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My fon, in the mean time, grew up. He was the molt 

 beautiful youth in the whole kingdom ; and by far the moll 

 expert in every manly accompliihment ; nor did his foul ap- 

 pear itnwotthy of the body which it inhabited. He had al- 

 ready dirtinguilhed himfelf in two fuccefsful expeditions a- 

 gainft fome of my neighbours who had taken up arms ; and 

 amid all the fame and triumph which attended his return, 

 he forgot not that modelly which is becoming in a youth, 

 nor that refpect and obedience which is proper for a fon. 



Where is the perfon, who at this feafon would not have 

 •efteemed me the happiefl of mortals ; and not only conclud- 

 ed, that my happineis was complete, but even confidered it 

 as beyond the reach of alteration — A wife of fuch beauty 

 and worth ; a vifier of fuch experience and fidelity ; and 

 both of them the more clofely attached to my intereft, rthe 

 more intimately I knew, and the higher I raifed them : A 

 fucceflbr, who appeared rather to dread than to wifh for my 

 death J a nation which adored me: Bleft with peace abroad, 

 and profperity at home ; and though now arrived at the 

 middle preriod of life, flill enjoying all the health and the vi- 

 gour of youtii. To all this was added another bleffing, which is 

 leldom found in a cottage, and fcarcely ever on a throae j 

 but that which of all others is the moft valuable, the 

 blefllng of a confcience without reproach. How enviable 

 was then my fituation ; how unneceffary appeared to me the 

 warning of my father ; and how iuperfluous the prefent with 

 which it was accompanied ! But alas I it was not long after- 

 wards, before I difcovered the utility of both. 

 To be concluded in our next. 



Remarks 071 fome Engli/Jo Plays, from Mifcellanies in 

 profe and verfe. 



Mecf lire for Meafure. 

 Thf.rie are fome very high ftrokes of genius in this play, which, upon 

 the whole, is admirable, and bears all the marks of die writer's ufual 

 fuperiority over our other dramatic poets. 



The additional lines, fo much approved of by our critics, are truly 

 modern, and fufficiently diftinguifli themfelves from the original text. 

 To intimate the Dulse's kind purpufc to Ifabclla, Shakefpeare faid juH 



