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A35671	Letters upon several occasions written by and between Mr. Dryden, Mr. Wycherly, Mr. ----, Mr. Congreve, and Mr. Dennis, published by Mr. Dennis with a new translation of select letters of Monsieur Voiture.	Dennis, John, 1657-1734.; Dryden, John, 1631-1700.; Wycherley, William, 1640-1716.; Congreve, William, 1670-1729.; Voiture, Monsieur de (Vincent), 1597-1648.	1696 (1696)	Wing D1033; ESTC R6297	77,708	226

should get a Quantity of the Water privately convey'd into the Cistern at Will 's Coffee-House for an Experiment But I am Extravagant Thô I remember Ben. Iohnson in his Comedy of Cynthia's Revels makes a Well which he there calls the Fountain of Self-Love to be the Source of many Entertaining and Ridiculous Humours I am of Opinion tha● something very Comical and New might be brought upon the Stage from a Fiction of the like Nature But now I talk of the Stage pray if any thing New should appear there let me have an Account of it for thô Plays are a kind of Winter-Fruit ye● I know there are now and then some Windfalls at this time of Year which must be presently served up lest they should not keep till the proper Season of Entertainment 'T is now the time when the Sun breeds Insects and you must expect to have the Hum and Buz about your Ears of Summer Flies and small Poets Cuckows have this time allow'd 'em to Sing thô they are damn'd to Silence all the rest of the Year Besides the approaching Feast of St. Bartholomew both creates an Expectation and bespeaks an Allowance of unnatural Productions and Monstrous Births Methinks the Days of Bartholom●w-Fa●r are like so many Sabbaths or Days o● Privilege wherein Criminals and Malefactors in Poetry are permitted to Creep abroad They put me in mind thô at a different time of year of the Roman Saturnalia when all the Scum and Rabble and Slaves of Rome by a kind of Annual and limited Manumission were suffer'd to make Abominable Mirth and Profane the Days of Iubilee with Vile Buffoonry by Authority But I forget that I am writing a Post Letter and run into length like a Poet in a Dedication when he forgets his Patron to talk of himself But I will take care to make no Apology for it lest my Excuse as Excuses generally do should add to the Fault Besides I would have no appearance of Formality when I am to tell you that Tunbridge-Wells Aug. 11. 95. I am Your real Friend and Humble Servant W. Congreve LETTERS OF LOVE Written by Dear Madam NOT believe that I love you You cannot pretend to be so incredulous If you do not believe my Tongue consult my Eyes consult your own You will find by yours that they have Charms by mine that I have a heart which feels them Re-call to mind what happen'd last Night That at least was a Lover's Kiss It s Eagerness its Fierceness its Warmth express'd the God its Parent But oh It s Sweetness and its melting Softness express'd him more With Trembling in my Limbs and Feavers in in my Soul I Ravish'd it Convulsions Pantings Murmurings shewd the mighty Disorder within me The mighty Disorder encreased by it For those Dear Lips sh●● through my Heart and through my bleed●ing Vitals Delicious Poison and an avoidless but yet a Charming Ruine What cannot a day produce The Night before I thought my self a Happy Man In want of nothing and in fairest expectation of Fortune Approv'd of by Men of Wit and Applauded by others Pleased nay Charm'd with my Friends my then Dearest Friends Sensible of e●'ry Delicate pleasure and in their turns possessing all But Love Almighty Love seems in a moment to have remov'd me to a Prodigious distance from every Object but you alone In the midst of Crowds I remain in Solitude Nothing but you can lay hold of my Mind and that can lay hold of nothing but you I appear Transported to some Foreign Desert with you Oh that I were really thus Transported where abundantly supplied with ev'ry thing in thee I might live out an Age of uninterrupted Extacy The Scene of the World 's great Stage seems suddenly and sadly chang'd Unlovely Objects are all around me excepting thee The Charms of all the World appear to be Translated to thee Thus in this sad but Oh too pleasing State my Soul can fix upon nothing but thee Thee it Contemplates Admires Adores nay depends on trusts in you alone If you and Hope forsake it Despair and endless Misery attend it Dear Madam THIS I send by the Permission of a Severe Father I will not say a Cruel one since he is yours What is it that he has taken so Mortally ill of me That I die for his Daughter is my only Offence And yet he has refused to let me take ev'n my Farewell of you Thrice happy be the Omen May I never take my Farewel of thee till my Soul takes leave of my Body At least he cannot restrain me from Loving No I will Love thee in spight of all opposition Thô your Friends and mine prove equally Averse yet I will Love thee with a Constancy that shall appear to all the World to have something so Noble in it that all the World shall confess that it deserv'd not to be unfortunate I will forsake even my Friends for thee My Honest my Witty my Brave Friends who had always been till I had seen thee the Dearest part of Mankind to me Thou shalt supply the place of them all with me Thou shalt be my Bosom my Best-Lov'd Friend and at the same time my only Mistress and my Dearest Wife Have the goodness to pardon this Familiarity T is the tenderest leave of the Faithfulest Lover and here to shew an over Respectfulness would be to wrong my Passion That I Love thee more than Life nay even than Glory which I courted once with a burnning Desire bear Witness all my unquiet Days and every restless Night and that Terrible Agitation of Mind and Body which proceed from my fear of losing thee To lose thee is to lose all Happiness Tormenting Reflection to a Sensible Soul How often has my Reason been going upon it But the loss of Reason would be but too happy upon the loss of thee Since all the advantage that I could draw from its presence would be to know my self Miserable But the time calls upon me I am oblig'd to take an Odious Journey and leave thee behind with my Enemies But thine shall never do thee harm with me Adieu thou Dearest thou Loveliest of Creatures No change of Time of Place or the remonstrances of the best of Friends shall ever be able to alter my Passion for thee Be but one quarter so Kind so Just to me and the Sun will not shine on a happier Man than my self Dear Madam MAY I presume to Beg pardon for the Fault I committed So Foolish a Fault that it was below not only a Man of Sense but a Man and of which nothing could ever have made me Guilty but the Fury of a Passion with which none but your lovely self could inspire me May I presume to beg Pardon for a Fault which I can never forgive my self To purchase that Pardon what would I not endure You shall see me prostrate before you and use me like a Slave while I kiss the Dear Fee● that Trample upon me But if my Crime be too great

LETTERS Upon several OCCASIONS Written by and between Mr. Dryden Mr. Wycherly Mr. Mr. Congreve and Mr. Dennis Published by Mr. DENNIS With a New Translation of Select LETTERS of Monsieur Voiture LONDON Printed for Sam. Briscoe at the Corner-Shop of Charles-Street in Russel-Street in Covent Garden 1696. To the Right Honourable Charles Montague Esq One of the Lords of the Treasury Chancellor of the Exchequer and one of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council SIR AS soon as I had resolv'd to make this Address to you that the Present might not be altogether unworthy of you I took care to obtain the Consent of my Friends to publish some Letters which they had writ as Answers to mine When I look upon my self I find I have reason to beg pardon for my Presumption But when I consider those Gentlemen I am encourag'd to hope that you will not be offended to find your self at the Head of no Vulgar Company a Company whose Names and Desert are universally known a Company rais'd far above the level of Mankind by their own extraordinary Merit and yet proud to do Homage to yours They are Gentlemen 't is true who are divided in their Interests and who differ in their Politick Principles but they agree in their Judgments of Things which all the World admires and they always consent when they speak of you In presenting this little Book to you I only design'd to shew my Zeal and my Gratitude but they assure me unanimously that I have likewise shewn my Judgment Tho indeed Sir the number of the Great who cast a favourable Eye upon Human Learning is not so considerable but that a Man who would Address any thing of this nature to one of them may soon determine his choice Proficients in other Arts are encouraged by Profit which is their main Design but he who bestows all his time upon Human Studies is incited by Glory alone and the World takes care that he should have no more than he seeks for The Enthusiast the Quack the Pettifogger are rewarded for Torturing and for deluding Men but Humanity has met with very barbarous Usage only for pleasing and for instructing them The very Court which draws most of its Ornament from it has but too often neglected it there Learning in general has been disregarded For none but great Souls are capable of great Designs and few Courtiers have had Greatness of Mind enough to procure the Promotion of Science which is the Exaltation of Human Nature and the Enlargement of the Empire of Reason Our Ministers of State have formerly behaved themselves with so much indifference as if it would have lessen'd them to have taken any care of Letters They have shewn themselves as perfectly unconcern'd as if not one had discover'd that at a time when our Neighbors are grown so knowing the Publick Safety depends on the Progress of Learning and that to Patronize Science is to take care of the State Besides too many of our States-men have been engag'd in unjust Designs Most of our Politicians have done their endeavour to encroach on the Crown or to attempt on the People Few have had Capacity and Integrity enough to keep the Balance so steady as to maintain Prerogative at once and assert Privilege to serve the King Zealously and their Country Faithfully to possess at the same time the Favour of the one and the Hearts of the other to such a degree as to be courted by the People to serve as their Representative at the very time that they are employ'd by the King in Matters of the highest Importance Instead of that most of them have had reason to be afraid of the King or the Commons and Men who have been sollicitous for their own Safety have seldom appear'd concern'd for the good of others Few then have been and are in a Condition to be Protectors of Learning and therefore those happy few deserve all the Honours which we are able to pay them Of those Sir you appear in the foremost Rank and are to the Common-wealth of Learning what you are to the State a great Defence and a shining Ornament You have warmly encouraged all sorts of Studies but have been justly and nobly partial to those for which the State has made no Provision Which is enough to gain you the Esteem of all who have any regard for Learning and to win the very Souls of all who like me are charm'd with the softer Studies of Humanity For which your Zeal has been so diffusive that it has extended it self even to me tho' a bare Inclination to cultivate Eloquence and Poetry was the only thing which could recommend me to ●ou Yet even this has been encourag'd by the promise of your Protection and by the Humanity of your receiving me The access which I have had to you has been the greatest Obligation that you could lay upon a Man who has still valu'd Merit above all the World and who has sought his Improvement more than he has his Advancement When I have at any time approach'd you I have found in you none of those forbidding Qualities of which they accuse the Great Instead of those I have found an attractive and a human Greatness the generous Sincerity of the Man of Honour join'd with the Grace and Complaisance of the Courtier and a Deportment noble without Pride and Modest without descending Nature has made me something averse from making my Court to Fortune But I am proud to attend upon real Greatness and to wait upon you since first you encouraged me has been at once my Duty and my Ambition The Permission which you gave me to approach you was so great an Incitement to me that I believe it might have brought me to write well if I had not a very just reason to resolve to attempt it no more You had given me one great Encouragement before I had the Honour to see you and that was by leaving off Writing your self For Vanity is a greater Incitement to Poets than Pensions and even Want depresses the Spirits less than the thought of being surpassed Therefore while Mr. Montague Sung he Sung alone We admir'd indeed our Conquering Monarch but we admir'd in silence We rever'd the Greatness of your Genius and neglected our Talents Indeed the strength and sweetness of your Voice was fit to charm us alone and we who followed were only fit for the Chorus But you have left a Province which you have made your own to the Adminstration of those who are under you and are gone on in your victorious Progress to the Acquisition of new Glory From which I am sensible that I detract by detaining you For your Actions are your best Encomiums and the loud consent of the Nation your best Panegyrick It was a glorious one that was spoken to you by the People of Westminster in the request that they made to you to serve as their Member in the present Parliament at a time when they were Caballing

of those things on which seduced by Passion and Vulgar Opinion he sets an exorbitant Value and concerning whose Natures and Incertainty he is not very capable of making solid Reflections For thô Prudence may oblige a Man to secure a Competency yet never was any one by right Reason induced to seek Superfluities Sixthly Penury of thought supposes Littleness of Soul which is often requisite for the Succeeding in Business For a Block-head is Sordid enough to descend to Trick and Artifice which in Business are often necessary to procure Success unless they are more than supplied by a Prudence deriv'd from a Consummate Experience or from a great Capacity Thus have I endeavour'd to give the reason why a Fool succeeds better in Business than a Man of Wit who has a Multitude of thoughts and which fly at the Noblest Objects and who finds that there is something of pleasing and so noble in thinking rightly and more especially in the sublime Speculations of exalted Reason that he finds it intollerably irksome to descend to Action and abhors the very thought of being diligent in things for which he has an extream Contempt Thus you see that in some measure a Fool may be said to be better fitted out for Business than a Man of Wit But it is high time to distinguish For first when I say that a Block-head is fitted for Business I mean only for little Business For to affirm that he is qualified for Affairs that require Extent of Capacity would be a Contradiction in Terms Secondly when I affirm that a Man of Wit is less capacitated for Business I mean that he is less so as long as he keeps in his Natural Temper and remains in a State of Tranquility But if once he comes to be thrown out of that by the Force of a Violent Passion and fir'd with Zeal for his Country's Service or enflam'd by Ambition and Business can be made subservient to the gratifying of those Passions then I dare boldly affirm that one Man of Wit will go further than a Thousand of those who want it Of which it would be easie to give more than one Instance amongst our present Ministers But I will be contented with putting you in mind that none of the Romans had more Wit than Caesar and none of the French than Richelieu Before I conclude I must give you a Caution Which is that by the Word Blockhead I do not mean one that is stupid but that I apply that word according to the Language of you Men of Wit to one who thinks but a little And that on the other side by a Man of Wit I do not mean every Coxcomb whose Imagination has got the Ascendant of his little Reason but a Man like you Sir or our most Ingenious Friend in whom Fancy and Judgment are like a well-match'd Pair the first like an extraordinary Wife that appears always Beautiful and always Charming yet is at all times Decent and at all times Chast the Second like a Prudent and well-bred Husband whose very Sway shews his Complaisance and whose very Indulgence shews his Authority Octob. 30. I am Dear Sir Your most Humble Servant John Dennis To Mr. Dryden Sir THô no Man writes to his Friends with greater Ease or with more Chearfulness than my self and thô I have lately had the Presumption to place you at the Head of that small Party nevertheless I have experienc'd with Grief that in writing to you I have not found my old Facility Since I came to this place I have taken up my Pen several times in order to write to you but have constantly at the very Beginning found my self Damp'd and Disabled upon which I have been apt to believe that extraordinary Esteem may sometimes make the Mind as Impotent as a Violent Love does the Body and that the vehement Desire we have to exert it extremely decays our Ability I have heard of more than one lusty Gallant who thô he could at any time with Readiness and Vigour possess the Woman whom he lov'd but moderately yet when he has been about to give his darling Mistress whom he has vehemently and long desir'd the first last Proof of his Passion has found on a sudden that his Body has Jaded and grown resty under his Soul and gone backward the faster the more he has spurr'd it forward Esteem has wrought a like effect upon my Mind My extraordinary inclination to shew that I honour you at an extraordinary rate and to shew it in words that might not be altogether unworthy Mr. Dryden's Perusal incapacitates me to perform the very action to which it incites me and Nature sinks in me under the fierce Effort But I hope you will have the Goodness to pardon a Weakness that proceds from a Cause like this and to consider that I had pleas'd you more if I had honour'd you less Who knows but that yet I may please you if you encourage me to mend my Fault to which if you knew but the Place I am in Charity would engage you thô Justice could not oblige you For I am here in a Desart depriv'd of Company and depriv'd of News in a Place where I can hear nothing at all of the Publick and what proves it ten times more a Desart nothing at all of you For all who are at present concern'd for their Countrey 's Honour hearken more after your Preparatives than those for the next Campaigne These last may possibly turn to our Confusion so uncertain are the Events of War but we know that whatever you undertake must prove Glorious to England and thô the French may meet with Success in the Field by you we are sure to Conquer them In War there are a thousand unlook'd for accidents which happen every day and Fortune appears no where more like her self but in a Combat of Wit the more Humane Contention and the more Glorious Quarrel Merit will be always sure to prevail And therefore thô I can but hope that the Confederate Forces will give chase to De Lorges and Luxemburgh I am very confident that Boileau and Racine will be forced to submit to you Judge therefore if I who very much love my Country and who so much esteem you must not with a great deal of Impatience expect to hear from you Bushy-Health Ian. 1693 4. I am Sir Your most humble Servant To Mr. Dryden Dear Sir YOU may see already by this Presumptuous greeting that Encouragement gives as much Assurance to Friendship as it imparts to Love You may see too that a Friend may sometimes proceed to acknowledge Affection by the very same Degrees by which a Lover declares his Passion This last-at first confesses Esteem yet owns no Passion but Admiration But as soon as he is Animated by one kind Expression his Look his Style and his very Soul are altered But as Sovereign Beauties know very well that he who confesses he Esteems and Admires them implies that he Loves them or is

inclin'd to Love them a Person of Mr. Dryden's Exalted Genius can discern very well that when we esteem him highly 't is Respect restrains us if we say no more For where great Esteem is without Affection 't is often attended with Envy if not with Hate which Passions Detract even when they Commend and Silence is their hig●est Panegyric 'T is indeed impossible that I should refuse to Love a Man who has so often gi●en me all the pleasure that the most Insatiable Mind can desire when at any time I have been Dejected by Disapointments or Tormented by cruel Passions the recourse to your Verses has Calm'd my Soul or rais'd it to Transports which made it contemn Tranquillity But thô you have so often given me all the pleasure I was able to bear I have reason to complain of you on this account that you have confin'd my Delight to a narrower compass Suckling Cowley and Denham who formerly Ravish'd me in ev'ry part of them now appear tastless to me in most and Waller himself with all his Gallantry and all that Admirable Art of his ●urns appears three quarters Prose to me Thus 't is plain that your Muse has done me an injury but she has made me amends for it For she is like those Extraordinary Women who besides the Regularity of their Charming Features besides their engaging Wit have Secret Unaccountable Enchanting Graces which thô they have been long and often Enjoy'd make them always new and always desirable I return you my hearty thanks for your most obliging Letter I had been very unreasonable if I had Repin'd that the Favour arriv'd no sooner 'T is allowable to grumble at the delaying a payment but to murmur at the deferring a Benefit is to be impudently ungrateful beforehand The Commendations which you give me exceedingly sooth my Vanity For you with a breath can bestow or confirm Reputation a whole Numberless People Proclaims the praise which you give and the Judgments of three mighty Kingdoms appear to depend upon yours The People gave me some little applause before but to whom when they are in humour will they not give it and to whom when they are froward will they not refuse it Reputation with them depends upon Chance unless they are guided by those above them They are but the keepers as it were of the Lottery which Fortune sets up for Renown upon which Fame is bound to attend with her Trumpet and Sound when Men draw the Prizes Thus I had rather have your Approbation than the applause of Fame Her commendation argues good luck but Mr. Dryden's implies desert Whatever low opinion I have hitherto had of my self I have so great a value for your Judgment that for the sake of that I shall be willing hence-forward to believe that I am not wholly desertless but that you may find me still more Supportable I shall endeavour to compensate whatever I want in those glittering Qualities by which the World is dazled with Truth with Faith and with Zeal to serve you qualities which for their rarity might be objects of wonder but that Men dare not appear to admire them because their Admiration would manifestly declare their want of them Thus Sir let me assure you that thô you are acquainted with several Gentlemen whose Eloquence and Wit may capacitate them to offer their service with more Address to you yet no one can declare himself with greater Chearfulness or with greater Fidelity or with more profound Respect than my self Sir Yo●r most c. March 3. 1693. Mr. Dryden to Mr. Dennis My Dear Mr. Dennis WHen I read a Letter so full of my Commendations as your last I cannot but consider you as the Master of a vast Treasure who having more than enough for your self are forc'd to ebb out upon your Friends You have indeed the best right to give them since you have them in Propriety but they are no more mine when I receive them than the Light of the Moon can be allowed to be her own who shines but by the Reflexion of her Brother Your own Poetry is a more Powerful Example to prove that the Modern Writers may enter into comparison with the Ancients than any which Perrault could produce in France yet neither he nor you who are a better Critick can persuade me that there is any room left for a Solid Commendation at this time of day at least for me If I undertake the Translation of Virgil the little which I can perform will shew at least that no Man is fit to write after him in a barbarous Modern Tongue Neither will his Machines be of any service to a Christian Poet. We see how ineffectually they have been try'd by Tasso and by Ariosto 'T is using them too dully if we only make Devils of his Gods As if for Example I would raise a Storm and make use of Aeolus with this only difference of calling him Prince of the Air. What invention of mine would there be in this or who would not see Virgil thorough me only the same trick play'd over again by a Bungling Juggler Boileau has well observed that it is an easie matter in a Christian Poem for God to bring the Devil to reason I think I have given a better hint for New Machines in my Preface to Iuvenal where I have particularly recommended two Subjects one of King Arthur's Conquest of the Saxons and the other of the Black Prince in his Conquest of Spain But the Guardian Angels of Monarchys and Kingdoms are not to be touch'd by every hand A Man must be deeply conversant in the Platonick Philosophy to deal with them And therefore I may reasonably expect that no Poet of our Age will presume to handle those Machines for fear of discovering his own Ignorance or if he should he might perhaps be Ingrateful enough not to own me for his Benefactour After I have confess'd thus much of our Modern Heroick Poetry I cannot but conclude with Mr. Rym that our English Comedy is far beyond any thing of the Ancients And notwithstanding our irregularities so is our Tragedy Shakespear had a Genius for it and we know in spite of Mr. R that Genius alone is a greater Virtue if I may so call it than all other Qualifications put together You see what success this Learned Critick has found in the World after his Blaspheming Shakespear Almost all the Faults which he has discover'd are truly there yet who will read Mr. Rym or not read Shakespear For my own part I reverence Mr. Rym s Learning but I detest his Ill Nature and his Arrogance I indeed and such as I have reason to be afraid of him but Shakespear has not There 〈◊〉 another part of Poetry in which the English stand almost upon an equal foot with the Ancients and 't is that which we call Pindarique introduced but not perfected by our Famous Mr. Cowley and of this Sir you are certainly one of the greatest Masters You have the

returns to such Good●ess I esteem it at least and extol it as it deserves and that I am as much as a Man ●an possibly be Madam Yours c. To Monsieur de Chaudebonne I Writ to you ten or twelve days age and return'd you thanks for the 〈◊〉 Letters which I have at ●ength received from you If you were but sensible of the Satisfaction they brought with them you would be sorry for not having writ to me oftner and for not frequently repeating the Consolation of which I had so much need Madrid which is the agreeablest Place in the World for those who at once are Lustly and Libertines is the most Disconsolate for those who are Regular or those who are Indisposed And in Lent which is the Players Vacation I do not know so much as one Pleasure that a Man can enjoy with Conscience My Melancholly here and my want of Company have produc'd a good Effect in me For they have reconcil'd me to Books which I had for a time forsaken and being able to meet with no o●her Pleasures I have been ●orc'd 〈…〉 has studied or has been sick For if one of the Chief Things that Philosophy aims at is a Contempt of Life the Stone Colick is certainly the best of Masters and Plato and Socrates persuade us less efficaciously It has lately re●d me a Lecture that lasted seventeen Days and which I shall not quickly forget and which has often made me consider how very feeble we are since three Grains of Sand are sufficient to cast us down But if it determines me to any Sect it shall not at least be that which maintains that Pain is not an Evil and that he who is Wi●e is at all times happy But whatever befals me I can neither be Happy nor Wise without being near to you and nothing can make me one or the other so much as your Presence or your Example Yet am I very uncertain when I shall be able to leave this place and expecting both Money and Men which are coming by Sea and which are two things that do not always keep touch with us I apprehend my remaining here longer than I could wish Therefore I make it my humble Request to you that you would not forget me so long as you have done and that you would testifie by doing me the Honour of Writing to me that you are convinc'd of the real Affection with which I am Yours c. To Monsieur de Gordeau Sir YOU ought to give me time to recover our Tongue before you oblige me to write to you For it appears to me to be something absurd that I who have been now so long a Foreigner and but just come from breathing the Air of Barbary should presume to expose my Letters to one of the most Eloquent Men in France This consideration has kept me silent till now But thô I forbear to answer your Challenges I cannot refuse to return your Civilities By these you have found a way to vanquish me in spight of all my Evasions In my present condition it is more reputable to you to Conquer me this way than to overcome me by Force You would have acquir'd but small Glory by Vig●rusly Attacking a Man who is already dr●ven to Extreamity and to whom Fortune has given so many Blows that the least may satisfie to over-whelm him Amidst the Darkness in which ●he hath plac'd us we can have no defence but here all our Art and o●r Skill in parring are useless The case perhaps might be otherwise if you h●d set before my Eyes the Sun of which you make mention and as Dejected as you see me now I should grow daring enough to enter the Lists against you if the Light of that were divided between us Equally 'T is more to have that alone on your side than all the rest of Heav'n The Beauties which Sparkle in all that you do are only deriv'd from hers and it is the Influence of her Rays on you which produces so many Flowers Nothing can ever a●pear more Lively than those which you scatte● o● every thing that comes from you I have seen them up●n the Ocean's extreamest Shores and in places where Nature cannot produce no not one Blade of Grass I have receiv'd Nosegays of them which made me meet in Desarts with the choicest Delicacies of Gre●●e and of Fruitf●l Italy And thô they had been carried 〈◊〉 Hundred Leagues neither the length of way nor of time had in the least diminished their Lustre They are indeed Immortal and cannot Decay and so vastly different from all Terrestrial Productions that that it is with a great deal of Justice that you have offer'd them up to Heaven for Altars alone are worthy of them Believe me Sir in what I am saying I speak but my real Sentiments when my Curiosity as you say had oblig'd me to pass the Bounds of the Ancient World to find out Rare and Surprising Objects your Works were the wonderfullest things that I saw and Africa could show me nothing more New and no more Extraordinary sight Reading them under the Shade of its Palms I wish'd you Crown'd with them all and at the very time that I saw that I had gone beyond Hercules I found I came short of you All this which was capable of producing Envy in any Man's Soul but mine fill'd mine with so much Esteem and Affection that you then took the place there which you are now desiring and perfectly finish'd what you think you are still to begin After the knowledge which I have had of you how can I form such an Image of you as you are willing to give me How can I Fancy you to be that little Creature you say you are How could I Comprehend that Heaven could place such mighty things in so small a space When I give my Imagination a loose it gives you four yards at least and Represents you of the Statur● of Men engendered by Angels Yet I shall be very glad to find that it is as you would have me believe Amongst the rest of the Advantages which I expect to derive from you I am in hopes that you will bring our Stature into some Credit and that it is ours which henceforward will be accounted the Noblest and that by you we shall be Exalted above those who believe themselves higher that we As we pour the most exquisite Essences into the smallest Bottles Nature infuseth the Divinest Souls into the smallest Bodies and mixes more or less of matter with them as they have more or less in them of their Almighty Original She seems to place the most Shining Souls as Jewelers set the most Sparkling Stones who make use of as little Gold as they can with them and no more than just suffices to bind them By you the World will be undeceiv'd of that sottish errour of valuing Men by their weight and my littleness with which I have been so often upbraided by Madamoiselle de Rambouillet for the

Mark of the Publick Envy and I believe e●nv Cardinal Richlieu would not run greater hazard But for God sake have a care of calling that your Misfortune which is but that of the Age. And complain no more of the Injustice of Men since all who have worth are of your side and that amongst them you have found a Friend whom yet perhaps you may lose once more At least I shall do my utmost to put you into a condition of doing so For every Man's Darling Vanity at present is to be accounted yours For my own part I have always in so Publick a manner profess'd my self so that if through ill Fortune I should not be able to Love you so much as I have done yet here let me Swear to you that you shall be the only Man to whom I will dare to declare it and that I will always own my self to the rest of the World to be as much as ever Yours c. To the Marquis of Pisani Who had lost all his Money and his Baggage at the Siege of Thionville The Character of the Marquis of Pisani was a Man of Honour Generosity and Courage but ●n Extravagant Ignorant Obstinate Disputing Gamester Sir THE Man would be to blame or I have been very much mis-inform'd who should upbraid you with having had the Mules to keep at your Camp of Thionville The Devil a Mule have you kept there Sir They tell me that upon the weighty Consideration that several Armies have been formerly lost by their Baggage you have made all possible haste to be disencumber'd of yours And that having often read in the Roman Histories this it is to be such a Man of Reading look you that the greatest Exploits that were done by their Cavalry were done on Foot after having voluntarily dismounted in the Extreamity of the most doubtful Battels you took a Resolution to dispatch away all your Horses and have manag'd matters so swimmingly that you have not so much as one left And now the Important Person stands on his own Legs Perhaps you may receive some small Inconvenience from this But let me die if it be not much for your honour that you as well as Bias honest Old Bias I warrant you know him so wondrous well should be able to say that you carry all that is yours about you No great Quantity I must confess of Foppish Accoutrements nor a long Train of Led-Horses nor abundance of that which they call the Ready but Probity Generosity Magnanimity Constancy in Dangers Obstinacy in Disputes a Contempt of all Foreign Languages Ignorance of False Dice and a surprising Tranquillity upon the Loss of Transitory Things Qualities Sir which are properly and Essentially yours and of which neither Time nor Fortune can ever deprive you Now as Euripides who was as you know or as you know not one of the Gravest Authors of Greece writes in one of his Tragedies that Money was one of the Evils and one of the most pernicious ones that flew from Pandora's Box I admire as a Divine quality in you the incompatibility which you shew for it and look upon it to be a distinguishing Mark of a Great and Extraordinary Soul that you are uneasie till you are rid of this Corrupter of Reason this Pois'ner of Souls this Author of so much Disorder of so much Injustice and of so many Violences Yet I could heartily wish that your Virtue were not arriv'd at such an extraordi-Pitch and that you could be brought to some accomodation with this Enemy of Humane kind and that you might be persuaded to make Peace with it as we do with the Great Turk for Politick Reasons and the Advantage of Commerce Now upon Consideration that it is a Difficult matter to be much at one's ease without it and fancying that as I play'd for you at Narbonne you threw for me at Thionville and that it is perhaps in my Name that you have pack'd off your Baggage I here send you a Hundred Pistols at present in part of Payment and that these may not meet with the same Fate which befell their Predecessors I desire you not to defile your Hands with them but to deliver them to the French Gentlemen who are with you for whose sake I chiefly remit them I am c. This Letter ought to have been amongst the Original Letters Colonel D. to my Lady D. Written in the beginning of King James his Reign Madam THô your last was extreamly Obliging yet the Praises which you so handsomely gave me did not so much prove my Merit as shew your own Your praise of my imaginary Virtues declar'd but my want of real ones For the Politeness of your Letter made me so sensible of the Defects of mine that at the same time that it loaded me with Praise it cover'd me with Shame And therefore Madam let me tell you again that in what I said of you I was not Generous but Just And here you have driven me upon a tender Point viz. of Derogating from my own Praises and detracting from that Action which you impute to me as an extraordinary Virtue But I hope you will be convinced that the Air of the Court has not yet blasted my Native sincerity nor giv'n me Gallantry at the Expence of Truth since I have the Rudeness to contradict you The Repetition of your invitation more than makes amends for the Coldness of my Brothers But at the same time that it obliges it troubles me to think that I cannot accept of it I passionately love the Country but cannot possibly come thither thô both the Spring and your self invite me Methinks the Vilest Insect which Nature has lodg'd in the Fields is in a more desirable State than we are whom our Employment chains to the Town The very Serpent still remains in that Paradise out of which it has cast us For if it had not been for the Deceit of the First Serpent there had been neither Soldier nor City Thus you see Madam to what a Condition my Unhappy Circumstances reduce me viz. of envying a Creature which Humane Nature abhors For that about this time can leave its Hole to lye basking on Sunny and Flowry Banks and throwing off its Old one can assume a Coat as fresh and gay as the Season But I must despair of getting o●t of the Town and my old Honourable Livery which I hate yet more to enjoy a free Air and as free a Prospect So that I almost esteem it a Blessing to be drawn out some times to Hide-Park for the Diversion of the King and the Rabble But here I am sensible I have err'd in indulging Thoughts and Expressions purely Poetical Yet since my Subject requir'd it I am confident you cannot but Pardon me For to speak as one should do who must not speak in extraordinary terms of th● Country of the Spring and of you I am Madam Yours c. FINIS ERRATA PReface for Invention r. Intention p. 1. for Will Er r. Will Vr p. 9. for Extravagant blindness r. Ex●rvagance and blindness p. 59. for after having r. after she had p 108 do not close the Parenthesis till the full stop p. 109. for Proceed r. Proceeded A Catalogue of Books Iately Printed for Samuel Briscoe at the Corner of Charles-street Covent-Garden 1. ESSAYS and Maxims Political Moral and Divine Divided into four Centuries 12o. 2. The Young Lawyers Recreation Being a Collection of several Plesant Cases in the Law as for the Diversion of the Reader 3. The Satyrs of Petronius Arbiter a Roman Knight with his Fragments recover'd at Belgrade Made English by Mr. Burnaby of the Middle-Temple and another Hand 8o. 4. The History of Polybius the M●galapolitan Containing a General Account of the Transactions of the World and principally of the Roman People during the First and Second Punick Wars Whereto is prefix'd a Charact●r of the Author and his Writings by Mr. Dryden 2 Vol. 8o. 5. A Moral Essay on Solitude preferr'd to publick Employments and all its Appanages such as Fame Riches Command Pleasures and Conversation By the Ingenious Sir G. ' Mackenzie 12o. Second Edition