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Which Sentiment, I hall thus give to the Englih Reader: ‘You provide the noblet Materials for Building, when a Pick-ax and a Spade are only neceary; and build Houes of five hundred by a hundred Feet, forgetting that of ix by two.’  A Proof of the Infallibility of the foregoing Receipt, in the Lamentations of the Widow; with other uitable Decorations of Death, uch as Phyicians, &c. and an Epitaph in the true Stile.

R. Allworthy, his Siter, and another Lady, were aembled at the accutomed Hour in the Supper Room, where having waited a coniderable Time longer than uual, Mr. Allworthy firt declared he began to grow uneay at the Captain’s Stay; (for he was always mot punctual at his Meals,) and gave Orders that the Bell hould be rung without the Doors, and