high and flourishing a condition, as makes all other princes and potentates powerful or inconfiderable in Europe, as they are friends or enemies to Great-Britain. The importance of those great events which happened during that administration, in which your Lordship bore fo important a charge, will be acknowledged as long as time fhall endure; I fhall not therefore attempt to rehearse those illuftrious paffages, but give this application a more private and particular turn, in defiring your Lordship would continue your favour and patronage to me, as you are a gentleman of the most polite literature, and perfectly accomplished in the knowledge of books and men, which makes it neceffary to beseech your indulgence to the following leaves, and the author of them: who is, with the greatest truth and refpect, MY LORD, YOUR LORDSHIP'S OBLIGED, OBEDIENT, AND HUMBLE SERVANT, THE SPECTATOR. THE month of May dangerous to the Fair-Sex No. 395 Letter from Peter de Quir on the use of punning 396 Whimsical amour of Cynthio and Flavia On bypocrify, and its various kinds 398 399 On the danger of trufling to pretenfions of platonic love 400 -from Sylvia, Dorida, and Cornelius Nepos Sir Roger de Coverley's adventure with a lady On the pleasures of the imagination, with 401 402 } 403 Rules to make fociety in the country agreeable,} 424 with a scheme for a country infirmary. The revolution of the feafons, a dream 425 Story of Bafilius Valentinus, an bermetic philofopher 426 On feandal The Spectator's project for enlarging his defign On beggars, charity, and indecency Mifconduct of parents in the education of their children431 427 428 429 430 On the riding-dreffes of the ladies On prize-fights Character of Sempronia, a matchmaker On inquifiti-veness 435 436 437 439 Vifion of Vanity and her attendant's 460 Poetical tranflation of the 11th Pfalm 461 On pleafantry in converfation 462 Dream of the golden balance. 463 On the happiness of a middle flate 464 On the means of confirming our faith On the love of praise and its ufes The qualifications requifite in thofe who are be employed in places of truf Ridicule on the collectors of various readings in 46 466 467 468 10 469 } 470 THE SPECTATOR. N° 395. Tuesday, June 3, 1712. Quod nunc ratio eft, impetus antè fuit. OVID. 'Tis reafon now, 'twas appetite before. BEWARE EWARE of the Ides of March,' faid the Ro-man Augur to Julius Cæfar: Beware of the month of May, fays the British SPECTATOR to his fair countrywomen. The caution of the first was unhappily ne-glected, and Cæfar's confidence coft him his life. I am apt to flatter myself that my pretty readers had much more regard to the advice I gave them, fince I have yet received very few accounts of any notorious trips made in the last month. But tho' I hope for the beft, I fhall not pronounce too pofitively on this point, till I have feen forty weeks well over, at which period of time, as my good friend fir ROGER has often told me, he has more bufinefs as a justice of peace, among the diffolute young people in the country, than, at any other feafon of the year. |