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maly, and explained by the majority of the com-jentitled, The Expedition of Alexander the Great: +pany. A mistress, and a poem in her praise, will in which he had disposed all the remarkable shows introduce any candidate. Without the latter no, about town, among the scenes and decorations of one can be admitted; for he that is not in love his piece. The thought, he confessed, was not orienough to rhyme, is unqualified for our society. To ginally his own, but that he had taken the hint of speak disrespectfully of any woman is expulsion it from several performances which he had seen from our gentle society. As we are at present all upon our stage: in one of which there was a rareeof us gownmen, instead of duelling when we are show; in another a ladder-dance; and in others a rivals, we drink together the health of our mistress. posture-man, a moving picture, with many curiosiThe manner of doing this sometimes indeed creates debates; on such occasions we have recourse to the rules of love among the ancients.

"Nævia sex cyathis, septem Justina bibatur."

ties of the like nature.

The Expedition of Alexander* opens with his consulting the oracle at Delphos, in which the dumb conjurer, who had been visited by so many MART. Epig. i. 72. persons of quality of late years, is to be introduced as telling his fortune. At the same time Clinch of Barnet is represented in another corner of the temple, as ringing the bells of Delphos, for joy of his arrival. The tent of Darius is to be peopled by the ingenious Mrs. Salmon, where Alexander is to fall in love with a piece of wax-work, that represents the beautiful Statira. When Alexander comes into that country, in which Quintus Curtius tellsus

"Six cups to Nævia, to Justina seven." This method of a glass to every letter of her name, occasioned the other night a dispute of some warmth. A young student, who is in love with Mrs. Elizabeth Dimple, was so unreasonable as to begin her health under the name of Elizabetha; which so exasperated the club, that by common

consent we retrenched it to Betty. We look upon the dogs were so exceeding fierce, that they would

a man as no company that does not sigh five

in a quarter of an hour; and look upon a member not loose their hold, though they were cut to as very absurd, that is so much himself as to make pieces limb by limb, and that they would hang a direct answer to a question. In fine, the whole upon their prey by their teeth when they had assembly is made up of absent men, that is, of such nothing but a mouth left, there is to be a scene of persons as have lost their locality, and whose minds Hockley in the Hole, in which is to be represented and bodies never keep company with one another. all the diversions of that place, the bull-baiting As I am an unfortunate member of this distracted only excepted, which cannot possibly be exhibited

society, you cannot expect a very regular account of it; for which reason I hope you will pardon me that I so abruptly subscribe myself,

'SIR,

in the theatre, by reason of the lowness of the roof. The several woods in Asia, which Alexander must be supposed to pass through, will give the audience a sight of monkies dancing upon ropes, with many other pleasantries of that ludicrous species. At the same time, if there chance to be any strange animals in town, whether birds or beasts, they may I forgot to tell you, that Albina, who has six be either let loose among the woods, or driven votaries in this club, is one of your readers."

'Your most obedient, humble servant,
'т. в.'

across the stage by some of the country people of Asia. In the last great battle, Pinkethman is to personate king Porus upon an elephant, and is to be encountered by Powell, representing Alexander the Great upon a dromedary, which nevertheless Mr. Powell is desired to call by the name of Bucephalus. Upon the close of this great decisive battle, when the two kings are thoroughly reconciled, to show the mutual friendship and good correspondence that reigns between them, they both of

LAST night, upon my going into a coffee-house not them go together to a puppet-show, in which the far from the Haymarket theatre, I diverted myself ingenious Mr. Powell, junior, may have an opporfor above half an hour with overhearing the dis-tunity of displaying his whole art of machinery. course of one, who, by the shabbiness of his dress, for the diversion of the two monarchs. Some at the extravagance of his conceptions, and the hurry the table urged that a puppet-show was not a suitof his speech, I discovered to be of that species able entertainment for Alexander the Great; aud who are

generally distinguished by the title of that it might be introduced more properly, if we Projectors. This gentleman, for I found he was suppose the conqueror touched upon that part of treated as such by his audience, was entertaining India which is said to be inhabited by the pigmies. a whole table of listeners with the project of an But this objection was looked upon as frivolous, opera, which he told us had not cost him above two and the proposal immediately overruled. Our proor three mornings in the contrivance, and which jector further added, that after the reconciliation he was ready to put in execution, provided he might of these two kings, they might invite one anothe find his account in it. He said, that he had observ- to dinner, and either of them entertain his guest ed the great trouble and inconvenience which ladies with the German artist, † Mr. Pinkethman's heathen were at, in travelling up and down to the several shows that are exhibited in different quarters of the town. The dancing monkies are in one place; the †"Lately arrived a rare and curious artist, who in the pre puppet-show in another; the opera in a third; not sence of ali spectators makes all sorts and fashions of Inda mention the lions, that are almost a whole day's China, and other ebrious figures of various colours as small as they please. Also all sorts of birds, fowls, images of men. &c. urney from the politer part of the town. By this He bloweth all colours of glass curiously, &c. He showeth & ans people of figure are forced to lose half the glass of water wherein four or five images rise or fall as he pleases; with several rarities. A wheel turned by human power hav er after their coming to town, before they which spins 10,000 yards of glass in less than half an hour. He seen all the strange sights about it. In order Thedy this great inconvenience, our projector and not to be discerned from natural eyes, and teaches how they ut of his pocket the scheme of an opera,

W

to

*See No. 36.

makes for sale, artificial eyes to admiration, curiously coloured may fix them in their heads themselves, to the great satisfaction of all who use them. Vivat Regina." Harl. MSS. 5961

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gods, or any of the like diversions, which shall and admit me into that select body; I could not then chance to be in vogue. This project was received with very great ap- honour which is done me. It is no small satisfacrestrain the vanity of publishing to the world the plause by the whole table. Upon which the under- tion that I have given occasion for the president's taker told us, that he had not yet communicated showing both his invention and reading to such to us above half his design; for that Alexander advantage as my correspondent reports he did: being a Greek, it was his intention that the whole but it is not to be doubted there were many very opera should be acted in that language, which was proper hums and pauses in his harangue, which a tongue he was sure would wonderfully please the lose their ugliness in the narration, and which my ladies, especially when it was a little raised and correspondent (begging his pardon) has no very rounded by the Ionic dialect; and could not but good talent at representing. I very much approve be acceptable to the whole audience, because of the contempt the society has of beauty. there are fewer of them who understand Greek thing ought to be laudable in a man, in which his than Italian. The only difficulty that remained, will is not concerned: therefore our society can was how to get performers, unless we could per- follow nature, and where she has thought fit, as it suade some gentlemen of the universities to learn were, to mock herself, we can do so too, and be to sing, in order to qualify themselves for the merry upon the occasion.

stage: but this objection soon vanished, when the

projector informed us that the Greeks were at pre

'MR. SPECTATOR,

No

sent the only musicians in the Turkish empire, and 'Your making public the late trouble I gave you, that it would be very easy for our factory at you will find to have been the occasion of this. Smyrna to furnish us every year with a colony of Who should I meet at the coffee-house door the musicians, by the opportunity of the Turkey fleet; other night, but my old friend Mr. President? I besides, says he, if we want any single voice for saw somewhat had pleased him; and as soon as any lower part in the opera, Lawrence can learn he had cast his eye upon me, "Oho Doctor, rare speak Greek, as well as he does Italian, in

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fortnight's time.

a news from London (says he); the Spectator has The projector having thus settled matters, to the published to the world his sincere desire to be a made honourable mention of the club (man), and good-liking of all that heard him, he left his seat member, with a recommendatory description of at the table, and planted himself before the fire, his phiz: and though our constitution has made no where I had unluckily taken my stand for the con- particular provision for short faces, yet his being venience of overhearing what he said. Whether an extraordinary case, I believe we shall find an he had observed me to be more attentive than or- hole for him to creep in at; for I assure you he is dinary, I cannot tell, but he had not stood by me not against the canon; and if his sides are as comabove a quarter of a minute, but he turned short pact as his joles, he need not disguise himself to upon me on a sudden, and, catching me by a button make one of us." I presently called for the paper, of my coat, attacked me very abruptly after the to see how you looked in print: and after we had following manner: 'Besides, sir, I have heard of regaled ourselves awhile upon the pleasant image A very extraordinary genius for music that lives in of our proselyte, Mr. President told me I should Switzerland, who has so strong a spring in his fin- be his stranger at the next night's club: where we and pipes brought, but Mr.

gers, that he can make the board of an organ were no sooner come, sound like a drum, and if I could but procure a President began an harangue upon your introducsubscription of about ten thousand pound every tion to my epistle, setting forth with no less voluwinter, I would undertake to fetch him over, and bility of speech than strength of reason, "That a oblige him by articles to set every thing that should speculation of this nature was what had been long De sung upon the English stage. After this he and much wanted; and that he doubted not but it oked full in my face, expecting I would make would be of inestimable value to the public, in 21 answer, when, by good luck, a gentleman that reconciling even of bodies and souls; in composing sad entered the coffee-house since the projector and quieting the minds of men underail corporeal applied himself to me, hearing him talk of his redundancies, deficiencies, and irregularities whatwiss compositions, cried out in a kind of laugh, soever; and making every one sit down content in 'is our music then to receive further improve- his own carcase, though it were not perhaps so ments from Switzerland! This alarmed the pro- inathematically put together as he could wish." actor, who immediately let go my button, and And again: "How that for want of a due consicited bout to answer him. I took the opportu-deration of what you first advance, viz. that our Ty of the diversion which seemed to be made in faces are not of our own choosing, people had been vour of me, and laying down my penny upon transported beyond all good breeding, and hurried De bar, retired with some precipitation.

ADDISON.

NNo 32. FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1711.

Neilli larva aut tragicis opus esse cothurnis.

C.

HOR. 1 Sat. v. 64.

themselves into unaccountable and fatal extravagancies; as, how many impartial looking-glasses had been censured and calumniated, nay, and sometimes shivered into ten thousand splinters, only for a fair representation of the truth? How many head-strings and garters had been made accessary, and actually forfeited, only because folks must needs quarrel with their own shadows? And who (continueshe) but is deeply sensible, that one great source of the uneasiness and misery of human life, 1m. late discourse concerning the statutes of the nothing in the world else, but too severe a cor chiscourse ofone, templation of an indefeasible context invinci especially among those of distinction, arises from a contrary to been so well received at storey external parts, or certain natural and inven testimonial, dispositions to be fat or lean? when a little r of Mr. Spectator's philosophy would take adst this. In the mean time let them observe, that /

He wants no tragie visor to incrense is natural deformity of face.

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is not one of their grievances of this sort, but per- every body's business to speak for themselves." haps, in some ages of the world, has been highly Mr. President immediately retorted, "A handin vogue, and may be so again; nay, in some some fellow! why he is a wit, sir, and you know country or other, ten to one is so at this day. My the proverb;" and to ease the old gentleman of Lady Ample is the most miserable woman in the world, purely of her erown own making. makin She even grudges herself meat and drink, for fear she should thrive by them; and is constantly crying out, 'In a quarter of a year more I shall be quite out of all

his scruples, cried, "That for matter of merit it was all one, you might wear a mask." This threw him into a pause, and he looked desirous of three days to consider of it; but Mr. President improved the thought, and followed him up with an old story.

manner of shape! Now the lady's misfortune "That wits were privileged to wear what masks seems to be only this, that she is planted in a they pleased in all ages; and that a vizard had wrong soil; for go but to the other side of the been the constant crown of their labours, which water, it is a jest at Haerlem to talk of a shape was generally presented them by the hand of some under eighteen stone. These wise traders regulate satyr, and sometimes of Apollo himself;" for the their beauties as they do their butter, by the truth of which he appealed to the frontispiece of pound; and Miss Cross, when she first arrived in several books, and particularly to the English the Low Countries, was not computed to be so venal, to which he referred him; and only added, handsome as Madam Van Brisket, by near half a "That such authors were the Larvati or Larva ton. On the other hand, there is 'Squire Lath, a donati of the ancients." This cleared up all, and proper gentleman of fifteen hundred pound per in the conclusion you were chose probationer; annum, as well as of an unblamable life and con- and Mr. President put round your health as such, versation: yet would not I be the esquire for half protesting, "That though indeed he talked of a his estate; for if it was as much more, he would vizard, he did not believe all the while you had freely part with it all for a pair of legs to his mind. any more occasion for it than the cat-a-mountain;" Whereas in the reign of our first Edward of glo- so that all you have to do now is to pay your fees, rious memory, nothing more modish than a brace which are here very reasonable, if you are not imof your fine taper supporters; and his majesty, posed upon; and you may style yourself Informis without an inch of calf, managed affairs in peace Societatis Socius: which I am desired to acquaint or war as laudably as the bravest and most politic you with; and upon the same I beg you to accept of his ancestors; and was as terrible to his neigh- of the congratulation of,

bours under the royal name of Longshanks, as

SHR,

'Your obliged humble servant,

Α.Ε.

'Oxford, March 21.'

R.

STEELE.

N° 33. SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1711.

Fervidus tecum puur, et solutis
Gratie zonis, properentque nympha.
Et parum comis sine te juventas,
Mercuriusque.

HOR. 1 Od. xxx. 5.

Cœur de Lion to the Saracens before him. If we look further back into history, we shall find that Alexander the Great wore his head a little over the left shoulder, and then not a soul stirred out till he had adjusted his neck-bone; the whole nobility addressed the prince and each other obliquely, and all matters of importance were concerted and carried on in the Macedonian court with their polls on one side. For about the first century nothing made more noise in the world than Roman noses, and then not a word of them till they revived again in eighty-eight. Nor is it so very long since Richard the Third set up half the backs of the nation; and high shoulders, as well as high noses, were the top of the fashion. But to come to ourselves, gentlemen, though I find by my quinquennial observations, that we shall never get la. dies enough to make a party in our own country, yet might we meet with better success among some of our allies. And what think you if our board A FRIEND of mine has two daughters, whom I will sat for a Dutch piece? Truly I am of opinion, call Lætitia and Daphne; the former is one of the that as odd as we appear in flesh and blood, we greatest beauties of the age in which she lives, the should be no such strange things in mezzo-tinto. latter no way remarkable for any charms in her But this project may rest till our number is com- person. Upon this one circumstance of their outplete; and this being our election night, give me ward form, the good and ill of their life seems to leave to propose Mr. Spectator. You see his turn. Lætitia has not, from her very childhood, inclinations, and perhaps we may not have his heard any thing else but commendations of her features and complexion, by which means she is

fellow."

The graces with their zones unloos'd;
The nymphs their beauties all expos'd;
From every spring and every plain;
Thy pow'rful, hot, and winged boy;
And youth, that's dull without thy joy;
And Mercury compose thy train.

CREECH.

'I found most of them (as is usual in all such no other than nature made her, a very beautiful cases) were prepared; but one of the seniors outside. The consciousness of her charms has ren (whom by the by Mr. President had taken all dered her insupportably vain and insolent towards this pains to bring over) sat still, and cocking his all who have to do with her. Daphne, who was alchin, which seemed only to be levelled at his nose, most twenty before one single thing had ever been very gravely declared, "That in case he had had said to her, found herself obliged to acquire some sufficient knowledge of you, no man should have accomplishments to make up for the want of those been more willing to have served you; but that attractions which she saw in her sister. Poor he, for his part, had always had regard to his own Daphne was seldom submitted to in a debate onscience, as well as other people's merit; and wherein she was concerned; her discourse had nodid not know but that you might be a handsome thing to recommend it but the good sense of it. haow; for as for your own certificate, it was and she was always under a necessity to have very

yden, we are told, in the plates to his translation of vir drew Eneas always represented with a Roman nose, in com

uttered it while Latitia was listened to with par well considered what she was to say before she tiality, and approbation sat in the countenances.of

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those she conversed with, before she communicated learning and sense, after eight years
what she had to say. These causes have produced university, and a course of travels into
suitable effects, and Lætitia is as insipid a com- tries of Europe, owe the first raising of
panion as Daphne is an agreeable one. Lætitia, tunes to a cosmetic wash.

confident of favour, has studied no arts to please;

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This has given me occasion to consider how

Daphne, despairing of any inclination towards her universal a disposition in womankind, which springs person, has depended only on her merit. Lætitia from a laudable motive, the desire of pleasing, and has always something in her air that is sullen, grave, proceeds upon an opinion, not altogether groundand disconsolate. Daphne has a countenance that less, that nature may be helped by art, may be appears cheerful, open, and unconcerned. A young turned to their advantage. And, methinks, it gentleman saw Lætitia this winter at a play, and would be an acceptable service to take them out became her captive. His fortune was such, that of the hands of quacks and pretenders, and to prehe wanted very little introduction to speak his vent their imposing upon themselves, by discoversentiments to her father. The lover was admitted ing to them the true secret and art of improving with the utmost freedom into the family, where a beauty. constrained behaviour, severe looks, and distant

civilities, were the highest favours he could obtain it will be necessary to lay down a few preliminary In order to this, before I touch upon it directly, of Lætitia; while Daphne used him with the good maxims, viz. humour, familiarity, and innocence of a sister: in

That no woman can be handsome by the force

as

Lonesomuch that he would often say to her, Dear of features alone, any more than she can be witty

only by the help of speech.

and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine
That pride destroys all symmetry and grace,
faces than the small-pox.

who is not incapable of being false.
That no woman is capable of being beautiful,

'And, That what would be odious in a friend, is deformity in a mistress.

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that he had something to say to her he hoped she will be easy to prove, that the true art of assisting 'From these few principles, thus laid down, it would be pleased with Faith, Daphne, con- beauty consists in embellishing the whole person tinued he, 'I am in love with thee, and despise by the proper ornaments of virtuous and comthy sister sincerely. The manner of his declaring mendable qualities. By this help alone it is, that himself gave his mistress occasion for a very hearty those who are the favourite work of nature, or, as laughter.' 'Nay,' says he, 'I knew you would Mr. Dryden expresses it, the porcelain clay of hulaugh at me, but I will ask your father. He did mankind, become animated, and are in a capacity 80; the father received his intelligence with no of exerting their charms: and those who seem to less joy than surprise, and was very glad he had be neglected by her, like models wrought in haste, now no care left but for his beauty, which he are capable in a great measure of finishing what thought he could carry to market at his leisure. I she has left imperfect.

do not know any thing that has pleased me much a great while as this conquest of my friend that sex, which was created to refine the joys and 'It is, methinks, a low and degrading idea of Daphne's. All her acquaintance congratulated her soften the cares of humanity, by the most agree upon her chance-medley, and laugh ditating murderer her sister. As it is an argument jects of sight. This is abridging them of their natuat that preme-able participation, of a light mind, to think the worse of ourselves for ral extent of power, to put them upon a level with to consider them merely as obthe imperfections of our person, it is equally below their pictures at Kneller's. Ilow much nobler is us to value ourselves upon the advantages of them. the contemplation of beauty, heightened by virtue, The female world seem to be almost incorrigibly and commanding our esteem and love, while it gone astray in this particular; for which reason I draws our observation! How faint and spiritless shall recommend the following extract out of a are the charms of a coquette, when compared with friend's letter* to the professed beauties, who are 1 people almost as insufferable as the professed good-humour, and truth; virtues which add a new Sophronia's innocence, piety,

1

Tits

the real loveliness of

als essays with affirming, that the last sighs of a preserve
MONSIEUR St. Evremond has concluded one of appeared no longer in the modest virgin, is now

softness to her sex, and even beautify her beauty!
That agreeableness which must otherwise have
preserved in the tender mother, the prudent
Colours artfully

her life, as of her beauty. not so
pursued too far, years turerhaps this railleryis spread upon canvass may entertain the eve
much for the loss of friend, and the faithful wife.

rous remark, that woman's strongest passion is for
her own beauty, and that she values it as her fa-
vurite distinction. From hence it is that all arts, picture, but not to triumph as a beauty.

not affect heart; and she who takes no care to
add to the natural graces of her person any excel..
lent qualities, may be allowed still to amuse as a

which pretend to improve it or preserve it, meet

with

150 general a reception among the sex. To say ing Eve in Paradise, and relating to the angel the

When Adam is introduced by Milton, describ

many false helps and contraband wares

nothing of of beauty, which are mart, there is not a

daily vended in this great creation, he does not represent her like a

impressions he felt upon seeing her at her first
Grecian

family, in not heard of the virtues of May-dew, or is unfurany country of South Britain, who has bished with some receipt or other in favour of her complexion; and I I have known a physician of

maiden gentlewoman of a good

Hughes. See another letter of his on the same subject, No. 53. also No. 06.

Venus, by her shape
of her mind which shone in them, and gave them
their power of charming :

or features, but by the lustre

"Grace was in all her steps, heav'n in her eye,
In all her gestures dignity and love!"

Without this irradiating power, the proudst

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air one ought to know, whatever her glass may his whole reign. He then showed by the exam

itell her to the contrary, that her most perfect features are uninformed and dead.

'I cannot better close this moral, than by a short epitaph written by Ben Jonson, with a spirit which nothing could inspire but such an object as I have been describing:

THE club of which I am a member, is very luckily composed of such persons as are engaged in different ways of life, and deputed as it were out of the most conspicuous classes of mankind. By this

ples of Horace, Juvenal, Boileau, and the best writers of every age, that the follies of the stage and court had never been accounted too sacred for ri. dicule, how great soever the persons might be that patronized them. But after all,' says he, 'I think your raillery has made too great an excursion, in attacking several persons of the inns of court; and I do not believe you can show me any precedent for your behaviour in that particular.'

My good friend Sir Roger de Coverley, who had said nothing all this while, began his speech with a Pish! and told us, that he wondered to see so many men of sense so very serious upon fooleries. 'Let our good friend,' says he, 'attack every one that deserves it: I would only advise you, Mr. Spectator, applying himself to me, to take care how you meddle with country squires. They are the ornaments of the English nation; men of good heads and sound bodies! and let me tell you, some of them take it ill of you, that you mention foxhunters with so little respect.'

Captain Sentry spoke very sparingly on this occasion. What he said was only to commend my prudence in not touching upon the army, and advised me to continue to act discreetly in that point.

By this time I found every subject of my specu. lations was taken away from me, by one or other of the club; and began to think myself in the con

means I am furnished with the greatest variety of dition of the good man that had one wife who took hints and materials, and know every thing that a dislike to his grey hairs, and another to his black, passes in the different quarters and divisions, not till by their picking out what each of them had an only of this great city, but of the whole kingdom. aversion to, they left his head altogether bald and My readers too have the satisfaction to find, that naked.

there is no rank or degree among them who have While I was thus musing with myself, my wor not their representative in this club, and that there thy friend the Clergyman, who, very luckily for is always somebody present who will take care of me, was at the club that night, undertook my their respective interests, that nothing may be cause. He told us, that he wondered any order of written or published to the prejudice or infringe- persons should think themselves too considerable ment of their just rights and privileges,

to be advised. That it was not quality, but inno

I last night sat very late in company with this cence, which exempted men from reproof. That select body of friends, who entertained me with vice and folly ought to be attacked wherever they several remarks which they and others had made could be met with, and especially when they were upon these my speculations, as also with the various placed in high and conspicuous stations of life. success which they had met with among their seve- He further added, that my paper would only serve ral ranks and degrees of readers. Will Honey- to aggravate the pains of poverty, if it chiefly excomb told me, in the softest manner he could, that posed those who are already depressed, and in there were some ladies (but for your comfort, says some measure turned into ridicule, by the meanness Will, they are not those of the most wit) that were of their conditions and circumstances He afteroffended at the liberties I had taken with the wards proceeded to take notice of the great use opera and the puppet-show; that some of them this paper might be of to the public, by reprewere likewise very much surprised that I should hending those vices which are too trivial for the think such serious points as the dress and equipage chastisement of the law, and too fantastical for the of persons of quality, proper subjects for raillery. cognizance of the pulpit. He then advised me to He was going on, when Sir Andrew Freeport prosecute my undertaking with cheerfulness, and took him up short, and told him, that the papers assured me, that, whoever might be displeased he hinted at, had done great good in the city, and with me, I should be approved by all those whose that all their wives and daughters were the better praises do honour to persons on whom they are for them; and further added, that the whole city bestowed.

thought themselves very much obliged to me for The whole club pays a particular deference to declaring my generous intentions to scourge vice the discourse of this gentleman, and are drawn into and folly as they appear in a multitude, without what he says, as much by the candid ingenuous condescending to be a publisher of particular in- manner with which he delivers himself, as by the trigues and cuckoldoms. 'In short,' says Sir An- strength of argument and force of reason which he drew, 'if you avoid that foolish beaten road of makes use of. Will Honeycomb immediately falling upon aldermen and citizens, and employ agreed, that what he had said was right; and that, your pen upon the vanity and luxury of courts, for his part, he would not insist upon the quarter your paper must needs be of general use."

which he had demanded for the ladies. Sir An

Upon this my friend the Templar told Sir An- drew gave up the city with the same frankness. drew, that he wondered to hear a man of his sense The Templar would not stand out, and was folalk after that manner; that the city had always lowed by Sir Roger and the Captain who all hen the province for satire; and that the wits of agreed that I should be at liberty to carry the war Ang Charles's time jested upon nothing else during into what quarter I pleased; provided I continued