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Your Humble Servant.'

This Italian Stavo ben, ma per star Meglio, sto qui 4

Martial

Jupiter Jupiter

Footnote 1: Methodus Curandi Febres

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Footnote 4: 'I was well; I would be better; and here I am.'

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Friday, March 30, 1711

Аддисон

Pallida mors aquo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas

Regumque turres, O beate Sexti,

Vitæ summa brevis spem nos vetat inchoare longam.

Jam te premet nox, fabulæque manes,

Et domus exilis Plutonia.

Hor.

Westminster

Glaucumque, Medontaque, Thersilochumque. ­ Virg.

the Path of an Arrow

After which 1 Some have 2 In who 3 which had 4 I 5 Blenheim

Sir Cloudesly Shovel's 6 Dutch Seaweed

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№ 27

Saturday, March 31, 1711

Стиль

Ut nox longa, quibus Mentitur arnica, diesque

Longa videtur opus debentibus, ut piger Annus

Pupillis, quos dura premit Custodia matrum,

Sic mihi Tarda fluunt ingrataque Tempora, quæ spem

Consiliumque morantur agendi Gnaviter, id quod

Æquè pauperibus prodest, Locupletibus aquè,

Æquè neglectum pueris senibusque nocebit.

Hor.

My 1

Sir,

'I know not with what Words to express to you the Sense I have of the high Obligation you have laid upon me, in the Penance you enjoined me of doing some Good or other, to a Person of Worth, every Day I live. The Station I am in furnishes me with daily Opportunities of this kind: and the Noble Principle with which you have inspired me, of Benevolence to all I have to deal with, quickens my Application in every thing I undertake. When I relieve Merit from Discountenance, when I assist a Friendless Person, when I produce conceal'd Worth, I am displeas'd with my self, for having design'd to leave the World in order to be Virtuous. I am sorry you decline the Occasions which the Condition I am in might afford me of enlarging your Fortunes; but know I contribute more to your Satisfaction, when I acknowledge I am the better Man, from the Influence and Authority you have over,

Sir,

Your most Oblig'd and Most Humble, Servant,

R. O.'

Sir,

'I am intirely convinced of the Truth of what you were pleas'd to say to me, when I was last with you alone. You told me then of the silly way I was in; but you told me so, as I saw you loved me, otherwise I could not obey your Commands in letting you know my Thoughts so sincerely as I do at present. I know the Creature for whom I resign so much of my Character is all that you said of her; but then the Trifler has something in her so undesigning and harmless, that her Guilt in one kind disappears by the Comparison of her Innocence in another. Will you, Virtuous Men, allow no alteration of Offences? Must Dear Chloe2 be called by the hard Name you pious People give to common Women? I keep the solemn Promise I made you, in writing to you the State of my Mind, after your kind Admonition; and will endeavour to get the better of this Fondness, which makes me so much her humble Servant, that I am almost asham'd to Subscribe my self

Yours,

T. D.'

Sir,

'There is no State of Life so Anxious as that of a Man who does not live according to the Dictates of his own Reason. It will seem odd to you, when I assure you that my Love of Retirement first of all brought me to Court; but this will be no Riddle, when I acquaint you that I placed my self here with a Design of getting so much Mony as might enable me to Purchase a handsome Retreat in the Country. At present my Circumstances enable me, and my Duty prompts me, to pass away the remaining Part of my Life in such a Retirement as I at first proposed to my self; but to my great Misfortune I have intirely lost the Relish of it, and shou'd now return to the Country with greater Reluctance than I at first came to Court. I am so unhappy, as to know that what I am fond of are Trifles, and that what I neglect is of the greatest Importance: In short, I find a Contest in my own Mind between Reason and Fashion. I remember you once told me, that I might live in the World, and out of it, at the same time. Let me beg of you to explain this Paradox more at large to me, that I may conform my Life, if possible, both to my Duty and my Inclination.

I am,

Your most humble Servant,

R.B.'

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№ 28

Monday, April 2, 1711

Аддисон

... Neque semper arcum

Tendit Apollo.

Hor.

our I consider it as a Satyr upon Projectors in general, and a lively Picture of the whole Art of Modern Criticism. 1

Sir,

'Observing that you have Thoughts of creating certain Officers under you for the Inspection of several petty Enormities which you your self cannot attend to; and finding daily Absurdities hung out upon the Sign-Posts of this City2, to the great Scandal of Foreigners, as well as those of our own Country, who are curious Spectators of the same: I do humbly propose, that you would be pleased to make me your Superintendant of all such Figures and Devices, as are or shall be made use of on this Occasion; with full Powers to rectify or expunge whatever I shall find irregular or defective. For want of such an Officer, there is nothing like sound Literature and good Sense to be met with in those Objects, that are everywhere thrusting themselves out to the Eye, and endeavouring to become visible. Our streets are filled with blue Boars, black Swans, and red Lions; not to mention flying Pigs, and Hogs in Armour, with many other Creatures more extraordinary than any in the desarts of Africk. Strange! that one who has all the Birds and Beasts in Nature to chuse out of, should live at the Sign of an Ens Rationis!

My first Task, therefore, should be, like that of Hercules, to clear the City from Monsters. In the second Place, I would forbid, that Creatures of jarring and incongruous Natures should be joined together in the same Sign; such as the Bell and the Neats-tongue, the Dog and Gridiron. The Fox and Goose may be supposed to have met, but what has the Fox and the Seven Stars to do together? and when did the Lamb3 and Dolphin ever meet, except upon a Sign-Post? As for the Cat and Fiddle, there is a Conceit in it, and therefore, I do not intend that anything I have here said should affect it. I must however observe to you upon this Subject, that it is usual for a young Tradesman, at his first setting up, to add to his own Sign that of the Master whom he serv'd; as the Husband, after Marriage, gives a Place to his Mistress's Arms in his own Coat. This I take to have given Rise to many of those Absurdities which are committed over our Heads, and, as I am inform'd, first occasioned the three Nuns and a Hare, which we see so frequently joined together. I would, therefore, establish certain Rules, for the determining how far one Tradesman may give the Sign of another, and in what Cases he may be allowed to quarter it with his own.

In the third place, I would enjoin every Shop to make use of a Sign which bears some Affinity to the Wares in which it deals. What can be more inconsistent, than to see a Bawd at the Sign of the Angel, or a Taylor at the Lion? A Cook should not live at the Boot, nor a Shoemaker at the roasted Pig; and yet, for want of this Regulation, I have seen a Goat set up before the Door of a Perfumer, and the French King's Head at a Sword-Cutler's.

An ingenious Foreigner observes, that several of those Gentlemen who value themselves upon their Families, and overlook such as are bred to Trade, bear the Tools of their Fore-fathers in their Coats of Arms. I will not examine how true this is in Fact: But though it may not be necessary for Posterity thus to set up the Sign of their Fore-fathers; I think it highly proper for those who actually profess the Trade, to shew some such Marks of it before their Doors.

When the Name gives an Occasion for an ingenious Sign-post, I would likewise advise the Owner to take that Opportunity of letting the World know who he is. It would have been ridiculous for the ingenious Mrs. Salmon4 to have lived at the Sign of the Trout; for which Reason she has erected before her House the Figure of the Fish that is her Namesake. Mr. Bell has likewise distinguished himself by a Device of the same Nature: And here, Sir, I must beg Leave to observe to you, that this particular Figure of a Bell has given Occasion to several Pieces of Wit in this Kind. A Man of your Reading must know, that Abel Drugger gained great Applause by it in the Time of Ben Johnson5. Our Apocryphal Heathen God6 is also represented by this Figure; which, in conjunction with the Dragon, make a very handsome picture in several of our Streets. As for the Bell-Savage, which is the Sign of a savage Man standing by a Bell, I was formerly very much puzzled upon the Conceit of it, till I accidentally fell into the reading of an old Romance translated out of the French; which gives an Account of a very beautiful Woman who was found in a Wilderness, and is called in the French la belle Sauvage; and is everywhere translated by our Countrymen the Bell-Savage. This Piece of Philology will, I hope, convince you that I have made Sign posts my Study, and consequently qualified my self for the Employment which I sollicit at your Hands. But before I conclude my Letter, I must communicate to you another Remark, which I have made upon the Subject with which I am now entertaining you, namely, that I can give a shrewd Guess at the Humour of the Inhabitant by the Sign that hangs before his Door. A surly cholerick Fellow generally makes Choice of a Bear; as Men of milder Dispositions, frequently live at the Lamb. Seeing a Punch-Bowl painted upon a Sign near Charing Cross, and very curiously garnished, with a couple of Angels hovering over it and squeezing a Lemmon into it, I had the Curiosity to ask after the Master of the House, and found upon Inquiry, as I had guessed by the little Agréemens upon his Sign, that he was a Frenchman. I know, Sir, it is not requisite for me to enlarge upon these Hints to a Gentleman of your great Abilities; so humbly recommending my self to your Favour and Patronage,

I remain, &c.

From my own Apartment near Charing-Cross.

Honoured Sir,

'Having heard that this Nation is a great Encourager of Ingenuity, I have brought with me a Rope-dancer that was caught in one of the Woods belonging to the Great Mogul. He is by Birth a Monkey; but swings upon a Rope, takes a pipe of Tobacco, and drinks a Glass of Ale, like any reasonable Creature. He gives great Satisfaction to the Quality; and if they will make a Subscription for him, I will send for a Brother of his out of Holland, that is a very good Tumbler, and also for another of the same Family, whom I design for my Merry-Andrew, as being an excellent mimick, and the greatest Drole in the Country where he now is. I hope to have this Entertainment in a Readiness for the next Winter; and doubt not but it will please more than the Opera or Puppet-Show. I will not say that a Monkey is a better Man than some of the Opera Heroes; but certainly he is a better Representative of a Man, than the most artificial Composition of Wood and Wire. If you will be pleased to give me a good Word in your paper, you shall be every Night a Spectator at my Show for nothing.

I am, &c.

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Footnote 2: Spectator's New View of London 'in Prescott Street, Goodman's Fields, instead of signs the houses are distinguished by numbers, as the staircases in the Inns of Court and Chancery.'

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Subtle He shall have a bel, that's Abel;

And by it standing one whose name is Dee

In a rug grown, there's D and rug, that's Drug:

And right anenst him a dog snarling er,

There's Drugger, Abel Drugger. That's his sign.

And here's now mystery and hieroglyphic.

Face Abel, thou art made.

Drugger Sir, I do thank his worship.

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Tuesday, April 3, 1711

Аддисон

... Sermo linguâ concinnus utrâque

Suavior: ut Chio nota si commista Falerni est.

Hor.

has English Italian Recitativo Enter a King and two Fidlers Solus

Italian Recitativo English Purcell's

Italian Recitative English

To French Welsh Scotch who 1 English French English

Italy Recitativo

Thus Italian English asking 2

For Italian English Purcell's 3

English Italian Dying Falls Shakespear English Italian English English

Signior Baptist Lully 4 French he 5 French Italian Italian By French Italian scarce Frenchman Italian French English Alpheus

Proserpine Pluto French Ascalaphus Valet de Chambre French

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№ 30

Wednesday, April 4, 17111

Стиль

Si, Mimnermus uti censet, sine amore Focisque

Nil est Fucundum; vivas in amore Focisque.

Hor.

Oxford

Fringe-Glove Club Oxonians Chloris Lesbia Quixote Spaniard

Sir,

'Since I find you take Notice of Clubs, I beg Leave to give you an Account of one in Oxford, which you have no where mention'd, and perhaps never heard of. We distinguish our selves by the Title of the Amorous Club, are all Votaries of Cupid, and Admirers of the Fair Sex. The Reason that we are so little known in the World, is the Secrecy which we are obliged to live under in the University. Our Constitution runs counter to that of the Place wherein we live: For in Love there are no Doctors, and we all profess so high Passion, that we admit of no Graduates in it. Our Presidentship is bestow'd according to the Dignity of Passion; our Number is unlimited; and our Statutes are like those of the Druids, recorded in our own Breasts only, and explained by the Majority of the Company. A Mistress, and a Poem in her Praise, will introduce any Candidate: Without the latter no one can be admitted; for he that is not in love enough to rhime, is unqualified for our Society. To speak disrespectfully of any Woman, is Expulsion from our gentle Society. As we are at present all of us Gown-men, instead of duelling when we are Rivals, we drink together the Health of our Mistress. The Manner of doing this sometimes indeed creates Debates; on such Occasions we have Recourse to the Rules of Love among the Antients.

Nævia sex Cyathis, septem Justina bibatur.

This Method of a Glass to every Letter of her Name, occasioned the other Night a Dispute of some Warmth. A young Student, who is in Love with Mrs. Elizabeth Dimple, was so unreasonable as to begin her Health under the Name of Elizabetha; which so exasperated the Club, that by common Consent we retrenched it to Betty. We look upon a Man as no Company, that does not sigh five times in a Quarter of an Hour; and look upon a Member as very absurd, that is so much himself as to make a direct Answer to a Question. In fine, the whole Assembly is made up of absent Men, that is, of such Persons as have lost their Locality, and whose Minds and Bodies never keep Company with one another. As I am an unfortunate Member of this distracted Society, you cannot expect a very regular Account of it; for which Reason, I hope you will pardon me that I so abruptly subscribe my self,

Sir,

Your most obedient,

humble Servant,

T. B.

I forgot to tell you, that Albina, who has six Votaries in this Club, is one of your Readers.'

Footnote 1: Spectator Compleat Setts of this Paper for the Month of March.

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№ 31

Thursday, April 5, 1711

Аддисон

Sit mihi fas audita loqui!

Vir.

Hay-Market The Expedition of Alexander the Great

Expedition of Alexander Delphos Clench Barnet Delphos The Darius Salmon 1 Statira When Quintus Curtius Hockley in the Hole 2 Asia Alexander Asia In 3 Porus Elephant Powell 4 Alexander Powell Bucephalus Upon Powell, junior 5 Alexander India Our German Artist Pinkethman's 6

Upon Alexander Greek Ionick acceptable 7 Greek Italian Greeks Turkish Smyrna Turkey Lawrence Greek Italian

Besides, Sir, I have heard of a very extraordinary Genius for Musick that lives in Switzerland, who has so strong a Spring in his Fingers, that he can make the Board of an Organ sound like a Drum, and if I could but procure a Subscription of about Ten Thousand Pound every Winter, I would undertake to fetch him over, and oblige him by Articles to set every thing that should be sung upon the English Stage.

After Swiss Is our Musick then to receive further Improvements from Switzerland!8

Footnote 1: Tatler 'an Old Woman flying from Time, who shakes his head and hour-glass with sorrow at seeing age so unwilling to die. Nothing but life can exceed the motions of the heads, hands, eyes, &c., of these figures, &c.'

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Footnote 5: note ante Groans of Great Britain I was the other Day at a Coffee-House when the following Advertisement was thrown in.

At Punch's Theatre in the Little Piazza, Covent-Garden, this present Evening will be performed an Entertainment, called, The History of Sir Richard Whittington, shewing his Rise from a Scullion to be Lord-Mayor of London, with the Comical Humours of Old Madge, the jolly Chamber-Maid, and the Representation of the Sea, and the Court of Great Britain, concluding with the Court of Aldermen, and Whittington Lord-Mayor, honoured with the Presence of K. Hen. VIII and his Queen Anna Bullen, with other diverting Decorations proper to the Play, beginning at 6 o'clock. Note, No money to be returned after the Entertainment is begun. Boxes, 2s. Pit, 1s. Vivat Regina.

On enquiring into the Matter, I find this has long been a noble Diversion of our Quality and Gentry; and that Mr. Powell, by Subscriptions and full Houses, has gathered such Wealth as is ten times sufficient to buy all the Poets in England; that he seldom goes out without his Chair, and thrives on this incredible Folly to that degree, that, were he a Freeman, he might hope that some future Puppet-Show might celebrate his being Lord Mayor, as he has done Sir R. Whittington.'

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Footnote 6: 'Mr. Penkethman's Wonderful Invention call'd the Pantheon: or, the Temple of the Heathen Gods. The Work of several Years, and great Expense, is now perfected; being a most surprising and magnificent Machine, consisting of 5 several curious Pictures, the Painting and contrivance whereof is beyond Expression Admirable. The Figures, which are above 100, and move their Heads, Legs, Arms, and Fingers, so exactly to what they perform, and setting one Foot before another, like living Creatures, that it justly deserves to be esteem'd the greatest Wonder of the Age. To be seen from 10 in the Morning till 10 at Night, in the Little Piazza, Covent Garden, in the same House where Punch's Opera is. Price 1s. 6d., 1s., and the lowest, 6d.'

46 Spectator

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№ 32

Friday, April 6, 1711

Стиль

Nil illi larvâ aut tragicis opus esse Cothurnis.

Hor.

Ugly-Club Oxford

Mr. Spectator,

'Your making publick the late Trouble I gave you, you will find to have been the Occasion of this: Who should I meet at the Coffee-house Door t'other Night, but my old Friend Mr. President? I saw somewhat had pleased him; and as soon as he had cast his Eye upon me,

"Oho, Doctor, rare News from London, (says he); the Spectator has made honourable Mention of the Club (Man) and published to the World his sincere Desire to be a Member, with a recommendatory Description of his Phiz: And tho' our Constitution has made no particular Provision for short Faces, yet, his being an extraordinary Case, I believe we shall find an Hole for him to creep in at; for I assure you he is not against the Canon; and if his Sides are as compact as his Joles, he need not disguise himself to make one of us."

I presently called for the Paper to see how you looked in Print; and after we had regaled our selves a while upon the pleasant Image of our Proselite, Mr. President told me I should be his Stranger at the next Night's Club: Where we were no sooner come, and Pipes brought, but Mr. President began an Harangue upon your Introduction to my Epistle; setting forth with no less Volubility of Speech than Strength of Reason,

"That a Speculation of this Nature was what had been long and much wanted; and that he doubted not but it would be of inestimable Value to the Publick, in reconciling even of Bodies and Souls; in composing and quieting the Minds of Men under all corporal Redundancies, Deficiencies, and Irregularities whatsoever; and making every one sit down content in his own Carcase, though it were not perhaps so mathematically put together as he could wish." And again, "How that for want of a due Consideration of what you first advance, viz. that our Faces are not of our own choosing, People had been transported beyond all good Breeding, and hurried themselves into unaccountable and fatal Extravagancies: As, how many impartial Looking-Glasses had been censured and calumniated, nay, and sometimes shivered into ten thousand Splinters, only for a fair Representation of the Truth? How many Headstrings and Garters had been made accessory, and actually forfeited, only because Folks must needs quarrel with their own Shadows? And who (continues he) but is deeply sensible, that one great Source of the Uneasiness and Misery of human Life, especially amongst those of Distinction, arises from nothing in the World else, but too severe a Contemplation of an indefeasible Contexture of our external Parts, or certain natural and invincible Disposition to be fat or lean? When a little more of Mr. Spectator's Philosophy would take off all this; and in the mean time let them observe, that there's not one of their Grievances of this Sort, but perhaps in some Ages of the World has been highly in vogue; and may be so again, nay, in some Country or other ten to one is so at this Day. My Lady Ample is the most miserable Woman in the World, purely of her own making: She even grudges her self Meat and Drink, for fear she should thrive by them; and is constantly crying out, In a Quarter of a Year more I shall be quite out of all manner of Shape! Now the1 Lady's Misfortune seems to be only this, that she is planted in a wrong Soil; for, go but t'other Side of the Water, it's a Jest at Harlem to talk of a Shape under eighteen Stone. These wise Traders regulate their Beauties as they do their Butter, by the Pound; and Miss Cross, when she first arrived in the Low-Countries, was not computed to be so handsom as Madam Van Brisket by near half a Tun. On the other hand, there's 'Squire Lath, a proper Gentleman of Fifteen hundred Pound per Annum, as well as of an unblameable Life and Conversation; yet would not I be the Esquire for half his Estate; for if it was as much more, he'd freely pare with it all for a pair of Legs to his Mind: Whereas in the Reign of our first King Edward of glorious Memory, nothing more modish than a Brace of your fine taper Supporters; and his Majesty without an Inch of Calf, managed Affairs in Peace and War as laudably as the bravest and most politick of his Ancestors; and was as terrible to his Neighbours under the Royal Name of Long-shanks, as Coeur de Lion to the Saracens before him. If we look farther back into History we shall find, that Alexander the Great wore his Head a little over the left Shoulder; and then not a Soul stirred out 'till he had adjusted his Neck-bone; the whole Nobility addressed the Prince and each other obliquely, and all Matters of Importance were concerted and carried on in the Macedonian Court with their Polls on one Side. For about the first Century nothing made more Noise in the World than Roman Noses, and then not a Word of them till they revived again in Eighty eight2. Nor is it so very long since Richard the Third set up half the Backs of the Nation; and high Shoulders, as well as high Noses, were the Top of the Fashion. But to come to our selves, Gentlemen, tho' I find by my quinquennial Observations that we shall never get Ladies enough to make a Party in our own Country, yet might we meet with better Success among some of our Allies. And what think you if our Board sate for a Dutch Piece? Truly I am of Opinion, that as odd as we appear in Flesh and Blood, we should be no such strange Things in Metzo-Tinto. But this Project may rest 'till our Number is compleat; and this being our Election Night, give me leave to propose Mr. Spectator: You see his Inclinations, and perhaps we may not have his Fellow."

I found most of them (as it is usual in all such Cases) were prepared; but one of the Seniors (whom by the by Mr. President had taken all this Pains to bring over) sate still, and cocking his Chin, which seemed only to be levelled at his Nose, very gravely declared,

"That in case he had had sufficient Knowledge of you, no Man should have been more willing to have served you; but that he, for his part, had always had regard to his own Conscience, as well as other Peoples Merit; and he did not know but that you might be a handsome Fellow; for as for your own Certificate, it was every Body's Business to speak for themselves."

Mr. President immediately retorted,

"A handsome Fellow! why he is a Wit (Sir) and you know the Proverb;"

and to ease the old Gentleman of his Scruples, cried, "That for Matter of Merit it was all one, you might wear a Mask."

This threw him into a Pause, and he looked, desirous of three Days to consider on it; but Mr. President improved the Thought, and followed him up with an old Story,

"That Wits were privileged to wear what Masks they pleased in all Ages; and that a Vizard had been the constant Crown of their Labours, which was generally presented them by the Hand of some Satyr, and sometimes of Apollo himself:"

For the Truth of which he appealed to the Frontispiece of several Books, and particularly to the English Juvenal3, to which he referred him; and only added,

"That such Authors were the Larvati4 or Larvâ donati of the Ancients."

This cleared up all, and in the Conclusion you were chose Probationer; and Mr. President put round your Health as such, protesting,

"That tho' indeed he talked of a Vizard, he did not believe all the while you had any more Occasion for it than the Cat-a-mountain;"

so that all you have to do now is to pay your Fees, which here are very reasonable if you are not imposed upon; and you may stile your self Informis Societatis Socius: Which I am desired to acquaint you with; and upon the same I beg you to accept of the Congratulation of,

Sir,

Your oblig'd humble Servant,

R. A. C.

Oxford March 21.

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№ 33

Saturday, April 7, 1711

Стиль

Fervidus tecum Puer, et solutis

Gratiæ zonis, properentque Nymphæ,

Et parum comis sine te Juventas,

Mercuriusque.

Hor. ad Venerem.

Lætitia Daphne Lætitia Daphne Daphne Lætitia Lætitia Daphne Lætitia Daphne Lætitia Daphne Lætitia Lætitia Daphne Dear wert thou but as Handsome as Lætitia! Lætitia Daphne Lætitia Daphne Faith Daphne, I am in Love with thee, and despise thy Sister sincerely Nay, I knew you would Laugh at me, but I'll ask your Father. Beauty Daphne's

Monsieur St. Evremont1 has concluded one of his Essays, with affirming that the last Sighs of a Handsome Woman are not so much for the loss of her Life, as of her Beauty. Perhaps this Raillery is pursued too far, yet it is turn'd upon a very obvious Remark, that Woman's strongest Passion is for her own Beauty, and that she values it as her Favourite Distinction. From hence it is that all Arts, which pretend to improve or preserve it, meet with so general a Reception among the Sex. To say nothing of many False Helps and Contraband Wares of Beauty, which are daily vended in this great Mart, there is not a Maiden-Gentlewoman, of a good Family in any County of South-Britain, who has not heard of the Virtues of May-Dew, or is unfurnished with some Receipt or other in Favour of her Complexion; and I have known a Physician of Learning and Sense, after Eight Years Study in the University, and a Course of Travels into most Countries of Europe, owe the first raising of his Fortunes to a Cosmetick Wash.

This has given me Occasion to consider how so Universal a Disposition in Womankind, which springs from a laudable Motive, the Desire of Pleasing, and proceeds upon an Opinion, not altogether groundless, that Nature may be helped by Art, may be turn'd to their Advantage. And, methinks, it would be an acceptable Service to take them out of the Hands of Quacks and Pretenders, and to prevent their imposing upon themselves, by discovering to them the true Secret and Art of improving Beauty.

In order to this, before I touch upon it directly, it will be necessary to lay down a few Preliminary Maxims, viz.

Что ни одна женщина не может быть красивой только силой черт лица, так же как она не может быть остроумной только с помощью речи.

Что гордость разрушает всякую симметрию и грацию, а жеманство — более страшный враг для красивых лиц, чем оспа.

Что ни одна женщина не способна быть прекрасной, если она не неспособна быть лживой.

И что то, что было бы отвратительным в друге, является уродством в возлюбленной.

From these few Principles, thus laid down, it will be easie to prove, that the true Art of assisting Beauty consists in Embellishing the whole Person by the proper Ornaments of virtuous and commendable Qualities. By this Help alone it is that those who are the Favourite Work of Nature, or, as Mr. Dryden expresses it, the Porcelain Clay of human Kind2, become animated, and are in a Capacity of exerting their Charms: And those who seem to have been neglected by her, like Models wrought in haste, are capable, in a great measure, of finishing what She has left imperfect.

It is, methinks, a low and degrading Idea of that Sex, which was created to refine the Joys, and soften the Cares of Humanity, by the most agreeable Participation, to consider them meerly as Objects of Sight. This is abridging them of their natural Extent of Power, to put them upon a Level with their Pictures at Kneller's. How much nobler is the Contemplation of Beauty heighten'd by Virtue, and commanding our Esteem and Love, while it draws our Observation? How faint and spiritless are the Charms of a Coquet, when compar'd with the real Loveliness of Sophronia's Innocence, Piety, good Humour and Truth; Virtues which add a new Softness to her Sex, and even beautify her Beauty! That Agreeableness, which must otherwise have appeared no longer in the modest Virgin, is now preserv'd in the tender Mother, the prudent Friend, and the faithful Wife. Colours, artfully spread upon Canvas, may entertain the Eye, but not affect the Heart; and she, who takes no care to add to the natural Graces of her Person any excelling Qualities, may be allowed still to amuse, as a Picture, but not to triumph as a Beauty.

When Adam is introduced by Milton describing Eve in Paradise, and relating to the Angel the Impressions he felt upon seeing her at her first Creation, he does not represent her like a Grecian Venus by her Shape or Features, but by the Lustre of her Mind which shone in them, and gave them their Power of charming.

Grace was in all her Steps, Heaven in her Eye,

In all her Gestures Dignity and Love.

Without this irradiating Power the proudest Fair One ought to know, whatever her Glass may tell her to the contrary, that her most perfect Features are Uninform'd and Dead.

I cannot better close this Moral, than by a short Epitaph written by Ben Johnson, with a Spirit which nothing could inspire but such an Object as I have been describing.

Underneath this Stone doth lie

As much Virtue as cou'd die,

Which when alive did Vigour give

To as much Beauty as cou'd live3.

I am, Sir,

Your most humble Servant,

R. B.

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'One name was Elizabeth,

The other, let it sleep in death.'

Underneath this stone doth lie,

As much Beauty as could die,

Which in Life did Harbour give

To more Virtue than doth live.

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Monday, April 9, 1711

Аддисон

... parcit

Cognatis maculis similis fera ...

Juv.

Will. Honeycomb Will

Andrew Freeport Andrew

Templar Andrew Charles's Horace, Juvenal, Boileau Roger De Coverley Spectator English

Sentry

Will. Honeycomb Andrew Templar Roger Captain

Roman

Punch

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№ 35

Tuesday, April 10, 1711

Аддисон

Risu inepto res ineptior milla est.

Mart.

Bedlam; There which 1

The Shadwell 2 English

Cowley Plato's Truth Good Sense Good Sense Wit Mirth Humour Humour Merry-Andrew

But is an Impostor 3 takes upon him 4 Cheats 5 this Pretender, 6 Truth Good Sense They True Humour about him 7 False Humour Wit Mirth Mirth Wit

Falsehood Nonsense Frenzy Folly Laughter False Humour True Humour

Falsehood Truth

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Nonsense Good Sense

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Frenzy=Laughter Wit=Mirth

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False Humour Humour

False Humour False Humour True

Он чрезвычайно склонен к мелким обезьяньим уловкам и шутовству.

Он настолько наслаждается мимикрией, что ему все равно, разоблачает ли он с ее помощью порок и глупость, роскошь и алчность; или, наоборот, добродетель и мудрость, боль и бедность.

Он удивительно неудачлив, настолько, что укусит руку, которая его кормит, и попытается высмеять как друзей, так и врагов без разбора. Обладая лишь небольшими талантами, он должен веселиться там, где может, а не там, где следует.

Будучи полностью лишенным разума, он не преследует никакой цели ни морали, ни наставления, а смешон только ради того, чтобы быть таковым.

Будучи неспособным ни на что, кроме пародийных представлений, его насмешка всегда личная и направлена на порочного человека или писателя; а не на порок или на само писательство.

attacking Multitudes

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№ 36

Wednesday, April 11, 1711

Стиль

... Immania monstra

Perferimus ...

Virg.

Drury-Lane, April1 the 9th.

'Upon reading the Project which is set forth in one of your late Papers2, of making an Alliance between all the Bulls, Bears, Elephants, and Lions, which are separately exposed to publick View in the Cities of London and Westminster; together with the other Wonders, Shows, and Monsters, whereof you made respective Mention in the said Speculation; We, the chief Actors of this Playhouse, met and sat upon the said Design. It is with great Delight that We expect the Execution of this Work; and in order to contribute to it, We have given Warning to all our Ghosts to get their Livelihoods where they can, and not to appear among us after Day-break of the 16th Instant. We are resolved to take this Opportunity to part with every thing which does not contribute to the Representation of humane Life; and shall make a free Gift of all animated Utensils to your Projector. The Hangings you formerly mentioned are run away; as are likewise a Set of Chairs, each of which was met upon two Legs going through the Rose Tavern at Two this Morning. We hope, Sir, you will give proper Notice to the Town that we are endeavouring at these Regulations; and that we intend for the future to show no Monsters, but Men who are converted into such by their own Industry and Affectation. If you will please to be at the House to-night, you will see me do my Endeavour to show some unnatural Appearances which are in vogue among the Polite and Well-bred. I am to represent, in the Character of a fine Lady Dancing, all the Distortions which are frequently taken for Graces in Mien and Gesture. This, Sir, is a Specimen of the Method we shall take to expose the Monsters which come within the Notice of a regular Theatre; and we desire nothing more gross may be admitted by you Spectators for the future. We have cashiered three Companies of Theatrical Guards, and design our Kings shall for the future make Love and sit in Council without an Army: and wait only your Direction, whether you will have them reinforce King Porus or join the Troops of Macedon. Mr. Penkethman resolves to consult his Pantheon of Heathen Gods in Opposition to the Oracle of Delphos, and doubts not but he shall turn the Fortunes of Porus when he personates him. I am desired by the Company to inform you, that they submit to your Censures; and shall have you in greater Veneration than Hercules was in of old, if you can drive Monsters from the Theatre; and think your Merit will be as much greater than his, as to convince is more than to conquer.

I am, Sir,

Your most obedient Servant,

T.D.

Sir,

When I acquaint you with the great and unexpected Vicissitudes of my Fortune, I doubt not but I shall obtain your Pity and Favour. I have for many Years last past been Thunderer to the Play-house; and have not only made as much Noise out of the Clouds as any Predecessor of mine in the Theatre that ever bore that Character, but also have descended and spoke on the Stage as the bold Thunder in The Rehearsal.3

When they got me down thus low, they thought fit to degrade me further, and make me a Ghost. I was contented with this for these two last Winters; but they carry their Tyranny still further, and not satisfied that I am banished from above Ground, they have given me to understand that I am wholly to depart their Dominions, and taken from me even my subterraneous Employment. Now, Sir, what I desire of you is, that if your Undertaker thinks fit to use Fire-Arms (as other Authors have done) in the Time of Alexander, I may be a Cannon against Porus, or else provide for me in the Burning of Persepolis, or what other Method you shall think fit.

Salmoneus of Covent-Garden.'

Заслуга этой петиции передана мистеру Кристоферу Ричу, который сделал их чертями.

Hamlet Alexander

Удовлетворено.

The William Bullock Hephestion Penkethman the Great. 4

Удовлетворено.

The caricature here, and in following lines, is of a passage in Sir Robert Stapylton's Slighted Maid: 'I am the Evening, dark as Night,' &c.

In the Spectator's time the Rehearsal was an acted play, in which Penkethman had the part of the gentleman Usher, and Bullock was one of the two Kings of Brentford; Thunder was Johnson, who played also the Grave-digger in Hamlet and other reputable parts.

Footnote 1: March

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Footnote 2: No. 31

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Footnote 3: Rehearsal

Come out, Thunder and Lightning.

Enter Thunder and Lightning..

Thun I am the bold Thunder.

Bayes Mr. Cartwright, prithee speak that a little louder, and with a hoarse voice. I am the bold Thunder: pshaw! Speak it me in a voice that thunders it out indeed: I am the bold Thunder.

Thun I am the bold Thunder.

Light The brisk Lightning, I.

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A Widow Gentlewoman,

wellborn both by Father and Mother's Side,

being the Daughter of Thomas Prater, once an eminent Practitioner in the Law,

and of Letitia Tattle, a Family well known in all Parts of this Kingdom,

having been reduc'd by Misfortunes to wait on several great Persons,

and for some time to be Teacher at a Boarding-School of young Ladies;

giveth Notice to the Publick,

That she hath lately taken a House near Bloomsbury-Square, commodiously situated next the Fields in a good Air;

where she teaches all sorts of Birds of the loquacious Kinds, as Parrots, Starlings, Magpies, and others,

to imitate human Voices in greater Perfection than ever yet was practis'd.

They are not only instructed to pronounce Words distinctly, and in a proper Tone and Accent,

but to speak the Language with great Purity and Volubility of Tongue,

together with all the fashionable Phrases and Compliments now in use either at Tea-Tables or visiting Days.

Those that have good Voices may be taught to sing the newest Opera-Airs,

and, if requir'd, to speak either Italian or French, paying something extraordinary above the common Rates.

They whose Friends are not able to pay the full Prices may be taken as Half-boarders.

She teaches such as are design'd for the Diversion of the Publick,

and to act in enchanted Woods on the Theatres, by the Great.

As she has often observ'd with much Concern how indecent an Education is usually given these innocent Creatures,

which in some Measure is owing to their being plac'd in Rooms next the Street,

where, to the great Offence of chaste and tender Ears,

they learn Ribaldry, obscene Songs, and immodest Expressions from Passengers and idle People,

and also to cry Fish and Card-matches, with other useless Parts of Learning to Birds who have rich Friends,

she has fitted up proper and neat Apartments for them in the back Part of her said House;

where she suffers none to approach them but her self, and a Servant Maid who is deaf and dumb,

and whom she provided on purpose to prepare their Food and cleanse their Cages;

having found by long Experience how hard a thing it is for those to keep Silence who have the Use of Speech,

and the Dangers her Scholars are expos'd to by the strong Impressions that are made by harsh Sounds and vulgar Dialects.

In short, if they are Birds of any Parts or Capacity,

she will undertake to render them so accomplish'd in the Compass of a Twelve-month,

that they shall be fit Conversation for such Ladies as love to chuse their Friends and Companions out of this Species.

R.

№ 37

Thursday, April 12, 1711

Аддисон

... Non illa colo calathisve Minervæ

Fœmineas assueta manus ...

Virg.

Leonora Lady's Library Folios China Piece of Architecture. The

Quartos Octavos delightful 1 Octavos China

Among 2

«Вергилий» Огилби.

«Ювенал» Драйдена.

«Кассандра».

«Клеопатра».

«Астрея».

Сочинения сэра Исаака Ньютона.

«Великий Кир»: с булавкой, воткнутой в один из средних листов.

«Аркадия» Пембрука.

«О человеческом разумении» Локка: с бумажкой с пластырями внутри.

Букварь.

Словарь для объяснения трудных слов.

«О смерти» Шерлока.

«Пятнадцать утешений брака».

Эссе сэра Уильяма Темпла.

«Поиск истины» отца Мальбранша, переведенный на английский язык.

Книга новелл.

«Академия комплиментов».

«Акушерство» Калпепера.

«Призвание дам».

«Сказки в стихах» мистера Дёрфея: в переплете из красной кожи, с позолотой на корешке и загнутыми страницами в нескольких местах.

Все классические авторы в дереве.

Набор Эльзевиров того же мастера.

«Клелия»: которая сама открывалась на месте, описывающем двух влюбленных в беседке.

«Хроника» Бейкера.

«Совет дочери».

«Новая Атлантида» с ключом к ней.

«Христианский герой» мистера Стиля.

Молитвенник: с флаконом венгерской воды рядом с ним.

Речь доктора Сашеверелла.

«Судебный процесс» Филдинга.

«Нравственные письма» Сенеки.

«Святая жизнь и смерть» Тейлора.

«Инструкции для деревенских танцев» Ла Ферте.

Leonora Roger Yes Leonora Roger Leonora Roger Roger London The Purling Stream Roger

Amidst who 3

Footnote 1:

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Footnote 2: Virgil

Juvenal Persius Satires Essay on Satire

Cassandra Cleopatra Cassandra Cleopatra Cleopatra Cassandra Cleopatra Astræa Arcadia the Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

Spectator's Essay on the Human Understanding

Grand Cyrus Grand Cyrus Clelia

Practical Discourse concerning Death

Spectator's Recherche de la Vérité

New Poems, with Songs

New Atalantis Spectator's New Atalantis Secret Memoirs and Manners of several Persons of Quality of both sexes, from the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediterranean.

Spectator 52 54

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№ 38

Friday, April 13, 1711

Стиль

Cupias non placuisse nimis.

Mart.

The Burnet 1

I 2

Dear Sir,

'I Spent some Time with you the other Day, and must take the Liberty of a Friend to tell you of the unsufferable Affectation you are guilty of in all you say and do. When I gave you an Hint of it, you asked me whether a Man is to be cold to what his Friends think of him? No; but Praise is not to be the Entertainment of every Moment: He that hopes for it must be able to suspend the Possession of it till proper Periods of Life, or Death it self. If you would not rather be commended than be Praiseworthy, contemn little Merits; and allow no Man to be so free with you, as to praise you to your Face. Your Vanity by this Means will want its Food. At the same time your Passion for Esteem will be more fully gratified; Men will praise you in their Actions: Where you now receive one Compliment, you will then receive twenty Civilities. Till then you will never have of either, further than

Sir,

Your humble Servant.'

Footnote 1: Telluris Theoria Sacra, the Sacred Theory of the Earth, Spectator's Theory New Theory of the Earth

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№ 39

Saturday, April 14, 1711

Аддисон

Multa fero, ut placem genus irritabile vatum,

Cum scribo.

Hor.

A Seneca 1

Drama

Greece Rome

This may 2 English

Aristotle 3 that Iambick Greek Iambicks English English Hexameters Greek Latin Italian Recitativo Exit English Hemistick

English On Corneille Racine 4 English English

Shakespear There Aristotle 5 Horace Aristotle Et Tragicus plerumque dolet Sermone pedestri,

Telephus et Peleus, cum pauper et exul uterque,

Projicit ampullas et sesquipedalia verba,

Si curat cor Spectantis tetigisse querelâ.

Tragedians too lay by their State, to grieve.

Peleus and Telephus, Exit'd and Poor,

Forget their Swelling and Gigantick Words.

(Ld. Roscommon.)

Among English Lee 6 Statira's Alexander's Then he would talk: Good Gods! how he would talk!

Otway 7 followed English Aristotle's Venice Preserved Roman Catiline si pro Patriâ sic concidisset

Footnote 1: Providence "De Providentiâ, sive Quare Bonis Viris Mala Accidant cum sit Providentia' § 2,

'Ecce spectaculum dignum, ad quod respiciat intentus operi suo Deus: ecce par Deo dignum, vir fortis cum malâ fortunâ compositus, utique si et provocavit."

Adversus Gentes:

"Quam pulchrum spectaculum Deo, cum Christianus cum dolore congueditur? cum adversus minas, et supplicia, et tormenta componitur? cum libertatem suam adversus reges ac Principes erigit."

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Footnote 6: Nero Rival Queens Theodosius Œdipus

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Footnote 7: Alcibiades Nero Don Carlos Orphan Venice Preserved

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№ 40

Monday, April 16, 1711

Аддисон

Ac ne forte putes, me, que facere ipse recusem,

Cum recte tractant alii, laudare maligne;

Ille per extentum funem mihi fosse videtur

Ire Poeta, meum qui pectus inaniter angit,

Irritat, mulcet, falsis terroribus implet,

Ut magus; et modo me Thebis, modo ponit Athenis.

Hor.

English Aristotle considers 1 The The Orphan, Venice Preserved, Alexander the Great, Theodosius, All for Love, Œdipus, Oroonoko, Othello 2 King Lear Shakespear At The Mourning Bride, Tamerlane, Ulysses, Phædra Hippolitus Dryden's 3 Shakespear's English

English Æneas Hudibras

English

English Rants Powell

Dryden Lee

Œdipus To you, good Gods, I make my last Appeal;

Or clear my Virtues, or my Crimes reveal.

If in the Maze of Fate I blindly run,

And backward trod those Paths I sought to shun;

Impute my Errors to your own Decree:

My Hands are guilty, but my Heart is free.

Let 4 O that as oft have at Athens seen,

Œdipus The Stage arise, and the big Clouds descend;

So now, in very Deed, I might behold

This pond'rous Globe, and all yen marble Roof,

Meet like the Hands of Jove, and crush Mankind.

For all the Elements, &c.

Footnote 1: 'and as the strongest proof of it we find that upon the stage, and in the dramatic contests, such tragedies, if they succeed, have always the most tragic effect.'

Poetics

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Having spoken of Mr. Powell,

as sometimes raising himself Applause from the ill Taste of an Audience;

I must do him the Justice to own,

that he is excellently formed for a Tragoedian,

and, when he pleases, deserves the Admiration of the best Judges;

as I doubt not but he will in the Conquest of Mexico,

which is acted for his own Benefit To-morrow Night.

C.

№ 41

Tuesday, April 17, 1711

Стиль

Tu non inventa reperta es.

Ovid

Sir,

Supposing you to be a Person of general Knowledge, I make my Application to you on a very particular Occasion. I have a great Mind to be rid of my Wife, and hope, when you consider my Case, you will be of Opinion I have very just Pretensions to a Divorce. I am a mere Man of the Town, and have very little Improvement, but what I have got from Plays. I remember in The Silent Woman the Learned Dr. Cutberd, or Dr. Otter (I forget which) makes one of the Causes of Separation to be Error Personæ, when a Man marries a Woman, and finds her not to be the same Woman whom he intended to marry, but another1. If that be Law, it is, I presume, exactly my Case. For you are to know, Mr. Spectator, that there are Women who do not let their Husbands see their Faces till they are married.

Not to keep you in suspence, I mean plainly, that Part of the Sex who paint. They are some of them so Exquisitely skilful this Way, that give them but a Tolerable Pair of Eyes to set up with, and they will make Bosoms, Lips, Cheeks, and Eye-brows, by their own Industry. As for my Dear, never Man was so Enamour'd as I was of her fair Forehead, Neck, and Arms, as well as the bright Jett of her Hair; but to my great Astonishment, I find they were all the Effects of Art: Her Skin is so Tarnished with this Practice, that when she first wakes in a Morning, she scarce seems young enough to be the Mother of her whom I carried to Bed the Night before. I shall take the Liberty to part with her by the first Opportunity, unless her Father will make her Portion suitable to her real, not her assumed, Countenance. This I thought fit to let him and her know by your Means.

I am, Sir,

Your most obedient,

humble Servant.

Picts British British Picts Picts Pict

Will. Honeycomb Pict Will Pict Cowley Th' adorning Thee, with so much Art,

Is but a barbarous Skill;

'Tis like the Pois'ning of a Dart,

Too apt before to kill2.

Pict Honeycomb Spanish

Pict British Lindamira incog.

Statira

Pict Donne Her pure and eloquent Blood

Spoke in her Cheeks, and so distinctly wrought,

That one would almost say her Body thought3.

Footnote 1: Epicœne Spectator's Tom Otter's bull, bear, and horse is known all over England, in rerum naturâ.

for how many causes a man may have divortium legitimum, a lawful divorce.

Cutb. The first is impedimentum erroris.

Otter. Of which there are several species.

Cutb Ay, as error personæ.

Otter If you contract yourself to one person, thinking her another.

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A young Gentlewoman of about Nineteen Years of Age

(bred in the Family of a Person of Quality lately deceased,)

who Paints the finest Flesh-colour,

wants a Place,

and is to be heard of at the House of

Minheer Grotesque a Dutch Painter in Barbican.

N.B. She is also well-skilled in the Drapery-part,

and puts on Hoods and mixes Ribbons

so as to suit the Colours of the Face

with great Art and Success.

R.

№ 42

Wednesday, April 18, 1711

Аддисон

Garganum inugire putes nemus aut mare Thuscum,

Tanto cum strepitu ludi spectantur; et artes,

Divitiæque peregrina, quibus oblitus actor

Cum stetit in Scena, concurrit dextera lævæ.

Dixit adhuc aliquid? Nil sane. Quid placet ergo?

Lana Tarentino violas imitata veneno.

Hor.

1 observed English

English Non tamen intus

Digna geri promes in scenam: multaque tolles

Ex oculis, qua mox narret facundia prœsens.

Hor.

Yet there are things improper for a Scene,

Which Men of Judgment only will relate.

(L. Roscom.)

French French Hay-Market Charing-Cross

Italians Fourberia della Scena, The Knavery or trickish Part of the Drama

Brutus Shakespear

Footnote 1: Poetics

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№ 43

Thursday, April 19, 1711

Стиль

Ha tibi erunt artes; pacisque imponere morem,

Parcere Subjectis, et debellare Superbos.

Virg.

Oxford

Oxford, April 13, 1711.

Four a Clock in the Morning.

Sir,

'In some of your late Speculations, I find some Sketches towards an History of Clubs: But you seem to me to shew them in somewhat too ludicrous a Light. I have well weighed that Matter, and think, that the most important Negotiations may best be carried on in such Assemblies. I shall therefore, for the Good of Mankind, (which, I trust, you and I are equally concerned for) propose an Institution of that Nature for Example sake.

I must confess, the Design and Transactions of too many Clubs are trifling, and manifestly of no consequence to the Nation or Publick Weal: Those I'll give you up. But you must do me then the Justice to own, that nothing can be more useful or laudable than the Scheme we go upon. To avoid Nicknames and Witticisms, we call ourselves The Hebdomadal Meeting: Our President continues for a Year at least, and sometimes four or five: We are all Grave, Serious, Designing Men, in our Way: We think it our Duty, as far as in us lies, to take care the Constitution receives no Harm, — Ne quid detrimenti Res capiat publica — To censure Doctrines or Facts, Persons or Things, which we don't like; To settle the Nation at home, and to carry on the War abroad, where and in what manner we see fit: If other People are not of our Opinion, we can't help that. 'Twere better they were. Moreover, we now and then condescend to direct, in some measure, the little Affairs of our own University.

Verily, Mr. Spectator, we are much offended at the Act for importing French Wines1: A Bottle or two of good solid Edifying Port, at honest George's, made a Night chearful, and threw off Reserve. But this plaguy French Claret will not only cost us more Mony, but do us less Good: Had we been aware of it, before it had gone too far, I must tell you, we would have petitioned to be heard upon that Subject. But let that pass.

I must let you know likewise, good Sir, that we look upon a certain Northern Prince's March, in Conjunction with Infidels2, to be palpably against our Goodwill and Liking; and, for all Monsieur Palmquist3, a most dangerous Innovation; and we are by no means yet sure, that some People are not at the Bottom on't. At least, my own private Letters leave room for a Politician well versed in matters of this Nature, to suspect as much, as a penetrating Friend of mine tells me.

We think we have at last done the business with the Malecontents in Hungary, and shall clap up a Peace there4.

What the Neutrality Army5 is to do, or what the Army in Flanders, and what two or three other Princes, is not yet fully determined among us; and we wait impatiently for the coming in of the next Dyer's6 who, you must know, is our Authentick Intelligence, our Aristotle in Politics. And 'tis indeed but fit there should be some Dernier Resort, the Absolute Decider of all Controversies.