the utmost sufferings; he tries them in a few inftances, and is depofed by them for his credulity. I remember at the beginning of King James's reign the Quakers prefented an address, which gave great offence to the high church- men of thofe times. But notwithstanding the uncourtliness of their phrases, the fense was very honest. The address was as follows, to the best of my memory, for I then took great notice of it; and may ferve as a counterpart to the foregoing one. THe Hefe are to testify to thee our forrow for our friend Charles, whom we hope thou wilt follow in every thing that " is good. "We hear that thou art not of the religion of the land any more than we, " and therefore may reasonably expect that "thou wilt give us the fame liberty that "thou takeft thyself. "We hope that in this and all things elfe thou wilt promote the good of thy people, which will oblige us to pray that thy reign over us may be long and profperous. Had all King James's fubjects addreffed him with the fame integrity; he had, in all probability, fat upon his throne until death had removed him from it. THE T.HE LOVER. N° 10 Thursday, March 18. I Magis illa placent quæ pluris emuntur. Have lately been very much teized with the thought of Mrs. Anne Page, and the memory of those many cruelties which I fuffered from that obdurate fair one. Mrs. Anne was in a particular manner very fond of China-ware, against which I had unfortunately declared my averfion. I do not know but this was the firft occafion of her coldness towards me, which makes me fick at the very fight of a China-difh ever fince, This is the best introduction I can make for my present difcourfe, which may ferve to fill up a gap until I am more at leifure to refume the thread of my amours. There are no inclinations in women which more furprize me than their paffions for chalk and china. The first of these maladies wears out in a little time; but when a 2 woman . woman is vifited with the fecond, it generally takes poffeffion of her for life. Chinaveffels are play-things for women of all ages. An old Lady of fourscore shall be as bufy in cleaning an Indian Mandarine, as her great grand daughter is in dreffing her baby. I The common way of purchafing such trifles, if I may believe my female informers, is by exchanging old fuits of cloaths for this brittle ware. The potters of china have it feems, their factors at this distance, who retail out their feveral manufactures for caft cloaths and fuperannuated garments. have known an old petticoat metamorphofed into a punch-bowl, and a pair of breeches into a tea pot. For this reafon my friend Tradewell in the city calls his great room, that is nobly furnished out with china, his wife's wardrobe. In yonder corner, fays he, are above twenty fuits of cloaths, and on that ferutore above a hundred yards of furbelowed filk. You cannot imagine how many night-gowns, ftays and mantoes, went to the raifing of that pyramid. The worst of it is, fays he, a fuit of cloaths is not fuffered to laft half its time, that it may be the more vendible; so that in reality this is but a more dextrous way of picking the husband's pocket, who is often purchafing a great vafe of china, when he fancies that he is buying a fine head, or a filk gown for |