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you now take as much pleasure in the planting of young Trees, as you did formerly in the Cutting down of your Old ones. In fhort, we hear from all Hands that You are thoroughly reconciled to your dirty Acres, and have not too much Wit to look into your own Eftate. After having spoken thus much of my Patron, Patron, I must take the Privilege of an Author in faying fomething of my felf. I fhall therefore beg leave to add, that I have purpofely omitted fetting thofe Marks. to the End of every Paper, which appeared in my former Volumes, that You may have an Opportunity of fhowing Mrs. Honeycomb the Shrewdness of your Conjectures, by A S afcribing

afcribing every Speculation to its proper Author: Though You know how often many profound Criticks in Style and Sentiments have very judiciously erred in this Particular, before they were let into the Secret.

I am,

SIR,

Your moft Faithful,

Humble Servant,

The SPECTATOR.

THE

Bookfeller to the Reader.

IN

N the Six hundred and thirty Second Spectator, the Reader will find an Account of the Rife of this Eighth and Laft Volume.

I have not been able to prevail upon the feveral Gentlemen who were concerned in this Work to let me acquaint the World with their Names.

Perhaps it will be unnecessary to inform the Reader, that no other Papers, which have appeared under the Title of Spectator, fince the clofing of this Eighth Volume, were written by any of those Gentlemen who had a Hand in this or the former Volumes.

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Qualis ubi in lucem coluber mala gramina paftus,
Frigida fub terrâ tumidum quem bruma tegebat;
Nunc pofitis novus exuviis, nitidufque juventa,
Lubrica convolvit fublato pectore terga

Arduus ad folem, & linguis micat ore trifulcis. Virg.

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PON laying down the Office of SPECTATOR, I acquainted the World with my Defign of electing a new Club, and of opening my Mouth in it after a most folemn Manner. Both the Election and

the Ceremony are now paft; but not finding it fo eafy, as I at first imagined, to break thro' a Fifty Years Silence, I would not venture into the World under the Character of a Man who pretends to talk like other People, 'till I had arrived at a full Freedom of Speech.

I fhall referve for another time the Hiftory of such Club or Clubs of which I am now a talkative, but unworthy Member; and shall here give an Account of this

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