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( 3 ) lens; and though my houſe be thatched, yet, it you and I match, it ſhall go hard but I will have one half of it flated. If you think well of this motion, I will wait upon you as ſoon as my new cloths is made, and hay-harveſt is in. I could, tho' I ſay it, have good the reſt is torn off; and poſterity muſt be contented to know, that Mrs Margaret Clark is very pretty, but are left in the dark as to the name of her lover.

[From the fable of NARCISSUS.]

What could fond youth this helpleſs paſſion move? What kindled in thee this unpietied love? Thy own warm bluſh within the water grows; With thee the colour d ſhado comes and goes: Its empty being on thyſelf relies; Step thou aſide, and the frail charmer dies.

ADDISON.

WILL HONEYCOMB diverted us laſt night with an account of a young fellows firſt diſcovering his paſſion to his miſtreſs. The young lady was one it ſeems, who had long before conceived a favourable opinion of him, and was ſtill in hopes that he would ſome time or other make his advances, As he was one day talking with her in company of her two ſiſters, the converſation happening to turn upon love, each of the young ladies was, by way of rallery recommending a wife to him; when, to the no ſmall ſurpriſe