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"the other moft. I, who do not care 66 a Farthing for him, had no hard "Task to outvex him. I made FanС، fly, with a very little Encouragement, "cut Capers coupée, and then fink with "all the Air and Tenderness imagina"ble. When he performed this, I "obferved the Gentleman you know of "fall into the fame way, and imitate "as well as he could the defpifed Fan"fly. I cannot well give you, who

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are fo grave a Country Lady, the I"dea of the Joy we have when we see "a ftubborn Heart breaking, or a "Man of Senfe turning Fool for our "fakes; but this happened to our "Friend, and I expect his Attendance "whenever I go to Church, to Court, "to the Play, or the Park. This is a "Sacrifice due to us Women of Geni“ us, who have the Eloquence of Beau. ty, an eafie Mein. I mean by an ea"fie Mein, one which can be on oc"cafion cafily affected: For I must tell 66 you, dear Jenny, I hold one Maxim, "which is an uncommon one, to wit, "That our greatest Charms are owing 66 to Affectation. "Tis to that our Arms "can lodge fo quietly juft over our Hips, " and the Fan can play without any

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"Force or Motion but juft of the Wrift. ""Tis to Affectation we owe the pen"five Attention of Deidamia at a Tra"gedy, the fcornful Approbation of "Dulcimara at a Comedy, and the "lowly Afpect of Lanquicelfa at a Ser

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"TO tell you the plain Truth, I "know no Pleasure but in being ad"mired, and have yet never failed of "attaining the Approbation of the Man "whofe regard I had a mind to. You "fee all the Men who make a figure "in the World (as wife a Look as they are pleafed to put upon the matter) "are moved by the fame Vanity as I am. What is there in Ambition, but "to make other People's Wills depend

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upon yours? This indeed is not to be "aimed at by one who has a Genius "no higher than to think of being a

ແ "man's Country Family. The Care "of Poultrey and Pigs are great_E"nemies to the Countenance: The

very good Housewife in a Gentle

vacant Look of a fine Lady is not "to be preferved, if the admits any "thing to take up her Thoughts but her own dear Perfon. But I inter

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I am,

MADAM,

Your most bumble Servant.

'GIVE me leave, Mr. SPECTATOR, to add her Friend's Answer to this Epiftle, who is a very discreet ingenious Woman.

Dear Gatty,

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Take your Rallery in very good part, and am obliged to you for the free Air with which you fpeak of 66 your own Gaieties. But this is but a "barren fuperficial Pleasure; for indeed, "Gatty, we are made for Man, and in "ferious Sadness I must tell you, whe"ther you yourself know it or no, all

thefe Gallantries tend to no other end "but to be a Wife and Mother as fait ❝ as you can.

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I am, Madam,

Your moft obedient Servant.

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N° 516. Wednesday, October 22.

Immortale odium & nunquam fanabile vulnus. Inde furor vulgo, quod Numina vicinorum Odit uterque locus, quum folos credit habendos Effe Deos quos ipfe colat

Juv.

F all the monftrous Paffions

and Opinions which have crept into the World, there is none fo wonderful as that those who profefs the com

mon Name of Chriftians, fhould purfue each other with Rancour and Hatred for Differences in their way of following the Example of their Saviour. It feems fo natural that all who pursue the Steps of any Leader fhould form themfelves after his Manner, that it is impoffible to account for Effects fo different from what we might expect from those who profefs themselves Followers of the highest Pattern of Meekness and Charity, but by afcribing fuch Effects to the Ambition and Corruption of thofe who are fo audacious, with Souls full

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of Fury, to ferve at the Altars of the
God of Peace.

THE Maffacres to which the Church
of Rome has animated the ordinary Peo-
ple, are dreadful Inftances of the Truth
of this Obfervation; and whoever reads
the History of the Irish Rebellion, and
the Cruelties which enfued thereupon,
will be fufficiently convinced to what
Rage poor Ignorants may be worked
up by those who profefs Holiness, and
become Incendaries, and, under the Dif
penfations of Grace, promote Evils ab-
horrent to Nature.

THIS Subject and Catastrophe, which deserve fo well to be remarked by the Proteftant World, will, I doubt not, be confidered by the Reverend and Learned Prelate that Preaches to-morrow before many of the Defcendants of those who perished on that lamentable Day, in a manner fuitable to the Occa fion, and worthy his own great Virtue and Eloquence.

I fhall not dwell upon it any further, but only transcribe out of a little Tract, called, The Chriftian Hero, published in 1701, what I find there in honour of the renowned Hero William III. who rescued that Nation from the Repetiti

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