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 pleasure sufficiently raise and enoble him, to me at least? Let who would, for me, cherish, respect, and reward the painter's, the statuary's, the musician's arts, in proportion to the delight taken in them; but at my age, and with my taste for pleasure, a taste strongly constitutional to me; the talent of pleasing, with which nature has endow'd a handsome person, form'd to me the greatest of all merits; compared to which the vulgar prejudices in favour of titles, dignities, honours, and the like, held a very low rank indeed! nor perhaps would the beauties of the body be so much affected to be held cheap, were they in their nature to be bought and deliver'd;. but for me, whose natural philosophy all resided in the favourite center of sense, and who was rul'd by its powerful instinct, in taking pleasure by its right handle, I could scarce have made a choice more to my purpose.

Mr. H's loftier qualifications of birth, fortune, and sense, laid me under a sort of subjection and constraint, that were far from making harmony in the concert of love; nor had he perhaps thought me worth softening that superiority to; but with this lad I was more on that level which love delights in.

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