no-but if I had her, I fhould watch her; for that downcaft eye. Why cannot you look people in the face? Steal! fays her husband, she would fteal nothing but perhaps a few ribbands before they were left off by her lady. Sir, answered I, why fhould you, by fuppofing me a thief, infult one from whom you have received no injury? Infult, fays the lady; are you come here to be a servant, you faucy baggage, and talk of infulting? What will this world come to, if a gentleman may not jeft with a fervant? Well, fuch fervants! pray bẹ gone, and fee when you will have the honour to be fo infulted again. Servants infulted!—a fine time-Infulted! Get down ftairs, you flut, or the footman fhall infult you.

The last day of the last week was now coming; and my kind coufin talked of fending me down in the waggon to preferve me from bad courfes.But in the morning fhe came and told me that she had one more trial for me; Euphemia wanted a maid, and perhaps I might do for her; for, like me, she must fall her creft, being forced to lay down her chariot upon the lofs of half her fortune by bad fecurities, and with her way of giving her money to every body that pretended to want it, fhe could have little before hand; therefore I might ferve her; for, with all her fine fenfe, she must not pretend to be nice.

I went immediately, and met at the door a young gentlewoman, who told me fhe had herself been hired that morning, but that she was ordered to bring any that offered up ftairs. I was accordingly introduced to Euphemia, who, when I came in, laid down her book, and told me, that she fent for me, not to gratify an idle curiofity, but left my disappointment might be made ftill more grating by incivility; that fhe was in pain to deny any thing, much more what was no favour; that fhe faw nothing in my appearance which did not make her wish for my company; but that another, whofe claims might perhaps be equal, had come before me.-The thought of being fo near to fuch a place, and miffing it, brought tears into my eyes, and my fobs hindered me from returning my acknowledgments. She rofe up confufed, and fuppofing, by my concern, that I was diftreffed, placed me by her, and made me tell her my ftory; which when she heard, he put two guineas in my hand, ordering me to lodge near her, and make ufe of her table till fhe could provide for me.

A CURIOUS

IT

A CURIOUS

METHOD of obtaining JUSTICE

FROM ONE OF THE

EASTERN CALIPHS.

T is recorded of Hakham, the fon and fucceffor of Abdoulrahman III. who, wanting to enlarge his palace, proposed to purchase of a poor woman a piece of ground that lay contiguous to it. However, fhe could not be prevailed upon to part with the inheritance of her ancestors, and Hakham's officers took by force what they could not otherwife obtain. The poor woman applied to Ibnbechir, the chief magistrate of Corduba, for justice. The cafe was delicate and dangerous. Bechir concluded that the ordinary methods of proceeding would be ineffectual, if not fatal. He mounted his afs, and taking a large fack with him, rode to the palace of the Caliph. The Prince happened to be fitting in a pavilion that had been erected in the poor woman's garden. Hakham fhewed fome furprize at his appearance and requeft, but allowed him to fill his fack. When this was done, the magiftrate intreated the Prince to affift him in laying the burden on the afs. This extraordinary requeft furprized Hakham ftill more; but he only told the Judge that it was too heavy; he could not bear it. Yet this fack, replied Bechir, with a

noble

noble allurance, this fack which you think too heavy to bear, contains but a small portion of that ground which you took by violence from the right owner. How then will you be able, at the day of judgment, to support the weight of the whole? The remonftrance was effectual, and Hakham, without delay, reftored the ground, with the buildings upon it, to the former proprietor.

BANISHME NT:

CONSOLATION UNDER IT.

ALL places that the eye of Heaven vifits,

Are, to a wife man, ports and happy havens.

Teach thy neceffity to reafon thus:

There is no virtue like neceffity,

And think not, that the King did banish thee;
But thou the King. Woe doth the heavier fit
Where it perceives it is but faintly borne.
Go fay, I fent thee forth to purchase honour,
And not the King exil'd thee. Or fuppofe,
Devouring peftilence hangs in our air,
And thou art flying to a fresher clime.

Look, what thy foul holds dear, imagine it

To lie that way thou go'ft, not whence thou com'ft. Suppose the finging birds, muficians;

The grafs whereon thou tread'ft, the prefence

floor;

The flowr's, fair ladies; and thy steps, no more
Than a delightful measure, or a dance.

For gnarling forrow hath lefs power to bite
The man that mocks at it, and fets it light.

THI

ENGLAND.

HIS royal throne of Kings, this fcepter'd ifle, This earth of Majefty, this feat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-Paradise,

This fortress built by Nature for herself,
Against infection, and the hand of war;
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious ftone fet in the filver sea,
Which ferves it in the office of a wall,
Or of a moat defenfive to a house,
Against the envy of lefs happier lands.

IT

HINTS

FOR A

YOUNG MARRIED WOMAN,

year

T has often been thought, that the first after marriage is the happieft of a woman's life.

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