lue upon these feveral Pieces of Furniture, infomuch that the often refreshed her Eye with them, and often smiled with a fecret Pleasure, as fhe looked upon them; but, at the fame time, fhew'd a very particular Uneafiness, if fhe faw any thing approaching that might hurt them. She appeared indeed infinitely timorous in all her Behaviour; And, whether it was from the Delicacy of her Conftitution, or that the was troubled with Vapours, as I was afterwards told by one who I found was none of her Well-wishers, the changed Colour, and ftartled at every thing the heard. She was likewife (as I afterwards found) a greater Valetudinarian than any I had ever met with, even in her own Sex, and fubject to fuch Momentary Confumptions, that in the twinkling of an Eye, fhe would fall away from the moft florid Complexion, and the most healthful State of Body, and wither-into a Skeleton. Her Recoveries were often as fudden as her Decays, infomuch that he would revive in a Moment out of a wasting Diftemper, into a Habit of the highest Health and Vigour.

I had very foon an Opportunity of obferving thefe quick Turns andChanges in her Conftitution. There fate at her Feet a Couple of Secretaries, who received every Hour Letters from all Parts of the World, which the one or the other of them was perpetually reading to her: and, according to the News fhe heard, to which fhe was exceedingly attentive, the changed Colour, and difcovered many Symptoms of Health or Sickness.

BEHIND the Throne was a prodigious Heap of Bags of Money, which were piled upon one another fo high that they touched the Ceiling. The Floor, on her right Hand and on her left, was covered with vaft Sums of Gold that rofe up in Pyramids on either fide of her: But this I did not fo much wonder at, when I heard, upon Enquiry, that he had the fame Virtue in her Touch, which the Poers tell us a Lydian King was formerly poffeffed of; and that he could convert whatever the pleafed into that precious Metal,

AFTER a little Dizziness, and confused Hurry of Thought, which a Man often meets with in a Dream, me thoughts the Hall was alarmed, the

Doors

N° 3. Doors flew open, and there enter'd half a Dozen of the most hideous Phantoms that I had ever feen (even in a Dream) before that Time. They came in two by two, though matched in the moft diffociable Manner, and mingled together in a kind of Dance. It would be tedious to defcribe their Habits and Perfons, for which reason I fhall only inform my Reader that the first Couple were Tyranny and Anarchy, the Second were Bigotry and Atheism, the third the Genius of a Common-wealth and a young Man of about twenty two Years of Age, whofe Name I could not learn. He had a Sword in his right Hand, which in the Dance he often brandifhed at the A&t of Settlement, and a Citizen, who ftood by me, whif per'd in my Ear, that he faw a Spunge in his left Hand. The Dance of fo many jarring Natures, put me in Mind of the Sun, Moon, and Earth, in the Rebearfal, that danced together for no other end but to eclipse one another.

THE Reader will eafily fuppofe, by what has been before said, that the Lady on the Throne would have been almoft frighted to Diftraction, had the feen but any one of thefe Spectres;

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what then must have been her Condition when she faw them all in a Body? She fainted and dyed away at the Sight.

Et neque jam color eft mifto candore rubori;
Nec vigor, &Vires,& qua modo vifa placebant ;
Nec Corpus remanet-
Ovid. Met. Lib. 3.

THERE was a great Change in the Hill of Money Bags, and the Heaps of Money, the former fhrinking, and falling into fo many empty Bags, that I now found not above a tenth part of them had been filled with Money. The rest that took up the fame Space, and made the fame Figure as the Bags that were really filled with Money, had been blown up with Air, and called in-to my Memory the Bags full of Wind, which Homer tells us his Hero received as a Present from Eolus. The great Heaps of Gold, on either fide the Throne, now appeared to be only Heaps of Paper, or little Piles of notched Sticks, bound up together in Bundles, like Bath-Faggots.

WHILST I was lamenting this fudden Defolation that had been made before me, the whole Scene vanished : In the Room of the frightful Spectres,

there

there now entered a fecond Dance of Apparitions very agreeably match'd together, and made up of very amiable Phantoms. The first Pair was Liberty with Monarchy at her Right Hand: The fecond was Moderation leading in Religion; and the third a Perfon whom I had never feen, with the Genius of Great-Britain. At the first Entrance the Lady revived, the Bags fwell'd to their former Bulk, the Pile of Faggots and Heaps of Paper changed into Pyramids of Guineas: And for my own part I was fo transported with Joy, that I awaked, though I must confefs, I would fain have fallen afleep again to have closed my Vifion, if I could have done it.

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N° 4.

Monday, March ƒ.

Egregii Mortalem, altique filenti!

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Hor.

N Author, when he first appears in the World, is very apt to believe it has nothing to think of but his Performances. With a good Share of this Vanity in my Heart, I made it

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