Like barn-door-hinge, or pig hung in a gate. Cel. Then what a harmony, if with screw'd face, To make a confort, you would grunt a base? Cle. Your smile, with furrow'd brow, what's rare imply'd, Had I not heard the jest, I'd sworn you cry'd. Cel. You laugh'd so loud, the rest were all dismay'd, Had I not heard the jeft, I'd sworn you bray'd. Cle. But then those ferret-eyes, heav'ns how they shine, Purg'd from all dullness by their flowing brine ! Cel. If in those lantern-jaws, they then were plac'd, How might the treets with such new lights be grac'd ? Cle. Rich scents, when strong, with stink will fill the room, perfume? From all the effluviums which our senses greet. Cel. Sweet as the musick from your numbers flows, Croak'd from your lungs, and twanged through your nose. T To Lucinda, who fent us those bright lines inserted in a former paper. Ev'n our Apollo in each diftich shines. Our fure success now from your smiles we'll dato, And in your wishes read our certain fare, The Recovery My Jealousies severe, my torments great ; But now the white, auspicious Aag shall prove Q. Why have some sculls reams in the forehead, and others not? or whether this seam is proper to one, or common to both fexes ? 4. The seam, or future in the forehead is equally common to both sexes, and is occasioned from the smallness of the intermedial spaces of the lambdoidal, fagittal and coronal sutures being too small, and therefore insufficient to discharge the steams or recrements of the brains; whereupon it is inftituted by nature to supply the defect of the other futures, by forming a new one in the forehead: but on the other side, if the other futures are large cnough to vent those steams, then there is no occasion for that in the forehead. Q. Is it poffible for mankind to attain to perfection ? if not, wby Says our Saviour, Be ye therefore perfect, as your father which is in heaven is perfect ? A. Sure man can never be so perfect as his Maker, since undeniable are those words of Eliphaz, Behold, he putteth no trust in his faints; yea, the heavens are not clean in bis fight. When therefore our blessed Lord commands us to be perfect, as our Father which is in heaven is perfect, he proposes God as a pattern of perfection, which we should endeavour as accurately to imitate, as our frail mortality will permit. And while in this sense we set the Lord always before us, we shall be daily provok’d to make nearer advances to the still diftant object of our constant imitation. Q. Gentlemen, I have been fick a long time, and am much averse to medicines. A friend advised me lately to consult a physician and follow his directions, God having allow'd means to recover the the fick, and in all likelihood might have blessed those means to me, had I us’d them; my remiffness herein he thought might be a just cause of the increase of my distemper. Your Speedy opinion of this advice is earnestly desired, because I design to act accordingly? A. We are oblig'd to you for the value you put upon our sentiments; but think you highly blameable that through a mere aversion to medicines you should give so much liberty to a growing disease: and since the all-wise Creator, that gave you life and health, ordained likewise proper means to preserve the same, it may be accounted a sort of presumption in you to neglect those means: our opinion therefore is, that you would fend immediately for an able physician, and wisely pursue the method he shall prescribe you, left it prove with you according to the old diftich Serò medicina paratur, 4. The monkey being commonly fed with meat, it is but natural in him to expect it always, and being deprived of his customary diet, does probably endeavour to satisfy his longing appetite, by chewing his tail. Q. Why do the antient Britains (viz. Welshmen) wear leeks in their bats on the first of March, and how long it has been a custom among them? A. This ceremony is observed on the first of March, in commemoration of a signal victory obtain'd by the Britains under the command of a famous General, knowg vulgarly by the name of St. David; the Britains wore a leek in their hats, to distinguish their friends from their enemies in the heat of the battel. But Apollo somewhat fatigu'd by the number of his addressers begs leave to refer the querift (for further particulars) to the celebrated history of the seven Champions of Christendom. Q. I have a good opportunity of getting acquainted with A Lady, whose temper is very well, fortune very plentiful, natural D3 ther you 2 a natural parts not inferior to any; but I am modest and pass by, when I meet her, with becoming decency, but never yet chang’d one word with ber ; your advice how to address my self to ber, in order to a more perfect intimacy, and what method to take, so as not to be suspected by the rest of the family? A. You have three things feriously to consider, before you can lawfully proceed in this affair ; first, whe love the Lady or her fortune; 2dly, whether your birth or circumstances may reasonably entitle you to her poffeffion; and 3dly, that every parent may claim a power in disposing of a child, by the laws of God and nature. These things fully weighd, and your conscience not pleading guilty to either, we shall readily give you the best advice we are capable of. Q. Whether a man can properly be faid to take cold? A. He may properly be said fo io do, because the air being receiv'd in full draughts thro' the mouth into the afpera arteria, bronchia and vesicles of air belonging to the lungs, doth there encounter the blood, rendring it too thick, cold and clammy, whereupon, from the over-cooling of the blood, proceed coughs, catarrhs, donc. Q. What is the cause of springinefs in elastick bodies? A. When bodies are bent by external force, the pores of the convex fide are enlarg’d, and those of the concave ftreightend. When therefore the subtla matter, which with great velocity is ever running thro' the pores of bodies, enters the enlarg'd pores, or the enlarg’d orifices of the same pores, but cannot pass thro' in the same quantity, and with the same freedom, nor find any other passage, nor make a new one; they strike the fides of the pores with so violent a force, as to reduce the bended body to its former state. We therefore ascribe elafticity to the peculiar contexture of elastick bodies, and the vehement mo. tion of ethereal matter. Q. Ye fons of Apollo, Whom multitudes follow, With various problems, so I, As one more in my bed It jump'd in my head, The question is this, Pray take't not amiss: That skilful appearest, That jump'st into strains, To puzzle our brains, However we'll try, To make a reply: Resolve, for fure you can, Touts CORINNA. 4. Sagacious man's to novels prone, To rarities inclin'd; Are rarest things to find. A. Apollo's no ftatesman, nor meddles with France, Sir, When Fools fend a question, a Blockhead Tould answer. Q. To you the fav’rites of the Delian God, Inform } D4 |