Character, places me above the want of an Excufe. Candor and Openness of Heart, which shine in all your Words and Actions, exact the highest Efteem from all who have the Honour to know you; and a winning Condefcenfion to all fubordinate to You, made Bufinefs a Pleafure to those who executed it under You, at the fame time that it heightened Her Majefty's Favour to all who had the Happiness of having it convey'd through Your Hands. A Secretary of State, in the Interests of Mankind, join'd with that of his Fellow - Subjects, accomplished with a great Facility and Elegance in all the Modern as well as Ancient Languages, was a hap РУ The py and proper Member of a Miniftry, by whose Services Your Sovereign and Country are in fo high and flourishing a Condition, as makes all other P.inces and Potentates powerful or inconfiderable in Europe, as they are Friends or Enemies to Great-Britain. Importance of those great Events which happened during that Administration, in which Your Lordfhip bore fo important a Charge, will be acknowledg'd as long as Time fhall endure; I fhall not therefore attempt to rehearse those illuftrious Paffages, but give this Application a more private and particular Turn, in deliring your Lordship would continue your Fayour and Patronage to me, as You A 2 are are a Gentleman of the most polite Literature, and perfectly accomplished in the Knowledge of Books and Men, which makes it neceffary to befeech Your Indulgence to the following Leaves, and the Author of them: Who is, with the greateft Truth and Respect, My LORD, Your Lordship's Obliged, Obedient, and Humble Servant, The SPECTATOR. T HE Month of May dangerous to the Fair-Sex No. 395 On Compaffion, with a Letter from Ann Boleyn to On the danger of trusting to Pretenfions of Platonic-love 400 -from Sylvia, Dorinda, and Cornelius Nepos Reflections of Coffee-bouse Politicians on the Rumour of } 4 XIVth's Death On Affectation On Church-Mufick On Solitude; with a Tranflation of a Lapland Ode The Paffions, the Principles of buman Actions On Tafte Sir Roger de Coverley's Adventure with a Lady a Comparison between them and those The Story of Gloriana, fbewing the effectual way to} 423 make Love Rules to make Society in the Country agreeable, with a The Advantages of the mutual Regard of both Sexes, with Character of Sempronia, a Matchmaker On Paffion and Peevifonefs On Inquifitiveness Farther Account of the Country-Infirmary No. 440 Reliance on the Divine Protection, the surest Ground of } 441 Comfort Perfons of all Profeffions invited to fend Papers to the Spectator Camilla's Letter from Venice On Quack-Bills On the new Tax on Paper by ftamping it 442 443 444 445 On the Power of Habit and Custom On the Corruption of the English Comedy 446 On Neglect of Promifes on frivolous Occafions 447 Filial Piety exemplified in the Character of Fidelia 448 On Party-Libels On the good Effects of the Love of Money 4.49 450 On the Fondness of the English for News 451 On Gratitude to the Deity for his Favours 452 A Tour of twenty-four hours through London Allegorical Letter on the Improvements of the Mind On the Mifery of Bankruptcy 453 454 455 456 On the Love of Praife and its Ufes Character of Eaftcourt the Comedian The Qualifications requifite in those who are to be em ploy'd in Places of Trust Ridicule on the Collectors of various Readings in the} 470 different Editions of the Claffics On the Paffion of Hope. On the Sight 471 472 The Ridiculoufnefs of Men glorying in their Faults 473 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 THE |