distinguishing, I shall meet with a terrible repulse.I don't believe she'll have me.

Diana. I don't believe she will, indeed!

Jes. Go on, sister—ha, ha, ha.

Diana. I protest, I am serious-Though, I perceive, you have more trust in the counsellor before you there, the looking-glass. But give me leave to tell you, it is not a powder'd head, a laced coat, a grimace, a shrug, a bow, or a few pert phrases, learnt by rote, that constitute the power of pleasing all women.

Jes. You had better return to the gentleman, and give him his tea, my dear.

Diana. These qualifications we find in our parrots and monkies. I would undertake to teach Poll in three weeks the fashionable jargon of half the fine men about town; and I am sure, it must be allowed, that Pug, in a scarlet coat, is a gentleman as degagé and alluring as most of them.

'Jes. That's really a charming India cabinet- -But 'Miss Flowerdale will be here presently-You had bet'ter return to give the gentleman his tea, and it is ten to one but we shall agree, though I should not profit by your sage advice.

Diana. Well! I will leave you.'

The following Song is a duplicate for this place.

AIR.

Ladies, pray admire a figure,
Fait selon la dernier gout.
First, his hat, in size no bigger
Than a Chinese woman's shoe;
Six yards of ribbon bind
His bair en baton behind;
While his foretop's so high,
That in crown he may vie
With the tufted cockatoo.

One's pos'd in one's aim
To give them a name—
Things of such equivocal growth;
Nor master, nor miss,
But 'twixt that and this,
Ridiculous copies of both.

Enter CLARISSA.

Clar. Sir, I took the liberty to desire a few moments' private conversation with you-I hope you will excuse it -I am really greatly embarrassed. But, in an affair of such immediate consequence to us both

Jes. My dear creature, don't be embarrassed before me; I should be extremely sorry to strike you with any awe; but this is a species of mauvaise honte, which the company I shall introduce you to, will soon cure you of. Clar. Really, Sir, I do not understand you.

Jes. Perhaps you may be under some uneasiness, lest I should not be quite so warm in the prosecution of this affair as you could wish: it is true, with regard to quality, I might do better; and, with regard to fortune, full as well-But, you please me-Really, I have not met with any thing more agreeable to me a great while. Clar. Pray, sir, keep your seat.

Jes. Mauvaise honte, again. My dear, there is nothing in these little familiarities between you and me—

Then his waist so long and taper,
"Tis an absolute thread paper:
Maids, resist him, you that can ;
Methinks, if this is all th' affair,
I'll clap a hat on, club my hair,
And call myseif a Man.*

"The song of Diana Oldboy to her brother, on his fantastic "habiliments, is perfectly curious at the present day; being an "exact description of the attire worn by men called fops, at that, Do 66 very distant, time when it was written. Yet Miss Diana may be "told that even Jessamy's dress is not more out of fashion now

among men, than her total ignorance of the rudiments of astro"nomy is, at this period, among women of her birth and fortune." Mrs. Inchbald's REMARKS, p. 4. For Diana's ignorance of Astronomy see the next scene.

When we are married, I shall do every thing to render your life happy.

Clar. Ah! Sir, pardon me. life depends upon a circumstance

The happiness of my

Jes. What can that be?-Don't be afraid to speak. Clar. No, Sir-I will come to the subject, on which I took the liberty to trouble you-Indeed, I have great reliance on your generosity.

Jes. You'll find me generous as a prince, depend on't. Clar. I am blest, Sir, with one of the best of fathers: I never yet disobeyed him: in which I have had little merit; for his commands hitherto have only been to secure my own felicity.

Jes. Well! my dear, don't imagine I will prevent your being dutiful to your father: no, no, continue 'to love him; I shan't be jealous.' Apres ma chere.

Clar. But now, Sir, I am under the shocking necessity of disobeying him, or being wretched through life. Jes. Hem!

Clar. Our union is impossible-therefore, Sir, since I cannot be your wife, let me entreat you to make you my friend.

AIR.

Ah how weak is inclination,

Fain I would yet more explain;
But you see my agitation,

And will spare my tongue the pain.

Help and force at once forsake me,
On your kindness I depend.

Since your wife you cannot make me,

Make, O make me, Sir, your friend. [Exit.

Jes. Who's there?

Enter JENKINS.

Jen. Do you call, Sir?

Jes. Hark you, old gentleman; who are you?
Jen. Sir, my name is Jenkins.

Jes. Oh! you are Sir John Flowerdale's steward; a servant he puts confidence in.

Jen. Sir, I have served Sir John Flowerdale many years; he is the best of masters; and, I believe, he has some dependance on my attachment and fidelity.

Jes. Then, Mr. Jenkins, I shall condescend to speak to you. Does your master know who I am? Does he know, Sir, that I am likely to be a Peer of Great Britain? That I have ten thousand pounds a year? That I have passed through all Europe with distinguished eclat? That I refused the daughter of Mynheer Van Slokenfolk, the great Dutch burgomaster?

Jen. I am sure, Sir, my master has all the respect imaginable

Jes. Then, Sir, how comes he, after my shewing an inclination to be allied to his family-how comes he, I say, to bring me to his house to be affronted? I have let his daughter go; but, I think, I was in the wrong; for a woman that insults me, is no more safe than a man. I have brought a lady to reason before now, for giving me saucy language; and left her male friends to revenge it.

Jen. Pray, good Sir, what's the matter?

Jes. Why, Sir, this is the matter, Sir-your master's daughter, Sir, has behaved to me with insolence, and impertinence; and you may tell Sir John Flowerdale, first, with regard to her, that I think she is a silly, ignorant, aukward, ill-bred country puss.

Jen. Oh! Sir

Jes. And that, with regard to himself, he is, in my opinion, an old doating, ridiculous country 'squire; without the knowledge either of men or things; and that he is below my notice, if it were not to despise him. Jen. My good Sir! Did I ever hear

Jes. And advise him and his daughter to keep out of my way; for I will affront them in the first place I meet them- -And if your master is for carrying things further, tell him I fence better than any man in Europe.

AIR.

1

In Italy, Germany, France, have I been,

Where princes I've liv'd with, where monarchs I've seen;

The great have caress'd me,
The fair have address'd me,

Nay, smiles I have had from a queen.

And пого, shall a pert,
Insignificant flirt,

With insolence use me,
Presume to refuse me!

She fancies my pride will be hurt.

But tout au contraire,

I'm pleas'd, I declare,

Quite happy to think I escape from the snare: Serviteur, ma'm'selle; my claim I withdraw. Hey! where are my people? Fal, lal, lal, lal, la.

[Exit.

Jen. I must go and inform Sir John of what has happened; but I will not tell him of the outrageous behaviour of this young spark; for he is a man of spirit, and would resent it. He complains of Miss Clarissa; but she is incapable of treating him in the manner he says. Perhaps, she may have behaved with some coldness towards him; and yet, that is a mystery to me too-for she has seen him before; and I have heard Sir John say a thousand times, that she expressed no repugnance to the match.

We all say the man was exceedingly knowing,
And knowing most surely was he,

Who found out the cause of the ebbing and flowing,
The flux and reflux of the sea.

'Nor was he in knowledge far from it,
Who first mark'd the course of a comet;
To what it was owing,

Its coming and going,

'Its wanderings hither and thither :