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Then many a doating lover came 
From seventeen till twenty-one, 
Each told ber of his mighty flame, 
But she (forsooth) affected none; 
One was not handsome, t’other was not fine, 
This of tobacco smelt, and that of wine. 
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But tother day it was my fate, 
To walk along that way alone, 
T saw no coach before her gate, 
But at the door J heard her moane 5 
She dropt a tear, and sighing seem’d to Say» 
Young ladies marry, marry while you may }"* 
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INVENTRESS OF HOT. BATHS. 
EDEA is fabled to have boiled in 
NN a magic cauldron the limbs of 
her aged father /Eson, and thus to have 
restored his youth. From this jegend, 
(says Leclerc,) in the History of Medicine, 
we may infer that Medea introduced the 
use of artificial hot-baths. 
MICITHUS. 
In the eleventh chapter of the first 
book of the Saturnalia of Macrobius, 
occur Many anecdotes of iustrious 
slaves. Here is one of them: Anaxi- 
Inus, the founder of the Sicilian Mes- 
sene, and the tyrant of Rhegiumin Italy, 
bequeathed to his slave Micithus the 
guardianship of his children. He ma- 
naged not only the patrimony of bis 
wards, but the affairs of the state, with 
so much probity and prudence, that the 
people of Rheginm, with one accord, 
proposed to invest him with the tvranny, 
or government for life, of their city. 
This he waved; and when his master’s 
son was of age, resigned to him at once 
the patrimony and government, and re- 
tired on a small competency to Olym- 
pia. 
POLYGAMY DEFENDED. 
Polygamy has been defended by other 
Christian writers than our Madan, the 
author of Thelyphthora. Lyseras wrote 
a book entitied Polygumia Triumpha- 
trix, and contends, at page 92, that mo- 
nogamy prevents the conversion of in- 
fidels. He notices Mahomet Galadin, a 
prince who but for this reason would 
_ have embraced Christianity. This Ly- 
serus was a Saxon, and wrote under the 
-assumed name. of Theophilus Aljetheus. 
His book was printed in 1683; and was 
refuted by Brusman, of Copenhagen. 
TRANSLATION OF POPE, 
A Frenchman named Du Resnel, pub- 
lished in 1787, arhymed translation of 
‘Pope’s Essay on Man, and an imitation 
of the Essay on Criticism, in four cantos, 
which incorporated the more transfer. 
able passages. The condensation of 
~ Montuty Mac. No. 204, 
thought is rarely rivalled; but the nar. 
rative portions are wellexecuted. Take 
ag a specimen, 
“The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to 
day,” &e. * 
t innocent agneau que ta faim meurtriére 
Condamnera ce soir a perdre lalumiére, 
S’il avait ta raison, s’il préyoyait son sort, 
Dans. une paix tranquille attendrait-il Ja 
TONES is 
Jusqu a Vinstant fatal qui terminesavie, 
Il pait en bondissant Pherbe tendre et Aeurie, 
Sans crainte, sans soupgon, au milien du 
danger, 
{I caresse la main quii Ie doit égorger. 
Ge 
‘The simile—“ So pleas’d at first thé 
tow'ring Alps we try,” &c. is thus marred: 
Sans craindre leur hauteur, et plein de con- 
flance, 
Vers les Alpes ainsi le voyageur s’avance: 
Les cieux sembient d’ abord s*abaisser soug 
ses pas 5 
Mais quel lointain affreux! des neiges! des 
frimats ! t | hiss 
Des rochers escarpés! Ses yeux confus sé 
troublent; * 
Et les monts entassés sur les monts se redoue 
blent. Be wk 
_SENTIMENTS. 
As among the happiest of the ser- 
tences employed in the dramas of Pub-— 
lius Syrus, the following are pointed out 
by Macrobius: 
Gifts to the worthy honour him who gave. 
What can’t be alter’d, rfther bear than 
- blame, 
Exhausted patience turns to lasting hate. 
A second shipwreck is not Neptune’s faulte 
Soon to refyise, is next to giving soon, ~ 
Live before friends, as if they might be fueg. 
To bear one injury invites another. 
Dangers are but by dangers overcome. 
The graff of credit is frugality. é 
The more the strife, the further from’ the 
truth. : 
To which may be added another, not 
easily translated into a neat English 
line: é 
Cui plus licet quam par est, plus vult quam 
licet, 
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