s but too little against creatures who triumph in falsehood, and begin
to forswear with their eyes, when their tongues can be no longer
believed.

ADVERTISEMENT.

A very clean, well-behaved young gentleman, who is in a very good way in
Cornhill, has writ to me the following lines, and seems in some passages
of his letter (which I omit) to lay it very much to heart, that I have
not spoken of a supernatural beauty whom he sighs for, and complains to
in most elaborate language. Alas! what can a monitor do? All mankind
live in romance:

"Royal Exchange, _March 11_.
"MR. BICKERSTAFF,

"Some time since you were pleased to mention the beauties in the
New Exchange and Westminster Hall,[157] and in my judgment were not
very impartial; for if you were pleased to allow there was one
goddess in the New Exchange, and two shepherdesses in Westminster
Hall, you very well might say, there was and is at present one
angel in the Royal Exchange: and I humbly beg the favour of you to
let justice be done her, by inserting this in your next _Tatler_;
which will make her my good angel, and me your most humble servant,

"A. B."[158]

[Footnote 154: See No. 141.]

[Footnote 155: See No. 50.]

[Footnote 156: See No. 9.]

[Footnote 157: See No. 139.]

[Footnote 158: Perhaps Alexander Bayne; see No. 84.]

No. 146. [ADDISON.

From _Tuesday, March 14_, to _Thursday, March 16, 1709-10_.

Permittes ipsis expendere numinibus, quid
Conveniat nobis, rebusque sit utile nostris.
Nam pro jucundis aptissima quaeque dabunt Di.
Carior est illis homo, quam sibi. Nos animorum
Impulsu et caeca magnaque cupidine ducti
Conjugium petimus, partumque uxoris; at illis
Notum, qui pueri qualisque futura sit uxor.
JUV., Sat. x. 347.

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_From my own Apartment, March 15._

Among the various sets of correspondents who apply to me for advice, and
send up their cases from all parts of Great Britain, there are none who
are more importunate with me, and whom I am more inclined to answer,
than the complainers. One of them dates his letter to me from the banks
of a purling stream, where he used to ruminate in solitude upon the
divine Clarissa, and whe