lighted up with coloured lamps to do me honour; and the swans at Sion House had golden collars round their necks, and P-stood on the shore in a blue watered tabby coat trimmed with silver, like Marc Antony, to receive me. Gorgeous and magnificent as my dream was, I verily think that Mrs. Cheatem's smuggled cargo surpassed it. Oh! how I longed to buy her whole stock; there were flowered silks, with roses, daffodils, and China asters worked upon them as large as life, and rendered more beautiful than life by being edged with gold and silver; a Genoa cut velvet, with trees and birds like nature itself; rich point ruffles; and a delicate Brussels apron, that was as fine as a cobweb; then there were India muslins, which seemed to contain the mines of Coromandel; fans a yard long; with the sweetest French mounts,-one such a delightful moral scene, a whole village, all the cottages had glass windows, very convenient, for one can peep through them instead of the sticks which deceive nobody, the shepherdesses dressed in sacques, and petticoats of the newest Paris cut, nothing at all like them in London, and the shepherds so languish ing and graceful; one the very image of P-in a blue court suit, and a sword by his side, just such an elegant fellow; who handled his crook as gallantly as if it had been my Lord Chamberlain's wand of office. Oh, the ingenuity and the taste of these French people! Mrs. Cheat'em asked a fortune for the fan; but I was determined to secure it at any price; I could only afford to buy a case of essences, a pot or two of rouge, a wash for the skin, and a cake of amber soap; for I just recollected in time that I had promised to go to the London warehouse in the city, and if I delayed a day, that odious lady Bwould not leave a bit of china, or a gold fish that was worth having: by the way, Frippery, my maid, fished out of Mrs. Cheat'em, that B- pads her shoulder, and her hip; I always suspected that hip; and that the devout Mrs. Cantwell, who goes to church three times a day, and rails at the play-houses, is her best customer for Coniac; and that Barbara Loveface, the new beauty, spends all her money upon charms and fortune-telling. Who does she want to captivate? I must find out.-This information has determined me not to trust any of my secrets to Mrs. Cheat'em. Breakfasted

and dressed: wrote half a dozen notes while drinking my chocolate; one to P- signed Incognita, appointing a meeting at Spring Garden-If he should prove faithless and come, what shall I do? How shall I be revenged? In case of such an accident, I addressed a note to his rival, my Lord Worthlessa piece of penmanship which I pride myself not a little upon; for it is just calculated to inspire the highest degree of hope, without giving any encouragement,which I can but withdraw when it suits me so to do; and as my Lord is rather notorious for shewing his billet, I did not sign my name, and took care to write every word by the dictionary, that I might not be discovered by my bad spelling. Have some thought of hiring a secretary: it is a horrid troublesome task for a woman of quality to be obliged to study like a clerk or a governess: and I heard that impudent guardsman, Colonel Graceless, laugh at my Lady Duchess's pot-hook and hanger, as he called them, on a card, whereon she had spelt coffee, with a K. Received three or four letters; one which I knew by the perfume, before I opened it, to be from P-. A boat to-morrow to Richmond: collation ordered at the Star and Garter. My dream is out; to be sure I gave him a strong hint yesterday of my wishes. O what a dear delightful man it is! A copy of verses, subscribed Enamorata, beginning

By those bright charms and by that heavenly air;

By all the flames that 'neath your eye-lids

glow, One smile can raise me from extreme despair; One frown can cast me to the chades below.

This comes from the young Templar I am certain, who, for want of something better to do, I coquetted with, the day I went to the Temple gardens to see the city companies embark for some vulgar festival. I wonder whether the lines are his own, or borrowed from Cowley or Waller. I must punish his boldness in sending them; for I shall never be able to screen it at court, if it is known that a Templar presumes to my favour. A new poem with Lord Bookworm's profound respects: deuce take his civility; now shall I be obliged to pour out my eyes over printed paper; for it is quite the ton to read this young author's works; a little crooked fellow I am told, which makes it the more strange: he must never expect to be patronized by the ladies, though the

wits support him. For my part, I hate all reading except love-letters, and now and then a paper or two of the Spectator, when there is any thing of fashion or scandal in them; and absolutely detest poetry, unless it be MS. addressed to myself, or that which is recited on the stage. If P- wishes to win me, he must woo me in the strains of Dryden; but I ought to be thinking of my Lord Bookworm's present; Frippery shall read it to me whilst the man dresses my hair. Oh Lord, I know as much about it as ever; for Mr. Papillotte was so full of news, and my head was so bewildered with the brocaded petticoat which the mantua-maker had just sent home, and my dream, and Torrismond's speech to the Queen of Grenada, and my new fan, and the fly-cap I have been a whole week trying to invent, that I did not listen to a word of it; and if I take it with me in the carriage when I go to the city, I shall be sure to fall asleep over it, and tumble my head-dress, and so come out of the coach just such a figure as old Lady Routabout, when she has been obliged to sit out a sermon at Whitehall.-Not a guinea left! I protest these city excursions will absolutely make me a beggar; and now I find I have not an use for an earthly thing I have bought: and the silk that I haggled with the shopman for an hour and a half before he would abate a sixpence in the yard, and was obliged to purchase at last by letting the fellow make me a speech, which he must have conned out of the cabinet of compliments, does not suit my complexion in the least, and it is not at all genteel into the bargain, positively only fit for an alderman's wife to wear at my Lady Mayoress's ball; and I am grown out of all humour and conceit with my last new cardinal, though I verily believe it has "six thousand yards of edging round it," as Lady Betty Modish says in the play; for Mrs. Deputy Mazarine, the mercer's fat spouse, sailed through the shop while I was tumbling over her husband's goods with the exact counterpart on, her hideous red arms fading the colour, and trapesing into the dusty street with that trimming, which was altogether too extravagant and out of the way, just to show the court lady that she could dress as fine, and value her clothes as little as the best of us. I'll be revenged; for I'll give mine to Frippery, and send her to the shop

for half a yard of tiffany; this horrid woman had the impudence to try to outbid me at the auction, for a monkey and a Chinese joss; and in the heat of my anger I gave three times as much for the filthy things as they are worth, and let Lady B. run away with a cut cornelian necklace, and a cage full of the prettiest avadevets that ever was seen. Went to the Mall in order to disperse my chagrin; it was crowded to a most delightful excess, and nobody so well attended as myself. P- not being there, I could not resist accepting the devoirs of Lord Worthless, Colonel Graceless, and half a dozen of their rakish companions, especially as I saw that Barbara had cast her eye upon Sir Charles Brilliant, one of the number; and to take a lover from another woman is the next delightful thing to receiving the addresses of the man of our choice: she tore a finger from her glove, and broke a fan in anger. Whilst I toped my plumes on high, and rallied with the most careless air imaginable. Phad no business to be absent; and so I asked the whole set to join our party to Richmond to-morrow, the thing of all others which I knew would vex him: well, he should have been in the Park and prevented it. Went home to dinner, and then sat to receive company. P-came as charming as usual, in an elegant undress, which is all the rage in France now I am told: he brought the fashions and Paris chitchat in a letter from the ambassador; and a new game of hazard, which he prophecies will take the pass of ombre and basset: it must be very fascinating if it does; for methinks I could beggar my whole generation at either, and love the ruin still. In the midst of this delightful conversation, he suddenly recollected an engagement, and left me. I wonder whether Springgarden was in his head. I was just going to equip myself for the adventure, when the Countess of Gadfly, and her set, rushed in, and insisted upon carrying me off to the playhouse, to see a new tragedy; there was no escaping, so I was obliged to send Frippery instead; a dangerous expedient, for she is a decent looking figure, and with the help of my cast off clothes, might pass very well in a mask. We all agreed; that is, our party, that the Muse of Tragedy died with Dryden: there were some horrid people in the pit and gallery, who had

the assurance to be of a different opinion, and cried out silence, and obliged us to attend whether we would or not. I think that playhouses should be built with nothing but boxes: I, who make it a rule never to do any thing that I am desired, was determined not to listen to a word of the play, though there were some very moving things in it, so I reconnoitered the house, casting glances into the pit to see if my charms would not mollify the brutes. The Templar was then one of the ring-leaders, but when his eye caught mine he disappeared. Soon after, I saw him enter the boxes full dressed, aping the air of a courtier, and looking like country John in his new livery. I took no notice of himI sought for higher game-Sir Charles Brilliant was the man. Alas! poor Barbara, I believe I have undone all those spells which Mrs. Cheat'em made such a profit of. The Templar, which is his vulgar name, nettled at my neglect, assumed a domineering air, and joined his low allies in the pit in enforcing silence. Sir Charles resisted this; and, as Mincing says, "I verily thought they must have fit." I sat serene amid the storm; but at last the confusion became so intolerable, and the gallery people so abusive, that we were fain to retreat to our chairs. Intending to call in just for a minute at Mrs. Manille's, I had such a charming run of luck, that I could not leave the dear table until four o'clock in the morning. I suspect that Sir Charles lost on purpose, for he became very free in his speech as if he had purchased the right. My service to you, Sir Charles, I am more secure of your money than you are of my favour. Mrs. Carmine certainly cheats-I saw her slip a card: really the men drank so much wine, and grew so careless, that it was a temptation one could hardly resist. I did not know whether I did or not. Came home in a very good humour, but almost stunned by Frippery's news. P— did meet her in Spring-garden, professed the warmest love. Oh the perfidious, the base, the deceitful devil! perjured, perjured man! I begin to hate Frippery; she could not get away she says, without promising another interview. To be taken by such a mawkin, owing every attraction to my cast clothes. I'll be revenged, whatever it may cost-friends, fortune, reputation-nothing is too

great a sacrifice. Tumbled and tossed all night-full of rage and despairquarrelled with all my tradespeoplewhat a time to send in their bills: look frightful-nothing becomes me: surely I have not grown old and ugly in one night-Returned from Richmond, coquetted the whole way with Lord Worthless, would not so much as speak, or look at P-; found fault with the whole entertainment, though, to say the truth, nothing could have been more elegant; called the music discord, and would not permit it to play; then complained of dullness; told Lord Worthless that things would have been different if he had had the management, and that few people knew how to give a treat; my lord was abominably tipsy, and ill behaved; came home displeased with myself, and all the world, for P-looked uncommonly handsome, and endured all my impertinence with the most gentlemanly forbearance. Oh, heaven! what shall I do? What have I done? I shall go distracted!-Frippery has confessed such a plot; she calumniated P-. Barbara Lovelace, and Lady B- at the bottom of it; only because I told the story of the lame hip, and drew Sir Charles away from his true love. Frippery found a light guinea among the gold lace which Lady B- had bribed her with, shabby creature; and Barbara's yellow tabinet so faded and full of holes, that it would neither turn or dye; so in a fit of remorse she betrayed the whole; I believe I beat her; I would have turned the jade out of doors, but she is unfit, and knows all my secrets; so I made it up by giving her my pink negligée, and I shall take care never to believe another word she says, I am determined to brave the matter out, and bring P.- upon his knees before I'll confess myself to blame, though, to have made sport for my enemies, almost kills me with vexation; they shall not see it. dressed for the ball with even more than usual care! Lord! here's that scandalous fellow Gossip, full of news. Sir Charles and the Templar, have fought. Well, what do I care; there would be a fop and a pedant less in the world if both were killed. I don't know that I had much to do in the business, except just egging on Sir Charles to say the most cutting things. Worse, and worse, another horrid duel, P- and Lord Worthless; P. dangerously wounded, I fainted away at the

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intelligence; grew delirious; nothing shall prevent me from going to him, confessing all my follies, and receiving his last forgiveness:-he will die, I am sure he will die. I wish there was a convent in England, and that I had taken the veil. Frippery tells me that she thinks I have been too hasty in confessing my faults: none so very heinous, upon consideration, particularly as it was only a flesh wound after all. But then my reputation might have suffered if I had not been reconciled to P-, for I would not marry my Lord for the whole universe: and P. looked so divine in his robe de chambre, and his arm bound with a scarf. He made hard terms with me, though would not trust me in town during his necessary absence; and the only proof I could give of my sincerity, as he was very hard of belief, as well he might, was to banish myself at my cousin's in the 'country; and must I go? Oh, odious, odious trees!

Journal des Modes.

ANECDOTE OF JAMES DUKE OF YORK, SECOND SON OF CHARLES I.

The Duke of York, it is said, one day told the King his brother, that he had heard so much of old Milton, he had a great desire to see him. Charles told the Duke, that he had no objection to his satisfying his curiosity; and accordingly shortly after, James, having informed himself where Milton lived, went privately to his house, Being introduced to him, and Milton being informed of the rank of his guest, they conversed together for some time; but, in the course of their conversation, the Duke asked Milton, "Whether he did not think the loss of his sight was a judgment upon him for what he had written against the late King his father?" Milton's reply was to this effect: If your Highness thinks that the calamities which befall us here, are indications of the wrath of Heaven, in what manner are we to account for the fate of the King your father? The displeasure of Heaven must, upon this

supposition, have been much greater against him than against me; for I have only lost my eyes, but he lost his head.' The Duke was exceedingly nettled at this answer, and went away soon after very angry. When he came back to the court, the first thing he said to the King, was, "Brother, you are greatly to blame that you don't have that old rogue Milton hanged.”— Why, what's the matter, James?' said the King, you seem in a heat! what, have you seen Milton?'-"Yes," answered the Duke, "I have seen him.” Well,' said the King, In what condition did you find him?”—“ Condition!" replied the Duke, "why he's old, and very poor." Old and poor!' said the King; well, and he is blind, is he not?" Yes," said the Duke, "blind as a beetle." Why then you are a fool, James,' replied the King, to want to have him hanged as a punishment: to hang him will be doing him a service; it will be taking him out of his miseries. No, if he is old, poor, and blind, he is miserable enough in all conscience: let him live.'

A NOVEL WEDDING. Dean Swift one day walking, as was his custom, from London towards Chester, is said to have taken shelter from a summer tempest under a large spreading tree by the road side, not far from Lichfield. Presently a man, together with a woman who seemed to be pregnant, availed themselves of the tion with them, Dean Swift learned same covert. Entering into conversafield to be married. As the situation that they were on the way for Litchof the lady indicated that no time ought to be lost, the dean proposed to save them the rest of the journey, by uniting them on the spot. The offer was gladly accepted, and after having they were about to depart, as the sky expressed their thanks to Dean Swift, brightened; but the bridegroom suddenly recollecting himself, that a certificate would be necessary to authenticate their marriage, he begged the dean would give him one. The dean taking out his pencil, wrote it in the following

terms:

Under an oak, in stormy weather,
I joined this rogue and whore together:
And none but he who rules the thunder
Can part this rogue and whore asunder.