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( 23 ) deſcription of this merry month.

For thee, ſweet month the groves green iv 'ries wear, If not the firſt the faireſt of the year: For thee the graves lead the dancing hours, And nature's ready pencil paints the flowers, The ſprihgtly May command our youth to keep The vigals of her night and breaks their ſleep; Each gentle breaſt with kindly warmth ſhe moves, Inſpires new flames, revives extenguiſh d loves.

ACCORDINGLY among the works of the great maſters in painting, who have grown this genial ſeaſon of the year, we often obſerve Cupids conſuſed with Zephyrs flying up and down promiſcuouſly in ſeveral parts of the picture. I can but add from my own experience that about this time of the year love letters come up to me in great numbers from all quarters of the nation.

I RECEIVED epiſtle is particular by the laſt poſt from Yorkſhire gentleman, who makes heavy complaints or one Zelinda whom it ſeems he has courſes unſuccſeſfuly the'e three years paſt. He tells me that he deſigns to try her this May, and if he does not carry his point, he will never think of her more.

HAVING thus fairly admoniſhed the famel ſex, and ſaid before then the danger they are expoſed to in this critical month, I ſhall in the nex place lay down ſome u e and direct n s for their better avoiding thoſe caſentures, which are ſo very