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thought was very natural, who after some hours' conversation with a female orator, told her, that he believed her tongue was very glad when she was asleep, for that it had not a moment's rest all

the while she was awake.

That excellent old ballad of The Wanton Wife of Bath has the following remarkable lines:

heroic. The great foundation of civil virtue is self-denial; and there is no one above the necessities of life, but has opportunities of exercising that noble quality, and doing as much as his circumstances will bear for the ease and convenience of other men; and he who does more than ordinary men practice upon such occasions as occur in his life, deserves the value of his friends, as if he had done enterprises which are usually attended with the highest glory. Men of public spirit And Ovid, though in the description of a very differ rather in their circumstances than their virbarbarous circumstance, tells us, that when the tue; and the man who does all he can, in a low tongue of a beautiful female was cut out, and station, is more a hero than he who omits any thrown upon the ground, it could not forbear mut-worthy action he is able to accomplish in a great tering even in that posture:

I think, quoth Thomas, women's tongues
Of aspen leaves are made.

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Her tongue sheer off, close to the trembling root,
The mangled part still quiver'd on the ground,
Murmuring with a faint imperfect sound;
And as a serpent writhes his wounded train,
Uneasy, panting, and possessed with pain.-CROXALL

If a tongue would be talking without a mouth, what could it have done when it had all its organs of speech, and accomplices of sound about it? I might here mention the story of the Pippin Woman, had I not some reason to look upon it as

fabulous.*

I must confess I am so wonderfully charmed with the music of this little instrument, that I would by no means discourage it. All that I aim at by this dissertation is, to cure it of several disagreeable notes, and in particular of those little jarrings and dissonances which arise from anger, censoriousness, gossipping and coquetry. In short, I would always have it tuned by goodnature, truth, discretion, and sincerity.-Č.

No. 248.] FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1711. Hoc maxime officii est, ut quisque maxime opis indigeat, ita ei potissimum opitulari.-TULL., Off. i, 16.

It is a principal point of duty, to assist another most wheu

he stands most in need of assistance.

one.

It is not many years ago since Lapirius, in wrong of his elder brother, came to a great estate by the gift of his father, by reason of the dissolute behavior of the first-born. Shame and contrition reformed the life of the disinherited youth, and he became as remarkable for his good quali ties as formerly for his errors. Lapirius, who observed his brother's amendment, sent him on a new-year's day in the morning the following letter:

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As great and exalted spirits undertake the pursuit of hazardous actions for the good of others, at the same time gratifying their passion for glory; so do worthy minds in the domestic way of life deny themselves many advantages, to satisfy a generous benevolence, which they bear to their friends oppressed with distresses and calamities. Such natures one may call stories of Providence, which are actuated by a secret celestial influence to undervalue the ordinary gratifications of wealth, to give comfort to a heart loaded with affliction, to save a falling family, to preserve a branch of trade in their neighborhood, to give work to the THERE are none who deserve superiority over industrious, preserve the portion of the helpless others in the esteem of mankind, who do not infant, and raise the head of the mourning father. make it their endeavor to be beneficial to society; People whose hearts are wholly bent toward pleaand who upon all occasions which their circum- sure, or intent upon gain, never hear of the noble stances of life can administer, do not take a cer- occurrences among men of industry and humanitain unfeigned pleasure in conferring benefits of ty. It would look like a city romance, to tell one kind or other. Those whose great talents and them of the generous merchant, who the other high birth have placed them in conspicuous sta- day sent his billet to an eminent trader, under diffitions of life are indispensably obliged to exert culties to support himself, in whose fall many some noble inclinations for the service of the hundreds beside himself had perished; but beworld, or else such advantages become misfor-cause I think there is more spirit and true galtunes, and shade and privacy are a more eligible lantry in it than in any letter I have ever read from portion. Where opportunities and inclinations Strephon to Phillis, I shall insert it even in the are given to the same person, we sometimes see mercantile honest style in which it was sent: sublime instances of virtue, which so dazzle our imaginations, that we look with scorn on all which in lower scenes of life we may ourselves be able "I have heard of the casualties which have into practice. But this is a vicious way of think-volved you in extreme distress at this time; and ing; and it bears some spice of romantic madness, knowing you to be a man of great good-nature, infor a man to imagine that he must grow ambitious, dustry, and probity, have resolved to stand by or seek adventures, to be able to do great actions. It is in every man's power in the world who is above mere poverty, not only to do things worthy, but

*The crackling crystal yields, she sinks, she dies;
Her head chopp'd off, from her lost shoulders flies:
Pippins she cried, but death her voice confounds,
And pip-pip-pip along the ice resounds.

"SIR,

you. Be of good cheer; the bearer brings with him five thousand pounds, and has my order to answer your drawing as much more on my account. I did this in haste, for fear I should come too late for your relief; but you may value yourself with me to the sum of fifty thousand pounds; for I can very cheerfully run the hazard of being so much

less rich than I am now, to save an honest man
whom I love.
"Your Friend and Servant,

"W. S."*

flect on any past absurdities of our own. This seems to hold in most cases, and we may observe that the vainest part of mankind are the most addicted to this passion.

I have read a sermon of a couventual in the church of Rome, on those words of the wise man. "I said of Laughter, it is mad; and of mirth, what does it ?" Upon which he laid it down as a point of doctrine, that laughter was the effect of original sin, and that Adain could not laugh be fore the fall.

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens, and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus far it may be looked upon as a weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from it, and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.

I think there is somewhere in Montaigne, mention made of a family-book, wherein all the occurrences that happened from one generation of that house to another were recorded. Were there such a method in the families which are concerned in this generosity, it would be a hard task for the greatest in Europe to give in their own, an instance of a benefit better placed, or conferred with a more graceful air. It has been heretofore urged how barbarous and inhuman is any unjust step made to the disadvantage of a trader; and by how much such an act toward him is detestable, by so much of an act of kindness toward him is laudable. I remember to have heard a bencher of the Temple tell a story of a tradition in their house, where they had formerly a custom of choosing kings for such a season, and allowing him his expenses at the charge of the society. One of our The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exkings, said my friend, carried his royal inclina-posing to laughter those one converses with, is the tion a little too far, and there was a committee or- qualification of little ungenerous tempers. A dered to look into the management of his treasury. young man with this cast of mind cuts himself Among other things it appeared, that his majesty off from all manner of improvement. Every one walking incog. in the cloister, had overheard a has his flaws and weaknesses: nay, the greatest poor man say to another, Such a small sum blemishes are often found in the most shining would make me the happiest man in the world." characters; but what an absurd thing is it to pass The king, out of his royal compassion, privately over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our inquired into his character, and finding him a attention on his infirmities? to observe his imperproper object of charity, sent him the money. fections more than his virtues? and to make use When the committee read the report, the house of him for the sport of others, rather than for our passed his accounts with a plaudite without further own improvement? examination, upon the recital of this article in them :

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No. 249.] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1711 Mirth out of season is a grievous ill.-FRAG. VET. POET. WHEN I make a choice of a subject that has not been treated on by others, I throw together my reflections on it without any order or method, so that they may appear rather in the looseness and freedom of an essay, than in the regularity of a set discourse. It is after this manner that I shall consider laughter and ridicule in my present paper.

Man is the merriest species of the creation; all above and below him are serious. He sces things in a different light from other beings, and finds his mirth arising from objects that perhaps cause something like pity or displeasure in higher natures. Laughter is indeed a very good counterpoise to the spleen; and it seems but reasonable that we should be capable of receiving joy from what is no real good to us, since we can receive grief from what is no real evil.

I have in my forty-seventh paper raised a speculation on the notion of a modern philosopher, who describes the first motive of laughter to be a secret comparison which we make between our selves and the persons we laugh at; or, in other words, that satisfaction which we receive from the opinion of some pre-eminence in ourselves, when we see the absurdities of another, or when we re

The merchant involved in distress by casualties was one Mr. Moreton, a linen-draper; and the generous merchant, here so justly celebrated, was Sir William Scawen.

This king, it is said, was beau Nash, director of the pub Me diversions at Bath, who was in King William's time a stu

dent in the Temple.

t Hobbes.

We therefore very often find that persons the most accomplished in ridicule are those that are very shrewd at hitting a blot, without exerting any thing masterly in themselves. As there are many eminent critics who never wrote a good line, there are many admirable buffoons that animadvert upon every single defect in another, without ever discovering the last beauty of their own. By this means, these unlucky little wits often gain repu tation in the esteem of vulgar minds, and raise themselves above persons of much more laudable characters.

If the talent of ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use to the world; but instead of this, we find that it is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything that is solemn and serious, decent and praiseworthy in human life.

We may observe that in the first ages of the world, when the great souls and master pieces of human nature were produced, men shined by a noble simplicity of behavior, and were strangers to those little embellishments which are so fash ionable in our present conversation. And it is very remarkable, that notwithstanding we fall short at present of the ancients in poetry, painting, oratory, history, architecture, and all the noble arts and sciences which depend more upon genius than experience, we exceed them as much in doggerel humor, burlesque, and all the trival arts of ridicule. We meet with more raillery among the moderns, but more good sense among the ancients.

The two great branches of ridicule in writing are comedy and burlesque. The first ridicules persons by drawing them in their proper charac ters, the other by drawing them quite unlike themselves. Burlesque is therefore of two kinds; the of heroes; the other describes great persons acting first represents mean persons in the accouterments and speaking like the basest among the people. Don Quixote is an instance of the first, and

Lucian's gods of the second. It is a dispute among the critics, whether burlesque poetry runs best in heroic verse, like that of the Dispensary; or in doggerel, like that of Hudibras. I think, where the low character is to be raised, the heroic is the proper measure; but when a hero is to be pulled down and degraded, it is done best in doggerel.

If Hudibras had been set out with as much wit and humor in neroic verse as he is in doggerel, he would have made a much more agreeable figure than he does; though the generality of his readers are so wonderfully pleased with the double rhymes, that I do not expect many will be of my opinion in this particular.

I shall conclude this essay upon laughter with observing that the metaphor of laughing, applied to fields and meadows when they are in flower, or to trees when they are in blossom, runs through all languages; which I have not observed of any other metaphor, excepting that of fire.and burning when they are applied to love. This shows that we naturally regard laughter, as what is in itself both amiable and beautiful. For this reason likewise Venus has gained the title of Philomedes "the laughter-loving dame," as Waller has translated it, and is represented by Horace as the goddess who delights in laughter. Milton, in a joy ous assembly of imaginary persons, has given us a very poetical figure of Laughter. His whole band of mirth is so finely described, that I shall set down the passage at length:

But come, thou goddess fair and free
In heaven ycleped* Euphrosyne,
And by men, heart-easing mirth,
Whom lovely Venus at a birth
With two sister Graces more,
To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore.

Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee
Jest and youthful jollity,

Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles,
Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles,
Such as hung on Hebe's cheek,
And love to live in dimple sleek;
Sport, that wrinkled Care derides,
And Laughter holding both his sides;
Come, and trip it as you go,
On the light fantastic toe;
And in thy right hand lead with thee
The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty;
And if I give thee honor due,
Mirth, admit me of thy crew,
To live with her, and live with thee,
In unreproved pleasures, free.
L'ALLEGRO, v, 11, etc.

No. 250.] MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1711. Disce docendus adhuc, quæ censet amiculus, ut si Cæcus iter monstrare velit; tamen aspice si quid Et nos, quod cures proprium fecisse. loquamur, HOR. Ep. 1, xvii, 3. Yet hear what an unskillful friend can say: As if a blind man should direct your way; So I myself, though wanting to be taught, May yet impart a hint that's worth your thought. "MR. SPECTATOR,

"You see the nature of my request by the Latin motto which I address to you. I am very sensible I ought not to use many words to you, who are one of but few; but the following piece, as it relates to speculation, in propriety of speech, being a curiosity in kind, begs your patience. It was found in a poetical virtuoso's closet among his rarities; and since the several treatises of thumbs, ears, and noses, have obliged the world this of eyes is at your service.

The first eye of consequence (under the invi-
-Euphrosyne is the name of one of the

*i. e. caled Graces.

sible Author of all) is the visible luminary of the universe. This glorious Spectator is said never to open his eyes at his rising in a morning, with out having a whole kingdom of adorers in Persian silk waiting at his levee. Millions of creatures derive their sight from this original, who beside his being the great director of optics, is the surest test whether eyes be of the same species with that of an eagle, or that of an owl. The one he emboldens with a manly assurance to look, speak, act, or plead, before the faces of a numerous assembly; the other he dazzles out of countenance into a sheepish dejectedness. The sunproof eye dares lead up a dance in a full court: and without blinking at the luster of beauty, can distribute an eye of proper complaisance to a room crowded with company, each of which deserves particular regard; while the other sneaks from conversation; like a fearful debtor who never dares look out, but when he can see nobody, and nobody him.

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The next instance of optics is the famous Argus, who (to speak in the language of Cambridge) was one of a hundred; and being used as a spy in the affairs of jealousy, was obliged to have all his eyes about him. We have no account of the particular colors, casts, and turns, of this body of eyes; but as he was pimp for his mistress Juno, it is probable he used all the modern leers, sly glances, and other ocular activities, to serve his purpose. Some look upon him as the then king at arms to the heathenish deities: and make no more of his eyes than of so many spangles of his herald's coat.

The next upon the optic list is old Janus, who stood in a double-sighted capacity, like a person placed betwixt two opposite looking-glasses, and so took a sort of retrospective cast at one view. Copies of this double-faced way are not yet out of fashion with many professions, and the ingenious artists pretend to keep up this species by double-headed canes and spoons; but there is no mark of this faculty, except in the emblematical way, of a wise general having an eye to both front and rear, or a pious man taking a review and prospect of his past and future state at the same time.

"I must own, that the names, colors, qualities and turus of eyes, vary almost in every head; for, not to mention the common appellations of the black, and the blue, the white, the gray, and the like; the most remarkable are those that borrow their titles from animals, by virtue of some particular quality of resemblance they bear to the eyes of the respective creatures; as that of a greedy rapacious aspect takes its name from the cat, that of a sharp piercing nature from the hawk, those of an amorous roguish look derive their title even from the sheep, and we say such-a-one has a sheep's-eye, not so much to denote the innocence, as the simple slyness, of the cast. Nor is this metaphorical inoculation a modern invention, for we find Homer taking the freedom to place the eye of an ox, bull, or cow, in one of his Principal goddesses, by that frequent expression

of

The ox-eyed venerable Juno.

"Now as to the peculiar qualities of the eye that fine part of our constitution seems as much the receptacle and seat of our passions, apleast it is the outward portal to introduce them to petites, and inclinations, as the mind itself: at the house within, or rather the common thoroughfare to let our affections pass in and out. Love,. anger, pride, and avarice, all visibly move in those little orbs. I know a young lady that cannot see a certain gentleman pass by without showing a

secret desire of seeing him again by a dance in her eye-alls, nay, she cannot, for the heart of her, help looking half a street's length after any man in a gay dress. You cannot behold a covetous spirit walk by a goldsmith's shop without casting a wishful eye at the heaps upon the counter. Does not a haughty person show the temper of his soul in the supercilious roll of his eye? and how frequently in the height of passion does that moving picture in our head start and stare, gather a redness and quick flashes of lightning, and make all its humors sparkle with fire, as Virgil finely describes it,

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"As for the various turns of the eyesight, such as the voluntary or involuntary, the half or the whole leer, I shall not enter into a very particular account of them; but let me observe, that oblique vision, when natural, was anciently the mark of bewitchery and magical fascination, and to this day it is a malignant ill look; but when it is forced and affected, it carries a wanton design, and in playhouses, and other public places, this ocular intimation is often an assignation for bad practices. But this irregularity in vision, together with such enormities, as tipping the wink, the circumspective roll, the side-peep through a thin hood or fan, must be put in the class of Heteroptics, as all wrong notions of religion are ranked under the general name of Heterodox. All the pernicious applications of sight are more immediately under the direction of a Spectator, and I hope you will arm your readers against the mischiefs which are daily done by killing eyes, in which you will highly oblige your wounded unknown friend, "T. B."

"MR. SPECTATOR,

"You professed in several papers your particular endeavors in the province of Spectator, to correct the offenses committed by Starers, who disturb whole assemblies without any regard to time, place, or modesty. You complained also, that a starer is not usually a person to be convinced by the reason of the thing, nor so easily rebuked as to amend by admonitions. I thought therefore fit to acquaint you with a convenient mechanical way, which may easily prevent or correct staring, by an optical contriva ce of new perspective glasses, short and commodious like opera glasses, it for short-sighted people as well as others, these glasses making the objects appear either as they are seen by the naked eye, or more distinct, though somewhat less than life, or bigger and nearer. A person may, by the help of this invention, take a view of another without the impertinence of staring; at the same time it shall not be possible to know whom or what he is looking at. One may look toward his right or left hand, when he is supposed to look forward. This is set forth at large in the printed proposals for the sale of these glasses, to be had at Mr. Dillon's in Longacre, next to the White Hart. Now, Sir, as your Spectator has occasioned the publishing of this invention for the benefit of modest spectators, the in ventor desires your admonitions concerning the decent use of it; and hopes, by your recommendation, that for the future beauty may be beheld without the torture and confusion which it suffers from the insolence of starers. By this means you will relieve the innocent from an insult which there is no law to punish, though it is a greater

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No. 251] TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1711. -Lingua centum sunt, oraque centum, Ferrea voxVIRG. En., vi, 625. -A hundred mouths, a hundred tongues, And throats of brass inspir'd with iron lungs.-DRYDEN. THERE is nothing which more astonishes a foreigner, and frights a country 'squire, than the Cries of London. My good friend Sir Roger often declares that he cannot get them out of his head or go to sleep for them, the first week that he is in town. On the contrary, Will Honeycomb calls them the Ramage de la Ville, and prefers them to the sound of larks and nightingales, with all the music of fields and woods. I have lately received a letter from some very odd fellow upon this subject, which I shall leave with my reader, without saying anything further of it.

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SIR,

for

"I am a man out of all business, and would willingly turn my head to anything for an honest livelihood. I have invented several projects for raising many millions of money without burdening the subject, but I cannot get the parliament to listen to me, who look upon me, sooth, as a crack, and a projector; so that despairing to enrich either myself or my country by this public-spiritedness, I would make some proposals to you relating to a design which I have very much at heart, and which may procure me a handsome subsistence, if you will be pleased to recommend it to the cities of London and Westminster.

think

"The post I would aim at, is to be comptrollergeneral of the London Cries, which are at present under no manner of rules or discipline. I am pretty well qualified for this place, as being a man of very strong lungs, of great insight into all the branches of our British trades and manufactures, and of a competent skill in music.

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The Cries of London may be divided into vocal and instrumental. As for the latter, they are at present under a very great disorder. A freeman of London has the privilege of disturb ing a whole street for an hour together, with a twanking of a brass kettle or fryingpan. The watchman's thump at midnight startles us in our beds as much as the breaking in of a thief. The sowgelder's horn has indeed something musical in it, but this is seldom heard within the liberties. I would therefore propose, that no instrument of this nature should be made use of, which I have not tuned and licensed, after having carefully examined in what manner it may affect the ears of her majesty's liege subjects.

"Vocal cries are of a much larger extent, and indeed so full of incongruities and barbarisms, that we appear a distracted city to foreigners, who do not comprehend the meaning of such enormous outcries. Milk is generally sold in a note above E-la, and in sounds so exceedingly shrill, that it sets our teeth on edge. The chimney-sweeper is confined to no certain pitch; he sometimes utters himself in the deepest bass, and sometimes in the sharpest treble; sometimes in the highest, and sometimes in the lowest note of the gamut. The same observation might be made on the retailers of small coal, not to mention broken glasses, or brick-dust. In these, therefore, and the like cases, it should be my care to sweeten and mellow the voices of these itinerant tradesmen, before

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"It is another great imperfection in our London Cries, that there is no just time nor measure observed in them. Our news should indeed be published in a very quick time, because it is a commodity that will not keep cold. It should not, however, be cried with the same precipitation as fire. Yet this is generally the case. A bloody battle alarms the town from one end to another in an instant. Every motion of the French is published in so great a hurry, that one would think the enemy were at our gates. This likewise I would take upon me to regulate in such a manner, that there should be some distinction made between the spreading of a victory, a march, or an encampment, a Dutch, a Portugal, or a Spanish mail. Nor must I omit under this head those excessive alarms with which several boisterous rustics infest our streets in turnip season; and which are more inexcusable, because they are wares which are in no danger of cooling upon their hands.

"There are others who affect a very slow time, and are in my opinion much more tunable than the former. The cooper in particular swells his last note in a hollow voice, that is not without its harmony; nor can I forbear being inspired with a most agreeable melancholy, when I hear that sad and solemn air with which the public are very often asked, if they have any chairs to mend? Your own memory may suggest to you many other lamentable ditties of the same nature, in which the music is wonderfully languishing and melodious.

"I am always pleased with that particular time of the year which is proper for the pickling of dill and cucumbers; but alas! this cry, like the song of the nightingale, is not heard above two mouths. It would therefore be worth while to consider, whether the same air might not in some cases be adapted to other words.

"It might likewise deserve our most serious consideration, how far, in a well regulated city, those humorists are to be tolerated, who, not contented with the traditional cries of their forefathers, have invented particular songs and tunes of their own such as was, not many years since, the pastry-man, commonly known by the name of the Colly-Molly-Puff and such as is at this day the vender of powder and wash-balls, who, if I am rightly informed, goes under the name of Powder-Wat.

"I must not here omit one particular absurdity which runs through this whole vociferous generation, and which renders their cries very often not

only incommodious, but altogether useless to the public. I mean that idle accomplishment which they all of them aim at, of crying so as not to be understood. Whether or no they have learned this from several of our affected singers, I will not take upon me to say; but most certain it is, that people know the wares they deal in rather by their tunes than by their words; insomuch that I have sometimes seen a country boy run out to buy apples of a bellows-mender, and gingerbread from a grinder of knives and scissors. Nay, so strangely infatuated are some very eminent artists of this very particular grace in a cry, that none but their acquaintance are able to guess at their profession; for who else can know, that 'work if I had it' should be the signification of a corn-cutter?

"Forasmuch, therefore, as persons of this rank are seldom men of genius or capacity I think it would be very proper that some men of good sense and sound judgment should preside over these public cries, who should permit none to lift up their voices in our streets, that have not tunable throats, and are not only able to overcome the noise of the crowd, and the rattling of coaches, but also to vend their respective merchandises in apt phrases and in the most distinct and agreeable sounds. I do therefore humbly recommend myself as a person rightly qualified for this post; and if I meet with fitting encouragement, shall communicate some other projects which I have by me, that may no less conduce to the emolument of the public. "I am, Sir, etc.

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" MR SPECTATOR,

"I AM very sorry to find by your discourse upon the eye, that you have not thoroughly studied the nature and force of that part of a beauteous face. Had you ever been in love, you would have said ten thousand things, which it seems did not occur to you. Do but reflect upon the nonsense it makes men talk; the flames which it is said to kindle, the transport it raises, the dejection it causes in the bravest men, and if you do believe those things are expressed to an extravagance, yet you will own, that the influence of it is very great, which moves men to that extravagance. Certain it is, that the whole strength of the mind is sometimes seated there; that a kind look imparts all that a year's discourse could give you, in one moment. What matters it what she says to you? see how she looks,' is the language of all who know what love is. When the mind is thus summed up, and expressed in & giance, did you never observe a sudden joy arise in the countenance of a lover? Did you never see the attendance of years paid, overpaid in an instant? You a Spectator, and not know that the intelligence of the affection is carried on by the eye only; that good-breeding has made the tongue falsify the heart, and act a part of continual restraint, while nature has preserved the eyes to

*ADAPTED.

With various power the wonder-working eye Can awe, or soothe, reclaim, or lead astray. The motto in the original folio was different, and likewiso

This little man was but just able to support the basket of pastry which he carried on his head, and sung in a very peculiar tone the cant words which passed into his name Colly-Molly Puff. There is a half-sheet print of him in the taken from Virg., Ecl. iii, 103. Set of London Cries, M. Lauron, del P. Tempest, exc. Granger's Biographical History of England.

Nescio quis teneros oculus mihi fascinat agnos.

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