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rellations of these criminals: those who offend only against themselves, and are not scandals to society, but, out of deference to the sober part of he world, have so much good left in them as to De ashamed, must not be huddled in the common word due to the worst of women; but regard is to be had to their circumstances when they fell, to the uneasy perplexity under which they lived under senseless and severe parents, to the im

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portunity of poverty, to the violence of a passion No. 275.] TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1711-12.

in its beginning well grounded, and all other alleviations which make unhappy women resign the characteristics of their sex, modesty. To do otherwise than thus, would be to act like a pedantic Stoic, who thinks all crimes alike, and not like an impartial Spectator, who looks upon them with all the circumstances that diminish or enhance the guilt. I am in hopes, if this subject be well pursued, women will hereafter from their infancy be treated with an eye to their future state in the world; and not have their tempers made too untractable from an improper sourness and pride, or too complying from familiarity or forwardness contracted at their own houses. After these hints on this subject, I shall end this paper with the following genuine letter; and desire all who think they may be concerned in future speculations on this subject, to send in what they have to say for themselves for some incidents in their lives, in order to have proper allowances made for their conduct.

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"The subject of your yesterday's paper is of so great importance, that the thorough handling of it may be so very useful to the preservation of many an innocent young creature, that I think every one is obliged to furnish you with what lights he can to expose the pernicious arts and practices of those unnatural women called bawds. In order to this, the inclosed is sent you, which is verbatim the copy of a letter written by a bawd of figure in this town to a noble lord. I have concealed the names of both, my intention being not to expose their persons, but the thing.

"MY LORD,

"I am, Sir, your humble servant."

-Tribus Anticyris caput insanabile

HOR., Ars. Poet., ver. 300.

A head, no hellebore can cure. I was yesterday engaged in an assembly of virtuosos, where one of them produced many curious observations which he had lately made in the anatomy of a human body. Another of the company communicated to us several wonderful discoveries which he had also made on the same subject, by the help of very fine glasses. This gave birth to a great variety of uncommon remarks, and furnished discourse for the remaining part of the day.

The different opinions which were started on this occasion presented to my imagination so many new ideas, that by mixing with those which were already there, they employed my fancy all the last night, and composed a very wild, extravagant dream.

I was invited, methought, to the dissection of a beau's head, and a coquette's heart, which were both of them laid on a table before us. An imaof nicety, which upon a cursory and superficial ginary operator opened the first with a great deal view, appeared like the head of another man; but upon applying our glasses to it, we made a very odd discovery, namely, that what we looked upon as brains, were not such in reality, but a heap of strange materials wound up in that shape and texthe several cavities of the skull. For, as Homer ture, and packed together with wonderful art in tells us, that the blood of the gods is not real blood, but only something like it; so we found that the brain of a beau is not a real brain, but only something like it.

insomuch that the soul, if there had been any here, must have been always taken up in contemplating her own beauties.

The pineal gland, which many of our modern philosophers suppose to be the seat of the soul, smelt very strong of essence and orange-flower "I, having a great esteem for your honor, and water, and was encompassed with a kind of horny a better opinion of you than of any of the quali- substance, cut into a thousand little faces or mirty, makes me acquaint you of an affair that Irors, which were imperceptible to the naked eye, hope will oblige you to know. I have a niece that came to town about a fortnight ago. Her parents being lately dead, she came to me, expecting to have found me in so good a condition as to set her up in a milliner's shop. Her father gave fourscore pound with her for five years: her time is out, and she is not sixteen: as pretty a black gentlewoman as ever you saw; a little woman, which I know your lordship likes; well-shaped, and as fine a complexion for red and white as ever I saw; I doubt not but your lordship will be of the same opinion. She designs to go down about a month hence, except I can provide for her, which I cannot at present. Her father was one with whom all he had died with him, so there is four children left destitute; so if your lordship thinks proper to make an appointment where I shall wait on you with my niece, by a line or two, I stay for your answer; for I have no place fitted up since I left my house, fit to entertain your honor. I told her she should go with me to see a gentleman, a very good friend of mine; so I desire you to take no notice of my letter, by reason she is ignorant of the ways of the town. My lord, I desire if you meet us to come alone; for upon my word and

We observed a large antrum or cavity in the sinciput, that was filled with ribbons, lace, and embroidery, wrought together in a most curious piece of net-work, the parts of which were like wise imperceptible to the naked eye. Another of these antrums or cavities was stuffed with invisible billets-doux, love-letters, pricked dances. and other trumpery of the same nature. In another we found a kind of powder, which set the whole company a sneezing, and by the scent discovered itself to be right Spanish. The several other cells were stored with commodities of the same kind, of which it would be tedious to give the reader an exact inventory.

There was a large cavity on each side the head, which I must not omit. That on the right side was filled with fictions, flatteries, and falsehoods, vows, promises, and protestations: that on the left with oaths and imprecations. There issued out a duct from each of these cells, which ran into the root of the tongue, where both joined together, and passed forward in one common duct to the

tip of it. We discovered several little roads or shall reserve this subject for the speculation of canals running from the ear into the brain, and another day.-L. took particular care to trace them out through their several passages. One of them extended

itself to a bundle of sonnets and little musical instruments. Others ended in several bladders which were filled either with wind or froth. But the large canal entered into a great cavity of the skull, from whence there went another canal into the tongue. This great cavity was filled with a kind of spongy substance, which the French anatomists call gallimatias, and the English non

sense.

The skins of the forehead were extremely tough and thick, and, what very much surprised us, had not in them any single blood-vessel that we were able to discover, either with or without our glasses; from whence we concluded that the party, when alive, must have been entirely deprived of the faculty of blushing.

The os cribriforme was exceedingly stuffed, and in some places damaged with snuff. We could not but take notice in particular of that small muscle which is not often discovered in dissection, and draws the nose upward, when it expresses the contempt which the owner of it has, upon seeing anything he does not like, or hearing anything he does not understand. I need not tell my learned reader, this is that muscle which perforins the motion so often mentioned by the Latin poets, when they talk of a man's cocking his nose, or playing the rhinoceros.

We did not find anything very remakable in the eye, saving only, that the musculi amatorii, or, as we may translate it into English, the ogling muscles, were very much worn and decayed with use; whereas, on the contrary, the elevator, or the muscle which turns the eye toward heaven, did not appear to have been used at all.

I have only mentioned in this dissection such new discoveries as we were able to make, and have not taken any notice of those parts which seem to be met with in common heads. As for the skull, the face, and indeed the whole outward shape and figure of the head, we could not discover any difference from what we observe in the heads of other men. We were informed that the person to whom this head belonged, had passed for a man above five-and-thirty years: during which time he ate and drank like other people, dressed well, talked loud, laughed frequently, and on particular occasions had acquitted himself tolerably at a ball or an assembly; to which one of the company added, that a certain knot of ladies took him for a wit. He was cut off in the flower of his age by the blow of a paring-shovel, having been surprised by an eminent citizen, as he was tendering some civilities to his

wife.

When we had thoroughly examined this head, with all its apartments, and its several kinds of furniture, we put up the brain such as it was, into its proper place, and laid it aside under a broad piece of scarlet cloth, in order to be prepared, and kept in a great repository of dissections; our operator telling us that the preparation would not be so difficult as that of another brain, for that he had observed several of the little pipes and tubes which ran through the brain were already filled with a kind of mercurial substance, which he looked upon to be true quicksilver.

He applied himself in the next place to the coquette's heart, which he likewise laid open with great dexterity. There occurred to us many particularities in this dissection; but being unwilling to burden my reader's memory too much, I

No. 276] WEDNESDAY, JAN. 16, 1711-12. Errori nomen virtus posuisset honestum.

HOR. 1 Sat. iii, 42. Misconduct screen'd behind a specious name.

"MR. SPECTATOR,

"I HOPE you have philosophy enough to be capable of hearing the mention of your faults. Your papers which regard the fallen part of the fair sex are, I think, written with an indelicacy which makes them unworthy to be inserted in the writings of a moralist who knows the world. I cannot allow that you are at liberty to observe upon the actions of mankind with the freedom which you seem to resolve upon; at least, if you do so, you should take along with you the distinction of manners of the world, according to the quality and way of life of the persons concerned. A man of breeding speaks of even misfortune among ladies, without giving it the most terrible aspect it can bear; and this tenderness toward them is much more to be preserved when you speak of vices. All mankind are so far related, that care is to be taken in things to which all are liable, you do not mention what concerns one in terms which shall disgust another. Thus to tell a rich man of the indigence of a kinsman of his, or abruptly to inform a virtuous woman of the lapse of one who until then was in the same degree of esteem with herself, is a kind of involving each of them in some participation of those disadvantages. It is therefore expected from every writer, to treat his argument in such a manner, as is most proper to entertain the sort of readers to whom his discourse is directed. It is not necessary when you write to the ten-table, that you should draw vices which carry all the horror of shame and contempt: if you paint an impertinent self-love, an artful glance, an assumed complexion, you say all which you ought to suppose they can possibly be guilty of. When you talk with limitation, you behave yourself so as that you may expect others in conversation may second your raillery; but when you do it in a style which everybody else forbears in respect to their quality, they have an easy remedy in forbearing to read you, and hearing no more of their faults. A man that is now and then guilty of an intemperance is not be called a drunkard; but the rule of polite raillery is to speak of a man's faults as if you loved him. Of this nature is what was said by Cæsar: when one was railing with an uncourtly vehemence, and broke out with,' What must we call him who was taken in an intrigue with another man's wife? Cæsar answered very gravely, A careless fellow.' This was at once a reprimand for speaking of a crime which in those days had not the abhorrence attending it as it ought, as well as an inti mation that all intemperate behavior before superiors loses its aim, by accusing in a method unfit for the audience. A word to the wise. All I mean here to say to you is, that the most free person of quality can go no farther than being a kind woman; and you should never say of a mad of figure worse than that he knows the world. "I am, Sir, your most humble Servant, "FRANCIS COURTLY."

"MR. SPECTATOR,

"I AM a woman of an unspotted reputation and know nothing I have ever done which should

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wife of my bosom migh, profit thereby. But, alas!
my friend, I find that thou art a liar, and that the
truth is not in thee; else why didst thou in a paper
which thou didst lately put forth, make mention
of those vain coverings for the heads of our fe-
males, which thou lovest to liken unto tulips, and
which are lately sprung up among us? Nay, why
didst thou make mention of them in such a seem-
ing, as if thou didst approve the invention, inso-
much that my daughter Tabitha beginneth to wax
wanton, and to lust after these foolish vanities?
Surely thou dost see with the eyes of the flesh.
Verily, therefore, unless thou dost speedily amend,
and leave off following thine own imaginations, I
will leave off thee.
"Thy Friend,
"As hereafter thou dost demean thyself,
"HEZEKIAH BROADBRM."

T.

-fas est et ab hoste doceri.

OVID, Met., lib. iv, ver. 428.
Receive instruction from an enemy.

I PRESUME I need not inform the polite part of
my readers, that before our correspondence with
France was unhappily interrupted by the war, our
ladies had all their fashions from thence; which
the milliners took care to furnish them with by
means of a jointed baby, that came regularly over
once a month, habited after the manner of the
most eminent toasts in Paris.

I am credibly informed, that even in the hottest time of the war, the sex made several efforts, and raised large contributions toward the importation of this wooden mademoiselle.

"You lately put out a dreadful paper, wherein, you promise a full account of the state of criminal love; and call all the fair who have transgressed in that kind by one very rude name which I do not care to repeat: but I desire to know of you whether I am or am not one of those? My case is as follows: I am kept by an old bachelor who took me so young that I know not how he came by me. He is a bencher of one of the inns of court, a very gay, healthy old man, which is a very lucky thing for him: who has been, he tells me; a Scowerer, a scamperer, a breaker of windows, and invader of constables, in the days of No. 277.] THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1711-12. yore, when all dominion ended with the day, and males and females met helter-skelter, and the scowerers drove before them all who pretended to keep up order or rule to the interruption of love and honor. This is his way of talk, for he is very gay when he visits me; but as his former knowledge of the town has alarmed him into an invincible jealousy, he keeps me in a pair of slippers, neat bodice, warm petticoats, and my own hair woven in ringlets, after a manner, he says, he remembers. I am not mistress of one farthing. of money, but have all necessaries provided for me, under the guard of one who procured for him while he had any desires to gratify. I know nothing of a wench's life but the reputation of it: I have a natural voice, and a pretty untaught step in dancing. His manner is to bring an old fellow who has been his servant from his youth, and is gray-headed. This man makes on the violin a certain jiggish noise to which I dance, and when that is over I sing to him some loose air that has more wantonness than music in it. You must have seen a strange windowed house near Hydepark, which is so built that no one can look out of any of the apartments: my rooms are after this manner, and I never see man, woman, or child, but in company with the two persons above-mentioned. He sends me in all the books, pamphlets, plays, operas, and songs, that come out; and his utmost delight in me, as a woman, is to talk over his old amours in my presence, to play with my neck, say the time was,' give me a kiss, and bid me be sure to follow the directions of my guardian (the above-mentioned lady), and I shall never want. The truth of my case is, I suppose, that I was educated for a purpose he did not know he should be unfit for when I came to years. Now Sir, what I ask of you as a casuist, is to tell me how far in these circumstances I am innocent, though submissive; he guilty, though Jupotent?

"I am, Sir, your constant Reader,
PUCELLA."

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"TO THE MAN CALLED THE SPECTATOR. 'FRIEND,

"Forasmuch as at the birth of thy labor, thou diast promise upon thy word, that, letting alone the vanities that do abound, thou wouldst only endeavor to straighten the crooked morals of this our Babylon, I gave credit to thy fair speeches, and admitted one of thy papers, every day, save Sunday, into my house, for the edification of my daughter Tabitha, and to the end that Susanna the

Whether the vessel they sent out was lost or
taken, or whether its cargo was seized on by the
officers of the custom-house as a piece of contra
band goods, I have not yet been able to learn: it is
however certain, that their first attempts were
without success, to the no small disappointment
of our whole female world; but as their con-
stancy and application, in a matter of so great im-
portance, can never be sufficiently commended, so
I am glad to find, that in spite of all opposition,
they have at length carried their point, of which
I received advice by the two following letters:
"MR. SPECTATOR,

"I am so great a lover of whatever is French,
that I lately discarded an humble admirer, be-
cause he neither spoke that tongue nor drank
claret. I have long bewailed in secret the cala-
mities of my sex during the war, in all which
time we have labored under the insupportable
inventions of English tire-women, who though
they sometimes copy indifferently well, can never
compose with that gout' they do in France.

"I was almost in despair of ever more seeing a model from that dear country, when last Sunday I overheard a lady in the next pew to me whisper another, that at the Seven Stars, in King-street, Covent-garden, there was a mademoiselle completely dressed, just come from Paris.

"I was in the utmost impatience during the remaining part of the service, and as soon as ever it was over, having learnt the milliner's ‘addresse,' I went directly to her house in King-street, but was told that the French lady was at a person's of quality in Pall-mall, and would not be back again until very late that night. I was therefore obliged to renew my visit early this morning, and had then a full view of the dear moppet from head to foot.

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"You cannot imagine, worthy Sir, how ridiculously I find we have been trussed up during the war, and how infinitely the French dress excels ours.

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because she is not talkative; a quality very rarely to be met with in the rest of her country women. As I was taking my leave, the milliner further informed me, that with the assistance of a watchThe mantua has no lead in the sleeves, and maker, who was her neighbor, and the ingenious I hope we are not lighter than the French ladies, Mr. Powel, she had also contrived another puppet, so as to want that kind of ballast; the petticoat which by the help of several little springs to be has no whalebone, but sits with an air altogether wound up within it, could move all its limbs, and gallant and degagé: the coiffure is inexpressibly that she had sent it over to her correspondent in pretty, and in short, the whole dress has a thou-Paris to be taught the various leanings and bendsand beauties in it which I would not have as ings of the head, the risings of the bosom, the yet made too public. courtesy, and recovery, the genteel trip, and the agreeable jet, as they are all now practiced at the court of France.

"I thought fit, however, to give you this notice, that you may not be surprised at my appearing a la mode de Paris on the next birth-night.

"I am Sir, your humble Servant,

"TERAMINTA."

Within an hour after I had read this letter, I ceived another from the owner of the puppet. "SIR,

She added, that she hoped she might depend upon having my encouragement as soon as it arrived; but as this was a petition of too great importance to be answered extempore, I left her re-without a reply, and made the best of my way to Will Honeycomb's lodgings, without whose advice I never communicate anything to the public of this nature.-X.

"On Saturday last, being the 12th instant, there arrived at my house in King-street, Covent-garden, a French baby for the year 1712. I have taken the utmost care to have her dressed by the most celebrated tire-women and mantua-makers in Paris, and do not find that I have any reason to be sorry for the expense I have been at in her clothes and importation: however, as I know no person who is so good a judge of dress as yourself, if you please to call at my house in your way to the city, and take a view of her, I promise to amend whatever you shall disapprove in your next paper, before I exhibit her as a pattern to the public.

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"I am, Sir, your most humble Admirer, and most obedient Servant, 'BETTY CROSS-STITCH." As I am willing to do anything in reason for the service of my country women, and had much rather prevent faults than find them, I went last night to the house of the above-mentioned Mrs. Cross-stitch. As soon as I entered, the maid of the shop, who, I suppose, was prepared for my coming, without asking me any questions, introduced me to the little damsel, and ran away to

call her mistress.

The puppet was dressed in a cherry-colored gown and petticoat, with a short working apron over it, which discovered her shape to the most advantage. Her hair was cut and divided very prettily, with several ribbons stuck up and down in it. The milliner assured me, that her complexion was such as was worn by the ladies of the best fashion in Paris. Her head was extremely high, on which subject having long since declared my sentiments, I shall say nothing more to it at present. I was also offended at a small patch she wore on her breast, which I cannot suppose is placed there with any good design.

Her necklace was of an immoderate length, being tied before in such a manner, that the two ends hung down to her girdle; but whether these supply the place of kissing-strings in our enemy's country, and whether our British ladies have any occasion for them, I shall leave to their serious consideration.

After having observed the particulars of her dress, as I was taking a view of it altogether, the shopmaid, who is a pert wench, told me that mademoiselle had something very curious in the tying of her garters; but as I pay a due respect even to a pair of sticks when they are under petticoats, I did not examine into that particular. Upon the whole, I was well enough pleased with the appearance of this gay lady, and the more so,

No. 278.] FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1711-12

-Sermones ego mallem
Repentes per humum.-

HOR. 1 Ep. ii, 250.
I rather choose a low and creeping style.
"MR. SPECTATOR,

"SIR,
"YOUR having done considerable services in this
great city, by rectifying the disorders of families,
and several wives having preferred your advice and
directions to those of their husbands, emboldens
me to apply to you at this time. I am a shop.
keeper, and though but a young man, I find by
experience that nothing but the utmost diligence
both of husband and wife (among trading people)
can keep affairs in any tolerable order. My wife,
at the beginning of our establishment, showed
herself very assisting to me in my business as
much as could lie in her way, and I have reason
to believe it was with her inclination; but of late
she has got acquainted with a schoolman, who
values himself for his great knowledge in the
Greek tongue. He entertains her frequently in the
shop with discourses of the beauties and excel-
lencies of that language; and repeats to her several
passages out of the Greek poets, wherein he tells
her there is unspeakable harmony and agreeable
sounds that all other languages are wholly un-
acquainted with. He has so infatuated her with
this jargon, that instead of using her former dili-
gence in the shop, she now neglects the affairs of
the house, and is wholly taken up with her tutor
in learning by heart scraps of Greek, which she
vents upon all occasions. She told me some days
ago, that whereas I use some Latin inscriptions in
my shop, she advised me with a great deal of con-
cern to have them changed into Greek; it being a
language less understood, would be more confor-
mable to the mystery of my profession; that our
good friend would be assisting to us in this work;
and that a certain faculty of gentlemen would find
themselves so much obliged to me, that they
would infallibly make my fortune. In short, her
frequent importunities upon this, and other im-
pertinences of the like nature, make me very un-
easy; and if your remonstrances have no more
effect upon her than mine, I am afraid I shall be
obliged to ruin myself to procure her a settlement
at Oxford with her tutor, for she is already too
mad for Bedlam. Now, Sir, you see the danger
my family is exposed to, and the likelihood of my
wife's becoming both troublesome and useless,

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against the opera itself. What we pretend to assert
is, that the songs of different authors injudiciously
put together, and a foreign tone and manner which
are expected in everything now performed among
us, has put music itself to a stand; insomuch that
the ears of the people cannot now be entertained
with anything but what has an impertinent gayety,
without any just spirit, or a languishment of notes,
without any passion, or common sense.
We hope
those persons of sense and quality who have done
us the honor to subscribe, will not be ashamed of
their patronage toward us, and not receive im-
pressions that patronizing us is being for or
against the opera, but truly promoting their own
diversions in a more just and elegant manner thau
has been hitherto performed.

"We are, Sir, your most humble Servants,
THOMAS CLAYTON,

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If you have that humanity and compassion in your nature that you take such pains to make one think you have, you will not deny your voice to a distressed damsel, who intends to be determined by your judgment in a matter of great importance to her. You must know then, there is an agreeable young fellow, to whose person, wit, and humor nobody makes any objection, that pretends to have been long in love with me. To this I must add (whether it proceeds from the vanity of my nature, or the seeming sincerity of my lover, I will not pretend to say), that I verily believe he has a real value for me; which, if true, you will ings until after that of the subscription."-T. allow may justly augment his merit with his mistress. In short, I am so sensible of his good qualities, and what I owe to his passion, that I

66 NICOLINO HAYM,
"CHARLES DIEUPART."

"There will be no performances in York-build

think I could sooner resolve to give up my liberty | No. 279.] SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1711 12.

Reddere persona scit convenientia cuique

HOR. Ars. Poet., v, 316. He knows what best befits each character.

to him than anybody else, were there not an objection to be made to his fortunes, in regard they do not answer the utmost mine may expect, and are not sufficient to secure me from undergoing the reproachful phrase, so commonly used, that she We have already taken a general survey of the has played the fool.' Now though I am one of fable and characters in Milton's Paradise Lost. those few who heartily despise equipage, dia- The parts which remain to be considered, accordmonds, and a coxcomb, yet since such opposite ing to Aristotle's method, are the sentiments and notions from mine prevail in the world, even the language. Before I enter upon the first of among the best, and such as are esteemed the most these, I must advertise my reader, that it is my prudent people, I cannot find in my heart to re-design, as soon as I have finished my general resolve upon incurring the censure of those wise folks, which I am conscious I shall do, if, when I enter into a married state, I discover a thought beyond that of equaling, if not advancing my fortunes. Under this difficulty I now labor, not being in the least determined whether I shall be governed by the vain world, and the frequent examples I meet with, or hearken to the voice of my lover, and the motions I find in my heart in favor of him. Sir, your opinion and advice in this affair is the only thing I know can turn the balance, and which I earnestly entreat I may receive soon; for until I have your thoughts upon it, I am engaged not to give my swain a final discharge.

Beside the particular obligation you will lay on me, by giving this subject room in one of your papers, it is possible it may be of use to some others of my sex, who will be as grateful for the favor as,

"Sir, your humble Servant,

"FLORINDA."

"P. S. To tell you the truth I am married to him already, but pray say something to justify

flections on these four several heads, to give particular instances out of the poem which is now before us of beauties and imperfections which may be observed under each of them, as also of such other particulars as may not properly fall under any of them. This I thought fit to premise, that the reader may not judge too hastily of this piece of criticism, or look upon it as imperfect, before he has seen the whole extent of it.

The sentiments in an epic poem are the thoughts and behavior which the author ascribes to the persons whom he introduces, and are just when they are conformable to the characters of the several persons. The sentiments have likewise a relation to things as well as persons, and are then perfect when they are such as are adapted to the subject. If in either of these cases the poet endeavors to argue or explain, to magnify or diminish, to raise love or hatred, pity or terror, or any other passion, we ought to consider whether the sentiments he makes use of are proper for those ends. Homer is censured by the critics for his defect as to this particular in several parts of the Iliad and Odyssey, though at the same time those who have treated this great poet with candor, have attributed this defect to the times in which he lived. It was the fault of the age and not of "You will forgive us professors of music if we Homer, if there wants that delicacy in some of his make a second application to you, in order to pro- sentiments, which now appears in the works of mote our design of exhibiting entertainments of men of a much inferior genius. Beside, if there music in York-buildings. It is industriously in- are blemishes in any particular thoughts, there is sinuated that our intention is to destroy operas an infinite beauty in the greatest part of them. In in general, but we beg of you to insert this plain short, if there are many poets who would not have explanation of ourselves in your paper. Our pur- fallen into the meanness of some of his sentipose is only to improve our circumstances, by im-ments, there are none who could have risen up to proving the art which we profess. We see it the greatness of others. Virgil has excelled all utterly destroyed at present; and as we were the others in the propriety of his sentiments. Milton persons who introduced operas, we think it a shines likewise very much in this particular: nor groundless imputation that we should set up must we omit one consideration which adds to his

me."

"MR. SPECTATOR,

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