal monarchy over the hearts of mankind. Lux-by the corpse of their dead friend a bow and arrows, ury had many generals under him, who did him great service, as Pleasure, Mirth, Pomp, and Fashion. Avarice was likewise very strong in his officers, being faithfully served by Hunger, Indus-pear, our European philosophers have maintained try, Care, and Watchfulness: he had likewise a privy-counsellor who was always at his elbow, and whispering something or other in his ear: the name of this privy-counsellor was Poverty. As Avarice conducted himself by the counsels of Poverty, his antagonist was entirely guided by the dictates and advice of Plenty, who was his first counsellor and minister of state, that concerted all his measures for him, and never departed out of his sight. While these two great rivals were thus contending for empire, their conquests were very various :-Luxury got possession of one heart, and Avarice of another. The father of a family would often range himself under the banners of Avarice, and the son under those of Luxury. The wife and husband would often declare themselves on the two different parties; nay, the same person would very often side with one in his youth, and revolt to the other in his old age. Indeed the wise men of the world stood neuter; but, alas! their numbers were not considerable. At length, when these two potentates had wearied themselves with waging war upon one another, they agreed upon an interview, at which none of their counsellors were to be present. It is said that Luxury began the parley, and after having represented the endless state of war in which they were engaged, told his enemy, with a frankness of The visionary, whose name was Marraton, after heart which is natural to him, that he believed they having travelled for a long space under a hollow two should be very good friends, were it not for the mountain, arrived at length on the confines of this instigations of Poverty, that pernicious counsellor, world of spirits, but could not enter it by reason of who made an ill use of his ear, and filled him with a thick forest made up of bushes, brambles, and groundless apprehensions and prejudices. To this pointed thorns, so perplexed and interwoven with Avarice replied, that he looked upon Plenty (the one another, that it was impossible to find a passage first minister of his antagonist) to be a much more through it. Whilst he was looking about for some destructive counsellor than Poverty, for that he was track or pathway that might be worn in any part of perpetually suggesting pleasures, banishing all the it, he saw a huge lion couched under the side of it, necessary cautions against want, and consequently who kept his eye upon him in the same posture as undermining those principles on which the govern- when he watches for his prey. The Indian immement of Avarice was founded. At last, in order to diately started back, whilst the lion rose with a an accommodation, they agreed upon this prelimi- spring, and leaped towards him. Being wholly desnary; that each of them should immediately dis-titute of all other weapons, he stooped down to take miss his privy-counsellor. When things were thus far adjusted towards a peace, all other differences were soon accommodated, insomuch that for the future they resolved to live as good friends and confederates, and to share between them whatever conquests were made on either side. For this reason we now find Luxury and Avarice taking possession of the same heart, and dividing the same person between them. To which I shall only add, that since the discarding of the counsellors above mentioned, Avarice supplies Luxury in the room of Plenty, as Luxury prompts Avarice in the place of Poverty.

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a huge stone in his hand; but to his infinite surprise grasped nothing, and found the supposed stone to be only the apparition of one. If he was disappointed on this side, he was as much pleased on the other, when he found the lion, which had seized on his left shoulder, had no power to hurt him, and was only the ghost of that ravenous creature which it appeared to be. He no sooner got rid of his impotent enemy, but he marched up to the wood, and after having surveyed it for some time, endeavoured to press into one part of it that was a little thinner than the rest; when again, to his great surprise, he found the bushes made no resistance, but that he walked through briars and brambles with the same ease as through

the open air; and in short, that the whole wood was at the same time seemed to tell him that the river nothing else but a wood of shades. He immediately was impassable. Who can describe the passion concluded, that this huge thicket of thorns and brakes made up of joy, sorrow, love, desire, astonishment, was designed as a kind of fence or quickset hedge to that rose in the Indian upon the sight of his dear the ghosts it enclosed; and that probably their soft Yaratilda? He could express it by nothing but his substances might be torn by these subtle points and tears, which ran like a river down his cheeks as he prickles, which were too weak to make any impres-looked upon her. He had not stood in this posture sions on flesh and blood. With this thought, he re-long, before he plunged into the stream that lay besolved to travel through this intricate wood; when fore him; and finding it to be nothing but the by degrees he felt a gale of perfumes breathing upon him, that grew stronger and sweeter in proportion as he advanced. He had not proceeded much farther, when he observed the thorns and briers to end, and give place to a thousand beautiful green trees covered with blossoms of the finest scents and colours, that formed a wilderness of sweets, and were a kind of lining to those ragged scenes which he had before passed through. As he was coming out of this delightful part of the wood, and entering upon the plains it enclosed, he saw several horsemen rushing by him, and a little while after heard the cry of a pack of dogs. He had not listened long before he saw the apparition of a milk-white steed, with a young man on the back of it, advancing upon full stretch after the souls of about a hundred beagles, that were hunting down the ghost of a hare, which ran away before them with an unspeakable swiftness. As the man on the milk-white steed came by him, he looked upon him very attentively, and found him to be the young prince Nicharagua, who died about half a year before, and, by reason of his great virtues, was at that time lamented over all the western parts of America.

phantom of a river, stalked on the bottom of it till he arose on the other side. At his approach Yaratilda flew into his arms, whilst Marraton wished himself disencumbered of that body which kept her from his embraces. After many questions and endearments on both sides, she conducted him to a bower which she had dressed with all the ornaments that could be met with in those blooming regions. She had made it gay beyond imagination, and was every day adding something new to it. As Marraton stood astonished at the unspeakable beauty of her habitation, and ravished with the fragrancy that came from every part of it, Yaratilda told him that she was preparing this bower for his reception, as well knowing that his piety to his God, and his faithful dealing towards men, would certainly bring him to that happy place whenever his life should be at an end. She then brought two of her children to him, who died some years before, and resided with her in the same delightful bower; advising him to breed up those others which were still with him in such a manner, that they might hereafter all of them meet together in this happy place.

No. 57. SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1711.

The tradition tells us farther, that he had afterHe had no sooner got out of the wood, but he was ward a sight of those dismal habitations which are entertained with such a landscape of flowery plains, the portion of ill men after death; and mentions segreen meadows, running streams, sunny hills, and veral molten seas of gold, in which were plunged shady vales, as were not to be represented by his the souls of barbarous Europeans, who put to the own expressions, nor, as he said, by the conceptions sword so many thousands of poor Indians for the of others. This happy region was peopled with in- sake of that precious metal. But having already numerable swarms of spirits, who applied themselves touched upon the chief points of this tradition, and to exercises and diversions, according as their fan-exceeded the measure of my paper, I shall not give cies led them. Some of them were tossing the figure any further account of it.-C. of a quoit; others were pitching the shadow of a bar; others were breaking the apparition of a horse; and multitudes employing themselves upon ingenious handicrafts with the souls of departed utensils, for that is the name which in the Indian language they give their tools when they are burnt or broken. he travelled through this delightful scene, he was very often tempted to pluck the flowers that rose every where about him in the greatest variety and profusion, having never seen several of them in his own country; but he quickly found, that though they were the objects of his sight, they were not liable to his touch. He at length came to the side of a great river, and being a good fisherman himself, stood upon the banks of it some time to look upon an angler that had taken a great many shapes of fishes, which lay flouncing up and down by him.

As

Quem præstare potest mulier galeata pudorem, Quæ fugit a sexu?Juv. Sat. vi. 251, What sense of shame in woman's breast can lie, Inur'd to arms, and her own sex to fly? WHEN the wife of Hector, in Homer's Iliad, discourses with her husband about the battle in which he was going to engage, the hero, desiring her to leave the matter to his care, bids her go to her maids, and mind her spinning: by which the poet intimates, that men and women ought to busy themselves in their proper spheres, and on such matters only as are suitable to their respective sex.

I am at this time acquainted with a young gentleman, who has passed a great part of his life in I should have told my reader, that this Indian had the nursery, and upon occasion can make a caudle been formerly married to one of the greatest beau- or a sack-posset better than any man in England. ties of his country, by whom he had several children. He is likewise a wonderful critic in cambric and This couple were so famous for their love and con-muslins, and he will talk an hour together upon a stancy to one another, that the Indians to this day, sweet-meat. He entertains his mother every night when they give a married man joy of his wife, wish they may live together like Marraton and Yaratilda. Marraton had not stood long by the fisherman when he saw the shadow of his beloved Yaratilda, who had for some time fixed her eye upon him, before he discovered her. Her arms were stretched out towards him, floods of tears ran down her eyes: her looks, her hands, her voice, called him over to her; and

with observations that he makes both in town and and court: as what lady shews the nicest fancy in her dress; what man of quality wears the fairest wig; who has the finest linen, who the prettiest snuff-box; with many other the like curious remarks, that may be made in good company.

On the other hand, I have very frequently the opportunity of seeing a rural Andromache, who

came up to town last winter, and is one of the great- but a woman is too sincere to mitigate the fury of est fox-hunters in the country. She talks of hounds her principles with temper and discretion, and to and horses, and makes nothing of leaping over a act with that caution and reservedness which six-bar gate. If a man tells her a waggish story, are requisite in our sex. When this unnatural zeal she gives him a push with her hand in jest, and gets into them, it throws them into ten thousand calls him an impudent dog; and if her servant neg-heats and extravagancies; their generous souls set lects his business, threatens to kick him out of the house. I have heard her in her wrath call a substantial tradesman a lousy cur; and remember one day, when she could not think of the name of a person, she described him in a large company of men and ladies by the fellow with the broad shoulders.

no bounds to their love or to their hatred; and whether a whig or a tory, a lap-dog or a gallant, an opera or a puppet-show, be the object of it, the passion, while it reigns, engrosses the whole woman.

I remember, when Dr. Titus Oates was in all his glory, I accompanied my friend Will HoneyIf those speeches and actions, which in their own comb in a visit to a lady of his acquaintance. We nature are indifferent, appear ridiculous when they were no sooner sat down, but upon casting my eyes proceed from a wrong sex, the faults and imperfec about the room, I found in almost every corner of tions of one sex transplanted into another appear it a print that represented the doctor in all magniblack and monstrous. As for the men, I shall not tudes and dimensions. A little after, as the lady in this paper any farther concern myself about was discoursing with my friend, and held her snuffthem; but as I would fain contribute to make wo-box in her hand, who should I see in the lid of it mankind, which is the most beautiful part of crea- but the doctor? It was not long after this when tion, entirely amiable, and wear out all those little she had occasion for her handkerchief, which, upon spots and blemishes that are apt to rise among the first opening, discovered among the plaits of it the charms which nature has poured out upon them, figure of the doctor. Upon this my friend Will, I shall dedicate this paper to their service. The who loves raillery, told her, that if he was in Mr. spot which I would here endeavour to clear them of, Truelove's place (for that was the name of her husis that party rage which of late years is very much band), he should be made as uneasy by a handkercrept into their conversation. This is, in its nature, chief as ever Othello was. "I am afraid," said she, a male vice, and made up of many angry and "Mr. Honeycomb, you are a tory: tell me truly, cruel passions that are altogether repugnant to the are you a friend to the doctor, or not?" Will, insoftness, the modesty, and those other endearing stead of making her a reply, smiled in her face qualities which are natural to the fair sex. Women (for indeed she was very pretty) and told her, that were formed to temper mankind, and soothe them one of her patches was dropping off. She immdiinto tenderness and compassion; not to set an edge ately adjusted it, and looking a little seriously, upon their minds, and blow up in them those pas- Well," says she, "I will be hanged if you and sions which are too apt to rise of their own accord. your silent friend there are not against the doctor When I have seen a pretty mouth uttering calum- in your hearts; I suspected as much by his saying nies and invectives, what would I not have given to nothing." Upon this she took her fan in her hand, have stopt it? How I have been troubled to see and upon the opening of it, again displayed to us some of the finest features in the world grow pale, the figure of the doctor, who was placed with great and tremble with party rage! Camilla is one of gravity among the sticks of it. In a word, I found the greatest beauties in the British nation, and yet that the doctor had taken possession of her thoughts, values herself more upon being the virago of one her discourse, and most of her furniture; but findparty, than upon being the toast of both. The ing myself pressed too close by her question, I dear creature, about a week ago, encountered the winked upon my friend to take his leave, which he fierce and beautiful Penthesilea across a tea-table, did accordingly.-C. but in the height of her anger, as her hand chanced to shake with the earnestness of the dispute, she scalded her fingers, and spilt a dish of tea upon her petticoat. Had not this accident broke off the debate, nobody knows where it would have ended.

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No. 58.] MONDAY, MAY 7, 1711. Ut pictura, poesis erit.-Hos. Ars. Poet. ver. 361. Poems like pictures are.

There is one consideration which I would ear- NOTHING is so much admired, and so little undernestly recommend to all my female readers, and stood, as wit. No author that I know of has written which, I hope, will have some weight with them. professedly upon it, and as for those who make any In short, it is this, that there is nothing so bad for mention of it, they only treat on the subject as it the face as party zeal. It gives an ill-natured cast has accidentally fallen in their way, and that too in to the eye, and a disagreeable sourness to the look: little short reflections, or in general exclamatory besides that it makes the lines too strong, and flourishes, without entering into the bottom of the flushes them worse than brandy. I have seen a wo-matter. I hope, therefore, I shall perform an acman's face break out in heats, as she had been talk-ceptable work to my countrymen, if I treat at large ing against a great lord, whom she had never seen in her life; and indeed I never knew a party-woman that kept her beauty for a twelvemonth. I wouid therefore advise all my female readers, as they value their complexions, to let alone all disputes of this nature; though, at the same time, I would give free liberty to all superannuated motherly partisans to be as violent as they please, since there will be no danger either of their spoiling their faces, or of their gaining converts.

For my own part, I think a man makes an odious and despicable figure, that is violent in a party;

upon this subject; which I shall endeavour to do in a manner suitable to it, that I may not incur the censure which a famous critic bestows upon one who had written a treatise on "the sublime," in a low grovelling style. I intend to lay aside a whole week for this undertaking, that the scheme of my thoughts may not be broken and interrupted; and I dare promise myself, if my readers will give me a week's attention, that this great city will be very

Though the name of Dr. T. Oates is made use of here, Dr. Sacheverel is the person alluded to.

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