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pon the tilt, and taste of the sediments of a The care of doing nothing unbecoming has ac rudging, incommunicative disposition. companied the greatest minds to their last mo Since I have intimated that the greatest deco-ments. They avoided even an indecent posture rum is to be preserved in the bestowing our good in the very article of death. Thus Cæsar gatheroffices, I will illustrate it a little, by an example ed his robe about him, that he might not fall in a drawn from private life, which carries with it such manner unbecoming of himself; and the greatest a profusion of liberality, that it can be exceeded concern that appeared in the behavior of Lucretia by nothing but the humanity and good-nature when she stabbed herself, was, that her body which accompanies it. It is a letter of Pliny, should lie in an attitude worthy the mind which which I shall here translate, because the action had inhabited it: will best appear in its first dress of thought, without any foreign or ambitious ornaments.

"PLINY TO QUINTILIAN.

you

-Ne non procumbat honeste,
Extrema hæc etiam cura cadentis erat.

OVID, Fast. iii, 833 "T was her last thought, how decently to fall.

Though I am fully acquainted with the con- "MR. SPECTATOR, tentment and just moderation of your mind, aud the conformity the education have "I am a young woman without a fortune; but given your daughter bears to your own character; yet since of a very high mind: that is, good Sir, I am to she is suddenly to be married to a person of dis- the last degree proud and vain. I am ever railtinction, whose figure in the world makes it ne- search into my heart, I find I am only angry at, ing at the rich, for doing things, which, upon cessary for her to be at a more than ordinary expense, in clothes and equipage suitable to her hus- because I cannot do the same myself. I wear the band's quality; by which, though her intrinsic hooped petticoat, and am all in calicoes when the worth be not augmented, yet will it receive both finest are in silks. It is a dreadful thing to be ornament and luster: and knowing your estate to poor and proud; therefore, if you please, a lecture on that subject for the satisfaction of your uneasy be as moderate as the riches of your mind are humble Servant, abundant, I must challenge to myself some part "JEZEBEL." of the burden; and as a parent of your child, I present her with twelve hundred and fifty crowns, toward these expenses; which sum had been much larger, had I not feared the smallness of it would No. 293.] TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1711–12. be the greatest inducement with you to accept of it. Farewell."

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The prudent still have fortune on their side. FRAG., Vet. Poet. THE famous Grecian, in his little book wherein Thus should a benefaction be done with a good he lays down maxims for a man's advancing himgrace, and shine in the strongest point of light; it self at court, advises his reader to associate himshould not only answer all the hopes and exigen-self with the fortunate, and to shun the company cies of the receiver, but even outrun his wishes. of the unfortunate; which, notwithstanding the It is this happy manner of behavior which adds baseness of the precept to an honest mind, may new charms to it, and softens those gifts of art have something useful in it, for those who push and nature, which otherwise would be rather dis- their interest in the world. It is certain, a great tasteful and agreeable. Without it, valor would part of what we call good or ill fortune, rises out degenerate into brutality, learning into pedantry, of right or wrong measures and schemes of life. and the genteelest demeanor into affectation. When I hear a man complain of his being unforEven Religion itself, unless Decency be the hand-tunate in all his undertakings, I shrewdly susmaid which waits upon her, is apt to make peo-pect him for a very weak man in his affairs. lu ple appear guilty of sourness and ill-humor: but conformity with this way of thinking. Cardinal this shows Virtue in her first original form, adds Richelieu used to say, that unfortunate and ima comeliness to Religion, and gives its professors prudent were but two words for the same thing. the justest title to "the beauty of holiness." A As the cardinal himself had a great share both man fully instructed in this art, may assume a of prudence and good fortune, his famous antagothousand shapes, and please in all; he may do anist, the Count d'Olivares, was disgraced at the thousand actions shall become none other but him- court of Madrid, because it was alleged against self; not that the things themselves are different, him that he had never any success in his underbut the manner of doing them. takings. This, says an eminent author, was indirectly accusing him of imprudence.

If you examine each feature by itself, Aglaura and Calliclea are equally handsome; but take them in the whole, and you cannot suffer the comparison: the one is full of numberless nameless graces, the other of as many nameless faults.

The comeliness of person, and the decency of behavior, add infinite weight to what is pronounced by any one. It is the want of this that often makes the rebukes and advice of old rigid persons of no effect, and leave a displeasure in inds of those they are directed to: but youth and beauty, if accompanied with a graceful and becoming severity, are of mighty force to raise, even in the most profligate, a sense of shame. In Milton, the devil is never described ashamed but once, and that at the rebuke of a beauteous angel:

So spake the cherub; and his grave rebuke,
Severe in youthful beauty, added grace
Invincible. Abash'd the devil stood,
And felt how awful Goodness is, and saw
Virtue in her own shape how lovely! saw and pin'd
His loss.

Cicero recommended Pompey to the Romans for their general upon three accounts, as he was a man of courage, conduct, and good fortune. It was, perhaps, for the reason above-mentioned, namely, that a series of good fortune supposes a prudent management in the person whom it befalls, that not only Sylla the dictator, but several of the Roman emperors, as is still to be seen upon their medals, among their other titles, gave themselves that of Felix or Fortunate. The heathens, indeed, seem to have valued a man more for his good fortune than for any other quality, which I think is very natural for those who have not a strong, belief of another world. For how can I conceive a man crowned with many distinguishing blessings that has not some extraordinary fund of merit and perfection in him, which lies open to the Supreme eye, though perhaps it is not discovered. by my observation? What is the reason Homer's. and Virgil's heroes do not form a resolution, or strike a blow, without the conduct and direction

of some deity? Doubtless, because the poets | whose name I cannot at present recollect, and esteemed it the greatest honor to be favored by who had been a particular favorite of Fortune, the gods, and thought the best way of praising a that upon recounting his victories among his man was, to recount those favors which naturally friends, he added at the end of several great implied an extraordinary merit in the person on actions, "And in this fortune had no share." whom they descended. After which it is observed in history, that he never prospered in anything he undertook.

Those who believe a future state of rewards and punishments act very absurdly, if they form their opinions of a man's merit from his successes. But certainly, if I thought the whole circle of our being was included between our births and deaths. I should think a man's good fortune the measure and standard of his real merit, since Providence would have no opportunity of rewarding his virtue and perfections, but in the present life. A virtuous unbeliever, who lies under the pressure of misfortunes, has reason to cry out, as they say Brutus did, a little before his death: "O Virtue, I have worshiped thee as a substantial good, but I find thou art an empty name."

But to return to our first point. Though Prudence does undoubtedly in a great measure produce our good or ill fortune in the world, it is certain there are many unforeseen accidents and occurrences, which very often pervert the finest schemes that can be laid by human wisdom. "The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong." Nothing less than infinite wisdom can have an absolute command over fortune; the highest degree of it which man can possess, is by no means equal to fortuitous events, and to such contingencies as may rise in the prosecution of our affairs. Nay, it very often happens, that prudence, which has always in it a great mixture of caution, hinders a man from being so fortunate, as he might possibly have been without it. A person who only aims at what is likely to succeed, and follows closely the dictates of human prudence, never meets with those great and unforeseen successes, which are often the effect of a sanguine temper or a more happy rashness; and this perhaps may be the reason, that, according to the common observation, Fortune, like other females, delights rather in favoring the young than the old.

Upon the whole, since man is so short-sighted a creature, and the accidents which may happen to him so various, I cannot but be of Dr. Tillotson's opinion in another case, that were there any doubt of Providence, yet it certainly would be very desirable there should be such a Being of infinite wisdom and goodness, on whose direction we might rely in the conduct of human

life.

It is a great presumption to ascribe our successes to our own management, and not to esteem ourselves upon any blessing, rather as it is the bounty of Heaven than the acquisition of our own prudence. I am very well pleased with a medal which was struck by Queen Elizabeth, a little after the defeat of the invincible armada, to perpetuate the memory of that extraordinary event, It is well known how the King of Spain, and others who were the enemies of that great princess, to derogate from her glory, ascribed the ruin of their fleet rather to the violence of storms and tempests, than to the bravery of the English. Queen Elizabeth, instead of looking upon this as a diminution of her honor, valued herself upon such a signal favor of Providence, and according ly, in the reverse of the medal above-mentioned, has represented a fleet beaten by a tempest, and falling foul upon one another, with that religious inscription, "Afflavit Deus, et dissipantur." He blew with his wind, and they were scattered." It is remarked of a famous Grecian general,

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As arrogance and a conceitedness of our own abilities are very shocking and offensive to men of sense and virtue, we may be sure they are highly displeasing to that Being who delights in a humble mind, and by several of his dispensations seems purposely to show us, that our own schemes, or prudence, have no share in our advancements.

Since on this subject I have already admitted several quotations, which have occurred to my memory upon writing this paper, I will conclude it with a little Persian fable. A drop of water fell out of a cloud into the sea, and finding itself lost in such an immensity of fluid matter, broke out into the following reflection: "Alas! What an inconsiderable creature am I in this prodigious ocean of waters! My existence of no concern to the universe; I am reduced to a kind of nothing, and am less than the least of the works of God.” It so happened that an oyster, which lay in the neighborhood of this drop, chanced to gape and swallow it up in the midst of this its humble soliloquy. The drop, says the fable, lay a great while hardening in the shell, until by degrees it was ripened into a pearl, which falling into the hands of a diver, after a long series of adventures, is at present that famous pearl which is fixed on the top of the Persian diadem.-L.

No. 294.] WEDNESDAY, FEB 6, 1711-12. Difficile est plurimum virtutem revereri qui semper secunda fortuna sit usus.-TULL. ad Herennium. The man who is always fortunate, cannot easily have much reverence for virtue.

INSOLENCE is the crime of all others which every man is apt to rail at; and yet there is one respec in which almost all men living are guilty of it, and that is in the case of laying a greater value upon the gifts of fortune than we ought. It is here in England come into our very language as a propriety of distinction, to say, when we would speak of persons to their advantage, "They are people of condition." There is no doubt but the proper use of riches implies, that a man should exert all the good qualities imaginable; and if we mean by a man of condition or quality, one who, according to the wealth he is master of, shows himself just, beneficent, and charitable, that term ought very deservedly to be had in the highest veneration; but when wealth is used only as it is the support of pomp and luxury, to be rich is very far from being a recommendation to honor and respect. It is indeed the greatest insolence imaginable, in a creature who would feel the extremes of thirst and hunger, if he did not prevent his appetites, before they call upon him, to be so forgetful of the common necessities of human nature, as never to cast an eye upon the poor and needy. The fellow who escaped from a ship which struck upon a rock in the west, and joined with the country people to destroy his brother sailors, and make her a wreck, was thought a most execrable

*Timotheus the Athenian. See Shaw's edit. of Lord Ba con's Works, 4to., vol. i, p. 219.

Altered from insignificant, according to a direction in Spect. in folio., No. 295.

creature, but does not every man who enjoys the possession of what he naturally wants and is unmindful of the unsupplied distress of other men, betray the same temper of mind? When a man looks about him, and, with regard to riches and poverty, beholds some drawn in pomp and equip age, and they, and their very servants, with an air of scorn and triumph, overlooking the multitude that pass by them; and in the same street a creature of the same make, crying out, in the name of all that is good and sacred, to behold his misery, and give him some supply against hunger and nakedness; who would believe these two beings were of the same species? But so it is, that the consideration of fortune has taken up all our minds, and as I have often complained, poverty and riches stand in our imaginations in the places of guilt and innocence. But in all seasons there will be some instances of persons who have souls too large to be taken with popular prejudices, and, while the rest of mankind are contending for superiority in power and wealth, have their thoughts bent upon the necessities of those below them. The charity schools, which have been erected of late years, are the greatest instances of public spirit the age has produced. But, indeed, when we consider how long this sort of beneficence has been on foot, it is rather from the good management of those institutions, than from the number or value of the benefactions to them, that they make so great a figure. One would think it impossible that in the space of fourteen years there should not have been five thousand pounds bestowed in gifts this way, nor sixteen hundred children, including males and females, put out to methods of industry. It is not allowed me to speak of luxury and folly with the severe spirit they deserve; I shall only therefore say, I shall very readily compound with any lady in a hooped petticoat, if she give the price of one half yard of the silk toward clothing, feeding, and instructing an innocent helpless creature of her own sex, in one of these schools. The consciousness of such an action will give her features a nobler life on this illustrious day,* than all the jewels that can hang in her hair, or can be clustered in her bosom. It would be uncourtly to speak in harsher words to the fair, but to men one may take a little more freedom. It is mon

among the servants; from such as are educated in these places they would see nothing but lowliness in the servant, which would not be disingenuous in the child. All the ill offices and defamatory whispers, which take their birth from domestics, would be prevented, if this charity could be made universal: and a good man might have a knowledge of the whole life of the persons he designs to take into his house for his own service, or that of his family or children, long before they were admitted. This would create endearing dependencies; and the obligation would have a paternal air in the master, who would be relieved from much care and anxiety by the gratitude and diligence of a humble friend, attending him as his servant. I fall into this discourse from a letter sent to me, to give me notice that fifty boys would be clothed, and take their seats (at the charge of some generous benefactors) in St. Bride's church, on Sunday next. I wish I could promise to myself anything which my correspondent seems to expect from a publication of it in this paper; for there can be nothing added to what so many excellent and learned men have said on this occasion. But that there may be something here which would move a generous mind, like that of him who wrote to me, I shall transcribe a handsome paragraph of Dr. Suape's sermon on these charities, which my correspondent inclosed with his letter.

"The wise Providence has amply compensated the disadvatages of the poor, and indigent, in wanting many of the conveniencies of this life, by a more abundant provision for their happiness in the next. Had they been higher born, or more richly endowed, they would have wanted this manner of education, of which those only enjoy the benefit, who are low enough to submit to it; where they have such advantages without money, and without price, as the rich cannot purchase with it. The learning which is given, is generally more edifying to them, than that which is sold to others. Thus do they become exalted in goodness, by being depressed in fortune, and their poverty is, in reality, their preferment." T.

strous how a man can live with so little reflection, No. 295.] THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1711-12.

as to fancy he is not in a condition very unjust and disproportioned to the rest of mankind, while he enjoys wealth, and exerts no benevolence or bounty to others. As for this particular occasion of these schools, there cannot any offer more worthy a generous mind. Would you do a handsome thing without return; do it for an infant that is not sensible of the obligation. Would you do it for public good: do it for one who will be an honest artificer. Would you do it for the sake of heaven; give it to one who shall be instructed in the worship of him for whose sane you gave it. It is, methinks, a most laudable institution this, if it were of no other expectation than that of producing a race of good and useful servants, who will have more tha a liberal, a religious education. What would not a man do in common prudence, to lay out in purchase of one about him, who would add to all his orders he gave, the weight of the commandments, to enforce an obedience to them? for one who would consider his master as his father, his friend, and benefactor, upon easy terms, and in expectation of no other return, but moderate wages and gentle usage? It is the common vice of children, to run too much

The birthday of her majesty Queen Anne, who was born Feb. 6, 1665, and died Aug. 1, 1714, aged 49.

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"I turned of my great climacteric, and am natura y a man of a meek temper. About a dozen years ago I was married, for my sins, to a young woman of good family, and of a high spirit; but could not bring her to close with me, before I had entered into a treaty with her, longer than that of the grand alliance. Among other articles, it was therein stipulated, that she should have 400l. a-year for pin-money, which I obliged myself to pay quarterly into the hands of one who acted as her plenipotentiary in that affair. I have ever since religiously observed my part in this solemn agreement. Now, Sir, so it is, that the lady has had several children since I married her; to which, if I should credit our malicious neighbors, her pin-money has not a little contributed. The education of these my children who,

contrary to my expectation., are born to me every year, straitens me so much, that I have begged their mother to free me from the obligation of the above-mentioned pin-money, that it may go toward making a provision for her family. This proposal makes her noble blood swell in her veins, insomuch that, finding me a little tardy in my last quarter's payment, she threatens me every day to arrest me; and proceeds so far as to tell me that if I do not do her justice, I shall die in a jail. To this she adds, when her passion will let her argue calmly, that she has several play-debts on her hands, which must be discharged very suddenly, and that she cannot lose her money as becomes a woman of fashion, if she makes me any abatement in this article. I hope, Sir, you will take an occasion from hence to give your opinion upon a subject which you have not yet touched, and inform us if there are any precedents for this usage among our ancestors; or whether you find any mention of pin-money in Grotius, Puffendorf, or any other of the civilians.

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As there is no man living who is a more professed advocate for the fair sex than myself, so there is none that would be more unwilling to invade any of their ancient rights and privileges; but as the doctrine of pin-money is of a late date, unknown to our great-grandmothers, and not yet received by many of our modern ladies, I think it is for the interest of both sexes to keep it from spreading.

Mr. Fribble may not, perhaps, be much mistaken where he intimates, that the supplying a man's wife with pin-money, is furnishing her with arms against himself, and in a manner, becoming accessory to his own dishonor. We may, indeed, generally observe, that in proportion as a woman is more or less beautiful, and her husband advanced in years, she stands in need of a greater or less number of pins, and, upon a treaty of mar. riage, rises or falls in her demands accordingly. It must likewise be owned, that high quality in a mistress does very much inflame this article in the marriage-reckoning.

But where the age and circumstances of both parties are pretty much upon a level, I cannot but think the insisting upon pin-money is very extraordinary; and yet we find several matches broken off upon this very head. What would a foreigner, or one who is a stranger to this practice, think of a lover that forsakes his mistress, because he is not willing to keep her in pins? But what would he think of the mistress, should he be informed that she asks five or six hundred pounds a year for this use? Should a man unacquainted with our customs be told the sums which are allowed in Great Britain, under the title of pin-money, what a prodigious consumption of pins would he think there was in this island? A pin a day," says our frugal proverb, "is a groat a year;" so that, according to this calculation, my friend Fribble's wife must every year make use of eight million six hundred and forty thousand new pins.

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I am not ignorant that our British ladies allege they comprehend under this general term several other conveniences of life; I could therefore wish, for the honor of my countrywomen, that they had rather called it needle-money, which might have implied something of good housewifery, and not have given the malicious world occasion to think, that dress and trifles have always the uppermost place in a woman's thoughts.

I know several of my fair readers urge in de

fense of this practice, that it is but a necessary provision they make for themselves, in case their husband proves a churl, or miser; so that they consider this allowance as a kind of alimony, which they may lay their claim to, without actually separating from their husbands. But, with submission, I think a woman who will give up herself to a man in marriage, where there is the least room for such an apprehension, and trust her person to one whom she will not rely on for the common necessaries of life, may very properly be accused (in the phrase of a homely proverb) of being "penny wise and pound foolish."

It is observed of over-cautious generals, that they never engage in battle without securing a retreat, in case the event should not answer their expectations; on the other hand, the greatest conquerors have burnt their ships, or broke down the bridges behind them, as being determined either to succeed or die in the engagement. In the same manner I should very much suspect a woman who takes such precautions for her retreat, and con trives methods how she may live happily, without the affection of one to whom she joins herself for life. Separate purses between man and wife are, in my opinion, as unnatural as separate beds. A marriage cannot be happy, where the pleasures, inclinations, and interests of both parties are not the same. There is no greater incitement to love in the mind of man, than the sense of a person's depending upon him for her ease and happiness; as a woman uses all her endeavors to please the person whom she looks upon as her honor, her comfort, and her support.

For this reason, I am not very much surprised at the behavior of a rough country 'squire, who, being not a little shocked at the proceeding of a young widow that would not recede from her demands of pin-money, was so enraged at her mercenary temper, that he told her in great wrath, "As much as she thought him her slave, he would show all the world he did not care a pin for her." Upon which he flew out of the room, and never saw her more.

Socrates in Plato's Alcibiades, says he was informed by one who had traveled through Persia, that as he passed over a great tract of land, and inquired what the name of the place was, they told him it was the Queen's Girdle: to which he adds, that another wide field which lay by it, was called the Queen's Vail; and that in the same manner there was a large portion of ground se aside for every part of her majesty's dress. Thest. lands might not be improperly called the Queer of Persia's pin-money.

I remember my friend Sir Roger, who, I dare say, never read this passage in Plato, told me some time since, that upon his courting the perverse widow (of whom I have given an account ir former papers) he had disposed of a hundred acres in a diamond ring, which he would have presented her with, had she thought fit to accept it; and that upon her wedding day, she should have carried on her head fifty of the tallest oaks upon his estate. He further informed me, that he would have given her a coal-pit to keep her in clean linen, that he would have allowed her the profits of a windmill for her fans, and have presented her once in three years with the shearing of his sheep for her under-petticoats. To which the knight always adds, that though he did not care for fine clothes himself, there should not have been a woman in the country better dressed than my Lady Coverley. Sir Roger, perhaps, may in this, as well as in many other of his devices, appear somewhat odd and singular; but if the humor of pin-money prevails, I think it would be very

proper for every gentleman of an estate to mark out so many acres of it under the title of "The Pins."-L.

No. 296.] FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1711-12.
-Nugis addere pondus.-HOR. 1 Ep. xix, 42.
Add weight to trifles.

"DEAR SPEC.,

expect: but, without any provocation that I know
of, she has of late shunned me with the utmost
abhorrence, insomuch that she went out of church
last Sunday, in the midst of divine service, upon
my coming into the same pew. Pray, Sir, what
must I do in this business?
"Your Servant,

Let her alone ten days.

"MR. SPECTATOR,

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"York, Jan. 20, 1711-12.

"HAVING lately conversed much with the fair sex on the subject of your speculations (which, since their appearance in public, have been the chief exercise of the female loquacious faculty), I "We have in this town a sort of people who found the fair ones possessed with a dissatisfac- pretend to wit, and write lampoons; I have lately tion at your prefixing Greek mottoes to the frontis-been the subject of one of them. The scribbler pieces of your late papers; and as a man of gal- had not genius enough in verse to turn my age, as fantry, I thought it a duty incumbent on me to indeed I am an old maid, into raillery, for affect impart it to you in hopes of a reformation, which ing a youthier turn than is consistent with my is only to be effected by a restoration of the Latin time of day; and therefore he makes the title of to the usual dignity in your papers, which of late his madrigal, the character of Mrs. Judith Love the Greek, to the great displeasure of your female bane, born in the year 1680. What I desire of you readers, has usurped; for though the Latin has the is, that you disallow that a coxcomb, who prerecommendation of being as unintelligible to tends to write verse, should put the most malithem as the Greek, yet being written in the same cious thing he can say in prose. This I humbly character with their mother tongue, by the assist-conceive will disable our country wits, who, inance of a spelling-book it is legible; which qua- deed, take a great deal of pains to say anything lity the Greek wants: and since the introduction in rhyme, though they say it very ill.

of operas into this nation, the ladies are SO charmed with sounds abstracted from their ideas, that they adore and honor the sound of Latin,' as it is old Italian. I am a solicitor for the fair sex, and therefore think myself in that character more likely to be prevalent in this request, than if I should subscribe myself by my proper name.

"J. M."

"I desire you may insert this in one of your speculations, to show my zeal for removing the dissatisfaction of the fair sex, and restoring you to their favor."

"SIR,

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"I am, Sir, your humble Servant,
"SUSANNA LOVEBANE."

MR. SPECTATOR,

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We are several of us, gentlemen and ladies, who board in the same house, and after dinner one of our company (an agreeable man enough otherwise) stands up and reads your paper to us all. We are the civilest people in the world to one another, and therefore I am forced to this way of desiring our reader when he is doing this office, not to stand afore the fire. This will be a general good to our family this cold weather. He will, I know, take it to be our common request when he comes to these words, Pray, Sir, sit down;' which I desire you to insert, and you will particularly oblige,

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Sir,

"Your daily Reader,

"CHARITY FROST."

"I am a great lover of dancing, but cannot perform so well as some others; however, by my out-of-the-way capers, and some original grimaces, I do not fail to divert the company, particularly the ladies, who laugh immoderately all the time. Some, who pretend to be my friends, tell me they do it in derision, and would advise me to leave it off, withal that I make myself ridiculous. I do not know what to do in this affair, but I am resolved not to give over upon any account, until I have the opinion of the Spectator. Your humble Servant, "JOHN TROTT."

"I was some time since in company with a young officer, who entertained us with the conquest he had made over a female neighbor of his : when a gentleman who stood by, as I suppose, envying the captain's good fortune, asked him what reason he had to believe the lady admired him? Why,' says he, 'my lodgings are opposite to hers, and she is continually at her window either at work, reading, taking snuff, or putting herself in some toying posture, on purpose to draw my eves that way.' The confession of this vain soldier made me reflect on some of my own actions: for you must know, Sir, I am often at a window which fronts the apartments of several gentlemen, who I doubt not have the same opinion of me. I must own I love to look at them all, one for being well dressed, a second for his fine eye, and one particular one, because he is the least man I ever saw; but there is something so easy and pleasant in the manner of my little man, that I observe he is a favorite of all his acquaintance. I could go "If Mr. Trott is not awkward out of time, he has on to tell you of many others, that I believe think a right to dance let who will laugh; but if he has I have encouraged them from my window: but pray let me have your opinion of the use of a window, in the apartment of a beautiful lady; and how often she may look out at the same man, without being supposed to have a mind to jump out to him.

"Yours,

66 AURELIA CARELESS."
Twice.

"MR. SPECTATOR,
"I have for some time made love to a lady, who
received it with all the kind returns I ought to

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