74 Tf^^ History Chap, i. 



above the trifling Amufements of Ladies, that 

 it is apt to fill the Minds of the Virtuous with 

 Admiration, and may very well retort on th^ 

 dull, unadive part of Mankind, the Slug- 

 gifhnefs of whofe Lives denote aforry, mean, 

 pd bafe-fpiritednefs of Mind 3 while thefe 

 illuftrious Heroins Ihine with unufal Splen- 

 dor, and by their Aftions perpetuate their 

 ^lemories to the lateft Date of Time. 

 . And what thoughtful and rational Being is 

 there whofe Reafon can be fo niightily adum- 

 ^brated as to negledthis, a Bufinefs that carr 

 ries with it all the Motives imaginable ? Yet 

 how much is it forgot, or at leaft how much 

 more of it might be done, did not a Lethar- 

 gick kind of Infatuation lie upon the Spirits 

 of a great part of the World ? 



Neither does the Fame of thefe Female 

 Virtuofo*s end here, fince from one of theiii 

 the World has fome Poetical Remains con- 

 cerning the Beauty, hmocence, and harmlefs 

 Enjoyment of a Country Life and Bufinefs, 

 ecjual to the higheft Raptures either of Pi/z- 

 dar^ Flaccm^ or Maro, I mean the incompa- 

 Mrs, Phil- table Mrs. Catherine Phillips^ in two Effays, 

 ^^^^' one direflly under the Title of a Country 

 Life ^ and the other in an Invitation to a La- 

 dy, under the borrowed Name of ]Jo/^7zz<ar, to 

 come and . live with her in the Country 3 

 wherein, after a fliort Introduition, fhe arr 

 gues as if her Soul was more than ordinarily 

 afFeded with that way of Living : 

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