Iras, her character

Irish gentlemen, widow-hunters..
Irony, who deal in it......
Irresolution, from whence arising.
Irus's fear of poverty, and effects of it.
The great artifice of Irus
Tsadas, the Spartan, his valour.
Italian writers, florid and wordy..

Julian, the emperor, an excellent passage out of his
Cæsars, relating to the imitation of the gods..
July and August (months of), described
June month of), described...

425

Jupiter, his first proclamation about griefs and calamities 558

His second......

559

His just distribution of them..

559

Jupiter Ammon, an answer of his oracle to the Athenians 207
Justice, to be esteemed as the first quality in one who is
in a post of power and direction..
The Spartans famous for it

No.

404

561

438

151

KENNET (Dr.), his account of the country wakes....
Kimbow (Thomas), states his case in a letter to the Spec-
tator.....

King Lear,' a tragedy, suffers in the alteration.
Kissing-dances censured.

Kitty, a famous town girl.

Knowledge, the pursuit of it long but not tedious.....
The only means to extend life beyond its natural di-
mensions

LABOUR, bodily, of two kinds.....
Lacedæmonians, their delicacies in their sense of glory
A form of prayer used by them.
Ladies, not to mind party....
Lady's library described.

The main sources of knowledge
Ought to be communicative....
Rules for knowledge of one's self.....

114

264

561

5

634
425

479
564

161

Ladylove (Bartholomew), his petition to the Spectator
Laertes, his character in distinction to that of Irus...
Letitia and Daphne, their story..
Lampoons written by people that cannot spell.

Witty lampoons inflict wounds that are incurable..
The inhuman barbarity of the ordinary scribblers of
lampoons..........

£3
141

Lancashire Witches,' a comedy, censured.
Landscape, a pretty one

414

Language, the English, much adulterated daring the war 165
Language (licentious) the brutality of it.....
Languages (European), cold to the Oriental..

400

Lapirius, his great generosity.

Lapland ode translated

Larvati, who so called among the ancients...

aa Lath (Squire), has a good estate, which he would part
withal for a pair of legs to his mind..
Latimer, the martyr, his behaviour at a conference with
the Papists.....

Latin of great use in a country auditory.
Laughter (immoderate) a sign of pride.

47

A counterpoise to the spleen

249

What sort of persons the most accomplished to raise it 249
A poetical figure of laughter out of Milton

The distinguishing faculty in man..

249
494

Indecent in any religious assembly.

630

456

21

21

420

24

40

67

187

91

94

287

379

399

115

188

207

607

Law-suits, the misery of them

Lawyers divided into the peaceable and the litigious.

Both sorts described.......

Leaf (green) swarms with millions of animals

Learning ought not to claim any merit to itself, but upon

37

334

111

the application of it....

The design of learning.

To be made advantageous even to the meanest capa.
cities..

Men of learning who take to business, best for it.
Highly necessary to a man of fortune..
Lee, the poet, well turned for tragedy
Leo X. a great lover of buffoons and coxcombs.

In what manner reproved for it by a priest.
Leonora, her character.

3.3

16

23

405

248

406

32

32

465

221

6

350

353

469
506

39

497

497

37

37

The description of her country-seat
Leoutine and Eudoxus, their great friendship and advan
tages.....

123

Leopold, the last emperor of that name, an expert joiner. 353
Lesbia's letter to the Spectator, giving an account how
she was deluded by her lover
Letter to the Spectator, complaining of the masquerade....
From the opera-lion.....

From the under-sexton of Covent-garden parish....
From the undertaker of the masquerade..

From one who had been to see the opera of Rinaldo,

and the puppet-show..

From Charles Lille......

Letter from Mary Tuesday on the same subject.
From a valetudinarian to the Spectator..

From some persons to the Spectator's clergyman...
From one who would be inspector of the sign-posts..
From the master of the show at Charing-cross...
From a member of the Amorous club at Oxford..
From a member of the Ugly club.....

From a gentleman to such ladies as are professed
beautics.....

From the Spectator to T. D. containing an intended
regulation of the playhouse..

From the playhouse thunderer

From the Spectator to an affected very witty man....
From a married man, with a complaint that his wife
painted..

No.

From Abraham Froth, a member of the Hebdomadal
meeting in Oxford.

From a husband plagued with a gospel-gossip..
From an ogling-master

From the Spectator to the president and fellows of
the Ugly club.......

From lecatissa to the Spectator.

From an old beau.

From Epping, with some account of a coinpany of

The Spectator's answer.

From R. B. to the Spectator, with a proposal relating

to the education of lovers

From Philo-Britannicus, on the corruption of spr-

vants

From Sam. Hopewell.

From Leonora, reminding the Spectator of the cata-
logue...
From B D. concerning real sorrow.

From: Annabell, recommending the Bishop of Cam-
bray's Education of a Daughter.

From Tom Trusty, a servant, containing au account
of his life and services......

To the Spectator from

new petticoat...

From a lawyer on the circuit, with an account of the
progress of the fashions in the country.

-, complaining of the

From professed liar..........

From Ralph Valet, the faithful servant of a perverse

master

From Patience Giddy, the next thing to a lady's wo-

strollers

From a lady, complaining of a passage in the Funeral 51
From Hugh Goblin, president of the Ugly club.

From Q. R. concerning laughter.

man.

From Lydia Novell, complaining of her lover's con-
duct..

From R. D. concerning the corrupt taste of the age,
and the reasons of it..

From

From

houses
From

From

From Anna Bella......

From a splenetic gentleman

From a reformed Starer, complaining of a Peeper.
From King Latinus...

From a gentleman at Cambridge, containing an ac
count of a new sect of philosophers called Loungers 54
From Celimene.

From a father, complaining of the liberties taken in
country-dances

From James to Betty....

To the Spectator, from the Ugly club at Cambridge..
From a whimsical young lady

From B. D. desiring a catalogue of books for the fe-
male library.......

From Rosalinda, with a desire to be admitted into
the Ugly club'

From T. T. complaining of the Idols in coffee-
houses.....

containing a reflection on a comedy
called The Lancashire Witches'.

From Andromache, complaining of the false notion of
gallantry in love, with some letters from her hus-
band to her

From the master of the fan exercise.

From

against the (questrian order of ladies 104
From Will Wimble to Sir Roger de Coverley, with a
jack

concerning wagerers...

complaining of impertinents in coffee-
-, complaining of an old bachelor

-, concerning the skirts of mea's

From Wili Honeycomb.

From George Trusty, thanking the Spectator for the
great benefit he has received from his works....... 131
From William Wiseacre, who desires his daughter
m..y learn the exercise of the fan.

From Betty Santer, about a wager

From Parthenope, who is angry with the Spectator
for meddling with the ladies' petticoats...
From
upon drinking.

140

From Rachel Basto, concerning female gamesters.... 140
From Parthenia..

From

145

coats
From
on the reading the Common Prayer.. 147
From the Spectator to a dancing out law..........
From the same to a dumb visitant

148

148

sleeper....
From Charles Yellow, against jilts.
From a gentleman to a lady, to whom he had forinerly
been a lover, and by whom he had been highly
commended

155
158

158

....

168

168

168

168

181

father's consent
From Alice Threadneedle, against wenching ........ 189
From
in the round-house

182

From

concerning Nicholas Hart, the annual

From a father to his son.
To the Spectator from Rebecca Nettletop, a town-
lady....

179

180

188
189

100

From Eve Afterday, who desires to be kept by the
Spectator

190

From a bawdy-house inhabitant, complaining of some
of their visitors.

100

191

From George Gosling, about a ticket in the lottery.. 101
A letter of consolation to a young gentleman who has
lately lost his father....
To the Spectator, from a husband, complaining of a
heedless wife
From
complaining of a fantastical friend... 194
From J. B. with advice to the Spectator......
From Biddy Loveless, who is enamoured with two

194

196

young gentlemen at once.

196

From Statira to the Spectator, with one to Oroon.
dates............
.... 199
From Susan Civil, a servant to another lady, desiring
the Spectator's remarks upon voluntary counsel-
lors....

184
187

202

From Thomas Smoky, servaut to a passionate master 202
From a bastard, complaining of his condition as such 203
From Belinda to the Sothades

204
204

From J. D. to his coquette mistress.
From a lady to a gentleman, confessing her love.... 201
From angry Phillis to her lover...

204

From a lady to her husband, an officer in Spain...... 204
To the Spectator from Belinda, complaining of a fc-

male seducer..

205

From a country clergyman, against an affected singing
of the Psalms in Church..

205
From Robin Goodfellow, containing the correction of
an errata in Sir William Temple's rule for drinking 205
From Mary Meanwell about visiting.
From a shopkeeper, with thanks to the Spectator.... 208
From a lover, with au hue-and-cry after his mistress's

208

heart....

208

From J. D. concerning the immortality of the soul.. 210
From Melissa, who has a drone to her husband..... 211
From Barnaby Brittle, whose wife is a filly
..... 211
From Josiah Henpeck, who is married to a Grimalkin 211
From Martha Tempest, complaining of her witty bus-

band.

217

From Anthony Freeman, the henpecked.
From Tom Meggot, giving the Spectator an account
of the success of Mr. Freeman's lecture............ 216
From Kitty Termagant, giving an account of the
Romps Club.
From-
complaining of his indelicate mistress 217
From Susannah Frost, an old maid
From A. B. a parson's wife..
From Henrietta to her ungracious lover
To the Spectator from, on false wit
From T.D. concerning salutation....
From

217
217

220

220

220

, inquiring the reason why men of parts
are not the best managers...
From Esculapius, about the lover's leap..........

211
212

022
227

From J. B. on the several ways of consolation mat
use of by absent lovers.
From Troilus, a declared enemy to the Greeks....
From
, on the nursing of children.......
From T. B. being a dissertation on the eye
From Abraham Spy, on a new invention of perspe
tive glasses for the use of Starers.................
From Mary Heart free, describing the powerful

of the eye...
From Barbara Crabtree, to know if she may pot
use of a cudgel on her sot of a husband........
From a lawyer, whose wife is a great orator.........
From Lydia to Harriet, a lady newly married.......
Harriet's answer..

To the Spectator, from a gentleman in love with a
beauty without fortune..
From Ralph Crotchet, for a theatre of ease to be

erected

From Mr. Clayton, &c. ....

3

From Jack Afterday, an old bachelor, who is gr
dead to all other pleasures bat that of being warth
50,0001..

Ji

S

From a lover. with an inclosed letter to sham
some mistress.........
From a father, discoursing on the relative duties is
twixt parents and their children...........
From a mother to her audutiful son............
The son's answer.....

"

To the Spectator. trom Richard Estcourt, we
inclosed from Sir Roger de Coveries...........
From James Easy, who had his nose abused in t
pit.....
From A. B. on the mercenary views of perseus vict
they marry.

21

1

From Anthony Gape, who had the misfortune to
his nose against a post, while he was mag da
beauty

5

From Florinda, who writes for the Spectator's
in the choice of a husband, after she is DA
From Clayton, &c. on the same subject as the
mer letter......

From, about the new-fashioned noct
From one at Oxford in love with Paletis
From Tom Trippet, on a Greek quotation in a kormat
Spectator,

From C. D. on Sir Roger's return to tow
From S. T. who has a show in a box, of a
man, and a horse

From Cleanthes, complaining of Mrs. June, 200
maid, and a pick thank
From

with an inclosed letter from a bandw

C

From Jenny Simper, complaining of the clerk
parish, who has overdecked the church with pr
From the clerk in his own justification.
From
concerning false delitaty...
From Philobrune, of Cambridge, inquiring wh
most beautiful, a fair or a brown complex

4

2

a noble lord

From Frank Courtly, reproving the Spoctalar da <u
freedoms he had takeù........
From Celia, incensed at a gentleman who had

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the words lusty fellow' in her presses......
From Pucella, kept by an old bachelor.......
From Hezekiah Broadbrim, accusing the Specter
not keeping his word.....******
From Teraminta, on the arrival of a Madre
completely dressed from Paris ................
From Betty Cross-stitch the owner of Natas
From a shop-keeper, whose wife u too leward

him......

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Letter from Melivina on male jilts

From Peter Motieux, who from an author is turned
dealer..

283

From George Powell, who is to play the part of
The Distrest
Orestes, in a new tragedy, called
Mother'

290

From Sophia, to know if the gentleman she saw in
the Park with a short face was the Spectator
The Spectator's answer.

To the Spectator from Jezebel, a woman poor aud
proud..

From Miranda, on valetudinary friendship.
From D. G. thanking the Spectator for his criticism
on Milton...

No.

334

Letter from three country virtuous virgins, who are am-
bitious of the characters of very good wives........ 332
From the author of the history of dancing..........
From a young man, complaining of an ill custom he
bas observed among old men..
From Rebecca the Distressed, complaining of a club
of female rakes....

336

336

From
tion....

with some further thoughts on educa.
7337, 353
From Physibulus, occasioned by the Epilogue to "The
Distrest Mother'....

No.

288

From Josiah Fribble, on pin-money.
From J. M. advising the Spectator to prefix no more
Greek mottoes to his papers......

... 296

From Aurelia Careless, concerning the use of the
window in a beautiful lady..

From Euphues, desiring the Spectator's advice
From Susannah Lovebanc, against lampooners
From Charity Frost

296

From John Trot.

296

From Chastity Loveworth, on the general notion inen
have of the other sex..

298

From Sir John Enville, married to a woman of qua.
lity..

...... 299
From Susannah Loveworth, on the behaviour of mar-
....... 300

ried people before company
From Philanthropos, on the terms of conversation
with the fair sex...

290

290

From Clarinda, with her journal.
From Philanthropos, with an account of the Mohock

club..

292
295

From a countryman, to her he very much respects,
Mrs. Margaret Clark..

From R. T. to the Spectator, upon a passage in Mil-

ton..

300

To Chloe, from her lover, giving her an account of
his dreams......

From Chitander, a silent lover.
From Parthenissa, whose face is damaged by the
small-pox

206

296

296

300

300

From Corinna to Amilcar, on the same occasion..
Amilcar's answer
From

on the education of children......
From Mules Palfrey, with a project for the better re-
gulating of matches....

308

From a tradesman married to a woman of quality... 308
From Reader Gentle, on a new paper called The Ilis.
torian'

308

301

301

From Elizabeth Sweepstakes, complaining of John
Trot, the dancer.....
From Biddy Dough-bake, who having been bid to

303

love cannot unlove.

From Dick Lovesick, in love with a lady, whose for-
tune will not pay off his debts by 5001.
From a discarded lover, with a letter to him from his

310
.... 310

mistress, and his answer....

310
310

From Philanthropos, on a tale-bearer..

From Tim Watchwell, on fortune-stealers..

311

312

From J. O. on the expressions used by several of the
clergy in their prayers before sermon.
From
-, containing further thoughts on educa
cation....
From Bob Harmless, complaining of his mistress..... 314
From John Trot, desiring the Spectator's advice..... 314
From Toby Reutfree, with a complaint against Sig

313

nior Nicolini..

314

From M. W. on the education of young gentlewo.

306

306

306

307

men

From Samuel Slack, on idleness..

From Clitander to Cleone..

318

310

To the Spectator, with an account of the amours of
Rscalus, an old beau...
From Dorinda, complaining of the Spectator's par-
tiality...........
From Will Sprightly, a man of mode, concerning fa
complaining of a female court, called
The Inquisition on Maids and Bachelors.......... 320
The power and management of this inquisition
From N. B. a member of the Lazy Club..

shions....

319

From

320
320

To the Spectator, from Octavia, married to an un-
grateful husband.

314
316

310

322

323

324

324

315

........

326

From a country gentleman, lying under the misfor-
tane of having a very fine park, and an only
daughter..
From Mrs. Mary Comfit, at Mile-end Greeu.
From T. B. complaining of his wife's expensive long-
ings during her pregnancy
From a married gentleman, who is in a fair way of
being undone by his virtuous lovely wife.....
From S. P. recommending the patronage of young mo-
dest men to such as are able to countenance and in-
troduce them into the world.....
3.30
From James Discipulus, complaining of the nearness
of his father as a great discouragement to him in
the course of his studies.....
From Jack Lightfoot, containing an account of his

328

.... 330

sweaters...

332

326
326

338

From Philomeides, in answer to the foregoing letter. 341
From an officer, concerning Sylvana's conduct in the
absence of her husband

342

From Jack Freelove to his mistress, written in the
person of a monkey....

343

To the Spectator, from Epicure Mammon, a great
trencherman...

341

344

From - complaining of an extravagant cus.
tom among some women of taking snuff...
From Taw Waw Eben Zan Kaladar, Emperor of the
Mohocks, with a manifesto

317

From Mary, against detraction...

318

From Hotspur, with the description of a devotee.... 351
From Sophiosunius, complaining of the impudent be-
haviour of people in the streets..
, in behalf of a genteel dress
From John Shallow, who had lately been at a con
cert of cat-calls...

From

From Tom Pottle, in commendation of Brooke and
Hellier

From Will Cymon, with an account of the improve-
ments wrought in him by love, and the character
of his mistress....

goose...

376
376

From Rachael Watchful, on dancing.
From Myrtilla, desiring the Spectator's advice in re
lution to her lover...

380

380

390

From Betty Lemon, who had been presented with a
guinea by a Jew...

380

From the Sexton of St. Bride's, on a new charity.
school of fifty girls, erected in that parish.
From a gentleman in Deamark........

From Queen Ann Boleyne to Ilenty the VIII.....
From Cyuthio to Flavia, and their answers, on their
breaking off their amour.....

From a bankrupt to his friend..

354

360

361

362

Of good-humour,

Of the country infirmary

362
364

Of common beggars

Of charity-schools...

The freedoms of married men and women.

From a penitent jilt..

From a lady importuned by her mother to be unfaith.
ful to her husband..

402

From a married man, who out of jealousy obstructed
the marriage of a lady to whom he was guardian... 402
From a lady, whose lover would have abused her pas
sion for him..

402

From Richard and Sabina Rentfree.

About prejudice and emulation
Naked shoulders.....

A country society and infirmary.
From Camilla

From an Exchange man. ...
About buffoonery.

From Ephraim Weed

From a projector for news...........

SE

380
303

397

308

456

450

172

396
401

402

406

406

408

423

424

429

430

40

430

431

432

437

437

443

443

443

450

452, 457

With a translation of the 114th Psalm

About the advance on the paper for the stamps.
About King Charles the Second's gaieties

About dancing.

No.
455

455

455

455

460

461

461

462

466

472

About sight.....

About panegyrical satires on ourselves
From Timothy Stanza

From Bob Short...

To the Spectator: from J. R. complaining of his
neighbours, and the turn of their conversation in
the country.

... 47+

474
476

From Dulcibella Thankley, who wants a direction to
Mr. Campbell, the dumb fortune-teller.........
From D. B. desiring the Spectator's advice in a
weighty affair..........
From
-, containing a description of his garden 477
From A. B. with a dissertation on fashions, and a
proposal for a building for the use of them...
From Monsieur Chezluy to Pharamond
To the Spectator, from
From

478
480

484

From
From

a clerk to a lawyer.. 480
being a lady married to a cot-quean.. 482
, with a dissertation on modesty.....
containing reflections on the powerful
effects of trifles and trifling persons..
From a handsome black man, two pair of stairs in the
Paper-buildings in the Temple, who rivals a hand-
some fair man up one pair of stairs in the same
buildings.

485

485
485

486

From Robin Shorter, with a postscript
From
-, with an account of the unmarried
henpecked, and a vindication of the married......
From -, with an epigram on the Spectator by
Mr. Tate..........
From
-, with some reflections on the ocean,
considered both in a calm and a storm, and a di
vine ode on that occasion

488

....

489

From Matilda Mohair, at Tunbridge, complaining of
the disregard she meets with, on account of her
strict virtue, from the men, who take more notice
of the romps and coquettes than the rigids......... 492
From T. B. complaining of the behaviour of some fa

thers towards their eldest sous ........................................ 496
From Rachel Shoestring, Sarah Trice, an humble ser-
vant unknown, and Alice Bluegarter, in answer to
that of Matilda Mohair, who is with child, and has
crooked legs....

496

473

473

473

498

499

500

From Moses Greenbag, the lawyer, giving an account
of some new brothers of the whip, who have cham.
bers in the Temple..
From Will Honeycomb, with his dream, intended for
a Spectator...
From Philogamus, in commendation of the married
state......
From Ralph Wonder, complaining of the behaviour of
an unknown lady at the parish church near the
Bridge..
From Titus Trophonius, an interpreter of dreams.... 505
From -, complaining of the oppression and in-
justice observed in the rules of all clubs and meet-
ings.
From Hezekiah Thrift, containing a discourse on

503

508

trade.

509

From Will Honeycomb, occasioned by two stories he
had met with relating to a sale of women in Persia
and China

511

From the Spectator's clergyman, being a Thought on
sickness..
From

with a vision of Parnassus

From

with two inclosed, one from a cele.
brated town-coquette to her friend newly married
in the country, and her friend's answer....
From E. Biscuit. Sir Roger de Coverley's butler,
with an account of his master's death...
From
condoliny with him on Sir Roger's
death, with some remarkable epitaphs...
From Tom Tweer, on physiognomy, &e
From F. G. a widower, with some thoughts on a
man's behaviour in that condition.

From -, a great enemy to public report....
From T. W. a man of prudence, to his mistress..
To the Spectator, from B. Ta siucere lover, to the

sadie...
From

-, dated from Glasgow in Scotland, with

a vision....

From Pliny to his wife's sunt Hispulla...
From Moses Greenbag to the Spectator, with a fur.
ther account of some gentlemen-brothers of the whip 526
From Phi'aguotes, giving an account of the ill effects
of a visit he paid to a female married relation..
From
who had made his mistress a present
of a fan, with a copy of verses on that occasion.... 527
From Rachel Welladay, a virgin of twenty-three, with

527

528

a heavy complaint against the men
From Will Boneycomb, lately married to a coun-
try girl, who has no portion but a great deal of
530

riitue....

513
511

515

517

518
518

520

521

52

522

524
525

From Penance Cruel, complaining of the behav
persons who travelled with her in a stage-coach
of Essex to London....

From Sharlot Wealthy, setting forth the hard car c
such women as are beauties and fortuara
From Abraham Dapper wit, with the Spectator's ava
From Jeremy Conilit, a grocer, who is in lapes
growing rich by losing his customers.......
From Lucinda Parley, a coffee house ido
From C. B. recommending knotting as a pret
amusement to the beaux......................
From
- a shoeing-hora.
From Relicta Lovely, a widow..
From Eustace, in love with a lady of eighteen, wha
parents think her too young to marry by three ye
From-
, complaining of a young dive,
murdered Archbishop Tillotson's sermon upan
speaking......

4

From
with a short critique on Spreser
From Philo-Spec, who apprehends z dissolution of the
Spectator's club, and the ill consequences of ....
From Captain Sentry, lately come to the posars

Sir Roger de Coverley's estate.
From the Emperor of China to the Pope
From W. C. to the Spectator, in commendation of
a generous benefactor........
From Charles Easy, setting forth the sovere
of the Spectators in several remarkable instances..
From, on poetical justice...

N

From Sir Andrew Freeport, who is retiring fab

ness..

From Philonicus, a litigious genticman, compla
of some unpolite law terms.....
From T. F. G. S. J.T. E. T. in commradation d
the Spectator.....
From the Bantam ambassador to his master, a
the English.....

..................

From the Dumb conjurer to the Spectator
From the Chit-chat club..............
From Oxford, about his recovering his speech.
From Frank Townly........
About the Widows' club......
From Blank, about his family.
About an angry husband.......
From Will Warley, about military education..
From an half-pay officer, about a widow.
From Peter Push, on the same subject..........
Against quacks.......
From the president of the Widows' club............
From a man taken to be mad for reading of port
aloud.....

A second letter about the ubiquity of the Godral
Several answered at once....
From Constantio Spec....
From Amanda Lovelength........

From Shalum the Chinese to the Princess Hip
fore the Flood.........
From Hilpa to Shalum....
From John Shadow at Oxford, about releg

night on past day's actions
About a vision of hearts................
About planting......

From John Shadow, about dreams.........
Of inconsistent metaphors....

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About the Rattling club's getting ato church
Letter-dropper of antiquity, who.
Levees of great men animadverted upon.
Levity of women, the effects of it...........
Lewis of France compared with the Car of Masety
Libels, a severe law against them...........

From Jeremy Joveniore, with an account of t.
About making love

From Fauny Fickle

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From an aunt, about her niece's idleness...
About the vanity of some clergymen wearing s
From Tom Nimble, about antipathies......
From Cicora against the ladies work......................
From Lesbia, a deluded lady.....
About genealogy........