inveigled and cheated him. The company of worthy women, the fentiment of a be coming pride, (fuch a pride there certainly is) and the lenient hand of Time, will concur with the reft to heal his an

guish, and re-establish his tranquillity. I will add, that, though a delicate and fufceptible spirit cannot easily transfer its tenderness from one perfon to another, and though a fecond attachment of this kind is feldom perhaps fo fervent as the firft, nevertheless the man in question may, by chufing more aufpiciously a new object, find double reafon to bless Heaven for his former difappointment.

The vexation fuffered in fuch cafes, by the common run of men, will fcarcely, I believe, break their hearts: the unmanly and miferable expedients from which they feek relief, we must alike pity and condemn and with relation to the fubfequent likings and marriages which they frequently contract, when weary of a dif

folute life, if not worn out by it, I will only fay, that no very high felicity can be often expected to enfue, for reasons which might easily be affigned.

Let it not however be forgotten, that there are inftances of those who, after wandering long from order and happiness, have been brought back to both by the foft yet irrefiftable attraction of amiable women, whom pitying Heaven placed in their to fave them from final reprobation, and set them up as fignal monuments of the joint power, which the Author of goodness has conferred on Female Excellence and Holy Love.

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ADDRESS IX.

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FRIENDSHIP.

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ENTER with peculiar fatisfaction upon the present subject, perfuaded that it cannot fail of being particularly agreeable to you, whose breasts retain their native tenderness, beat with the spirit of generofity, and burn at the very name of Friendship ;-Friendship, that noble relation, so far fuperior to the common connexions of birth or accident, of bufinefs or amusement; that delightful union of hearts, which is formed by intimacy, founded on esteem, fanctified by virtue, cemented by a fimilarity of views and inclinations, whether more or less apparent, and preferved by the reciprocation