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lors: In a word, all his men were petit maitres, and all his women coquettes. The drapery of his figures was extremely well-fuited to his faces, and was made up of all the glaring colours that could be mixt together; every part of the dress was in a flutter, and endeavoured to distinguish itself above the rest.

On the left hand of VANITY ftood a laborious workman, who I found was his humble admirer, and copied after him. He was dressed like a German, and had a very hard name that founded fome. thing like STUPIDITY.

The third artift that I looked over was FANTASQUE, dreffed like a Venetian scaramouch. He had an excellent hand at chimera, and dealt very much in diftortions and grimaces. He would fometimes affright himself with the phantoms that flowed from his pencil. In fhort, the moft elaborate of his pieces was at beft but a terrifying dream; and one could fay nothing more of his fineft figures, than that they were agreeable monsters.

The fourth perfon I examined was very remarkable for his hafty hand, which left his pictures fo unfinished, that the beauty in the picture (which was defigned to continue as a monument of it to pofterity) faded fooner than in the perfon after whom it was drawn. He made fo much hafte to dispatch his business, that he neither gave himself time to clean his pencils, nor mix his colours. The name of this expeditious workman was AVARICE.

Not far from this artift, I faw another of a quite different nature, who was dreffed in the habit of a Dutchman, and known by the name of INDUSTRY. His figures were wonderfully laboured: If he drew the portraiture of a man, he did not omit a single hair in his face; if the figure of a fhip, there was not a rope among the tackle that escaped him. He had likewife hung a great part of the wall with night-pieces, that feemed to fhew themselves by the candles which were lighted up in feveral parts of

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them; and were so inflamed by the fun-fhine which accidentally fell upon them, that at first fight I could scarce forbear crying out, Fire.

The five foregoing artists were the moft confiderable on this fide the gallery; there was indeed feveral others whom I had not time to look into. One of them, however, I could not forbear obferving, who was very bufy in retouching the finest pieces, though he produced no originals of his own. His pencil aggravated every feature that was before over-charged, loaded every defect, and poifoned every colour it touched. Though this workman did fo much mischief on the fide of the living, he never turned his eye towards that of the dead. His name was ENVY.

Having taken a curfory view of one fide of the gallery, I turned myfelf to that which was filled by the works of thofe great mafters that were dead; when immediately I fancied myself standing before a multitude of fpectators, and thoufands of eyes. looking upon me at once; for all before me appeared fo like men and women, that I almost forgot. they were pictures. Raphael's figures ftood in one row, Titian's in another, Guido Rheni's in a third. One part of the wall was peopled by Hannibal (ar. rache, another by Correggio, and another by Rubens. To be fhort, there was not a great mafter among the dead who had not contributed to the embelishment of this fide of the gallery. The perfons that owed their being to thefe feveral mafters, appeared all of them to be real and alive, and differed among one another only in the variety of their fhapes, complexions, and clothes; fo that they looked like different nations of the fame fpecies.

Obferving an old man (who was the fame perfon I before mentioned, as the only artist that was at work on this fide of the gallery) creeping up and. down from one picture to another, and retouching all the fine pieces that stood before me, I could not

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but be very attentive to all his motions.

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his pencil was so very light, that it worked imperceptibly, and, after a thousand touches, fcarce produced any visible effect in the picture on which he was employed. However, as he bufied himself inceffantly, and repeated touch after touch without reft or intermiffion, he wore off infenfibly every little difagreeable glofs that hung upon a figure. He alfo added fuch a beautiful brown to the fhades, and mellownefs to the colours, that he made every picture appear more perfect than when it came freth from the master's pencil. I could not forbear looking upon the face of this ancient workman, and immediately, by the long lock of hair upon his forehead, difcovered him to be TIME.

Whether it were because the thread of my dream was at an end, I cannot tell; but upon my taking a furvey of this imaginary old man, my fleep left

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Who can fuch woes relate, without a tear,
As ftern Ulyffes must have wept to hear?

LOOKING over the old manuscripts wherein the

private actions of Pharamond are set down by way of table-book, I found many things which gave me great delight; and as human life turns upon the fame principles and paffions in all ages, I thought it very proper to take minutes of what paffed in that age, for the inftruction of this. The antiquary who lent me these papers, gave me a character of Eucrate, the favourite of Pharamond, exVOL. II.

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tracted from an author who lived in that court. The account he gives both of the prince and this his faithful friend, will not be improper to infert here, because I may have occafion to mention many of their converfations, into which these memorials of them may give light.

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Pharamond, when he had a mind to retire for an hour or two from the hurry of business and fatigue of ceremony, made a fignal to Eucrate, by putting his hand to his face, placing his arm negligently on a window, or fome fuch action as appeared indifferent to all the reft of the company. Upon fuch notice, unobferved by others, (for their entire intimacy was always a fecret) 'Eucrate repaired to his own apartment to receive the king. There was a fecret access to this part of the court, at which Eucrate ufed to admit many whose mean appearance in the eyes of the ordinary waiters and door-keepers made them be repulfed from other parts of the palace. Such as these were let in here by order of Eucrate, and had audiences of Pharamond. This entrance • Pharamond called The gate of the Unhappy, and the tears of the afflicted who came before him, ' he would fay, were bribes received by Eucrate: For Eucrate had the moft compaffionate spirit of • all men living, except his generous mafter, who was always kindled at the leaft affliction which was communicated to him. In the regard for the miferable, Eucrate took particular care, that the 'common forms of diftrefs, and the idle pretend. ers to forrow, about courts, who wanted only 'fupplies to luxury, fhould never obtain favour by his means: but the diftreffes which arife from the many inexplicable occurrences that happen among men, the unaccountable alienation of parents from their children, cruelty of hufbands to their wives, poverty occafioned from fhipwreck or fire, the falling out of friends, or fuch other terrible • difaflers,

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'difafters, to which the life of man is exposed; in cafes of this nature, Eucrate was the patron;

and enjoyed this part of the royal favour fo much 'without being envied, that it was never inquired 'into by whofe means, what no one else cared for doing, was brought about.

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'One evening when Pharamond came into the appartment of Eucrate, he found him extremely dejected; upon which he afked (with a smile which was natural to him) "What, is there any 66 one too miferable to be relieved by Pharamond, "that Eucrate is melancholy?" "I fear there is, "anfwered the favourite; a perfon without, of a good air, well dreffed, and though a man in the ftrength of his life, feems to faint under fome "inconfolable calamity: All his features feem fuf"fufed with agony of mind; but I can obferve in "him, that it is more inclined to break away in "" tears than rage. I asked him what he would "have? he faid he would fpeak to Pharamond. "I defired his bufinefs; he could hardly fay to me, "Eucrate, carry me to the king, my ftory is not "to be told twice, I fear I fhall not be able to

fpeak it at all." Pharamond commanded Eu• crate to let him enter; he did fo, and the gentleman approached the king with an air which spoke him under the greatest concern in what manner < to demean himfelf. The king, who had a quick ⚫ difcerning, relieved him from the oppreffion he " was under; and with the most beautiful complacency, faid to him, "Sir, do not add to that "load of forrow I fee in your countenance, the awe "of my prefence: Think you are fpeaking to

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your friend; if the circumftances of your diftrefs "will admit of it, you fhall find me fo." To whom the stranger; "Oh excellent Pharamond, name not a friend to the unfortunate Spinamont. "I had one, but he is dead by my own hand; but, "oh Pharamond, though it was by the hand of "Spinament,

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