l5o cm THE INFLUENCE OF NAMES. June 8, 



deas be jnft, by giving them a place in your Bee, you 

 will oblige. 



Mr, Bee, 



Yours, &c. 



Alphabet. 



To the Editor of the Bee. 



On the Art of Idlenefs^ by a Lady. 



Sir, 

 ./ ALSO have been a fuccefsful difciple in the happy art 

 of idlenefs, recommended by Albanicus ; and as the 

 acquifition of this art to my fex, particularly in the 

 higher and more wealthy ranks of fociety, is of infinite- 

 ly greater confequence, than to yours, I imagine I am 

 about to confer the grenteft frfvour poffible upon the 

 daughters of Eve, all the wo.ld over, by initiating them 

 in the myfleries of that art which has brought me from 

 the horrors of languor and wearinefs of life, to a Rate of 

 tranquillity, placid enjoyment of nature, and fociety, and a 

 fatisfaftion with myfelf and every thing about me, 

 which, if it is not like the happinefs of the blefled ia 

 heaven, is, I imagine, as like it as any thing this world 

 can afFord. 



I was the youngeft daughter and child of my pa- 

 rents, who were noble and confpicuous, but not weal- 

 thy. I was the favourite of the whole family, not on* 

 )y as being the youngeft, but as beautiful and infinuat- 

 ing, and that my parents growing old and infirm, were 

 averfe from the trouble and uneafinefs of doing any 

 thing with me, but as a play thing, and to make me 

 happy by every indulgence, that all my little childifh 

 fallies might be brought forth with the brilliancy and 

 fbftnefs of nature. 



