you are a better bred cavalier than to refuse to go to bed to ladies that desire it of you." After having stood a fit of laughter, I begged them to uncase me, and do with me what they pleased. "No, no," say they, "we like you very well as you are; and upon that ordered me to be carried to one of their houses, and put to bed in all my swaddles. The room was lighted up on all sides; and I was laid very decently between a pair of sheets, with my head (which was indeed the only part I could move) upon a very high pillow: this was no sooner done, but my two female friends came into bed to me in their finest night-clothes. You may easily guess at the condition of a man that saw a couple of the most beautiful women in the world undrest and a-bed with him, without being able to stir hand or foot. I begged them to release me, and struggled all I could to get loose, which I did with so much violence, that about midnight they both leaped out of the bed, crying out they were undone. But seeing me safe, they took their posts again, and renewed their raillery. Finding all my prayers and endeavours were lost, I composed myself as well as I could, and told them, that if they would not unbind me, I would fall asleep between them, and by that means disgrace them for ever. But, alas! this was impossible; could I have been disposed to it, they would have prevented me by several little ill-natured caresses and endearments which

they bestowed upon me. As much devoted as I am to womankind, I would not pass such another night to be master of the whole sex. My reader

will doubtless be curious to know what became of me the next morning. Why truly my bedfellows left me about an hour before day, and told me, if I

would be good and lie still, they would send somebody to take me up as soon as it was time for me to rise. Accordingly about nine o'clock in the morning an old woman came to unswathe me. I bore all this very patiently, being resolved to take my revenge of my tormentors, and to keep no measures with them as soon as I was at liberty; but upon asking my old woman what was become of the two ladies, she told me she believed they were by that time within sight of Paris, for that they went away in a coach and six before five o'clock in the morning.'

L.h

By Addison, dated, it seems, London. See Nos. 7, and 121, final notes on Addison's signatures.

INDEX TO THE FIRST VOLUME.

The Figures in this Index refer to the Numbers of the Spectator.

ABIGAILS, male, in fashion among the ladies, 55.

Absence in conversation, a remarkable instance of it in Will Honeycomb,
77; the occasion of this absence, ibid.; and means to conquer it, ibid.; the
character of an absent man, out of Bruyere, ibid.

Acrostic, piece of false wit, divided into simple and compound, 60.
Act of deformity, for the use of the Ugly club, 17.

Advertisements of an Italian chirurgeon, 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 persons too considerable to be advised, 34.
Affectation, a greater enemy to a fine face than the smallpox, 33; it de-
forms beauty, and turns wit into absurdity, 38; the original of it, ibid. ;
found in the wise man as well as the coxcomb, ibid.; the way to get clear
of it, ibid.

Age rendered ridiculous, 6; how contemned by the Athenians, and respect-
ed by the Spartans, ibid.

Alexander the Great, wry necked, 32.

Ambition never satisfied, 27.

Americans, their opinion of souls, 56; exemplified in a vision of one of their
countrymen, ibid.

Ample, lady, her uneasiness, and the reason of it, 32.

Anagram, what, and when first produced, 60.

Andromache, a great fox-hunter, 57.

April, the first of, the merriest day in the year, 47.

Aretine made all the princes of Europe his tributaries, 23.

Arietta, her character, 11; her fable of the lion and the man, in answer to
the story of the Ephesian matron, ibid.; her story of Inkle and Yarico,
ibid.

Aristotle, his observation upon the Iambic verse, 31; upon tragedies, 40,

42.

Arsinoe, the first musical opera on the English stage, 18.

Avarice, the original of it, 55; operates with luxury, ibid.; at war with
luxury, ibid.; its officers and adherents, ibid.; comes to an agreement with
luxury, ibid

Audiences at present void of common sense, 13.

Aurelia, her character, 15.

Author, the necessity of his readers being acquainted with his size, com-
plexion, and temper, in order to read his works with pleasure, 1; his
opinion of his own performances, 4; the expedient made use of by those
that write for the stage, 51.

Bacon, Sir Francis, his comparison of a book well written, 10; his observa-
tions upon envy, 19.

Bags of money, a sudden transformation of them into sticks and paper, 3.
Baptist Lully, his prudent management, 29.

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

Beaver the haberdasher, a great politician, 49.

Beauties when plagiaries, 4; the true secret how to improve beauty, 33;
then the most charming when heightened by virtue, ibid.; whether male
or female, very untractable, 87.

Bell, Mr., his ingenious device, 28.
Bell-Savage, its etymology, 28.

Birds, a cage full for the opera, 5.

Biters, their business, 47.

Blackmore, Sir Richard, his observations, 6.

Blanks of society, who, 10.

Blank verse proper for tragedy, 39.

Board-wages, the ill effects of it, 88.

Bohours, Monsieur, a great critic among the French, 62.

Bouts-rimez, what, 60.

Breeding, fine-breeding distinguished from good, 66.

British ladies distinguished from the Picts, 41.

Brunetta and Phillis, their adventures, 80.

Bruyere, Monsieur, his character of an absent man, 77.

Bullock and Norris, differently habited, prove great helps to a silly play,

44.

Butts described, 47; the qualifications of a butt, ibid.

Cæsar, Julius, his behaviour to Catullus, who had put him into a lampoon,

23.

Caligula, his wish, 16.

Camilla, a true woman in one particular, 15.

Carbuncle, Dr. his dye, what, 52.

Censor of small wares, an officer to be erected, 16.

Charles I. a famous picture of that prince, 58.

Chevy-chase, the Spectator's examen of it, 70, 74.

Children in the wood, a ballad, wherein to be commended, 85.

Chronogram, a piece of false wit, 60.

Cicero, a punster, 61; the entertainment found in his philosophic writings,
ibid.

Clarinda, an idol, in what manner worshipped, 73.

Cleanthe, her story, 15.

Clergyman, one of the Spectator's club, 2.

Clergy, a threefold division of them, 21.

Clubs, nocturnal assemblies so called, 9; several names of clubs, and their