a refreshing stream, flows from heart to heart in an endless circulation, and is preferved fweet and untainted by the motion. It is old advice, if you have a favour to request of any one, to obferve the fofteft times of addrefs, when the foul, in a flush of good-humour, takes a pleasure to show itself pleafed. Perfons confcious of their own integrity, fatisfied with themfelves and their condition, and full of confidence in a Supreme Being, and the hope of immortality, furvey all about them with a flow of good-will. As trees which like their foil, they thoot out in expreffions of kindness, and bend beneath their own precious load, to the hand of the gatherer. Now if the mind be not thus eafy, it is an infallible fign that it is not in its natural state: Place the mind in its right posture, it will immediately discover its innate propenfion to beneficence.

N° 602.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 4.

Facit hoc illos hyacynthos.

Juv. Sat. vi. ver. 110.

This makes them hyacinths.

THE following letter comes from a Gentleman, who, I find, is very diligent in making his obfervations, which I think too material not to be communicated to the publick

SIR,

• IN order to execute the office of love cafuift to Great Britain, with which I take myself to be invested by your paper of September 8th, I fhall make fome farther obfervations upon the two fexes in general, beginning with that which al

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ways ought to have the upper hand. After hav⚫ing obferved with much curiofity the accomplishments which are apt to captivate female hearts, I • find that there is no perfon fo irrefiftible as one who is a man of importance, provided it be in matters of no confequence. One who makes himself talked of, though it be for the particular cock of his hat, or for prating aloud in the boxes at a play, is in a fair way of being a favourite. 'I have known a young fellow make his fortune by knocking down a conftable; and may venture to fay, though it may feem a paradox, that many fair one has died by a duel, in which both the ⚫ combatants have furvived.

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• About three winters ago I took notice of a young lady at the theatre, who conceived a pafLion for a notorious rake that headed a party of cat-calls; and am credibly informed, that the Emperor of the Mohocks married a rich widow, ⚫ within three weeks after having rendered himself ⚫ formidable in the cities of London and Westminster. Scouring and breaking of windows have done frequent execution upon the fex. But there is • no fet of thefe male charmers who make their way more fuccefsfully, than thofe who have gain⚫ed themselves a name for intrigue, and have ruined the greatest number of reputations. There is a ftrange curiofity in the female world to be acquainted with the dear man who has been loved by others, and to know what it is that makes him fo agreeable. His reputation does more than • half his bufinefs. Every one that is ambitious of • being a woman of fashion, look out for oppor'tunities of being in his company; fo that, to use the old proverb, When his name is up, he may ⚫ lie a bed..

I was very fenfible of the great advantage of being a man of importance upon thefe occafions, on the day of the king's entry, when I was featR. 2

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⚫ed in a balcony behind a clufter of very pretty country ladies, who had one of thefe fhowy gentlemen in the midft of them. The firft trick I caught him at was bowing to feveral perfons of quality whom he did not know; nay, he had the impudence to hem at a blue garter who had a finer equipage than ordinary, and feemed a little concerned at the impertinent huzzas of the mob, that hindered his friend from taking notice of him. There was indeed one who pulled off his hat to him, and upon the ladies atking who it was, he told them it was a foreign minister that he had been very merry with the night before; whereas in truth it was the city common-hunt.

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He was never at a lofs when he was asked any 'perfon's name, though he feldom knew any one, under a peer. He found Dukes and Earls among the aldermen, very good-natured fellows among the Privy counfellors, with two or three agree ⚫able old rakes among the Bishops and Judges.

In fhort, I collected from his whole difcourfe, that he was acquainted with every body, and knew no body. At the fame time, I am mistaken if he did not that day make more advances in the affections of his mistress, who fat near him; 'than he could have done in half a year's court• fhip.

Ovid has finely touched this method of making love, which I fhall here give my reader, in Mr. Dryden's tranflation; wit

Page the eleventh.

Thus love in theatres did firft improve,
And theatres are still the fcene of love:
Nor fun the chariots, and the courfer's race;
The Circus is no inconvenient place.
Nor need is there of talking on the hand,
Nor nods, nor figns, which lovers understand;

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But boldly next the fair your feat provide,
Clofe as you can to hers, and fide by fide:
Pleas'd, or unpleas'd, no matter; crouding fit:
For fo the laws of public bows permit.
Then find occafion to begin difcourfe,

Enquire whofe chariot this, and whofe that horfe;:
To whatfoever fide she is inclin'd,

Suit all your inclinations to her mind:

Like what he likes from thence your court begin,.
And whom he favours, wish that he may win.

Again, page the fixteenth.

O when will come the day by heav'n defign'd,
When thou, the best and fairest of mankind,
Drawn by white horfes, fhalt in triumph ride,
With conquer'd flaves attending on thy fide;
Slaves that no longer can be fafe in flight.
O glorious object! O surprising fight!
O day of public joy, too good to end in night!
On fuch a day, if thou, and next to thee
Some beauty fits, the Spectacle to fce;
If fhe enquire the names of conquer'd kings,
Of mountains, rivers, and their hidden fprings;
Anfwer to all thou knoweft and if need be,
Of things unknown feem to speak knowingly:
This is Euphrates crown'd with reeds; and there".
Flows the fwift Tigris, with his fea-green hair.
Invent new names of things unknown before;
Call this Armenia, that, the Cafpian Shore,
Call this a Mede, and that a Parthian youth;
Talk probably no matter for the truth..

Ducite ab urbe domum, mea carmina, ducite Daphnim. VIRG. Ecl. viii. ver. 68.

Reftore, my charms,

My ling'ring Daphnis to my longing arms.

DRYDEN.

THE following copy of verfes comes from one of my correfpondents, and has fomething in it fo original, that I do not much doubt but it will divert my readers.

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Mr time, Oye mufes, was happily spent,

When Phebe went with me wherever I went; Ten thousand fweet pleafures I felt in my breast: Sure never fond Shepherd like Colin was bleft! But now he is gone, and has left me behind, What a marvellous change on a fudden I find? When things were as fine as poffibly could be, I thought 'twas the spring; but, alas! it was fhe.

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With fuch a companion, to tend a few sheep, To rife up and play, or to lie down and fleep: I was fo good-humour'd, fo cheerful and gay, My heart was as light as a feather all day. But now I fo cross and fo peevish am grown; So ftrangely uneafy as ever was known. My fair one is gone, and my joys are all drown'd, And my heart-I am fure it weighs more than a pound.

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The fountain that wont to run fweetly along,, And dance to foft murmurs the pebbles among; Thou know'ft, little Cupid, if Phebe was there, 'Twas pleafare to look at, 'twas mufic to hear:

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