plot, when he was taken up for a Jesuit." If he upon you, and takes no notice of your saluting had looked on me a little longer, he had certainly him. The truth of it is, his eyes are open, but he described me so particularly without ever consi- makes no use of them and neither sees you-nor dering what led him into it, that the whole com- any man, nor anything else. He came once from pany must necessarily have found me out for his country-house, and his own footmen attemptwhich reason remembering the old proverb, "Outed to rob him, and succeeded. They held a flainof sight out of mind," I left the room; and upon beau to his throat, and bid him deliver his purse; meeting him an hour afterward, was asked by he did so, and coming home told his friends he him, with a great deal of good humor, in what had been robbed; they desired to know the parpart of the world I lived, that he had not seen me ticulars: 'Ask my servants,' says Menalcas, 'for ihese three days. they were with me.' "-X. Monsieur Bruyere has given us the character of an absent man with a great deal of humor, which he has pushed to an agreeable extravagance: with the heads of it I shall conclude my present paper. "Menalcas," says that excellent author, "comes down in the morning, opens his door to go out, but shuts it again, because he perceives that he has his night-cap on; and examining himself farther, finds that he is but half-shaved, that he has stuck his sword on his right side, that his stockings are about his heels, and that his shirt is over his breeches. When he is dressed, he goes to court, comes into the drawing-room, and walk ing bolt upright under a branch of candlesticks, his wig is caught by one of them, and hangs dangling in the air. All the courtiers fall a laughing, but Menalcas laughs louder than any of them, and looks about for the person that is the jest of the company. Coming down to the court-gate he finds a coach, which taking for his own, he whips into it; and the coachman drives off, not doubting but he carries his master. As soon as he stops, Menalcas throws himself out of the coach, crosses the court, ascends the stair-case, and runs through all the chambers with the greatest familiarity; reposes himself on a couch, and fancies himself at home. The master of the house at last comes in; Menalcas rises to receive him, and desires him to sit down; he talks, muses, and then talks again. The gentleman of the house is tired and amazed; Menalcas is no less so, but is every moment in hopes that his impertinent guest will at last end his tedious visit. Night comes on, when Menalcas is hardly undeceived. No. 78.] WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1711. Could we but call so great a genius ours! "SIR, "I send you the inclosed, to be inserted (if you think them worthy of it) in your Spectators; iu which so surprising a genius appears, that it is no wonder if all mankind endeavors to get somewhat into a paper which will always live. "As to the Cambridge affair, the humor was really carried on in the way I describe it. However, you have a full commission to put out or in, and to do whatever you think fit with it. I have already had the satisfaction of seeing you take that liberty with some things I have before sent you. Go on, Sir, and prosper. You have the best wishes of, Sir, your very affectionate, and obliged, humble servant." "You well know it is of great consequence to clear titles, and it is of importance that it be done "When he is playing at backgammon, he calls in the proper season; on which account this is to for a full glass of wine and water; it is his turn assure you that the club of Ugly Faces was instito throw; he has the box in one hand, and his tuted originally at Cambridge, in the merry reign glass in the other; and being extremely dry, and of King Charles II. As in great bodies of men it unwilling to lose time, he swallows down both the is not difficult to find members enough for such a dice, and at the same time throws his wino into club, so (I remember) it was then feared, upon the tables. He writes a letter, and flings the sand their intention of dining together, that the Hall into the ink-bottle; he writes a second, and mis- belonging to Clare-hall, the ugliest then in the town takes the superscriptions. A nobleman receives (though now the neatest), would not be large one of them, and upon opening it reads as follows: enough handsomely to hold the company. Invi'I would have you, honest Jack. immediately tations were made to very great numbers, but very upon the receipt of this, take in hay enough to few accepted them without much difficulty. One serve me the winter. His farmer receives the pleaded that being at London, in a bookseller's other, and is amazed to see in it, 'My lord, I re-shop, a lady going by with a great belly longed to ceived your grace's commands, with an entire sub- kiss him. He had certainly been excused, but mission too. If he is at an entertainment, you that evidence appeared, that indeed one in Lonmay see the pieces of bread continually multi- don did pretend she longed to kiss him, but that plying round his plate. It is true the rest of the was only a pick-pocket, who during his kissing company want it, as well as their knives and forks, her stole away all his money. Another would which Menalcas does not let them keep long. have got off by a dimple in his chin; but it was Sometimes in a morning he puts his whole family proved upon him, that he had, by coming into a in a hurry, and at last goes out without being able room, made a woman miscarry, and frightened to stay for his coach or dinner, and for that day two children into fits. A third alleged, that he you may see him in every part of the town, ex- was taken by a lady for another gentleman, who cept the very place where he had appointed to be was one of the handsomest in the university; but upon business of importance. You would often upon inquiry it was found that the lady had actutake him for everything that he is not; for a fel- ally lost one eye, and the other was very much low quite stupid, for he hears nothing; for a fool, upon the decline. A fourth produced letters out for he talks to himself, and has a hundred grim- of the country in his vindication, in which a aces and motions in his head, which are altogether gentleman offered him his daughter, who had involuntary; for a proud man for he looks full lately fallen in love with him, with a good fortune. but it was made to appear, that the young lady and preferred THAT to us; and yet no decree was was amorous, and had like to have run away with ever given against us. In the very acts of parlia her father's coachman-so that it was supposed, ment, in which the utmost right should be done to that her pretense of falling in love with him, was everybody, word, and thing, we find ourselves only in order to be well married. It was pleasant often either not used, or used one instead of to hear the several excuses which were made, in- another. In the first and best prayer children are somuch that some made as much interest to be ex- taught, they learn to misuse us: 'Our Father wHICH cused, as they would from serving sheriff; how-art in heaven,' should be, 'Our Father wнo art in ever, at last the society was formed, and proper heaven;' and even a Convocation, after long deofficers were appointed; and the day was fixed for bates, refused to consent to an alteration of it. In the entertainment, which was in venison season. our general Confession we say, 'Spare thou them, A pleasant fellow of King's college (commonly O God, WHICH confess their faults,' which ought called Crab, from his sour look, and the only man to be, 'WHO confess their faults.' What hopes who did not pretend to get off) was nominated for then have we of having justice done us, when the chaplain; and nothing was wanting but some one makers of our very prayers and laws, and the to sit in the elbow chair by way of president, at most learned in all faculties, seem to be in a conthe upper end of the table; and there the business federacy against us, and our enemies themselves stuck, for there was no contention for superiority must be our judges? there. This affair made so great a noise, that the King, who was then at Newmarket, heard of it, and was pleased merrily and graciously to say, He could not be there himself, but he would send them a brace of bucks.' "I would desire you, Sir, to set this affair in a true light, that posterity may not be misled in so important a point: for when the wise man who shall write your true history shall acquaint the world, that you had a diploma sent from the Ugly Club at Oxford, and that by virtue of it you were admitted into it, what a learned war will there be among future critics about the original of that club, which both universities will contend so warmly for? And perhaps some hardy Cantabrigian author may then boldly affirm, that the word Oxford was an interpolation of some Oxonian instead of Cambridge. This affair will be best adjusted in your lifetime; but I hope your affection to your mother will not make you partial to your aunt. "To tell you, Sir, my own opinion: though I cannot find any ancient records of any acts of the society of the Ugly Faces, considered in a public capacity; yet, in a private one, they have certainly antiquity on their side. I am persuaded they will hardly give place to the Loungers, and the Loungers are of the same standing with the university itself. "Though we well know, Sir, you want no motives to do justice, yet I am commissioned to tell you, that you are invited to be admitted ad eundem at Cambridge; and I believe I may venture safely to deliver this as the wish of our whole university." TO MR. SPECTATOR. "The humble petition of wнo and WHICH, " SHOWETH, "The Spanish proverb says, Il sabio muda conscio, il necio no; i. e. A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.' So that we think you, Sir, a very proper person to address to, since we know you to be capable of being convinced, and of changing your judgment. You are well able to settle this affair, and to you we submit our cause. We desire you to assign the butts and bounds of each of us; and that for the future we may both enjoy our own. We would desire to be heard by our counsel, but that we fear in their very pleadings they would betray our cause: beside, we have been oppressed so many years, that we can appear in no other way but in forma pauperis. All which considered, we hope you will be pleased to do that which to right and justice shall appertain. "And your petitioners," etc. R. No. 79.] THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1711. HOR. 1 Ep. xvi, 52. The good, for virtue's sake, abhor to sin.-CREECH. I HAVE received very many letters of late from my female correspondents, most of whom are very angry with me for abridging their pleasures, and looking severely upon things in themselves indifferent. But I think they are extremely unjust to me in this imputation. All I contend for is that those excellencies which are to be regarded but in the second place should not precede more weighty considerations. The heart of man deceives him, in spite of the lectures of half a life spent in discourses on the subjection of passion; and I do not know why one may not think the heart of a woman as unfaithful to itself. If we grant an equality in the faculties of both sexes, the minds "That your petitioners being in a forlorn and of women are less cultivated with precepts, and destitute condition, know not to whom we should consequently may, without disrespect to them, be apply ourselves for relief, because there is hardly accounted more liable to illusion, in cases wherein any man alive who hath not injured us. Nay, we natural inclination is out of the interests of virtue. speak it with sorrow, even you yourself, whom we I shall take up my present time in commenting should suspect of such a practice the last of all upon a billet or two which came from ladies, aud mankind, can hardly acquit yourself of having from thence leave the reader to judge whether I given us some cause of complaint. We are de- am in the right or not, in thinking it is possible scended of ancient families, and kept up our fine women may be mistaken. The following addignity and honor many years, till the jack-sprat dress seems to have no other design in it, but to THAT Supplanted us. How often have we found tell me the writer will do what she pleases, for all ourselves slighted by the clergy in their pulpits, me. and the lawyers at the bar! Nay, how often have we heard, in one of the most polite and august assemblies in the universe, to our great mortification, these words, That THAT that noble lord urged; which if one of us had justice done, would have sounded nobler thus, that WHICH that noble lord urged.' Senates themselves, the guardians of British liberty, have degraded us, MR. SPECTATOR, "I am young, and very much inclined to follow the paths of innocence; but at the same time, as I have a plentiful fortune, and am of quality, I am unwilling to resign the pleasure of distinction, some little satisfaction in being admired in general, and much greater in being beloved by a gentleman, Together lie her prayer-book and paint, whom I design to make my husband. But I have | stantly before her a large looking-glass; and upon a mind to put off entering into matrimony till the table, according to a very witty author. another winter is over my head, which (whatever, musty Sir, you may think of the matter) I design to pass away in hearing music, going to plays, visiting, and all other satisfactions which fortune and youth, protected by innocence and virtue, can procure for, At once t' improve the sinner and the saint. "It must be a good scene, if one could be present at it, to see this idol by turns lift up her eyes to heaven and steal glances at her own dear per"Sir, your most humble servant, M. T. son. It cannot but be a pleasing conflict between "My lover does not know I like him, therefore, having no engagements upon me, I think to stay and know whether I may not like any one else better." vanity and humiliation. When you are upon this above the world, and give a pleasing indifference subject, choose books which elevate the mind to little things in it. For want of such instructions I am apt to believe so many people take it I have heard Will Honeycomb say, "A woman in their heads to be sullen, cross, and angry, under seldom writes her mind but in her postscript." I pretense of being abstracted from the affairs of think this gentlewoman has sufficiently discovered this life, when at the same time they betray their hers in this. I will lay what wager she pleases fondness for them by doing their duty as a task, against her present favorite, and can tell her, that and pouting and reading good books for a week she will like ten more before she is fixed, and then together. Much of this I take to proceed from the will take the worst man she ever liked in her life. indiscretion of the books themselves, whose very There is no end of affection taken in at the eyes titles of weekly preparations, and such limited only; and you may as well satisfy those eyes with godliness, lead people of ordinary capacities into seeing, as control any passion received by them great errors, and raise in them a mechanical reonly. It is from loving by sight, that coxcombsligion, entirely distinct from morality. I know a so frequently succeed with women, and very often a young lady is bestowed by her parents to a man who weds her as innocence itself, though she has, in her own heart, given her approbation of a different man in every assembly she was in the whole year before. What is wanting among women as well as among men, is the love of laudable things, and not to rest only in the forbearance of such as are reproachful. lady so given up to this sort of devotion, that though she employs six or eight hours of the twenty-four at cards, she never misses one constant hour of prayer, for which time another holds her cards, to which she returns with no little anxiousness till two or three in the morning. All these acts are but empty shows, and, as it were, compli ments made to virtue; the mind is all the while untouched with any true pleasure in the pursuit How far removed from a woman of this light of it. From thence I presume it arises, that so imagination is Eudosia! Eudosia has all the arts many people call themselves virtuous, from no of life and good-breeding with so much ease, that other pretense to it but an absence of ill. There the virtue of her conduct looks more like instinct is Dulciamara, the most insolent of all creatures than choice. It is as little difficult to her to think to her friends and domestics, upon no other prejustly of persons and things, as it is to a woman tense in nature, but that (as her silly phrase is) of different accomplishments to move ill or look no one can say black is her eye.' She has no awkward. That which was, at first, the effect of secrets, forsooth, which should make her afraid to instruction, is grown into a habit; and it would speak her mind, and therefore she is impertibe as hard for Eudosia to indulge a wrong sug-nently blunt to all her acquaintance, and unseagestion of thought, as it would be to Flavia, the sonably imperious to all her family. Dear Sir, be fine dancer, to come into a room with an unbecom- pleased to put such books into our hands, as may ing air. inake our virtue more inward, and convince some of us, that, in a mind truly virtuous, the scorn of vice is always accompanied with the pity of it. This and other things are impatiently expected from you by our whole sex; among the rest by, "Sir, your most humble servant, B. D." But the misapprehensions people themselves have of their own state of mind, is laid down with much discerning in the following letter, which is but an extract of a kind epistle from my charming mistress Hecatissa, who is above the vanity of external beauty, and is the better judge of the perfections of the mind. "MR. SPECTATOR, R. 66 No. 80.] FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1711. Those that beyond sea go, will sadly find, CREECH. "I write this to acquaint you, that very many ladies, as well as myself, spend many hours more than we used at the glass, for want of the female library, of which you promised us a catalogue. I hope, Sir, in the choice of authors for us, you will have a particular regard to books of devotion. In the year 1688, and on the same day of that What they are, and how many, must be your chief year, were born in Cheapside, London, two fecare; for upon the propriety of such writings de- males of exquisite feature and shape; the one w pends a great deal. I have known those among shall call Brunetta, the other Phillis. A close inus, who think if they every morning and evening timacy between their parents made each of them spend an hour in their closet, and read over so the first acquaintance the other knew in the world. many prayers in six or seven books of devotion, They played, dressed babies, acted visitings, all equally nonsensical, with a sort of warmth learned to dance and make courtesies, together. (that might as well be raised by a glass of wine, They were inseparable companions in all the little or a dram of citron), they may all the rest of their entertainments their tender years were capable time go on in whatever their particular passion of; which innocent happiness continued until the leads them to. The beauteous Philautia, who is beginning of their fifteenth year, when it happenin your language) an idol, is one of these vota-ed that Phillis had a head-dress on, which became ries; she has a very pretty-furnished closet, to which she retires at her appointed hours. This is her dressing-room, as well as chapel; she has con her so very well, that instead of being beheld any more with pleasure for their amity to each other, the eyes of the neighborhood were turned to re mark the a with comparison of their beauty. They now no longer enjoyed the ease of mind and pleasing indolence in which they were formerly happy, but all their words and actions were misinterpreted by each other, and every excellence in their speech and behavior was looked upon as an act of emulation to surpass the other. These beginnings of disinclination soon improved into a formality of behavior, a general coldness, and by natural steps into an irreconcilable hatred. few days in a brocade more gorgeous and costly POSTSCRIPT. After the above melancholy narration, it may perhaps be a relief to the reader to peruse the fol lowing expostulation: "To MR. SPECTATOR, These two rivals for the reputation of beauty, were, in their stature, countenance, and mien, so very much alike, that if you were speaking of them in their absence, the words in which you described the one must give you an idea of the other. They were hardly distinguishable, you would think, when they were apart, though extremely different when together. What made their enmity the more entertaining to all the rest of their sex was, that in detraction from each, neither could fall upon any terms which did not hit herself as much as her adversary. Their nights grew restless with meditation of new dresses to outvie each other, and inventing new devices to recall admirers, who observed the charms of the one rather than those of the other, on the last meeting. Their colors failed at each other's appearance, flushed "The just Remonstrance of affronted THAT. with pleasure at the report of a disadvantage, and their countenances withered upon instances of ap"THOUGH I deny not the petition of Mess. WHO plause. The decencies to which women are oblig- and WHICH, yet you should not suffer them to be ed, made these virgins stifle their resentment so rude, and to call honest people names: for that far as not to break into open violences, while they bears very hard on some of those rules of decency equally suffered the torments of a regulated anger. which you are justly famous for establishing. Their mothers, as it is usual, engaged in the They may find fault, and correct speeches in the quarrel, and supported the several pretensions of senate and at the bar, but let them try to get themtheir daughters with all that ill-chosen sort of ex-selves so often, and with so much eloquence, repense which is common with people of plentiful fortunes and mean taste. The girls preceded their parents like queens of May, in all the gaudy colors imaginable, on every Sunday to church, and were exposed to the examination of the audience for superiority of beauty. peated in a sentence, as a great orator doth frequently introduce me. "My lords!' says he, with humble submission, That That say is this; That, That That gentleman has advanced, is not That That he should have proved to your lordships.' Let these two questionary petitioners try to do thus with their Whos and their Whiches. "What great advantange was I of to Mr. Dry. den in his Indian Emperor, During this constant struggle it happened, that Phillis one day at public prayers smote the heart of a gay West Indian, who appeared in all the colors which can affect an eye that could not distinguish between being fine and tawdry. This American, in a Summer-island suit, was too shining and too gay to be resisted by Phillis, and too intent upon her charms to be diverted by any of the labored attractions of Brunetta. Soon after, Brunetta had the mortification to see her rival disposed of in a wealthy marriage, while she was only addressed to in a manner that showed she was the admiration of all men, but the choice of none. Phillis was carried to the habitation of her spouse in Barbadoes. Brunetta had the ill-nature to inquire for her by every opportunity, and had the misfortune to hear of her being attended by numerous slaves, fanned into slumbers by successive bands of them, and carried from place to place in all the pomp of barbarous magnificence. Brunetta could not endure these repeated advices, "I am not against reforming the corruptions of but employed all her arts and charms in laying speech you mention, and own there are proper baits for any of condition of the same island, out seasons for the introduction of other words beside of a mere ambition to confront her once more That; but I scorn as much to supply the place of before she died. She at last succeeded in her a Who or a Which at every turn, as they are unedesign, and was taken to wife by a gentleman qual always to fill mine; and I expect good lau whose estate was contiguous to that of her ene-guage and civil treatment, and hope to receive it iny's husband. It would be endless to enumerate for the future: That, That I shall only add is. the many occasions on which these irreconcilable That I am, "Yours, beauties labored to excel each other; but in process of time it happened, that a ship put into the island cosigned to a friend of Phillis, who had directions to give her the refusal of all goods for apparel, fore Brunetta could be alarmed of their aival. Le did so, and Phillis was dressed in a 'You force me still to answer you in That' to furnish out a rhyme to Morat? and what a pocr figure would Mr. Bayes have made without his Egad and all That? How can a judicious man distinguish one thing from another, without say ing, This here,' or That there?' And how can a sober man, without using the expletives of oaths (in which indeed the rakes and bullies have a great advantage over others), make a discourse of any tolerable length, without That is; and if he be a very grave man indeed, without That is to say?' And how instructive as well as entertaining are those usual expressions in the mouths of great men, 'Such things as That,' and 'The like of That.' R. "THAT." No. 81. SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1711. Qualis ubi audito venantum murmure tigris Horruit in maculas STAT. Theb. ii, 128. As when the tigress hears the hunter's din, Dark angry spots distain her glossy skin. ABOUT the middle of last winter I went to see an opera at the theater in the Hay-market, where I could not but take notice of two parties of very fine women, that had placed themselves in the opposite side-boxes, and seemed drawn up in a kind of battle array one against another. After a short survey of them, I found they were patched differently; the faces on one hand being spotted on the right side of the forehead, and those upon the other on the left. I quickly perceived that they cast hostile glances upon one another; and that their patches were placed in those different situations, as party-signals to distinguish friends from foes. In the middle-boxes, between these two opposite bodies, were several ladies who patched indifferently on both sides of their faces, and seemed to sit there with no other intention but to see the opera. Upon inquiry I found that the body of Amazons on my right hand were whigs, and those on my left tories; and that those who had placed themselves in the middle boxes were a neutral party, whose faces had not yet declared themselves. These last, however, as I afterward found, diminished daily, and took their party with one side or the other; insomuch that I observed, in several of them, the patches which were before dispersed equally, are now all gone over to the whig or tory side of the face. The censorious say, that the men, whose hearts are aimed at, are very often the occasions that one part of the face is thus dishonored, and lies under a kind of disgrace, while the other is so much set off and adorned by the owner: and that the patches turn to the right or to the left, according to the principles of the man who is most in favor. But whatever may be the motives of a few fantastical coquettes, who do not patch for the public good so much as for their own private advantage, it is certain, that there are several women of honor who patch out of principle, and with an eye to the interest of their country.-Nay, I am informed that some of them adhere so steadfastly to their party, and are so far from sacrificing their zeal for the public to their passion for any particular person, that, in a late draught of marriage articles, a lady has stipulated with her husband, that whatever his opinions are, she shall be at liberty to patch on which side she pleases. I must here take notice, that Rosalinda, a famous whig partisan, has most unfortunately a very beautiful mole on the tory part of her forehead; which being very conspicuous, has occasioned many mistakes, and given a handle to her enemies to misrepresent her face, as though it had revolted from the whig interest. But, whatever this natural patch may seem to insinuate, it is well known that her notions of government are still the same. This unlucky mole, however, has misled several coxcombs; and, like the hanging out of false colors, made some of them converse with Rosalinda in what they thought the spirit of her party, when on a sudden she has given them an unexpected fire, that has sunk them all at once. If Rosalinda is unfortunate in her mole, Nigranilla is as unhappy in a pimple, which forces her, against her inclinations, to patch on the whig side. I am told that many virtuous matrons, who formerly have been taught to believe that this artificial spotting of the face was unlawful, are now reconciled by a zeal for their cause, to what they could not be prompted to by a concern for their beauty. This way of declaring war upon one another, puts me in mind of what is reported of the tigress-that several spots rise in her skin when she is angry, or, as Mr. Cowley has imitated the verses that stand as the motto of this paper, She swells with angry pride, And calls forth all her spots on every side.* When I was in the theater the time above-mentioned, I had the curiosity to count the patches on both sides, and found the tory patches to be about twenty stronger than the whig; but to make amends for this small inequality, I the next morning found the whole puppet-show filled with faces spotted after the whiggish manner. Whether or no the ladies had retreated hither in order to rally their forces I cannot tell; but the next night they came in so great a body to the opera, that they outnumbered the enemy. This account of party-patches will, I am afraid, appear improbable to those who live at a distance from the fashionable world; but as it is a distinction of a very singular nature, and what perhaps may never meet with a parallel, I think I should not have discharged the office of a faithful Spectator, had not I recorded it. I have, in former papers, endeavored to expose this party-rage in women, as it only serves to aggravate the hatreds and animosities that reign among men, and in a great measure deprives the fair sex of those peculiar charms with which nature has endowed them. When the Romans and Sabines were at war, and just upon the point of giving battle, the women, who were allied to both of them, interposed with so many tears and entreaties, that they prevented the mutual slaughter which threatened both parties, and united them together in a firm and lasting peace. I would recommend this noble example to our British ladies, at a time when their country is torn with so many unnatural divisions, that if they continue, it will be a misfortune to be born in it. The Greeks thought it so improper for women to interest themselves in competitions and contentions, that for this reason, among others, they for bade them, under pain of death, to be present at the Olympic games, notwithstanding these were the public diversions of all Greece. As our English women exceed those of all nations in beauty, they should endeavor to outshine them in all other accomplishments proper to the sex, and to distinguish themselves as tender mothers and faithful wives, rather than as furious partisans. Female virtues are of a domestic turn. The family is the proper province for private women to shine in. If they must be showing their zeal for the public, let it not be against those who are perhaps of the same family, or at least of the same religion or nation, but against those whe are the open, professed, undoubted enemies of their faith, liberty, and country. When the Romans were pressed with a foreign enemy, the ladies voluntarily contributed all their rings and jewels to assist the government under a public exigence, which appeared so laudable an action in the eyes of their countrymen, that from thenceforth it was permitted by a law to proncance public orations at the funeral of a woman in praise of the deceased person, which till that time was peculiar to men." Would our English ladies, instead of sticking on a patch against those of their own country, show themselves so truly publicspirited as to sacrifice every oue her necklace against the common enemy, what decrees ought not to be made in favor of them? Davideis, Book III, page 409, Vol. II, 1719. |