fome fweet myrtle, or feek fome melancholy cypress to connect myself to

I would court their shade, and greet them kindly for their protection-I would cut my name upon them, and fwear they were the lovelieft trees throughout the defart: if their leaves withered, I would teach myself to mourn, and when they rejoi ced, I would rejoice along with them.

THE learned SMELFUNGUS travelled from Boulogne to Paris-from Paris. to Rome-and fo on but he fet out with the spleen and jaundice, and every object he paffed by was difcoloured or diftorted-He wrote an account of them, but 'twas nothing but the account of his miferable feelings.

I MET Smelfungus in the grand portico of the Pantheon-he was just coming out of it.'Tis nothing but a

huge

huge cock-pit*, faid he-I wish you had. faid nothing worfe of the Venus of Medicis, replied I-for in paffing through Florence, I had heard he had fallen foul upon the goddess, and used her worse than a common ftrumpet, without the leaft provocation in nature.

I POPPED upon Smelfungus again at Turin, in his return home; and a fad tale of forrowful adventures had he to tell, "wherein he spoke of moving accidents "by flood and field, and of the cannibals "which eat each other: the Anthropo

phagi" he had been flea'd alive, and bedeviled, and, ufed worse than St. Bartholomew, at every ftage he had.

come at.

1

-I'LL tell it, cried Smelfungus to

* Vide S's Travels.

the.

the world. You had better tell it, faid!

I, to your phyfician.

MUNDUNGUS, with an immenfe for-tune, made the whole tour; going on from Rome to Naples

ples to Venice.

na

from Na

from Venice to Vien

-to Dresden, to Berlin, without

one generous connection or pleasurable anecdote to tell of; but he had travelled. ftraight on, looking neither to his right hand or his left, left Love or Pity should feduce him out of his road..

PEACE be to them! if it is to be found; but heaven itself, was it poffible to get. there with fuch tempers, would want objects to give it every gentle fpirit would come flying upon the wings of Love to hail their arrival-Nothing would the fouls of Smelfungus and Mundungus hear of, but fresh anthems of joy, fresh raptures of love, and fresh congra

tulations

tulations of their common felicity- I heartily pity them: they have brought up no faculties for this work; and was the happiest mansion in heaven to be allotted to Smelfungus and Mundungus, they would be fo far from being happy,. that the fouls of Smelfungus and Mundungus would do penance there to all e. ternity.

MON

MONTRI U L

I

HAD once loft my portmanteau from behind my chaife, and twice got out. in the rain, and one of the times up to the knees in dirt, to help the poftilion to tie it on, without being able to find what was wanting-Nor was it till I got to Montriul, upon the landlord's asking me, if I wanted not a fervant, that it occured. to me, that that was the very thing.

A SERVANT! That I do moft fadly, quoth I-Becaufe, Monfieur, faid the landlord, there is a clever young fellow who would be very proud of the honour to ferve an Englishman--But why an English one more than any other ? They are fo generous, faid the landlord/ -I'll be fhot if this is not a livre out of

my.