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feen or heard of a ghoft by the audience I Hamlet 

 alone fees him, on running off the ftage, for the firft 

 time, with furious exclamations and difheveled hair. 

 He does not let himfelf be feen by the fpeclators, pro- 

 bably becaufe his buiinefs is not fo much with them 

 as with his fon." 



But, ferioufly ; the French will no longer endure to 

 fee a ghoft even in the night-time ; fince, on the ap- 

 pearance of one at high noon, it was near being hilled 

 off. If the ghoft of a Voltaire fo narrowly efcaped this 

 difgrace in full day, the ghoft of a Ducis might have 

 met with it even at night. What was wanting to the 

 former ghoft, in conformity to nature, would have been 

 wanting to this ghoft in the celebrity of its creator, 

 Les Frangois n'aiment pas Tefprit, faid a young york- 

 fhireman that fat behind me. Oh, returned an old 

 frenchman ; ils aiment pourtant f efprit, mais non pas 

 les fpeclires. ^— Cependant, monfteur, replied I, point- 

 ing to Ophelia, who, from the paint fhe had on her 

 cheeks, did not feem as if fhe had come from the grave : 

 Cependant, en voila un ! et fans doute il fait bien fe 

 faire aimer ! — Beaucoup ! whifpered a beau at my el- 

 bow, with a cunning look,, that was to give me to un- 

 derftand that he was one of her particular admirers/ 

 I wifhed him joy, and let him perceive I took his hint. 

 Perhaos he now laughed as much in his fieeve at me 



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for believing him, as I did at him for wanting to make 

 me believe- him, But to return to the fable. 



<c The ghoft having; discovered to him the flagitious 

 crime, proceeds to inftigate him to revenge. His 

 mother is marked out as the fit objeel: of .it : but filial 

 affection rejects the fuggeftion- with horror,, and then 



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