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Sil. Silent fhe fits beneath the horrid gloom,
Nor thinks, nor hopes for any joys to come,
Whilst vaft tumultuous griefs croud on her breast,
Fixt like the center, yet he finds no reft.
Now he revolves on all the blifs is past,
Then fighs to think, that he has feen the laft:
That now their mutual flames no more must burn,
Nor chearful hours of converfe e'er again return;
Oppreft then with the load, she finks to earth,
And then revives to give her woes new birth;
Which by fresh acquifitions, greater grow,
Till all tenacious bounds the torrents overflow.
No mortal can express a grief like thine,
No mortal, who is not like thee, divine,
Inform'd with fuch a vaft capacious foul,
In which fo large a flood of grief may roul,
And yet too great e'en for thy felf they grow,
Till all tenacious bounds the torrents overflow.

But fee Dorinda, night with folemn pace.
Moves flowly on, and Phabe's fickly face,
Bound up in clouds, afcends yon eastern skies,
Whilft chearful day her mournful visage flies,
The priests of Pan, their ev'ning off'rings bring,
And to th' indulgent God their vefpers Ling.
For his protection of their fheep all day,
But ours neglected, all are gone aftray.

Dor. For ever let them wander, fince no rest,
Muft e'er re-enter my forfaken breast;

O'er charg'd with forrows for URANIA's fake;
Sil. So much my fad and troubled thoughts partake,
They fit upon my foul (griev'd at the fight)
Like heavy plummets of eternal night.

Dor. Let's part now, dearest Silvia, for our woe
Begins, alas! Ineffable to grow;

And yet my boding foul to add new pain)
Whispers, alas! we ne'er fhall meet again.
Sil. Something fo ominous in mine appears,
As fays 'twill foon be wafted hence in tears.
A long farewell, eternally adieu.

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Dor. A long farewell, to love, and life and you.
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Q. Whether or no children, that are born of unbelieving parents, and die in their infancy, have any fin to answer for, but original fin?

A. The purport of your question returns to this; namely, whether the children of unbelieving parents, who die in their infancy, fhall fuffer for their parents neglect or unbelief. In answer to which, we need no more than recite those words of truth and foberness; the foul that finneth, that shall dye.

Whether confirmation be fufficient to one that never was baptiz'd?

A. The ordinance you speak of, is therefore ftil'd confirmation, because it confirms the previous facrament of Baptifm. But now we defire to know, whether that can be confirm'd, which has no being?

Q. Does the Devil know our thoughts?

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A. To know our thoughts is reprefented in the Scriptures as the incommunicable prerogative of that omnifcient God, who is a fearcher of the heart. Devil therefore can no otherwife dive into our thoughts, than as by the fagacity of his nature he can lay concurring circumftances together, and draw appofite conclufions from them.

Q. If the Divinity of our Saviour had no share in his fufferings, why would not any other man have made as fufficient an atonement for the fins of mankind, as himself?

A. The merits of the manhood (which alone was capable of fuffering) receiv'd an ineftimable value by the honour of fo intimate an union with the Godhead.

Q. About five years ago I was unfortunately married to a man (who unknown to me) had a wife then living; after I had lived with him near a year, 'twas difcovered, and I immediately went from him, and he foon after left his wife again, and has not been heard of fince: I defire to know whether I may lawfully marry again, I having had no child by him.

A. You are no more his wife, than if you were never married to him; and therefore as free to marry another, as when you were a maid.

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Q. What nation, (after Noah's general deluge) firft us'd a monarchical government ?

4. Affyria.

Q. In what manner (if one whispers against the wall on one fide in the cupulo of St. Paul's) the voice is retorted fo very much louder to the other?

A. Sounds are communicated in arcuate lines, and therefore arcuate fabricks (such as the wall you speak of) are more agreeable to their extenfive propagation. Q. Whence proceeds that notion of the fortune of being born with a cawl, and why they attribute fo many good qualities to it.

A. This notion is altogether groundless, and first trumpt up by fanciful old women; the cawl being nothing else but a portion of the membrane Amnios, which fometimes cleaves to the head, and is there difcover'd at the time of birth.

Q. Is a fnake poisonous, or no?

A. Authors have confounded the fnake and adder, under the denomination of viper, and run altogether upon the qualities of the adder, without making any difference between that and the fnake, whence we conclude they efteem them equally poyfonous But if we may give credit to the general affirmation of those men, whose business it is to take these creatures, they are as harmless as worms; and it may be daily obferved, with how much fafety the fnakes are daily handled.

Q. Why the fpecifick C. P. is never given in the fit?

A. Because the exhibition of it at that time is apt to fix the morbifick matter, stop the pores, and confequently encrease heat, occation a violent confli&t with the febrific ferment, and render the paroxyfm more obftinate.

Q. Why is it colder in the winter, when the fun is nearer to us, than in the fummer?

A. That the fun beams not falling fo perpendicular, but more obliquely, the reflected rays are more fcattered, and come not fo near to those of incidence, and confequently are weaker. That appears by the

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exceffive heats that are felt between the tropicks, and the no lefs cold by the poles, and by our daily experience that the fun hath more force in, its meridian than at its rifing or fetting.

Q. I am just in the prime of my age, my years not amounting to 30, and I have, I hope ever fince I commenc'd man, according to my capacity done my duty to wards God and man. I have a plentiful eftate, with which I can live very well without the perplexities of bufinefs, yet being young and vigorous, and spur'd on by a martial genius, methinks I wou'd do fomething that way, that may transfer my name to pofterity, and fix it beyond the bounds of oblivion: Now I defire your opinion, whether I may fafely foldierize without offending the Almighty?

A. When the welfare of your country calls for affistance, we do not only think it lawful for you to foldierize, but also an highly commendable inclination, and the rather, becaufe neceffity drives you not upon it. Such generous fpirits are the fafeft as well as nobleft props of their country, fince their honour is lefs liable to prevarication, than fuch whofe neceffity provokes their courage.

QA friend of mine cou'd not for fix weeks drink any mault liquors, without making himself fick and very much out of order, and nothing but milk or spring-water would agree with him, till of late he is come to malt liquors agam, and it agrees with him as formerly.

4. 'Tis poffible that the ftomach was then difordered with fharp cholerick humours, which male liquors are fubject to exafperate, and upon the ufe of milk and water the acidity of those humours were blunted, and the ftomach reinftated in its priftine health.

Q. Among the mighty fecrets of the main,
And all the treafures, that the feas contain,
Which matchless HEYRIRCK nobly does explain,
Yet one profound Arcanum does remain.
Whether within those watry realms, among
The fcaly crue. that fwiftly glide along,

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The Sweet refreshments of foft fleep are known,
In answering this, your reasons must be shown?

A. Sleep is entail'd upon a mortal frame :
In fish as well as flesh here nature is the fame.
No creature free, tho' ne'er fo brisk and gay;
For fomnus claims an universal sway.
Why do we find the watry tribe awake?
Caufe they with us of parts refin'd partake.
But fuch refinements cannot long endure:
Well then does fleep a fresh fupply fecure.
`Q. Tell me, Oh! Tell me (ye most godlike swains )
How from my breaft I may remove thefe pains,
That I may here obtain my full defire,
And not incur my father's dreadful ire?
I'm courted by a Tquire deform'd and old,
He keeps his coach and has good fore of gold?
My friends, because he wealthy is, perfuade
To wed him, but I'll rather die a maid.
For, ah! His riches will not do, nor's art,
It is another that has gain'd my heart.
I durft not to my father make it known,
Because he's not fo rich, he'll me difown.
What shall I do (bright fons of Phoebus) fay,
To a diftreffed maid your skill display?

A. With duty, your mifguided fire address,
And all the fecrets of your heart confess;
A frank and open mind compaffion moves,
But none the fubtile and reserved loves;
With forrow move your cafe and flowing eyes,
Pierce his paternal heart with mournful fighs ;
Urge all the miferies and rigid fate,
Which on unequal and forc'd matches wait;
What difproportion winter holds with Spring,
What difagreements oppofites must bring;
The black effects of jealousy, whofe rage
Destroys all peace, when youth is join'd to age;
Acquaint him then, what undeferved fhame
Your innocence may fully and defame.

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