and thrice he promised he would bring them all pardons from Rome. THE young fellow, faid the landlord, is beloved by all the town, and there is fcarce 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."-I am heartily glad of it, faid I-'twill fave 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 fhall go on fo till I die, being firmly perfuaded, that if ever I do a mean action, it must be in fome interval betwixt one paffion and another: while this interregnum lafts, I always perceive my heart locked up--I can fcarce find in it to give Mifery a fixpence, and therefore I always get out of it as faft F 4 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 faying this-furely I am commending the paffion-not myfelf. A A FRAGMENT. -THE town of Abdera, notwithftanding Democritus lived there trying all the powers of irony and laughter to. reclaim it, was the vileft and most profligate town in all Thrace. What for poifons, confpiracies, and affaffinations-libels, pafquinadies, 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 reprefented at Abdera,, the whole orchestra was delighted with. it: but of all the paffages which delighted them, nothing operated more upon their imaginations, than the tender ftrokes of nature which, the poet had wrought wrought up in that pathetic fpeech of Perfeus; O Cupid! prince of God and men, &c. Every man almoft fpoke pure iambics the next day, and talk'd of nothing but Perfeus his pathetic addrefs-"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 some 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, opened itself to Love. No pharmacopolift could fell one grain of helebore-not a fingle armourer had a heart to forge one inftrument of death: — Friendship and Virtue met together, and kiffed each other in the street-the golden golden age returned and hung over the town of Abdera-every Abderite took his oaten pipe, and every Abderitish woinan left her purple web, and chastely fat her down and liftened to the fong "Twas only in the power, fays the Fragment, of the God whofe empire extendeth from heaven to earth, and ever to the depths of the fea, to have done this. MONTRI U L. W HEN all is ready, and every article is difputed and paid for in the inn, unless you are a little foured 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 furrounded you. Let no man fay, “let "them |