mine me, than in regard to this fellow he was a faithful, affectionate, simple foul as ever trudged after the heels of a philosopher; and notwithstanding his talents of drum-beating and spatterdash - making, which, tho' very good in themselves, happened to be of no great service to me, yet was I hourly recompensed by the festivity of his temper it supplied all defects

I had a constant resource in his looks in all difficulties and distresses of my own I was going to have added, of his too; but La Fleur was out of the reach of every thing; for whether 'twas hunger or thirst, or cold or nakedness, or watchings, or whatever stripes of ill luck La Fleur met with in our journeyings, there was no index in his physiognomy to point them out by -he was eternally the fame; so that if I am a piece of a philofopher, which Satan now and then puts it into my head I am it always mortifies the pride of the conceit, by reflecting how much I owe to the complexional philosophy of this poor fellow, for shaming me into one of a better kind. With all this, La Fleur had a small cast of the coxcomb but he seemed at first sight to be more a coxcomb of nature than of art; and before I had been three days in Paris with him seemed to be no coxcomb at all.

MONTRIUL.

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THE next morning La Fleur entering upon his

employment, I delivered to him the key of my portmanteau, with an inventory of my half a dozen shirts and filk pair of breeches; and bid him fasten all upon the chaise get the horfes

and defire the landlord to come in with

C'est un garçon de bonne fortune, said the landlord, pointing through the window to half a dozen wenches who had got round about La Fleur, and were most kindly taking their leave of him, as the postillion was leading out the horses. La Fleur kissed all their hands round and round again, and thrice he wiped his eyes, and thrice he promised he would bring them all pardons from Rome.

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The young fellow, faid the landlord, is beloved by all the town, and there is scarce a corner in Montriul where the want of him will not be felt: he has but one misfortune in the world, continued he, "He is always in love. : am heartily glad of it, faid I 'twill save me the trouble every night of putting my breeches under my head. In faying this, I was making not fo much La Fleur's eloge, as my own, having been in love with one princess or another almost all my life, and I hope I shall go on fo till I die, being firmly perfuaded, that if ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one paffion and another: whilst this interregnum lasts, I always perceive my heart locked I can scarce find in it to give Misery a fixup pence; and therefore I always get out of it as faft

as I can, and the moment I am rekindled, I am all generofity and good-will again; and would do any thing in the world either for, or with any one, if they will but fatisfy me there is no fin in it.

But in saying this the paffion - not myself.

fure I am commending

A FRAGMENT.

THE town of Abdera, notwithstanding Democritus lived there trying all the powers of irony and laughter to reclaim it, was the vilest and most profligate town in all Thrace. What for poifons, confpiracies and affaffinations - libels, pafquinades and tumults, there was no going there by day - 'twas worse by night.

Now, when things were at the worst, it came to pass, that the Andromeda of Euripides being represented at Abdera, the whole orchestra was delighted with it: but of all the passages which delighted them, nothing operated more upon their imaginations, than the tender strokes of nature which the poet had wrought up in that pathetic speech of Perfeus, o Cupid, prince of God and men, &c. Every man almost spoke pure iambics the next day, and talk'd of nothing but Perfeus his pathetic address "O Cupid! prince of God and men

in every street of Abdera, in every house "O Cupid! Cupid!" - in every mouth, like the

natural notes of fome sweet melody which drops from it whether it will or no nothing but Cupid! Cupid! prince of God and men " The fire caught - and the whole city, like the heart of one man, open'd itself to Love.

No pharmacopolist could fell one grain of hellebore not a single armorer had a heart to forge one instrument of death - Friendship and Virtue met together, and kiss'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 chastely fat her down and listen'd to the fong

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

MONTRIUL.

WHEN all is ready, and every article is disputed 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 say, " 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 sous out in my hand; and I would

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

elfewhere.

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

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

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

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

I insisted upon presenting him with a fingle fous, merely for his politeffe.

A poor little dwarfish brisk fellow who stood over-against me in the circle, putting something