friend, who by an intereft in the wife of Phillis's merchant, procured a remnant of the fame filk for Brunetta. Phillis took pains to appear in all public places where she was sure to meet Brunetta; Brunetta was now prepared for the infult, and came to a public ball in a plain black filk mantua, attended by a beautiful negro girl in a petticoat of the fame brocade with which Phillis was attired. This drew the attention of the whole company, upon which the unhappy Phillis fwooned away, and was immediately conveyed to her houfe. As foon as he came to herfelf, fhe fled from her husband's houfe, went on board a fhip in the road, and is now landed in inconfolable despair at Plymouth. POSTCRIPT. After the above melancholy narration, it may perhaps be a relief to the reader to peruse the following expoftulation. To Mr. SPECTATOR, The just remonftrance of affronted THAT. TH HOUGH I deny not the petition of Mr. Who and Which, yet you fhould not fuffer them to be rude, and to call honeft people 'names: for that bears very hard on fome of thofe rules of decency, which you are juftly fa'mous for establishing. They may find fault, and correct speeches in the fenate, and at the bar, but let them try to get themselves so often, ' and and with so much eloquence repeated in a sentence, as a great orator doth frequently intro'duce me. 'My lords! (fays he) with humble submis'fion, That That I fay is this; That, That That gentleman has advanced, is not That, That he 'fhould have proved to your lordships. Let 'thofe two questionary petitioners try to do thus 6 with their Who's and their Whiches. 'What great advantage was I of to Mr. Dry'den in his Indian Emperor, You force me still to answer you in That, to furnish out a rhyme to Morat? And what a poor figure would Mr. Bayes have made 'without his Egad and all That! How can a judicious man diftinguish one thing from another, without faying This here, or That there? And how can a fober man, without using the expletives of oaths, (in which indeed the rakes ⚫ and bullies have a great advantage over others) 'make a difcourfe of any tolerable length, without That is; and, if he be a very grave man indeed, without That is to fay? And how in'structive as well as entertaining are those usual expreffions in the mouths of great men, Such things as That, and The like of That. 'I am not againft reforming the corruptions of fpeech you mention, and own there are proper 'feafons for the introduction of other words befides That; but I fcorn as much to fupply the place of a Who or a Which at every turn, as they they are unequal always to fill mine; and I expect good language and civil treatment, and hope to receive it for the future: That, That I 'fhall only add is, That I am, R*. • Yours, 'THAT.' * By STEELE. See final Notes to N° 6, and N° 324, on R and T. ADVERTISEMENT S. For the benefit of Mr. ELRINGTON and Mrs. MILLS, at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, May 29, a Comedy called "THE GAMESTER." The part of the Gamefter by Mr. Mills; Hector by Mr. Pack; Sir Thomas Valere by Mr. Bullock; the Marquis of Hazard by Mr. Bowen; Count Cogdie by Mr. Bullock, jun. Lady Wealthy by Mrs. Porter; Angelica by Mrs. Bradfhaw; Mrs. Security by Mr. Willis; Favourite by Mrs. Mills; Boxkeeper to the Gaming Table by Mr. Leigh. SPECT. in folio. Ño 77. For the benefit of Commodore FLIP, alias LEIGH, at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, May 31, a Comedy called "THE FAIR QUAKER OF DEALE." The Fair Quaker by Mrs, Santlow; Commodore Flip by Mr. Leigh; Beau Mizen by Mr. Pack; Coxen Whistlebooby by Mr. Norris; Tom Cagg by Mr. Johnson; Dick Hammock by Mr. Pinkethman; Jack Locker by Mr. Bullock; Arabella by Mrs. Bradshaw; Barnaby Whipftaff by Mr. Bowen; Will Swabb by Mr. Burkhead; Jeremy Bucket by Mr. Bullock, jun. Worthy by Mr. Booth; Rovewell by Mr. Powell. SPECT. in folio, No. 79. IN D E X TO THE SPECTATOR, VOLUME I. BIGAILS (male) in fashion among the ladies, A Number 55. Abfence in converfation, a remarkable inftance of it in Will Honeycomb, N. 77. The occafion of this abfence, ibid. and means to conquer it, ibid. The character of an ab❤ fent man, out of Bruyere, ibid. Acrostick, a piece of false wit, divided into fimple and com pound, N. 60. Act of Deformity, for the use of the Ugly Club, N. 17. Advertisements, of an Italian chirurgeon, N. 22. From St. James's coffee-house, 24. From a gentlewoman that teaches birds to speak, 36. From another that is a fine flesh-painter, 41. Advice; no order of perfons too confiderable to be advised, N. 34 Affectation, a greater enemy to a fine face than the small-pox, N. 33. it deforms beauty, and turns wit into abfurdity, 38. The original of it, ibid. found in the wife man as well as the coxcomb, ib. the way to get clear of it, ibid. Age, rendered ridiculous, N. 6. how contemned by the Athenians, and refpected by the Spartans, ibid. Alexander the Great, wry-necked, 32. Ambition never fatisfied, N. 27. Americans, their opinion of fouls, N. 56. exemplified in a Vition of one of their countrymen, ibid. Ample (Lady) her uneafinefs, and the reafon of it, N. 32. Anagram, what, and when first produced, N. 60. April (the firft of) the merrieft day in the year, N. 47. Aretine Aretine made all the princes of Europe his tributaries, 23. Arietta, her character, N. 11. her fable of the lion and the man, in anfwer to the ftory of the Ephefian matron, ibid. her ftory of Inkle and Yarico, ibid. Ariftotle, his obfervation upon the Iambick verfe, N. 31. upon tragedies, 40, 42. Arfinoe, the first mufical Opera on the English stage, N. 18. Avarice, the original of it, N. 55. Operates with Luxury, ibid. at war with Luxury, ib. its officers and adherents, ibid. comes to an agreement with Luxury, ibid. Audiences at prefent void of common fenfe, N. 13. Author, the neceffity of his readers being acquainted with his fize, complexion, and temper, in order to read his works with pleasure, N. 1. his opinion of his own performances, 4. The expedient made ufe of by those that write for the Яage, 51. B. BACON, (Sir Francis) his comparison of a book well written, N. 10. his obfervation upon Envy, 19. Bags of Money, a fudden transformation of them into sticks and paper, N. 3. Baptift Lully, his prudent management, N. 29. Bawdry, never writ but where there is a dearth of invention, N. 51. Beaver, the haberdasher, a great politician, N. 49. Beauties, when plagiaries, N. 4. The true fecret how to improve beauty, 33. then the moft charming when heightened by virtue, ibid. Bell, (Mr.) his ingenious device, N. 28. Bell-Savage, its etymology, N. 28 Birds, a cage full for the Opera, N. 5. Biters, their business, N. 47. Blackmore (Sir Richard) his obfervation, N. 6. Blanks of Society, who, N. 10. Blank Verfe proper for Tragedy, N. 39. Bohours, (Monfieur) a great critick among the French, N. 62. Bouts Rimez, what, N. 60. Breeding, fine breeding diftinguished from good, N. 66. Bruyere, |