looked upon as an act of emulation to furpafs the other. These beginnings of difinclination foon improved into a formality of behaviour, a general coldness, and by natural steps into an irreconcilable hatred.

These two rivals for the reputation of beauty, were in their stature, countenance, and mien, fo very much alike, that if you were speaking of them in their absence, the words in which you defcribed the one must give you an idea of the other. They were hardly diftinguishable, you would think, when they were apart, tho' extremely different when together. What made their enmity the more entertaining to all the rest of their sex was, that in detraction from each other neither could fall upon terms which did not hit herself as much as her adversary. Their nights grew reftlefs with meditation of new drefles to outvie each other, and inventing new devices to recal admirers, who observed the charms of the one rather than those of the other on the last meeting. Their colours failed at each other's appearance, flushed with pleasure at the report of a difadvantage, and their countenances withered upon inftances of applaufe. The decencies to which women are obliged, made these virgins ftifle their refentment fo far as not to break into open violences, while they equally fuffered the torments of a regulated anger. Their mothers, as it is ufual, engaged in the quarrel, and fupported the feveral pretenfions of the daughters with all that ill-chofen fort of expence which is common with people of plentiful fortunes and mean tafte. The girls preceded their parents like queens of May, in all the gaudy colours imaginable, on every Sunday to church, and were expofed to the examination of the audience for fuperiority of beauty.

During this conftant ftruggle it happened, that Phillis one day at public prayers fmote the heart of a gay WeftIndian, who appeared in all the colours which can affect an eye that could not diftinguish between being fine and taudry. This American in a fummer-ifland fuit was too fhining and too gay to be refifted by Phillis, and too intent upon her charms to be diverted by any of the laboured attractions of Brunetta. Soon after, Brunetta had the mortification to fee her rival difpofed of in a wealthy marriage, while he was only addreffed to in a manner

that

that shewed she was the admiration of all men, but the choice of none. Phillis was carried to the habitation of her fpoufe in Barbadoes: Brunetta had the ill-nature to inquire for her by every opportunity, and bad the misfortune to hear of her being attended by numerous flaves, fanned into flumbers by fucceffive hands of them, and carried from place to place in all the pomp of barbarous magnificence. Brunetta could not endure thefe repeatedadvices, but employed all her arts and charms in laying baits for any of condition of the fame ifland, out of as mere ambition to confront her once more before she died. She at laft fucceeded in her defign, and was taken to wife by a gentleman whofe eftate was contiguous to that of her enemy's hufband. It would be endlefs to enumerate the many occafions on which thefe irreconcilable beauties laboured to excel each other; but in procefs of time it happened that a fhip put into the ifland configned to a friend of Phillis, who had directions to give her the refufal of all goods for apparel, before Brunetta could be alarmed of their arrival. He did fo, and Phillis was dreffed in a few days in a brocade more gorgeous and. coftly than had ever before appeared in that latitude.. Brunetta languished at the fight, and could by no means come up to the bravery of her antagonist. She communicated her anguish of mind to a faithful friend, who, by an intereft in the wife of Phillis's merchant, procured a remnant of the fame filk for Brunetta. Phillis took pains to appear in all public places where she was fure to meet Brunetta; Brunetta was now prepared for the infult, and came to a public ball in a plain black filk mantua, attended by a beautiful negro girl in a petticoat of the fame brocade with which Phillis was attired. This drew the attention of the whole company, upon which the unhappy Phillis fwooned away, and was immediately conveyed to her houfe. As foon as he came to herfelf, she fled from her husband's houfe, went on board a ship in the road, and is now landed in inconfolable defpair at Plymouth.

POSTSCRIPT.

After the above melancholy narration, it may perhaps be a relief to the reader to perufe the following expoftu

lation.

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To Mr. Spectator.

The juft Remonftrance of affronted That. HO' I deny not the petition of Mr. Who and Which, yet you fhould not suffer them to be rude and to call honeft people names: for that bears very hard on fome of thofe rules of decency, which you are justly famous for eftablishing. They may find fault, and correct fpeeches in the fenate and at the bar: but let them try to get themselves fo often, and with fo nuch eloquence repeated in a fentence, as a great orator doth frequently introduce me.

"My Lords!" fays he, "with humble fubmiffion, "That that I fay is this: that, That, that that gentleman has advanced, is not That that he fhould have proved to your Lordships." Let thofe two queftionary petitioners try to do thus with their Who's and ⚫ their Whiches.

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What great advantages was I of to Mr. Dryden in his Indian Emperor,

"You force me ftill to answer you in That,"

to furnish out a rhyme to Morat? And what a poor figure would Mr. Bayes have made without his Egad and all That? How can a judicious man diftinguish one thing from another, without faying, This here, or That there? And how can a fober man without using the Expletives of oaths, in which indeed the rakes and bullies have a great advantage over others, make a dif courfe of any tolerable length, without That is; and if he be a very grave man indeed, without That is to • fay? And how inftructive as well as entertaining are thofe ufual expreffions, in the mouths of great men, Such things as That, and the like of That.

I am not against reforming the corruptions of fpeech. you mention, and own there are proper feafons for the introduction of other words befides That; but I fcorn as much to fupply the place of a Who or a Which at every turn, as they are unequal always to fill mine; and I expect good language and civil treatment, and hope to receive it for the future: That, that I fhall only add is, that I am,

• Yours,

R.

• That.

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NDE X.

BIGAILS (male) in fashion among the Ladies,

A Number 55.

Abfence in converfation, a remarkable inftance of it in Will Honeycomb, N. 77. The occafion of this abfence, ibid. and means to conquer it, ibid. The character of an abfent man, out of Bruyere, ibid.

Acroftick, a piece of falfe wit, divided into fimple and compound, N. 60.

Act of deformity, for the ufe of the ugly club, N. 17. Advertisements, of an Italian chirurgeon, N. 22. From St. James's Coffee-house, 24. From a Gentlewoman that teaches birds to speak, 36. From another that is a fine flesh-painter, 41.

Advice; no order of perfons too confiderable to be advised, N. 34. Affectation, a greater enemy to a fine face than the smallpox, ,N. 33. it deforms beauty, and turns wit into abfurdity, 38. The original of it, ibid. found in the wife man as well as the coxcomb, ib. The wayto get clear of it, ib.. Age, rendered ridiculous, N. 6. how contemned by the Athenians, and refpected by the Spartans, ibid. Alexander the great, wry-necked, 32.

Ambition never fatisfied, N. 27..

Americans, their opinion of fouls, N. 56. exemplified in a vifion of one of their countrymen, ibid.

Ample (Lady) her uneafinefs, and the reafon of it, N. 32. Anagram, what, and when first produced, N. 60.. Andromache, a great fox-hunter, N. 57.

April (the first of) the merriest day in the year, N. 47.. Aretine made all the Princes of Europe his tributaries, N. 23. Arietta, her character, N. 11. her fable of the lion and the

man, in anfwer to the flory of the Ephefian matron, ibid. her ftory of Inkle and Yariko, ibid,

Ariftotle, his obfervation upon the Iambick verfe, N. 31. upon tragedies, 40, 42.

Arfinoe, the firft mufical opera on the Englifb ftage, N..1& Avarice,

Avarice, the original of it, N. 55. Operates with luxury, ib. at war with luxury, ib. its officers and adherents, ib. comes to an agreement with luxury, ib. Audiences at prefent void of common fenfe, N. Aurelia, her character, N. 15.

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Author, the neceffity of his readers being acquainted with his fize, complexion, and temper, in order to read his works with pleasure, N. 1. his opinion of his own performances, 4. The expedient made ufe of by those that write for the stage, 51.

B.

Bain, Sir Francis, his comparison of a book well written, N. 10. his obfervation upon envy, 19.

Bags of money, a fudden transformation of them into fticks and paper, N. 3.

Baptift Lully, his prudent management, N. 29.

Bawdry, never writ but where there is a dearth of invention, N. 51.

Beaver, the haberdasher, a great politician,. N. 49. Beauties, when plagiaries, N, 4. The true fecret how to improve beauty, 33. then the moft charming when heightened by virtue, ib.

Bell, (Mr.) his ingenious device, N. 28.

Bell-Savage, its etymology, ib.

Birds, a cage-full for the Opera, N. 5.

Biters, their business, N. 47.

Blackmore, (Sir Richard) his obfervation, N. 6.

Blanks of fociety, who, N. 10.

Blank verfe proper for tragedy, N. 39.

Bobours, (Monfieur) a great critick among the French, N. 62.

Bouts-Rimex, what, N. 60.

Breeding, fine breeding diftinguished from good, N. 66. British Ladies diftinguished from the Pics, N. 41. Brunetta and Phillis, their adventures, N. 80.

Bruyere, (Monfieur) his character of an abfent man, N.77. Bullock and Norris, differently habited, prove great helps to a filly play, N. 44.

Butts defcribed, N. 47. the qualification of a butt, ib. C.

Car habebonour to

Afar (Julius) his behaviour to Catullus, who had

Caligula, his wifh, N. 16.

Camilla