DUBLIN: For GEORGE RISK, at Shakespear's-Head, English 4-21-28 ΤΟ DWARD WORTLEY MOUNTAGUE, Esq; SIR, W HENIfend you thisVolume, I am rather to make you a Requeft than a Dedication. I muft defire, that if you think t to throw away any Moments on it, ou wou'd not do it after reading thofe xcellent Pieces with which you are Tually converfant. The Images which ou will meet with here, will be very int, after the Perufal of the Greeks nd Romans, who are your ordinary Fompanions. I must confefs I am oliged to you for the Taste of many of heir Excellencies, which I had not ob 49 ނ I ferved till you pointed them to me. am very proud that there are fome Things in thefe Papers which I know you pardon; and it is no fmall Pleasure to have one's Labours fuffered by the Judgment of a Man who fo well underftands the true Charms of Eloquence and Poefie. But I direct this Addrefs to you; not that I think I can entertain you with my Writings, but to thank you for the new Delight I have from your Converfation in thofe of other Men. MAY you enjoy a long Continuance of the true Relish of the Happiness Heaven hath bestowed upon you. I know not how to fay a more affectionate Thing to you, than to wish that you may be always what you are; and that you may ever think, as I know you now do, that you have a much larger Fortune than you want, I am, SIR, Your moft Obedient and moft humble Servant, Ifaac Bickerstaff. THE TATLER BY Ifaac Bickerstaff, Efq; VOL. II. Quicquid agunt Homines noftri Farrago Libelli. N° 51. Saturday, August 6, 1799. White Chocolate House, Auguft 5. The Hiftory of Orlando the Fair. CHAP. II. F ORTUNE being now propitious to the gay Orlando, he drefs'd, he fpoke, he moved, as a Man might be fuppos'd to do in a Nation of Pygmies, and had an equal Value for our Approbation or Diflike." It is ufual for those who profefs a Contempt of the World, to fly from it and live in Obfcurity; but Or |