DESCRIPTION of GUN VI LLE. 6x 
is admirable. The downs and plantations which belong to this 
houfe, take in feven or eight miles in circumference, and com- 
'flitute a very pleafing fcene. 
Night now drawing on, and curiofity fatisfied, we proceeded 
further five miles, (fill travelling over downs, to blandford. 
Sir Charles Howard’s dragoons being here on their march to- 
wards London, you remember how difficult it was to find pro- 
per lodgings, and how many civil fpeeches were made by thofe 
who could do nothing for us. It is fome alleviation of a mis- 
fortune, to be treated with gentle language ; one is naturally 
pleafed with, this exercife of humanity, whether it proceed, 
from the heart, or not. At length we were conduced fafe to 
the red lion, where I wiffi you a good night. I am, 
LETTER XX. 
To the fame . 
M A D A Kf, Tuefday. 
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H OW precarious is human happinefs ! You who had me- 
ditated the enjoyment of drinking deeply of the waters 
of lethe, and of burying, not your cares, for you feemed to 
have none, but all your thoughts in oblivion, was fo cruelly 
interrupted before the dawn of day with the noife of a thoufand 
giants mounted on elephants ! fo they might appear in a dream, 
©r the confufed interval between fleeping and waking. But 
indeed there were two or three troops of dragoons, who feemed 
to be no refpe&ers of any perfons, except their officers. It was 
mortifying; but have you not often flept fince that time, many 
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