45° BETTERS .FROM PARIS. 



The king laughed heartily at this piece of naivete, and 

 often told the ftory afterwards. 



The two other points from whence Paris may advan- 

 tageoufly be furv eyed, but at a greater diftance, are 

 the mount Calvary, and the royal pleafure houfe Belle- 

 vue. But I muft not weary you with written descrip- 

 tions of profpecls ; nothing can render them tolerable 

 'but the medium of the imagination. Farewell. 



P H A O N. 



A DIALOGUE IK ELYSIUM. 



Scene 9 a grove, interfered by fever al walks , with bower $ 

 arbours, &£. — Interlocutors, Phaon, Nireus, after* 

 wards Sappho, and, at length Anacreon. 



Phaon. 



HANDSOME ftranger — hear me but for a 

 moment. 



Nireus.] What wouldft thou hare of me ? 



Phaon.] Tell me lincerely where I am ? who I am ? 

 md what I am to do here ? 



Nireus.] What queftions f Thou — art in Ely- 

 Sum — who thou art, thou thyfelf art bell: able to tell 

 r-r and what thou art here to do, will appear after a 

 time. 



Phaon.] A curious place ! that I muft confefs, and 

 carious inhabitants ! If I were not thoroughly con- 

 fcious that I am Phaon, I Ihould begin to think that 

 jpmebody had cheated me out of my own perfon.> 



6 / Nireus 



