and so I may sing to thee, as the Syren did to Ulysses,*— Well, well, Ulysses, then I see, I shall not have thee here; Jocelyn consoled himself for his inconstant Perdita, by installing another in the lodgings in Suffolk-street, but he was doomed to be unfortunate in his connexions of this nature. His second inamorata, a dancer at the King's Theatre, happened to hit the fancy of the Duke of Monmouth; and, as a rich peer is always preferable to a poor commoner, she only remained with her present protector till she had extorted from him a valuable diamond necklace, when she decamped, and was admitted into his grace's establishment. Both the friends who had thus eased him of his Dulcineas, had wives of their own, to whom they were under the greatest obligations, for both had married large heiresses, who were, at the same time, virtuous and accomplished women. Jocelyn was so shocked that he became misanthropical, and, with the usual perverse logic, that makes the world at large responsible for the mistakes of the individual, he pronounced all women * In Hymen's Triumph, "a Pastoral Tragi-comedie." by Daniel. 4to. 1623. to be false, and all friends to be treacherous, because he had chosen his specimens of each among wantons and profligates. By an equal distortion of reason, he persuaded himself that he had a right to retaliate upon others the wrongs he had received from his associates, and he accordingly became a convert to the principle, that in love, as in war, all stratagems are fair. Walton had disappeared from the time he had lent him the money; the salary of his office was quite inadequate to his expenditure; he was exposed to the assaults of duns, and even to the pursuit of bailiffs, and thus nothing was wanting to constitute him a fine gentleman, and a man of fashion, as those characters were understood and practised at the licentious Court of Charles II. In the midst of all this dissipation, he had in vain endeavoured to banish Julia's image from his heart. His experiment had utterly failed. The satiety and disgust, which, in ingenuous minds, so quickly follows a course of sensual indulgence, began to annoy him with their compunctious visitings; he discovered that he had been foolish as well as criminal; and perhaps felt more vexed at the error of his judgment, than at all his deviations from morality. In the yearnings, of his unsatisfied heart, he betook himself, one morning, to Alderman Staunton's, in the City, without any definite object, but in the vague hope that he might gather some tidings, he knew not what, relative to Julia. In this expectation he was disappointed. The merchant appeared to be frightened at the very idea of his having any correspondence with the inmates of Haelbeck, or knowledge of their proceedings; most earnestly requesting, that his name might never be coupled with that of the unfortunate exile. He turned the subject as quickly as possible, as if there were danger even in alluding to it; and, after informing him that Miss Beverning was on a visit to him at his country-house, near Hampton Court, he pleaded an appointment with Sir Josiah Child, respecting some of the new East India Stock, and wished him good morning. As he was returning from Aldersgate-street, he observed himself to be dogged by two men, whom he presently recognised to be baliffs, and who, by their motions, were evidently holding him in pursuit. Unacquainted as he was with the City, he had little hope of eluding them by availing himself of the intricacy of the streets; but he had such good confidence in the activity of his legs, as not to be afraid of any competitor in a fair contest of speed. He turned down the first street that offered, and again out of that into another, walking as fast as he could, for he would not condescend to run until the danger became more pressing. This period was not long deferred; his pursuers, who had no such delicacy as to their pace, not only kept sight of him as he threaded the streets, but gained upon him so rapidly that he was soon put to his speed. Unfortunately for the beaux of those days, they were much more conspicuous in their attire, and consequently had much less chance of escape, than their modern successors. Jocelyn wore a richly embroidered doublet of deer-coloured velvet with silver buttons and loops, the collar standing on end with plaiting of the same metal; his philamott, or goldcoloured cloak, was edged with a deep lace; a Buckingham or Montero hat covered his dark flowing and scented perriwig; his band was trimmed with pointe d'Espagne, and a profusion of well-gummed satin ribbons of orange-colour, red, and tawney, decorated his hat, his sword, the knees of his black cannon hose, his russet shoes, his perriwig, and, in short, every part of his person to which they could be attached; such silken trappings being at that moment an indispensable appendage to every man of fashion.* * "It was a fine silken thing which I spied walking the other day through Westminster Hall, that had as much ribbon about him as would have plundered six shops, and set up twenty country pedlars; all his body was drest: like a may-pole or a Tom o' Bedlam's cap. A frigate newly rigged, kept not half such a clatter in a storm, as this puppet's streamers did when the wind was in his shrouds; the motion was wonderful to behold, and the well chosen colours were red, orange, and blue, of well gum'd satin, which argued a happy fancy."-Evelyn's Ty rannus, or the Mode. VOL. IIL. 11* Such a gaudy apparition, rustling and fluttering through the air like a huge painted butterfly, was not likely to be lost to the enquiries of his pursuers, even if he escaped for a few moments from their sight and, as he was obliged every now and then to stop and take breath, the bailiffs, tracking him with the patient perseverance of hounds, were sure to appear just as he had flattered himself that they were fairly distanced and at fault. After keeping up this sort of flight through a variety of streets, with the names of which he was unacquainted, he at length found himself in the Artillery walk, adjoining Bunhill Fields, and being nearly exhausted with his efforts, he turned suddenly up a passage, resolved to seek shelter in the first house that should offer, and thus take the chance of eluding his pursuers. A side-door presenting itself at the entrance of the passage, he pulled the latch; it opened; he entered as quietly as possible; again closed the door; and found himself in a small anteroom, hung round with shelves of dark old-fashioned looking books, most of them in folio or quarto. In one corner was a small recess in which stood an open organ, the appearance of which indicated hat it was an old possession of its proprietor, and was in habitual use. On a circular table in the middle of the chamber were two folio Bibles, one in Hebrew and one in English and on the mantel-shelf were several pipes, with a teacup containing tobacco; the smell of the room, as |