cured, but lets them run on till they are gone beyond Remedy. His Arm-pits are all hairy, and moft part of his Body like a Wild Beaft. His Teeth are black and rotten, which makes his Breath stink so that

C you cannot endure him to come nigh you; he will alfo fnuff up his Nose and spit it out as he eats, and uses to speak with his Mouth cramm'd full, and lets his Victuals come out at both Corners. He belches in the Cup as he is drinking, and ufes nafty stinking Oyl in the Bath. He will intrude into the best Company in fordid ragged Cloaths. If he goes with his Mother to the Southfayers, he cannot then refrain from wicked and prophane Expreffions. When he is making his Oblations at the Temple, he will let the Dish drop out of his Hand, and fall a laughing, as if he had done fome brave Exploit. At the finest Confort of Mufick he can't forbear clapping his Hands, and making a rude Noife; will pretend to fing along with them, and fall a Railing at them to leave off. Sitting at Table, he fpits full upon the Servants who waited there.

I cannot close this Paper without obferv. ing, That if Gentlemen of Leifure and Ge nius would take the fame Pains upon fome other Greek or Roman Author, that has been bestowed upon this, we fhould no longer be abused by our Bookfellers, who fet their Hackney-Writers at Work for fo much a Sheet. The World would foon be convinced, that there is a great deal of difference between putting an Author into English, and Tranflating

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Thursday,

N° 40. Thursday, May 27.

Nec tarda fene&tus

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HE Bofom into which Love enters, enclines the Perfon who is infpired with it, with a Goodness towards all with whom he converfes, more extenfive than even that which is inftilled by Charity. I pretend to fo much of this noble Paffion, as feldom to overlook the Excellencies of other Men; and I forgive Mrs. Page all the Pangs my Paffion has given me, fince, tho' I am never to have her, all other Perfons are become more agreeable to me, from the large good Will, the beginning of which I owe to the Admiration of her. There are no Excellencies of Mind or Body in any Person that comes before me, which escape my Obfervation, and I take great Pleafure in divulging my Sense of them.

I muft confefs, Entertainments of the Neighbouring Theatre frequently engage my Evenings; I do not take it to be a Condefcenfion, that fome of my Papers are but Paraphrafes upon Play-Bills. I have grown old in the Obfervation of the Feats of Activity and Ge nius for intelligent Movements, which I have always loved in my old Acquaintance Jo. Prince, who is to entertain us on Monday

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next with feveral new Inventions, wherein he has expreffed the Compafs and Variety of his excellent Talent. One of thofe Diverfions he calls the Rattle, from the Harlequin, irregular and comick Movements with which it is performed; another, which he hath termed the Looby, is performed by himself, bearing a Prong, and Mrs. Bicknall managing a Rake with as much Beauty (tho' a little higher Dancing) as an Arcadian Shepherdefs. The next Dance he will give us is very aptly called the Innocent, to be performed by Mrs. Tounger, a genteel Movement, confifting of a Sarabrand and Jigg, to reprefent both the Simplicity and Gaiety of that Character.

THE fourth A& will be followed by a Motion contrived to reprefent the Midnight Mirth of Linkboys; the Dance is very Humorous, and well imagined.

HIS Play concludes with what they call a Figure Dance, performed by an Elegant Af fembly of Gentlemen and Ladies, and is as much different from any of the preceding Movements, as the Stile of a Poem is above that of a Ballad.

BUTI must turn my Thoughts from this Performer, to a Perfon who has also diverted many different Generations on the Theatre, but in a much higher Sphere; to wit, in the Character of a Poet. The Perfon whom I am about to mention is the Celebrated Mr. d'Urfey, who has had the Fate of all great Authors, to have met with much Envy and Oppofition; but the fagacious part of Mankind ward (as foon as they begin to grow confpicuous) themfelves againft the Envious,

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227 by reprefenting the Nobility of their Birth; and I do not know why I may not as well defend the Writings of my Friend against the Malice of Criticks, by fhewing how Ancient a Gentleman he is from whom they pretend to detract. I will undertake to fhow those who pretend to cavil at my Friend's Writings, that his Ancestors made a greater Figure in the World, nay in the Learned World, than their own..

Monfieur Perrault, the famous French Acad demift, in his Memoirs of the Worthies of France, gives this Teftimony of the House of d'Urfey.

HONORIUS d'Urfey, fays he, Cadet of the illuftrious Houfe of d'Urfey,

in the Province of Forrest, was chofen Knight ' of Malta, and difcharged the Devoirs of his 'Profeffion, with all the Bravery and all the Exactnefs it could require.

'HE had two Brothers, the Eldeft of which married the Heirefs of Chatteaumo rant; but the Marriage afterwards being de'clared Null, by Reafon of his Infufficiency, he became Religious, and died Prior of Mountverdon, and Dean of the Chapter of 'St. John de Mountbriffon.

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'THE fecond Brother was Master of the Horfe to the Duke of Savoy, and liv'd to be above One Hundred Years old.

· HONORIUS was very much admired for many noble and witty Performances ;but what principally obliges us to put him into the Number of our Illuftrious Men;

was the Beauty and Fertility which appears with fo much Splendor in Aftrea, the Ro⚫mance he has left us, in which are lively • Pictures of all the Conditions of human Life, in fo genuine a Manner, that the Idea • he gives of them has not only for above fifty Years paft charmed all France, but all Eu rope.

WHATEVER Veneration we are ob • liged to have for the admirable Poems of • Homer, which have been the Delight of all Ages, yet, I believe, it may be faid, that to confider them on the Score of Invention, Manners, Paffion and Character, Monfieur d'Urfey's Aftrea, tho' Profe, deferves no lefs the Name of a Poem, and not in the leaft inferior to Homer's: This is the Judgment of very learned Men, viz. Cardinal Richlien, Mr. Waller, Cowley, &c. And thofe, who have been very much prepoffeft for the Ancients against the Moderns.

OF this excellent Romance we mention, 'tho' finisht by another (he dying before the laft Tome was written) yet he left enough 'from his own Hand to establish his Fame;

nor was it found to be meerly Romance, • but an Enigmatical Contexture of his own ' principal Adventures, before he fet out for his noble Station at Malta, where he remained feveral Years.

HE had conceived a Love for Madamoifelle de Chatteaumorant, fole Heiress of her Family, beautiful, rich and haughty, but of that noble Haughtiness which is commonly 'infpired by great Virtues; in his Abfence, fhe was married to his eldest Brother, more