have often seen you before, and have lost you for want of the
respect due to you. Let me beg of you, who have both the furnishing
and turning of that wheel of lots, to be unlike the rest of your
sex, repulse the forward and the bold, and favour the modest and
the humble. I know you fly the importunate, but smile no more on
the careless. Add not to the coffers of the usurer, but give the
power of bestowing to the generous. Continue his wants who cannot
enjoy or communicate plenty; but turn away his poverty, who can
bear it with more ease than he can see it in another."

ADVERTISEMENT.

Whereas Philander signified to Clarinda by letter bearing date Thursday
12 o'clock, that he had lost his heart by a shot from her eyes, and
desired she would condescend to meet him the same day at eight in the
evening at Rosamond's Pond,[260] faithfully protesting, that in case she
would not do him that honour, she might see the body of the said
Philander the next day floating on the said lake of Love, and that he
desired only three sighs upon view of his said body: it is desired, if
he has not made away with himself accordingly, that he would forthwith
show himself to the coroner of the city of Westminster; or Clarinda,
being an old offender, will be found guilty of wilful murder.

[Footnote 259: Now Whitehall Gardens, between Parliament Street and the
Thames. There Pepys had the pleasure of seeing Lady Castlemaine in 1662:
"In the Privy Garden saw the finest smocks and linen petticoats of my
Lady Castlemaine's, laced with rich lace at the bottom; and did me good
to look at them."]

[Footnote 260: See No. 60.]

No. 171. [STEELE.

From _Thursday, May 11_, to _Saturday, May 13, 1710_.

Alter rixatur de lana saepe caprina,
Propugnat nugis armatus.--
HOR., I Ep. xviii. 15.

* * * * *

_Grecian Coffee-house, May 12._

It has happened to be for some days the deliberation at the learnedest
board in this house, whence honour and title had its first original.
Timoleon, who is very particular in his opinions, but is thought
particular for no other cause but that he acts against depraved custom,
by the rules of nature and reason, in a very handsome discourse gave the
company to understand, that in those ages which first degenerated from
simplicity of life, and natural