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that no man will fo readily take them into protection, or fo zealously defend them. Moreover, there's none can fo foon difcover the beauties; and there are fome parts, which 'tis poffible few befides yourself are capable of understanding. Sir, the honour, affection, and value I have for you are beyond expreffion; as great, I am fure, or greater, than any man elfe can bear you. As for any defects which others may pretend to discover in you, I do faithfully declare I was never able to perceive them; and doubt not but those persons are actuated purely by a fpirit of malice or envy, the infeparable attendants on fhining merit and parts, fuch as I have always efteemed yours to be. It may perhaps be looked upon as a kind of violence to modefty, to say this to you in publick ; but you may believe me, 'tis no more than I have a thousand times thought of you in private. Might I follow the impulfe of my foul, there is no subject I could launch into with more pleasure than your panegyrick: But fince fomething is due to modefty, let me conclude by telling you, that there's nothing I fo much defire as to know you more thoroughly than I have yet the happiness of doing. I may then hope to be capable to do you fome real fervice; but, 'till then, can only affure you, that I fhall continue to be, as I am more than any man alive,

Dearest SIR,

Your Affectionate Friend, and
The greatest of your Admirers,

N° 11.

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Tuesday, March 24.

Huc propiùs me,

Dum doceo infanire omnes, vos ordine adite.

SIR,

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Hor. Sat. iii. lib. ii. v. 80.

To the GUARDIAN.

S you profefs to encourage all thofe who any way contribute to the Publick Good, I "flatter myself I may claim your Countenance and "Protection. I am by Profeffion a Mad Doctor, "but of a peculiar Kind, not of those whose "Aim it is to remove Phrenzies, but one who "make it my Bufinefs to confer an agreeable "Madness on my Fellow-Creatures for their mu"tual Delight and Benefit. Since it is agreed by "the Philosophers, that Happiness and Mifery "confift chiefly in the Imagination, nothing is "more neceffary to Mankind in general than this "pleafing Delirium, which renders every one fa"tisfied with himself, and perfuades him that all "others are equally fo.

"I have for feveral Years, both at home and _abroad, made this Science my particular Study, "which I may venture to fay I have improved in "almost all the Courts of Europe; and have reduced it into fo fafe and easy a Method, as to

"practise it on both Sexes, of what Difpofition,

Age, or Quality foever, with Success. What "enables me to perform this great Work, is the "Ufe of my Obfequium Catholicon, or the Grand "Elixir, to fupport the Spirits of human Nature. "This Remedy is of the most grateful Flavour in "the World, and agrees with all Tastes whatever. ""Tis delicate to the Senfes, delightful in the Ope"ration, may be taken at all Hours without Con

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finement, and is as properly given at a Ball or Play-house as in a private Chamber. It reftores "and vivifies the most dejected Minds, corrects "and extracts all that is painful in the Knowledge "of a Man's felf. One Dofe of it will inftantly difperfe itself through the whole Animal Syf"tem, diffipate the first Motions of Diftruft fo as

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never to return, and fo exhilarate the Brain and rarify the Gloom of Reflection, as to give the "Patients a new flow of Spirits, a Vivacity of Be"haviour, and a pleafing Dependence upon their "own Capacities.

"Let a Perfon be never fo far gone, I advife "him not to defpair; even though he has been "troubled many Years with reftless Reflections, "which by long Neglect have hardened into set"tled Confideration. Thofe that have been ftung "with Satire may here find a certain Antidote, "which infallibly difperfes all the Remains of "Poifon that has been left in the Understanding

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by bad Cures. It fortifies the Heart against the

"Rancour of Pamphlets, the Inveteracy of Epigrams, and the Mortification of Lampoons; as " has been often experienced by several Persons of << both Sexes, during the Seasons of Tunbridge, " and the Bath.

"I could, as further Inftances of my Succefs, "produce Certificates and Testimonials from the "Favourites and Ghostly Fathers of the most emi"nent Princes of Europe; but shall content myself "with the Mention of a few Cures, which I have performed by this my Grand Universal Reftorative, during the Practice of one Month only "fince I came to this City.

Cures in the Month of February, 1713.

"George Spondee, Efq; Poet, and Inmate of "the Parish of St. Paul's Govent-Garden, fell in"to violent Fits of the Spleen upon a thin Third

Night. He had been frighted into a Vertigo by "the Sound of Cat-calls on the First Day; and "the frequent Hiffings on the Second made him "unable to endure the bare Pronunciation of the "Letter S. I fearched into the Causes of his Dif"temper; and by the Prescription of a Dofe of

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my Obfequium, prepared fecundum Artem, reco"vered him to his natural State of Madness.

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"caft in at proper Intervals the Words, Ill taste of "the Town, Envy of Criticks, bad Performance of "the Actors, and the like. He is fo perfectly

"cured, that he has promised to bring another Play upon the Stage next Winter.

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"A Lady of professed Virtue of the Parish of "St. James's, Westminster, who hath defired her "Name may be concealed, having taken Offence " at a Phrase of double Meaning in Converfation, " undiscovered by any other in the Company, fuddenly fell into a cold Fit of Modefty. Upon a

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right Application of Praise of her Virtue, I "threw the Lady into an agreeable waking Dream, "fettled the Fermentation of her Blood into a

warm Charity, fo as to make her look with "Patience on the very Gentleman that of"fended.

"Hilaria, of the Parish of St. Giles's in the "Fields, a Coquette of long Practice, was by the Reprimand of an old Maiden reduced to look. grave in Company, and deny herself the Play "of the Fan. In fhort, fhe was brought to fuch

melancholy Circumftances, that the would fome"times unawares fall into Devotion at Church. I "advis'd her to take a few innocent Freedoms with

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occafional Kiffes, preferibed her the Exercife of the "Eyes, and immediately raised her to her former "State of Life. She on a fudden recovered her

Dimples, furled her Fan, threw round her "Glances, and for thefe two Sundays laft paft has "not once been feen in an attentive Pofture. This "the Church-Wardens are ready to atteft upon

"Oath.

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