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versation between ladies and gentlemen, regulated, shaped arm held a fan over her face. It was not by the rules of honour and prudénce; and have in nature to command one's eyes from this object. ur ende thought it an observation not ill made, that where I could not avoid taking notice also of her fan, Ginest pr that was wholly denied, the women lost their wit, which had on it various figures, very improper to ailand the men their good manners. It is sure from behold on that occasion. There lay in the body of Dar those improper liberties you mentioned, that a sort the piece a Venus, under a purple canopy furled of undistinguishing people shall banish from their with curious wreaths of drapery, half naked, atdrawing-rooms the best-bred men in the world, tended with a train of Cupids, who were busied in and condemn those that do not. Your stating this fanning her as she slept. Behind her was drawn them point might, I think, be of good use, as well as a satyr peeping over the silken fence, and threamuch oblige, tening to break through it. I frequently offered to 6 SIR, turn my sight another way, but was still detained by the fascination of the Peeper's eyes, who had long practised a skill in them, to recal the parting glances of her beholders. You see my complaint, and hope you will take these mischievous people, the Peepers, into your consideration. I doubt not but you will think a Peeper as much more pernicious than a Starer, as an ambuscade is more to be feared than an open assault.

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'KING LATINUS TO THE SPECTATOR, GREETING. THOUGH some may think we descend from our imperial dignity, in holding correspondence with a private litterato; yet as we have great respect to all good intentions for our service, we do not esteem it beneath us to return you our royal thanks for what you published in our behalf, while under confinement in the enchanted castle of the Savoy, and for your mention of a subsidy for a prince in misfortune. This your timely zeal has inclined the hearts of divers to be aiding unto us, if we could propose the means. We have taken their goodwill into consideration, and have contrived a method which will be easy to those who shall give the aid, and not unacceptable to us who receive it. A concert of music shall be prepared at Haberdasher's-hall, for Wednesday the second of May, and we will honour the said entertainment with our own presence, where each person shall be assessed but at two shillings and sixpence. What we expect from you is, that you publish these our royal intentions, with injunction that they be read at all tea-tables within the cities of London and Westminster; and so we bid you heartily fare

well.

This is to let you understand that I am a reformed starer, and conceived a detestation for that practice from what you have writ upon the subject. But as you have been very severe upon the behaviour of us men at divine service, I hope you will not be so apparently partial to the women, Given at our court in Vinegar-yard, story the as to let them go wholly unobserved. If they do third from the earth, April 28, 1711.'

STEELE,

'LATINUS, KING OF THE VOLSCIANS.

No 54. WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1711.

R.

Strenua nos exercet inertia.
HOR. 1 Ep. xi. 28.
Laborious idleness our pow'rs employs.

every thing that is possible to attract our eyes, are We more culpable than they for looking at them? I happened last Sunday to be shut into a pew, which was full of young ladies in the bloom of youth and beauty. When the service began, I had not room to kneel at the confession; but as 1 food, kept my eyes from wandering as well as I was able, till one of the young ladies, who is a Peeper, resolved to bring down my looks and fix my devotion on herself. You are to know, sir, that a Peeper works with her hands, eyes, and Tax following letter being the first that I have re. fan; one of which is continually in motion, while ceived from the learned university of Cambridge, she thinks she is not actually the admiration of I could not but do myself the honour of publishing some ogler or starer in the congregation. As it. It gives an account of a new sect of philosostood utterly at a loss how to behave myself, sur-phers which has arose in that famous residence of rounded as I was, this Peeper so placed herself as learning; and is, perhaps, the only sect this age is to be kneeling just before me. She displayed the likely to produce.

most beautiful bosom imaginable, which heaved

and fell with some fervour, while a delicate well

* See No. 22.

"MR, SPECTATOR,

'Cambridge, April 25.

contemplates two or three hours every day over a sun-dial; and is true to the dial,

"As the dial to the sun,

Although it be not shone upon."

Our young students are content to carry their spe
culations as yet no further than bowling greens,
billiard-tables, and such like places. This may
shall have your encouragement.
serve for a sketch of my design; in which I hope
'I am, SIR, yours.'

" BELIEVING you to be an universal encourager of liberal arts and sciences, and glad of any information from the learned world, I thought an account of a sect of philosophers, very frequent among us, but not taken notice of, as far as I can remember, by any writers, either ancient or modern, would not be unacceptable to you. The philosophers of this sect are, in the language of our university, I called Loungers. I am of opinion, that, as in many other things, so likewise in this, the ancients have been defective; viz. in mentioning no philosophers of this sort. Some indeed will affirm that they are I must be so just as to observe, I have formerly a kind of Peripatetics, because we see them conti-seen of this sect at our other university; though nually walking about. But I would have these not distinguished by the appellation which the gentlemen consider, that though the ancient Peri- learned historian, my correspondent, reports they patetics walked much, yet they wrote much also; bear at Cambridge. They were ever looked witness, to the sorrow of this sect, Aristotle and upon as a people that impaired themselves more others; whereas it is notorious that most of our by their strict application to the rules of their or professors never lay out a farthing either in pen, seldom hurt themselves any further than to gain der, than any other students whatever. Others ink, or paper. Others are for deriving them from weak Diogenes, because several of the leading men of cyes, and sometimes headaches; but these the sect have a great deal of cynical humour in philosophers are seized all over with a general inthem, and delight much in sun-shine. But then, ability, indolence, and weariness, and a certain again, Diogenes was content to have his constant impatience of the place they are in, with an heavi habitation in a narrow tub, whilst our philosophers ness in removing to another. are so far from being of his opinion, that it is death The Loungers are satisfied with being merely to them to be confined within the limits of a good part of the number of mankind, without distin handsome convenient chamber but for half an hour. guishing themselves from amongst them. They may Others there are, who, from the clearness of their be said rather to suffer their time to pass, than to heads, deduce the pedigree of Loungers from that spend it, without regard to the past, or prospect great man (I think it was either Plato or Socrates) who, after all his study and learning, professed, that all he then knew was, that he knew nothing You easily see this is but a shallow argument, and may be soon confuted.

of the future. All they know of life is only the present instant, and do not taste even that. When the expense of his time is transferred to his coach one of this order happens to be a man of fortune, and horses, and his life is to be measured by their chief entertainment one of these philosophers can motion, not his own enjoyments or sufferings. The

I have with great pains and industry made my observations, from time to time, upon these sages; and, having now all materials ready, am compiling possibly propose to himself, is to get a relish of a treatise, wherein I shall set forth the rise and dress. This methinks might diversify the person progress of this famous sect, together with their he is weary of (his own dear self)-to himself. I maxims, austerities, manner of living, &c. Having these philosophers make a tolerable figure in the have known these two amusements make one of prevailed with a friend who designs shortly to publish a new edition of Diogenes Laertius, to add world; with variety of dresses in public assemblies this treatise of mine by way of supplement; Ishail in town, and quick motion of his horses out of it, now, to let the world see what may be expected now to Bath, now to Tunbridge, then to Newfrom me (first begging Mr. Spectator's leave that market, and then to London, he has in process of the world may see it) briefly touch upon some of time brought it to pass, that his coach and his my chief observations, and then subscribe myself horses have been mentioned in all those places. your humble servant. In the first place I shall When the Loungers leave an academic life, and, give you two or three of their maxims; the funda instead of this more elegant way of appearing in mental one, upon which their whole system is built, the polite world, retire to the seats of their ances is this, viz. "That time being an implacable enemy tors, they usually join a pack of dogs, and employ to, and destroyer of all things, ought to be paid in their days in defending their poultry from foxes: his own coin, and be destroyed and murdered with. I do not know any other method that any of this out mercy, by all the ways that can be invented." order has ever taken to make a noise in the world; Another favourite saying of theirs is, "That busi- but I shall inquire into such about this town as blockheads." A third seems to be a ludicrous one, ness was only designed for knaves, and study for but has a great effect upon their lives; and is this,

"That the devil is at home." Now for their man. ner of living; and here I have a large field to expatiate in; but I shall reserve particulars for my intended discourse, and now only mention one or two of their principal exercises. The elder profioients employ themselves in inspecting mores hominum multorum, in getting acquainted with all the signs and windows in the town. Some are arrived to so great knowledge, that they can tell every time any butcher kills a calf, every time an old woman's cat is in the straw; and a thousand other matters as important. One ancient philosopher

an university; and send my correspondent, for the have arrived at the dignity of being Loungers by the force of natural parts, without ever having seen embellishment of his book, the names and history of those who pass their lives without any incidents colate-houses from hour, to hour, to get over the at all; and how they shift coffee-houses and choinsupportable labour of doing nothing.

STEELE.

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When a government flourishes in conquests, and is secure from foreign attacks, it naturally falls into all the pleasures of luxury; and as these pleasures are very expensive, they put those who are addicted to them upon raising fresh supplies of money, by all the methods of rapaciousness and corruption; so that avarice and luxury very often become one complicated principle of action, in those whose hearts are wholly set upon ease, magnificence, and pleasure. The most elegant and correct of all the Latin historians* observes, that Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living world were subdued by the Romans, the republic in his time, when the most formidable states of the among mankind, take their original either from the sunk into those two vices of a quite different nalove of pleasure, or the fear of want. The former, ture, luxury and avarice: and accordingly dewhen it becomes too violent, degenerates into Lux-scribes Catiline as one who coveted the wealth of ury, and the latter into Avarice. As these two other men, at the same time that he squandered principles of action draw different ways, Persius away his own. This observation on the commonhas given us a very humorous account of a young wealth, when it was in its height of power and fellow who was roused out of his bed in order to riches, holds good of all governments that are setbe sent upon a long voyage, by Avarice, and after-tled in a state of ease and prosperity. At such times wards over-persuaded and kept at home by Lux-men naturally endeavour to outshine one another ury. I shall set down the pleadings of these two in pomp and splendour, and having no fears to alarm imaginary persons, as they are in the original, with Mr. Dryden's translation of them:

Mane piger, stertis: surge, inquit Avaritia; eja
Surge. Negas. Instat, surge, inquit. Non queo. Surge.
Et quid agem? Rogas? saperdas advehe ponto,
Catereum, stuppas, hebenum, thus, lubrica Coa.
Talle recens primus piper e sitiente camelo.
Terte aliquid; jura. Sed Jupiter audiet. Eheu!
Bars, regustatum digite terebrare salinum
Contenta perages, si vivere cum Jove tendis.
Jan paeris pellem succinctus et œnophorum apias,
Oquad navem. Nil obstat quin trabe vastā
Mum rapias, nisi solers Luxuria ante
Seductum moneat; quo deinde insane ruts? Quo?
tibi vis? Calido sub pectore mascula bilis
lamit, quam non extinxerit urna cicuta?
Tus' mare transilias? Tibi torta cannabe fulto
Cat in transtro? Veientanumque rubelium
Exhalet vapida læsum pice sessilis obba?

Od petia Ut nummi, quos hic quincunce molesto
Yurieras, pergant avides sudare deunces?
Indulge penia: carpamus dulcia; nostrum est
Qed is; cinis, et manes, et fabula fies.

The memar lethi: fugit hora. Hoc quod loquor, inde est.
En quid agis? Duplici in diversum scinderis hamo.
Hanccine, an hunc sequeris ?——'

Whether alone, or in thy harlot's lap,
When then would'st take a lazy morning's nap;
Up up, says Avarice; thou snor'st again,
Stretchest thy limbs and yawn'st, but all in vain.
The rugged tyrant no denial takes;

Sat. v. 131.

Athis command th' unwilling sluggard wakes.
What must I do? he cries; What? says his lord;
Why rise, make ready, and go straight aboard:
We fish, from Euxine seas, thy vessel freight;
Fat, castor, Coan wines, the precious weight
Of pepper, and Sabean incense, take

With thy own hands, from the tir'd camel's back,
And with post-haste thy running markets make.
Be sure to turn the penny; lie and swear,

Ts wholesome sin: but Jove, thou say'st, will hear.
wear, fool, or starve; for the dilemma's even;
A tradesman thou! and hope to go to heav'n?
Resolv'd for sea, the slaves thy baggage pack,
Each saddled with his burden on his back:
thing retards thy voyage now, but he,
That soft voluptuous prince, called Luxury;
And he may ask this civil question; Friend,
That dost thou make a shipboard? To what end?
Art then of Bethlem's noble college free?

Stark, staring mad, that thou would'st tempt the sea?
Calib'd in a cabin, on a mattress laid,

a brown George, with lousy swobbers fed; Dead wine that stinks of the Borachio, sup Fran a foul jack, or greasy maple cup?

by, would'st thou bear all this to raise thy store,
Frith hundred to six hundred more?
Indulge, and to thy genius freely give;
Fat, not to live at ease, is not to live.
Death stalks behind thee, and each flying hour
Does some loose remnant of thy life devour.
Live, while thou liv'st; for death will make us all
Anime, a nothing but an old wife's tale.
pak: wilt thou Avarice or Pleasure choose
betby lord? Take one, and one refuse.

them from abroad, indulge themselves in the enjoyment of all the pleasures they can get into their possession; which naturally produces avarice, and an immoderate pursuit after wealth and riches.

As I was humouring myself in the speculation of these two great principles of action, I could not forbear throwing my thoughts into a little kind of allegory or fable, with which I shall here present my reader.

There were two very powerful tyrants engaged in a perpetual war against each other, the name of the first was Luxury, and of the second Avarice. The aim of each of them was no less than universal monarchy over the hearts of mankind. Luxury had many generals under him, who did him great service, as Pleasure, Mirth, Pomp, and Fashion. Avarice was likewise very strong in his officers, being faithfully served by Hanger, Industry, Care, and Watchfulness: he had likewise a privy-counsellor who was always at his elbow, and whispering something or other in his ear; the name of this privy-counsellor was Poverty. As Avarice conducted himself by the counsels of Poverty, his antagonist was entirely guided by the dictates and advice of Plenty, who was his first counsellor and minister of state, that concerted all his measures for him, and never departed out of his sight. While these two great rivals were thus contending for empire, their conquests were very various. Luxury got possession of one heart and Avarice of another. The father of a family would often range himself under the banners of Avarice, and the son under those of Luxury. The wife and the husband would often declare themselves on the two different parties; nay, the same person would very often side with one in his youth, and revolt to the other in his old age. Indeed the wise men of the world stood neuter; but, alas! their numbers were not considerable. At length, when these two potentates had wearied themselves with waging war upon one another, they agreed upon an interview, at which none of their counsellors were to be present. It is said that Luxury began the parley, and after having represented the endless state of war in which they were engaged, told his enemy, with a frankness of heart which is natural to him, that he believed they two should be very good friends, were it not for the instigations of Poverty, that pernicious counsellor, who made an ill use of his ear, and filled him

* Sallest.

ADDISON.

No 56. FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1711.

Felices errore suo--
Happy in their mistake.

C.

LUCAN i. 454.

with groundless apprehensions and prejudices. To The visionary, whose name was Marraton, after this Avarice replied, that he looked upon Plenty having travelled for a long space under an hollow (the first minister of his antagonist) to be a much mountain, arrived at length on the confines of this more destructive counsellor than Poverty, for that world of spirits, but could not enter it by reason he was perpetually suggesting pleasures, banishing of a thick forest made up of bushes, brambles, and all the necessary cautions against want, and conse-pointed thorns, so perplexed and interwoven with quently undermining those principles on which the one another, that it was impossible to find a pas. government of Avarice was founded. At last, in sage through it. Whilst he was looking about for order to an accommodation, they agreed upon this some track or path-way that might be worn in any preliminary; that each of them should immediately part of it, he saw a huge lion couched under the dismiss his privy-counsellor. When things were side of it, who kept his eye upon him in the same thus far adjusted towards a peace, all other differ posture as when he watches for his prey. The Inences were soon accommodated, insomuch that for dian immediately started back, while the lion rose the future they resolved to live as good friends and with a spring, and leaped towards him. Being confederates, and to share between them whatever wholly destitute of all other weapons, he stooped conquests were made on either side. For this rea- down to take up an huge stone in his hand; but to son, we now find Luxury and Avarice taking pos. his infinite surprise grasped nothing, and found the session of the same heart, and dividing the same supposed stone to be only the apparition of one. person between them. To which I shall only add, If he was disappointed on this side, he was as much that since the discarding of the counsellors above- pleased on the other, when he found the lion, which mentioned, Avarice supplies Luxury in the room had seized on his left shoulder, had no power to of Plenty, as Luxury prompts Avarice in the place hurt him, and was only the ghost of that ravenous of Poverty. creature which it appeared to be. He no sooner got rid of his impotent enemy, but he marched up to the wood, and after having surveyed it for some time, endeavoured to press into one part of it that was a little thinner than the rest; when again, to his great surprise, he found the bushes made no resistance, but that he walked through briars and brambles with the same ease as through the open air; and, in short, that the whole wood was nothing else but a wood of shades. He immediately THE Americans believe that all creatures have souls, concluded, that this huge thicket of thorns and not only men and women, but brutes, vegetables, brakes was designed as a kind of fence or quickset nay even the most inanimate things, as stocks and hedge to the ghosts it enclosed; and that probably stones. They believe the same of all the works of their soft substances might be torn by these subtle art, as of knives, boats, looking-glasses; and that as points and prickles, which were too weak to make any of these things perish, their souls go into another any impressions in flesh and blood. With this world, which is inhabited by the ghosts of men and thought he resolved to travel through this intricate women. For this reason they always place by the wood; when by degrees he felt a gale of perfumes corpse of their dead friend a bow and arrows, that breathing upon him, that grew stronger and sweeter he may make use of the souls of them in the other in proportion as he advanced. He had not proworld, as he did of their wooden bodies in this. ceeded much farther, when he observed the thorns How absurd soever such an opinion as this may ap- and briers to end, and give place to a thousand pear, our European philosophers have maintained beautiful green trees covered with blossoms of the several notions altogether as improbable. Some of finest scents and colours, that formed a wilderness Plato's followers in particular, when they talk of of sweets, and were a kind of lining to those the world of ideas, entertain us with substances and rugged scenes which he had before passed through. beings no less extravagant and chimerical. Many As he was coming out of this delightful part of Aristotelians have likewise spoken as unintelligibly the wood, and entering upon the plains it enclosed, of their substantial forms. I shall only instance he saw several horsemen rushing by him, and a Albertus Magnus, who in his dissertation upon the little while after heard the cry of a pack of dogs. loadstone observing, that fire will destroy its mag-He had not listened long before he saw the appanetic virtues, tells us, that he took particular notice rition of a milk-white steed, with a young man on of one as it lay glowing amidst an heap of burning the back of it, advancing upon full stretch after coals, and that he perceived a certain blue vapour the souls of about an hundred beagles, that were to arise from it, which he believed might be the hunting down the ghost of an hare, which ran away substantial form, that is, in our West Indian phrase, before them with an unspeakable swiftness. As the soul of the loadstone. the man on the milk-white steed came by him, he There is a tradition among the Americans, that looked upon him very attentively, and found him one of their countrymen descended in a vision to to be the young prince Nicharagua, who died the great repository of souls, or, as we call it here, about half a year before, and by reason of his to the other world; and that upon his return he great virtues was at that time lamented over all his friends a distinct account of every thing the western parts of America.

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See No. 50, and Tát. No. 171.

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be met with in those blooming regions. She had If those speeches and actions, which in their own made it gay beyond imagination, and was every nature are indifferent, appear ridiculous when they day adding something new to it. As Marraton proceed from a wrong sex, the faults and imperfecstood astonished at the unspeakable beauty of her tions of one sex transplanted into another, appear habitation, and ravished with the fragrancy that black and monstrous. As for the men, I shall not came from every part of it, Yaratilda told him that in this paper any further concern myself about she was preparing this bower for his reception, as them; but as I would fain contribute to make well knowing that his piety to his God, and his womankind, which is the most beautiful part of the faithful dealing towards men, would certainly creation, entirely amiable, and wear out all those bring him to that happy place, whenever his life little spots and blemishes, that are apt to rise among should be at an end. She then brought two of the charms which nature has poured out upon them, her children to him, who died some years before, I shall dedicate this paper to their service. The and resided with her in the same delightful bower; spot which I would here endeavour to clear them advising him to breed up those others which were of, is that party rage which of late years is very still with him in such a manner, that they might much crept into their conversation. This is, in its hereafter all of them meet together in this happy nature, a male vice, and made up of many angry place. and cruel passions that are altogether repugnant to The tradition tells us further, that he had after the softness, the modesty, and those other endearwards a sight of those dismal habitations which are ing qualities which are natural to the fair sex. the portion of ill men after death; and mentions Women were formed to temper mankind, and several molten seas of gold, in which were plunged soothe them into tenderness and compassion; not to the souls of barbarous Europeans, who put to the set an edge upon their minds, and blow up in them sword so many thousands of poor Indians for the those passions which are too apt to rise of their sake of that precious metal. But having already own accord. When I have seen a pretty mouth touched upon the chief points of this tradition, and uttering calumnies and invectives, what would exceeded the measure of my paper, I shall not give not have given to have stopt it? How I have any further account of it, been troubled to see some of the finest features in

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