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To defire fome good friends to inform me which of these refolutions I break or neglect, and wherein; and reform accordingly.

Not to talk much, nor of myself.

Not to boast of my former beauty, or ftrength, or favour with ladies, &c.

Not to hearken to flatteries, nor conceive I can be beloved by a young woman; et eos qui hæreditatem captant, odiffe ac vitare.

Not to be positive or opinionative.

Not to fet up for obferving all these rules, for fear I fhould obferve none.

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DECEMBER 7th, 1733.

F either of the two men fervants be drunk,

he fhall pay an English crown out of his wages for the faid offence, by giving the Dean a receipt for fo much wages received.

When the Dean is at home, no fervant fhall prefume to be abfent, without giving notice to the Dean, and asking leave, upon the forfeiture of fixpence for every half-hour that he is abfent, to be ftopt out of his or her board-wages.

When the Dean is abroad, no fervant, except the woman, fhall presume to leave the house for above one half hour; after which, for every half-hour's abfence he fhall forfeit fixpence :: And, if the other fervant goes out before the first returns, he shall pay five fhillings out of his wages, as above.

Whatever fervant fhall be taken in a manifest fie, fhall forfeit one fhilling out of his or her board-wages.

When the Dean goes about the house, or out houses, or garden, or to Naboth's Vineyard,,

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whatever things he finds out of order, by neglect of any fervant under whofe care it was, that fervant fhall forfeit fixpence, and fee to get it mended as foon as poffible, or fuffer more forfeitures at the Dean's difcretion.

If two fervants be abroad together when the Dean is from home, and the fact be concealed from the Dean, the concealer fhall forfeit two crowns out of his or her wages, as above.

If, in waiting at table, the two fervants be out of the room together, without orders, the laft who went out shall forfeit three-pence out of his board-wages.

The woman may go out when the Dean is abroad for one hour, but no longer, under the fame penalty with the men: But provided the two men-fervants keep the house until fhe returns; otherwife either of the fervants, who goes out before her return, fhall forfeit a crown out of his wages, as above.

Whatever other laws the Dean fhall think fit to make, at any time to come, for the government of his fervants, and forfeitures for neglect or difobedience, all the fervants fhall be bound to fubmit to.

Whatever other fervant, except the woman, fhall presume to be drunk, the other two fervants fhall inform the Dean thereof, under pain of forfeiting two crowns out of his or her wages, befides the forfeiture of a crown from the faid fervant who was drunk.

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QUAKER'S

LETTER FROM PHILADELPHIA,

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JONATHAN SWIFT IN DUBLIN.

Chilad, March 29, 1729.

Friend Jonathan Swift,

AVING been often agreeably amused by

Hthy Tale, &c. &c. and being now loading

a small ship for Dublin, I have sent thee a gammon, the product of the wilds of America ; which perhaps may not be unacceptable at thy table, fince it is only designed to let thee know, that thy wit and parts are in esteem at this diftance from the place of thy refidence. Thou need ask no questions who this comes from, fince I am a perfect ftranger to thee.

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CHARACTER OF MRS H****D.

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WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1727.

SHALL fay nothing of her wit or beauty, which are allowed by all perfons who can judge of either, when they hear or fee her. Befides, beauty being tranfient, and a trifle, cannot justly make part of a character. And I leave others to celebrate her wit, because it will be of no ufe in that part of her character which I intend to draw. Neither fhall I relate any part of her hiftory; further than, that fhe went, in the prime of her youth, to the Court of Hanover with her husband, and became of the Bed-chamber to the prefent Princess of Wales, living in expectation of the Queen's * death. Upon which event the came over with her Mistress, and hath ever fince continued in her fervice; where, from the attendance daily paid her by the minifters, and all expectants, he is reckoned much the greatest favourite of the court at Leicester-house: A fituation which the hath long affected to defire that it might not be believed.

There is no politician who more carefully watches the motions and difpofitions of things and perfons at St James's, nor can form his language

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