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people of that epoch, both as to talents and 

 character. 



The rigid and pious Madame de Main- 

 tenon never ceafed to be her avowed and 

 intimate friend, as appears from a moft 

 interefting dialogue which pafled between 

 them after Maintenon became the wife of 

 Louis the Fourteenth. It will be found 

 in the Memoirs of Madame de L'Enclos, 

 which are elegantly tranflated from the 

 French into our language, and were pub- 

 liftied by Dodfley in 1761. It is a very 

 brilliant and entertaining work. 



After the animation of the Silene, or 

 Catch Fly, as an enchantrefs ; after that 

 of the Amarylis, illuftrated by a beautiful 

 pifture of a church vane in the fetting fun, 

 the Ilex, or Holly, corries forward with her 

 giant lovers, grafping their thoufand arrows. 

 With this metamorphofis we find involved 

 a lovely allufion to Needwood Foreft, the 

 late pride and glory of Staffordmire, now 

 u 3 facrificing, 



