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Rh ditres; and if they have any judicious peron to direct their judgment, it may be improved while their hearts are melted. Yet I would not have them confine their compaion to the ditrees occaioned by love; and perhaps their feelings might more profitably be roued, if they were to ee ometimes the complicated miery of icknes and poverty, and weep for the beggar intead of the king.

Comedy is not now o cenurable as it was ome years ago; and a chate ear is not often hocked with indecencies. When follies are pointed out, and vanity ridiculed, it may be very