No more thy fate in blubb'ring actions whine,
Nor thus in fruitless folitude repine;
But with a juft indiff'rence hence declare
For captivating nymph, or cruel fair;
And let a nobler Aame thy senses charm,
And glorious themes sublimer thoughts alarmi
Let martial trophies and victorious praife
A spring of secret emulation raise,
Or diligent in search of nature's laws, i
From known effects pursue the difant cause;
Or plough the feas, and seek fome foreign strand,
And thence disclose another New-found-land.
Thus Tall your labours gain immortal fame,
And future annals Thall enroll your name.
Spurn then the ditties of a scornful lover,
More lofty passions, and a foul discover.

Q. Pray tell me why,
In all mankind,

Generally,
Women when bad, the worst we find ?

A. When ivory
The fire does burn,

Generally
To blackest jet you see it TURN.
Q. Hark-ye, you APOLLO, don't you make questions,
and answer "om your self?

A. Not at present, really Sir, but should foon take that method, if other peoples questions were of no more consequence than yours.

An image of Fortune, in a dialogue:
Q. AY, prithee, who art THOU?

A. Fortune they call my name.
Q. Pray tell me how

A female you became ?
A. Me drawn'in female shape you find,
Because I'm fickle as the wind,
Lawless, inconstant like all womenkind.

Q. Tell me, ye greatest wits of this age,
What AMAZEMENT in matrimony doth presage';

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And you will oblige a virgin tender,
who into wedlock may chance to enter,
But, till your answer comes, is afraid to venture?

A. Don't fear, pretty bird, to enter the cage,
If you would know what Amazement doth presage,
But boldly into the marriage-bed venture,
And if you are, as you say, a virgin tender,
You'll

go near to be Amaz'D as soon as you enter. Q. What is the cause of salts and crystals Shooting into such curious shapes, when the liquor is evaporated in which they abfconded before ?

4. The fubtilty or volatility of the faline particles contained in that liquor.

Q: 1 desire 'you will give me your opinion, whether 'tis possible for two people of different sexes to have an entire friendship, without the passion and desire called love?

A. We believe it possible, tho' it certainly requires the most judicious deportment and steadiest judgment in the world; to carry on a friendship with the fair sex, abstracted from love, fince every obliging word and action from such a person has the power to inAame our passions, and raise those desires in us, which reason, on which friendship is founded, generally finds it self too weak to fupprefs.

Q. Apollo's mighty fons of race divine,
Whom all admire, and at whose facred Sorine
Proftrate I come" my troubled mind to ease
From country town, and once delightful peale,
To Albion's walls ; pray folve my query,
My poor affli&ted foul being weary.
A maid of lovely brown I did prefer,
The Queen of love fure ne'er out-did her,
She scorn'd my fuit, and did my love despise,
Which made me fly to town to avoid her eyës;
Stillrestless I remain, pray tell me how
I may relieve my felf from this deep flough.

A. 'Tis much that lovely brown should have no fire
To cherish the desires of such a Squire,
But make him thus forsake his pleasing fair,
And hungry lover like, subfift on air.

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Great is thy pow'r, O love, we all must own,
To make a rhiming lover of a clown;
And force him by disdain to quit his case,
His country sports, and once delicious pease,
To wade in floughs of love up to his knees.
Then to demand divine Apollo's aid,
To clean his dirty boots, or what's as bad,
To give his foul bright thought: rath youth beware!
Such scriblers are beneath Apollo's care.
Thy vanity alone could make thee hope to find,
To such small merit, love and Phoebus kind.

Q. Apollo, pray tell me why absence destroys love in your sex, but increases it in ours? and you'll oblige Mertilla.

A. Dear Mrs. Merrilla, shall Apollo beg leave to tell you that you have not stated your question right, for 'tis our opinion, that absence has the same effect on either sex.

But that it sometimes increases love, at other times destroys it, may rather happen from the circumstances of parting: when the separation is attended with no shocking reflection; when no ill usage or infidelity has been the cause of it, absence certainly increases love, because the remembrance of past pleasure entertains the soul with nothing but the sentiments of an endearing tendernefs.

But if the separation proceeds from want of merit, defect of love or good manners, the mind employs it self in the contemplation of those ideas, which seem most reasonable to restore its tranquillity, and with a very little trouble gets the better of that parfion, which has had the misfortune to be plac'd on an unworthy object.

Q. Your answer is desir'd to the following query: How can this earth be supported by the airy element, according to Pliny's notion ? this, Gentlemen, will oblige those who are promoters of, and have a great veneration for your A. pollo, donc.

A. The ancients thought the earth the center of the world, which diametrically opposes the notion

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of a support; but to ask what supports the earth, is to ask what prevents it from falling into the fun, which is its center of gravity? And to such a query we reply, The projectite motion impres upon it at its firit creation; for as it is of the nature of bodies endued with motion to move always in a strait line, unless otherwise determind; and as it is of their nature also to move towards their center of gravity, so these two different motions of the earth (namely, its projectite and its gravitating motion ) so affect and determine one another, as to produce that elliptical figure which it annually describes about the fun.

Q. Your great ability in answering questions is the occafion of my troubling you with this, namely, why glass, the folid, and sometimes thick, is yet transparent ?

4. The transparency of glass proceeds from its rectilinear pores, which admit the rays of light to pass thro' in ftrait lines.

Q. What is anger, and the allowable meafures of it, agreeable to that text of Scripture, Be ye angry and fin not?

4. As anger is a passion or perturbation of the mind, occafion'd by a real or fancied object of difpleasure, so that memorable text naturally restrains it by these proper measures. We must fo examine into the ground and reason of our resentment, as not to be angry without a cause. We must accurately ob

serve an equitable proportion between the effect and tits efficient, between our anger, and the reason of it ; we must be ever ready to make a separate distinction between the offender and the offence; we must never fuffer that unruly passion to be so predominant as to encroach upon our reason. We must have a juf regard as to the extent of our anger, so also to the duration of it.

Q. Where is David for St. Peter Fays in Acts ii. 34. He is not ascended into the heavens.

A. This relates only to David's body; and where that was in St. Peter's time, you will find at the 29th

Verfe of the fame chapter, compar'd with 1 Kings ii. 10. and Sam. v. 9.

Q. What was the reafon that our Saviour at his criscifixion cried out, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachobani?

A. He us'd that passionate exclamation, to denote
the extremity of his sufferings for guilty man; but
that this was no act of despondency, we may learn
from his expiring words, Father, into thy bands I com-
mend my Spirit.
Q. When youth and beauty charm

My foul into defore,
Tell me, ye Gods, what harm

To quench the quickening fire ?
Or why was beauty fram’d,

If not to be enjoy'd ?
And wby muft men be blam'd,

By Gods themselves decoy'd?
4. When lovely youth and beauty charm,

And reason do's approve,
Phoebus declares it is no harm,

To give a loose to love.
Beauty and youth were fram'd to please,

And give us soft defire,
But then to love like Deities,

Honour muft light the fire.
Q. Right wisty and merry

We send you a query;
Which to know will be no little pleasure,

Why a lover should chule

Out of humour to lose 14 Those joys which he loves without measure,

Nay, perhaps the Lady

( But that's but a may be) As willing as be for his foul is;

Then why he hould pout,

I cannot make out,
Sure then such a lover a fool is.
A. That a Nave should repine

His chaios to resign,
Is a case that Apollo wants light in,
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