C. sounds, and whether the melody of those sounds | Lesbia a thousand years ago. But as far as I can be more or less pleasing.learn, the patron of the club is the renowned Don Complete sets of this paper for the month Quixote. The adventures of that gentle knight of March, are sold by Mr. Greaves, in St. James's- are frequently mentioned in the society, under the street; Mr. Lillie, perfumer, the corner of Beaufort-color of laughing at the passion and themselves: buildings; Messrs. Sanger, Knapton, Round, and Mrs. Baldwin.-Spect. in folio. ONE common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular. The passion of love is the most general concern among men; and I am glad to hear by my last advices from Oxford, that there are a set of sighers in that university, who have erected themselves into a society in honor of that tender passion. These gentlemen are of that sort of inamoratos, who are not so very much lost to common sense, but that they understand the folly they are guilty of; and for that reason separate themselves from all other company, because they will enjoy the pleasure of talking incoherently, without being ridiculous to any but each other. When a man comes into the club, he is not obliged to make any introduction to his discourse, but at once, as he is seating himself in his chair, speaks in the thread of his own thoughts: "She gave me a very obliging glance, she never looked so well in her life as this evening;" or the like reflection, without regard to any other member of the society; for in this assembly they do not meet to talk to each other, but every man claims the full liberty of talking to himself. Instead of snuff-boxes and canes, which are the usual helps to discourse with other young fellows, these have each some piece of ribbon, a broken fan, or an old girdle, which they play with while they talk of the fair person remembered by each respective token. According to the representation of the matter from my letters, the company appear like so many players rehearsing behind the scenes; one is sighing and lamenting his destiny in beseeching terms, another declaim ing he will break his chain, and another, in dumbshow, striving to express his passion by his gesture. It is very ordinary in the assembly for one of a sudden to rise and make a discourse concerning his passion in general, and describe the temper of his mind in such a manner, as that the whole company shall join in the description, and feel the force of it. In this case, if any man has declared the violence of his flame in more pathetic terms, he is made president for that night, out of respect to his superior passion. : We had some years ago in this town, a set of people who met and dressed like lovers, and were distinguished by the name of the Fringe-glove club; but they were persons of such moderate in tellects, even before they were impaired by their passion, that their irregularities could not furnish sufficient variety of folly to afford daily new impertinences by which means that institution dropped. These fellows could express their sion by nothing but their dress, but the Oxonians are fantastical now they are lovers, in proportion to their learning and understanding before they became such. The thoughts of the ancient poets on this agreeable frenzy are translated in honor of some modern beauty; and Chloris is won to-day by the same cumpliment that was made to pas but at the same time, though they are sensible of the extravagances of that unhappy warrior, they do not observe, that to turn all the reading of the best and wisest writings into rhapsodies of love, is a frenzy no less diverting than that of the aforesaid accomplished Spaniard. A gentleman, who, I hope, will continue his correspondence, is lately admitted into the fraternity, and sent me the following letter: "SIR, "Since I find you take notice of clubs, I beg leave to give you an account of one in Oxford, which you have nowhere mentioned, and perhaps never heard of. We distinguish ourselves by the title of the Amorous Club, are all votaries of Cupid, and admirers of the fair sex. The reason that we are so little known in the world, is the secrecy which we are obliged to live under in the university. Our constitution runs counter to that of the place wherein we live: for in love there are no doctors, and we all profess so high a passion, that we admit of no graduates in it. Our presidentship is bestowed according to the dignity of passion; our number is unlimited; and our statutes are like those of the Druids, recorded in our own breasts only, and explained by the majority of the conpany. A mistress, and a poem in her praise, will introduce any candidate. Without the latter no one can be admitted; for he that is not in love enough to rhyme, is unqualified for our society. To speak disrespectfully of a woman is expulsion from our gentle society. As we are at present all of us gownsmen, instead of dueling when we are rivals, we drink together the health of our mistress. The manner of doing this, sometimes indeed creates debates; on such occasions we have recourse to the rules of love among the ancients. Nævia sex cyathis, septem Justina bibatur. MART., Epig. i, 72. name. Six cups to Nævia, to Justina seven. This method of a glass to every letter of her occasioned the other night a dispute of some warmth. A young student who is in love with Mrs. Elizabeth Dimple, was so unreasonable as to which so exasperated the club, that by common begin her health under the name of Elizabethea ; consent we retrenched it to Betty. We look upon a man as no company that does not sigh five tiines in a quarter of an hour; and look upon a member as very absurd, that is so much himself as to make a direct answer to a question. In fine, the whole assembly is made up of absent men - that is, of such persons as have lost their locality, and whose minds and bodies never keep company with one another. As I am an unfortunate member of this lar account of it; for which reason I hope you will distracted society, you cannot expect a very regupardon me that I so abruptly subscribe myself, "Sir, your most obedient humble servant, "T. 3. "I forgot to tell you, that Albina, who has six votaries in this club, is one of your readers."- R, No. 31.] THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1711. Sit mihi fas audita loqui- VIRG., Æn. vi, 266 LAST night, upon my going into a coffee-house not far from the Haymarket Theater, I divened urged, that a puppet-show was not a suitable entertainment for Alexander the Great; and that it might be introduced more properly, if we suppose the conqueror touched upon that part of India which is said to be inhabited by the pigmies. But this objection was looked upon as frivolous, and the proposal immediately overruled. Our projector farther added, that after the reconcilia tion of these two kings, they might invite one another to dinner, and either of them entertain his guest with the German artist, Mr. Pinkethman's heathen gods, or any of the like diversions which shall then chance to be in vogue. myself for above half-an-hour with overhearing version of two monarchs Some at the table the discourse of one, who, by the shabbiness of his dress, the extravagance of his conceptions, and the hurry of his speech, I discovered to be of that species who are generally distinguished by the title of projectors. This gentleman, for I found he was treated as such by his audience, was enter- | taining a whole table of listeners with the project of an opera, which he told us had not cost him above two or three mornings in the contrivance, and which he was ready to put in execution provided he might find his account in it. He said, that he had observed the great trouble and inconvenience which ladies were at, in traveling up and down the several shows that are exhibited in different quarters of the town. The dancing monkeys are in one place; the puppet-show in another; the opera in a third; not to mention the lions, that are almost a whole day's journey from the politer part of the town. By this means people of figure are forced to lose half the winter after their coming to town, before they have seen all the strange sights about it. In order to remedy this great inconvenience, our projector drew out of his pocket the scheme of an opera, entitled, The Expedition of Alexander the Great; in which he had disposed all the remarkable shows about town among the scenes and decorations of his piece, the thought, he confessed, was not originally his own, but that he had taken the hint of it from several performances which he had seen upon our stage; in one of which there was a raree-show; in another a ladder-dance; and in others a posture-man, a moving picture, with many curiosities of the like nature. This project was received with very great ap plause by the whole table. Upon which the undertaker told us, that he had not yet communicated to us above half his design; for that Alexander being a Greek, it was his intention that the whole opera should be acted in that language, which was a tongue he was sure would wonderfully please the ladies, especially when it was a little raised and rounded by the lonic dialect; and could not but be acceptable to the whole audience, because there are fewer of them who understand Greek than Italian. The only difficulty that remained, was how to get performers, unless we could persuade some gentlemen of the universities to learn to sing, in order to qualify themselves for the stage; but this objection soon vanished when the projector informed us that the Greeks were at present the only musicians in the Turkish empire, and that it would be very easy for our factory at Smyrna to furnish us every year with a colony of musicians, by the opportunity of the Turkey fleet; beside, says he, if we want any single voice for any lower part in the opera, Lawrence can learn to speak Greek, as well as he does Italian, in a fortnight's time. This expedition of Alexander opens with his consulting the oracle of Delphos, in which the dumb conjurer who has been visited by so many persons of quality of late years, is to be introduced as telling his fortune. At the same time The projector having thus settled matters to the Clinch of Barnet is represented in another corner good-liking of all that heard him, he left his seat of the temple, as ringing the bells of Delphos, for at the table, and planted himself before the fire, joy of his arrival. The tent of Darius is to be where I had unluckily taken my stand for the conpeopled by the ingenious Mrs. Salmon, where venience of overhearing what he said. Whether Alexander is to fall in love with a piece of wax- he had observed me to be more attentive than ordiwork, that represents the beautiful Statira. When nary, I cannot tell, but he had not stood by me Alexander comes into that country, in which above a quarter of a minute, but he turned short Quintus Curtius tells us the dogs were so exceed-upon me on a sudden, and catching me by a buting fierce that they would not lose their hold, ton of my coat, attacked me very abruptly after though they were cut to pieces limb by limb, and the following manner. that they would hang upon their prey by their teeth "Beside, Sir, I have heard of a very extraordi when they had nothing but a mouth left, there is nary genius for music that lives in Switzerland, to be a scene of Hockley in the Hole, in which is who has so strong a spring in his fingers, that he to be represented all the diversions of that place, can make the board of an organ sound like a the bull-baiting only excepted, which cannot drum, and if I could but procure a subscription possibly be exhibited in the theater, by reason of of about ten thousand pounds every winter I the lowness of the roof. The several woods in would undertake to fetch him over, and oblige Asia, which Alexander must be supposed to pass him by articles to set everything that should be through, will give the audience a sight of mon- sung upon the English stage.' After this he keys dancing upon ropes, with many other plea- looked full in my face, expecting I would make santries of that ludicrous species. At the same an answer, when, by good luck, a gentleman that time, if there chance to be any strange animals in had entered the coffee-house since the projector town, whether birds or beasts, they may be either applied himself to me, hearing him talk of his let loose among the woods, or driven across the Swiss compositions, cried out in a kind of laugh, stage by some of the country people of Asia In Is our music then to receive farther improvethe last great battle, Pinkethiman is to personate ments from Switzerland?" This alarmed the proKing Porus upon an elephant, and is to be encounjector, who immediately let go my button, and tered by Powell, representing Alexander the Great, turned about to answer him. I took the opportu upon a dromedary, which nevertheless Mr. Powell nity of diversion which seemed to be made in is desired to call by the name of Bucephalus. favor of me, and laying down my penny upon the Upon the close of this great decisive battle, when bar, retired with some precipitation.—C. the two kings are thoroughly reconciled, to show the mutual friendship and good correspondence that reigns between them, they both of them go together to a puppet-show, in which the ingenious Mr. Powell, junior, may have an opportunity of displaying his whole art of machinery, for the di No. 32.] FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1711. Nil illi larva aut tragicis opus esse cothurnis. He wants no tragic vizor to increase siness and misery of human life, especially among those of distinction, arises from nothing in the world else, but too severe a contemplation of an indefeasible contexture of our external parts, or certain natural and invincible dispositions to be fat THE late discourse concerning the statutes of or lean?-when a little more of Mr. Spectator's the Ugly Club, having been so well received at philosophy would take off all this. In the meanOxford, that, contrary to the strict rules of the time let them observe, that there is not one of their society, they have been so partial as to take my sort, but perhaps, in some age of the world, has own testimonial, and admit me into that select been highly in vogue, and may be so again; nay, body; I could not restrain my vanity of publish- in some country or another, ten to one, is so at ing to the world the honor which is done me. It this day. My Lady Ample is the most miserable woman in the world, purely of her own making. is no small satisfaction that I have given occasion for the President's showing both his invention She even grudges herself meat and drink for fear she should thrive by them; and is constantly and reading to such advantage as my correspondent reports he did: but it is not to be doubted crying out, In a quarter of a year more I shall be there were many very proper hums and pauses in quite out of all manner of shape! Now the lady's his harangue, which lose their ugliness in the misfortune seems to be only this, that she is narration, and which my correspondent (begging planted in a wrong soil; for go but to the other his pardon) has no very good talent at represent-side of the water, it is a jest at Haerlem to talk of ing. I very much approve of the contempt the a shape under eighteen stone. sion. "MR. SPECTATOR, These wise traders society has of beauty. Nothing ought to be laud-regulate their beauties as they do their butter, by able in a man, in which his will is not concerned; the pound; and Miss Cross, when she first arrived therefore our society can follow nature, and where in the Low Countries, was not computed to be so she has thought fit, as it were, to mock herself, handsome as Madam Van Brisket by near half a ton. On the other hand, there is 'Squire Lath, a we can do so too, and be merry upon the occaproper gentleman of 1,500l. per annum, as well as of unbiamable life and conversation; yet would I not be the esquire for half his estate; for if it was as much more, he would freely part with it all for a pair of legs to his mind. Whereas, in the reign of our first Edward of glorious memory, nothing more modish than a brace of your fine taper sup porters; and his majesty, without an inch of calf, managed affairs in peace or war as laudably as the bravest and most politic of his ancestors; and was as terrible to his neighbors under the royal name of Longshanks, as Coeur de Lion to the If we look farther back into Saracens before him. history, we shall find that Alexander the Great wore his head a little over his left shoulder, and then not a soul stirred out till he had adjusted his neck-bone; the whole nobility addressed the prince and each other obliquely, and all matters of importance were concerted and carried on in the Macedonian court, with their polls on one side. For about the first century nothing made more noise in the world than Roman noses, and then not a word of them till they revived again in eighty-eight * Nor is it so very long since Richard the Third set up half the backs of the nation; and high shoulders, as well as high noses, were the top of the fashion. But to come to ourselves, gentlemen, though I find by my quinquennial observations, that we shall never get ladies enough to make a party in our own country, yet might we meet with better success And what think you among some of our allies. if our board sat for a Dutch piece? Truly I am of opinion, that as odd as we appear in flesh and blood, we should be no such strange things in mezzotinto. But this project may rest till our number is complete; and this being our election night, give me leave to propose Mr. Spectator. You see his inclinations, and perhaps we may Your making public the late trouble I gave you, you will find to have been the occasion of this. Who should I meet at the coffee-house door the other night, but my old friend Mr. President? I saw somewhat had pleased him; and as soon as he had cast his eye upon me, 'Oho, doctor, rare news from London,' says he; the Spectator has made honorable mention of the club (man), and published to the world his sincere desire to be a member, with a recommendatory description of his phiz; and though our constitution has made no particular provision for short faces, yet his being an extraordinary case, I believe we shall find a hole for him to creep in at; for I assure you he is not against the cannon: and if his sides are as compact as his joles, he need not disguise himself to make one of us.' I presently called for the paper to see how you looked in print; and after we had regaled ourselves awhile upon the pleasant image of our proselyte, Mr. President told me I should be his stranger at the next night's club; where we were no sooner come, and pipes brought, but Mr. President began an harangue upon your introduction to my epistle, setting forth with no less volubility of speech than strength of reason, That a speculation of this nature was what had been long and much wanted! and that he doubted not but it would be of inestimable value to the public, in reconciling even of bodies and souls; in composing and quieting the minds of men under all corporeal redundancies, deficiencies, and irregularities whatsoever; and making every one sit down content in his own carcass, though it were not perhaps so mathematically put together as he could wish.' And again, 'How that for want of a due consideration of what you first advance, viz: That our faces are not of our own choosing, people had been transported beyond all good breeding, and hurried themselves into unaccountable and fatal extravagances; as how many impartial looking glasses had been censured and calumniated, nay, and sometimes shivered into ten thousand splinters, only for a fair representation of the truth? How many bead-strings and garters had been made accessory and actually forfeited, only because folks must needs quarrel with their own shadows? And who,' continues he, but is deeply sensible, that one great source of the unea not have his fellow.' that he, for his own part, had always had regard to able one. Lætitia, confident of favor, has studied his own conscience, as well as other people's merit; no arts to please; Daphne, despairing of any incli and that he did not know but that you might be a nation toward her person, has depended only on handsome fellow; for, as for your own certificate, her merit. Lætitia has always something in her it was everybody's business to speak for themselves.' air that is sullen, grave, and disconsolate. Daphne Mr. President immediately retorted, A handsome has a countenance that is cheerful, open, and unfellow! why he is a wit, Sir, and you know the pro- concerned. A young gentleman saw Lætitia this verb and to ease the old gentleman of his scru- winter at a play, and became her captive. His ples cried, "That for matter of merit it was all one, fortune was such, that he wanted very little introyou might wear a mask. This threw him into a duction to speak his sentiments to her father. The pause, and he looked desirous of three days to lover was admitted with the utmost freedom into consider on it; but Mr. President improved the the family, where a constrained behavior, severe thought, and followed him up with an old story, looks, and distant civilities, were the highest faThat wits were privileged to wear what masks vors he could obtain of Lætitia; while Daphne they pleased in all ages; and that a wizard had used him with the good humor, familiarity, and been the constant crown of their labors, which innocence of a sister: insomuch that he would was generally presented them by the hand of often say to her, "Dear Daphne, wert thou but as some satyr, and sometimes by Apollo himself: handsome as Lætitia-" She received such lanfor the truth of which he appealed to the frontis-guage with that ingenuousness and pleasing mirth piece of several books, and particularly to the which is natural to a woman without design. He English Juvenal, to which he referred him; and still sighed in vain for Lætitia, but found certain only added, That such authors were the Larvati relief in the agreeable conversation of Daphne. or Larva donati of the ancients.' This cleared up At length, heartily tired with the haughty imperall, and in the conclusion you were chosen proba- tinence of Lætitia, and charmed with the repeated tioner; and, Mr. President, put round your health instances of good humor he had observed in as such, protesting, That though indeed he talk- Daphne, he one day, told the latter that he had someed of a wizard, he did not believe all the while thing to say to her he hoped she would be pleased you had any more occasion for it than the cat-a-with-"Faith, Daphne," continued he, "I am in mountain; so that all you have to do now is to love with thee, and despise thy sister sincerely." pay your fees, which are here very reasonable, The manner of his declaring himself gave his misif you are not imposed upon; and you may style tress occasion for a very hearty laughter.—" Nay," yourself Informis Societatis Socius: which I am says he, "I knew you would laugh at me, but I desired to acquaint you with; and upon the same will ask your father." He did so; the father reI beg you to accept of the congratulations of, ceived this intelligence with no less joy than sur"Sir your obliged humble servant, prise, and was very glad he had now no care left but for his beauty, which he thought he could carry to market at his leisure. I do not know anything that has pleased me so much for a great while, as this conquest of my friend Daphne's. All her acquaintance congratulate her upon her chance-medley, and laugh at that premeditating murderer her sister. As it is an argument of a light mind, to think the worse of ourselves for the imperfections of our person, it is equally below us to value ourselves upon the advantages of them. The female world seem to be almost incorrigibly gone astray in this particular; for which reason I shall recommend the following extract out of a friend's letter to the professed beauties, who are a people almost as insufferable as the professed wits. "Oxford, March 21. "A.C." No. 33.] SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1711. Fervidus tecum puer, et solutis Mercuriusque.-HOR. 1 Od., xxx, 5. And Mercury, compose thy train.-CREECH. A FRIEND of mine has two daughters, whom I will call Lætitia and Daphne; the former is one of the greatest beauties of the age in which she lives, the latter no way remarkable for any charms in her person. Upon this one circumstance of their outward form, the good and ill of their life seems to turn. Lætitia has not, from her very childhood, heard anything else but commendations of her features and complexion, by which means she is no other than nature made her, a very beautiful outside. The consciousness of her charms has rendered her insupportably vain and insolent toward all who have to do with her. Daphne, who was almost twenty before one civil thing had ever been said to her, found herself obliged to acquire some accomplishments to make up for the want of those attractions which she saw in her sister. Poor Daphne was seldom submitted | to in a debate wherein she was concerned; her discourse had nothing to recommend it but the good sense of it, and she was always under a necessity to have very well considered what she was to say before she uttered it; while Lætitia was listened to with partiality, and approbation sat on the countenances of those she conversed with, before she communicated what she had to say. These causes have produced suitable effects, and Lætitia is as insipid a companion as Daphne is au agree "Monsieur St. Evremond has concluded one of his essays with affirming, that the last sighs of a handsome woman are not so much for the loss of her life, as of her beauty. Perhaps this raillery is pursued too far, yet it is turned upon a very obvious remark, that woman's strongest passion is for her own beauty, and that she values it as her favorite distinction. From hence it is that all arts which pretend to improve or preserve it, meet with so general a reception among the sex. To say nothing of many false helps and contraband wares of beauty which are daily vended in this great mart, there is not a maiden gentlewoman of good family in any county of South Britain, who has not heard of the virtues of May-dew, or is unfurnished with some receipt or other in favor of her complexion; and I have known a physician of learning and sense, after eight years' study in the university, and a course of travels into most countries of Europe, owe the first raising of his fortunes to a cosmetic wash. "This has given me occasion to consider how so universal a disposition in womankind, which springs from a faudable motive-the desire of pleasing-and proceeds upon an opinion not altogether gro indless-that nature may be helped by That pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox. "That no woman is capable of being beautiful, who is not incapable of being false. "And, That what would be odious in a friend is deformity in a mistress. Which when alive did vigor give "I am, Sir, your most humble servant, No. 34.] MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1711. parcit Cognatis maculis similis fera-Juv., Sat. xv, 159. From spotted skins the leopard does refrain.-TATE THE club of which I am a member, is very luck. ily composed of such persons as are engaged in different ways of life, and deputed as it were out of the most conspicuous classes of mankind. By this means I am furnished with the greatest variety of hints and materials, and know everything that passes in the different quarters and divisions not only of this great city, but of the whole kingdom. My readers too have the satisfaction to find that there is no rank or degree among them who have not their representative in this club, and that there is always somebody present who will take care of their respective interests, that nothing may be written or published to the prejudice or infringement of their just rights and privileges. "From these few principles, thus laid down, it will be easy to prove, that the true art of assisting beauty consists in embellishing the whole person by the proper ornaments of virtuous and commendable qualities. By this help alone it is, that those who are the favorite work of nature, or, as Mr. Dryden expresses it, the porcelain clay of human kind, become animated, and are in a capacity I last night sat very late in company with this of exerting their charms; and those who seem to select body of friends, who entertained me with have been neglected by her, like models wrought several remarks which they and others had made in haste, are capable in a great measure of finish-upon these my speculations, as also with the vaing what she has left imperfect. rious success which they had met with among their several ranks and degrees of readers. Will Honeycomb told me in the softest manner he could, that there were some ladies (but for your comfort, says Will, they are not those of the most wit) that were offended at the liberties I had taken with the opera and the puppet-show; that some of them were likewise very much surprised, that I should think such serious points as the dress and equipage of persons of quality proper subjects for raillery. It is, methinks, a low and degrading idea of that sex, which was created to refine the joys and soften the cares of humanity by the most agreeable participation, to consider them merely as objects of sight. This is abridging them of their natural extent of power, to put them upon a level with their pictures at Kneller's. How much nobler is the contemplation of beauty heightened by virtue, and commanding our esteem and love while it draws our observation! How faint and spiritless are the charms of a coquette, when compared with the real loveliness of Sophronia's innocence, piety, good humor, and truth; virtues which add a new softness to her sex, and even beautify her beauty! That agreeableness which must otherwise have appeared no longer in the modest virgin, is now preserved in the tender mother, the prudent friend, and the faithful wife. Colors artfully spread upon canvas may entertain the eye, but not affect the heart; and she who takes no care to add to the natural graces of her person any excellent qualities, may be allowed still to amuse, as a picture, but not to triumph as a beauty. "When Adam is introduced by Milton, describing Eve in Paradise, and relating to the angel the impressions he felt upon seeing her at her first creation, he does not represent her like a Grecian Venus, by her shape or features, but by the luster of her mind which shone in them, and gave them their power of charming: Grace was in all her steps, heav'n in her eye. "Without this irradiating power, the proudest fair one ought to know, whatever her glass may sell her to the contrary, that her most perfect fea tures are uninformed and dead. "I cannot better close this moral than by a short epitaph written by Ben Jonson with a spirit which nothing could inspire but such an object as I have been describing: Underneath this stone doth lie He was going on, when Sir Andrew Freeport took him up short, and told him, that the papers he hinted at, had done great good in the city, and that all their wives and daughters were the better for them; and farther added, that the whole city thought themselves very much obliged to me for declaring my generous intentions to scourge vice and folly as they appear in a multitude, without condescending to be a publisher of particular intrigues and cuckoldoms. "In short," says Sir Andrew, "if you avoid that foolish beaten road of falling upon aldermen and citizens, and employ your pen upon the vanity and luxury of courts, your paper must needs be of general use." Upon this my friend the Templar told Sir Andrew, that he wondered to hear a man of his sense talk after that manner, that the city had always been the province for satire; and that the wits of king Charles' time jested upon nothing else during his whole reign. He then showed, by the examples of Horace, Juvenal, Boileau, and the best writers of every age, that the follies of the stage and court had never been accounted too sacred for ridicule, how great soever the persons might be that patronized them. But after all," says he, "I think your raillery has made too great an excursion, in attacking several persons of the inns of court; and I do not believe you can show me any precedent for your behavior in that par ticular." My good friend Sir Roger de Coverley who had said nothing all this while, began his speech with a pish! and told us, that he wondered to see so many men of sense so very serious upon fooler. ies. Let our good friend," says he, "attack every one that deserves it; I would only advise you |