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Tell me thou mighty potentate,
Thou prince of famid Parnassus fear,
Tb? opinion of a single life?
Or is it beft I take a wife; ?
Indulgens nature made me free,
Bleft with the sweets of liberty ;
Shall 1 a woman's charms adore,
And yield that freedom to her.pow'r ?
Are there in matrimonial chains

Sufficient joys to recompense their pains ?
A. All trųe substantial joys and pleasures wait
(When equal join'd) upon the marriage-state ;
We've then a bosom friend, which doubtless is
The most consummate, sublunary bliss. ,
Thall-wise in paradise this sanction bleft ;
And sure th' omniscient knew our natures beft :
So sacred heav'n it self the knot allows,
The church is termd our blessed Saviour's spouse.

But when unequal age, or tempers join,
Or nuptials fram'd to manage a design,
When blooming virgins are to titles Told,
Or men their daughters prostitute for gold,;
When vicious inclinations tempt to range,
Or-fickle dispositions lead to change ;
Ten thousand miseries the state attend,
Which but with life, (oh dreadful found!) will cad.
Yet this reflects not on the sacred tie,
But all thefe evils on depraved nature lie.

Q. O British Apollo !
Whom men do fe follow,

As being a God very wise ;
If it ben't too much labor,
To counsel a neighbour,
I make bold to ask your

advice.
My trade, Sirs, is learning,
Where I find but small earning,

Norwithstanding the pains that I take,
For I'm damnd, like a fool,
To the noise of a school,
And I fear my brains shortly will break.

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I therefore intend,
My life for to mend,

Though I have but small drink and course diet.
Tell me how I shall be, í
From fo fad a life free, * ; !

And enjoy the most silence and quiet?
A. Our labours cach day,
Might inform thy dull clay,

The industrious alone we aduise ;
Whilst the slothful mean Aaye, 15) le
Who shuns all is brave, u

Is offence to our radiant eyes.
The soldier with toils; , ?
Marches o'er burning foils,

And honour pursues in the chase ;
Whilft his aspect erect,
Our beams does reflect,

And we view our bright form in his face.
But small-beer and ease,
It feems will more please, i

For which thou appear'st to be made ;
Then Aly from our light,
As fitter for night ji:

Or to stretch thee, and loll in a shade.
Q. Long have I strove with earnest pain,

To find a cure for love,
But never could relief obtain,un.

Or e'er my cares femove ;
Tell me, Apollo, by what.pom'r I may it.
Banijh the airy phantom quite Away, ? "

Volumes I've read, but all in vain,

I ne'er can be at ease,
For love with arbitrary reignin

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Boldly usurps my peace.
Sometimes I call in reason to my ajd,
But reason by wild fancy is betray'd. :

I know i'tis much beneath a man
To be a

poman's Baye, 0
But yet fondly

, hug the chain, And all my fenfe deprave.

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Daphne I love, tho' She was coy to thee,
Perhaps, Apollo, she'll prove kind to me ;
If not, alas ! instruct me how to find,
Some Speedy comfort to my troubled mind?
A. Fond mortal! thy presumption's vain,

T' attempt fair Daphn's love;
Which we our selves cou'd never gain,

The brightest God above ;
Tho' drest in ev'ry glory of the skics,
Ador'd by all, but her relentless eyes.

Dread'It not our Aames like fate will light

On thy uncommon road;
Or Aashes from her eyes more bright,

To rival thus a God.
Cease then thy fuit, and think we favours give,
To hear thec thus presume, and let thee live.

Q. I treated fome friends,
All laf summer in town,

In hopes of amends
For what I had done.

They promifes made,
That when they got home,

I should be repaid
For civility shown.

Not a chick have I yet
Receiv'd from these men !

Pray reach me to treat
Such fellows agen?

A. When you treated your friends,
You'd their company in town,

That made you amends
For civilities shown ;

And the treatment they met
With your flat conversation,

E’en made 'em forget
To make retaliation.

Then, since your dull chat
Gave offence to these men,

Treat 'em only with that,

When iavited agen.

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Q Gentlemen, I am a soldier of fortune ; I have been fix years in the army, yet she has not favour'd me with a commiffion; I have vanity enough to think I deferve one ; and I am proffer'd one upon this confederation, if I make my application to a certain Lady, who for thirty guineas will use her interest with my colonel in my beisalf. . Now, tho' I can make friends to raise the money, and have a great itching after a commision, yet I have some dispute with my felf, whether to accept one upon such terms. Firf, Because I think it a diminution to my honour to bear a commision that is purchas'd with money : and secondly, Because I know not what the Lady is to give the colonel in lieu of such a favour, for I know he'll do nothing for nothing; and on the other hand, if I do not make use of the present opportunity, for ought I can see, I may go with out one all the days of my life. Your advice is desir'd, &c. : A. We have seriously read over your cale, and cannot fee why you may not as honourably bear a purchas'd commission, as many others do, of equal courage and doubtless equal merit with your self. As for your fix years service in the army, that does not at all entitle you to a commission; and you may partially suppose your self a man of merit, whilst others may think contrary. The sum of

money mentioned, we presume you give by way of compliment to the Lady for this commission ; which may probably, out of a friendly respect to the Lady, or by way of return for other obligations, be granted by the colonel. As for her giving him any thing in licy of it, we know not what you mean by it: but if you suspect with reason any private male practices between them, you

must take care not to be the author of such. But if you refuse the commission chiefly in respect to its purchase, we conclude you to be more nice than wise.

Q. Whence proceed those spots in mens and womens faces called freckles? And if ye please to tell me the best way to get those spots out without damaging the face, you will oblige your servant, J. G.

A. The matter, from whence those spots or freckles arise, is a thinner portion of the cholerick humour, VOL. I.

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allured outwards by the face of the fun attenuating it. Which attempting an evaporation is fixed to the cuticala, oroutmost skin, which it cannot pafs through. And that this defædation proceeds from choler, or other yellow scums of the blood is plain, since it is chiefly familiar to thofe that have yellow hair. At for prescription in this and other cafes, we refer you to the physicians, that being foreign to our purpofe.

Q. Is there any universal being (under God) without & composition of individuais ?

A. Were there fuch a being, it could not be cals led an universal being, since the logical term, univerfal, is applied to a fpecies, as comprehenfive of its individuals. And, fince the phoenix (that rara avis the terris) is a creature of the poet's making, and not of God's ; We are of opinion, that there is no finite being in the universe, but what consists of individuals : For as neither nature nor revelation affords u's so much as a single instance ; so it feems below the regard of almighty wisdom, to frame fo particular, to folitary a being. And since the very unity of the Godhead is its felf communicated to three subliftences, this perhaps may be a farther bar to the fingularity of a creature.

Q. Worrby Sirs, I beg the favoar of you to resolve the following query : Who has been most serviceable to the world, the prieji who found out the use of guin powder, for the foldier who invented the art of printing?

A. We Mall demonstrate, as briefly as we can, the good and ill effects of these inventions, the more for tisfactorily to anfwer your question. And first, The expeditious manner of publishing large volumes by the art of printing has undoubtedly given vaft encouragement to the ftudy of all forts of learning : fince the extravagant charges of paying scribes for copying manuscripts 'is hereby taken off, and much greater trumbers may be bad for much lefs money, by, which means the books publishid in one country, are spread over another; and knowledge, formerly con. fin’d to ope part of the world, is become yniverfal.

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