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and parsimony be the virtues of the merchant, how much is his punctual dealing below a gentleman's charity to the poor, or hospitality among his neighbours!

Captain Sentry observed Sir Andrew very diligent in hearing Sir Roger, and had a mind to turn the discourse, by taking notice-in general, from the highest to the lowest parts of human society, there was a secret, though unjust way, among men, of indulging the seeds of ill-nature and envy, by comparing their own state of life to that of another, and grudging the approach of their neighbour to their own happiness; and, on the other side, he, who is less at his ease, repines at the other, who he thinks has unjustly the advantage over him. Thus the civil and military lists look upon each other with much ill-nature; the soldier repines at the courtier's power, and the courtier rallies the soldier's honour; or, to come to lower instances, the private men in the borse and foot of an army, the carmen and coachmen in the city streets, mutually look upon each other with ill-will, when they are in competition for quarters, or the way in their respective

motions.

"It is very well, good captain," interrupted Sir Andrew: "you may attempt to turn the discourse if you think fit; but I must however have a word or two with Sir Roger, who, I see, thinks he has paid me off, and been very severe upon the merchant. I shall not," continued he, "at this time remind Sir Roger of the great and noble monuments of charity and public spirit, which have been erected by merchants since the reformation, but at present content myself with what he allows us, parsimony and frugality. If it were consistent with the quality of so ancient a baronet as Sir Roger, to keep an account, or measure things by the most infallible way, that of numbers, he would prefer our parsimony to his hospitality. If to drink so many hogsheads is to be hospitable, we do not contend for the fame of that virtue: but it would be worth while to consider whether so many artificers at work ten days together by my appointment, or so many peasants made merry on Sir Roger's charge, are the men more obliged? I believe the families of the artificers will thank me more than the household of the peasants shall Sir Roger. Sir Roger gives to his men, but I place mine above the necessity or obligation of my bounty. I am in very little pain for the Roman proverb upon the Carthaginian traders; the Romans were their professed enemies; I am only sorry no Carthaginian histories have come to our hands; we might have been taught perhaps by them some proverbs against the Roman generosity, in fighting for, and bestowing, other people's goods. But since Sir Roger has taken occasion, from an old proverb, to be out of humour with merchants, it should be no offence to offer one not quite so old in their defence. When a man happens to break in Holland, they say of him, that he has not kept trae accounts. This phrase, perhaps, among us would appear a soft or humorous way of speaking, but with that exact nation it bears the highest reproach. For a man to be mistaken in the calculation of his expense, in his ability to answer future demands, or to be impertinently sanguine in putting his credit to too great adventure, are all instances of as much infamy, as with gayer nations to be failing in courage, or common honesty.

"Numbers are so much the measure of every thing that is valuable, that it is not possible to demonstrate the success of any action, or the prudence

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of any undertaking without them. I say this in answer to what Sir Roger is pleased to say, that little that is truly noble can be expected from one who is ever poring on his cash-book, or balancing his accounts.' When I have my returns from abroad, I can tell to a shilling, by the help of numbers, the profit or loss by my adventure; but I ought also to be able to show that I had reason for making it, either from my own experience, or that of other people, or from a reasonable presumption that my returns will be sufficient to answer my expense and hazard; and this is never to be done without the skill of numbers. For instance, if I am to trade to Turkey, I ought beforehand to know the demand of our manufactures there, as well as of their silks, in England, and the customary prices that are given for both in each country. I ought to have a clear knowledge of these matters beforehand. that I may presume upon sufficient returns to answer the charge of the cargo I have fitted out, the freight and assurance out and home, the customs to the queen, and the interest of my own money, and besides all these expenses a reasonable profit to myself. Now what is there of scandal in this skill? What has the merchant done, that he should be so little in the good graces of Sir Roger? He throws down no man's enclosures, and tramples upon no man's corn; he takes nothing from the industrious labourer; he pays the poor man for his work; he communicates his profit with mankind; by the preparation of his cargo, and the manufacture of his returns, he furnishes employment and subsistence to greater numbers than the richest nobleman; and even the nobleman is obliged to him for finding out foreign markets for the produce of his estate, and for making a great addition to his rents; and yet it is certain that none of all these things could be done by him without the exercise of his skill in numbers.

"This is the economy of the merchant; and the conduct of the gentleman must be the same, unless, by scorning to be the steward, he resolves the steward shall be the gentleman. The gentleman, no more than the merchant, is able, without the help of numbers, to account for the success of any action, or the prudence of any adventure. If, for instance, the chase is his whole adventure, his only returns must be the stag's horns in the great hall, and the fox's nose upon the stable-door. Without doubt Sir Roger knows the full value of these returns; and if beforehand he had computed the charges of the chase, a gentleman of his discretion would certainly have hanged up all his dogs; he would never have brought back so many fine horses to the kennel; he would never have gone so often, like a blast, over fields of corn. If such too bad been the conduct of all his ancestors, he might truly have boasted at this day, that the antiquity of his family had never been sullied by a trade; a merchant had never been permitted with his whole estate to purchase room for his picture in the gallery of the Coverley's, or to claim his descent from the maid of honour. But it is very happy for Sir Roger that the merchant paid so dear for his ambition. It is the misfortune of many other gentlemen to turn out of the seats of their ancestors, to make way for such new masters as have been more exact in their accounts than themselves; and certainly he deserves the estate a great deal better who has got it by his industry, than he who has lost it by his negligence.”

No. 175.] THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1711. hardly seems to dream of, and is too far gone in it

Proximus a tectis ignis defenditur ægre.OVID, Rem. Am. v. 625. To save your house from neighb'ring fire is hard.-TATE. I SHALL this day entertain my readers with two or three letters I have received from my correspondents: the first discovers to me a species of females which have hitherto escaped my notice, and is as follows:

"MR. SPECTATOR,

to receive advice. However, I shall animadvert in due time on the abuse which he mentions, having myself observed a nest of Jezebels near the Temple, who make it their diversion to draw up the eyes of young Templars, that at the same time they may see them stumble in an unlucky gutter which runs under the window.

"MR. SPECTATOR,

"I have lately read the conclusion of your fortyseventh speculation upon butts with great pleasure, "I am a young gentleman of a competent for- and have ever since been thoroughly persuaded that tune, and a sufficient taste of learning, to spend five one of those gentlemen is extremely necessary to enliven conversation. I had an entertainment last or six hours every day very agreeably among my books. That I might have nothing to divert me week upon the water for a lady to whom I make my from my studies, and to avoid the noises of coaches addresses, with several of our friends of both sexes. and chairmen, I have taken lodgings in a very nar- To divert the company in general, and to show my row street not far from Whitehall; but it is my mis- mistress in particular my genius for raillery, I took fortune to be so posted, that my lodgings are directly one of the most celebrated butts in town along with opposite to those of a Jezebel. You are to know, me. It is with the utmost shame and confusion that Sir, that a Jezebel (so called by the neighbourhood I must acquaint you with the sequel of my advenfrom displaying her pernicious charms at her win-ture. As soon as we were got into the boat, I played dow) appears constantly dressed at her sash, and a sentence or two at my butt, which I thought very has a thousand little tricks and fooleries to attract smart, when my ill genius, who I verily believe inthe eyes of all the idle young fellows in the neigh-spired him purely for my destruction, suggested to bourhood. I have seen more than six persons at once from their several windows observing the Jezebel I am now complaining of. I at first locked on her myself with the highest contempt, could divert myself with her airs for half an hour, and afterward take up my Plutarch with great tranquil lity of mind: but was a little vexed to find that in less than a month she had considerably stolen upon my time, so that I resolved to look at her no more. But the Jezebel, who, as I suppose, might think it a diminution to her honour to have the number of her gazers lessened, resolved not to part with me so, and began to play so many new tricks at her win dow, that it was impossible for me to forbear observing her. I verily believe she put herself to the expense of a new wax baby on purpose to plague me; she used to dandle and play with this figure as impertinently as if it had been a real child: sometimes she would let fall a glove or a pin-cushion in the street, and shut or open her casement three or four times in a minute. When I had almost weaned myself from this, she came in her shift sleeves, and dressed at the window. I had no way left but to let down the curtains, which I submitted to, though it considerably darkened my room, and was pleased to think that I had at last got the better of her; but was surprised the next morning to hear her talking out of her window quite across the street, with another woman that lodges over me. I am since informed that she made her a visit, and got acquainted with her within three hours after the fall of my window-curtains.

"Sir, I am plagued every moment in the day, one way or other, in my own chambers; and the Jezebel has the satisfaction to know, that though I am not looking at her, I am listening to her impertinent dialogues, that pass over my head. would immediately change my lodgings, but that I think it might look like a plain confession that I am conquered; and besides this, I am told that most quarters of the town are infested with these creatures. If they are so, I am sure it is such an abuse, as a lover of learning and silence ought to take notice of. "I am, Sir, yours," &c.

I am afraid, by some lines in this letter, that my young student is touched with a distemper which he

him such a reply, as got all the laughter on his side I was dashed at so unexpected a turn; which the butt perceiving, resolved not to let me recover myself, and pursuing his victory, rallied and tossed me in a most unmerciful and barbarous manner until we came to Chelsea. I had some small success while we were eating cheese-cakes; but coming home, he renewed his attacks with his former good fortune, and equal diversion to the whole company. In short, Sir, I must ingenuously own that I never was so handled in all my life; and to complete my misfortune, I am since told that the butt, flushed with his late victory, has made a visit or two to the dear object of my wishes, so that I am at once in danger of losing all my pretensions to wit, and my mistress into the bargain. This, Sir, is a true account of my present troubles, which you are the more obliged to assist me in, as you were yourself in a great measure the cause of them, by recommending to us an instrument, and not instructing us at the same time how to play upon it.

"I have been thinking whether it might not be highly convenient, that all butts should wear an inscription affixed to some part of their bodies, showing on which side they are to be come at, and that if any of them are persons of unequal tempers, there should be some method taken to inform the world at what time it is safe to attack them, and when you had best let them alone. But, submitting these matters to your more serious consideration,

"I am, Sir, yours," &c.

I have, indeed, seen and heard of several young gentlemen under the same misfortune with my present correspondent. The best rule I can lay down for them to avoid the like calamities for the future, is thoroughly to consider, not only whether their companions are weak, but whether themselves are wits.

The following letter comes to me from Exeter, and being credibly informed that what it contains is matter of fact, I shall give it my readers as it was sent to me:

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fashions. But there is another misfortune which we are subject to, and is no less grievous than the former, which has hitherto escaped your observation. I mean, the having things palmed upon us for London fashions, which were never once heard of there.

“A lady of this place had some time since a box of the newest ribands sent down by the coach. Whether it was her own malicious invention, or the wantonness of a London milliner, I am not able to inform you; but, among the rest, there was one cherry-coloured riband, consisting of about half a dozen yards, made up in the figure of a small headdress. The aforesaid lady had the assurance to affirm, amidst a circle of female inquisitors who were present at the opening of the box, that this was the newest fashion worn at court. Accordingly the next Sunday, we had several females, who came to church with their heads dressed wholly in ribands, and looked like so many victims ready to be sacrificed. This is still a reigning mode among us. At the same time we have a set of gentlemen who take the liberty to appear in all public places without any buttons to their coats, which they supply with several little silver hasps, though our freshest advices from London make no mention of any such fashion; and we are something shy of affording matter to the button-makers for a second petition.

speech to the greatest fluency imaginable, and then sink away again, and all because they fear we do not love them enough; that is, the poor things love us so heartily, that they cannot think it possible we should be able to love them in so great a degree, which makes them take on so. I say, Sir, a true good-natured man, whom rakes and libertines call hen-pecked, shall fall into all these different moods with his dear life, and at the same time see they are wholly put on; and yet not be hard-hearted enough to tell the dear good creature that she is a hypocrite. "This sort of good men is very frequent in the populous and wealthy city of London, and is the true hen-pecked man. The kind creature cannot break through his kindnesses so far as to come to an explanation with the tender soul, and therefore goes on to comfort her when nothing ails her, to appease her when she is not angry, and to give her his cash when he knows she does not want it; rather than be uneasy for a whole month, which is computed by hard-hearted men the space of time which a froward woman takes to come to herself, if you have courage to stand out.

"There are indeed several other species of the hen-pecked, and in my opinion they are certainly the best subjects the queen has; and for that reason I take it to be your duty to keep us above contempt.

"What I would humbly propose to the public is, "I do not know whether I make myself underthat there may be a society erected in London, to stood in the representation of a hen-pecked life, consist of the most skilful persons of both sexes, for but I shall take leave to give you an account of mythe inspection of modes and fashions; and that self, and my own spouse. You are to know that I hereafter no person or persons shall presume to ap-am reckoned no fool, have on several occasions been pear singularly habited in any part of the country, without a testimonial from the aforesaid society, that their dress is answerable to the mode at London. By this means, Sir, we shall know a little whereabout we are.

"If you could bring this matter to bear, you would very much oblige great numbers of your country friends: and among the rest, your very

humble servant,

X.

"JACK MODISH."

No. 176.] FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1711.
Parvula, pumilio, (chariton mia,) tota merum sal.
LUCR. iv. 1155.
A little, pretty, witty, charming she!

tried whether I will take ill-usage, and the event has been to my advantage; and yet there is not such a slave in Turkey as I am to my dear. She has a good share of wit, and is what you call a very pretty agreeable woman. I perfectly doat on her, and my affection to her gives me all the anxieties imaginable but that of jealousy. My being thus confident of her, I take, as much as I can judge of my heart, to be the reason, that whatever she does, though it be never so much against my inclination, there is still left something in her manner that is amiable. She will sometimes look at me with an assumed grandeur, and pretend to resent that I have not had respect enough for her opinion in such an instance in company. I cannot but smile at the pretty anger she is in, and then she pretends she is used like a child. In a word, our great debate is, which has the superiority in point of understanding. She is eternally forming an argument of debate: to which I very indolently answer, Thou art mighty pretty. To this she answers, All the world but you think I have as much sense as yourself.' I repeat to her, Indeed you are pretty.' Upon this "I do not deny but you appear in many of your there is no patience; she will throw down any thing papers to understand human life pretty well; but about her, stamp, and pull off her head-clothes. there are very many things which you cannot pos- Fye, my dear,' say I, how can a woman of your sibly have a true notion of, in a single life, these are sense fall into such an intemperate rage? This is such as respect the married state; otherwise I can- an argument that never fails. Indeed, my dear,' not account for your having overlooked a very good says she, you make me mad sometimes, so you do, Bort of people, which are commonly called in scorn with the silly way you have of treating me like a 'the Hen-pecked.' You are to understand that I pretty idiot. Well, what have I got by putting am one of those innocent mortals who suffer derision her in good humour? Nothing, but that I must under that word, for being governed by the best of convince her of my good opinion by my practice; wives. It would be worth your consideration to and then I am to give her possession of my littie enter into the nature of affection itself, and tell us, ready money, and, for a day and a half following, according to your philosophy, why it is that our dislike all she dislikes, and extol every thing she dears shall do as they will with us, shall be froward, ill-approves. I am so exquisitely fond of this darling, natured, assuming, sometimes whine, at others rail, that I seldum see any of my friends, am uneasy in then swoon away, then come to life, have the use of all companies till I see her again; and when I come

THERE are, in the following letter matters, which I, a bachelor, cannot be supposed to be acquainted with: therefore shall not pretend to explain upon it until further consideration, but leave the author of the epistle to express his condition his own way. "MR. SPECTATOR,

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First, whether it acts with steadiness and uni formity in sickness and in health, in prosperity an in adversity; if otherwise, it is to be looked upon a nothing else but an irradiation of the mind fro some new supply of spirits, or a more kindly circu lation of the blood. Sir Francis Bacon mentions cunning solicitor, who would never ask a favour a great man before dinner; but took care to prefe his petition at a time when the party petitioned ha his mind free from care, and his appetites in good humour. Such a transient temporary good-natur as this, is not that philanthropy, that love of mankind, which deserves the title of a moral virtue.

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home she is in the dumps, because she says she is tution, which Mr. Dryden somewhere calls a “milkisure I came so soon only because I think her hand-ness of blood," is an admirable groundwork for the some. I dare not upon this occasion laugh; but other. In order, therefore, to try our good-nature, though I am one of the warmest churchmen in the whether it arises from the body or the mind, whe kingdom, I am forced to rail at the times, because ther it be founded in the animal or rational part of she is a violent Whig. Upon this we talk politics our nature: in a word, whether it be such as is enso long, that she is convinced I kiss her for her titled to any other reward, besides that secret satis wisdom. It is a common practice with me to ask faction and contentment of mind which is essential her some question concerning the constitution, to it, and the kind reception it procures us in the which she answers me in general out of Harring-world, we must examine it by the following rules: ton's Oceana. Then I commend her strange memory, and her arm is immediately locked in mine. While I keep her in this temper she plays before me, sometimes dancing in the midst of the room, sometimes striking an air at her spinnet, varying her posture and her charms in such a manner that I am in continual pleasure. She will play the fool if I allow her to be wise; but if she suspects I like her for her trifling, she immediately grows grave. "These are the toils in which I am taken, and I carry off my servitude as well as most men; but my application to you is in behalf of the hen-pecked in general, and I desire a dissertation from you in defence of us. You have, as I am informed, very good authorities in our favour, and hope you will not omit the mention of the renowned Socrates, and his philosophic resignation to his wife Xantippe. This would be a very good office to the world in general, for the hen-pecked are powerful in their quality and numbers, not only in cities, but in courts; in the latter they are ever the most obsequious, in the former the most wealthy of all men. When you have considered wedlock thoroughly, you ought to enter into the suburbs of matrimony, and give us an account of the thraldom of kind keepers, and irresolute lovers; the keepers who cannot quit their fair ones, though they see their approaching ruin; the lovers who dare not marry, though they know they never shall be happy without the mistresses whom they cannot purchase on other terms.

"What will be a greater embellishment to your discourse will be, that you may find instances of the haughty, the proud, the frolic, the stubborn, who are each of them in secret downright slaves to their wives, or mistresses. I must beg of you in the last place to dwell upon this, that the wise and valiant in all ages have been hen-pecked; and that the sturdy tempers who are not slaves to affection, owe that exemption to their being enthralled by ambition, avarice, or some meaner passion. I have ten thousand thousand things more to say, but my wife sees me writing, and will, according to custom, be consulted, if I do not seal this immediately.

T.

"Yours, NATHANIEL HENROOST."

No. 177.] SATURDAY, SEPT. 22, 1711.
Quis enim bonus, aut face dignus
Arcana, qualem Cereris vult esse sacerdos.
Ulla aliena sibi credat mala?

The next way of a man's bringing his good-nature to the test, is, to consider whether it operates according to the rules of reason and duty for if, notwithstanding its general benevolence to mankind, it makes no distinction between its objects, if it exerts itself promiscuously towards the deserv ing and the undeserving, if it relieves alike the idle and the indigent, if it gives itself up to the first petitioner and lights upon any one rather by accident than choice, it may pass for an amiable instinct, but must not assume the name of a moral virtue.

The third trial of good-nature will be the examining ourselves, whether or no we are able to exert it to our own disadvantage, and employ it on proper objects, notwithstanding any little pain, want, or inconvenience which may arise to ourselves from it. In a word, whether we are willing to risk any part of our fortune, our reputation, or health, or ease, for the benefit of mankind. Among all these expressions of good-nature, I shall single out that which goes under the general name of charity, as it consists in relieving the indigent; that being a trial of this kind which offers itself to us almost at all times, and in every place.

I should propose it as a rule, to every one who is provided with any competency of fortune more than sufficient for the necessaries of life, to lay aside a certain portion of his income for the use of the poor. This I would look upon as an offering to Him who has a right to the whole, for the use of those whom, in the passage hereafter mentioned, he has described as his own representatives upon earth. At the same time we should manage our charity with such prudence and caution, that we may not hurt our own friends or relations, whilst we are doing good to those who are strangers to us.

This may possibly be explained better by an example than by a rule.

Juv. Sat. xv. 140. Eugenius is a man of a universal good-nature, Who can all sense of others' ills escape, Is but a brute, at best, in human shape.-TATE. and generous beyond the extent of his fortune; but withal so prudent in the economy of his affairs, In one of my last week's papers I treated of good- that what goes out in charity is made up by good nature, as it is the effect of constitution; I shall management. Eugenius has what the world calls now speak of it as a moral virtue. The first may 2001. a year; but never values himself above ninemake a man easy in himself and agreeable to others, score, as not thinking he has a right to the tenth but implies no merit in him that is possessed of it. part, which he always appropriates to charitable A man is no more to be praised upon this account, uses. To this sum he frequently makes other vothan because he has a regular pulse, or a good di-luntary additions, insomuch that in a good year, for gestion. This good-nature however in the consti- such he accounts those in which he has been able

to make greater bounties than ordinary, he has given above twice that sum to the sickly and indigent. Eugenius prescribes to himself many particular days of fasting and abstinence, in order to increase his private bank of charity, and sets aside what would be the current expenses of those times for the use of the poor. He often goes afoot where his business calls him, and at the end of his walk has given a shilling, which in his ordinary methods of expense would have gone for coach-hire, to the first necessitous person that has fallen in his way. I have known him, when he has been going to a play or an opera, divert the money, which was designed for that purpose, upon an object of charity whom he has met with in the street; and afterward pass his evening in a coffee-house, or at a friend's fire-side, with much greater satisfaction to himself, than he could have received from the most exquisite entertainments of the theatre. By these means, he is generous without impoverishing himself, and enjoys his estate by making it the property of

others.

There are few men so cramped in their private affairs, who may not be charitable after this manner, without any disadvantage to themselves, or prejudice to their families. It is but sometimes sacrificing a diversion or convenience to the poor, and turning the usual course of our expenses into a better channel. This is, I think, not only the most prudent and convenient, but the most meritorious piece of charity, which we can put in practice. By this method, we in some measure share the necessities of the poor at the same time that we relieve them, and make ourselves not only their patrons, but their fellow-sufferers.

passages which I have always read with great delight in the Book of Job. It is the account which that holy man gives of his behaviour in the days of his prosperity, and if considered only as a human composition, is a finer picture of a charitable and good-natured man than is to be met with in any other author.

"Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me: when his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness; when the Almighty was yet with me; when my children were about me; when I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil.

"When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me. Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame; I was a father to the poor, and the cause which I knew not I searched out. Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor? Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. If I did despise the cause of my man-servant or of my maidservant when they contended with me; what then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? Did not he that made me in the womb, make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail: Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof: If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering: If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep: If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate; then let mine arm fall from my shoulderblade, and mine arm be broken from the bone. If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him: (neither have I suffered my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his soul.) The stranger did not lodge in the street; but I opened my doors to the traveller, If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise therefore complain: If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life; let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley."—L.

Sir Thomas Brown, in the last part of his Religio Medici, in which he describes his charity in several heroic instances, and with a noble heat of sentiment, mentions that verse in the Proverbs of Solomon, "He that giveth to the poor, lendeth to the Lord:"* There is more rhetoric in that one sentence, says he, than in a library of sermons; and, indeed, if those sentences were understood by the reader, with the same emphasis as they are delivered by the author, we needed not those volumes of instructions, but might be honest by an epitome.† This passage of Scripture is, indeed, wonderfully persuasive; but I think the same thought is carried much farther in the New Testament, where our Saviour tells us, in a most pathetic manner that he shall hereafter regard the clothing of the naked, the feeding of the hungry, and the visiting of the imprisoned, as offices done to himself, and reward them accordingly. Pursuant to those passages in Holy Scripture, I have somewhere met with the No. 178.] MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1711. epitaph of a charitable man, which has very much pleased ine. I cannot recollect the words, but the sense of it is to this purpose: What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.§

Since I am thus insensibly engaged in sacred writ, I cannot forbear making an extract of several

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Comis in uxorem--- HOR. 2. Ep. ii. 133.
Civil to his wife.-POPE

I CANNOT defer taking notice of this letter:-
"MR. SPECTATOR,

:

"I am but too good a judge of your paper of the 15th instant, which is a master-piece; I mean that of jealousy but I think it unworthy of you to speak of that torture in the breast of a man, and not to mention also the pangs of it in the heart of a woman. You have very judiciously, and with the greatest penetration imaginable, considered it as woman is the creature of whom the diffidence is raised; but not a word of a man, who is so unmerciful as to move jealousy in his wife, and not

⚫ Job xxix. 2, &c. xxx. 25, &c. xxxi 6, &c. passim.

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