We have received the like anfwer from E. Hathway, of Pensford; Taffo, of Bristol; B. Shepherd, junior, of Plymouth; John Browning, of Bickington; and T. Rennel.

A QUESTION, by Tasse, of Bristol.

T is required to find two numbers, fuch that the fum of their

Ifquares thall be 84.25; and their product added to the

greater 44,

A QUESTION, by T. C. of Chard.

F late, at a table replete with good fare,

One difh was prefented amongst the rest there,
Wherein a rich pudding was curiously plac'd;
But yet of this pudding no man was to taste
'Till he the content of the dainty could fhew,
And give its dimenfions exactly and true.
As we turn'd it around it appear'd to our view
Of a comical form, as I'm going to fhew;
Its fide, when 'twas measur'd, did of inches contain
Juft twenty and four. Then this pudding to gain,
An ifofceles triangle of it termed might be
Degrees fixty-five, minutes twenty and three,
At the angle at top then to work we all went ;
For we by this help were to find the content,
But one thing which hindred us yet more than all,
Within this rare morfel was fix'd a round ball,
Which touch all the fides of the pudding around;
And when it was open'd, it also was found
The bafe of this conical figure to touch;
Which thing, when confider'd, did puzzle us much:
For we by the ball were to find each man's share;
And our number at table did equal appear
To the cubical inches the ball did contain.
Now what was each fhare, firs ?-I pray you explain.

T

A REBUS, by Tycho.

WO numbers I've in contemplation,
Much us'din ev'ry age and nation;

Both

Both facred held, and fo containing
(Many suppose) fome myftic meaning.
Let me fpeak plain: if you will feek,
You'll find the firft once every week;
The second, ask nor foes nor friends,
You have it at your fingers ends.

Those numbers added fhew my age,
Reveal it then ye learn'd and fage.

An ENIGMA, by J. Geft.

NOME ye ladies! you, I know,
Soon Ity myftic name will show.

You I grace at ball or play,
And am with you every day

In the fields and meadows ranging;
Like Proteus, too, am often changing.

Adam knew me; for when he

Had incurr'd our misery,

When they both their guilt lamented,
Hence, ye fair, I was invented;
But that, in after ages, I

Was much improv'd, none will deny;
And now in town, and country too,
Gayly I'm expos'd to view.

Birds which fkim aloft in air,

And trees which deck the garden fair;

Beafts that range the flowery plain,
And fishes fporting in the main ;
With fuch as thefe, and many mor,
Oft I'm decorated o'er.

Enough-there's nothing more, I vow;
Perhaps you may

behold me now.

ERRAT A.

In the third of Taffo's enigmatical expreffions, inferted in the Entertainer for September 1, page 211, for a Turkish attendant,

read HALF a Turkish attendant.

In the fame Entertainer, page 216, line 23, for Jove, read JOB.

POETRY.

Her infant breath'd, to breathe its laft,
And feek an early heaven.

"His grave is mine, (faid Ellen fair)
"We never now shall part-
"My forrows to my father bear,
"And to the earl my heart."

Her heart was to earl Walter fent,
But not in vafe of gold;
A cup of tin was all they found
His Ellen's heart to hold.

The heart he faw-unfeemly fight!
"Bear it away! (he cry'd)
A maid as fair as rofy light

For one fhould not have died:

"Yet many years fhe might have bloom'd,
"Yet many lovers blefs'd;
"But fince the chofe to be entomb'd,
"God fend the damfel reft!"

Not one poor tear embalm'd that heart
He late faid "Heaven make mine!”
He even faw, without a figh,

The bafenefs of its fhrine.

Start not, ye fair! nor think your bard
A monfter has defign'd,

In tints too dark, in lines too hard,
To live but in his mind.

Earl Walters live in every age,

And Sigifmundas too ;

The world itself is one great page
To bring them to your view.

This marking difference at their birth
Nature at firft imprefs'd,-

The woe which finks one to the earth,
The other finds a jest.

L

THE

WEEKLY ENTERTAINER.

For MONDAY, September 29, 1783.

I

To the PRINTER of the WEEKLY ENTERTAINER.

SIR,

F you judge the following moral tale of the Folly of Despair, which I met with in remmaging fome papers, and on the authenticity of which you may depend, worthy of a place in your justly admired Entertainer, please to give it room, which will exceedingly oblige,

Your conftant reader,

JOHN QUANT.

Hinton St. George, August 26, 1783.

THE FOLLY OF DESPAIR.

MR. SAUNDERSON, a young gentleman in one of the public offices, happening to fall in love with a very amiable lady, a few years younger than himself, at an affembly, made his addreffes to her foon afterwards, and was received by her agreeably to his wifhes. She improved upon him fo much every time he visited her, that he promifed himfelf the highest happinefs with her in the marriage ftate. Her father, having feveral other daughters, could afford to give her but a fmall fortune: with that little fortune, however, Saunderfon, though he had not much more than a hundred a year, ventured to marry her, VOL. II. 39. 20

He

He certainly acted like an imprudent man, by entering into matrimony with Mifs Hofkins; but he was too deeply ena moured with her, to liften to the admonitions of difcretion.

A very intimate friend of his, a Mr. Colgrave, having acci dentally heard of his defign, went to him. When he bad gently reprimanded him for not giving him the leaft hint of bis intentions, he endeavoured to perfuade him to lay afide all thoughts of making Mifs Hofkins his wife. "I have no particular exception to the lady of your choice, Harry," added be; fhe is extremely well fpoken of, and will, I dare fay, make any man happy who is united with her; but as the has only two huadred pounds, and as you have only a fmall place, you cannot, I think, prudently come together. If you have a family, you muf inevitably be embarraffed; and even without children, you will not find it an eafy matter to live (as I know you like to live gen teelly) in this expenfive metropolis, upon the income with which you are going to fet off. I fpeak entirely as a friend, my dear Saunderson; I have a fincere regard for you, and I hope you will not only pardon the liberty I take with you in this celicate fituation, but pay a proper attention to my advice."

Harry thanked his friend in the ftrongest terms for the fin cere regard which he had discovered for him, and for interefting himself to zealously in his affairs. A large income, Ca grave," replied he, in the language of a man defperately in love," is by no means abfolutely neceffary to render the mat riage flate à ftate of happiness: with unfuitable difpofitions. the richest couples are wretched; with congenial fouls, two peo ple, if they have only the decent neceffaries of life, cannot be totally miferable. Mifs Hofkins is fo exceedingly well qua fied to fhine in a domestic fphere, and her general turn of mind is fo fimilar to my own, that I am not at all deterred from marrying her by reflecting upon the narrowness of my circum ftances. My uncle has, you know, confiderable appointments, and great intereft: I flatter myfelf, therefore, that I fhall, by deferving his patronage, rife, in time, to a more lucrative em ployment than that which I at prefent enjoy."

To a man who is entirely under the dominion of the tender pallion, and who is on the point of being united to the woma on whom he doats, almost to diftraction, nothing of the dif five kind can be, with any probability of fuccefs, advanced.Colgrave, indeed, was too well acquainted with Harry's fanguine temper, whenever he was purfuing any favourite theme, to reckon much upon his logic or his rhetoric, in oppofition to it; yet he could not fee him rafhly hatening into a matrimonial

connection,