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( 22 ) of our Britiſh ladies are of the ſame conſtitut with the French marchioneſs.

SHALL leave it among phyſicians to determ what may be the cauſe of ſuch an anniverſary clination; whether or no it is that the ſpirits a having been as it were frozen and congealed winter, are now turned looſe and ſet a rambling or that the g y proſpects of fields and meado with the courtſhip of the birds in every bu naturally unbend the mind and ſoften it to pleaſure; or that, as ſome have imagined a wond is prompted by a kind of inſtinct to throw h ſelf on a bed of flowers, and not to let the beautiful couches which nature has provided uſelefs. However it may be the effects of this mon on the lower part of the ſex, who act with diſguiſe, are very viſible. It is at this time t we ſee the young wenches in a country pa dancing round a May-pole, which one of our learn antiquaries ſuppoſes to be a relic of a certain gan worſhip that I do not think fit to mentio

IT is likewiſe on the firſt day of his more that we ſee the ruddy milk-maid exering h ſelf in a moſt ſprightly manner under a pyra of ſilver tankards, and, like the virgin Tarp oppreſſed by the coſtly ornaments which her nefectors lay upon her.

I NEED not mention the ceremony of the gr gown, which is alſo peculiar to this gay ſeaſ THE ſame periodical or ſit ſpreads throu the whole ſex, as Mr Dryden well obſerves in