in a few days, and as I fhall be prefent at the fcene, will not fail to give you a particular account of the fuccefs.

A CONTINUATION OF THE STORY.

I Do not wonder at your impatience to know

the result of an amour fo romantic as that of Clelia and Cleomenes. We, who are the denizens of dear St. James's, have but little idea of those vifionary transports. What a figure would these country lovers make in the Mall! They would certainly be pointed at as creatures of another fpecies; but I can now tell you, that there is fome likelihood they will grow modern in time, if they are not already fo in their hearts.—They have been in company with each other, and I do not find that this interview has been of any prejudice to what we call love, though it may be the overthrow of their Platonic system.

The ftratagem I told you of for that purpose, was contrived in this manner.-A relation of Clelia's has lately built a fine new house, about

five miles from this town; fome of the apart→ ments being finished, though not yet fufficiently. completed for them to inhabit, the gentleman and his wife defired Clelia, myfelf, and fome other friends, to go one day and drink tea there, in order, as was pretended, to have our opinion of the building. This requeft being readily complied with, we all went on horfeback. The fame day a gentleman who was in the fearet, and a great intimate of. Cleomenes, made him a vifit, and in a careless manner, as without defign, afked him to take a ride that afternoon, which he having agreed to, the other led him to the place where we were.-Here is a handsome house built here, said he, I am acquainted with the owner; let us go in, and fee it.-With all my heart, replied Cleomenes. On which they knocked at the gate, and Clelia's kinfman feeing them from the window, ran down, and perfuaded them to come up and drink tea.-The friend of Cleomenes, to prevent that shy lover from fufpecting there was any defign in what he had done, made fome excufes for the interruption, faying, he came only to look at the house as he was paffing that way, and should not have made fo abrupt a visit, had he known there was any company there.

In fine, they came up, and the ftranger was introduced by his name, which we could perceive made Clelia give a fudden start, but fhe ap-peared much more confounded, when the friend

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of Cleomenes, who it was agreed should do alb the mischief, as he could be the leaft fufpected of defign, took an occafion of addreffing himself alfo to her by her name.-The confternation of Cleomenes at hearing it, was, I think, fuperior to that which Clelia had been in;-but certainly never did two people of sense look fo filly as they did:-Cleomenes, on knowing he was in company with his fair correfpondent, was under a neceffity of faying fomething like what he had fo often written, and Clelia was no lefs obliged to thank him for the many polite addreffes fhe had received from him.-But, dear Meliffa, I can give you no better idea of the behaviour of them both, than by faying it was fomewhat like that celebrated, though more heightened scene in the play of Grief A-la-mode, between lord Hardy and lady Charlotte;-as fometimes the expreflions they made use of were crowded and scarce intelligible, at others drawled out, with a long pause between every sentence.

You may eafily fuppofe that, without doing violence to my feelings, I could not poffibly at this juncture have refrained from laughing, and I believe each of the company was equally embarraffed. -We all kept our countenances pretty well, however, and I believe neither of the lovers had. any fufpicion of the deceit impofed on them.

We, who were in the plot, have had a good deal of diverfion about it, though I muft. own it

might have proved of an unlucky confequence either to one or the other of them, if a liking of the perfons had not been mutually answerable to that of the mind; but, thank God, no fuch ill accident has happened: Cleomenes thinks Clelia all that is exquifite in womankind, and Clelia allows Cleomenes to be the moft agreeable man fhe ever faw.-I catched her the other day as I came upon her unawares, breathing out this rhapfody, which I know not if fhe had made herfelf, or had read in any of the poets:

Lefs fair are orchards in their fummer pride,
Adorn'd with trees on fome clear river's fide:
Lefs fair are valleys, their green mantle Spread
Or mountains with tall cedars on their head.

Cleomenes, fince this interview, and being informed of the obliging things fhe fays of him, has gained courage enough to entreat her permiffion to vifit her, and fhe, finding an additional warmth in the expreffions of the letters. the now receives from him, has confented to admit him. It is not to be doubted that this paffion fo violent, and fo long a time pent up on both fides, will fhortly break out into a mutual confeffion, and then there is no more to do, but away to the altar of Hymen :-Till that incident arrives, none of us dare tell either of them.

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how they have been trepanned into happiness, but the detail will serve well enough to heighten the mirth of a wedding entertainment.

THE HAPPY PAIR.

IN an extenfive plain, whereon the fun firft

difplays his refplendent beams in Perfia, lived Hyftafpes and Roxana, who had an only. daughter named Arpafia.

As the fublime truths of religion were their great concern, they never failed in their reverence for the Supreme Being, and worship of the great Oromazes, to whom they paid constant adoration. For their piety, bleffings were fhowered down on them as the dew of heaven, which refreshes the verdant herb.

It was not enough that themselves alone inherited the divine favour; it was their ardent wish that their felicity might defcend on their pofterity. Full of affection for Arpafia, the only pledge of their mutual love, they were anxious.

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