a A. Poor and unhappy bard! in vain you fue; Q. 1 fain would woe a beauty, to obtain 4. Perhaps she lodges on the monument, c. Melinda fwears she loves me,' and if true; A. Say, shou'd this kill her, 'tis but self-defence; Or she (we fear) wou'd foon dispatch you hence, Q. For sure you can ; pray tell me why, A. Nay, thus it is, that to your fighta Q. Thrice learn'd Apollo, whose advice , alas ! Yet don't refuse, This trifling query of my muje. } Ву By beauty's wondrous pomo'r betray'd, Us'd every soft diffembling art my love with coy disdain ; Unmou'd beholds ту anxious care, A: When with her charms you can your follies see, Q. What's love, life, honour, glory, wit and fame, A. From Echo you may all your answers claim. Resolve a doubting fair, In what old folks declare ; Cock's eggs, which, I declare, To eggs laid by a mare. Extremity of age, But what their corns presage. And ne'er your reason shock; May be laid by a cock. A. The fituation of hell, or as it is called, a local bell , may juftly be numbred among the secrets of Pro vidence, which are undiscoverable by man. Qc Dois any 5 ܝܐ a Q. Does the punijhment of hell consist of a real fire, et of only the privation of the light of God? Å. Tho' it should not confitt of a real fire, it will yet be more than a bare privation of the light of God; for a conciousness of fin (however for a season it may be lulld afleep) is naturally and irrespectively a 'very exquisite tormentor : but thó' we cannot be positively affured that the holy Penmen intend any more by the mention they make of fire, than to represent the torments of hell under the most terrible resemblances (when yet they may infinitely exceed the images'made use of) so neither can we say, that their expressions are not literally to be understood, fince our bodies as well as our souls 'will be grievoudly tormented, which may be so ordered by omnipotent difpleasure, as to be always burning, and yet never burnt. Q. Are there greater torments for greater finners, a are all tormented alike A. That our punishment will be proportionable to our lińs, may evidently appear, a's from the rules of equity, and from feveral paffages in Scripture, fo From that particular paffage in Mat. xxiv. 51. he thall cut him afunder, and appoint bím a portion with the hypocrites; where the hypocrites are plainly, suppos'd to be punish'd with more than usual feverity. Q. Which is the greater sin, Jodomy or adultéry; and why are not both punish'd with death A. Of these two very heinous lins the former is the worst , because a guilt of fo unnatural a dýe, agreeable to what we meet with in Rom. i. 27. But as sodomy is punish'd with death, so adultery is very worthy of the same punishment. But we must leave the political part of it to the wisdom of our lawgivers. Q. What is the meaning of that in St. John xxi. 25. and there are also many other things, which Jesus did, the which if they mould be written every one, I suppose that even the world it self çculo not contain the books that should be written ? A. It is a figure čally an hyperbole, which under an 1 an expreflion literally incredible, represents fomething very extraordinary. Q. Pfalm xviii. 10. it is said, icleos evasúrouos * izopodorno ai col, which we render, shall she dead rise and praise thee? how comes iosipa, which fignifies physicians, to be call'd the dead ? 4. The original in Hebrew 7 fignifies the dead, as deriv'd from 17 deficere, to faint; whereas the Septuagint deriv'd it from 197 fanavit, he curd, and the reason which feems to have induc'd them to derive it from that radix, is, because it has the same ra. dical letters, whereas the other radix differs in the final. Q. What is the reason of the Chameleon's changing his colour, and acquiring a red, black, yellow, or that of any cloth on which it is laid? A. Before we trouble our felves about finding the reafon of any frange phænomenon, we should be very well affur'd of its being true ; but we have some reafon to suspect this of being only' a vulgar error, as well as his living upon air only, fince fame modern authors of note deny both alike, and only own, that according as bis body is differently affected by heat or cold, or passion, his natural ash-colour: becomes somewhat reddish or greenish. Some others say, that his colour is alter'd according to the different tines of the day, being in the morning, and towards the evening of a more greenish hue; at noon fomewhat blacker ; in the beginning of the night pale, and whitish at midnight. Whatever it be, we may fuppofc this animal to be so much the more fusceptible of a change of colours, that it is almost nothing but skin and bones, and when opposed to the light of the fan, is very near transparent. Besides, as it has that pecuJiar faculty of confiderably swelling and contracting his whole body, that may also occasion fomer alteration in the colour of his skin, according as it is more or less stretch'd. Q. How must one do to arrive at perfe&tion ? ligion ligion and morality, and you'll bid as, fair for the mark you aim at, as moral wisdom is capable of die rectiog you. Q Condescend, I beseech: you to give me your opinion, whether the violent passion of love, very ill treated does not consequently turn to hatred ? 4. Not consequently, Madam, for it much ofner produces despair ; but we see different effects of that ungovernable passion, according to the different conftitutions of those it seizes, Q: Gentlemen, I am in love with a pretty goung La dy; she has money, and I have none : I desire your opinion what I mall do in the Cafe, and you'll. oblige your bums ble fervant, Corydou. A: Indeed, Mr. Corydon, you would do. well to look out for a wife with a great deal of wit, as well as a great deal of money, for if your brains don't want tock as much as your pocket, Apollo is very much mistaken. Q: Pray which do you count the most honeft employ of these three, viz. a taylor, a lawyer, or a miller ? Ar Fie! fie! join a lawyer with such company; they hold no comparison with each other! We know what you'll say, that the miller's clacks, and the lawe yer's clacks are in perpetual motion, with the like sound and sense; and that, as the first grinds dowa your corn, the other grinds down the ground it grows upon; but then (we hope) the lawyer is in a fair way to break the miller. You may urge too, that the tay, lor and lawyer equally ruin you with their long bills; but then consider, the taylor's bill is full of fuftiannonsense, scrolls, blots, and repetitions of the same things differently plac'd, and by consequence not worthy your understanding; whilft your. lawyer in his. crampi law-terms is as much above your understanding, and therefore preferable: and tho' you know not what you give your money for to either, yet certainly any would give more for a parcel of fine figo nificant words, thun for so many false spele blunders. Tis'true, they both furnish you with suits; but which |