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for the Support of their Age and Infirmities, certain Taxes paid out of the Rewards of the amorous Labours of the Young. This Seraglio of Great Britain is difpofed into convenient Alleys and Apartments, and every Houfe from the Cellar to the Garret, inhabited by Nymphs of different Orders, that Perfons of every Rank may be accommodated with an immediate Confort io allay their Flames, and partake of their Cares. Here it is, that when Aurengexebe thinks fit to give a Loofe to Dalliance, the Purveyors prepare the Entertainment: and what makes it more auguft is, that every Perfon concerned in the Interlude has his fet Part, and the Prince sends before-hand Word what he defigns to fay, and directs alfo the very Answer which shall be made to him.

IT has been before hinted, that this Emperor has a continual Commerce with India; and it is to be noted, that the largest Stone that rich Earth has produced, is in ur Aurengezebe's Poffeffion.

BUT all things are now disposed for his Reception. At his Entrance into the Seraglio, a Servant delivers him his Bever of State and Love, on which is fixed this ineftimable Jewel as his Diadem. When he is feated, the Purveyors, Pandarus and Nuncio, marching on each Side of the Matron of the House, introduce her into his Prefence. In the Midft of the Room, they bow all together to the Diadem.

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WHOEVER thou art (as thy awful Afpect speaks the a Man of Power) be propitious to this Manfion of Love, and let not the Severity of thy Wisdom difdain, that by the Reprefentation of naked Innocence, or paßioral Figures, we revive in thee the Memory at least of that Power of Venus, to which all the Wife and the Brave are fome Part of their Lives devoted. Aurengezebe confents, by a Nod, and they go out backward.

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AFTER this, an unhappy Nymph, who is to be fupposed just escaped from the Hands of a Ravisher, with her Treffes difhevel'd, runs into the Room with, a Dagger in her Hand, and falls before the Emperor.

PITY! Oh, pity, whoever thou art, an unhappy Virgin, swhom one of thy Train has robbed of her Innocence,

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let me die like the memorable Lucretia- -Upon which fhe ftabs herself. The Body is immediately examined after the Manner of our Coroners. Lucretia recovers by a Cup of right Nantz; and the Matron, who is her next Relation, ftops all Process at Law.

THIS unhappy Affair is no fooner over, but a naked mad Woman breaks into the Room, calls for her Duke, her Lord, her Emperor. As foon as the fpies Aurengezebe, the Object of all her Fury and Love, the calls for Petticoats, is ready to fink with Shame, and is dreffed in all Hafte in new Attire at his Charge. This unexpected Accident of the mad Woman, makes Aurengezebe curious to know, whether others who are in their Senfes, can guess at his Quality. For which Reason the whole: Convent is examined one by one. The Matron marches in with a tawdry Country Girl- Pray, Winifred, fays the) Who do you think that fine Man with those Jewels and Pearls is? -I believe (fays Winifred) it is our Landlord- It must be the 'Squire himselfThe Emperor laughs at her Simplicity Go Fool, fays the Matron: Then turning to the Emperor Your Greatness will pardon her Ignorance! After her, feveral others of different Characters are instructed to mistake who he is, in the fame Manner; Then the whole Sifterhood are called together, and the Emperor rifes, and cocking his Hat, declares he is the Great Mogul, and they his Concubines. A general Murmur goes through the whole Affembly, and Aurengexebe certifying that he keeps them for State rather than Ufe, tells them they are permitted to receive all Men into their Apartments; then proceeds through the Croud, among whom he throws Medals,. fhaped like Half-Crowns, and returns to his Chariot.

THIS being all that paffed the last Day in which Aurengexebe vifited the Women's Apartment, I confulted Pacolet concerning the Foundation of fuch ftrange A. mufements in Old Age: To which he anfwered, You may remember, when I gave you an Account of my good Fortune in being drowned on the 30th. Day, of my human Life, I told you of the Difafters I fhould other

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wife have met with before I arrived at the End of my Stamen, which was fixty Years. I may now add an Obfervation to you, That all who exceed that Period, except the latter Part of it is fpent in the Exercife of Virtue and Contemplation of Futurity, muft neceffarily -fall into an indecent Old Age, because, with regard to all the Enjoyments of the Years of Vigour and Manhood, Childhood returns upon them: And as Infants ride on Sticks, build Houfes in Dirt, and make Ships in Gutters, by a faint Idea of Things they are to act hereafter ; fo old Men play the Lovers, Potentates and Emperors, for the decaying Image of the more perfect Performances. of their stronger Years: Therefore be fure to infert Efculapius and Aurengezebe in your next Bill of Mortality of the Metaphorically Defunct.

Will's Coffee-boufe, July 24.

AS foon as I came hither this Evening, no lefs than ten People produced the following Poem, which they all reported was fent to each of them by the Penny-Poft from an unknown Hand. All the Battle-Writers in the Room were in Debate, who could be the Author of a Piece fo martially written; and every Body applauded the Address and Skill of the Author, in calling it a Poftfcript: It being the Nature of a Poftfcript to contain fomething very material which was forgotten, or not clearly expreffed in the Letter itself. Thus the Verfes being occafioned by a March without Beat of Drum, and that Circumstance being no ways taken Notice of in any of the Stanza's, the Author calls it a Poftfcript; not that it is a Poftfcript, but figuratively, because it wants a Poftfcript. Common Writers, when what they mean is not expreffed in the Book itself, fupply it by a Preface ;; but a Poftfcript feems to me the more juft Way of Apology; because otherwise a Man makes an Excufe before the Offence is committed. All the Heroick Poets were gueffed at for its Author; but though we could not find out his Name, yet one repeated a Couplet in Hudibras which fpoke his Qualifications.

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I th' midst of all this warlike Rabble,
Crowdero march'd, expert and able.

THE Poem is admirably suited to the Occafion: For to write without difcovering your Meaning, bears a juft Refemblance to Marching without Beat of Drum.

On the March to Tournay without Beat of Drum.

The Bruffels POSTSCRIPT.

Could I with plaineft Words exprefs
That great Man's wonderful Addrefs,
His Penetration, and his tow'ring Thought;
It would the gazing World furprize,
To fee one Man at all Times wife,

To view the Wonders be with Eafe has wrought

Refining Schemes approach his Mind,
Like Breezes of a Southern Wind,
To temperate a fultry glorious Day;
Whofe Fannings, with an ufeful Pride,
Its mighty heat doth foftly guide,
And having clear'd the Air, glide filently away..

Thus his Immenfity of Thought,

Is deeply form'd, and gently wrought,
His Temper always foftning Life's Difeafe
That Fortune, when she does intend
To rudely frown, he turns his Friend,
Admires his Judgment, and applauds his Eafe.

His great Addrefs in this Defign,
Does now, and will for ever shine,
And wants a Waller but to do bim Right,
The whole Amufement was fo ftrong,
Like Fate he doom'd them to be wrong,
And Tournay took by a peculiar Slight.

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Thus, Madam, all Mankind behold
Your vaft Afcendant, not by Gold,
But by your Wifdom and your pious Life;
Your Aim no more, than to deftroy
That which does Europe's Eafe annoy,
And fuperfede a Reign of Shame and Strife.

St. James's Coffee-house, July 24.

MY Brethren of the Quill, the ingenious Society of News-Writers, having with great Spirit and Elegance already informed the World, that the Town of Tournay capitulated on the 28th Inftant, there is nothing left for me to fay, but to congratulate the good Company here, that we have Reafon to hope for an Opportunity of thanking Mr. Withers next Winter in this Place, for the Service he has done his Country. No Man deferves better of his Friends than that Gentleman, whose distinguishing Character it is, that he gives his Orders with the Familiarity, and enjoys his Fortune with the Generofity of a Fellow-Soldier. His Grace the Duke of Argyle had also an eminent Part in the Reduction of this important Place. That illuftrious Youth discovers the peculiar Turn of Spirit and Greatnefs of Soul, which only make Men of high Birth and Quality useful to their Country; and confiders Nobility as an imaginary Diftinction, unless accompanied with the Practice of those generous Virtues by which it ought to be obtained. But that our Military Glory is arrived at its prefent Height, and that Men of all Ranks fo paffionately affect their Share in it, is certainly owing to the Merit and Conduct of our glorious General: For as the great Secret in Chymistry, though not in Nature, has occafioned many ufeful Discoveries; and the Fantastick Notion of being wholly difinterested in Friendship, has made Men do a thousand generous Actions above themselves; so, though the present Grandeur and Fame of the Duke of Marlborough is a Station of Glory to which no one hopes to arrive, yet all carry their Actions to an higher Pitch, by having that great Example laid before them. Quicquid

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