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noble fouls were impatient of reftraint, and a great deal of commonplace to the fame purpofe; and dropt a hint that he knew but one facrifice, by which a woman of inferior condition, could convince her lover, beyond the poffibility of doubt, that her affection was difinterested; and infinuated that he could not anfwer for his own behaviour in marriage, to one who should refufe him fuch a proof of regard. ..

Amoret, who had never before entertained the moft diftant fufpicion of her lover's honour, was ftung to the foul; fhe upbraided him in the severest terms that injured love could dictate, and forbad him ever to approach her again. After fome faint endeavours to juftify himself, he left her, glad of any excuse to break off a connexion, which, as his tendernels was worn out, he began to think an imprudent one. She ftill loved, though the defpifed, him. She had notwithstanding refolution enough to retire to a remote part of England, where the expected to be fafe from his purfuit; a precaution however which was altogether needlefs, for he fo faithfully obeyed her laft command, that he never gave himfelf the trouble to enquire to what place fhe had retired, or in what fituation of life she was. Her narrow fortune, as he well knew, was near exhaufted, to which he had not a little contributed, by defiring her to appear in a manner becoming one who would foon be his wife.

Soon after this misfortune of her fifter's, Sylvia died of a broken heart; and Amoret is now in the laft stage of a confumption, in which the would want common neceffaries, but for the gratitude of an old fer

vant of her mother's, who is the widow of a farmer in the country.

From this melancholy ftory, let me recommend it to fuch of your female readers as are lefs obliged to fortune than to nature, rather to endeavour the making themselves acceptable to men of worth in their own rank of life, than to lay fnares for men of fuperior condition, who from thence are so apt to fufpect them of being governed by views merely mercenary, that they think every art justifiable on their fide & and, if they betray them to want and infamy, will only fuppofe they have been playing upon the fquare.

Let them confider, that though they may preferve their innocence through a connexion of this kind, yet if it breaks off, from whatever caufe, lofs of reputation is the inevitable confequence; and, even if they fucceed, they are probably as far from happiness as ever, and, inftead of an eternity of love, may find in a little time, difquiet, contempt, and reproaches.

Marriage, where the disproportion of rank and fortune is very great, efpecially if the difadvantage is on the woman's fide, feldom turns out happy. There is fo much delicacy required on the obliging fide, to leffen the pain of receiving a benefit, and fo much circumfpection on the part of the obliged, to prevent fufpicion of intereftedness, that it is next to impoffible that their lives can be paffed agreeably. Equality is neceffary to friendship; and without friendship marriage must be at the beft infipid, but oftener a state of perfect mifery.

I am, your's, &c.

M. S.

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A APOLOGY for HIGH SAUCES.

GENTLEMEN,

To the Authors of the BRITISH MAGAZINE.

N examining the ancients, I do and feafon his meat, politely return

apology ed them home, telling

for fauces. Plutarch affirms that the ancients never knew any fauces but two, bunger and falt. The cooks of Athens vaunted, by their divers pickles, powders and mixtures, that they could procure any perfon a good appetite; yet, after all, they found that hunger was the best fauce, and that the beft fauce with out it was loathfome. Dionyfius, after the exercife of hunting, fupped with the Lacedemonians, and highly extolled their ordinary black broth; yet at another time (not having exercifed) he difpraifed it. We read to the fame effect of Ptolemy in Platina, and of Socrates in Tully's Tufculans, who always walked a mile or two before meat, to buy the fauce of hunger.

Anacharfis used to fay, that a dry ground is the best bed, fatigue the best opiate, a skin hardened with exercise the best garment, and natural hunger the best fauce. Socrates compared the over curious feafoning of meats, and the Epicurean faucemakers to the common courrezans, painted to ftir up young luft in withered bodies."What are these new fauces but harlots, to edge our appetites, provoking us to eat till we furfeit, and to feast when we should fast.”—Socrates alfo compares thefe high fauces to tickling, which caufes a convulfive, not a hearty, laughter. There is an excellent anecdote of Alexander, who being presented by queen Ada, whom he had conquered, with two of her beft cooks to dress

had for a long time kept two of his own for his purpose, namely, Nj&oporia, or night-marching, which procured him an excellent ftomach for his next day's dinner, and Oligariflia, or little dining, which never failed to whet his appetite for fupper.

Salt, the fecond fauce of the ancients, is not always fufficient, nay; to fome ftomachs it is prejudicial.

Even old times afforded two fauces, falt and vinegar; the one for hot ftomachs, the other for cold.

After all this cenfure of the an→ cients, no reasonable perfon can think it a crime to allure a fick man to take nourishment by pleasant fauces; and it would be as abfurd to forbid a provocative in such cases, as to hinder a man from whetting a blunt knife to cut his victuals.

In fuch cafes, good fauces are like good and wholfoure medicines.

Are not high foups and ftrong broths in the way of fauces, either to nourish the decayed, or to convey nutriment to the ftomach, when the a&t of manducation or chewing seems loathfome? A glafs of wine is only another name for a good fauce, if it is taken to cheer the animal faculty. Elfe to what end has nature furnished forth fo fine a bill of fare in herbs, fruits, roots, juices and fpices. We fee Ifaac in his old age ordering his fon to provide him a difh of venison, fuch as his father loved, that is, savoury or pleasant to the sense.

Certainly, ftrong and able perfons need no fauce but exercise and hunger

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hunger; but as there are men commonly called Valetudinarians, who live precifely by the rules of health; and who from that predifion, are like old maids, ever out of health, so an

apology for fauces muft be deemed
rational to the human conftitution.
I am, Gentlemen,

your's, &c. WEEKS.

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Genealogical Account of LEE, Earl of Litchfield.

HIS noble family is defcended from Sir Walter Lee, of Wybonbury, in the county of Chefter, the family taking their name from the lordship of Lee, in the fame parish, where they resided in the reign of king Edward III. This Sir Walter Lee left iffue Sir John Lee, of Lee-hall, knight, to whom fucceeded another John, who was followed by Thomas, father of John Lee, of Lee-hall, Efq; who by Margery his wife, daughter of Sir Ralph Hocknel, of Hocknel-hall, in the county of Chefter, had iffue Thomas Lee, of Lee-hall, from whom the Lees, now of Lee-hall, are defcended; and Benedict Lee, who about the beginning of the reign of Edward IV. came out of Cheshire, and fettled at Quarendon, in Buckinghamshire, and by his wife, daughter and heir to John Wood of the county of Warwick, Efq; had iffue Richard Lee, of Quarendon, who changed his arms to argent, a fefs between three crefcents fable. He married Elizabeth, one of the daughters and coheirs of William Saunders, of the county of Oxford, Efq; and by her had four fons; viz. Sir Robert Lee, of Burfton in Buckinghamshire, knt. Benedict Lee, of Huncote, ancestor to the prefent earl of Litchfield; Roger Lee, of Pightefton, both which places are alfo in the county of Bucks; and June, 1764.

John, from whom the Lees of Binfield, in Berkshire, are defcended.

Sir Robert Lee, of Burfton, was father of Sir Anthony Lee, kat, who married Margaret, daughter of Sir Henry Wyat, and by her had Sir Henry Lee, who was created a knight of the garter by queen Elizabeth, and lies buried in Quarendon church in the county of Bucks, where there is erected a handfome monument to his memory, with a long infcription recapitulating the most remarkable and diftinguished actions of his life.

Benedi& Lee, fecond fon of the abovementioned Richard, and brother to Sir Robert Lee, was, as we obferved before, the ancestor of the prefent earl of Litchfield. He was twice married, and died in the year 1547.

He was fucceeded by Robert his fon and heir, who was knighted, and was father of Henry Lee of Quarendon, who, after being first knighted, was

made a baronet, June 29, 1611, and married Eleanor, daughter of Sir Richard Wortley, of Wortley, in the county of York.

He died about the year 1631, and was fucceeded by his fon Sir Francis Henry Lee, of Ditchley, in Oxfordfhire, and Quarendon aforefaid, who married Anne, eldeft daughter of Sir John St. John of Lidiard Tregoze, in Wiltshire, by whom he left

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