The antient Ruler of this Mansion died, And Blaney boldly for the Seat applied: Sir Denys Brand, then Guardian, join'd his Suit, 'Tis true,' said he, the Fellow's quite a Brute'A very Beast; but yet, with all his Sin, 'He has a Manner-let the Devil' in.' They half complied, they gave the wish'd Retreat, But rais'd a worthier to the vacant Seat. Thus forc'd on ways unlike each former way, In vain, by Fortune's Smiles, thrice affluent made, Still has he Debts of antient date unpaid; Thrice into Penury by Error thrown, Not one right Maxim has he made his own; And all abhor his Principles and Prate; Nor Love nor Care for him will Mortal show, She early found herself mistress of herself. All she did was right: all she said was admired. Early, very early did she dismiss blushes from her cheek. She could not blush, because she could not doubt; and silence, whatever was the subject, was as much a stranger to her as diffidence. ། Quò fugit Venus? heu! Quoque color? decens Quò motus? Quid habes illius, illius Quæ spirabat amores, Quæ me surpuerat mihi? Richardson Horatius. lib. 4. od. 13. " CLELIA. Her lively and pleasant Manners.-Her Reading and Decision.Her Intercourse with different Classes of Society. Her kind of Character. The favoured Lover. Her Management of him: his of her. After one Period Clelia with an Attorney: her Manner and Situation there.-Another such Period, when her Fortune still declines.-Mistress of an Inn.-A Widow.-Another such Interval: She becomes poor and infirm, but still yain and frivolous.-The fallen Vanity.-Admitted into the House; meets Blancy. LETTER XV. INHABITANTS OF THE ALMS-HOUSE. CLELIA. WE had a sprightly Nymph-in every Town Arch was her Look, and she had pleasant ways 'Twas that gay, pleasant, smart, engaging Speech, Novels and Plays, and Poems, old and new, Were all the Books our Nymph attended to; Yet from the Press no Treatise issued forth, But she would speak precisely of its worth. Me Fai She with the London-Stage familiar grew, And every Actor's Name and Merit knew; She told how this or that their Part mistook," And of the rival Romeos gave the look; Of either House 'twas hers the Strength to see, What made this Knowledge, what this Skill complete? A Fortnight's Visit in Whitechapel-Street. Ps bra d Her Place in Life was rich and poor between, stic With those a Favourite, and with these a Queen She could her Parts assume, and condescend' 17' ali To Friends more humble while an humble Friend; And thus a welcome, lively Guest could pass, 214 Threading her pleasant way from Class to Class. 'Her Reputation?'-That was like her Wit, 11 And seem'd her Manner and her State to fit; Something there was, what, none presum'd to say, 7 Clouds lightly passing on a smiling Day,sa ol Whispers and Hints which went from ear to ear, eskol And mix'd Reports no Judge on Earth could clear. N But of each Sex a friendly number prestu |