copied after him. He was dreffed like a German, and had a very hard Name that founded something like S TU

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THE third Artift that looked over was: FAN TASQUE, dreffed like a Venetian Scaramouch. He had an excellent Hand at Chimera, and dealt very much in Diftortions and Grimaces. He would fometimes affright himself with the Phantoms that flowed from his Pencil. In fhort, the most elaborate of his Pieces was at best but a terrifying Dream; and one could say nothing more of his fineft Figures, than that they were agreeable Monfters.

THE fourth Perfon I examined, was very remarkable for his hafty Hand, which left his Pictures fo unfinifhed, that the Beauty in the Picture (which was defigned to continue as a Monument of it to Pofterity) faded fooner than in the Perfon after whom it was drawn. He made fo much Haste to dispatch his Business, that he neither gave himself time to clean his Pencils, nor mix his Colours. The Name of this expeditious Workman was AVARICE.

NOT far from this Artift I faw another of a quite different Nature, who was dreffed in the Habit of a Dutchman, and known by the Name of INDUSTRY. His Figures were wonderfully laboured: If he drew the Portraiture of a Man, he did not omit a fingle Hair in his Face; if the Figure of a Ship, there was not a Rope among the Tackle that escaped him. He had likewife hung a great Part of the Wall with Night-Pieces, that feemed to fhew themfelves by the Candles which were lighted up in feveral Parts of them; and were fo inflamed by the Sun-fhine which accidentally fell upon them, that at first Sight I could fcarce forbear crying Out, Fire.

THE five foregoing Artists were the moft confiderable on this Side the Gallery; there were indeed feveral others whom I had not Time to look into. One of them, however, I could not forbear obferving, who was very bufy in retouching the fineft Pieces, though he produced no Originals of his own. His Pencil aggravated every Feature that was before over-charged, loaded every Defect, and poisoned every Colour it touched. Though

this Workman did fo much Mifchief on the Side of the Living, he never turned his Eye towards that of the Dead. His Name was ENVY.

HAVING taken a curfory View of one Side of the Gallery, I turned my felf to that which was filled by the Works of those great Mafters that were dead; when immediately I fancied my felf standing before a Multitude of Spectators, and thousands of Eyes looking upon me at once ; for all before me appeared fo like Men and Women, that I almoft forgot they were Pictures. Raphael's Figures ftood in one Row, Titian's in another, Guido Rheni's in a third. One Part of the Wall was peopled by Hannibal Carrache, another by Correggio, and another by Rubens. To be fhort, there was not a great Mafter among the Dead who had not contributed to the Embellishment of this Side of the Gallery. The Persons that owed their Being to these several Mafters, appeared all of them to be real and alive, and differed among one another only in the Variety of their Shapes, Complexions, and Cloaths; fo that they looked like different Nations of the fame Species.

OBSERVING an old Man (who was the fame Perfon I before mentioned, as the only Artift that was at work on this Side of the Gallery) creeping up and down from one Picture to another, and retouching all the fine Pieces that ftood before me, I could not but be very attentive to all his Motions. I found his Pencil was fo very light, that it worked imperceptibly, and after a thoufand Touches, fcarce produced any visible Effect in the Picture on which he was employed. However, as he bufied himself inceffantly, and repeated Touch after Touch without Reft or Intermiffion, he wore off infenfibly every little difagreeable Glofs that hung upon a Figure. He also added such a beautiful Brown to the Shades, and Mellowness to the Colours, that he made every Picture appear more perfect than when it came fresh from the Mafter's Pencil. I could not forbear looking upon the Face of this ancient Workman, and immediately, by the long Lock of Hair upon his Forehead, difcovered him to be TIME.

WHETHER it were becaufe the Thread of my Dream was at an End I cannot tell, but upon my taking a Survey of this imaginary old Man, my Sleep left me.

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Wednesday,

N° 84.

Wednesday, June 6.

Quis talia fande

Myrmidonum Dolopumve aut duri miles Ulyssei
Temperet a Lachrymis.

Virg.

OOKING over the old Manufcript wherein the

L private Actions of Pharamond are fet down by way

of Table-Book, I found many Things which gave me great Delight; and as human Life turns upon the fame Principles and Paffions in all Ages, I thought it very proper to take Minutes of what paffed in that Age, for the Inftruction of this. The Antiquary who lent me thefe Papers, gave me a Character of Eucrate, the Fayou tite of Pharamond, extracted from an Author who liv'd in that Court. The Account he gives both of the Prince and this his faithful Friend, will not be improper to infert here, because I may have Occafion to mention many of their Converfations, into which these Memorials of them may give Light,

PHARAMOND, when he had a Mind to retire for an Hour or two from the Hurry of Business and Fatigue of Ceremony, made a Signal to Eucrate, by put ting his Hand to his Face, placing his Arm negligently on a Window, or fome fuch Action as appeared indif ferent to all the reft of the Company. Upon fuch No ⚫tice, unobferved by others, (for their entire Intimacy was always a Secret) Eucrate repaired to his own Apart • ment to receive the King. There was a fecret Access to this Part of the Court, at which Eucrate used to ad mit many whose mean Appearance in the Eyes of the ordinary Waiters and Door-keepers made them be repulfed from other Parts of the Palace. Such as these were let in here by Order of Eucrate, and had Audi⚫ences of Pharamond. This Entrance Pharamond called • The Gate of the Unhappy, and the Tears of the Afflicted ⚫ who came before him, he would fay were Bribes re

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'ceived by Eucrate; for Eucrate had the moft compaffionate Spirit of all Men living, except his generous Mafter, who was always kindled at the leaft Affliction which was communicated to him. In the Regard for the Miferable, Eucrate took particular Care, that the common Forms of Diftrefs, and the idle Pretenders to Sorrow, about Courts, who wanted only Supplies to Luxury, fhould never obtain Favour by his Means: But the Diftreffes which arife from the many inexplicable. 'Occurrences that happen among Men, the unaccount⚫able Alienation of Parents from their Children, Cruelty ⚫ of Husbands to Wives, Poverty occafioned from Ship wreck or Fire, the falling out of Friends, or fuch other terrible Difafters to which the Life of Man is expofed's In Cafes of this Nature, Eucrate was the Patron; and . enjoyed this Part of the royal Favour fo much without being envied, that it was never enquired into by whose Means, what no one elíe cared for doing, was brought • about.

ONE Evening when Pharamond came into the Apartment of Eucrate, he found him extremely dejecte ed; upon which he asked (with a Smile which was "natural to him) "What, is there any one too miferable "to be relieved by Pharamond, that Eucrate is melancho"ly? I fear there is, answered the Favourite; a Person "without, of a good Air, well Dreffed, and tho' a Man "in the Strength of his Life, feems to faint under fome "inconfolable Calamity: All his Features feem fuffufed "with Agony of Mind; but I can observe in him, that "it is more inclined to break away in Tears than Rage. " I asked him what he would have; he said he would "fpeak to Pharamond. I defired his Bufinefs; he could "hardly fay to me, Eucrate, carry me to the King, my "Story is not to be told twice, I fear I fhall not be able "to fpeak it at all. Pharamond commanded Eucrate to let him enter; he did fo, and the Gentleman approached the King with an Air which spoke him under the greatest Concern in what Manner to demean himself The King, who had a quick Difcerning, relieved him from the Oppreffion he was under; and with the most beautiful Complacency faid to him, "Sir, do not add to that Load of Sorrow I fee in your Countenance

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"the Awe of my Prefence: Think you are speaking to your Friend; if the Circumftances of your Diftrefs "will admit of it, you fhall find me fo. To whom the Stranger: "Oh excellent Pharamond, name not a "Friend to the unfortunate Spinamont. I had one, but "he is dead by my own Hand, but, oh Pharamond, "tho' it was by the Hand of Spinamont, it was by the "Guilt of Pharamond. I come not, oh excellent Prince, to implore your Pardon; I come to relate my Sorrow, a Sorrow too great for human Life to support: From henceforth fhall all Occurrences appear Dreams or "fhort Intervals of Amusement, from this one Afflicti-

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on which has feiz'd my very Being: Pardon me, oh "Pharamond, if my Griefs give me Leave, that I lay "before you, in the Anguish of a wounded Mind, that you, good as you are, are guilty of the generous Blood fpilt this Day by this unhappy Hand: Oh that it had perifhed before that Inftant! Here the Stranger paufed, and recollecting his Mind, after fome little Meditation, he went on in a calmer Tone and Gefture as ⚫ follows.

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"THERE is an Authority due to Diftrefs, and as " none of humane Race is above the Reach of Sorrow, none fhould be above the Hearing the Voice of it; I "am fure Pharamond is not. Know then, that I have "this Morning unfortunately killed in a Duel, the Man whom of all Men living I moft loved. I command my felf too much in your royal Prefence, to say, Pharamond, give me my Friend! Pharamond has taken "him from me! I will not fay, fhall the merciful Pha"ramond destroy his own Subjects? Will the Father "of his Country murder his People? But, the merci"ful Pharamond does deftroy his Subjects, the Father of his Country does murder his People. Fortune is fo "much the Purfuit of Mankind, that all Glory and Ho"c nour is in the Power of a Prince, because he has the "Diftribution of their Fortunes. It is therefore the "Inadvertency, Negligence, or Guilt of Princes, to let any Thing grow into Custom which is against their Laws. A Court can make Fashion and Duty walk together; it can never, without the Guilt of a Court, happen, that it fhall not be unfashionable to do what

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