"It is certain, that a fingle Watch could not be made fo "cheap in Proportion by one only Man, as a hundred "Watches by a hundred, for as there is vaft Variety in "the Work, no one Perfon could equally fuit himfelf to "all the Parts of it; the Manufacture would be tedious, " and at last but clumfily performed: But if an hundred "Watches were to be made by a hundred Men, the Cafe's

may be affigned to one, the Dials to another, the Wheel's "to another, the Springs to another, and every other Part to a proper Artift; as there would be no need of per"plexing any one Perfon with too much Variety, every one would be able to perform his fingle Part with greater Skill and Expedition; and the hundred Watches "would be finished in one fourth Part of the Time of the

first one, and every one of them at one fourth Part of "the Coft, though the Wages of every Man were equal. "The Reduction of the Price of the Manufacture would "encrease the Demand of it, all the fame Hands would "be ftill employed and as well paid. The fame Rule will "hold in the Cloathing, the Shipping, and all other Tradés "whatfoever. And thus an Addition of Hands to our "Manufactures will only reduce the Price of them; the "Labourer will ftill have as much Wages, and will con"fequently be enabled to purchase more Conveniences "of Life; fo that every Intereft in the Nation would "receive a Benefit from the Increase of our Working "People.

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BESIDES, I fee no Occafion for this Charity to common Beggars, fince every Beggar is an Inhabitant "of a Parish, and every Parish is taxed to the Mainte"nance of their own Poor. For my own Part, I cannot be mightily pleafed with the Laws which have done this, which have provided better to feed than employ the Poor. We have a Tradition from our Fore-fathers, "that after the firft of thofe Laws was made, they were "infulted with that famous Song;

Hang Sorrow, and caft away Care,
The Parish is bound to find us, &c.

"And if we will be fo good-natured as to maintain them without Work, they can do no less in Return than fing us The merry Beggar's.

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"WHAT then? Am I against all Acts of Charity? "God forbid! I know of no Virtue in the Gospel that " is in more pathetick Expreffions recommended to our "Practice. I was hungry and ye gave me no Meat, thirfty and ye gave me no Drink, naked and ye cloathed me "not, a Stranger and ye took me not in, fick and in "Prifon and ye vifited me not. Our Blefed Saviour treats the Exercife or Neglect of Charity towards a poor Man, as the Performance or Breach of this Duty towards himself. I fhall endeavour to obey the Will "of my Lord and Master: And therefore if an industrious Man fhall fubmit to the hardest Labour and coarseft Fare, rather than endure the Shame of taking Relief "from the Parish, or asking it in the Street, this is the "Hungry, the Thirsty, the Naked, and I ought to " believe, if any Man is come hither for Shelter against "Perfecution or Oppreffion, this is the Stranger, and "I ought to take him in. If any Countryman of our " own is fallen into the Hands of Infidels, and lives "in a State of miferable Captivity, this is the Man in "Prifon, and I fhould contribute to his Ranfom. I ought to give to an Hofpital of Invalids, to recover as many ufeful Subjects as I can; but I fhall beftow "none of my Bounties upon an Alms-houfe of idle Peo"ple; and for the fame Reafon I fhould not think it a "Reproach to me if I had with-held my Charity from "thofe common Beggars. But we prefcribe better Rules "than we are able to practife; we are alhamed not to

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give into the mistaken Cuftoms of our Country: But

at the fame Time, I cannot but think it a Reproach "worfe than that of common Swearing, that the Idle "and the Abandoned are fuffered in the Name of Hea

ven, and all that is facred, to extort from Chriftian "and tender Minds a Supply to a profligate Way of Life, "that is always to be fupported, but never relieved,

N° 233. Tuesday, November 27.

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Tanquam hae fint noftri medicina furoris, Aut Deus ille malis hominum mitefcere difcat.

Virg.

Shall, in this Paper, difcharge my felf of the Promife I have made to the Publick, by obliging them with a Tranflation of the little Greek Manufcript, which is faid to have been a Piece of thofe Records that were preferved in the Temple of Apollo, upon the Promontory of Leucate: It is a fhort Hiftory of the Lover's Leap, and is infcribed, An Account of Perfons Male and Female, who offered up their Vows in the Temple of the Pythian Apollo, in the Forty fixth Olympiad, and leaped from the Promontory of Leucate, into the Ionian Sea, in order to cure themselves of the Paffion of Love.

THIS Account is very dry in many Parts, as only mentioning the Name of the Lover who leaped, the Perfon he leaped for, and relating, in fhort, that he was either cured, or killed, or maimed, by the Fall. It indeed gives the Names of fo many who died by it, that it would have looked like a Bill of Mortality, had I tranf lated it at full length; I have therefore made an Abridgment of it, and only extracted fuch particular Paffages as have fomething extraordinary, either in the Cafe, or in the Cure, or in the Fate of the Perfon who is mentioned in it. After this fhort Preface, take the Account as follows.

BATTUS, the Son of Menalcas the Sicilian, leaped for Bombyca the Mufician: Got rid of his Paffion with the Lofs of his Right Leg and Arm, which were broken in the Fall. MELISSA, in Love with Daphnis, very much bruised, but efcaped with Life.

CYNISCA, the Wife of Efchines, being in Love with Lycus; and Afchines her Husband being in Love with Eurilla; (which had made this married Couple very uneafy to one another for several Years) both the

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Husband and the Wife took the Leap by Confent; they both of them escaped, and have lived very happily to ther ever fince.

LARISSA, a Virgin of Theffaly, deferted by Plexippus, after a Court fhip of three Years; fhe ftood upon the Brow of the Promontory for fome Time, and after having thrown down a Ring, a Bracelet, and a little Picture, with other Prefents which he had received from Plexippus, she threw her felf into the Sea, and was taken up alive.

N. B. Lariffa, before fhe leaped, made an Offering of a Silver Cupid in the Temple of Apollo.

SIMETHA in Love with Daphnis the Myndian, perifhed in the Fall.

CHARIXUS, the Brother of Sappho, in Love with Rhodope the Courtezan, having fpent his whole Eftate upon her, was advised by his Sifter to leap in the Beginning of his Amour, but would not hearken to her till he was reduced to his laft Talent; being forfaken by Rhodope, at length refolved to take the Leap. Perifhed in it.

ARIDEUS, a beautiful Youth of Epirus, in Love with Praxince, the Wife of Thefpis, efcaped without Damage, faving only that two of his Fore-Teeth were ftruck out, and his Nofe a little flatted..

CLEORA, a Widow of Ephefus, being inconfolable for the Death of her Husband, was refolved to take this Leap, in order to get rid of her Paffion for his Memory; but being arrived at the Promontory, fhe there met with Dimmachus the Miletian, and after a fhort Conversation with him, laid afide the Thoughts of her Leap, and married him in the Temple of Apollo.

N. B. Her Widow's Weeds are ftill to be feen hanging up in the Western Corner of the Temple.

OLPHIS, the Fisherman, having received a Box on the Ear from Theftylis the Day before, and being deter mined to have no more to do with her, leaped; and escaped with Life.

ATALANTA, an old Maid, whofe Cruelty had fe veral Years before driven two or three defpairing Lovers to this Leap; being now in the fifty fifth Year of her Age, and in Love with an Officer of Sparta, broke her Neck in the Fall.

HIPPARCHUS being paffionately fond of his own Wife, who was enamoured of Bathyllus, leaped, and died of his Fall upon which his Wife married her Gallant.

TETTTX, the Dancing-Mafter, in Love with Olympia an Athenian Matron, threw himself from the Rock with great Agility, but was crippled in the Fall.

DIAGORAS, the Ufurer, in Love with his CookMaid; he peeped feveral Times over the Precipice, but his Heart mifgiving him, he went back, and married her that Evening.

CINE DUS, after having entred his own Name in the Pythian Records, being asked the Name of the Perfon whom he leaped for, and being afhamed to difcover it, he was fet afide, and not fuffered to leap.

EUNICA, a Maid of Paphos, aged Nineteen, in Love with Eurybates. Hurt in the Fall, but recovered. N. B. This was her fecond Time of Leaping. HESPERUS, a young Man of Tarentum, in Love with his Mafter's Daughter. Drowned, the Boats not coming in foon enough to his Relief.

SAPPHO, the Lesbian, in Love with Phaon, arrived at the Temple of Apollo, habited like a Bride in Garments as white as Snow. She wore a Garland of Myrtle on her Head, and carried in her Hand the little Mufical Inftrument of her own Invention. After having fung an Hymn to Apollo, fhe hung up her Garland on one Side of his Altar, and her Harp on the other. She then tuck'd up her Veftments like a Spartan Virgin, and amidst thousands of Spectators, who were anxious for her Safety, and offered up Vows for her Deliverance, marched directly forwards to the utmoft Summit of the Promontory, where after having repeated a Stanza of her own Verfes, which we could not hear, he threw herself off the Rock with fuch an Intrepidity as was never before obferved in any who had attempted that dangerous Leap. Many who were prefent related, that they faw her fall into the Sea, from whence the never rofe again; though there were others who affirmed, that he never came to the Bottom of her Leap, but that the was changed into a Swan as the fell, and that they faw her hovering in the Air under that Shape. But whether or no the Whiteness and Fluttering of her Garments might not deceive those who looked upon her, or whether the might

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