Sir Andrew had not taken advantage of his absence to vent among them some of his republican doctrines; but soon after, gathering up his countenance into a more than ordinary seriousness, "Tell me truly," says he, 5 "don't you think Sir Andrew had a hand in the Pope's Procession?"-but without giving me time to answer him, "Well, well," says he, "I know you are a wary man, and do not care to talk of public matters."

The knight then asked me if I had seen Prince 10 Eugenio, and made me promise to get him a stand in some convenient place, where he might have a full sight of that extraordinary man, whose presence does so much honor to the British nation.

He dwelt very long on the praises of this great gen15 eral, and I found that, since I was with him in the country, he had drawn many observations together out of his reading in Baker's "Chronicle," and other authors, who always lie in his hall window, which very much redound to the honor of this prince.

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Having passed away the greatest part of the morning in hearing the knight's reflections, which were partly private and partly political, he asked me if I would smoke a pipe with him over a dish of coffee at Squire's. As I love the old man, I take delight in com25 plying with everything that is agreeable to him, and accordingly waited on him to the coffee house, where his venerable figure drew upon us the eyes of the whole room. He had no sooner seated himself at the upper end of the high table, but he called for a clean 30 pipe, a paper of tobacco, a dish of coffee, a wax candle,

and the Supplement, with such an air of cheerfulness and good humor that all the boys in the coffee-room (who seemed to take pleasure in serving him) were at once employed on his several errands, insomuch that 5 nobody else could come at a dish of tea till the knight had got all his conveniences about him. L.

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A SELECTION FROM A SPECTATOR

[No. 295.-Addison. February 7.]

Socrates in Plato's Alcibiades, says he was informed by one who had traveled through Persia that as he passed over a great tract of lands and inquired what the name of the place was, they told him it was the 5 Queen's Girdle, to which he adds that another wide field which lay by it was called the Queen's Veil and that in the same manner there was a large portion of ground set aside for every part of her majesty's dress. These lands might not be improperly called the Queen 10 of Persia's Pin Money.

I remember my friend, Sir Roger, who I dare say never read this passage in Plato, told me some time since that upon his courting the perverse widow (of whom I have given an account in former papers) he 15 had disposed of an hundred acres in a diamond ring, which he would have presented her with, had she thought fit to accept it, and that upon her wedding day she should have carried on her head fifty of the tallest oaks upon his estate. He further informed me 20 that he would have given her a coal pit to keep her in clean linen, that he would have allowed her the profits of a windmill for her fans and have presented her once

in three years with the shearing of his sheep for her under petticoats; to which the knight always adds that, though he did not care for fine clothes himself, there should not have been a woman in the country 5 better dressed than my Lady Coverley. Sir Roger, perhaps, may in this, as well as in many other of his devices, appear something odd and singular, but if the humor of pin money prevails, I think it would be very proper for every gentleman of an estate to mark out so 10 many acres of it under the title of the pins. L.

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IN WESTMINSTER* ABBEY

[No. 329.-Addison. Tuesday, March 18.]

Ire tamen restat, Numa quo devenit et Ancus.1

-Horace.

My friend Sir Roger de Coverley told me t'other night that he had been reading my paper upon Westminster Abbey, in which, says he, there are a great many ingenious fancies. He told me, at the same time, 5 that he observed I had promised another paper upon the tombs, and that he should be glad to go and see them with me, not having visited them since he had read history. I could not first imagine how this came into the knight's head, till I recollected that he had 10 been very busy all last summer upon Baker's "Chronicle," which he has quoted several times in his disputes with Sir Andrew Freeport since his last coming to town. Accordingly, I promised to call upon him the next morning, that we might go together to the Abbey. I found the knight under his butler's hands, who always shaves him. He was no sooner dressed than he called for a glass of the widow Trueby's water, which he told me he always drank before he went abroad. He recommended me to a dram of it at the same time,

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1 It remains to go down whither Numa has gone and Ancus.