IJitS JULIA GONUGA. 



but get any old perriwig that will cover one ear ; and 3 



for the reft, their diligent plying of the pan makes them 

 complete reprefentatives of the good fpirits whofe of - 

 fice it is to hawl fouls out of purgatory. This wonder- 

 fully ingenious decoration, with the incefTant noife 

 they make s and ilill more the cheap price of their 

 commodities on this day, * draw a multitude of buyers 

 about them, who gratify their appetite for a few half- 

 pence, and at the fame time fend up a pious ejacula-^ 



tion in behalf of the poor fouls that lie howling in pur *. 

 gatory. 



SOME PARTICULARS CONCERNING JULIA GONZAGA, 



T HE lovers of the imitative arts exhauft the. 

 powers of their eloquence in extolling to the fkies the 

 beauties of a medicean Venus or an Apollo belvedere. 

 They conlider them as ideal beauties, and pay them a 

 greater tribute of praife, as creatures of art, than they 

 do to nature ; whofe fingle productions are feldom or 

 never in all their parts fo perfect as to entitle them to 

 be models of beauty. Thefe wonders of art would be 

 infinitely more interefring, if they were the real like- 

 nefTes of extraordinary perfons who antiently captivated 

 the world by their lingular beauty. Nothing interefts 

 us but nature, and what refembles her. Whatever has, 

 any appearance of excelling her, excites either averfion 

 or cold admiration. What charms, what inward plea- 

 sure, would not the light of a Julia Gonzaga, formed 

 in parian marble };>y a Praxiteles, qr drawn in colour^ 

 by Correggio, produce in thofe who are convinced by 

 jhiliory,andthe concurrent encomiums" of contemporary 



poets*. 



