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fuch a manner, as that the whole Com pany fhall join in the Defcription, and feel the Force of it. In this Cafe, if any Man has declared the Violence of his Flame in more pathetick Terms, he is made Prefident for that Night, out of respect to his fuperior Paffion..

WE had fome Years ago in this Town a Set of People who met and dreffed like Lovers, and were diftinguifhed by the Name of the FringeGlove Club; but they were Perfons of fuch moderate. Intellects, even before they were impaired by their Paffion, that their Irregularities could not furnifh fufficient Variety of Folly to afford daily new Impertinences; by which Means that Inftitution dropped. These Fellows could exprefs their Paffion in nothing but their Drefs; but the Oxonians are phantaftical now they are Lovers, in proportion to their Learning and Understanding before they became fuch. The Thoughts of the antient Poets on this agreeable Phrenzy, are tranflated in honour of fome modern Beauty; and Chloris is won to-day, by the fame Compliment that was made to Lesbia a thoufand Years ago. But as far as I can learn, the Patron of the Club

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Club is the renowned Don Quixote. The Adventures of that gentle Knight are frequently mentioned in the Society, under the Colour of laughing at the Paffion and themselves: But at the fame time, though they are fenfible of the Extravagances of that unhappy Warrior, they do not obferve, that to turn all the Reading of the beft and wifeft Writings into Rhapfodies of Love, is a Phrenzy no lefs diverting than that of the aforefaid accomplished Spaniard. A Gentleman who, I hope, will continue his Correfpondence, e latcly admitted into the Fraternity, and fent me the following Letter.

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Sof Clubs, I beg Leave to give INCE I find you take Notice you an Account of one in Oxford, which you have no where mentioned, and perhaps never heard of. We diftinguifh our felves by the Title of the Amorous Club, are all Votaries of Cupid, and Admirers of the fair Sex. The Reason that we are fo little known in the World, is the Secrefie which we are obliged to live under in the Univerfity. Our Conftitution runs

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counter to that of the Place wherein we live: For in Love there are no "Doctors, and we all profefs fo high a 'Paffion, that we admit of no Graduates in it. Our Prefidentfhip is be'ftowed according to the Dignity of 'Paffion; our Number is unlimited; and our Statutes are like thofe of the • Druids, recorded in our own Breasts only, and explained by the Majority of the Company. A Mistress, and a Poem in her Praife, will introduce any Candidate: Without the latter no one can be admitted; for he that is not in Love enough to rhyme, is unqualified for our Society. To fpeak difrefpectfully of any Woman, is Expulfion from our gentle Society. As we are at prefent all of us Gown-men, "inftead of duelling when we are Rivals, we drink together the Health of our Miftrefs. The manner of doing 'this fometimes indeed creates Debates; 'on fuch Occafions we have Recourse 'to the Rules of Love among the An❝tients.

Navia fex Cyathis, feptem Juftina cibaturə "This Method of a Glafs to every Letter of her Name, occafioned the other

Night a Difpute of fome Warmth A young Student, who is in Love with Mrs. Elizabeth Dimple, was fo unreasonable as to begin her Health under the Name of Elizabetha; which fo exafperated the Club, that by common Confent we retrenched it to Betty. We look upon a Man as no Company, that does not figh five times in "a Quarter of an Hour; and look upon a Member as very abfurd, that is fo much himself as to make a direct Anfwer to a Queftion. In fine, the whole Affembly is made up of absent Men, that is, of fuch Perfons as have loft their Locality, and whofe Minds "and Bodies never keep Company with one another. As I am an unfortunate Member of this distracted Society, you cannot expect a very regular Account of it; for which Reafon, I hope you will pardon me, that I fo abruptly * fubfcribe my self,

SIR, Your most obedient

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T. B.

I forgot to tell you that Albina, who has fix Votaries in this Club, is one of your Readers.

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for above half an Hour with over-hearing the Difcourfe of one, who, by the Shabbiness of his Dress, the Extravagance of his Conceptions, and the Hurry of his Speech, I difcovered to be of that Species who are generally diftinguished by the Title of Projectors. This Gentleman, for I found he was treated as fuch by his Audience, was entertaining a whole Table of Liftners with the Project of an Opera, which he told us had not coft him above two or three Mornings in the Contrivance, and which he was ready to put in Execution, provided he might find his Account in it. He faid, that he had obferved the great Trouble and Inconvenience which Ladies were at, in tra

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