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would bend miftress to your will, We think you mad thus to exert your skill; For if she thought you'd live to want before, Your versifying will convince her more; And since that fate's entail'd on poetry, "Twere strange if it should miss a man who writes

like thee. Q. When the fad choice was left the Roman Dames Either to die, or quench a luftful flame: Had not ber virtue shewn it self more nice, By death to've foun'd the hateful fain of vice, Rather than with the monster's luji comply, And lose her honour, than at laf to die, Adding the defprate crime of Suicide, ret left the world in doubt, whether she dy'd, Or för loft virtue, or vain-glorious pride?

4. When bold Tarquinius fought to quench bis flame,
With all his arts he footh'd the Roman Damc:
But the chaît matron, proof against such wiles,
Despis'd alike bis threat'nings and his fmiles,
Till hot with luft, he swore to wound her face,
And Itain with fouleft crimes her spotless game;
Stung with that thought, fhe yielded all her charms,
And left her dying honour in his arms.
Vanquish'd fhe fell, not for vain-glorious pride,
But to preserve her future fame comply'd, ,
And at returning reason for loft virtue dy'd.
Q. Carousing with Lady-day pence,
Sure; Sirs, you're still fuddled,

Your wits are all muddled;
Great Apollo, 'tis time to move hence.
When Apollo now long since took pen,

Sure Apollo was jaded,

Since thus we're charaded,
In telling not how, but when.
If Apollo should chance to recover,

An answer we crave, Sirs,
Which pray let us have, Sirs,

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do answer a lover ? VOL. I.

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Cilia. W. Teen

A. To bark at the moon, is oft done,

But what mortal e'er yet

Hath in history met,
With whelps who have bark'd at the sun.
You ask'd an account of the EVIL,

We both told you from whence,

And when it did commence,
Which all who had sense would think civil;
Yet this with your worship won't pass,

Except we can make plain

Heaven's secrets to your brain, Which none would have ask'd, but an ass.

A dialogue between Celia and her Painter. . Hat blooming beauties in these cheeks are

, Súre you design d'her for the Cyprian queen! Painter. Madam, your charms did my strong fancy

move, From your bright looks I drew the Queen of love. Celia. Why didft thou bide the lightning of her

eyes, Since there the loveliest charm of beauty lies ? Painter.. Ab! Madam, tho' such strokes do more

than please,
Flashes would issue from such eyes as these,
And with the painter the fair picture feize.
To Liberia, who told him, she was not to be gain'd the

common way.
OT gain you! yes, if truest love may dare

To hope for any favour from the fair,
When all Apollo's marks, to grace my suit, appear.
Then, my Liberia, I'll with pleasure show
What I can more than common lovers do.
You Mall each thought indulge, your wishes gain,
Know all the joys of love, but not the pain,
And bliss above your fondest hopes obtain.

S Not that I boait a constancy refin'd, But charms like yours mult fix the wildest mind:

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And tho' this age can no example prove
Of Atrictest honour, or of faithtul love,
1, like the mourning turtle, can be true,
Be ever constant to my vows, and you ;
But tho' with nicest truth you shall be serv'de
I'm not by merit, but your charms preserv'd.

Q. A person who says he is a foreigner, and therefore

very converfant in the English tongue, has •fent us a Latin question, which he leaves us at liberty to propose in English, namely how to compute the first day of the world, and assign the region where it first commenc'd?

A. The few computed their day from sun-fet, agreeably to the first account of them, the evening and the morning were the first day: but since before the creation of the heavenly luminaries we read of the fame revolution of day and night, it follows, that no fooner was light created ( for then the beginning of the first day commenc'd) than there were different hours of the thus computed day, according to the different parts of the indigefted chaos. But to assign the region, where the beginning of the first day took its rise, is a thing impossible, because the earth was then without form, and void, and therefore not correfpondent to this present globe: but to come the nearest to such a computation, is to estimate the fixtb day (when the earth was finifd); since of that also it is said, and the evening and the morning were the - fixth day; and yet here the difficulty will be still as great, if as the fun may be suppos'd to succeed the first-born light, either in the fame part of the same circle, or the correspondent part of another, so we only fay, that the sixth day began in that part of the earth, which then happen'd to have the sun in its diurnal revolution, just below its occidental horizont But if the fun was primarily intended for this little globe, we may at least propose it as a conjecture, that the providence of God might fo order the beginning of the first day, that the sixth day might commence jo paradise, the first habitation of our great progenitor.

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Q. Gentlemen, having several times had very warm arguments and reafoning with divers persons, who maintain there is an unavoidable fate attending all marriages, that is, that the perfons, they do or shall marry, Are inevitably allotted them by providence, which they cannot avoid ; which I look upon to be contrary to fcripture, reason and experience, that scarce ever could convince any of that (I think) brue tish fupidity; I defore your thoughts herein, to be inserted in the British Apollo, which may convince several, and L'ery much oblige your humble servant, S. R.

A. We don't wonder at your ill success in such disputes, since it is more easy to confute than to convince; such is the ignorance of fome, and the obitinacy of others. Tho' we beg leave to tell you, that you cannot confute your antagonifts by experience, since it is impossible to demonstrate to a married man, that he might have chosen another wife any otherwise than by general reason, which makes it coincident with your second topick; we ask the affertors of this irrational fatality, whether when a man makes a fiful choice, that choice be unavoidable? If they answer in the negative, they give up the cause; if in the affirmative, they make God the author of fin. Should any child of theirs be fo disobedient to their commands, as to throw himself away upon a worthless person, we are apt to think that they would retaliate his disobedience with a suitable resentment; and yet to be in the least angry with him, is to difavow their own opinion. We would enquire, whether upon the first notice of his intention they would not endeavour to dissuade him from it: we answer for them, that they would ; and yet to dissuade from an unavoidable action, is sure impertinent. In Judges jii. 6. it is taken notice of in the Israelites as no inconsiderable fault, that they took the daughters of the Canaanites to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their fons: but however, the Scriptures may convince them of fin, here is an hypothelis that will bear them harmless; for why should they be accountable, where inability must excuse ? but as it must be al

lowed, that providence sometimes more than ordinarily interposes, so our freedom, as oppos'd to inevitable neceffity, may be illustrated with the following inAtance. Let us suppose a man upon two proposals, the one a very good one, the other the reverse, out of an unwarranțable humour to cbuse the last. We have reason to believe that God will suffer him to proceed as a punifhment of his folly; but since the suiferance is occafion'd by his own default, we cannot reasonably imagin that God would have prevented him, had he been willing to have made a better choice. And thus the same thing is at once an act of providence in the creator, and yet an act of choice in the creature: in the one it is an act of justice, in the other, of folly.

Q. In a book 'ertituled Wibbin's art of measuring, yous will find this, if a round column be 35 inches, and the length 364 inches, how much does the piece contain in cubic feet? Now the question is thus folved, to double of the logarithm of the diameter, add the logarithm of the length, and to that add in all cases the fixt number, 6. 65732, the sum of all which in this case will be found to be 203. What I defire of Apollo, is to have the conftruan, tion of the first number, 6. 65732?

A. If the square of the diameter is multiplied by 785, and that again into the length of the column, and the product divided by 1728 (number of cubic inches in a cubic foot) you will have the folidity of the column in cubic feet; therefore your fixt number must be the logarithm of 785, divided by 1728.

Q. In what country may I best regain my loji health ?

A. In France, that being a most temperate climate for air, which is a main ingredient for the recovery of health, therefore is advis' to by most skilful phys ficians.

Q. Which beast is most cunning?

Ā. The fox (as we conceive) because this beast, when hunted, makes moft doubles, to throw off the following hounds.