deavour to disturb the Repose and Plenty which (tho' unworthy) I enjoy at this Place. It cannot be, that you take Offence at my Prologues and Epilogues, which you are pleased to miscal Foolish and Abufive. No, no, until you give a better, I fhall not forbear thinking that the true Reafon of your picking a Quar rel with me was, because it is more agreeable to your Principles, as well as more to the Honour of your affured Victory, to attack a Governor. Mr: Ifaac, Mr. Ifaac, I can fee into a Mill-stone as far as another, (as the Saying is) You are for fowing the Seeds of Sedition and Difobedience among my Puppets, and your ⚫ Zeal for the Good old) Caufe would make you per• fuade Punch to pull the String from his Chops, and not move his Jaw when I have a mind he should harangue. • Now I appeal to all Men, if this be not contrary to that ⚫ unaccountable and uncontroulable Dominion, which by the Laws of Nature I exercise over them; for all • Sorts of Wood and Wire were made for the Ufe and Benefit of Man: I have therefore an unquestionable Right to frame, fashion, and put them together as I please; and having made them what they are, my Puppets are my Property, and therefore my Slaves: Nor is there in Nature any thing more juft, than the • Homage which is paid by a lefs to a more excellent Being: So that by the Right therefore of a fuperior Genius, I am their fupreme Moderator, altho' you would • infinuate (agreeably to your levelling Principles) that I am myself but a great Puppet, and can therefore have but a co-ordinate Jurifdiction with them. I fuppofe I have now fufficiently made it appear, that I have a paternal Right to keep a Puppet-Show, and this Right • I will maintain in my Prologues on all Occafions. 6 AND therefore, if you write a Defence of yourself against this my Self Defence, I admonish you to keep ⚫ within Bounds; for every Day will not be fo propitious to you, as the 29th of April; and perhaps my Refent⚫ment may get the better of my Generofity, and I may no longer Scorn to fight one who is not my Equal,with unequal Weapons: There are fuch Things as Scanda•lums Magnatums; therefore take heed hereafter how . you 1 you write fuch Things as I cannot eafily answer, for that will put me in a Paffion. • I order you to handle only these two Propofitions, to which our Difpute may be reduced: The First, Whether I have not an abfolute Power, whenever I please, to light a Pipe with one of Punch's Legs, or warm my Fingers with his whole Carcafe? The Se<cond, whether the Devil would not be in Punch, fhould he by Word or Deed oppose my fovereign Will and Pleafure? And then, perhaps, I may if I can • find Leisure for it) give you the Trouble of a fecond • Letter. • BUT if you intend to tell me of the Original of Puppet-Shows, and the feveral Changes and Revolu⚫tions that have happened in them fince Thepis, and I ⚫ don't care who, that's Noli me tangere: I have folemnly engaged to fay nothing of what I can't approve. Or, <if talk of certain Contracts with the Mayor and you • Burgeffes, or Fees to the Conftables, for the Privilege ⚫ of Acting, I will not write one fingle Word about any fuch Matters; but fhall leave you to be mumbled by ⚫ the learned and very ingen ous Author of a late Book, ⚫ who knows very well what is to be faid and done in fuch Cafes. He is now fhuffling the Cards, and dealing to Timothy; but if he wins the Game, I will fend him to play at Back-Gammon with you; and then he will fatisfy you, that Duce-Ace makes five. AND fo, fubmitting myself to be tried by my Country, and allowing any Jury of twelve good Men, • and true, to be that Country; not excepting any (unless Mr. Ifaac Bickerfiaff) to be of one of the Panel, for you are neither good nor true; I bid you heartily farewel; and am, Bath, July 28. SIR, Your loving Friend, Powel. The End of the First Volume. A FAITHFUL INDEX OF THE Dull as well as Ingenious Paffages IN THE. TATLER S. VOL. I. A. CTS the Country Wife: (Mrs. Bignel) Page 12 A Advice afked, not for Information, but out of the Fulness of Heart on its Perplexity. Advice not to be given by every Body. Efculapius and Hebe. Efculapius's Recipe for Love. 151 Africanus's Magnanimity and Manner of purchafing-An- nuities Amanda, Wife of Florio Annihilation defcribed by Milton and Dryden. Afpafia's Character. Avaro's Character. Aurengezebe trades with the English. ibid. 260 281 217, 218 85 129 291 31 2511 151, 152 271 B. Bankers B. Bankers fhould take Poems for Bills. Batchelor's Scheme to govern a Wife. Battle near Badajos. Page 256 102, 103 Beadleftaff's Teftimony of the Reformation at Oxford, and of a Puppet-Show. Betterton's Character. Mr. Bickerftaff's Cures. Mr. Bickerstaff's Difpofal of his three Nephews. - 267, 268 4 203 178 A bafe Report that he has compounded with the Toymen and Milleners. Mr. Bickerftaff makes his Will Billet-doux concerning a Rival. 184 39 174 Bruffels Poftfcript (a Poem) confidered. 275, 276 Bufy-Body: (A Play.) 11.3 C. Clariffa and Chloe, celebrated Beauties. Clidamira, a Woman of Diftinction. Comment on Stone Walls. Comparison between Cæfar and Alexander. 104 36,37 Confcience defcribed under the Character of Alethes. 285, 286 Contention between two Ladies to the Title of Very Pretty. 71. 86 150 280 90, 91 203 18, 19 204 Corinna's Life with Limberham. Country's Ignorance of Bickerstaff's Character. Credit defcribed under the Character of Umbra. Critick. Cynthio's Hiftory. 204, 205 189 162 292 188 287 174 3 Cynthio's ynthio's Hiftory continued. Cynthio's dictating on the Paffion of Love. Cynthio's Letter to his Mistress. Page 24, 25 129 210 Cynthio (once in Defpair for Clariffa) is now refolved ibid. 204 265 Defcription of the Morning in Town: (A Poem.) 52, 53 Difference between a Madman and a Fool. Dialogue on Duelling. Differtation on Duelling. 233 241 20 181 249 184 Diftaff (Jenny) her Difcourfe on Love, the Command and Power of Women. &c. Her Reflections on her Brother's Writings. 57 197 Her Account of her own Conduct in an Amour, Diftinction between an Idiot and a Politician. Diverfions for the K of D. at Drefden. 199 240 202 Divito's Sale of Goods, Celeftial and Terreftrial. 252, 253 Earl of Effex; A Play: Its Character. Eafy Writers. Emblem of the Parrot and Dove. Epigram on Marriage. Eplom-Wells; a Play: Its Character. |