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is just dead, who has left her a very handsome fortune. Much happiness may you both have in your good fortune! With the woman of your choice and a competency, Amaryllis, you will be in the most favourable state of all others for courting the muses.

Yes, Sir John; with my own slender patrimony and the fortune my wife brings to me, I hope to make my little cot no unfavoured haunt of the fair sisters. I am not the first poet who has been caught by the artless charms of a village maid; and my wife will have as much beauty in my eyes, dress'd in her russet gown, as the

But I won't wear a russet gown tho': I have money of my own, and I'll buy me silk ones.

Well said, Mrs. Amaryllis!—Gentle poet, your village maid is a woman of spirit.

She is untaught, to be sure, and will sometimes speak unwittingly.