Bat let us ever praise him, and extol
His bounty, following our delightful task,
Toprune thofe growing plants,and tend thefe flowers,
Which were it toilfome, yet with thee were sweet.
To whom thus Eve repli'd, O thou for whom
And from whom I was form'd, Flefb of thy Flesh,
And without whom am to no end, my Guide
And Head, what thou haft faid is juft and right.
For we to him indeed all Praises owe,
Aud daily Thanks, I chiefly who enjoy
So far the happier Lot, enjoying thee
Preeminent by fo much odds, while thou

Like Confort to thy felf canft no where find, &c.

THE remaining Part of Eve's Speech, in which the gives an Account of her felf upon her first Creation, and the Manner in which fhe was brought to Adam, is I think as beautiful a Paffage as any in Milton, or perhaps in any other Poet whatfoever. These Pallages are all worked off with fo much Art, that they are capable of pleafing the most delicate Reader, without offending the most severe.

That Day I oft remember, when from Sleep, &c.

A Poet of lefs Judgment and Invention than this great Author, would have found it very difficult to have filled these tender Parts of the Poem with Sentiments proper for a State of Innocence; to have described the Warmth of Love, and the Profeffions of it, without Artifice or Hyperbole; to have made the Man fpeak

speak the most endearing Things, without defcending from his natural Dignity, and the Woman receiving them without Departing from the Modefty of her Character; in a Word, to adjust the Prerogatives of Wisdom and Beauty, and make each appear to the other in its proper Force and Lovelinefs. This mutual Subordination of the two Sexes is wonderfully kept up in the whole Poem, as particularly in the Speech of Eve I have beforementioned, and upon the Conclufion of it in the following Lines";

So fpake our general Mother, and with Eyes
Of conjugal Attraction unreprov'd,
And meek Surrender, half embracing lean'd
On our first Father, half her swelling breaft
Naked met his under the flowing Gold
Of her loofe Treffes hid; he in Delight
Both of her Beauty and submissive Charms
Smil'd with Superior Love, --

THE Poet adds, that the Devil turned a way with Envy at the Sight of fo much Happiness.

WE have another View of our firft Parents in their evening Difcourfes, which is full of pleafing Images, and Sentiments fuitable to their Condition and Characters. The Speech of Eve, in particular, is dreffed up in fuch a foft and natural Turn of Words and Sentiments, as cannot be sufficiently admired.

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I fhall close my Reflections upon this Book, with obferving the mafterly Transition which the Poet makes to their Evening Worship, in the following Lines.

Thus at their fhadie lodge arriv'd, both food,
Both turn'd, and under open Sky ador'd
The God that made both Sky, Air, Earth and Heav'n
Which they beheld, the Moons refplendent Globe
And Starry Pole: Thou alfo mad'ft the Night,
Maker omnipotent, and thou the Day, &c.

MOST of the modern heroick Poets have imitated the Ancients, in beginning a Speech without premifing, that the Perfon faid thus or thus; but as it is eafie to imitate the Ancients in the Omiffion of two or three Words, it requires Judgment to do it in fuch a Manner as they fhall not be miffed, and that the Speech may begin naturally without them. There is a fine Inftance of this Kind out of Homer, in the Twenty Third Chapter of Longinus.

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The End of the Fourth Volume.

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A

Compleat INDEX

TO THE

First Four Volumes

OF THE

SPECTATORS.

Admiration, one of the most |
pleafing Paffions, Vol. 3. p.
381, but fhort-lived, V. 4.
P. 26.

Adverfity, no evil in it felf,
V. 3. p. 383.
Advertisements, of an Italian
Chirurgeon, V. I. p. 125.
From St. James's Coffee-
houfe, p. 136. From a Gen-
tlewoman that teacheth
Birds to speak, p. 201. From
another that is a fine Flesh-
Painter, p. 231. From Mr.
Sly the Haberdafher, V. 3.
P. 107. About a Lottery
Ticket, p. 125.
Advice, no Order of Perfons
too confiderable to be advif-
ed, V. 1. p. 190.
Affectation, a greater Enemy
to a fine Face than the
Small-Pox, V. 1. p. 184. it
deforms Beauty, and turns
Wit into Abfurdity, p. 208.
The Original of it, p. 210.
found in the wife Man as
well as the Coxcomb, p.111.
The way to get clear of it,
ibid.

Affliction and Sorrow, not al-
ways expreft by Tears, V. 2.
p. 76. True Affliction la-
bours to be invisible, p. 77.
Age, render'd ridiculous. V. 1.
P. 36. how contemn'd by the
Athenians, and respected by
the Spartans, p. 37. The un-
natural mifunderstanding
between Age and Youth, p.
374 The Authority of an
aged virtuous Perfon prefer-
able to the Pleafures of
Youth, p. 376. A comfor
table old Age the Reward
of a well-fpent Youth, V. 4
P. 47, 48.

Agreeable Man, who, V. 4.

P. 162.

Albacinda, her Chara&er, P 2.
P 329.
Alexander the Great,wry Neckt
VI. 177. His Artifice in
his Indian Expedition, V2.
P 242. His Answer to thofe
who askt him if he wou'd
not be a Competitor for the
Prize in the Olympick
Games, 394-
Amaryllis, her Character, V.
2. 328.
Ambition, never fatisfied, V1.
P 149. 4. p 28. The Oc
cafion of Factions, V2. p.
232. by what to be mea
fured, V. 3. p. 108. many
Times as hurtful to the
Princes who are led by it,
as the People, p 174. most
Men fubje&t to it,p 280,307.
of ufe when rightly dirett
ed, p 281. the end of it. 3.
P 17. the Effe&ts of it in the
Mind, p 27. fubjects us to
many Troubles, ib. 3o. the
true Object of a laudable
Ambition, p 35.

Americans, their Opinion of
Souls, 1.3 г2. exempli
fied in a Vifton of one of
their Couutry-men, † 314.
Ample, Lady. her uneasiness,
and the Reafon of it, V 1.
P 176.
Anagram, what, and when
firft produced, VI. 337.
Andromache, a great Fox-hun-
ter, VI. p 320.
Animals, the different make
of every Species, V2. p 200.
The Inftin&t of Brutes, ?
201, &c. exemplified in fe-
veral Inftances, p 202, &
God himself the Soul of
Brutes, p 206. the variety
of Arms with which they
are provided by Nature,
$207.
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