THE BEE, 



LITERARY WEEKLY LNTELLLGENCER, 



VWEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1791. 



To the Editor of the Bee. 



Hijlory of a Fortunate Idler. 

 Sir, 



I HAVE read with confiderable pleafure, and not with- 

 out edification, the effays of Albanicus on the fubjedt 

 of the art of idlenefs, which I hope he will continue, 

 for the amufement and inftruftion of your readers, ap- 

 plying his principles to the practical benefit of the nu- 

 merous fons and daughters of idlenefs, whofe fituation, 

 when floating on the furface of fafhion, without a guide 

 or direftion, one cannot look, at without compaffion, 

 mixed with contempt, or without wiihing, that their 

 labours of idlenefs might be converted into the chan- 

 nel of their own real happirtefs, and the good of fo- 

 ciety. 



For my own part, Mr. Editor, I will frankly ac- 

 .knovvledge, that I am, with refpecb to artlefs idlenefs. 

 as a firebrand plucked out of the fire, and a living 



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