and thofe of Eliza's out of mine, fhe fhould not only eat of my bread and drink of my own cup, but Maria fhould lay in my bofom, and be unto me as a daughter.

imbibe the oil

Adieu, poor luckless maiden! and wine which the compaffion of a stranger, as he journieth on his way, now pours into thy wounds →→→ the being who has twice bruised thee can only bind them up for ever.

THE BOURBONNOIS.

There was nothing from which I had painted out for myself fo joyous a riot of the affections, as in this journey in the vintage, through this, part of France; but pressing through this gate of forrow to it, my fufferings had totally unfitted me: in every scene of feftivity I faw Maria in the back-ground of the piece, fitting pentive under her poplar; and I had got almost to Lyons before I was able to caft a fhade acrofs her

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Dear fenfibility! fource inexhauited of all that's precious in our joys, or coftly in our forrows! thou

"

chaineft thy martyr down upon his bed of straw and 'tis thou who lifts him up to HEAVEN

eter

nal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and this is thy divinity which ftirs within me — not, that in fome fad and fickening moments, "my "soul shrinks back upon herself, and ftartles at de"struction" mere pomp of words! but' that I feel fome generous joys and generous cares beyond myfelf all comes from thee, great great SENSORIUM of the world! which vibrates, if a hair of our heads but falls upon the ground, in the remotest defert of thy creation. Touch'd with thee, Eu

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hears

genius draws my curtain when I languish my tale of fymptoms, and blames the weather for the diforder of his nerves. Thou giv't a portion of it fometimes to the roughest peasant who traverses the bleakelt, mountains- he finds the lacerated lamb of another's flock This moment I beheld him leaning with his head against his crook, with piteous inclination looking down upon it Oh! had I come one moment fooner! it bleeds to death his gentle heart bleeds with it

Peace to thee, generous fwain! I fee thou walkeft off with anguish

it

but thy joys fhall balance

for happy is thy cottage and happy is the fharer of it and happy are the lambs which sport

about you,

THE

THE SUPPER.

A fhoe coming loose from the fore-foot of the thillhorfe, at the beginning of the afcent of mount Taurira, the postilion difmounted, twisted the shoe off, and put in his pocket; as the afcent was of five or fix miles, and that horfe our main dependence, I made a point of having the fhoe faften'd on again, as well as we could; but the poftilion had thrown away the nails, and the hammer in the chaife-box, being of no great ufe without them, I fubmitted to go on.

He had not mounted half a mile higher, when coming to a flinty piece of road, the poor devil loft a fecond fhoe, and from off his other forefoot; I then got out of the chaife in good earnest; and feeing a house about a quarter of a mile to the left-hand, with a great deal to do, I prevailed upon the pottilion to turn up to it. The look of the house, and of every thing about it, as we drew nearer, foon reconciled me to the difafter. It was a little farm-houfe furrounded with about twenty acres of vineyard, much corn and close to the house,

about as

on one

fide, was a potagerie of an acre and a half,

full

full of every thing which a French peasant's house

could make plenty in and on the other fide

was a little wood which furnished wherewithal to drefs it. It was about eight in the evening when I got to the house fo I left the postilion to manage his point as he could and for mine, walk'd directly into the

house.

I

The family confifted of an old greyheaded man and his wife, with five or fix fons and fons-inlaw and their feveral wives, and a joyous genealogy out of 'em.

They were all fitting down together to their lentil-foup; a large wheaten loaf was in the middle of the table; and a flaggon of wine at each end of it promised joy through the stages of the repast 'twas a feaft of love.

The old man rofe up to meet me, and with a refpectful cordiality would have me fit down at the table; my heart was fat down the moment I enter'd the room; fo I fat down at once like a fon of the family; and to invest myself in the character as speedily as I could, I inftantly borrowed the old man's

knife, and taking up the loaf cut myself a

hearty luncheon; and as I did it I faw a teltimeny in every eye, not only of an honest welcome,

'come,

but of a welcome mix'd with thanks that

I had not feem'd to doubt it.

Was it this; or tell me, Nature, what elfe it was which made this morfel fo sweet and to what magick I owe it, that the draught I took of their flaggon was fo delicious with it, that they remain upon my palate to this hour.

If the fupper was to my taste

the grace which

follow'd it was much more fo.

THE GRACE.

When fupper was over, the old man gave a knock upon the table with the haft of his knife, to bid them prepare for the dance; the moment the fignal was given, the women and girls ran all together into and the a back apartment to tye up their hair young men to the door to wash their faces, and change their fabots; and in three minutes was ready upon a little efplanade before the house to begin The old man and his wife came out laft, and, placing me betwixt them, fat down upon a fopha of turf by the door.

every

foul

The