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Process for preparing Vitriolic Acid. 



[Aug. T, 



When Oliver beheld his Florifene 



Salute aim with fuch I'olt, eiuharrafs'd 

 airs, 

 Then all iiis firft intolerable pain 



Was fled, and other wouuds his foul de- 

 clares ; 

 That foul was full of doubt, and hope be- 

 tween. 

 Yet, all the heav'uly confirmation bears. 

 Of what his gentle maid htijins lo prove ; — 

 For timid filcnce is the proof of lov'e. 



He fees, as near the lovely virgin drew, 



A deep vermilion all her face o'erfpread ; 

 He hears her voice ; how faint and weak it 

 grew. 

 As flie inquir'd his health, and how he 

 fped 

 Of wounds, which fullered for her fake flie 

 knew. 

 He marks her downcaft eyes and drooping 

 head : 

 He marks : and hope in every feature glows; 

 Tor thefe the fure effects of love he knows. 



•' My hard unpitying defliny, (fhc faid,) 

 The will of Hcav'n, or Fortune's cruel 

 doom, 

 Had nearly brought my young and virgin 

 hc.id 

 To dcalh moft horrid, and a fearful tomb, 

 Ihee, Paladin, my kinder ftars have led 

 Hither, my faviour and laft hope, to 

 come, 

 And fet me from impending terrors free— 

 And thou (oh cruel change !) haft bled for 

 me !" 



Thcfe words, fofull of tendcrnefs and love, 

 Pierc'd lo his heart the gentle, amorous 

 knight : 

 A thoufand tunes he fhank'd the pow'rs 

 above 

 For fuch fweet tranfport and for hopes fo 

 bright ; 

 And gladly now, his love fmcere to prove, 

 He could have breath'd his foul out in her 

 fight. 

 To his fweet niiftrefs, lingering at his fide. 

 With burning blulhes Oliver replied : — 



" I never yet have done a deed, fair roaid. 

 From which fuch joy my bofom has con- 

 fed. 

 If thou from death wertrefcucd by my aid. 



Then I indeed am more fincerely blelt 

 Than ever knight by Fortune's power was 

 made. 

 Thefe wounds thy gentle fpirit l;ave dif- 

 treft : 

 But oh ! another, deeper, wound I feel, 

 A different ait require that wound to heal." 



The gentle damfel knew the hidden thought ; 

 Full well Ihc knew it, and full well ap- 

 plied, 

 jjnitkly are Love's delicious leffons taught ; 

 The princefs felt them, and in fecreC 

 fi-li'd : 



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" And have I then the foft infeHion caught ? 



'1 his wound I ulfo feel, and (annul hide. 

 Oh Oliver ! I'll ne'er uniirattlul prove 

 To fuch tried conftancy, fuch generous 

 love !" 



Tim conclufion of this tale of love is 

 vciT fad indeed. Oliver, for a long time 

 aftt T he 13 cured of his wound, ftill makes 

 excules for liiicering about the palnce of 

 the liofpitablc Corbantes, and detaining 

 his impatient brother Pj<.l;idins ; t)iit at 

 length a fermon from the knight of Moiit- 

 aiibaii roufes his dormant lirtue. He 

 drass himfelf away ; and Florifcna, like 

 ancjthcr Dido, unable to bear her grief for 

 his departure, falLs into defpair andmad- 

 ncfs, and puts an cud to her fufferings by 

 a leap from her cliamber-wiudow. The 

 inconfolalile Corbantes erects a monu- 

 ment over lier remains, on which he 

 caufes the melancholy liiftory of her dt^ 

 liveninco, lier love, and her defpair, to 

 be cngra\ed. — [To he continued.] 



To the Editor of the Month!)/ Magazine, 



SIR, 



IF the following method of preparing 

 and applyius '''^ vitriolic or nitrous 

 acid (which has been found fate and ufe- 

 ful ill extracting ftains, ivc, from fanned 

 leather,) will anfwer the inquiry of an 

 Artift in Number 141 of the Monthly 

 Magazine, it is very much at his fer- 

 vice. 



Take half a pint of water, a quarter of 

 a pint of nitrous acid, and half an onnce 

 of falts of lemon. Put the water in a 

 botile, and add the vitriolic acid to 

 it, and afterwards the fults of lemon. 

 \^ht-n the hunt wi-.ich fs caufed by this 

 mixture has fubfided, add half a pint of 

 fki . mcd milk ; fliake them occationally 

 for three or four days, and the liquor will 

 be fit forufe. 



T/ie Applirntion. 



With 7\ brufli and foft water clean the 

 furface of th.e leatlier from all greafe, 

 diit, <xc. Next fcrape on It a little 

 Bath-brick, or wliite tVec-fimd ; add a 

 little of the above liquor, and with a brufli 

 fcour it veil, repeating tliis proccfs till 

 the whole has been gone over : tlieii w ith 

 a clean fpoiigc and water walh otV what 

 remains of the brick : leave the leatlier 

 to di-)- gradually, and it will be of a liglit 

 new colour. If it is wiflicd to be darker, 

 brulli it with a hard-brufli a little before 

 it is dry, and it will be of a rich browi^ 

 tinge. I am, Sir, ike. J. W'. 



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