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THE GUARDIAN.

N° 38.

ging his lady by the hair without enquirig far ther, he inſtantly killed her.

Here he pauſed, looking on the dead bodies with all the agitationsof a dæmon of revenge ; 1

when the wench who had occafioned theſe ter rors, diſtracted with remorſe, threw herſelf at his

feet, and in a voice of lamentation, without

ſenſe of the conſequence, repeated all her guilt. Alonzo was overwhelmed with all the violent

paſſions at one inſtant, and uttered the broken voices and motions of each of them for a mo

ment, till at laſt he recollected himſelf enough to end his agony of love, anger, diſdain, revenge,

and remorſe,by murderingthe maid, the Moor; and himſelf '. the authority of the Rev. J.Duncombe. See Hughes's Epif tolary Correſpondence, Vol. III. p. 8. ed. 1772 . The curious reader may fee three letters by Mr. John
 * This paper, Nº37, is afcribed to Mr.John Hughes, on

Hughes, deſigned for the Guardian, printed for the firſt time in his Epiſtolary Correſpondence, Vol. I. p. 73, et. feq. ed , ut fupra.

N° 38. Friday, April 24, 1713. BY STEELE.

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- Prodire tenus fi non datur ultrà : Hor. 1 Ep. i. 32, Thus far at leaſt, though here we ſtop,

I have lately given à precaution concerning the difficulty in arriving at what ought to be eſteemed « ? fine gentleman. That character