henfive precepts, on which hang all the law and the Prophets, Love your neighbour as your felves.

Q. What is the meaning of those words xi. chap. of Hebrews, 39 and 40 verfes. And thofe all having obtain'd a good report thro' faith receiv'd not the promises, God having provided fome better thing for us, that they without us should not be perfect?

4. The paffage fhews, that martyrs themselves Thall not receive their confummate blifs (perhaps with respect to their very fouls, but to be fure with régard to their yet mouldring bodies) till the general refurrection, the final retribution, when every man Shall receive according to his works.

Q. When is this proverb applicable, Tenderton steeple is the caufe of Goodwin fands?

4. Tho' the queftion may seem a little comical to those who have not heard the proverb, yet we shall go near to make a tragi-comedy of the answer. It is applicable, when we would advise a perfon to forbear injustice and oppreffion of his neighbours, and for this opinion we'll produce you our authority.

Earl Goodwin in the reign of William Rufus was a great abufer of the privileges he enjoy'd by the unbounded favour of that Prince, and growing odious to the people of those parts wherein he liv'd, by his continued violences, thofe who fuffer'd by his power us'd to pray for a deliverance from it; and in fhort, the Earl himself was choak'd at the King's table, by a bone at dinner, and his whole eftate was fhortly after overflow'd by a furprizing inundation of the fea, and from that time became a quickfand (now the GOODWIN from his name). This unexpected accident the inhabitants of TENDERTON, a neighbouring town, attributed to the repeated prayers they had fent up to heaven on his account, and look'd upon it as a judgment on his wickedness.

Or for variety, it may be thus apply'd.

It is ufed when an abfurd and ridiculous reafon is given of any thing in queftion: an account of the original

riginal whereof may be found in one of Bishop Latimer's fermons to the following purpose.

Mr. Moore was fent with commiffion into Kent, to find out, if poffible, what was the cause of Goodwin fands, and the fhelves which stopp'd up Sandwich haven; and being there arriv'd, fummons all the country before him, but especially fuch as were thought to be men of experience, and fuch as were most likely to give fome account of this affair relating to Sandwich haven. Amongst the reft came in an old grey-hair'd man, fuppofed little less than a hundred years old. When Mr. Moore faw this man, he thought him the most promifing of any in the company to fatisfy him; fo calling to him immediately, asks of him, as being the oldeft man there affembled, the cause of thofe fands or fhelves about the haven. 'Tis true, fays the old man, my age is near 100 years, and far exceeds any other's in company; and as I am an old man, I think that Tenderton fteeple is the cause of Goodwin fands, for I can remember the building of Tenderton fteeple, and I remember when there was no fteeple at all there; and before Tenderton steeple was built there was no talk of fands ftopping the haven ; and therefore Tenderton steeple was the cause of the deftruction of Sandwich haven.

Q. What is the difference between falt-peter, and peter falt?

A. They differ only in their degrees of purification: The falt-peter confifts of volatile parts, and fhoots out into long cryftals, which are the pure nitre: the peter-falt is that which is cryftalliz'd laft, is fix'd as fea falt, appears not much unlike it, and very little exceeds it.

Q. Why have diftracted perfons commonly a good me

mory?

A. The memories of distracted or mad perfons cannot be properly faid to be good, tho' they feem to fuffer less than the reft of the functions, which as we conceive, is chiefly owing to the vigorous activity or emanations of the animal fpirits attending fuch perfons. Gg6

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Q. I have obferv'd in pictures by the life, that I could difcern a fresh fanguine complexion at a greater distance than a pale wan complexion, notwithstanding that hath more of white in it than the other, which methinks fhould render the figure by confequence more obvious.

A. It is not the whiteness that renders the object more difcernable, but the correfpondency it hath with light: the fanguine and well colour'd complexions have a greater luftre and fharper fhining on the balls of their cheeks, tops of their nofes, foreheads, c. than the pale and wan complexion, where the light finding no correfpondency, is dilated with a more remifs brisknefs.

Q. I have also obferv'd that the bodies of men in pictures ftrike the eye with a greater force than thofe of children, notwithstanding the last feem a continued body of Light colours.

4. Because the fuperficies of the bodies of children make no other impreffion on the mind of the beholder, than a certain diluting of a fat and fimple matter, without sharpness and with very little fhadow; whereas in men the bodies are more compacted and fettled, and thence the lights are more fharp and full of force, and by the deepnefs of the fhadows brought more strongly to the fight.

Q. You'll oblige me with the tranflation of the following diftich,

Lingua potentior armis.

Juno tonat lingua, fed fulmine Jupiter inftat;

Concutit ille POLUM, fed quatit illa JOVEM. A. The diftich owes its original to the late famous Mr. Dryden, at a Westminster election.

The tongue is more powerful than arms. Thunder is Jove's, the tongue is Juno's rod, He fhakes the diftant POLES, he shakes the GOD.. Q Ye youthful Druids, Britain's learned clan,

Whofe nervous eloquence illuminates

With rays prolifick our expanding fouls ;

Do not difdain the tributary thanks

Of one who is unable to refound

Your

Your meritorious praife; his tender mufe
With pinions weak, dreads an Icarian fate:
But as you did unmerited approve
His rhymes incondite, and unpolish'd lays;
Diffuading to avoid the noble toil

Of war deftructive, where the brave and bold
Glory purfue, and never fading lawrel:
Let your harmonious numbers guide and aid
His unfledg'd mufe, that she thro' tracts fublime
May foar, and blazon o'er the fpacious orb,
The matchless annals, and furprizing reign
of Europe's guardian ANNE, and fpread the fame
Which her Britannick heroes jufly claim.

A. Prefuming tard! (and yet 'tis brave and great
Thus to prefume, when in the tract of glory)
Thou'ft chofe a fubject of fuch wondrous fize,
Homer himself had funk beneath the weight:
Cou'd thy capacious foul adapt just thoughts,
What language could afford thee utterance?

Yet fince thy nervous lines fo pregnant feem
Of promises, thy felf thou wilt tranfmit
(By finging ANNA's reign) to future times,
As yet lock'd up within the womb of fate;
Accept this caution in thy daring flight,
By negatives alone her worth define,
Since no juft epithets will reach her praise,
Revolve on all the great and glorious deeds
Of former heroes and bright heroines,
And when thy images thou'ft rais'd so high,
No ftile of language our addition give,
And thou'rt unable further to explore,
Shew ANNA is not this, but fomething more.
Q. Apollo most modest,

Your humour's the oddest
That ever appear'd in print;
There's a great deal of wit,
But the devil a bit

Of the luscious can I find in't :

By thefe luke-warm ways
You never will please

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Girls

Girls full of juice as a grape;

Tho' we fometimes do frown
On the impudent clown,

Still we love, on our fancies, a rape.
Let then ev'ry turn,
Not glitter, but burn,

Let the lightning of Ovid be shown;
Your poetical firains,

When they've beat in their veins,
Will fhew you've got fome in your own.

A. We aim not to hit

Your notion of wit,

Who but in the lufcious delight,
Which fulfomely cloys,
And only deftroys

An appetite rais'd to the bright.
If fancy but fhines

In our glittering lines,

And graces with delicate turns,

We fhall not afpire

To fet all on fire,

Since it leaves but a scar when it burns.

An effay on the character of his ROYAL HIGHNESS the late PRINCE of DENMARK.

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Ain is complaint where can be no relief; Yet publick loffes call for publick grief. 'Tis falfe, that mourners fhould in filence weep, Like ftreams, which ftill, when fmootheft, run most deep.

Sorrow fpeaks paffion, and where paffion reigns,
Nature fcorns decency, and breaks her chains.
Like a tempestuous ftorm true grief appears;
That's but a breeze that is allay'd by tears.
Since then 'tis duty that excites our quill,
Duty made ftronger by confederate will,
Tune, GREAT APOLLO, tune our favour'd lays,
And crown the mournful cyprefs with the bays.
Tell us, oh tell us, grief directing mufe,

What part of this fad fubject fhall we chufe:

Shall