n as he
spoke it, which was much as follows, and may be of great use to those
parents who seem to make it a rule, that their children's turn to enjoy
the world is not to commence till they themselves have left it.

"Now, Tom, I have bought you chambers in the Inns of Court. I allow
you to take a walk once or twice a day round the garden. If you
mind your business, you need not study to be as great a lawyer as
Coke upon Littleton. I have that that will keep you; but be sure
you keep an exact account of your linen. Write down what you give
out to your laundress, and what she brings home again. Go as little
as possible to the other end of the town; but if you do, come home
early. I believe I was as sharp as you for your years, and I had my
hat snatched off my head coming home late at a shop by St.
Clement's Church, and I don't know from that day to this who took
it. I do not care if you learn to fence a little, for I would not
have you be made a fool of. Let me have an account of everything
every post; I am willing to be at that charge, and I think you need
not spare your pains. As for you, daughter Molly, don't mind one
word that is said to you in London, for it is only for your
money."[326]

[Footnote 325: See No. 185.]

[Footnote 326: It has been suggested that the latter part of this paper
may refer to Dr. Gilbert Budgell and his son Eustace, Addison's cousin.
(See "Grand Magazine," i. 391, _seq._; and Cibber's "Lives of the
Poets," vol. v.) On the death of his father in 1711, Eustace Budgell
came into possession of an estate of L950 a year.]

No. 190. [STEELE.

From _Saturday, June 24_, to _Tuesday, June 27, 1710_.

----Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.--VIRG., AEn. ii. 49.

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_Sheer Lane, June 26._

There are some occasions in life, wherein regards to a man's self is the
most pitiful and contemptible of all passions; and such a time certainly
is when the true public spirit of a nation is run into a faction against
their friends and benefactors. I have hinted heretofore some things
which discover the real sorrow I am in at the observation, that it is
now very much so in Great Britain, and have had the honour to be pelted
with several epistles to expostulate with me on that subject;[327] among
others, one from a person of the num