there be any occasion, wherein they may
in themselves be supposed to be unfit to
attend their master's concerns, by reason
of any attention to their own, he is so good
as to place himself in their condition. I
thought it very becoming in him, when at
dinner the other day, he made an apology
for want of more attendants.
He said,
One of my footmen is gone to the wedding
of his sister, and the other I do not expect
to wait, because his father died but two
days ago.'
T.

ady asks for a thing, I hear, and have
alf brought it, when the woman meets me
n the middle of the room to receive it, and
t that instant she says, "No she will not
have it." Then I go back, and her woman
comes up to her, and by this time she will
have that, and two or three things more, in
an instant. The woman and I run to each
other; I am loaded and delivering the things
o her, when my lady says she wants none
of all these things, and we are the dullest
Creatures in the world, and she the unhap-
piest woman living, for she shall not be
drest in any time. Thus we stand, not
knowing what to do, when our good lady,
with all the patience in the world, tells us
as plain as she can speak, that she will
have temper because we have no manner
of understanding; and begins again to dress, ONE meets now and then with persons
and see if we can find out of ourselves what who are extremely learned and knotty in
we are to do. When she is dressed she expounding clear cases. Tully tells us of
goes to dinner, and after she has disliked an author that spent some pages to prove
every thing there, she calls for a coach, that generals could not perform the great
then commands it in again, and then she enterprises which have made them so illus-
will not go out at all, and then will go too, trious, it they had not had men.
He as-
and orders the chariot. Now, good Mr. serted also, it seems, that a minister at
Specter, I desire you would, in the behalf home, no more than a commander abroad,
of all who serve froward ladies, give out in could do any thing without other men were
your paper, that nothing can be done with- his instruments and assistants. On this
out allowing time for it, and that one can- occasion he produces the example of The-
not be back again with what one was sent mistocles, Pericles, Cyrus, and Alexander
for, if one is called back before one can go himself, whom he denies to have been ca-
a step for that they want. And if you pable of effecting what they did, except
please, let them know that all mistresses they had been followed by others. It is
are as like as all servants. I am your lov-pleasant enough to see such persons con-
ing friend,
tend without opponents, and triumph with-
out victory.
These are great calamities; but I met The author above-mentioned by the ora-
the other day in the Five-fields, towards tor is placed for ever in a very ridiculous
Chelsea, a pleasanter tyrant than either of light, and we meet every day in conversa-
the above represented. A fat fellow was tion such as deserve the same kind of re-
puffing on in his open waistcoat; a boy of nown, for troubling those with whom they
fourteen in a livery, carrying after him his converse with the like certainties. The
cloak, upper coat, hat, wig, and sword. persons that I have always thought to de-
The poor lad was ready to sink with the serve the highest admiration in this kind
weight, and could not keep up with his are your ordinary story-tellers, who are
master, who turned back every half fur- most religiously careful of keeping to the
long, and wondered what made the lazy truth in every particular circumstance of
young dog lag behind.

No. 138.] Wednesday, August 8, 1711.
Utitur in re non dubia testibus non necessariis.-Tull.
He uses unnecessary proofs in an indisputable point.

PATIENCE GIDDY.'

a narration, whether it concerns the main

There is something very unaccountable, end or not. A gentleman whom I had the
that people cannot put themselves in the honour to be in company with the other
condition of the persons below them, when day, upon some occasion that he was
they consider the commands they give. pleased to take, said, he remembered a
But there is nothing more common than to very pretty repartee made by a very witty
see a fellow (who, if he were reduced to it, man in King Charles's time upon the like
would not be hired by any man living,) occasion. I remember (said he, upon en-
lament that he is troubled with the most tering into the tale) much about the time
worthless dogs in nature.
of Oates's plot, that a cousin-german of
It would, perhaps, be running too far out mine and I were at the Bear in Holborn.
of common life to urge, that he who is not No, I am out, it was at the Cross-keys,
master of himself and his own passions, but Jack Thomson was there, for he was
cannot be a proper master of another. very great with the gentleman who made
Equanimity in a man's own words and ac- the answer. But I am sure it was spoken
tions, will easily diffuse itself through his somewhere thereabouts, for we drank a
whole family. Pamphilio has the happiest bottle in that neighbourhood every even-
household of any man I know, and that ing; but no matter for all that, the thing is
proceeds from the humane regard he has the same; but-'

to them in their private persons, as well as He was going on to settle the geography
in respect that they are his servants. If of the jest when I left the room, wondering

at this odd turn of head which can play | is really no such thing as colour in nature; away its words, with uttering nothing to in a word, they can turn what little knowthe purpose, still observing its own im- ledge they have into a ready capacity of pertinences, and yet proceeding in them. raising doubts; into a capacity of being alI do not question but he informed the rest ways frivolous and always unanswerable. of his audience, who had more patience It was of two disputants of this impertinent than I,.of the birth and parentage, as well and laborious kind that the cynic said, as the collateral alliances of his family who One of these fellows is milking a ram, and made the repartee, and of him who pro- the other holds the pail.' voked him to it.

It is no small misfortune to any who have a just value for their time, when this quality of being so very circumstantial, and careful to be exact, happens to show itself in a man whose quality obliges them to attend his proofs, that it is now day, and the like. But this is augmented when the same genius gets into authority, as it often does. Nay, I have known it more than once ascend the very pulpit. One of this sort taking it in his head to be a great admirer of Dr. Tillotson and Dr. Beveridge, never failed of proving out of these great authors things which no man living would have denied him upon his own single authority. One day resolving to come to the point in hand, he said, according to that excellent divine, I will enter upon the matter, or in his words, in his fifteenth sermon of the folio edition, page 160,

"I shall briefly explain the words, and then consider the matter contained in them."

This honest gentleman needed not, one would think, strain his modesty so far as to alter his design of entering upon the matter,' to that of briefly explaining.' But so it was, that he would not even be contented with that authority, but added also the other divine to strengthen his method, and told us, with the pious and learned Dr. Beveridge, page 4th of his ninth volume, "I shall endeavour to make it as plain as I can from the words which I have now read, wherein for that purpose we shall consider- This wiseacre was reckoned by the parish, who did not understand him, a most excellent preacher; but that he read too much, and was so humble that he did not trust enough to his own parts.

ADVERTISEMENT.

'The exercises of the snuff-box, according to the most fashionable airs and motions, in opposition to the exercise of the fan, will be taught with the best plain or perfumed snuff, at Charles Lillie's, per fumer, at the corner of Beaufort-buildings, in the Strand, and attendance given for the benefit of the young merchants about the Exchange for two hours every day at noon, except Saturdays, at a toy-shop, near Gar raway's coffee-house. There will be likewise taught the ceremony of the snuff-box, or rules for offering snuff to a stranger, a friend, or a mistress, according to the degree of familiarity or distance; with an explanation of the careless, the scornful, the politic, and the surly pinch, and the ges tures proper to each of them.

"N. B. The undertaker does not ques tion but in a short time to have formed a body of regular snuff-boxes ready to meet and make head against all the regiment of fans which have been lately disciplined, and are now in motion.'

No. 139.] Thursday, August 9,

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1711.

ficta omnia celeriter, tanquam flosculi, decidunt, nec Vera gloria radices agit, atque etiam propagatur simulatum potest quidquam esse diuturnum. Tall True glory takes root, and even spreads: all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ar dent. According as this is cultivated in princes, it produces the greatest good or the greatest evil. Where sovereigns have it by impressions received from education only, it creates an ambitious rather than a Next to these ingenious gentlemen, who noble mind; where it is the natural bent of argue for what nobody can deny them, are the prince's inclination, it prompts him to to be ranked a sort of people who do not in- the pursuit of things truly glorious. The deed attempt to prove insignificant things, two greatest men now in Europe (according but are ever labouring to raise arguments to the common acceptation of the word with you about matters you will give up great) are Lewis King of France, and to them without the least controversy. One Peter Emperor of Russia. As it is certain of these people told a gentleman who said that all fame does not arise from the prac he saw Mr. Such-a-One go this morning tice of virtue, it is, methinks, no unpleas at nine of the clock towards the Gravel-ing amusement to examine the glory of pits: Sir, I must beg your pardon for that, these potentates, and distinguish that which for though I am very loth to have any dis- is empty, perishing, and frivolous, from pute with you, yet, I must take the liberty what is solid, lasting, and important. to tell you, it was nine when I saw him at St. James's. When men of this genius are pretty far gone in learning they will put you to prove that snow is white, and when you are upon that topic can say that there

Lewis of France had his infancy attended by crafty and worldly men, who made extent of territory the most glorious instance of power, and mistook the spreading of fame for the acquisition of honour. The

young monarch's heart was by such con- grace? Who ever thought himself mean
versation easily deluded into a fondness for in absolute power, till he had learned to
vain-glory, and upon these unjust princi-use it?
ples to form or fall in with suitable projects If we consider this wonderful person, it
of invasion, rapine, murder, and all the is perplexity to know where to begin his
guilts that attend war when it is unjust. encomium. Others may, in a metaphori-
At the same time this tyranny was laid, cal or philosophical sense, be said to com-
sciences and arts were encouraged in the mand themselves, but this emperor is also
most generous manner, as if men of higher literally under his own command. How
faculties were to be bribed to permit the generous and how good was his entering
massacre of the rest of the world. Every his own name as a private man in the army
superstructure which the court of France he raised, that none in it might expect to
built upon their first designs, which were outrun the steps with which he himself ad-
in themselves vicious, was suitable to its vanced! By such measures this godlike
false foundation. The ostentation of riches, prince learned to conquer, learned to use
the vanity of equipage, shame of poverty, his conquests. How terrible has he ap-
and ignorance of modesty, were the com-peared in battle, how gentle in victory!
mon arts of life: the generous love of one Shall then the base arts of the Frenchman
woman was changed into gallantry for all
the sex, and friendship among men turned
into commerce of interest, or mere profes-
sions. While these were the rules of life,
perjuries in the prince, and a general cor-
ruption of manners in the subject, were the
snares in which France has entangled all
her neighbours. With such false colours
have the eyes of Lewis been enchanted,
from the debauchery of his early youth, to
the superstition of his present old age.
Hence it is, that he has the patience to
have statues erected to his prowess, his
valour, his fortitude, and in the softness
and luxury of a court to be applauded for
magnanimity and enterprise in military
achievements.

be held polite, and the honest labours of
the Russian barbarous? No: barbarity is
the ignorance of true honour, or placing
any thing instead of it. The unjust prince
is ignoble and barbarous, the good prince
only renowned and glorious.

Though men may impose upon them-
selves what they please by their corrupt
imaginations, truth will ever keep its sta-
tion; and as glory is nothing else but the
shadow of virtue, it will certainly disap-
pear at the departure of virtue. But how
carefully ought the true notions of it to be
preserved, and how industrious should we
be to encourage any impulses towards it!
The Westminster school-boy that said the
other day he could not sleep or play for
the colours in the hall,* ought to be free
from receiving a blow for ever.

Peter Alexovitz of Russia, when he came to years of manhood, though he Found himself emperor of a vast and nunerous people, master of an endless territory, absolute commander of the lives and fortunes of his subjects, in the midst of this The perfection of glory, says Tully, conunbounded power and greatness, turned his sists in these three particulars; That the thoughts upon himself and people with sor-people love us; that they have confidence row. Sordid ignorance and a brute manner in us; that being affected with a certain of life, this generous prince beheld and con- admiration towards us, they think we deemned, from the light of his own genius. serve honour.' This was spoken of greatHis judgment suggested this to him, and his ness in a commonwealth. But if one were Courage prompted him to amend it. In to form a notion of consummate glory order to this, he did not send to the nation under our constitution, one must add to the From whence the rest of the world has bor- above-mentioned felicities a certain necesowed its politeness, but himself left his sary in existence, and disrelish of all the iadem to learn the true way to glory and rest, without the prince's favour. He onour, and application to useful arts, should, methinks, have riches, power, hoherein to employ the laborious, the sim-nour, command, and glory; but riches, ple, the honest part of his people. Me- power, honour, command, and glory, chanic employments and operations were should have no charms, but as accompa ery justly the first objects of his favour nd observation. With this glorious inention he travelled into foreign nations in n obscure manner, above receiving little onours where he sojourned, but prying to what was of more consequence, their rts of peace and of war. By this means has is great prince laid the foundation of a reat and lasting fame, by personal labour, ersonal knowledge, personal valour. It ould be injury to any of antiquity to name em with him. Who, but himself, ever ft a throne to learn to sit in it with more

But let us consider what is truly glorious
according to the author I have to-day
quoted in the front of my paper.

nied with the affection of his prince. He
should, methinks, be popular because a
favourite, and a favourite because popular.
Were it not to make the character too
imaginary, I would give him sovereignty
over some foreign territory, and make him
esteem that an empty addition without the
kind regards of his own prince. One may
merely have an idea of a man thus com-

Blenheim, in 1704, were fixed up in Westminster-hall
The colours taken by the Duke of Marlborough at
after having been carried in procession through the
city.

དསབགཏུག

posed and circumstantiated, and if he were so made for power without a capacity of giving jealousy, he would be also glorious without the possibility of receiving disgrace. This humility and this importance must make his glory immortal.

These thoughts are apt to draw me beyond the usual length of this paper; but if I could suppose such rhapsodies could outlive the common fate of ordinary things, I would say these sketches and faint images of glory were drawn in August, 1711, when John Duke of Marlborough made that memorable march wherein he took the French

lines without bloodshed.

No. 140.] Friday, August 10, 1711.

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wish you would take some other opportunity to express further the corrupt taste the age has run into; which I am chiefly apt to attribute to the prevalency of a few popular authors, whose merit in some respects has given a sanction to their faults in others. Thus the imitators of Milton seem to place all the excellency of that sort of writing either in the uncouth or antique words, or something else which was highly vicious, though pardonable in that great man. The admirers of what we call point, or turn, look upon it as the particular happiness to which Cowley, Ovid, and others, owe their reputation, and therefore endeavour to imitate them only in such instances What is just, proper, and natural, does not seem to be the question with them, but by what means a quaint antithesis may be brought about, how one word may be made to look two ways, and what will be the con sequence of a forced allusion. Now though such authors appear to me to resemble those who make themselves fine, instead of being well-dressed, or graceful; yet the mischief is, that these beauties in them, which I call blemishes, are thought to proceed from luxuriance of fancy, and overread-flowing of good sense. In one word, they have the character of being too witty: but if you would acquaint the world they are not witty at all, you would, among many others, oblige, sir, your most benevolent reader, R. D.'

-Animum curis nunc huc, nunc dividit illuc.
Virg. Æn. iv. 285.

This way and that the anxious mind is torn.

WHEN I acquaint my reader, that I have many other letters not yet acknowledged, I believe he will own, what I have a mind he should believe, that I have no small charge upon me, but am a person of some consequence in this world. I shall therefore employ the present hour only in ing petitions in the order as follows.

'MR. SPECTATOR,-I have lost so much time already, that I desire, upon the receipt hereof, you will sit down immediately and give me your answer. And I would know of you whether a pretender of mine really loves me. As well as I describe his manners. When he sees me is always talking of constancy, but vouch-tween me and a cousin of mine, who is alsafes to visit me but once a fortnight, and ways contradicting one because he underthen he is always in haste to be gone. with a single or a double P? I am, sir, stands Latin: pray, sir, is Dimple spelt When I am sick, I hear he says he is mightily concerned, but neither comes nor sends, your very humble servant, because, as he tells his acquaintance with a sigh, he does not care to let me know all the power I have over him, and how impossible it is for him to live without me.. When he leaves the town he writes once in six weeks, desires to hear from me, complains of the torment of absence, speaks of flames, tortures, languishings, and ecstasies. He has the cant of an impatient lover, but keeps the pace of a lukewarm one. You know I must not go faster than he

SIR,-I am a young woman, and reckoned pretty; therefore you will pardon me I will can that I trouble you to decide a wager be

does, and to move at this rate is as tedious as counting a great clock. But you are to know he is rich, and my mother says, as he is slow he is sure; he will love me long if he love me little: but I appeal to you whether he loves at all. Your neglected humble

servant,

LYDIA NOVELL.'

All these fellows who have money are extremely saucy and cold; pray, sir, tell

them of it.'

MR. SPECTATOR,-I have been delighted with nothing more through the whole course of your writings than the substantial account you lately gave of wit, and I could

'BETTY SAUNTER.' 'Pray, sir, direct thus, "To the kind Querist," and leave it at Mr. Lillie's, for! do not care to be known in the thing at all. I am, sir, again, your humble servant.

MR. SPECTATOR,-I must needs tell not much like. You are often so nice, there you there are several of your papers I do is no enduring you; and so learned, there is no with our petticoats? Your humble servant, understanding you. What have you to do

'PARTHENOPE.'

'MR. SPECTATOR,-Last night,, as I was walking in the Park, I met a couple of friends. Pr'ythee, Jack," says one of them, "let us go drink a glass of wine, for I am fit for nothing else." This put me upon reflecting on the many miscarriages which happen in conversations over wine, when men go to the bottle to remove such humours as it only stirs up and awakens This I could not attribute more to any thing than to the humour of putting com pany upon others which men do not like themselves. Pray, sir, declare in your

papers, that he who is a troublesome com- sent ignorance, may be thought a good
panion to himself, will not be an agreeable
one to others. Let people reason them-
selves into good humour, before they im-
pose themselves upon their friends. Pray,
sir, be as eloquent as you can upon this
subject, and do human life so much good,
as to argue powerfully, that it is not every
one that can swallow who is fit to drink
a glass of wine. Your most humble ser-

vant.'

'SIR,-I this morning cast my eye upon your paper concerning the expence of time. You are very obliging to the women, especially those who are not young and past gallantry, by touching so gently upon gaming: therefore I hope you do not think it wrong to employ a little leisure time in that diversion; but I should be glad to hear you say something upon the behaviour of some of the female gamesters.

presage and earnest of improvement, you
may look upon your time you shall bestow
in answering this request not thrown away
to no purpose. And I cannot but add,
that unless you have a particular and more
than ordinary regard for Leonora, I have
a better title to your favour than she: since
I do not content myself with tea-table read-
ing of your papers, but it is my entertain-
ment very often when alone in my closet.
and hate flattery, I acknowledge I do not
To show you I am capable of improvement,
like some of your papers; but even there 1
am readier to call in question my own shal-
low understanding than Mr. Spectator's
profound judgment. I am sir, your already
(and in hopes of being more votr) obliged
PARTHENIA.

servant,

This last letter is written with so urgent and serious an air, that I cannot but think it incumbent upon me to comply with her commands, which I shall do very suddenly.

T.

'I have observed ladies, who in all other respects are gentle, good-humoured, and the very pinks of good-breeding; who as soon as the ombre-table is called for and sit down to their business, are immediately transmigrated into the veriest wasps in No. 141.] Saturday, August 11, 1711.

nature.

'You must know I keep my temper, and win their money; but am out of countenance to take it, it makes them so very uneasy. Be pleased, dear sir, to instruct them to lose with a better grace, and you will'oblige, Yours, RACHEL BASTO.'

your own

'MR. SPECTATOR,-Your kindness to Leonora, in one of your papers, has given me encouragement to do myself the honour of writing to you. The great regard you have so often expressed for the instruction and improvement of our sex will I hope, in opinion, sufficiently excuse me from making any apology for the impertinence of this letter. The great desire I have to embellish my mind with some of those graces which you say are so becoming, and which you assert reading helps us to, has made me uneasy until I am put in a capacity of attaining them. This, sir, I shall never think myself in, until you shall be pleased to recommend some author or authors to my perusal.

In the present emptiness of the town, I have several applications from the lower part of the players, to admit suffering to pass for acting. They in very obliging terms desire me to let a fall on the ground, a stumble, or a good slap on the back, be reckoned a jest. These gambols I shall tolerate for a season, because I hope the evil cannot continue longer than until the people of condition and taste' return to town. The method some time ago, was to entertain that part of the audience, who have no faculty above eye-sight, with ropedancers and tumblers; which was a way discreet enough, because it prevented confusion, and distinguished such as could show all the postures which the body is capable of, from those who were to represent all the passions to which the mind is subject. But though this was prudently I thought, indeed, when I first cast my settled, corporeal and intellectual actors eye on Leonora's letter, that I should have ought to be kept at a still wider distance had no occasion for requesting it of you; than to appear on the same stage at all: but, to my very great concern, I found on for which reason I must propose some the perusal of that Spectator, I was en- methods for the improvement of the beartirely disappointed, and am as much at a garden, by dismissing all bodily actors to loss how to make use of my time for that that quarter. Pray, sir, oblige me at least In cases of greater moment, where men with one scene, as you were pleased to en- appear in public, the consequence and imtertain Leonora with your prologue. I portance of the thing can bear them out. write to but also those of several others of my ac- or awkward, the weight of their matter quaintance, who are as little pleased with commands respect and attention; but in the ordinary manner of spending one's time theatrical speaking, if the performer is not as myself; and if a fervent desire after exactly proper and graceful, he is utterly

end as ever.

knowledge, and a great sense of our pre-ridiculous. In cases where there is little