ALFA 12 the beying of the semod act. parel & black wig; wart & the WI Min Fruth and ma trend tapped Ninted in the third act- Mr. Frai ened as "Azom" Mr. Frd led me to my I think be squeezed my hand. Eleven at night. Went to bed. dreams. Froth. Melancholy Methought Noni said he was Mr. SUNDAY-Indisposed. MONDAY. Eight o'clock. Waked by Miss Kitty. Aurengzebe lay upon the chair by me. recated, without book, the eight best lines in the play. Went in our mobs* to the dumb man, according to appointment. Told me that my lover's name began with a G. Mem. The conjurer + was within a letter of Mr. Froth's name, &c. "Upon looking back into this my journal, I find that I am at a loss to know whether I pass my time well or ill; and indeed never thought of considering how I did it, before I perused your Speculation upon that subject. I scarce find a single action in these five days that I can thoroughly approve of, excepting the working upon the violet-leaf, which I am resolved to finish the first day I am at leisure. As for Mr. Froth and Veny, I did not think they took up so much of my time and thoughts as I find they do upon my journal. The latter of them I will turn off, if you insist upon it; and if Mr. Froth does not bring matters to a conclusion very suddenly, I will not let my life run away in a dream. "Your humble servant, "CLARINDA.” To resume one of the morals of my first paper, and to confirm Clarinda in her good inclinations, Í would have her consider what a pretty figure she would make among posterity, were the history of her whole life published like these five days of it. I shall conclude my paper with an epitaph written by an uncertain author on Sir Philip Sidney's sister, a lady who seems to have been of a temper very much different from that of Clarinda. The last thought of it is so very noble, that I dare say my reader will pardon me the quotation. * A huddled economy of dress so called. VOL. IX. H together very familiarly in the same house; but the restraints we were generally under, and the interviews we had being stolen and interrupted, made our behaviour to each other have rather the impatient fondness which is visible in lovers, than the regular and gratified affection which is to be observed in man and wife. This observation made the father very anxious for his son, and press him to a match he had in his eye for him. To relieve my husband from this importunity, and conceal the secret of our marriage, which I had reason to know would not be long in my power in town, it was resolved that I should retire into a remote place in the country, and converse under feigned names by letter. We long continued this way of commerce; and I, with my needle, a few books, and reading over and over my husband's letters, passed my time in a resigned expectation of better days. Be pleased to take notice, that, within four months after I left my husband, I was delivered of a daughter, who died within few hours after her birth. This accident, and the retired manner of life I led, gave criminal hopes to a neighbouring brute of a country gentleman, whose folly was the source of all my affliction. This rustic is one of those rich clowns, who supply the want of all manner of breeding by the neglect of it; and with noisy mirth, half understanding, and ample fortune, force themselves upon persons and things, without any sense of time or place. The poor ignorant people where I lay concealed, and now passed for a widow, wondered I could be so shy and called it, to the squire; and we to admit him whenever he though to be sitting in a little parlour own part of t ON THE COUNTESS DOWAGER OF PEMBROKE. Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother: L No. 324. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1711-12. O curvæ in terris animæ, et cælestium inanes * ! PERS. SAT. ii. 61. O souls, in whom no heavenly fire is found, "MR. SPECTATOR, DRYDEN. "THE materials you have collected together towards a general history of clubs, make so bright a part of your Speculations, that I think it is but a justice we all owe the learned world, to furnish you with such assistances as may promote that useful work. For this reason I could not forbear communicating to you some imperfect informations of a set of men, if you will allow them a place in that species of being, who have lately erected themselves into a nocturnal fraternity, under the title of the Mohock-club, a name borrowed, it seems, from a sort of cannibals in India, who subsist by plundering and devouring all the nations about them. The president is styled Emperor of the *The motto prefixed to this paper in its original form in folio, was taken from Juvenal, -Savis inter se convenit ursis. SAT. XV. 164. Even bears with bears agree. |