which will be a singular instance of the favour conferr don your devoted fervant and admirer.

Q. Why do frogs, roads, Serpents and other more poisonous reptiles, immediately upon being transfer'd to Crete or Ireland, die, norwithstanding all the care and precaution imaginable to the contrary; (the two forecited Islands being the only places, we read of, exempt from those kind of creda' tures) whether we may look upon it as a blessing or curje to those countries, and consequently whether better or worse for the health of the inhabitants?

A. Through the benignity of our largifical effence always inclind to succour the egeftuofity of our votaries conceptions, and to inlighten their offuscated intellects upon the least petitionary fufurration, we will now descend from our innubilous empireum to infufe fome rays of knowledge for solving the problem of our obfequious querist, fo far as is fit to be communicated to the humble spawn of earth ; nor presume at further inquisition, altho' you come at the head of an army of frogs, toads and serpents; fince the meer privation of our rays is sufficient to reduce you and them to your first contemptible principles.

In the first place know that your assertion is not true in all its parts, for your geographers will acquaint you that there is a fort of spider in Crete, called Phae' largium, whose biting is mortal. And as for Ireland, frogs have been carried thither lately by one of that country, which have considerably increasod and multiply'd; her other of the fore-mention'd creatures will live in those places, we leave in suspence, to tempt man's industry to make more exact exp? riments than yet have been try'd ; if after all you

find they will not, reason will direct you to conclude, it js either from want of proper nourishment, or from some particular constitution of air contrary to their natures; but not the least affecting the health of hu.. man kind, therefore not to be look'd upon as a bles, sing or a curse.

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Q. I would beg oze favour, viz. the reason of a sudden distillation of blood from the nose, whether it is an ominOlas pertension or no. Your opinion may fatisfy many, but especially the restless Silvia.

A. Thar fome have met with fatal misfortunes im. mediately after fuch a distillation, is authentick; but that we take to be meerly accidental, since we free quently obferve it without fuch consequences, it be ing a common symptom of the plenty or dyscrafy of the blood.

Q. Pray, why are some men so much more bairy than others; and way bave women (on their heads) so much Bonger hair than men, and yet carmy a face without muflachoes?

A. The difference of men in that respect seems to proceed from the different degrees of heat in their conftitutions; and the length of hair on womens heads we conceive to arise from moiture abounding in that part and nature's dispolition thereof.

Q. Gentlemen, I have a fan, whom I have given a good education, and I want to put him apprentice to forza bandicraft trade, (he has an inclination for any) then prane be so kind as to give me your opinion which of the mechan nicks is the most honourabie.

A. Let hina bend his mind to examine into the nature and circumstances of the several handicrafts, and if he has any thing of a genius, he will certainly bave more inclination to one than another; to which by all means let him apply bimself. As to which is mot honourable, we think all which are honest in reality equally honourable, cho' in vulgar opinions some may carry a fairer shew.

Q. Whence doth the word Papist derive?
À. From Papa, the Pope.
Q. When a Juftice of peace

Is turn’d out of place,
Tho" when in we call him. Esquire,
. I feign would know

Whether be be fo,
Is your humble servant's defire,

A. No

A. No office inrails,

Altho' it prevails,
With complements thus we accost 'em ;

For when that is gone,

The titles thereon,
Tho' given, they've really loft 'em.
Q. I've read, and men I've heard relate

How Phoebus told

In days of old,
Altho' in mystick fenje,

He spoke his conscience
Concerning the brave warrior's fate.
I'll try my fortune and go to

The wars, so pray

Apollo say,
Whether I die, or come

With life and safety home,
And trust thy Oracle as true.
A. Go on, full proofs of courage give!

And be assurid,

Your fate's secur'd;
This in plain fenfe is told,

Not mydick, as of old;
For you infallibly fall live.
Seek honour in the dusty fields:

Should you desert

Your earthly part,
The lustre of your name

Shall live in deathless fame,
Which to the brave more pleasure yields.
Q. Apollo's fons, more, wife than Magi,

In my mind came a maid,

(Whose eyes have me ketray'd)
As I fat fub tegmine fagi;
Thus once the said ( Apollo pray hear

)
Prirhee leave this doing,

I akher long moing,
And therefore I bid you forbear.

1

O cruel is all that I pray

If a poet

a

O cruel fair one, more cruel fate !

I am sick at my heart,

To think I must part
So foon with my love or estate.
Tour advice I wait for to follow,

And to make her to flay,
of the learned sons of Apollo.
A. Well fung, mort polite Mr. Magi,

You deserve for your pains

And your exquisite strains
An erection in culmine fagi.
Twould a paradox be, we confess,

like

you,
And an amorist too,
Should fail of desired success.
For your lines from stupidity free us,

And fo pow'sful you are,

That a brute you'll ensnare,
More than Damon and Alphesibeus.
Your talent then Thew in some measure,

And write to her thus

As you've wrote unto us,
And she'll doubtless comply at your pleafure.

Q. Those were the glorious days, when bapty I
First truly bleffed was in infancy' ;
When I'd no other weapon for defence,
Than the bare fortitude of innocence:
Then were those glorious days, and at that age,
When entring first upon this worldly stage;
Not dreading the least what was to come,
I scorn'd all love, and thereby scorn'd my doom :
Love came, at only first a pleasing smart,
Which easily I guarded from my heart;
But when it grew fo povo'rful as to reign,
It turn'd my sinckling joys to piercing pain:
Since have I willd, and fill do with again,
That my first innocence I could obtain.

A. Since childhood you esteem so bless'd a state, Cheer up, you have as yet a smiling fate;

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Your flender thoughts and your unfinew'd sense
Shew unfledg'd youth as yet you scarce commence;
Or say a lass you love, she must be wild
That can be cruel to so sweet a child.
Q. A spontaneous evil feiz'd
Querist's

eyes;
He begs you would be pleas'd
To tell where the occasion lies.

He's told by one 'Squire Bofhick,

Green's good to veil bis optick;
But a Grandame says 'tis naught,
That it aggravates the fault,
Then pray let's know your wifer thought?

A. Effects diftinctly known
The latent cause unfold;

But ills thus lamely told,
Their rise can ne'er be shown:

That veil is only made
The optick griev'd to shade;
Then those from colours free
The properest must be.

The Transport.
Expand the of ,

Ten thousand raptures feel,
And through yon lofty region cut thy way.

See! see! aloft I foar,
Inviting joys in view
Beckon me thro' the sky,
Oh! how I Ay!

‘Midst pleasures that before
My brightest Alights of fancy never knew.
Ob! thou dull carth farewel,

I see thee plainly now,
And fcorn thy painted pride ;

Thy happiness is show,

Thy troubles hourly grow,
Sure thou art worfe than hell.
Oh! who, that saw thee thus, would long with thee
abide ?

Hark

More and an afpiring foul, forget thy clay,