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"Let a Person be never fo far gone, I advise "him not to defpair; even though he has been "troubled many Years with reftlefs Reflexions, "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 "Poison that has been left in the Understanding 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 Seafons of Tunbridge, " and the Bath.

"I could, as further Inftances of my Success, "produce Certificates and Teftimonials from the "Favourites and Ghoftly Fathers of the moft emi"nent Princes of Europe; but shall content myself "with the Mention of a few Cures, which I have "performed by this my Grand Univerfal Reftora"tive, 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 Covent-Garden, fell in"to violent Fits of the Spleen upon a thin Third "Night. He had been frighted into a Vertigo by

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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 Diftemper; and by the Prefcription of a Dofe of my Obfequium, prepared fecundum Artem, recovered him to his natural State of Madness. ❝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 so perfectly cured,

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

"A Lady of profeffed, 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, fud"denly fell into a cold Fit of Modefty. Upon a "right Application of Praise of her Virtue, I "threw the Lady into an agreeable waking Dream, "fettled the Fermentation of her Blood into a 66 warm Charity, so as to make her look with Pa"tience on the very Gentleman that offended.

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 such "melancholy Circumftances, that fhe would fome"times unawares fall into Devotion at Church. I "advis'd her to take a few innocent Freedoms with " occafional Kisses, prescribed 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 these two Sundays last past has "not once been seen in an attentive Pofture. This "the Church-Wardens are ready to attest upon "Oath.

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"Andrew Terror, of the Middle-Temple, Mo"hock, was almost induced by an aged Bencher "of the fame Houfe, to leave off bright Conver"fation, and pore over Coke upon Littleton. He was fo ill that his Hat began to flap, and he was seen one Day in the last Term at West"minfter-Hall. This Patient had quite loft his 66 Spirit of Contradiction; I, by the Distillation " of a few of my vivifying Drops in his Ear, "drew

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❝ drew him from his Lethargy, and reftored him "to his ufual vivacious Mifunderftanding. He is "at prefent very easy in his Condition.

"I will not dwell upon the Recital of the in"numerable Cures I have performed within Twen"ty Days laft paft; but rather proceed to exhort "all Perfons of whatever Age, Complexion or

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Quality, to take as foon as poffible of this my "intellectual Oil; which applied at the Ear feizes "all the Senses with a most agreeable Transport, "and discovers its Effects, not only to the Satif"faction of the Patient, but all who converse "with, attend upon, or any way relate to him or "her that receives the kindly infection. It is of "ten adminiftred by Chamber-Maids, Valets, or ' any the most ignorant Domeftic; it being one "peculiar Excellence of this my Oil, that 'tis moft

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prevalent, the more unfkilful the Perfon is, or appears, who applies it. It is abfolutely necef. fary for Ladies to take a Dose of it just before they take Coach to go a vifiting.

"But I offend the Publick, as Horace faid, "when I trespass on any of your Time. Give me "leave then, Mr. Ironfide, to make you a prefent. ❝of a drachm or two of my Oil; though I have "caufe to fear my prescriptions will not have the "effect upon you I could with: Therefore I do "not endeavour to bribe you in my Favour by the to Prefent of my Oil, but wholly depend upon your publick Spirit and Generofity; which, I hope, will recommend to the World the useful "endeavours of,

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Your most Obedient, moft Faithful, moft Devoted, moft Humble Servant and Admirer,

GNATHO.

*+* Beware of Counterfeits, for fuch are abroad.

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"N. B. 1 teach the Arcana of my Art at rea"fonable rates to Gentlemen of the Univerfities, "who defire to be qualified for writing Dedica❝tions ; and to young Lovers and Fortune-hun

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ters, to be paid at the day of Marriage. I in"ftruct perfons of bright Capacities to flatter "others, and those of the meaneft to flatter them"felves.

"I was the firft Inventor of Pocket Looking"Glaffes.

N° 40.

Monday, April 27, 1713.

Being a Continuation of fome former papers on the Subject of PASTORALS.

Compulerantque greges Corydon et Thyrfis in unum: Ex illo Corydon, Corydon eft tempore nobis.

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Designed to have troubled the reader with no further difcourfes of Paftoral; but being informed that I am taxed of partiality in not mentioning an Author whofe Eclogues are published in the fame volume with Mr. Philips's, I fhall employ this paper in obfervations upon him, written in the free Spirit of Criticism, and without any apprehenfion of offending that Gentleman, whofe character it is, that he takes the greatest care of his works before they are published, and has the leaft concern for them afterwards.

2. I have laid it down as the first rule of Paftoral, that its idea fhould be taken from the manners of the Golden Age, and the Moral formed upon the reprefentation of Innocence; 'tis therefore plain that any deviations from that defign degrade a Poem from being truly paftoral. In this view it will appear, that Virgil can only have two

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of his Eclogues allowed to be fuch: his firft and ninth must be rejected, because they defcribe the ravages of armies, and oppreffions of the innocent: Corydon's criminal paffion for Alexis throws out the fecond; the calumny and railing in the third are not proper to that state of concord; the eighth represents unlawful ways of procuring love by inchantments, and introduces a fhepherd whom an inviting precipice tempts to felf-murder: As to the fourth, fixth, and tenth, they are given up by * Heinfius, Salmafius, Rapin, and the criticks in general. They likewife obferve that but eleven of all the Idyllia of Theocritus are to be admitted as paftorals and even out of that number the greater part will be excluded for one or other of the reafons above mentioned. So that when I remarked in a former paper, that Virgil's eclogues, taken altogether, are rather Select poems than Paftorals; I might have said the fame thing with no lefs truth of Theocritus. The reafon of this I take to be yet unobserved by the criticks, viz. They never meant them all for paftorals.

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Now it is plain Philips hath done this, and in that particular excelled both Theocritus and Virgil.

3. As Simplicity is the diftinguishing characteriftick of Paftoral, Virgil hath been thought guilty of too courtly a style; his language is perfectly pure, and he often forgets he is among peasants. I have frequently wondered, that fince he was fo converfant in the writings of Ennius, he had not imitated the rufticity of the Doric as well by the help of the old obsolete Roman language, as Philips hath by the antiquated English: For example, might he not have faid quoi inftead of cui; quoijum for cujum; volt for vult, etc. as well as our modern hath welladay for alas, whileomne for of old,

See Kapin de Carm, par. iii.

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