His Motive for leading a Single Life. unconscious labourer: and that, frequently, his Grace has met with those rebuffs, from these children of virtuous simplicity, which his illicit proposals have deserved; to others he has often been obliged to the resource of making known his high rank, and then he has sometimes succeeded with vain and easy-gained ignorance, who thought it a glorious conquest to attract the notice of a Duke! His Grace was never married, owing, it is believed, to the fickle inconstancy of his mind in respect to women: otherwise, a nobleman descended as he is, from the most ancient line of Princes and Monarchs, with his high and respectable living connexions, he might, no doubt, have formed a matrimonial alliance with not only some titled, but wealthy female. If the self-knowledge of an inconstant disposition was his motive for embracing a single life, it shews him to be a man of |