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of our paper, finds more faults than were made in the Prologue to our undertaking, and invents an extraordinary fine latin word for WHIG and TORY; we could do no lefs in respect to the uncommon ingenuity of his performance, than present him with a touch of our own poetry in gratitude to his monitory quotation out of Ho

Reat are the glories we by vict'ry gain,

Where equal force can vig'rous war maintain,
But that's a base and an inglorious blow,
That wounds the breaft of a defenceless foe.

Were but thy wit impenetrable steel,
In one part OPEN like ACHILLES heel;
We'd then, with gen'rous anger war declare,
And aim our pointed darts to hit theċ there :
But now, our triumphs would produce our shame,

And the mean conquest fcandalize our fame.
Yet Oh!We wish thee fit for self-defence,
We then, for combat might have some pretence,
But scorn to meet a foe, not arm'd with COMMON

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Q. APOLLO's fons, I love a charming creature, who, what she wants in money, makes up in feature, She fings like an Angel, which makes me for to love her, And think none that walks on two legs above her i My mother says, Cupid has my heart betray'do;

" And won't have me to marry a cook-maid:

A prentice to a tallow-chandler I am bound,
Who can give his daughter near two hundred pound,
Now fay which road you would have me to go,
And whether I Mall marry the cook-maid or no ?

A. Most witty Sir, Apollo bids you marry,..
For one who writes so fine, can ne'er miscarry.
Your.cook-maid's voice, and your fine verse together,
Will calm the fea in farmoy, weather,
Your talk will prove solwendrous witty,
You'll pray in rhimes and scold, in ditty.
You're joyn'd by sympathy to one another,
Match then and never mind your mother.

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To hate her for her place, wou'd be the Devil, 1
And men of your profession are more civil;
Her kitchen-stuff hould make you love her rather,',, 1
For grease. and grease you know mould lye together,

To the BRITISH APOLLO.
Q. Tell me, Apollo's fons, for sure you know,
Whence 'tis the strange effects of paffion flow?
How in the midst of pain I pleasures find,
And feed on airy hopes my tortur’d mind?
How to swift ruiz brainfick mortals flies
Nor pun their lang 'rous fate, tho' Loth to die ?
Aurelia's charms my unskill'd heart betray'd,
Too foon, alas ! I lov'd the scoreful maid,
And now, oh heav'ns ! I must your aid implore,
To teach a wretched Swain to love no more., .

I humbly beg your speedy advice to the dif-
consolate

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To the 'ingenious Strephon.
A. In vain you ask the cause of love's bright fire,
Yet own the Nymph has charms which might inspire,
And fill the coldest breast with warm defire.
All feel the passion, none for certain know
The spring from whence those mighty mischiefs flow,
What joys in expectation feed the mind,
To make fond lovers case in torments find?
What does for anxious days and nights atone, :),
When abfence, or despairing love they moan?
What 'tis they court with such ungovern’d zeal,
As makes 'em arm against their peace, the will?
If reafon might advise, disdain the maid
Who so much love and honour has betray’d;
You must amuse your self, and change the Icene,
Reflect how wretched such a life had been ci
Man was to nobler purposes design'd,
Born to subdue bis pallions, raise his mind,;.
To feast his soul with intellectual food,
And to distinguisha false from real goods

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Not thus ingloriously to waste bis fame,
In idle sonnets on Aurelia's name.
Love Thou'd be us'd as other pleasures arc,
To ease, and to relieve the mind from care.
As courtly Gallus free from toils of state,
Seeks in his rural fhades a foft retreat,
There with his friends and miftriss fiares his hours,
In pleasing grotto's and refreshing bowers

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But if she frowns, back to the court he fies,
And scorns to pine for what her pride deniess
That is, dear youth, to love and to be wise.

On Fear... Ambas
Ear not, Hortensia, give a loose to love,

Let my warm vows those icy thoughts remove ;
Fear is a slavish paffion of the foul,
Which like a tyrant would our bliss controal,
On idle themes it does the mind employ,
And triumphs, when it damps a rising joy.
Then banish servile fear, {tis love alone
Must gild our hours, and make 'em sweetly run:
The smiling God than trý a thoufamd Irains,
To drive that fickly image from your veins,
In pleasing founds he shall my truth disclose,
Reveal the charms from whence my paffion rose,
Then Thew, that love like mine can ne'er expirc,
When beauty, wit

, and merit all confpire,
To give a lafting force to every gay defire.
Each tender'accent shall fome joy repeat, '?
And if Hortensia (mile, I fear no shock from fate.

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To a young Lady, who affected much Satyr in her con

verfation.
Rithee, mistaken maid, forbear thy jest,

No húsband in a witey wife is blett;
And thou, who wouldft thy merits thus proclaim,
To raise thy character, 'fhalt damn thy fáme,
And mourn for former praise, in clouds of present
Shamę. ?

Thus

Thus for a while sharp fine edg'd razors please,
But lofe their brittle value by degrees,
Till blunt, or broken, by too frequent use,
Each vulgar band perceives the gross abuse.
Then, cheaply throw aside, thy gather duft,
Like thee, neglected: MAID, till eat away by rust.

Q. I am no sharper, nor have I any inclination to be one; yet for my own fatisfaction, I would gladly be able to align the proportion of the odds that may happen in games depending on chance. To be particular, a friend of mine and I often play at picquet, we have an equal skill at it; be that gets the two first fet's wins the fake. Nos my friend, when he happens to get the firft fet, lays me two zo one that he is up before me: but I am a little diffident of my felf; I have some fmattering of numbers, and can do as far as the Rule of Three, yet can't

see how to apply my avisbmetick to the folution of this case; therefore you will oblige me in: determining whether the odds of two to me is juft, and if not, what it is, and the reason, if not too intricate.

4. Your friend is certainly in the right, if playing with advantage is to be in the right; the true propor, tion is three to one, which to demonstrate: he sup: pofes, asta pripciple naturally known, that if I have an equal chance to get 10 h. or 61, my expectation is worth 8.1. that is half the sum of 10 and 6, and so in any other case. To apply this, fuppose the whole ftake between you and your friend to be

4 crown pieces;. when he has got the first fer, then he has an equal chance for the 4, or for 2, ( for if he loses the next set, then you are both upon an equal foot) therefore his expectation is worth 3 crown pieces, and if you would give him fome confideration for the advantage of getting the firft set, and leave off playing, upon mutual agreement, you must give him 3 out of 4, and take but í for your self, but if you play on, then let him lay down again the 3 he has taken up and lay down i your felf, which will bring it exactly. to the odds of 3 to 1.

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Q. 'Tis common for those who write of the long lives of the Patriarchs, to make this ono principal reason of that difpenfation, viz. that the word of God was not yet configned to writing-And again, they who inform us why the word of God was no sooner written, say, that the long lives of the Patriarchs rendred it unnecessary.. That they jhould be occasions of one another, is ridiculous and absurd, and get many instances there are of each?

A. That two things should be reciprocally the oce cafions of one another is undoubtedly a very great absurdity, for that were to make the same thing both cáufe and effect, which is impossible, and to argue in à circle. But there are several arguments which seem circular, and yet are not really fo; the addition of a circumstance, tho' not observable at first view, may entirely alter the nature of the position, as the change of a quality in naturals may conftitute a new species, To apply this to the present case; to say that the word of God was no sooner committed to writing, because the longævity of the Patriarchs made it unnecessary, is, strictly speaking, to suppose fome foreign cause of that longævity, but if when locally ro duc'd to a close way of arguing, the asserters of this opinion say, that God's word was no sooner written, because God design’d the longævity; of the Patriarchs to supply that defect, we cannot but allow, that the Jongævity of the Patriarchs is fpecifically distinct from the determination of that longævity to a certain end; for tho?.longævity be converfant in both, yet in onç it is the object, in the other the subject. And thus, Sir, we hope we have squar'd the circle.

2. Gentlemen, having oblig'd' the world with an ace count of inconstancy, I desire you will tell us how we may distinguish between a real pasion and a feign'd one ? and it will oblige Oliva.

A. Madam, the society will with all chearfulness attempt your satisfaction, if you have the courage to Itand the shock of it ; for it is with all the regret i

:imaginable when we advise a Lady to part with any thing so dear to her as vanity and affectation ; but 'tis

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