the world, "I had had an affair with the "moon, in which there was neither fin "nor shame," than have it pass altogether as my own act and deed, wherein there was so much of both. : -But be this as it may. The moment I caft my eyes upon him, I was predetermined not to give him a fingle fous; and accordingly I put my purse into my pocket-button'd it up-fet myself a little more upon my centre, and advanced up gravely to him: there was something, I fear, forbidding in my look: I have his figure this moment before my eyes, and think there was that in it which deserved better. The monk, as I judged from the break in his tonfure, a few scatter'd white hairs upon his temples, being all that remained of it, might be about seventy-but from his eyes, and that fort of fire which was in them, which seemed more temper'd by courtesy than years, could be no more than fixtyTruth might lie between-He was certaindy fixty-five; and the general air of his countenance, notwithstanding fomething feem'd to have been planting wrinkles in it before their time, agreed to the account. venty It was one of those heads, which Guido has often painted-mild, palepenetrating, free from all common-place ideas of fat contented ignorance looking downwards upon the earth it look'd forwards; but look'd, as if it look'd at fomething beyond this world. How one of his order came by it heaven above, who let it fall upon a monk's shoulders, best knows: but it would have suited a Bramin, and had I met it upon the plains of Indoftan, I had reverenced it. The The rest of his outline may be given in a few strokes; one might put it into the hands of any one to design, for 'twas neither elegant or otherwise, but as cha racter and expreffion made it so: it was a thin, spare form, fomething above the common fize, if it lost not the diftinction by a bend forwards: in the figure but it was the attitude of Intreaty; and as it now stands presented to my imagination, it gain'd more than it loft by it. T When he had enter'd the room three paces, he stood ftill; and laying his left hand upon his breast, (a flender white staff with which he journey'd being in his right)- when I had got close up to him, he introduced himself with the little story of the wants of his convent, and the poverty of his order and did it with so fimple a grace-and fuch an air of deprecation was there in the whole caft of of his look and figure-I was bewitch'd not to have been ftruck with it -A better reason was, I had predeter. mined not to give him a single fous. THE MΟΝΚ. CALAIS. : او -'TIS very true, faid I, replying to a caft upwards with his eyes, with which he had concluded his address-'tis very true-and heaven be their resource who have no other but the charity of the world, the stock of which, I fear, is no way fufficient for the many great claims which are hourly made upon it. As I pronounced the words great claims, he gave a flight glance with his eye downwards upon the fleeve of his tunick-I felt the full force of the appeal-I acknowledge it, faid I-a coarse habit, and that but once in three years, with meagre diet-are no great matters; and the |