Whereat her Heart was fill'd with Hope and Dread,

Ne would fhe stay till he in Place could come, But ran to weet him forth to know his Tidings foomme;

Even in the Door him meeting, she begun, And where is he, thy Lord, and how far hence? Declare at once; and bath he loft or won!

Care and his Houfe are defcribed thus,
IV. 6. 33, 34, 35.

Not far away, not meet for any Guest,
They Spy'd a little Cottage, like fome poor Man's
Neft.

34.

There entring in, they found the Good-Man's Self,

Full bufily unto his Work ybent,

Who was fo weel a wretched wearifh Elf,
With hollow Eyes and raw-bone Cheeks forfpent,
As if he had in Prifon long been pent.
Full black and griefly did his Face appear,
Befmear'd with Smoke that nigh his Eye-fight
blent,

With rugged Beard and hoary fhagged Heare,
The which he never wont to comb, or comely

fbear.

35.

Rude was his Garment, and to Rags all rent,
Ne better had be, ne for better cared;
His bliftred Hands amongst the Cinders brent,
And Fingers filthy, with long Nails prepared,
Right fit to rend the Food on which he fared.
His Name was Care; a Blacksmith by his
Trade,

That neither Day nor Night from working
Spared,

But to small purpose Iron Wedges made:

Thefe be unquiet Thoughts that careful Maids invade.

'HOMER's Epithets were much 'admired by Antiquity: See what great Juftness and Variety there is in these Epithets of the Trees in the Forest where the Red-crofs Knight loft Truth B. I. Cant. 1. Stan. 8, 9.

The failing Pine, the Cedar proud and tall,
The Vine-prop Elm, the Poplar never dry,
The Builder Oak, fole King of Forefts all,
The Alpine good for Staves, the Cypress Funeral.

9.

The Laurel, Meed of mighty Conquerors
And Poets Sage; the Fir that weepeth still,

The

The Willow worn of forlorn Paramours,
The Yew obedient to the Bender's Will,
The Birch for Shafts, the Sallow for the Mill;
The Myrrhe Sweet, bleeding in the bitter Wound,
The warlike Beech, the Afb for nothing ill,
The fruitful Olive, and the Platane round,
The Carver Holm, the Maple feldom inward
found.

I fhall trouble you no more, but 'defire you to let me conclude with thefe Verses, tho' I think they have already been quoted by you: They are Directions to young Ladies opprest "with Calumny. VI. 6, 14.

The beft (faid he) that I can you advise,
Is to avoid the Occafion of the Ill;

For when the Caufe whence Evil doth arife
Removed is, the Effect furceafeth still.
Abftain from Pleasure, and restrain your Will,
Subdue Defire, and bridle loofe Delight,
Ufe fcanted Diet, and forbear your Fill,
Shun Secrecy, and talk in open Sight,"

So fhall you foon repair your present evil Plight.

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No 141. Thursday, November 20.

Format enim Natura prigs nos intus ad omnem Fortunarum habitum; juvat, aut impellit ad iram,

Aut ad humum marore gravi deducit & angit; Paft effert animi motus interprete Lingua.

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Y Friend the TEMPLER, whom I have fo often mentioned in these Writings, having determined to lay afide his Poetical Studies, in order to a clofer Purfuit of the Law, has put together, as a Farewel Effay, fome Thoughts concerning Pronunciation and Action, which he has given me leave to communicate to the Publick. Theyare chiefly collected from hisFavou rite Author, Cicero, who is known to have been an intimate Friend of Rofcius the Actor, and a good Judge of Dramatical Performances, as well as the most Eloquent Pleader of the Time in which he lived.

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CICERO concludes his celebrated Books de Oratore with fome Precepts for Pronunciation and Action, without which part he affirms that the beft Orator in the World can never fucceed; and an indifferent one, who is Mafter of this, fhall gain much greater Ap-, plaufe. What could make a stronger Impreffion, fays he, than thofe Exclamations of Gracchus Whither fhall Iturn?

Wretch that I am! to what Place betake my felf? Shall I go to the Capitol?. Alas! it is overflowed with my Brother's Blood. Or fhall 1 retire to my House? Yet there I behold my Mother plunged in Mifery, weeping and defpairing! Thefe Breaks and Turns of Paffion, it feems, were fo enforced by the Eyes, Voice and Gesture of the Speaker, that his ve ty Enemies could not refrain from Tears. I infift, fays Tully, upon this the rather, because our Orators, who are as it were Actors of the Truth it felf, have quitted this manner of speaking, and the Players, who are but the Imitators of Truth, have taken it up,

I shall therefore pursue the Hint he has here given me, and for the Service of the British Stage I shall copy fome of the Rules which this great Roman K4

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