Orlando, with a greater Magnanimity, contemn'd it, and appeared in it to tell them fo. If therefore his exalted Mien met with an unwelcome Reception, he was fure always to double the Caufe which gave the Dif tafte. You fee our Beauties affect a Negligence in the Ornament of their Hair, and adjusting their Headdreffes, as conícious that they adorn whatever they wear. Orlando had not only this Humour in common with other Beauties, but also had a Neglect whether Things became him, or not, in a World he contemn'd. For this Reason, a noble Particularity appear'd in all his OEconomy, Furniture, and Equipage. And to convince the prefent little Race, how unequal all their Measures to an Antediluvian, as he called himfelf, in refpect of the Infects which now appear for Men, he fometimes rode in an open Tumbril, of lefs Size than ordinary, to show the Largenefs of his Limbs, and the Grandeur of his Perfonage, to the greater Advantage At other Seafons, all his Appointments had a Magnificence, as if it were formed by the Genius of Trimal-chio of old, which fhewed it felf in doing ordinary Things with an Air of Pomp and Grandeur. Orlando therefore called for Tea by Beat of Drum; his Valet got ready to fhave him by a Trumpet to Horfe; and Water was brought for his Teeth, when the Sound was changed to Boots and Saddle.

IN all thefe glorious Exceffes from the common Practice, did the happy Orlando live and reign in an uninterrupted Tranquillity, till an unlucky Accident brought to his Remembrance, that one Evening he was married before he courted the Nuptials of Villaria. Several fatal Memorandums were produced to revive the Memory of this Accident, and the unhappy Lover was for ever banifhed her Prefence, to whom he owed the Support of his juft Renown and Gallantry. But Diftrefs does not debase noble Minds; it only changes the Scene, and gives them new Glory by that Alteration. Orlando therefore now raves in a Garret, and calls to his Neighbour-Skies to pity his Dolours, and to find Redrefs for an unhappy Lover. All high Spirits, in any great Agitation of Mind, are inclin'd to relieve themfelves by Poetry: The renown'd Porter of Oliver had

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not more Volumes around his Cell in the College of Bidlam, than Orlando in his prefent Apartment, And though inferting Poetry in the midft of Profe be thought a Licence among correct Writers not to be indulg'd, it is hoped the Neceffity of doing it, to give a juft Idea of the Hero of whom we treat, will plead for the Liberty we shall hereafter take, to print Orlando's Soliloquies in Verfe and Profe, after the Manner of great Wits, and fuch as thofe to whom they are near ally'd.

Will's Coffee-Houfe, August 5.

A GOOD Company of us were this Day to fee, or rather to hear, an artful Perfon do feveral Feats of Activity with his Throat and Wind-Pipe. The firft Thing wherewith he prefented us, was a Ring of Bells, which he imitated in a most miraculous Manner; after that, he gave us all the different Notes of a Pack of Hounds, to Our great Delight and Astonishment. The Company expreffed their Applaufe with much Noife; and never was heard fuch an Harmony of Men and Dogs: But a certain plump merry Fellow, from an Angle of the Room, fell a crowing like a Cock fo ingenioufly, that he won our Hearts from the other Operator in an In ftant. As foon as I faw him, I recollected I had feen him on the Stage, and immediately knew it to be Tom Mirrour, the Comical Actor. He immediately addresfed himfelf to me, and told me, he was furprized to fee a Virtuofo take Satisfaction in any Reprefentations be low that of human Life, and asked me, Whether I thought this acting Bells and Dogs was to be confidered under the Notion of Wit, Humour, or Satire? Were it not better, continued he, to have fome particular Piature of a Man laid before your Eyes, that might incite your Laughter? He had no fooner fpoke the Word, but he immediately quitted his natural Shape, and talked to me in a very different Air and Tone from what he had ufed before, upon which, all that fate near us laughed; but I faw no Distortion in his Countenance, or any Thing that appeared to me difagreeable. I asked Pacolet, What meant that fudden Whisper about us? For I could not take the Jeft. He answered, The Gentleman you were talking to, affumed your Air and Countenance so exactly, that all fell a laughing to fee

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how little you knew your felf, and how much your were enamoured with your own Image. But that Perfon: (continued my Monitor) if Men would make the right: Ufe of him, might be as inftrumental to their reforming Errors in Gefture, Language, and Speech, as a Dancing-Mafter, Linguift, or Orator. You fee he laid your felf before you with fo much Addrefs, that you faw no-. thing particular in his Behaviour: He has fo happy a Knack of reprefenting Errors and Imperfections, that you can bear your Faults in him as well as in your felf: He is the firft Mimick that ever gave the Beauties, as well as the Deformities of the Man he acted. What Mr. Dryden faid of a very great Man, may be well ap-. plied to him:

Not one, but all Mankind's Epitome.

You are to know, that this Pantomime may be faid to be a Species of himself: He has no Commerce with the reft of Mankind, but as they are the Objects of Imitation; like the Indian Fowl, called the Mock-Bird, who has no Note of his own, but hits every Sound in the Wood as foon as he hears it; fo that Mirrour is at once a Copy and an Original. Poor Mirrour's Fate (as well as Talent) is like that of the Bird we just now spoke of :: The Nightingale, the Linnet, the Lark, are delighted with his Company; but the Buzzard, the Crow, and the Owl, are obferved to be his mortal Enemies. Whenever Sophronius meets Mirrour, he receives him with Civility and Refpect, and well knows, a good Copy of himfelf can be no Injury to him; but Bathillus fhuns the Street where he expects to meet him, for he that knows. his every Step and Look is conftrain'd and affected, muft be afraid to be rival'd in his Action, and of having it difcovered to the unnatural, by its being practifed by another as well as himself.

From my own Apartment, August 5.

LETTERS from Coventry, and other Places have been fent to me, in Anfwer to what I have faid in Relation to my Antagonist Mr. Powell, and advised me, with warm Language, to keep to Subjects more proper for me than fuch high Points. But the Writers of thefe Epiftles miftake the Use and Service I propose to the

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learned World by fuch Obfervations: For you are to understand, That the Title of this Paper gives me a Right in taking to my felf, and inferting in it, all fuch Parts of any Book or Letter which are foreign to the Purpofe intended, or profeffed by the Writer: So that fuppofe two great Divines should argue, and treat each other with Warmth and Levity, unbecoming their Subject or Character, all that they fay unfit for that Place is very proper to be inferted here. Therefore from Time to Time, in all Writings which fhall hereafter be published, you fhall have from me Extracts of all that shall appear not to the Purpose; and for the Benefit of the gentle Reader, I will Thew what to turn over unread, and what to perufe. For this End I have a Mathematical Sive preparing, in which I will fift every Paragraph; and all that falls through, I fhall make bold with for my own Ufe. The fame Thing will be as beneficial in Speech; for all fuperfluous Expreffions in Talk fall to me alfo: As, when a Pleader at the Bar defigns to be extremely impertinent and troublesome, and cries, Under Favour of the Court- With Submiffion, my Lord

·I humbly offer and, I think I have well confidered this Matter; for I would be very far from trifling with your Lordship's Time, or trefpaffing upon your Pati ence However, thus I will venture to fay and fo forth. Or elfe, when a fufficient self-conceited Coxcomb is bringing out fomething in his own Praife, and begins, Without Vanity, I must take this upon me to affert. There is also a Trick which the Fair Sex have, that will greatly contribute to fwelling my Volumes: As, when a Woman is going to abufe her beft Friend, Pray (fays fhe) have you heard what is faid of Mrs. Such a one? I am beartily forry to hear any Thing of that Kind, of one I have fo great a Value for ; but they make no Scruple of telling it; and it was not spoken of to me as a Secret, for now the Town rings of it. All fuch Flowers in Rhetorick, and little Refuges for Malice, are to be noted, and naturally belong only to Tatlers. By this Method you will inmediately find Volumes contract themfelves into Octavo's, and the Labour of a Fortnight got over in half a Day.

VOL. II.).

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St. James's Coffee-House, August 5,

LAST Night arrived a Mail from Lisbon, which gives a very pleasing Account of the Posture of Affairs In that part of the World, the Enemy having been neceffitated wholly to abandon the Blockade of Olivenza, Thefe Advices fay, That Sir John Jennings is arrived at Lisbon. When that Gentleman left Barcelona, his Catholick Majefty was taking all poffible Methods for carrying on an offenfive War. It is obferved with great Satisfaction in the Court of Spain, That there is a very good Intelligence between the General Officers Count Staremberg and Mr. Stanhope acting in all Things with fuch Unanimity, that the publick Affairs receive great Advantages from their perfonal Friendship and Efteem to each other, and mutual Assistance in promoting the Service of the Common Cause.

THIS is to give Notice, That if any able-bodied Palatine will enter into the Bonds of Matrimony with Betty Pepin, the faid Palatine fhall be fettled in a Freehold of 40 s. per Annum in the County of Middlesex.

N° 52.

Tuesday, August 9. 1709.

White's Chocolate-house, August 7.

Delamira refigns her Fan.

ONG had the Crowd of the Gay and young stood in

teous Delamira; but all their Hopes are lately vanished, by the Declaration that fhe has made of her Choice, to take the happy Archibald for her Companion for Life. Upon her making this known, the Expence of Sweet Powder and Jeffamine are confiderably abated and the Mercers and Milliners complain of her Want of publick Spirit, in not concealing longer a Secret which was fo much the Benefit of Trade. But it fo has

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