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Cupid! Cupid! prince of God and men -The.

fire caught and the whole city, like the heart of one man, open'd itfelf to Love.

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No pharmacopolift could fell one grain of hellenot a fingle armorer had a heart to forge one inftrument of death Friendship and Virtue met together, and kifs'd each other in the street the golden age return'd, and hung over the town of Abdera every Abderite took his oaten pipe, and every Abderitish woman left her purple web, and chafstely fat her down and liften'd to the fong

'Twas only in the power, fays the Fragment, of the God whofe empire extendeth from heaven to earth, and even to the depths of the fea, to have done this.

MONTRI UL.

WHE HEN all is ready, and every article is difputed and paid for in the inn, unless you are a little four'd by the adventure, there is always a matter to compound at the door, before you can get into your chaife, and that is with the fons and daughters of poverty, who furround you. Let no man fay, "let them go to the devil " 'tis a cruel journey to send a few miferables, and they have had fufferings enow without it: I always think it better to take a few fous out in my hand; and I would

counsel every gentle traveller to do fo likewife; he need not be fo exact in fetting down his motives for giving them -- - They will be register'd elsewhere.

For my own part, there is no man gives fo little as I do; for few that I know have fo little to give: but as this was the firft public act of my charity in France, I took the more notice of it.

A well-a-way! said I, I have but eight fous in the world, fhewing them in my hand, and there are eight poor men and eight poor women for'em.

A poor tatter'd foul, without a fhirt on, inftantly withdrew his claim, by retiring two steps out of the circle, and making a difqualifying bow on his part. Had the whole parterre cried out, Place aux dames, with one voice, it would not have conveyed the fentiment of a deference for the fex with half the effect.

Juft heaven! for what wife reafons haft thou ordered it, that beggary and urbanity, which are at fuch variance in other countries, fhould find a way to be at unity in this?

I infifted upon prefenting him with a fingle fous, merely for his politele.

A poor little dwarfish brifk fellow who ftood over-against me in the circle, putting fomething

firft under his arm, which had once been a hat, took his fnuff-box out of his pocket, and generoufly offer'd a pinch on both fides of him: it was a gift of confequence, and modeftly declined The poor little fellow prefs'd it upon them with a nod of welcomeness Prenez en prenez, faid he, looking another way; fo they each took a pinch Pity thy box fhould ever want one, faid I to myself; fo I put a couple of fous into it taking a small pinch out of his box, to enhance their value, as I did it. He felt the weight of the second obligation more than that of the first 'twas doing him an honor -the other was only doing him a charity and he made me a bow down to the ground for it.

-Here! faid I to an old foldier with one hand, who had been campaign'd and worn out to death in the service here's a couple of fous for thee. le Roi! faid the old foldier.

Vive

I had then but three fous left: fo I gave one, fimply pour l'amour de Dieu, which was the footing on which it was begg'd The poor woman had a diflocated hip; fo it could not be well, upon any other motive.

Mon cher et très-charitable Monfieur - There's no oppofing this, faid I.

My Lord Anglois the

money

very found was worth the fo I gave my last fous for it. But in the

and

eagerness of giving, I had overlook'd a pauvre honteux, who had no one to ask a fous for him, who, I believed, would have perish'd ere he could have afk'd one for himself: he ftood by the chaife a little without the circle, and wiped a tear from a face which I thought had seen better days. Good God! faid I-and I have not one fingle fous left to give him -But you have a thousand! cried all the powers of nature, ftirring within me - fo I gave him matter what I am afhamed to fay how much, now

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and was afhamed to think, how little, then, so if the reader can form any conjecture of my difpofition, as these two fixed points are given him, he may judge within a livre or two what was the precife fum.

I could afford nothing for the reft, but Dieu vous Et le bon Dieu vous bénisse encore --- faid the béniffe old foldier, the dwarf, &c. The pauvre honteux could fay nothing he pull'd out a little handkerchief, and wiped his face as he turned away I thought he thanked me more than them all.

THE BIDET.

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HAVING AVING fettled all thefe little matters, I got into my post-chaife with more eafe than ever I got into a post-chaife in my life; and La Fleur having got one large jackboot on the far fide of a little bidet, and another on this (for I count nothing of his legs)he canter'd away before me as happy · and as perpendicular as a prince

* Poft - horfe.

--But

-But what is happiness! what is grandeur in this painted scene of life! A dead afs, before we had got a league, put a fudden ftop to La Fleur's career-his bidet would not pafs by it-a contention arose betwixt them, and the poor fellow was kick'd out of his jack-boots the very first kick.

La Fleur bore his fall like a French christian, faying neither more or lefs upon it, than, Diable! fo presently got up, and came to the charge again aftride his bidet, beating him up to it as he would have beat his drum.

The bidet flew from one fide of the road to the other, then back again-then this way-then that way, and in fhort every way but by the dead afs. -La Fleur infifted upon the thing-and the bidet threw him.

What's the matter, La Fleur, faid I, with this bidet of thine?-Monfieur, faid he, c'est un cheval le plus opiniâtré du monde-Nay, if he is a conceited beaft, he must go his own way, replied I-fo La Fleur got off him, and giving him a good found lash, the bidet took me at my word, and away he fcamper'd back to Montriul-Pefte! faid La Fleur.

It is not mal a propos to take notice here, that tho' La Fleur availed himself but of two different terms of exclamation in this encounter-namely, Diable! and Pefte! that there are nevertheless three, in the French language; like the pofitive, comparative

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