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He—My duty *tis from my abundance to be- 
ftow. 
She—And mine, to glean that I hereafter 
may beftow. 
He—Good is the purpofe, but the practice 
difficult. 
She—A great example foftens all that’s diffi- 
cult. 
© He—Full well I know whom this allufion 
fignifies. 
ShemWhat we but promife, fhe has long ago 
performed. 
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Extraéis from the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. [April 1, 
He—’Tis fhe, who founded aur alliance in 
the town. 
She, (prefenting her chaplet) 
T take this chaplet from my brows, and reach 
it her, Re 
He, (prefenting bis,) 
Talfo mine. 
She—Live long, thou obje& of our vows ! 
He—Live happily! this rofe betokens happi- 
nefs. 
Sbem—Long may fhelive ! exclaim each loyal 
Ye ertien. | ond x: 
Extraéis from the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. 
—5 a 
DOCTOR SOUTH. 
R. South, when he refided at Caver- 
fham in Oxfordfhire, was, one very 
cold winter’s morning, called out of his bed 
to marry a couple who were then waiting 
at church. He hurried on his habiliments, 
and went fhivering to the church ; but 
feeing only an old man of feventy, and a 
woman about the fame age, afked his clerk 
in a pet, where the bride and bridegroom 
were, and what thofe old folks wanted? 
The old man replied that they came there 
te be married. He looked fternly at them, 
and exclaimed,—* Married! * Yes, mar- 
vied, ~faid the old man haftily, ‘better 
marry than do worfe.’ * Get yougone, you 
filly old fools ;° faid the Do&tor,—* get 
home and do your worft;* and then hobbled 
out of the church, abufing his clerk for 
difturbing him on fe filly an occafion. 
AN ANCIENT EXACTION. 
One of the moft curious inftances of 
minifterial rapacity which we have upon 
record, is the exa&tion ef two hundred pul- 
lets from a woman of fafhion, for leave to 
pals a fingle night with her own hufband, 
<< Uxor Hugonis de Nevill dat Domino 
Resi ducentas Gallinas, eo quod peflit 
jacere una noée cum Domino fuo Ha- 
gone de Nevill.” . 
Maddox, Hift. Exch. ¢. 13, p. 326 
| THIRTIETH OF JANUARY SERMONS. 
The myriads of fermogs which have 
been preached on this anniverfary, and af- 
terwards publifhed, would form a curious 
colleStion of examples of Ecclefiafiical mo- 
deration. One of them frem the follow- 
ing text, is loyal in the extreme.—‘* But 
the Child-en of Belial faid, how fhall this 
man fave us? and they defpifed him, and , 
brought him no prefents, but he held his 
peace.” | 
The reverend gentleman explains, drought 
him no prefents, to mean, paid him no taxes: 
and that the king held his peace, becaufe, 
he knew that words would not have half 
fo good an effect, as putting thefe contu- 
macious and wicked fous of Belial into the 
Star-chamber, which, AUTHORISED BY 
THE POWER HE RECEIVED FROM ON 
HIGH, he accordingly did. 
HOLY ORDERS CONSIDERED BY THE 
MAGISTRATE AS A DISGRACE. 
In the feventh century, if-a faétious 
fubject became troublefome in France, the © 
king would order his head to be fhaved, 
and oblige him to take the vows of a 
monk. Ebroin and Thierry were ferved 
thus under Clotaire III. To belong to 
the ecclefiattical order was confidered as a 
difgrace and inflicted as a punifhment. 
‘There are men in England, who incline 
to employ’ ordination in this way: the 
church fhould excommunicate them. 
CURIOUS TENURE OF BRIANSTON IN 
DORSETSHIRE. 
The lands of Brianiton, a village near 
Blandford, were held by a tenure which 
obliged the proprietor, when the king 
marched to war againft either Scotland or 
Wales, to furnifh 2 man to walk before 
him, without any other cloaths than his 
fhirt and drawers ; bolding in one hand a 
bow without a firing, and in the other, 
an arrow without a feather. 
PATENT OF THE ARTILLERY COMPANY. 
IN the Royal Patent of King Henry the 
VIlfth for Incorporating of the Honour- 
able the Artillery Company, granted A. D. 
1537, is the following claufe, viz. ‘¢ That 
for theyr dyfport and spaftyme from tyme 
to tyme, for ever hereafter and perpetually, 
may ufe and exercife the fhetyng yn theyr 
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