from the Slaughter-houfe over Night against a Market-Day, and once buried a Bit of Beef in the Ground, as a known Receipt to cure Warts on her Hands. The Parfon affirms, That the Third fells Gingerbread, which, to please the Children, he is forc'd to ftamp with Images before 'tis bak'd; and if it burns their Guts, 'tis because they eat too much, or do not drink after it.

Thefe are the Anfwers he gives to folve these wonderful Phænomena; upon which I shall not animadvert, but leave it among Philofophers: And So wishing you all Success in your Undertakings for the Amendment of the World, I remain,

Dear Coufin,

Your most Affectionate Kinsman,

and Humble Servant,

Ephraim Bedfaft,

P. S. Those who were condemn'd to Death among the Athenians, were obliged to take a Dofe of Poison, which made them die upwards, feizing first upon their Feet, making them cold and infenfible, and so ascending gradually, till it reach'd the Vital Parts. believe your Death, which you foretold would happen on the 17th Inftant, will fall out the fame Way, and that your Distemper hath already feiz'd on you, and makes Progress daily. The lower Part of you, that is, the Advertifements, is dead; and thefe have risen for these Ten Days laft paft, fo that they now take up almost a whole Paragraph. Pray, Sir,

do

do your Endeavour to drive this Diftemper as much as poffible to the extreme Parts, and keep it there, as wife Folks do the Gout; for if it once gets into your Stomach, it will foon fly up into your Head, and you are a dead Man. St. James's Coffee-house, May 27.

Our laft Advices from the Hague, dated June the 4th, N. S. fay, That they expected a Courier from the French Court with the Ratification of the Preliminaries that Night or the Day following. His Grace the Duke of Marlborough will fet out for Bruffels on Wednesday or Thursday next, if the Dispatches which are expected from Paris don't alter his Refolutions. Letters from Majorca confirm the Honourable Capitulation of the Castle of Alicant, and alfo the Death of the Governor Major-General Richards, Colonel Sibourg, and Major Vignolles, who were all buried in the Ruins of that Place by the fpringing of their great Mine, which did, it feems, more Execution than was reported. Monfieur Torcy pafs'd through Mons in his Return, and had there a long Conference with the Elector of Bavaria after which, that Prince spoke publickly of the Treatment he had receiv'd from France with the utmost Indignation.

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Any Perfon that shall come publickly Abroad in a fantastical Habit, contrary to the prefent Mode and Fashion, except Don Diego Defmallo, or any other out of Poverty, shall have his Name and Drefs inferted in our next.

N. B. Mr. How'd'call is defired to leave off thofe Buttons. The

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White's Chocolate-house, May 28.

Came hither this Evening to fee Fashions, and who should I first encounter but my old Friend Cynthio (encompass'd by a Crowd of young Fellows) dictating on the Paffion of Love with the gayeft Air imaginable. Well, fays he, As to what I know of the • Matter, there is nothing but Ogling with Skill ⚫ carries a Woman; but indeed it is not every "Fool that is capable of this Art: You will find Twenty can speak eloquently, Fifty can fight manfully, and a Thousand that can dress genteely at a Mistress, where there is one that can gaze skilfully. This requires an exquifite Judgment, to take the Language of her Eyes to yours exactly, and not let yours talk too 'faft for hers; as at a Play between the Acts, ' when Beau Frisk stands upon a Bench full in • Lindamira's Face, and her dear Eyes are searching round to avoid that flaring open Fool; 'fhe meets the watchful Glance of her true Lover, and fees his Heart attentive on her Charms, and waiting for a fecond Twincle of 'her Eye for its next Motion. Here the good Company fneer'd; but he goes on. Nor is this Attendance a Slavery, when a Man meets • Encourage

Encouragement, and her Eye comes often in his Way For, after an Evening so spent, and the Repetition of four or five fignificant Looks at him, the happy Man goes Home to 'his Lodging, full of Ten Thousand pleasing Images: His Brain is dilated, and gives him ' all the Idea's and Profpects which it ever lets in to its Seat of Pleasure. Thus a kind Look ' from Lindamira revives in his Imagination all 'the Beauteous Launs, Green Fields, Woods,

Forrests, Rivers and Solitudes, which he had ⚫ ever before seen in Picture, Description, or 'Real Life: And all with this Addition, that ' he now fees 'em with the Eyes of an happy 'Lover, as before only with those of a com'mon Man. You laugh, Gentlemen: But con'fider your felves, (you common People that were never in Love) and compare your 'felves in good Humour with your felves out ' of Humour, and you will then acknowledge, ' that all External Objects affect you according to the Difpofition you are in to receive their Impreffions, and not as those Objects are in "their own Nature. How much more shall all 'that paffes within his View and Observation, touch with Delight a Man who is prepoffefs'd 'with fuccessful Love, which is an Affemblage of foft Affections, gay Defires, and hopeful Refolutions ?

Poor Cynthio went on at this Rate to the Crowd about him, without any Purpose in his Talk, but to vent an Heart overflowing with Sense of Succefs. I wondered what

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could exalt him from the Distress in which he had long appear'd, to fo much Alacrity. But my Familiar has given me the State of his Affairs. It feems then, that lately coming out of the Play-houfe, his Mistress, who knows he is in her Livery, as the Manner of infolent Beauties, is refolv'd to keep him still fo, and gave him fo much Wages, as to complain to Him of the Crowd the was to pass through. He had his Wits and Refolution enough about him to take her Hand, and fay, He would attend her to her Coach. All the Way thither, my good young Man ftammer'd at every Word, and ftumbled at every Step. His Mistress, wonderfully pleafed with her Triumph, put him to a Thousand Questions, to make a Man of his natural Wit speak with Hefitation, and let drop her Fan, to see him recover it aukwardly. This is the whole Foundation of Cynthio's Recovery to the sprightly Air he appears with at present.

I grew mighty curious to know fomething more of that Lady's Affairs, as being amaz'd how he could dally with an Offer of one of his Merit and Fortune. I fent Pacolet to her Lodgings, who immediately brought me back the following Letter to her Friend and Confident Amanda in the Country, wherein the has open'd her Heart and all its Folds.

Dear Amanda,

THE HE Town grows fo empty, that you must expect my Letter fo too, except you will allow me to talk of my self instead of others: You can

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