considerable stars that rise in _Bavaria_, whose influences are inauspicious to you; for, among friends, ’twas no better than robbing him to run away with his money, and especially before you had done any thing for it. However, this may be your consolation, that the duke can’t say you cheated him to some tune. Here is a consort of musick composing against the king of _France_ makes his entrance: out of gratitude to his generosity, you ought to make one of ’em; I can get you a lodging near _Cerberus_’s apartment; ’twill be convenient for you to confer notes together for he is much the deepest base of any here. If your leisure will permit, I should be glad of some news from the favourites of _Parnassus_: I am continually at the chocolate house in the _Sulphurstreet_. I shall look upon the obligation in _Ala-mi-re_ in _Alt_. _Mr._ ABEL’_s Answer_. _SIR_, If the advice be seasonable, ’tis no great matter from whence it comes; though ’tis not what one wou’d readily expect from a person of your climate; but that too renders the obligation so much the more binding. I was not so well acquainted with the ancient intrigues of the _French_ court as to call your name to remembrance, but by the delicious expression of your wanton delights, I presum’d you might have been a _Mahometan_ eunuch, because you seem’d to describe their paradice in part; what cou’d I tell whether more of that felicity came to your share or not? I met _Aben-Ezra_ the _Jew_, but he knew nothing of you; at last a _French_ refugee set me right. When I consider your private history I am amaz’d at your raptures, and that you could be so void of common reason, more especially after you had been so long spiritualiz’d, which you tell me, enlarges the understanding, as to set a value upon your self for raking a kennel, only because it belonged to court. To have charm’d a person of an exalted extraction, as I did, and to bring her to be the loving wife of my bosom, was vanity without infamy. But your captive queen was a queen of sluts, equally the infamy of her own sex, as you were the contempt of ours. ’Twas very pathetically said of her by her brother, when he gave her in marriage to the king of _Navarre, that he did not give his_ Peggy _in marriage to the king of_ Navarre _alone, but to all the_ Hugonots _of his kingdom_, and if he had said, all the _Roman Catholicks_ too, it had hardly been an hyperbole. For ever since she was nine years old, she never deny’d any thing that was a man; no, not so much as her own brother. She had so great an inclination to be obliging, that she would not refuse even old age, and did not condemn even the blackest scullion-boy of her kitchin: she was the refuse of a hundred thousand several men’s embraces before she took up with you. So that I see no such mighty ground for your vanity and ostentation: and if there were not other more beneficial expectations from the choir, I should advise but very few to follow it: not but that a fair friend in