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What great advantages was I of to Mr. Dryden in his Indian Emperor, You force me still to answer you in That, to furnish out a rhyme to Morat? And what a poor figure would Mr. Bayes have made without his Egad and all That? How can a judicious man distinguish one thing from another, without faying, This here, or That there? And how can a fober man, without using the expletives of oaths, in which indeed the rakes and bullies have a great advantage over others, make a difcourfe of any tolerable length, without That is; and if he be a very grave man indeed, without That is to say? And how

instructive as well as entertaining are thofe ufual expreffions in the mouths of great men, Such things as That, and the like of That.

I am not against reforming the corruptions of speech you mention, and own there are proper feafons for the introduction of other words befides

That; but I fcorn as much to fupply turn, as they are unequal always to fill the place of a Who or a Which at every mine; and I expect good language and civil treatment, and hope to receive it for the future: That, that I fhall only add is, that I am, your's,

THAT.

END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

CHARLES LORD HALLIFAX.

MY LORD,

SIMILI

IMILITUDE of manners and ftudies is ufually mentioned as one of the strongest motives to affection and esteem; but the paf fionate veneration I have for your Lordship, I think, flows from an admiration of qualities in you, of which in the whole course of these papers I have acknowledged my felf incapable. While I bufy myself as a stranger upon earth, and can pretend to no other than being a lookeron, you are confpicuous in the bufy and polite world, both in the world of men, and that of letters: while I am filent and unobferved in public meetings, you are admired by all that approach you as the life and genius of the converfation. What an happy conjunction of different talents meets in him whofe whole difcourfe is at once animated by the strength and force of reafon, and adorned with all the graces and embelliments of wit? When learning irradiates common life, it is then in it's highest use and perfection; and it is to fuch as your Lordship, that the fciences owe the esteem which they have with the active part of mankind. Knowledge of books in reclufe men, is like that fort of lantern which hides him who carries it, and ferves only to pafs through fecret and gloomy paths of his own; but in the poffeffion of a man of bufinefs, it is as a torch in the hand of one who is willing and able to fhew thofe, who were bewildered, the way which leads to their profperity and welfare. A generous concern for your country, and a paffion for every thing which is truly great and noble, are what actuate all your life and actions; and I hope you will forgive me that I have an ambition this book may be placed in the library of fo good a judge of what is valuable, in that library where the choice is fuch, that it will not be a difparagement to be the meaneft author in it. Forgive me, my Lord, for taking this occafion of telling all the world how ardently I love and honour you, and that I am, with the utmoft gratitude for all your favours,

My LORD,

Your Lordship's most obliged,

Moft obedient, and most humble fervant,

THE SPECTATOR.

X 2

THE

SPECTATO R.

VOLUME THE SECOND.

No LXXXI. SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1711.

ABO

QUALIS UBI AUDITO VENANTUM MURMURE TIGRIS
HORRUIT IN MACULAS

AS WHEN THE TIGRESS HEARS THE HUNTER'S DIN,
A THOUSAND ANGRY SPOTS DEFILE HER SKIN.

BOUT the middle of last winter went to fee an opera at the theatre in the Haymarket, where I could not but take notice of two parties of very fine women, that had placed themfelves in the opposite fide-boxes, and feemed drawn up in a kind of battle array one against another. After a fhort furvey of them, I found they were patched differently; the faces on one hand being spotted on the right fide of the forehead, and those upon the other on the left. Í quickly perceived that they caft hoftile glances upon one another; and that their patches were placed in those different fituations, as party-fignals to diftinguifh friends from foes. In the middle boxes, between these two oppofite bodies, were feveral ladies who patched indifferently on both fides of their faces, and feemed to fit there with no other intention but to fee the opera. Upon inquiry I found, that the body of Amazons on my righthand, were Whigs, and those on my left, Tories; and that those who had placed themfelves in the middle boxes were a neutral party, whofe faces had not yet declared themselves. Thefe laft, however, as I afterwards found, diminithed daily, and took their party with one úide or the other; infomuch that I obferved in feveral of them, the patches, which were before difperfed equally, are now all gone over to the Whig or Tory de of the face. The cenforious fay,

STATIUS,

that the men, whofe hearts are aimed at, are very often the occafions that one part of the face is thus difhonoured, and lies under a kind of difgrace, while the other is fo much fet off and adorned by the owner; and that the patches turn to the right or to the left, according to the principles of the man who is most in favour. But whatever may be the motives of a few fantaftical coquettes, who do not patch for the public good fo much as for their own private advan tage, it is certain, that there are several women of honour who patch out of principle, and with an eye to the interest of their country. Nay, I am informed that fome of them adhere fo ftedfastly to their party, and are fo far from facrificing their zeal for the public to their paffion for any particular person, that in a late draught of marriage-articles a lady has stipulated with her husband, that, whatever his opinions are, fhe fhall be at liberty to patch on which fide the pleases.

I must here take notice, that Rofalinda, a famous Whig partisan, has mot unfortunately a very beautiful mole on the Tory part of her forehead; which being very confpicuous, has occafioned many mistakes, and given an handle to her enemies to mifreprefent her face, as though it had revolted from the Whig intereft. But, whatever this natural patch may seem to intimate, it is well

known

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