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I love it, but becaufe 'tis the Herb facred to "Remembrance, and, therefore, to Friendfhip, whence a Sprig of it hath a dumb

Language that maketh it the chofen Em"blem at our Funeral Wakes, and in our "Buriall Grounds. Howbeit, I am a School"boy prating in Prefence of his Mafter, for "here is John Clement at my Elbow, who is "the beft Botanist and Herbalist of us all."

-Returning Home, the Youths being warmed with rowing, and in high Spiritts, did entertayn themselves and us with manie Jefts and Playings upon Words, fome of 'em forced enow, yet provocative of Laughing. Afterwards, Mr. Gunnel propofed Enigmas and curious Queftions. Among others, he woulde know which of the famous Women of Greece or Rome we Maidens would refemble. Befs was for Cornelia, Daify for Clelia, but I for Damo, Daughter of Pythagoras, which William Roper deemed ftupid. enow, and thoughte I mighte have found as good a Daughter, that had not died a Maid.

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Sayth Erafmus, with his fweet, inexpreffible Smile, "Now I will tell you, Lads and Laffes, "what Manner of Man I woulde be, if I were "not Erafmus. I woulde ftep back fome few "Years of my Life, and be half-way 'twixt "thirty and forty; I woulde be pious and pro"founde enow for the Church, albeit noe "Churchman; I woulde have a blythe, stir"ring, English Wife, and half-a-dozen merrie "Girls and Boys; an English Homestead, "neither Hall nor Farm, but betweene both; 66 neare enow to the Citie for Convenience, 66 but away from its Noife. I woulde have a

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Profeffion, that gave me some Hours daylie "of regular Bufineffe, that should let Men "know my Parts, and court me into Publick "Station, from which my Taste made me "rather withdrawe. I woulde have fuch a "private Independence, as fhould enable me "to give and lend, rather than beg and bor66 row. I woulde encourage Mirthe without "Buffoonerie, Eafe without Negligence; my "Habitt and Table fhoulde be fimple; and "for my Looks, I woulde be neither tall nor

"short,

fhort, fat nor lean, rubicund nor fallow; but "of a fayr Skin with blue Eyes, brownish "Beard, and a Countenance engaging and "attractive, foe that alle of my Companie "coulde not choose but love me."

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"Why, then, you woulde be Father him"felfe!" cries Cecy, clafping his Arm in bothe her Hands with a Kind of Rapture; and, indeede, the Portraiture was foe like, we coulde not but smile at the Refemblance.

Arrived at the Landing, Father protested he was wearie with his Ramble; and, his Foot flipping, he wrenched his Ankle, and fate for an Inftante on a Barrow, the which one of the Men had left with his Gardentools, and before he coulde rife or cry out, William, laughing, rolled him up to the House - door; which, confidering Father's Weight, was much for a Stripling to doe. Father fayd the fame, and, laying his Hand on Will's Shoulder with Kindnesse, cried,

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Bless thee, my Boy, but I woulde not "have thee overstrayned, like Biton and "Clitobus."

June 20.

This Morn, hinting to Bess that she was lacing herselfe too straitlie, fhe brifklie replyed, "One woulde think 'twere as great "Meritt to have a thick Waifte as to be one "of the earlie Chriftians!"

Thefe humourous Retorts are ever at her Tongue's End; and albeit, as Jacky one Day angrilie remarked, when the had beene teazing him, "Befs, thy Witt is Stupidneffe;" yet, for one who talks foe much at Random, no one can be more keene when the chooseth. Father fayd of her, half fondly, half apologeticallie, to Erafmus, "Her Witt hath a fine "Subtletie that eludes you almofte before "you have Time to recognize it for what it "really is." To which Erafmus readilie affented, adding, that it had the rare Meritt of playing less on Perfons than Things, and never on bodilie Defects.

Hum! I wonder if they ever fayd as much in Favour of me. I know, indeede, Erafmus calls me a forward Girl. Alas! that may be taken in two Senfes.

Grievous Work, overnighte, with the churn

ing. Nought would perfuade Gillian but that the Creame was bewitched by Gammer Gurney, who was diffatisfyde laft Friday with her Dole, and hobbled away mumping and curfing. At alle Events, the Butter woulde not come; but Mother was refolute not to have foe much good Creame waited, foe fent for Befs and me, Daify, and Mercy Giggs, and infifted on our churning in turn till the Butter came, if we fate up alle Night for 't. 'Twas a hard Saying, and mighte have hampered her like as Jephtha his rafh Vow. Howbeit, foe foone as fhe had left us, we turned it into a Frolick, and fang Chevy Chafe from End to End, to beguile Time: ne'ertheleffe, the Butter woulde not come; foe then we grew fober, and, at the Inftance of sweete Mercy, chaunted the 119th Pfalme; and, by the Time we had attained to "Lucerna Pedibus," I hearde the Buttermilk feparating and splashing in righte earnefte. 'Twas neare Midnighte, however, and Daify had fallen afleep on the Dreffer. Gillian will ne'er be convinced but that our Latin brake the Spell.

Erafmus