"At length the wifh'd-for hour is come!
The pen-coop'd beauty leaves her home!
Thanks to her limping leg, which hath
The Parent-turkey fent to Bath!-

"O had I wit to paint the fight,
The creatures I beheld last night!
First then-'Twas Beast, and Bird together!
Mixture sweet of Fur, and Feather!
Like that frange Thing, which wicked Luck
Bred from a Rabbit, and a Duck,
Which modern travellers all fee,
And modern writers, who agree.
To hunt with post-horfe obfervation,
Fine fights through each refined nation:
Nay, it is right! a gen'rous plan!
"To vary Nature all we can."
Thy parents, Florio, thought it fo,
Whole modeft dalliance made a Beau.
Fashion fimil'd on the embrace,

Beflounc'd his night-cap, trim'd his face,
Bade ber chafte ringlets graceful flow,
No figh unfreeze, nor fervour glow,
Left, fatal chance! the haplefs fair
Melt the pomatum in her hair!
All-all was right!-The fequel know,
From this cool bufinefs fprang the Beau:
Mark then!-On Florio's forehead find
The nothingnefs of Florio's mind!
Mark well! Beau Florio bids ye se:
Sixteen ftiff curls, that frange toupee,
The Index of Stupidity!
What creatures fhould my fancy hit
Next, but the dapper Man of Wit.
Four feasons he ne'er fail'd to fill her
Vafe, and is the friend of MILLER:
Nay, think not I your Mufefhip mock:
This animal's a Bantam Cock;
It nestled close, quite am'rous growing,
I, fearing it should fail a crowing,
Join'd her, I but that moment faw,
The Lady Dowager Macaw.

What can a youthful widow's pain fhew,
Like all the colours in the rainbow?
Why in that foft eye lurks the tear?
The Viscount hath been dead a year!

Beau Ring dove though, for all your cooing,
No Pigeon to your pigmy wooing,
Her La'fhip knows what the is doing.

"See yon flirtation better bore-out
"Twixt Captain Snap and Lady Moor-Pout!

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Behold

Behold the bony Spaniel ftand,
Dead pointing at her jointure land!
The buxom Relict, fairly fet,
Flutters ruin, takes the net.-—
But hold! I at this moment find
The proper index of the Mind;
Read, ye fair Covey, MILLER's eyes;
Mary Mark-Phiz gains the prize!

So with low birds the ne'er fhall thee mix
Thou little, pretty, rhyming Phenix."

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SUBJECT.

"He that trives with truth to find,

Through the regions of the face,
All the features of the Mind,

Character, and inward grace:
Sometimes he may judge aright,
Sometimes be mistaken quite.

Mira, free from art or guile,

Shews, as all may clearly fee,
Temper'd Sweetnefs in each finile,
In each blush true Modesty.
More, as real worth adorns,
Each delufive charm the fcorns.

Love, that kindies gentle fires,

In the eye of languishment, Lights for Chloe chafte defires,

Heroes figh for her confent. Innate Beauty's fimple grace Shines reflected from her face.

Sweeteft Senfibility,

Stiil Eugenia's mind affailing,

O'er each trembling nerve we fee
Soft emotions ftill prevailing:

Ere by plaintive voice betray'd,

Charm'd, we view the matchless maid.

Corydon, thy noble foul

All the world might plainly tell;
From thine eyes expretfive roll,

Ere the manly accents fell:
A countenance like thine's a chart
That fhews an open honeft heart.

But with what pain my Mufe difcovers
The falle Coquet's enfnaring part;
Pleas'd at wounding haple's lovers,

Artlefs ftill by dint of Art:
Young my Mufe, nor fond to rail,
O'er her face the drops a veil.

Should

Should the ftill, the task refuming,

Trace fome villain to his end;
Still his features mafk affuming,

To wound the bofom of a friend:
From fuch fcenes, ere Anger fires,
The ftern Phyfiognomist retires.
MILLER, if you like my fong,

And thy face muft plainly fhew it,
Let me join Apollo's throng,

Shed thy Myrtle on the Poet:
If condemn'd, my pray'r is brief,
Grant me not a fingle leaf."

Medical Inftructions towards the Prevention, and Cure of Chronic or Slow Difeafes peculiar to Women: especially, thofe proceeding from Over-delicacy of Habit called Nervous or Hyflerical; from Female Obflructions, Weakness, and inward Decay; a difeafed fate of the Womb, or critical Change of Conftitution at particular Periods of Life; in which, their Nature is explained, and their Treatment, by Regimen, and fimple Medicines, divefted of the Terms of Art, is clearly laid down, for the use of thofe affected with fuch Difeafes, as well as the Medical Reader. By John Leake, M. D. Member of the Royal College of Phyficians, London; and Physician to the Westminster Lyingin-Hofpital. 8vo. 6s. Baldwin.

"It has been obfervcd," fays this writer, "that women often regard unimportant knowledge, whilst they neglect the means of being fufficiently acquainted with what concerns their health; a bleffing fo ineftimable that it gives relish to all our enjoyments, and without it, the poffeffion of lite itself becomes irkfome and no better than a ftate of penance. From this inattention, many popular errors and abfurd opinions are, at prefent, as fuperftitioufly adopted and obftinately adhered to, as in the days of Ariftotle.

"To examine and reject fuch customs as tend to prejudice the understanding and injure the health; to point out the dangerous abuse of powerful medicines; and to afford women an adequate idea of their own diforders, as well as the most gentle and effectual methods of treating them, is the intention of the following Medical Inftructions: If from thence a cure is not always to be expected; they will, at least, be enabled to diftinguish, whether fuch complaints may fafely be trufted to Regimen and Simple Medicines, or whether they are dangerous in their nature, and therefore require more immediate ad~vice and affittance."

For be it obferved, our author does not mean to make the ladies their own doctors.

"It would," fays he, "be unneceffary that women should attend to phyfic in a methodical and scientific manner; the idea of

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every woman being her own phyfician is ludicrous in terms, and would be no less abfurd in its application, than that every man should become his own tailor. But furely, there are many degrees between confummate knowledge and profound ignorance; and altho' it may not either be expedient or practicable to attain the first; fhe will, at leaft, avoid the danger and inconvenience arifing from the last."

To induce the ladies to pay a greater attention to their health, he obferves, that,

"Were women as attentive to their health, as to the extremes of fashion and falfe ornament; it would be a fortunate circumstance for themselves as well as their progeny; but as this is rather to be wished than expected; it may be neceflary to remind them, that, altho health does not altogether conftitute beawy; beauty is the child of health, and cannot long exist without her parental influence.

"In vain therefore do they feek to preferve the one without due regard to the other: The great fecret of improving or retaining beauty confifts in the art of preferving bealth: 'Tis that which animates and lights up the countenance with expreffive and bewitching finiles; which touches the lip with vermilion, and diffufes o'er the cheek a freshness and vivid glow furpaffing Circaffian bloom; it gives balmy fweetnefs to the breath, and lubie to the eye. But let fickness and fell difeafe, for a while, overshadow the beauteous form, and its appearance is no longer retained. The polished furtace, and fnowy whiteness of the fin are exchanged for wrinkles, and a fallow hue; the luftre of the brightest eye is tarnished, and the blooming cheek will fade !"

To fhew farther the great importance of Health, and the eftimation it was held in by the wifeft people of all ages, he proceeds to take a view of the various means they devited to preferve or attain it. One would think arguments of this kind would be needlefs, as few can be infenfible of the great bleffing of health; and yet fo it is, that the young and thoughtless are feidum prevented from tifling with it, till woful experience convinces then of their folly. Nor do people, in general, fhew more difcretion in fecking a remedy for difeafes, than they do in acquiring them."

"In the common occurrences of life, they generally examine what they intend to purchate with a penetrating eye, and place it in every point of view before they make it their own; but in the important article of health, their dilcerument feems to forfake them; for, very fenfible minds are obferved to be not a little influenced by the exam ple of the multitude; and inflead of judging for themselves, or confiding in thofe who, from principles of honor, are fparing of their promifes; they often weakly put their truft in fuch as deal in promifes only.

The medical fcience, as to its propofed end, is the most noble and ufeful of all others; having nothing lefs for its object than the prefervation and recovery of health, which is the very bafis of hu inan happiness; for ficknefs and difcafes' not only rob us of all enjoyment; but, at lait, of life itfelf. If the means by which it ought to

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be effected have fometimes been abufed; that is not the fault of the fcience, but of thofe who are unworthy to profefs it.

"The useful part of medicine ftands in no need of a mask to cover its real form; the more it is unveil'd, the more its native excellence will be difplayed; but where it has made ufe of meretricious arts to delude and feduce the unwary; let it be stripped of fuch tinfel ornaments, and stand expofed to open view.

Whatever is too fubtle for the comprehenfion of moderate underftandings, and minute for the eye of common fenfe, promises but little advantage in the attainment; for it may be afferted as a general truth, that the most ufeful part of every fcience is the most obvious and striking at first view: Many of thofe which formerly were myfierious and abftrufe; when stripped of their foppery and parade, became intelligible to common capacities. The fublime fcience of Aftronomy has been made easy of accefs by that elegant writer and polite philofopher Fontenelle. Geography and Natural Hiflory have alfo now been laid down upon the most fimple principles; and I think there can be no fufficient reafons why Phyfic may not likewife venture to fpeak in plain and intelligible language.

"The general intereft of the art can never fuffer by fuch a proceeding; for, by informing the minds of men with a juft idea of its true nature, and fhewing, that, like other fciences, it is limited in its extent; many unreafonable prejudices would be obviated and removed.

They would not then complain of difappointment in not being cured of difeafes abfolutely incurable; but, on the contrary, would be taught to know, that by proper rules and cautions fome difeafes might certainly be prevented; that feveral might be perfectly cured;. that fome could only admit of relief; and that others, from an internal decay of the organs or inftruments of life, are, in their own nature, utterly incurable; without the phyfician was poffeffed of a power to create new parts where the old ones were worn out and destroyed.

"Befides; a competent idea of this subject would enable them to diftinguith modeft merit from prefuming ignorance; and to form a proper judgment of uch as are fittest to be intrufted with the care of their health, independent of mere names in vogue; to which accident, or more exceptionable caufes, have often contributed not a little. In a word, the credit of the medical science, and the intercit and honour of those who profe's it, can never be better or more properly supported, than by fuch liberal and direct proceedings as tend to the relief of thofe who employ them; whether that is to be done by the administration of medicines, the ufe of air, det and exercife, or the united power of the whole.

Health is fo important a bielling, that people are entitled to the best information they can get concerning it, and to the privilege of feeing with their own eyes; inttead of being boodwinked and led blindtard by the delutive promifes of quacks, impostors, and water-doctors, who pretend to difcover the race of the drear on the furtace of the urine, as in the very mirror of truth."

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